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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
In AM Parts Of the State.
Clayton now has a skating rink

Clayton now has skating rink
George Kite shot an eagle near
Franklinville
Rev. J. r. Jewett, of Pittman
Grove, has accepted call to the M.
e. Church at Palmyra.
Mrs. Howard LIE Fevre missed her
5000 diamond ring from the mantel
of her home at Pitman.
Fred G.. Stanwood, former Mayor
of Island Heights, is booming the
proposed State road from Lakehurst
to Browns Mills
The Court of Errors dismissed the
appeal of Frederick Lang, convicted
of murder in Middlesex County.
Some reckless gunner filled the
udder of COW belonging to Edgar
Cuff, Of Canton, with buckshot, and
ruined the animal as a milk-giyer.
James Dowdy, of Morrisville, Pa,
was sentenced at Trenton by Judge
Reed to twenty-five years in State
prison for the murder of Carrie viii.
liams at Princeton.
Rev. Robert Trenbath, of Plain
field, has been called to the rectorship
of Christ P. q. Church, Trenton, to
succeed Rev. -. j. Knight, recently
elected Bishop Of Western Colorado
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10

| Lambert's abode. and once in the
Boulevards.
In the first instance he greeted
Glynn with the frankest expression
of sorrow and sympathy for the great
misfortune which had befallen Lam
bert, mentioning his own deep grief,
and his compassionate forgiveness of
Lambert's injurious accusations
against himself.
Glynn found Lambert in state of
furious excitement after this visit,
and uttering violent half-unintelli-
gible threats against Vincent.
On their second meeting Glynn
tried to pass him, but in vain, and
was obliged to listen to a string of
suggestions and conjectures respect
| ing the supposed fugitive which near
ly drove him to throttle his interlo-
cutor and fling him into the street
under the hoofs of the passing horses,
especially as he felt that Vincent's
small, penetrating, watchful eyes
were intently, searchingly fixed on
his face while he spoke
AT length letters from his partners
obliged him to quit the scene of so
much suffering and disaster.
1t was with the deepest reluctance
that Glynn bid Lambert goodbye.
The unhappy father still wore the
same aspect of helplesness, of sullen
submission to the Irresistible. He
scarcely headed Glynn's announce
| ment of his immediate departure, and
merely answered his ardent request
for the earliest information respect
| ing any crumbs of intelligence in the
Affirmative. He put Glynn's card in
his pocketbook mechanically. Yet he
wrung his hand hard at parting, and
bid God bless him, brokenly-yet
heartily.
Glynn, not satisfied with Lambert's
promise, obtained an interview with
M. Claude, who was even more curt
and immovable than ever. He, how
ever, condescended to promise that he
would not fail to let him know should
any trace of the missing girl be
found.
The second day after he had re-
sumed his attendance at the Office he
found himself too faint and dizzy to
continue the writing on which he was
engaged. His head ached intensely,
his pulses throbbed. He rang, and
began to explain to the clerk who
answered his sumomns that he felt so
i'll he must return home; but before
he could finish his sentence he fell
heavily at the feet of his startled
hearer. He was conveyed carefully
to his own residence, which he did
not leave for many weeks-not till
he had been brought to the verge of
the grave by fierce brain fever.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10

At the recent session Of the New
York State Conference of Charities
and Correction in Albany Dr. Edward
B. Angel, of Rochester, presented
report in which he said that so
great has been the recent decrease in
the number of people suffering from
disease that it has actually affected
the income of the average practition-
err, He said that DR.. William Ewart,
of st. Georges Hospital, in London,
had also noted this change owing to
the growing success of the medical
profession in reducing the preva-
lence of disease. Diseases have
been conquered, almost annihilated,"
he said, "aHd we are yet but at the
beginning of the struggle to elimin-
ate sickness and all of its consequent
suffering, In the city of New York
In 1876 out of 1875, SIG babies 3632
or 2S.Se per 1000. died from CASTRO
Intestinal diseases, while in 1906
among 2S2,424 babies only 1854 died
irom this cause. or 1877 per 1000."
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
U. S, TROOPS GO TO GoLDF1EAD.
President Sends Soldiers to Quell
Mine Strike Trouble.

Washington, d. C.-P President
Roosevelt instructed General F'uns-
ton to despatch from San Francisco a
sufficient force of regulars to Gold
field, New, to control the situation
there, should the trouble between the
Mine Owners Association and the
Western Federation of Miners de-
velop into open warfare or violence.
This action was taken upon re-
ceipt of telegraphic request from the
Governor of Nevada.
Nevada has no State militia, and
should trouble break out Federal
troops would be the only defenders
of life and property.
The strike is said to be a dead
lock and the mine owners say they
propose to keep the mines shut down
until the violent element of the
miners union and the lawless ele-
ment generally in the camp are com
PEELED to leave.
The cause of the strike at Gold
field is said to be the refusal of the
miners to accept bank cashiers GER
tificates for wages.
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with all our love for the dollar
it is at least not the narrow minded
love for the twenty-cent piece, which
is the besetting sin of Europe, and be-
sides, we do something with the dol
lar to raise the standards of life and
to advance the cause of the soul as
well as the body" boasts the Phila-
delphia Press. On which sentiment
the New York Herald comments as
follows: AS the dollar is worth five
times as much as the franc, there
fore our love of money is not SO mar
row minded" as that of countries in
which the franc is the unite, Ell?
Tweedledum and tweedledee!
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
j CHAPTER VII.
Will-o-'-the-Wisp.


A new year was opening on the
just and unjust--the fortunate and
the unfortunate. Lady Gethin had
arrived in town after a prolonged
Christmas visit to some attentive rela-
tives in one of the midland countries
1t was the day after her return.
She was thinking. with an unusually
softened expression on her strong
face, of her favorite, Hugh Glynn.
She had been intensely anxious about
him during his severe illness. She
had constantly visited his sickroom,
and satisfied herself that nurses and
servants were doing their duty.
When his life was despaired of, she
was grimly still, silent, and enduring,
but she knew that all the woman in
her somewhat masculine nature had
gone out, in maternal affection, to her
husbands nephew.
When he was slowly struggling
back to life and strength she accom-
panied him to south coast bathing
place, and gave him the great benefit
of her companionship, for she knew
how to be alphabetically silent, as
well as congenially talkative. In
this prolonged tete-a-tete Glynn grew
sincerely and gratefully attached to
the outspoken, free-thinking old
woman.
Attachment brought confidence,
and before they parted Hugh Glynn
had told her the strange history of
his sudden love for Elsie Lambert, of
the hold it had taken of him in spite
of reason, prudence, worldly wisdom
every motive that ought to guide
man of his maturity and experience.
He even confessed to the weakness
of regretting he had rejected Lam
bert's proposal of marriage with his
daughter.
In the story Of Elsies disappear
ance Lady Gethin was profoundly in
terested, though to Glynn's disap-
pointment and indignation, she did
not hesitate to declare her belief that
the young lady eloped voluntarily and
had probably since informed her
father of her whereabouts-a fact he
might think it wiser not to divulge.
Reviewing these conversations,
Lady Gethin sat forgetful of her
book, when the object of her thoughts
was announced.
why didn't you come to dinner?"
she exclaimed, holding out her hand.
Because | have been dining ear
lier than usual at the house of a
cousin of mine in the suburbs, where
l have been officiating as godfather to
his first-born SON."
A very patriarchal proceeding.
Who is this cousin-do know him?"
II think not; he is cousin on my
mothers side, and has cure of souls
at Chaplain"
well, Hugh, and how are you?
You look better and stronger"
II am! ! have turned the corner
and am beginning to pull mechani-
cally against the collar once MORE
Lady Gethin looked earnestly at
him. He seemed taller than ever
gaunt and bony. His dark face was
very colorless, his eyes sunken; yet
his attitude and air had less of lassi-
tude than when they had parted last.
you have been across the Chan
nel?"
Eyes; I ran over to Paris for lit
tie change, just before Christmas.
Paris draws me like a magnet"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
Comforts ON the Farm.

In the past few years the farmers
of Brown County have fitted up theiI
country homes with nearly every
convenience, such as bath and toilet
rooms, telephones and furnaces. With
mail delivered every day and good
roads they are even more comfortably
situated than their city brethren
John Leidy, a farmer living near
Robinson, has gone them all one bet.
ter by installing a complete electric
light plant on his place, which lights
his house, barns, COW sheds. corn.
cribs and granaries. A gasoline en-.
CINE runs the dynamo for the plant,
Kansas City Journal.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10

There is just now the contrasted
situation of farm lands lying idle and
of prices for all farm products which.
in some instances, have more than
doubled when the prices of decade
ago are used as the standard for COM
parison. And yet there are at this
time several Eastern States, the rich
and densely populated Empire State
being one of the number, in which,
abandoned farms have multiplied so
continuously that the problem of what
to do about these deserted lands is
becoming serious one that is trou-
bling the State Government, and con-
corning which even the National Gov
eminent is to be asked to take some
action.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10

Our corn crop is worth, roughly,
one billion of dollars each year." de-
clared Harlow N. Higginbotham at
the great corn exposition in Chicago.
Continuing, he said, 1T is equal in
value to two-thirds of all our exports.
It's value is twice that of the world 3
yearly output of gold and silver. The
corn crop for ten years would nearly
buy the worlds production of gold
for the last 400 years, and eighty
per cent, of the worlds corn crop is
produced within an area of about one
days ride from Chicago"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
Fined a Kiss, wouldn't Pay.

Jail rather than kiss his wife,
whom he was accused of mistreating,
was the decision of Frederick Wolf
when brought before Justice of the
Peace Hughes at Atlantic City. The
wife, who is only seventeen, and
pretty, had her husband arrested af-
ter family quarrel, but wished to-
forgive him. ''If you kiss her and
promise to behave yourself in future
you can CO." said the magistrate
"I'll go to Jail first" declared the
husband, irate over his arrest. AS a
consequence of his decision Wolf was
sentenced to Jail in default of 5000
bail to keep the peace.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
New JERSEY STATE NEWS
Robbed in a Courthouse.

Russo Giuseppe, who has been in
this country two months, complained
to the police of New Brunswick that
he was robbed in the basement of the
courthouse. At the time the alleged
crime was committed Judge Schenck
was holding court up stairs. Giu-
seppe said that while on Paterson
street two men asked him if he
wanted work He answered that he
did, and went with them to the court
house, where they took him to the
basement. AS soon as they got in
side the door, he said, they seized and
gagged him and went through his
pockets, taking 500.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
CRASH CAUSED BY BIG RUN
National Bank of Commerce In
Kansas City Closed.
Country Banks Had Been Drawing
Heavily and 1t Could Not Sell
Its Securities.

Kansas City, Mo.-The National
Bank of Commerce, the second finan-
cial institution in Importance in Kan
sas City, announced its suspension,
after a steady run of six weeks, dur
ing which the bank had paid off
$40, 1000 of its deposits, reduced
its loans $3,500,000, cut down it's
cash resources $11,75O, 600 and sold
100000 Of high grade bonds in an
effort to meet the demands upon it,
The directors were in session all
night considering plans for continu-
ing business Chicago and New York
banks had offered substantial assis-
tance, but officers of the National
Bank of Commerce saw no prospect
that the steady drain would be
checked, even with this assistance,
and decided just before the opening
hour to post notice of suspension
The Controller of the Currency APP
pointed James T. Bradley, National
Bank Examiner, as temporary re-
ceiver of the bank, and he at once
took charge. He has issued no state
ment as to the banks condition, nor
have the officers of the bank. The
directors of the bank made a state
ment to the public, saying that the
bank could not stand 4slanderous
statements made against it," and say
ing they do not believe it possible
for depositor to lose dollar.
OF approximately $17,000,000 in
deposits tied up in the suspension,
about $12,000,000 belongs to out-of-
town banks and $5.000,000 to Kan
sas City people. The failure of the
National Bank of Commerce was fol-
lowed by the closing of three email
affiliated banks, one in Argentina,
Kan, and two in the west bottoms IN
this city. Reports from Kansas, Okla
homa and Missouri are that no bank
in those States will be carried down
by the tying up of its reserve in the
National Bank of Commerce.
President Woods, who is reputed
to be a multi-millionaire, it is report
ed, has given his personal indorse-
ment to 100000 of collateral
pledged to secure his depositors.
jackson County has its entire bal
ance of $23S,000 in the suspended
bank but it is protected by bond. The
local postoffice has $4,000 and the
city $450,000 on deposit, both of
which are protected by bond.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
CLARA BLooDGooD A SUICIDE
Actress Shoots Herself in Hotel at
Baltimore.

Baltimore, While the audi
ence was pouring into the Academy
of Music to see Clara Bloodgood, the
noted actress, former society woman
and wife of William Laimbeer, mem
Der of the New York Stock Exchange.
in 1.-THE Truth" she blew out her
brains in the Hotel Stafford, in North
Charles street. Her body was found
on bed with bullet hole through
the roof of her mouth. Near by lay
a book entitled How to Shoot
Straight and revolver with three
chambers empty.
Friends of the actress can assign
no motive for her self-destruction.
but 1t is said here that she had $15.-
600 in the Knickerbocker Trust Com
pany in New York, and could not
draw cent on her account.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
Newsy Paragraphs.

Germany demanded duty on the
balloon cup won by the aeronaut at
st. Louis.
Harry X. Thaw's second trial for
the Staying of Stanford White was set
for January 6.
Peter Vogel, prosperous glider.
killed himself and wife in their
Brooklyn home after a quarrel over
division of property
Vice-President Hill, OF the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company. testified that
the company would not allow him to
buy rival concerns to stifle compete
ton.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
A Beautifnl neath.

In the London hospital ward was 2
little girl whose brother had died
recently enough to make his sister
still subject of reflected interest,
1T was all along Of eatin' too much
ice cream and ginger cookies" she
said to the doctor who was attend.
ing her. Then she smiled beatifl.
cally and piously. IT was a beauti
fnl death, DOCTOR
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
People Missing in Berlin.

Much establishment has been
caused in Berlin by the publication
Of census statistics showing the oc-
equations Of the population of Prus-
STA. According to these figures the
population of Berlin proper has sunk
to 2,O01 ,646 on June IL, 1907. Al
crease, the population of the capital
900 more, instead of 10000 less, and
people are naturally asking where are
the missing 10000. The general
tical Office has made mistake some
where.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
John j. Mack Killed.

John j. Mack, formerly of Plain
field, and nephew of the late Mayor
William A. M. Mack, of Elizabeth,
was instantly killed near Glen Gard
ner as he was going hunting. He
was twenty-three years old and son
of the late John Mack, who was
killed by train just eighteen years
ago at almost the same spot. Young
Mack was head chemist for the Tay-
lor Iron Works at High Bridge, and
lived at Glen Gardner with his moth
er and sister. &
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
The Mary Kingsley medal awarded

The Mary Kingsley medal awarded
to DR.. Carlos Finlay for his discov-
cries in relation to the transmission
of yellow fever by mosquitoes and the
Copley medal of the Royal Society of
England bestowed on Professor A. A.
Nicholson for optical investigation
are two foreign tributes to American
science gratifying to contemplate as
an Offset to foreign suspicion of some
other things American.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
Pig For Widow and Children.

Students of the High School at
Vineland raised secret fund and
presented Mrs. Jennie Holland with
a pig roast Thanksgiving dinner.
The woman's husband dropped dead
a few weeks ago and left her with
nine children, and the boys and girls
of the class were afraid she would
have nothing to feel thankful for.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
Father Madly Insane.

Suddenly becoming a maniac,
Abram Grossman, of Asbury Park,
father of eleven children, attempted
to kill his entire family. Failing in
the effort he tried to throw himself
from a second-story window, but was
prevented. Dashing into the street
he plunged his fist through a plate
glass store window and attacked sew
eral pedestrians. He was finally
overpowered and removed to the asy-
lum at Trenton.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
Boy shoots Baby sister Dead.

In Upper Freehold the six-year-old
son of John Taylor accidentally shot
his eighteen-months'- old sister, Ma
RE, killing her instantly The. gun,
usually unloaded, had been bor-
rowed by neighbor, who returned
1t loaded. The mother left the boy
for a moment to mind the baby, and
the latter, getting the gun, pointed
it at his sister in play and pulled the
trigger.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
Crops Burn in Barn.

Fire totally destroyed all the
buildings at Arney's Mount, near Mt.
Holly, owned by Charles M. Hough,
New York lawyer, and occupied by
Marion Fort, cousin of Governor
elect Fort. The barns were filled
with the years crops, and were to-
tai loss, amounting to 100000, part.
ly covered by insurance.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10

The Mexican Herald exclaims: If
the white nations can keep from war
for ten years more there will be wit
messed, the immense gold production
aiding it, an accumulated fund that
will make the most colossal enter
prises possible.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10

The Financial Age, a New York
publication, has this to say concern
ing the origin of the financial diff
culties: "The commencement of the
trouble in New York City can be di-
rectly traced to the cupidity of few
rich directors who controlled banks"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
Receivers For Jamestown Fair.

Federal Judge Waddell, Of Nor
folk, Va, decided to appoint receiv-
ers for the Jamestown Exposition
Company. The exposition officials
expressed a desire for receiRership
to protect the Federal Government
and other creditors and admitted the
allegation of insolvency.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
Letter Carrier Attacked.

Two new hold-up scares added to
the excitement at Burlington. Two
men were arrested, but were dis
charged later. George Tucker, ru-
raj mail carrier, was stopped. near
Riverside, at the same spot where
the party of automobiles was at
tackled and robbed. George Strik-
land was accosted by three men, who
demanded his money, but he got
away safely.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
KILLED HIS WIFE AND HIMSELF.
Regretted He Could Not Kill Elk.
Senator Allen, Her Attorney.

Norfolk, Neb.-Before a passenger
coach full of passengers, v. B. Meth.
away, noted trap shooter, shot and
killed his wife on an outgoing train.
Nethaway then sprang from the
train, hurried to local grain office
and with revolver kept crowd at
bay until he telephoned to his mother
telling her what he had done, and
that he was going to kill himself.
my only regret is that did not
kill Senator Allen" he said, refer.
ring to the former United States
Senator from Nebraska.
Then, going into the elevator, ne
sent bullet through his brain.
Ex-senator Allen was the attorney
for Mrs. Nethaway in divorce pro-
ceedings against her husband.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
PAYS After AZ Years.

Commander William H. Durfee, of
General G. X Warren Post, at New
port, r. T., received check for thir-
ty-one cents which he overpaid the
Government forty-two years ago when
he received his commission in the
army. He says he will never cash
that check
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10

So long as the farmers are pros
porous no other section Of the popu-
1ation can long remain otherwise,
AYERS the New York American. The
really serious panics of the country's
history have usually been attended by
widespread crop failures. No such
condition obtains now.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
Third Rail Dooms Iron Fences.

The iron fencing between the
tracks at the stations along the cleo
trio road, about Woodbury., are being
replaced with wooden ones. 1t is
claimed that in wet weather the iron
fences become electrified and are dan
gerous to passer gers.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
Beetle in His Ear Kills a BOY.

After suffering for months from
headaches and acute pains in the
head Somer Braddock, nine years
old, died at the home of his parents
in Atlantic City. Physicians had
treated him and had failed to locate
any apparent cause for his troubles.
An autopsy was performed and a
dead BEETLE was found in one of the
boys ears.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10

1t would be blessing, according to
the Washington Post, if the couples
who are getting quietly married"
nowadays could manage to keep quiet
about their troubles a little later.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10
''sons Of Burlington Organize.

Prominent men in Atlantic City,
who were born in Burlington County,
have formed the Sons of Burling,
ton" an organization which will hold
an annual banquet. Henry w Leeds,
Joseph Borton, John G. Shreye are
leaders in organizing the association.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-12-10

Mrs. Vannella Meeker, aged 100
years and three months, died at her
home in Pittsburg. The one ambi-
ton of her later years was to reach
the century mark. Since the cele-
bration of her last birthday she
seemed to lose all interest in life and
failed rapidly.