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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
HARRY HAMLlN KILLED.
Son of Famous Breeder of Trottins
Horses Victim of Auto Accident.

Son of Famous Breeder of Trotting
Horses Victim of Auto Accident.
Buffalo, y. y. Jme Harry Ham
lin, one Of Bullalo'S hest known and
wealthieft citizens, was Killed in an
automobile accident on the Williams
vile road, Q mile north of the city line.
Mr.. lIamlin's automobile collided
with a light wagon driven by jacob
Schlller, Il retired butcher of Buffalo.
Hamlin was hurled 70 the roadside and
instantly killed Schaller was badly
auit. but viii recover. John Hecllel q
tweNeyeaI-old boy who was in Schal-
iers rig, was fatally injured. Both his
legs were broken and his skull frac
tured. Mr. Hamlin was fifty years old
and lived Mt l014 Delaware avenue.
lie was a son of the. late Cicero J
liMnlln. famous as a breeder of trot-
TIM horses. He is survived by widow
and one sQn. Chauncey ]. Hamlin, who
is nm attorney
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04

philadelphia. June 4.-After ten days
of public denunciation and loss of trav-
ell due to a boycott, the Reading rail-
way. through President George f..
Baer, announced partial recession
from its recent increase of suburban
and Communication rates, The price of
monthly tickets is reduced about half
the increase of ten days ago,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04

Ithaca, n ", June 4 George Lin
coin Burr. professor of medieval his
tory at Cornell and one of the foremost
men in the faculty, is engaged to be
married to Miss Matte Anderson Mar
tin of Dublin, Va, graduate student
in philosophy, history and political sci
Nnce
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
BURGLARS Wreck . Postoffiee.

Yalesville. Conn, June 4. Profession
al safe breakers wrecked the Interior
Of the postoffice here, demolished the
safe and escaped with Sl75 in cash and
all the books, money orders and
stamps. A pidce Of the safe was sent
through the roof OF the building.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
The caImness q Despair.

Soubrette-Good heavens! We can't
stay overnight in this hotel
Comedian What's the matter with
it?
Soubrette- The beIlboy says it's
haunted.
Comedian-That settles it. We stay
1t is our only chance this season of
ever seeing the ghost walk Baltimore
American.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
NOV Go Write a Love Sonq!v

did you beat the carpet, dearf'
II did," replied the poet.
And the stove pipe have you taken
it down."
Il have"
That's dearl Now go and dig in
the garden for exercise and then you
may go to your garnet and write love
songs for groceriesr'- Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
lust What He Wanted.

Mother Ito future son-in-law)-I may
tell you that, though my daughter Is
we'll educated. she cannot cook.
Future Son-in-law That doesn't
matter much. so long as she doesn'i
try. Fliegende Blatter.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
IN DAYS Of Old.

The baronet strobe up to the hosiery
in high disdain.
what wishest thou of us this day 2"
they asked him.
''What do | wish this day?' he re-
peated. why, knights lodging."-
Baltimore American.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
Strenuous Task.

Mrs. Newed- John, dear. have you
decided where we shall pass the sum
mer?
Newed-No. darling. have begun to
peruse the summer resort literature,
and l expect to finish the job by the
list of Novem ber Houston Post
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
A STORE OF
SPECIALISTS

is often held that because the big department store han
dies such diversified lines Of goods that the attention
given any of them that the individual speciality
keeper give them and this argument often raised
against the department store weak and acious tho to
prove that you get better goods the speciality store
Just stop to think Every department in this
managed by who has been engaged in
the handling Of the particular line Of goods they for
many, many yeas-some of them all their lives Some began
cash boys They know their stocks intimately any
human being could Their whole thought and time is given to
study of the goods the market producing them and buying
and selling them They buy in far greater quantities and
greater variety than the average speciality store keeper and the
very fact of bigger buying gives mental exercise and develops
skill in discerning qualities Interpreting fashions and appre
catng values No ordinary solekeeper gets such broad
knowledge of the markets the department
Besides the little keeper is bothered with money
matters and hundred and petty worries that the depart
manager through big organization looking after the
financial and other details Of store management is freed Of
Our people specialists of the highest class.
They know their book from to Z. Depend upon it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
Pnsumonia Takes Judge oarrotson

Morristown, N j., June 4 Judge
Abram Quick Garrctson of the supreme
court Of New Jersey died at his home
here of pneumonia. Judge Garretson
was born in New Jersey sixty-five
years ago
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
a Hopeless Trial.

"That guys de champeen stingy man
of de earth, Freddy"
"How's dat?"
"Why, I've been followin' him fer
mile. an he amt trowed dat butt away
yetl'-New York World.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
save MAYOR WIN Veto Recount am

Albany, n r., June A. Senator Nc
Carren and Assemblyman CuvilIier an
nounced that Mayor Mcclellan had
agreed to veto the recount bill and re-
turn it tc the legislature next Thurs
day
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04

Little Margie lived in small town
where an electric light plant had just
been installed, One moonlight night
she said, Mamma, doesn't God know
we've got 'lectric lights?"
Certainly, DEAR replied her mother.
"He knowseverything"
'Then why don't he take in his
Moon ?"-Chicago News.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
THREE ARE MANNED,
Black Hand Sets Off Bomb In a
Mount Vernon Kitchen.
AGED WOMAN LOSES ARMS.
Victims Are Mother, Wife and Daugh-
ter of Joseph Morroney Wealthy
Hotel Proprietor, Who Had Refused
to Submit to Extortion.

ter OF Joseph Morroney, a Wealthy
Hotel Proprietor, Who Had Refused
to Submit to Extortion.
White Plains, N. y, June BLACK
Hand men took terrible revenge on Jo-
seph A. Morroney, a hotel proprietor,
of 80 North Fourth street, Mount Yer
non, because of his refusal to submit
to extortion
They exploded bomb in the range
in his kitchen, wrecking the tenement
and manning his aged mother, his wife
and his ten-year-old daughter, Annie
The mother, who is seventy-s years
old. was preparing luncheon in the
kitchen. Her arms were literally torn
off by the explosion The kitchen door
was blown from its hinges and into
the parlor Mrs. Morroney, the wife,
was found under it, her right arm torn
off, part of her scalp gone and her
body bruised. The daughter was near
molished stove struck her in the face,
disfiguring her
Saw Stranger In Kitchen.
There was no fire in the coal range
at the time. The aged woman told the
police at the Mount Vernon hospital
later that when she entered the kitchen
she saw man hurrying out. She
thought he was delivery man. Evi-
IDENTIFY he placed the bomb in the
range. A hole five feet in circumfer-
ence was torn in the floor, and wrack
age was blown through it into the sa-
loon below, where Morroney was at
work.
Scarcely window in the five story
tenement house remained intact after
the explosion. Plaster fell from walls
and ceilings, and tenants fed down the
stairs in panic. AS they passed the
| Morroney fiat they saw smoke issuing
through the door and gave the alarm.
Several men carried out the two wo-
men and the child. The wounded per-
sons were unconscious, and their res
cue was attended by danger, for the
interior of the flat was on FIRE. They
were taken to the hospital, where the
aged mothers arms were amputated at
the shoulders. 1t is doubted that she
will survive the shock.
Many Black Hand Letters Came.
Nine months ago Morroney, who is a
wealthy Italian, received his first
Black Hand letter threatening serious
| trouble if he failed to leave $500 at
Eleventh avenue and Third street,
Mount Vernon. 1t was signed Black
Hand society" He paid no attention
to it, and several letters in a similar
vein followed. He told the police about
! them but nothing occurred.
| Later he received another letter
threatening the destruction of his fam
lily. Morroney became frightened and
told the police They advised him to
arm himself and go to the spot men
toned in the letter. The police fol
lowed him He waited an hour after
the appointed time, but no one APP
4 peared.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
snow and Cold Rain In Newport.

Newport, r l.. Aune A. A slight
snowfall occurred here at late hour
The hurry was followed by cold ram.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04

Teacher-It isn't always safe to judge
by appearances, you know.
Small Boy (son Of detectiye)-No,
ma'am. Pa says it's better to judge
people by their disappearance
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-06-04
HUMOR OF THE HOUR


Father Don't spend your pennies
foolishly, Tommy. Lay up something
for rainy day.
Tommy aged five)-I got pair Of
rubbers laid up for wet weather, papa
what proof have we that the Bible
is a truthful book, little girlF
mamma says it must be true be-
cause it says in one place that all men
are lars
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1907-03-15
HAULING FARM CROPS
FIGURES ON TRANSPORTATION
BY WAGON.
interesting Statistics Prepared by De.
partment of AgricuIture-Average
Cost Of Carrying Wheat 10
Cents Per Ton Per Mile.

Washington.-At an early date the
United States department of agricul
ture will issue Bulletin 49 of the blu
reau of statistics, prepared by Frank
Andrews, transportation expert of the
division Of foreign markets. This
bulletin is a report on the cost of haul
ing crops from nearly 1900 counties
and cover practically the entire farm.
ing area of the country.
The average cost to the farmer OF
hauling wheat from farms to ship.
ping points is given as nine cents per
100 pounds, the average distance
hauled is 81 miles, and the average
wagon load of wheat weighs 1888
pounds, thus containing about 55 bush.
els. For cotton the average load is
1,702 pounds, distance from shipping
point lis miles, and cost of hauling 16
cents per 100 pounds. Reduced to
terms of cost per ton per mile the
rate for wheat is 10 cents and for cot
ton 81 cents.
The highest cost of haul is for
"OOls 10 o1 Gil
1913 miles from farm or ranch to ship
ping point at a rate of "A cents per
100 pounds for the entire distance
The lowest cost for any n product
is for hemp, which is hauled from
farms to shipping points at an aver
age cost of six cents per 100 pounds
the distance hauled being So miles
and the average load of hemp weigh
ing 1898 pounds.
For the entire distance from farm to
shipping point corn, oats and barley
are each hauled at an average cost OF
seven cents per 100 pounds; hay, flax.
seed, rye and timothy seed, eight
cents; wheat, potatoes and beans, nine
cents; tobacco and live hogs, ten
cents; rice, hops and buckwheat, IL
vegetables (other than potatoes) and
cotton seed, Is cents; cotton and fruit
(other than apples), 16 cents; and
wool, "A cents.
Except in the case of wool, prac.
tically all costs represent the expense
incurred by farmers in hauling their
own produce. Wool is hauled in the
Rocky mountains largely by regular
freight wagons, and the wool growers
pay for the hauling at varying rates
per 100 pounds.
The total tonnage of farm products
hauled On country roads in the United
States is not known, but of IL leading
products it is estimated that nearly
so, 900, 900 tons were hauled from
farms during the crop year 1906, at
a cost of about $685. 600, 900, or more
than five per cent. of their value at
local markets. Of this traffic, 100000
900 tons represent the weight of corn,
wheat and cotton, and the cost of
hauling these three products was
$70,0 900, 900.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1907-03-15
cURFEW LAW HITS WOMEN.
Indian Territory Teachers Rebel at
Nine O'Clock Order.

Muskogee, 1. Tive won't stand
it! Let them go and get old maids
if they want old maid school teach
ers," said a petite young school
teacher to a group of her fellow teach
ers, and she stamped her foot when
she said it.
This was all because the school
board has applied the curfew law to
school teachers of Muskogee. From
Tulsa and McAlester comes informa-
ton that the school board at each
place has made a similar order.
The boards of education in these
towns have decided that the teachers
in the public schools must cut society
five nights out of the week at least.
The boards have given it out that they
do not expect to see the teachers out
after nine o'clock at night through the
school week, and they do not add that
the teachers are at liberty the other
nights.
This order has created a storm in
the towns mentioned. Some of the
teachers are in open rebellion, and
say they will go where they please
and when, and some of them have
done so, but it is noticed they are
waiting with some apprehension for
the next meeting of the board.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1907-03-15
FEELS PAIN IN BURIED HAND.
Relief Comes When Fingers Are Ex-
humed and Strengthened Out.

Gallipolis, O.-The case of Robert
in the theory that the several mem
bers of the human body do not rest
painlessly in the grave unless put
away in a perfectly natural position.
Mr.. Wolf, while out hunting, shot his
right hand, mangling it badly. Doc
tors from Point Pleasant were sum-
moned and amputated the hand above
the wrist. The member was buried,
but for some time afterward the in
jured man was restless and could not
sleep, and was worried. He did not
complain about his arm hurting him,
but said that his hand panied him
very much. He showed his relatives
with his left hand the shape his right
hand was in when it was buried.
The pain increasing, and MI. Wolf
brother, and another went to the place
where the hand was buried, dug up
the box, and found the hand cramped
in exactly the position described by
Mr.. Wolf. The fingers were carefully
Strengthened out and the hand placed
back in the box in such manner that
there was no pressure anywhere and
reburied. The injured man at once
became easier and said that his hand
did not hurt him except for a slight
feeling above the thumb.
Physicians explain that the sensa
ton of a severed arm or foot being in
place, when in fact it is cut Off and
buried is caused by the nerves at the
end of the wound. They do not
plain, however, how a man may think
his fingers hurt him when he no longer
has them.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1907-03-15
A Turkish Health Report.

The French government, wishing to
obtain definite statistics on points re-
lating to certain Turkish provinces
recently sent blanks with questions
lating to certain Turkish provinces,
to be answered to the Provincial gov
errors. The replies received from
the Pasha of Damascus are worth
quoting:
Question. What is the death rate
in your province?
Answer. In Damascus it is the will
of Allah that all should die. Some die
young and some die old.
Q. What is the annual number Of
births?
A. God alone can say do not
know, and hesitate to inquire.
Q. Are the supplies of water sut-
fcient and of good quality?
A. From the remotest period NO
n has died in Damascus of thirst.
General remarks as to the local san
itation: Man should not bother him.
self or his brother with questions
that concern only God.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1907-03-15
MAIL-ORDER WAYS
A BAD ADVERTISEMENT FOR
CATALOGUE HOUSES.
AT SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE
Sooner or Later II Teaches Every Mail
Order Patron the Error Of
Sending His Money
from Home.

The methods of the m~aiIorder
houses are their worst advertisement.
Sooner or later there will come a time
In the experience of every purchaser
of their goods when he will wish "he
hadn't done it," when he will wish he
had spent his money with his home
merchants. This is not only because
he will see the ruin wrought in his
own community by the nefarious prac-
tice of sending the money of the COM
munity to the city, but also because of
the practices of the mail order con-
Germs.
The story in the catalogue sounds
well. 1t sounds like you would get
the identical thing you wanted and at
a much lower price than you had i'm
agined it could be bought for, and you
order it. The purchase arrives and
when opened you feel that sorne mis-
take has been made, that the concern
has sent you the wrong goods; it is
not what you ordered.
All, but it isl The difference is be-
tween the way it actually looks and
the way 1t sounds in the catalogue.
You explain that the goods you re-
eeived is not what you ordered and
ask for an accounting, and are told
that it is you that is in error, that
you got just what you ordered, and
then if you are wise you buy of the
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1907-03-15
GIRL BARBER rs BUSY.
Young and Old Men of Ohio Town
Are Acting Real Giddy.

Hamilton, O.-After completing a
course of study in a t%onsorial acad-
envy in Cincinnati, Miss Minnie
Boone, aged %, a progressing
young woman of Maud's Station, But
Ter county, returned to her native
village last week and opened up a
neat ~tonsorial parlor in the staid old
Butler county hamlet.
Success marked the first days busi-
ness, and Miss Boone has made a ten
strike. 1t is even limited that the
men of Maud's Station love to linger
in the comfort Of the barber chair,
and the run on hair tonics made by
some of the bachelor residents has
been a matter of comment.
Sea foams are all the rage, and the
old time shampoo is being revived
Facial massage is also growing popu-
lar, and instead of the hitherto week
ly Saturday afternoon visit to the
man barber of the village of Maud's
it is said that some of the youths and
"old bucks" have taken to having
their faces shaved and whiskers
trimmed two and even three times a
week.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1907-03-15

better to call upon our local dealer
and look over his stock where W. can.
see the goods before buying. There
are then no errors in change or re-
funds to be haggled over across a 300
mile stretch.
Yes, II is better to trade at home.
Our home merchants guarantee upon
an article means something, as he
wants our good will. Keeping the
money at home benefits home indus
tries and thus, indirectly, US. We can
not expect to sell our products to the
local merchant and do our trading in
Chicago. It is all one-sided and some
time we would have no local merchant
to do our buying.
Catalogue houses, l have found from
bitter experiences, are tricky. II those
who are dealing with them will watch
their purchases, they will find 1t so
o or later. Our last deal, had 1t
occurred here at home, would have
been Strengthened out in five minutes
and without feeling, but with you 1t
takes me all winter to get my money
back when the goods are not satisfac-
tory, and even then l get only a credit
card which is lost through studied
carelessness upon the part of someone
in your concern so that / have moth
ing to show for my claim.
Every man should trade at home If
conditions admit of purchasing a good
article at reasonable prices. If not,
then he had better trade at the next
town or city that his money may go
to build up the country around him.
He sends it to Chicago that it may go
into profits of some big mail-order
house until there is enough sucker
money to build and endow some great
charitable institution as a monument
to the greatness of the mail-order man
and the gullibleness of the easy pub
lie.
1 have already asked that you adjust
the matter of our last deal. 1 want
my money returned without further
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1907-03-15
DESK AT ALBANY, NJ. Y, WAS I'M
PORTED IN 1860.
Is Property of First Reformed Church
Built in 1793-President a Men,
Der While Governor of
the State.

Albany, N. Myths city has the
honor of owning the oldest pulpit On
the continent, along with that of being
the Oldest chartered city in the United
States. The pulpit stands in the First
Reformed church, which was built in
the year of the building of the old Cali
fornia missions, 1893, but, unlike them,
it is as strong and in as good repair
as it was when the builders left it.
The pulpit was brought over from
Holland by the Dutch in 1856 to stand
in their new church, which was just
building. twenty-five beaver skins
were sent to Holland as part payment,
but they became damaged in transit,
80 the pulpit was donated by the Dutch
West India company. The building
served as a fort as well as a church,
icannon being mounted upon the roof,
and while the service was going on
within ~sentinels watched for signs of
"a foe.
To-day the old hour glass and a n
scient Dutch Bible are still in their ac-
lcustomed places, while in the olden
time the pews in front of it were oc-
cupied by Col. Peter Schuyler, Al
bany's first mayor; the patrons of
the Van ~Rensselaers, who owned land
along both shores of the Hudson river
for % miles, and Gen. Philip Schuyler,
pne of the first three major generals
lin the revolutionary army, also first
United States senator from New York.
Within its shadow the famous Iro-
quois chieftain, King Hendrick, who
with Sir William johnson defeated
the French and Indians in the battle
of Lake George, was converted to
Christianity and Col. Aaron Burr,
United States senator from New York
and vice president under Thomas JEFF
,ferson, was married to Theodosia Pro
vost.
President Roosevelt sat before it
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1907-03-15
Rurro Drivers Carry Candles.

In Mexico all vehicles, be they
handcart, automobile, or anything be-
tween, must carry a light at night
This rule or law is rigidly enforced.
Even the drivers of the poor little
burro or mule carts, on their two
wheels, must carry a light.
So, rather than buy lanterns, which
cost money, they take a dip candle,
and wrapping it in a bit of newspa-
per to shield it from the wind, carry
it in their left hand as they drive
along homeward from work after
evening has fallen. The effect is
striking, as the light, falling strongly
on the Indian driver, throws the race
of the man into strong relief against
the darkness.