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The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-05-28
SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO Il
BRIDGE.
Gas Pipe Leading to South Side
Crushed and Broken in Two.

On Monday afternoon, about 8
O'Clock, the tow boat John Mackey
undertook to tow derrick boat be-
longing to the u. s. Government
down the river, and when it reached
the st. Clair street bridge, the
boom of the derrick had been care
lessly left SO high that it struck the
main gas pipe which supplies the
South Side, andwhich is suspe nded
underneath the bridge, crushing
and breaking it in two like an egg
shell and pulling out two expansion
joints and breaking third. 1t then
struck the floor of the bridge and
lifted that structure about foot,
tearing the beams and planks loose.
But for the fact that the boom
broke about this time, there is no
doubt but that the bridge itself
would have been badly injured, if
not totally destroyed.
1t seems passing strange that the
officers in charge of the boat did
not stop it at once and back away,
as soon as it was found that the
boom was too. high. On the con-
trary they recklessly went on their
way regardless of the damage.
The crushing of the gas pipe re-
leased a vast volume of gas and
forced the cutting off of the supply
at the works until workmen could
reach the cut off at the bridge. A
force of men was at once put to
work and the break repaired by 8
O'Clock, p. III.
Many people on the South Side,
who cook with gas stoves, had TO
resort to the bake shops for their
supplies of bread. etc.
The work of repair was quickly
done and the gas turned on about
dark.
The loss of the gas company in
gas amounted TO 800 and in the
repair of pipes, etc., about as much
more. The damage to the bridge
was considerable, and the only
wonder is that it was not rendered
unfit for use.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-05-28
KENTUCKY DAY, JUNE 18th.
The Old Commonwealth Promises
to Set New Standard for
Worlds Fair Days.

The Kentucky Commission for
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
has decided to postpone Kentucky
Day from June to June 10, and
active preparations to make the
day one memorable i'm the history
of the st. Louis Worlds Fair are
now on. No printed invitations
are to be sent into Kentucky.
Every Kentuckian, from no matter
what walk of life, is cordially i'll
vited to be present. The Kentucky
Press Association will hold it's
annual meeting OH Kentucky Day
at the Kentucky Building on the
Exposition grounds. This organi-
zation will meet first in Louisville,
on June 10, leaving that night for
the Worlds Fair City, on special
train, furnished by the Henderson
Route. On Tuesday, which is June
IA, the editors will do little sight
seeing and in the afternoon be en-
tertained at the Woman's Magazine
Building outside the grounds. On
that night they will see 1.-The
Pike"
While the programme for Ken
lucky Day is not complete, enough
is known to announce that it will
be full of interesting events. The
Kentucky Building is to wear a
gala attire and brass band music
from the outside and string or
chestra from the inside will give to
the New Kentucky Home" an at
tractive tone. The editors will
hold an informal session at 10
O'Clock in the morning, followed
by tour of the grounds on auto
mobiles and on the Intramural Sys-
tenn, winding up at one o'clock
with a luncheon probably at the
east pavilion, which is being con-
Quoted by Mrs. Rhorer, the famous
cook book woman. At two O'Clock |
the regular Kentucky Day eXer-
cises will begin i'm Festival Hall,
consisting of addresses by promi-
nent Kentuckians and -Kentuck
ians. After the ceremonies a re-
cital on the big pipe organ will
take place. At night in the Ken
lucky Building there will be re-
ception from to IL O'Clock. The
invited guests ouside of Kentucky
will include the ExpOsition's So
cial list, the Kentucky Society, of
st. Louis and the delegates to the
National Il. p. A. Convention. On
morning the Kentucky
will hold business
session and on Thursday evening
the Kentucky Society, of st. Louis
will entertain in the Kentucky
Building in honor of the Commits
sion.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-05-28
Young Plants

Every farmer knows that
some plants grow better than
others. Soil may be the same
md seed may seem the same
out some plants are weak and
others strong.
And that's the way with
children. They are like young
plants. Same food, same home,
ame care but some grow big
nd strong while others stay
mall and weak.
SCOTS Emulsion offers an
asy way out of the difficulty.
Child weakness often means
tarvation, not because of lack
{ food, but because the food
loes not feed.
SCOTS Emulsion really feeds
nd gives the child growing
trength.
Whatever the cause of weak
ness and failure to grow
SCOTS Emulsion seems 70 find
it and set the matter right.
Send for free sample,
Scott & Bovine Chemists, 400 Pearl ST., New York
soc. and SIoo all druggists.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-05-28
MONDAYS STORM.

Early Monday morning the sultry
atmosphere was broken up by a
slight rain fall. Again, about IL
m, there was very heavy wind
and rain storm, during which quite
a lot OF hail fell. The clouds were
very black and threatening, requir-
ing the use of gas lights in the
business houses. The timid were
considerably alarmed. but no SER
ious damage was done in the city,
beyond the smashing of few tele-
phone wires and breaking limbs
from few trees.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-05-28
COMMUNICATED.
Editor Roundabout:

Will you give me space for short
communication? In Wednesday,
issue of the Kentucky Journal 1
find the following:
The Kentucky Department of the
Grand Army of the Republic will
convene in this city to-day. A
number of the aged visitors, bear.
ing scars of the war between the
States, are already here. and many
others are expected to arrive to-
day. To those now here and those
who are yet to arrive Frankfort
extends a cordial welcome and q
hearty greeting.
Old Father Time has thinned the
ranks of both the Blue and the
Gray, and fortunate and blessed are
those who have been spared to see
the full fruitiOn of a united coun.
try and sectional lines gradually
being wiped out. Forty years ago
the G. A. RS. would have found
strenuous objections and more-a
repulse-had they attempted to
take Frankfort. To-day they may
do so with welcome.
We are certainly obliged to the
young editor for the gracious words
of the above clipping, with the ex-
ception of the last two sentences.
In them the editor certainly eXhib-
its sad lack of information.
Not only is he away off as to
what would have happened in
Frankfort forty years ago; but, to
the contrary, this city was known
and recognized as a center of G. A.
r. influence and power-over-
whelmingly enthusiastic for the
Union cause. There We're some five
companies of white soldiers who
enlisted from this county (besides
an equal number of colored.)
The companies of Capt. A. G.
Bacon, Capt. Dan Garrard. Capt.
Jas. r. Page, Capt. R. Ward
Macy, Capt. Robert B. Tay lor,
Capt. Thomas Mahoney. Capt.
Frank A. Estep and Capt. Chas.
Milward were composed almost en-
tirely from men enlisted in this
county, besides numerous others
who went to Rousseau's brigade
and other commands.
1t is true there were as brave and
gallant boys, who went out from us
to follow their convictions and
fight for the South, as ever drew
sword, but they did not number
more than three hundred men at
the outside. We have no quarrel
with them. They barred their
breasts to the storm, leaving home,
kindred, loved ones-all-tO die, if
need be. for their convictions. No
brave man, who wore the blue ever
Intentionally wounds his brother
who wore the gray. We are all
Americans together, loving our
country, it's flag and its people.
Our glory and our honor is in a
reunited country. God bless her.
We advise our young friend to
know the facts before trying well
rounded sentence to wind up his
paragraph that don't fit with the
facts.
G. A. r.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-05-28
UNO.
ATNO TIME Is MAN SECURE
FROM ATTACKS

OF such disorders.of the stomach
as cholera morbus, cramps and
diarrh9a; but these complaints
are common during the heated
term, when it is dangerous to neg
lect them. Painkiller is remedy
that has never, failed and the sever
est attacks have been cured by it.
Avoid substitutes, there is but one
Painkiller, Perry Davis. % and
soc.
The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1904-05-28
HAND CUT OFF.

A little lad, son of Mrs. Slusher,
near Peaks Mill, was cutting oats
with cutting box, when his hand
was caught, drawn in and cut off.
Surgical attention was rendered at
once.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
CHURCHILL LOSES
THREAD OF ARGUMENT
English Author Goes to Pieces While
Speaking in Parliament.

LONDON, April 23.-The house of
commons today passed the second read
ing, by 238 to 1919 votes, of the trades
union bill, legaliZing peaceful picketing
and amending the law of conspiracy
in connection with trade disputes and
protecting trades union funds against
legal processes for damage caused by
the action of members of such unions
The bill is the outcome of the recent
judgment of the court in the Taft Vale
railway case, which, with the railway
mems union, was mulcted in heavy
damage for picketing and interfering
with nOn-uniOniStS.
Premier BalfOur, in opposing the bill
said it would not be made a party
question. Personally, he was opposed
to the bill which would give trades
unions a privileged position not en-
joyed by any other body of men. He
feared that the bill might seriously in
terfere with other classes Of the COM
munity.
Winston Spencer Churchill spoke in
support of the measure, but lost the
thread of his argument and after a
pause of some moments, during which
he thrice essayed to resume, Mr..
Churchill sat down in some confusion,
without finishing, but amid sympa-
thetic cheers.
1t was said tonight that Mr..
ChurchilPs sudden termination of his
speech was due to the fact that he
failed to remember a quotation with
which he intended to use. He par
ticipated in the division. The incident
at first created some sensation, be-
cause it wildly recalled the breakdown
of Lord Randolph Churchill, Mr..
Churchilrs father, While speaking,
shortly before his death.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
PLUCKY GIRL STOPS
RUNAWAY FIRE HORSE

NEW YORK, April 23.-While a
crowd of men, women and children
were pushing near fire at Sixth
and Jefferson streets, Hoboken, yester-
day, some one footed the whistle on
pile driver engine nearby. The noise
frightened a spirited horse hitched to
Chief Engineer Applegates carriage,
which was standing at the curb, and
the animal started to run away.
Just as the horse was about to
plunge into the crowd, a young woman
with very red cheeks and a lot of nerve
jumped from the sidewalk, caught the
horse by the bride and swung it's head
around. She was suspended in air for
a moment and then the horse stopped
short. Several men took charge of the
animal and quoted it, while the crowd
cheered the act of the heroine.
The woman was recognized as Miss
Mary Ann Torpey, the twenty-th three
year old daughter of Mrs. Michael Tor
pey, a widow of $50 Sixth street. Miss
Torpey has the reputation of being one
of the strongest girls in Hoboken.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
WOULD ABOLISH
PRESENT ALPHABET
Everybody Would Have to Learn All Over
Again Under New System.

INDIANAPOLIS Ind, April 23.-It is a.
considerable task that George Snvthe
Jones, Of No. 802 Roach street. has set
for himself, but never was man more
confident of success than he in his nlan
which, If adopted, would revolutionize the
whole system of education. 1t would mean
smaller books and papers, and everybody
would have to learn their alphabet all
over again. He asserts that he has con-
structed a new alphabet to work these
wonders He is now engaged on the finish
ing touches, and is rushing the work Of
making engraved plates preparatory to
making application for copyright.
Jones alphabet Is based on the nho-
netic idea. He says that in the present
alphabet there are several useless let
ters. In his alphabet each character rem
resents a sound. He has a single charac-
ter that represents the combina ton
'tious; another for ing" another for
"tion," etc.
His alphabet contains thirty-eight char
acters, fifteen of which represent vowel
sounds. He still retains &C." "x'' and
"a" of the present alphabet.
Jones has been working on his alpha-
bet for years. He is a clerk in the bu-
reau of animal industry, with an office
at the stock yards For twenty-seven
his first inspiration along this line came
from the method, which has now come
into general use of trying to teach the
young idea how to spell by means of
sounds alone. If one can learn to spell
by that method why not arrange the
characters SO that they represent sounds
alone? he argued. He is sixty-three years
of age, and was soldier during the Civil
war.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
SCALDFD HUSBAND
FROM HEAD TO FOOT
He Abused Her, and HardWOrk.
ing Mrs. DeutsCh Had Her
Revenge.

NEW YORK, April 23.-Jacob
Deutsch, blacksmith, married young
woman in Moscow two years ago who
had just come into an inheritance of
$4,000 through the death of relatives.
She was a cripple with a rubber foot,
and she was not beautiful to look upon,
but her dowry was her fortune to the
blacksmith. He disappeared one day,
leaving her without money. She
learned that he had come to America,
and decided to follow him. 1t took
eighteen months Of toll to get enough
money to pay for the steamship ticket
to New York When she arrived at
Ellis island three months ago they told
her she could not enter the country.
She told her story, and it won her re-
lease. Six weeks ago she left the
island and started on her quest for
her husband. 1t was a hopeless task
at first, tramping through a strange
city. but he persistence won. She met
her husbond on a street in the lower
East side.
Take me back" she pleaded. He
told her that the money he had taken
from her was gone and that he was
destitute.
Il will forgive you. l viii work, and
we can live" she said.
They took a furnished room together
at No. 202 Broome street. The husband
could not get work. The crippled wife
sewed In a factory. The girls there
pitied her, because when payday came
her husband took all her earnings, 81
a week, and she had nothing. One day
she told them her sad story, that her
husband had tainted her on her pow
erty, on her deformitieS, and in hun
dred ways made life unbearable.
Il cannot stand 1t. I am afraid
will remember the desire 1 had for re-
venge when 1 first knew he had desert
ed me-" she told her friends at the fac
tory Friday. That night she went home,
and again her husband tainted her.
Yesterday morning he lay asleep as
she dressed to go to work. She filled
a two-gallon pail with water, and
placed it on the stove to boil. She
poured quantity of fat into the water
and scalded her husband from head to
foot. While he was screaming in
agony she fed.
Neighbors called a policeman. who
sent Deutsch to Bellevue hospital.
There the doctors say there is little
chance of his living, so terribly is he
burned.
The neighbors, who knew the trou-
bles of the Deutschs, are not anxious to
help the police, who are trying to find
the crippled woman.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
FALL ON HIS HEAD
MADE old MAN SANE
Crazed Beggar Restored to
Reason and to His Family
by an Accident.

WINSTED, Conn, April PA queer
old man, telling his troubles in French
with strange gestures, his clothes tat
tered, his beard shaggy, has been wan
dering about here for several weeks.
Persons In the country took him in and
gave him food, and hay loft to sleep in,
and he got to be known as "The Crazy
Frenchman." Mrs. Theodore Andre is
Of French family, and she talked to
him when he stopped there several
times, trying to get him to tell about
himself. But he seemed to have forgotten
his past.
Thursday morning, at o'clock, the
Andre family were aroused by vigorous
knocking at their door. The old French
man was there his hand to his head
and begging admittance. They let him
in, and one of the boys was about to
take him to his place III the hay loft
to sleep.
mo, no! Not that!" said the old man.
I am not crazy now. It's all back to me
again.
His wild appearance was gone, and his
air was that of a sane man.
II am Joseph Arthur Forth, of Gorgin-
vile, near Providence. 1 left home long
time ago, I don't know how long because
l was crazy, and I have been wandering
about ever since begging. Tonight 1 slept
in the old mill. l rolled in my sleep, and
fell, striking on my head. 1t hurt me, but
it brought me back to life. The knock
restored my reason, and here am again,
knowing all about myself. 1 have money"
He took a roll of bills from his pocket,
containing $500.
He asked them to send for his son,
Joseph, which they did. Joseph arrived
yesterday, and found his father all right,
under the care Of the Andres He and his
brother hunted everywhere for their
father and had given him up dead.
How long have 1 been gomez" asked
the old man.
Joseph said seven weeks.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
Makes Effort for Camp sizes.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 23.-The
senate committee on military affairs to-
day reported the military academy ap
preparation bill. The committee incor-
porated three important military legis-
lative measures. These are the bills
to increase the efficiency of the
medical and ordnance departments
of the army by charging both
corps. making appropriations for four
permanent camp sites for the military
forces, and to enlarge the Chattanooga
and Chickamauga national park. The
camp sites provided for are in the VEIN
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
Would Amend Copyright Laws.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 28.-Rep-
resentattve Tawney, of Minnesota, and
President Sullivan, OF the Washington
typographical union, before the house
committee on patents, today argued the
the necessity Of amending the copyright
laws so as to provide penalty for vio-
lation of its requirements that copy
righted books shall be printed and the
type set and plates made in the United
States. They said foreign publishers
were importing book plates as old junk
and the printing only is done in this
country
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
Direction Of Free Delivery

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 22.-The
senate conferees on the postofice an
preparations have receded from the
amendment transferring the free delivery
from the fourth to the first assistant
postmaster general in place of which
q provision has been drafted giving the
postmaster general authority to assign
the different bureaus of his department
to his different assistants.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24

caught splendid ball for over twenty years
for Detroit and Brooklyn and has signed
With the New York National league for
this season. Mcclure commenced his ball
playing career as catcher for an amateur
team in Albion, Mich, but his splendid
work soon attracted the attention Of Hor-
ace Phillips, who managed the Grand
Rapids team in the Northwestern league.
and MCGUIRE was signed by him.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
Indiana Miners Object.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, April 23.-The
block coal miners of District No. 8 have
voted to reject the proposition of the
operators for a two-year contract under
last years conditions with a per cent
reduction in wages. The majority In
favor of strike is but 600. About 5000
men will be affected.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
Election JUDGES Convicted.

CHICAGO, April 23.-Hiram B. Sherman
and Harry O'Donovan were today found
guilty of corruption and fraudulent con-
duct as judges of elections last fall. Both
defe dants were arrested with Aid
Bren4a, Charles Mozart and Herbert E.
Kent. A motion for new trial was en-
tered
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
Makes VIII While nvinn-

HOT SPRINGS, Ark, April &c. v.
Taylor, president of the Morristown
(Tenn.) National bank, committed sui
eide here tonight by shooting himself.
He lived long enough after the fatal
shot to make his VIII, disposing of a
large estate
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24

ity OF Fort Sam Houston, Tex; Camp
Douglas, Wis; in the Conewago valley,
Pa, and In San Luis Obispo county, Cal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24

the first magnitude. Charley Radbourne
was, as all baseball men know one of
the greatest pitchers that ever stepped
in the box. He and Johnny Ward prac-
tically won the championship for Provi-
dence in the National league through their
splendid work in the box
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24
An Eighteen Inning Game.

Another great contest was the eighteen
inning game, l to 0, played in S4 be-
tween the Detroit and Providence teams
of the National league. Weidman pitched
for Detroit and Bennett or Mcclure
caught. Charley Radbourne pitched for
Providence and little Nava, the Spaniard,
was his catcher. 1t was one of the great
est contests ever played in the early his
tory of baseball. MCGUIRE, who caught
the game for Detroit, is not only the old
est catcher playing today but is the old
est ball player wearing a uniform. He
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-24

Office, see Robert ST. 'Phone $50.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-31

Al I o you" An. such
His earnest words. and yet he knew
He had loved others-quite a few
Not as he loved her-that was true
~But-twenty tir1ss as much!
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-07-31
HE KNEW TOO MUCH.
Practical Joker Misled a Stage
load of Sight-Seers.

A Joker almost upset q stage loaded
with sight-eeers the other day. As the We
hIcle was numbering through Wall street
a grave-lookins man sitting on the rear
seat near the m~egaphone maj said:
Say. young man. why don't you point
out some Of the big fnanciers who are
walking past usf That would interest
the crowd
The m~egaphone came down a moment.
and the man behind II whispered:
II don't know many Of them. to tell the
truth"
AT this reply the serious faced passenger
arcDrd his eyebrows and said:
Just take this tip from me. 1 know all
Of them. When I see one coming I'll pass
you the name, and you can bawl II out"
A monent or two elapsed willie the
megaphone told all about the sculpture up
on the Stock Exchange building. Then
came a nudge from the notwithstanding
man, along with the whispered name Of
Morgan. At the same time he pointed to
a medium-sized man on a nearby corner.
"Yonder is j. Fierpont Morgan shout
ed the megaphone man. "Hs IL the king
OF trustmakers, and one OF the richest
men in the world"
At this outburst the man on the cor
ner almost took a back somers1ult. and.
on perceiving go many eyes staring down
at him he took to his heels and disap-
peared down an adjacent alley
There was another nudge Just then and
another whisper, and the m~egaphone man
bawled out:
See thst man by the statue OF George
Washington? That man is John ID. Rookie
Teller, the head CT the Oil Trust, with an
income of sI.0Oo. 900 a week.
The figure that had stood so still by the
statue staggered and would have fallen
had not a companion caught his arm.
There were more nudgcs. and each time
some name known throughout the country
Se-eohoed between the big skyscrapers, and
almost every time the man at whom the
eyes of the sight-seers were directed took
pr~ecipitateiy to his heels. At last, as the
stage was passing by a short, thick
bearded man, the mcSaphone roarcd out:
You now see MIR. Carnegie, the man