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Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
HIGH WATER THROWS
MANY OUT OF WORK
By Associated Press.


PITTSBURG, Pa, Jan. 1S.-At a late
hour tonight the water in the Monon-
gahela river reached a stage of Il feet
8 inches, and is now stationary. Re-
ports from up river points are that the
water is falling.
The damage in southwestern Penn
sylvania will amount to thousands of
dollars. Over 10000 miners employed in
mines along the Monongahela river
are temporarily out of employment,
and high water at McKeesport, Pa,
has caused the suspension of several
mines, throwing over 5000 men out of
work Conditions in the Ohio river will
be greatly improved by tomorrow.
A gradual fall in the Allegheny river
during the past twenty-four hours has
greatly improved the situation at
Springdale. The water has ceased to
flow over the dam and is now passing
down at each end of 1t.
The Allegheny river is falling at the
head waters, but the Monongahela is
still rising at all points. Half of the
houses in Brownsville are said to be
submerged. The water there is rising
at the rate of two inches an hour
AT McKeesport high water has forced
suspension of operations at the tin
plate works and other plants, making
several thousand men idle. If the
rise continues NUMBER or the mills of
the National Tube works will have to
close down.
Fayette City is surrounded by water
and many people have removed from
their houses. California and Roscoe
are partly submerged and scores of
families have vacated their houses.
Nearly every house in Black Dia-
mond is flooded and all the residents
are living In the upper stories.
All the coal mines in the valley have
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Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
RELIEF WORK STARTED
IN STRICKEN KINGSTON
LEAD PIPE ClNCH BUG"
WITH GREAT APPETITE FOR
METAL, ALARMS PACKERS
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Jan. 1s.-EIectrIcaI en-
EIneers and fire underwriters interested
In the Union stock yards have become
alarmed over the advent of unidentified
larvae swarming certain sections of the
packing plants and insisting on feeding
upon the lend pipe Insulation of electric
wires.
These brown, hairy little wiggIers,
each fve-eighths of an inch long, are
moving through the "hoof" houses at
the yards, gnnwing irregular patches of
lead, often cutting through the cloth
and rubber Insulation and short circuit
ing the electric current. Holes an inch
long md half an inch wide have been
cut through One-tenth inch thickness of
lead pipe.
"Thc lead pipe cinch bug" is the
designation given the creature by Di-
rector Fred J. ". Shift of the Field Col
umbinn Museum, In whose entomology
cal laboratory this little lead eater Is
under observation.
1t is In the 'hoof house" Mt the yards
that the little creature has appeared in
millions. These houses nre for the
storage of hOOfs that are under way in
the presses toward glue manufacture.
In the house the floors arc of wood,
three or four inches thick. Yet this
hairy little worm has hOney-combed ed
them in it's search for lead pipe.
So great has been the ravages upon
the lead Insulation that already new in
stalIatiOns of electric wires are being
conducted in gas pipe projections
Some of the floors of the houses are so
bored and weakened that cement will
have TO take the place of the wood.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
CALIFORNIA LIMITED IN
WRECK IN KANSAS
BY Associa ted Press.


TOPEKA, Kas., Jan. 1S.-Santa Fe
passenger train No. a. east bound, run
ming between San Francisco and Chi
cago, collided head on with the second
section of freight train No. SO near Syl-
via, Kas., twenty miles west of Hutch
ison, Kas, tonight
The engine and four cars of the fast
passenger train were derailed. Engi-
neer Martin Kreibel was instantly
killed and a number of passengers were
shaken and bruised, but none was ser-
ously injured. The freight locomotive
and many of the freight cars We're de-
molished.
The engineer and fireman of the
freight jumped and escaped serious in
jury. The demoraiZed condition of the
telegraph wires and heavy fog were re-
Sponsible for the wreck.
The names of the injured passengers
cannot be learned at this time.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
STARVING CHINESE EAT
THEIR CHILDREN; HUMAN
FLESH SOLD FOR FOOD
BY Associated press.

BY Associated Press.
VICTORIA, ~. g., Jan. 1s.--Further
advices received from shanghai tell of
Increasing horrors of the great famine
in Central China. 4 correspondent Of
the Eche de Chine says that IN two dis
tricts, SinchOw and Pachow, starving
people are eating their children.
Plants and grass which have fur
nished food for many have disappeared
and there nre not even roots to eat.
The fnmine-stricken people are being
driven back TO the cities In the famine
district, the officials refusing to allow
refugees 10 take the rond.
The correspondent of the Shanghai
paper says the eases of cannibnIism are
many. He Investigated II number and
many of them absolutely are correct.
In the absence of ordinary food he
found human flesh being sold.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
VAL UABLE BRICKS OF
GOLD ARE STOLEN
BY Associated Press.

BARSTOW, Jan. 1S.-At 1880 this
morning, on the arrival of the train
from Randsburg, Wells-Fargo Agent
Browne took charge of strong box
containing two gold bricks valued at
$4,000 from the Yellow Aster mine on
its way to the mint.
He carried the box inside the office
and returned to finish transferring.
He was gone only three minutes, but
on his return he found some one had
broken the glass out of the side door
and opened 1t, taking the box and con-
tents.
The alarm was given but no clew has
been discovered as to the party COM
mitting the theft.
The supposition is that some one
knew of the shipment and followed it
from Randsburg.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
JURY ACQUITS SON
OF PROMINENT MAN
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1S.-David P. Dyer,
jr son of the United States district at
torney and a teller in the local sub
treasury, was tonight acquitted by a
jury in the United States district court
on charge of having embezzled $61.500
of government funds. The jury was out
five hours and the verdict was received
with cheers, the court room being
filled with Dyer's friends.
The defense was that while Dyer's
books showed the shortage stated in
the indictment, and that he had falsified
the records to cover the discrepancy
he had no knowledge of how the short
age occurred and that he had refrained
from reporting it in the hope that he
could find and correct the mistake.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-Addressing
the senate today on the lumber trust"
Senator Kittredge declared it to be the
king of trusts in restraint of trade"
Continuing, he said
In its far-reaching effects there is
none to compare with it. The consumer
not only bears the burden of it's aggres-
sive policy Of advancing prices, but
also of the profits of intervening
agencies. For him there is no escape
from the avarice of this monopoly.
When he sees these advancing
prices without reference to increased
cost Of production he needs no argu-
ment to convince him that the govern
ment to which he contributes the sup
port and renders true allegiance is der
elict in it's duty unless it employs all
the resources at it's command to relieve
him of these expressions.
THE people demand this as right
and not as favor"
Mr.. Kittredge said that the trust
makes profit Q fat least 200 per cent
According to the last census of the
United States the value of the timber
products in 1905 was $566,6O0OOO.
bTuSt -
THE methods by which this trust
has obtained control of the lumber
business of this country are no longer
necessarily a secret. 1t not only arbi-
trarily advances the price of lumber
but resorts to drastic and unscrupulous
methods to crush competition.
1.-THE millmen as well as retailers are
also subject to like domination and
like discipline
AS to the effect on the price of lum-
ber he said:
"Within the past five years the price
of lumber and timber products have
been arbitrarily advanced from 100 to
500 per cent This is nothing better than
robbery and is, in fact, the plunder of
a commercial outlaw.
Had the existence of the trust been
known to the trainers of the tariff act
of either 1890 or 1897 it is not probable
that 1t would have been thought neces-
sary to foster the lumber industry by
a prospective duty. There is neither
necessity nor excuse for its continu
ance. 1t is not the policy of this gov
ernment to foster .monopolies, and
while it must be apparent that the
present duties are solely responsible
for the exorbitant prices of lumber 1
am unqualifedly in favor of their re-
peal.
''Of all the trusts perhaps this is the
only one of which it may be actually
and truthfully said that it is literally
with us from the cradle to the grave.
The federal government alone has the
legal authority and judicial power to
punish and dissolve it,"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
WILL INVESTIGATE
SENTENCE CT CONVICT

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1s.-Circuit Attorney
Sager today said that he would investi-
gate the sensational manner in which
within eighteen hours Horace e. Hand,
social leader and chief clerk in the law
department of the st. Louis & San
Francisco, was railroaded to, the peni-
tentiary on a five-year sentence for
forgery, to which charge he peaded
guilty here yesterday.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

1-Charges lumber trust is king.
2-Transue pushes graft measure.
3-Complete plans for big banquet.
4-"Rats" stop work of prosecution.
Selves lessons on road building.
6-Editorlal.
City news.
s-e-sports.
1o-Markets.
11-classlfied advertisements.
12-Railroad news.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
MIDDLE WEST PLASTERED
WITH COATING OF SNOW
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 1S.-This por-
ton of the middle west is still plastered
with thick coating of ice. This con-
dition has existed for forty-eight hours
and today there was little prospect of
immediate relief. Late yesterday a
warm rain fell, but during the night
freezing weather turned this into sleet,
placing third coating of ice over the
ground and wires within as many days.
Wire service in all directions from
Kansas City is still demoralized and
trains are delayed.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
WIDOW OF COAL KING is
SHOT BY NEGRO BARBER
BY Associated Press.

SALT LAKE. Jan. ia dispatch
to the Deseret News from Winter
Quarters, Utah, states that Mrs. I'll
phia Earl widow of the late Hawley
Earl, formerly town president of SEQ
field, a coal mining camp in Carbon
county, was shot and instantly killed
at Scoheld last night by William
Brown, a negro barber, who imme-
diately afterward killed himself by
shooting. Mrs. Earl leaves three young
children.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
STATE WILL TAX UNDIVIDED
SURPLUS OF CORPORATIONS
By Associa ted Press.

JEFFERSON CITY. Mo, Jan. 1s.-
The house today passed the first bill
during the present session of the legis-
lature taxing the undivided profits in
excess of so per cent of the capital
stock of corporations other than rail-
roads.
Building and loan associations, bank
ing and insurance and kindred corpo-
rations that have EN- exempted from
taxation by the laws of the state are
taxed $5 on each 500.
The vote on the passage was 81 to
49,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
BRYAN ASKS AID
FOR ALASKA FAIR

OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 1S.-William
]. Bryan, introduced by Lieutenant
Governor Coon as the Most disting-
uished private citizen In the world"
addressed the state legislature for over
an hour today, Mr.. Bryan spoke briefly
OF legislative matters and made an APP
peal for a big appropriation for the
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
CARNEGIE SAYS HE WOULD
GIVE $200,000,0O0 FOR A
TEN-YEAR LEASE ON LIFE
BY Associated Press.

by RSSOClHted Press,
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1s.--Nenr the
end Of the Clover clubs twcnty-hfth
anniversary dinner Colonel A. X. Me-
Clure, the aged editor, made n speech In
which he decried fear Of old nRe.
"OId age hns nothing In II 70 fear.
When death calls me I shall not he
afraid" he said.
Mr.. Mcclure snidi "After dining with
Mr.. Carnegie once he said to me that he
would give $500, 100000 10 have n Iense
on nge. Two hundred millions, he said
TO me, that's what Id give for n Iense
on this lift. I'm not hogEish, either.
I'd give II for ten years only
81 don't think Carnegie In afraid of
death, but he clings TO life. There In n
difference. 1 said, ANDY, IL You would,
you'd be buncoed mt that price,"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
STORY WILL
RESULT IN DUELS
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
HAVANA, Jan. 1S.-Senor Coronado
and members of his staff have been
challenged to fight duels because of
the publication by Senior Coronado's
paper, La Discussion, of a police raid
on a cock fight at Marianac Sunday,
when a number of Liberal leaders were
arrested. Coronado, who was assault
ed by Colonel Mendieta Wednesday as
the result of the cock fight story, is
confined to his bed from the injuries
received. The affair has caused much
feeling in political circles.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
WILL PLANT 16,50O-ACRE
GROVE OF ORANGES
BY Associated Press.

RIVERSIDE. Cal. Jan. 1S.-E. f.
Hendrick, a arbondale, Pa, million
aire, has bought 16,50O acres of land in
the Moreno valley, including the More
no and Alessandro townsites, a half
million dollar property.
He will develop water and plant the
largest orange grove in America.
Ten thousand acres have been piped
already at a cost of $3S0,000
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
Death List Is Estimated
at Close to One
Thousand
GreWsome Tales of Jamaican Horror
Are Related by Survivors.
Burial of Dead Is
Commenced
BY Associated Press.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan. 18.
The streets of this city are now
picketed with American guards.
Admiral Evans at the request of
the British authorities landed a
force of marines from the battle
ships Missouri and Indiana.
Six hundred bodies have been
recovered and more are being
constantly found. Dynamite is
being used to clear away the de-
bris of shattered buildings.
By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1S.-The situa-
ton at Kingston seems to be improv-
ing. Order has been re-established and
the work of burying the dead and car
ing for the injured is progressing on
ing relief to the stricken city is pro-
ceeding with energy.
Kingston is receiving supplies as far
as possible from the Island of Jamaica
itself. The American warships in the
harbor have put on shore all the food
stuffs and medical supplies they could
spare and the Jamaican authorities
have taken charge of the distribution
of all provisions in the city. In addi-
ton relief is being hurried in from out
side quarters.
The senate yesterday (Friday) passed
a bill authorizing relief for the stricken
island; the people of Trinidad have
sent first installment of relief; his
majestys steamship Indefatigable has
left Port Au Spain, Trinidad, with pro.
visions. clothing and other supplies for
the stricken people; the French govern
ment has started a cruiser from the
island of Martinique with supplies for
Kingston; the Mansion house fund in
London is growing rapidly and the
British authorities are perfecting the
details of relief on a large scale, and in
addition various other steamers are
either on their way and about to start
for Kingston with food, clothing and
medicine aboard.
No Tidal Wave
The report that tidal wave had de-
vastated the southern shore of Jamaica
has not been confirmed up to a very
late hour Friday night. Cable COM
munication with the island has been
partly restored, but even so messages
from Jamaica are coming through very
slowly.
The total estimates of deaths remain
Continued OF Page TwOo
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
THE DAYS NEWS
FORECAST

For Southern California: Fair
Saturday; light northwest wind.
Maximum temperature in Los An
seIes yesterday, Sc degrees; mini
mum, 41 degrees.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

Smooth stranger passes bogus checks
on Los Angeles merchants.
Students of Throop institute are ex-
PEELED for applying knowledge of
chemistry.
Council adopts route for Owens river
aqueduct.
Aged woman is match for two men.
Fifty men are sent to outfall sewer
Mountains are clad in cold mantle or
snow
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
ADOLPHUS BUSCH SUFFERS
ANOTHER GRAVE RELAPSE
BY Associated Press.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1S.-Adolphus Busch,
the millionaire, who was attacked with
pneumonia several weeks ago, has sur
fered another relapse and his condition
today was again reported as grave.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
EASTERN

Floods devastate Ohio valley; wall Of
water drives people from their homes.
Senator Kittredge declares lumber trust
is "king of monopolies."
California Limited wrecked.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

By Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, Jan. 1S.-With a sec
ond rise reported at the headwaters of
the Ohio river the flood outlook tonight
is gloomy. Towns alng the river are
suffering from crippled communica-
tions. limited fuel supply and a short
age of food; thousands of families have
been rendered homeless and many thou
sands of men are idle owing to the en-
forced shutting down of the factories.
A number of cities are in darkness
tonight because of broken gas mains,
flooded light plants, etc. Railroad trac-
tion and city electric lines were gener-
ally crippled along the river.
AT 1ronton more than one hundred
families were driven from their homes,
at Portsmouth 1000 refugees are in the
schools and other vacant buildings and
at Newport, KY, 300 families have had
to be cared for.
In response to a request from the
mayor of Manchester, Ohio, Governo,
Harris late today ordered out one com.
pany of the Seventh regiment station
at Manchester to guard the property
of the flood sufferers.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
Catholic wOrkmen Close Session
BY Associated Press.

lIV95s
IOWA CITY. Ia. Jan. 1S.-The Cath
olic Workmen of America closed it's
national convention here today Joseph
Jirousek of Plattsmouth, Neb., was
elected president.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
Kittredge Denounces
Alleged Illegal
Combination
Says Consumer rs Worst
Sufferer from
EXtOrtiOn
tariff Protected Industry Robs Peo-
pie Literally from the Cradle
to the Crave" Asserts
Senator

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 49,
The senate today agreed to the
Kittredge resolution instructing
the secretary of commerce and
labor to investigate the lumber
trust"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19

Los Angeles assemblymaan a.a leaus 'ai" ="
state treasury at Sacramento
Gaspipe slayers must n@ns'
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
FOREIGN
COAST

Relief work starts In stricken Kingston
estimate of dead Is one thousand
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-19
OHIO VALLEY
IS SWEPT BY
GREAT FLOOD
Wall of Water Drives
People Out of
Homes
Food and Fuel Shortage
Adds to Terror of
Situation
Thousands of Families Are Rendered
Home eless-Factores Forced to
Close Down - Governor
Orders Out Troops
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Jan. 1S.
"A telephone message from
Sheriff Kratz says a cloudburst
at Shawneetown had flooded por-
tions of the town. Seventy-fve
families were forced from their
homes.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-23

marriage returns not only showed
that Nancy Hanks and Thomas
lincoln were married regularly
three years before the b;eth OF
Abraham Lincoln, thus settling for
ever the rest the story of Lincoln s
illegitimacy, but they showed that
this Nancy Hanks was the one
named IN the will. The suspicion
in regard to the origin of Lin
coins mother was removed by this
discovery Of the will, for the recog-
zion of any one as his child by
man in his will is considered by
the law as sufficient proof OF pa
ternity.
Now what sort Of people were
Thcmas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks I?
1t has been Inferred by those who
have made no investigation OF
Thomas Iincoln's life that Nancy
Hanks made a very poor choice OF
husband. The facts do not entire
ly warrant this theory. Thomas
lincoln had been forced from his
boyhcod to SHIFT for himself in
b ung and undevcicpcd country.
he is known to have been man
who i'll spite Of his wandering life
contracted 10 bad habits. He was
temperate and honest, and his
name is recorded in more than one
place i'll the records of Kcitucky.
He was a church-goer, and, il ira
dition may be believed stout de-
fender of his peculiar religious
views. He held advanced idcas pfs
what was already an inll,oitaAt
public question in Kentucky, tile
right to hold negroes as slaves.
One Of his old friends has said
of him and his wife, Nancy
Hanks, that they were lust
stepped full Of notions about the
wrongs of slavery and the iights
cf men, as explained by Thomas
and Thomas Paine. Z,
These facts show that he must
have been a man of some natural
He had trade and
owned farm.
That the two people who endured
It's hadships and made in spite
OF them lioma where boy could
and nourish such ideals
md enthusiasm as INSPIRED Abra-
ham iponIn r,,,..>, ~. fft .l.l,L ~ |
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-23

from being poor white" was the
son of prosperous Kentucky pio-
neer, man OF honorable and we'll
estalb.Dhed lineage who had come
from Virginia as friend of Daniel
Boone, and had there bought large
tracts of land and begun to grow
up with the country. where ne was
killed by the Indians. He left
n large family. BY the law Of Ken
tucky the estate went mainly to the
oldest son, and the youngest, Thos.
Lincoln was left TO shift for HIM
self. This youngest son grew 10
manhood, and on June 10, 1906,
was married, at Beechland, KEN
tucky, TO young woman Of u
family well known in the vicinity.
Nancy Hanks. There is no doubt
whatever about the time and the
place Of the marriage. All the legal
documents required in Kentucky at
that period for marriage are in
existence. Not only have we the
bond and the certificate, but the
marriage Is duly entered in list
of marriage returns made by Jesse
Head. one of the bcst-known early
Methodist ministers of Kentucky.
1t is now TO be seen in the records.
OF Washington County, Kentucky.
There is even III existence very
full and amusing account of the
wedding aud the fanfare which fol-
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-23

AZ Among tlle many wrongs OF his
sstory, and they are legion there IS
none in our American chapter at
least which is gravcr than that
ga hich has been done the parents,
ssand particularly the mother, OF
nAbraham L,ncon. OF course, | re-
Ter to the widespread tradition that
Mineoln was born OF that class
Sfnown in the South as ''poor
Ehitcs," that his father was not
Thomas Lincoln, as Ms bographers
tinsist on declaring. but rich and
..ciltWcd planter of another State
xflan Kentucky, and that his mother
Mot only gave u fatherless boy to
Iabe world, but herself was name
= ss child. The tradition has al
ifNays lacked particularly. For in
sAance, there has been large differ
;q1ccs of opinion about the planter
5hho fathered Abraham, who he
Mas and where he came from. One
AAory calls him Enloe, another CAL
ghpun, another Hardin, and several
f6ffereut States. claim him. Only
five years ago book was pub
ishcd an North Carolina to prove
fhat Lincon's father was resd- |
l6kt Of that State. The bulk Of the |
Isstimony Offered in this instance
ttme from men and women who
Mad been born long after Abraham
s9ncoln, had never seen him, aud
never heard the tale they repeated
auhtil long after his election to the
Presidency. or the truth of these
ytatements as to Lincoln's origin
10 proof has ever been produced.
They were lumors diligently spread
4 the first place by those who
far,political purposes were glad TO