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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-17

About all the decollette gown does
for a thin woman is to start an argu-
ment about which looks worse: collar
bones or elbows.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-17

When a man is loser, you can't con-
sole him by telling him how much you
won.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-17

It is easier for some people to be
poor than honest
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-07-17

An easy way to get money Is to In
herit 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
RIVAL SULTANS ARE
 VERY SECRETIVE
MYSTERY SURROUNDS PLANS OF THE TWO FANATlCAL MOORISH LEADERS WHO CONTROL THE FACTIONS.

Paris, September ll-The movements and intentions of the rival sultans Abd- El-Aziz and Mulai Fl Hahd. are shrouded in mystery. The latest adViceS from the interior of Morocco arc to the effect that Mulai Fl lIafid. with an army of about 5000 men, recently left Morocco City for Rabat, on the coast, and that his uncle. at the head of q second army, will soon follow him. Mulai Fl Hafd, t s added. has announced that he will pay the cost of the French expedition to Morocco on condition that France eYacuate the coun- try.
 No announcement has yet been made regarding the time when the Franco Spanish police will be established at the Moroccan ports, but 1t Is understood that the question will be decided when the situation at Casa Blanca permits of the withdrawal of troops. only two columns of tribesmen are reported to be under arms In the Casa Blanca district The other Moors apparently have disappeared far inland
 The latest adyices received from Gen eral Drdde, the French commander at Casa Blanca. said that if the delegates from the tribes suing for peace did not appear at noon today. he intended fn immediately assume the offensive again and with the assstance of the French cruiser. Glorie, destroy a camp of hos- tile Moors situated near Fedala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
REPORT IS ISSUED
 ON RAILROAD LINES
CAPITAL OF ROADS MOUNTS UP INTO BILLIONS, AND THE MILE AGE OF THE UNITED STATES IS 22,34o.

, Washington, September 1.-The inter- state commerce commission has made public an abstract of it's nineteenth an- nual statistical report covering the year ending June 30, 1906. showing the par value of railway capital outstanding was @4570. i2l IFS, or .936 per mile of the railways in the United States. Of this over 8 per cent paid no dividends.
 Of the railways stock outstanding $2.- 25I1T5,799 Was owned by railway corpor- atons and of railway bonds S64l ,305, ,O30 were so reported The aggregate gross earnings from the operated mileage of 22,340 miles of lines were $2, ,32j. 765, l67, be- ing $243, ,2S2, ,l6l greater than in 1905. Their operating expenses were $l .536 877,271, or $46275,1l9 more than in 1905
 The net earnings aggregated $7Ss, ,ss7 s96, an increase of $97,007,S4i
 Deducting fixed and other charges the report says s3s51S6,32S is the net income for the year available for dividends or surplus There were 977 ,5O7. .S3S passengers carried. an increase of over sixty million and 1.641 ,374,2l9 tons of freight carried, an increase of over 202,O0O000.
 The report shows l06lS persons killed and 977O6 injured. There was a total of ,52l 355 persons on the pay roll.
 The report shows that one passenger was killed for every 2,227,04l carried while In 1905 one was killed for every 1,375,- S56. One person was injured for every 4276, as against one in every 70,G55 In 1905
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
STORE COLLAPSES
 AND KILLS TWO
NEW FRONT WAS BEING PLACED IN THE BUILDING WHEN THE WALL FALLS INTO THE STREET WITH FATAL RESULTS.

Cincinnati. O., September H-(Special) Two persons were killed and a half doz- en seriously injured by the collapse of a four-story building at 625 and 627 Central avenue this afternoon. The ground floor of the building was occu- pied by William k. Dohan, a shoe deal- CT, and those above by d number of flat dwellers. A new front was being placed in the store room and under the stress of the repair work. the front wall of the structure fell outward across the sidewalk. The roof and upper floors dropped into the cellar.
 One of the killed is an unidentified white man about SO years of age, who was walking along the street when he was caught under the front wall Mrs. Daly a widow, who lived in a flat on the sec ond floor, was crushed to death in her bed, where she was confined by illness The most seriously injured are William Leggett. William Gleason and J. B. Dushane, workmen. employed on the re- pair work.
 The clerks and customers in the shoe store and the other tenants in the build ing escaped with minor injuries.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

opened the value and landed on the upper glacier half mile in shore The land ing was effected SO successfully that ma terial weighing nine tons descended 300 feet and touched the ice with no shock or damage whatever excepting several bent tubes and broken wires The numerous delicate instruments were not injured. The self-registering barographs, meteo- graphs and manometers continued run ming after the landing. Tho mantle of the balloon can easily be repaired
 "The America was in the air for three hours and fifteen minutes. and covered about fifteen miles with her own machin- cry. She made three loops against the wind, proving her power and capability of being steered. The ascent was successful in every respect. The America is from every standpoint the strongest airship and the most durable for a long journey that has ever been built. She held the gas splendidly.
 Later in the same day the Express found us and fetched the steamer Frith- iof with men and sledges from the camps. The crew of the America lived for three days comfortably in the gondola, while the work of rescuing the balloon was in progress They could have lived there for nine months had it been necessary. The entire airship, including even a part of the gasoline, was returned to camp m three days.
 ''The balloon hall and the entire out fit have been made ready for the winter and three men have been left on guard.
 After this successful attempt we aye all convinced that the America, in normal summer weather, can make her way to the pole We all regard this plan as ra- tional. practical and feasible. The thing can be done and what can be done shall be done"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
Conditions in Ireland
 Steadily GrOW Worse
Robert Hunter the American Socioogst Has Spent Many Months in Ireland and Says Landlordism Has Brought
 Misery-Population Decreases While Taxes Increase.

"Since the strike of the Royal Irish constahulary in Belfast, the authorities have reason to believe that the traditional loyalty of this splendid body of men may have been diminished.
 "The Irish have ceased to expect any4 thing from the British parliament. They decline to accept anything but home rule. They are convinced that the time for compromise has passed
 "On the agrarian side things are be- coming serious. In many counties the people are resorting to violence to pre- vent the letting of farms for grazing.
 While it is becoming more difficult for people to get land, yet taxation is increasing and the population decreasing. In 1871 taxation in Ireland was $S5,00O. OoO. and in 1906 1t had increased to nearly s5o,O0O,0o0. The per capita taxation has nearly doubled in forty years.
 '"To sum up economic conditions. With in forty years the population has de- creased 181s per cent, the land cultivated 1715 per cent. while taxation has increased 711s per cent. And panpsrisnn has in- creased 54 per cent. Do you wonder tn. Ireland should clamor for home rulc?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

London, September 14-Special Cable)- Robert Hunter, the well-known New York sociologist, after many months study of the industrial and sociological conditions in the chief cities of Europe, returned to London on Thursday after a tour of Ireland. where he studied condi- tions closely. MT. Hutner said:
 ''The trouble with Ireland is land lordsm. The people cannot get enough land to till to make a living. Misery and poverty is visible in the western counties of Ireland Depressing famine conditions are certain to prevail there during the winter. The potato crop has been failure, owing to the wet summer. With famine menacing them there is no telling what the people may be driven to this winter.
 '"rhe government authorities are be- coming alarmed. They are increasing the police force everywhere. Obviously the government is expecting widespread trou- ble this winter.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
Grover CIeUeIand $
 Failing in HeaIfh

their grandmother. Mrs Cleveland has believed it to be necessary to remain with her husband at Princeton
 His recovery is not looked for. He may live for a number of weeks, but he will never return to his office in the Equitable Life building. Not only is he afflicted with gout in his feet and knees, but he is subject to frequent attacks or acute indigestion and intestinal diff ficulty.
 This great democratic President, went on the friend who told of MT. Cleveland s real physical condition, lis a perfect eX- republication of the old saying. It is not so much the entrance to life as the exit |"
 And he went on to say that after all the battles all the heartburnlngs and fac tional differences, eX-President Cleveland is now in these radical days the idol of the real democracy of the country.
 From other sources it was learned that MT. Cleveland has given up all interest in public affairs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
WelIrnd11 $ Confident
 Of Reaching the Pole
Explorer Satisfied with Results of His Trials with His Latest Airship and Tells of the Start the Pole Which Was
 Prevented by an Arctic Storm and Defective Compass

Berlin, September Walter Wellman, head of the Wellman- Chicago Record Herald polar expedition. has sent the fol- lowing cablogram to the Lokal-Anzeiger from Tromsoe:
 After the steamer Express cast off the cable the balloon America did excellent ly, but an increasing wind soon gave us a hard struggle. and the storm drove us towards some high jagged mountains near the coast, where the airship would have been destroyed if she had struck. There then ensued d hard fight between the storm and the motor. The latter tri- umphed, and we slowly rounded the north end of Foul Island in the teeth of the wind. Our confidence in the America had so increased in the meanwhile that gave the order to start for the north pole. The wind, however. increased to twelve miles all hour and the snow fell so thicldy so that we could not see a quarter of a mle Just then the com pass failed to act. owing to defective con- struetion. We were completely lost in d snowstorm above the polar sea and Threatened with destruction.
 After brief deliberation we decided Co try to get back to the Express to rectify our compass and start again. It was inn possible, however, to keep in one direc- tion, and we were again carried into dan gerous proximity to the mountains. Nani- man, the engineer. then made the motor run at top speed, and the America moved a second time against the wind which probably was blowing fifteen miles an hour. She circled three times in the teeth of the wind. We saw the Express for a moment, but immediately lost her again.
 We could have returned to the Ex- press if we could have seen where to steer, but under the circumstances the only thing possible was to try to land. With this idea we stopped the motor and let the America drift over the glacier. At the end of Foul Bay we used trailer filled with provisions and brake rope. Both acted well and dragged over an ice wall 100 feet high without damaging the provisions. After crossing the glacier We
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
lis lJis {. ; Sargent Qualities s 2 llent of ReprsSsR-
 tatiVe Burnett
INCREASE IN IMMIGRATION
 100000 OVER LAST YEAR
T. V. PowderIy Says That the South Will Receive More Attention Here after In the Matter of lmmi-
 grants Seeking Homes.

Washington, September 4-(Speeial.l- A recent interview in the Age-Herald with Representative Burnett of Alabama, who is a member of the congressional im- migration committee, is taken exception to by Commissioner of Immigration Sar gent, who claims that undesirable immi- grants do not come from particular To- calities.
 MT. Burnett having specified Southern Italy, Sicily, and Asia Minor.
 T do not believe it is true that un- desirable immigrants come wholly from one country" said MT. Sargent today. We do not want people from other coun- tries who are criminal Any one grants that Neither do We want people that, because of any political belief, believe in letting as much blood as they can, and we do not want people who are shlftless or diseased and who have no ambition to become good citizens. But these classes do not come from any particular so ciety, and it is because we must have labor that we are compelled to put up with a certain per cent of bad timber.
 Industrial prosperity in this country is directly reflected in Europe and there has been an imense amount of labor needed in the United States. Italians, Sicilians and all others who are honest. who want to own homes of their own and till the soil. give their children that which they had not-educaton-and who wish lp become good citizens, should be given 1portunitv to come into the coun- try, no matter what their race may be- bat tn hers a,ouid be excluded
 Increase Immigration,
 MT 95reenes tmual report will shortly be msdes Glss t.l3ad wIl1 show that the number 5f aiera admitted last year wilf reach 100000, two hundred thousand more than the year preceding.
 T. V. Powderly. chief of the division of information bureau of immigration, has accepted the invitation of Secretary D. w. Coons to attend the convention in Paducah on the 26th of this month.
 MT. Powderly will deliver an address to the convention outlining the future work of the division of which he Is the head.
 MT. Powderly's idea is to gather infor- nation which will show the good points in land. climate, transportation facilities and adaptabllity for different kinds of crops with the prices of the lands terms of purchase. names of owners and such other data as may be of benefit to the ar irving alien.
 We also will obtain information" said MT. Powderly tonight. ''as to the exact places where men may find employment, wages, hours of service, house rents and everything pertaining thereto.
 We want this so specific as to detail that we may be able from time to time to tell the newly admitted just where ne can find employment and a home"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
SLASHED TO PIECES.
Austrian Laborer Murdered By Three
 Feudists.

Chicago, September IA. - Michael Buchroch. B years old, an Austrian n laborer in the Gibson freight yards at Hammond. Ind, was dragged from his bed last night and cut almost to pieces, according to the police, by three broth CTS who it is declared, followed him to Hammond from Austria in order to wreak their vengeance upon him.
 The Hammond police were notified today. The brothers had disa ppea red and search for them was unaVailing. II is declared the brothers followed Buchroch from Austria to settle a fam lily feud.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
HighbalIs Come High.

Cincinnati, September 14.-An ad- vance of cents a gallon will be made in the price of spirits when the market opens Monday, making the basic price for distillers finished goods s1.34 gallon. This is the highest price touch ed by whisky in years. The advance was decided upon today by the prin- cipal distilling interests of the country. It Is made because of the abnormally high price of malt, corn and rye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
Preparing for 1903.

Tromsoe Norway. September H.-Maj. H. B. Hersey of the United States weather bureau, Washington, who was a member of the Welman-Chieago Record Herald arctic expedition, arrived here to- day from Spitzbergen on board the fish ing boat Gotfricd Walter Wellman sailed today for Germany, whence he will go to France and begin preparations for an- other attempt to reach the north pole lu lenS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
ALL LOOK TO BRYAN.
Many Democrats, However, Hope He
 Will Not Be a Candidate.

Washington September 1t-(Special.)- )-- William Jennings Bryan still has q strangle hold on the southern democracy according to Senator Simmons of North Carolina who (breezed into town yester- day
 ''rhey think he Is honest and sincere. he said, "and regard him as the greatest advocate of the peoples rights now in the limelight."
 But the senator qualified this praise ny saying that many of MT Bryan's warm est admirers hope he will not be q presi dential candidate in 19s, but will use his influence in the selection of man to put up against the republican choice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
REAPlNG THE HARVEST.

New Orleans, September It. ( Bail was fixed at S50.000 today for { Virginia Reed. the negro woman | to whom the defaulting tax clerk, { Charles F.. Letten, says he gave { nearly all the $l19.000 he stole. { '. The woman is charged with receiv- ( . ceiying stolen property. charge | of perjury has also been made { against her Letten. who has confessed, will { be used the principal witness { . against her. {
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

of the service at ports of entry. Later, however it will be posted in the centers of all the large cities for the guidance of those out of employment.
 MT Powderly added Tn the southern states there are thousands of acres wait ing for men out of employment and my Idea is to make the information division the missing link between the two, thus in- trodueing the idle hands to the fertile lands.' w. $.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
Benefit for the South

Mr Powderly said this informa ton would pertain particularly to the south, from which the greatest demand for i'm migrants was now coming. II is first to be given in bulletin form to the officers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

New York, September 14.-(Special)- We must all be prepared for bad news from Princeton said a democrat of prominence tonight while passing through New York on his way upstate, "because MT. Cleveland's health is failing rapidly. He Is troubled with Gout in his feet which is spreading to his knees, and has fallen off in weight forty pounds within three months. MT Cleveland does not quite ap- preciate his condition, but Mrs. Cleveland does.
 No communications of public or priv ate importance are now submitted to Mir. Cleveland. Mrs. Cleveland is acting prac- tcally as his confidential adviser and ssc- retary, and she is fully acquainted with her husbands real condition.
 MT Cleveland has remained at his home in Princeton all summer. The Cleveland children have been at Mrs. Clevelands New Hampshire home with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

was in a failing condition and that abuse or maltreatment did not pro- duce death. However, you might in- Vestigate the matter
 These are the matters that 1 was in structed to bring to your attention in order that you might lay before the grand jury of your county. Very truly yours.
 (Signed1 JBRE C. KING,
 Chairman
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

There has been intense interest at the capital as to what will be done at De- catur Judge Vert charged the jury that violations of the enjoined railroad acts were violations just the same and should be looked into. Whether the jury in- dicted Snyone or not is yet untold this far down the line of the Louisville and Nashville. There was somewhat of feeling that it might be just as well and out with it. If some overt act is done there would be an end to the unceI- tainty and a number of railroad men who are fearful that they will get into the
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-03-06
John D. HINTS AT
OTHER BIG GIFTS

remark which John ID. Rookie
teller made to several reporters i'm
\ew York before starting for Angus
q, Ga, led TO the publication OF a re-
"ort that he contemplates another
'arge gift to the cause OF education
D. philanthropy In excusing him
elf to the reporters, Mr.. Rockefel-
'er said:
II have matters OF great impor-
ance TO discuss with my son: mat
'ers of more Importance to the pub
lie in the future than any chance
'emarks / might make just now"
"Do Won mean that you contem-
plate the announcement Of another
bequest to the cause Of cation? %
was asked.
"All ! can say" Mr. Rockefeller
replied. is that | have something In
mind which ! believe will be Of great
interest TO the public"
At the Office Of the General Edu-
cation Board. which has the hand
ing of the money given by Mr.. Rock
cfeller. il was said tonight that moth
ing was known there Of any CON
templatcd gift
Frederick r. Gates, a member OF
the board, would neither deny nor
affirm that he knew Of a new gift
and said that if such gift was con
templated by MIR. Rockefeller H.
would be announced as soon as all
OF the arrangements were made
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-03-06
PIDGIN AND THE
COST OF LIVING

Chief Pidgin of the state bureau
OF statistics tells the Boston Herald
that the cost OF living is growing
higher at a more rapid rate than the
earning power OF the workingman.
and that life is becoming more diff
cult for the average man every year,
and incidentally tells the newspape.
man that he ought TO be allowed to
employ 20 more men to discover the
fact and place IL before the people
SO as 10 impress II upon their minds.
In fact. he says that he ought to
have $4,000 with which TO prove
10 the people OF the commonwealth
the fact which he asserts prior to
he next national election. when the
ariff will be an issue OF the cam
paign. There can be no disputing
The fact that an intelligent vote Is
20 be desired on the tariff. as upon
mother issue. and that the public
ought to have all possible informa-
ION on the question i'm all of it's bear
II.
but the majority OF the voters are
not in need OF any special investi-
alton in their behalf 10 inform them
$ 20 what the advance has been In
he cost OF sugar. or oil. or hour.
~ boots and shoes. or rent. of what
OF OF the necessities Of life Most
Of them get statistical reports as TO
'nese matters at the end OF each
week. and are duly impressed with
he fact. and the majority OF them
have ample opportunity for determin-
ing the WHY'S and wherefores through
he public discussions on the plat
'orm or i'm the papers. with which
hey are far more familiar than they
'yer would be with any bulletin OF
statistics sent out by the offcial bu-
eau of investigators. one OF the
items OF increased cost OF living in
hese DAYS is increased taxation for
he maintenance of government. and
"ne way to relieve the burden OF the
lverage workingman would be to cut
down these expenses and the conse-
guent taxation. Chief Pidgin might
onduct an investigation as to posi-
bilities i'm that direction, near at
ZONE and without the necessity OF
employing more men-Haverhin
Gazette.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-03-06
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