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Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-02-07
Women are Peculiar

They and weaknesses peculiar their causing
them distress anxiety Thousands carried the
bv Decline Consumption fatal character
bv not correcting evil in time Time and trial have proved
that no medicine equal Beechams Pills combat these all
ments happiness and health Millions Of women
part Of the world take other medicine keep them in per-
feet health but ii 10 .aftsa l.~a1e sa 6ef s
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-02-07
DIED..
KENNEBEc.

EENNEBEC.
Wenna-Teh. 6, 1909 very suddenly
Woodturg Hal. aged II years.
Lydia ". Besse, aged 50 years
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-02-07

Adelina Patti has finally signed a con-
tract for go concerts in America com
mencing Nov. 3 next
Daily Kennebec journal., 1903-02-07

The. post office at Lions, N. Y, was
entered by burglars during Thursday
night, and $12 in stamps and change
was stolen. The burglars stole tools
from nearby blacksmith shop with
which to effect an entrance
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ence to her mother, widow living on
farm. News of the crime was not
learned in Kahoka till late hour that
night and by morning Sheriff Arnold
at the head of a large posse was on the
trail.
Active Man Hunt.
The greatest excitement prevailed
throughout the county and soon
the posse was increased till more than
two hundred men were searching for
the fiend. The entire country for miles
around Kahoka was thoroughly
searched and many rumors and reports
We're circulated to the effect that
Clark had been seen or captured.
The search was continued for a
week, when Sheriff Hunolt of Knox
county. Missouri, tracked Clark to Cen
terville in this state, where he ex--
changed several pistol shots with
him, but the hunted man escaped to
the woods. Bloodhounds were put upon
his track and for, several more days
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BAD STORMS
MISSOURI AND KANSAS FARM
ARE DAMAGED BY WIND
AND HAIL.

Parsons, Kan, Aug. S.-A wind
storm early today caused heavy dam.
age here and at Abilene Several
stores and houses were damaged and
six persons were Slightly hurt. The
hail destroyed much corn
Missouri Counties Suffer.
Carthage, Mo, Aug. s.-A wind
storm before daylight destroyed thou
sands of dollars worth of fruit and
shade trees and caused more or less
damage to small buildings and min
ing property here and at Jasper, La.
mar and Seneca, taking in three coun.
ties along the Kansas line.
Death at Pittsbura.
Pittsburg, Kans., Aug. S.-A heavy
wind and rain storm passed over this
section early today wrecking many
small houses occupied by miners, kill
ing one person and injuring twenty-five
or thirty others.
Hail Damages Colorado Crop.
Denver, Colo, Aug. S.-Reports com
ing in from the farming region O
northern Colorado show such grea
destruction of crops by the hail storm
Wednesday night that the total damage
is conservatively estimated at NOR,
than 100000.
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FREIGHT ELEVATOR FALLS.

Will LoWery Has Narrow Escape at
Friedman's Dry Goods Store.
From Fridays Daily.
The freight elevator at Friedman's
dry goods store, corner of West Main
and Court streets, fell from the second
story to the basement yesterday after
noon about 4 O'clock No one was in.
jured, but Will Lowery, an employee of
the store, had an extremely close call
and the elevator shaft was stripped of
machinery.
The elevator is an old one and is op-
Grated by hand. Several boxes of dry
goods, about 1900 pounds altogether,
were being raised to the third story.
C. e. Wilson was on the landing at the
second story pulling upon the power
ropes and Will Lowery was on the first
landing Just as the elevator reached
the second story the wire cable,
which supports the cage tore out of the
fastening which connects it to the top
of the cage and the elevator and
freight started for the bottom Will
son called to Lowery, who was just
able to step back out of danger as the
elevator shot past. The cable became
entangled in the machinery at the top
of the shaft and drums, wheels and
balance weights all fell with crash to
the bottom of the pit in the basement.
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story Of the Crime.

Story of the Crime.
Clark, who had been in the town of
Kahoka, Mo-, for several days previ-
GUS left that place on aSturday after
noon, July 25, for Medill, small sta
ton two miles west of Kahoka going
on foot. When some distance out on
the country road from Kahoka he over
took Miss Ollie Hess, 17-year-old
girl and at once laid hold of her. She
struggled to escape from the negro
who drew knife and cut her slight
ly about the throat threatening to kill
her if she made any cutlery or offered
any further resistance to him. He
dragged the girl from the roadway into
some weeds where he assaulted her
After asking her whether she, would
know him if she saw him again, to
which the frightened girl answered in
the negative, Clark disappeared. Miss
Hess succeeded in reaching her home
where she related her horrible expert
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LACEY TALKS.

Sixth District Congressman Delivers
Lecture at Clear Lake.
Clear Lake, Aug. S-The Clear Lake
Chautauqua assembly opened yester-
day with the largest attendance in the
history of the Chautauqua. Major La
cey delivered powerful address on
Leading Men of the Present Cen
tury.' The address was supplement-
ed by songs from the Giant Quartet
of Chicago and the Fisk Quartet of
Kansas City. Every tent on the entire
resort Is occupied Following the
speech steam launch race took place
on the lake.
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INCREASE
lNsURREcTloN IN MACEDONIA is
BECOMING VERY ACTIVE IN
CERTAIN DISTRICTS.
DIPLOMATS WORRIED
They Fear That the Activity in Mace.
donia Will Encourage Inhabitants of
Neighboring Lands to Follow the
Example of the RevoIutionists.

Constantinople, Aug. S.-The insur-
rectionary movement in, Macedonia ap-
pears to be widening. Bands are re-
ported to be active in San Jak in the
province of Uskub and in the district
of Krushevo, where the government
telegraph Offices have been dynamit-
ed, while in the district of Dibra four
Bulgarian villages have risen, provok,
ing corresponding rising in the neigh.
boring Albanian villages. Diplomats
here are uneasy, fearing that trouble
may spread outside the bounds OF
Macedonia.
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FRIENDLY FOG
LIFTS IN TIME TO ENABLE COAST
DEFENDERS TO DISCOVER
"HosTlLE" FLEET.

Bar Harbor, Me-, Aug. S.-The naval
search, as problem, which began
Wednesday noon when Rear Admiral
Barker took up the plan of defending
the Maine coast from the hostile"
Heet which put to sea on Monday un.
der Rear Admiral Sands, ended today
when the Olympia, the flagship of the
defending fleet, discovered and inter
copied the white squadron of the
enemy" headed at full speed for the
winter harbor. The hostile" vessels
We're running in close formation and
had not the fog lifted at favorable
moment it is thought the enemy"
would have eluded those on guard.
Olympia surrenders.
Bar Harbor, Aug. 8--As it turned
out, before her consorts could reach
the scene in answer to her signals, the
Olympia had been forced to fly white
flag and consider herself captured or
destroyed by the hostile commander.
The BIoodless Battle.
When the Olympia discovered the
enemy Rear Admiral Barker on the
kearsarge, rs miles away, was mott.
fed by wireless telegraph and general
quarters was sounded. In remark
ably short time the Kearsarge, Ala
bama, Illinois and number. of torpe-
do boat destroyers and tugs were on
their way to meet the hostile vessels.
AS soon as they were within range
the battleships opened fire with the
secondary batteries and a white flag
was run up on the Texas, Admiral
Sands flagship. After an interchange
of signals the invading and the defend.
ing squadrons headed for Bar Harbor
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AN IMPORTANT CAPTURE.
Burlington Police Think They Have a
Bad Man,


Burlington, Aug S.-Burlington DO.
lice have in charge a desperate man
whom they will probably keep for
some time.
He is George Miller, rather ad-
vanced in years, who was caught after
a desperate struggle, in which he
fought with an open clasp knife.
Find Postoffice Keys.
On him were found a set of keys to
the postoffice and some other things
which he had stolen from the postof-
fee building janitors room
Miller was found sneaking about
the postoffice corridors and running
fight followed. ending in Miller be-
ing knocked into the gutter by g9fo
Chief Blank who headed him off.
The police believe they have bad
man as the prisoner answers the de-
scription of William Powell, who
was arrested some time ago at Leaven-
worth, Kan.
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the search continued in the neighbor-
hood of Centerville, but was finally
given up there, the hunters concluding
that Clark had succeeded in boarding
a train and leaving that part of the
country.
Big Reward.
A reward amounting to 81 900 made
up by private subscriptions among the
citizens of Kahoka and offered by
Clark county and the state of Missouri,
was offered for the capture and con
viction of Clark, and it has been
known that the search for him had
never been entirely given up.
Officials Notified.
Kahoka, Mo-, Aug. Especially
The sheriff of this Clark county this
morning received a telegram from Ok
lahoma City announcing the capture OF
Frank Clark and saying that he has
made full confession. He will be
brought back to Missouri.
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osGooD's NEW VENTURE.

Former ottumwan Becomes Identified
With Frontier Steel Co.
Denver, Colo, Aug. S-John G. Os
good, Julien A. Kebler and Lawrence
Phipps are to be identified with David
H. Moffat in the Frontier Steel Co.
Mr.. Osgood and Mr.. Kebler have
leased offices and John L. Jerome, who
will also be identified with the new
steel company. will have adjoining
offices.
Moffat is concentrating in the one
building all companies in which he is
interested, and the offices to be had by
the "Osgood crowd" will be those Of
the Frontier Steel Co.
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BIG MOB AT HILLsBoRo, OHIO,
TRIES TO LYNCH AN Ac.
cUsED NEGRO.
BROKE INTO THE JAIL
The Sheriff, However, Spirited His
Prisoner Away Before the Doors
Were opened-Mob is Determined to
Secure the Man.

Hillsboro, Ohio, Aug. Sit is fear
ed that race war between the whites
and blacks is imminent here, owing
to an attempt early this morning by
100 white men to secure and hang
Maynard Hudson, negro, charged
with attempting to assault Penelope
Hindman, a white girl, aged IL years,
last Thursday. The mob was well or.
ganized and the authorities were pow.
erless. After effecting an entrance to
the Jail the mob discovered that the
negro had been taken away by the
sheriff. Excitement is intense as the
mob will renew it's work as soon as the
negro is located.
Taken to chiIlicothe.
Chillicothe, Ohio. Aug. S.-The sher
iff of Highland county arrived here this
morning from Hillsboro with a colore6
prisoner, Maynard Hudson. He will be
held here for safekeeping.
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HORSE DOCKING" FORBIDDEN.
General Miles Issues Order Against
Practice In Military Service.

Practice IN Military Service.
Washington, Aug. S.-General Mel
son A. Miles has issued an order with
the approval of the secretary of war to
prevent the docking" of horses in the
military service. General Miles regards
this practice as brutal. and on this
point he and the President agree, as
President Roosevelt has always refus-
ed to allow the tails of his horses to
be locked, despite the fact that the
dictates of fashion favor docking" In
the orders it is provided: "Any alter,
atoms in the length or shape of the
tails, names or foreIocks of public
horses by docking, banging OF clipping
is hereby prohibited and only such
reasonable trimming and plucking as
may be necessary to prevent shaggi
ness of appearance will be permitted
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WOMAN sPEcuLAToR FAILS.

Slump in Mining Stocks Results in
the Failure of Miss Sarah S. PIatt.
New Haven, Conn, Aug. S.-Miss
Sarah S. Platt, young woman who
has dealt in stocks for several years,
has filed petition in bankruptcy. She
is said to be the firstSwoman in this
state to take advantage of that law.
Miss Platt's liabilities are about S10,-
600. A slump in mining stocks is said
to have caused the trouble.
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GAMBLING MADE A FELONY.
Washington Supreme Court UphoIds
Measure Passed by LEGISLATURE,

Olympia, Wash, Aug. S.-The SUI
preme court has handed down decis-
ion upholding the constitutionality of
the law passed by the last legislature,
making the conducting of gambling
resort or game a felony. For the pur-
pose of testing the law Fritz DIETRICH,
a Spokane gambler, pleaded guilty to a
charge of conducting a gambling game,
and was sentenced to one years i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary. The
supreme court ordered the sentence to
be carried out.
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FAVORABLE TO THE CANAL.

Colombian Senate Committee Said to
Have Endorsed the Treaty.
Panama, Aug. SIT is reported here
that on Aug. 1 the senate committee
made a favorable report on the 18th.
mus canal treaty. Confirmation of the
report, however, is lacking.
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WRECK NEAR cAPRoN.

Milwaukee Passenger ColIides With
Light Engine.
Capron, Aug. S.-A Milwaukee & st.
Paul fast passenger train running 80
miles an hour, collided with a light
engine near here this morning. Both
engines were demolished and the en-
gineer of the passenger train was
slightly hurt. The passengers were
uninjured, although many were badly
shaken up.
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STRIKE AT BOSTON.
Machinists and Helpers Demand An
Advance in Wages.

= = > = : y = =
= Boston, Aug. s.-The machinists =
and helpers in the Boston 6 Al
. bany railroad shops at Alston.
West Springfield, Mass,and Rem
> saeIIer, New York, struck today =
= because the company refused to =
y grant an advance in wages.
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FROM AIR TO WATER
Langley's Flying Machine Starts Well
But Dives Into the Potomac.

Whitewater Va Aug ga partly
Langley arship
Potomac river off this point
riousy estimated at from 400 600
followed rapidly impeled
disappeared
sderaby
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REMEY RETIREs MONDAY.

Rear Admiral Ranking Officer of His
Grade Leaves Active Service.
Washington, Aug. 8-Rear Admiral
George G. Remey, ranking officer Of his
grade will be retired Monday. He was
appointed to the navy from Iowa in
1855, and reached the grade of rear ad-
miral in 1898. AS result of Remey's
retirement, Captain sigsbee, command
ant of the League Island Navy yard,
and Captain Chester, superintendent
of the naval observatory, will become
rear admirals,
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WRECK VICTIM DIES.

The Total Number of Dead Reaches
TWenty-Four.
Detroit, Aug. S.-John Thompson of
Peru, Ind, who was injured in the
grand trunk wreck at Durand yester-
day, died today, making total of
twenty-four dead. The others who
were injured are reported to be COM
Portable.
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ISSUES HIS FIRST ORDER AT
NOON UPON ASSUMING HIS
DUTIES.
NILES LAST ADDRESS
Retiring Commander of United States
Army Issues Address in Which He
Expresses Undyina Faith in the Ar.
my and Its Ability.

Washington, Aug. Sat noon today
Lieutenant General Young issued an
order in accordance with the Presi-
dent, assuming command of the army
of the United States. General Miles
will leave tomorrow for San Francis
co to attend the encampment OF the
Grand Army of the Republic.
Miles Gets Present.
The clerks in the Office of General
Miles presented him with a handsome
silver loving cup and "a large vase OF
flowers.
Issues Farewell Address.
General Miles has issued an address
on the occasion of his retirement from
active service. In it he says:
Praises Commander.
"The commanders of the army sue
ceeding Washington have by their ex-
ample, influence and orders engender-
ed and maintained the highest de-
gree Of efficiency, discipline and pa
triotism.
Many Responsibilities.
"Since it's organization the army
has been charged with great variety
of responsibilities, all subordinate to
defending the country and maintain
ing the rights of its citizens.
an the discharge OF its manifold
duties the army has confronted enc
mics representing every stage of hu.
man development from the highest
civilization yet obtained to savagery
and barbarism. 1t has ever been its
duty to observe in war those chivalrous
and humane principles by which inev-
liable horrors are so greatly mitigat-
ed, while by unyielding prosecution OF
warfare against armed forces it's valor
has been demonstrated.
Maintain Truth aud, Honor
49,, nc.
tba army must ay;st within tba we'll do.
fined lines of patriotism, untarnished
honor, sterling integrity, impartial jus.
tice, obedience to rightful authority,
and incesant warfare against armed
enemies. Always to maintain truth
honor and justice requires the highest
moral courage, and is equally as i'm.
portant as fortitude in battle. Drill, dis
cipline and instruction are but prepare.
tory for the perfection and efficiency
of an army.
"The events of recent years have
placed upon the army new obligation
and an opportunity for a broader ex
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CHURCH FUNDS GONE.

TreaSuFef OF PreacherS AID Society
confesses to Embezzlement.
Boston, Aug. S.-Caught in the re-
cent slump of the stock market, Will
lard S. Allen, treasurer of the Preach
ers' Aid society of the New England
conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, has fed to Canada, a con-
fessed embezzler of more than $70,-
900. Almost the entire permanent
fund of the society is gone For forty
years Allen, who is SO years of age
has been prominent resident of East
Boston.
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JUDGE DECLINES APPOINTMENT.

Clement Smith Refuses Place on New
Mexico Supreme Bench.
Las Vegas, N. NJ, Aug. S.-Judge
Clement Smith of Michigan has de.
clined his appointment by President
Roosevelt to the supreme court Of
New Mexico.
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END OF ANXIOUS WEEK
ON STOCK EXCHANGE
VALUABLE HORSES BURN.
BarnaIdo and Della Perish in Flames
Near Yonkers. N. Y.

**# *s. $50
New York, Aug. s.-Two trot.
y ing horses, BernaIdo, owned
by w. B. Chisholm of Cleveland,
Ohio, and valued at $1,000 and
Delbar owned by J. S. Smith of
White Plains, N. ", were burned
to death in fire which destroyed
y the Empire Trottins Stables near
Yonkers early today.
Il = y y = = = Il y y * y = -
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FLOATING BUTTON FACTORY.
Big Boat With Sixty Machines to Be
Launched Soon.

Muscatine. Aug. s. Especially -
The largest floating pearl button fac
tory in the vicinity of Muscatine will
be launched here soon, and will, as
soon as the machines can be installed
be operated along the banks of the
Mississippi river. The boat is seven
ty feet long by eighteen feet wide and
is three feet in depth. Thus it will be
seen that the sixty machines contem-
plated will find plenty of room.
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MAJOR GENERAL YOUNG
COMMANDS THE FORCES
GIBBONS is WELL.

Though He Was Indisposed, Cores
pendent Finds Him Almost Well.
y **#*** y .*%* *a%
: Rome, Aug. s.-The Associated
y Press correspondent today saw
= Cardinal Gibbons and found him al
y most recovered from his recent in
= disposition, which he thinks was
= due to over fatigue on "Wednesday
= when he stood for about three
* hours at the vatican in order to
Is present the American pilgrims to
the pope.
SIS $3.50 s%*ss s.**
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DEDICATE LINCOLN MEMORIAL.
Grand Army Marks Spot at Dixon, ILL.,,
Where Martyr Spoke.

Dixon, Ill.,, Aug. S.-A bowlder to
mark the spot in Dixon where Lincoln
spoke September g. 1856 has been ded-
icated by the Grand Army. The pre-
sentation address was made by L. w.
Mitchell of the Chicago board of trade
and the acceptance by Chairman E. G.
Parsons of the supervisors.
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|: X I R A !!
DISASTER AT MINE.
Explosion in Indiana Threatens Lives
of 200 Workmen.

Linton, Ind, Aug. s.-An explosion
of oil at the Dickson coal mine this
afternoon destroyed the tipple and the
electric light plant The flames
spread to the mine where 200 men are
working and it is feared that they
will perish unless the fire is extln
guished quickly.
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TODAY WITNESSES WILD DlsoR.
DER AMONG BROKERS IN
WALL STREET.
SELLING Is ACTIVE
Publication of Weekly Bank Statement
Causes Uneasiness-some Stocks
Decline From 8 to So Slight
Rally at the Close.

New York, Aug. Sin the absence
of support and with extremely bearish
rumors from abroad the stock market
here opened with prices down point
or more in number of active issues.
The declines became more marked to-
ward the end of the first hour in the
course of which some specialties were
raided. The attendance of brokers' was
comparatively small because the con-
sentative element deems it best to keep
out of the market at this time and
leave the fight to the trading element,
Weekly Bank Statement.
The weekly bank statement shows
that loans have increased SS.s32 500;
deposits have increased $2,414,S0O; re-
serve has decreased $1,S69, 300; sur
plus has decreased $2,473 900; ex-U. S.
deposit has decreased S2.469.625.
Many Stocks Fall Low.
The publication of the bank state
ment was the signal for increased pres.
sure and further selling. The greatest
losses were suffered by the Pacifics,
the Baltimore & Ohio, Reading Com
mon, Union Pacific, Northwestern pre-
ferred, Atchison and st. Paul, declining
all the way from 8 to 3A points amid
the widest disorder
Partial Recovery.
There was a partial recovery in some
issues in the final dealings, due large
ly to short covering. The close was
active and weak.
Commission Firm suspends.
Omaha, Aug. s.-The Merrill Com
mission Co., grain and stocks con-
Germ with branches in number of
Iowa and Nebraska towns. suspended
today. No statement was given out.
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scHwAB HIRES A NURSE.
Ex.President of Steel Trust EvidentI,
Still in Poor Health.

Williamsport, Pa, Aug. S.-Charles
M. Schwalb, recent president of the
steel trust, apparently has not i'm
proved in health, for yesterday let
ter was received from Yetter Saltz
man, trained nurse, saying that he
had been engaged to attend the CAPT
talist.
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CLARK REPORTED TO BE CAPTURED
Prisoner at Oklahoma City Said to Have
Assembling Kahoka Girl.
Acknowledged

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{ X T R A ]!
WIPED OUT BY FIRE.
couer D'Alene, Idaho, Suffers From
Fierce conflagration.

Spokane, Wash. Aug. s.-A hot fire
has been raging in Couer D'Alene, Ida
no, since $50 o'clock this morning
The entire town and part of the Spo
kane's fire department are fighting the
flames. Couer D'Alene and a lumber
company's planning mill and yards were
destroyed and the fire is now threat
ening the sawmill.