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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-09-05
PRESIDENTS LIFE lMPERlLED IN
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.
his HEAD is BADLY CUT
Trolley Car Crashes Into Roosevelt
Carriage Woundino Executive
and Killing Faithful Guard.

i Lenox, Mass, Sept. "a terrible
accident overlook President Roose-
velt's coach short distance from
Pittsfeld' at about 10 O'Clock this
morning. After a short visit to the
home of ex-senator Dawes the presi-
dent started on long drive to Lenox.
He had not gone far when an electric
car ran into his vehicle, throwing
everyone to the ground and badly
damaging the coach.
The president received cut on the
head. Secretary George R. Cortelyou
was bruised and his head cut Gov
ernor Crane was bruised. William
Craig, q secret service agent, was in
stantly killed. D. J. Pratt, driver of
the coach, sustained fatal fracture
of the skull.
The president was able to resume
his journey to Lenox, but sent word
ahead there should be no cheering.
The accident happened at q point
about mile and a half from this city,
near the Pittsfeld country clubhouse.
The president was enjoying a coach
ing trip from Dalton, Governor Cranes
home, where he had spent the night,
to Lenox, distance of 20 miles, over
Berkshire hills. The car struck the
coach in the rear and smashed the
back of the vehicle in tipping it over
and throwing its occupants to the
ground. The car was not badly dam
aged.
Motorman Madden and Conductor
Kelly were arrested and brought tc
Pittsfeld.
When approaching the Pittsfielt
Country Glnb and willie at the rail
road crossing, the electric car was
noticed coming at a terrific speed
Mr.. Craig signalled the motorman tt
stop, but he apparently paid no at
tention to the warning. The presi
dent, Governor Crane and Secretar,
Cortelyou were piled up in q heal
when the car and vehicle collided.
Expected to Find Him Dead.
An awe-stricken crowd witnessed
the accident and rushed to the presi
dents carriage, with no expectation
that she would be found alive. Th'
president was cut on the right side
chin, and his face is badly swollen
The president and Secretary Cortel
you, with other members of the pal
ty, went to the Country club, wher
their wounds were dressed. In |
4 short time they proceeded to the Cul
l tbs hotel, in Lenox, arriving there a
/ IL o'clock. The president retaine
his usual composure, although he wa
i solicitous for the rest of those i
the carriage.
| Extreme excitement prevailed her
when the news came and rumors fie'
\ about that the president had been Kill
\ ed. After remaining at the scene -
the accident for an hour or mor'
the president determined. to continu
his journey to Stockbridge. After
brief stop at Lenox he was driven t
the train.
His program for today included
journey through Connecticut. The a
cident, however, probably will caus
change in intermediate stops fro
Lenox to Bridgeport, the presidel
! proceeding directly through and
, once embarking on the ssylph Il
Oyster Bay.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-09-05

ST. JOHNS HEADACHE CURE
will cure your headache. Sold Dy
Chapnle Drug &c.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-09-05
WANT MORE MORE. PAY.

New York Union Carpenters Go on
Strike.
New York, Sept. 3.-Seventy-fiye g.
hundred out of 10000 carpenters con-
nected with the New York district
council of the United Brotherhood OF
Carpenters and Joiners have struck
for an advance in wages OF from -
to $3.50 a day. The master carpen-
ters' association has decided unanl-
mously to refuse all demands.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14
Brief Book Review.

The following brief paragraphs are
copied from Encounters Between Fa-
nous Men" the forthcoming book by
J. Ellington Bildad. They simply
show whittier the historical rovel is
drifting:
AS George Washington came within
sight of Rome he observed that the
city was In flames, aud, having drunk
all of the fire eXtinguisher from his
bottle at the previous stop. he turned
his horses head. and was about to
gallon away, when his quick ear
caught the strains of music. George
paused, and looking upward. beheld
Nero pcrchcd on the city wall playing
a violin solo. Waving his hand in
adieu to the cruel tyrant, General
Washington rode away. leaving the
cracking flames behind him. because
the Father o4 His Country had no use
for cracking flames where he was go
ing"
This is the only instance on record
OF a meeting between George Wash
ington and Nero, Its authenticity can
not he doubted, inasmuch ms the writ.
er's grandfather was present when it
happened. Ohio State Journal
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14

English embassy In Rome A year after
| was born. We came over to England
and lived at the Court My father died
when ! was still child, and our home
was heIs, as you know"
He paused. She looked up at the
WEAKNESS and suffering in his face, and
marveled what had yet to come.
How or when she discovered that sha
had been deceived / cannot TELL" he went
on. "But she did discover it, and deter
mined to keep her secret. and bring me
up in ignorance OF the fact that / was
usurper here. Someone--a spy. who
makes it his business to trade on family
misfortunes-found out that instead Of
dying when 1t was supposed, her first hus-
band escaped from the wreck, took arms
under Victor Emmanuel. and was shot
in battle two years later. Consequently
her marriage with my father was Illegal.
You don't need me to say more. Beryl.
do your"
His voice sounded choked. So bitter ii
was to him to put his shame into words
for her-foF the one woman in whose
sight he would have stood 10 honor.
Her hands went out to clasp his own.
In this moment she remembered nothing
save that he was in trouble. aud she so
longed to comfort him.
(To be eontinued)
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14

remain in bed as rest cure for the weak
ness which he felt. He had no Fremont
ton of danger, however. and up to the
time that he lost consciousness he talk
ed with the members Of the family with
ont reference to any apprehensions Of
death.
Mr.. Palmer died In his own room on
the second floor of his magnificent resi-
dence. At his bedside were Mrs. Palmer,
his two sons, Honore and Potter Palmer,
Jr., b. l.. Honore, Adrian Honore and
Lockwood Honore, brothers of Mrs.
Palmer, and Mrs. B. l.. Honore. Mr..
Palmer never rallied after he lost con-
sciousness
Mr.. Palmer's illness was of considera-
bic duration. He had gone to Switzer-
land in search of health and returned last
fall apparently restored. Stomach trou-
BILE, which had taken him abroad, was
relieved, and it is said that he looked
better than he had for years. But this
was only temporary, and ever since he
took a slight cold last Christmas he had
been ailing. 1t was only a mild attack
of the grip and dyspepsia, producing
some weakness. that troubled him. but
he found it hard to shake them off.
Mr.. Palmer sank so gradually that the
family were not told of the death that
the doctors deemed almost inevitable uu-
til short time before he breathed his
last. Two hours and half after he sank
into Inconsistencies he died, the passage
from life to death being almost imper-
ceptible. Mrs. Palmer and her sons were
Frustrated with grief.
Mr.. Palmer was undoubtedly one of
the wealthiest men of the West. The
Palmer house was probably his largest
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14
DESERT ANIMALS.
Sandy Wastes Where Reptiles ard
Quadrupeds Thrive.

Sandy Wastes Where Reptiles ard
Quadrupeds Thrive.
There are cold deserts and hot 1es-
cts but 1t is in the latter that the
presence and continuance OF animal
life are the more remarkable There
are almost no places. however hot the
sun or waterless the sand, where some
life does not exist, often of an unex-
pected kind. The Afghan delimitatioB
commission found that horrible
sandy desert which had to be crossed
to reach the boundary swarmed with
large snakes; and the waterless plains
of Arizona abound in rentlles and in
sects, says the London Spectator
Probably the least-known desert in
the world is the Great Sahara, because
the Gases in its center are occupied by
intensely hos lie and warlike tribes,
whose hatred of the French is a kind
of delirium. But on its northern
fringe two animals are found which
seem specially adapted for life In this
forbidden land. They are the addax
antelope and Loder's gazelle. The adj
dax is an ugly, awkward-looking ami
NAL, with spiral horns. and very wide
spread hoOfs which enable it to go at a
great pace over the sand. Pliny knew
of its existence, and was naturally in
terested in it, for as South Africa was
as yet unvisited, this was one of the
few species of antelope known to the
= t4yac Oh
Ruppell found it near Dongola. AS it
is rather a large antelope, it requires
considerable amount of food, and the
difficulty which suggested itself was to
discover where it found this food
1t is now fairly certain that the adj
dax follows the rains which fall at GER
tain seasons, AMI probably travels vast
distances in the wake of the seasonal
storps. The immense area of desert
in northern Africa makes this possible,
though without special knowledge Of
the met aorology of that part of the
continent 1t would be unsafe to assert
that there is always rain going on in
some part of the desert fringe. How
the addax supports itself in these abso-
lutely dry Intervals is not known. Ga
zeiies ore mainly desert animals. but
L0der's gazelIe seems to have rather
more than the family leaning toward
the lands IF thirst and sand. Another
gazelle differing very little from it is
quite common on the edge of the des-
ert but this creature never came near
the fringe of civilization, and it was
not till a special expedition was or
gained that any trustworthy tidings
were obtained of it. When at last it
was found it was in place not abso-
lutely wats,Iess. for there was well,
the sides of which were made of woven
haifa-grass. somewhere in the neigh
| borhood but this water was quite in
accessible to the gazelles. and the des-
crt all round was long pillows of roll
ing wind -drifted sand
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14

Another was that the Philippine exhibit
could not be made ready for 1903, and
still another was that the architect Of
the government buildings said that he
could not have the buildings ready on
time
Fifty-one directors of the fair signed
joint telegram to President Thomas
II. Carter of the national commission, as
senting to the postponement of the expo
sition to May l. 1904. This action was
taken after the executive committee had
authorized President Francis to draft
the postponement dispatch.
In conformity with the action taken by
the exposition officials at st. Louis an
amendment was offered in Congress Fri
day to the sundry civil appropriation bill
providing that the dedication eei emOnies
shall be held not later than April 80,
1903 and that the exposition shall be
opened to the public on or before May
l, 1904 ard be closed Dec. l. 1904.
The amendment continues the existence
of the exposition committee, which Is
composed ot former Congressman, until
Jan. /. 1906.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14
HUNDREDS ARE SLAIN
AMERICANS KILL MCRO5 AND
SEIZE CHEF FORT.
Fierce Hand to Hand Battle in the
PhiIippines-United States Supreme
in Mindanao After tho Loss of
Few Men-Ditches Full of Dead.

Col. Frank D. Baldwin, with she
Twenty-ffth battery and seven COM
panies of the Twenty-seventh infantry,
attacked and captured the Moro fort at
Bayan, Island Of Mindanao. p. l., after
desperate engagement in which cue
American officer and seven enlisted men
were killed and four officers and thirty
seven men wounded. The Moros lost
more than 200 killed, and at the end of
the battle the survivors. eighty-four in
number, surrendered Internationally.
OF the Americans Lieut.. Boyars was
killed and Capt. Moore, Lieut.. Jossman
and Surgeon Major Porter were wound
ed. The principal Moro leaders were
killed, including the Sultan of Bayan.
Raia Muda of Bayan. the Sultan of
Panda Matan, and many of the leading
dattos.
The capture of the fort and the surren-
der OF the surviving defenders is Sc
we're blow to the Moro rebellion against
American sovereignty in the most savage
part Of Mindanao, although the military
authorities realize that the cooperation
of the Sultans and chiefs is general when
the flag of the prophet is raised in a
jehad or holy war.
Battle Is Hand to Hand.
The battle was hand-to-hand one.
The fort was defended by fully 300 men,
and was surrounded by four trenches.
The attack began soon after daybreak.
The American force, consisting Of 4T0
men, with four mountain guns, had slept
all night in a pouring rain, without blan-
kets, and were drenched TO the skin long
before the fight began. The mountain
guns fred 120 rounds at range of 1,4O0
yards. but the Moro Notifications with
stood the bombardment. and Col. Bald
win ordered the infantrymen to take the
fort by storm.
The Americans were compelled to work
their way forward through entanglements
of grasses and took the successive
trenches after hand-to-hand encounters.
The Moros fought furiously. After ex-
hausting their ammunition they rosorted
to krisses, barongs and kampilans. Sew
eral wounded Moros who were hidden in
the high grass attacked the members of
the hospital corps. who were seeking the
wounded to succOr them.
WheI the Moros had lost their leaders
the surviyors raised the white flag and
eighty-four of them marched out OF the
fort and surrendered.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14
Interepting News Items.

Contracts for Hammond's new $1,000
600 packing plant at the Chicago stock
yards have been let.
Ex-Gov. j. w. Leedy of Kansas was
elected Mayor of Valdez. Alaska, at the
recent municipal election.
The Postmaster General has received a
conscience contribution Of $50. The post
mark was so indistinct that it cannot be
read.
Willis F. Neff of Garrett, for many
wears mail clerk on the Southern Kan
sas branch of the Santa Fe, between
Kansas City and Wellington. was con-
victet on three counts Of iJbbing the
mail. in the federal court in Topeka.
James Warren. an inmate of the Mis-
souri, State asylum No. >, located at St.
Joseph. committed suicide by hanging
himself TO a window sill with a sheet
taken from his bed. Warren was from
Dunlap, and had been in the asylum just
q week.
A Mexico, Mo. dispatch says that the
school teacher, Miss Dolly Griggsby. Nwon
her case against e. L. Hayeraft the
father Of the young man she aosged.
The parent sued the teacher for 5000
Tor whipping his child, and now be has
about $500 costs 20 pay.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14

individual interest and a year before his
death he placed a valuation of over So
100000 on that property. The residence
on the Lake Shore drive alone is worth
as much as the entire fortune of some
Chicago millionaires, the value of the
structure, its furnishings and art treas
ures being estimated at $2,OO0,OOO. In
addition he owned much valuable improv-
ed real estate in the downtown district
and on the North Side. He was interest
ed in several Chicago banks and num-
Der of business enterprises. He invested
little outside of Chicago, but conserva-
tive estimate places the value Of the es-
tate which he leaves at SIC, 100000.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14
cuAprER IN


Dusk and somber fall the shadows in
the little church yard beyond the Rec
tory A woman is standing beside
mound OF newly turned earth. gazing
down ON ii with white and sorrowful face.
Hry yes turn from thence TO the gables
u.,1 towers Of the Court. where they
ca Il the dying glow OF the Redeemed sky.
Aow lonely he must be!' she says to
herself How lonelyr
Tbc tears are on her lashes still. as a
foo.step echoes on the gravel walk be
hind They are there as she turns
around and eonfronts the intruder on her
solitude.
..N'hy--Tom.' she says. surprised
A hand goes up 10 touch a cap A
bright. honest face looks mp TO hers in
undisguised delight.
Thank you. ma 'am-yeS ma am. its
me" he answers, as il she might be in
doubt on the subject. I've just bin to
speak to the sexton. ma am. as Sir Ivor
ordered Your ptrJon ma am. are you
goin' up to the Coz to see my MASTERY"
4 fiood Of scarlet 'dshes over the white
face.
"I-oh 30. she answers hnrricdly
Il thought as how you might" the lad
says. stalking his voice 70 lower tones. as
a troubled look comes over his face. Il
wish someone would see him-someone
as court do him good or cheer him. He's
SO changed. ma am
"He is in great grief" remarks. faint
ly, longing-oh, how wildly and vaiuly-
that it were not SO wrong and so imp0s-
sible to follow the lads simple wish, that
only forone moment she might touch the
hand and look on the face Of this man
who is so dear to her.
Changed echoes Tom. "Ay he is 81
changed; but it amt that mean, Some
4hin's come to him worse than any GRIEF
though he did grieye sorely for his moth
er. poor ladyl But It's two days ngt
that the new trouble came, Oh. ma'a
he cries. coming step nearer, and speak
ing Sc; more earnestly in his great dread
"you anu he was good friends. know
Can't you do nothing for him? dom
know what to make Of it. Tain't only
a couple of days ago he said he was go
eng on the COntinoug. and ! WAS 10 <,
with him. We was TO travel about-
TouSh il. 81 Sir fyor said. and. oh
ma am, | was that pleased and honored
am now-now he sends for me. and rs
says Tom he says 'my plans is Al
changed l am a poor man, not 4 rjci
one I'm going away all by myself. Thn
place amt mine AT ALL Tom be says
There's been a great deception and =,
great wrong. I'm not your master qul
aongr ?. and Tn just as poor. Tom. n
rod was yourself whom dIst knew you.
The. ma am; them's just his words
ami leave you TO think ii ! WASH
knocked alI Of a heap when 1 heard them
Nov what does il all mean. that's VIVA
4 wants "A knowE'
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14
QUAKE KILLS $4,000.
ST. PIERRE, IN MARTINIQUE, Is
COMPL ETELY DESTROYED.
Entire island May Be Wiped Out of
Existence-Mighty Tidal Wave Adds
to the Horror-AJI the Shipping in
the Harbor Destroyed.

The town Of st. Pierre. on the Island
of Martinique. in the French West In-
dies. has been totally destroyed by a
volcano, and it is reported that thou
sands of lives have been lost in the dis
aster.
The British steamer Roddam, Captaal
Freeman, which left ST. Lucia Wednes-
day for Martinique, returned there
Thursday. bringing a report of the st.
Pierre catastrophe. The Roddam re-
ports that all the shipping in the port
has also been destroyed The Roddam
was almost completely wrecked. Her
captain was seriously burned and seven
teen of her crew are dead.
The town of St. Pierre. the CONNER
cial capital of the French island of Mar
Unique. is on the west coast. 1t has
only an open roadstead. The town has
a population of about $4,000.
According to the report st. Pierre is
not only wiped out. but the entire island
is in danger of extinction from incessant
earthquake shocks which have accom-
panied the volcanic disturbances.
A mighty tidal wave accompanied the
cataclysm isnd added to the terrors of the
scene. Mount P=ee. the volcano. had
been inactive for years, hut recently be-
gan to show signs of life. Lara began
10 flow Saturday. and on Monday tine
Guerin factories, situated two miles from
ST. Pierre, We're destroyed by shower
Of lava. Over 200 persons lost their
lives at this place.
The eruption continued and the people
of st. Pierre were thrown into greater
panic. The lava flow continued to in
crease. Escape to the country was shut
off and ST. Pierre was the only refuge
left sH
1t is believed st. Pierre's destruction
was the elimination of a series of erup-
tons that have been felt for months
through the Central American country
and in thu West indies. At ST. Vincent
earthquakes have been felt in the vicin-
ity of the Soufrere crater, which has
shown signs of activity.
The volcanic craters on Dominica are
showing signs of life, and all through the
French and Danish Antilles seismic
shocks Of more or less intensity are expe-
rienced Fire and smoke from the vol
cano at St Vincent are said to be visi-
BILE from st. Lucia, and distant reports,
like heavy artillery firing. are audible at
Dominica, Antigua and st. kits, in the
Leeward Islands, at Guadeloupe. and
elsewhere
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14

Margherita has always been Of an adj
venturous turn of mind. She sent her
cousin, the Duke of Abruzzi, to look for
the north pole and fitted him out sump-
tuously She once financed an Antarctic
expedition and numerous smaller parties
she has sent out to hunt for geographical
discoveries
When Margherita married ling Hum
bert she was accounted ths most beauti-
fut woman in the world. The charms and
much OF the beauty still remain, in spite
Of the sorrows which have clouded her.
When King Humbert was killed il was
feared that Margherita would succumb
to her grief. But she rallied and plunged
into her favorite work Of relieving the
poor. by the latter she is beloved. Dur
ing the years that she reigned with King
Humbert she was perhaps the most be-
loved Of all European rulers.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14
a eREAr sourHERN RAILWAY.
John W. Gates, the Steel Magnate,
Has a New Ambition.

John W. Gates, the Steel Magnate,
Has a New Ambition.
The latest ambition Of John w. Gates,
the steel magnate and capitalist. is to
build for the Southern States a great
railway system, that win equal tho in-
meuse traGic lines OF the Pennsylvania
Railroad The recent purchase in New
y ork. OF Louisville and Nashville stock.
is part of plan Of q trunk aud branch
system az railway lines that will tap ev~
cry part of the Southern States. To com-
plete this scheme the Gates syndicate
Is now euieIyoring 10 set a controlling
interest in the Chicago and Eastern Iii
uois road, rs the Chicago end of the pro-
posed system. The Louisville and Nash
vile will be the connecting link with the
Southern Railway.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14
POTTER PALMER IS DEAD.
Life of the Famous Chicago Million
aire # ads Suddenly.

Potter Palme''. known throughout the
civilized world as one of the coterie of
millioaaires instrumental in the financial
development of Chicago, died unexpected
ly OF oedema of the lungs Sunday after
noon at his residence on Lake Shore
drive. Surrounded by the members Of
his family. Re passed quietly from life
without apparent pain and unconscious
of the approach Of death. He was born
in 1896. and had lived in Chicago for
more than half century.
Up TO 3 o'clock in the afternoon no
member of the family had the slightest
intination that Mr.. Palmer was in dan
ger. although he had been i'll for three
weeks. A week previous his physician
told him he might leave his bed if he
wished, but Mr.. Palmer determined to
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14

the big fair is to
be postponed until
1904. A number
of reasons are Civ
en- in his statement
as to why this ac-
ton is deemed ex-
pedient. One Is
that foreign gov
ernments deemed
the time INSULT
Gent for them to
prepare their exhib-
its. and therefore
would not take
rorf in tho fair
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14
Grand Trunk Will Extend.

DR.. John Flood, Chicago representative
of J. Pierpont Morgan, has secured an
option on the Milwaukee. Benton Harbor
and Columbus Railroad. which extends
from Buchanan. Mich. to Benton Har-
Dor. II is the intention to extend the
Grand Trunk from Edwardsburg through
Niles to Buchanan, thence to Benton
Harbor over the newly acquired road.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1902-05-14

long has had an at
traction for her.
She herself is anX-
ious to make the
trip and though it
is opposed by some
of the government
ministers, it is like
~ unless great
pressure is brought
to bear to keep her
home that she viii
be the guest pf the
American nation
this summer