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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
JEWS HURRY TO AMERICA.

Hundreds Leave Russian Province of
kherson for United States.
st. Petersburg, Aug. 6.--According
to advices from Elisazethgrad the
Jewish emigration to America from the
province of kherson is rapidly increas-
ing. Three hundred Jews started for
the United States in June while during
July ten to twenty families left daily
for the same destination.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06

The cost of the special train from
Chicago to Los Angeles viii be $4,000.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
LIGHTING PLANT is WRECKED

Explosion at Tuscaloosa, Ala, Kills
Two and Does Great Damage.
Birmingham, Ala, Aug. 6.-By an
explosion at Tuscaloosa yesterday the
electric light plant was totally de-
stroyed and two men were killed and
many adjoining places of business
greatly damaged.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
SHOOTS HIMSELF.
Conrad Schroeder, Wealthy PennsyIva,
nian Dies Today.

nian Dies Today.
sa ** IS ** *#**
y Scranton, Pa, Aug. e.-conrad \
= Schroeder, one of the weaIthiest !
= contractors and builders in north
= western Pennsylvania,shot himself !
y today, dying instantly. His family
= say that the revolver exploded =
i while he was changing it from :
one pocket to the other. Schroeder :
= was delegate to the national
i convention which nominated Ben !
iamin Harrison for president.
i = y i y = = = = y = . 4 3 i 4 y 4
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
CARRIES AWAY MONEY.
Laborer Arrested in Philadelphia
Charged With Theft.

Philadelphia, Pa, Aug. 6.--Robert j.
Fitzpatrick, employed as a laborer at
the United States mint in this city was
arrested yesterday by secret service
operatives charged with stealing S5S
silveN dollars from the mint vault. The
money was stolen while the coins in
the mint were being transferred from
one vault to another. A penknife with
which the package had been opened
was found and this led to the identifi-
cation of fitzpatrick as the thief.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
CEREMONY OF CORONATION OF
POPE WILL CONFORM TO AN.
GENT CUSTOM,
is SET FOR NEXT SUNDAY
The Ceremony Proper Takes Place at
the Completion Of Mass on the Porti-
co Overlooking the Piazza of St.
Peters.

Rome, Aug. 6.-The coronation cere-
monies will be performed at st. Peters
on Sunday according to the rite dating
from the latter part of the fourteenth
century.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
INSURGENTS PUNISHED.

Fifty Ladrones in the Philippines Get
Long Terms.
Manila, Aug. 6.-Fifty ladrones, who
were implicated in the recent raids
near Surigao. province of Mindanao,
have been sentenced to long terms OF
imprisonment.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
PAY MoNARcH's DEBTS.
Estates of Kin Alexander and Queen
Draaa of Servia Will Suffer.

Vienna. Aug. 6.-The Servian gov
ernment is arranging to pay the debts
of the late King Alexander and Queen
Draga out of their estates. The debts
amount to $4,000, while the aggregate
value of the estates is $4,000. The
surplus will so to the heirs.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
Order of Ceremonies,

AS the pope enters the church the
clerk of the papal chapel holds up be-
fore him reed surmounted by hand
full of flax This being lighted it
flashes up for moment and then dies
out at once as the chaplain chants:
Holy Father, thus passeth away the
worlds glory.'
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
FUGITIVE CONVICT CAPTURED.
One of Men Who ESCAPED From Fol.
som Prison Near Davisyille.

Sacramento, CAL, Aug. 6.-The con
yict, James Roberts, one of the band
of fugitiyes from the Folsom prison
has been captured near Dayisyille.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
ELECT OFFICERS.

American Catholic Societies Hold
Election Today.
Atlantic City, Aug. 6.-The following
officers We're elected by the American
Federation of Catholic societies yes
terday: President, Thomas B, Nina
han of Columbus, Ohio; secretary. An
thony Matrie of Cincinnati; treasurer,
Henry ]. Fries of Erie.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
STATE DEMOCRATS TO MEET.

Call Gathering to Assemble at Des
Moines Friday.
Des Moines, Aug. g.6.-State Chairman
Jackson of the democratic committee
has called a conference of the men,
bers of the committee. state candi-
dates and leading party workers in
Des Moines Friday afternoon. Cam
paign plans will be made.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
TWO MORE PAPERS FOR FOLK.
Has Both Wright County Democratic

Hartville, Mo, Aug. 6--The two demo.
cratic papers and leading democrats
Of Wright county are enthusiastic in
their support of Joseph w. Folk for
governor. The machine men favor
either Reed or CAN'T. Cook has no
supporters here for any office. Judge
Young is president of the Hartyille
Folk club.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
FARMER BRYAN RECOGNIZED
Governor Mickey Makes Him Delegate
to AGRICULTURAL Meetino.

Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 6.-Goyernor
Mickey has appointed w. J. Bryan one
of 81 delegates from Nebraska to the
National Farmers congress at Mag
aga Falls, Sept %.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
BANK TELLER ACCUSED
Shortage Of $4,000 in Canton,
Ohio Institution Laid at His Door.

CANTON OHIO, AUGUST GA SHORTAGE IN THE FUNDS OF
THE CITY NATIONAL MAY BEEN
DISCOVERED. OFFICIALS OF THE THAT T WILL
NOT AFFECT THE CONCERN HAS UNDIVIDED
PROFITS OF $5oooo ALBERT W. THE BANK
REMOVED FROM HIS POSITION AND A WARRANT HAS
BEEN ISSUED FOR HIS ARREST
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-06
BIG sTockYARDs RuRNEp.
lightning Sets Fire to Bourbon, Louis.
Vile Yards, BURNING $50 Sheen.

Louisville, KY, Aug. 6.-Fire caused
by lightning last evening destroyed the
Bourbon stockyards and two buildings
adjoining and 450 sheep were burned.
The loss is S250.OO0 Two firemen were
injured.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29

Out on the Pacific coast, the presi-
dent has been saying and doing great
many stirring things, some wise, some
foolish and some merely spectacular. He
pleased the Alaskans immensely by his
great predictions for their territory
and he pleased the emotionalists by
stopping his carriage to kiss sick
child by the wayside. But at Duna-
mir he uttered few thoughts from
whose sense and value time, place or
circumstance cannot detract. They
were these:
81 pity no man because he has to
work. If he is worth his salt, he will
work. l envy the man who has a work
worth doing and who does it we'll. 1t
is the fact of doing the work we'll that
counts, not the kind of work, as long
as that work is honorable. To the true
American nothing can be more alien
than the spirit either of envy or of con-
tempt for another who is leading life
as a decent citizen should lead it. In
this country we have room for every
honest man who spends his life in hon.
est efforts but we have no room either
for the man of means who in spirit of
arrogant baseness, looks down upon
the man less well off, or the man who
envies his neighbor because that neigh
Dor happens to be better off. -
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29
DAILY GAIN IN WEIGHT
Comes to Those who use Mi-o-na,
Says Druggist George e. Greene.

The poor, thin, emaciated dyspeptic
when he becomes plump, rosy and ro-
bust after using Mi-o-na, forgets that
there is such a thing as indigestion.
Mi-o.na restores the digestive tract
to a natural state of health so that it
will take out of food all of those ele-
ments which make solid bone, firm
muscle, pure blood and sufficient fat
to restore beautiful and symmetrical
outlines to the figure.
Nine-tenths of all the sickness, of all
the loss of flesh, began in some form
of Indigestion. Mi-o-na puts the en-
tire digestive system in a healthy and
vigorous condition. 1t is not an or
binary pepsin preparation but has a
direct action upon the digestive organs,
removes every trace of inflammation
and irritation, and enables them to
extract from the food all that goes to
make good blood, firm muscle, steady
nerves, sound flesh and a healthy
body.
Prompt relief and benefit is seen from
the use Of Mi-o-na, and in 9S cases
out of every 100 cure will GER
tainly follow its faithful use. If it
does not cure indigestion and dys-
pepsia, If it does not restore you to
your proper weight, if it does not give
you full vigor and vitality, Druggist
George Z. Greene will return your
money. You certainly can afford to try
Mio-na on this guarantee.
Remember that Mi-o-na is the only
medicine for the cure of dyspepsia
that is sold under an absolute guaran-
tee to refund the money if it does not
give satisfaction.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29
The story of the fatal boarding house

The story of the fatal boarding house
fire at Barre holds a striking lesson for
every community to heed A drunken
person is not only an offense to society
but positive menace to human life
and property. Drunkenness should not
be anywhere tolerated. The public at
tention so long focused on the liquor
seller should be turned to the indiyid-
ual. Reform the drunkard if you can /;
apply the full severity of the law to
his case anyhow and, all else failing,
lock him up as you would murderer,
thief or lunatic. He is dangerous.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29

The new law seeks to place the re-
sponsibility where it belongs, first with
the drinker and then with the seller.
The drinker is protected so long as he
does not drink to excess. This new law
recognizes the right of the great ma
jority of sober men to purchase the Ii
quors that they use in moderation. The
old law did not. The new law recog-
nizes that in order to exercise this right
there must be lawful sale of liquor.
The old law did not. The old law said
that because small fraction of men
abuse liquor the bulk of mankind shall
have none. The new law says the many
shall not be punished for the faults of
the few. st. Adams Messenger.
The points Of contrast between the
two liquor systems are here clearly
shown. But results are what Vermont
is after-results, results. And every
body's watching, watching. Randolph
Herald
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29

Personal sympathy should not OBJ
scure fair judgment in the matter of
the Russian massacre of Jews. With
out question, we do not understand the
true situation of things in Kishinetf
nor the causes that have led up to it.
Count Cassini says that the Jews have
aroused the resentment of the Russian
peasants by their cruel extortions as
money lenders. The car has punished
the governor and chief of police for
their failure to prevent the outrages
and in all probability, proper meas
ures are being taken to restore order.
We should not be quick to accuse
of cruelty or mismanagement.
Russia has her Kishineff but we, alas |!
have our Philippines.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29
FATAL FIRE AT BARRE.
Two Lives Lost, Several People Injured and
Buildings Destroyed.

Two lives were lost, several persons
were injured, and more than two score
lives were endangered by fire which
destroyed the Langdon boarding house
occupied by John G. Mcleod, and two
barns at Graniteville, Barre, Monday.
The property loss is estimated at Slo,-
600. Insurance $500. The dead are
Odena Morriesette, aged Is, and Peter
Martin, aged ~. The injured are;
Annie Nicholson Roland Allen, badly
burned about the face and hands; I.
G. McCaffrey, burned on the head.
Others were more or less severely
burned. OF the dead only the charred
remains of the girls body have been
discovered and it is probable that the
mans body was burned to ashes. The
buildings were owned by James M.
Boutwell, OF Montpelier. The fire start
ed in the boarding house, in the room
occup pied by Peter Martin on the top
floor. He had been drinking the day
before and it is believed that he over
turned burning lamp. The building
burned like finder and was a pile OF
ashes in an hour.
Forty-s seven occupants Of John Mar
denis boarding house had barely time
to escape in their night clothes; many
of the men jumped from the windows.
Annie Nicholson roomed with Odena
Morriesette and their escape by the
stairs was cut Off The Nicholson girl
jumped into blanket, butIthe Morrie-
settle girl was seen to look at the dis |
lance and then fall back into the
building in swoon. Heroic attempts
were made to reach her, but without
avail. Rose Olson, 16 years old, was
rescued by her father, who broke in
her door and let the girl to the ground |
by rope, crawling down after her
Mrs. Mcleod had to be re-
moved from her house on cot. Moth
ing was seen of Martin during the fire.
His home is in Bedford, p. O., and he
has daughter in Waterbury.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29

The Nebraska editor who wrote to
Superintendent Ranger last week about
the temperance instruction given in
Vermont schools and its effect on re-
cent liquor legislation, was perhaps less
ignorant Of the facts in the case than
most Vermont citizens are. How many
Brattleboro fathers know what their
children are being taught in school
about alcohol? How many have ever
thought whether the instruction given
them there was in consonance with, or
contradictory to the example and teach
ing of the home? A child's faith is
easily broken and when its faith in
parents or teacher is disturbed, much
damage is wrought to the budding
character. What are our children be-
lieving about alcohol? Let us know.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29
The Reformer's Views Endorsed.

The Brattleboro Reformer is right in
insisting that the visit of Gov. McCul-
Tough and staff to St. Louis recently,
while very appropriate and very enjoy
able to the members of the party, has
no effect whatever on the so-called dig
nifty of the state.'' Junkets do not
make the dignity of the state any more
than clothes make the man.-Ludlow
Tribune.
The best way to keep down drunken
ness is to say, ''you must help it, or
else you must take the consequences, 7"
and to enforce the law strictly and i'm
partially. -Brattleboro Reformer.
A saner view of real situation was
never uttered. Begin with the indi-
vidual; take care of him and the law
will take of itself. -Vergennes Enter
priSa
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29
Liquor Sales on Holidays.

The new license Law is fearfully and
wonderfully made This is apparent
every day and is manifested in diverse
directions. 1t is now stated that the
law does not provide for the closing Of
bars on holidays - Fourth of July,
Thanksgiving and Christmas included.
1t seems rather strange, in view Of all
the weaknesses and Inconsistencies of
the law, that it was provided that there
be no Sudnay selling, but fortunately
that provision is made. 1t is hoped,
however, that the license commission
ers will assert their authority to sup
ply this deficiency of the law. In the
case of cities the mayor would doubt
less have power to order saloons closed
on holidays, circus days or any other
days when the public ssfety seemed es-
pecially to demand such action. -Rut-
land News.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29
McGettrick on the Presidential Candidate.

Felix W. McGettrick, late candidate
for governor of Vermont on demo-
cratic platform, says that "the proba-
bility is that New England will pre-
sent the name of Richard Olney and he
would be strong candidate. But in
view of the serious and widespread in
dustrial disturbances, agitating and
menacing the business interests of the
country, and the position of the men
on these questions, l am looking for
the popular wave in favor of William
R. Hearst or Carter III. Harrison, or
both of them to make up the ticket.
Then again German with either of
these men for second place, would, l
believe, be winning proposition. But
as have said, it is too early to pre-
dict the winner either in convention
or at the poles -
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29
Stockholders Must Return Dividends.

The stockholders of the defunct
Farmers National bank of Vergennes
are notified that upon investiga-
ton by the receiver and comptroller
of currency, they have discovered that
the bank was insolvent in April, 1897,
and that the capital stock and deposits
were therefore impaired. The stock
holders are therefore ordered to return
the dividends awarded them with in
terest or else legal action would be
brought. 1t is understood that results
will be developed in the courts within
a short time that will be nearly as SEN
sational as the indictments brought
several months ago, as result of which
two bank officials are serving long terms
of Imprisonment.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29

If Mary MacLane should come out o
Butte, Montana, to Vermont as sh'
did to New York, she would doubtless
apply this pet phrase of hers to TIT
doings of Vermonters as literally al
she did to the things of New York
She certainly might well do so in con.
nection with the effort which is being
made to pardon Buzzell, one of the
murderers of George Marsh of North
field.
The people of Vermont, through
their legislature, have persistently re-
fused to abolish the death penalty.
When the question is raised, they
sheer about "sickly sentimentallty'
and loudly contend that the safety OF
the community, as threatened both by
the individual murderer and by the
example of his case to other vicious
natures, demands nothing short of the
death of the convicted murderer
Then, after taking this stern and I'M
yielding position, what do they do:
Why, their program is this: After the
courts have convicted murderer and
he has been sentenced to be hung, pub
lie wrath cools, vengeance vacillates
petitions are presented to the legls-
lature which with great gravity pro-
ceeds to commute the "death penalty
to Imprisonment for life; finally, an
other petition and another grave de-
cree from "the powers that be" sets
the murderer free. The Buzzell Marsh
case is following closely this pre-
scribed program.
What farce of law and moral disci-
pline! Does anybody suppose that
such an effigy of law as this, with
merely mask of severity, can prove
much of deterrent" to the worst OF
crimes? The real, inflexible thing,
with all of its barbarity, would be
more helpful to humanity than this.
Let US have either one thing or the
other. Either let us have the death
penalty and enforce it where guilt OF
murder is clearly proven; or else let
US abolish it and imprison our muir
derers for life In either case, let us
do away with combinations and par
dons except where innocence is subse-
1uently established.
We are too "delicately incongruous"
in many Of our ways-too ridiculously,
idiotically incongruous.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29
Memories That Live.

Most people and most events are
soon forgotten. Life's current is SC
mighty and so rapid that it carries us
on to new things, new thoughts, new
interests, away from the old, whether
we will or no.
But some things are too vital-too
closely identified with our very exist
ence-to be forgotten. New things
cannot crowd them out. New inter-
ests cannot supplant them. Our coun-
try, our homes, our personal liberty are
so dear, so essentially part of us,
that they must ever be first in our in
terests and affections. And anything
that affects them, affects us.
This is why, that for years and years,
while the ranks of the veterans of the
rebellion have been growing thinner
and thinner, and their graves more
numerous, we have kept, as we still
shall keep, one day out of the busy
year in which to honor them and ex-
press the tender regret of our hearts
for their heroic sacrifice.
War is dreadful, murderous, barbar
Gus. Waf is hell. But because the
honor of our country, the safety of
our homes and the personal liberty of
humanity were threatened and there
seemed no other way to save them.
these men went down into it for US.
Some of them passed through it to
peace, but the sacrifice was made.
Peace is for u.s. A united country,
happy homes, freedom, is for us.
Eternal gratitude is all We can give
them for their great service; and.
once year, few flowers and few
tears, not altogether sad. We are too
proud of their courage and of what
they did, too much in sympathy with
the spirit that moved them, to pity
them for the splendid sacrifice they
were glad to make.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29
The Same Old Story.

81 take your paper, you know, and
l wish you would say in this weeks is
sue that | have horse to sell. /" This
with variations, is something The Ga
zette meets with every week. Adver-
Using space is a newspapers stock in
trade just as much as the merchants
Webs of cloth and barrels of -four are.
No man would think of walking into
Mr.. AS store and saying: 81 bought
a dollars worth of dry goods Of you a
day or two since, and I'd like you to
give me a sack of -four this morning. "
OF course not but every country news
paper publisher is unblushingly asked
for several hundred dollars worth of
his stock every year.-Hardwick Ga
Zette.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29

Commissioner H. G. Ide thinks that
Congress could not better help the
Philippines than by relieving them
from the heavy burdens imposed by the
Dingley tariff act on exports to this
country. If the duty on cigars and
sugar could be lowered, industry in
the islands would be stimulated and
the people encouraged while no per-
ceptible effect on the industry of this
country would be produced for many
years. The Filipinos, he says, are
poor; they have suffered enormously
from war and disease and they need
helm
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29

The Burlington man who has just
been convicted of third offense of
intoxication, constituting him an hab-
itual drunkard to be tabooed by
liquor sellers under the new law, has
reached the limit early in the game.
1t is by closely following up the pro-
visions of the law in cases like this
that proper conception of the liquor
question will be obtained by the ex-
uberant lawlessness of the state. It's
largely up to the drinker, now, and
the sooner he finds it out the better.
Drunkenness has been pampered and
pitied long enough.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29

And is it really true that the nation
has to turn to Vermont for men to hold
important positions aud do important
things? Isn't there anybody, elsewhere
in the Union, smart enough to umpire
the Venezuelan game or to cast up the
national accounts? Are Vermonters
really the whole show? Oh, no; it's
not so bad as that It's only that a
willy and astute parsonage at Wash
ington, with an Influence, wants some
thing of Vermont. We shall know all
about it, by and by, when he gets that
something, as he, perhaps, will. In
the meantime, let's not swell up in
such ridiculous turkeycock fashion,
over so simple and practical matter.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-29
TIMELY STATE TOPICS.
And What Vermont Editors Have to Say Con.
corning Them.

Vermont farmers who are complain
ing of lack of farm help may be in
terested to learn that among the immi-
grants coming to this country on the
steamship Switzerland are 40 German
women who are coming to the United
States to seek employment as farm la
borers. Huntington Free Press.