The Abbeville press and banner. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, September 23, 1908, Image 2
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LIQUOR LOSS $150,001
Gov. Forfs Threat of Troops Ter
rorizes Resort Owners.
BIG CROWD, PERFECT PEAC!
Placard in One Place Heads "R*v
For Governor Fort!"?Sonier'
Point and Other Near-By Be
sorts Equally "Dry."
Atlantic City.?The city was abso
lutely "dry" on Sunday. It has no
been so on any Sunday for more tha:
two years, and the situation pre
sented is the sensation of the presen
season. It was the one theme of th
Boardwalk comment, and many ai
old stager found himself unconscious
ly wandering to a lavonts nauni oni
to be confronted by an inhospitabl;
closed door. It is estimated that th
saloons lost $150,000 by the strict en
forcement of the order to close. Gov
ernor Fort's threat to call the Legis
lature and aslc for power to put troop
here struck terror to all the resor
keepers.
In the full compliance with th
law, all window blinds in cafes an<
saloons were up. so any one coul<
gaze inside. There was not a suspi
cion anywhere of a side or a bad
door open for the hopelessly thirsty
and "high signs" of any secret orde
whatever simply did not go. It wa
a case of "all hope for a drink aban
Jon ye who enter here."
A bulletin posted in Police Head
quarters read, with just the slightes
touch of humor:
"Bulletin No. 4, 9 a. m.?Saloon:
all closed. No troops in town."
Another bulletin officially signec
by the Chief of Police, was printed oi
a card. It read:
"In 1861 it was 'hold the fort.
To-day it's Fort holds you."
"I don't believe any town ever wa:
wiJl Via mnro rnm nl 1
closed so far as the enforcement o:
the Sunday selling law Is concerned,'
said Chief of Police Woodruff.
Closings were as complete on At
lantic, Arctic and Baltic avenues her<
as along the Boardwalk. Plair
clothes policemen who tried to bu}
half-pint flasks along Baltic avenut
were told there was "nothing doing.'
Many of the corner saloons on Arcti<
avenue were conspicuously placardec
thus: "This place is closed 'Rah foi
Governor Fort!"
Some thought the closing up on the
last Sunday in August would keei
many persons away from the resort
but they were mistaken. For, if anything,
the crowd which came 10 the
shore just to spend the day was unuually
large, thousands evidently having
decided to take a run down to see
how the place would take the closing
proposition. If these expected anj
excitement, however, they were disappointed,
for there was no trouble
on any part of the island. The cafe
and bar proprietors had entered intc
an agreement to comply rigidly with
the law, and comply they did witt
the best of grace, beginning at midnight
precisely. The police used nc
persuasive efforts, and all was as
peaceably accomplished as if Sundaj
closing were the most usual of mat
ters at tnis place.
Hundreds of thirsty tourists, who
failing .to obtain the refreshment thej
sought in beach cafes during the
morning, hastened to Somer's Poinl
by trolley with the assurance thai
there would be no difficulty in getting
anything and everything a dry palate
might crave in the bay resort, fourteen
miles from the city. They relumed
in dejection with the tidings
that Somer's Point was also 'dry."
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Battleship Fleet at Melbourne.
The American battleship arrivet
at Melbourne, Australia, on time anc
safe.
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PROSPERITY HITS TRENTON.
Number of the Unemployed Ha
Dwindled to Almost Nothing.
Trenton, N. J.?This city has bc-ei
struck by a prosperity wave whicl
promises to continue for severa
mouths, and which is likely to mak<
ui? materially the financial losse
caused by the recent depression. Sev
eral mills are working night and day
The number of unemployed has dvrin
died to almost nothing.
FALL KILLS BASEEALL KOOTER
Forgets He -is in a Tree Top in Hi
Delirium of Cheering.
Campbell,Mo.?Forgetting hie per
llous position on the limb of a tree ii
his enthusiasm over a home run mad
by his favorite baseball team, Rober
Shoemaker, sixteen years old. wavei
^ his arms in a frenzy of delight, wit!
the result that he fell from the tree
He broke his right arm, suffered
fracture of the skull aud received ir
ternal injuries. He died in his hom
thres hours after the accident.
REMAINS THE SAME
Well Brewed Postum Always Pal
at able.
The flavour of Postum, wnen uunei
according to directions, is always th
eame?mild, distinctive, and palata
ble. It contains no harmful sub
Btance like caffeine, the drug 1
coffee, and hence may be used wit
benefit at all times.
"Believing that coffee was th
f cause of my torpid liver, sick heac
I ache and misery in many ways,
writes an Ind. lady, "I quit an
bought a package of Postum aboi
i a year ago.
I "My husband and I have been ?
' well pleased that w6 have continue
ft to drink Postum ever since. We lii
k the taste of Postum better tha
I coffee, as it has always tne sau
pleasant flavour, while coffee changi
its taste with about every new cor
bination or blend.
"Since using Postum I have h?
no more attacks of gall colic, tl
heaviness has left my chest, and tl
old, common, every-day headache
a thing unknown." "There's a Re
son."
Name given by Postum Co., Batt
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road
Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the above letter? A n<
one appears from time to time. Th
kare genuine, true, and full of ham
feterest.
IMG FSUL ro si
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Six Women and One Man Drown
When Sloop Capsizes.
Only Three of Ten Prominent Summer
Tourists Rescued in Pens'-'
obscot Bay Tragedy.
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h i Deer Isle. Me.?Six women and a
? I man,- all summer resorter? here, lost
s
their lives when a thirty-five-foot
! sloop was thrown on its beam ends
i by a sudden squall in Penobscot Bay.
i Three men succeeded in climbing intc
t j the dinghy that was being towed by
o the slcop, but they were almost over
come from exhaustion in battling
t against the growing seas when picked
e up by a fishing tug.
The disaster was witnessed on the
shore by about 1000 persons from
hotels and cottages. A dozen sloops
y put out to the rescue, but the wreck
y j had floated a quarter mile to leeward
I before they reached it. By that time
[ the fishing tug had the rescued men
* ashore and two bodies had been re
covered.
The dead are: Mrs. Lucy S. Craw9
ley, wife of Professor Edwin S. CrawA
1 TT? i ii.. TDVi U
1 I ley, universny ul reuua,iiiauia, x un|
adelphia; Alice and Eleanor Torro,
2 j sisters, Washington; Evelyn and
1 Lutie Kellogg, sisters, Baltimore;
1 | Miss Elizabeth G. Evans, of Mount
- Holyoke College, Massachusetts, and
i | Jason C. Hutchings, of Billerica.
, Mass., a student in the Bangor Thecr
i logical Seminary, and who had been
s filling a pulpit in Sunset, Deer Isle,
for the summer.
Professor Crawley, Henry B. Evans,
- brother of Miss Elizabeth Evans, and
t j Captain Samuel Haskell, skipper of
the s\oop, were the men to save them3
selves by reaching the dinghy. Haskell
had a reputation as one of the
1 most skillful yachtsmen on Deer Isle.
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PROUTY FOR GOVERNOR.
Republicans Elcct State Ticket in Vermont
by 28,000 Plurality.
t ! Burlington, Vt. ? Incomplete re'
turns indicate that the Republicans
have about 2S.000 plurality in the
State election.
3 Returns from fifty-six towns show
i an aggregate decrease in the Repub'
lican plurality of 1471 from that of
? 1904, which would i*dicate a plural'
Ity for Prouty and Mead of about 26,5
000.
I In 1904 Roosevelt's plurality was
f 30.082.
The State ticket elected is as folf
lows: Governor, George H. Prouty,
> of Newport; Lieutenant-Governor,
, John A. Mead, of Rutland; Treasu
rer, Edward H. Deavitt, ot Montpe!
lier; Secretary of State, Guy W. Bai
j ley, of Essex; Auditor of Accounts,
Horace F. Graham, of Craftsbury;
! Attorney General, John G. Sargent,
I of Ludlow.
' The day brought no great surprise,
1 except in the number of legislators
i elected by the Democrats.
i With the election of the State ticki
et the Congressional ticket also went
i through, David J. Foster, of Burlingi
ton, being returned for another term
from the First District, and from the
Second District, Frank Plumley, of
i Northfield, for the first time.
1 Although the Republican majority
in the Legislature will be reduced, a
Republican will be elected to succeed
i United States Senator Penfield Proc'
tor. who died recently.
' The Prohibition party ran a close
! race with the Independence League.
: while the Socialists were a poor fifth
! in the contest,
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ATHLETES AT SAGAMORE.
, Hearty Greetings and Congratulations
at Oyster Eaj.
i Oyster Bay, L. I.?The members of
| the American Olympic team of 190S
1 will long remember their hearty re1
! ception by President Roosevelt at
j Sagamore Hill. The reeling of the
j whole party was well expressed by
I two of the winning athletes, who in|
sisted upon the President accepting
j one of their medals. The President
I showed an intimate knowledge of
s ' what each member of the team had
f done, and praised them individually
i and collectively, giving at the end a
3 i r\f o/YvSno
I WU1U \jl aurxvv,
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e BLOWN TO PIECES BY OXYGEN.
3 1
i President Clifford Meets Horrible
Death at Niagara Falls.
Niagara Falls, N. Y.?John G. Clifford,
president of the United Oxygen
and Chemical Company, was blown
m to pieces at the plant of the company
in the presence of his eighteen-yearold
son Roger.
A tank of oxygen, charged to 2200
pounds, burst near him. Mi. Clif.
ford's legs were torn off and hurled
Q fifty feet into a field, but the boy was
e uninjured.
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3 ; , GREAT OIL FIRE OUT.
B :
j Centrifugal Pumps and Dynamite Save
J Mexican Field?Loss $3,000,000.
5 j City of Mexico.?Word has reached
j the firm of S. Pearson & Sons, that
' the great oil well fire which has
S raged at Las Bocas for two months
, ' has been extinguished.
I Six giant centrifugal pumps poured
j gravel and mud into the mouth of the
boring well for ten days, and this,
i coupled with persistent dynamite
a blasting, smothered the flames. It is
estimated that 3,000,000 barrels of
oil, valued at $3,000,000, was burned.
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h General Stewart Dead.
Lieutenant-General A. P. Stewart,
e a noted Confederate offlccr, died at
, Biloxi, Miss. General f ewart was
? born in Tennessee, 1821, and spent
1 the greater part of his life in that
d State, but recently moved to Biloxi.
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W. J. Bryan, Jr., Engaged.
10 The engagement of W. J. Bryan,
Jr., and Miss Helen Berger, daughc
ter of Alexander Berger, a miller
ir i and member of Milwaukee's Board
ie of Trade, was announced at Milwaukee,
Wis.
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Women in the Day's News.
id Miss Katharine Prescott Wormeley,
1 noted as the translator or tsaizac,
.. died at Jackson, N. H.
. That Mrs. Peter C. Hains, Jr., will
testify as a witness for the State and
a" not lift a hand to save her husband
from the electric chair was emphale
sized by her lawyer, Frank G. Wild,
to of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mme. Ida Von Claussen, an Amer,w
lean, who tried unsuccessful)' to get
' herself presented to the Swedish
" court in 1907, is reported as about tc
M wed one of two rival suitors, one a
Russian prince, the other an Italiac
prince.
FUMED HOD FEET
WTO rail, 5 HUE;
Runaway Truck Crashes Into Ca
Filled With Men.
SPEED OF FORTY MILES AN HOU
I
Miners Killed at the Warrior Shaf
Wilkes-Barrc, Pa., as They Wei
Starting For Home?Headma
Arrested.
Wilkes-Barre, Pa.?Five men wer
killed and many Injured at the Wai
rior Run Colliery of the Lehigh Va
ley Coal Company, when a runawa
mine car da'shed into a car full c
miners who were being pulled up
2000-foot slope.
The dead: James Gallagher, age
twenty-seven years, car runner, sir
gle; Julius Kurtz, aged forty years
miner, single; Frank Ostrolsk, age
thirty-seven years, married, survive
by wife and two children; Samue
Ruscave, aged sixteen years, dooi
tender; John Forkalshak, aged fift>
one years, married, survived by wif
and three children.
William Naywadey, aged fort
years, single, and Ignatz Gowlsk]
aged thirty-two years, are fatally ir
jured. Twelve others were more o
less injured.
The day's work had been finished
i n?H tho hoaw wnnrlfin car. with fOU
seats running crosswise, was fille
with men, eager to gain the surfac
and hasten home.
The slope is 2000 feet long, run
ning from the surface down to a vei
which If about 900 feet under ground
When the car reached the thir
switching station on .the slope th
men heard ,a sudden roar, and wer
appalled upon looking up the slope t
see a huge mine car rushing down a
them with terrific speed.
About half of the men were abl
to jump from the truck and thus sav
their lives, though all were more o
less injured. The runaway, heavil
laden with refuse, ran up the rope t
which the truck was fastened an
plunged down among the mine work
ers. Both cars plunged 1000 fee
down the slope;
Investigation showed that the acci
dent was the fault of John Stimcor
aged twenty-six years, single, wh
was headman at the slope.
Stimcon failed to handle the load
cd car properly, and it bacame un
manageable. It dashed down th
branch track, jumped the switch o
to the main track, and plunged int
the ascending truck while travelin
at a speed of forty miles an houi
The descending car weighed severs
tons and dashed the men in the fron
of the truck to instant death.
Mine Superintendent Boyle arrest
ed Stimcon for criminal negligent
and censured the company for no
having a head block at the end of th
slope so that no car could gain th
main slope, even though it did ru:
away on the branch.
MEAT PRICES SLUMP.
Good News For Housewives in Ad
vices From Packing Houses.
Omaha, Neb.?Prices of fresh mea
have taken a tumble and packin
house managers report that a still fui
ther reduction will be made in bee!
pork and mutton. As a result of th
| reduction in prices the volume o
business in the South Omaha packin
houses has increased almost 100 pe
cent. Sirloin steaks have droppe
from twenty and twenty-five cents
pound to fifteen cents; ribs fell frot
eighteen to fifteen cents; pork chop
have fallen from fifteen cents t
twelve cents, and prices on othe
grades of meat are decreased propor
j tionately.
The downward trend In prices be
gan two months ago, when the grass
I fed cattle from the great ranges be
M X- ?--* w,111
gan coming 10 nmr?.ei., anu ?n wu
tinue until that grade is disposed of.
CLOUDBURST IN NEW MEXICO
Houses and People Swept Off in Floo
at Folsom.
Trinidad, Col.?A flood in the Cim
marron River, following a cloudbursi
washed away a number of dwelling
at Folsom, N. M. Fifteen person
are reported to have been drowned
Eleven bodies have been recovered
Ten miles of track and twelve bridge
on the Colorado and Southern Rail
way were washed out.
The known dead at Folsom are *
6. Wenger, Mrs. R. B. Wenger, Mis
Daisy Wenger, Miss Lucy Creightoi
T. W. Wheeler, Mrs. T. W. Wheelei
three Wheeler children, Mrs. Rook
and T. W. Wheeler's sister-in-law
whose name could not be learned.
Several houses were swept awa
completely and nearly every house i
the town was damaged.
PASTOR FOUND DEAD.
Rev. O. B. MiUigan, Athlete an
Golfer, Victim of Suicide or Murder
Cleveland, Ohio.?"Goldie, tak
rare of the children this afternoon;
expect to go to the country club," sai
the Rev. O. B. Milligan, pastor of th
First Presbyterian Church, of Cantoi
Ohio, to the housemaid. Two minute
later the clergyman lay dead in hi
study with a gashing wound just b<
l low his heart from ona barrel of th
shotgun found at his side.
Whether the deed was premed
tated, accidental or by the hand of ai
other, intimate friends cannot detei
mine.
Burned Home; Hanged Herself.
After supposing all night that Mr
William Walker, wife of a Sanfor
(N. Y.) farmer, had been burned t
j death in her home, neighbors foun
her body hanging from the Mmb of a
J apple tree. A letter left by h?
showed that she had set fire to tt
house and then nanged herself.
David B. Hill Returns.
Ex-Senator David B. Hill said c
his return from Europe that lie is 01
of politics and would not take a non
ination for Governor of New York.
The National Game.
Larry Lajoie did not make a hit 1
the recent Cleveland-Boston series.
Bridwell is playing a great fieldii
game at short field for the Giants.
Mike Donlin was the first Nation
League player to make 100 safe hits
Durham, an Indianapolis pltche
, has been purchased by the New Yoi
Nationals.
' "Show me a team that works thr
> first class pitchers often and I'll she
1 you a team that wins more gam
1 than one that uses six or eight pitc
ers," says Arthur Irwin.
OUR TOURING NAV1
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y ?Cartoon
; PITTSBURG WOMEN YIELD
[
r 1 Trapped by Assessors to Reveal B<
Blue Book Used With Successe
Into Telling About Stocl
i- Pittsburg, Pa.?Wives of hunn
dreds of Pittsburg rich men, after
I. several years of alleged "holding out"
d on the city assessors with their bonds
e and mortgages, have at last been
e taken into camp through a clever
o move on the part of the assessors,
t who are now boasting of it to the
discomfiture of the women who wear
e blue silk stockings.
e The assessors claim to have uncovr
ered assessable paper worth more
y than $1,000,000, which has lain in
o i rosewood cases for years under cover,
d j the owners not caring to pay taxes on
| it, and so never made returns of it to
it | the assessors.
j The Pittsburg blue book was the
i- medium through which the assessors
i, of Pittsburg hung one of the most
o monumental bluffs ever worked off
on unsuspecting women. The cry[
ing need of more taxable property
l- appealed to the assessors, and they
e decided to call on the rich women of
a Pittsburg, who have long been suso
j pected of having much taxable paper
g which has never been turned in.
Thousands of letters were sent out
tl to Mrs. John Smith, Mrs. William
,t Jones or Mrs. James Green, asking
them to please make statements to
> the assessors regarding stocks, bonds,
J( mortgages, etc., that they were supt
posed to possess. This brought nothe
ing. Mesdames Smith, Jones and
e j Green ignored the summons as they
q j had done for years.
Finally the blue bdok was thought
1 of. There was some hard detective
1 work, and within a week other let|
ters were sent out, but this time ad,
I dressed t<5 Mrs. Lucille Jamison
j Smith, Mrs. Vera Worthington Jones
I and Mrs. Margaret Clancey Green,
t I and the letters read something like
g : this:
| "My Dear Madam?You will please
f, i furnish at once to the office of the
e i City Assessors full particulars ref
j garding that block of Pennsylvania
g i *
r I
d ! * m a rvi /^d B~"V
a | ljcrtivi/um
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0 Lloyd-Georze Astounded by
r | Little
London. ? David Lloyd-George,
, ; Chancellor of the Exchequer, has
? i returned to London. He said, when
? ; it was suggested that he discussed
; naval programs in the course of his
l" | stay in Germany, that he had gone
i to that country simply to investigate
! the German system of old age pensions.
Punch, commenting on this,
| says: "Now that his recommendad
i tion to grant pensions has been
j adopted he naturally feels that hs
j. ! ought to seriously study the ques
t, tion."
g ' It seems, according to Mr. Lloydg
i George's statements in an interview,
[t | that he did not find the German sysj
tem to be of such a socialistic chara
j acter as he and his friends advocate
t. WEDS COWGIR]
;s
i' Emmett Dalton Pardoned From Pen
e Bartlesville, Okla.?Emmett Dalr,
J ton and Mrs. Julia Lewis were mar:
ried here a few nights ago.
y j A few months ago Dalton was parn
j doned from the Kansas Penitentiary
I where he was serving a life sentence
[ for participation in the raid on the
Coffey ville (Kan.) banks sixteer
years ago.
d | Julia Lewis is the widow of Er
nest Lewis, who died in a Diooay ngm
with Federal Marshals Keeler and
e Williams in this city last November
I Lewis killed Williams during the
d battle, in which more than twentj
e shots were fired in a small room
Lewis served a term in the Coloradc
!S Penitentiary for train robbery anc
's had worried the authorities of Kan
sas and Oklahoma by conducting <
e modern "Monte Carlo" on a narrov,
strip of ground which he declared
I- was owned by neither State. It was
discovered later that he bad movec
r" the State line marker six years be
Find 7G79 Mexican Towns
AffloJollTT
1X1 Ut V/lUViuiij * -------Q
City of Mexico.?The geographica
q | commission appointed by the govern
d ment seven years ago to map all o
the towns of the country have jus
' made their report. They make thi
' astounding statement that they dis
covered 7G79 towns which were no
officially known to exist and whicl
have heretofore had no federal con
trol.
in Many of these towns are of con
Jt siderable size, ranging in populatio:
a- from 5000 to 15,000 people.
About Noted People.
Senator Scott, of West Virginia
[n was bruised in a fist fight at Wheelinj
with a local politician whom he ha<
ie called a liar.
President Roosevelt congratulate^
aj and slapped on the back individual!
3 sixty-eight members of the Olympi
team who visited him at Oyster Baj
k N'Y'
James E. Hughes, eighty-sevei
years old, former member of the Mis
se souri Legislature, who was impris
oned during the reconstruction day
e3 in Missouri for preaching, died a
h- Oeborn, Mo.
A
r IN ^HE ANHPODK. |
by Bcrryman, in the Washington Star.
Pirn USPVK5T TN T&YES
iiivu umiiuui in liiiiijui I
inds and Mortgages Long Hidden-- j
.-Maiden Names Frighten Them
< Inherited From Parents.
Railroad stock which the late
Mr. , your father, gave you on
your wedding day; also regarding
the mortgages and bank 3tocks which
were given you by your husband some
years ago. We wish to have an accounting.of
taxes, and must ask you
to give this your immediate attention."
The rich women of Pittsburg never
stopped to ask questions. They simply
flew to the offices of the assessors
to settle.
They did not know what might happen
later if the assessors could get
their maiden names and their family
history so readily, and they decided <
to get their long held stock placed i
on the books and pay their taxes. J
Some of the women almost fainted I 1
when told that their maiden names 1
came from the blue book. The as- i
sessors sent out 4000 of these letters
and have been forced to put on ex- j 1
tra clerks to handle the business that : 1
is coming in. ( i
The Pennsylvania Railroad, which j <
had 65,000 holders of stock, is a ; s
favorite for the rich Pittsburg wo- j <
men. The railroad some time ago re- \ 1
fused to permit the city assessbrs to j i
cnrnr Tinmoq from its books, as did i 1
many banks, and there was no way <
to get at the fair holders of this i
property. Mortgages held on prop- i
erties out3lde the State of Pennsylvania
was also safe from taxation in
Pittsburg as long as the owners could
keep the knowledge of their owner- I
ship from the assessors.
According to an employe of the
city there is great fear on the part .
of persons of great wealth that they
may be arrested for perjury, since j
they recently took oath as to all their j
taxable possessions and did not include
taxable railroad stocks and .
bonds worth thousands of dollars,
i but when jthe blue book was rung in ]
on them, they uncovered the hidden I j
store of bonds.
AGE PENSIONS,
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Magnitude of System?Punch's
t Joke. 1
in Great Britain. He said: "Em- <
: ployers will tell you that nearly all i
their workmen are Socialists." Re- 1
ferring to the pension system he said:
; "What a gigantic scheme is theirs
! compared with ours. Thirty-four
i million pounds ($170,000,000) are j
distributed in pensions every year."
He added that of this sum the
State pays $14,000,000, the cost of
administration only. For the rest ! 1
s %$70,000,000 is sick pay. The work
men contribute two-thirds. Eleven
million pounds, or $55,000,000, is
paid to the aged and Incapacitated,
, masters and men contributing
equally, and $45,000,000 is paid for
accidents, which expense the employi
ers must meet.,
SWEETHEART
litentiary In TImo to Find Her a Widow
fore, preparatory to entering upon
thi3 sort of enterprise.
The romance between Dalton and
Julia Lewis, known as the Cowgirli
, began twenty years ago, when the
t latter was a pretty daughter of Texas |
i Johnson and lived with her parents | j
i near the Kansas line eighteen miles j
north of Bartlesville. She and Dal- '
ton were about the same age and they j
: rode races, practised shooting with . .
1 rifles and rode their ponies to an i 1
. o?the dances. While Dalton was hid- [ 1
i den from the officers it is said that i
' the girl cooked his meals and kept .
. him informed of the movements of i
> the pursuers.
I They will live here, where the
bride has a large amount* of propi
erty. The wedding was a very quiet j
r affair before a justice of the peace.
I The bride and bridegroom have re3
fused to accept a lucrative offer to
I go on the stage made by a Chicago
- showman. * i ;
Wars of Future Should
Be Settled by Airships. |
1 Washington, D. C.?That airships
- will play an important part in the .
f ne'tt war between world powers; that
t the Civil War would have lasted but
2 nine months if either army had a; ,
- balloon corps lilte tnat now ai run .
t Myer, Va., and that the United State?
i Government should secure the ser
vices of the Wright brothers and
Thomas S. Baldwin, were the opinions
- expressed by Colonel James Templer,
i in command of the aeronautical division
of the British army.
Newsy Gleanings.
Boston merchants indorsed the prog
posal for an alliance with China,
i Persian nationalists, at Teheran.
are holding out defiantly against the
a Shah.
y Song Piung-Chun, Korea's Home
c Minister, favors Japanese rule in hia
\ country. 1 *.iv?
Japanese immigrants in Brazil
ti proved useless for work on the coffee
i- plantations.
i- Word was received in Wall Street
Q wrmilH hn o folrtnv +n PHTldllPt fl
t bucketshoo hereafter in New York
State.
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5.0. JOB KILLED,
HIS AIRSHIP BURNED
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Aeronaut Dropped 500 Feet at 1
Waterville, Ms. j
MFE AND CHILD PRESENT 1
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3ag of Dirigible Caught Fire and Machinery
and Inventor Shot to
Earth Before Crowd?Spark of 1
Motor Caused Disaster. j
Waterville, Me. ? In full view of
!5,000 spectators on the Maine fair ]
grounds Charles Oliver Jones, the i
veil known aeronaut, of Hammonds- ]
>ort, N. Y., fell a distance of 500 feet
o his death. Among the witnesses ]
>f the frightful plunge were Mrs.
fones and her chi|d. They were the (
irst to-reach tho"side of the dying
nan. The aeronaut eipired about
in hour and a half after the accident. !
Jones had been at the fair grounds
with his dirigible balloon, the Boomerang,
known as a Strobsl airship, r
lince the opening day of the fair.
When the aeronaut reached a
leight of more than 500 feet the
spectators saw small tongues of fire
ssuing from under the gas bag in
!ront of the motor. At this time the '
Dalloon had passed out of the fair {
grounds. Many persons in the great i
:rowd shouted to Jones of his danger, <
jut several minutes elapsed before he i
loticed the fire. Then he grasped
;he rip cord and endeavored to reach
;he earth. The machine descended
jut a short distance when a sudden 1
Durst of flame enveloped the gas bag, a
:he framework immediately separat- c
ng from it. a
Jones fell with the frame of hi3
notor, and when his wife and child [
ind the spectators reached him he .
was lying dying unckjr the wrecked
naChinery a quarter of a mile from 8
;he grounds. The gas bag was com- 1
pletely destroyed. It is thought that a
:he bag leaked again and that a spark a
!rom the motor caused the disaster. g
Jones was forty years old. \
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Hammondsport, N. Y. ? Charles ,
Dliver Jones, killed at Waterville, ;
was numbered among the younger 1
leronauts, but his work in the field s
aad already marked him as one of f
:he most successful exponents of s
lerial navigation. a
He came here a year ago from his
lome in Cincinnati with some entire
y new ideas in regard to airs! "?,
ind joined Alexander Graham i, i 1
ind others in their experiments with f
leroplanes. It wa^ Jones- who I
>volved the famous "June Bug," |
which made several record flights for f
short distances. The "June Bug" y
won The Scientific American trophy *
Dffered for heavier than air machines,
ittaining a speed of about thirty 1
niles an hour against the wind.
SLAIN ON HIS DOORSTEP. i
)r. Rustin's Wife Heard Shot?Found | |
Her Husband Dying.
Omaha, Neb.?Dr. Frederick T. j
Rustin, one of the best known sur- {
?eons in the West, was shot and
dlled as he was about to enter his 1
louse. '
Dr. Rustin had remained,out late *
'or the primary election returns. Hia c
wife was awakened by a pistol shot t
md rushed down stairs and out on e
;he porch- Dr. Rustin was sitting in j
i chair. ,
"A man shot me," he gasped.
He was unable to speak further, ,
md became quickly unconscious. A ?
nedlcal examination showed that but
)ne shot had been fired, apparently
!rom a revolver. The bullet had enured
the abdomen. I
T4r T?iiatir> mas eradiialert from the r
Sheffield Scientific School, Yale University,
in 1895, and was captain of
the baseball nine in that year.
CANAL BANK IS BLOWN UP. j
[Illinois and Michigan Waterway
Badly Damaged at Channahon, 111.
Joliet, Hi.?By the use of dyna- j
mite a breach was made in the bank j
jf the Illinois and Michigan Canal at
Channahon, twelve miles southwest
Joliet. The break is 100 feet long.
The district is flooded, and the entire
section of the caDal from Joliet
to Channahon is emptied of water. 1
Boats are stranded, fish by thousands 1
;over the bottom of the canal, navl- i
;atlon is tied up, and factories using I
power furnished by the canal have ;
2lo3ed.
The dynamiting is the result of a
fight between the Canal Commissioners
and the State, on one side, and the
/illaees of Channahon and Troy, on
:he other. The State refused to build
)r repair broken-down bridges.
EDWARD BACON DROWNED, f
Body of Consin of Robert Racon
Ashore at Falmouth, Mass.
Falmouth, Mass.?The body of EdWard
Bacon, of New York City, a cou-sin
of Robert Bacon, Assistant Secretary
of State, was washed ashore on
the beach at Falmouth Heights. He
was forty-one years of age, and the
son of Daniel Bacon, of New York
City. j
Mr. Bacon disappeared from the
Dexter House at Wood's Holl. v/here
U-. 1* ? A nnnn/linrr Oil m m of
lie uau UCCU flJ/CUUlUv, LUC ouuimvi ?. w
the hotel, and was not in the best of
health.
Medical Examiner Charles Millil:en,
of Hyannis. said death was due
to drowning. The body was taken to
New York City for burial.
Arabs Beaten by French.
In an encounter between the French
and the Arabs on the Algerian frontier,
lasting a day and a night, the
tribesmen were repulsed with heavy
losses, while the French loss was
slight.
American Mills Decline Cotton.
American millo seem to bs impressed
by the prospects of an early
moving crop, and are not as anxious
for cotton as they were several weeks
ago.
MRS. HALLAN FREES NEGRO.
Exonerates Man Whose Arrest Started
Springfield Riot.
Springfield, 111.?Mrs. Earl Hallan
signed a statement that George Richardson
is not the negro who attacked
her on the night of August 14. It
was the charge against Richardson,
followed by his arrest and removal to
Eloomlngton, that precipitated the recent
race riot.
Defalcation at HavanaHavana
dispatches placed the
amount of the postoffice defalcation
there at S53.135.
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One of-the I
Essentials fi
of tho happy homes of to-day iff a vaat H
fund of information as to the best method* Bfl
of promoting health and happiness ard M
right living and knowledge of the worid'f W
best products. , .
Products of actual excellence and
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reuauuuuiu ciuiras truuiiuuy prcsentcu
and which have attained to world-wide v
Eicceptance through the approval of the
Well-informed of the World; not of individuals
only but of th<: many who have 1
the happy faculty of selecting and obtaining
the best the woild affords.
One of the products of that class, of V
known component parts, an Ethical' v
remedy, approved by physicians and commended
by the Well-informed of the
World as a valuable and wholesome family
laxative is the well-known Syrup of Figs
and Elixir of Senna. To get its beneficial
effects always buy the genuine, manufactured
by the California Fig Syrup Co,
anly, and for sale by all leading druggist*.
THE SOLENODON. .
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rhe Only Specimens in the Country in
New York City.
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The strangest American animal,
ind also one of the rarest ad least I
mown of all mammals, is the solen)don,
or alnlqul. Only two speclnens
are known?one peculiar to
2uba, the other to the Island of Santo
Domingo.
Although the solenodon Is an inlectivorous
animal, yet In many
vays It resembles the rodents as well
is the ant-eaters, and Is more like
:ertaln fossil quadrupeds than like
my other living creature. ,
It is about two feet in length, with
ong, coarse hair and a naked, ratike
tail. The forefeet are heavy and
trong, and are. provided with stout,
:urved claws rot digging and tearing
ipart rotten logs. The nose is long >
md slender and exceedingly mobile,
md the whole appearance of the anmal
Is peculiar.
For many years, says the New -'iv.
'lew York Sun, the solenodon haa
>een considered extinct, and practially
nothing was known of Its habts.
Few museums of the world posessed
even fragments of the remarkible
animal.
In December, 1906, A. Hyatt Yer- vp';
ill undertook a trip to Santo Doningo
in search of this long lost anmal,
and succeeded In obtaining
hree living specimens, which are now ;
n the American Museum of Natural
listory in New York City, and are '
>elieved to be the only specimens of
he Santo Domingo solenodon In th?
Jnited States, if not in the world.
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Smell." in Great Cities.
The man with a nose always rec>gnizes
the smell of the place, and he
las only .to land at Calais to smell
;arlic. London's smell?when the
Londoner returns?is just soot and (j
'ried fish. Paris always smells of
ihocolate and wood smoke. Florence
s violets and sewage. But so soon
is you get to Russia the smell Is quite
iifferent. Moscow the city of fruit
h*t comes from the Crimea, has a
special smell of the cranberry (which
las various names) in tate summer. )
\.nd yoa cannot land in St. Petersburg
vithout noticing ? instantly ? the . V
tmell of the place.?Chicago Journal.
How's This?
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
:or any case of Catarrh that cannot b?
:ured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.
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M? V Ui V/V.j AViVUVj v?
We, the undersigned, have known V. J.
Jheuey tor t>? last 15 years, and believe
lim perfect^/ honorable in all business
xansactions and financially able to carry .
>ut any obligations made by his firm. "
Waldinq, Kinnan & Makvin, Wholesale
Druggists, 'J.oledo, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acfcngdirectly
upon the blood and mucuousj?ur>
faces of the system. Testimonials sent tree.
Price, 75c. per bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Jnst the Same Here.
Sunday excursions, picnics, boat
rides and other outing parties in this
vicinity would be more beneficial and
snjoyable if they were not so often
followed by funerals.?St. Louis i;
post-uispatcn.
HER GOOD FORTUNE
After Years Spent in Vain Effort. i
Mrs. Mary E. H. Rouse, of Cambridge,
N. Y.. says: "Five years ago
tl bad a bad fall and it
affected my kidneys.
Severe pains in my
back and hips became
constant, and sharp
twinges followed any
exertion. The kidney ^
secretions were badlj
disordered. I lost
tlest and grew too
weak to work. Though constantly
using medicine I despaired of being
cured until 1 began taking Doan'a
Kidney Pills. Theny relief cams
quickly, and in a short time 1 waa
completely cured. I am now i:i ex
celient neaun.
Sold by all dealers. 60centsabor.
Foster-Milburu Co.. Buffalo, N. Y.
The Men Australia Wants.
The type of men we require Is the
man who is not afraid of hardships,
who is game to strike out "on hia
own," and who can rely on himself
to pull through. Some people have
an idea that an immigrant should
have everything done for him by a
paternal government?his passage
paid and land ready awaiting his arrival.
It would, of course, be fatal
for the government to spoon-feed immigrants
in this *ay.?Britannia.
So naturally averse are we to swap>
ping horses in the middle of the
stream that a political party not iuu
scrupulous may sometimes perpetuate
itself in power merely by omitting
to come ashore, avers the New York
World.
Turkish farmers never use fertllaers,
nor do they practice rotation;
of crops. The same crops are planted
year after year until the soil la
exhausted. .