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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
TURKS LOST HEAVILY.
Have Fight With insurgents Lasting
Four Hours.

Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 1.-THE Au-
tonomie publishes the names OF fifty
villages burned by the Turks. The
Turks burned four villages in the dis
trict OF Strushkopolis, and murdered
the priest. A fight is reported to have
taken place at the village of Velrsko,
in the district Of Kumanovo, between
a body of insurgents and a Turkish
battalion. 1t lasted four hours and
the Turks lost heavily.
Reports have reached the revolu-
tionary headquarters here of atrocities
by the Turks in the village of Vel
mosti in the district of Debre. The
troops and Bashi Bazouks are said to
have surrounded the village and part
Of therl entered and began plundering
the houses and assaulting the women.
The other soldiers remained outside
and killed those inhabitants who tried
to a The Turks then set fire
to the village in four places, burning
twelve women and children. One
child was hanged. Altogether sixty
peasants were killed.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
wARL,KE FEELING INCREASES
Turkish Military Party cIanoring for
Hostilities.

London, Sept. Especial dispatches
from Constantinople published here
all concur regarding the gravity of
the situation and state that the war
like feeling has been increased by the
fact that the sultan last Friday re-
viewed and presented colors to two
new hussar regiments recruited from
the tribes which produced the Otto
man dynasty, this being the first time
that the sultan has presided at such g
ceremony. The Turkish papers are
making patriotic appeals to the loyal
ty and devotion of the nation.
A dispatch to the Daily Chronicle
from Constntinople says the military
party is clamoring for war, but the
sultan still hesitates. Nevertheless
troops are being massed along the
frontier in readiness to take the field.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
New Potato Pest.

Samuel Price, a Ravenna CO., farm
er. has discovered a new and formida-
BILE potato pest. says the Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune. While inspecting
a field Of growing tubers he noticed
large sections of dead and dying plants,
due to the presence of a mosquito
headed. dark bodied, quarter inch bug,
which, armed with a needlelike pro-
boscis. bores into the growing stock,
from which it extracts the life juices.
with fatal results. The newcomer Is
very lively. flies like a carrier pigeon,
and all ordinary methods Of warfare
are futile against it.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
CUPID AMI STRIKES.
Marriage Recommended ms Panncea
For Labor Troubles.

Marriage Recommended ms
For Labor TroubIes.
Cupid's right bower. Mayor Knots OF
Hammond, ind, has again championed
the cause of matrimony. Bachelors,
says the mayor, are n detriment to a
community. while married men are val
liable assets. In an appeal just Issued
he asked the merchants md manufac-
turers of the city to employ married
men only. Mayor Knots declares that
single men are the chief fomenters OF
labor troubles; that they are reckless,
and as q rule do a town more harm
than good.
Mayor Knots a year ago offered to
marry free all couples residing in Ham
mond and to give them moral and
other support in establishing their
homes.
In his letter Mayor Knots argued
that during the years of labor trouble
in Hammond it had beer notorious that
the single men were the first to start
trouble and to talk strike. Married
men, he declared, are more patient and
long suffering and less likely to go out
on unjustified strikes.
The mayor states that single men do
not make as good citizens. He declares
they are reckless, inclined to wastefrl-
ness and spending; that they come into
a town when a new enterprise is start
ed, and usually, after a short and reck-
less career, depart for some other town,
having done the town no good ana
leaving only unpaid bills and friends
around the saloons.
The mayor closes his letter with an
appeal to the manufacturers and mar-
chants to call a meeting and take steps
looking to the employment Of married
men only in their factories and stores.
This, he declares, will end the labor
troubles Of the town and raise the
standard of citizenship, give stability
of purpose to the town itself and do a
lasting good. Married men, he con-
cludes, become permanent citizens,
working for the good of the COM
munity. He argues that the manufac-
turers, having received great benefits
from the town of Hammond, should
reciprocate by employing the married
men and giving them preference at all
times.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
Ahon r. Linton.

Abou 7. Upton (may his tribe increaseD
Awoke one night from a deep dream OF
peace
And saw an angel with a fountain pen
S%cribbling upon a sheet of foolscap. Then.
Regaining his composure, Tom sat up
And asked the angelic one to have a cup
OF his best tea. The angel shook his
head.
'sI'm on the water wagon now" he said.
Abou T. Upton waved his hand. II see;
But, by the way, what writest thou?' said
he.
The heavenly vision answered. well. I
Here on this little sheet. in black and
white,
The man whose boat will get the needed
place.
The winner in the coming yachting race"
The gallant Upton frightened up. Pray
tell"
He queried, "does the name begin with
LIZ"
''I'm sorry" said his guest. sit is q
But as things stand, I cannot write your
name"
T. Upton made reply, "Would I were 1t.
But put me down as one who never quit"
The angel wrote and vanished. The next
night
He called on Tom again, but not to write.
Said he, st nave on this large, handsome
chart
"a fine example Of the engraver's artl
The names of some true sportsmen--just
the best"
And, 10, T. Lipton's name led all the rest!
william F. Kirk in Milwaukee Senti-
mel.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
TELEeRAPHlc BREvlTlEs.

President Loubet of France Sunday
gave an audience to Senator henry
Cabot Lodge.
James M. Jones, one of the best
known insurance men of Michigan, is
dead, aged sixty-eight years.
William Waldorf Aston has con-
tributed 100000 to a fund to aid the
research for a cure for cancer.
Rev. Alvah Hovey, D. D., one OF the
best known Baptist clergymen n the
country and for many years president
of the Newton theological institution,
is dead at Newton, Mass, aged eighty
three.
Pope Plus x. has represented to the
Austrian emperor the advisablllty, es-
pecially on the part of the Catholic
powers, of coming to an agreement as
to the best way to stop the massacres
in Macedonia.
The building on the Minnesota state
fair grounds occupied by the State
Federation of Women's clubs was de-
stroyed by fire Saturday afternoon. A
large portion of the more valuable eX-
hibits were saved.
Henry Sanford, vice president of the
Adams Express company, is dead at
his residence at Bridgeport, Conn, as
a result of a stroke OF apoplexy which
he suffered while at his summer nome
in Canada several weeks ago.
All the striking laborers and brick
layers in Minneapolis will go to work
again Tuesday morning. The labor
ers will be paid 20 cents an hour OF
large and small buildings alike unit
April /, 1904, when the decision OF tn
arbitration board will go into effect.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
DENIES OUTRAGE STORIES.
Statement by Turkish Ambassador to
France.

Paris, Sept. Tn an interview pub
lished in the Gaulois Munir Pasha, the
Turkish ambassador, declares the pub
lishod stories of atrocities and massa-
ores in Macedonia to be grossly exag-
gerated. Though such acts may have
been committed by Turkish soldiers.
he says, they are mere isolated in
stances and acts of reprisal for SINH
lar deeds committed by the insurgents.
Turkey wants peace and has modified
a sufficient force to crush all oppos'-
ton. which is the best means to pre-
vent bloodshed and secure peace.
Munir Pasha does not believe there
will be war with Bulgaria, as Prince
Ferdinand desires peace. He asserts
that much of the money of the in.
surgents came from the ransom OF
Miss Stone, the American missionary
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
BASEBALL SCORES.
American Association

American Association.
At Milwaukee, 3; Kansas City, 2.
Second game-Milwaukee, 1; Kansas
City, II.
At Columbus, 5; indianapolis, l.
At Toledo, 8; Louisville, Z.
American League.
At st. Louis, 1; Detroit, O.. Second
game-St. Louis, 5; Detroit, l.
At Chicago, 1; Cleveland, 0.
National League.
At Cincinnati, 8; st. Louis, g..
At Chicago, L; Pittsburg, 5.
At Providence-Boston, 3; Phila-
delphia. 2.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
NEW CAR WHEEL.
Invention Of South DakotaaMan Said
to Be Valuable.

o. SOutA NAOIxA&NAGb4A a. 1
to Be Valuable.
G, w. Hawkins, a former resident of
Great Falls, Mont, but who is now at
work on the Sioux Falls Is. d. divi-
sion of the Great Northern railroad,
with headquarters at Garretson. Min
nehaha county, has been awarded a
patent on an invention which, it is
said, promises to make him a million
aire, says the Chicago Record-Herald.
The product Of his genius is termed a
ball bearing antifriction car wheel. Its
practicability is soon to be tested by
several eastern railroads as we'll as the
Great Northern. The car wheel does
not differ materially in appearance
from an ordinary wheel and is so con-
structed that it may be made lnde-
pendent of the journal and u on the
ball bearing attachment if occasion de-
mands.
In the event of a hot journal, often
the cause Of disastrous wrecks. by the
application of a wedge the journal may
be made to remain stationary, and the
wheel will run on the ball bearings,
which are constructed of highly +
ened steel and are oiled automatically.
This arrangement also permits the out
side wheel to run faster in traversing
a curve than the inside wheel without
slipping, thus reducing the possibility
Of friction to the minimum and doing
away with the wear which makes 1T
imperative that the steel on sharp
curves must be replaced at frequent in
teryals to avoid derailments and result
ing disasters to rolling stock and posi-
BILE loss of life.
1T is also claimed for the new wheel
that it will reduce the draft of trains
fully % per cent and that it can be
manufactured and maintained at a
small added cost over the price OF the
wheels at present in use.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
INVESTIGATION PROCEEDING.
Assassins Of the Servian Rulers VIII
Be Lightly Punished.

Belgrade, servia. Sept. 1.-hlng
Peter and his family have returned
here after an absence of twelve days
at Nish. The rapers report that a
reconciliation between the opposing
army factions is probable through the
friendly influence of Prince Arsene
Karageorgevitch, King Peters brother
1t is officially announced that an In
vestigation is proceeding, but any pun,
ishment inflicted on the reglcldes and
their co-operators in their conspiracy
will be slight.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
WEDDING STORY UNTRUE.
Said Vice Consul MageIssen's AssaiI-
ant Is Known.

London. Sept. THE Constantine.
pie correspondent Of the Standard
telegrapns that the wedding story
given out by the vail of Beirut as an
explanation of the outrage on United
States Vice Consul Megelssen IS
proved to be false, and the vice con-
sul's assailant is believed to be known.
It is expected that the United States
will peremptorily demand the dismls-
sal Of the vail, who, continues the cor
respondent, by common consent, L.
running Beirut.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
CHICAGO Union Stock Yards.

Chicago, Sept. 5.-Cattle-Good to
prime steers, $40 @6.00; poor to me-
dunn, $4.10@5.75; stockers and feed
ers. S2.50@425; COWS, $1.50@4.e0;
heifers. $2.00@4.75; calves, $3.5O@
6.75. Hogs-Mixed and butchers, $5.a5
@6.1O; good to choice heavy, $3.50
SIS; rough heavy, $5.15@5.55; light.
S5.6O@6.2O. Sheep-Good TO choice,
$3.25@3.75; Western, $2.50@3.75; ma
tive lambs. S3.75Q6.0O; Western. 1915
OSLO.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
Soldier Shot by a sentry.

New London. Conn.,, Sept. Ser
geant L. G. Bryson of the Second com
pany, coast artillery. stationed at For
H. G. Wright, Fishers Island. who was
instantly killed at the post Saturday,
was shot by a sentry who had been
ordered to place him under arrest for
creating a disturbance.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
Millionaire Under Arrest.

Los Angeles, Cal, Sept. 7.-Colonei
Griffith, a millionaire resident of this
city and a member of the board OF
park commissioners, has been arrest
ed on the charge of assaulting his
wife with m%urderous intent. Mrs.
Griffith is in a hospital suffering from
the effects of a pistol shot wound in
the head and a compound fracture OF
the shoulder.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
ATTEMPT TO KILL KING PETER.
Pistol Shot Fired at the New Servian
Ruler.

Vienna. Sept. Especial dispatches
give an unconfirmed report OF an at
tempt on King Peters life at Nlsh on
Saturday. 1t is said tnat stones were
thrown at the royal carriage, one
striking the king in the face n a pls'
tol was fired from a n~eighborlng win
dow. It is also rumored That the
Sixth Servian regiment, notorious for
the part it played in the recent regl'
cides, has been ordered to Nlsh.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
MARKET
Poultry. Butter and Eggs.

Chicago, Sept. 5.-Butter-Creamer-
les, 14@19c; dairies, 13@17c. Eggs
1917 @17kc. Poultry-Turkeys, lie;
chickens. 1Okc; springs, 13c.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
81. paul Union Stock Yards.

st. Paul, Sept. 5.-Cattle-Good to
choice steers, $2.O0@2.75; good to
choice cows and heifers, $2.6O@3.3O;
calves, $3.50@5.75. Hogs-$4.95@5.SO.
Sheep-Good to choice. $2.4O@3.OO;
lambs, $3.00@4.0O.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
kRusHEvo ATROCITIES.
Punishment Of Officers Concerned in
Them Ordered.

London, Sept. lit is announced
from Cettinje. Montenegro, that the
Montenegrin foreign minister. M.
Vukovitch, has started for CONSTANT.
nople.
From Athens the news that
the Greek government has been OH
cially informed that the grand vizier
has ordered an investigation of the
Krushevo atrocities and the punish
ment OF the officers concerned in them.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-09-08
DO YOU
KNOW
The Gazette
Job Department

Turns out a better class Of
work than any other printing
establishment in the Yellow.
stone valley. J
We are prepared to do any
class of printing on short
notice.
We employ only first.class
workmen, and consequently
can guarantee
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-03-05
Just like a Play.

Fiction is no more strange than
truth-to twist that hackneyed phrase
about a bit and make it seem less
trite.
There was performed in a Wash
ington theater last week a little COM
edy of French manners and morals
that certainly amused, if it did not
instruct, those who sat through It
with no temperamental hostility to-
ward the easy view which the French
people on the stage, take of the mar
riage tie. ,
1t was a story of a young man and
a young of Paris who had
married according to the French rule
of convenience. after I've years of
married life the wife finds that her
husband is addicted to little firta-
tons. He has never protested to be
madly in love with his wife, even
from the first, but he has been a good
provider and all that sort of thing,
and they have got on fairly well. But
when she discovers the flirtations she
becomes wrathful and divorces him.
His protest against this proceeding
on her part is feeble. It seems to be
all one to him, divorce or no divorce.
After d year or SO of separation the
young people accidentally meet in a
Paris restaurant, where the young
The divorced husband drifts over to
their table and there is a merry time.
He resumes his calls at the home CT
the wife who has divorced him-she
is living with her parents. He finds,
when he ascertains that she is going
to marry another man, that for the
first time he is actually in love with
! her. He asks her to remarTy him.
! She is obviously willing to do his.
but she holds back, declaring her in
tentiOn to marry the other man.
Then she catches "the other man."
the one she is engaged to marry, il
a bit of an affair in which the man is
made to appear guilty, although he is
entirely innocent, and she d~enounces
him. Just then, opportunity enough,
her first husband appears on the
scene, and she takes him back. She
NoI1AIbbNlSoJ III soy os (1toC III liz L
just about the same, and that, there
fore, if she is to marry again at all,
she might as we'll remarry No. 1, for
whom, she ~confesses, she retains a
partially, anyway. Thus the little
play ends neatly enough.
Now it happened that on Christmas
night two young Washington people,
a man and a woman, were present at
the theater and saw that play. They
were married five years ago, when
the youth had barely attained his ma
jority and the girl hadn't long gradu-
ated from short frocks. They lived
together happily enough, it seems,
for a couple of years. Then the
young wife began to exhibit jealous
traits, and n day she suddenly re-
turned to the home of her parents III
this CITY, the home from which she
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-03-05
THE DUCK AND THE DOG.

TaSSO vas a large Newfoundland
dog, weighing about one hundred and
twenty-five pounds, and with a face
and eyes intelligent almost to the
point of being human. He was my
constant companion and playmate dur.
ing my childhood days on the farm,
lever failing to meet me every day as
| returned from school, and carry my
dinner basket to the house. My
father had a flock Of ducks which very
mysteriousIy disappeared one at a
time until only one poor duck re-
NAMED. This duck seemed to be
TassO's particular aversion, and one
day, hearing a. great commotion in
the barnyard, we FASTENED out to find
that Tasso had picked the duck al
most clean of feathers. After waG-
ding forlornly about for a few days
the very negligee bird disappeared
as had the others.
a day or two later, though, as my
father was coming through the Or
chard he heard a dismal quackl
quach! which seemed to come from
the ground near his feet. Alter a
careful searching and listening he dis
covered the duck. Tasso had buried
it, patting the earth down as firmly
as if done by hands, and he had hui
namely left it's head sticking out
above the earth. He looked very wise
and much interested in the excavation
of the duck; but when later on it dis
appeared for good and all we were
convinced that Tasso had improved
on his former piece of work, and
buried head and all.-Woman's Home
Companion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-03-05
COWS WITH NAMES AND BELLS.
Gentle, M~ouse-CoIored Animals Form
Charming Pastoral Scene.

The COWS in the Alps are generally
very large and fine, of a dark mouse
color, growing white at the muZzle.
Each one has a name, and a bell
around her neck, and as the herder
must be with them al day, they are
so accustomed to being with human
kind that they really seem to have hui
man intelligence. Several mornings,
when staying in the homes of the
mOuntaineers, l have got up at day
break to see them milk and care for
their herds, and | saw how gently
they handled them, and the trustful
way the COWS would lay their heads
against the keepers, as if trying in
their dumb way to express their af-
lection, it added to my regard for the
sturdy fellows, who looked as if they
might be as rough as bears.
One cow, who leads the herd, has d
much larger bell than the others, and
as she starts off the rest follow along
the narrow path up the mountain
side. the different bells tinkling like
chimes in the early morning air and
forming a very romantic pastoral
scene.-Chicago Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-03-05
MRS j.. ]. AsToR's EMERACDs.

Probably the most costly single
ring is that owned by Mrs. John Jacob
Astor. This ring was made in the
most celebrated Partisan shop and
consists Of three large emeraIds,
surrounded by diamonds. The entire
circle is encrusted with tiny diamonds
and the platinum setting shows only
inside the ring. The extraordinary
detail of the Astor jewel is the perfec-
ton of the three emeralds. A flaw
less emerald is one of the rarest
gems, and the Aston stones are said
to be as near perfection as any ever
offered in Amsterdam, which is the
central market of the world. Mrs.
Astor's ring has a value Of $40 GOO. it
is said in Maiden lane.-New York
Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-03-05
AMERICAN ACTIVITY ABRoAD.

Seven hundred thousand British
wear American shoes.
An oil motor from Indianapolis is
grinding wheat on Mount Lebanon.
The German ~postofice department
has ordered in the United tates TO-
900 hand fire extinguishers. The
chemical hand grenade is almost I'M
known in Germany.
The Widespread impression that
most of the roast beef of old Eng
alnd" is supplied from the shambles
of Chicago may find a rude shock in
fresh English statistics. which show
that seven-tenths of the bee consum-
ed in England is produce on its
farms.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-03-05

About the most complete affair of
its kind is a writing tablet in the form
Of a wrist bag. 1t has, besides an un-
yer pen and pencil, a tiny cut glass
vinaigrette with a silver top, spaces
for visiting cards, purse and the stray
odds and ends a woman loves to col
lect in the way of samples, etc. These
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-03-05
FADS AND

Four hounds heads, varying in size
from one about as large as a dime to
the last as big round as a half dollar,
are arranged in graduated order for a
fob. The heads are of silver, and are
made in relief with silver chains con
Meeting them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-03-05
LATEST IN Wells.

A novelty in wells has lately been in
troduced in Paris, and already the
fashion is finding much favor. No
longer is the veil to be a somewhat
inconspicuous article Of wearing ap-