davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
MONTANA


HELENA, Mont. Sept. f9.-As a result
of the refusal of the business men of
Helena to discontinue the use of .tele-
phones pending a settlement of the Rocky
Mountain Bell Telephone company's
strike the Helena Trades and Labor as
sembly, affiliated with the Montana Fed
Grafton of Labor, has decided to call a
general strike. sr "a
, The result of this action, 1t is said
viii be complete tie-up of the street car
service in the city, and the closing OF
hotels, manufacturing establishments,
business houses and even saloons. where
the use of telephones is discontinued.
BUTTE-The Rocky Mountain Bell Tel
epllone company met defeat In the effort
to prosecute two striking employees, A. e.
Edwards and r. Clayton. for grand lar
cenJ in the removal of Bell instruments
from various houses. Judge John Doran
declared that the state had failed to pre-
sent convicting testimony, and he dis
charged the two men. Edwards and
Clayton are ardent unionists, and tc
make the boycott of the Bell company
more effective in this city began land
office business in the removal of Bel
phones, traversing the principal streets
instruments and which bore a huge
ing Home The bell people held that
the householders had no right to remove
the phones without a months notice be-
ing given and that the act of the strik-
ing linemen constituted grand larceny
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
MINNESOTA

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Sept. 29.-Skapti Sig
valdson of Ivanhoe, Mimi, is in Bethesda
hospital suffering from the removal of
125 square inches of skin from his body,
which he volunteered to give to save the
life of Gust Olson, an aged man whom
he did not know and whom he had never
seen until he came to the hospital to
offer his cuticle Olson and his wife
were burned in an explosion of wood all
cohol. Mrs. Olson died.
ST. PAULA conference was held here
between the five railroads interested in
the boilermakers' strike and the striking
employees. 1t was arranged for by Chair
man Martin A. Knapp of the interstate
commerce commission and representatives
of the Firemens union on the interested
roads The questions were thoroughly
discussed, but the conference adjourned
without accomplishing anything.
ST. PARLIAMENTARY nurses of the
training school at the city hospital re-
signed today because DR.. Ancker, the
superintendent, would not reinstate one
of the nurses who was discharged a few
days ago for insubordination. There
were about fifty nurses at the hospital
many of them taking the course Of in
struction.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
RHODE ISLAND

CENTRAL FALLS, R. l., Sept 29.-
The dedication of bowlder and tablet
to mark the location of the Pierce Indian
fight in 1878, took place here. The pro-
gram included addresses by prominent
Rhode Islanders and historical address
by Edwin c. Pierce of Providence, lin
cal descendant of Captain Michael Pierce.
NEWPORT-Muchc CONCERNED because of
a fire in one of the chimneys of their
, villa on Harrison avenue DR.. and Mrs.
Alexander S. Clark called the fire de-
partment out this evening. When the
engines arrived the fire was out. A re-
port that the villa was burning caused
excitement in the cottage colony.
NEWPORT-Mrs. Mary Brady Hall, 1t
was reported today, has retained lawyers
to bring a divorce suit against Major
Charles Spencer Hall of the British army,
having completed her two years stay in
Newport necessary to attain legal resi-
denC
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
TENNESSEE

.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Sept. 29-Those
interested in education in Knox county
are preparing to have rally days at the
erintendent /. A. Cate, Jesse s. Cottrell
chairman of the school board, and s. A.
Mynders, superintendent of the city
schools. will take part in the rallies
Rallies will be held In every school dis
trict in the county
DAIsY-Mr. H. H. Poe is. attending
presbytery in Hill City this week.
Mrs Champion is visiting her son al
Gold Point this week. ee
Miss Alice Dover of Chattanooga is the
guest of relatives here. RI
Mrs. Lizzie Sizel has returned to her
home In Pennsylvania after a pleasant
visit to her sister Mrs. Mary Schulgen
KNOxvILLE-Frien of j. I. Finney
who has resigned his position on the
staff of the Tennesseeanato accept the
position of assistant editor of the Colun-
bia Herald, suggested that he be the
next secretary of the state Democratic
executive committee. ' f
JASPER-Luther Swami, travelling
salesman for Davenport Bros. of Chatta-
nooga. is in town.
I Miss Lucille Wright will leave in two
weeks for Rock Hill. Va, to enter school
Miss Catherine Craighead returned
Monday from Kingston, where she has
been visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. s. B. Patton left for
Chattanooga.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
MAINE

DURHAM, Maine, Sept 29.--The heavy
frost has done no damage to the corn crop
here except to one large field owned by
Shiloh Elijah" Sandford had taught
his disciples ,nroughi prayer God such
disasters would be averted Since the
frost the disciples who have devoted
much time to singing hymns and praying,
: have worked night md day to gather
their crops, believing that the destruction
of the corn was an evidence that they
had not been living Alright in the sight Of
the Loid.
PORTLAND = The noA-commissioned
officers of the Twenty-third company.
coast artillery, gave a banquet in honor
of the on-commissiohed officers Of Com
pany A, Maine National guard. These
two companies were associated in the
recent war maneuvers in Portland har-
bor and there sprang up between them
a friendship that gives pro:-iise of being
lasting. Col Charles Collins of the First
regiment, national guard, was guest of
honor.
..ree members of the Portland high
scnool graduating cl- $ of six years ago
wiil be married on the same day. October
2. They are Lester M. Hart, news editor
of the Portl~ ~ Advertiser; Norman w.
Blake, a clerk in the Portland Gas Light
company; ana MISS f1eleh Dyel, uausnter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert s. Dyer. Mr.
Hart will marry Miss Marion Matthews,
a daughter of Capt. Elbridge Matthews;
Mr.. olake's affianced is Miss Edith Le-
favor of his city, and Miss Dyer will be-
come the bride of Walter e. Smart, a
clerksin the Portland Trust company. The
selection of the same date for these three
weddings was purely coincidence.
al .t,xr
John w. Randall of this city announced
the death in Waltham, Mass, lof his
younger son, Iohn w. Randall. jr. Death
was due to typhoid fever. Mr.. Randall
was "a years of age. He had been an in
spector in the Waitham watch factory.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
TOE DANCING NEWPORT
S0CIETYS LATEST FAD

+ NEWPORT, r, l.. Sept. 29.-Toe
+ dancing is the latest diversion of
/ the young women in society.
I. A large class has recently been
I formed here and 1t will be con-
I. tinued in New York long after the
7 Newport season has closed.
/ Miss Edith Bacon and the Misses
I Irene and Mildred Sherman are
+ members and already they are
+ quite accomplished.
+ Dancing on he toes is difficult.
I. and for time at least the waltz
!. and the two-step are quite forgot
I. ten.
/ Charles A. Childs went to New
+ York this evening and Mrs. Childs
!. will follow on Wednesday. when
Z she will close her summer house
!. in Bellevue avenue. Mr.. and Mrs.
T Childs will return here next sea-
(. son.
!. Mrs. Natalie S. Schencl1 Collins
+ went to New York this evening to
|. remain a few days.
+ Mrs. Elisha Dyer, jr,, and Mrs.
|. Mary Brady Hall will go to New
+ York tomorrow morning.
+ Mr. and Mrs: Richard T. Wilson.
: jr., and their family will end their
! Newport season and go to New
!. York for the autumn and winter
+ Mr.. Wilson's health has greatly
+ improved.
Z Mrs. Herman Oelrichs will close
+ her Newport villa and go to New
+ York
: 4
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
NEW JERSEY

EGG HARBOR CITY, N. j., Sept. %
The Elizabeth Maennerchor arrived mere
several hundred strong. They were taken
to the Aurora Singer hall. where they VIII
have a festival as guests of the Aurora
Singing society of this city.
GLOUCESTER CITY-Dog poisoners
made their appearance again last-niGht
and several dogs were found dead on
Burlington and other streets this morn
ing. The police authorities have mad
many complaints about dogs of late, and
It Is believed that some of the complain
ants have been distributing the poisoned
meat
CAMDEN-With brief ceremony the
steamer Princeton, built for a Hudson
river line, was launched at the New YORK
shipbuilding plant. Miss English, daugn-
ter of one of the officials of the steam
ship company, christened the. craft. The
Princeton will ply between New York and
Albany.
After being married about year Mrs.
Elsie Arnold, 16 years old, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. John Assmann of 523 Cedar
street. Camden, died at her nome IN
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, from hemorrhage
of the brain. Her body will be brought
to Camden for burial. 3
BRIDGETON-John B. r. Nixon of THIS
city, son of the late William G. Nixon,
and Miss Alice Williams of Nyack' on-the-
Hudson. N Y. were married at the home
of the brides parents.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
WYOMING

CHEYENNE. Wyo., Sept. 29-Thomas
F. Walsh of Colorado returned to Den
yer after e visit to the Silver Crown
mining district. He went to Granite can
yon by rail. and thence to Silver Crown
by wagon. Ii is not known whether he
contemplates investing in the district or
not.
Elton Perry, ex-champion rough rider
of the world, is dying at his home here.
Perry IS suffering with meningitis
brought On y years in the saddle. Perry
has ridden and subdued one of the wild
est outlaws in the west. He was until
recent years without a peer among the
busters, but rough riding. coupled with
advanced age. put Perry out of business
He was alwayc a favorite with the spec
tato-s at tie frontier shows, being q
daring, oashing and spectacular per-
former.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
cow LIVES FIVE
WEEKS WITHOUT WATER

= EVEN, Mich, Sept. BIN ter :
! ribly emaciated condition-liter- :
4 ally reduced to q mere skeleton
/ a COW firmly anchored to tree, in
i the crotch of which her tall had !
4 become fastened, is believed to !
4. have spent upward of a month In :
I. the area of few square feet that :
I. proved her prison, subsistirg all :
I. the time without water and without !
!. more than one days supply Of :
!. food The animal is owned by !
+ Joseph Blake of Greenland, On .
i tonagon county. She has been !
!. missing for five weeks when a man ,
1. passing through the woods acci- :
I. dentally found her in the odd situa- .
1. ton described. Notwithstanding :
+ the pitiable plight of the COW, she .
i gave forceful demonstration that .
+ some vitality yet remained. Crazed .
+ from starvation, the sight of the .
!. man apparently infuriated the ami .
+ ma. With a wild lunge she broke .
!. loose from the tree, leaving her :
j tail behind, and charged her res .
!. cuer. He sought safety on wood :
i pile and was kept there three :
i quarters of an hour. The desire !
!. for food finally becoming upper .
4 most in the animal she wandered :
I. away in quest of it. She had eaten .
/ the bark from all the few small .
I. trees within the confines OF her .
!. prison and had tramped a hole in .
1. the ground to a depth of about .
+ two feet. The COW was rounded up /.
1. and although minus her tail she is .
i recovering from her queer expe- .
i rience.
Il Il 4. 4. 4. 4, 4. i 4. 4 =, Il L Il 4. 4 4. =
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
NEW YORK

WARSAW, N. Y, Sept. 29.-Rollin R.
Buck died of lingering illness, aged 70
years He was born in Warsaw on the
farm on which he died, having lived there
all of his life.
ITHACA-The body of John J. Nc
Gowan, a prosperous farmer and a son
of prominent family, was found in his
automobile which he had just driven back
from this city. A revolver in his hand
had put a bullet behind his ear, and
showed that ne had committed suicide.
NEW YORK-Mr. and Mrs. Maurice
Remi, refined middle-aged pair, agreed
to commit suicide. and they were both
found dead in their apartments In the
Bronx by a policeman. The apartment
was filled with gas and man and wife
were found lying on two separate beds
in the same ROOM A letter was found
which said the couple died because of their
sons death.
Joseph 1. Berry, park commissioner Of
the Bronx, is exonerated Of any violation
of civil service rules in a report made to
Mayor Mcclellan by John p. Mitchell,
commissioner of accounts.
HEMPSTEAD-Robert Berson, chauf-
feur for w. Grey Parks, member of the
Meadow Brook colony, and Edward Bond
employed on the estate OF Mr.. PARKS at
Westbury, are in the Nassau county Jail
on charge of grand larceny, preferred
by Mr.. Parks.
CORNING-Frank Fitzgibbons, aged 23,
substitute clerk at the Corning office
of the Wells Fargo Express company,
was taken off an Erie railroad train en-
route to New York and arrested on the
charge of having stolen package con-
tanning $780, consigned from Buffalo
bank to Livonia tank Eo
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
ALABAMA

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept. 29.-The
Montgomery freight bureau has sent out
letters to merchants asking them to
route all freight by those lines which
have accepted the state laws reducing
rates.
This is taken as form of boycott and
the contesting lines are very much
worked up over it. The only lines which
are not giving the new rates are the
Louisville & Nashville, the Western Ala
bona and the Central OF Georgia.
HUNTSVILLE-Irate citizens of this
city attempted to do violence to J. e.
Conder, president and principal owner
of the Conder training school for boys.
They were prevented from doing serious
harm to Conder by the police, who spir-
tied him to the outskirts of the city and
gave him orders to leave and never re-
turn to Huntsville. He has not been seen
since, and it is said that he is in Florida.
Conder is charged with misconduct to-
ward several of his boy students.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
MASSACHUSETTS

NORTH ADAMS, Sept. 29.-In connec-
tion with the opening of the new Rock
well road to the summit of Greylock
mountain, the highest point in the state
| 1t has been suggested that deer park
be maintained at the state reservation,
and three of the park commissioners In
cluding w. H. Sperry and DR.. John
Bressca, are understood to be In favor OF
the proposition.
FALL RIVER-Work that was done
formerly by 120 girls In the mills of the
Fall River Iron Works company Is per-
formed by ten men operating five draw
ing-in machines. Threads of warp are
drawn through harnesses and tied as
satisfactorily as If the operation was
done by hand. Although each machine
cost the company about $4,000, it is calcu-
lated that there will be a large saving by
the substitution of mechanical for manual
, labor.
LAWRENCE-James MaddoclSs COM
mitted suicide by inhaling gas. Crouched
on the floor behind the kitchen stove at
the home of George w. sAinsworth, 16S
Prospect street, where he boarded. tho
old man was found dead at 1880 o'clock
today.
AMESBURY-The Hartley Loop Weave
company demonstrated an attachment ior
carpet loom here yesterday by which
Wilton Velvet rugs can be woven three
yards wide, where previous TO this inyen-
tion they could be made only in three
quarters width.
WORCESTER-Mrs Ledyard BIZ, wife
of Hon. Ledyard Bill, who is critically
i'll at city hospital with pneumonia, fell
from her piazza at her home and sus-
tained a. fractured hip. On account OF
the condition of her husband II has not
been thought wise to inform him Of his
wifes injury.
WESTBORO-A heavy. electric storm
struck Westboro A large barn con-
nected with the Lyman school for boys
was struck by lightning and burned NO
livestock was burned. The loss is esti-
mated at about $4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
MARYLAND


BALTIMORE, Md, Sept. 29.--Miss
Edith Rhodes, daughter of B. Rhodes OF
Pikesville. Baltimore county, was secretly
married to Robert Holzchulz of this ci
last Thursday in Philadelphia and did not
announce the fact to her parents until
today, wher the couple returned to the
city. ~ 6~
Peter Wood. a hobo, who held up Cardi-
nal Gibbons in the street several days
ago for the price of drink, which he did
not get, was fined $25.
ELKTON-Although fines of $500 and
costs have been imposed upon tie Belair
Aberdeen, Darlington and Perry social
clubs for violating the local option law.
1t will be impossible to collect the penal
ties, as none of the clubs have any capi-
tal stock.
ABERDEEN-In the circuit court for
Hartford corrty the local option cases
against the social clubs were taken up
and the four clubs that wer indicted, as
follows: Belair, Darling ton, perdymans
and Aberdeen, confessed guilty and each
was fined $500 and costs.
PERRYVILLE-Youn shad are COM
ing. down the Susquehanna river during
the past few days in such large quanti-
ties that many owners of fish baskets
have removed the first tiers of laths to
avoid killing them. They are in schools
of from six to eight incse=, deep. As
they move on toward the Che peake bay
the bass are deserting the anglers and
are feeding upon shad fry.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
MISSOURI

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-. Sept. 29-Jack
Kennedy of Kansas City, now serving a
twenty-five-year sentence in the peniten-
tiary for holding up st. Louis & San
Francisco passenger train at Macomb.
Mo-, seven years ago, will soon be a
free mar If the efforts of his friends
succeed. ]. T. Neville, circuit judge;
state Senator p. NJ McDavid and DR.. C.
B. Elkins went to Jefferson City recently
to appeal to Gov. FOX to pardon Ken
nedy. They will, it is stated, make the
claim that Kennedy is innocent, produc-
ing new evidence.
MONTGOMERY CITY-Harry Rubey,
prominently mentioned as candidate
for state treasurer In the coming cam
paign, stated that he would not seek
this office. He said his private affairs
would forbid him making canvass for
the state Office. He may, however, be a
candidate for representative from his
district
KANSAS CITY-''Don't let me die, I've
changed my mind, DOCTOR" exclaimed
Mrs. Josie Smith. 902 East Eighteenth
street, as Assistant Police Surgeon Bates
entered her rooms. She had been wor-
ried, she said, over the recent elopement
of daughter with young man who Is
now in jail at Clinton, Mo-. and had
taken an overdose of morphine. She was
treated and allowed to remain at home.
CHARLETONs- Lewis Husky, levee
boss on the Mississippi river at Med
ley, was shot y and probably fatally
wounded by a negro named Harris. Har-
ris has been arrested and placed In jail
in Charleton. Husky is S5 years old. The
men quarreled.
ST. LOUIS-F'iring at negro who had
stolen a mail pouch, the station agent
and postoffice messenger at Independence,
Mo-, shot and wounded white man who
was standing near by. The negro dropped
the pouch and escaped.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
: THE LATE NEWS FROM YOUR OLD HOME STATE
DELAWARE

WILMINGTON, Del Sept. 29-Mayor
Horace Wilson, with Mrs. Wilson and
Benjamin f. Shaw, president of the board
of water commissioners, with Mrs. Shaw,
arrived home from Norfolk, Va, where
they spent the week attending the con-
vention of the League of American NUM-
cipalties and visiting the jamestown ex-
position.
LEWES--Capt Charles w. johnson of
Lewes has gone on the hunt for a fortune.
He left this week for Manzanillo, Mexico.
where he expects to recover the balance
of the treasure in the wrecked steamer
Golden Gate. Tine Golden Gate left San
Francisco in June, 1862, with several mil
lion dollars stored e. her treas--.'e room.
bound to Panama. She took fire and the
captain, to save his passengers, beached
her on Mexico's barren coast, but only
ninety lives were saved. In 1864 small
portion of the money was recovered.
Capt. johnson has now a new concession
to go after the remainder.
WYOMING-Over $3,000,00O will be real
lied by the tome 20 growers in this section
this year, notwithstanding the prediction
that the crop would be failure. 1t will
yield two tons to the acre above the av-
erage ten tons.
GEORGETOWN-Mar licenses for
October brides were issued at the court
house to Charles F. Rattle of Pennsyl-
vania and Bessie Jester of Georgetown;
Elwood L. Dale and Ariah l.. Davis of
Baltimore hundred; Harvey l.. Messick
and Cora Fl. Miller of Northwestfolk
hundred; Delaware Paynter and Grace
Burton of Lewes and Rehoboth hundred
FELTON-Numerou factories and can
ming establishments, although overtaxed
with raw material and orders, are legis-
lating against negro help. A majority of
the factories are employing Bohemian or
foreign labor, but the Rising Sun fac
, tories have taken only local white labor
ers and ruled out The negro helpers.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
ARKANSAS

PINE BLUFF, Ark, Sept. 29-Fifty-
eight damage suits for amounts aggre-
eating about $125,OOO were filed in Jeffer-
son county circuit court against the
st. Louis-Southwestern Railway COM
pany.
LITTLE ROCK-The city council
passed an ordinance requiring all sa-
looms to close at midnight. Alderman
Chris Lednidge alone voted in the neg
ative. The ordinance becomes effective
at once.
old and Viva, aged 4 and years, re-
spectively, were drowned in the Big
Piney, near Russellville. They were at
tempting to ford the stream when they
were drowned.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
SOUTH DAKOTA

SIOUX FALLS, S. D.. Sept 29.-Argu-
ments in the injunction proceedings in
stituted by Jewett Brothers e. Jewett in
behalf of the Sioux Falls Jobbers and
Shippers association to prevent the Mil
waukee railway company from putting
into effect new freight rates from Chi
cago and other Lake Michigan points,
which to Sioux Falls would be 104 per
cent. of the rates to Sioux City, were
concluded before Judge Garland of the
United States court in this city. late this
afternoon, when Judge Garland took the
case under advisement
MITCHELL-Before a vast throng of
people the tenth annual corn exhibition
was dedicated this afternoon. 1t was
the largest ever held by the association
and portends a splendid attendance the
rest of the week.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-30
PENNSYLVANIA

WIILIAMSPORT, Pa, Sept 29.-"Take
him away! Take him away!' shrieked
Mrs. Clarence Hartman, the woman who
the other day was attacked by negro
in her house at Linden, when she was
taken to the county Jail and Charles
Stewart, the Virginia negro arrested for
the crime was led into the chapel for
Identification.
Mrs. Hartman then tainted.
LAPORTE-Somewh between Lopez
in Lycoming county and the Bella Syiva
timber. wyoming county, Thomas Conon,
a woodsman, who at Lopez, during a
fight. stabbed William Allen and Walter
Lane, his companions, is hiding.
Aliens throat was cut, and he is ex-
pected to die.
LANCASTER-Durin the past year the
local trolley telegraph, telephone and
electric light companies have suffered at
the hands of copper wire thieves, hum
dreds and hundreds OF pounds of copper
wire having been stolen and sold to junk
dealers. The police arrested John Reese
and George Brenner. believed to be i'm
plicated in the thefts.
READING-At meeting of the Berks
county w. c. T. u. the following officers
were elected: President, Mrs. Sarah E
Wentzel; vice president, Mrs. Kathryn
Sampsel; recording secretary Miss
Mayme E. Diefenderfer; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Adele Burgess; assistant
Mrs Ida Lands; treasurer, Mrs. Emma
Donaldson.
PITTSBUR+Th Pittsburg Street
Railway company being unable to appeal
from the decision of Judge Shafer in his
ruling that the scent night fare is legal,
the corporation has had it's agent, VIII
liam H. Ashworth. who had himself
elected from a street car, enter a suit
for $500 damages. If the damage suit
goes against the company an appeal can
be taken on the civil action.