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The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
ACCIDENT AT BOULDER, COL.

Trolley Car Runs Away Down Grade
-One Killed and Twenty Injured.
Denver, Col, July IA special to the
News from Boulder, Col, says: Gins an
accident on the Chautauqua street car
line one woman was killed and 20 per-
sons injured. The cars were heavily
loaded and the chain brakes used on the
trailers failed to hold the train. 1t
rushed down the hill with tremendous
velocity, the train overturning at a
bend in the track at the Sisters of St.
.Gertrude's academy. This is distance
of about four city blocks from the
Chautauqua grounds. The motor car
was badly wrecked, and it was in this
and upon the platforms of other cars
that most of the serious accidents oc-
Cured. OF the 200 passengers on the
train 20 were badly injured, one IA
tally, others escaping with severe cuts.
The academy was turned into hos
pital, the seriously injured being taken
there.
Mrs. Jennie Richards died soon after
being taken from the wreck.
THE INJURED: Ida Bragger, aged. 49,.
badly crushed; Mrs. Fobbins. crushed and
bruised; Miss Whitelock, bruised, not seri-
Gus; Fred Wilson, aged u, leg broken,
bruised about head: Mrs. p Larson. aged
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
THE Up-To-DATE CORN CRIB.

60, crushed internally, serious; Theodore
Stawn, aged %, leg broken. back bruised,
wounded scalp: Mrs. f. A. Hunter, aged
IS, bruised; Mrs. J. o. Miller, aged 80, arm
broken. otherwise bruised; Miss Meta
Davis, leg broken, bruised; Mamie Gumme-
son, knee injured; Mrs. s. ]. Gardiner, in
ton serious, but thought she will recover;
Henry Meyring, aged e, miner of Salida,
seriously injured in groin; Earl Dillinger,
Loveland, bruised: Miss Sweet, Central
City, injured about back; N. d. Mckenzie
and daughter Katherine, bruised.
Railroad Disaster In Michigan.
Elk Rapids, Mich, July 7.-Engineer
Pickett, of Traverse City, was killed
and Fireman Edward DIVER, of Grand
Rapids, fatally injured in a wreck on
the Pere Marquette railroad at Will
iamsburg late at night. They were on
engine II which was hauling special
excursion train. They had switched
the cars onto side track and the en-
CINE itself was just passing from the
main track to the side track when the
Petoskey Flyer, running As miles an
hour, crashed into it. The special en-
gine's tender was thrown off the track,
crushing the engine cab and killing
Engineer Pickett. Fireman Dryer
jumped and sustained fatal injuries.
In some way the throttle. of the special
trains engine was opened and with the
dead body of the engineer aboard the
boiler and wheelsshot forward and, ran
three and one-half miles to Bates be-
fore thes team gave out.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
AWFUL GRADE ACCIDENT !.
Twelve Persons Killed and THIRTY
Three Injured in Wrecked y
Trolley Cars.
COACHES TELESCOPE ON STEEP GRADE.
Wrecked Cars Jump Track Crushing
Passengers Underneath the Debris
AT Boulder, COL, Trolley Train
Rushes Down Hill and II Wrecked.
killing One and Injuring Twenty.

Gloversyille, N. Y, July IA wreck
which occurred on The Mountain
Lake railroad caused the almost
instant death of ten persons and
two victims died in the hospital
here early on Saturday. It is be-
'lieved that several other victims will
.succumb to their injuries. The bodies
Of many of the victims were crushed
and MANNED almost beyondrecognition
and the scenes about the wreck were
horrifying. The accident was caused
by a combination baggage and passen-
ger car getting away from the motor
man and rushing down the mountain
side at terrific speed. The brake re-
fused to work and at the end of the
grade the heavy car crushed into a
loaded, open car also descending the
mountain. The latter was hurled from
the track and turned on it's side and
over 50per cent. of the passengers were
injured. Those who were pinned di-
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

George Frederick Ernest Albert.
prince of Wales, who will become SOW
ereign of the British empire in the
event of the death of Edward VII, is
the second son of the present king. He
was born June 8, 1865, and has there
fore lately passed his 9th birthday.
Prince George is a sailor by training
and many years. occupation. Even in
his nursery days, 1t is said, he was
fond of the sea, that ancient heritage
of England and the scene of her great
est actions in world history.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

After nearly seven years spent main
~ in the wild regions of Borneo and
Sumatra, John D. Gilman, a mining
engineer, arrived in New York a few
days ago. Mr.. Gilman has become a
convert to the Darwinian theory Of
evolution. for in his travels he saw
many tailless black apes, many of
whom, he says, have handsomer fea-
lures than some human beings. They
have, he says, a nomenclature Of their
own. which strongly resembles the
dialects Of some of the native tribes.
The apes he claims, understand many
things said to them.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
.G1DEoNs MEET.
Christian Association Of Travelling
Men Gathers at Cedar Rapids, Ia.
Gratifying Growth shown.

Cedar Rapids. Ia, July NEARLY 200
travelling men, representing many
states, were present when President
S. E. Hill, of Beloit, Wis.,, called the
national convention of Gideons to or
der. The morning session was devoted
to reports of officers and committees;
which shows Q gratifying growth of
the order, which is an association of
Christian travelling men.
Thereport of Secretary ]. H. Nichol-
son, of Janesville, Wis, gave the total
membership, as 2,166 in IS states.
There are "a local camps. Iowa, ILL
nois, Wisconsin Minnesota and In
diana have state organizations. liz
nois leads in the number of members,
having 443.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

Thousand-dollar and ten thousand
dollar bills are the same size as 81 and
81 bills. Their design is different, Of
course, but man who could not read
would see little difference between
them except the figures. The $1,000
and SO 900 bills do not often. get out
side the banks. The principal use
that is made Of 81 900 bills, aside from
keeping them in the vaults of national
banks to represent the reserve re-
quired by law, is for making payments
to people who do not want to taxa
them. 81
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
''TREvEs,
s'LAKING,
"RARTOW -
Salisbury to Retire.

London, July 7.-At the earliest pos
sible moment Lord Salisbury contem-
plates retiring from public life. But
that severance from the affairs. of the
empire which he has so long admins
tered is not likely to come until after,
the coronation and it may possibly be
still further delayed by now unseen
reasons of state politics. During
the last few months the premier has
more and more detached himself. from
the cares of office. With increasing
age his dislike of publicity and dread
of details which high Office holding in
wolves has been strengthened into an
antipathy so strong as to render even
the conservative leaders less impor-
tunate in their demands that he remain
premier.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

German scientists are excessively
elated over the prospective capture
of a living aepyornis, the greatest
bird that has ever existed and hither-
to regarded as extinct. Prof. Gott-
lieb August Krause, the distinguished
naturalist of the University of Berlin,
has started out with large expedi-
ton to explore the interior of NADIA.
gascar in search of this monstrous
bird. A full grown aepyornis stands
16 feet high and has legs larger than
those of an elephant. IN &
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

In less than a week recently 7,00o..
900 pineapples reached New York. As
fast steamers have reduced the voyage
to three days, the fruit arrives green
and is ripened in lofts, where the tenn
perature is ITO degrees. Confectioners
and candy-makers are among the. larg-
est purchasers, and it is estimated that
at least 100000 pineapples are used
every year in this country to flavor
ices.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

There are some people who assert
that the mariners compass was first
heard of from the famous traveller,
Marco Polo, while others declare it
to be of much later invention. but 1t
was really invented centuries before
the great traveller had been heard Of.
It is mentioned in the New Testament,
"And from thence we fetched a COM
pass and came to Rhegium'' (Acts
xviii, 49,
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

A bill now before congress provides
that "the Oldest enlisted man on the
rolls of the army" be promoted to a
second lieutenancy in order that he
may retire with higher pay than he
would otherwise receive. The name
of the oldest enlisted man has not yet
been ascertained, there being several
claimants of the honor. One of them,
James Condor, enlisted in 1888 as a
drummer boy, having then been ten
years old.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

Cuddled up in worm cotton at the,
foot of his mothers bed, on the top
floor Of the rear tenement on Eldridge
street, lies the smallest baby in New
York. The youngest son Of Mr.. and
Mrs Israel Weissbeerst weighed one
and three-quarter pounds when he was
born, and from the crown Of his head
to his heel, the size Of q thumb-nail.
he measures only ten inches.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

There appears to be a new field open
ing up for ambitious young men. 1t
is the field of scientific forestry-one
Of the most important matters Of the
day., The young forester has prospects
Of salary that equals that of the
average college professor. To men
Of mental and physical vigor, who de.
light in nature and outdoor life, this
would seem to be a congenial and lu-
crative occupation.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
Bad Fire .t Oakland. nm.

Paris, ILL.,, July 7...Oakland, ILL.,, .
town of 1000 Inhabitants, located
west Of Paris, was visited by a very
severe fire as result of skyrocket
falling on the Tibbs furniture store.
That building along with other build
ings on the east side of the square
were destroyed, the fire burning all
night. The loss is large, considering
the size of the town, partially covered
by insurance.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

stantly; others died from their wounds
Immediately afterward.
City Recorder Frank c. Wood was
held under the car for two hours be-
tween two dead women with both legs
crushed.
Investigation Ordered.
Albany, N. Y, July 1.-THE state
board of railroad commissioners Sat
urday ordered strict investigation
of the wreck near Gloversville Fri
day night.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

The cowhide is mightier than the
law according to the recent ruling Of
Virginia Judge who, after acquitting
an aged minister brought before him
on the charge Of contempt Of court,
left the bench and proceeded to deal
out with his own hand the thirty and
nine. The offense of which the minis
ter stood accused was the publication
of an editorial in which he questioned
the Judges motives in permitting tie
sale of liquor in a prohibition district.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

Not baffied by repeated precedents
OF failure. Paul Cienanth, of Buffalo.
N. Y, has persevered for six years and
has finally perfected what he claims
to be a practicable piano typewriter,
a machine which can be connected
with a piano and made to transcribe
In common musical characters any
composition rendered upon the forte.
The machine is intricate, having
5000 more parts than a typewriter.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

A. e. Dolbear. who has Just received
the degree Of LID. from Tufts college,
first came into prominence 40 years
ago. when he invented writing telc-
graph. In 1874 he invented q magneto
telephone, in 1879 the static telephone.
and as long ago as 1881 q system Of
wireless telegraphy. ~G'1.a"
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
Tuan,s Hand !. seen.

London, July THE Standard Sat-
urday morning published dispatch
from its Tien-Tsin correspondent,
who says it is reported that Prince
Tuan, who was connected with the
Boxer crimes, a'ndswho is NV fugi-
tive, Sis in frequent Communication
with the imperial government at
Peking,aand that his son has been Sc
cretly appointed deputy lieutenant
general of the Chinese forces at
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
Search for Train Bandit..

Chicago, July 7.-A'small army of 1e-
tectives and farmers is searching the
country between Blue Island and Lee
mont in hunt for two robbers, who
held up the big Five" express train
of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railway Thursday night near Dupont
and shot John E. Kahn, an express mes
senger.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
Found Dead In Bed.

Madison, Wis, July 7.-Willet 8.
Main, former state senator, and BROTH
er-in-law of Senator JohnC. Spooner,
was found dead in bed. tits supposed
he died from heart disease. @
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
Money for Crop Movemen mt.

New York, July THE subtreas.
ury Saturday telegraphed $5O0,0OO in
currency to Chicago, presumably on
account of the crop movement.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
TEDDY JR., HURT.
Patriotic Scion Of the President Has
Fourth Of July Disaster.

Fourth of July Disaster.
New York, July Theodore Roose-,
welt, Jr., had his forehead cut open
by piece of flying glass while cele-
brating independence day at Oyster
Bay. He had placed firecracker in
an old bottle, and after the explosion
found his forehead bleeding from a
deep cash. Bystanders rushed to his
assistance, but he walked to his moth
er, who sat on the veranda, and asked
her to bandage the wound. He soon
resumed his merrymaking.
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
Carnegie Buys Library

London, July THE Times says
it hears that Andrew Carnegie has
purchased the libsary Of the late
Lord Acton. .
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10
After a Day Of Pleasure.

The accident happened at sharp
curve where the track turns to make
the climb up the steep mountain-side.
The wreck occurred at the end of day
of pleasure at the resort at the top of
the mountain and the cars were loaded
with excursionists. The car on which
the dead and, injured personsiwere rid
ing was an open one in charge ofMo.
torman Arthur Perkins and Cond iactor
James Cameron, and the car whichwaA
responsible for the wreck was in
charge of Motorman William Dodge.
According to Conductor James Came,
ron, Of the open car, the closed car ran
away while coming down the grade
above the curve and collided with the
open car as the latter was rounding
the curve. Both cars then went down
the grade at lightning speed. At the
foot of the hill the cars camesttgetheri
again.
Just before the rear car had reached
the one ahead the lights inthe first.
car went out and added darkness to
the horror. The heavy double car
struck the other with such force that it
raised the rear end of the first car into
the air and over the right embankment
on the side. Both cars were derailed
and the passengers were thrown in
every direction. Many were killed in
The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1902-07-10

rectly under the car were crushed to
death and in some instances terribly
mutilated. The combination car also
left the track and turned on its side.
AS the scene of the accident is remote
from the city it was two hours before
appliances to raise the open car and
release the victims were secured.
THE DEAD, all of Gloversville: Mrs. Ed
ward ]. BAIRD. aged 6S.
Miss Eleeta Baird, 30.
Miss Margaret Main, 90.
Mrs. OrnaE Eastman.
Edward Davis.
Edward l.. Trevitt.
Joseph Saloy.
Mrs. Joseph Saloy.
Isadore Rothberg.
Edward. son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Saloy.
Mrs. Maria Annabel, of Worthwhile.
Fred Cronin.
THE INJURED: Recorder, Frank Wood,
legs broken. condition serious; Mrs. Will
marth, serious internal injuries; Mrs. Her
bert Maxsen, badly cut about head; Mrs.
E. l.. Heacock, face badly cut; James Hea-
cock, fracture of Leg bruise on hip: Miss
Lucy Heacock. leg broken; Robert Butler,
cut about head and internal injuries; Miss
Ruby Hines, shock and bruises; Miss
Louise Chapman, severe shock and inter-
nal injuries; Arthur Perkins, .motorman,
shoulder dislocated; Herbert Maxson,
clerk, knee crushed; Benjamin Rice, scalp
wounds, legs broken; Orrin Eastman, in
ternal injuries; Nathan johnson, both legs
severely bruised; George Fisher, head
bruised and internal injuries; William
Dodge. motorman, legs broken, condition
serious; William Brown, Kingshoro, leg
broken in two places: Charles Brown, COM
pound fracture of leg: Robert saloy, cut
about face and bruised: Edward Scheu, leg
broken, terribly injured about abdomen
and hips, condition serious; Mrs George
Fisher. leg broken. 2 afs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16
Noticeable Changes.

The simplicity that these early hours sug
gest has long since departed. Fashionable
procedure now is on the scale that is OBJ
served in the most luxurious circles OF New
York or in any other wealthy metropolis
Those who maintain winter residences here
have in most instances, quite as palatlal
homes in several other places, and are
only here for the gay season. The duration
of the latter affords a preliminary to the
official season, and also a few weeks
after it, each spring before its participants
are due in other quarters. From New
Years day until Shrove Tuesday, the eve
of Lent is what constitutes the "ofhc1al
season." as the weeks known during
which the White House Inequalities follow
in imposing procession. The little season,
in which the debutante is the premiere
star opens now about Thanksgiving and
closes with the festivities incident to
Christmas. The wedding season is no
longer confined as it formerly was, to
poetic June, because nowadays society has
either gone or is on the eve of departure
for the summer.
Congress has less and less to do each year
with mapping out social program. The
presence of the legislators has, of course,
a bearing on matters polite, on Inequalities
significant and on arrangements affecting
sudden increase in the population, but what
is known as the smart set scarcely finds
that this factor causes any special prepara-
ton on it's part.
The social development of the capital in
the last quarter of the nineteenth century
seems more important and more compre-
hensive in scope and value because in that
period its record day by day has been noted
as all other branches of news. The history
of this period is therefore, more accurate
and deserving of belief because it is made
up of impressions gained almost hourly by
those whose business it has been to watch
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16
preme began at o'clock in the afternoon
instead of 10 at night, which is considered
an early hour now.
Eight O'Clock Suppers.

Supper came along at or s. and often
the participants in most important of the
winters festivities were comfortably asleep
an hour or two before the beau or belle of
this winter starts for an evenings pleasure.
Early hours were the rule.
An invitation to dine with President and
Mrs. Johnson in 1869 gave o'clock as the
hour. The Presidents of the last twenty
five years have asked guests to family din
ners at I or 100 and to state dinners a s.
More ceremony obtained, however, in those
early times than even now perhaps, whe n
the President dimes in state with the music
of the Marine Band and has more guests
about him than was ever possible before IN
the White House.
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Early Party Going.

Afternoon receptions followed closely af-
ter the midday meal because dinner was
served from ) o'clock and evening engage
ments began with candle light. Evening
dress was essential for dinner, and for wo-
mankind in those days meant low neck
with no subterfuges such as lace yokes and
sleeves, which in this of greater liberty
are now permissible. Elderly women might
and did sometimes drape their shoulders
and arms with filmy lace, the three-corner-
ed lace shawls or lace barbs one sees occa-
sionally even now, being handed down from
these days "be fore the war; Balls kept
up all night, precisely as they do now, and
at the break of day coffee and rolls, or in
deed an even more substantial breakfast
was enjoyed before the jewellers separated,
just exactly smart society is catered to
in these early twentieth century winters.
But germans when Kate Chase reigned SUI
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16

from 18th to 18th or 10Th streets, upper
F and G streets, Massachusetts, and Rhode
Island avenues, and streets adjacent from
18th or 18th streets northward
Moving Up Town.
The moving from the extreme eastern
points noted was as gradual as, but not the
less final than, the giving up of the fine
old homes along C. D and E streets between
Sd and 9th streets, for the modern houses
north and west of 10th street The neigh
borhood of Lafayette Square has alone re-
tanned its original dignity and value. Its
houses have generally sheltered men and
women of distinction and Importance.
The newcomers to the capital of twenty
years built their homes far north and
west that the residence section was greatly
enlarged. The fashionable storm center"
may now be reckoned to be in the neighbor-
hood of Dupont circle, in the immediate vi
cinity of which the costliest of the modern
dwellings have been erected.
During the past ten years some of the
wealthiest people in this country have been
attracted to this city and make it their win
ter home Participating in the social fea-
lures of it's official artistic or residential
life, they have repaid the compliment by ex-
tending the most princely hospitality In a
style which in each instance sets a new
precedent. The charm of entertaining the
high lights in the official armament the
pleasure of minglng with the foreigners OF
the diplomatic circle and the occasional &C.
lebrity of that much courted body are the
special features of Washington winter
that have no duplicates or even compensa-
tons elsewhere.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-12-16

Dolttt iOl NiAS cSNSSA
and some otherwise,
but the d r a W i n G
rooms of the capital
of the nation have
still the same potent
charm that has at
tached itself to no
other center, because
of the lack elsewhere
of the peculiar quail
ties of it's cosmopoli-
tan life and it's in
teresting blending of
elements most pol
ished with others
repre- s en- ting the
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SOCIAL GAIETIES BEFORE
The WAR.
BY HELENA MCCARTHY.

To the present generation of leaders in the
fashionable world of the capital the per-
sonality of those who made up similarly
envied circle in the carry ffties exists only
as characters do in ficton-yet it was the
men and women of that period who helped
to establish the customs followed now, and
only a few of which have been entirely
brushed aside. The forms have changed,
Some for tho better