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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
BLIZZARD STRIKES
 MOUNTAIN PARTY
fYf.ALLY MAKE WAY TO SUMMIT HOUSE AND SPEND NIGHT WITH SNOW FALLING AND THE WIND ROWLING.

Colorado Springs, Colo, August 17.-A party of forty-one tourists stopping at Manitou who left the Jones and Diennen stations on burros for the top of Pike's peak at o'clock yesterday afternoon, were caught in a blinding blizzard nt Windy Point on the trail up the peak, and it was necessary to send up special cog road train at o'clock this morning to return the members from the summit. The train brought down thirty-six of the party, the other five having recuperated enough to make their way down on bur ros. None of the party was seriously in jured.
 The blizzard ragged for forty-flve min utes and when 1t ceased the side of the mountain and trail were covered with snow Tho women of the party had be- come thoroughly chilled, and many of them had to be lifted into the saddles of the burros and strapped and tied on to prevent them from falling off.
 Finally, about midnight, five hours after the blizzard struck Windy Point, the party reached the Summit house, more dead than alive. They found the doors of this place locked.
 The party was compelled to seek shelter during the night on different sides of the building.
 When daylight came the men found tools with which they forced an entrance to the Summit house and telephoned the cog road depot at Manitou.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
CLIMAX COMES ID
 MAD MANIPULATION Wife .DeSerter Commits Suicide
 With Poison FLEW HIGH FOR AWHILE Well Known Newspaper Writer Ends His Life After Sensational Trip With a Woman Through
 Mexico.
FLEW HIGH FOR AWHILE

Cincinnati August 11.-John s. Owens, well known newspaper writer and traY- eler whose infAtuation for Mrs Bonnie Tucker, the former wife of a politician of this city, led him to desert his wife and home and travel around the country with her. committed suicide at rooming house in this city late yesterday. Owens ended his life by swallowing laudanum, after he had brief interview with Mrs. Tucker in which he pleaded for recon ciliation. d her refusal owens commit ted suicide
 The tragic death of owens was the cli- max of his sensational escapade with Mrs. Tucker in Mexico City, Mex. some months ago. The two had traveled some time and finally reached the Mexican cap ital. There, Owens caused q sensation by appealing to the police to locate his wife" who had left him. It was said that she had decided to leave him on account of his insane jealousy
 A few days later sne went 10 Oklahoma City and on the same train was Frank Ballard, an American hotel keeper of Mexico City, at whose hotel the couple had stopped. owens started in pursuit claiming that Ballard had induced Mrs. Tucker to leave him. He wired the po- lice authorities of Oklahoma City to place the couple under arrest on charge of smuggling.
 owens charged Ballard with having stolen q revolver from him and vas him. self placed in jail for threatening the woman. Mrs. Tucker and Ballard were released. Owens finally got out of jail and followed the object of his tnfasua- ton. He effected q reconciliation with her on d train going to St. Louis, but they again separated.
 Owens was about 4S yea15 oi1 and Was born in Wales. He travelled in many pats of the world an1 was i'll South Africa during the first Poor war in 1881. He came to this country about the time of the Jameson raid in 1895, and worked on news soapers In a number of cities until he finally located in Cincinnati. where he was employed as a waiter until hs elopement with Mrs. Tucker
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
Shocked By Sight of
 Chain Gangs OF Streets
BY AVV ERNEST GOTH, Editor of LAVanguardia, 5lrmnghars Italian Newspaper

mulcted on trivial charges Alex T. Lon- don's letter, Age-Herald), the often ''vic- tims of some petty officials, members of the infamous fee brigade, men who prosti- tute their office and violate their oaths 10 gain few dollars" CThe Vanguard editorial, July 4th.)
 When we understood that these poor innocent victims were mostly consti- i tuting the bunc1es of men thrown every day in the streets with the shameful chain at their feet-when we understood that oven if gully of some fault, the faults of those men were nothing infamous infamant, often a simple mistake in which every honest man may once fall in his life when we first understood all this. we stood speechless and stupefed, almost incredulous and we asked ourselves if the legislators of this section of the country had ever known or thought that there Is something In man called human dignity and honor;" that man, deprived of his dignity and honor inherited by nature, ceases to be a man. that to deprive a man of his dig nifty and honor Is worse than to kill him-that to put man in the streets of a most populous city with chains at his feet Is the most shameful way of deprving him of his dignity and hon. or--that to do that with the daily yic- tims of infamous "buslness doing" of- ficials, or even with men guilty for the first and last time of light faults or mistake, is a crime itself against man. against society. against the splendid reputation of this free country. Consciousness of his dignity and honor is what mostly keeps men from committing crimes. Once deprived of it, he has nothing more to lose; he will be a criminal for the balance of his life.
 Our pen refuses to go on on this painful argument this time.
 We shall discuss it again in it's diff ferent phases and particulars.
 We shall make it the duty of this modest paper of ours to fight for the abolition of the chaingang in the streets of the cities of the wonderful Birmingham district
 Oh! If the pitiful case of the hun dreds of innocent human beings thrown to the streets. to the supreme shame a man might be exposed, could speak to the heartful, courageous and power full American woman, always ready to start fight when she thinks 1t is right, always sure to win 1t at any cost when she minds 1.-the only shame of the Birmingham district would be over in 6 few weeks!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
ANGRY WIFE TOOK
 VEST IN CHARGE
Iowa Woman Divorced Because Illus band Asked Stenographer to Change
 Buttons on His Vest.

Des Moines, la, August 7.-Because he asked his stenographer to change tho buttons in his vest one day Elwood Aus tin Rover. one of the organizers of the cranberry trust In America, lost his wife in the divorce courts. MT. Rover, who is one of the society leaders of Des Moines, had beautiful wife Judge Howe granted her divorce on a charge of cruel and inhuman treatment.
 Mrs. Rover claims that her husband was altogether too confidential in his re- lations to his confidential secretary. But Rover says that his wife Is jealous.
 q was in a hurry to join my wife at dinner one day while she was at the office," said Rover. 'and I tossed my white vest to the stenographer and asked her to change the buttons on it while l changed collars. Imagine my chagrin when my wife darted forward and grabbed the vest saying. Here, that is my job The whole force saw it and I was greatly humiliated."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
DECREASE INSTEAD
 OF GAIN IN CASH
THE BANK STATEMENT FOR THE
 WEEK SHOWS A LARGE CON- TRACTION IN LOANS AND AN IN- CREASE IN SURPLUS RESERVE.
New York. August 1.-The Financier

New York, August 1.-The Financier says: tsa
 The official statement of the New York associated banks last week shows m important decrease instead of the small gain In cash that was estimated upon tha basis of the traceable move ments of money, but a large contrac- ton in loans contributed to a reduc
 ton in deposits and hence in reserve requirements, so that there was a mod crate augmentation in surplus reserve. The cash loss as reported by the state ment was s2,S2S,3 300. General deposits were reduced s17,447,3 300, chiefly as the result of a decrease of s14,231, 200 In loans which was due to the liquidation of securities on the stock exchange dur ing the week and because of such re-
 duction in deposits, reserve require
 ments fell off $4,961,S25. Deducting from this sum the loss of cash left s1,533,525 as the increase in surplus reserve to s9.294.075. Computed on the basis of deposits. less those of 27,s7s,
 300 public funds, the surplus Is $16,- 243,S00. The daily average of bank clearings during the week. S384 .000,00 against S267 100000 in the previous week. Clearings on Saturday, reflect
 ing Fridays business, were $297 ,444,- 766. Comparison of loans by individual banks show that eight institutions con tracted this item by 124a millions net; five banks lost two millions net cash.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
DISPUTE UNSETTLED,
Railroad Stockholders Will Hold An-
 other Conference.

New York. August 17.-After a three days conference the representatives of income bondholders of the Central of Georgia railway and the new own CTS of the road In the persons of Oak leigh Thorne and Marsden J. Perry, have departed, leaving the points at issue to be settled at meeting of the board of directors scheduled for Au- gust 23.
 The spokesman for the bondholders said after the conference that the con- trolling interests in the company had given them every facility to arrive at the exact status of the railroads finances and that they were confident of receiving fair treatment from the directors. The only points at issue were matters of bookkeeping.
 It was also stated that the results of the recent meeting showed that the interest had been earned on the bonds and that the holders of all classes of securities were entitled to interest payments.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
BUBONIC PLAGUE
 IN SAN FRANCISCO
ONE DEATH HAS RESULTED FRoMs THE DREADED DISEASE, AND AUTHORITIES ARE AROUSED TO THEIR DANGER.

Washington, August 17.-Bubonic plague has broken out in San Francisco and already one death has resulted from 1t. The first intimation of the plague Was received Thursday from San Francisco by the marine hospital service. The tele- gram read:
 Three cases and death, plague, San Francisco. Diagnosis made linically and by stained smears from spleen and glands No reasonable doubt as to certainty of diagnosis of cases seen and verified by Long in conjunction with health off cials. Cases found within two blocks of old Chinatown"
 Surgeon Austin telegraphs that two foci hau been discovered, that the local board had disinfected known infected buildings and proposed to institute a campaign against 1t. He said deaths in the city had been verified and that a general disnfection of suspected districts would begin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
PARDON FOR TAYLOR.
Caleb Powers Makes Suggestion for
 Governor Beckham.

Georgetown, Ky, August 1.-The statement published relative to the letter of Commonwealth's Attorney Franklin to Governor Beckham, in which the prosecutor asks the chief executive to cooperate with him in offering immunity to w. S. Taylor if he will return to Kentucky to testify in the Powers case, has caused the famous prisoner to give out an inter view. Powers doubts the power and authority of the governor of the com monwealth to guarantee protection to Taylor while he Is in Kentucky and suggests that as a means of affording the fugitive the protection promised Governor Beckham guarantee to grant him a full pardon if the promise is violated by the Kentucky officers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
PRINTERS CONVENTION OVER.
Assessment Will Be Levied to Pension
 Disabled Members.

Hot Springs, Ark, August 17.-The International Typographical union ad- journed sine die today. What is re- garded as the most important feature of the entire convention was the adoption today of a resolution approy- ing and referring to the subordinate unions the proposition to levy an assessment to provide a pension fund for disabled members over 60 years of age and who have been members for not less than twenty years
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
INVITATIONS ISSUED.
Admiral Brownson Wants Officers to
 Witness Maneuvers.

Washington, August 17-Admiral Brown son, chief of the navigation bureau, today issued invitations to a large number of naval and army officers to make their homes aboard the big battleships of the Atlantic fleet for the two weeks beginning August 25. to observe personally the workings of naval fleet in full battle practice. The Idea is new one and Ad- miral Brownson hopes for the best re- suits in interesting officers, not only of the army, but also those of the navy, who have nothing directly to do with the fleet In the working out of practical battleship problems
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
HARTMAN DENIES INTERVIEW.
Made No Statement Regarding Man
 aeement of Railroads.

New York, August HE. H. Harri
 man telegraphs the Associated Press from San Francisco in reference to the interview with him which appeared in yesterday mornings Nevada papers and which was sent to the Associated Press newspapers, denying absolutely that he had made any such statement as credited to him to the effect that he desired to own all or any part of the railroads of the United States, nor did he say anything about his manag- ing the railroads for the government
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
Direct Wires Working,

St. Paul, Minn., August 17.-"Subiect 70 delay" is no longer written across messages addressed to Chicago and eew York in the St. Paul office of the Postal Telegraph company
 We have direct wires working with ,oth cities" was the statement made his morning, and can handle the usual mount of business.
 At the Western Union office, 1t was declared that conditions continued to improve.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
MESSAGE TOLD OF
 MOTHERS DEATH
Operator Declines to Take It and Later Gets Information Over
 Telephone.

Des Moines, la. August T.-William Reynolds, railway telegrapher at Ma pleton, near Sioux City, on the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway, refused yesterday to take telegram from a non-unon operator at Cedar Rapids Later he was called by long distance tele- phone and told that his mother was dead at Cedar Rapids. 1t being the mes- sage he had refused to receive by tele- eraph,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
JUMPED TO HER DEATH.
Woman Tries to Avoid the Crash of
 Trolley Cars.

Mauch Chunk, Pa.. August 17.--One woman was killed and two other persons were fatally injured this afternoon by jumping from q trolley car that was in danger of colliding with another on Flag woman Is Mrs. Herman Beissert, aged 45 years, of Newark, N. J. Those fatally injured are Mary Cunningham. 14 years of age. of this place, who sustained a crushed thigh and internal injuries, and Alice Boyle, 22 years of age, a school teacher of Mansford, who lost a leg and had the foot on the other crushed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
GEORGE ADE'S NEW PLAY. Great Enthusiasm Greets the Initial
 Performance of "Artie."

South Bend Ind. August H.-Georgc Ade's new play, "Artie." was given its initial performance here last night. A large audience received the comedy with enthusiasm and gave Lawrence Wheat, in the title role, an ovation George Ado and Manager Dillingham; supervised the presentation of the play and after the first act were congratulated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
Colony for Russians.

Mexico City. August H.-Negotiations are pending here for the purchase of tract of 150, 900 acres of land to be colonized by Russians. Twenty thousand ''Molak- amos" are to leave western Russia short ly, and they will be joined here by POGO who are now at Los Angeles, Cal. The colony may be located in the plateau re- zion of northern Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
Postal Changes.

Washington. August 17.-(Special.)- Rural carriers appointed: Ashville route 3, Thomas B. Heald regular, Walter F. Heald substitute: Chepultepec, route 1, s. B. Allgood regular, R. H. Major substi- ute; Fayette, route 1, Fred Jones reg ular, Y. Holman substitutes; Phil Camp bell, route 1. P. M. Wood regular. c. S.
 Franks substitute. Herbert McKerall IS appointed postmaster at Tombigbee. Ma rengo county, vice T. B. Gaines, removed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
Prince Is Pardoned.

Vienna, Augusttt 17.-According to a story published in the Neuo Freis Presse. the Kaiser has pardoned Prince Joachim Albrecht of Prussia who was banished to the German possession in Southwest Africa In order to separate him from the Baroness Leibenburg. who Is better known as Marie Sulzer, an actress. whom the prince intended to marry. It Is stated that prince will return to Berlin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
No lmprovcmcnt.

Jackson, Miss. August 17.-(Special.) There has been no improvement in the strike situation far as the city of Jackson is concerned, and the public as well as the newspapers are being put to a great deal of incopvenience. The men who walked out hero are able to hold tn cir own for month or two if necessary, and declare their intention of standing by their union if 1t takes all summer to win their fight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
JUNGLE SAMr SECOND.
Naval Strength of the United States
 Ranks Next to England.

New York, August 1.-The tenth an- nual issue of F. T. James Fighting Ships of 19O7'' which Is one of the recog nized authorities on the navies of the world puts the United States second among naval powers of the world. with England first.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
PIauue In ManchurIa,

Harbn, Manchuria. August 1.-The bu- bonic plague has broken out in South Manchuria and sixteen deaths have been reported. Travellers proceeding into North Manchuria are being medically ex- amined at Kwangchingtsu.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
Two New Fever Cases,

Washington, August 17.-Advices today from Cuba state that there were tow new cases of yellow fever at Cien- fuegos, one of the patients being a hospital corps man and the other a Spaniard. Another new case Is re ported at Alavranes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18

J. R. Whitaker the price cutter, is go- ing to sell Monday one brand new up- right cabinet grand piano for s100. Price on this piano will advance s5 every day as lona as unsold until it reaches it's reg
 ular3 Selling price. s275 21o5 Second ave-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
PERSONAL

Mrs. Thomas L. Douglass and daughter have returned from Shelby.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-18
FATAL LAUNCH PARTY.
Explosion Causes Death of Young Lady
 and Injury to the Crew.

Norfolk, August 1.-The gasoline launch Edna May, bound from Manteo, N. C., for Nags Head, with a large party aboard, caught fire from an ex- plosion today near Manteo and was burned to the waters edge. Miss Cora Midgett one of the passengers, was blown into the water and drowned, and the engineer and fireman are re- ported fatally burned A negro In passing sloop rescued those in the budning ship.
 WANTED-Wrapping boys, 16 years of age or over. Apply to floor manager, Louis Saks.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-14
Jews In Senate Chamber.

Simon Guggenheim will be the sixth
Jew to sit as a member in the United
States senate. The first Jew chosen to
that honor was David Yules, who rep
resented Florida from March, 1910, to
March, 1858. He was born in the West
Indies and his name was David Levy,
by which he was known when he was
elected as a member of the house Of
representatives in 1S41. The second
Jew in the senate was Judah P. Ben.
jamin, who served from 1852 to 1857.
He also was born in the West Indies.
He represented Louisiana. Benjamin
F. Jonas was born in Kentucky and
represented Louisiana in the senate.
Joseph Simon was senator from
Oregon from 1898 to 1908. Isidor Ray
ner was chosen as a senator from
Maryland in 1904.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-14

] stared at the bit of pasteboard,
fascinated How. tie deuce had this
got into my apartments? Blue
Domino? Ha! had it! Old Friard
lad accidents done up the ticket
with my mask A Blue Domino evi-
IDENTIFY | wasn't the only person who
was going to masquerade. Without
doubt this fair domoiselle was about
to join the festivities of some shop
girls masquerade. where money and
pedigree are inconsequent things, and
where everybody is either "loidy' or
gent" Persons who went to my
kind of masquerade did not rent their
costumes; they laid out eXtravagant
sums to the fashionable modiste and
tailor, and had them made to order.
A Blue Domino: humph!
1t was too late to take the ticket
back to Friard's; so | determined to
mail it to him in the morning.
1t was now high time for me to be
OFF | got into my coat and took down
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-14

York policemen knew by sight and nc
criminals save those behind bars,
earthly and eternal.-was now giving
his whole attention to the affair.
Some gaily dressed lady at a ball
would suddenly find she had lost some
valuable gems; and that would be the
end of the affair. for none ever re-
covered her gems.
The gentleman-thief was still at
large, and had gathered to his ac.
count comfortable fortune; that is,
if he were not already rich and simply
a kleptomaniac. No doubt he owned
one of my racing cars, and was clear
of the delinquent lists at his clubs.
dismissed all thought of him, threw
aside the paper, and mentally figured
out my commissions on sales during
figure, large enough for two. This
pastime, too. soon failed to interest
me. | gaZed out of the window and
watched the dark shapes as they sped
past.
| saw the girls face from time to
1iiiC' Nhot !" iooi hdu pSeH uOL W
ask her name! She could easily have
refused, and yet as easily have grant.
ed the request. At any rate, had
permitted the chance to slip out of
my reach, which was exceedingly
careless on my part. Perhaps they
she and her uncle-frequently dined
at Mouquin's; / determined to haunt
the place and learn. 1t would be
easy enough to address her the next
time we met. Besides, she would be
curious to know all about the ten of
hearts and the desperate adventure
upon which ] told her | was about to
embark. Many fine friendship has
grown out of smaller things.
To be Continued.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-02-14
CHINESE HAD FIRST zoo.
institution of Menageries Was Due to
Two incentives.

The Chinese had the first zoo. Me-
nageries are thought to owe their
origin partly to the cult of sacred
animals and partly to the ambition of
rulers to possess specimens of rare
and valuable creatures from foreign
lands or savage beasts from their own.
In the simplest forms geological gar
dens were one of the earliest develop
ments of culture, and were familiar to
the Chinese, Indians, Greeks, Romans,
and pre-Spanish Mexicans in ancient
times. The Oldest recorded menagerie
Is Chinese, dating from 1150 B. c. The
den of lions kept by Darius, as de-
scribed in the book of Daniel, is an ex-
ample of one of those primitive me-
nageries, while the cult of sacred
white horses by the ancient Greeks
and Romans and that of so-called
white elephants in Burma and Siam
are instances of a second type. A live
giraffe was received at the menage1e
of Schonbrunn as early as 1928.