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The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-06-11

No, ~ Pullman Sleeper Cincinnati TO jack
sonyille via Q & G, Hartman Junction, Knox
vile and Asheyille; also Louisville to Knox
vile via l., & N. and Jellco
Nos, 10 4 30 carry Pullman Sleeper ST Louis
to knoxville via Louisville, Q s. G, Hartman
Junction and Knoxville and Cincinnati to liar.
rimun Junction
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1903-06-11
The NEW YORK TIMES
Gan the News That's Fit to Print"

Gan the News That's Fit to Print"
Gives more space to news than any
other New York newspaper 1t prints
q greater variety of news. 1t gives I'M
partial news free from bias. 1t goes
into homes that bar other newspapers.
1t is a sane newspaper, neat in typog-
raphy, and independent in its opinions.
1t has refused to appeal to the vicious,
the ignorant or the thoughtless
Special Cable News is one of the
most important features of The New
York Times. The London Times for
eign reports appear in this country ex-
clusiyely in the New York FINES. No
other American newspaper eXcels the
New York Times in the presentation of
Domestic Telegraphic news. The AS
ISOLATED Press reports are augmented
by hundreds Of Special Correspondents.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-12-10

the many so-called birth medicines, and
most remedies for women In the treatment
of her delicate organs, contain more OF
less opium, morphine and strychnine1
Do You Know that in most countries
druggists are not permitted to sell narcot-
les without labelling them poisonsf
Do You Know that you should not
take internally any medlcise tor the
pain accompanying pregnancy.
Do You Know that Mothers Friend
u applied externally only9
Do You Know that Mothers Friend
is a celebrated prescription, and that It
hes been in use over forty years, cd that
each bottle Of the genuine bears tn name
of The Brad6eld Regulator Cor
Do you know that when you NE this
remedy during the period Of gesthtion
that you will be free Of pain and, bear
healthy, hearty and clever ehildrenf
Well, these things are worth knowing.
They are facts. Of druggists at $I.oo.
Don't be persuaded to try substitute.
Our little book "Motherhood" free.
/, rHl saApflGLp aEeuLAIea 81 Auasla, q
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-12-10
Sent Ten $500 Bills to Widow.

New York, Nov. 27.-With the big
Thanksgiving turkey that Congress.
man "Big Tim" Sullivan sent to the
widow and six children OF Patrolman
Burke we're ten bills OF 800 each.
"Big Tim" was too bashful to give
the money, but sent friend to the
widows home at Horatio and Green
wich streets. He found that the
Burkes had made little preparation,
for times had been hard since the
patrolman died.
"Your husband" said the congress
mans agent, did a good turn for
the big fellow when he was in need
of friend, and now that he's dead
and you're in need the congressman
wants to do something for you, He
will think in a favor, Mrs, Burke, II
you will take this present from him. "
The husband died months ago. lie
had been a brave officer and had
been attached for many years to the
Tenderloin precinct. While rescuing
a family at a fire he contracted a
cold which developed into consump-
ton, and finally caused his death.
! The big acts like this that get into
print and the hundreds OF smaller
acts that few hear OF have made Tin
Sullivan the most popular man il
New York, numbers considered
Although he is typical Bowery
product-and in many things he is o
the Bowery still he has never tasted
whisky and never drinks intoxicating
liquors of any sort.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-12-10
BELIEVE IN THE BLACK ART.
Hungarian Villagers Horribly Mistreat
Corpse Of Old Woman.

Vienna, Dec. 5.-Horrible treat
ment given the corpse of an old wo.
man in the town OF Abruhhanya,
Hungary, under the belief that she
was witch is now being investigat,
ed by the police. 1t discloses con-
dition OF superstition in parts OF the
country that equals any period ofthe
Middle Ages.
The woman for years had the rep
utation of sorceress. The whole
countryside knew OF the woman's
''bluck art" and were in fear and
trembling OF her spells.
She died recently and then the vii
layers we're even more afraid oil hel
dead than living. They counseled at
to how best to prevent her spelle
from affecting them after her death.
Those who knew most about sorcery
devised plan and it was carried
out.
The body OF the dead woman was
seized by the fear stric ken people, A
red hot skewer of steel was driven
through her heart. Pieces OF a brok'
en- iron horseshoe we're placed in her
| mouth, and, to make doubly sure,
| the corpse was turned face downward
10 the coffin.
The police are tracing the perpetra
tors OF the horror.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-12-10
LEAVlTT AND BRIDE
HURT il RUN AWAY
Newport Artists Arm is Broken, But
Bryan's Daughter is Only
Slightly Bruised.

Humanylle, Mo-, Dec. Civilian
Homer Leavitt, son.in-law OF William
]. Bryan, was hurt in a runaway
while out driving this afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leavitt were thrown
from "A trap. He suffered the irac,
ture of an arm, while she escaped
with slight bruises.
They we're driving pony cart be
longing to littie-Miss- MaFie-AkiRsr
daughter Of State Chairman Atkins
whose guests the Leavitts have been
since their marriage two months ago
Mr.. Atkins is now in Washington
The injury is not considered serious
Mrs. Atkins was asked about the
report regarding the intention OF Mr.
Leavitt to remain in Missouri and
make the race for Congress. She
said:
81 know OF no remark that should
have led to such conclusion. We
have talked Of politics only in gen
eral way. Mr.. Leavitt has no inten'
ton of opposing MIR. Bryan directly
or indirectly. He has the highest re
gard for Mr.. Bryan's attachments
and political ambition"
When asked when Mr.. and Mrs
Leavittezpect to end theirvlsit, Mrs
Atkins said:
THAT Is a delicate question. Their
invitation is indefinite, and, az their
visit has been so delightful, they
probably will remain until the holl'
days, at which time we will return tc
the city for the winter. They may
20 with us, or go to their Newt ort
home
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-12-10
Five Women Make up a Club
To Kill OFF Their Husbands

Budapest, Dec. "a sensation mas
been caused by the arrest OF five wo-
men on the charge OF poisoning their
husbands.
1t is charged by the authorities
that the women we're members OF d
club which war formed among the
married women af Veresmacht, near
Arad, Hungary. None but women
who were dissatisfied with their hus'
bands could become members.
Whenever q woman was heard to
say that she wished she had never
mari led, or that she would like to
have her husband out OF the way
she was Immediately visited by one
of the agents Of the club. Once In
the tolls of the club the women hat
no alternative but to 20 on with tn
plot of murder. The members Of tn
club were supplied with poison, which
it il charged, was obtained from tn
coroner Of the district, who then pu
SC on record that the man had die
of heart disease.
The coroner, whose name is Har
such. is under arrest. accused OF beinl
an accessory to the five murders wit
which the women are charged.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-12-10
PEN DIPPED IN RED FLAME.
COleuel WattsrsOn Writes With GrCat
VigOr on the Panama Canal
Question.

Louisville, Ky, Dec. 5.-Under the
caption, LET 'Er Go, Gallagher"
Mr.. Watterson will say in Wednes-
days Courier-Journal:
"The long and short OF the canal
business is that the administration,
having taken the bit in it's mouth,
has also the whip in its hand, and
means to buck it through, willy nilly,
and that those Of us who want both
To get the canal and to be honest,
can either stand aside and let hergo,
Gallagher, or make common cause
with the trans-coEtinental railway
ring in opposition, and, in the event
Of beating the treaty, lose the canal.
Thus literally, We find ourselves
betwixt hell and the iron works. 1t
is a case OF be- damned II We do, and
b F, damned il we don't; the moral &C
countablities, however, u:'on the
Il
broncho. buster, who can be relitdup
on to keep the ten commandments
lighted in the vestibule OF the White
House whist rifiing Colombia across
the way in the back office OF thestate
department. In the face OF such a
dilemma, what is poor girlto do?
"She might take to the woods
But, soon or late, che would have to
come out for meat and drink. The
most virtuous damsel must live. In
the olden time, when converts were
provided for the distressed and the
devout, virtue was able to GEEK bel
refuge within moated grange snt
gabled wall; out who shall rescue he
, from the terrible Teddy, who, will
honeyed words and pious phrases
casts conscience to the winds ant
would debauch the very Grandmoth
r er Superior even Of his own believes
: order OF the Holy Zebra"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-12-10
Sign Panama Treaty.

Panama, December 5.-The canal
treaty with the United States, which
was received here yesterday, was un-
auimously signed BY the members Of
the junta this morning without any
amendment. Rear Admiral K. G..
Walker arrived on the same train
yesterday that brought Senior Esp-
rilla.
After discussing the provisions OF
the treaty the members Of the junta
affixed their signature to the instru
ment with the special gold pen pro,
vided for the occasion.
The treaty was then replaced in ite
case and delivered into the custody
OF Admiral Walker, who will return
it to Washington at once.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-12-10
Would Be a Bandit, Too.

New London, Conn, Dec. 3-In
spired by the wild deeds OF the Chica-
20 car barn bandits. Clifford O'Neil
devised plot to kill all the police in
the city. He organized q gang and
in order to raise funds and arm his
followers, young O'Neil, the police
say stole o number. oirings and 322.
He then bought . number Of 90 cent
airguns, which be Distributed snong
h;s companions. Just before the
contemplated massacre, however,
tha oolice arrested 0'Niel.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-12-10
The Best Is the Cheapest

Not how cheap but hos good i !
che question.
The Twice-a Week Republic is not
rs cheap as some so-called newspa-
pers, but it is ascheap as it IL possible
TO sell a first-class newspaper. Il
prints all the news that ia worth
printing. Ifyou read 1t all the year
round you are posted on all the i'm
portant and interesting affairs OF the
world. 1t is the hest aud most reA-
able newspaper that money and
brainscan produce-and those should
be the Distinguishing traits OF a news-
paper that is designed to be read BY
al members OF the family.
Subscription price, 81 year. Any,
newsdealer newspaper or postmastee ,
will receive your subscription or you
nay mail it direct to
The REPUBLIC,
st. Louis, Mo.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-12-10
DEADLY WORK OF ASSAS-
SIN In KENTUCKY.
Kills Two Men and Wounds Two 9th
ers in the Darkness.

Hodgensville, KY, Dec. 5.-Two
men were killed, one mortally wound
ed and another seriously wounded by
an assassin at their home in the Pike
View neighborhood OF Hart county.
The dead are Magistrate Osborne
and Dave Osborne, his son. Those
wounded were Will Gardner, who was
mortally hurt, aud John Bennett.
The alleged murderer, Custer Gard
ner, a young farmer, was caught at
Elizabethtown to day after a desper-
ate fight, and was taken to Muntord-
vile and placed in Jail. Under cover
of darkness, while the intended vic.
tins were sitting around the Preside,
the assassin crept to the window oil
the room and, placing his rifle near
the glass, fred several times. Magis.
trate Osborne fell to the floor dead
His son, Dave Osborne, was shot
through the heart, and Will Gardner
was wounded in the abdomen. Johr
Benefits left arm was shattered by
q ball.
Thetrouble began In a family quar-
rel, which developed into a iactiona
fight. Gardner has heretofore born,
a good reputation.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1903-12-10
K. Q. Plttsburg 8 Gulf Time Table
Arrival and departure ofsrAlns IS WsElana.

Arrival and departure oftralns IS WsFaaaa.
MOTIF BouHD-
40. Kansas City daily Exp1esa ..l1:ls p. q I.
HoS a. Z" &c Eail .-.... an e r
souTH boUED.
20. SThrough Port Arthur Kxpross s1Nl8- a
40, Silosm Syringe KxpFesA...... ls:xtp -
Remember this IL the popular seoxs Lac -
tween Kansas City, No.. and PittshnrE. ksa.s
Joplin. No Heosho, No. Sulphur sprinEsf
route from the south 70 Sc Louis. Chtcaeo~
and points noyth and north eaat and 70 bansxs
Ogden. San francisco, Portisnd nd Pofnte
vest and northwest. No expense hss ee<E
spared TO make the passenger equtpment q
thiF line second 80 none In the west. frave
vie the new line He. onn.
Gen'iPsss. Agt. Ksnssf City No. =
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26
FOR PURE FOOD LAW
Only National Legislation Will Be
Effectual to Check Unscrupu-
lous Manufacturers
Senator McCumber's Bill Aims to
Provide the Necessary Protection
Against Adulteration.
From The Journal Bureau. Colorado Building

From The Journal Bureau, Colorado Building,
Washington. .~s
Washington, Nov. Ex-senator Nc
Cumber of North Dakota is taking a
very active course regarding his Dill
providing for a suppression of the
wholesale traffic that for years has
been going on in adulterated food
products, and it begins to look as II
congress is about ready to take some
action along the lines he suggests.
The subject will have good airing IN
congress this session, with the help
which the bill has from the depart
ment of agriculture.
Asked by The Journal correspond
ent to say something to the people of
the northwest about adulterated food
products and the need for the pro-
posed legislation, the senator said:
THE necessity for national legisla-
ton experimenting the efforts Of the
several states to free their territory
from spurious adulterated and falsely
branded articles of food is manifest to
every one who has made a study of the
subject, or taken part in attempting to
enforce the laws of the states. Nearly
all adulterated food products are sold
in other states than that of their man
ufacture and become articles of inter-
state commerce, now that 1t has been
decided by the supreme court of the
United States, under the interstate
clause In our constitution, that goods
of any character shall have free access
from one state to the other. In adj
dition, all such goods are protected by
this interstate commerce clause in
their original packages until they have
been sold and become mingled with
the mass of the property in any state.
In other words the states cannot reach
the root of the evil, they cannot even
reach the goods until they have be-
come lost in the mass of the property
in their territory. The dealers are
for the most part ignorant Of the
fraudulent character Of the articles
They cannot punish the guilty because
they live in other states, and their
laws cannot reach them. Therefore
no matter what the laws of any state
may be against spurious and adulter,
ated food products, each state is made
a dumping ground for all the offal OIL
misbranded and adulterated goods OF
every other state in the union.
States Are Powerless.
This interstate clause Of the con
stitution is the gap in the legislative
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26

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wall in any state erected against
spurious goods which allows free &C
cess. The state Is powerless to close
this gap. Congress alone can, and
therefore it is the duty of congress
to do 1t. The amount of adulterated
articles imposed upon the country is
enormous. There is scarcelya known
article Of food which has not been
seized upon by interruptions manu-
facturers and adulterated to an extent
sufficient to compete with and under
sell the genuine article.
"A year or two ago the agricultural
department obtaining the best data
possible. estimated very conservative
ly that $1,170,O00,0OO worth of
adulterated and misbranded articles
of food were sold every year in this
country. 1t is probably true that
doubt that amount is sold to-day.
From this one can get something Of
an idea of the immense frauds in food
and drug products which are perpe-
trated upon the nation, and which the
states are strenuously but unsuccess-
fully attempting to meet.
mo fair estimate can be placed
upon the wholesale murder of our cit
liens by reason Of deleterious and mis-
branded foods and drugs being sold
as genuine.
Two Great Needs.
1.-TWO great needs are met by this
bill. One is the ability of the national
government to reach the manufac-
turers, the root of the evil. and prevent
shipment of any of their adulterated
goods into any other state. The other
Is, that by a national pure food law,
covering the subject clearly and ex-
plicitly all state laws would soon con-
fo1 m to the national law.
"At present each state has its own
laws. which differ very materially from
each other, and even where they are
practically the same the officers hav-
ing their enforcement In charge often
make different and contradictory rul-
ings.
The honest manufacturer, the
manufacturer who is willing to con-
form to each of the state laws by
branding his articles what they are
finds, himself engulfed in great diff.
culties on account of these diverse
holdings. He is put to the expense Of
| a great amount Of needless litigation
| What we need is one law which viii
/ be good all over the country, anC
which will compel every dealer OF
manufacturer Of food or drug product,
to sell the same for just what they are
and if they are mixed. misbranded OF
adulterated articles they should be un
masked before going into the markets
when the federal government ha
done it's part by prohibiting interstat,
traffic in such articles unless ts.ey g.
into the markets undisguised we shall
4 have a pure food legisla sian that will
be effective over the entire country.
w. w. Jermane:
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26
RAILROADS.
FOR 81 COAL RATE
Agitation for New Rate From Hi
nois by the Commercial
Club.
If It Could Be Secured It Would
Mean Great Saw
ing.

- Agitation for a $1-a-ton coal rate from
the Illinois fields to Minneapolis Is to be
made by q joint committee OF the Min
neapolis and st. Paul Commercial clubs,
should plans already laid be carried out
The movement came about from news
paper reports to the effect that because
the Burlington was carrying west-bound
empties it would make a 81 rate to the
twin cities on bituminous coal. The great
advantage of this rate to both domestic
and commercial consumers, as Well as 10
the railroads themselves, aroused the IN
terest of the business men, and the
movement naturally settled with the COM
mercial bodies of the two cities. Ihis
agitation was materially fastened When
it came about that one Of the local com
peting roads would actively oppose the
rate. perhaps effectively.
The attempt to secure the rate Is ia
thered by the public affairs COMMITTEES OF
the Commercial club in Minneapolis ana
F.. r. Salisbury Of the manufacturing
cial coal rate committee to be appointed
by himself. Cooperation of the st. Paul
club was asked, and the Minneapolis COM
mittee will await it's action.
81 rate on coal will prove Of great
benefit to the manufacturing interests also
Of Winona and to La Crosse, Wis; there
fore their cooperation may be expected.
The advantage will follow from the in
crease in the supply of soft coal and
from a probable reduction in the price of
competing coal from farther east
Secretary Wallace G. Nye of the public
affairs committee has prepared figures for
presentation to the club, showing that
soft coal from the Virder, ILL.,, fields costs
at the mine $1.75 a ton, freight S1.90: Har-
risburg, ILL.,, soft coal at the mine $1.75 a
ton, freight $40. This makes the ton
price here $3.65 and $685. Mr. Nye finds
that even at the latter rate the Harris
burg coal sells here and users say that 1t
is about on a par with Youghiogheny for
all purposes. and Youghiogheny with
freights costs in this market $4.65. With
the cheaper rate it is clearly evident that
the Harrisburg coal would be used with
much economy.
1t is estimated that there is consumed
annually in the two cities by manufac-
! turing and industrial plants not far from
35u.000 tons of soft coal. and that the
| railroads running from the two cities use
| about 1.o0oO00 tons. 1t is readily seen
that II the freight rate can be reduced to
81 it will prove a saving of over $500, o0C
! to soft coal consumers in the two towns
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26
REDUCTION ON LUMBER
Western Manufacturers Ask Norther
Pacific to Lower. Rates.

Pacific to Lower Rates.
The Northern Pacific has been asked
by the western lumber manufacturers
to make g. reduction in rates to Mis-
souri, river points, from SO to 40 cents
in order to enable them to compete in
Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri
and Iowa common points in common
grades of lumber which are piling
up for lack Of a market. President
Howard Elliott has taken the position
that such a reduction would result in
a similar reduction by the soutlsH
roads hauling pine and that 1t would
not accomplish the results expected by
the western mill men. The car short
age situation has been presented to
Mr.. Elliott on his western trip and he
has promised to recommend at once
to the directors, large additions to the
roads equipment for hauling lumber.
The Burlington, the road with which
Mr.. Elliott was employed until a few
weeks ago, is said to be responsible for
the shortage in that it holds the N. P.
cars. paying demurrage, to haul Miss
issippt valley crops.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-26
RAILROAD NOTES.

General and city ticket offices of the railways
will be- closed TO morrow, ~
The interstate commerce commission. promises
TO take up the Canon Falls rate case early in
January
The immigration bureau of the southwestern
roads has been abolished for the sake of economy.
1t will be discontinued for year.
Thirty Christian Scientists went thru from
Butte to New York yesterday to attend the dedi-
cation of church. They came In over the
Northern Pacific. 0
The Michigan Central has put on four trains
way of Kalamazoo to meet the competition of
the Flint & Pere Marquette.
Agent Paulsen, agent of the North " estern
at Centerville. s. d.. is to be a grand secretary
Dakota. The office will be created
The Rock Island has secured the transportation
to- California of the recruits taken at the naval
station opened in Minneapolis and the carrying
to Washington of the marine corps recruits Sc.
cured at the station In st. Paul 80 Z. 80