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The age-herald., 1902-05-17
THRASHED 115 BOYS.
The Herculean Labor of an Old-Time
 Virginia Schoolmaster.

From the Richmond Dispatch.
 A Connecticut schoolmaster thrashed forty-nine scholars in one day, and the Nutmeg state papers are bragging that he broke the record. He may have brok- en the modern record, but not that of the "better days of the republic" Just be- fore the war between the states the late Richard Anderson more than doubly overtopped the Connecticut mans per formance. It was when he was classical assistant to William Dabney Stuart, whose school house was on the north side of Clay street. between Fifth and Sixth. Stuart was sick. and "Old Dick" as the assistant was affectionately called-for he was as fine a man as ever lived-was run ming things alone.
 The boys, about 115 in number, indulged In a concerted and excessive outburst of hilarity and devilment. and Anderson vowed by the shades of some dozen or more Latin and Greek authors that If they repeated 1t he would wallop the whole. We did repeat 1t, and Anderson, who had expected the repetition, and armed himself with a bundle of switches cut from the trees in the yard of the German Lutheran church on Sixth street. proceeded to keep his VOW in fast and furious style.
 The scholars ranged in age from 10 to IT and Is years, and not one escaped. It was a circus while 1t lasted, and the sion might have been heard squares off. When the last of the boys had been dressed down Anderson was so exhausted that we had to turn in and fan him with Mitchells atlasses to prevent him from fainting.
The age-herald., 1902-05-17
GERMAN EMPEROR
 PRESENTS STATUE
OUT OF REGARD FOR THE U. 8. HE WILL HAVE BUILT A STATUE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT. ROOSEVELT ACCEPTS.

Weisbaden Hesse, Nassau, May 6.-The German Emperor Wednesday, May IA, telegraphed as follows to the President of the United States at Washington:
 'I am still under the deep impression created by the splendid and cordial re- ception of my brother, Prince Henry, by the citizens of the United States of America. In the speeches with which he was greeted the fact was often made that my ancestor, Frederick the Great, main tained friendly attitude toward the young American republic during the course of her formation, thereby laying the corner stone of the friendly relations which have always existed between our two countries.
 "The examples set to me by the great king I intend to follow. I wish to com memorate the visit of Prince Henry by a gift to the people of Am erica which I request you to ascept in their name. I intend to present statue in bronze of Frederick the Great to the United States to be erected in Washington in a place which you will kindly choose. May this gift be looked upon as a lasting sign of the intimate relations which have been successfully fostered and developed be- tween our two great nations.
 WILLIAM, I. R."
 President Roosevelt replied, thanking Emperor William for the gift and add ing: Tt is a hopeful sign for the welfare of all mankind that in the beginning of this century the American and German people are working together in sense of happy friendship" Washington, May 16.-President Roose- welt has decided that the statue of Fred erick the Great should be placed adja- cent to tha new war college, which is to be established in the arsenal grounds in this city.
The age-herald., 1902-05-17
THE SWIFT MISSISSIPPI.
Mighty Stream Can Be Turned Aside
 by Sticks In Sand.
From Ainslee's Magazine.

From Ainslee's Magazine.
 In this region, too, the river Is bordered with busy cities-Dubuque, Keokuk. Quincy, Davenport, Rock Island, Moline. thriving railway towns, full of factories, colleges fine residences, and all the evil dences of energy and culture. Most of them are built on hills, and all on high ground. Seen from the river they present the finest views of themselves, something the cities of the flat country farther down never do.
 It is a swift river that rushes past these cities. At low water, which Is usu- ally in summer and fall, the current drops to three inches an hour or less. But at high water, when 1t stands thirty or forty feet higher on its banks, it sweeps along at nine miles an hour with irresistible pressure.
 Imagine what that means in a big river nine miles an hour. We are so used to railway trains that run sixty or seventy miles an hour that 1t does not seem an overwhelmi ing speed. But consider that when a railway train is once checked it's power is gone. Interfere with the pro- gress of the Mississippi and the river piles up against the obstruction. sweeps around it. over 1t, under it. and moment arily grows stronger about 1t. The power waxeS until 1t sweeps away the fret.
 Yet such Is the contrariety of this mighty stream 6Tiat while 1t will over throw the strongest obstacle to its course that can be built, 1t will yield to the slightest. One could harGIy f1nl a more striking illustration of the power of slight things than the sharp contrast between the behavior of the river against power full check and against a slight one. For years government engineers struggled to direct the river with massive stone dykes. When the river could not overthrow one of these 1t dug under it, and so wrecked 1t. Money without end was spent on dykes. There was mighty one below Gold Dust landing in Tennessee. It stood longer than most of them, but in a flood the river at last conquered and swept it away.
 How, then can the river be directed Simply by few sticks set in the sand. A row of piling. sometimes with a few brush hurdles, accomplishes it. The river sweeps through, eddies behind 1t, dropping sand and building up a bar. Nowadays travelling down the river through stretches that once were broad and shallow, one finds them narrow and deep, with sandy sides, over the tops of which can be seen just the tips of the piles that accom- plished the mighty change.
The age-herald., 1902-05-17
OEHLER BEFORE
 SENATE COMMITTEE
FACTS ABOUT SUGAR" COMPILED BY OSCAR BONNER, CONSISTING OF REPRINTS FROM. NEWS PAPERS BROUGHT INTO CASE.

Washington, May 16.-The Senate com- mittee on relations with Cuba today heard John Oehler of New York City, who printed Facts about Sugar." com piled by Oscar W. Donner and consist ing of reprints from newspaper articles.
 MT. Oehler said that in January last he was employed by Mir. Donner, ad- .vertising agent of the sugar trust, to print this document, for which he re- ceived s75O The edition numbered 25O.OO0 copies.
 Ex-Senator c. F. Manderson of Nebras- ka said he had acted as legal adviser of ehe general manager of the American Beet Sugar Company D. c. Howe and the president of the Standard Beet Sugar Company, H. G. Leavitt. he produced two forms of contracts which these com panies had entered into during the sum- mer of 1901 with the jobbers on the Mis- souri river, one of which contained pro- vision that shipments would be billed at ten cents per hundred pounds less than the American Sugar Company's open price for standard granulated that may be in effect in Kansas City on date of arrival of their sugar there. but at no time would the price exceed 5.S7 In the other form the words "bona f1de price, were inserted.
 MT. Manderson said the American Sugar Refining Company notified the job bers having contracts with the beet-sugar companies in Missouri river points that they would furnish them sugar at $S 50 per hundred and said he was called on to decide what to do under the contracts referred to. He had discovered that this sugar only would be given in very small quantities. The American Beet Sugar Company, he said, sought to buy at $3.50 per 100, but was refused. The established market price, he said, continued at 5.1212, and the special price was limited to a that 1t was not ''an open price, nor 'bona fide price," and not contemplated by the beet sugar contracts, and that the beet sugar companies were not re- quired to sell at $3. 40.
 MT. Manderson said the American Sugar Refining Company's cut would have broken down the beet sugar indus- try in the West If the beet sugar people had been able to command the money with which they could store their pro- duct
 The proposition for 20 per cent reduc- tion, he said, had caused many prospec- tive beet sugar factories arid land in the West to be abandoned altogether.
The age-herald., 1902-05-17
FAVOR THE cEssIoN.
FoIkething Votes to Sell the Islands
 to the United States.

Copenhagen, Denmark, May 16.-The Folkething lower house today by 9S to Z cession of the Danish West Indies to the United States on condition that a subsequent popular vote of the inhab- itants of the island show a majority ir favor therefor.
 The matter was then returned to the Landthing, which after long and spir- tied debate, rejected the resolution, and by 33 to 80 votes reaffirmed the resolution providing for limited plebescite. The ratification of the city is favored only by a majority of three-quarters. This ob- struction shelves the question until after the election in September, when the gov ernment hopes to obtain a majority in the Landthing.
The age-herald., 1902-05-17
Troops Not Needed.

Rayville, La.. May 16.-The mob that gathered here tonight was influenced by a false rumor that Albert Williams, charged with the murder of Gus N. Grant. had been granted a change of venue. Finding that the application for a change of venue had been withdrawn, the mob dispersed and the sheriff noti- fled the Governor that troops were not now needed.
The age-herald., 1902-05-17
Intended to Be Fully Prepared.

From the Baltimore American.
 "I tell you what to do." said the anx- ious constituent. You go right to head quarters and ask the President to give me that appointment"
 My friend" answered the Congress- man, "I am now taking a course in wrestling. jujitsu, knobkerry, beriberi sloyd, delsarte and high and lofty tum- bling. and when I finish it will make one last tseftoTtr ip ypur -behalf,*
The age-herald., 1902-05-17
sIx-state Democratic Leaaue.

Boston, Mass, May 16.-A slx-state Democratic. League was organized to- night. It was proposed to have a ban quet about June IS and to invite Hon. w. J. Bryan, Hon. Richard Olney. Hon. Ed ward M. Sheppard. Hon. Tom L. Johnson of Ohio. Hon. ]. W. Bailey of Texas, Hon. p. M. Carmack of Tennessee. and Mayor P. A. Collins.
The age-herald., 1902-05-17
Fast Service via. the Mobile & Ohio
 Railroad.

Fast service via the Mobile and Ohio in the North, East and West New equipment, through sleepers Superior service. P. s. Hay. S. E. P. A., No. 2 Commerce street. Montgomery. Ala c. M. Shepard. c. P, A. Mobile. Ala.
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The age-herald., 1902-05-17
German Baptist Conference, May 20.
 od 1902. Harrisburo Pa.

For above occasion the Southern Rail- ,,,ay will sell tickets at one fare for the ro,,nd trip from points in North Carolina, A,abama and Tennessee to Harrisburg, Do and return, selling May 18th to 2Oth. ,,, ,,,c,,,siye-fnal limit for return June 3rd. 1aoa except that by depositing ticket with agent of terminal line before June End, eStension of limit may be obtained until June soth. 1902.
 For further information call on any ticket agent of the Southern Raiiway
The age-herald., 1902-05-17
MANY INJURED WATCHING FIRE
Gathered on Structure Which
 Gave Way Under Weight
1000 FELL TO THE GROUND
Five of Those Hurt Will Certainly Die, and Many Others Will In All
 Probability Succumb to
 Their Injuries.

Chicago, May 16.-During the progress of a fire which tonight destroyed the lard refinery of Armour & Go. in the Union Stock Yards twenty-nine people were in- i,ired. fvo of them In a manner which will probably cause death in short time. The loss to the company is estimated by its officers at between $75O,OOO and ssOO,- o0o with all the chances in favor of the latter sum.
 There were a number of accidents, but by far the larger number of those who were hurt received their injuries by the falling of hog runway upon which they were standing to obtain sSft CT view of the fire. !
 Fatally Injured.
 Jennie Smith, stenographer.
 Ray Irwin, aged Il.
 Israel Morris, driver police patro wagon.
 Michael Maley driver of fire engine. Unidentified man.
 Others Injured.
 Frank Burns.
 William McNeil.
 Leo Milto.
 Charles Lertz.
 William Lertz.
 Anna Sanford.
 William s. Kellogg.
 Charles Bickerson.
 Samuel Robinson.
 John Savage.
 Charles TraxeL
 John Hoffman.
 William Grebling.
 Mrs Morris Schwader.
 William McKeever.
 James McNamara.
 Mrs. F. H. Frazer.
 Mrs. F. R. Clifford.
 Harry Jennings.
 James Duchachan.
 Mamie Roach.
 Edward Busby.
 David Fleming
 The lard refinery had just been com pleted and was considered by it's owners the most complete establishment of its kind in the United States. It was five stories high and 25Ox300 feet. It was filled with new and costly machinery, and during the day 2O0O people worked within the walls.
 lne n1Rnt SnlIL nuInDeTeu tuO, diiu all Of them were In the building when the fire broke out. It Is thought that all es- capped in safety.
 Began by Explosion.
 The fire originated with an explosion of three lard tanks on the fifth floor of | the building. The cause of the explosion | is unknown, but the three tanks, which were filled with boiling lard, went uI with a roar almost in the same second | Almost immediately the entire fifth floor was a mass of flames.
 All the workmen in the building made a frantic rush for safety. Within an hour all the walls, with the exception of that on the south were lying on the ground The fire attracted an enormous crowd of people, who swarmed by thousands upon the viaducts which pass through the yards at a height of twenty feet from the ground. That portion of the Forty-fourth street viaduct close to the burning build ing, called the hog runway, extending from the viaduct north to the plant oi Armour & Co.,, gave way under the tre- mendous weight of the crowds. Fully che thousand persons fell to the ground The firemen instantly abandoned theil work on the building and devoted theii energies 10 saving the people.
 The loss Is fully covered by insurance.
The age-herald., 1902-05-17

The Age-HeraId will give to all new subscribers on rural routes, a rural mail box, free of charge, with a years subscription.
 For particulars, address The Aoe. Herald or see carrier.
The age-herald., 1902-05-17
Mrc. Wins!ow's soothIno svrun

Mrc. Wins!ow's Soothing Syrup the best remeoy for DIARRHOEA- Sold by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs winslow' s Soothing Syrup" and take no other kind. Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS by MILLIONS of MOTHERS for their CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, with PERFECT SUCCESS. It SOOTHS the CHILD, SOFTENS the GUMS, ALLAYS ell PAIN, CURES WIND COLIC, and is Twenty-Five cents . hottlA
The age-herald., 1902-05-17
It's Drawbacks,

From the Indianapolis News.
 Summer will soon be here, Hiram'' ''Yes. About the time we get warm through once more the flies will begin to bother us.'
The age-herald., 1902-05-17
100 Doses
 For One Dollar

Economy in medicine must be measured by, two things-cost and effect. It cannot be measured by either alone. Itissgreatest in that medicine that does the most for the money--thas radically and per manently cures at the least ex- pense. That medicine is
 Hoods J0rSopdriLLd It puriAes and enriches the blood, cures pimples, eczema and all eruptions, tired, languid feelings, loss of appetite and general debility. q have taken Hoods sarsaparilla and found 1t reliable and giving perfect satisfac- tion. It takes away that tired feeling. gives energy and puts the blood in good condition" Miss ETT1E Co1oSNE. 1SS6 10th Street, N. w., Washington. D. c.
 Hoods sarsaparliIa promises to cure and keeua tho promise.
The age-herald., 1902-05-17
Some Remarkable Prophecies.

From the New York World. Wendell Phillips prophesied Marconi. On July 2s, 1865, speaking in Music Hall to school children. he said: T expect if I live forty years, to see | a telegraph that will send messages with out wire both ways at the same time" Marconfs performances do not quite realize that prediction, but they ap- proach it-and the forty years will not have passed until July 2S, 1905. | History records not a few of such clair voyant utterances. In 17S9 Erasmus Dar- win wrote a poem in which these two lines are found:
 Soon shall thine arm, unconouered Steam, afar
 Drive the slow barge and drag the rapid
 Car"
 This was eleven years before the first steam tug appeared on the Forth and Clyde Canal and nearly quarter of a century before the first locomotive was seen on rails In one of Marlowe's plays, "Tamburlaine the Great the Suez Ca nal was anticipated and described nearly three centuries in advance of its con- Struction.
 Patterson, the founder of the Bank of England, in a letter written almost at the close of the seventeenth century, pre- dicted the control of the Isthmus of Darien by the people of this country and Patterson's prophecy concluded as fol- lows:
 Stationed thus in the middle, on the east and on the west sides of the New World, the English Americans will form the most potent and singular empire that has appeared, because it will consist not in the dominion of a part of the land of the globe but in the dominion of the whole ocean,"
 This recalls a later prophecy of New Yorks great Senator Seward, who in 1s5e declared that the last European power will withdraw and disappear from this | hemisphere within half a century. Since that date Russia, France, Spain and Denmark have ceased to be American | powers. Only Great Britain remains. and the fulfllment of Stewards forecast is moi | due till 1906
The age-herald., 1902-05-17
A LITTLE BIG WASTE.

A LITTLE BIG WASTE.
 f=-TTAETNGUISH between economy and wisdom. Sitting at home to save shoeleather is econo- kHsAsS my but it is scarcely wisdom. In the same Ezz11 way, doing without Ivory Soap is economy but it isn't wise; your risks are greater than all possible saving. Every cheap soap contains free alkaH. Now, free alkal will eat its way through the new oil cloth on the kitchen floor Imagine, then, what it will do in a single Mondays wash ingl Is such economy wises
The age-herald., 1902-05-17

"Soon shall thine arm, unconquered
 Steam, afar Drive the slow barge and drag the rapid
 Car"
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-01-14
SHAW AND PAYNE. CONFIRMED.
Letter From!Payne Read Stating That BE, Has
no Interest in Florence Co.

Washington. Jan. @.-Thc Senate in
Executives Session today confirmed the
nominations Of Hon. l. NJ. Shaw, as
Secretary of the Treasury. and of Hon.
Henry G. Payne 20 be Postmaster Gen
eral.
The confirmation Of Mr.. shaw was ac-
conplished without comment, but there
the Committee on PostOfficc5 in report
ing Nj. Payne's nomination without 90
ing through the forrnality OF a meeting.
Senator RaWlinS stated that he had
desired to appear before the coml"ittee
for the purpose of reauesfiDg that au
inquiry be instituted into the charge that
Mr.. Payne had been interested in the
efforts to secure leases for the purpose
OF prospecting for minerals en- the Indian
Reservations in Utah. having been
president Of the Florence Mining Com
pany.
Senator Spooncr. IS a representative
of DIR. Payno.s own state. replied 10
this statement by reading a letter ad-
dressed TO himself by Mr.. Payne. and
dated several weeks back in which Mr..
Payne said that his connection with the
Florence Company had terminated two
years ago, and that at present he had nc
interest direct or indirect, immediate or
rerlote III that corporation. Mr.. Rawiins
thereupon said that the explanation Was
satisfactory.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-01-14
RoAR.OF GRINDING STEEL.
And Through the Wreck Came Bursting the
Locomotive.
(Bv the Associated Press.)

-
New York. Jan. S.-Eugene Herold, or
Rochelle Park, one OF the passengers on
the Danbury train gave this account OF
the accident:
I'VE were sitting quietly in the next
to the last car and there were only one
or two unoccupied seats. There was the
usual morning crowd. There were five
cars.
There we're several women in my car
and also in the last car. We had been
stalled at Fifty Seventh street for some
time. Suddenly there came a terrific
crash. The lights in the car went out.
There was a roar of grinding steel and
wood and a chorus of shrieks. | looked
back and saw the car behind telescoping
over the rear of our car and through that
mix up plunged a roaring locomotive.
Il was thrown on my face by the jolt
and l felt some blood splash over my
forehead. Sitting smoke and steam seem
ed to arise from all sides and looking
back l could see mangled persons crowl-
ing about through the mist.
"Our one idea was to escape. | found
a friend of mine right in front Of me. He
cried:
open the windows, for Gods sake!'
I turned to the window and found the
glass had all been shattered by the coll
lision. We climbed out. | saw several
persons almost covered with blood crawl
ing about
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-01-14
CRUSHED BY A TREE
A You'g Wife Killed and Her
Husband Painfully
Injured.
Especial to News and .ObserXer.)

Winston-Salem. \. c., jan. 11-Mrs.
Bahnson Dunn, who was married in No
vember, was killed z yesterday near
Rockford by aatree. The wife with her
husband was sitting near a tree which
had just been cut down, the butt end
resting on the stump. The limbs gave
way. thu towing the body of the tree off
the stump on the young wife. crushing
her TO death. Tho husband also sustain
ed painful injuries.
Rev. S. W. Brown, of Sparta, Ale
ghany county, arrived here this evening
with his son and q son Of Mr.. W. /.
Harp to- consult a physician. The two
boys, who are small. were bitten ycstcr-
day by Il mad dog. Rev. Mr.. crown cx-
poets to take the boys to Baltimore to
receive the Pasteur treatment. He says
thc dog which attacked them bit Soy
eral cattle before it was killed.
The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1902-01-14
DISASTROUS [|Rt
Half Business Part Of rimes
land Buried
Six Stores Destroyed and Two Damaged. The
Loss Estimated at About So 200.
PARTLY Insured
Especial TO News and Observer

Especial to News and ObSeryer.)
Greenvillc. n. c., Jan. S.-About one
O'Clock this morning half Of the business
portion of Grimesland, q small toWn ten
miles from Greenville. was burned.
The fire started in the store of w. S.
Galloway & Co, and burned five stores,
damaging two others. The losses were
as follows:
W. S. Galloway K Co, stock, 5000;
Insurance.. 81 500.
H. H. Proctor, buildings and stock, S15,-
600; insurance, 81. 600.
+. Powell, stock, $500; no insurance.
". VI. Moore. stock and building, sc, goo;
Insurance, 1000.
J.. l.. Gibson 4 Co, stock, $1,000; no
insurance. +"
Aston Grimes. building, 81. 900; no in
Surancc
j. o. Proctor & Bro, damaged stock,
81 100: no insurance.
j. j. Mason & Co, damaged stock, 800;
ne insurance,
The postoffice was also destroyed.