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Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
Pitcher Summers Is Sold

INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, July %
Pitcher O. E. Summers of the Indian
apolis baseball team, has been sold to
Detroit for $1,000.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02

GREEN Battle-Ground MaisonueVe, 10
years old, son Of Frank Maisonueve, died
Friday of iockjaw. While running to q fire
a week and half ago he stubbed his toe
on the sidewalk and tetanus in its worst
form set in.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
Rests On Common Man.

I'VE have need for the greater exercise
of moral courage. Proper laws are pos
sible of enactment by Legislative bodies
only when the People awaken to a gen
uine realization Of their surroundings and
thought Of personal favor or gain. These
muc!l-sought ends will not come from
themselves nor from the efforts Of q few.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
LUsITANIA DEFEATS SISTER,.
Makes Trip from Queenstown to New
York in Five Days.

New York. - A new steamship
record between European port
and New York has been made by the
Cunard lines new giant turbine ship,
the Lusitania, which arrived here
Friday.
The Lusitania left Queenstown, the
nearest transatlantic port to New
York, at 1910 p. m. Sunday.
The log of the Lusitania gives her
time of passage as five days and fifty.
four minutes, and her time of arrival
off the Sandy Hook lightship as sos
a. m. Her average speed, according
to her log, was 23.01 knots per hour,
and the days runs were five miles,
556, 575, $40, 593, and 4S3 to the light,
ship, total distance of 2,7S2 miles
The Lusitanias time, according
to the log, is six hours and twenty,
nine minutes better than the previous
Queenstown-New York record of five
days and seven hours and twenty.
three minutes, held by the Lucania OF
the same line.
While the Lusitania has made a
new record for the time a passenger
is actually on board ship, she has
not beaten the average speed per
hour recorded. The Kaiser Wilhelm
II. has made an average of 23.5s
knots per hour from New York to
Plymouth and the Deutschland has
record of 1881 knots per hour
average to Plymouth.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT OVER
VETERANS INSTALL OFFICERS
AND ADJOURN UNTIL 1908.
Resolutions Urging Legislation on Va
rious Matters Adopted-Appoint-
ments by Commander-in.chief.

Saratoga, N. Y. Veterans of
the Grand Army of the Republic
who have been attending the forty
first annual encampment of the organ
ization concluded their business Fri
day and adjourned until 1908.
Installation of the officers elected
Thursday, adoption of several recon-
mendations from the committee on
resolutions and Commander-in-C Chief
Burton's announcement of appointive
officers took up the time of the veter-
ans.
The officers were installed by Rob
ert B. Beath, of Philadelphia, past
commander-in-chief. The encamp-
ment adopted the report of the COM
mittee on resolutions which recon-.
mended legislation by congress author
iZing the erection of a soldiers hos
pital in the vicinity of the Gulf Of
Mexico; increasing widows pensions
to $12 a month; providing some suit
able memorial for the soldiers and
sailors of the union army who were
in the south when the war began and
did not join the southern forces, and
directing that widows of soldiers
buried in the national cemeteries may
be buried beside their husbands. These
recommendations will be incorporated
in bills to be presented to congress.
Commander-in-Ch Burtons ap-
pointments include the following:
Jere T. Dew, Kansas City, Mo-, adju-
tant general; Charles Burrows, Ruth
erford, N. j., quartermaster general;
Col D. R. Stowitz, Buffalo, inspector
general; L. L. Collins, Minneapolis,
Mimi, judge advocate general; ].
Henry Heacomb, Philadelphia, assist
ant general and custodian of records;
]. Corle Winans, Toledo, O., senior
aide-de-camp and chief of staff.
Saratoga, N. Y.-Charles G. Burton
of Nevada, Mo-, former member OF
congress, was elected Thursday com
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army oi
the Republic, which is holding its for
ty-first annual encampment here.
Other officers elected by the en-
campment were as follows: Lewis c.
Griffith, Troy, N. Y, senior vice com
mander; William M. Scott, Atlanta
Ca, junior vice commander; DR.. Lane
Taneyhill, Baltimore, Md, surgeon
general; Bishop Samuel Fallows, Chi
cago, haplain-in-chief.
Toledo, O., was selected as the place
of meeting for the next encampment.
The date will be fixed by the national
council of administration.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
SQuelched.

When the late George Francis
Train was giving evidence before the
metropolitan board of aldermen of
London, in favor of his scheme for lay
ing tramway up Ludgate hill, says
Harper's Weekly, noble lord amongst
his interlocutors suddenly fixed the
old pioneer with his monocle and
said:
May I-ah-ask a question, Mr.
ah-Train?"
THAT is what I am here for, my
lord" he replied.
You know, of course, how very
narrow is Ludgate hill. Suppose that
when go down to the Mansion house
in my carriage one of my horses
should slip on your id rails and
break his leg, would you pay for the
horse?"
The reply came like a flash. "My
lord, If you could convince me that
your id horse would not have fallen
if the rails had not been there l Ger
tainly should pay"
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
ATLANTIC RATES CUT AGAIN.
Mercantile Marine and Cunard Com
panies Make Reductions.

New York-The International Mer-
camille Marine company snnounced
Wednesday reduction in minimum
east-bound cabin rates of $22.50 on
the steamships Adriatic, Baltic. Ced-
ric, Arabia, Celtic, Minnehaha, Mime
tonka and Minneapolis, to correspond
with the reduction made by the com
pany recently on the Oceanic, Majestic
and Teutonic.
Later, the Cunard line announced a
new schedule for its steamers, show.
ing a further cut, in addition to that
of few weeks ago. The east-bound
first cabin rate on the Campania and
Lucania, which had been $100, was
cut to $3.50. The rate on the Caronia
and Carmania, recently reduced from
$95 to $3.50, was further cut to
$72.50. The rates ON the Umbria and
Etruria, recently cut from $825O to
$50, was further cut to $3.50. Whether
or not the rate on the new giant tur-
bine steamer Lusitania will be cut the
agents were unable to tell.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
PENNSYLVANIA LAW VOID.
Two-Cent Railroad Fare Act Declared
Unconstitutional.

Philadelphia. - Judges Wilson and
Audendried Of the common pleas
court, Tuesday declared unconsti-
tutional the two-cent railroad fare
law passed by the last legisla.
ture. The case upon which the deci-
sion was rendered will be taken to the
supreme court at once.
The Pennsylvania was the first to
make the attack, bringing suit in the
local courts to restrain the county
of Philadelphia from collecting the
fine for violating the provisions of the
act. The hearing lasted nearly a
week, and among the witnesses were
President McCrea and several vice
presidents of the Pennsylvania.
All other railroads operating in
Pennsylvania have brought similar
proceedings in various counties, but
decisions have not been rendered, as
it is generally understood that the
Pennsylvania suit will be made the
test case in the higher court.
Lansing, Mich. - State Railroad
Commissioner Glasgow has issued
a statement saying that all the
railroads in Michigan have agreed to
adopt the two-cent passenger rate law
when it takes effect Sept. 2S.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19

One of the drawbacks to the use Of
long-distance electricity has been the
liability to breakdowns, caused by ac-
cidents, including those due to light
ming, which result in shutting off power
and often in unpleasant and costly in
terruption Of traffic. Many localities
depending on power transmitted over
long lines of wire have had such ex-
periences. Syracuse uses for its transit
system electricity generated at Mia
CARA Falls, and has had some very an
nOying occurrences of the sort, and as
a consequence the traction company
adopted the policy of keeping It's local
power houses in readiness for use
Now 1t is announced that the line from
Niagara Falls has been duplicated, and
that henceforth it will be practically
impossible for the current to be shut
of completely. 1t is asserted most
positively that neither thunderstorms
nor any other influence can put both
lines out of commission at once. At
any rate the precaution seems to be a
wise one. Electric power that is like
ly TO give out when most needed does
not command the confidence Of the
community it serves.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
RrokAn Rails.

Among all the causes Of railroad &C
cidents in the United States, none Is
mentioned with greater frequency
than the broken rail. Many causes are
assigned, and doubtless many are con-
tributory. An excess of phosphorus,
not easily eliminated by the Bessemer
process, by which nearly all American
rails are made, has been most COM
monty blamed; but some of the best
mechanical engineers now regard this
cause as unimportant. Improper shape
and a lack of pressure in rolling mod
ern heavy rails proportionate to that
which was available for the lighter
rails of the past are more important
faults. An excess of carbon is an
other. The fault of shape is the thin
ness of the web or shank of the rail,
and the thinness of the base. The
dispropCrtion between these parts and
the head of the rail tends to lack of
uniformity in texture after cooling.
The excess of carbon is not the fault
of the rail-makers, but of the rail-
roads. The more carbon, the harder
the rail, of course; and the harder it
is, the better it will resist frictional
wear. The desire of the railroads to
minimize the cost Of trackage repairs
has led to demands for steel of high
er and higher per cent. of carbon, until
now American rails are the hardest in
the world. Most important of all, says
Youths Companion, is the strain i'm
posed upon rails by the great weight
and high speed Of modern trains.
Mechanical engineers believe that
with the present style of rail the limit
of safety is reached at an axle load of
$4,000 pounds; yet many trains con-
siderably exceed that figure. The
American Railway Engineering and
the American Society for Testing Ma
terials have adopted specifications for
a standard rail heavier in the web
and the base than those now in use;
and these specifications have been ap-
proved by the American Society of
Civil Engineers. Meanwhile the head
of one of the greatest railway systems
in America has withdrawn his rail
contract from a company whose prod
uct has been unsatisfactory to him,
and given it to a concern from which
he hopes to get better results.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19

Long before many American uni
versities established summer schools,
chautauqua stood for the thrifty use
Of vacation days in pleasant and prof
ltable study Like every other move
ment out of the common methods and
largely patronized by women, the
chautauquan work was derided by
conservative persons. 1t was the butt
of jokes such as are now directed
against correspondence schools. It
was called the intellectual tea-party, "
the playground of culture" But it
slowly won respect, enlisted the serv-
ices of good teachers and gave its
brief periods of enlightenment to
thousands of teachers too busy in
winter to think Of much outside of
classroom routine. President Ronse-
welt, who knows the country pretty
broadly, calls chautauquas the most
American thing in America" This
300 and 400 assemblies embodying the
chautauqua idea, besides the summer
which represent the same American
principle of diffusing culture and in
struction to the greatest possible
number of persons
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
WILL CLOSE COPPER MINES
AMALeAMATED SOON WILL SHUT
DOWN AT BUTTE, MONT.
Deadlock as to Sales Has Resulted In
Tremendous over-Productlon-
10000 Men Will Lose jobs.

New York.-A crisis in the copper
situation, due to deadlock between
the producer and the consumer, has
resulted in a tremendous over-produc-
tion of the metal, and the Amalgamat-
ed Copper company, the largest pro-
ducer of copper in this country. will
soon shut down its mines in and about
Butte, Mont.
News of the intended suspension OF
operations there was made known
Thursday by an interest closely iden-
titled with the company. Amalgamat-
ed stock fell over four points on the
stock exchange when the news be-
came known, and the shares of the
company sold down to $60.25, which
is 81 points under the high record
price of the year. 1t is. said that the
suspension at the Butte mines will
throw 10000 men out of work. The
Amalgamated company has had diff
Guilty in obtaining an adequate supply
of fuel at Butte and this is said to be
a contributing cause for the shut
down.
The Amalgamated Copper COM
pany, along with other copper compa-
nies, has been piling up large surplus
of copper for several months, and it is
authoritatively stated that there is a
surplus of 250,000,000 pounds of re-
fined copper in the United States. The
present situation has developed from
the seeming inability of the producer
and consumer to reach price for the
metal that would prove satisfactory.
The selling price of copper has been
steadily reduced in the copper mar
kets of the world, but the consumer
has steadfastly declined to purchase
except when needs were pressing.
The official price for copper has been
lowered from 25 cents to IS cents a
pound by the United Metals Selling
company. Copper producers on the
1metal exchange in their efforts to
tempt the buyer have gradually cut
the price of copper to 15& for electro
lytic, which figure was reached Thurs
day. AS consequence of this acute
situation copper stocks have accumu-
lated rapidly. The production of re-
fined copper in September, it was
stated Thursday, will be 100000
pounds less than last month. There
were reports in the financial district
that certain banks have declined to
carry any more copper metal in their
loans.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
WELLMAN IS FO|LED
ARCTIC EXPLORERS AIRsHlP
LANDS ON A GLACIER.
STORM is ENCOUNTERED
Machinery Worked Well, but Gale
Was Too Strong-Attempt to
Reach Pole Abandoned
For Year.

Tromsoe, Norway.-Walter Well
man and his party, composing the
Wellman-C Chicago Record-Herald polar
expedition, arrived here Thursday
evening on the steamer Frithjof from
SpitZbergen.
Mr.. Wellman says the airship Amer
ica left her shed September 2 and
made an ascent in bad weather, but
she proved so strong and behaved so
we'll that a start north was immedi-
ately made. The airship, however, en-
countered a storm, was driven back
and landed on top of glacier. Every
thing was saved.
When the airship left the shed it
was anchored to a steamer, the Ex-
press, which helped to tow it to Vogel
Bay island, two miles northward to
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19

Lincoln, III. - Albert Wehr, a
paroled convict, who was trailed by
a bloodhound and arrested fol.
lowing the torture and robbery
of Mr.. and Mrs Warren Nun.
dy, wealthy couple in their
Lincoln home Saturday night, gave
the police information which led to
the recovery of $50 of the loot. The
county authorities also say Wehr con-
fessed to taking part with two other
men in the robbery. The three mask.
ed men entered the Mundy home and
forced Mr.. and Mrs. Mundy to tell
where the money was hidden by ap.
plying lighted matches to their feet.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
NERVES OF THE WORLD.
How Messages Are Conveyed Over the
Broad Earth.

That we may communicate at VIII
with the remotest corners of the earth
is so familiar a fact that we never
stay to ponder the more curious de-
tails. The land lines cTisscross the
sky in our great cities, follow the rail-
roads, climb the mountains, and shoot
over prairie and through forest to the
ocean. You can hardly escape them
wherever you go. Their red gold CLINT
allures the Mobanji cannibals of the
Haute Congo, or climb 12,345 feet
above sea level, to weird Titicaca in
Peru, the loftiest of the worlds lakes,
and you may flash a message thence
to New York or Chicago.
The camel caravans of the Sahara;
the kangaroos and ''black fellows of
Australia's Dead Heart; the elephants
of Malayan jungles, and the nomad
Mongols of the great Cobb desert of
Central Asia-all are familiar with
these nerves of the worlds trade.
Less familiar, perhaps, are the deep
sea cables, yet their circuit is no less
daring. The coasts of the continents
are fairly festooned with them. At
least IL swing over ocean abysses be-
tween the old world and the new.
There are three from Lands End, in
England to Lisbon; three from Spain
to Brazil; two from Gibraltar to Alex
andria, in Egypt; four down to the
Red sea, from Suez to Alden; three
across the Indian ocean from Alden to
Bombay; two from Madras across the
bay of Bengal to Penang, and thence
on by the straits of Malacca to Suma-
ira, Java, Australia, and New Zealand.
Even the cable map of the China
sea, Foromosa strait, and the Yellow
sea now compares fayorably with that
of the gulf of Mexico. In short, these
carriers of hundreds of millions of the
worlds messages, trade and personal,
total 100000 miles of land wires and
10000 nautical miles of cable.-Na-
tional Magazine.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
TRAGEDY OF a BROADWAY Can.
Truly Il Is Everybody for HImssIf' In
New York.

There were six in the seat Of the
Broadway surface car, which was too
many. However, everybody who board
ed the car seemed to take a fancy to
that particular seat, so some were also
standing. A very small man sat
crouched on the end seat, pretty girl
next to him. The small man seemed
to be very restless, and no wonder
for all the rest were pushing the pret-
ty girl, who necessarily pushed him In
a way that seemed to infer that MS
room was better than his company. AT
length, unable to endure it any longer,
he all at once showed his shoulder
under the rail and fell out, apparently
Mercy" screamed a nervous pas
senger, has he committed suicides?
81 don't know" answered the pretty
girl, but, anyway, I've got the END
seat. IN. Y. Press.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
MASKED MEN ROB TRAIN.
Two Bandits Hold Up Great North
ern's Oriental Limited.

st. Paul, Minn.-General Manager
Elliott of the Great Northern Express
company, announced Thursday that
the Great Northern Oriental limited
train No. 1, which left st. Paul Tues.
day morning, was held up by two
masked men six or seven miles west
of Rexford, Mont, at an early hour
Thursday morning. The robbers
crawled over the tender and at the
point of their guns commanded the
engineer to stop the train.
Keeping up fusillade of shots to
terrify the passengers, the bandits
blew open the express safe and, find
ing it empty. took a quantity of regis
tered mail and escaped. The COM
pany offers $4,000 reward for their
arrest and conviction.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
ADMITS GOODS WERE sMueeLED.
Miss Olson, of Chicago, Confesses to
Officials at Port Huron.

Port Huron, Mich.--When arraigned
Wednesday before United States Com
missioner Harris on the charge of
smuggling, Miss Anna Olson, of Chi
cago. who was detained by customs
officers here Monday, together with
Mrs. Lucy Rapp and Mrs. A. Hubert,
also of Chicago, admitted that the con-
tents of the three canvas trunks which
the party had, worth about $4,000,
were smuggled goods.
Miss Olson declared that the other
two women had no money invested in
the goods, but were only helping her
with the use of their trunks She
said she was in the ladies' furnishing
goods business in Chicago and later
Mrs. Hubert and Mrs. Rapp also ad-
mitted that they are in the same busi-
ness
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
oul.vilIa q Haxe nLonn Hanna. >

Norfolk. Va.--The features Of
Wednesdays session Of the great
council of Red Men were an agree.
ment to reconsider on Thursday the
resolution barring liquor dealers from
the order: the selection of louisville,
KY, for the permanent location of the
''long house of the national body, to
be erected. at a cost of 100000; the
recommendation by, the finance COM
mittee that tho next great council fire
be held in some middle western city
In order to curtail expenses, and
minor changes In the funeral ritual.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
stensIand Must Serve His Time,

Joliet, Ill.-Paul o. Stensland, form
er president of the collapsed Milwau
kee Avenue State bank of Chicago
must serve out his full term in the
penitentiary. This was decided Fri
day by the state board of pardons,
which refused to grant a plea to re.
lease Stensland from the penalty OF
his conviction. Stensland will leave
the prison after eight years and three
months-if he maintains constant
good behavior. Without the deductions
for good behavior the maximum pen,
atty is II years.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
The Wav the Moon Chances.

1t was the tenth week after the
honeymoon. The great round moon
rolled up above the trees.
George" she said, romantically,
"do you remember how the moon used
to affect you when you were calling
on me? Why, every time it went un-
der a cloud you used to kiss me. You
don't do it now"
mo-" yawned George, as he lit his
pipe, "the moon affects the tides, but
not the tieds. The honeymoon ends
all moon nonsense" .H
And then she said he was the mean
est man in town and went over to call
on the neighbors.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
Steamer slohted on Reef.

New Orleans, LA steamer
stranded on the Casyfoot Reef off the
Florida south coast was sighted on
Sept 10 by the steamer El Dia, which
arrived here Thursday from New
York. The FL Dia did not stand by to
learn anything Of the plight Of the
stranded vessel and was too far away
to make out her name or how many
persons were on board. The tunnels
of the steamer indicated that she was
Munson Line freighter. She ground
ed far out Of the line of regular trav,
el Of Munson passenger steamers.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19

New Orleans, La.-Charles E, Let.
ten, chief clerk in the Office of the first
district tax collector here. who disap.
peared several days ago. leaving a
shortage of over 100000. was discov.
cred Thursday afternoon standing on
the bank of the Mississippi trying to
summon up courage enough to jump in
the water and commit suicide. He said
he had started toward the water sew
eral times. but each tiRe his courage
had failed him. He made full con.
fession and was brought to this city
and locked up. 'ait'.
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19

A woman in Connecticut town at
tempted to turn ON q switch control
ling electric lights by using an iron
poker. She was found in an uncon-
sciOus heap on the other side Of the
room when the electric excitement
over the poker interlude was over,
but, being made of stern New England
stun, she recovered from the shock.
In spite Of its advanced civilization
there are yet in this twentieth century
people who know no better than to
monkey with the buzzsaw,
The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1907-09-19
watterson Has Another Fire.

Louisville, Ky.-Fire which broke
out late Wednesday afternoon, for a
second time endangered the plants of
the Courier-Journal and Times and
threatened to destroy that portion of
the Courier-Journal Office building left
intact after the disastrous fire of ten
days ago. The flames were brought
under control with loss of $25,00O.
The Times was forced to abandon its
last edition. The origin of the fire
which broke out on the top floor Of
the building, is unknown.