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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-15
THE OLD STORY

Montgomery, February 14-(SpeciaL)-
The governor signed the anti-pass bill
this afternoon. This is. the first OF the
railroad bills TO receive the signature of
the executive.
Mr.. King undertook to get his salary
bill up tonirht but was defeated, the bill
going over 30 Monday afternoon for spe-
cial order.
The bill of DR.. Ragsdale for dividing
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-15
GOVERNOR Conner SIGNS
THE ANTI-PASS MEASURE
This is the First the Series of Railroad Bills to Receive the
Signature of the Executive Kings Salary Bill Made
Special Order for Next Monday Afternoon.

Jefferson county into four revenue dis
tricts was passed tonight.
The house also passed the bill to allow
both divisions OF the csBniuai' court of
Jefferson county to try capital cases at
the same time; also, to confer addi-
tional powers upon the register in chan
Gerry of Jefferson county
The charter of the Southside Reading
club of Birmingham was repealed.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-15
OPERATORS GET INCREASE.
Western Union Makes Announcement
Affecting Chiefs and Assistants.

New York. February lit was an
nounccd by the Western Union Telegraph
company today that all chiefs. assistants.
division and other chiefs in the operat-
ing department OF the company. in the
principal offices, will participate in the
salaries Increased yesterday
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and then the crash came. As soon as the
vessels drifted apart he waved a lantern
for help, but the steamer kept on her
course Another vessel, eVldentiy the
strange steamer. was observed with both
her red and green lights showing indi-
eating that she was headed for the
schooner, apparently to give help but
when the steamer had approached WITHIN
mile her green light only showed ano
she headed up the sound again.
To Inspector Stewart Captain Haley
denied there was any danger OF his
schooner having yawed" from her
course with any such condition as ne has
described
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-15

Watch Hill, r. l., February 1.-THE
three-masted schooner Harry Knowleton,
which was in collision with the JOY line
steamer Larchmont Monday night, is
breaking to pieces on Quonochontaug
beach Her deckhouse and other pieces OF
wreckage were washed ashore today.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-15
r,.,o-cert Rate for Two Roads.

Raleigh. N c., February 1.-THE lower
branch of the general assembly today
nassed a 2 cent passenger rate. applicable
TO the Southern railway and Atlantic
Coast Line, exempting other lines The
senate is considering 21s cent rate.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-15
Columbia Sails for Havana.

New Orleans, February 4.-The cruiser
Columbia. which has been stationed here
during Mardi Gras, sailed today for Ha-
vana-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1907-02-15
Gave Orders.

Captain McVay explained that while
his boat may have been the first in the
water, it was because he had a good
crew, and that he remained by his ship
until She went down. He said he made no
move to get into his boat until he had
given orders to his men to lower all boats
and clear away the RATS. While his boat
was in the water, it was fastened to the
ship by a rope in the running gear that
had been caught, and this was cut by
Boatswain Andrew Tobeson, who saw that
with the ship settling rapidly, the boats
and its occupants would be caught in the
whirlpool and sucked beneath the sur
face.
The captain boat was on the windward
side and he said he called to the passen-
gers to jump into his boat which would
have held about twenty-five people in all,
but the electric lights had been extin-
guished and in the darkness ana con-
fusion no one needed his summons. Every
body was on the leewaTd side Of the ship,
and he ordered his men to row around
there, he claims, but the gale balked his
plan, and as the boat was driven away
from the steamer his men had to give mp
their task and crouch down in the bottom
of the boat out of the way of the piercing
wind
At s o'clock this morning the number
of known lost in the frightful calamity
stood at 139. At least 16S persons were
known to be on the steamer, and there is
every Indication that the number waF
nearer 200.
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Ca pain Was First 10 Leave
the Sinking Ship
149 KNOWN TO Be LOST
Seventy-two Bodies Have Been "
Quartermaster Alone at "
When Collision Happe q
Investigation orde

Providence. r. L, February 14-Fifty-
four names this afternoon were on the
list of Identified dead among the victims
of Monday nights disaster in Block
Island sound, when the JOY line steamer
Larchmont was sunk in a collision with
the schooner Harry Knowleton.
The figures of the disaster are as fol-
lows
Survivors 10, bodies identified "a, known
board 16S. bodies recovered 72 Only one
reported as being picked up during to-
day.
A fishing schooner recovered the body
of man off Block Island. James Stables
quartermaster of the Larchmont, said to-
day that he was alone at the wheel Of
tine steamer when the collision occurred.
Stables said he saw the schooner and was
watching her carefully. He said, however
that when the swerving vessel began
bearing down on the steamer it was too
late to avert a collision.
Captain McVey, who is but 26 years old.
and probably the youngest captain plying
the sound. has been ordered by the Uni
ted States steamboat inspectors to sub
nit detailed report of the accident to
the board, which it was said would meet
at New London. Conn, today. Captain
McVey was able to prepare report of the
manner in which the ship was sunk, but
owing TO the condition of his frozen limbs
it is believed he will be unable to go t,
New London until tomorrow.
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Captain Left Ship.

A new element was injected into the
horror attending the loss of the steamer
Larchmont in Block Island sound Mon
LAY night through a collision with the
schooner Harry knowleton, when Captain
McVey of the steamer today admitted
that his life boat was one of the first,
it not the first to leave the sinking ship.
This statement was made in reply to
charges by Fred Hiergsell an 1S-year-ol
lad of Brooklyn. one of the survivors,
that the passengers were left to shift for
themselves; that the ships crew crowded
the boats without attempting to provide
for he passengers. and that Captain Nc
Ney was the first to desert the ship.
The statement of young Hiergsell Great
ed a sensation in view of the fact that
ten of the nineteen survivors were en-
p1oyes of the ship, or in other words that
while approximately 20 per cent of the
vessels crew were saved, only per cent
of the passengers survived.
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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04
ILwAco SPRINGS.

Maud and Jennie Reynolds visited
their cousin, Mrs. Bartholomew,
Monday.
Come to Ilwaco for a good time
the 18th. Two launches and plenty
of skiffs in the harbor for the use of
visitors.
The Gardeners of Hastings came
by launch to Ilwaco on Sunday and
engaged two cottages for two
weeks sojourn little later.
Dinner served at Nebish Lodge
to all who wish. Picnic grounds
free. Ice cream, cake and lemonade
for sale at the new Lodge, near the
harbor.
DR.. Fortune and Messrs. Nc
Gregor and Curtis were visitors al
Ilwaco the first of the week. Ask
Rod where the best place for catch
ing cat fish can be found.
Miss Pearce with a party of six
from Minneapolis will arrive We'd
nesday evening and occupy Willow
Twig cottage for few days, taking
table board at Nebish Lodge.
Mrs. CartelIo and family, Miss
Meachdln, and Maud Bletsoe and
brother arrived Tuesday morning
on the launch "Voyageur" with Mr.
Hermonson, capt. They are settled
in Tioga cottage.
Married, June 20, at the residence
of the brides parents on Columbus
Ave, Minneapolis. Miss Blanche
M. Stobbs to Squire Jones, also Of
Minneapolis. The happy pair are
spending their honeymoon at Oak
Leaf Cottage.
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ceo0o0oc0o0o01 161cU 100000
oLIvET.

Miss Kate McCardle is visiting in
Spring Valley this week.
Mrs. Ida Pundy, who has been
visiting her mother, Mrs. WEIGH,
returned to her home in Baldwin
Sunday.
Johnny Torgerson has his new
sheep shed nearly completed. II.
Hanson and Geo. Smith are doing
the work.
Miss Dora Smith started for An
Okla, Mimi, Monday, where she
will spend the 4th and visit friends
and relatives.
Carl Cooke will put up a small
building that he can occupy during
the winter until he can get material
together for a house.
Mrs. Pearl Lansing, who is stay
ing with her parents and being treat
ed by DR.. Morton, is improving
nicely and will soon be able to re-
turn to her ONE.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04

WANTED-A girl at the New City
Hotel.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04

Adjourned meeting of Common Council.
Three Aldermen present; Williams, Stiles
and Freeman. Mayor White and Alderman
VIM absent
Onmotion voted that an order for 5000 be
issued to the City Treasurer to pay the inter
est on the Electric Light Bonds falling due
July l, 1907.
Voted to adjourn until July.s 1907, at eight
o'clock p. m.
ALLEN p WELD, City Clerk.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04
Neighborhood News.
DONEGAL.

Mrs. T. w. Finn and Mrs. ].
Fl. Moynihan visited at the home of
John Finn Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Tingwall
went to Taylors Falls Sunday to
attend family reunion.
VIM. Latermyre of Minneapolis
visited his grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Smolick, recently.
Mrs. Van Adams and Mrs. Sam
Hannah visited their sister, Mrs. Fl.
Borner, in Oak Grove Friday.
B. ]. Carolan, accompanied by
his mother, spent day with his sis
ter, Mrs. George .Giebler, IN Oak
Grove.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. M. Manion and
sons, Gene and Virgil, Of Clifton
visited at the home Of M. Fitzsim-
mons Sunday.
At the annual meeting in Dist
No. 9 Monday night, John Peche-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04
KiNNICKINNIC.

We're all going to Twin Lakes
the Fourth.
J. d. G'Keeffe spent day last
week at the parental home.
Mrs. Geo. Fuller is anticip ating a
visit from her father and mother.
Ed. Cole bought 40 steers and
Fred Smith 10 while in the City last
week.
Leslie Whitcomb, r., and, sister
Lyle of South Bend, Ind, are visit
ing their uncle Cotton.
Tom Wilcox was accompanied
home by little nephew who will
spend the summer with him.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Sutherland and
daughter Helen and cousin, Miss
Robinson, Of Minneapolis, are visit
ing at Whitcomb's.
During the severe thunderstorm
Sunday morning one of Herb
Smiths young horses was struck by
lightning, while standing in the
,, barn with the rest Of the stock.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04
There are certain weed meets that

There are certain weed pests that
are persistent in their hold upon
the soil if allowed to esed but are
readily exterminated # prevented
from seeding. The dandelion, bur-
dock, yellow dock, plantain and
pigweed, are troublesome if allowed
to propagate but none of these
plants spring from the root for
more than three years consecutively
so that if they are not allowed to
mature their seeds they will disap-
pear within that time. If the root
of any of these plants is cut off just
below where the leaves and stems
start it is sufficient to kill the plant.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04
Total receipts S1s7Ss IL
DISBURSEMENTS

TOTAL DlsbursementS SlS658 63
Balance on hand July /, 1907 1924 40
There is due the district from the
following towns for tuition to be
paid next year, the following:
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04
Advertised Letters.

List of unclaimed letters in the
Postoffice at River Falls for the
week ending June 20, 1907:
Mr.. Newton V. Sanders.
Prof. w. H. Terry.
j. A. Duncan.
Mrs. Geo. Cummins.
Miss Viola Rudolph. =
Mrs. T. M. Hartsook.
Miss Emma Jackson.
Miss Maud Roberts.
Mr.. Bert Davis.
Mabel Schmidt.
Mr.. Walter Sumeca.
I. C. GLASS, p. M.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04

A law passed by the legislature
now in session limits the number of
saloons in cities after July |, 1908,
TO one for $50 inhabitants. This
would make nine saloons the limit
for this city, taking it for granted
that the number of the population
is deter mined by the latest census,
when this city's enumeration was
$500. A year or two ago ten sa-
looms were in operation here. The
last year there were eight a part of
the time and the rest of the time
but seven,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04

Free, for Catarrh, just to prove
merit, a Trial size Box of DR.. Shops.
Catarrh Remedy. Let me send it
now. 1t is snow-white, creamy,
healing, antiseptic balm. Contain
ing such healing ingredients as Oil
Eucalyptus, Thymol, Menthol, ETC.,
it gives instant and lasting relief to
Catarrh of the nose and throat.
Make the free test and see for your
self what this preparation can and
will accomplish. Address DR.. Shoop,
Racine, Wis. Large jars so cents.
Sold by all dealers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04

Herb Smith had the misfortune to
break his leg, while walking beside
a hay press driving the team. A
wheel broke. causing the machine
to fall onto one of his legs, breaking
both bones below the knee and
crushing the heel.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04
Treasures Report.

To the voters of it. School Dist.
No. l, Towns of Troy, Kinnic-
kinnic, River Falls and
City of River Falls.
Your district Treasurer hereby
makes report of the moneys receiv-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04

There is also due from the Town
OF Clifton an unpaid balance of
$500 on last years account. and
on account of the year just closed
from G. I. Chinook of Kinnickin-
mic SlO.S0 and from Geo. Fillback of
Clifton $7.97.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. TIL. SMITH, Dist. Treas.
Dated at River Falls, Wis, July /,
1907.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04

ok was reelected clerk and it was
voted to put new windows in the
school house
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1907-07-04
For Sala.

Mrs. Sarah Tozer has tor sale on
easy terms desirable city properties
dwelling houses and building lots.
The Newtown bee., 1907-11-29
MY BEST FRIEND.

Alexander Benton, who lives on Ru- ral roue l, Ft Edward, N. Y., says: "Dr Kings New Discovery is my best earthly friend. It cured me of asthma six years ago. It has also performed a wonderful cure of incipient consump- tion for my sons wife. The first bot tie ended the terrible cough, and this accomplished, the other symptoms left one by one, until she was perfectly well. Dr Kings New Discovery's power over coughs and colds is simply marvellous" No other remedy has ever equalled it. Fully guaranteed by R. H. Beers & Co.,, Newtown; Taylor, Curtis 6 Co.,, Sandy Hook; P. J. Garvin, Bethel; L. Gonlett, Stev- enson; H. w. Osborne, Easton; w. B. Hawley, Sherman; Smith Bros., Cornwall Bridge; Connery Bros, Georgetown; J. M. Sullivan, Bedding Ridge; c. F. Baker, Hawleyville; G. w. Hurlbut & Co.,, Roxbury; Allen Joyce, Roxbury Station; G. w. Hatch, Bridgewater; w. N. Noble, New Milford; E. H. Beardsley, New Pres ton; Cogswell & Wettereau, Washing ton Depot; Harry Brown, Southbury; c. P. Williams, South Britain; Perkins Brothers, Warren; w. N. Hurd, Long Hill; Druggists. Soc and $1.0O. Trial bottle free.
The Newtown bee., 1907-11-29
Stevenson.

ITEMS FROM OUR SCRIBE'S NOTE
 BOOK.
 Arthur Mcdonald, who has been sick at the New Haven hospital with ty- phoid fever for three months, has near ly recovered and is expected home, this week.
 Mrs Nancy French is spending few weeks with her sister, Mrs Charles Botsford.
 Mir and Mrs John Treadwell and Miss Kate Treadwell of Tashua visited MT and Mrs Charles Harang, last week, Miss Kate also visited her sister, Miss Bessie Treadwell, at c. E. Bradley's. Mrs Franklin Dring and two children are with her parents at Cromwell. Mrs Emma Northrop is visiting in Morris.
 Miss Sara Aldrich is spending this week with her parents at Wingdale, N. Y.
 Will Booth is quite poorly and under the care of Dr Wales.
 R. s. Hinman was in Hartford part of last week.
 MT and Mrs Henry Wells have moved to Oxford.
The Newtown bee., 1907-11-29

heaven. For where thy treasure is,
 there will thy heart be also." This is the keynote of life. Our home, our happiness, and our all is where our heart is. We cannot have and serve two masters. One supreme affection is all that we can follow. It is not God and Mammon; but it must be God or Mammon. We do choose whom we will serve in our own hearts and minds. The prodigal son made his own choice. And Mary chose the good part, while Martha was anxious and troubled about many things. The rich manIdressed in purple and fine linen. farjng sump- tuously every day made his choice. He had his good time here, and torment in the world beyond.
 Worldliness is more than great mis- take; it is false theory of life. It reverses the divine order of all our powers of being: body, soul and spirit; ; and tends always to defeat the eternal end toward which we should ever aim and strive in all things. To love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength is the only true law, and spirit of our life; and when we put anything in that place which belongs first of all, and always to Him, we bring confusion, and weakness, and defeat upon our selves.
 2 Worldliness is devotion to this world. It thinks only or chiefly of this life. It is fixed on the cares and pleasures of this present state without any seri- ous regard for the future. It is there fore, indifferent to the religion of Jesus Christ. It prefers the pleasures of the world to the joys of heaven. It values the things seen and temporal more than the unseen things eternal. It lives by sight and not by faith; and is of the earth, earthly.
 The spirit of the world is dangerous, and destructive of the spiritual life, be- cause it is subtle, deceptive, and con- tagious. It matters little what we may do, that is proper and good, the motive, and the purpose, and the end may be good or bad. We may do busi- ness to the glory of God, or we may do the same business to the honor of Sa- tan. Our pleasures may be pure and sweet in the eyes of heaven, or they may ake hold on the paths that lead to damnation. Our religion may exalt the Holy One, or dishonor the Name of Christ. and degrade our souls. It is in the spirit that we live, and out of our hearts are the issues of the manhood that is in us. And therefore St Paul gives us this rule of life: Whether ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God"
The Newtown bee., 1907-11-29
favor of the committee employing F. E. Soule in the future examinations.

favor of the committee employing F. E. Soule in the future examinations.
 A motion offered by W. H. Hubbell was then passed that the town ratify the action of the selectmen, so far as they have gone. "The selectmen are yet in office. "said Mir Hubbell. land hope they will continue the good work to the best of their ability"
 H. B. Coger stated that he was in favor of employing Mir Soule in future investigations.
 The meeting adjourned about 4.l5.
 During the reading of the report it was noticed numbers of citizens held in their hands copies of The Bee, and followed Mir Soule in his reading. An artist from The Bridgeport Herald sat at one end of the stage and sketched the faces of prominent citizens for his paper.
The Newtown bee., 1907-11-29

The son of God would set us right in all our relations ito the world, to our Father in heaven, and to the hereafter. He teaches us to put that first which is greatest; and that last which is least. The divine end of life is not here, but beyond the grave. It is not things temporal, but things eternal that most concern us, all the way along. It is not this world, but the Kingdom of heaven which we should be ever seeking. The one thing we must have, whether we live or die, is the righteousness of God, or there can be no eternal life abiding in us.
 The Son of Man puts the emphasis on the divine ideal and supreme object of this life. This world is not for itself. This earthly life is not just for the present. The design of watch is that it shall keep the measure of time. If it does not indicate the seconds, min utes and hours it fails of its one great object. And so the one supreme ob- ject of this earthly life is our prepara- tion for the spiritual life of the eter- nal hereafter of the soul; and what ever in all that we may gain; of wealth, position, knowledge, honors, and pleasures, here, that does not help us in some way to attain unto the life of God in us which is everlasting, must be set down to our failure and loss.
 The Spirit of Christ is always op- posed to the spirit of the world. Worldliness is sin of sins. Our treas ures are not here, they should be in
The Newtown bee., 1907-11-29
Greenfield Hill.
DEERFIELD ITEMS.

Miss Alice Nichols was a guest of Mrs Marsh in Bridgeport.
 MT and Mrs Fred Durham and Mrs William Willis of Bridgeport were re- cent guests of Sherwood Banks of Greenfield.
 H. E. Dowd and family attended the funeral of his brother-in-law at Clin- ton, last week.
The Newtown bee., 1907-11-29
FAIRFIELD COUNTY.
 Lyons Plains.
LOCAL BRIEFS.

Mrs James Ward is very i'll.
 Mrs Frank Lyons has moved part of her furniture in the house she recently purchased of Mrs Rachel Banks.
 Mrs Hiram McConkey and little John spent Monday with her mother. Mrs L. Thorpe.
 Mrs Philip Gerhardt has returned from a visit in South Norwalk.
 Mrs Jessie Patchen entertained the Matinee Whist club, Tuesday after noon, the 18th.
 Warren Andrews, only son of Mrs Isaac Thorpe was buried at Dover, N. J.. on Friday.
The Newtown bee., 1907-11-29
LITTLE SERMON.

WORLDLINESS, BY o. 0. WRIGHT.
 Work not for the food that persheth. but for the food which abdeth unto eternal life. '' John 6.21.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-06-19
HORSE WAS KILLED
BY A SECOND HORSE
Exciting and Peculiar Runa-
way Tuesday Evening.
INCIDENT OF A PICNIC.

An exciting and peculiar runaway
took place Tuesday evening, shortly
after seven o'clock, on the road north
of the city, which joins the cart road
and the Fountain City pike. horse
which had been driven by John Collins,
who. with several others We're picnick-
ing near Sylvan Nook, ran away while
the party were at supper 1t ran near
ly mile before it was stopped and
broke the shafts and dash board of the
buggy.
In its mad flight the horse ran into q
horse belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth
Hodgin, who resides at the junction of
the cart road and the pike, knocking
it down in such a manner as to break
the horses neck, killing it instantly.
The horse was rather an old one, but
was pet of the Hodgin family.
Fortunately, no one was in the bug
gy at the time of the runaway. 1t is
not known what scared the horse.