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Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
NEW HAMPSHIRE

CLAREMONT, N. H., Oct 21.-Jerry
Sheehan, while practising acrobatic stunts
on the iron railing in frort of one of the
big plate glass windows In the postoffice
lobby, lost his balance and went through
the window bodily with crash heard for
blocks.
The greater part of the damage was to
the window and to Sheehan's pocketbook.
1t will cost him about s65 to settle.
MANCHESTER-Marg M. Flanders
of Laconia, who escaped from the county
house of correction at Grasmere several
days ago, was found by Manchester off,
GERS in a shanty at Auburn, dressed in
male attire.
KEENE-Mrs Horatio Colony, wife of
one of the leading business mer of Che
shire county, died at the age of GA years.
Mr. Colony is a prominent mill owner
and is connected with the Cheshire mills
at Harrisvil,e and a member of the firm
of Faulkner & Colony, who conduct big
mills there. Mrs. Colony is also survived
by two sons, Charles H. and John ]. of
this city, and one daughter, Mrs. James A.
Frye of Boston.
Mrs. Colony was prominent in the D.
A. r., and had been regent of the local
chapter.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
KANSAS

LEAvENWORTH, Kas., Oct 21.-Rhe
Kansas City Western Railway company
is putting in block signal system along
it's lines between Leavenworth and Kan
sas City. 1t is the first electric road in
the west to install this system.
TOPEKA--E. E. Marshall. superintend-
ent of the state reformatory, who is be-
ing investigated on charges of cruelty to
inmates of the institution, declares that
he will not resign in the face of fire, but
will fight the charges to the last ditch.
ARKANSAS CITY-T. w. Cant a real
estate dealer of Arkansas City, dropped
dead at his home here. Heart disease
caused his death. He was an early set
tier In Southern Kansas.
OSWEGO-The funeral of Mrs. Catha-
rine Glover occurred here. She died al
her home in Joplin. Mo-, at the age OF "
years For half century she lived In
this county, and over forty years ast
conducted the first hotel in this city.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
MISSOURI

JOPLIN, Mo-. Oct H.-Five persons sus-
pected of being the parties who dynn-
mited the Joplin News-Herald plant on
the night of September 49, were arrested.
They are Minnie st. Claire, Charles
Smith, w. s. Martin, Bessie Beam and
Hazel Ray, alias Hazel Reed. Minnie 81.
Claire formerly conducted a resort In THIS
city. and all of those who were arrested
are well known in police circles.
OREGON, Oct 21-When Mrs. Jona-
than Culp received telephone message
here last night saying her daughter MRS
Silas Allen, had been killed by shock
from an electric light wire, she dropped
dead Mother and daughter will be buried
in the same grave.
ST. LOUIS-John H. Tennent. president
of the defunct Tennent Shoe company,
was acquitted in circuit court of the
charge of obtaining loan of $4,000 from
bank on false pretenses. Mr.. Tennent,
although 6S years old, told bis friends
after the verdict was rendered that he in
tended starting life all over again and
that he had been engaged as travelling
salesman
JEFFERSON CITY-A good roads meet
ing, at which State Highway Engineer
Hill will be present. is to be held at the
court house October o.
Among other deeds which have been filed
for record are the following; Martin Clip
fert to Josephine w. Pollock, part of lci
645, $780, Joseph w. Pollock to W. u
Gundelfnger, part of outlot 102, $4700.
|. Max Thiel and Joi-l Buehrle are II
7 Springfield, delegates the grand lodge
Knights of Pythias.
RoLLA-Mrs. F. E. Taylor entertained
the Tuesday Euchre club. The highes
scores were made by Mrs. J. 9
Campbell and Mrs. George e. Eadd. Mrs
S. l.. Baysinger received the guest prize.
! Miss Minnie Madigan has gone to st
Louis to reside.
| L. ]. Coulson, wife and children have
been the guests of S. N. Lorts and family
| Henry Beddoe of California arrived her
to spend a month visiting his father.
| Clarence Burchard was called to Way
nesville on account of the serious Illness
| of his grandmother.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
WYOMING

CODY, Wyo., Oct. 21.-Male Yeashorn
was killed while working in the canyon
on the governments irrigation project.
One of the heaviest cables parted the
ends falling distance of $50 feet to the
bottom of the canyon. One OF these ends
struck Yeashorn squarely across the
shoulders and neck, dislocating the neck
and causing instant death
GILLETTE-Miss Maud Mildred Sproatt
was the name of the Kansas City, Mo-,
girl who was shot and killed by Wallace
L. Hickin, baseball player, here few
days ago. The coroner's jury exonerated
Hicklin, the evidence showing that she
shooting was accidental.
CHEYENNE-Acting Governor William
r. Schnitger has appointed thirty repre-
sentative Wyoming men as delegates to
the transmississippi commercial congress
which meets In Muskogee, Okla.
Alonzo Smith and L. A McClenanan
were arrested for holding up Sam Jesse
in house of III repute and robbing him
of $50.
WORLAND-Hunters returning from
the Jacksons Hole country say big game
is scarce there this year. and disappointed
hunters are returning in large numbers.
Plenty of game Is being found on the
headwaters of Green river, south and
east of the Jackson's Hole region.
I.ANDER-J. H. Vallette, chief hight OF
way agent for the Northwestern, has been
| here for several days Strengthening the
right of way across the unceded portion
| of abe Shoshcne reservation.
| Register Adams of thA Lander land Of
| flee and his chief clerk, Charles Allen
1 ID, fl,aT Qtcr a Oi
| canyon suddenly ran onto huge blacl
bear, but were so surprised that they for
| got they had rifles and the bear escaped
| Bears are reported numerous In tina
! locality this fall.
GRAND ENCAMPMENT, Wyo., Oct. =
| -Cosgriff Bros, the sheepmen, who al
ready own is banks in this state and II
| Utah, will soon establish the First Ma
tional bank of Grand Encampment.
| CENTENNIAL-Fire of unknown origin
destroyed the barns, sheds and ranch
| hay crops of John Olson in this valley
| Mr.. Olson was at Keystone at the time
| Neighbors worked hard to save the prop
| erty, but the heat was intense and theil
| efforts were unavailing.
| RAWLINS-Harry King, blacksmith
helper at the Union Pacific shops, was
Joe Doe, it is said, were promiscuously
shooting when officers tried to arrest
them King it is said, ordered LAWN
to throw up his hands, but LAWN was
too quick, shooting him through the
body.
LARAMIE-The Laramie Plains line,
owned by the Laramie, Hahn's Peak
& Pacific Railway company. became a
United States mail route, the contrac,
with the postoffice department to carry
mail between Laramie and Centennial
having become effective. Heretofore
that has been star route.
CHEYENNE-Josep Smith, 14-year-
old Ogden boy, today had marvellous es-
cape from death while beating his way
from Denver to Cheyenne on the trucks
of a freight train. He fell from the
trucks and would have been mangled
had mot projection of the car struck
him and knocked him off the track. He
sustained a dislocated hip.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
INDIANA

WABASH, Ind, Oct. 21.-Westbound
Pennsylvania fast train No. III ploweo
into a crowd of people at Bourbon sta
ton, killing Tom Sloan. Warsaw saloon
keeper, and injuring several other per-
sons. A thousand persons were standing
on the platform awaiting an eastbound
passenger train. Somebody yelled Here
she comes" and the mass of humanity
surged toward the track, several per-
sons being thrown in front OF the
locomotive.
CORYDON-Ferd Ferree, who was
taken from this county to the IN
sane hospital at Evansville July D, lsoo
and who made his escape from the
asylum about one week ago, arrived here
going direct to the county clerks office
thinking it was the place TO get his dls
charge He was barefooted and mis-
clothing was scanty.
TERRE HAUTE-Fire in the stables
of the Vicksburg coal mines burned TWEEN
ty-fiye mules and caused loss of $l2,Oo
A miner entered the burning building and
rescued several of the animals at the
risk of his own life.
CANNELTON-The Merchants and
Manufacturers association, of which Lee
Rodman is president, has just landed
pearl button factory to employ twenty
men when in full operation.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
NORTH DAKOTA

oAKEs, N. D., Oct. 21-Fire here
burned out nineteen business blocks.
Loss $12O,OOO Among the firms suffering
from the fire and their estimated losses
are the Argyle hotel. 100000; Palace cloth
ing store, $4,000.
FARGO-The State bank of Dickey,
Laniore county, was burglarized by yegg-
men, who secured $4,000 in cash from the
SAFE.
GRAND FORKS-Henry Jackson died
as result of gunshot wound. George
M. Fitzgerald, who was hunting with
Jackson, was loading a shotgun when one
barrel was discharged and jackson was
wounded in both legs.
MINOT-J. t. Neal, editor of the Co
lumbus Reporter, was shot and instantly
killed by Mrs. r. c. Rasmussen, who mis-
took him for a burglar. Editor Neal was
at work in his office when he saw a
house on fire down the street. He started
for the fire, but on the way down stopped
for Mr.. Rasmussen, who, however, had
already gone. Nsal attempted to enter the
Rasmussen home and Mrs. Rasmussen,
thinking it was burglar, procured her
husbands rifle and fired through the door,
killing Neal instantly
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
IDAHO

BOISE, Idaho, Oct. A.-The District
Federation of Women's Clubs is planning
a big meeting to be held in Weiser the
last of this month, and an interesting
program is being arranged for the occa-
sion. Some prominent out-of-town
speakers are on for addresses.
MALAD-Mrs. William Davis, who mas
been spending the past two weeks IN
Malad as the guest of Mrs. Waylett, lett
for her home in Gault, Cal.
Mrs w. W. Evans has left to visit her
parents sat Nayton, Utah.
Rev. and Mrs. Jones of Idaho Fails.
Idaho, were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Peck for several days.
+ G. ]. Morgan went down to Zion on
business.
Rev ]. Y. Stewart is attending synod
at Salt Lake.
REXBURG-An important meeting was
held at Sugar City, at which steps We're
taken toward the consolidation of the
Teton-Sugar City and the ]. III. Brady
electric light and power plants. Mayor
webster, Ross J. Comstock, Henry j..
Flamm. Nathan Kicks and H. B. Rhule
were present from Rexburg.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
ILLINOIS


CHESTER, ILL.,. Oct. 21.-Eleven cars
loaded with coal left the tracks of the
Illinois division of the Iron Mountain rail
way in Lower Chester and piled up one
car on top of another in a space of less
than three car lengths.
GALESBURG-The program at the
seniicentennial celebration of the city was
the most elaborate in the history of the
town. The chief feature was floral
parade, in which social organizations and
business houses were represented by
gorgeous floats and one of the finest
was that containing a portrayal of the
court of Louis XIV, with Florence M.
Peters as queen and Fred Prince as king.
CENTRALIA-John w. Warren of the
firm of Peoples & Warren of Central
City left home for Sandoval on busi-
ness trip two weeks ago, and his wife
made it public today that nothing has
been heard of his whereabouts.
WATERLOO-The monthly business
meeting of the city council was held
here yesterday.
States Attorney Roy e. Gauen and
wife spent Monday with friends at st.
Louis.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
GEORGIA

MACON, Ca. Oct. 2l.-Engineer Avery,
Conductor Allen and a negro fireman
named Howard of the Central railroad
were killed at Reynolds, Ga, by the ex-
plosioh of the boiler of a freight engine.
The depot was demolished. Avery and
Allen were residents of Macon and leave
families.
MILLEDGEvILLE-L Millard Lit
tie, u. S. A., recently assigned by the
war department as instructor of military
science at the Georgia military college
here, went to the college barracks to
chastise several small boys for miscon-
duct Cadet Hunt 16 years old, when
struck with the switch, lunged as Com
mander Little's heart with a pocket
knife. Little saved his life, but received
an ugly cut two and a half inches deep
and three inches long in his left arm.
The cadet was conquered and became so
penitent that he will be given another
chance. 4
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
MINNESOTA

ST. PAUL, Oct n-Attorney General
Young of Minnesota was adjudged in con-
tempt of court by Judge Lochren In the
United States district court today and
fined $500, which he refused to pay. An
appeal to the United States supreme court
will he taken in the form of an applica-
tion for a writ of heabas corpus, as Mr..
Young has been remanded to the custody
of the United States marshal and the
question of whether the United States
court has the right to enjoin state
from enforcing it's laws will thus be hnai-
ly disposed of. The question involved
is whether an officer or servant of a
sovereign state can be sued.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
COLORADO

CANON CITY, Colo, Oct. 21--A total
of 92S hunting licenses have been issued
from the office of the county clerk
since the beginning of the current year,
number largely in excess of any pre-
vious year. The number of permits for
hunting is likely to exceed 1000 before
the close of the yaer
DELTA-E. c. Arnold, proprietor of the
Sherman hotel died suddenly. He was
sitting in the office talking with a guest
when he suddenly fell out of his chair
dead. Arnold was go years old
LOvELAND-volley Chapman died,
aged SO years. He had been in feeble
health for several years and had made
his home with his daughter, Mrs. Otto
Osborn.
BRECKENRIDGE-Fo hun t e,r S
Town Marshal King, Charles Condor, Ed
Stewart and James Hanley of Cripple
Creek, returned from a week in the
Sheephorn section, with four fine bucks
They report game plentiful on the Sheep
horn range.
LONGMONT-Mis Edna Coffin went to
Denver to become private secretary to
Hon. F. NJ. Downer, superintendent OF
the mint.
SALIDA-C. J. Anderson and Herman
Becker, carpenters, were seriously injured
when a scaffold on which they were
standing gave way and they fell 20 feet
to the ground
VICTOR-C. d. Fellows engineer at the
Goldon Cycle, was accidentally shot IN
the foot by Joe Car, superintendent OF
that property.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
LOUISIANA

NEW ORLEANS, La, Oct. 21.-Joseph
w. Hyams, immigration agent for the
Southern Pacific Railroad, deported
Geronimo Garcia. He is Cuban, whose
fare was paid to New Orleans by the
state of Louisiana in order to test one
phase of the new national immigration
law The attorney general of the United
States ruled against the state.
ESTHERWOOD- = The city aldermen,
at a special session, authorized the
mayor and city clerk to sell lots ten and
eleven, block twenty-five, together with
the school building and other improve
ments thereon, the money secured there
from to be applied to the erection and
maintenance of district school houses. 1t
was also ordered that Leblanc street
be put In passable condition. Employ
ment of school house janitors was also
authorized.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
- IOWA

IOWA CITY, Iowa, Oct. A.-Leo stroh-
meyer, the high school athlete whose
back was broken in a football game here
died.
TABOR-Fred ripple and Miss Grace
Tucker We're united in marriage at the
home of the groom's mother Mrs. Ella
Tippie. Rev. ]. w. Ferner officiated.
CRESTON-The convention OF the
Southwest Iowa Dental association closed
it's session here. The most Important
business was the reorganization OF the
dental districts into a state association.
The FOLLOWING officers were elected
President. Dr. It. s. Schadel, Red Oak;
vice president, Or. j. w. Powell; secre-
safy, DR.. T. H. viii, Red Oak; treasurer,
Or, G. e. King, villisca,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
NEW JERSEY

PLAINFIELD NJ j., Oct. H.-Despond-
ent on account of i'll health. from which
he had suffered year, Robert M. Foun-
tair, member of the board of education
and former school district clerk, fatally
shot himself at his home. He leaves a
widow and large family, one of his
daughters being the wife of Counselor
Charles j. McNabb of this city.
PHILLIPsBURG- Saltzman, the
young and pretty wife of John Saltzman,
who strangely disappeared from her home
In this place, has been found. She was
In New York city at st. Maris' home, on
Fourteenth street, but has no recollec-
ton of how she got there. Mrs. Seltzmar
had been in i'll health for several days
prior to her departure
RIVERSIDE-A quiet wedding took
place at Delanco when Miss Irene Bick-
erton of that place became the bride OF
Frank H. Story Jr., also of Delanco. Tht
ceremony, which was solemnized at the
Presbyterian parsonage, was conducted
by the pastor, Rev. ]. A. Mathewson
The bridesmaid was Miss Margare
Bickerton and the best man Howard f.
Story.
BRIDGETON-Mr. ard Mrs. Pheeni>
Cosier celebrated their golden wedding
October 15. Several persons were presen
who attended the wedding ceremony fifty
years ago. Mr.. Cosier is a former mem
ber of the Cumberland county board OF
freeholders.
TRENTON-Former Judge Samuel Van
divert of the Sixteenth judicial distric
of Camden sought to recover $4,000 from
the Pennsylvania Railroad company fol
injuries sustained In a fall down tn
elevator shaft at New Brunswick, result
| ing in the amputation of leg.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
NEW REMEDY TO
ACQUIRE YOUTH

i WINsTED, Conn. Oct. 2i.-Mr.
4 and Mrgs James e. Maddraha cele-
+ brated their golden wedding ami
i. versary at their home on Hubbard
4. street today. A year ago Mr..
4. Maddraha was in such bad health
4 that his friends thought the end
+ was near
4 Medicine did him no good. so he
i. decided to make himself young
+ again by playing with children.
i He played marbles and other juv-
1. emile games, and soon he was
/. robust He is now able to work
4 six days a week at his trade as
!. carpenter and play II spy" with
+ his grandchildren after work. He
i. never felt younger In his life, he
4. says, and believes he has found the
i. secret of long life.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
VIRGINIA


q NORFOLK, Oct. 21.-A shipment of leaf
tobacco and cigarettes said to be valued
at $1,000 from Durham, N. c., consigned
TO the British American Tobacco com
nany of Great Britain has been attached
by the government here and Is now being
neld by the customs authorities. The ac-
ton was brought following a conference
here last week between Collector of Gus
toms Hughes, United States District
Judge Lewis and representative from
the department of justice at Washington.
The business of the latter in Norfolk
was declared to be in connection with
prosecutions under the Sherman anti
trust law. The reason for the attach
ment of the tobacco and cigarettes is not
given.
ROANOKE, Va, Oct 21.-Miss Lalla
Harvey, daughter of r. o. Harvey one OF
the wealthiest citizens of Floyd county
was burned to death. She went to the
kitchen to light the fire, and when found
she was lying in the fireplace with her
clothing burned off.
NORFOLK-Char Cohen high
school boy, 10 years old, was killed be-
meath the wheels of a car which he tried
to board in front of the school building.
The car was moving rapidly r. A. Har"
JIss. conductor, and j. McReynolds, mo-
5for,nan. in charge of the car, were ar
rested on the charge OF criminal negll-
gence, but were released on bond The
hoyT was a son of Louis Cohen mer-
chant.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
NEW YORK

ALBANY, N. Y, Oct. A.-Governor
Hughes appointed Franklin B. Ware OF
New York city to be state architect In
place of George L. Helms, recently de-
ceased.
LANCASTER-Anothe new business
enterprise was added to Lancaster's
steadily increasing list when Sidney Fris-
bey opened a restaurant at II West Main.
George Strabel, recently returned from
COBALT, will assist assist Mr. Frishey In the
business
ITHACA-State Committeeman John J.
Kennedy and a we'll known city ornciai
of Buffalo is visiting his son, William II.
Kennedy who Is student at Cornell
university. The college friends of young
Kennedy are helping to make the state
committeeman's visit here very pleas
ant one.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
BLOW ON COLLAR BUTTON
CAUSES MANS DEATH

+ S.r. LOUIS, Mo, Oct. FLA collar !
!. button resting on the small bone Of !
Z Anton Kovantas neck at the GER ;
I. vical vertebrae, hit by small piece
+ of slate that fell but four feet In :
!. an Edwardsville, H., mine. caused
|. his instant death.
! The bone is the one that the col :
I lar button rests on, and If the
|. miner had been hit anywhere else, :
I physicians say, he would have been
/. only bruised.
/. Kovapta was berding' over, pick :
I ing UP some Jumps of coal, and the
L little fragment of slate, which was
!. only twenty inches square and an
!. inch and a half thick, struck him
! on the little button and broke his
J. neck.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
TENNESSEE


KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Oct. 21.-The in
'yestigation by the special committee of
the county court showed that there had
been drinking and swearing ana some
conduct among the guards and manager
and the female prisoners that should not
have been Several witnesses were exam
ined and the evidence taken by stenog-
rapher, which will be reported at the
next session of the county court.
MEMPHIS-Deputy Sheriff Charles NJ
webb of Atoka is dead and Deputy
Sheriff Louis Ogllvie of Covington Is Sc
yerely wounded as the result of an at
tempt to arrest John p. Strong, an es-
capped lunatic from the state asylum at
Atoka. strong Is barricaded in his room
at the home of his brothers He>has a
shotgun and plenty of ammunition and
defies arrest.
CHATTANOOGA annual reunion
of the Society of the Army of the Cum
berland convened here. About 400 MEM
bers were present, including representa-
tives of other regimental and brigade
associations. Col. H. u. Fritch of Pueb-
10, Colo, delivered the annual Grafton.
NASHVILLE-At fire on Second Avenue
North in the wholesale district, comS
pletely gutted the store of John Hitch
cock & Sons, wholesale dealers In wagons,
harness and seeds. entailing a loss esti-
mated at $4,000. John Hitchcock Sr. be-
came overcome by smoke and barely es-
capped with his life.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-22
VERMONT

ST. ALBANs, VT. Oct. H.-Joseph
Brault, aged 21s years, son of Mr.. and
Mrs Levi Brault was fatally scalded by
falling into tub of hot water The child
died.
RUTLAND-It was announced that
Joseph E. Ranger of Hancock, who has
been In jail here six months on the charge
of arson, will plead insanity at his trial.
Ranger went to the Vose hotel at Pitts
field May and set fire to three beds in
different rooms. The timely discovery OF
the fire by persons on the street saved
large property loss.
Mrs Morcy Freeman of North Ferris
burg, who is 96 years old, has the distinc-
tion Of having fourteen great-grand-
children and seven great-great-grand
children. The oldest { the latter Is il
and the youngest years old. Mrs. Free
man has living four children, who have
seventeen children of their own
ST. JOHNSBURY-The annual conven-
ton Of the Vermont Medical association
came to an end after the election of the
following officers: President, DR.. G. S
Gorham, Bellows Falls; vice president, Dr.
J. F. Blanchard, Newport; secretary, DR.
c. H. Beecher, Burlington; treasurer. DR.
3. II. Stone, Burlington; auditor, DR.. j
II. Biodsett, Saxtor' River.