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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
Sub.Treasury Cash Not Found.

Chicago, March 20.-The official
count of the money in the Sub-Treas-
ury is completed and with 1t went
the last hope that the missing s173.-
600 might be accounted for through
q mistake in depositing or checking
up
Practically s62,OOO,O0O was gono
over under the direction of Deputy
Assistant Treasurer Gideon C. Bant9,
who came from Washington to supeg>
wise the work.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
Mile Of Pennies Wanted.

Sayre, Pa, March 19.-To aid In
the erection of Presbyterian
Church g. plan is on foot to raise a
mile of pennies. Each member of
the congregation has been supplied
with a narrow strip one foot In
length. On one side Of the strip is
printed the financial plan. The
other side is divided into spaces
large enough to hold a penny each
sixteen to each strip. The coin side
of the paper is coated with an ad-
hesive preparation to hold the pen
MES.
1t is calculated that when the mile
of pennies is received the sum Of
SS4S,SS will have been added to
the building fund
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
MANY MILLIONS LOST IN FLOOD.
Estimates Of Damage by Raging
Waters and Fire In Pittsburg.

Pittsburg, Pa, March 19.-With
the rapid receding of the waters of
the Monongahela, Allegheny and
Ohio rivers which is taking place
here, conditions are fast assuming
normal proportions and the great
est and most destructive food in the
history of the city is at an end.
With the receding water the e:-
tent of the damage caused is laid
bare. The most conservative figures
are $40, 100000, and they run fron
this all the way to 100000, 0,000.
Blocks of buildings were burned and
others dynamited to check spread CT
flames.
The loss of life Is not yet definitely
ascertained. At least a score OF per-
sons met death in the food and many
are said to be missing.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
Pay of Canal Commissioners.

Washington. d. c., March 10
President Roosevelt by Executive
order fixed the salaries of the three
new members of the Isthmian Canal
Commission. The salaries of Major
Sibert, Major Gaillard. the army off,
GERS and Rear Admiral Rosseau, the
naval member of the commission, are
fixed at $4,000 and each one IL
given a house at Panama in which
to live. While away from Panama
their actual expenses will be paid
by the Government.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
SCHOOLGIRLS Suicide Pact.

st. Louis, March 19.-Fearing to
face her teachers because she played
truant from school, Liebling Slo-
cumb. II years old, committed sui
eide with carbolic acid at her home,
1899 Granville place.
1t was developed through testi-
mony at the coroner's inquest that
the girl had entered into a suicide
pact with Gertrude Harper, 10 years
old. Gertrude testified that she had
told her mother that she was going
to take her life and was prevented
The girls were school chums. They
brooded over a scolding given to
Liebling and agreed to die together.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
GETS A PRIZE AND DIES.
Town Belle Expires After Skating
-Four Hours I'm a Rink.

Rayville, La, March 20.-"I feel
80 tired" gasped Miss Mary Hixon.
twenty years old. the belle of the
town, after she had skated four
hours in a rollar rink withoutmissing
number. Miss Hixon fell back
into the arms of her escort. Roland
Williams. and was dead in few sec.
onds.
A physician said that the nights
exertion had effected the girls heart.
Miss Hixon recently adopted the
roller craze. and had become a pro-
ncient skater. An hour before be-
ing stricken she and her partner had
been awarded the prize for the most
graceful couple on the floor.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
Spontaneous Explosion.

Toulon, France. March 21.-The
Court of Inquiry appointed to deter
mine the cause Of the explosion
March IL on board the Battleship
Jena, decided to-day that the dis
aster as caused by a spontaneous ex-
plosion OF the powder, due to de-
composition and the elevation of the
temperature of the magazine. II
was also stated that this powder was
very unstable and had caused pre-
vious accidents.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
SPORTING NEWS.

Joshua Crane Jr.. and c. e. Sands
will play in the finals of the indoor
court tennis championship tourna-
ment in Boston, Mass.
An investigation will be made OF
Calvin Demarest's amateur billiard
standing.
Bill SQuires, heavyweight cham
pion of Australia, will sail for
America to challenge James ]. Jeff-
ries, who will probably accept.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
Scissors In Woman's Leg.

Wichita. Kan, March ia pair
of five inch surgeons scissors were
taken from the thigh of Mrs. w. r.
White, OF Braman, Oklahoma, at tho
Wichita Hospital. She was operated
on for a tumor four years ago, and
the scissors were left in the wound.
The scissors worked through her
body to her thigh, causing excru-
ciating pain. They were discovered
with aid of the X-ray.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
JAPAN BUYS KRUPP GUNS.
Engineers From That Empire Also
EmplOYcd nj Essen.

Berlin, March 21.-Japan Is con-
tinually receiving war material from
the Krupp works.
Several Japanese officers are now
at Essen to take over the guns, and
Japanese engineers are employed at
the Krupp works, something that
concern, which maintains the great
est secrecy as to its methods, would
not permit unless 1t had or was de-
sirous of cultivating the closest and
widest commercial relations with
Japan.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
Man Who Steals Wife Is Killed.

Richmond. Va, March 21.-C. B.
Miles, a miner. at Seaboard. Taze-
well County, was shot and instantly
killed by Richard Farrell II is al
legged that Miles, who had been
boarding with Ferrell, had become
too fond Of Ferrell's wife. He was
ordered to leave the place, but he
persuaded Mrs. Ferrell to go with
him. Ferrell came upon the two
while they were making their escape
and promptly shot Miles dead. Fer
rell gave himself up.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
MOB KILLS NEGRO WOMEN.
'thcy Had FATALLY Wounded a White
Woman and Child In Arkansas.

Stamps, Ark, March. 21.-Mrs.
MA Rhoton. her daughter and small
,son. Of McKamie, near this place.
net two negro women. They showed
,ars. Rhoton out of the road and
icked the little boy. Mrs. Rhoton
,Yotested, and the wamen fatally cut
irs. Rhoton and her daughter with
,7azors.
The negro women we're placed in
a schoolhouse for safe keeping. In
the night the guards were over
covered by mob and the prisoners
we're shot to death.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
All Paid Toll to Robbers,

Oaxaca, Mex, March ia band
of ten armed bandits held possession
of the highway about four miles from
Tule and robbed thirty persons of
more than $4,000. The highway
men escaped into the mountains be-
fore an alarm was given. Rural
Guards are in pursuit.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21

Washington, March 21.-The
transport Buford will take 5000 tons
Of Red Cross provisions to China for
the relief Of famine sufferers. The
transport, which is now at San Fran
cisco, will stop at Honolulu on its
way to Shanghai. and probably will
carry a special party Of Congress
men who are to visit Honolulu rs the
guests OF the Hawaiian Islands.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21

Toronto. Ont, March 20.-Mre.
Featherstone Osler, mother OF Prof.
Osler of Oxford, died here, aged lco
years old 3 months. On December
IA she celebrated the Tooth ami
versary of her birth. Up to that
time she has been perfectly well and
was In possession Of all her facul-
ties
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
GET SERUM FROM CONvtCTs.
Baltimore Doctor Would Make Anti
toxin Factories Of Prisons.

toxin Factories Of Prisons.
Baltimore, March 21.--In an ad-
dress to the Baltimore County Medi-
cal Association DR.. II. Burton Steven
son made the startling statement
that antitoxins could be used with
better effect If, instead Of obtaining
them from the lower animals, thoy
we're got from human beings, he
cause only few animals are sus-
ceptible to the diseases of man. He
said:
This great obstacle can be over
come by using criminals in our peni-
tentiaries for the production OF
serums. A law making the punish
ment for certain crimes optional with
the convict, Imprisonment on the
one hand, incubation with certain
disease germs on the other. would
solve the problem"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
FINANCIAL.

Stocks suffered violent declines,
which were followed by substantial
recoveries.
f. H. Hartman denied he would
retire from active railroad work.
Stocks scored further advances on
heavy buying.
Figures of the bank statement
showed an increase In surplus rV-
serve OF $9S1,375. decrease la
loans of S13.3S0.3O0 and a decrease
In deposits of S15.s14.7OO.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
DOwIE REMEMBERED vOLIvA.
Provided I'm His Will That Zion Must
Cast USurpcr Ont or Lose Beuucst.

Chicago, March 20.--Wilbur q.
voliva must be ousted as head Of the
Christian Catholic Church or Zion
City will lose its big share Of the per-
sonal fortune of John Alexander
Dowie. The founder of Zion City
demands the removal of voliva in his
will.
Aside from the dover portion Of
one-third to his widow, Dowie left
all of his fortune to the church on
the condition that Voliva's power be
broken 1t is said that Dowie's be-
quest to the church is several hun
dred thousand dollars.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
Woman Tossed by a Cow.

Middletown, n. Y, March 90
Mrs. George S. White. Of near Bud
Vile. was feeding a COW when it i'm
3aled her on It's horns and she was
eossed high in the air, falling on the
sioor beneath the animal. She was
soon rescued, but her condition is
regarded as critical.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21

South Noralk. March 2l.-Jamei
Cooms, of Darlen. Conn. is in jail
here for thirty days because on st.
Patricks Day he painted his two.
months-old child green. His wife
caused his arrest for cruelty.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
Canal Junketers Start Home.

Kingston, Jamaica, March 21.--The
Congressional party which has been
inspecting the work on the Panama
Canal have arrived here from Colon
on the steamer Panama. They ex-
pressed satisfaction with the pro-
gress made in the construction work
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21

Coeburn, Va. March 19.-Ten
miners-nine whites and one negro
ARE dead as the result of an ex-
plosion In the Greenough mine here
caused by black damp. One of the
men was taken out of the mine alive.
but died later.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
Wreck In Manchuria Kills II.

Hardin. Manchuria, March 21--As
the result of a collision between a
passenger train and freight train
at Turushiche Station, seventeen per-
sons were killed and thirty-five in
tured.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
Richmond Monument to Poe,

Richmond, Va. March 19.-The
Mayor of the city signed an ordi-
nance appropriating $1,000 and
granting a site for the proposed
in Richmond to Edgar
Allan Poe on condition that 5000
more be raised by the Poe Monument
Association of this city.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
Gets $20,5OO for a Fall.

New York. March 20.-Char-
les Il. Taylor. stonecutter,
obtained judgment for $4,000
against the Remington Construction
Company for injuries sustained by
him by the fall Of a scaffold during
the erection of the Van Norden Trust
Company's building at Fifth Avenue
and Sixtieth street.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
King Leopold Had a Stroke.

Brussels. March 20.-Notwith-
standing the official denials. private
inquiries confirm the report that
King Leopold, who is visiting the
Reviera, had a cerebral attack q
few days ago. He was for some
time unconscious.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
Governor II. ID. eileen,

of North Carolina has aroused con-
siderable surprise IN the South and
Indignation in his own State by the
strong measures which he has
adopted to prevent lynching and
other lawless practises in his State.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21

London, March 20.-The Bank of
England has secured the whole of
this weeks gold supply, about
s2,000.0O0. paying an advance sufn-
ciently large to shut out possible
American and other competition.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
300 Dig for Hermit's Gold.

Kalamazoo, Mich, March 20
More than Ave hundred persons
started digging for hidden gold about
his home when II was found
that Frank Van Arsdale. hermit.
was dead. The death of his sweet
heart caused him to seek the life of
a hermit.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
Thought He Was Obeying an Order.

Orange, n. j., March 20.-James
Mehan, 81 years old, deckhand on
the steamboat Frankie, which plies
between Mount Holly and Philadel-
phia. walked overheard and was
drowned while in a dazed condition.
While he was asleep some of his
mates jokingly shouted an order In
his ear.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21

Glens Falls Wants to BE City.
Glens Falls. N. Y, March 21.-This
village. the largest In the State, has
decided to petition the Legislature
for city charter. The Democratic
village ticket was elected by more
than 100 majority.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
Senator Aldrich I'm Paris.

Paris, March 2l.-Senator Nelson
w. Aldrich. Of Rhode Island, and
Mrs, Aldrich have arrived here. In
few DAYS they will start on an auto
mobile tour in Italy.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21

Fairmont, Ca, March 21.-Mrs
James Tolbert, was attacked and hei
two-year-old baby murdered By Q
negro here.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
FIRE DESTROYS HELICoN HALL
One Life Lost I'm Upton Sinclsir's
Cooperative Colony Home.

Englewood, N. j., March 19.--Iu
a fire believed to be of incendiary
origin which destroyed Helicon Hall.
the cooperative colony house CON
Quoted by Upton Sinclair. author OF
THE Jungle" near Bnglewood, ",
j.. one life was lost and half dozcr
persons were seriously injured.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
Taft to Sail OH the Mayfiower.

Washington. March 21.-An-
nouncement as made at the Navy
Department to-day that Secretary of
War Taft will sail for Colon on the
Mayfower instead Of the Columbia,
as heretofore stated. He will leave
from Charleston. Hs complete
itinerary has not been arranged.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-03-21
NEW YORK MARKETS,
Wholesale Prices Of Farm Producs
Quoted for the Week.

The Milk Exchange price for stan
dard quality is 3A per at.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
JAMESTOWN
POSTAGE STAMPS
New Series of Stamps Will Be
On Sale Soon.

Announcement is made by the post
office department that the special
series of stamps designated to COM
memorate the founding of Jamestown
will be ready and placed on sale with
in the next ten days. The stamps
are regular in shape and are of one
cent, two-cent and tiye-cent denomina-
tionS.
The one-cent stamp contains in
semicircular frame, a portrait of
Captain John Smith. In the upper
corners are medallions of Pocahontas
and Powhatan. Upon the scroll is the
legend: Founding of Jamestown,
1907" on the base, Capt. John
Smith," with the date of his birth
and death-15S0-163l
The two-cent stamp contains
picture depicting the landing of the
settlers at jamestown in 1907. On
the one side is a tobacco plant and on
the other a stalk of Indian corn.
Underneath on a scroll, are the words:
Founding of Jamestown, 1907"
The tiye-cent stamp contains a
portrait, in an oval frame, of Poca-
hontaS, and gives the year of her
birth and death-1595-16l7
Inquiry made at the local postotfice
elected the information that as yet
no advice has been received from the
Washington authorities regarding
such stamps, but that they will be on
sale in Grand Rapids as soon as re-
QUESTION is made for more stamps.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
FEDERATIONS'
NEW OFFICERS
Ladies Clubs Held Annual Meet
ina Tuesday Afternoon.

President-Mrs. Earl Pease.
First Vice Pres.-Mrs. VIM. Kellogg.
Second Vice Pres.-Mrs. Burtan M. Brown.
Secretary-Miss Maurine Johnson
Treasurer-Mrs. Lima Corriveau.
Above we present the officers
elected at the annual meeting of the
Grand Rapids Federation of Womens
Clubs, which was held Tuesday after
noon. The meeting was very well at
tended and successful from every
stand point, much interest being
manifested in the work already done,
and the work planned for the coming
year.
We understand that the Federation
is about to present the city with
twenty-four handsome baskets, which
it is designed shall be stationed in
conspicuous and convenient places
along the streets, for the reception OF
waste paper and scraps, that otherwise
are thrown into the cutters, or on the
sidewalks.
The passage of the anti-eXpectora-
ton ordinance was one of the best &C
complishments of the Federation dur
ing the past year, and the ordinance
has worked wonders in the manner in
which it was designed to work. The
sidewalks are very much cleaner as a
result, and the strict enforcement of
the ordinance is ''consumation
devoutly to be wished" by every
citizen having the health and cleanli-
ness of the city at heart.
The question of the establishment
of parks in Grand Rapids has been
given great deal of attention by the
ladies, and start at least has been
made in this direction The city
council is moving slower in this re-
gard that was hoped for, but the
ladies are thoroughly in earnest in
their work for the setting aside of
public rest places, and every loyal
citizen should urge upon the members
of the common council the necessity
acting in this regard at the earliest
possible opportunity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09

We are pleased to note a determi-
nation on the part of our citizens in
general and the ladies in particular,
TO plant flowers and beautify our City
of the Dead. This is certainly most
commendable but there is a sequel to
the story. Occasionally people visit
our cemetery from other counties and
pluck these flowers We say they
come from other counties because it is
not possible that we have those in our
own county so low down in the scale
of humanity that they would steal
flowers frsm the dead. Let no one
pluck a flower in our cemetery. To
steal from the living is bad enough
but to steal from the dead multiplieS
the enormity of the crime.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
1T DOESN'T PAY TO
ADVERTISE THAT WAY

1t does not pay to advertise, say
some merchants who haves done but
little of it and that without keeping
it up. The incident of the boy and
the-pump illustrates the matter very
well. The boy was sent after pail
of water. He poured in the printing
and poured out as much as he poured
in. Then he stopped to rest and the
of alternate pumping and resting he
concluded it did not pay to pump and
quit in disgust. The merchant who
does not believe in advertising does it
like the boy did the pumping. He
advertised few weeks, then stopped
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
Relief from Rheumatic Pains.

Il suffered with rheumatism for
over two years., says Mr.. ROLAND
Curry, a patrolman, Of Key West, Fla.
Sometimes it settled in my knees
and famed me so [ could hardly walk,
at other times it would be in my feet
and hands so [ was inc2pacitated for
for. One night when | was in
severe pain ana lame from it my wife
went to the drug store here ana came
back with bottle of Chamberlain
Pain Balm. | was rubbed with it aud
found the pain had nearly gone dur
ing the night. | kept on using it for
little more than two weeks and
found that it drove the rheumatism
away. l have not had any trouble
from that disease for over three
mouths" For sale by John E. Daly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
WOOD COUNTY REPORTER
Thursday, May 9 1907.

At the annual May session of the
County Board, which convened at
the court house at 2 o'clock, VIM.
Hooper, of Nekoosa, one of the Oldest
members of the County Board, haV-
ing served the county for the past
seventeen years consecutively, was
unanimously elected chairman OF
said body, Immediately after the call
ing of the meeting. This is as it
should be, mark of appreciation OF
able services well rendered, concient-
iously for the best interest Of the cou-
nty. Those who are personally &C
quainted with Mr.. Hooper, and &C
quainted with the conscientious
method he persues in said body in the
discharge of county business, we
know took pleasure in electing him to
the Craftsmanship Of said body.
Mr.. Hooper is one of the best posted
men in connection with the county
government and it's transactions for
the past twenty years. He was
county clerk for four years and has
always served upon the committees of
equalization, finance, and upon COM
mittees for the settling and checking
up of county officers. We know that
his knowledge of county matters will
go long way toward making him a
chairman that will be wholly salts
factory and pleasing to the county as
whole. We join with his many
friends in congratulations, for the
confidence imposed in him by that
body by electing him to the highest
office in their gift.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-05-09
CITY FATHERS
HOLD MEETING
0ratory Called Forth by Change
in the Official Minutes.

The meeting of the City Council
which quite little business was
transacted. A good deal of oratory
was INDUCED in the occasion arising
over the reading of the minutes of the
last previous meeting.
Alderman Jackson asked that the
minutes as read be corrected so as to
show the correct appointment made
by the mayor, at the last meeting for
chairman of the street committee.
Mr.. Jackson stated that the appoint
ment of this committee by the mayor
showed Alderman Steib as chairman,
while the minutes as published showed
that this appointment had been
changed and Alderman Rawson sub
stituted therefor. This change was
not authorized by the council. and
therefor there was no authority for
the change. Mayor Wheelan ex-
planned that he called Mr.. Steib up on
the phone the morning after the
meeting and that he consented to the
change. This was denied by Alder
man Steib, and the councilmen took
the view advanced by Alderman
Jackson, that the consent of the
council was necessary in any event,
and the correction was unanimously
made, and Alderman Steib confirmed
as chairman of that committee.
A number of representatives Of the
different heating plants and COM
panies bidding on the new heating
plant for the Library building were
present and addressed the council on
the merits of their respective bids.
The matter was re-refered to the COM
mlttee for recommendation. There
were three bids reported as follows: