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The Penn's Grove record., 1907-02-01
GEN. RUSSELL A. ALGER DEAD.
He Expires Suddenly at His Home in
Washington.

Washington, D. General Rus
sell A. Alger, United States Senator
from Michigan, died suddenly at his
residence here.
Senator Russell A. Alger was a SOL
der and a very successful business
man as we'll as a statesman. He was
born poor and had to work his way
along while getting an education, but
he afterward made millions out of
the timber lands of Michigan which
he acquired at the close of the Civil
War.
Mr.. Alger was born in Medina
County, Ohio, on February 81, 1886,
and he was compelled to begin the
struggle for existence at a very early
age. His father died when he was
ten years old, and the lad went to
work on a farm to help support his
mother. For seven years he worked
about in the fields in summer and in
winter got whatever schooling he
could, with a view to becoming a
teacher. At nineteen he succeeded in
this ambition and secured a district
school in Northern Ohio. While he
was teaching he read law between
times in the Office of Wolcott & Up
sord, of Akron, and after he was ad-
mitted to the bar he went into the
Office of Cofinbury & Otis, at Cleve-
land. Six months later he went to
Michigan and began to practice at
Grand Rapids.
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WILLIAM WHITLEY. SHOT
Lond0n's universal TroVider"
Murdered in His Store.
Killed by a Man Calling Himself His
Son, Who Afterward Turned
Revolver on Himself.

London.-William Whitley, known
as "The Universal Provider," who es-
tablished the great department store
in Westbourne Grove, the first of its
kind in London, was shot dead by an
unidentified man, who afterward at
tempted to commit suicide.
Mr.. Whitley was in his store when
the man, who was we'll dressed, en-
tered and insisted on seeing him.
The two men had a heated interview,
which ended by Mr.. Whitley threat
ening to call the police. AS he turned
to re-enter his Office his assailant
fred twice from a revolver into the
back of Mr.. Whiteley's head and
then shot himself in the forehead,
falling across his victims body.
The store was full of customers,
who were thrown into a panic. The
police had some trouble in restoring
order. They cleared the place and
closed the doors.
The murderer is about thirty-fve
years old. He gives the name of
Cecil Whitley. He is now lying in a
hospital in a hopeless condition.
When asked about the affair he said:
81 shot my father"
Two sons Of Mr.. Whitley who
have seen the murderer declare that
they do not know him, and he is a
stranger to the entire Whitley fam
lily.
William Whitley, by birth a York
shireman, has been for years one of
the most prominent merchants in
London. The Whitley store is one
of the recognized show places of
Great Britain's capital.
Whitley is said to have been the
originator of the department store
idea. In his own vast establishment
almost every conceivable sort of arti-
Gle could be purchased. He was
dubbed in fun 1.-THE Universal Provid-
err" and came very near to meriting
the so%briquet. His employees num-
bered many hundreds.
In 1851 Whitley went to London
with $50 as his sole wealth. He
worked a while in a store, saved his
money and, borrowing enough from
his friends to make up a total capital
of $500, he opened business in West
bourne Grove in 1863.
His only employees were two girl
assistants and an errand boy. The
store has grown until now William
Whitley, Ltd, has a capital of more
than $4,500,000. The elder White
ley was president, and his son, Will.
lam, Jr., is secretary of the company
The London police have identified
the murderer of William Whitley as
Horace George Rayner. The doctors
think that the assassin will recover.
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GRAFT IN ATLANTIC CITY.
Committee Finds Municipality Robbed
of S24, sos. 76-One Arrest.

Atlantic City, N. 1.-THE report of
the finance committee which has been
investigating the financial affairs of
the city, made public recently, dis
closes that since August 81, 1904,
$24,608.76 had been stolen from the
city through the connivance of some
n in the Office of the City Control
Ter. The report says that the former
supervisor Of streets, Beriah Mathis,
and the former boardwalk supervisor,
G.. Bolton Parsons, refused to surren-
der their books to the expert ac-
countants.
John Andrews, former chief clerk
in the office of the City Controller,
acknowledged several weeks ago that
he had been misusing the city funds
and had taken about $4,000. This
amount was made good by his turn
ing yer to the city his interest in the
Hotel Metropolitan. He was per-
mitted to depart, but a few days ago
was arrested while in Washington.
He was brought back and placed I'M
der $4,000 bail for the Grand Jury.
Irregularities in the accounts of
John 7. Dyer & Co. and William 3.
Dixey were found. The former had
been overpaid to the extent of
%$3671.31, and that overpayments in
the Dixey account had cost the city
$2980, it was declared. The report
says the Dixey accounts were raised
as follows: $28 to $428, $2.15 to
1928, $35 to s435, $40 to $420.
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Never Sing Just After Dinner.

There seems to be no particular
reason why a musician should not be
blessed with a good appetite, but the
Saint Cecilia Society at Couvin, in
Belgium, seems to possess a ~voracity
that is nothing less than formidable.
The other day they celebrated the
annual festival Of their patron saint.
There was, of course, a dinner, which
in rural Flanders is as essential to
festivity as it is in England. Two
hundred persons sat down, and they
consumed exactly 500 pounds of flesh
food, in the form of beef, mutton,
hare, ETC., to say nothing of bread
and various vegetables, followed by
much havoc among various pastries
and buildings. AS for the spirituous
and other liquors that disappeared
well, reticence must be observed
somewhere. Suffice it to say that the
dessert was worthy of the feast. They
can wassall in Flanders yet.-London
Globe.
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BOYS BURNED To- DEATH
Mill Operators Caught in a Fire
at Dover.
Big Factory in New Hampshire Burns
Operatives Jump From Win
dowS-Bodies Found in Ruins.

Dover, N. H.-Four or five young
mill operatives were killed and a
property loss of $4,000 was caused
by a fire which destroyed Mill No. 1
of the Cocheco Manufacturing Com
pany. The charred bodies Of four
boys were found in the ruins.
Five boys are missing. They were
Charles Cosgrove and Constantine
Elopulos, aged sixteen years, and
John Nicholupulos, - Redden and
- Hester, aged fifteen years. Jas.
Ashton, aged forty-fve, had both
legs fractured by jumping. William
Turner, aged fifty, had his hip broken
by jumping. Others were less seri-
ously hurt.
The IRE ST rted in the mill not long
after the 500 or o operatives had
assembled for their days work.
Friction from a belt generated sparks
which lodged in a mass of cotton and
quickly created sheets of flame on the
third floor. The exits quickly be-
came blocked by a struggling mas of
millhands. On the fifth or top floor
the operatives were mostly boys, and
some of them lost their lives. On
the first and second stories the oper-
atives were largely girls, and these
reached the ground by the stairways.
The men were grouped on the
third and fourth floors. Many found
their way of escape by stairways cut
off and several jumped from the win
dows, among them Turner and Ash
ton. Others secured the ends of
ropes inside of the windows and de-
scended to the ground. In doing this
they were scorched by the fire and
their hands were lacerated by the
friction from the ropes. There wee
many daring rescues by the fremen.
The City Department was assisted
by a fire brigade with a steamer from
Portsmouth. The loss is fully COW
cred by insurance.
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PRINTING PLANT BURNED
Three Firemen Lost in Buffalo,
N. Y, Fire.
Phelps Publishing Co., Owners of
"Good Housekeeping" Burned d
Out in Springfield, Mass.

Springfield, Mass. = The entire
| plant Of the Phelps Publishing Com
pany, comprising four large brick
buildings and covering nearly an
acre of ground, was destroyed by fire,
causing a loss estimated at almost
$1,000,000. 1t is practically covered
by insurance.
The fire started from spontaneous
combustion among some benzine-
soaked rags in the basement of the
main building.
The firm published the following
magazines:
Good Housekeeping. the American
Agriculturist. the Judd Farmer, the
New England Homestead, and Farm
and Home.
Arrangements already have been
made for the publication of these in
New York and other cities while the
plant is being rebuilt.
The flames were first discovered by
the Waterman in the basement of the
main building. He extinguished the
blaze in the rags and continued on
his rounds. The rags soon burst into
fame again, however, and the build
ing Immediately caught fire. The au-
tomato sprinklers failed to quench
the flames, and by the time the fire.
men arrived it was impossible to save
the plant.
In the buildings were many valu-
able machines, including expensive
color presses. Nearly $50 persons
have been thrown out of employment
by the destruction of the plant, which
was of the best of it's kind in New
England.
Buffalo, N. "a fire in the Col
umbia Building, an eight-story struc-
ture at 1913 to LOT Seneca street, de-
stroyed the entire interior and caused
a loss estimated at between $780, 900
and 100000, and burned three fire.
men, William ]. Naughton, a lieuten-
ant, and John f. Hinky and Stephen
J. Megan. The injured are Captain
Michael A. Haggerty, John Daily, who
vas rescued from the ruins two hours
after the collapse of the walls; Fire
man Elliott, rescued from debris soon
after DAILY; Lieutenant J.. G. Malloy,
Firemen Bensinger and Yaeger.
The financial loss is estimated at
100000, most of which will fall
upon the Jewell estate, me of the
building. Firms in surrounding
buildings suffered heavily from fire,
smoke and water.
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PHILIPPINE "D0BIE ITCH"
Itching Pimples Covered Body-Dis.
charged For Disability-Found
Cure in Cuticura Remedies.

II enlisted in the Corps of Engineers as
a telegraph operator, and, while stationed
in the Philippines, l became subject to the
Dobie Itch,' as the natives call it. In
this disease small, white, itching pimples
form under the skin, generally between the
toes, on the limbs, between the fingers
and under the arms. l never knew of a
case originating outside the Philippine
Islands, but have known of many cases
where it has returned in this country and
invariably at the same time of the year
as the original attack. The cause, so far
as l could learn, was some tropical parasite
or germ peculiar to that region.
81 got so bad that l was confined to my
quarters a week at a time. The Army
Surgeons applied some carbolic solution,
and it would disappear for a time, when it
would break out again. l was discharged
from the Engineers by reason of disability
contracted in line of duty, and when !
had the trouble again, my druggist, Mr..
L, of Brooklyn, recommended Cuticura
Remedies. The immediate relief was mani
fest with my first purchase, and the
malady quickly yielded to the Cuticura
Remedies. 1t has never required or both.
cred me since l began to use and continued
to use the Cuticura Remedies. You may
quote me as a believer in Cuticura Rem
edies from personal experience. John s.
Woods, 22l Sands St, Brooklyn, N. Y,
Oct. 81 an! %, 1906"
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A Powerful Fish.

The power of a sword-fsh has al.
ways been admitted, and instances
have not been altogether uncommon
ofe2is attacking vessels and burying
= formidable weapon in them. A
Use occurred once which shows that
Ythe strength of the fish is even great
: er than was suspected.
A three-masted schooner, of Bos-
ton, put into port leaky. On her voy-
age from Mobile she was suddenly
found to be taking in water fast.
The crew were set to the pumps, and
found that they were able to keep
down the water, but that steady work
was required. The hands, therefore,
shifted the cargo, and at last found
the hole, which vas caused by the
sword or horn of a sword-fish. 1t
had passed through the copper
sheathing of the ship, through the
outer planking, four and a half
inches in thickness, through nine
inches space between that and the
lining, and then through the inner
planking, another four and a half
inches thick.
The force required to send a blunt
weapon like this through nine inches
of solid wood must have been i'm
mense.
The sword-fish, who no doubt i'm
agined hat the dark mass passing
over him was a whale, must have
been pretty we'll astonished and dis
gusted at the result of his attack.
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Paper Drinking Cup.

A handy folding drinking cup Of
waterproof paper can now be pur-
chased. 1t comes in a fiat folded
package that fits the vest pocket.
When opened it forms a cylindrical
vessel bound with wire and having a
wire handle. 1t holds about a cupful
of cold water, milk, tea or medicine,
1t can be used to hold hot liquids, but
car only be used once, or at most
twice. A cup filled with cold water
stood for eight hours without injury,
and was then dried, refolded and used
again several times. 1t is useful in
travelling, in camp and in the sick
room. A package of eight can be
bought for twenty-five cents.-Wom-
ans Home Companion.
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COURT WORLDS NEWS CENTRE.
Phenomenal Arrangements to Send
Trial Reports All Over the World,

AAAa1 4tNDOIlS All OtCT LllC w OI1us
New York City.-Never before have
such elaborate and extraordinary ar
rangements been made to get news
from a courtroom as in the Thaw
trial. 1t is literally true that Justice
Fitzgerald's courtroom is at present
the news centre of the world.
Two great cables swung down from
the dome of the Criminal Courts
building to the tables of the telegra-
piers, which were massed around the
east and north sides of the white
marbled ventilating shaft which rises
six feet above the level of the main
floor. These cables are but a few
feet from the judges bench.
Each of these cables contained
nineteen wires, every one of them
direct" to flash the news of the
trial word for word to every centre
of the country and abroad. One Lon
don paper to serve its subscribers had
two wires. The Western Union and
the Postal shared the arrangements.
Besides these operators dozens
were located in any and every nook
and Granny in the big building which
could be devoted to the use OF the
wire service.
In different rooms adjoining the
courtroom a score of special tele-
phone booths we're set up for the use
of newspapers. One P%ittsburg paper
had a through telephone for it's spe-
cial use to send the news of the
trial to the former home of Harry
Thaw.
More than a hundred messengers
and telegraph boys were kept con-
stantly on the run carrying messages
and copy from the courtroom.
Although zoo reporters, artists and
special correspondents representing
newspapers in the United States,
Canada, England and France sought
admittance to write about the trial,
there was room for only seventy Of
them.
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Halls of Congress.

The Fortiications Appropriation
bill was passed.
A bill authorizing the President to
send the supply ship Celtic with re-
lief for the people of Jamaica was
passed.
The Senate passed the La Toilette
bill %forbidding railroads to work en-
ployes more than sixteen consecutive
hours in twenty-four.
Congress has been asked by the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
authorize experiments by the Govern
ment with safety devices for rail-
roads. -
The House Committee on Appro-
priations reported the pension bill
carrying In appropriation of $780,
138,500 for 1908.
The House passed a bill authoriz-
ing st. Louis to construct a bridge
across the Mississippi River.
Senator Whyte spoke against en-
croachment by the Federal Govern
ment on the powers of the States,
and Senator Kittredge attacked the
Lumber Trust.
A Senate committee limited at i'm
parchment when Secretary Hitchcock
persisted that he had authority 10
ignore an act of Congress.
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Sporting Notes.

More than 100000 were. spent
on English racing last IA
The subscription fund for the fam
lily OF Terry McGovern has passed
the $1,000 mark.
The New York Yacht Club has
2447 members, all told, on it's list,
and a feet of SIT vessels, represent.
ing 1904 tons.
Not satisfied with having secured
control of half a dozen race tracks in
the West and South, Louis Celia, of
the notorious Cella-Adler-Tilles syn
dictate, is o said to be planning to
build a new race track at Havana.
Dan Coghlan, formerly coach of
the University of Pennsylvania base
ball team, has been selected to coach
the Cornell baseball team.
For the first time in a long while
Harvard's champion hockey team
met defeat in competition with the
seven of Priacet0Wat the st. Nicho-
las Rink.
This will he w., Young's six
teenth year as d Ter. and he is
still good. You'll tched his first
game with the CleSe d nine in 1891
and beat the Chicaa
sas s.s1s IN I Isos1s
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Feminine Notes

Children are tired of the Teddy
bear, it is announced.
French telephone girls must no
longer say Hello" They must say
"J'ecoute."
The National Synod of Norway has
recently voted by a large majority to
give women equal rights with men in
h government of the church.
Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst. who has
spent the holiday season in New
York, has returned to Paris. where
n has made her home for the past
year.
When Lady C~lancarty died. on the
last day of 1906. the world at large
a to be reminded that she was the
former Belle Billion, concert hall
singer with a history.
Mrs. Reginald De Koyep. who has
gone the national capital with
ner talented husband to reside in
New York. possesses n of the finest
collections of unique jewelry in this
country.
a correspondent of the London
Mail says that women always rode
astride till Queen Elizabeth in order
to show a magnificent dreSs upon a
certain state occasion, nod sidewise
n solset the fashiQA
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Newsy Gleanings.

There is a big surplus over the
public expenditure in Russia.
Elections to the new Russian
Douma show continued Socialist
gains.
Relentless war on gambling is be-
ing waged in France by the Premier,
M. C~lemenceau.
Consul-General Foster gave a lun-
cheon in honor of Secretary Root at
Ottawa, Canada.
Archibald r. Eldridge, assistant
chief engineer of the Burlington Rail-
road, killed himself at Chicago while
cleaning a revolver.
Jamaica supports a population of
100000 people, only two per cent. of
whom are white.
The one hundredth anniversary of
General Lees birth was celebrated
throughout the South.
The st. Louis Electric Bridge Com
pany has been licensed to span the
Mississippi at Venice, Ill.
Senator Bravo, Moderate leader,
declared that the hope of Cuba lies
in an American protectorate.
Premier Clemenceau effectively
broke up what was meant to be a gil
gantic Socialist demonstration IND
Paris.
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There is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put to-
gether, and until the last few years was sup
posed to be incurable. For a great many
years doctors pronounced it a local disease
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing to cure with local treatment,
pronounced it incurable. Science has proven
Catarrh TO be a constitutional disease, and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by T. j.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con-
stitutional cure on themarket. 1t is takenin-
ternally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoon
full. 1t acts directly on the blood and mucous
surfaces of the system. They offer one hun
dred dollars for any caseitf fails to cure. Send
for circulars and testimonials. Address FL.
CHENEY eco, Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Barbados pigs are kept as pets
by many of the natives, who teach
them amusing tricks and permit them
to run all over their houses.
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The Risks of Travel,

The Interstate Commerce Commits
siUn reports that fol the year ending
June 80, 1906, there was a total of
4235 passengers and employees killed
on the railroads of the country. The
total injured was 55,524. In all the
tremendous traffic of the great lakes
this season, only 1875 lives were lost.
There are no official statistics show
ing the total number of ocean, lake
and river steamship fatalities as COM
pared with railway fatalities on the
basis of the business actually done,
but 1t is very much smaller. The ex-
PLANTATION Of most railway accidents
is that 'the brakes did not work"
So it is a fair inference that defective
appliances are chiefly to blame for
the land fatalities. - New York
World.
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a terrible condition, at times a COM
plete stoppage occurring. l began
with Doan's Kidney Pills, and soon
felt better. Keeping on, l found COM
plete freedom from kidney trouble.
The cure has been permanent. / owe
my good health to Doan's Kidney
Pills"
Sold by all dealers. SO cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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MINE EXPLOSION KILLS 12.
Cave-In Follows, and 100 Others
Have Narrow Escape.

nave NarrOW ESCAPE.
Weston, w. Va.-Five Americans
and seven Italians are known to be
dead as the result of an explosion of
fire damp in the Pennsylvania Com
pany mine at Lorentz, w. Va, near
Buchanan. Immediately after the
explosion the mine caved in and 100
miners narrowly escaped entomb-
ment.
The explosion occurred just as the
day force was leaving the mine. The
mine elevator had started for the
top, carrying about twenty men, and
almost eighty were still at the bot
tom of the shaft. Almost s~uffocated,
they huddled closely together and
cried up the shaft for assistance.
The elevator continued to make
trips until all the men at the bottom
of the shaft were brought to the sur
face.
The bodies Of the men who were
killed were found about 100 feet back
in the mine. Apparently they had
been overcome with gas, as their bod
les were not burned.
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Engineer Drops Dead in Cab.

After the locomotive of a Rutland
freight train had broken away from
its cars and then had backed and
crashed into the forward car of the
train at Bennington, VT, the en-
gineer, Dexter Farnham, was found
in a state of collapse in. his cab, and a
few minutes later he died. He had
been stricken with heart disease.
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HUDSON COURT HOUSE BURNS.
Woman Drops Child Three Stories
and is Saved by Firemen.

Hudson, N. Y. - Flames, which
started in the Sheriff's office, de-
stroyed the Columbia County Court
House. All the fire companies were
o o at hand, but though they did ex-
cellent work the structure burned
rapidly.
The third floor was occupied by
DR.. Charles Walker, and the flames
entered the dining room, where his
wife and young child were seated.
To save the child Mrs. Walker was
compelled to throw it from the win
dow. Several firemen broke the fall.
and the child wasnot killed, although
it struck the stone pavement and be-
came unconscious. Mrs. Walker hung
by her hands from the window sill
about five minutes, until a ladder al
raised to her.
The Court House was built in 1900
and cost about $%150,000.
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Confesses Murder of Father.

Mont Runyon, forty years old, who
was held on suspicion for several days
at Delaware, Ohio, confessed to Chief
of Police Mathews that he shot and
killed his father at Williamson, w.
Va, two weeks ago, during a quarrel
while they were at work in a logging
camp. The son fed, leaving the
fathers body in the woods.
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Many Killed by Fire.Damp.

Two fire-damp disasters occurred
in Europe on the same day, one in
the coal mines OF the Saar district in
Rhenish Prussia and the other in the
Courriers district of Northern France.
In the first explosion there were at
least 200 victims; in the second the
confused reports set the number OF
fatalities at anywhere from three to
over 100.