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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-20
EARNINGS ARE BETTER.
Rock Island Business for April Is
Looking Up.

Chicago, June 20-President Winchell
of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railway has been in New York on bust
ness and left for Chicago last evening.
Rock Island" he says, is doing
about the same as other lines in the
same territory. There is a slight re-
covery in business at large and earn
ings are running better than in April.
So far as Rock Island is concerned L
think we have turned the corner, April
being the last bad month"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-20
MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY.
The Worlds Fair Line.

Seven daily trains between Kansas
City and St. Louis which leave Kan
sas City 6:55, $780, 1910 a m. and
1:1O. 9:15. 400 D. m and 1905 MIL
right
ASK for your ticket via this line
from Kansas City. If you miss on.
erain. you viii not have long to wait
for another.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-20

Conductor Crosby has a receipt which
viii sure make the lean fat. His broth
er tried the remedy for six months and
gained 10 pounds. Jim is an advocate
of the uncooked food diet. When his
father was past so years of age he tried
the diet for a few months and gained
.S0 pounds. c. K Boutwell, and Steve
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-20
BRINGING SHERMAN GRAVEL.
Union Pacific Reballasting Kansas
Track Near Fort Riley.

Junction city. kan, June 20-The
Union Pacific has large force of men
ballasting its track in the vicinity of
this city and Fort Riley. All the bal
last and rOadbed was washed away
here by the flood a year ago All the
roadbed has been rebuilt and is now
being ballasted with gravel from Sher-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-20
Rock Island System Best Line to St,
Iomis.

Through standard and tourist sleep
ers. chair cars and coaches through to
St. Louis without change. Leaves To-
peka daily 400 p. m, arriving at
Worlds fair main entrance at 7.3O a
m, St. Louis Union station 7:45 a. m
For tickets, reservations and all other
information see Rock Island agents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-20

Hubbard of the Missouri Pacific have
been advised to take the cure.-Fort
Scott Republican.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15
Girls Ducked swindler.

Representing himself to be an agent for
a New York firm manufacturing silk flow
ers, Charles B. Meyer got 50 each out Of
about twenty women Of Washington, War
rem Co., N. J. Meyer promised the women
steady work at SIS week, and induced
them to put up So for what he called a
mould in which the flowers were patterned.
The fraud was discovered last Monday, sew
eral of Meyers dupies seized him and threw
him into an empty freight car. After
locking Meyer inside, two girls summoned
a number Of young women who had been
victimized. Meyer was dragged out, and
by main force was pulled down the hill to a
millpond, where he was ducked three
times through hole in the ice. Then he
was permitted to go.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15
WASHINGTON

Holiday Tour via Pennsylvania RaIlroa
December % has been selected as the
date for the Personally Conducted Holiday
Tour of the Pennsylvania Railroad to Wash
ington. This tour will cover a period of
three days, affording ample time to visit all
the principal points Of interest at the Nat
ioual Capital, including the Congressional
Library and the new Corcoran Art Gallery
Rates covering railroad transportation for
the round trip and hotel Accommodations,
$500 or $1,000 from Trenton, $11.50 or
$500 from Philadelphia, and proportionate
rates from other points, according to hotel
selected. Rates cover Accommodations at
hotel for two days Special side trip to
Mount Vernon.
All tickets good for ten days, with special
hotel rates after expiration of hotel coupon
For itineraries and full information apply
to Ticket Agents, or address Geo. w Boyd,
General Passenger Agent, Broad street
Station, Philadelphia. 12-15-04 -2t.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15
EQUALITY IN THE LAW.
fFrom the Newark Evening News.l

lFfofn tne Newark EFSuluB 1<SWs.
The state tax laws and the state courts
have been given some hard raps during the
hearings before the equal taxation COM
mission, but no speaker has talked palmer,
or used words and phrases of more potency
than Senator-el ct James T. Minturn, who
Monday, made the arguments for the city
of Hoboken, of which he is the corporation
attorney His address was an extended
one and dealt largely with comparisons of
valuations for purposes of taxation between
raiload and individual property. He
showed by figures the disparity between
the increase in taxable value since 1885 Of
the two classes of property, and as to the
cause of such disparity he said:
What inherent quality is there in a
railroad these days when the salaries Of
its officials compete with and in many
cases exceed the salaries of our president
and our governors, which should differ
entiate it from the burden of civil govern
ment that protects, guards and insures it
against riot Why should there be class
legislation for railroads and not class legis-
lation for the factory and the bank and the
steamship lines What transformation does
it undergo that differentiates it from the
property of the individual The court of
last resort, you will tell me, has ordained
that class legislation for this purpose is
proper But, / answer, that decision
carries within itself the seeds of anarchy.
A few days since the same court decided
that poor firemen who have done the state
some service could not be exempted by
law to the extent of modicum of taxation.
In the one case you create a class and par
TALLY exempt it; and in the other case you
refuse to create class based upon public
service and insist upon taxing it to the
limit. You may tell me that men honestly
exposing governmental abuses in this way
are arraying class against class. | will tell
you we are doing that very thing in our
law and in our courts, by this species of
law, and the sooner we reverse our course
and turn our faces to the teachings of the
fathers the longer win popular government
survive
turns statement to hurt even the most
self-complaisant upholder of the present
system of taxation. 1t is not such remarks
as he has made that array class against
class, but it, is the law itself. This has
been generally recognized, especially since
the legislative session of last winter, and,
emitting all Of the campaign oratory, there
has been desire on the part of the mem
bers of the equal taxation commission to
devise some way that will relieye the strain
and at the same time do justice to both the
railroads and individual property owners,
There is no room for demagogurey in the
performance of this task, and this is no
time to characterize as buncombe such ex-
pressions as those of Mr. Mlnturn. The
law must be modified and so changed that
all property will bear its full and fair
proportion of the public burden. No
matter what machinery is set up for levy
ing and collecting the taxes of any class of
railroad property, the one thing to be borne
IN mind in framing the law is the matter
of equality.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15
BLAcKWooD.

The rural free delivery, with head
quarters here, is now an assured fact and
will go into effect on the 10th OF December
The route covers distance of twenty miles
and will be covered once a day TIE
carrier has not been appointed as yet
The Blackwood Euchre Club held it's
meeting at DR.. LeFeyre's on Saturday night
The Farmers Institute which was held in
w. 9. I. U. Hall on Wednesday was a !
event OF great interest to agriculturalist and
the program included many instructive ad-
dresses and discussions. The speakers in
cluded c. G. Hulsart, John Jeannin, Jr.,
DR.. J. B. Smith, Edward yanAlstyna.
Prof. j. G. Lipman, G. w Broadhead and
D. E. Clair.
Michael Tomlinson has moved from Main
street to opposite the postoffice.
The Ladies' Aid Society. of the Presby-
terian Church is busily engaged in making
garments for hospitals. The society meet
lngs are held at private homes, and afford
much pleasure to the members
The main topic discussed at the meeting
OF the Township Committee on Monday
was the acceptance of the old school house.
which the Board of Education offered "a
the Township to be used as Town Hall.
It was decided not to accept it on the terms
presented as it was thought the bill Of ex-
pense attending its removal and purchase
OF lot on which to locate it would be too
great.
The stork visited the home of Frank
Keith and left a fine baby boy.
Mrs. I. J. VENT has been spending
several days with friends at Woodbury..
Mr. and Mrs, Steele, of Grenloch. .and
Mrs. Donahue, have added their names tc
membership of the Blackwood Eucbre Club.
The local lodges and secret orders are
now considering candidates for the officers
to be elected this month and next
Mr. and Mrs Harvey Stiles and daughter.
OF Mount Ephrain, have been spending a
few days with Mrs Thomas Beetle.
Amos Pine has moyed from Camden and
occupied the house vacated by e Scott
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15

The financial operations of Mrs Cassie L.
Chadwick, of Cleveland, Ohio, makes
about the richest reading the Metropolitan
press have had for many day. Mrs.
Chadwick's methods were entirely original
and the success that attended her manipu-
lations stamp her the most successful
fipancier of this wonderful financial period
in the worlds history. Carnegie, Morgan
and Rockefeller had some little foundation
to their high financial operations, as ex-
posed by Lawson, and they have been
successful in keeping out of jail, but
.sCassieu dealt in millions with no other
collateral than forged notes. Mrs. Chad
wick may go to Jail for her CONSCIOUSNESS
skiAning of bankers and rich men she met
both by accident and design, but the
country at large will give her place
among the schrewdest Of modern fnancers.
Her methods of piling up millions, dis
remarkable as they are, cause humiliation
and disgrace to few men who have been
nassinq as wondrous wise, while the mod
arm sfrenzied finance as exemplifed by
hanson. counts its victims by the thou
sands and has robbed thousands Of we'll
,,,ean;np investors Of their last dollar.
These men ought to come forward, pay her
debts and take her into partnership she
might make honest men Of them.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15

The friends of the Teachers Retirement
Fund think the approaching Legislature
should adopt some plan of placing the fund
upon more secure and permanent basis.
Its present income is precarious and is a
drain upon the resources of the teachers.
The State administers the fund, and should
at least, many people think, bear the small
cost of doing so without burdening the
fund with it. The Legislature last year
passed law imposing the cost upon the
State but the Governor vetoed i on the
ground that it was not properly State
expense But public school teachers are
public servants. They serve the State just
as much and as we'll as soldiers, and should
be given equal consideration. Some people
think the State might well bear the entire
burden of supporting this worthy fund.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15
sWEDEsRoRo.

Mrs. Henry G. Garrison has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. VIM. A. Sailer, at Lans-
downe, Penna.
| Mr.. and Mrs. George NJ Ashton have
been guests of Rev. and Mrs. S. F. Gaskill,
parents of Mrs. Ashton, at Cape May.
! Mrs. George W. P. Pither visited her
sister, Mrs. Vincent Sharp, in Camden, this
week
Rev. W. S. Mitchell, Of Hurffville, was
in town on Friday of last week. He ex-
pected to leave within few days for
Southern California where he will spend
the winter.
Miss Lille Kuhnle has been recent
guest of relatives at Sea View, Atlantic
county.
service Of Forty Hours"' devotion
began in ST. Joseph's Church on Sunday
morning, and ended with the ten O'Clock
Mass on Tuesday morning. Rev. Father
McCor:iston was assisted by Rev's. Father
Lyons, OF Salem; Morrison, of Woodstown;
Redden, of Camden; Deitrick, and Others.
| All the services were we'll attended, not
withstanding the severe cold and stormy
weather which prevailed.
Mr. Samuel Ashcraft is engaged in the
commission business in Pittsburg, Penna.
Mr.. Ashcraft has large interest in newly
discovered oil wells in Oklahoma which he
expects to visit in the near future.
Deputy Grand Master, John G. Chopper,
OF Camden, Assistant to the Grand Recorder
H. w. Linderborn, Of Camden, and Past
Master Workmen, Samuel H. Moore, OF
| Woodstown, paid an official visit to Swedes-
boro Lodge, No. % A. O. t. w, on Tues
day evening of last week. The following
officers were elected for the ensuing year
Master Workman, John H. Miller; Fore
man, Anthony Steelman; Overseer, John
Dupper; Recorder, Walter r. Shoemaker
Financer, Moses Batten Receiver, VIM.
II. Mccullough; Guide, Carlton E. Rulon;
Inside Waterman Robert FL. Moore; Out
side Waterman, VIM. J. Passwater; Rep
resentatives, w H. Mccullough, John H.
Miller; Alternates. w. r. Shoemaker,
Moses Batten; Medical Examiners, O.
Grimshaw, w G. Simmons; Trustee, c. Z.
Rulon
Mrs. Rebecca Reynolds has been visiting
relatives at Camden, and while there at
tended the tenth anniversary of her grand
Daughter Miss Bessie Reynolds aud Mr.
Robert Maison, of Camden
Edgar the little son OF Rev. and Mrs. A.
Lawrence who has been very i'll with tom
silitis is recovering.
We are sorry to learn that John Ashcraft
of South Swedesboro who has been i'll for
some time is not improving.
Albert Ackley has sold his oyster saloon,
and cafe to Plummer Turner who will take
possession the first of the year.
Racing on Main street is rare fun for
those who have speedy horses; and crowds
can congregate every afternoon to witness
the SPORT
Well, Winter has pounced down upon
us in real earnest, and the prospects for
Christmas weather are all right. Sunday
and Monday were rough; railroad trains
were demoralized and were an hour late
on Monday evening. The beautiful snow, y
have poets plenty of food for inspiration
bat we who are of soberer mind don't
take so kindly to the present conditions.
However if one has well-filled coalbin
and well filled larder as well he has
much to be thankful for, and should re-
member those not SO fortunately situated.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15
BECK TO SPEAK.
Will Deliver Address to Graduates Of Pierce
School

School.
The Thirty ninth Glass of Pierce School
will be publicly graduated at the Ameri-
can Academy of Music, Philadelphia. on
the evening of December "a, 1904. The an
nual address will be delivered by Hon.
James M Beck, and General Horatio c.
King will deliver the address to the grad
yates Mr. Isaac H. Clothier will preside,
Rev. J. Sparhawk Jones, d. D., will offer
prayer, and DIR. George Edward Reed will,
as heretofore, pronounce the benediction.
Mr. Beck is known by reputation all over
the United States, but is especially well
known in Philadelphia, that city having
been his home until his removal in New
York year or two ago.
He was appointed United States Dis
triet Attorney for the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania, by President Cleveland, and
also served in this capacity under President
Mckinley. He ranks among the leading
lawyers of the country, and he has few
equals as an orator. He came into national
prominence a few months ago by his sue
cessful conduct of the Governments case
against the Northern Securities Company,
before the United States Circuit Court at
st. Louis, Mo.
General Horatio G. King. of Brooklyn,
n Y, graduated at Dickinson College in
1858, studied law with Edwin NJ Stanton,
and was admitted to the New York Bar in
1861 He entered the Union Army in 1862,
and was honorably discharged in October,
1865 with brevets of major, lieutenant col
onel and colonel He was awarded the
Congressional Medal of Honor for distin-
guished bravery. Since the war he has
been engaged in the practice of his pro-
fession at Brooklyn. He is well known
throughout the country as an orator and
lecturer and as a frequent contributor to
newspapers and magazines He is trustee
of Dickinson College, and at the annual en-
campment of the Army of the Potomac,
held last Spring, he was elected the presi-
dent of that organization.
One is rarely SO fortunate as to listen the
same evening to two such orators as Mr.
Beck and General King
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15

The Presidential Electors will meet al
the State Capitol on the second Monday
in January, which will be the 9th, to cast
their votes for President and Vice Presi-
dent. The New Jersey electors are Usal H.
McCarter, of Newark; Washington H.
Roebling, of Trenton; Joseph W. Cooper,
Of Camden; Alexander c. Wood, of Gin
naminson Lewis s. Thompson, Of Middle
town; Adolph Mack, of Someryille; Rich
ard 81. Williams, Of Madison; j. Hull
Browning, of Tenafly; Henry Dickson, Of
Newark; Arthur B, Leach, of South Or
ange; John Ringle, Of Jersey City, and
Aaron s. Baldwin, Of Hoboken. The elect
ors will forward their vote to Washington
by special messenger to the acting Vice
President, and another By mail.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15

Considering VIM. j. Bryan has been a
victim of the cartoon fully up to his
deserts, this from recent issue of his pa
per, The Commouer, shows that he don t
feel hurt even little bit:
Governor Pennypacker, OF Pennsylvania.
was so incensed by the cartoonists during
his campaign for election that he determined
to put the gentlemen of the pencil out of
business To that end he secured the en-
actment Of law making it an offense to
publish any portrait or cai toon without the
consent of the individual in question. Up
to date no cartoonist has been thrust into a
Pennsylvania jail. and so far as known no
Pennsylvania cartoonist has neglected any
opportunities to cartoon the executive OF
that State The cartoon has come to stay,
and is an important factor in American polit
ical life. No amount of cartooning can per-
manently injure good man or good
cause, but it will put obstacles in the way
of a bad man or a bad cause Cartoons are
sometimes brutal but the tendency is con-
stantlv upward, and the public man who
wakes wroth at the cartoonists and at
tempts to prevent them from plying their
art merely advertises himself as being
afraid Of them, and the public is not apt to
be long in learning the reason.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15
Lower Prices for N. =. Horse Manure
Tn effect Octoher 11tb 1aoA

We shall be pleased to receive orders for
New York Horse Manure, for delivery on
West Jersey and Seashore Railroad and the
Pennsgrove Branch at the following prices:
New Short Manure, $2.35 per ton; Old
Manure, $2.20 per ton; payable by note in
bank October /, 1905. At all points south
Of Franklinville, Monroeville, Point Airy, 10
cts. per ton additional will be charged Fiji
teen cents per ton off new short manure and
twenty cents per ton off old manure for
cash. All manure must be paid for within
thirty 800 days after shipment either by
cash or note. Agents have no authority to
sell on any other terms. Orders received
by c. T Molony, sales-agent, Woodbury.,
n. j.; William G.. Brooks, Deerfeld, n. ].
B. A Headley, Swedesboro, n. j., for
Swedesboro and Salem branches; Minch
Brothers, Bridgeton, n. j.; James Clark,
Somers Point, N. j. or Geo. NJ. Wells,
our general collecting agent, who will be
at the Molony Building, Woodbury., n j.,
every Saturday unti' 1870 p. M
NEW YORK HORSE MANURE
S-4-04 TRANSPORTATION co.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15
Narrow Escape at Crossing.

About noon last Friday as Jacob Win,
shoe dealer at Williamstown was approach
ing the railroad at Williamstown Junction
driving double team attacked to large
business wagon, lie stopped while freight
train passed, las he approached the tracks he
looked both ways, as far as brush near the
track would permit, and drove on. just
as his horses reached the tracks he saw an
express approaching, and to save himself
was Obliged to turn short around and
drive his horses down steep bank and into
the woods. His wagon was damaged to
the extent Of about $50
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15

There have been 1872 automobiles Ii
censed by the State of New Jersey, and
applications come into Secretary of States
Office at the average rate of almost ten a
day The fee now charged for these IL
censes is absurdly low. It is only ST. and
this hardly pays for the expense of issuing
them. Many people think SIS should be
chai ged, and it is intimated that the law
may be changed so as to impose this
amount.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15

Eight State Senators terms expire with
the end Of the approaching session. They
are William J Bradley, of Camden; J.
Henry Bachelor, OF Essex, Thomas NJ.
Terrell, of Gloucester; Oliver H. Brown, of
Monmouth; James ssrimple, of Salem;
Samuel S. Childs, Of Somerset Joseph
Cross, of Union; and Isaac Barber, of War
rem. Terrell, Strimple and Barber are
Democrats and the others Republicans. If
the counties vote next year as they voted
this gear the Republicans will carry all of
them except Warren. But in 1903 the
Democrats carried Somerset by 6ss on the
Assembly, and the Republicans carried
Salem by only u. In 1902, on the Con-
gressional vote, the Democrats carried Sa-
lem by 241, but lost Gloucester by 165 and
Somerset by 424. So it is plain that the
result in all these three counties will mainly
depend on the character of the candidates.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15

Senator Steward INTRODUCED a bill to fix
presidential and congressional salaries. 1t
proposes to raise the salary OF the President
to 500, 600 year, that of the Vice Presi-
dent and Speaker of the House of Represen-
tatives to $4,000 each, and that of each
Senator, Representative and Delegate to
500 1t is provided that the bill shall
take effect March 5, 1909
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15
ARE YOU DILIOU9! r sick, :,
OF duh aches and ra;r
Fake JAYNE'S SANATIVE PILLS

Mr.. F. R. Meier, the consulting forester
of the Geological Survey, reports eighty
one forest fires during the last fiscal year,
burning over an area of Al, $50 acres, which
is about double the area burned oyer the
year before. The damage is estimated by
Professor Meier at $4,000 which is about
two-thirds that Of the preceding year.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-12-15
This paper is entered IN the Post Office at Wood
ury. NJ J., as second-cIass matter.

''What is Charity ?" queries the Column
bus Press Post. II one judged solely by the
daily newspaper enconiums of the gem
erosity Of our multi-milIionaires one would
think that charity consists in piiing up
riches through special legislation and giving
a part of it away with the and of expert
press agents
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-12-05
NASTY
BLAZE
OCCURS

IN THE REAR OF THE WALDO
HOTEL ANNEX, DESTROYING TWO
HOUSES.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-12-05

BUSINESS HOUSES ARE THREATEN
Ed AND BIG FIRE LOOKS PROB
ABLE, But FIRE DEPARTMENT
DOES GOOD WORK.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-12-05
FATAL STABBING AFFRAY
OCCURS IN GLEN ELK
Foreigner in the Employ of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany Receives Death Stab at the
Hands of Shorty" Harris, Color
ed, With Ugly Knife.

Knife Blade Cuts Rib in Twain and Penetrates
the Lung-Pathetic Scene is Witnessed as
Injured Man is Conveyed to the City Hospital.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-12-05

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