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The Penn's Grove record., 1906-08-31
BIG REAL ESTATE TRUST
FAILS FOR 100000
Nipple, President of Philadelphia
Concern, Committed Suicide.
A PROMOTER GOT s5,aoo,ooo
Directors Pledge $3,5OO,OOO in Vain
Effort to Save the Concern
Presbyterian Church Funds
Tied I'D.

IlTCCtcIS IicuSe III VAIN
Effort to Save the Concern
Presbyterian Church Funds
Tied Up.
Philadelphia, Pa.-After desperate
efforts to raise a %guarantSe fund of
$7,OOO,0O0, including a vain appeal
to- the Clearing House Association,
the Real Estate Trust Company of
this city closed its doors. The liza
bilities are placed at more than $10e
100000, with quick assets of 49,
100000 and doubtful collateral
amounting to 100000. About
$4,000, 900 of trust funds, including
Il of nearly $1,000, 900 of the Pres
byterian Church, are tied up.
The failure was caused by heavy
loans made by the late President,
Frank K. Nipple, to Adolf Segal, a
promoter, on insufficient security.
MI. Nipple died suddenly at his home
at Bryn Mawr, and it was said
authoritatively that he had COM
mitted suicide. His physician re-
ported that he died of cerebral hem
orrhage. Friends of the dead presi-
dent believe that Segal exercised a
hypnotic influence owe him.
George H. Earle, Jr., President of
the Finance Company of Pennsyl-
vania, was appointed receiver for
the failed concern.
The loans to Segal amounted to
about $5,300,000 on securities which
the Clearing House Association
thought were worth not more than
$1,000, 600. The directors of the bank
pledged s3,500,00 in the effort to
make up the deficiency, but this was
not considered enough.
The Real Estate Trust Company
was incorporated in 1885 and Mr..
Nipple was placed at the head of it.
He was identified with many chart
table institutions and was active in
the affairs of the Presbyterian
Church, being treasurer of the Cen
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States, treas
urer of the Sustenation Committee
of the Synod of Pennsylvania, treas
urer of the Presbyterian Hospital
here, and American treasurer of the
Western section of the Alliance of
the Reformed Church holding the
Presbyterian system. In the finan-
cial world he was regarded as de-
cidedly conservative.
M. Nipple died at his summer
home. The cause of death was given
as cerebral hemorrhage by his ply
sician, DR.. William G. Powell, whose
statement was confirmed by Coroner
King. The latter said that he did
not perform an autopsy, but accepted
the statement of Dr.. Powell.
d. f. Wharto~ Nipple, his son, said:
my father came home in his usual
health and spirits. He arose about
six o'clock in the morning and ap-
peared perfectly we'll. He had the
bath filled as usual and went to the
bathroom. So far as we can learn
he must have died instantly, for no
cutlery of any kind was heard, and
he was dead when found by Mrs.
Nipple
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CHILE RISES TO EMERGENCY
President Says She is Able to
Help Her Sufferers.
Reconstruction of the Streets Has
Begun-CustOms Duties Have
Been Suspended.

Valparaiso, Chile.-The Govern
ment has drawn up and presented a
project for the reconstruction of VAL
paraiso. In order to prevent the
flooding of streets they will be built
on a uniform level. The minimum
width of streets, without counting
sidewalks, will be fifteen metres.
The Government will pay cash for
lands for this purpose, and will facil-
ltate loans to owners of lands thus
taken. Customs duties will be sus-
pended for eighteen months on con-
Struction material.
The destruction by dynamite of
menacing buildings is bringing out
protests.
The Bourse and commercial
houses are not yet doing business,
and because of a lack of money the
banks are forced to continue limited
payments.
A state of siege continues here and
nobody is permitted in the streets
after six O'Clock in the evening.
There have been some accidents as
a result of the use of dynamite in the
blowing up of damaged buildings.
President Riesco has replied to an
offer of the European banking firm
of Rothschild to help sufferers from
the earthquake, saying that he hopes
Chilean resources will be sufficient
for this purpose.
The survivors condition is the
most wretched imaginable. More
than a hundred thousand persons are
living under non~-waterproof tents,
and many, discomfort overcoming
fear, have gone back to their homes.
Foreign residents erected Red Cross
tents for the wounded and destitute.
The Italians have the best organiza-
ton. Two hundred men have been
shot for robberies.
The Star of Chile, an English
newspaper, will resume publication.
Mr.. Hicks, the American Minister,
has placed in the Governments
hands the sun of $4,000 pesos, sub
scribed by San Francisco, for the
Valparaiso relief fund. This token
of sympathy has been much appreci-
ated. Reports state that the earth
quake was felt a long distance out at
sea.
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First Tramp-"What's yer dom
with a toot' pick in yer MOUTH"
Second Tramp-"Playin' a joke on
me stummick. New York Journal.
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MinOr Mention.

Navy chaplains want more pay.
One person in every 1900 is blind.
Spain is enjoying a business boom.
Over $4,000 autos are registered
in New York.
Persia is to have a Constitution
and a Parliament.
Japan is determined to construct a
large mercantile navy.
Decentralization is spreading in the
Russian army and navy.
Owing to the failure of the Labra-
dor fishing season a fish famine is
likely.
Mr.. Root spoke in Argentina in ia
vor of a union of hearts in all the
Americas.
The Oyster Bay IN. ~ tax asses
sors increased the assessment this
veal by 100000.
Captain Richmond Pearson Hob
son thinks it would be easy for ia
pan to capture the Philippines.
Within three weeks nearly thirty
tons of gold specie have been trans
ferred from England to America.
Landrat Won Uslar, whom the Kais-
er sent to German Southwest Africa
to discover water. with the aid of his
divining rod, has located ffty-three
springs.
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G~rasshopper Glacier.

One Of the small glaciers in Mon
tana is of especial interest on ac-
count of the fact that in the mass of
ice there are imbedded two strata of
grasshoppers, each about a foot
thick. There are literally tons of
grasshoppers in the ice, and the
question naturally arises as to where
they came from. The most obvious
explanation is that centuries ago two
enormous swarmS in course of migra-
ton were caught in a snow storm,
chilled and buried in the snow, where
they have remained till now in a
perfect state of preservation. In the
accounts of the early Western ex-
plorers a few instances are related
of meeting large swarms of locusts
on the mountain tops in the Rock
les. 1t is a very fortunate circum-
stance that the great extension of ag-
riculture in the West has broken up
the breeding grounds of these insects.
Country Life in America.
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CUBAN REBELS AGREE
TO D|SBAND FORCES
Report That Guerra Resists Pal
mas Offer of Amnesty.
REBELS KILLED IN A FIGHT, II
Gen. Guzman's Band is Defeated
Near Cienfugos-A Long Night
Fight Near Hayana-Rebels
Lack Money.

Havana, Cuba.-Scnator Dolz, a
leader of the Moderate Party, at the
conclusion of a conference with Pres
ident Palma, stated that practically
all the insurgent leaders of conse-
quence, except Pine Guerra, had sig
nified their willingness to disband
their men if all were positively guar
anteed immunity for their insured
tionary acts.
On account of information of the
insurgents willingness to quit the
field, there will be no further enlist
ments.
When the Government was issuing
a proclamation offering pardon to
rebels who would lay down their
arms, its forces were dealing a blow
against insurgents in the field.
Gen. Guzman's forces of insur-
gents, which was %variously estimated
at from 200 upward, threatened an
attack on Cienfugos. Col. Vale, with
a detachment of Rural Guards and
volunteers, was dispatched to Glen
fuegos for the purpose of engaging
NuHl1ldH dAu up tIC DdHQ.
In an encounter the insurgents lost
seventeen men killed and many
wounded, while the loss to the Gov
eminent force vas one man killed.
The Government is without further
particulars of the fight.
A party of insurgents commanded
by Col. Sanchez entered the town of
Bejucal, Province of Havana, forti-
fled themselves, and fought all night
against an attacking force of Govern
ment recruits and Rural Guards
without any other result than that
three of the defenders of the place
and one Rural Guard were killed.
Bejucal is fifteen miles by rail south
of Havana. It's population is about
5000.
Guerra, in a signed statement tele-
graphed, declares that he is as deter
mined as ever that the last Presiden-
tial election shall be %annulled before
there can be peace in Cuba. That
Guerra's force Of 1000 men is well
armed and supplied with ammuni-
ton and food is amply verified.
Their greatest drawback now is the
lack of money, but the people Of the
western part of Pinar del Rio are
furnishing them with all the supplies
needed, taking in return therefor
orders on Cuban Government" and
in many cases refusing to accept any
consideration.
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GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP.
No Medicine So Beneficial to Brain
and Nerves.

Lying awake nights makes it hard
to keep awake and do things in day
time. To take "tonics and stimu-
lants" under such circumstances is
like setting the house on fire to see
if you can put it out.
The right kind q food promotes
refreshing sleep at night and a wide
awake individual during the day.
A lady changed from her old wav
of eating to Grape-Nuts and says:
For about three years l had been
a great sufferer from Indigestion.
After trying several kinds of medi-
cine the doctor would ask me to drop
Off potatoes, then meat, and so on
but in a few days that craving, nav
ing feeling would start up and l
would vomit everything l ate and
drank.
When I started on Grape-Nuts.
vomiting stopped, and the bloating
feeling which was SO distressing dis
appeared entirely.
MY mother was very much both
cred with diarrhea before commence
ing the Grape-Nuts. because her
stomach was SO weak she could not
digest her food. Since using Grape
Nuts she is well, and says she don't
think she could live without it.
1T is a great brain restorer and
nerve builder, for | can sleep as
sound and undisturbed after a SUD
per of Grape-Nuts as in the old DAYS
when | could not realize what they
meant by a bad stomach" There
is no medicine so beneficial to nerves
and brain as a good nights sleep,
such as you can enjoy after eating
Grape-Nuts."
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's q resgoa."
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TWO MORE ASSASSINATIONS.
Russian Terrorists Kill Officers CT
High Rank-Both Hated.

High Rank-Both Hated.
st. Petersburg, Russia.-Two more
men of Importance to the Govern
ment cause were assassinated by rev.
o%lutionists, and the conviction was
forced on the Gar and his Ministers
that the Terrorists could kill practi-
cally at pleasure any man, however
high in rank, they might sentence to
death. General Vonliarliarski, Act
ing Military Governor of Warsaw
city, commander of the Fifth Army
Corps, and Colonel Rieman, of the
Seminovsky Regiment, were victims.
The manner of their taking off was
such as to show the revolutionists
had only to pick out their subject for
assassination. Both officers were
killed almost instantly. Each was
shot to death with a pistol while on
the way to perform his military duty.
Both had been detailed to the repres-
sion of the revolutionary movement
in the city of Warsaw. Vonliarliarski
had only recently been appointed Act
ing Military Governor of the city.
Rieman was on his way there to go
on the staff of General Skallon, Gov
ernor-General of Warsaw province.
Neither victim had q chance to es-
cape, yet in each instance the assassin
got away.
More fearfully significant still is
the fact that Riemau was the second
officer of the Seminovsky Regiment
on whom the Terrorists carried out
their secret sentence of death within
twenty-four hours. Rieman was the
comrade of General Min, who was as
s~assinated the day before. No one
had a good word for Min or Rieman.
Both were butchers, slayers of
women and~ children, torturers of
wounded men and grandsires. Not
even the conservatives among the
people had a word of regret for their
tragic ends. Radicals sneered openly
in the cafes when their names were
mentioned.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-08-31

In life's prize box most of us get gold
bricks.
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BAD FOOD
Chicago Inspectors Get Busy and
Make Numerous Arrests.

Chicago, Ill.-Three hundred and
Fifty thousand pounds of food stuffs
we're destroyed, according to the last
issue of the Bulletin Of the Health
Department, because the foods were
Impure. The bulletin says that the
food inspectors in the downtown dis
tricts alone condemned and de-
stroyed 50,719 pounds. This in
cludes 10000 pounds of canned
goods and 1890 pounds of fruit and
vegetables.
The bulletin says the inspectors
took samples from five candy factor
les, three evaporated egg concerns,
three baking powder factories, ten
ice ream factories, thirty bakeries,
and seventy-ive fruit stands.
Fifteen Greek peddlers, two fish
dealers, three bakers, and three ice
cream dealers were arrested on the
charge Of attempting to dispose of
food stuffs that were unfit for con-
sumption.
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Bachelors in Maryland.
In MarylaHds there are over 10o..
Qoo single menl
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RAILROADS EAGER TO
COMPLY WITH RATE LAW
Officers Meet the Interstate
Commerce Commissioners.
CHARGES OF SHIFTING TARIFFS
They Ask the New Interstate Com
merce Commission Fol Time
Shippers Protest Against Shift
ing Classifcations.

ing Observation-Disclosures
Washington, D. Give members
of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, Chairman Knapp and Commits
sioners Clements, Cockrell, Clark and
Lane, were present at the hearing I'M
der the new railroad freight rate law
recently enacted by Congress, which
has become effective.
The Trunk Line, New England and
Central railroads were heard, through
their representatives, as to some
phases of the operation of the new
rate law. Thirty-four representa-
tives of these railroads, including
traffic officials and counsel, and eight
representatives of various shipping
organizations were in attendance.
Every speaker representing the rail-
roads of the country had 40 DISPOSE
ton to lay obstacles in the way Of it's
enforcement of the act, and the
speakers We'd with n another in as
surfing the commission of their inten-
ton to comply with the provisions of
the law in every substantial particu-
lar.
B. D. Caldwell, a vice-president of
the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ern read, told the commission that,
through conferences with traffic Off
Gals and attorneys of various lines of
railroad, they had sought to reach an
understanding of the new law, to the
end that they might be in position
properly to observe it.
George V. Massey, general counsel
of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, assured the commission that it
was the desire of all the roads with
which he had conferred to conform
absolutely with the law, and he told
the commission that such publications
as had been made to the contrary
were without the shadow of founda-
ton in fact. I'VE have endeavored,"
said he, ito find out what the law re-
quires, and we have done our best to
meet those requirements as they are
operative"
James Maynard, of Knoxville,
Tenn, president of the Brookville
Mills, a large shipper of cotton goods,
expressed his opposition to the mere
posting in stations of railroad tariffs.
He said that the great trouble was
that the railroads shifted the classifi-
cation on shippers, which enabled
them to put up a higher rate. He adj
monished the commission that if this
point were not provided against the
effect of the new law would be nulli-
fed.
Through Chairman Knapp the COM
mission announced at the close of the
hearing that it would take up the
question presented for consideration
and would make known it's decision.
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Not Well Fixed.

"rHe isn't at all we'll fixed, is he?"
Don't O believe it! You haven't
seen him lately, have you?"
mo, but 1 know he doesn't make
any more money now than when
saw him last year, and it was as
much as he could do then to live
within his income"
"Ah. But he's living beyond 1t
now."-Philadelphia Press.
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SAW HIS SWEETHEART DIE.
Lovers Planned Double Suicide, But
Man Refused Fatal Drauoht,

Houston, Tex.-W. S. Baxter, q
prominent planter near Archer, and
his wife were to leave with their
daughter Pearl, aged twenty, for St.
Louis on an extended Northern tour,
after which the girl was to be placed
in a seminary. This was in order to
break up her love affair, to which
her parents objected. Pearl pleaded
with her parents, saying she pre-
ferred death to separation from her
fiance, but at length she seemed to
give in and assisted in arrangements
for their departure.
She eluded the vigilance of the
family a few minutes, and met her
sweetheart in a cane patch near the
house. 1t was there arranged that
they should die together.
After the good-byes both raised
the bottles Of carbolic acid to their
mouths, but he tarried and watched
her swallow the poison. The agonies
OF death spreading yer her face I'M
nerved him, and throwing away his
bottle he hastily ~retreated. The
parents of Miss Baxter found their
daughter dead an hour later.
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Consistent.

Dear" said the prominent teach
er, 81 want you to notify all the
PAPER to send reporters to the
church next Sunday. 1 will preach
a very strong sermon"
"Yes," replied his wife; what Will
your theme be-"
Il shall strongly urge the abolition
of all Sunday work."-Cathollc
Standard and Times.
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TUMORS CONQUERED
SERIOUS OPERATIONS AVOIDED.
Unqualified Success Of Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound in tho
Case of Mrs. Fannie D. Fox.

One Of the greatest triumphs Of Lydis
3. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound il
the c~onquering of woman's dread en-
envy, Tumor.
The growth of a tumor is so sly that
frequently it's presence isnot suspected
until 1t is far advanced.
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VANDALS AT VALPARAISO.
President Months Wife Loses Ears
and Fingers With Jewels.

Lima, Peru.-Further details re-
ceived from Valparaiso, Chile, show
that out of forty employees of the
telephone company there thirty-eight
were killed. When the house of
President-elect Montt collapsed his
wife fell from the balcony into the
street, and bandits who were passing
cut off her ears and fingers to rob
her of her jewels. She was taken
in a dying state on board the Chilean
warship O'Higgins. Among the dead
in Valparaiso is FREDERICK Varella,
the capitalist and politician.
Heavy rains have been falling at
Valparaiso, which have increased the
hardships endured by the many thou
sands of people camping in the streets
and squares Or on the hills sur
rounding the city.
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Natural Thought.

"This milk is warm, mamma"
said the city boy, tasting milk in the
country for the first time.
Eyes, my son." replied the parent;
"I suppose it is fresh from the cow"
ooh, l thought they'd made a mis-
take and put hot water instead of
cold in it!''-Yonkers Statesman.
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d. 3. NELSON'S WILL.
Fortune Divided Among Forty Rela-
tiyes-Son-in-Law Cut Out.

Springfield, Massey the will of
Daniel B. Wesson, filed here, $780,
600 is given to the Wesson Memorial
and Maternity Hospitals, of Spring
field, and the remainder of his for
tune of 10000 600 or more is di-
vided among forty relatives.
Specific requests totaling $5,000,-
600 are made, and it is provided that
the income from the remainder shall
be divided among twenty-four mem
bers of Mr.. NELSON'S family. His
son-in-law, George ]. Bull, is not pro-
vided for, the will expressly making
this clear. Among the specific be-
quests are $1,OO0,0O0 to ]. H. Wes-
o and 100000 to Walter H. Wes-
son.
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Yachting, INCORPORATING, canoeing, swim
ming, fishing, c~amping-or just loating on
the broad veranda of a p%alatial hotel!
You can have your choice of any of these
and many other attractions at the Thou
sand Islands. The air is cool, the days are
n~atingly beautiful in a full round moon, if
there is one-if there isn't, the powerful
searchlights are almost as good. Nowhere
in the world is it easier to rest than here
on the blue st. Lawrence. There is Ian
guor in the air-you can't help resting
and it's the kind of rest that adds years
to your life, too.
On your summer vacation you ought to
be lazy-the change is what you need. The
New York Central Lines, Americas
Greatest Railroad" will take you 20 Clay,
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Be One in the 1000 Islands.

For shooting the "is-it-hot-enough-for
you" fends this is the open season.
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HORSES RUN WITH HARVESTER.
Dozen Killed, Nine Crippled and the
Giant Machine Demolished.

Spokane, Wash. T%hirty-two
horses in Il runaway constituted a
sight that was witnessed on the Dor
man ranch, nine miles from Ritzville.
The animals were attached to one of
the huge combined harvesters and
threshers.
The leaders took fright and pres
entity the entire t~hirty-two were run
ming at top speed, dragging the pom
derous machinery. Twelve horses
were killed outright, nine were Grip
pied and the harvester was demol-
ished, entailing a total loss of So
900.
So far as known, the runaway has
no parallel in history.
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Wife Exterminates Family.

Mrs. Frank Polsgrove, wife of a
farmer living neal St. Francis, Ark,
suddenly developed insanity and
Eilledsher husband and four-year-old
th1ld with an X and fatally
wounded her two other children, a
boy thirteen years old and a girl of
seven years. The woman then set
Gre to their dwelling, the bodies of
he man and the four-year-old child
being cremated.
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On Its Round.

waiter, do you mean to say this
is the steak I ordered?"
eyes, SIR"
1T looks like the same steak the
gentleman across the table refused
to eat a few minutes ago."
Yes, sir; we always try it three
times before we give it up, sir
Tit-Bits, London.
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NOT A CRIME 20 ROB A WIFE.
Konrad, alias Baron Santos, Exoner-
ated Under German Law.

Hamburg, Germany.-Ewald Kon-
rad, alias Baron Santos Won Dobrow-
ski Donnersmarck, who was alleged
to have deserted his American wife
in Paris, taking with him Jewels
worth $4,000 and some money, and
who was arrested here on the charge
of robbery, was discharged, the court
holding that he was not culpable I'M
Ter German law.
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1t takes a lucky man to explain the mira
cles accomplished by pluck.
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LACK MEN.
Forced to Raise Wages and Cut Age
Limit in P%ittsburg.

Pittsburg.-The railroads entering
P%ittsbur3 are at present much per-
turbed over the scarcity of labor
which has developed. Not in many
years have the railroads experienced
so much difficulty as they are just
now in getting men to man their
trains. The Western railroads are
draining the Eastern market Of all
availab,e men.
Some years ago the several roads
established an age limit for all new
employees. This limit has been aban-
doned. Advertisements are appear
ing in all local papers for brakemen
and conductors. Wages have been
advanced and every effort is being
made to increase the working forces
before the heavy fall rush.
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That London Fog.

Church, see a London firm has
organized a system of seeing London
in six days for $1,000"
Gotham.-"Well, a fellow wouldn't
have much of a run for his money
if they happened to be six foggy
days."-Yonkers Statesman.
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Made Lots of Friends.

She-"Does your parrot make
friends?"
I. He-"Why, miss, that parrots
made so many friends that I've had
to put in a telephone so she can talk
to 'em during the day!"-Yonkers
Statesman.