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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21
SKIN ERUPT|ONS
FOR So YEARS
Suffered Severely With Eczema All
Over Body-Examined IS Times
by Government Board Who Said
There Was No Cure-An Old
Soldier Completely Cured.
A THOUSAND THANKS
TO CUTlCURA REMEDIES

"For over thirty-fvo years I was O
severe sufferer from eczema. The cr,,p-
ton was not confined to my one place.
1t was all over my body, limbs,
and even on my head. am sixty
years old and an old soldier, and have
been examined by the Government
there was no cure for me. / have
taken all kinds of medicine and have
spent large sums Of money for doctors,
without avail. A short time ago /
decided to try the Cuticura Remedies,
and after using two cakes of Cuticura
Soap, two boxes of Cuticura Ointment,
and two bottles of Cuticura Resolvcnt,
two treatments in all, I am now well
thanks to Cutfcura. I cannot spoak
too highly of tho Cuticura Remedies.
John +. Roach, Richnondale, Ross
Co., Ohio, July IL, 1906"
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21
100000 MOTHERS
Daily Tell Other Mothers

That Cuticura Soap is the best baby
soap in the world for cleansing and
purifying the skin, and that Cuticura
Ointment is of priceless value for
soothing and healing itching, tortur-
ing, and disfiguring cruptions. A single
application of Cuticura Ointment, pre-
eedcd by a warm bath with Cuticura
Soap, gives instant relief, and refreshing
sleep for skin-tortured babies, and rest
for tired mothers. Battle the af-
fccted parts with hot water and Cuti-
cura Soap, to cleanse the surface of
crusts and scales and soften the thick
ened cu.icle; dry without hard rub
bling, and apply Cuticura Ointment
freely, to ailay itching and inflam,na-
ton, and soothe and heal.
, Cncura soap, Ointment, and Pills arc sod throughout
the world Potter Drug Chem. Corp Sole Props. RSs,on
"a Mailed Free, Low to Cure ToIturing uumon."
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21
BURTON TO PRISON MONDAY.
Senator VIII Begin His Sentence Of
Six Months That Day.

ABILENE, KAN, Oct. 20.-Joseph
Ralph Burton. former United States
Senator from Kansas. will begin
serving his six months sentence in
the county Jail at Ironton. Mo-, Mon
day next.
Burton at his home here received n
telegram from F. Fl. Lehman. his at
torney at ST. Louis. announcing that
arrangements had been made for Bur.
ton to be in court In that city Monday
morning. when the mandate Of the
United States Supreme Court uphold
Ing his sentence will be formally
presented and Burton will DO given
into the charge of the court.
Immediately on receipt of tho tele-
gram from Attorney Lehman. Burton
began the final arrangements for his
departure from Abilene. He announr.
cd that Mrs. Burton would accompany
MIN to st. Louis and later to Ironton,
taking up her residence IN that city.
Ihey would, he said. lock up their
home here. They will start for st.
Louis Sunday.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21
POE BOOK BRINGS $4,000.
First Edition Of Murders" Originally
Sold for a ShllIinn

Solo Tor smiling,
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.-Book colloc-
tors Will be surprised to learn of q
bargain In rare Americana, to wit, a
Poe first edition, which was quickly
picked up In this city for $4,000, al.
though tho original price was only
IL 1-2 cents.
The TEomsonT:tt Book Company
has just sold what. for its size. Is
probably the most valuable book III
| the world. 1t is the extremely rare
premier edition of Edgar Allan Poe's
Murders in tho Ruc Morgue." n
pamphlet of 4S pages. for which the
price mentioned above was paid.
That well-known collector of first
editions, tho late Mr.. Root, searched
for this book all his life and sent out
10000 postal cards inquirng about 1t.
| but he never heard anything of it.
This rare Poo item was published
by Nv. II. Graham, Philadelphia,
1S43." The price printed on the title
page is IL 1-2 cents. At the present
| time 1t is even more valuable that the
| first edition of "Tamerlane." that
created n sensation Mt book auction
when it went up to $500.
For years tho first edition of tho
Murders In the Rue Morgue" lay hid
den among n lot of old books In >,
/ farmers house In Duchess county.
During last summer New York
| bookworm who was spending his VA.
cation ut the farm was allowed to 70
over the stock Of books in the place.
He found the valuable pamphlet and
raid good price to the farmer for
1t.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21
In the Good Old Days Before and
Just After the War, Times
Were Lively on River.
GOOD PLAYS SEEN SoMEIIM
Chapman Family One of the First to
be on the Great Waterway and Their
Presentations Were as "Advertised''
small Outfits are the Rule
Today.

Not The least interesting rca .urc of
'ht M,sSissippi river and its HAHN tri.
DutarieS is the "show boat" Several
scores OF cabin boa "rs with Ties
pan tendencies act regularly on
beard floating theatres
The Observation-Disclosures is prob.
ably the best known troupe of river
cabin boat actors today. They have
houscboat more than 100 feet long
and 20 feet wide, OH which they rem
der popular ana classic plays in style.
So large and profitable is this boat
that full Pledged river steamer, the
Enos Taylor, is employed to tow 1t
from landing to landing. The players
live Oh the boat, and of all the actors
who travel probably none have more
comfortable quarters. There is no
packing up or unpacking of stage fur.
nishings, for the theatre goes every.
where with them.
Shows of all Kinds.
The river shows are of various
kinds, ranging from ambitious efforts
to render Shakespeare down through
plain modern comedy, vaudeville, min
strelsy, buffoonery, sleight-of-hand
and musical entertainments.
The larger companies show only at
the river towns, such as New Madrid,
LuNora, Hickman, Lake Providence,
Tiptonville and places of similar size,
where patronage is liberal at the
prices charged-from dollar down
to 10 cents. The largest floating
theatre on the river will seat nearly
three hundred persons, while some
"shows" are given in ordinary cabin
boats holding Mt the most twenty or
thirty persons.
The Poole-Marion combination. in
32-foot boat claims to make from
SIS to $40 week each from an en-
tertainment consisting of "oldtime
fiddling," seight-of-hand, ballyboo
and a Punch and Judy arrangement
When they cannot get money, they &C.
cept chickens. coon skins, Junk or
anything else which is salable.
Good Actors Seen.
In the old days before railroads had
built up the river towns and given
rapid and sure transportation between
cities the leading actors of the day
were at times obliged to have re-
course to the "show boat" for oppor-
tunity to be seen by the public.
Some of the old "show boat" COM
binations were famous from ST. Louis
to New Orleans, and not to have seen
the Chapmans on their ark in the
early sos spelled one out OF select So
ciety on the Ohio and Mississippi.
William Chapman, ST., was born in
England In 1894, and grew up among
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21
BISHOPS DAUGHTER A suuclDEa
Mrs. cowdin, Nee Potter, Said TO
Have Hanged Herself.

CROMWELL, CONN, Oct. 20.-It
was stated today that Mrs. Laura
Cowdn. daughter of bishop Henry G..
Potter, of New York, committed sui
eide By hanging. at II private sanato.
rum hera Tuesday night.
Mrs. Cowdin was al years OF age.
She came here some time ago to nm.
dergo treatment. Tuesday evening. II
Is understood, she eluded her nurses,
and later her body was found hanging
from beam II: the cellar.
The authorities fere have maintain.
cd the utmost secrecy regarding the
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21
FUNSTON GOES TO FRISCO.
Will Command Southeastern Division
from ST. louis


WASHINGTON Oct. 20.-General
, Funston has left Washington for Sar
, Francisco to turn over the command,
/, of the Department of California. to
| Brigadier-General John ]. Pershing.
General Funston will return East
, Immediately 20 1t. Louis and assume
command of the Southwestern divis.
ion. the State of Missouri, having been
transferred fIom the Northern divis-
ion to he Department of Texas, In
the Southwestern division. The Dc.
partment of Texas Will he commanded
by Brigadie:.Gencral William S. Nc.
Caskey
Acknowledgement Stephen Jocelyn
has been assigned to the command of
the Department of Columbia, with
Headquarters at Vancouver Barracks,
Washington.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21

tho bow or picking guitar. Their
music Is n strange combination of
classical and popular strains, all mod.
ified to meet the river spirit, often
haunting the memory with strains OF
melancholy and loneliness. The river
musician asserts that life OH the Mis-.
slssippi "softens feller's music."-
New York Tribune,
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21
ViRGINlAN LOCKED IN PRISON,
Prisoner Refuses to Give His Correc,
Name to Authorities.

ASPEN, COL, Oct. 20.-William
Randolph was received at the Colora.
do State penitentiary, at Canon City,
last week. to serve sentence for
forgery in Huerfano county.
Randolph Is not the convict's right
I'll me. This he refuses to divulge, In
order to save his mother disgrace ami
/ humiliation
The prisoner is .wen,y-seven years
Of age and a lawyer having rratlua ed
from one of the Healing aducationa,
institutions" In Virginia. He was
born at Richmond. Va, and is said to
come from prominent and wealthy
family
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21
Lydia e. Paskfass7,s
Vegetable GOsssEouncS

is positive cure for all those painful
ailments OF women. It will entirely
cure the worst forms of Female Com
plants. Inflammation and liberation.
Failing and Displacements and conse.
1uent Spinal Weakness. and i. peculi.
arly adapted to the Change Of Life.
1t will surely cure.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21

suicide, and Mt the sanatorium nothing
ing but the confirmation of the sui
eide could he obtained.
Mrs. Cowdin was the wife Of Win.
throp Cowdin. The body was forward.
ed to Now York yesterday s
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21
Bishop Potter al Funeral.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2O.-The funeral
oil Mrs. Laura CowdIn was held yes
terday Mt st. Marks Cathedral, at
Mount Kisco. N. Y. Bishop Potter at.
tended the service. AT the Episcopal
See House 1t was said that Mrs. Cow
din had been in Ill health three years.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21
Kidney Dos,,rEaInfs

and Backache Of either sec the Vegeta-
BILE Compound is unequallcd.
You can write Mrs. Pinkham about
yourself in strictest confidence.
LYDIA z. PINKHAu HE'D. Co.. Lyna, Hssa
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21
Dizziness, Falsafness,

Extreme Lassitude. don't-care and
want-to- be-left-alone" feeling, excit-
ability, irritability, nervousness, sleep
lessness. nat,,lency, melancholy or the
blues" and bnc!lache. These arc
sure indications of Female Weakness,
some arrangement Of the organs. For
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21

Old papers for sale mt 10 cents a
hundred. Apply at Daily Press Of.
fee.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21
Backacke.

1t has cured more cases of Female
Weakness than any other remedy the
world has ever known. tits almost in
fallible in such cases. It dissolves and
expels TuInors in an early stage of
development. That
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21
Bearxny-aovss Feeling,

causing pain, weight and headache, is
instantly relieved and permanently
cured by its use. Under all circum-
stances it acts in harmony with the
female system. It corrects
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-10-21
k,Fegusarffy

Suppressed or Painful Periods, Weak
ness of the Stomach. Indigestion. Rloat-
ing, Nervous Prostration, Headache,
General Debility. Also
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-03-15
NIGH UNTO DEATH
Narrow Escape Of Car Filled With Pas
sengers Averted BY
Bridge Tender.

Chicago. March IA crowded eitc.
tric car on North avenue ran over ga
abutment Of a temporary bridge over
branch Of the Chicago river tonight
and a ser Gus accident was ayerod
only by the presence OF mind Of the
bridge tender.
The bridge which was swinging
open was turned back SO the car In.
stead of pluugiug into the river. which
IL twenty-five feet deep at that point.
struck the scOw which supports the
bridge. TIE rear wheels remained on
the track while the front cf the car
rested on the scow. fifteen feef below
the street level Passengers piled up
against the front door Of The car and
in the struggle 10 escape we've injured.
one. Mrs Elizabeth Biuhm So year,
old. may be fatally injured She had
recently unjei gone an operation ana
The shock caused the wound ~ res
open.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-03-15

It is expected that Frances oppo.
sition to any such scheme viii finally
lead Germany TO abandon IT, but In
the meantime the state of tension and
uncertainty has been resumed.
If Germany insists that the inspec
'or general possesses the right TO con
roi the police no settlement can be
1micably effected. The neutral dele
gates are anxious that Franco shall
'ot be unyielding as to nonesscntials,
5ut they realize that Germany's latest
move looks like a subtle attempt TO
aftenuatc the French position. until
ne world win be unable to see It, while
leaving IL in substance just as large as
Il was originally.
II is doubtful II the Kaiser's nego-
cations will gain anything from this
effort. The delegates do not relish
the assumption that the conference is
lacking in discernment
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-03-15
OPPOSE A REPEAL NO WAR IN SIGHT
Mitchell and Ryan Do Not Favor Re.
considerable Of Latter's Resolu-
tion-Stormy Times.

Indianapolis March li.-predictions
of a stormy convention of United
Mine Workers of America beginning
tomorrow, bid fair to be verified. From
tails Of the delegates there win be
dec ded opposition toward repeating
the Ryan resolution" This is the
most important matter to come before
the convention and there Is reason %
believe decision will not be reached
for several days.
Secretary Ryan of Illinois, said 10
night while I'm company with Presi-
dent Mitchell, that there is no founda-
ton for the report as a plan has been
arranged fer disposing Of this reco-
lution. This plan was said TO include 4
request by Ryan for permission Of the
convention to withdraw the resolution.
IL is ntimated that both Ryan and
Mitchell will oppose a repeal Of the
resolution so long as there Is possi'
bility # reaching a fair settlement
with il In force.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-03-15
NO MORO MAN, WOMAN OR CHILD
WAS WANTONLY KILLED IN FIGHT
WITH AMERICANS AT MOUNT DALI
Women Wore Trousers and Took Part In Enoaoe.
ment While Children Were Used
As Shields
ACTION WAS MOST DESPERATE

Washington. March ll.-A cable
gram from General Wood regarding
criticisms of the recent battle Of
Mount Daio on the Island of JoIo, 10.
gether with correspondence between
fhe president and Secretary Taft on
the subject, was made public today.
Woods cablegram was in answer to
one sent to him at the direction OF
Secretary Taft who called attention to
he criticisms of wanton slaughter Of
the Moros and asked him to send all
the particulars. Wood In reply denia
there was any wanion killing. and
says cons derabe number of women
and children were killed in the fight
becau. they Wee actually In the
works when assaulted, that the Moro
women wore trousers and that the
children were used as shields. The
reply was sent by Secretary Taft to
he president, with a note In which the
secretary says Wood seems to him
TO show most clearly that the unfor.
tunate loss of life was wholly unayoid.
able, TO which the president replied
that Woods answer, is, of course
entirely satisfactory.
In am wer to the secretary Of wars
request fer informal on March 18th;
! was present through practically the
entire action and inspected the top
of crater after the action was finished
! am convinced no man, woman or
child was wantonly killed. A consider
able number of women and children
were killed in the fight, number un-
known Tor the reason THAT they. were
actually in the works when assaulted,
and were unavoidably killed In the
fierce hand-to-hand lighting which
took place In the narrow inclosed
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-03-15
POLICE PLOT TO
KILL PARKHURS1
JEROME UNEARTHS INFAMOUS
SCHEME TO MURDER FAMOUS
DIVINE.
FOUND A PLANT TOOL
To Whom Was Offered $500 For the
Price of Infamy-Confessed Whole
Plot and Gave Names Of
Employers.

New York. March l4,-An alleged
plot TO assassinate Rev. DR. Charles
H. Parkhurst, following the recent
municipal election in this city, inspir
ed tt is asserted, by a police official
and in revenge for raids made on GER
tain places by agents of the Society
for the Prevent on of Crime, known
also as the Parkhurst society was
revealed today when District Captain
John H. Shields of the West One Hun
dreth street police station; John Phe
Ian, plain clothes policeman, and two
civilians. Richard Wilson and l..
Rogers. Rogers one of the witnesses,
and man named Kelly We're employ.
ed during the last campaign by the
Citizens Union. A few days after the
election Rogers told Kelly, il IS al
legged, of a plot TO murder Parkhurst.
According to statements already
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-03-15
BRITISH STEAMER ENCULFEO WITH
HER CREW IN MAELSTR0M ON THE
BROAD ATLANTIC FAR FROM LAND
Tragedy Of Sea Accompanied by Great Mental and
Physical Agonies and Exhibition Of
Rare Heroism
SUCCORED AT THE LAST MOMENT

Boston, Mass, March 1.-THE suf-
fering OF mental and physical agonies
and hume gous acts of heroiEm in the
saving of life rarely equalled
in the record Of tragedies of the sea,
attended the loss of the steamer Brit
sh King, which on Sunday last, in a
raging Atlantic storm foundered $50
miles south of Sable Island, and car
ried to death twenty-f even members
Of the crew. Thirteen men were res
cued from the sinking vessel by the
steamer Bostonian and eleven by the
German tank steamer Mannheim. Five
others, who had been drawn down in
vortex, into which the British King
was engulfed were picked up by the
Bostonian from a frail bit Of wreck
age which they had grasped after a
desperate struggle for LIE in the whirl;
pool, The Bostonian arrived here this
afternoon when the details of the dis
aster became kncwu
Captain James Ohagan of the Brit
iSn hlHei uleu on DOard inc BOSlOniall
from the effects of terrible injuries
sustained in trying to save his ship.
Two life boats from the Bottom an
were crushed TO fragments and vClun-
teer crews which manned them were
thrown into the high running seas
while engaged in the work of rescue.
but all were safely landed en- board the
steamer. When the first life boat was
lowered from the Bostonian, the small
craft was swept against the stern of
the big ship and destroyed and sever
al seamen bruised and MANNED. Yet
despite the boisterous condition of the
sea, the volunteers were rescued by
lines thrown out from their steamer
The second attempt TO reach the sink
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-03-15
DEFEND ROADS ON
FLOOR OF SENATE
RAYNOR RAISED CONTROVERSY
IN ALLEGATION THAT RAIL
ROADS HAVE CHAMPIONS
IT AROUSED FORAKER
Who Denied the tntlmation--The
House viii Proceed to Investi-
gate Campaign Con-
trlhuting Scandals,

Washington, March 1.-THE second
day OF general debate on the legisla
tive bill developed limited discus
sion Of the retirement Of aged clerks,
interspersed with a speech on state
hood by Babcock, OF Wisconsin, one
on restriction of immigration by Gard
ner of Massachusetts, and presenta
-tion of reasons why jurisdiction OF the
federal courts should he restricted in
certain cases where its jurisdiction
was acquired because Of the cit zen
ship of litigants being in different
states, by Garrett of Tennessee.
The railroad rate bill today reached
a controversial stage in the senate.
The question came up in the regular
order Of business shortly before two
O'Clock and held the floor until the
doors were closed fer brief executive
ge3sion a few minutes after O'Clock
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-03-15

spaces.
Moro women Wore trousers and
were dressed and armed much like the
men, and charged with them. Chi.
1ren We're, Ia many cases. used bs
he men as shields while charging
the troops. These incidents are much
% he regretted. but 1t must be under
stood the Moros, one ami all. were
fighting, not ouly as enemies, but
religious fanatics. believing paradise
to be their lmmed ate reward II XIII
ed In action with Christians. They
apparently desired that none be- saved.
Some CT our men, one a hospital stew.
ard We're cut up while giving assist
ance to the wounded Moros by the
wounded, and by those feigning death
for the purpose Of getting this ven
geance. | personally ordered assist
ance given the wounded Moros and
that. food and water should be sent
them and medical attendance. Iii ad
! ton. friendly Mcros we're at once
directed to proceed to the mountain
for this purpose.
4 do not believe that in this, or in
any other fight, any American soldier
wantonly killed Moro woman or
child or that he ever did except
unaycidably in close action. The ac-
ton was most de- perate and 1t was
impossible for men fighting literally
for their lives In close quarters. TO dis
inguish who would be injured by
tire. In all actions against the Moros
we have begged the Moros again and
again to fight as men and keep the wo-
men and children out of it asF uiEie
entire responsibility fer the acton Of
the troops in every particular and II
any evidence deveIopr in any way bear.
ing out the charges, win act at once.
The Cairo bulletin., 1906-03-15

ing ship was successful and thirteen
men, including Captain Ohagan, were
taken frc IN the British King to the
Bostonian. Then again, powerful bill
ow carried lifeboat against the side
Of the ship and def troyed 1t, and the
life savers were thrown into the sea,
to be rescued only after an hours eff.
fort by Their comrades.
Volunteers from the Mannheim,
after a heroic battle with the waves,
had taken off eleven from the British
King but after this, neither of the
steamers, In nrequence of the in
creasing gale, could make an attempt
to reach the laundering freighter.
Moreover, darkness fell and 1t was an
utter impossibility to do else but wait
for the moonlight to guide them. In
the darkness the British King, then
water-logged and helpless, plunged 10
the bottom.
For three days her captain and
crew, working again,t unconquerable
odds had tried TO prevent their ships
destruction, Friday, In the height of
the tempest, the deck load Of oil bar
rels of the British King and all her
fittings were carried overheard. The
barrels and wreckage, forming into a
powerful ram, were driven down upon
her sides with cruG hing force, opening
up the vessels plates and allowing the
water to pour into her hold. The fires
were extinguished and the engines
rendered useless by the rising water,
At the end of three days, when all
hands had labored cearelessly without
~est and W tn little food, the Bostonian
and Mannheim were sighted, and to
these Ohagan displayed signal fer
assistance and such help as possible
was given him.