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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
ALCOHOL AND CONSUMPTION
DIR. Crothers Declares Them To Be
Twin Sisters.

New York Especially The conten-
ton that alcohol is beneficial in the
treatment of tuberculosis was de-
clared to be falacious by DR.. T. d.
Crowthers, superintendent of Walnut
Lodge Hospital, Hartford, Ct, in an
address before the international
Congress on tuberculosis in this city.
He declared that, on the contrary, al
cohol is really more dangerous than
the disease it is given to correct.
DR.. Crowthers said:
alcohol as a remedy, or a pre-
ventive medicine, is most dangerous
drug. All preparations of syrups con-
tanning spirits increase rather than
diminish the disease.
They may cover up the bad symp-
toms, but they increase the poisons
and the soil for the growth of the
consumptive germ. Rock and rye
prescriptions make the conditions
more incurable.
alcohol is a narcotic, and while
Quieting the pain, lessening the
cough, diminishes the vitality and
power of nature to overcome the dis
ease. Consumption and alcoholism
al z wv Ill CloJCI0. AC ouOoAoNAASO -
the one is followed by the develop
ment of the other. A very large per
cent. of the so-called cured inebri-
ates, or persons who have stopped
drinking, die of consumption or
pneumonia. A large number of con-
sumptives become inebriates and die
suddenly. Consumption, associated
with or following moderate or exces-
sive drinking, is always marked by
severe hemorrhages.
Alcoholic parents are followed by
consumptive children, and consump-
tive parents have alcoholic children.
Statistics show that at least third
of the descendants of inebriates have
consumption, and fully fourth of
the children of consumptives be-
come spirit drinkers"
Miss Emily Noble, of California,
offered few practical suggestions
for the prevention of the spread OF
tuberculosis among children.
81 had the good fortune in 1900
to be sent from San Francisco to
Madras to make certain investiga-
tions on light and x-ray therapeutics
with great deal of machinery and
apparatus said she. 81 found that
in India, with population of 400,-
100000, the children are singularly
free from tuberculosis because they
are taught to breathe properly as
daily exercise. And this is in a
country where there is great poverty
and great scarcity of water
The speaker said that the aver
age picture drawn by missionaries
of India was no more correct than
would be the depletion of the worst
slum in New York as typical of
American life
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23

New York Especially. - Something
of sensation was caused here Fri
day when it was announced that
William R. Hearst, who was the
candidate for governor on the Demo-
cratic and independence League
ticket in the recent campaign, had
filed with the Secretary of State at
Albany statement showing that
he had spent the sum of 1855, 37O.22
in his efforts to win the election.
Not since the law requiring candi-
dates for public Office to file list
of their expenses went into effect a
seeking the favor of the voters adj
mitted the spending of one-eighth OF
that sum for election purposes. The
sum, in magnitude, is far and away
greater than any others recorded in
the books of the State for that par
ticular purpose.
OF the amount expended Mr..
Hearst reported to the Secretary of
State that he had given to John G.
Follansbee, the treasurer of the In
dependence League, $19S, S7O.22,
and to William j. Corners, chairman
of the Democratic State Committee,
$57, The balance of $500 he
spent for travelling expenses.
Thousands Unaccounted For.
AS large as this sum may appear
to be for one man to spend on an
attempt to gain an Office which pays
salary of $4,000 a year, for two
years, the total, as reported to the
Secretary of State, does not begin
to compare with the actual amount
that Mr.. Hearst spent in his fight
to be governor of New York. In
the first place the total does not,
in any way, include the preliminary
fight he made to get the nomination
and the law does not require that
such expenditures should be in
Guided
Immediately after he was defeated
for mayor last fall he began, through
his managers, the organization of
the independence League. An orga-
nization was formed in every county
of the State and in every assembly
district in the Greater New York.
In the latter city he had the old
Municipal Ownership League as
nucleus, but the association had to
be reorganized, and altogether the
establishment of the league must
have cost him thousands of dollars.
He had a great staff of paid agents
out organizing the various branches
of the league, AMI their expenses
must have been enormous, the vast
bulk of which was paid by Mr..
Hearst
Another great source of expense
was the obtaining of the necessary
signatures to petitions for the nomi-
nations for governor and lieutenant
governor on the independence League
State ticket. Such a petition, with
the sworn signatures of the neces-
sary number of voters, had to be
gotten in every one of the 81 counties
of the State.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
CYCLONE LAYS
TOWNS IN RUINS
Wide Sweep of Great Storm In
The South.
SEVERAL PERSONS WERE KILLED.
Destructive Rain and Wind Storm
RACES Over Mississippi, Arkansas
and Tennessee WinOna, Miss,
Probably the Worst Sufferer =
Churches Demolished.

Memphis, Tenn. Especially .-Tele-
phonic and Geographic communica-
lions received Sunday from points in
Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee
for a distance of several hundred
miles, report that territory to have
suffered from a destructive rain and
wind storm.
Only meager details are as yet OBJ
tainable, but five lives are known to
be lost and great damage has been
done to property and crops. Kali
road traffic from Memphis is demon
allied by numerous washouts, and
many trains have been annulled.
From the reports so far received,
the greatest damage occurred in the
central and delta regions of Missis-
sippi
At Winona, Miss, the Catholic, the
Christian and the African Methodist
Churches and the Hesty brickyard
were demolished and many buildings
unroofed and damaged. Among the
largest buildings damaged at this
place are the postoffice, the opera
house, the oil mill, the compressor,
the warehouse of the Jackson Mer-
camille Company and the residence
of E. j. Dunkston. Besides these 20
smaller buildings were partly de-
stroyed. Telegraphic communica-
ton is Frustrated.
OF those buildings not destroyed
the compressor was probably the
most severely damaged. The roof
of this building was torn off by the
wind, which at times reached almost
tornado velocity, falling on the home
of E. J. Dunkston, $50 yards away.
The windstorm was preceded and fol-
lowed by heavy rains, causing serious
washouts along the route of the Illi-
nois Central Railroad and damaging
crops.
At Mathison, Miss, serious damage
is reported to have occurred. A
woman was killed by a falling build
ing.
At Tchula falling tree striking a
small frame building caused it to be
set on fire, burning woman and a
child to death.
At Nonconnah Creek, few miles
from Memphis, railroad trestle fell
under the weight of switch engine,
the engine plunging into the swollen
stream, carrying with it Engineer C.
V. Peterson and Fireman A. R. Rit-
chic, who were drowned.
West Point, Columbus and Nahini,
Miss, are reported to have suffered
serious damage, but as these points
are cut off from communication it
is impossible to verify the report.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
THE STEAMERS DIX
and Jamie COLLIDE
Passengers Jump Overheard, No Time
To Launch Boats.
WOMEN WERE CAUGHT IN TRAP
The Collision Occurred While the Sound
Was Almost AS Smooth AS Mill
Pond and After the Boats Had Been
Steaming Within Sight of Each Other
For Quarter of An Hour.

Seattle, Wash. Especially. - Tne
steamer Dix, Capt. p Lermono'
bound from Seattle to Port Blakeiey
with passengers, sank two miles
north of Alki Point. Puget Sound,
shortly after z o'clock P. M, after
coiliding with the steamship Jeanne,
Capt. P. H. Mason, of the Alaska
Coast Company.
Forty-two passengers, including
four women, and members OF the
crew of the Dix were drowned anu
80 were saved. The Dix is totai
wreck. The Jeanne was not injured,
and none of her crew was lost. me
master of the Dix was saved. The
collision occurred while the sound
was almost as smooth as mill pond,
and after the boats had been steam
ing within sight of each other for a
quarter of an hour.
The Jeanne was backing when she
collided with the Dix, and the inn
pace was very slight The Dix was
struck abaft of amidships on the
starboard side She listed heavily
to port for brief period, righted
herself, and then sank stern first.
There was hardly time to launch life
RATS or boats before she was almost
submerged. Passengers jumped from
the decks into the water; women
screamed and officers and men called
orders that could hardly be heard
above the din. The passengers from
the Dix who could swim made their
way to the sides of the jeanne and
were dragged aboard. She was not
moved until after all who had reach
ed her had been hauled aboard. Then
she cruised about, picking up several
ter. It was after 10 o'clock before
trophe and steamed to the Virginia
Street dock, Seattle, with her SO sur
vivors.
The jeanne had finished unloading
at the Great Northern docks at
Smiths Cove, and had started for
Tacoma shortly before O'Clock, just
about the same time the Dix left the
flyer dock for Port Blakeley.
There were no passengers on the
Jeanne. The Dix was making the last
trip of the night and was well filed
with passengers.
When within about two miles north
of Alki Point the steamers were with
in short distance of each other,
steaming along converging lines. The
captain of the Jeanne says he signaled
for the Dix to pass him and his whis-
tie was answered. The Dix was then
within speaking distance of the
jeanne and to the. port of her. Sud-
denly Mate Dennison, who was at the
wheel of the Dix, put her hard over
to starboard, as if to cross in front
of the other vessel. Captain Mason,
of the Jeanne, who was on the bridge,
saw that an accident was imminent
and called out warning to the man
at the wheel of the Dix.
Captain Mason gave the signal to
reverse his engines and his vessel
was slowly backing away when the
two came together. There was but
a slight crash, the force of the col
lision from the Dix coming against
the side of the larger vessel, and not
that of the heavier craft against the
smaller.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
WAR ON OIL TRUST BEGINS
United States Government Demands.
Its Dissolution.

Washington Especially United.
! States government made the initial
move to dissolve the Standard Oil
Company's alleged monopoly by filing
i in the United States Circuit Court in
ST. Louis a petition in equity against,
the Standard Oil Company of New
/ Jersey and it's 70 constituent corpor-
ations and partnerships and de-
PENDANTS, including John d. Rookie
Teller and VIM Rockefeller, asking
that the combination be declared I'M
lawful and in the future enJoined
from entering into any contract or
combination in restraint of trade.
The suit is brought under the
Sherman Antitrust Act, which the
Standard Oil Company and its con-
,, stituent companies and the seven in
divfdual defendants are charged with
violating. In formal statement At
torney General Moody says that Grim
| inal prosecution is reserved for fu--
ture consideration.
The government petition in the
suit is signed by VIM. H. Moody,
United States attorney general; Mil
ton B. Purdy, assistant to the Attor-
ney General Frank B. Kellogg,
Charles B. Morrison and c. A. Sew
erance, assistants to the Attorney
General. The petition contains 194
printed pages, or about 100000
words, and an additional "a pages
of exhibits, consisting of bylaws and
minutes of Standard Oil meetings
and organizations, and map show
ing the retail prices of oil in every
state and territory of the Union.
The investigation into the meth
DDS pursued by the Standard OIL
Company began early in 1905, and
the results were laid before Congress
last May by President Roosevelt, who
accompanied the report by special
message denouncing the apparent
methods pursued. The President as
serted that suits would be instituted
in the United States courts to abolish
the combination, and the filing of
the suit today marks the initial STEP
The defendants are entitled to one
month in which to enter their ap-
pearance and 60 days in which to
file answer to the allegations in the
petition. They also have the option
of filing demurrer to the bill.
Criminal Prosecution Next.
Attorney General Moody has stalk
ed his reputation as law officer of
the government upon the suit. Armed
with an exhaustive array of damag-
ing evidence collected by the trained
experts of the Bureau of Corporations
and fortified by the opinions of emf
nent counsel, he sits in serene con-
tentment of his work.
Thursdays action practically marks;
the parting of the ways for him, for
shortly after the converting of Con-
gress he expects the Senate to con-
firm his appointment as associate
judge of the Supreme Court.
The question of criminal 'prosecu-
ton against the officers of the Stand
ard Oil Company will be taken up
later. But it is understood that to
his successor, Charles J. Bonaparte,
now secretary of the Navy, will be
placed the burden of the decision.
Much of the credit of the suit
against the Oil Trust is shared by
James R. Garfield, of Ohio, commits
sioner of corporations. 1t was his
Investigations into the operations of
the Standard Oil Company that form
ed the greater part, of the basis for
the present prosecution.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
AT THE NATIONS CAPITAL
Some Interesting Happenings Briefly
Told.


Further discharges Of the three
negro companies of the Twenty-fifth
Infantry have been suspended pend
ing the arrival of Secretary Taft in
Washington and advices from Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Mosquitoes brought yellow fever
aboard the army transport Sumner
which was lying in Havana harbor
An army officer, who was the victim,
recovered.
The President has signed an order
abolishing the governor of the Canal
Zone and making Chairman Shonts
head of the government.
The Supreme Court decided that
a State charter of a Junior Order
United American Mechanic Council
was valid.
The grand jury of the District re-
turned indictments against officials
of the Aetna Banking and Trust
Company.
1t is oficially denied that suit is
contemplated against the American
Smelling and Refining Company.
Mr.. Oscar Straus said he would
give up every business connection
and devote himself to his work as
Secretary of the Department of Com
MERGE and Labor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
No simplifed Spelling.

New York (SpeciaD - Simplified
spelling has received another solar
plexus blow at the hands of COM
mittee of the Board of Education.
After an investigation extending over
several months the committee has
recommended that the list OF 500
words approved by President Roose-
welt shall not DE adopted in the
public schools. To do so would be
an unwarrantable proceeding on the
part of the board, it says A decis-
ion in the matter will be rendered in
g week.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
FlNANC -AL WORLD.

Philadelphia Electric directors de-
clared the usual semi-annual divi-
dend of 2 Y per cent. on the stock.
Reports from Washington say
President Roosevelt will press his
contention for a tax on great for
tunes.
James B. Patterson and John j.
Game were elected directors and c.
Addison Harris, Jr., was elected
treasurer of the Franklin Trust Com
pany of Philadelphia.
Speyer's brokers were the big buy
ers of Rock Island. AS James Spey-
er is a leading financial power in that
company, the buying seemed to be
of the best character.
A merger of Great Northern, North
ern Pacific and Burlington, which
are absolutely controlled by ]. Pr
Morgan and ]. ]. HGl under one
name, is the latest gossip from the
West.
e. B. Smith & Co. were leading
buyers of Union Pacific in the Wall
Street market.
American spectators continue to
buy American stocks in London,
which the English financiers just now
object to, as they do not wish to
carry the stocks over there with Brit
ish funds.
Now it is said that Southern Pa
cific is going to buy or lease the ST.
Paul. AS both companies are abso-
lutely under Standard Oil domination
such a deal could be put through at
any time. A guaranteed S per cent.
dividend is mentioned as the price
after St. Paul shareholders have first
secured the rights to new stock at
p2r
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
Killed In A Tunnel.

New York Especially. = Following
the explosion of a blast in the Man
haitian end of the Pennsylvania Rail-
roads East River Tunnel. tons of
sand and rock tumbled down, filling
an excavation which had been hastily
vacated by a gang of workmen. One
man, a heading boss had missed
his footing, and, falling to the bot
tom of the pit, was buried in the
mass. 1t was hours afterward that
the body was recovered.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
Sanitarium For Navy.

Washington Especially Upon the
recommendation of Surg. P. NJ. Rixey,
United States Navy, the President has
ordered that the military reservation
of the old Fort Lyon, Col, be turned
over to the navy for use as sani-
tarium for tuberculosis patients of
the service. The reservation COM
prises about SIS acres and has on it
number of buildings which, with
slight repairs, may be utilized at the
outset for the purpose.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
TRAINED Animals Tortured.

Chicago Especially At the session
of the American Humane Association
Mrs. Huntington Smith, of Boston,
read a paper in which she declared
that the cruelty procticed on animals
which are trained to exhibit in cir
cuses and on the stage was worse
than anything seen in Spanish bull
fights. The convention pledged itself
to take an active part next summer
in the suppression of trained animal
exhibitions.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
HEARST FIGHT
COST s256,37O
Official Figures, However, But Part
of Expenses.
HUGHES EXPENSES PUT AT s618,55.
Money Spent by Editor in the
New York Campaign Far Above
Any Sum Recorded, and Equals
Thirty Cents for Every Vote He
Received.
A COSTLY CAMPAIGN.

The more than a quarter of a
million William R. Hearst spent
was divided as follows:
Independence League$198,870.22
Democratic State
Committee -. 100000
Travelling Expenses. 10000
Every vote Hearst got cost
him 80 cents.
Hughes expenses were at the
ratio of cents for every 100
votes.
The account rendered by him
does not show the total actual
amount expended by Hearst, in
Guiding the cost of the prelimi-
nary fight.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
Explorers Salnted.

Christiania (By Cable). = Capt.
ROAD Amundsen and his companion
explorers arrived here on the steam
er Helig Olaf They were transferred
to the coast-defense ironclad Norge.
A salute of Is guns was fired from
the fortress, and the explorers were
welcomed by a number of officials
and prominent citizens. A banquet
was given in the evening in their
honor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
Mutiny In Prison.

Odessa, (By Cable).-A serious
mutiny has broken out at the prison
here. Because of the hardships in
fiicted upon them the political pris-
oners made plans to escape by dig
ging a tunnel under the walls. A
treacherous prisoner revealed this
plot to the authorities, whereupon
$40 prisoners rose in revolt and kill
cd the informer. The prison is now
surrounded ty troops.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
Cuts His Wife's Thoat.

Richmond, Va. Especially. = Mrs.
Jas. Wilcher, 16 years of age, who
had been married two years, had her
throat cut from ear to ear by her
husband, whom she had left because
of his cruel treatment of her and
who committed the deed after futile
effort at reconciliation. The woman
was discovered at the home of her
husband by her mother, Mrs. S. J.
Woody, with whom she had been liv-
ing since abandoning her husband
home.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
Murdered By Brigands.

Athens (By Cable) Reports are
being received here constantly con-
corning the activity of brigands in
the Saloniki district. 1t is declared
that a number of men, women and
children have been mastered at Kos
siuco and Rameli, and that band
killed Is Greeks in the neighborhood
of Niscusta and carried their mutt
lated bodies into that town.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
Ten Millions Involved.

Washington Especially The gov
eminent filed brief in the Supreme
Court asking for the dimissal of the
gigantic suit brought against the
United States by the State of Kansas
to gain possession OF the odd-num-
bered sections Of land adjoining the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
line, in Indian Territory, aggregating
in value $4,000,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
Hurt INV Gas ExpIosion.

Redbank, N. J. Especially AS the
result of an explosion of acetylene
gas in the house of Michael H. Muir
ply, New York commission man,
Mrs. Murphy, her six-year-old son,
her four-year-old daughter, her negro
maid and stableman were SO badly
injured that their lives are despaired
of and the Murphy residence was
completely wrecked. All the injured
are in the Long Branch Hospital.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
The Kaiser,s Travels.

Berlin (By Cable)-Statistics show
that the Kaiser spends half million
dollars yearly in travelling about his
empire. He always has a special
train and pays the ordinary rates for
it. He now increasingly uses auto
mobiles, which are cheaper, but he
still considers that all ceremonial
journeys demand that he travel by
railway.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
RUssIA's HUNGRY HORDE.
Starving Peasants Lie In Bed To
Weaken Hunger Pangs.

OttEtAHS CaSSsItS liz AZ DCO H.
Weaken Hunger Pangs.
st. Petersburg, (By Cable) The
crop reports from II provinces and
districts of Russia show the yield of
wheat to be 1909, 100000 pounds,
and rye 1885, 100000 pounds,
which is 9,59S,000,O00 pounds below
the average.
The winter grain crop, deducting
the seed grain, leaves for feeding the
population 31S pounds per man,
much of which is exported.
In several of the interior provinces
the peasants have taken to their
beds, lying motionless for days at a
time, in order to weaken the rangs
of hunger, and mixing their scanty
supply of grain with pigweed to make
more fllii for bread.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
One of Twins Dies AT 81.

Amsterdam, N. Y. (SpeciaD.-
Jacob Steen died at the home of his
granddaughter here in his ninety-first
year. He and his brother Walter, of
Syracuse, who was at his bedside
when he passed away, were the old
est twins in the United States. The
Steens were born May 10, 1916, in
the town of Florida, few miles from
here
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1906-11-23
Foreign.

Cardinal Lecot has informed the
Pope that the French minister of ed
ueation made a "monstrous error"
in declaring that the Diocesan as
sociations formed under the Cardi-
nails auspices we're legal, the Cardi-
nal explaining that they were not
meant to comply with the separation
law.
The appointment of Field Mar
shall Conrad Won Hoetzendorf to be
chief of the general staff of the Aus
tro-Hungarian Army in succession to
Gen. Baron Won Beck is confirmed.
The wife of Peter Strive. former
editor of the revolutionary paper
Emancipation, has been arrested.
She belongs to a noble family, but
is a revolutionist.
The Chilian Chamber of Deputies
passed the bill providing for the re-
construction of Valparaiso and au-
thorizing loan of 100000 for
the purpose.
The Russian Foreign Office denies
reports that Russia contemplates in
fringing on Norwegian territory.
Estrada Palma, former president
of Cuba, visited Havana for the first
time since he left office.