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rr' . ?? r^?Ml TWO IH IRK I CRUSH TOGETHER , Manu Passengers Killed and o Wounded at Volland, Kan. / BLUNDER OF BOY OPERATOR Trains Which Were to Meet at a Sta- 1* tion on the Rock Island Road r Were Allowed to Pass on Single S Track. t Topeka, Kan.?Thirty-five persons, j] all Mexicans but two, were killed and o fifty-five persons were injured in a head-on collision of two passenger q trains of the Chicago, Rock Island V. and Pacific Railroad near Vqlland. The wreck occurred while both trains were runningslowly on a curve n in a cut where the grade was steen. s All the killed were in the southg' bound train except a tramp, who was on the baggage car of the north- ^ bound train. This tramp, a negro ^ porter and a workman accompanying t: a gang of thirty-two Mexican labor- a ers, were the only Americans killed n so far as known, although passen- e gers say that a woman and a child n were burned in a tourist car. s; There were thirty-two Mexicans and five Americans, composing a a gang of railroad workers, in the v, smoking car of the south-bound s! train. Of these, thirty Mexicans a were burned in the wreckage and S two died later. 5 Nearly every passenger in the T Bouth-bound train was thrown to the p car floor by the quick setting of the $ emergency brakes. The Mexicans d were pinioned under the seats and o the doors were jammed so that they 6 could not get out. Many passengers In the chair car were held down by p the seats. e: The train caught fire from the gas tanks, which were broken. The pas- & sengers in the rear cars escaped in c< night clothes, and dressed in the mud beside the tracks. Then came the m cries for help from the Mexicans in the smoking car and the people pin- a ioned fast in the chair car. Every man and nearly every woman on the n train tried to rescue the unfortu- h nates, but the flames soon became too tj hot to permit of approaching the car. ^ The injured were removed from p the chair cars with less difficulty, 5 ond QTxnnranflv oil nrnrA iinanitod oil ttq i from these cars. William Gane, con- j, ductor of the south-bound train, has f( a broken collar bone and is much bruised. He said: a "The train was just pulling clear a of the Volland yards, and was trav- e eling about thirty miles an hour. I d dropped into the front seat of the jj smoker and dozed. There were thir- t( ty-two Mexicans, sitting two in a d seat, back of me, also A1 Link, a negro porter, a foreman and five other tj passengers. I was awakened by the setting of the brakes. I jumped head first out of the window and struck on tl my shoulder. When I turned and looked at the train I saw flames leaping fifty feet high from the smoker." i uw iuiemusi, luunai aieeyiug uai of the south-bound train was also burned, but all the occupants escaped ' serious injury. Blame for the collision seems to rest entirely upon John Lynes, nine- j~ teen years old, the telegraph operator 113 at Volland. Orders had been issued , for No. 29 and No. 30 to pass at . Volland, and these orders had been p' sent to the operator there, who was y< instructed to hold No. 29. It is said that he failed to deliver the order to the crew of No. 29, and the latter train went by, meeting No. 3Q a few w miles west. Five minutes before the trains met Lynes called up the dispatcher and wired him as follows: "No. 29 has gone, and I have gone g also." Then he left his key. Even with ^ this dispatch in hand there was no q way of preventing the wreck. He was afterward arrested and put in jail at Volland. V FOUR BOYS KILLED. 1? A \J Leaped Directly in Front of a Lehigh J{ ? ii Flyer. H South Plainfield, N. J.?Elmer n Dunn, Clarence Bennett, William E. Casey and William Bell, all of New- ; ark,* were killed by the breaking of a coupling pin on a Lehigh Valley p train at South Plainfield. The boys were stealing a ride on a freight train and stepped off the train directly in front of the Chicago bound flyer F of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. vi Casey, who was thirteen years old, e! was the son of the Newark freight n agent of the Lehigh Valley road. l? The boys were playing on the O tracks near South Plainfleld when tl Bell proposed they take a trip to si Plainfleld on the freight train pass- n ing that point. They boarded the c< train and arrived at South Plainfleld, h when the coupling pin broke, stopping tl the freight train. Then the boys jumped off. ^ ' V, f.? d Gospel Meetings in Factories. It was announced that arrangements had been made for Gospel 0 noon-day meetings in over two hun- a dred New York shops during Febru- b ary. 2 v, Japan to Build Steel Works. 2 Contracts had been placed in New York, it was learned, for trie erection of big steel works for the Japanese Government. p * Famine in China. """ 1 Advices from Pekin say that millions of persons are starving and r that many of the refugees are joining m the Boxers .n order to obtain rice. s t, Hopeful of Cuba. a Governor Magoon, at the New ^ Year's reception in Havana, spoke d hopefully of the future of Cuba. s Loan For Rio Janeiro. President Penna has authorized a loan to Rio Janeiro of $50,000,000. 1; Thr? Piol H nf T.QIIAT* The Chicago Hod Carriers' Union has its own labor temple, which cost $75,000. I Union barbers of the country are d agitating the establishment of a home for aged, sick and indigent a barbers. i Grand Master Shea, of the Fire- t men's Union, said that he would lay c charges of peonage against the Southern Pacific. i Denver cigarmakers have asked c for an increase of $1 a thousand, i and will start a co-operative factory ^ if it is not grafted. ' . [ I lUGHES' RBCT MESSAGE iiovernor Asks Sweeping Reform of New York Transit Evils. Ldvocates New Boards to Control Railways, Lighting and Street Car Lines?Recount For Hearst, Albany, N. Y.?Transit reform for Jew York City, effective control and egulation of corporations by the itate, a recount of the ballots cast in be Mayoralty election in New York a 1905 and changes in the election iws to eliminate or curb the power f political bosses are the principal ubjects discussed in Governor lharles E. Hughes' first message to lie New York Legislature. So flatly does the new Governor brow down his challenge to corporaIon agents and party bosses that the lessage is privately criticised by ome of tnem as "revolutionary. The new Governor calls inflated tocks of public service corporations lain "water;" he terms abuse of the few York public plain outrage, and, rithout mincing words, lays the ransit conditions to corporate gYeed nd desire to increase dividends of a lonopoly. He accuses party "leadrs" of abuse of power and recomlends legislation to make them repect the rights of the minority. Governor Hughes began his first nnual message to the Legislature rith a financial statement which bowed that the State received from 11 sources in the fiscal year ended eptember 30, 1906, a total of $35,96,966, and spent $30,350,096. he actual available balance or surlus of State funds on October 1 was 11,291,445. The State debt was reuced $525,000 during the year and n October 1 amounted to $10,630,60. The following are the most imortant recommendations in the Govrnor's message: Immediate provision for recount of [ayoralty vote and provision for reount of ballots in future. Provision taking away from Attorey-General power to authorize bringlg of action to test title to office nd vesting it in Supreme Court. Abolition of Rapid Transit C?mlission and creation of new board to ave powers of old board and addilonal powers over all traffic "beiveen points within the city and oints elsewhere in the State." New oara also to nave jurisaicuon over as and electricity corporations with1 New York City and perhaps in suraunding counties. Abolition of Railroad Commission nd Gas and Electricity Commission nd creation of new board with powrs of each pf the old boards and aditional powers to have jurisdiction 1 the rest of the State. * New board ) have power to inflict penalties for isobedience of its orders. Provisions in Election law to free ie split-ballot section from ambiguy and do away with the party colmn, bunching the candidates under ie names ol the offices. Provisions limiting the amount a indidat'e may spend to secure office. Law to authorize courts to review ition of State conventions, to presnt minority gaining control by -audulent methods. Trial of direct nomination by pritary by authorizing a general comlittee of any party to adopt the plan. That the State Labor Department 3 overhauled and an eight-hour law issed for children less than sixteen 1 =>?rs old. 4 I > *' ' ' *i Legislature Organized. Albany, N. Y.?The legislature, , hich has organized r.nd squared way for busines, is unique. All, or early all, the old lines and combines re obliterated. The Republican enate faced a Democratic Lieutennt-Governor, who, speaking, for.the linority, echoed the declaration of 1 overnor Hughes in favor of harmony ad co-operation in the interest of le public service. The Assembly re-elected James W. fadsworth Speaker, Sherman Mpremd, majority leader, and James liver, leader of the minority. Beand the drawing for seats and listenlg to the reading of Governor lughes' message, the Assembly did othing. McCREA SUCCEEDS CASSATT. ledged to the Policy of Former Pennsylvania Presidents. Philadelphia. ? James McCrea, irst vice-r resident or tne Fennsyianla lines west of Pittsburg, 'was lected president of the PehnBylvaia Railroad Company to succeed the ite Alexander J. Cassatt. Mr. Mcrea was a stockholders' director "of le Pennsylvania Railroad. It is i lid the directors of the Pennsylvaia Company and other subsidiary 5rporations of the railroad will elect im as Mr. Cassatt's successor in lose companies. Mr. McCrea immediately assumed le duties of his position as presient. Total Potato Crop. The final report of the potato crop f the country is placed at 3,013,050 cres, with an average yield of 102 uoucis pel duu a. tutai uuy ui 08,038,382 bushels, which compares rlth the total last year of 200,741,94 bushels. Predicts Industrial Crisis. Stuyvesant Fish, in an interview, redicted an industrial crisis. 'wo Thousand Turkish Soldiers Dead A thousand Turkish soldiers, the emnant of about 4000 sent to the lejd Peninsula two years ago to uppress the Arab revolt, have reurned to Busreh, Asiatic Turkey, in deplorable condition. More than 000 of their comrades died from isease or starvation and the rest deerted. <&V:> Pure Food Law in Effect. The Federal Pure Food and Drugs aw went into operation. *H_... _ ????????? r%? ViSi" jrruuiiucut x cupic* " Bishop Turinaz was fined $10 at Jancy, France, for striking a gen[arme. ^ > 'Archbishop Ireland says the clergyire much to blame for the troubles1 n France and that monarchist ideas lave done dreadful harm to the :hurch. " .j. Attorney-General Leroy F. Younans died in Columbia,' S. C., re:ently. He was Attorney-General mder Governor Wade Hampton, and vas regarded as one of thb most >riUiant orators^ in the South. CHARLES L HUGHES SWORN III IS GOVERNOR Takes Oath of Office Amid Impressive Ceremonies. TROOPS PARADE IN HIS HONOR Big Crowds Cheer Him at AlbanyHe Pledges Himself to Serve All the People Honestly ? Short Speech by Higgins. Albany, N. Y.?Charles Evans Hughes was inducted into the office of Governor of the Empire State of the Union at noon. With the inauguration of the Republican Governor the other members of the official family of the State?all elected on the Democratic-Independence League ticket?also assumed office. The new State officers are as follows: Governor, Charles Evans Hughes, 5f New York, succeeding Frank Wayand Higgins, of Cattaraugus. Lieutenant-Governor,. Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, of Dutchess, succeed.ng M. Linn Bruce, of New York. Secretary of State, John S. Whalen, Df Monroe, succeeding John F. 3'Brien, of Clinton. Controller, Martin H. Glynn, of Albany, succeeding William C. Wilson, Df New York (who was appointed rice Otto Kelsey, now Superintendent )f Insurance). Treasurer, Julius Hauser, of Suffolk, succeeding John G. Wallenmaier, of Niagara. Attorney-General, Wlliam S. Jackson, of Buffalo, succeeding Julius M. Mayer, of New York. State Engineer and Surveyor, Frederick K. Skene, of Queens, succeeding Henry A. Van Alstyne, of Columbia. The new Governor, LieutenantGovernor and Attorney-General are lawyers; the Controller is a newspaper editor; the Secretary of State a tobacco manufacturer and trades unionist; the Treasurer a baker, and the Engineer and Surveyor, as the law requires, a'civil engineer. In his inaugural, address, Governor Hughes renewed his pledges of the campaign and declared that he would endeavor to make efficiency the standard of his administration. Politicians, members of the Legislature and office holders flocked to Albany from every part of the State. No inauguration since that of Theodore Roosevelt's in 1899 was attended with so much uncertainty and so much speculation, and all wished to get the first opportunity to see the new Governor as soon after his inauguration as possible. In addition to the new Governor taking up the reins, there were other changes to be made in the official family of the State. All of the Democratic State officers took possession of their offices, and this brought to Albany many persons who have heretofore evinced but little interest in the inauguration ceremonies. Shortly before 11 o'clock former Governor Frank Wayland Higgins met his staff in the Executive Chamber, after which they repaired to the Executive Mansion, on Eagle street, where Governor Hughes and his staff had assembled. ' * The inaugural parade was a most imposing one, with more military present than at any previous inauguration in years. The Second and Third Battalions of the Tenth Regiment, six companies from the Second Regiment, Troop B, of Albany, and Squadron A, of New York City, were in line. In addition to the military, the Young Men's Republican Club, of Albany, and the Schenectady County Republican Club paraded in honor of the new Governor. Squadron A acted as the escort to the Governor. Former Governor Higgins and Governor Hughes rode in the, same carriage from the Executive Mansion to the Capitol. The inaugural ceremonies in the Assembly chamber were of an impressive na cure. TRAGEDIES IN 1906. Lynchings Number 69?Suicides Increase and Outnumber Homicides. Chicago.?The lynching record for the years is sixty-nine. The total number of deaths by violence during 1906 shows a small increase over 1905, being 9350, as compared with 9212. The steady increase of suicides continues. The number for 1906 is 10,125, which exceeds the homicide record, and is an increase of 143 over 1905. x The record of embezzlement, forgery, defaulting and bank wrecking shows a large increase over 1905 and is the largest total since 1894, being $14,734,863, as compared with $9,613,172 in 1905. ' This large increase is principally due to the looting of bank deposits by such bankers as Stensland in Chicago and Hippie in Philadelphia. The losses (of 1906 are distributed as follows: ' Stolen by public officials, $1,584,554; from banks, $10,745,387: Dy agents, $379,571; forgeries, $223,687; from loan associations, $248,100; by postoffice employes, $22,585; miscellaneous stealings, $1,433,969. Unmoved by Vatican Protest. The Spanish Government at Maarid merely acknowledged the receipt of the papal protest against the expulsion from France of Mgr. Montagnini and the seizure of the ar>hivao nf tho nnnnioturA at Paris Fist Blow Kills Flirt. With one blow of his fist, Charles Smith killed D. F. Myers on the street in East St. Louis, 111. Mrs. Smith told her husband that Myers had attempted to flirt with her. Smith struck Myers a swinging blow Dn the jaw and Myers" Deck was broken. Smith fled. Sunday Law in Boston. Applications for 1200 warrants for alleged violations of the Sunday closing laws clogged the Boston courto. Newsy Gleanings. The attempt to form a general schismatic worship association in Paris failed. Seven designs for the proposed giant battleship were submitted to the Navy Department. Fifteen acres on University Heights, valued at $300,000, were given to the University of the City of New York. Orders to the small arms factors of the German Government at Erfurt were taken to mean that tht government was planning to arm the troops with a new rifle^ MS GRUT CffflRITIES J Carnegie Led in Beneficence, With John D. Rockefeller Second. Ei Gifts and Bequests Show a Total of $100,000,000?Not Up to the Record of 1901. T Chicago. ? The record of beneficence for 1906, expressed in gifts 1 and bequests, as compiled by the Chicago Tribune, shows a total of $106,38S,063, no items of less than $1000 being included. This total does not include contributions to r( J charity in the general sense, church b collections or minor subscriptions, g( but only such donations and bequests as have been published in the daily " papers. fc As compared with former years, ti the record stands thus: 1901 (the >. record breaking year). $122,88S,732; 1902, $77,c:97.167; 1903, $76,634;- & 918; 1904. $46,296,980, and 1905. tl $104,586,422. The donations for 1906 amounted to $61,179,093, and v the bequests to $45,208,970. The total was distributed as follows: To j? educational institutions. $32,492,- c' 636; to charities. $49,397,615; to re- r( ligious organizations, $5,443,475; to museums, art galleries and public ^ improvements. J16.849.700, and to D libraries. $1,704,617. As usual, Andrew Carnegie is the most consnlcuous figure in this a distribution. His donations amount g to $11,094,000. which is $8,864,700 v j less thanthoseof 1905 ($19,958,700). He has provided buildings for seven- a teen libraries, at a cost of $273,000, <j as compared with fifteen libraries at j a cost of $355,000 last year, and has c given $1,167,500 to forty-four small ^ colleges, as compared with $2,755,- ? 700 to 144 colleges last year. His >j gifts of organs to churches, as re- a ported, are $10,925, as compared n with $11,825 in 1905. ^ John D. Rockefeller falls behind r in the race with Carnegie, his contributions amounting to only $7,085,- a 000, as comoared with $11,620,000 0 in 1905. These contributions have g been as follows: n University of Chicago....$4,890,000 Young Men's Christian As- q ciation 645,000 Juvenile Reformatory in f New York 1,000,000 c School of Applied Design 0 for Women 25,000 Children's Hospital in New York 125,000 Foreign missions 275,000 Richmond (Va.) University 25,000 Church 40,000 i McMaster's College 60,000 , Dr. D. K. Pearson's "liver" has not been as actively employed as in past years. He has given $145,000 to the following small colleges: Guilford, $50,000; Yankton. $30,000; U. , S. Grant, $50,000; McKendree, $10,000, and $5000 to charity. A new philanthropist, Mrs. Russell Sage,, appears. Her gifts thus far are small, amounting to $52,200 for schools, $10,000 to the church, and $1000 to charity, but it is intimated that she will make some large donations in 1907. The donations and bequests during 1906 amounting to $1,000,000 and upward were as follows: c San Francif,:o relief fund.$15,000,000 c Charles T. ferkes by will c. to found Yerkes Hos- c pital 9,000,000 c Charles T. Yerkes by will 1 to found Yerkes Art Gallery 5,000,000 , Marshall Field, by will to 1 Field Museum 8,000,000 c Andrew Carnegie, to Car-' negie Technical School 7,000,000 1 P. A. B. Widener, gift to found Home for Crip- c pled Children 8,000,000 David Rankin, St. Louis, gift to industrial school 2,000,000 1 John D. Rockefeller, gifts to University of Chi- 1 cago 1,500,000 ? Marianne Brimmer, Boston, gifts to Museum of Fine Arts 1,315,000 c D. B. Shipman, Chicago, will to charities 1,200,000 c Andrew Carnegie, gift to Fine Arts Building. . . 1,000,000 \ John D. Rockefeller, gift for Juvenile Reforma- 1 J tory 1,000,000 c W. V. Laurence, New { York, gift to charities. 1,000,000 c Charles Fergus, Fnnaaeiphia, will to charities. 1,000,000 Albert Wilcox, Seabright, N. J., will to Audubon Society V 1,000,000 C. E. Schoelkopf, Kansas City, Mo , will to charities 1,000,000 John D. Rockefeller's present gift of $2,917,000 to the University of Chicago makes his total gifts to the university during eighteen years $21,324,322. The present was received by Acting President Harry Pratt Judson in a letter from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., speaking for his father. It was given unconditionally, and is one of the three largest donations that the founder of the university has made since his initial subscription of $234,000 in January,' 1889. He gave the university $3,000,000 in November, 1895, and $3,245,000 in December, 1904. Rebuke For New Orleans. A considerable portion of New Or- I 1 flans was cut off from further free + mail delivery by order of the Post- j master-General. A large number of . New Orleans streets are without side- ? walks, and these are deprived of free j delivery. i "1 > I r Hearst Asks a Recount. W. R. Hearst's application for a ] recount of the 1905 New York City 1 election vote was filed with the At- j torney-General, at Albany, three J hours after the latter took office. 1 To Investigate Block System. 1 The Interstate Commerce Commission decided to investigate the block system of the Baltimore and Ohio and the Southern Railway in relation j to the recent disasters on those roads. 1 The Field of Sports. Outlaw racing in Louisiana has now fairly started. Four Yankees?Chase, Elberfeld, Keeler and Yeager?batted over .300 , , last season. Tne conditions governing tne mo tor boat race from New York to . ( > Bermuda have been issued. W. M. Ford, of Wilmington, Del., won the national amateur clay pigr eon shooting championship. The New York Nationals have rei fused to relinquish their claim to i Kelley, the outfielder, and Corcoran, ths.Claclaaa.ti shortatoi). t \ PP11M Din CM 8. 8 0. miLBOM nrrino Dlnmc Thrniicrh I nnal Train iignib > iun? Miiuugu bwwu> ..v.... Near Washington. RACKS STREWN WITH DEAD hirty-eight Die in Wreck?Three Crowded Cars Demolished? Dead Train Ran Past Signal in Thick Fog. Washington, D. C.?The fatal er>r of an engineer in passing a lock signal light that he could not :e in the fog, thus letting two ains in "on the same block" to )llow each other over the same ack, was the cause of a frightful ;ar-end collision on the Baltimore ; Ohio Railroad at Terra Cotta, in le outskirts of this city. The bodies of thirty-eight have een found, some of them mutilated eyond all hope of identification. It 5 by no means certain that this ompletes the list of killed. It may sach forty, or even fifty. There were 200 passengers on the rrecked train, and more than forty er cent, were either killed or injred. The dead and injured were strewn long the track for half a mile, ixty injured have been taken to arious hospitals. Four men have been arrested in n effort to fix the blame for the isaster. They are Engineer Henry lildebrand, of the rear train, that aused the cpllision; his fireman, IcLean; Conductor Hoffinger and he signal man at Takoma Park, 'hey are locked up in the station t Terra Cotta. Hildebrand is almost demented. He babbles of the rreck from which he escaped miaculously. It was precisely the same kind of n accident that snuffed out the life f President Samuel Spencer, of the iouthern Railroad, on his own road, iear Lynchburg, thirty days ago. The identified dead are: Dr. E, )liver Bell, optician, the Farragut, Vashington; Edward M. Belt, white, ourteen years old, address unknown; Commodore P. Brown, sixty years Id, address unknown; Dan N. Carr, Kingston, Md.; Elder O. L. Dailey, Jewark, Ohio; C. J. R. Hall, Baltiaore; Dr. E. Gaither Harris, Wa3hngton; George Higbie, eight years ild, Brookland, D. C.; Henry Higbie, irookland, father of George Higbie; \ A. Kelly, Kensington, Md.; Profesor King, organist Wesley Chapel, Censington, Md.; Miss Koll (a Y. M. 3. A. card was found in her pocket); lary Leffold, thirty years old, emiloye Bureau Engraving and Printng, Washington; Le9 Lowe, Washngton; A. Lee Lowe, No. 1212 F treet, Washington; Mrs. J. McDaghey and her fourteen-year-old on; Elizabeth Purman, Takoma 'ark; Norman Rogers, white, Ma ion, Ind.; I. Ruppert, Washington, aerchant. The disaster occurred in a dense og. The wrecked train was a local rom Frederick, Md. It was run lown by a special equipment train, omprised of eight empty cars. Two if the coaches on the local were reluced to splinters. The other two :oaches, one a smoker, were shatered from end to end, but remained in the trucks. The local was just pulling out of he Terra Cotta station, after taking in about a dozen passengers. The ipecial came flying along at sixty niles an hour and drove with irrelistible force through the two rear loaches. ' k A spur of track runs up the side >f the hill to the terra cotta works >ehind the station. There was a flat :ar at the top of the hill, and, workng free, it ran away down the hill md crashed into the wreck. A score >f passengers struggling to release hemselves from the wreckage toere .duguc ueiure me um. wi, nuibv at* nost cut clean through the smoking :ar. Six bodies liavo been taken from inder the front end of the flat car, ind the railroad officials say it will lever be known in which of the two irashes these passengers met death. The first news of the accident :ame from Brookland, where it was :arried by United States District Atorney D. W. Baker. Although Bacer's right heel was cut off in the vreck, and he was injured interia!ly, he walked the mile and a luarter to Brookland and over the elephone sent in the call for ambuances. He collapsed, when he was tttempting to hang up the receiver ind is in a serious condition. His leel was cut off clean below the inkle. He stopped the flow of blood >y binding his leg with a silk handterchief, and, without waiting at the vreck, started at once on his ter ible trip. It is feared it may be lecessary to amputate his foot. Great difficulty was experienced in jiving asistance to the injured and ? tfcrk riaari ntuinp" tn thft u tcuivtmg WUU v?vmv? v.. .MO emoteness of Terra Cotta, which deipite its comparative nearness to the :apital, is a rural spot without police >r postoffice. The situation was made vorse by the telegraph office there )eing closed for the night. There ire only a few houses in the place, md with no facilities for helping the seriously injured all the helpless aken from the wreck were forced to ie on the ground in unrelieved igony until Drs. Frischern, Stern ind Brooks arrived from Brookland n an automobile. Senator Donelson Caffery Dead. Former United States Senator Donelson Caffery died at New Oreans, La., seventy-one years old. As i brave defender of State rights on :he battlefield, a lawyer and a member of the United States Senate he won a high place in the esteem of l :he people of the South. He was )orn on September 10, 1S35. Doctors Plead For Patrick. The Medico-Legal Society sent an ippeal to Governor Hughes for Alaert T. Patrick's release. Feminine Notes. Mme. Melba's son, George N. Armstrong, and Miss Ruby Olway were married in London. The proportion of women employed [n factories is increasing more rapidly than that of men. Miss Hermione Schenley, daughter of E. W. H. Schenley, of Pittsburg, was married to Lord Ellenborough in London. Forest Gate. England, has a threeyear-old swimming champion. She is the daughter of the matron of some public baths, and can swim tho length of the tank; eighty feet. N Locomotive Works Fifty Years. We have been favored with an in* teresting photograph of the first locomotive to run on the first railway btlilt in the southern hemisphere, the Ferrlcarrll de Coplapo, in Chile. On the smoke-box can be seen the legend Norris Bros., Philadelphia, 1850. This locomotive was at work on the Copiapo line in 1851, some ye^rs before the Buenos Ayres Western was, built. E. L. Halstead says that he saw the old relic under steam and Id service a year or two ago, when he was in Chile.?Buenos Ayres Herald. The Benevolent Manufacturer. A Benevolent Manufacturer, desiring to acquaint the Common People with the Toothsome Qualities of a brand-new Health Food, bethought himself how he might build up a Steady Demand for his Product, "Instead of being prodigal with m5 Advertising," he reasoned* "I will be prodigal In the Distribution of Free Samples, and the Consumers, uporf cultivating a Liking for my Wares, will of a certainty buy More." But it so fell out that the Recipients of his Bounty, after doing justice to the Hand Out, forthwith forgot the name of the unadvertised Pap. and continued to lay down their Good Hard Money for other Health Foods the Rich, Nutty Flavor whereof was constantly exploited in the Newspapers. Moral.?A Free Feed is excellent as a Work of Charity, but it avails nothing from the Business Standpoint unless given in conjunction with an Advertising Campaign.? Philadelphia Record. "Hither" and "Thither." "It does not seem to be generally known," remarked a department official, "that the dignified Department of State has made a change in the form of official correspondence somewhat in the line of the simplified system of spelling. "The particular change I have noticed is in the adoption of the good old English words 'hither' and 'thither' in place of their more modern and longer substitutes. For instance, the Secretary of State now acknowledges the receipt of a communication forwarded through another department in the following style: 'Referring to the reference hither by your department,' etc. It's all right, I know, but it has a strange look."? Washington Star. i State ot Ohiq, City or Toledo, > Lucas County. j Fbank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney k Co., doing business In the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of one hundbed dollabs for each and every case of oatabbh* that cannot be cored bv the use of Hall's Catabbh Cube. Fbanx J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my ., presence, this 6th day of Decem\ seal. [ ber, A.D., 1886. A.W.GleA80N, r?'J .Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, tree. F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all Dru<?(?ists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. "All in Sixes. A peculiar run in sixes occurred in the County Clerk's office recently. Thomas Albury?you will notice six letters in each name?drew $6 in fees on September 6, 1906. The number of the case on which the fees were drawn was 49,666, and it was in docket 60. He recepted for it in cash book 6, page 666.?Columbus Dispatch. TORTURED WITH GRAVEL. Since Using Doan'i- Kidney Pills Not a Single Stone Has Formed. Capt. S. L. Crute, Adjt. Wnj. Watts Camp, U. C. V., Roanoke, Va., says: "I suffered a 16ng, Slong time with my back, and felt draggy and listless and tired all weight, 225, to 170. Urinary passages were too frequent and I MJ#/ have had to get up often at night. s-^yr^ i had headaches and dizzy spells also, but my worst suffering was from renal colic. After I began using Doan's Kidney Pills 1 passed a gravel stone as big as a bean. Since then I have never had an attack of gravel, and have picked up to my former health and weight. I am a well man, and give Dcan'a Kidney Pills credit for it." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Why Prison News Suspended. The Ohio Penitentiary News, for many years a famous and flourishing daily paper published by convicts, has suspended publication, for the very good reason that there is not left in that big penal institution a single man who can handle type. There is not a primer 111 cne umu penitentiary. Bankers are there in plenty. More than twenty are there, and more are on the way. Several convict banks might be operated, with men to spare. Enough lawyers are there to take care of an enormous amount of legal business. Doctors, brokers and other eminently respectable citizens are not lacking. Business men, farmers, mechanics and representatives of almost every other department of industrial activity are there. But there is not one printer. The fact throws new light on a character that has long been commonly misjudged. The printer to-day is a homeowner. He is of fixed employment and is the head of a family. He is?and always was?far above the average man in information and intelligence. All the notable events of human lire pass tnrougu ma uauus and make impress on his brain. The fact thai; more than tv/enty bankers are in the Ohio penitentiary, and not one printer, tells of the relative honesty of the printer of to-day ?and tells more. It tells us that the most common and most dangerous crimes of to-day are being committed not by the I world's workers. X Faithful Terrier's Vigil. The story of a faithful dog wa? fold at the inquest at Buxton yesterday on Miss Mary Louisa Darnton, a womai of means, who lived, practically the life of a recluse. When the police entered the room where she was found lying dead, an emaciated Yorkshire terrier whjicb must have been starving for a wee* barked furiously at them and tried ^ to prevent them from touching the ja body. Two wealthy women, applied for leave, which was granted, to keep the dog.?London Daily Mail. ; .. :!; WW: i; SCIATICA ST. J A COBS OIL h - ' Generally speaking, It may be said" that most of the ivory imported Into Europe comes from Africa. Some is Asiatic, bnt much that is shipped from India is really African, coming by way of Zanzibar and Mozambique to Bombay. NO RELIEF FOR 15 YEARS. - * v.*iV t r-\\ 411 Sorts of Remedies Failed to Cure Eczema?Sufferer Tried Ctatteasm and is Entirely Cored. "I have bad eceema for over fifteen, years, and hare tried all sort* of remedies . \ to relieve me, but without avail.. 1 stated p.. my case to one of my friends and. be recommended the Cuticura Remedies. . ? j bought tbem with the thought- that they,- '* would be unsuccessful, as with the'other*. But after using them for a few weeks ? noticed io my surprise that the irritation '"/> and peeling of the skin gradually decreased, and finally, after using five cakes of Cuticura Soap and two boxes of Cuti- - J5 cara Ointment it disappeared entirely. , I feel now like a new man, and .1 would 4 *gladly recommend these remedies to all who are afflicted with skin diseases. David Blum, Box A, Bedford Station, N. Y.t Nov. 6, 1905." ' r-1-?r-r ' All HallowB Church, Exeter, England, 700 years old, has been torn dQwn. Piles Cured in 0 to 14 Days. Pazo Ointment-is guaranteed to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleedingor Protruding Piles in 6 to 14 dayiB or money refunded. 50c. Eccentricity and Rudeness. Deliver me from your-long-visaged,. bemoaning, over-sympathetic man of . . . medicine, who kills more often than he cures. One of thede he&rt-boweddown practitioners lis worse than *' three attacks of pneumonia. If i -T. cannot , have tbe anecdotal doctor, give me the eccentric aid fcude master of "materia medlca" every time to preference to the hypocritical leech who comes in. with his "ah,, me!" what a pity!" "alas!" "alackadayi" ashes on his head and crape in his heart. Give me such a man as the great John Abernethy, whose anecdotes and brutality made him the mos* popular surgeon-doctor of hilt generation; give me Oliver Wendell Holmes, who cured his patients by cracking jokes; give me Lewis A. ' 3ayre, the most profane and vulgar ,. genius of his day, yet the* most lo^^' able; no baby ever refused to goto his arms and nestle In his waistcoat. . ?New York ?ress. Colds and Breathing. "If you'd only realize/' said the physician, "that deep breathing is a perfectly successful substitute for aa I jvercoat in an emergency the chances ire ten to one that you wouldn't. aave got chilled. About this time of che year colds are frequent because people get caught just as you did md can't think of any way to keep warm except running a race or getting up a brisk fight with sqpie one, which isn't always convenient. In such a, case deep breathing is the t oest substitute for an overcoat there '' is."?Philadelphia Record. The German Emperor has more servants in his employ than any other rvi,-.?i->?./*>> A ltncothcr thATT numhftr ' aver 3000, about two-thirds of them being women. POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD. Guarantee On Their Products. . Wa warrant and guarantee that all packages of Postum Cereal, Grapi^ Nuts and Elijah's Manna hereafter sold by any jobber or retailer, com- ' . ply with the provisions of the Natlonal Pure Food Law, and are Hot and shall not be adulterated or misbranded within the meaning or said Act of Congress approved June 30, . 1906, and entitled, "An act for preventing the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods, drugs, medicines, liquors, and . for regulating traffic therein for other purposes." .Postoi Cereal Co., Ltd. C. W. Post, Chairman, Battle Creek, Mich. Dec. 12, 1906. Subscribed and sworn to before me this loth day of December, 1906. Bexjamin F. REID, $ Notary Public. My commission expires July 1, 1907. Our goods are pure, they always have been and always will be, they 1 are not mis-branded. We have always since the beginning of our busl! ness, printed a truthful statement on the package of the ingredients conI tained therein and we stand back of i every package. . y .