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The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-06-22


great mental depression. was unable to at
tend tony house work, and life became bur-
den to me. Twas confined for days to my bed,
lost my appetite, my courage and all hope
Il could not bear to think of an operation,
and in my distress tried every remedy which
l thought would be of any use to me, and
reading of the value of Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound to sick women decided
to give it trial felt so discouraged that
had little hope of recovery, and when began
TO feel better, after the second week thought
1T only meant temporary relief; but to my
great surprise found that l kept gaining,
while the tumor lessened in size.
1.-The Compound continued to build up my
general health and the tumor seemed to be
absorbed, until, in seven months, the tumor
was entirely gone and l well woman. l am
SO thankful for my recovery that / ask you
to publish my letter in newspapers, so other
women may know of the wonderful curative
powers of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound"
When women are troubled with irreg-
ular or painful periods, weakness, dis
placement or liberation of the female
organs, that bearing-down feeling, in
flammation, backache, fiatulence, gen.
eral debility, indigestion or nervous
prostrationl they should remember
there is ono tried and true remedy.
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound at once removes such troubles.
No other medicine in the world has
received such widespread and unquali-
fed endorsement. No other medicine
has such record of cures of female
ills.
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
to write her for advice. She is daughter
in-law of Lydia e. Pinkham and for
twenty-five years under her direction
and since her decease has been
advising sick women free of charge.
She has guided thousands to health.
Address, Lynn, Mass.
Remember that it is Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound that is cur
ingwomen, and don't allow any druggist
to sell you anything else in its place.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-06-22
Nine Hurt In Collision.

Middlesboro, KY. June 2o.-A pass
enger train and through freight on tina
Louisville and Nashville railroad ccl-
lded two miles north of Middlesboro
Tuesday afternoon, injuring nine per-
sons, all Kentuckians Engineer ]. p.
Padgett, of Corbin, KY, is seriously
hurt. Responsibility for the collision
has not been fixed.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-06-22
JUSTICE MOVED SWIFTLY.
Abductor kcan Indicted, Convicted
and Imprisoned in Short Period
of Four Hours.

Philadelphia, , June. 20--Twenty
years of hard labor In solitary con-
finement in the Eastern penitentiary
was the sentence pronounced Tues.
day on John Joseph Kean, the abduc.
tor of little Freddie Muth.
The enormity of the mans crime
which had aroused the whole city, stir.
red the officers Of the law to quick
action, and the swiftness with which
justice moved has never been equal.
led In this community.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-06-22
INTERESTING letter
WRITTEN BYAN0TABLEW0MAN
Mrs. Sarah Kellogg Of Denver Color
Bearer OF the Woman's Relief Corps,
Sends Thanks to Mrs. Pinkham.

The following
letter was written
by Mrs. Kellogg,
of 1928 Lincoln
Ave-, ID e nv err,
Col. to Mrs. Pink
m,Lynn Mass:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham:
A" For five years l
was troubled with a
tumor, which kept
growing, causing me
intense agony and
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-06-22
HammeI Must DIE.

Columbus, o., June 20-The SUI
prem court, yesterday refused to con-
tider the appeal Of Hammel, the Day.
ton man. convicted Of murder and
condemned to die in the electric chair
June 20.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1906-06-22
NERVOUS DEBILITY,

Vital Weakness and Prostra-
ton from overwork and other
causes. Humphreys Homeo-
pathic Specific No. %, in use
over 40 years, the only success
full remedy. 81 per vial, or spec
ial package for serious cases, $5.
Sold by Druggists or sent prepaid receipt Of price,
I, Humphreys Med. Co., William & John Sts., NY.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
As to Sleep and study.

Many youth in school is con
demned as a sleepy head because his
parents neglect to see to it that he
gets the proper amount of sleep,
Mothers know that the newborn in
fant should sleep about 22 hours each
day and that this need of sleep Is
lessened so slowly that the child de-
mands 10 hours when it is about L.
years old. 1t is decided by experts
that the normal amount of sleep is
not reduced to ten hours until between
the ages of is and 81 years, and that
many persons require nine hours
sleep during most of life thereafter.
Despite these facts that should be
well known, how many boys of IL to
IA years form the habit of sitting up
as regularly routed out by their pa
rents at six O'Clock in the morning?
This Is crime, the evil OF which Is
in no degree lessened because it is a
long-established custom. Experience
and observation have proved that
those who retire in time to
sleep at least nine hours get far more
of permanent good out of their course
of study than those who double their
hours of work by robbing themselves
of sleep, says the Chicago Sun. The
child especially should be in bed reg
ularly in time that it will awaken
naturally at an early enough hour. TO
be ready for school, If allowed to
bed in the morning, the parent should
expect the child to be in the sleepy
head class.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
GIRL ASSASSIN
SHOOTS RUSSIAN GENERAL IN
HIS WIFE'S PRESENCE.
is HELD BY GENERALS WIFE

Third Attempt on Life Of the Murdered
Man-Senteneed to Death by So
ciaI observation-disclosures Glor-
les in Her Deed.
ST. Petersburg.-Saturday's unsuc-
cessful attempt on the life of Premier
Stolypn, with its sickening, useless
slaughter of thirty-two persons, was
followed Sunday night by another rev.
olutionary outrage, in which General
Min, commander of the Seminovsky
Guard regiment, and who, since his
promotion to be a general has been az
tached as a personal adjutant to the
suite of the Emperor, was killed on the
station platform at Peterhof by a
young woman who fired five shots into
his body from an automatic revolver
and then without resistance submit
ted to arrest.
The capture of the girl was effected
by General Minis wife, who held her
until the arrival of an officer. This
was the third successive attempt on
the life of General Min, who was con-
demned to death by the terrorists I'M
mediately after the Moscow revolt last
December on account of stern repres-
sion practiced by a battalion under
his command, and especially for the
wholesale execution Of persons CON
demned by drum-head court martial
for being caught with arms in their
hands.
General Min was returning from his
summer residence at Peterhof and had
just greeted his wife and daughter on
the platform when young woman
almost girl-approached from behind
and fired two shots into his back and
then three more into his body as it
sank to the ground. Further shots
were prevented by Madame Min, who
threw herself upon the murderess and
seized the hand which held the pistol.
The woman did not attempt to escape,
but she cautioned Madame Min not to
touch handbag which she had placed
on the platform before shooting the
general, explaining that it contained
bomb.
To the police the girl acknowl-
edged that she had done the deed, say
ing she had executed the sentence of
the fighting organization of the social
revolutionists, but she refused to give
her name.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
STRANGE story-But True.

F. l.. Vandegrift has new story.
1t is illustrative of the marvellous fe.
cundity of the English sparrow.
Il was pending Sunday with the
Dumont Smiths, at kinsley,' said
Van, in recountins his experience.
I'VE had been up late the night be-
fore and l was a tritie drowsy. l sat
out on the front porch listening to the
church bells and gazing OFF into the
illimitable space that lies between
shortgrass town and the horizon
beyond.
Presently I dropped my hat into
bed of virginia creeper and dozed
off to sleep. could not have slept
more than an hour, for the children
were passing the house on the way
from Sunday school when ] awoke.
rubbed my eyes and glanced over
at my hat. In it sat an English spar
row brooding setting of eggs. While
| slept the sparows had built nest
in my hat, the mother bird had laid
a full complement of eggs and had be-
gun the work of Matching them. -
Kansas City Journal
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
KANSAS CITY FLOOD.
An Unprecedented Rainfall Causes
Much Damage.

Kansas City.-A terrific rainstorm
prevailed in Kansas City and in this
vicinity early Thursday morning,
causing more or less serious damage.
In Kansas City 5.93 inches of water
fell, a record for the time, three hours
and half.
AT Elmwood cemetery. five miles
east of the business district, serious
damage was done. Practically the en-
tire cemetery grounds were flooded,
and in the lower ground strong cur.
rent was formed This resulted in the
washing out of scores of graves. AT
least 200 bodies were exposed. Monu-
ments were wrecked and other damage
done.
Low-lying lands were flooded and the
police and fire departments were called
upon to rescue persons from base
ments in Little Italy, in the north end
OF town, and in the east and west bot
toms, where the water entered many
small houses. Several downtown base
ments were flooded and goods dam
aged. Trees were stripped of their
foliage and hundreds of sparrows
were killed.
The brick buildings in the outskirts
of the city We're undermined and col
lapsed. They were unoccupied and no
one was hurt. AT Fifteenth and lndi-
ana a lumber yard containing several
thousand feet of finished lumber was
washed away.
At Kansas City. Kansas, and at Ar
mourdale and Argentine, Kansas,
across the line from here, much dam
age was suffered by railroads, whole
sale houses and packing houses, and
several families had to be taken from
their homes by firemen.
At Kansas City, Kansas, lightning
olic church, small structure, and a
small commission house at the City
market was undermined and collapsed
In Northrup avenue, seven blocks from
the business center, three houses on
low ground were surrounded by water
The freight houses of the Rock Island
and Union Pacific in the west bottoms
were flooded and traffic temporarily
stepped. The shops of these roads also
were flooded and work stopped for an
hour or SO. Water entered the base
ments of the packing plants of Armour
& Co., Swift & Co, and Schwarzchild
& Sulzberger, and it was necessary to
put men at work pumping it out. The
water drained off quickly and the dam
age was comparatively light.
AT Argentine forty families We're
forced from their homes in the bottoms.
but returned to them soon. Suburban
street car traffic on the Kansas side
was tied up for several hours.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
lNsURGENT LEADER KILLED.
Cuban Insurrectionists Capture Small
Town.

Town.
Havana-The killing of the insurrec-
tionary leader, Gen. Quentin Bandera,
rural guards and band of his follow
crs is regarded as dealing the insur-
rection a heavy blow.
The government is acting with en-
crgy in sending rural guards and vol
unteers against the Santa Clara rebels
and in dispatching $50 more men to
defend Plnar Del Rio against Pine
Guerrero.
The capture of San Juan De Marti-
nez by Guerrero S band was not great
surprise. though it was not expected
10 occur so soon. The place was pro-
tected by small detachment of rural
guards, while Guerrera'S strength was
much greater
The taking of Pinar Del Rio Will be
quite another matter, since there are
IN that vicinity twice as many troops
as the insurgent Pine Guerrero can
muster 1t is regarded as more than
probable that the troops will take the
offensive and if possible draw Guerrero
into an open fight.
Insurgent forces commanded by
Pine Guerrero have captured San
Juan De Martinez, the terminus OF the
Western railroad. and have occupied
the town and railroad station.
There was no bloodshed. The small
force of rural guards which held the
town fled at the approach of the insur-
gents.
A force of rural guards and volun-
teers have left Cienfuegos, province OF
Santa Clara, to engage 300 insui gents
who have left Las Lajas under com
mand of Col. Guzman, mayor of that
town.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
Women as Inventors.

In reply to the charge that women
are lacking in mechanical ingenuity,
it is asserted that many of the most
valuable inventions patented by men
in reality represent ideas conceived
in the brains of their wives, their
sisters and their daughters. Eli Whit
ney's famous cotton gin is said to
have been merely the application of a
device first thought out by woman
the widow of Gen. Nathaniel Greene.
The "Coston light" which is used by
our life-saving service, and by mar.
iners all over the world, for signaling
at night-it burns like red fire-is a
woman's invention, says the Techical
World Magazine. So, likewise, is the
paper bag with satchel bottom,
which was the idea of Miss NJ. f.
knight. The machine by which
comb foundation" as it is called, for
bee hives, is made, was patented by
Frances A. Dunham, In 1881. 1t 50 es
bees half the labor of honeycomb con
struction by turning out wax sheets,
which, suspended in the hives, serves
as a basis to build the combs upon.
But the most wonderful point about
the contrivance is that, the cells out
lined in relief on the wax being all
of worker" size, those of them that
are utilized by the insects for nurs-
cry purposes will produce only work
er bees, thus avoiding the propaga-
ton of idle drones.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP.
No Medicine SO Beneficial to. Brain
and Nerves.

Lying awake nights makes it haro
20 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 of food promotes re
freshing sleep at night and wide
awake individual during the day.
A lady changed from her old way OF
eating. to Grape-Nuts. and says:
For about three years l had been
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, gnaw-
ing feeling would start up, ana i
would vomit everything / ate and
drank
When | started on Grape-Nuts'
vomiting stopped, and the bloatins
feeling which was so distressing DIS
appeared entirely.
My mother was very much both
cred with 6iarrhea before commenc-
ing the Grape-Nuts, because her stoih-
ach 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.
ut is great brain restorer anu
nerve builder, for I can sleep as souha
and undisturbed after a supper Vi
Grape-Nuts as in the old days when
l could not realize what they meant
by bad stomach" There is no
medicine so beneficial to nerves anu
brain as good nights sleep, such as
you can enjoy after eating Grape
Nuts"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's reason
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
ERRORS ABOUT THE WHITE
HOUSE.

To the Editor:
noticed somewhere recently-T
would not say positively that 1t was in
your columns-an article on the White
House which contained several mis-
statements.
In the first place it was stated the.
White House was first occupied in,
1909 and that it's first occupant was
President Madison. The fact is, its
first occupant was President Adams,
who took up his residence there in
1900.
The original mansion was begun in
1892. In 1914 it was burned by the
British and rebuilt in 1918.
Another of the errors in the article
referred to was the statement that
ready-prepared paint is used on the,
White House to make it beautifully
white.
l noticed this especially because l.
have used considerable paint myself
and wondered that canned paint
should be used on such an important
building when all painters know that
pure white lead and linseed oil make
the best paint.
1t so happened also that I knew
white lead and linseed oil-not ready
mixed paint-were used on the White
House, because had Just read book
let published by firm of ready-mixed
paint manufacturers who also manu-
facture pure white lead. In that book
the manufacturers admitted that for
the White House nothing but the
best and purest of paint could be
used" and said that their pure white
lead had been selected.
Above all people, those who attempt
to write on historical subjects should
give us facts, even If 1t is only date
or statement about wood, or brick,
or paint, or other building material.
Yours for truth,
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
WELLMAN MAY START.
Nearly Ready for Balloon Voyage to
North Pole

London.-Walter Wellman, leader OF
the Wellman-Chicago Record-ii arali
Arctic expedition, telegraphed from
Spitzcabergen. August 14th, via Ham
merfest, Norway, that the completion
of the balloon has been greatly delayed
owing to the magnitude Of the work
Many minor defects have been ,iiscov-
cred in the mechanical parts of the air
ship and these are being repaired as
last as possible. The motors WORK eX-
cellently and the balloon part OF the
airship is in good condition
Mr., Wellman says il will Oe possible,
weather permitting. to get away
toward the pole during the first week
of September. The buildings erected
will provide valuable plant for next
years operations if start is not made
this year.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
A Sermon in Precious Stones.
COLORADO.


, IN all ages of the world the meas.
ure of nations prosperity has been
gauged by the luxuries with which
the people surrounded themselves.
This is as true now as 1t was in the
days of Roman conquest, and 1t is
shown particularly in a recent Off
cial statement concerning the impor
tation into this country of South Al
Tican diamonds. Last year $35,ooo,-
900 of these precious stones found
their way into the United States.
When Speaker Cannon uttered his
emphatic and unique declaration con-
corning this country's success he only
declared a fact, says the Philadei
phia Press. The past ten years,
Judged by the Importation of diamonds
alone, has been the most prosperous
and successful this country has ever
known. In 1897 the imports OF dia-
monds in round numbers exceeded
$1.900.000. although the price per
carat was not nearly as high as 1t has
been since. This wonderful increase
shows that there is a demand for
them, and the demand is an indica-
tion that the people have the money
wherewith to purchase them. Dla-
monds are an unfailing indication oil
prosperity. The first thing the aver
age man does when he gets little
ahead in the world is to bay dia-
mOnd ShirtStud or diamond earrings
for his wife. The more money he
makes the more diamonds he buys,
and that men have been making
money and that the country is un-
usually prosperous is indicated by
these figures on diamonds.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31

Prof Frank A. Perret, an American
who was with Prof. Mattucci in the
royal observatory on Mount Nesuvius
during its recent eruption, promises
to perfect methods of predetermining
outbursts of volcanoes. American
genius has accomplished great many
things that appeared more difficult
than this undertaking. 1t would be
no surprise to hear that Prof Perret
has found means of robbing We.
suvius of some of the terrors it has
held for neighboring humanity since
the days of the elder Pliny.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
Proposed Insurance Law.

st. Paul.-Millions will be held in re
serve for the policy holders of life in
surance companies and the cost of in
surance WI be materially lowered if a
bill approved by the insurance COM
sioners meets with the approval of the
various Legislatures next winter. The
bill. which requires an annual appor-
tionment and accounting of surplus of
life insurance companies. strikes at
the root of all the evil of life insurance
company management by holding their
officers accountable for the enormous
Eurpius funds accumulated under the
deferred contracts under which nearly
ell OF the large companies operate.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
Forty-Five Tunnels.

San Francisco.-The Western Pa
cfic is perfecting plans to enter Cali
fornia, and when the road is completed
it will be one of the greatest railroad
engineering fe.ats in modern times.
The engineers in charge have in
structions to keep one object in view.
the straightest line with the least
grade. To accomplish this forty-f1ve
tunnels will be bored in eastern Cali
fornia between Oroville and Beckwith
Pass. Instead of going around noun
tains the Western Pacific is going
through them.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
French State Monopolies.

State monopolies are more than
ever in favor in France as a means
of raising revenue to the prejudice OF
private enterprise. A committee OF
the chamber of deputies has been ap-
pointed, with a foreign minister of
finance as chairman, to collect infor-
nation on the possible working OF
monopolies on sugar and petroleum
refining, the rectitication of alcohol.
and insurance.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31

The Caldwell (Okla.) Advance has
recently heard horrible story of
girl who thoughtlessly jerked her
head back to avoid being kissed and
broke her neck. This is a proper
warning TO girls.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31

The Parisians profess themselves
unable to see any beauty in the dele.
cation of Kentucky girls now visiting
their capital, and are ungallant
enough to say so. But what can one
expect of people who prefer absinthe
to whisky?
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting Items Gathered from All
parts of the World Condemned
Into Small Space for the
Benefit of Our Readers.
Person n nj.

PERSONAL
Aunt Mahala Lewis, who was
born slave in Virginia 120 years
ago, and who claims to have seen both
Washington and Lafayette, died
at Ottawa, Kan, recently.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson re-
Gently arrived unannounced in Omaha
and made personal inspection of the
packing plants. He left the city with
out telling his destination.
Mason S. Peters has been nominated
for congress by the democrats of the
Second Kansas district in place OF
Manford Schoonover, who had been
named by the convention but declined
A national purity conference under
the auspices of the National Purity
Federation is to be held in Chicago
October 8 to II.
Col. Charles B. Hall, Eighteenth in
fantry, has been detailed as command
ant of the United States infantry and
cavalry school at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan, to succeed Brig. Gen. Bell, who
has been appointed chief of staff
Albert G. Lane. of Chicago, former
pEeSiueHl VI tne .>alloudi I2uueasioii"i
association and of the Illinois State
Teachers association, is dead at his
home in Chicago.
Brig. Gen. j. Franklin Bell, chief
of staff of the army, and Clifford
Pinchot, chief of the forestry bureau.
were visitors at Sycamore Hill recent
ly.
Edward NJ Ames. of Altoona, Pa,
has been elected commander-in-chief
of the Sons of Veterans.
Cash NJ Cade of Shawnee, Ok. n
member of the national republican
committee, has rendered to the presi-
dent his resignation as receiver of the
land Office at Guthrie, Ok.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31

BY following the directions, which
are plainly printed on each package OF
Defiance Starch, Mems Collars and
Cuffs can be made just as stiff as de-
sired, with either gloss or domestic
finish Try it. IL OF. for 10c, sold by
all good grocers.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
Another Triumph for x.Ray..


So successful has the application OF
the X-rays been in the tratment OF
children suffring from ringworm, that
the Metropolitan Asylums Board. Lon
don, has been enabled to discontinue
the use of one of the two institutions
reserved for such cases.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31
To Survey Alaskan Boundary.

Fremont Morse and l.. Netland, in
charge of the Alaskan boundary com
mission, have left for 4akubat Day
where each with a party OF nine men
will survey a strip of the boundary.
The Springfield herald., 1906-08-31

Important to Mothers.
Examine carefully every bottle OF CAsTOR1A,
q safe and sure remedy for infants and children,
and sec that II