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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28
TWENTY-FIVE OTHERS INJURED
IN WRECK ON THE BOSTON
AND MAINE ROAD.
aEAREnD COLLISION OF PASSENGERS
FIRE BREAKS OUT IN THE DEBRIS
AND FOUR COACHES ARE RE.
DUcED TO ASHES.

Lincoln, Mass, Nov. 28.-Nineteen
persons lost their lives In the reareno
collision at Baker Bridge station on
the main line of the Fitchburg division
Of the Boston and Maine railroad dur
ing the night. twenty-five persons
were more or less seriously injured
and others sustained cuts and bruises
Those who were witnesses Of the
collision say the local train, which
consisted of four cars, three Of them
passenger coaches, had just pulled out
OF Baker Bridge depot. q small fiag
station about q mile and q half west
Of Lincoln station. Just west Of the
flag station Is highway bridge over
the railroad. The train had entered .
deep cut after passing under the
bridge and the rear car had just
cleared the structure when the heavy
Montreal express, consisting OF nine
cars and two locomotives. crashed into
the rear. The impact was terrific and
probably q majority Of those killed met
death almost instantly. The forward
locomotive telescoped the rear car and
passed part OF the way through the
coach Immediately ahead. The sec.
ond car OF the local train was also
badly damaged. but the drst car and
locomotive escaped.
The leading engine Of the express
was practically destroyed In the col.
Nsion and the work was completed
when fire, which Immediately broke
out among the wreckage. consumed all
the woodwork OF the two rear cars.
which remained on the roadbed. and
incinerated q number Of the victims.
The fireman Of the leading locomotive.
Charles e. Barnard, was burned to
death in his cab. but Engineer Con.
ners managed to escape In some
strange manner.
The second locomotive Of the ex.
press was badly damaged. The engi.
-->rssnA fireman Of this engine e..
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28
PERKINS AGAIN on STAND
VICE PRESIDENT OF NEW YORK
LIFE EXPLAINS RECENT
DISCLOSURES.

New York, Nov. 28.-George w. Per-
kins, vice president of the New York
Life Insurance company and member
of j. P. Morgan & Co., was the first
witness called before the legislative
life insurance Investigating committee
during the day. He testified that he
was insured in the New York Life
company to the amount OF $4,000.
Some of the policies he held were
taken out when he was an agent OF
the company. On six Of them the
commissions amounted to $316 and he
received these commissions from the
agent.
In explaining the testimony Of last
Friday, when the statement was made
by a witness that $56,720 was paid to
Andrew Hamilton, "the legislative in
surance generalissimo, by ]. p. Nor
gan & Co., Mr.. Perkins testified that in
1901 ]. P. Morgan & Co. paid $56,72O to
the Central National bank and the
New York Security and Trust COM
pany. This payment was made, he
said, upon the request Of President
Mccall OF the New York Life to take
up loans to Edward E. Mccall and An
drew Hamilton. which those institu-
tions had made at the request of Pres
ident Mccall.
Edward f. Mccall is justice OF
the New York state supreme court
and is brother Of President Mccall
OF the New York Life Insurance com
pany.
Mr.. Perkins said that $40,193, which
was paid by Kidder, Peabody & Co. OF
Boston to the New York Life Insur.
ance company In September, 1904. as
the profits of loan to that company
Of $930,000 was paid to Mr.. Perkins as
trustee of the ''nylic" fund and that he
(Mr. Perkins) had negotiated the loan
for that fund. AS the "nylic" fund did
not have that amount Of money to
spare the New York Life Insurance
company loaned the money to Kidder,
Peabody & Co. on Mexican Central
railroad bonds. which we're deposited
by the Boston company. The life In
surance company received interest at
the rate OF per cent as it's profit In
the transaction and the "nylic" fund
got the $40,193. The "nylic" fund be.
longs to the agents of the New York
Life Insurance company.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28
HELPLESS Victims cremated.


Many Of the passengers of this train
assisted in the work Of rescue. The
glare of the burning wreck lighted the
awful scene and above the hiss of es'
Gaping steam and the cracking of the
flames arose the shrieks and groans OF
the victims and the excited cries OF
the rescuers. Several passengers In
the rear car of the local train were
caught in the ruins of the locomotive
and coach and the flames prevented
help from reaching them.
Calls for assistance and medical aid
were sent to Boston, Concord and other
places. The fire department OF Lin
coin arrived within half an hour, but
the men were unable to make much
impression on the burning pile. They
succeeded. however, In saving por-
tions Of the third car.
When the accident occurred the To-
cal train was said to have been a few
minutes late and, knowing that the ex.
press was close behind, 1t is claimed
that the rear brakeman, Donor Gau.
thier, who was killed. set out red
lights indicating danger. When the
express train was at Lincoln station,
about a mile and half east of the
scene OF the wreck, the Montreal train
was running at its usual rate of speed,
estimated at all the way from thirty.
five to fifty miles an hour. 1t Is said
that a signal calling for caution was
set against the express at Lincoln sta.
tlon. The theory Of railroad men Is
that smoke from the engine of the
local train as 1t passed under the
Baker highway bridge obscured the
red lights In the rear. From the bridge
oil the way back to Lincoln station
the track is straight. The night was
dark and at times during the evening
Q mist hung over the tracks. What
ever the reason the first engineer OF
the Montreal train, whose duty it was
to scan the signals, failed to observe
any warnings.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28
OteTIIng NShl6uy Nu-, NHfCagu OF MI. 5y7
ANNUAL SALE. TEN MILLION BOXES
some Seasonable Advice

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and SO altogether good that no one
should hesitate about buying it ia pre-
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Schulz & Ketcham
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28
Fined $1,000 for Bribery.

Milwaukee. Nov. %. Charles Nader
OF Chicago pleaded guilty In the munic-
ipal court to giving q bribe OF $1,000
for q contract for roofing an addition
to the county hospital in 1901 and was
fined $1,000. Nader at the time was
agent for Chicago roofing Arm. He
was indicted by . grand jury about
two years aga
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28
Full of Tragic Meaning

are these lines from j. III. Simons, Of
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28
NINE WORkMEN MEET DEATH
PLANT OF THE KEYSTONE POW.
DER COMPANY At EMPORIUM,
PA, DESTROYED.

Emporium, Pa, Nov. 28.-The Key.
stone Powder company's mixinghouse
and one Iackinghouse blew up during
the day, killing nine workmen and in
Turing two others.
The town was badly shaken, but
there was no damage to town property.
The Keystone works were completely
destroyed.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28
Field's Condition Critical.

Chicago, Nov. 2S.-The condition OF
Marshall Field, Jr., who was acci-
dentally shot last week while examin-
Ing revolver, Is much worse and his
strength Is said by his physicians to
be falling. The physicians declare
they have not yet abandoned hope. but
admit that the condition OF the patient
q extremely critical.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28
KING Haakon Takes the Oarn.

Christiania, Nov. 2S.-King Haakon.
before the Norwegian parliament at
noon, took the oath to support the
constitution. In subsequent speech
his majesty said his motto was "All
for Norway" He hoped the whole ma
hon would cooperate In his efforts to
benefit the country and said he would
govern according to the constitution
and the peoples will as represented by
nariiament
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28
SENTENCE is POSTPONED.
Senator Burton's Attorneys Will Ask
for New Trial.

St. Louis, Nov. 2S.-On motion OF
counsel for the defense Judge Van De
venter, In the United States circuit
court, postponed the passage of sen
tence upon United States Senator ].
r. Burton of Kansas, convicted early
Sunday morning of having acted as
the paid attorney Of the Rialto Grain
and Securities company before the
postoffice department, until 10 O'Clock
Wednesday morning, when the defense
will present it's reasons for asking a
new trial.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28
Calumet
Baking
Powder
The Standard OF
eerfeot Baking.
Expresses sympathy for Jews.

Moscow, Nov. 2S.-The zemstvo
congress, by practically unanimous
vote, expressed indignation at the
Jewish massacres and sympathy with
the victims and adopted a resolution
in favor of the immediate introduction
of the local language In the primary
schools of all non-Russian peoples.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28

Janesville, Wis, Nov. 2S.-Arthur
w. Campbell, formerly private secre-
tary of the president of Northwestern
university, is dead. He was present
at the lroauois fire in Chicago Dec. 30,
1908, and rescued many persons. he
never recovered from the shock.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28

1t is pleasure to take DR.. Dade
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28

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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28

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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28
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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1905-11-28

caped INJURY and no person
coaches of the Montreal train was in
jured. All the cars remained on the
rai1S
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-11-17
The Illusion Of Relna Busy.

A ridiculous notion is common that
we live in time when there are more
important world affairs on hand than
have ever been known before, and
there are silly people, both men and
women, who expect to be admired for
useless expenditure of their nervous
and physical energies on all sorts of
absolutely foolish objects into which
no particle of intellect enters. Sim
ply to be always busy, always occu-
pied, always doing something, passing
restlessly from one piece of work to
another, to have their hands full, new
er to be idle, as they say, seems to be
their ideal life.
These precious muddlers, who plume
themselves on never being idle, pass
their time doing useless things under
the pretext of being busy, and they
assume credit for a purposeless ac-
tivity. The biggest people, those who
have really thought out their plan
of life, do not make the mistake of
doing what need not be done. They
have time for everything because they
do not imagine they are economizing
time by occupying every few spare
minutes in being unnecessarily busy.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-11-17


lsr. wilkins had a dollar. 50 he said be
a little sum he'd borrowed from a gentle
=, man named Gray;
Then Gray he took that dollar. and he
said 1T seems to me
Ia better pay that little debt ! owe to Nc
Then McAfee the dollar paid upon bill to
Smart:
By Smart twas paid to Thomson, and by
Thomson paid to Hart.
And SO that coin kept rolling, as very
busy "plunk"
Until II paid indebtedness amounting IN the
chunk
To more than forty dollars and 1t may
be rolling yet,
And. all because this wilkins thought he d
better pay debt.
For when a dollars started
On its Notwithstanding way
There hardly is limit
To the sums that 1t will pay.
Mr. Wilkins knew a kindness that he might
have done for Gray.
But he wasn't feeling kindly, SO be thought
1t wouldn't pay ~
Then Gray, not being grateful, said, 1T
I've done sufficient fayors for that blasted
McAfee -
Then McAfee felt ugly, and he took a
whack at Smart.
Who passed it on to Thomson, who passed
it on to Hart
And SO no act of kindness was done through
all that day.
But many an act that ranked in most
unpleasant way
And many soul was longing for the help
to fit its need
And all because this wilkins didn't do a
kindly deed.
For a dollar or kindness.
Rule is still the same, | say;
Ii you wish to see 1t rolling.
Better start 1t on its way.
San Francisco Call.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-11-17
FROM TEXAS.
Some Coffee Tacis From the Lone Star
State.

From beautiful farm down in
Texas, where gushing springs unite to
form babbling brooks that wind their
sparkling way through fioweyy lneads,
comes a note of gratitude for delivery
from the coffee habit.
when my baby boy came to me five
years ago l began to drink Postum
Food Coffee, having a feeling that it
would be better for him and me than
the old kind Of drug-laden coffee.
was not disappointed in It, for it en-
abled me, small, delicate woman, to
nurse bouncing healthy baby IA
months.
Il have since continued the use OF
Postum, for have grown fond of it,
and have discovered to my joy that it
has entirely relieved me of bilious
habit which used to PROSTATE me two
or three times year. causing much
discomfort to my family and suffering
to myself
MY brother-inlaw was cured OF
chronic constipation by leaving off the
old kind of coffee and using Postum.
lie has become even more fond Of 1t
than he was of the old coffee.
In fact. the entire family. from the
latest arrival "a 2-year-old, who always
calls for his potie first thing in the
morning), up TO the head of the house.
think there is no drink SO good or SO
wholesome as Postum Name given
By Postum Co, Battle Creek, Mich.
There's a reason.
Read the little book THE Road to
Wellyille" In pkgs.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-11-17
SNAKE BITES DOOMED
THE BANK.
Texas Planters Learn the Danger
OF Farmyard Hiding Places and
Deposits Are Doubled.

The farmers of the Flatonia (Texas)
section of the cotton belt for some
reason have long been shy of banks,
and have been in the habit of putting
their money in receptacles of various
kinds such as old shoes and cans.
A few weeks ago Charles Bosler, a
farmer living near Flatonia, went to
a corner of his yard one day, and in a
few minutes came hurrying back,
shouting to his wife that he had been
bitten by copperhead snake. Bosler
came near dying from the effects of
the snakes poison, and it was not until
two days after the snake bit him that
Bosler was able. to tell how it hap
pened. He had gone to get $50 he had
on deposit in an old shoe under a
board in the corner of the yard, and as
he reached in to get the shoe the snake
struck him.
Upon hearing the story Mrs. Bosler
went out to get the money where her
husband had left it The shoe was still
under board, and the farmers wife
reached into to get it, when she caught
glimpse of copperhead snake lying
there. She was not quick enough to
jerk her hand back before the snake
struck her. 1t sank its fangs in her
thumb so deep that she dragged the
copperhead along from under the board
when she pulled her hand out. She
shook it loose and ran screaming to the
house.
As soon as he had attended to his
wife's snake bite, Farmer Bosler got
his gun, went out to the place where
the snake seemed to be standing guard
and lifted the board. Coiled on the
old shoe was the copperhead and it
showed fight at once. BosIer jumped
aside and shot the serpent's head off.
The $50 was all right in the shoe and
Farmer Bosler removed it to the house.
The news of the adventure of the
Bosler family with the copperhead
snake soon spread about the neighbor-
hood, and then the farmers began COM
ing into Flatonia every day to deposit
in the banks all sorts and conditions of
money. The cashier of the First Ma
tional Bank of Flatonia says that for
the week ending Saturday the deposits
in that bank were double what they
had been in any previous week in its.
history.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-11-17

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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-11-17
How He Was Crushed.

-
A dudish young man sat on the end
of the seat of an open car with a
sens t proprietor ip. when another
dud young man jumped upon the
footboard and stared at him for mo-
ment and then said :.
"Thir, why donth you hitch along?'
"Why should hitch along?" queried
the other.
Because, thir-because / lisp. If
you will pay attention you will see
thath lisp. I have had a front tooth
taken out, thir. Yes, thir, have had
front tooth taken out so as to make
me lisp, and demand, thir-I demand
thath you hitch along and give me the
end seat"
you are way off, my lisping friend.
Can't you see that | have just had
my ears manicured and that they are
of beautiful pink"
s'Oh, thee" said the lisping young
man. Eyes, thir, thee, and / will
admit thath pink ears beat a lisp, but
| will climb over you and thit down
and feel duly crushed. Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-11-17
Where It Realty Mas cotd

At the boarding house on Morrison
street they were Discussing climate.
The Portland man declared that the
ground last 1~fnter never froze to a
depth OFT inches.
1T froze two feet where l came
FROM said the man from. New Jer-
sey.
up in the Adirondack mountains, .
remarked the New Yorker, ''the
ground last winter froze to depth of
ten feet"
The Iowa man sat quietly munching
his lettuce while the others expect
'antly awaited his effort to outmatch
the New Yorker.
"Pshaw!" he said, that's nothing.
Why, back in Des Moines the ground
froze SO deep that the Chinese en-
peror sent a request to Gov. Cum
mings to start fire. He complained
that his subjects had cold feet
Portland Oregonian.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1905-11-17
Recorders Joke with Ioeb.

When some of the newspapers were
printing funny stories about William
Loeb, private secretary to President
Roosevelt, during the last campaign,
alleging that he was the champion
blame-taker in America" because he
was always SO willing to assume re.
sponsibility for anything that went
wrong at the White House, Mr.. Loeb
laughed with the very men who wrote
the yarns. But one day his patience
was taxed. The Presidents train had
been delayed seven hours between
Philadelphia and New York while he
was going to Oyster Bay. Next morn
ing one of the New York dailies had
shese flaming headlines: Presidents
Train Waterbound-Loeb Not to
Blame" See here, boys" said the
secretary next morning at Oyster Bay,
that's going too far Every WE'LL"
said the reporter who had written the
story, 'Tll correct it tomorrow and
say you were to blame Chicago
Chronicle.