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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-04-02
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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.

Services everyssSunday at 1915 q. m. and
7 80 p. m Sabbath School at II m. Christ
ian Endeavor service at $3.50 p. M. All are
cor dially nYited.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
CHINESE REBELS HAD ARRANGED
TO RISE AT A SIGNAL ON JAN. e

Victoria. B. c. March Further
particulars We're received by the
steamer PAX Ling. which arrived from
the Orient today. Of the revolution
airy movement discovered at Hong
kong, where a number Of rebels were
arrested and boats laden with arms
and uniforms were seized. Several
hundred recruits were raised in Hong
kong and several thousand uniforms.
quantities of arms. ammunition.
canned provisions and food supplies
had been dispatched 10 Canton. The
rebels had arranged TO rise at a sig
nal on Jan. %. at the beginning Of
the New Year celel'vatiOn. and waylay
and murder the mandarins and high
officials Affairs were to be started
at various parts of Canton and the
treasury sacked. The British gun
boats Britomart and Morhen went at
once to Canton when the plot was
discovered. To aid I'm the sack Of
Canton force Of rebels under Colo
mel Chon was hidden at a small city
not far distant ready to march on
Canton when the signal was given.
Many Executions.
The gates of Canton have been kept
closed since the intended uprising and
numbers of arrests and summary exc
cutiOns have taken place. Colonel
Dogherty Of the British legation at
Pekin has arrived at Canton to make
a report to his government on the
Kwangsi rebellion. The latest news
of this rebellion shows that il has
spread all over the province.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02

got there, but the first thing any one
seen she'd got through the crowd with
bucket OF Ice water and poured 10 all
over both Of EN-.
The fight stopped quicker'n a wink.
and when they stood up she told EN-
they were roWdles and rufhans. and
said that people that stood around
Watchin' them wasn't any better. Then
she told then 10 shake hands and beg
each others pardon. wen, they done IL
ana she asked everybody 20 90 back
IN the schoolhouse. When we COt
there she told US an to set down. After
things got quiet and Tom and Bin were
settin' there. all scratched and bruised
and wet and shiverin', she says
O'cCIrse I dunno as / can use her very
Words-but she says
g" ] understand this deht was on ac-
count Of ne. I hate fighting and / de-
spise lighters. If there is any young
man in this scEOOlhoIse that never
had a fight in his life let him stand
up. I'm going to ask him TO take me
home, and after that we can see about
making future arrangements +"
What happened then?" the old man
was asked.
Every blamed feller in the house but
Tom and Bill stood up. When they all
Z
one thing she hated wOrse'n a fighter
or ruffian and that was a liar. So she
rode home with Deacon Swasey and
4 his folks. and you never seen such a
glum lot of fellers i'm your life"
And is that all of the stOry?"
"Purt' nigh She give out word that
she'd be willin' to keep regular COM
/ p'ny with the first Plum Run young
man that took up grammar and learned
/ TO talk English as she ought to be
/ talked but that was too much. BY
golly. as directors made up our minds
/ il was bad enough to let our boys be
called ruffians and liars. but when she
/ comes TO castin' slurs at the eddyca-
( ton of the hull blamed districk we
/ draWed the line and bounced 'er from
/ 'er job But she was good-loOkln' III
/ say that, in spite of her insultin' re-
marks, seem there amt none Of the
women folks around"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02

Piracy is also on the increase on
the West river, the big waterway Of
that province, and three new launches
with European officers have been
ordered 10 patrol the river.
The PAX Ling brought details of the
famine which is devastating five
procedures in the northern part Of
Japan. Tbsre are mall 10000 persons
completely destitute and many deaths
are reported from starvation,
Advices from Korea show that a
strong anti-Japanese feeling is grow
ing there. At Seoul the Korean gov
eminent has started 10 boycott a Jap
aneSe bank. The japanese charge
daffaires is protesting strongly. The
government of Korea has also re-
fued to allow merchants at some ports
to trade with Japanese. and the Ise
Maru, a Japanese steamer, was forced
TO return from Mokpo. in consequence.
without cargo. News is also given from
Korea Of friction between Russians
and Japanese over the acquisition of
land at Mokpo harbor. Korea is en-
cOuraging the emigration Of its ma
tives TO Hawaii. Several hundred viii
leave shortly.
The steamer Laertes> which has ar
rived at Singapore, reports having
picked up "A steam launch 700 miles
from port, broken down and with the
dead body Of an European identified
as Captain Cannon on board. Nothing
definite was learned concerning the
launch, which was thought to have
sailed from the Philippines. The
Laertes towed the vessel to Singa-
pore.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02

Pittsburg & Western railway and the
Buffalo. Rochester & Pittsburg tracks
are under water, necessitatfng their
abandonment temporarily.
River men took early precautions 10
place shipping under safe control, and
as a result property Of this character
suffered comparatively little damage.
Great Damage Done.
From the territory up the DIononga-
hela and Allegheny rivers comes re-
ports that much damage was done by
the flooding OF the lower floors Of
houses. mills and factories. From an
points above on both rivers the waters
are reported as either falling or sta
tiOnary and danger is averted
Towns below here on the Ohio. how
ever. are still 10 have their worst ex-
periences during the present high wa
ter tomorrow or later.
At McKees Rocks and Coropolis. a
few miles below Pittsburg, the water
tonight is so high that the business
sections Of both places are under wa
ter and several street car lines were
forced to suspend operations. East
Liverpool, O.. reports thirty feet OF
water, seventy+five houses flooded and
several Of the pottery plants damaged.
Street car service to Smiths Ferry has
been abandoned.
AT Wellsville, four miles below East
Liverpool. the mill Of the American
Tinplate company is partially in
undated and scores Of families are
suffering.
Steubenville, o.. reports thirty feet
of water with the river rising five
inches an hour. Five more feet are
expected. which viii cause the Wheel
ing & Lake Erie and the Cleveland &
Pittsburg railroads and mills on the
lower ground to suspend.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
DEsPIsED FIGHTERS AND LIARS.
Why the Directors Bounced the Pref
ty School Teacher.
(Chicago Record eraldl

lCnlcaGO Record Herdld.l
That there story reminds me" said
Uncle DAN who had come up from the
country to spend the holidays. "of the
school teacher we had down to the
Plum Run districk three years ago this
winter. She came from sonewheres
over in Chester county, dunno lust
where-but anyway she was a mighty
purity lOOkin' girl, and it wasn't more'n
week after she got there before about
every young felIer in them parts was
shyin' around tryin' to make up with
her. They took 'er to all the dances
there was gOin' on, and a different chap
brought 'er TO protracted meetin' near
ly every night and all the other girls
got to kind of turnin' up their noses at
'er and sayin' she used STUFF to make
. 'er lips red and 'er eyebrows black. and
so on. But that didn't have no effect
on the boys. They were plumb crazv
after 'er. She finally seemed 10 give
up one after another till she got down
to Tom Hammond and Bill Bigelow.
Then it looked like If she was stuck
and didn't know which one of EN- TO
let go.
What made it more interestin' was
that Tom and Bill was the worst kind
of enemies They'd both licked all the
other young fellers around there that
had any pretensiOns Of bein' fighters
but somehow they'd never got to-
gether themselves. They blowed around
good bit about what they'd do 10
each other. but IL looked as though
one was afraid and the other'n das-
sent
Finally they was to be "a spellin' at
the Plum Run school house. ana some
way Ii got nOised about that Tom said
ne was goin' to give Bin a lickin' III
they met there that night. I guess
nearly everybody I'M the districk was
on hand when they commenced choos-
In sides. and the little teacher up on
the platform loOkin' er Durtiest. Bin
and Tom got spelled down before
they'd been at ID long and slipped out.
Everybody knowed the fight would be
started right OF. and an except the
ones that were still spellin' snuck ont
TO see the fun. When I got there they
We're at it good and hard. THEY'D
clinched and we're bitin and kickin' and
gougin and chokin and purity soon
they went down with Tom 81 TOP
Everybody W-as so excited that no.
body noticed when OF how thu teacher
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
GUESTS OF TWO HOTELS
WERE GIVEN A SCARE

Chicago March Occupants of the
Great Eastern and Queen hotels at
Wabash avenue and Harrison street,
and 100 or more persons in the Palm
garden at the Auditorium Annex. were
given a scare tonight by a fire that de-
strOyed the six-story building at $50
Wabash avenue, which extended back
nearly to the Auditorium Annex. For
time the fire threatened TO spread to
several hotels and lodging houses, many
occupants Of which carried their be-
longings into the street. The loss is es-
timated at $3.50 900, distributed among
five firms and Swan & Smith. owners
of the building.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
Ogden Briefs.

The regular council meeting occurs to-
night
MT. and Mrs. H. II. Henderson are
guests In Salt Lake.
The attraction a. the Grand tonight IS
Clyde Fitch's distinctivcly western play.
THE Cowboy and the Lady
The case Of P. B. Means, charged with
obtaining money under false pretenses,
is 10 come up this morning in the dis
trict court.
Mrs. Lena Goddard. wife Of Howard
Goddard. is back from San Francisco
after a visit with friends and relatives
in the latter city for about three months.
Florence Roberts is TO play a return en-
gagement IN this city Saturday next,
playing both afternoon and evening.
Camille and "SaphO' are the plays 10
be given.
The weapon with which Michael Muir
ray shot Michael Whalen in the Denver
beer hall-nOt the Railroad salOOu-last
November viii on Tuesday be returned
10 Murray. 1t was introduced Ia evidence
IN the case against Murray, but viii be
Withdrawn as an exhibit and be returned
TO the owner. There viii be no proceed
ings against him on the charge of car
rying a concealed weapon.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
BURGLARS LOOT HOUSE.
Break Into Home Of c. W. Gold
While Family Is Away.

While the family was al church last
evening burglars broke into and looted
the home of C. W. Gold at Eighth West
and Tenth South streets. They secured
Two watches. valued at $50. and $40 in
cash. The burglars gained entrance to
the house through "a transOm and evident
ly spent considerable time I'm their under
taking, as the house was ransacked com
pletely The drawers Of the dressers had
been pulled out and their contents scat
tered on the floor. The furniture was all
disarrauged and the whole place looked
as If it had been the scene Of genuine
rough house The police were not nOUi-
fled Tor several hours after the burglary
had been committed, but at once sent an
officer down 20 investigate the affair.
which is thought 10 bee the work of
Trims
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
No. Man of Tceland.

Biologists and geographers viii be glad
20 learn that they may soon expect the
publication of a new map of Iceland. on
which Mr. ThOrOddsen. whose labOrs iI
his native island are so wen known. has
been engaged for twenty years Tt is on
a scale OF 100000, or about twenty Eng
fish miles TO the inch. and thus affords at
a glance an excellent picture of the gem
eral character Of the country. But IL ls
also replete with details that take uD lit
tie space and are readily Ineligible. The
map, of which we have seen proof copy,
Is excellently engraved and printed iI
colOrs at Copenhagen and viii be issued
under the auspices Of the Carlsberg fund
The title and table of signs and cOl0rs
"a 70 ga English
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
HEIRS OF AN INDIAN
BEAT BIG PACKERS

Kansas City. March IA jury in the
case of Annie B. Wood and other heirs
of Siias Armstrong, a Wyandotte Indian
10 recover Missouri river bottom land in
Kansas city. Kan, valued at $1,000 600
and occupied by Armour and Fowler the
packers. two railroads and several
smaller concerns. has returned a verdict
ln favor OF the plaintiffs. The tract con-
taius nearly eighty-flve acres, belonged
originally 10 Armstrong, and. according
% the lury.s verdict was an island from
1860 90 1891 Just before Armstrong trans
ferred his property in 1867 the current of
the river changed, dividing the land and
the concerns now made defendants built
upon his separated land. The attorneys
for the defense viii appeal the case.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
ONE TRAIN FINALLY
GOT BACK TO ST. JOHNS

St. Johns. N F.. March 1.-One Of the
two snowbound express trains returned
here today. The train left this city
seventeen days ago and only succeeded
IN getting halfway across the island
The passengers tell thrilling stories of
their experiences amid the suOwdrifts.
The other express is still stuck fast
and the passengers left 81 and walked
across three miles Of snOWfelds to an
open section of the line. and viii reach
here the middle Of the week.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
RAGING WATERS
RUSHED DOWN
Pittsburg and Allegheny City
Visited BY a Flood.
SIXTY MILLS ARE CLOSED
OVERFLOW EXPECTED ALONG
THE OHIO TODAY.

Pittsburg, Pa, March with every
tributary Of the Allegheny and Monon-
gahela rivers emptying swirling tor
rents into the banks Of these two
streams and rushing down TO the point
where they converge to form the Ohio.
Pittsburg was given a visitation today
which forced hundreds Of families to
either abandon their homes or seek es-
cape from the water in the upper stO-
ries, while mud and water dispensed
destruction and discomfort below. Mills
in the loW-iying levels throughout NE
country. numbering between fifty and
sixty, were flooded and $500 men are
thrown out of work temporarily.
The flood was general throughout
western Pennsylvania, the streams ev-
erywhere Overlooking their banks and
causing more or less damage to houses
and farms that lay in their course.
Downtown in PittsbuTg cellars and
Easements Of business houses which are
in the general flood district were inun-
dated, while in Allegheny two railroads
were temporarily paralyzed. the water
covering the tracks. Persons in the
First and Third wards at Allegheny
used boats in going to and from their
homes.
Had Been Warned.
Ample warning had been received by
most of the residents and business
Hfms threatened in time for them to
make preparations to minimize losses.
The highest stage reached at Pitts
burg was 29.4 feet at the government
dam at Hers island This was at 6
O'Clock in the evening. when it became
stationary and gradually began to sub
side. The cold weather which set In
last night served to check the food and
prevented more serious results.
Soon after daylight the water took
possession of the Point districts in
Pittsburg, and came up almost into
Penn avenue. All of lower Allegheny
felt the severest effects of the high
water and practically every house be-
tween Isabella street and the river from
/ the Ninth street bridge to the Point
have cellars and first floors flooded. The
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
OGDEN NEWS
Monday, March 2, 1908.
CIGAR STORE ROBBED.
Burglars Enter Beitman Brothers
Place.

Beitman Bros store I'm the Eccles
building was entered last night by bur
glars and about $50 IN cash taken. The
burglary must have been committed some
time between the hours of 1870 and p
a. m. for Mr.. Beitman did not leave the
place thl after midnight. and at the
front door was found open by d patrol
man and investigation revealed that the
cash drawer had been looted as well as
a box IN the back office where a guam
tity Of nickels for slot machine use were
stored.
Mr.. Beitmans theory is that the thief
had a confederate and that entrance was
effected through the basement Of the
Eccles building A window i'm the rear of
the tobacco store was found broken, and
IL is surmised that the thief entered the
Twenty-fourth street door of the build
ing, opened the door of the elevator shaft.
got on top Of the cage and was boosted
to the window by confederate who
afterwards went around TO the front and
watched for passeFsby while his com
rade rifled the till. The burglar got out
by the front door, breaking the fasten-
ing of one of the bolts. The slot ma
chimes of the place We're not disturbed,
and none OF the merchandise was missed.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
Expert Librarian Arrives.

Miss Zoe Faddis arrived yesterday
from Chicago and viii today take charge
of the Ogden public library and viii
superlntend the merging of the latter into
the Carnegie free library and also the
transfer of the volumes to the new
building. Miss Faddis Is an expert librar-
ian employed by the hoard of directors of
the public library to superntend the or
ganization of the public library system
for Ogden. She viii prepare q new cata-
logue and establish the system of record
keeping to be used i'm the Carnegie library
here. She visited the building yesterday
and expressed herself as much pleased
with the same, both as regards the exc
terror work and as regards the ntness OF
the library for the uses 20 which ia IS
20 be put. President Peery has called a
special meeting of the board tonight for
the purpose of arranging for an opening
night and for the devising of plan for
the selection of permanent librarian.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
A WOMAN SUSPECTED
OF BUR0ICK MURDER

Buffalo. n Y. March THE district
attorney and the heads Of the detective
and police force for two hours have been
closely questioning "a woman I'm cOnneC-
ton with the murder of Edward L. Bur
dick She is not under arrest but IL is
said an arrest may follow at any moment.
10 is said that the woman. whose
identity ls known only 10 those On the
room. has figured in the case heretofore.
Her statement. IL is said on good au-
thority is placing the murder in an en-
tirelV different light from any of the
theories previously advanced by the
u0IirD
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
A Widely Known Name.

tNeW lOrh MAIL ana LADIe11.l
Daniel Webster Brown of the mountain
district of Tennessee was running FOR
congress and was Waging a hot cam
paign. Daniel had once Travelled as FAR
as knoxville. a fact that made his con-
stithents look up 10 him with awe as
havfne seen the world His opponent
had not travelled as far. but still Dos
sessed much of the native wit that makes
the dWeuers of the mountain region Ia
nous
Daniel was not ashamed of blowing his
own horn. and one day I'm the course OF
d speech said:
yes, the name of Daniel Webster
Brown is known from Maine to Cali
You bet tWo-thirds of it is. anyhow,
broke in the opponent, and the laugh that
followed ended the campaign.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
LAST OF HER FAMILY
AND TIRED Of LIFE

Philadelphia. March IA woman who
gave her name as Mrs. Charlotte c.
by iuhalmg chlOrOf0rm in fashionable
boarding house at Hadd0uield. n. j..
near here She left "a note addressed 10
the proprietor Of the boarding house
reading.
''I am the last Of a distinguished family
left so alone that ( am tired of life. WIN
sou kindly see that my remains are
deceutly buried. Please keep this as quiet
as possible.
With The note was SIS. The woman
came 10 The boarding house about Feb
o. She was always iu good spirits She
was about go years OF age, refined and
well supplied with money. She often re-
ferred 20 having lived I'm Boston and Ale
bany, N. s.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
A valnahle Diamond

The pope has a diamond which IS said
10 be one Of the most valuable In the
world and which has certainly a very
strange history. To was presented 90 his
holiness by Mr.. Kruger. then president
of the Transvaal republic The president
received 10 from Memela. a native chief
who was once taken BY the Beers and
ordered TO be released by Kruger Before
% fell into the hands of Memela 70 was
owned by the chief Of the Basut0s and
was taken by him from the Zulu king
The history Of the diamond has been
marked by series Of the most bloody
wars.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-02
STUCK IN TIE SNOW.

Lincoln. Neb. March IA number of
members of the legislature who left Fri
day night for their homes iu central Ne
braska returned TO the city tonight with
OUT having completed the trip. They had
been stalled in a Burlington train i'm huge
snOWdrifts ANA virtually imprisoned IN a
crowded coach for "a night aud part Of
two DAYS Provisions were short. but no
other serious inconvenience was eXperi-