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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
STARVED TO CHEAT GALLONS.
Samuel Monich Hanged For Murder
of Mrs. Harriet Decker.

Morristown, ~ WEAK and ema-
ciated, Samuel Monich, who shot
and killed FRS. Harriet Decker,
daughter of Wilbur Kayhart, a
wealthy farmer of this city, on jan
uary 18, was led to the gallows in
the Morris County Jail and hanged.
For two months Monich has re-
fused to take any solid food and 1t
was necessary for the prison Off
Gals to force whisky and milk down
his throat in order to keep life in his
body. So weak did Monich become
that Sheriff Shaw dispensed with the
death watch.
Monich was employed in the Cap
stick Mills at Knoxville, and although
he had a wife and three children liv-
ing in Hungary, became infatuated
with Mrs. Decker. She was sepa-
rated from her husband and lived on
her fathers farm, a short distance
from the boarding house of Monich.
He went to the Kayhart farm and
concealed himself behind some
bushes When Mrs. Decker, hearing
peculiar noise, went from the house
to investigate, Monich fired five shots
at her, all of which took effect He
then reloaded the revolver and shot
himself four times
Despite his wou DIS he managed to
reach his boarding house, where he
was arrested later.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
A WINNING START.
A Perfectly Digested Breakfast Makes
Nerve Force For the Day.

Everything goes wrong if the
breakfast lies in your stomach like q
mud pie. What you eat does harm
if you can't digest tit turns to pol
son.
A bright lady teacher found thig
to be true. even Of an ordinary light
breakfast Of eggs and toast. She
says:
1.-TWO years ago contracted a
very annoying form Of indigestion.
my stomach was In such condition
that simple breakfast of fruit toast
and egg gave me great distress.
II was slow to believe that trouble
could. come from such a simple Diet
lbut finally had to give it up, and
found great change upon cup Of
hot Postum and Grape-Nuts with
cream, for my morning meal For
more than year I have held to this
course, and haye not suffered except
when injudiciously varying my diet.
II have been teacher for several
years and find that my easily digest
led breakfast means saving of ner-
lvous force for the entire day. Ny
gain Of ten pounds ia weight also
causes me to want to testify to the
value Of Grape-Nuts.
"Grape-Nuts holds first rank at
our table.
Name given by Postum CO.. Battle
Greek. Mich
There's a reason. Read the lit
tie book, eThe Road to Wellville, liz
pkgs.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
DE-. Renouf and Inouisitive Yonth.

Doctor Edward Renouf, collegiate
professor of chemistry at the Johns
Hopkins University, had student in
one of his classes some time ago who
persistently asked all sorts of ques-
lions about everything that CHANGED
TO come up in the course of the lee
lures. He wanted to know the why
and wherefore of all phenomena and
seemed disappointed when his quer-
les anent the marvellous secrets of
the universe were not satisfactorily
answered.
One day Doctor Renouf, who had
always treated the young man with
great courtesy and who had taken
pains to explain chemical facts and
laws to him, became tired of the con-
slant ross-examination and said to
him:
Young man, you remind me of
the fellow who went crazy trying to
find out whether the first egg came
from the first hen or the first hen
FROM the first egg.
The whole class Joined in merry
laugh and the inquisitive undergrad
yates questions became fewer and
fewer.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
THE Lid DOWN IN SARATOGA
Gambling Stops and Thick Gloom
Spreads Over Resort.
Done by Governors Orders-Not
Wheel Turns Nor a Chip Falls in
CanaeId's or UIIman's.

Saratoga, N. Y.-The gamble; by
| fighting among themselves have
killed the goose that laid the golden
egg. Saratoga is a closed town. Not
card is turned, nor a wheel is spun.
The gambling house proprietors and
their dealers stand gloomily in the
hotels and on the street corners dis
consolately decrying the hard luck,
as they call it, which has befallen
them.
The lid" of New York metaphor,
is on and battened down, so far as
gambling at cards and as to gambling
clubs are concerned Following the
raid on Ullman's Bridge Whist Club
an official order was issued to the
proprietors of all the gambling
houses, directing them to close, as
gambling In future would not be per-
mitted in Saratoga.
The order was in terms that con-
WINGED the owners of gambling clubs,
and forthwith there was a general
closing early in the day, the morning
| sessions at faro and roulette being
cut off SO promptly that in some cases
the players were turned out Of the
gambling houses at once. The races
broke the monotony of the afternoon,
but when night came, and rain with
1t, the visitors at Saratoga had the
chance to realize what it meant to
have the lid on"
The sudden action by the author
tiles in stopping gambling was a di-
rect result of a visit to the summer
resort by Frank Perley. secretary Of
Governor Higgins. He consulted with
the Sheriff, the Chief Of Police and
the village officials, and the order to
close the gambling houses was the
result.
The closing was none the less
absolute and complete, for even Rich
ard Canteld's Saratoga Club, where
ways were found to accommodate
patrons by roundabout methods, was
closed tight, so far as gambling is
concerned
The smaller gambling clubs were
in darkness, the proprietors in some
cases going so far as to remove their
gambling furniture.
Joe" Ullman, in spite Of his boast,
did not move new gambling imple-
ments into the Bridge Whist Club
and resume business. UIlman's place
was shut as tight as the other gam
bling houses.
Among the gamblers, Ullman was
blamed for having precipitated their
trouble, but the general view was
that Garfield was the real cause of
the sudden move. 1t was said that
Garfield had instigated the movement
against Ullman, whose clubrooms had
attracted patrons from Canfield's
Saratoga Club Governor Higgins
message ended the affair, for the be-
lief among the gamblers is that all
or none shall be permitted to conduct
business
The presence of Secretary Perley
at the race track caused some excite
ment, as it was said that he went
there to witness the method of race
track betting with view to reporting
to Governor Higgins. The word was
passed around that bets mustb be made
with as little display Of money as
possible. The alarm had it's influence
only on the first race, however, as
money transactions were absolutely
necessary in the volume of business
that went on.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
STANDARD oil INDICTED
FOR ACCEPTING REBATES
Speedy Action by Federal Grand
Jury IN Chicago.
LAKE SHORE ROAD INVOLVED
Cl Company if Convicted May Be
Mulcted in sssO,OOO Fines
More Indictments Expected
Evidence Taken in Cleveland.

Chicago. After an investigation
lasting just three hours and half
the Standard Oil Company was in
dicted by the special Federal Grand
Jury on the charge Of accepting re-
bates from the Lake Shore and Mich
igan Southern Railroad. There are
nineteen counts in the indictment.
and the penalty, II conviction follows,
may be $4,000 a each count. or
total of s38O,000 in fines, while the
total amount of rebates received is
the comparatively insignificant sum
of $500.
No individuals were indicted.
neither was the railroad company
that gave the rebates, but the Grand
Jury has not completed its work vet.
and this first indictment is expected
to be followed by long list Of Others.
1t is said to be not improbable that
officials of the Lake Shore Railroad
and the Standard Oil Company will
be indicted There is some question
whether indictments may not be re-
turned against Captain g. J. Gram
mer, Vice-President of the New York
Central lines, the man who is respon-
sible for the acts of the freight de-
partment of the Lake Shore road
The inquiry will turn upon the
question of whether the Standard Oil
Company entered into a conspiracy
with some of the railroads to obtain
secret and discriminating rates in re-
straint of trade and whether the
Standard Oil Company and its sub
sidiary companies do not constitute
a trust
The reason why the jury was able
to return an indictment within so
short a time was that all the testi-
mony had previously been taken at
Cleveland, and it was necessary only
to read to the jurors the transcript
of the evidence in the presence of the
witnesses who had given it. 1t was
not even necessary to call all the men
who had been summoned, and in fact
the only witnesses who were called
were J. L. Clark, General Western
Freight Agent of the Lake Shore: G.
A. Slauson, General Freight Agent at
Cleveland; Henry L. Meyer, clerk in
the Freight Auditors office, and Geo.
T. Roberts, of the Interstate Com
missioner's Office.
The indictment alleges that by the
system of granting the Standard Oil
Company rebates or concessions, that
corporation benefited to the extent of
$500 between August, 1908, and
February, 1905. Each count sets IN
a rebate of between $500 and $500
a month which the Standard Oil Com
pany received by reason of the fact
that the Lake Shore Railroad Com
pany did not enforce from it the pay
ment of storage charges on its prod
ucts at the warehouse Of the railroad
at Eighteenth street, Chicago.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
KISSING BARRED IN INDIANA
HOOsiers Laughing at Directions
to School Children.
Board of Health Declares Oscillation
Spreads Disease--SilIy
Season Rules.

Indianapolis, Ind Indianapolis
and Indiana generally are Laughing
at and quizzing the State Board of
Health TO block consumption, tu-
terculosis and incipient germs Of the
white plague the board thinks that
kissing should be stopped
kissing on the mouth is particu-
Iarly Objectionable, and in a set of
rules for school children" the board
speaks especially of the kissing habit
Do not kiss any one on the mouth
or allow anybody to do so to you, :"
the rules say.
In the opinion of the board the
germs of consumption may easily be
communicated in this way, and it is
suggested that not only children, but
grown people, may well do away with
the habit of kissing each other on the
mouth when they meet in the street
or in the home.
Among other suggestions to school
children are the following:
Do not put your fingers in your
mouth; do not wet your fingers in
your mouth when turning the leaves
of books; do not put pencils In your
mouth or wet them with your lips
do not hold money in your mouth;
do not put pins in your mouth; do
not put anything in your mouth ex-
cept food and drink; do not swap
apple cores, candy, chewing gum,
half-eaten food, whistles, bean blow
ers or anything that is put in the
mouth; peel fruit or wash it before
eating it; never cough or sneeze in a
persons face--turn your face to one
side or hold handkerchief before
your mouth; keep your face and
hands and finger nails clean; wash
your hands with soap and water be-
fore each meal; when you don't feel
well, have cut yourself or have been
hurt by others, do not be afraid to
report to the teacher; learn to love
fresh air and learn to breathe deeply
and do it often"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

New York City inspired by the
unexpected success of the crusade to
close the gambling-houses in Sara
toga, the anti-gambling element in
the State mas already begun an az
tive campaign to stop betting on ace
tracks.
The Cassidy-Lansing bill to pro-
hibit race track betting, which was
buried in committee in the last Leg
islature, will be introduced at the
next session and a determined effort
will be made to pass it, regardless of
what political party is successful at
the polls next November.
Governor Higgins is on record
against race-track betti g. At the
time the Cassidy-Lansing bill was in
troduced he gave it his Endorsement
From a. moral viewpoint" said
the Governor, 1t is impossible for
me to understand how the act CT a
man on one side of fence inclosing
a betting ring can be legal when on
the other side of the fence it is a.
crime
If race track patrons cannot bet on
the track they will not go to the
races This has been established
many times in various parts of this
country. Immense sums invested in
race tracks in New Jersey and Mis-
souri, were recently rendered profit
less by the passage of law prohibit
ing betting. New York capitalists
started running meeting up at
Salem, N. H., last month The au-
thorities stopped the betting feature
and the first meeting was a paralyz-
frost.
The growth of racing in this State
In the last few years has been phe-
nomenal. From 1000 to 10000 peo-
pie attend the metropolitan tracks
every racing day, great majority of
them paying So apiece for a badge at
tho gate On big days the attend
Rnce runs up to 10000 and 100000
Within the limits of Greater New
York or on its borders there are six
great race-tracks, representing an i'm
vestment of probably $1,000, 900 at a
conservative estimate. The other
tracks IN the State are at Saratoga
and Buffalo. During the season
there are quartered around the Long
island tracks upward of 1000 racing
horses, attended by an army Of
trainers, stable hands, jockeys, rub
bers and general hangers on.
1t is the contention of the reform
ers that the race tracks constitute
damaging drain, that they make
thieves and forgers and broken
homes-that they are, in short, an
Evil demanding eradication.
The Rev. A. S. Gregg, Field Secre-
AIRY OF the National Reform Bu-
reau, is at the head of the fight
against the race tracks. He is one of
The busiest men that ever engineered
4 crusade. Ever since the opening of
he racing season he has been at
work personally and through agents
He appears to have limitless sums of
money and is tabulating evidence by
The bale
He expects to show the Legislature
that betting on the race tracks is
open and fragrant, that pool-rooms
cannot be cut o. from the news Of
he race tracks and that the Jockey
ylub-indirectly but none the less
certainly profits by race track bet
ling and could not maintain it's ex-
pensive establishments were it not
for The fact that gambling on the
race tracks is allowed.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

case. At one time I had to use a
srutch and cane to get about. My
back was lame and weak, and be-
bides the aching, there was dis
Pressing retention Of the kidney Sc
cretions. / was in bad way when
4 began using Doans Kidney Pills in
1901, but the remedy cured me, and
have been well ever since"
Sold by all dealers. SO centsa box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N. Y.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

There have been some serious falls
OF rock ID the SimpIon tunnel they
have not occurred in the main bor-
ing, and the railway service has not
been interfered with. but enough has
happened to indicate the existence of
danger IN the SECONDARY gallery,
the channel cut for carrying on the
river Of boiling water has been
damned and the water itself divert
ed. Precautions are being taken to-
strengthen the walls Of the main
tunnel
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

The gasoline motor has been APP
piled to the power roller, and very
successful three-ton design evolved.
no adapt it for road work provision
has been made for filling the back
roller with water, adding materially
to the dead weight. Two speeds
are provided and reversing mech
anism, so that the machine appears
to be adopted in all particulars for
road building, although it is said to
be the first application OF gasoline to
power rollers.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
BIG PRIZE IN LAND LOTTERY.
Fifteen Thousand Dollar Privilege
Goes to Winner.

Lander, Wyo=Drawing OF home
steaders in the Shoshone reservation
resulted in Hans Berlin, Of Laramie,
Wyo., drawing No 1.
He will have first choice of all the
homesteads offered, the privilege be-
ing worth $4,000. 1t is also said
that any number up to twenty is
worth anywhere from $4,000 to $10,-
600. John H. Mcpherson, of Central,
Mich, was the only Eastern man to
get within the first twenty. He drew
choice No. 4. .,as..tssa
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
NeKsx Gleanings.

Starving peasants in Russia are
lighting police and troops.
Civil war by the Russian peasants
has practically broken out.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is re-
ducing its fare to two and a half
cents mile.
Washington believes railroad men
intend to raise rates to highest point
when the new rate law goes into eff
feet.
Charles g. Tripler, Of liquid air
fame, died at hotel in Liberty, N.
H, from Bright's disease, after an
illness Of two months.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
Sporting Rrerities-

The Corinthianfootball team sailed
rom England for this country.
Record breaking crowds of turf
enthusiasts are gathered III Saratoga
DOR the races
Jarvis, Of England, was victorious
in the great French swimming race
.or amateurs
Frank L. Kramer won the open
aalf-mile cycle race at the yailsburg
IN J. track
Although twenty-eight years old,
lay Bird is the sire Of forty-two foals
dropped this year
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
NAVY BAN ON TATTooING.
Sailors Taking Steps to Stamp Out
the Practice.

Washington, D. c. Enlisted men
in the navy have instituted a move
ment to do away with tattoo mark
ing. Since the conviction of Brook
lyn man through the efforts of Off
GERS of the Humane Society for mu-
tilating the arms of a young boy
tattooers have shown unwillingness
to embellish the bodies of men who
are not known to be of age.
The following description of de-
serter from the navy shows to what
extremes some men have gone in
decorations which cannot be re-
moved; Tattoo marks on chest,
shoulders, arms, and back, viz, eagle.
ship, woman, flag, sailor, cards,
clasped hands, flag, and flowers "
Tattoo marks are a ready means Of
identification of deserters.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

From pedometer tests it liz made
apparent that the waltz covers o
solid half mile Of distance and the
gafop requires a full mile. The Ian
ciers is the easiest dance since in
this the distance covered is but lit
tie more than quarter Of mile,
According to the records of several
Young men, the average dance pro-
gram requires them to cover thirteen
and a half miles, while woman
from the nature Of the steps, is re-
guired to go quarter as far again.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

At st. Petersburg, Russia, the
Bourse Gazette announces that Pa
pus, the spiritualist, who is said to
have had great influence over the
Emperor, has gone abroad for medi-
cal treatment Papus gave fifty
seances to the Emperor, receiving
$4,000 as compensation.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
ECZEMA AFFLlcTs FAMILY.
Father and Five Children Suffered For
Two Years with Terrible Eczema
wonderful Cure by cuticura.


MY husband and tive children were all
afflicted with eczema. They had it two
years. We used all the home remedies
we could hear Of, without any relief, and
then went to a physician and got medicine
two different times, and it got worse. 1t
affected us all over except head and hands.
We saw Cuticura Remedies advertised and
concluded to try them. So sent for 800
worth, consisting of one cake Of Cuticura
Soap, one box Of Ointment and one vial OF
Pills, and we commenced to use them. /
do not know how to express my joy in
finding a cure, for two of my children
were so bad that they have the brown
scars on their bodies where they were
sore. Mrs. Maggie B. Hill, Stevens, Ma
son Co, w. Va, June l2 1906"
A man who is worthy Of his hire cannot
be blamed for looking higher.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
The National Game.

Jake Weimer is pitching fine ball
for Cincinnati
Pitcher Anes isrounding into form
after G long lay-off.
Speaker Cannon was born in North
Carolina, May Z, 1886
Bob Unglaub is still hitting the
ball for keeps in the outlaw league.
President Hermann, of Cincinnati.
announces that Joe Kelley will re-
main Red
Patsy Donovan has done much to
revive the baseball spirit in Brooklyn
parts this year.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

H. Fl. GREEN's SONS, of Atlanta, Ga, are
the only successful Dropsy Specialists in the
world See their liberal offer in advertise
ment in another column Of this paper.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

The dispatch that tells us that
london society men will wear blue
evening coats this season goes on to
Ray: Trousers or knee breeches will
be optional" 1t seems as if one or
The other were essential. = Boston
Globe.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

King Edward, like his mother.
is always punctual to the second
In his public engagements. If the
program is that he shall be at the
Horse Guards at 148 and Victoria
Gate at 1.53. he is there, for all to
see, on time.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
Bow Arrested For Mnrder.

At New Haven, Conn, Alfred Nell
son, aged eighteen, of New Britain,
ed. He said he killed Kent because
sum Of money that he owed him.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
LYNCH THREE NEGROES.
Two Others Are Not Molested by the
Mob.

Charlotte, N. CA mob Of 5000
determined men forcibly entered the
Rowan County jail at Salisbury, re-
moved therefrom three of the FIVE me-
groes charged with the murder Of
the Lyerly family at Barber Junction
July 1S, and lynched them.
Nease and John Gillespie and Jack
Dillingham;, supposed to be the prin-
cipals in that crime, were the VIC
Tins of mob vengeance. The re-
naming negroes, Henry Lee, George
Erwin, and Bella Dillingham;, were
not molested.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

Judge Giegerich, of New York, de-
cided that the Mutual Life Insurance
Company must file corrected list
OF it's policy holders with the State
Superintendent of Insurance.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

will interest the thou
sands of veterans who
came back from the
Civil War suffering tor
lures with kidney COM
plant. Capt. Ely says:
II contracted kidney
trouble during the Civil
War, and the occasional
attacks finally devel-
oped into a chronic
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
Standard Oil Indictments.

Indictments were found by a Fed
eral Grand Jury at jamestown, N VI
against the Standard Oil Company,
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
and the Vacuum Oil Company for re-
hating.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14

The Panama Canal Commission, 1t
was learned In Washington, is pre-
barring to advertise for $500 Chinese
coolie laborers to perform work at
the isthmus for which the Jamaican
negroes appear united.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-14
Warning Against Drinking Soda.

Chicago, lll.-Soda water has
come under the ban of the Health
Department. and warning was is
sued against the too free use of this
drink. The eminent experts of the
Health Department say the fruit
juices used are too prone to ferment
unexpectedly with accompanying un-
pleasant results. No comfort il
given those N,ho prefer a cold stein.
and the injunction is given to drink
only water that has come off the ice,
but has no ice in it,