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Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-04-10
Goat. Ind Sheep COMPARED.

Goats usually sell within a cent OF
sheep OH tie market. The packers
buy hundreds of them. but never sell
any goat meat. OF course they know
a good piece of meat and eat them all
Cattle. steep and goats are especiai-
" suited t. the south AZ surplus or
money stock because they can con-
sumo cottonseed meal and slage 10 a
lnrger extent than any other animal.
Let us rid our fields Of fever ticks ana
worthless dogs.-Farm and Ranch.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-04-10
The Drama Today,

Manager-What have you got In tns
wov of light comedy? Let me look
over your manuscripts. Playwright
I don't happen to have anything Oh
hand Just now, but III write you TWO
or three and bring them In this aiter'
noon.-Kansas City Times.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-04-10
aclors Closed" Siuns.

People WHO patronlze the mail ordei
houses constantly are very likely u
live in towns where the sheriff does
rushing business in lacking up "stor'
Closed" signs.
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-04-10
corraet piaa,osls.

.PatIent-shall have to give up beer.
.dector7 Doctor--No; shant forbid
It 70 you. Patient-It's extraordinary,
aesteR what confidence have IN yea
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-04-10

A brave man Is sometimes despera
do but bully is always coward
Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1907-04-10
Houra Before.

Gerald-Is that clock rightf Ger
aldine-It was when you came In
New York Press.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
NAVY DEPARTMENT
 BUILDING VESSELS
FIVE TORPEDO BOAT DESTROY FRS ARE CONTRACTED FOR BY WILLIAM CRAMP & SON, THE SHIP BUILDERS.

Washington September 3.-Bids were opened at the navy department today for the construction of five torpedo boat de- stroyers under the terms of the naval appropriation acts of 1907 and 1907. The limit of cost was fixed at SS0o,0OO for each boat and no bidder was authorized to receive contracts for more than two Of them.
 The new boats do not embody in their designs any startling departures in naval construction. In one sense the designs appear to be reactionary for the maxi mum speed required Is placed at 2s knots per hour, whereas some of the boats con structed several years ago were obliged to show trial speed over 90 knots. The efforts of the naval designers in this case has been mainly to plan type of boa { that will have great sea going power on a limited displacement of mill tons and to that end they were quite willing to sacrifice the extra two knots which ex- perience had shown could rarely be real .lzed in service conditions or anywhere else than on a trial course
 The lowest bids were those of the Will liam ramp & Sons Shipbuilding company of Philadelphia for two boats at s576.000 each. The Bath Iron Works of Maine two boats. bid at s4.300 each, and the Fore River Shipbuilding company, Quin- cy. Mass. one boat at s54S.000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
CAUGHT TRYING TO
 LEVY BLACKMAIL
POLICE BELIEVE THAT THE RING LEADERS OF THE "BLACK HANDo HAVE BEEN CAUGHT AND ARE IN JAIL.

New York, September 3.-Caught in the act of taking money from victim whom they had threatened with death three Italians. who the police believe are ring leaders of the Black Hand," were cap tured today by detectives after a wild flight on a trolley car on Second avenue, in which one of the Italians was shot while diving through the car window in a final effort to escape. Giro Annoni, a wealthy barber. has for more than a year been receiving letters demanding $500. He was told that his place would be blown up and his family annihilated unless he needed the demand.
 Annoni informed the police and today it was planned for the barber to meet the alleged blackmailers on Second avenue. The detectives secreted themselves in a drug store Promptly at the appointed hour, the Italians met Annoni on the cor ner and the money was turned over. The barber gave a signal and the detectives rushed from the drug store.
 The three Italians sprang on a passing trolley car and might have escaped but the motorman stopped the car. Two of the Italians jumped from the car and after a short chase were captured. The third Italian made a long dive through the car window and was shot while in mid air. The wounded man was seized and taken to hospital n prisoner. He gave his name as Paolo Castellano. The two others. Ernesco Collell and Vincezo Ambrose were taken to the station house
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
ROOSEVELT GRACEFULLY
 YIELDS ID INEVITABLE
Announcement Is Made By the Presi, dent That He Will Not Insist Upon Joint Statehood. But Ari-
 zona May Come In.

Washington. September S-lSpecal) The announcement of President Roosevelt that he will insist no longer upon point statehood of Arizona and New Mexico comes as the direct result of an investi- gation made by Secretary of the Interior Gerheld. Garfleld's report was exactly on the line of the fight made by the dspl- oorats and Senator Foraker of Ohio last winter, when the advocates of union led by Senator Beveridge of Indiana received a sound deseat at the hands of the allies. Garfield was informed, as the democrats had contended. that there was no senti- ment among the rank and file of the peo- pie for joint statehood Several of the Presidents rough rider friends also told lini the same thing.
 Any way you take 1t is Is the death knell of joint statehood and another in- stance cf President Roosevelt's lndorss- ment of a demoeratic attitude There is good deal of uncertainty as to wheth- CT there will be any statehood legislation in the new congress. The pique of Sen ator Beveridge. the chairman of the ter ritorial committee, and his followers would prevent Arizona coming in as a separate state.
 An interesting report current here is to the effect that q solution of the prob lem may be found in proposition to join Arizona with the state of Nevada The former has nearly three times the popu- lation of the latter, Senator's NewIands and Nixon, ard Representative Van Duzer will of course vigorously oppose such movement. IL would retire them to pri- Vate life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
GERMANY SHOWS
 GREAT PROGRESS
AMERICANS INVESTIGATE THE POSSIBILITIES IN GERMAN MAN. UFACTURES WITH BIG ORDERS. AMERICANS TASTEFUL.

Berlin. September 2.Lieutenant Godfrey Cardou. of the United States revenue cut ter service, who had been investigating the principal industrial eenters of Bell gium, Switzerland. and Germany with a party Of American manufacturers and professors. proceeded to Magdeburg O. day
 The two principal conclusions reached. in which all the members of the Ameri- can party agree, are the extraordinary prosperity and extreme industrial ad vancsement of Germany. All of the thir- ty-five works visited were crowded with orders, some of them havnlg orders for years ahead The Alsatian Construction company of Mulhausen employing 100 pei sons has orders until late in 1910 It was at Hulhausen that the Americans found ease engines being constructed up 10 900 horse power.
 The Americans found that the Germans made great use of waste stam in maa- ners unknown in America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
DEAD NEGRO HAD
 THREE PISTOLS
Black Intruder in Freight Yard
 is Shot
KILLED BY A DETECTIVE
While on Inspection Trip Detective Finds Negro Who Tries to Shoot Him, But the White Man
 Is Too Quick.

Columbus, Miss, September 3-tSpeeial & J. Mcdonnell. special agent of the Southern railway In Mississippi. shot and Instantly killed an unknown negro In the Southern yards here last night. While MT McCornell was making his regular rounds of Inspection in the yard he noticed freight car open and walked up to 1t and struck a match, when he saw a negro in the car and ordered him out As he was walking the negro in front of him to the light he wheeled around and grabbed MT. McCornell with a drawn revolver. MT. McCornell was too quick for him. however. and fired, the bullet entering the negro's body just below the heart and killing him instantly
 MT McCornell immediately notified Chief of Police Munger who escorted him to the city jail. Mayor E. S. Donneu was summoned at once, but Il was impossible for him to give MT. Mcconnell a hearing. and he was carried to the county Jail for the night. A hearing of the case will be held before the mayor this morn- ing at Il o'clock
 The body of the dead negro was taken to Gunter Bros. undertaking establish ment and up to this hour he has not been identified. Three guns were found on the dead negro's person.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
Plans Afe Agreeable to All
 Parties Concerned
MARITAL RELATIONS UPSET
Artist Decides to Part Company$ th Faithful Wife and Marry Anc CT, and Plans Are Being So
 Out of co0rs

New York. Septembe. A remarkable story of a change in the marital rela- tions of Ferdinand P. Earle an artist and son of the late Gen Ferdinand P. Earle, the hotel man, is published today, apparently on the authority of MT Earle himself. The arrangement, which MT Earle says has been decided upon, n- cluded the return to France of his wife, where it is planned she is to secure a divorce, and this accomplished, the we'd ding is to occur of MT. Earle and a young woman. whose name is withheld. but who already is living with her brother in MT. Earle's country home near Mon roe, Orange county. New York. young son is to accompany the wife, who is to be sent away to France. The arrange ment, strange to say is apparently ac- quiesced in by all the persons involved. A part of the arrangement will be car ried out today when the wife and child are to board the steamer Ryndam which will sail tmorrow for Europe. Earle and the woman he is to marry will accompany the wife to the steamer and see her off.
 Earle in a lengthy published interview says that he is acting on his convictions, and maintains that his scheme of life is one designed to secure happiness. He also says he is a socialist, but that his determination to part with his wife and wed another woman under condition of mutual agreement was not evolved from the teachings of socialism but from his own conception of a mans duty to him self. He Is not a believer In free love, but in the freedom of love when its dic tates run counter to the formal pFecepts laid down by society.
 Earle admits that his wife, d French woman, whom he married ten years ago, was very dear to him, but that even tually something began to arise between them which he cannot explain. This state of affairs grew continuously. A few months ago, while travelling in Europe, he met the young woman whom he plans to make his wife. Like himself he says she was a socialist and held the same views he did as to the happiness of welded life They became attached and realized that their marriages had been fore-or- dained befarel their births When thfs knowledge came to him he says he went to his wife's father in France. told him the situation and the father seeing the point of view a lawyer was called in and a divorce arranged. Then he came home, told hs wife, and persuaded her that it was for the best Then the woman who was his real affinity, he says came to his home and met his wife. Her mother came with her and later her brother, and all have since lived in har- mony under the same roof, according to the artists story.
 Earle insisted on calling his wife a dainty little woman. slim and pale, who confirmed his story.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
CANADIAN PACIFIC
 TRAIN IS DITCHED
LOCOMOTIVE JUMPS RAILS ON A DOWN GRADE CURVE, KILLING SIX AND INJURING OVER TWO HUNDRED MORE.

orangeville, Ont, September S.-A Cana dian Pacific railway special train, carry ing over 300 passengers. bound for the Toronto exhibition. was wrecked today at Horse Shoe Falls. nine miles south of here. Six people were killed, names un- known, and ober 250 injured.
 The train pulled into orangeville oae hour late. A half hour later the loeo- motive jumped the rails on the down grade of the Horse Shoe curve of the Caledon mountain. Five crowded cars were piled up on top of the locomotive At Orangeville every seat was filled and several were standing in the alsles. These cars were damned together in the fierce shock. No less than six hundred pas sengers were In the cars that left the rails. At least 200 were injured. many of them seriously. Six were killed outright The only explanation of the disaster so far is that the engineer was trying to make up time and took the Horse Shoe curve at a night rate of speed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
Coal Famine Threatened.

Lexington, Ky. September 3-Prac- tically all of Kentucky, except the DOT ton directly adjacent to the Ohio river, is threatened with q coal fam inc, according to the wholesale dealers. wholesaler here who represents a group of mines in Kentucky which supplies the state with coal, says the shortage of cars to haul coal from the mines and shortage of men 10 mine coal causes the shortage in production. s>~~c-~-~-~-~-~~~~-~-~- ~-~-~-~->~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~~.> ways through steamboats and barges con strueted for that purpose. They will own great steamship lines. which will carry our products to all the markets of the world. They will, subject to the approval of the interstate commerce commission. be enabled to make such joint rates by land and sea as will make their ships profitable. notwithstanding the increased cost of American construction and admin istraton. There will be no need of ship subsidy to advance our merchant marine These corporations will be under full gov e1umental control. Their issue of stock aud bonds will be subject to the approval Lf national officials. The national legis- lrtion covering them will guard not only the interests of the shippers and produc- cra. but also the interests of the railway
 
 stable and should be free from the caprice of the stock market. It will embrace the relations between the railroads and their employees. providing for the conciliaton of disputes and the adjustment of difh- culties. Ii will recognize the fact that they are public servants, entitled to Il fair compensation for their service. It will frankly recognize the economic ne- cessity of consolidation and combination. and the essentially monopoistic charae- ter of the business. and will regulate consolidation. combna ton and monopoly with true regard for the interests of the public served by 1t. the property rights Of the capital employed in it, and the human rights Of the labor employed by 1t.
 We cannot take 4 broad view of the powers of the national government as relating to carriers by water and refuse to recognize those powers as relating to car riers by rail. Transportation Is na- s-ged in interstate and foreign commerce mustt 2 national agents. The laws creat- ing them must be the laws of the nation. The regulations which control them must be the regulations of the nation.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
Glass Telegraph Poles.

Glass telegraph poles are the latest wrinkle in Europe acordins 10 A r,- port received today from Consul kothe. at Frankfort, Germany. He says firm n that city has secured patents and started a factory for the manufacture ot poles of glass in which strong wire threads are interwined to give the proper strength
 One of the principal advantages, he asserts, would be their use in tropical countries. where wooden poles arc quIch- ly destroyed by insects and climatic n iuences The imperial post department of Germany has ordered a lot of the poles for experimental purposes on one section of it's lines. They are expected tol cost about six dollars d pole of twenty three feet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
Neqroes Aim Hiqh.

Washington negroes have purchased for 52j,0O0 the North Presbyterian churcn at Ninth and N streets and after remodeling will convert il into the Cosmopolitan Temple Baptist church The deal Is prob ably the largest in realty in which Dis trlct negroes have figured. The purchase was made in spite of the protest ot white residents in the neigrborhood.
 Simon Drew will be the pastor of ths new temple and at meeting of the board of trustees tonight his salary was raised 10 S2j0 d month. In 1910 he is 10 receive sa0O per month and when the eongrega- ton attains a membership of oD he s 10 receive s5000 per annum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
TWO WOMEN BURNED.
One Dies From Flames and the Other
 Is Fatally Injured.

Dallas, TeG., September 3.-One woman was burned to death, another received burns from which she will die, and a man and girl. the latter the daughter of one of the victims, received serious injuries last night and today.
 Mrs. J. w. Manley was burning trash in her back yard yesterday, when her clothing caught fire. She was so badly burned that she died in the evening. Her little daughter was seriously burned while trying 10 aid her.
 Today Mrs E. P. Carlisle, while try ing to light a stove with coal oil was fatally burned. and her husband was burned about the hands and face in an attempt to rescue her
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
Powder Mill ExpIodes.

Cleveland, O., September 3.-A ter rife explosion occurred today in the powder mill of the Austin Powder com pany, located a few miles south of the city, resulting in the death of one em- ploye and the fatal inury of another. Jacob Bazut was almost instantly killed, while Frank MorosN was fright fully injured and will die. The cause of the explosion Is not known. Had the explosion occurred a few hours later many other workmen would doubtless have been killed and h. jured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
Bribery Cases Stand.

San Francisco, September 3.-The motion made by the attorneys repre- senting Patrick Calhoun. Thornwell Mullally, T. T. Ford. William Abbott, E. E. Schmitz, Abraham Rueff, Frank Drum. Eugene De Sabla, John Martin and Louis Glass to set aside and dis miss the vaarious bribery indictments against them, was today denied by Superior Judge Lawler.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
Gen. Pleasant Porter Dead.

Vinita l. T.. September 3.-General Pleasant Porter, the noted chief of the Creek Indian nation, died here today. fol- lowing stroke of paralysis. aged 66 years. Second Chief Mety Tiger will succeed General Porter as chief of the nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
Investigation Postponed.

Chicago. September s-The grand jury investigation of the charges against the Chicago and Alton railroad in connection with the rebates said to have been grant ed to the Standard Oil company. was ;4nstnoned until seDtember 22
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
Great Questions Solved.

Under national incorporation the ques- tions relating to inland waterways. rail way and ocean transportation will be solved There will be great corporations,
 whose lines will extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific. and others whose lines will extend from the lakes to the gulf. Such corporations will, in transporting bulky products. utilize the inland water
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-04
A Great Awakening.

The people of the United States are awakening to the necessity of utilizing the national power for the promotion of the general welfare We national ize banking and currency because We realized the folly of having as many different financial system as there were states, the danger of inhation and panic arising from careless and inconsiderate state action We nationalized irrigation because We saw wthe futillty of subject ing the treatment of the sources, the water sheds and valleys, of streams flow ing through several states, to the local ized action of the individual states. We realized that every great river must be treated as a unit regardless of the state lines. and that the action Of the union on national lines was therefore essential. We nationalized the quarantine because We realized that the health and safety of the entire nation might be endangered by the carelessness or the difference Of a single state. We are now taking up the question of nationallzing the develop ment of the inland waterways embrac- ing lakes and rivers and connecting canals. and including all the related ques- tion of forestry, of irrigation, of channel opening, as well as navigation; and the south. in this latter movement, Is taking the leading for national action, realizing, as 1t does, that the promotion of inter state and foreign commerce was one of the primary causes of the union of the states as a nation.
 "The demand for national action as to water tra importation will include national action regarding railway transporta tion, and will necessitate the creation by the nation of the great corporations which are to handle thls great commerce
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-09
Naturally Puzzled.

Among the interested visitors of the
marine barracks at Washington on one
occasion there was party of young
girls from Maryland town, friends of
one of the officers Of the barracks
They proved much interested in every
thing pertaining to the life and disci-
pine of the post.
what do you mean by 'tapsg" ask
ed one young woman.
''Taps are played every night on the
bugle," answered the officer ut means
lights out They play it over the
bodies Of dead soldiers"
a puzzled look came to the face OF
the questioner. Then she asked:
"What do you do il you haven't a
dead soldier ?''-Harper's Weekly.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-09
ROOSEVELT is AFTER WARREN.
Land Fraud Charges Against Wyoming
Senator Being Investigated.

Washington, Jan. THE secretary
of the interior is Investigating the con-
duct of Senator Francis E. Warren, of
mittee on military affairs. The SEN
ator is charged with fencing in and ap-
propriating $4,000 acres of public
lands in his state The name of the
person who filed the charges is not
disclosed.
President Roosevelt is said to have
inspected the papers. Neither he nor
Secretary Hitchcock believes the
charges, but they feel that a careful
inquiry would be but justice to the
senator.
The senator denounces the charges
as false, and declares that they are
pushed solely for the purpose of per-
scouting him. He has invited the full
est Investigation.
This is the second time within six
weeks that Senator Warren's name
has been mentioned in connection with
alleged land frauds. Previously
Michael A. Miendorff, a special agent
of the government, declared Senator
Warren met him in Denver and en-
deavored to induce him to stop his in
vestigation of the coal land frauds
charged against the Union Pacific. AS
result of his activity, Miendorff said,
he was removed from Denver in 1905,
and pressure was brought to have the
case Of the Wyoming lands turned
over to Inspector O'Brien, of Denver,
whom Miendorff described as a conf
Dental friend Of Macy, chief clerk of
the interior department at Washing
ton, and also personal friend of Sen.
ator Warren.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1907-01-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Carelessness is the great sin of most
people.
If a man doesn't acquire little sense
with age he cheats himself.
If a man owns a pocketknife it is
hard for him to pass grindstone.
Say what you please about moral
courage. the man who has lot OF it
Is mighty unpopular.
Make the stories you tell on q rainy
day as short as possible, especially II
YOU tell them under an umbrella.
There is very little use trying to con
vince a man who meets your state
ment with this argument: I'll bet
you," etc.
No matter how highly you may value
your own opinion, remember 1t does
not go with other people unless they
think exactly as you do, which, by the
way, they seldom do.-Atchison GLOBE.