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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
GOLF NOTES.

At the Morris County Golf Club on
Saturday a ball sweepstakes play
against boyle, was the attraction.
Alfred Macy and John IT, Gillesp e
tied for first place, with scores Of two
up. Other cards turned in we're Nor
gan X. Smith, even up Stephen II.
Plum, second, down; James A.
Downs and James A. Edwards, three
down; Enos Wilder and Palmer Letch-
ford, down; Q. M. Fleischman, :
down.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
Letter to Benz. J. Crane.
Morristown, N. j.

Dear Sir: Why do people send us
such tales as this ?
D G Smith, Madison, Fla. had his
mothers house painted Devoe & Ray
holds IL years ago, and the house looks
better to-day than other houses paint
ed with other paint OF years ago.
They are full of goodwill for Deyoe
& Reynolds.
Yours truly
F.. w. DEVOE &
% @. Il. RAYNOLDSC co.
2. S. George e. Voorhees, and f.
Pant,eniGs sell our paint.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
4 serious AccIdenr.

George r. D. Schiefelin is at his
home at Loantaka, badly injured as
the result of probable runaway acct
dent last Thursday. He was out rid
ing with Marcellus Hartley Dodge
and all right when he left his com
panion. Shortly afterwards the horse
returned home without the rider.
Mrs. Schieffelin started to follow the
track OF. the horse and came upon her
husband lying unconscious by the
roadside. Medical attention was Sc
cured, but bis condition has been crit
icaI.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04

Emil Podelsac has been elected sec
Rotary of the Kennedy Electric Co.
which on Monday asked franchise 70
operate in High Bridge.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
Trolley Notes.

The Morris County Traction Co.,
has force of ten laborers at work at
Speedwell, clearing the brush off the
tract between the avenue and the
railroad running along the river to the
round house property. 1t is planned
TO run switch from the round house
yard across the river and out to
Speedwell avenue to unload rails and
other material and for use later in
connection with the power house and
other buildings to be erected at
Speedwell. The old office building OF
the Speedwell works is being repaired
somewhat for use as tool house.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
:. A Pair OF Idtots.v

The Gamma Sigma Society gave a
very creditabie production OF the
comedy "a Pair of Idiots in the
High School Friday evening. Each
member of the cast did excellent work
and well entertained good sized
audience. This is the third play
the Gamma Sigma has presented. The
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26
NEW YORK.

Holiday buying has had the center Of
the stage. and retail business has felt very
perceptibly the influence of the spirit of
the season. While much more marked
than some time ago, however, the volume
of retail buying as a whole is not up to
expectations, and is certainly well below
year ago at this date. Sentiment as to
the outlook for trade next year is very
mixed.
Conditions in financial circles are still
slowly but quite surely approaching nor
NAL. From the country at large there
is reported a continued easing up of the
situation as regards cash payments, and
several cities are practically on a cash
basis.
A very favorable feature in the present
period of repression is the tendency to-
ward enlargement of our export trade.
This is most notable in the grain trade
Business failures for the week ending
Dec. 10 number 29S, against 2S4 last
week, 227 in the like week of 1906, 235
in 1905, 249 in 1904 and 243 in 1903.
Canadian failures for the week number
40, as against so last week and 70 in
this week year ago.-Bradstreet's Com
mercial Report.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26
G.HOLLAMBSm UCE

S25O0000
valued british
personality mercantile house If
while
Portland
nshng all English
which
alleged which be
reality
life members his
build
hn it sad
Baker Street and that lent
the
reported
filled buried
justice will the
ALL If within claimant
found
undertaken, will allow
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26
THIRD HORROR IN A FORTNIGHT

Monongah,W. Va, and Yolande Dis
aster Cost Lives Of Hundreds.
The Connellsville mine horror is the
third to shock the nation within the
last fortnight. An explosion in mines
Nos. and 8 of the Consolidation Coal
Company at Monongah, w. Va, wreck
ed the interior of the mine and caused
loss of life at first estimated at 500,
but since found to have been less than
400. Not all the bodies of men trapped
in subterranean passages have been re-
moved even yet. At last accounts 336
had been found.
This disaster brought desolation to
the whole city Of Monongah and the
surrounding region and restitution and
even disease have resulted. The State
authorities and others have taker
measures to investigate the causes rig
idly and to seek greater safety for the
workers.
The other serious accident occurred
in the Yolande coal mine, near Biz
mingham, Ala. The latest reports from
the scene of this horror, published yes
terday, show fifty-nine bodies found
and twenty-five men listed as still
missing.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26
SHORT NEWS NOTES.

st. Christopher is the patron saint of
motoring.
Brazil has no middle class. There are
but two classes there-the rich and the
poor.
Countess of Warwick, on return to
London, says Americas only hope is in
socialism.
The grand jury at Oakland, Cal, re-
fused to vote an indictment against Har-
ry Kleinschmidt, accused of numbering
his friend Frank Bellows, and the young
man was released.
Warlike preparations have been made
by the people of Hopkinsville, KY, to pre-
vent might riders from burning two to-
bacco factories, which they failed to de-
stroy on their recent visit.
The establishment of the William Budd
Furniture Company, in Petersburg, Va,
was burned the other day. Loss $4,000,
partially covered by insurance.
Allan Corey, son of William Ellis
Corey. who broke with his father when
the latter married Mabelle Gilman, has
become reconciled with the steel king and
his stepmother of a few months.
For the first time in the history of
New York county man has been con-
victed for attempted murder. He is Pie
tor Giannone, photographer. He was
charged with hiring Bruno Cardea to kill
Luigi Fayata, that he might wed Favata's
wife. Favata was wounded, but recoy-
cred.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26
200 ARE ENTOMBED IN
PENNSYLVANIA MINE
Terrible Explosion Imprisons All
the Men Working in Coal Shaft
Near ConneIIsville.
FIRE ADDS TO AWFUL HORROR
Darr Workings, Owned by Pittsburg
Coal Company, the Scene of Lat
est Slaughter of Miners.

Two hundred miners were entombed
in the Darr mines of the Pittsburg
Coal Company at Jacobs Greek, on the
Youghiogheny River, eighteen miles
west of Connellsville, Pa. OF the vic
tins fully 100 are Americans, the 9TH
ers being principally Hungarians.
A terrific explosion shook the vicin-
ity of the mine Thursday morning and
announced to all the surrounding coun-
try that a great disaster had occurred
under the surface. Smoke soon began
to issue in heavy columns from the
mine, which is of the slope variety.
The mouth of the mine was wrecked,
and this, together with the fire which
was discovered raging inside, prevent
ed any attempt to rescue the imprison-
ed men. There was nothing to indi-
cate whether it was gas or coal dust
that exploded.
Within a few minutes after the eX-
| plosion the mouth of the pit was sur
rounded by the relatives and friends of
the entombed men. Smoke and flames
issuing from the slope made it impos-
sible to enter and the wives and chill
dren were frantic.
The scene of the explosion is on the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad side
of the Youghiogheny River. Jacobs
Creek, on the main line of the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad, is across the
river. 1t is forty miles east of Pitts
burg and eighteen miles west of Con-
nellsville.
The officials of the Pittsburg Coal
Company stated that the mine was che
of the largest and was equipped with
the most modern appliances for mining.
The Pittsburg Coal Company mines are
on both sides of the Youghiogheny
River. The fuel mined in this field is
used for coking purposes. The terri
| tory is a part of the original Connells-
vile coke field and the mines are said
to contain considerable gas.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26
Chicago Inter Ocean.
KILLING THE LOBSTERS.
The Shell Fish in New York Waters
Being Exterminated.

Lobster fishing is rapidly disappear
ing as one of the novel industries of
New York City and those accustomed
to eat that species of shell fish will
soon be deprived of that pleasure. For
years the lobster fishermen who set
their pots in the upper and lower bay
had headquarters in Stapleton, S. L.,
and there it was possible to obtain at
all seasons of the year the choicest
grade of food for 10 cents pound or
about half the price charged by the
average Manhattan retailer. At that
price the fishermen had what they con-
sidered excellent returns for their
work
Until about year ago catch Of be-
tween 200 and 300 pounds of lobster
a day was considered an average haul,
and that netted the bayman and his
boy helper between $50 ana $40 for
their short days labor.
In recent months, however, the
catches have been decidedly small, and
the fishermen believe that within an
other year a New York lobster will be
a rarity. The daily catches now aver
age fifteen pounds, and when one mans
pots yield twenty-five pounds he con-
siders himself fortunate. One by one
the men who have spent the greater
part of their lives in the business are
abandoning the work and seeking new
means of earning a Livelihood.
The pouring of acids and refuse into
the bay, thereby poisoning its waters,
is killing the lobster and also other
kinds of fish.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26
DE4z EgAgaIls7S
- 81

Chicago-Cattle. common to prime
$500 to $6.10; hogs. prime 'eayy, $500
to $455; sheep, fair TO choice, 500
to $425: wheat, No. ., 9Sc to S1.00;
corn, No. =, 5Sc to 59c; oats, standard,
timothy, S11.O0 to $500; prairie, $500
to $3.50 butter. choice creamery. 24c
to 29c; eggs. fresh, pc to 27c; potatoes,
per bushel, 4Sc to 56c.
napolis-Cattle, shipping, $500
to S6.25; hogs, good to choice heavy,
800 to $3.50; sheep, common to prime,
$500 to $50; wheat, No. 2, 95c to DC;
corn, No. white. 53c to BIC; oats, No.
white, Ace to 52c.
st. Louis-Cattle. $50 to 5000: hogs,
500 to S460; sheep. $500 to $500;
wheat, Nc. 2, S1.01 to S1.02; corn, No. 2,
SIC to soc; oats. No. 2, 4Sc to soc; rye,
No. =, Toe to 79c.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to $50;
hogs. S4.o0 to $50: sheep. $500 TO
$3.50: wheat, No. ., soc to S1.01; corn,
No. 2 mixed, 55c to SIC; oats, No. 2
mixed, 47c to 4sc; rye. No. ,, I9c to Sic
Detroit-Cattle, Si.00 to $3.50: hogs,
$500 to $40: sheep. $3.50 to $415;
wheat, No. ,, S1.OO to Sl.O2 corn, NO.
yellow, 60c to Gle; oats. No. 3 white,
B3c to SIC; rye. No. ., SOC to S2c-
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. ? northern,
S1.OS to S11O; corn. No. 3, SOC to 6Oc:
oats, standard, sic to 52c; rye, No. I,
soc to Sic; barley, No. =, 96c to &c;
pork, mess, $12.52.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
81 On IN 81 %. hogs fair to choice $40
to S4.6O: sheep. common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to SI.25.
+. New York-Cattle. $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $3.50 to $500; sheep. $500 to
$500: wheat. No. Zred. Sl.O5 to S1.O6:
corn, No. 2. 66c to &c; oats, natural
white, BIC to 59c; butter. creamery, 2oc
to .29c: eggs, western. PC to Bic.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 99c to
S101; corn, No. mixed. 59c to Gle;
oats. No. 2 mixed, 53c to sac; rye. No.
2, 79c to Sic; clover seed, prime, 500.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26

w. II. Boggs, an American, was slain
by Mexican laborers who demanded their
wages.
Two bombs were found beneath the box
of King Carlos of Portugal in the Royal
Theater of Lisbon.
Brigands tortured Marquis Cito of Ma
plies and forced his wife to write a check
for $4,000 for his ransom.
In the effort to gain the mastery of
the Pacific, Japan forced every foreign
shipping line out of the China trade.
Thousands of native troops who attack
ed the French forces on the Algerian
frontier were driven back into Morocco.
A steamer went on the rocks of the
Nova Scotia shore in a binding storm,
but the 600 persons aboard were taken
off,
Oscar Erbsloeh was forced by German
authorities to pay duty of $50 on the
James Gordon Bennett Cup he won in
the balloon race.
The death sentence of Prof. Karl Hau,
convicted of murder in Germany, was
ccmmuted to life Imprisonment.
Empress Alexandra of Russia became
so i'll that special consultation of court
physicians was deemed necessary.
Nicholas Tschai&pvsky, known as the
founder of the first revolutionary circle
ct st. Petersburg, and Nine. Breshkov-
skaya, one of the first aristocratic con-
vcrts to the terrorist program, both of
whom have many friends in America,
have been arrested and thrown into the
Fortress of SIS. Peter and Paul at the
Russian capital.
Finance Minister Kokovsoff, in an
nouncing the budget in the Duma. Tues
day, said that it would be necessary to
get S93,000,0O0 on credit to meet the ex-
tIaordinary expenses.
Recent conferences between the Ameri-
can ambassador at Toxic, O'Brien, and
Foreign Minister Hyashi, have resulted in
a satisfactory settlement of the Limitation
of japanese immigration to the United
States. 1t was agreed that only students
and commercial men should be allowed to
come, and that the going of laborers
should be prevented by the japanese au-
thorities. Similar assurances were given
to the representatives of Canada.
Recent reports from South Africa were
to the effect that the Cape Government
was arming in the expectation of another
uprising of the native Zulus, whose lead
er, Dinizulu, was defying arrest in Natal
for certain murders in connection with
the rising last year. Now it appears that
Dinizulu has surrendered to the authorl-
ties and has demanded a trial.
Herr LANCE, a well-known translator,
predicted famine in white paper anS
urged America to look to the preserva-
ton of her forests.
Rio Janeiro received news of a Brazil
len filibuster promoted in New York by
American capital. Offenders captured in
Rio may be executed.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26
WORLDS BIGGEST WARSHIP.
Being Built for the U. S.-North
Dakota to Be Queen.

At the moment the guns of Admiral
Evans Pacifc-bound feet were roaring
out their farewell salute at Fort Monroe
the first keel plate of the great battleship
North Dakota, the largest battleship in
the world with the exception of her sister
ship, the Delaware, was laid in the yards
of the Fore River Shipbuilding Company
at Quincy, Mass. A fourth larger than
the largest ship now in the American
navy, the actual construction of the North
Dakota may be said to have begun. The
first plate laid was No. 10. There are
twenty of these plates, each twenty-four
feet long and weighing 5000 pounds. As
soon as the first plate was laid frames
were attached to it. The contractor has
three years in which to complete the
building of the ship, but the officers of the
company say they will be able to complete
the North Dakota, provided the material
is not delayed, so that it may be launched
within ten months.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26
CHICAGO.

An improving tone appears in business
circles, although actual recovery in ac-
tivity is not looked for before a return
to normal banking conditions is effected.
Seasonable weather brought a heavier
movement in the leading retail lines, and
the absorption of necessaries and Christ
mas goods advanced to gratifying proper
lions, dealings generally rejecting a bet
ter disposition among buyers.
Wholesale branches mainly enter upon
the usual quiet attending the close of the
year, but there was fair aggregate of
demands for immediate delivery and sat
isfactory mail orders were received fer
spring merchandise. Mercantile collec-
;ions show more promptness at western
points, although extensions are moi infre-
quently asked, particularly where the
shortage of currency yet remains severe
Defaults in this district again include
none of special significance, and the num-
Der this month thus far is less than a
year ago. Requests for accommodation
in January increases and current settle
ments at the banks involve some renew
ais, but the financial exhibit required Of
borrowers discloses little disturbing week
| ness among manufacturers ana dlSIriD-
uters, and this creates more confident
feeling as a basis for future financing.
Money remains quoted at Z per cent
minimum on local loans required for for
warding of foodstuffs, but higher rates
are made for commercial paper bought by
outside banks. Augmentation of gold re-
serves and note circulation strengthens
the situation and permits an expanding
shipment Of currency to che interior.
There is no decline in outputs Of rails.
wire and footwear, and there is better
inquiry for pig iron, although some con-
sumers hold for lower cost.
| Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number %, against Is last week and
% year ago. Those with Liabilities over
5000 number :. against last week and
3 in 1306.-Dun's Review of Trade.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26
U. S. ACQUIRES $500 ISLANDS.
New Survey Doubles Number on
Spanish Charts.

When Uncle Sam acquired the Philip
pine Islands h, learned from the Spanish
charts that tb fre were about 100 of
them. After a few ships had punctured
holes in their bottoms in water which,
according to charts, was deep, the qIes-
ticn of making charts was taken up by
the United States coast and geodetic sur
vey and the result to ute has been to
arouse grave distrust of the Spanish
guides to navigation. DIR. {. h. Iea=le,
who has been attached as surgeon to the
coast survey steamer Fathomer for the
last two years, arrived in San Francisco
from the Orient on the liner China. DR..
Yeagle says that the American survey,
which will not be completed for ten years,
already shows there are 2,600 islands in
the archipelago. The American surveyors
found the Spanish charts full of remark
able inaccuracies. The United States
steamers Fathomer. Pathfinder, Re
search, Martinique and Romblon are now
engaged in the work of charting Philip
pine waters.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.


nomination of Frederick H. Magdeburg
to be pension agent at Milwaukee.
Representative Ansberry of Ohio intro
duced bill providing for the survey of a
ship canal to connect Toledo and Chicago.
A bill making it a felony for a national
bank or any of its officers to speculate
with the funds of tbe bank was intro
duced by Representative De Almond of
Missouri.
The commissioner of Indian affairs. in
his annual report, urged that laws be
passed giving the more progressive In
dians greater freedom in the management
of their affairs.
Secretary Metcalf sent letter of re-
proof to Justice Delacy of the Juvenile
Court, who recently discharged a boy ac-
cused of theft on condition that he en-
list in the navy.
The Gibson ahoney Lumber Company
of San Francisco was the lowest bidder
OH 100000 feet of lumber for the 18TH
Milan canal commission, offering to deliver
i. for $124,312.
Representative Perkins of New York
rtintroduced his inheritance tax bill so
amended that one-half of the tax collect
ed should go to the State and the other
to the government.
Word was received from Pensacola,
Fla. that Senator Mallory. who is seri-
ously Ill there, would not be a candidate
for reelection, and planned to retire from
public life on account of his health.
Robert l.. Owen and Thomas =. Gore,
the two new Senators from Oklahoma.
were sworn in the other day. Senator
Owen. by lot. secured the six-year term,
and Senator Gore the two-year term.
Oct II will be a national holiday.
known as Discovery day." in honor of
the discovery of America Oct u. 1902. if
bill introduced in the House of Repre-
sentative Goulden of New York becomes
a law.
Representative Burgess of Texas intro
duced resolution calling for the appoint
ment by the President of a banking and
currency commission to hold public hear
ings in New York, Chicago and other
large cities.
Representative Mckinley of Illinois in
trodlced a Dill approprlat1ng S3o,OOo a
year for each of the land grant colleges
maintaining schools of engineering. in adj
dition to the $4,000 annually now given
to the agricultural experiment stations.
\ resolution charging the Secretary of
Agriculture with inaccuracy in estimating
this years cotton CROP and calling on him
to furnish to Congress ''the figures and
the Information upon which he based his
estimate" was introduced in the House.
\ bill creating in the Department of
Commerce and Labor a bureau of trans
portation to take off the shoulders of the
interstate commerce commission all save
the larger matters requiring the exercise
of the judicial function was introduced by
Representative Stevens of Minnesota.
Representative John Sharp Williams of
Mississippi introduced the old Blaine bill
to admit into all ports of the United
States free of duty all products of the
American hemisphere upon which no ex-
port duties are imposed, whenever such
nation shall admit to its ports free GER
tain United States products.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26
PAST AND PRESENT
AS 1T COMES TO US FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE EARTH.
TeIegraphic Information Gathered
by the Few for the Enlightenment
of the Many.
Motorman Gets 5000 Volts,

Three thousand, two hundred volts
of electricity passed through the body
of Cash Ross, a motorman on the In
dianapolis e Cincinnati traction line,
at Connersville, Ind, and he still lives.
The hand that grasped the conductor
of the powerful fluid was practically
burned off and he was thrown uncon-
scious to the ground from the top of
his car. where he was adjusting a
fiddle bow" A deep cash was cut in
his head when he struck the ground.
In spite of all this she recovered con-
seriousness under the care of a physi-
clan, who assisted him to the car and
sent him on to Rushville, where he re-
ceived further medical attention. The
voltage of electricity in the wire was
nearly twice as high as that used in
the death chairs of the penitentiaries.
and the imperfect contact Rossh had
with the metal was probably all that
saved him from instant death.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-12-26
COAL MINES FOR RAILROAD ONLY
Public Even in Union Pacific District
Must Buy Fuel Elsewhere.

The New York Journal of Commerce
says: 1t was learned yesterday that the
Union Pacific directors, in common with
directors of other roads owning and OPP
Grating coal mines, have been discussing
the question of the segregation of the coal
and transportation departments in accord
ance with the provisions of the rate law
of last year. The provisions of this law
will prohibit them on and after May 1
from Transporting any article or commod-
ity. other than timber. manufactured or
produced b. them. The company may
produce and transport its own coal for
it's own use il transportation or other
wise. but may not sell such coal (frOm
its own mines) before or after it has been
transported. 1t is planned by the Union
Pacific to keep its coal mines for its own
exclusive use. Consumers, even in the
company's district, will be compelled to
buy their supplies elsewhere. which
means, the directors believe, that the
Union Pacific will receive a large and
profitable haul on new traffic.