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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-13
A HARVESTER COMBINE
Organization of a Trust With
an Authorized Capital OF
$4,000, 600.
Will Manufacture Harvesting Ma.
chimes and All Kinds of Az
ricultural Implements.
All the Big Reaper Concerns
Said to Have Entered the
Combine.

Trenton, N. j., Aug. i3.-The Inter
national Harvester company With an
authorized capital of $120,000,o00 was
Incorporated here yesterday. The COM
pany is authorized to manufacture har-
vesting machines and agricultural inn
plements of all kinds. 1t is understood
that among the concerns interested IN
the syndicate is the Mccormick reaper
and mower concern of Chicago. The
articles provide that all of the $780,
100000 of the capital stock shall be
common stock unless it shall be decided
TO increase the company's capital be-
yond those figures. In that event the
S12o000.0o0 is to- become preferred
stock and the additional capital is TO
be common stock The incorporators
of the company are: Abram Nj. Hyatt,
of Allenhurst, N. j.: George w. He
Auburn, N. Y; Edward NJ. $. Miller
New York; Robert S. Green, Elizabeth.
N. j., and EIastus Nj. Cravath, New
York
Chicago, Aug. 13.-The story of the
absorption of the Mccormick Reaper
and Mower company, of this city, by
tho International Harvester company
could not be confirmed, as both Harold
#. Mccormick and Cyrus Mccormick
are in New York. None of the subor-
dinate officers of the company would
confirm the report, neither would they
deny it. One of them, who declined
to allow his name to he used, said:
Il will not talk of the story at all,
but | guess it is good enough to print"
Milwaukee, Aug. 13-The Milwaukee
Harvester company of this city has
been sold to an eastern syndicate for
S5,00O.000 cash. The designations of
the officers of the old company We're
received and accepted and the works
will be in the possession of the new
officers within few days. Just who
the eastern capitalists are could not
be ascertained, but it is thought that
they are representatives of q trust.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-13

"Lydia Il. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound cured me and made
me we'll, and that is why 1 gladly
write you this, and gladly thank you
six bottles was all L. took, together
with your Pills. My headache and
backache and kidney trouble went,
never to return the burning sensation
| had left altogether; my general
health was so improved felt as young
and light and happy as at twenty"
Mrs. LOUISE GIBson, 1918 Langley
Ave-, Chicago. lll.-S5ooo forfeit If aboue
testimonial Is NOT genuine
If you feel that there is anything at
all unusual or pulling about your
case, or if you wish confidential advice
of the most experienced, write to Mrs.
Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, and you Will
be advised free OF charge. Lydia 10:
Pinkilam's Vegetable Compound
has cured and is curing thousands OF
cases Of female trouble.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-13
BID Republic Mine Is Sold,

Cleveland, O., Aug. ia deal was
closed yesterday whereby the Cambria
Steel Company secures control of the
Republic Iron Company. Sixty thou
sand shares of the stock of the COM
pany, which operates the Republic
mine and the steamers Republic and
Continental and the barge Grace Hol-
land changed hands. The stock was
sold at SIS a share. Other stockhold-
ers, holding a total of 10000 shares,
have been notified that they can turn
their holdings over at that figure any
time within ninety nayS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-13
MANY BUSINESS HOUSES BURN.
Fire Destroys Large Section in Prince
TON XIV

Princeton, KY, Aug. ia large part
of the business section of this city was
burned yesterday. causing the loss of
one life and 100000 worth of property.
The fire was caused by the explosion of
gasoline in the Terry & Prayer drug
store. Dr. w. b. Terry was so badly
burned that he died last night. Besides
the drug store, the Urey block. the OPP
era house. the dry goods store of A.
Cash & Bro, the Henry & Butler dry
goods store, the telephone exchange,
and the Postal Telegraph office were
destroyed For a time 1T seemed as if
the whole town was in danger and aid
was secured from the Paducah fire de-
nartnppt
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-13

May treatment The great machine
vas placed in the senator's room and
electric treatment was given daily, the
wire springs of the bed acting rs con-
dnctors. n tube was inserted in the
ineision made by the former operation
and thru this the N-ray Was applied to
the affected part. The attempt was be-
ing made to dry up the tumor, which
the surgeons had failed to remove thor
oughly with the knife. Gradually the
symptoms have lesscned and
at last there is genuine ground for
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-13
Base Ball Yesterday.


Cleveland 6, Baltimore 8.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Brooklyn 5, Chicago 4.
st. Louis ~, Philadelphia 9 (ten In
lings).
Boston II, Pittsburg o.
New York 3, Cincinnati 2.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
Louisville s, Kansas City 6.
Milwaukee IL. Indianapolis 4.
Minneapolis 6, Columbus 2.
st. Paul s, Toledo ].
WESTERN LEAGUE.
Des Moines Z. Peoria 4.
Kansas City 5, Denver 4.
ST. Joseph 5, Colorado Springs I.
Milwaukee s, Omaha 2.
THREE EYE LEAGUE.
Evansville 3, Rock Island 2.
Rockford 5. Terre Haute 4.
Decatur 2, Davenport ].
Cedar Rapids 5, Bloomington o
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-13
sHINGLE WAR ON.
British columbia's Surplus Findina Il

British Columbia's Surplus Finding Its
Way to the States.
Victoria. B. c.. Aug. 13.--Special dis
patches from Puget Sound say that
politicians are bringing pressure thru
members of congress on the govern
ment of the United States to retaliate
against British Columbia for prohibit
ing the export of cedar logs to the
states.
They affirm that since this act was
enforced British Columbia is manufac-
turing S00,000,000 shingles n year and
only consuming 200,000.O00. the remain
der in spite of 80 per cent duty find
ing it's way to American markets
Congress will be asked to prohibit
entirely the Importation of British Col
umbia shingles into the United States
as a protection to the Puget Sound
Shingle men.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-13
Ohio Oil Lands Sold.

Marietta o., Aug. 13.-The Luzerne
Oil company. composed of John and
James Roy, of Marietta: Il. j. Bond of
Baltimore, and d. t. Baxter of Wilkes
barre, Pa, has sold to the United
States Oil corporation of New York,
&: block of 200 acres of oil leases III
the Kenner sand development of Mon
roe county, Ohio. Eight producing
wells, with net production of 500
barrels, brought 100000 in cash.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-13
Texas Oil Deal consummated,

london, Aug. 13.-The CONTRACT for
amalgamation of the Texas oil proper
ties on Spindle Top, belonging to the
Hogg- Swayne syndicate, with the
Texas oil fields company of England
for s2,50O,0O0 was closed last night in
London by Judge Richard e. Brooks, of
Beaumont. Ten, who is a. member of
the Hogg-Swayne syndicate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-13
Killed bv Dynamite EXPLOSION.

La Crosse. Wis. Aug 13.-Gustive
Lund, an expert quarryman, was in
stantly killed yesterday by a prema
ture discharge of dynamite. He was
standing on the edge of a precipice
and the conclusion hurled him off and
to death on the Jagged rocks nearly
a hundred feet below. Several other
ouarrymen were more or less injured
.hv Huintr rock.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-13
Ex-senator Roach Improving.

New York. Aug. I3.-Former Senator
William A. Roach of North Dakota
who has been exceedingly i'll here for a
long time. is improving. His illness
which arose from the growth of a ma
lignant tumor, had been pronounced
incurable, and for days he lay at the
point of death. The knife had been
used several times without avail
Finally the physicians resorted to the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-13
KIDNEY TROUBLES.
Mrs. Louise NJ. Gibson Says
That This Fatal Disease is
Easily Cured by Lydia T..
Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound.

"DEAR Mrs. P1NKHAM 81 felt very
discouraged two years ago, had suf-
fered SO long with kidney troubles and
other complications, and had taken so
much medicine without relief that l
began to think there was no hope for
me. Life looked so good to me, but
what is life without health? l wanted
to be we'll.
Evening star., 1902-08-09

the United States, running from Albany to
Schenectady, n. Y, a distance Of seventeen
miles. The first train passed over this road
in 1881, and Uncle Roswell says that he re-
members The event as IL IT were but yestcr-
day. He was eight years old when work
began on the Erie and Chsmplain canals,
and their completion. IN 1875 and In 1923.
spectively. is still vivid in his memory. lie
often saw and was a great admirer OF Gov
ernor Dewitt Clinton.
Uncle Roswell" was 1fty-two years OF
age when the war between the states be
gan, and although he took no active part
in that memorable conflict. his sympathies
were naturally with the Union. II Is in
teresting to hear him talk Of those trouhlous
days and OF the valor displayed by both
those who wore the blue and those who
wore the gray.
He is Regular Patriarch.
He has reared largo family and besides
his own children he has ten grandchildren
and thirteen great-grandchildren. Recent
ly all of these. together with other reia-
tives and friends who swe!led the number
to sixty-eight, held reunion with Unc.e
Roswell as the central figure. to celebrate
the seventy-fourth anniversary Of his con-
nection with the post Office at North Lans-
ing. All ages were represented, from the
little child To the great-gra ndfather, ninety
three years old. His sons were all together
for the first time In sixteen years. The re-
union was held at the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Charles c. Barger, whose hus-
band is a well-known lawyer Of North
Lansing.
On the spacious lawn a canvas was erect
ed for protection from the sun. and easy
chairs were provided for the elder folk
Many interesting "reminiscences were told.
refreshments were served, music was rea-
dered and the day passed all too swiftly.
or course, Uncle Roswell was the observed
OF all observers. He chatted pleasantly
with those about him and entered into the
occasion with much enthusiasm. Ii was on
this occasion that the accompanying photo
graph of Uncle Roswell was taken on the
lawn. There was only one person present
who was born when Uncle Roswell WIS
first appointed post master. and he was Mr..
). l.. Tice, an intimate friend.
-Four years ago. on the occasion OF tho
seventeen anniversary of Uncle Roswell 3
lncumbency as postmaster. Postmaster
General Smith sent highly euloeistic let
ter to be read at the family reunion. and
Uncle Roswell now has ii framed and prize :
it as one of his most valued treasures.
Evening star., 1902-08-09
DOES NOT LIKE PUBLICITY.
King of Italy Shuns the Public Gaze as
Much as Possible.
Tom the Chlcago Chronlcle.

Aiohh tht NhidS' NhIbulHF.
King Victor Emmanuel Of Italy Is not
lover of public recognition. even though ii
may take the form of enthusiastic approval.
To residents of other countries who are ac-
customed to a certain degree Of publicity
about the doings Of their rulers the sensi-
tiveness Of the Italian monarch is lncom-
prehensible. In fact, with him It amounts
to a perfect mania. and woe to those who
fall foul Of his idiosyncrasy. For instance.
Queen Helena has now been married six
years and there is no photograph of her in
existence since that event. with the excep-
tion Of an amateur one taken by her sister
last year. with the Princess Yolanda I'm her
arms There was great talk OF four
generation one, the Dowager Duchess OF
Genoa. Queen Margherita the king and
Princess Yolanda, but 1t all ended in talk.
IL had always been the custom Of the pa
pers to send a reporter daily to the palace
to learn what was thought proper for the
public to know, but one day a journal gave
such precise details of the private royal
apartments that the king said that he must
have been shown them. and seized upon the
incident to positively forbid all Informal ton
TO the papers. However, he got much the
worst Of the argument, as II was considered
a challenge, and the most fantastic and alb
surd stories are now published
King Victor is positively ferocious when
he can put his finger on the offender who
gossips about him. 1t is now public prop
erty that before many months have passed
Italy may be blessed with direct heir to
the throne. One would have said that this
was a subject of national interest. but the
king was Of a different opinion. One of the
women about the palace who knew the fact
communicated it to Queen Margherita's
maid, who, Of course, went to her mistress.
and in spite of the woman's twenty-five
years of service she and her family were
out of the palace within twenty-four hours,
to return no more. These are my private
affairs" thundered the king 'and | do not
choose TO have them talked about"
Evening star., 1902-08-09

and a half bushels of wheat, and In 1t
there are 226 bins or pits, the largest OF
which holds as much as 300 tons. The
elevator is right on the canal. and the
grain Is taken directly from the ship
through marine leg. which works by re-
volving buckets on an endless chain, lifts
the grain up into the tower beside the boat
and drops il upon a wide india-rubber belt,
which carries 1t into the elevator and up
into the bins. There are also pipes which
do the same work by means of suction, so
that a Shipload of wheat can be discharged
within few hours The machinery Will
take 800 tons from the steamer hold into
the elevator in one hour. 1t weighs the
grain at the waters edge, and later on
weighs it again when it is in the sacks
ready to be loaded upon the carts or barges
by which it is taken over the country:
During my visit to the elevator, and, in
deed, throughout the trip, l was accom-
panied by Mr. A. JoynsOn of the Manches-
ter Canal Company. He tells me that the
grain imports have steadily increased since
this elevator was finished, and that they
now amount to about 100000 tons annually.
During the first six months of this year
5000 tons of grain have been received into
the elevator, and the most of this came
from the United States.
He ttllS me that the shipping from the
United States is steadily increasing. Reg
ular steamers have been run here for years
from New York, Savannah New Orleans
and Galveston, and there have been ocea-
sional saiings from Baltimore Newport
News. Charleston, Brunswick, Mobile and
Pensacola. Cattle are now brought here
from Philadelphia. and in the near future
there will be direct steamship line from
Chicago to Manchester by way of the st.
Lawrence. the Welland canal and the great
lakes. These ships will bring cargoes of
lumber and provis ons and a regular serv-
ice will probably be maintained.
Canada and the West Indies.
Canada already has line of large steam
ers to Manchester, which make regular
trips during the summer. These ships
bring both lumber and cattle. Some of
them are of over 5000 tons, having ac-
commodation for 100 live beeves.
The traffic of the canal is steadily grow
ing. Within the last six months the reve-
nue. has increased to the amount of $125-
O00 and there has been a steady growth in
the business since the beginning. The
traffic of the present year will probably ex-
ceed 5000 900 tons and will be greater than
that of any year of the past.
In my ride up the canal l passed cotton
ships from America and from Egypt The
Evening star., 1902-08-09

their hands into their own pockets and gave
millions more, and within short time they
had an army Of IaboTeTs at work larger
than that which X6rCphCn led his
march to the sea. Whsn in full swing their
army consisted of 1900 men divided into
eight companies. Differed by picked eX
perts. each digging at a section about four
miles in length. This army had its camps
in each section. Its tents were wooden
houses made from lumber brought from the
United States. ard as many of the workmen
had thsir wives and families there was
busy town a,org the whole lire of the canal.
No one can appreciate the extent of the
work without going over the canal. 1t is
thirty-fve ard half miles long, twenty
six feet deep and at the bottom 100 feet
wide If you can imagine cellar so deep
that you could drop a two-story house
within 1t and have the roof below the sur
face so wide that the average city lot could
be laid out crosswisP across the bottom, and
so long that it would take a railroad train
Evening star., 1902-08-09
Migration of Shad.

From the Chicago Journal.
One of the unexplained phenomena Of the
movements OF shad is that coincident with
their disappearance from Connecticut wa
ters. where the schools are perceptibly
diminishing, they are appearing in large
numbers in the Ohio river. The first shad
caught in the latter stream was in 1876. It
was such a rarity that IL was sent to the
Smithsonian Institution. During the past
five years the fish has been multiplying
there at an extraordinary rate. and II IS
now caught in quantities within five miles
of Cincinnati. If the Shad schools are mi
grating from the Connecticut river to the
Ohio. they must be doing IL by the way of
New Orleans, as il is Impossible for them
to cross the Alleghanies.
Evening star., 1902-08-09
HAS SERVED LONGEST
Postmaster at North Lansing
for "a Years.
WORLDS BEST RECORD
HAS HELD OFFICE UNDER
TWENTY PRESIDENTS.
Ninety Three Years Old, but Still Hale
and Hearty and Able to At
tend His Desk.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
NORTH LANSING. n. Y, August 3. 1902.
There is but one man in all the world
who can boast such a record as this:
The oldest appointive officer in the United
States in point of service.
The oldest postmaster in point of service
in the United States or in the world.
The only man who held an appointive
office under twenty different Presidents.
The only man who has continuously filled
one government office for seventy-four
years
The only man who held a government Of
flee before there was a railroad In the
United States, and is holding that same Of
flee now.
The only man living who received a gov
ernment appointment through the influence
of man thirty-three years before that
man became a cabinet officer and is still
Evening star., 1902-08-09
De Wet and Scotch Whisky.
From the ST. james Gazette.

From the st. james Gazette.
De Wet is possessed of humor One of
the leading officials in a refugee camp is a
Scotsman. who during the dinner took ec-
casion in offering the general a drink to
say he must have got a fair amount of
whisky among his captured conveys. De
Wet was much amused at this, and said
that before attacking a convoy he made in
quiries if they were guarded by Scotsmen.-
If this were SO. he further inquired IL 1t
contained any whisky.~f the second con-
dition accompanied the first he always gave
the convoy a wide berth, because he knew
the beggars would fight to the last man!
Evening star., 1902-08-09

haps the next cannot expect to have diyi-
dends out of It. The cost OF the undertak-
ing has been enormous. At the start II
was thought that the canal could be con-
structed for forty million dollars, but when
completed 1t was found TO have cost seven
ty-hye million dollars. Before II was built
Manchester was on the down grade. Its
factories and warehouses were falling and
some Of the greatest Of It's Industrial insti-
tutIons were transferring their plants and
business TO Glasgow, where they could, have
better shipping facilities. Liverpool was
steadily gaining and Manchester steadily
declining the former city charged what tolls
II pleased on goods passing through to the
Manchester region. and the railroads col
lected enormous freight rates
How the Canal Was Built.
AS a result the Manchester manufacturers
saw ruin staring them In the face. They
came together. planned this ship canal and
raised the money to build II. They got the
city corporation Of Manchester to back
them to the extent OF 81, 900; they put
Evening star., 1902-08-09

at coed speed, an hour to run from one
end of it to the other, you may have some
idea Of this enormous ditch which the Man
chester people have dug from their city to
the sea. A part of the canal was along the
course of the little river Irwell but much
of 1t had to be dug out of the solid rock.
The excavation necessary was half as great
as that required for the Suez canal and
most of it much more difficult. Eight
miles Of embankment and sea walls had to
be erected along the foreshore of the Mer-
sey. and upon the whole canal 10000 600
bricks and 220. 900, eco cubic yards of ma
SOnry were constructed.
Five sets of locks were put in. each big
enough 20 admit an Atlantic liner. and
these. by means CT great steel sluice gates,
raise and lower the ships to the height or
depth Of sixty feet. There are, in short, from
Manchester to the sea. five mighty steps,
each twelve feet high, which the ships have
- climb in coming up the canal.
The Manchester Docks.
l was surprised at the extent of the Man
chester docks. 1t seems strange to see all
the surroundings of one of the largest sea-
ports right in the heart of a rich manufac-
turing and agricultural country The docks
are watts of water walled with masonry and
surrounded with great warehouses, which
are equipped with the finest of modern ma
chiuery. The water space within them COW
ers 236 acres and the total length of the
quays about them is more than five miles
In one of the docks three Atlantic liners
have been berthed simultaneously at the
same quay. and during my visit yesterday
l saw a ship from Bombay. one from Aus
tralia and one from Galveston loading and
unloading goods almost side by side. Along
the docks railways run and the company
has 100 miles of track connected with the
canal, and there are more than forty trains
daily, carrying goods in and out from the
dnc!-s.
A Ride on the Canal.
1t was in the canal companys steam
launch that 1 was taken from dock to dock,
and from warehouse to warehouse, and 1t
was with a canal official that l later on
took a trip down the canal from Manches-
Evening star., 1902-08-09

ter TO the sea on the Duke of Leinster,"
bound for Ireland. Our captain of the Lein-
ster was jolly old sea dog who trembled
like leaf as We were photographed stand
ing on deck going down the canal
L am surprised at the traffic which this
port already has with the United States In
every warehouse | found American goods
and in one especially, known as the New
York ware rehouse, | saw thousands of bales
OF cotton, which had just come from Gal
weston, great boxes of machinery for the
Westinghouse electric works, crates of
American desks and great cases Of hams
bacon and lard. On the top of another
warehouse, four stories high, 1 took photo
graphs or thousand odd barrels of resin
which has just come from the pine lands
or Georgia and South Carolina and at the
grain elevator saw a ship unloading wheat
from Philadelphia
Chicago Men Made It.
This elevator is Of American construc-
tion, having been built by Messrs. John 8.
Metcalf q Co. OF Chicago 1t has a storage
capacity Of 10000 tons Of grain ora million
Evening star., 1902-08-09
In InstalImeuts.
hiladelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press
Mrs. Gay-"But told you to itemize the
bili''
The Milliner-"The bill sent you On the
first was itemized: every item was there"
= Mrs. Gay-"Gracious. You don't under
stand me-. 1 want You to send only one
item each month. or my husband will never
oay ""
Evening star., 1902-08-09

First Theolog-Well, you wouldn't look
ing to unhitch my necktie last night
Second Deacon-"'Tut, tut, NV hox-
blessed is the tie that binds '-Yonkers
Herald.