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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-02-17
Feb. ro-McCue hanged.

Charlottesville, Va. (SpeciaD. j.
Samuel McCuc, former Mayor of this
city, was hanged in the county jail here
at "a O'clock Friday morning for the
murder Of his wife, Fannie NJ. McCue,
on the night of Sunday, September 4,
1904. McCue was pronounced dead 10
minutes after the trap had been sprung.
His neck was not broken, death result
ing from strangulation.
Immediately after the execution Nc
Cues three spiritual advisers gave out
the following signed statement:
81. Samuel McCue stated in our pres
ence and requested US to make Public
that ne did not wish to leave this world
with suspicion resting on any human
being other than himself; that he alone
was responsible for the deed, iupelled
to it by an evil power beyond his con-
troll, and that he recognized his sentence
as just
The death warrant was read to the
prisoner in his cell by City. Sergeant c..
w. Rogers at 2 80 O'Clock. and the pris-
oner went to the scaffold Immediately
atteiw aiu' ~ o'NSu Pet i"s'io ~ ~"
his coat oenind' and went from MS cell
IN his SHIRT sleeves. His step was frnl'
and not quiver OF muscle was 10 De
seen IN his body.
McCue listened calmly to the death
warrant, and wnen Sergeant Rogers
asked DO you think that II gave you
my arm you would be able to walk to
the scatfold! he replied calmly: 1 can
walk without your aid
On the way ne stumbled once or
twice, and the ofhcers proftered ASSIST
ance. 1t was not needed, however:
There was no weakness. McCuc had
merely slipped on the frozen snow.
Watched by a silent crowd OF per-
haps 80 people, MoCue mounted the
scaffold. BY this Time the sunlight was
streaming across the house tops around
him. Not a muscle of his lace moved.
Rogers and two guards assembled the
scaffold with him. The prisoner was
placed over the trap, his arms were
pinioned and his ankles strapped. The
black gown was folded around him and
the moose was adjusted.
Before he placed the rope about Nc
Cues neck. Sergeant Rogers put his arm
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-02-17
FINANCIAL.

Philadelphia Rapid Transit's INCOME is
about $1,000 4 day ahead Of last year.
President Dillingham;, OF inc Chcss-
peake & Ohio, is expected 10 retire
shortly.
Repub.ic Steers Sfo,ooo.ooo bond issue
is now. settled fact. The bonds are 5
per cent; and will run thirty years.
1--WE have enough stock in hand to
block the Ryan Blair reorganization!
scheme says cx-President Williams. Of
the Seaboard Air Line.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-02-17
Notes Of the Departments.

Acid placed on ropes is believed to
have caused the death of Frank Ham
by. painter. at the Cairo.
Miss Julia Murrell died while on her
way to work at the Government Print
ing Office.
Senator AIcComas declares himself
heartily in favor of the Railway Rate
Bill. now before the Senate.
The Olney treaty is cited TO show that
the Senate always has refused to dele
gate the power OF Congress TO make
war.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-02-17
Her Ashes in Washhasket.

New Rochelle, N. y. (SpeciaD in
accordance with an odd clause in the
will of Mrs. Constance Miller, an aged
and wealthy widow OF New Rochelle,
her ashes have been deposited in work
basket she had used for years. The
basket was buried by New Rochelle
undertaken in grave beside the rest
ing place of her departed husband, John
b. Miller.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-02-17
Release Their Prisoners.

Manila (By Cable The band Of
ladrones which attacked the town Of
San Francisco de Malaban in the prov
inee OF Cavitc January n, and captured
the wife and two children of former
Gov. Trias, is being hard pressed by a
troop of cavalry under Mai. F. w.
Sibley. They have released Mrs. Trias
and her two children, whom they were
holding for ransom.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-02-17
M'CUE HANGED;
CONFESSED GUILT
Walked With Firm Step to Death on
the ScaffoId.
TOLD THE MINISTER'S OF HIS CRIME.
Prayed For His Family and Friends Ills
Body Buried Beside the Graves Of His
Parents 10 AIbemarle County-features OF
the Hanged Man as Composed as II He Had
Died Peaceful. Natural Death.

Sept. 4-Mrs. McCuc MUIR
dcred.
Sept. 5-Coroner's inquest be
gun.
Sept. 7-McCue arrested.
Sept. 8-Coroner's verdict.
Sept. Io-Grand jury indictS
McCuc.
Sept. 27-McCue arraigned.
Sept. a8-McCue pleads not
Guilty.
Oct. I8LTrial begun.
Oct. Especial venire~ sum
moned from Peters
burg.
Oct. Io-Venire SUNNI 0 ned
from Richmond.
Oct. 2o-Venires from Frcder-
icksburg and War
renton.
Oct. 25-Taking of testimony
begins.
Oct. 27--McCuc's son takes
stand.
Nov. CLOSING argument be-
gun.
Nov. 5--McCue found guilty.
Nov. o-Motion for new trial
overruled.
Nov. o-McCue sentenced to
death.
Jan.I2-State Supreme Court
denies writ OF err
Jan. 17-Governor grants re-
pricve OF 20 days.
Jan. 17-Counsel file amended
petition with State
Supreme Court.
Jan. 26-Supplenlentary appeal
denied.
Feb. o-Arpeal TO y. S. Su-
preme Court de-
MED.
Feb. o-Final appeal to Gov
ernor.
Feb. Io-McCue hanged.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31

Hundreds of war veterans have kidney
and bladder trouble.
Impure drinking lCHter, sleeping
0n the ground, aud all manner Of
exposures to aCet and cold ICeGtheF
produced cGtarrh of the Kidneys
md bladder,
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31

The first example of the strange
"bear-monkey" (Arctocebus Calabaren-
sis) to reach England alive has just
been received at the Geological Gar
dens. 1t was made known to science
by the Rev. A. Robb, a missionary at
Old Calabar. who in 1859 sent home a
spirit specimen, but was unable to
obtain from the natives any account
of its habits, beyond the facts that it
was nocturnal and lived in trees. The
animal is about ten inches long. COW
cred with woolly hair of a yellowish.
brown color; the muzzle is much more
pointed than in Bosman's potto. a com.
moner animal, of which many individ-
uals have been exhibited at the Gar.
dens. The hands and feet are very Pc
%culiar, the digits being divided into
two opposing portions, which have
been likened to the arrangement of the
toes in a parrots foot, and are prob
ably adapted to secure a firm grip on
slender branches and twigs. During
the day the animal remains at the bot
tom Of its cage, rolled up in a furry
ball, in which the head is completely
concealed. But at dusk it wakes up
and moves about, though slowly and
cautiously, reverting to it's natural
habit of coming out at night in search
of insects, which constitute a large
part of its food.-London Standard.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
The No-C1othes Cure.

Gustave Nagel was a very delicate
child and grew to manhood almost a
chronic invalid. His parents had spent
fortunes on medical attention for him,
and he had consumed barrels of medi-
cine, but all to no effect. Some years
ago he conceived the idea that modern
a lived too far from the state in
which nature intended that he should,
and he resolved to return to the habits
of his primeval forefathers and become
strong or die in the attempt. He dis.
carded all clothes, except what the
law required, ate only raw foods and
no meat, and bathed only in water of
a natural temperature.
AT first, of course, he suffered severe.
ly, but in a few years he was able to
walk barefooted in the snow with as
little discomfort as the ordinary mortal
suffers going shoeless on a sandy beach
in summer. When he bathes he never
dries himself; when he sleeps he pre-.
fers the cold, bare ground; he never has
his hair cut short, deeming it a pro.
lection from the weather given man
by nature: his food is of fruits, vegeta.
bles, bread and nuts. Nagel is about
to be married, but l am not able to
say whether the woman of his choice
is a new woman or has primeval ten.
denotes like his own.-LondOn Taller.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
Jealousy to "the Limit"

A young man was very jealous of a
girl he adored. She was a bit more
coquettish than other girls. "Your
eyes can tiirt in all directions" he said
n day, and cut them out. "You
might wave your hands to somebody"
and cut them off. with your feet O
can make signs to some one under the
table," and cut those off. Il forgot
that you can also speak," he remarked
three days later, and tore her tongue
out. you shall not SMILE" he said,
and knocked her teeth out. $50, l am
a bit quieter now" he remarked the
day after he had cut her hair off, and
for the first time he was going to trust
her to herself. "Now she is ugly, but
still | feel she is quite M own he
said On leaving her. But when he re-
turned the girl had disappeared-she
had run away with the proprietor of a
show.-Fables of Eugen Heltai.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
Effects of Prosperity.

In the six years of the country's
greatest prosperity, from 1897 to 1903
average prices of breadstuffs advanced
60 per cent; meats, 23.1 per cent.
dairy and garden products, SOL per
cent, and clothing Oh. All these were
products of tn" farmer and stockman,
VINO prohted | than any other class
OF the commuA.,y by these advances
The miner benefited 42.1 per cent. by
that advance in the average price of
metals. The only decrease in the aver
age prices of commodities in that De
ROD was in railway freight rates, which
decreased from .79S per ton-mile il.
1897 to 1853 in 1903, a loss of "A per
cent. The report of the Interstate
Commerce Commission shows that the
average increase in the pay of railroad
employees in that period was & trile
above So per cent.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
A Bit of

The Mansfield co. News reports that
"again have the heart of the radiant,
fragrant young maiden and heart of
cavalier flaming with love been blend
ed into one by nuptial rites. Miss
Belle Richey is the maiden and Ollie
Dennis is the cavalier, and they quiet
ly went to the Presbyterian parsonage
Monday night, and the Rev. Glenrole
Mcqueen performed their rites, and
the minister's words that linked their
hearts in jeweled chains of connubial
love fell like the dews of heaven on
their bowed heads. The bride had
all the instincts of a lady, and is a
connubial prize, rich and rare. She
is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ey, deceased, a family of high social
prestige. The groom is a son of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Dennis. and most
respected residents. He is most gen
ial and of unsullied name, and the
happy twain's many friends hope that
their path, now so radiant with joy,
may never be darkened with sorrows
shadows. Another witching beauty's
brown eyes will beam through bridal
wells here before the daisy rears its
gentle head again, and how beautiful
and touching is the wooing and win
ming of coy, modest maiden's heart
by cavalier in whose heart loves
strange, mad fever burns!!'
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
Nevsy Gleanings.

The Government now has on band
about 49,, COO, 600 silve- dollars.
The largest farm in the world, which
until recently was in Missouri. has
beer extended into Iowa.
The largest station for receiving and
transmitting wireless messages is be-
ing erected neal Pisa, Italy.
Persons are killed at the rate of one
for every day in the year : the New
York City streets by vehicles.
An automobile omnibus line to COM
pete with the street railway system is
being planned for Denver, Col.
Wireless telegraph messages have
been sent from Kansas City to Cleve-
land, Ohio, 725 miles, without relay
ing.
Colorado burros are being purchased
in large numbers by the United States
Government for use in the Philippine
Islands.
New York now has an anti-pistol
law imposing a fine of $3.50 or impris-
onment for six months, or both, for
carrying concealed weapons.
The famous Popocatepti Mountain
has finally been sold to a New York
syndicate. which is already working
the sulphur deposits in the crater of
the volcano.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31

Mrs. Ella Lee, frankfort, Ind. writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
Il want to thank you for what your medi-
cine has don for me.
"Thres years ago l had Inflammation of the
ovaries and ulcers on my womb. l was under
the doctors care for about three months, and
the only time l was not in pain was when
under the influence of morphine. The doctor
finally said I never would be better. and
would be an invalid the rest of my life. I had
given up in despair, but one evening I came
across one of your advertisements and decided
to write you for advice. I did SO and com.
menced to take Lydia E.. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound. l began to improve at once,
and to-day I am a well woman, and I know
1t is all due to your advice and medicine.
Mrs. J. H. Farmer of 2S09 Elliott
Avenue, st. Louis, Mo-, writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:-
~ cannot thank you enough for what your
advice and medicines have done for me,
They have done me more good than all the
doctors l ever had.
"For the last eight years I have suffered
with female troubles; was very weak: had
nervous prostration, and could not do nv
work; but l am happy to say Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has made a
different woman of me. l am in perfect
health and have gained in weight from %
pounds to 122 pounds"
No other medicine in the world has
received such widespread and unquali-
fed endorsement. No other medicine
has such a record for actual cures of
female ills as has Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
to write her for advice. She has
guided thousands to health. Address,
Lynn, Mass.
IN Best Understands A WomanVe Tile
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
SUCCESSFUL AIR FLIGHT
Prof. John Montgomery Makes Three
Trials Of Aeroplane.
Cuts Loose From His Balloon at an
Altitude of Three Thousand
Feet.

San Francisco, Cal.-With an airship
modelled after the lines of a bird, Pro-
fessor John Montgomery, of Santa
Clara College, has made a series Of
flights in Santa Cruz County. He used
a balloon to take his ~aeroplane up to a
great height, but cut loose from it when
the desired height was reached, and
sailed with or against the wind, up-
ward or downward, as he pleased.
Two large machines, the largest
weighing only forty-two pounds, were
constructed at Santa Clara College.
These were packed and transported
to the Santa Cruz Mountains. and the
services of an aeronaut with a hot-air
balloon were secured.
Many trials with models were made
before any person was allowed to navi-
gate the large machines. No one who
saw the action of these models when
dropped from a height of 100 feet or so
ever had any apprehension Of the ma
chimes on the point of safety. What
was admired above all was the GER
tainty with which Professor Montgom-
cry could adjust the models and exactly
predict every movement in their de-
scent to the earth.
All being arranged, the first flight
took place. The machine with the
%aeronaut was cut loose at a height of
about 800 feet. The ~aeronaut, never
having been in an a%eroplane before,
could not persuade himself to remain
quietly in the machine and endeavor to
direct it, but chung to tie side appar-
atus, and descending in a rapid spiral,
landed in perfect safety. The next
flight took place a day or SO later and
was very successful.
The ~aeronaut, after cutting loose at
an altitude of $500 feet, put himself
first in opposition to the wind, gliding
for some hundreds of yards, and then,
turning with a graceful curve, with his
back to the wind, maintained himself
perfectly motionless in the air for a
time; then, gliding with the wind, he
turned and descended in graceful
spirals, landing a few hundred feet
from the starting point.
On the third test the ~aeroplane was
not cut loose from the balloon until a
height of 5000 feet was reached. With
its distended wings it looked like a
large, graceful bird soaring .aloft, Gid
ing in great large curves, first against
the wind and then. with it, and that
not only once, but very many times;
then, shooting down like a bird of prey
after its quarry, and then soaring up
again to greater heights than before.
The navigator finally landed in a field
of his W choosing, avoiding trees,
houses and other obstacles at pleasure.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
Quaint English Custom.

Among the QUART old customs ant
ceremonies still kept alive in country
districts there is only one thorn Dance
and that is to be found at Abbot.
Bromley, in StafforGshire. Every yea.
at the village wake the dance is still
carried out. The origin of the horn
dance is lost in the mists of history
but it has been traced back as far as
the eleventh century. Until the seven
teenth century it was practiced at
Christmas, on New Years Day and on
Twelfth Day. In the time of Henry
VIII. the dance was performed in front
of the church every Sunday and a col
lection for the poor taken up from the
spectators.-New York Herald.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
The Comment Ferninine.

Probably she was a typewriter, but
her costume suggested a maid in a
comedy from the French. She vas
blonde, and wore a black frock with a
coquettish little white apron, a white
tulle bow at the back of her neck and
a string of almost-pearls around it
She pushed her way into the elevator
cage at the fifth floor and announced
to the boy who was running it (she
called him 'Charlie') that she wanted
to get out at the second floor.
At the fourth floor six men crowded
into the a and iammed her into the
corner.
"For heavens sake, Charlie,' she
cried out, don't take on any more"
Charlie let the car drop down to the
ground floor before he opened the door
again. Then, as the occupants of the
car pushed into the corridor, she re
marked, apropos of nothing, but with
an acid touch to her voice:
Every n who wears a derby ISM
a raan."-New York Press.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
500 Reward. MOO.

The readers ofthis paper will be pleasedto
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has been able to cure in all
ltsstages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a con
stitutional disease, requires a constitutions
treatment. Halls CatarrhCureis takeninter.
nally, actingdirectly upon the blood and mu-
coussurfaces of the system, thereby destroy
ingthe foundation of the disease, and givin9
the patient strength by building up the con.
stitution and assisting nature in doing it:
work. The proprietors have so much faith In
itscuratiye powers that they offer One Hun.
dredDollar RS forany case that it fails to cure.
e for list of testimonials. Address
F.. j. CHENEY Il Co., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constitution.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
Feminine Fancies.

Nearly one-fifth of the students at
Swiss universities are women.
Wives of Siamese noblemen cut their
hair SO that it sticks straight I'D from
their heads.
Mrs. Ingeborg Nelson. mother of
United States Senator Knute Nelson
of Minnesota, is ove- %ninety-nine years
of age.
Miss Frances Benjamin Johnston of
Washington. d. c., has lately been no
tilted by the French Government that
the decoration Palmes Academioues
has been conferred on her by hat
Government.
Miss Edith Phelps, of Columbia Mo
who has been elected as librarian Inv
the Carnegie Library Board of Okla
homa, is the granddaughter of Govern
or John s.. Phelps, of Missouri.
While women are invading nearly
all of the employments heretofore he
longing to men, milliners. both hero
and abroad, report a growing di6icultv
In finding girls willing to devote them
selves to the art of making hats.
Queen Elena of Italy il said 70 no.
lieve in the Montenegrin superstition
that it is unlucky for child to sleen
in a into which any light memo,
trates, and light proof shutters are
the order in the nursery i Rome
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
-.c1iest Green Onions.

The John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse.
Wis, always have something new, some
thing valuable. This year they offer
among their new money making vege-
tables, an Earliest Green Eating Onion.
1t Is a winner, Mr.. Farmer and Gardener!
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
Mrs Mfarmer IArs. Ella Lee \

An eminent physician says that
"Women are not truthful; they will lie
to their physician" This statement
should be qualified; women do tell the
truth, but not the whole truth, to a
male physician, but this is only in re-
gard to those painful and troublesome
disorders peculiar to their sex.
There car be no more terrible ordeal
to a delicate, sensitive, refined woman
than to be obliged to answer certain
questions when those questions are
asked, even by her family physician.
This is especially the case with un-
married women.
Is it any wonder, then, that women
continue to suffer and that doctors
fail to cure female diseases when they
cannot get the proper information to
work on?
This is the cas- why thousands and
thousands of women are now corre-
spending with Mrs. Pinkham. To her
they can and do give every symptom,
SO that she really knows more about
the true condition of her patients,
through her correspondence with them
than the physician who personally
questions them.
Ifyou suffer from any form Of trouble
peculiar to women, write at once to
Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass, and she
will advise you free of charge.
The fact that this great boon, which
is extended freely to women by Mrs.
Pinkham, is appreciated, the thou
sands of letters received by her prove.
Many such grateful letters as the fol-
lowing are constantly pouring in.
Ask Mrs, pinkham'S AdyiCe-A Won
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
FKrITS AND RERRIEs-EnEsm-

State. 1904. choice, per H.. q a %
Good to prime, per b.. p a &c
Common to fair. 80. % a. "a
Pacific Coast, 1904, choice. p a %
Good to prime, per b.. 2j "a 26
Old odds. .......... IL "a u
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
A Human Geyser,

"A description of how the men looked
rs they came up above the surface of
the river was given by A. G. Valentine,
a Brooklyn business man, who was
looking out into the East River from an
upper story of a warehouse nearby.
"First," he said. 81 saw two bags rise
high from the rivers surface, followed
by a geyser of water. Then l saw the
body of a man hurled upward, and
then fall. Three more bodies fol-
lowed"
The explosion occurred at the mid
river end of the Brooklyn section, about
fifteen feet beyond the pier line. All
that portion of the work will have to
be done over again.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
MRS. CHADwICK's SENTENCE.
Ten Years in Prison, But Sentence
Stayed Pending Appeal.

Cleveland, Ohio.-A sentence of ten
years was imposed upon Mrs. Cassie
L. Chadwick by Judge Robert w. Tay-
Ter in the United States District Court
at 8 o'clock in the evening. By good
behavior she can reduce the time OF
Imprisonment to eight years and four
months.
AS soon as the sentence was pro-
nounced Lawyer J.. P. Dawley, of cOun-
sci for Mrs. Chadwick, took exceptions
to the sentences upon each count, ex-
cept the first. The defense intends to
make the claim that the court cannot
impose a separate sentence for each
count; that the law applies to the gen
eral charge instead of each incident of
a general charge.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31
Reasons For Laughter.

When the young mistress of the house
entered the kitchen she carried her
self with great dignity. She had come
to call the cook to account.
MARY" she said, Il must insist
that you keep better hours, and that
you have less company in the kitchen
at night. Last night 1 was kept awake
because of the u%proarious laughter of
one of your women friends"
"Yis, mum, 1 know" Mary replied
cheerfully, "but she couldn't help it.
L was telling her how you tried to
make cake yesterday afternoon
Birmingham Post.
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31

eHob would actually cure tnem.
more cases Of cdtdrTh Of kidneys
una bladder have been cured by Pc
bined.
Address DIR. S. B. Hartman, President
OF The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
ONO, and he will be pleased to give you
the benefit Of his medical advice gratis.
All correspondence held strictly confiden-
The Penn's Grove record., 1905-03-31

Bankers in New York City have been
preparing to advance tf,a new proposed
Japanese loan. A representative of one
of the local banks that expected to
participate in the loan. said: I'VE do
not care to make public the details at
present. The terms will depend en-
tirely on the progress of peace negOtia-
tons. | do not feel disposed to name
the amount of the loan or the security
offered by the Japanese Government"