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The Penn's Grove record., 1907-02-08
FOREIGN.

The Socialists in the reballot at
Bremen, lost a seat.
Slippery pavements caused over a
hundred cases of broken limbs in
Berlin; eight persons were killed by
a snowslide in Bavaria.
Following the killing of DR.. Mata
lila in a row in Caracas, several
friends of Vice-President Gomez were
arrested.
Sir Alfred Jones and his party
reached Bristol on board the Port
Kingston; the members of the party
protested against the charges OF I'M
kind treatment of Americans.
eff you don't consent to see me,
I'll commit suicide" was the threat
Count Boni de Castellane, of Paris,
made in a letter recently written to
his former wife, now Madame
Gould"
Eighteen inches of snow fell in
Berlin, the heaviest fall in a genera
ton; many arrests were made Of
young ruffiaps who violently snow
balled women.
Plague has broken out in the Chi
nese province Of New-Chwang.
Consul-General Rodgers reports
that Chinese famine conditions are
even worse than reported.
M. S~tolypin, Premier of Russia,
has issued a circular to Governors
General, Governors and Projects en-
phasizing the Governments desire to
cooperate with Parliament in a
friendly spirit.
Germany will send three airships
to compete in the international bal
loon race, according to a special cable
dispatch from Berlin.
The existence of the French Cab
met was said to be threatened by the
clash in the Chamber of Deputies
between Premier Clemenceau and M.
BRAND, Minister of Education.
1t was authoritatively stated on be-
half of the Marlborough family that
the Duke and Duchess have private
ly. settled their differences and that
to the Continent.
Fully 10, 600 Chinese, living in
an area of 10000 square miles, about
that Of the State OF Ohio, are suffer
ing from famine conditions. 1t is
estimated that 100000 persons are
actually starving.
Lady Dorothy Cuthbert, wife of
Captain James Harold Cuthbert and
daughter of the present Earl of STRAIT
ford, met with a tragic accidental
death by shooting at the hands Of
her husband.
Bread riots in Valencia have
caused a declaration Of martial law.
The annual budget of the Japanese
colony of Formosa shows a small sur
plus in spite of $780, 900 extra ex-
penditure.
Russia will issue a four per cent.
internal loan of $4,000, GOO to re-
lieve the distress caused by the
famine.
An agreement was made between the
Lutine Company, Of Englandl repre-
tenting Lloyds, insurers of the Brit
lsh warship Lutine, and Fred B, Whit
ney, of Washington, to salve tAe gold
pm the vessel, which founderedKof the
coast of Holland in 1893.
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VESTS FUEL FAMINE WORSE
North Dakota Suffering From
Cold and Starvation.
President Roosevelt and the Inter.
state Commerce Commission
Urge Roads to Send Relief.

Washington, D. C.-The President,
the members of the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission and the Congress
delegation from North Dakota are
gravely concerned over the fuel
famine in that State, which shows no
signs of abatement and which is en-
failing such suffering that the people
are growing desperate. Towns where
there is absolutely no fuel, the Their
mometer is from twenty-five to thir-
ty-eight degrees below zero and mail
and railway communication with the
outside world is completely shut off
are besieging the Interstate Com
merce Commission, the President,
and their representatives in Congress,
by telegraph, to. afford them assist
ance at any cost.
In some instances even Geographic
communication is cut off, and mes
sages have to be carried ten or TWEEN
ty miles across the snow covered and
wind swept prairies to the nearest
open telegraph Office. Such was the
case with one telegram received. 1t
comes from the Commercial Club, of
III do SdIl1Co dSlOO0 III
open prairies ten miles to Eckman.
Maxbass is a small town on the Great
Northern Railway, close to the Can
adian line and a little west of mid
way between the eastern and western
boundaries of North Dakota. This
message reads:
Situation unchanged. Two coal
cars (snowed in) between here and
Towner. Conditions grow more des-
perate every hour. Wire communica-
ton cut off,"
From New Rockford, on The North
ern Pacific Railway, comes the follow
ing message:
Fuel situation desperate. The
railway on this branch. not making
any effort to-day to relieve us. Have
had no freight this year, no rlail for
twelve days. People desperate. Will
burn railway property for fuel if
relief is not forthcoming within forty
eight hours"
Other information which reaches
the Interstate Commerce Commission
i-dicates that President tiill, of the
Great Northern Railway, has about
thrown up his hands," has grown
discouraged and abandoned the eff
fort to relieve the freezing people Of
North Dakota.
An early appeal for relief by the
Federal Government was answered by
d dispatch to the Governor of North
Dakota, asking if it was not possible
for the State to afford relief. To this
the Governor replied that the rail-
ways were doing everything possible,
meaning, apparently, TO imply that he
knew Of no way in which he could
render assistance.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, by direction of the President,
has twice telegraphed to the presi-
dents of the Great Northern and the
Northern Pacific Railways, urging
that everything possible be done to
relieve The situation, and assurances
have been given that the requests
will be needed; but the situation re-
mains unchanged, thousands of peo-
pie are menaced by the constant dan
ger of freezing to death, and the rail-
ways seem powerless to relieve the
conditions.
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WAR CLOUD" A PHANTOM
Administration Condemns InflaTl-
matory Talks About Japan.
Toxic Laughs at Ultimatum Story
Kaneko Says Japanese Public Men
Know Limits of Federal Power.

Washington, D. C.-There is no
diplomatic crisis in the relations be-
tween the United States and Japan
and no danger that there will be
war now or any future time, unless
certain unreasonable C~alifornians,
aided by certain irresponsible news
paper publishers, provoke it. The
administration regards with undis-
guised Impotence the efforts Of some
papers to exaggerate everything con-
nected with the relations of the two
nations into crises" "scares" and
Sensations" The administration is
convinced that thus far even the atti-
tude of certain C~alifornians has not
strained the relations between this
country and Japan, but it condemns
in unmeasured terms infiammatory
u%tterances such as Senator Perkins
made to the Geographic Society in
Washington and Representative-elect
Hobson has recently given to the
press. 1t is positively asserted that
there IS nothing in the San Francisco
school situation to warrant even talk
of war; that the stories that unusual
military preparations are being made
are absolutely false; that the report
that steps were being taken to expe-
dite the construction of Notifications
in Hawaii and on the Pacific, beyond
the ordinary progress Of such works,
is unauthorized s~ensationalism and
absolutely without foundation; that
the assertion that the aneuv of
fhn DoniHn cnY1oGrnn o0nctit1fn a
menace to Japan is simply ridiculous,
and that there is nothing to strain
the relations between this country
and Japan except the ~pertinacity with
which certain persons and news
papers persist in crying, WAR
War!" when no war is threatened.
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Stub Ends of News.

The New York Central began it's
electric train service on the Harlem
division.
Nearly 10000 persons viewed the
body of Senator Alger as it lay in
state in Detroit.
Ralph N. Blakeslee, of Waterbury,
Conn, gave a ''straw ride" to 5000
children in that city.
1t was learned that the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit had formulated plans
to spend $6,O00,000 on new tracks
and an addition TO one of its power
plants.
The annual report of the Pittsburg
%postofice showed big gains for the
yea 1906, the net profits being ST.
100000.
Many well known clergymen at
tended an INSTRUMENTATION con-
ference to devise means of suppress
ing Sunday concerts and race track
gambling.
1t was reported at Berlin that the
German Government was not willing
to take a definite position in regard
to the discussion of ornaments at
the peace confidence.
New York City is said to be prob
ably the greatest market in the world
for automobilesl and the demand ia
constaut1v Increasing.
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MAY BE COFFEE
That Causes All the Trouble.

When the house Is afire, It's like a
body when disease begins to show,
it's no time to talk, but time to act
delay is dangerous - remove the
cause Of the trouble at once.
For a number of years" says a
Kansas lady, Il felt sure that coffee
was hurting me, and yet l was SO
fond of it l could not give it up. ]
paltered with my appetite, and OF
course yielded to the temptation to
drink more At last l got so bad that
[ made up my mind must eithe quit
the use of coffee or die.
Everything | ate distressed me,
and l suffered severely almost all the
time with palpitation of the heart. !
frequently woke up in the night with
the feeling that / was almost gone
my heart seemed so smothered and
weak in it's action that | feared it
wSald stop beating. My breath grew
short and the least exertion set me to
painting. l slept but little and sur
fered from rheumatism.
Two years ago | stopped using the
old kind of coffee and began to use
Postum Food Coffee, and from the
very first l began to improve. 1t
worked a miracle! Now | can eat
anything and digest it without trou-
Bile. l sleep like a baby, and my
heart beats full, strong and easily.
My breathing has become steady n
normal, and nv rheumatism has left
me. l feel like another person, n
1t is all due to quitting coffee and
using Postum Food Coffee, for l
haven't used any medicine and none
would have done any good as long as
l kept drugging with coffee" Name
given by Postum Co, Battle Creek,
Mich. There's a REASON" Read the
little book, The Rad to Wellvllle,"
In pkgs. All kroca.
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The Modern a

rs than any other dye. One 10c. package coiors all hbers.
Write tot free booklet-~H0w to Dive. Bleach and Mix CO
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EP|DEM|CS SWEEP
ALL OVER CHICAGO
Nearly $4,000 Cases Caused by
Impure Raw Milk.
STOPS ALL SOCIAL FUNCTIONS
Appeal Made to Public-Asked to
Give Up Balls Parties and Other
Amusements Until Scarlet Fever
Can Be Checked.

Can Be Checked.
Chicago. - Extraordinary precau-
tons were taken to check the scarlet
fever and diphtheria epidemic in Chi
cago. A proclamation asking aid
from the public by the canceling of
social functions, an offer of assist
ance from prominent medical men,
the appointment of a commission of
physicians to help in an Aldermanic
inquiry, and the removal of central
police details to make room. for the
Health Department, were among the
features which developed when it was
found that the record breaking
figures of the c%ontagion were marked
again by high numbers.
Three hundred and fourteen new
cases of scarlet fever, fifty-ive of
1iphtheria and twenty-five of measles
we're reported on the day the procla-
nation was issued.
1t is estimated that the total cases
of contagious diseases which have de-
veloped in the present epidemic is
considerably in excess of 10, and
nay reach $4,000.
Commissioner of Health c. w.
Whalen issued a call to the people of
Chicago to cancel social gatherings
and other public meetings for several
weeks in order to aid the department
In suppressing epidemic conditions.
This followed the official announce
ment that scarlet fever and diphthe-
ria cases reported indicate that the
epidemic has advanced appreciably.
Churches, Sunday-schools and thea
tres were not included in Dr.. Wha-
lens request.
The Commissioner explained that
while he desired the assistance of the
public he did not believe it necessary
10 go further than his request indi-
Gates. He declared that, in the opin-
ion of the department, it would not
be wise to order the closing Of any
public schools, as the new medical in
spectors were doing competent work
ioward preventing the spread of any
disease through that source.
Records of the Health Department
show the present epidemic to be one
Of the most serious the city has
known. The records show that the
number of cases of scarlet fever in
the last four days vastly exceeds the
total for the whole month of January
in a normal year.
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JAPAN ISN'T GOING TO WAR.
Has No Idea of 1t, Says Foreign Min.
lister Hayashi.

Toxic, Japan.-The kilograms from
London reporting newspaper talk of
q possible war between Japan and
the United States, and that Viscount
Aoki, japanese Ambassador at Wash
ington, had handed Secretary of State
Root an ultimatum, are received here
with laughter. Viscount Hayashi,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, in re-
spouse to an inquiry, sent the fol-
lowing message to the correspondent
of the New York Sun:
Japan has not tbs slightest idea
of going TO war with the United
States"
The entire absence of warlike feel
ing in Japan is explained by Baron
Kaneko, formerly Special Envoy to
the United States, who said:
THE Japanese understand America
better than the Americans under
stand Japan. A great majority of the
men holding public positions here
were educated by American instruct
ors, and have long studied American
institutions. Now, through the press
and otherwise they are helping the
people to appreciate the difficulty the
Federal Government lies under in
controlling the action Of the individ-
ual States. The American Govern
ment and people, with England, are
Japan's best friends. War is un-
thinkable."
Hon. Tokiwo Yokoi, Chairman of
the Committee on Petitions of the
lower house of the Diet, who holds
the most confidential relations with
Prime Minister Saienji and Marquis
Ito, president of the Privy Council,
says: war with America would de-
stroy the Anglo-Japanese alliance,
and Germany would step in, intrigu-
ing for a Far Eastern position. ia
pan would be completely isolated. She
realizes that American and England
are her sureties among the Powers.
If Great Britain could not afford to
remain isolated it would be suicidal
for japanese statesmen to endanger
Japan's alliance with her or to alien
ate American sympathy
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THEATRICAL MANAGERS
INDICTED IN NEW YORK
Charged With Controlling Many
Houses and Companies.
KLAW AND ERLAkGER BAILED

Samuel Nixon, J. #. Zimmerman,
Marc Klaw, Abraham Erlanger,
Charles Frohman and Al Hay
man Named as Conspirators.
New York City.-A blanket bill of
indictment, charging six members of
the ~so-called Theatrical Trust" with
conspiracy in restraint of trade, was
returned by the Grand Jury. The
theatrical managers named in the in
dictment are Samuel Nixon and J.. F.
Zimmerman, composing the firm of
Nixon & Zimmerman, of Philadelphia
and New York; Marc Klaw and Abra-
ham Erlanger, of the firm of Klaw &
Erlanger, and Charles Frohman and
Al Hayman, all of this city.
OF these men only Messrs. Klaw
and Erlanger were in town. Nixon
and Zimmerman are in Philadelphia,
and Charles Frohman and AL Hayman
are in Europe.
The Indictment, filling seventy
typewriter pages, was handed up to
Judge Foster in Part I. OF General
Sessions. Messrs. Klaw and Erlangs,r
had already been summoned by their
counsel, Alfred Lauterbach, and bail
In the amount of $1,000 each was fur
nished by big Tim" Sullivan, who
gave as security the Dewey Theatre,
in East Fourteenth street, which he
said was worth 100000.
The Indictment sets forth in detail
the acts Of the so-called trust. The
charge is that the managers have
conspired to monopolize the theatre
cal business both as to ownership of
theatres and as to the production of
theatrical attractions. Under the
statutes, such a violation Of the In
terstate law is a misdemeanor.
The conspiracy, it is charged, takes
the form of written agreements en-
tered into in 1895 and 1900 by the
indicted managers. By these agree
ments the several managers agree to
pool theatres and attractions and di-
vide the profits of the business. At
the time of the organization of the
s~o-called trust, the indictment points
out, it controlled fifty theatres
throughout the country. At the pres
ent time 1t absolutely controls 500
OF the 6UO prominent ONES.
The indictment also charges that
by means of the combination, the
managers have coerced actors, play
wrights and owners, and have com
PEELED owners OF many theatres to
give the syndicate exclusive control
of the bookings of their theatres, in
payment for which the syndicate has
extorted from twenty-five to fifty per
cent. Of the profits of the houses.
AS an instance Of the methods of
the syndicate, the case of Sarah Bern
hardt IS cited. In her last tour of
this country, in 1905, permission was
refused her to play in syndicate
houses, for the reason that she was
appearing under tho direction Of a
rival firm Of managers. In her tour
Nine. Bernhard played only in in.
dependent houses, and was frequent
1y forced to appear under tents.
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SOCIALISTS EXECUTE a BANDIT.
MAJ Who Attempted to Bob Bank
Shot Dead in Waiting Room,

Warsaw, Poland.-Socialists exc
cuted a bandit who made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to get $500 from the
Commercial Bank of Warsaw. The
man entered the bank and asked the
director to give him $500. His re-
quest was refused, ~whereupon the
man sat down in the waiting room
and announced his intention of re.
naming there until he received the
money. The bank officials feared to
ask the police for help. A Socialist
member of the banks staff, however,
called up the Socialist headquarters
on the telephone and explained the
situation. Two men from headquar-
tiers at once went to the bank. They
approached the man in the waiting
room, threw a sack over his head and
blew out his brains with a revolver.
The police have not in~terefered with
the men who did the killing.
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PRISON WARDEN KILLED.
Governor Shot on Basil Isiand-Mur.
derer Escapes.

st. Petersburg, Russia.-M. Guide
ma, Governor Of the political prison
on Vasili Ostrow Basil Island), a
suburb of this city, was shot In the
main street of the island and died al
most Immediately.
The assassin, a boy of eighteen,
dressed as a workman, went out from
a teahouse as M. Guidema was pass
ing, and shot him twice In the stom-
ach. The terrorist also shot and
mortally wounded a prison warden
who accompanied NJ. Guidema. The
murderer disappeared and the police
have haen unable to find any trace
OF hin. owing to the fact that the
population of the island generally
sympathize with the revclutionists,
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Rogers Settles Gas Shit.

The suit of the Bay State Gas Com
pany, Of Delaware, against Henry H.
Rogers in connection with the own
ership of stock Of the Boston Gas
Company was practically settled at
Boston by an agreement to pay the
receiver $1,500,000 in consideration
Of the abandonment of claims and
stock.
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lar. Soon after began taking Doan's
Kidney Pills / passed several gravel
stones. l got well and the trouble has
not returned. My bach is good and
strong and my general health better"
Sold by all dealers. SO cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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and how to cur
them. Mrs. W. G.
Davis, of Groesbeck
Texas, says: Back
aches hurt me so l
could hardly stand.
Spells of dizziness
and sick headaches
e frequent and
the action of the
kidneys was e
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The making of wooden spoons is a
handicraft in Brittany, and one of
considerable Importance, for wooden
spoons are employed almost uni
versally there for table use. Many
an old sailor takes up the carving
of these necessary utensils as a means
of livelihood.
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wendell MUST STAND TRIAL.
Governor Hughes Rescinds Orders
Dissolving the Court.


Albany, N. captain Louis
Wendell, of the First Battery, New
York City, cannot resign from the
National Guard to escape having to
appear before a court of inquiry to
answer to charges of conduct not be-
coming an officer. Governor Hughes
rescinded the orders issued by Ad-
jutant-General Henry, granting Wen
del a discharge pursuant to his re-
quest to be permitted to resign. Moth
ing like this has happened within
recent years in the National Guard,
and the effect of the Governors &C
ton will cause not g. little dismay in
some circles. 1t has always been the
custom to permit an officer to resign
when he wanted to.
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GOV. MATA SLAIN IN VENEZUELA
Castro Leader and Others of Govern
ment Force Fall Victims.

Willemstad, Island of Curacoa.-
According to advices received here
Governor Mata, at the head of a body
Of armed troops, surprised a secret
political meeting in the yard Of Vice
President Gomez at Caracas, Vene-
zuela, during the night Of January
81, and in the fighting which followed
Governor Mata and several others
were killed and a number, including
the commander of the troops, were
wounded.
DR.. Luis Mata, ex-Minister of Pub
lie Works, of Venezuela, was ap-
pointed Governor of the Federal Dis
trict of Caracas on the recent return
of General Castro to the Presidency.
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500 Reward, 500.

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MutuaI's Suit Dismissed.

The suit Of the Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company against D. c.. Halde-
man and the North British and Mer-
camille Insurance Company was dis
missed in the Chancery Division oil
the High Court of Justice at London.
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The Fatal Weed.

A man died the other day in Chi
cago who had smoked and chewed
tobacco for eighty-seven years.
Doubtless there will be persons who
will attribute this premature demise
to the baleful weed. N.Y.
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His Stubbornness.

Haven't you and your friend got
through that argument yet?" asked
a parent of his youngest son.
st isn't any argument" answered
the boy. ST am merely telling jim
ME the facts in the case, and he is
so beastly stubborn that he won't
observation-disclosures.
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Standard Oil Resists Suit.

Motions were filed at Findlay,
Ohio, to quash the indictments
against the Standard Oil Company,
of Ohio; John D. Rockefeller, the
Buckeye Pipe Line, the Ohio Oil Com
pany and the Solar Refining Com
MANY
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FIVE DIE IN TRAIN CRASH.
Freight Runs Into Passenger on Bos-
, ton and Maine.

Deerf1eld, Mass.-Five men were
killed%and one seriously injured as
the result of a freight train running
into the rear of a passenger train on
the Fitchburg division of the Boston
and Maine Railroad about a mile west
Of West Deerfield.
The dead are George B. Busseno, of
the express train, lived at. Troy, n. Y,
forty-seven years old, married; G. w.
Harrington, baggage master of the
express, lived at Troy, N. Y; NJ. A.
Fitzpatrick, engine driver, Rotterdam
Junction, N. Y, and R. N. DennisoD,
fireman, Mechanicsville, N. Y.
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Testimony Against Hartman.

A. witness. at the Interstate Com
merce Commission hearing in San
Francisco said that E. H. Hartman
throttled the Oregon and Oriental
Steamship Line and forced it out of
business.
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Bell Accused of KillingDr. Towr

Bell accused Of KillingDr. Townsend.
John Bell, whose relatives con-
tossed that he had admitted to them
he had murdered DR.. Charles W.
Townsend, of New Brighton, S. l., is
determined to die at the hands of the
law, if not by his own hands. He re-
fused to see a lawyer.