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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-05
FOREIGN.

The Socialists in the reballot at
Bremen, lost a seat.
Slippery pavements caused over n
hundred cases of broken limbs in
Berlin; eight persons were killed by
a snowslide in Bavaria.
Following the killing of DR.. Mata
lila in 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.
IF 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 ruffians who violently snow
balled women.
Plague has broken out in the Chi
nese province of New-Chwang.
Consul Rodgers reports
that Chinese famine conditions are
even worse than reported.
M Stolypin, 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
loon race, according to 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
the Duchess and children are going
to the Continent.
Fully 100000 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.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-05
BITS o. Ne WIS.
WASHINGTON.

Southern cotton growers petitioned
the Postmaster-Gene to bar the
New York Cotton Exchange from the
mails.
The action of Rear-Admiral Chas.
H. Davis in giving relief to the suf-
ferers from earthquake and fire at
Kingston, Jamaica, was warmly COM
mended by President Roosevelt.
President Roosevelt will not urge
Congress to pass additional railroad
legislation until the Sixtieth Congress
meets.
Sensational reports of the likeli-
hood of war with Japan were ridi-
culed by Washington officials.
A representative of the Du Pont
Powder Company denied that his
company monopolized the manufac-
ture of smokeless powder.
The President nominated Richard
A. Ballinger, of Seattle, Wash, to
be Commissioner of the General Land
Office, to succeed w. A. Richards.
A letter from Chief Engineer Stew
ems, in which he said he would ac-
cept the plans for the Gatun dam if
he were going to pay for the whole
work himself, was made public.
The Interior Department will
shortly spend $1,000,000 on cattle
for Indians on reservations in North
and South Dakota, Montana and Ari-
IONA.
The nomination of William Barnes,
Jr., to be Surveyor of the Port of
Albany, was sent to the Senate by the
President. Mr.. Barnes has already
held the Office two terms.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-05
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 / could not give it up. l
paltered with my appetite, and of
course yielded to the temptation to
drink more. At last got so bad that
l made up my mind must either quit
the use of coffee or die.
Everything / ate distressed me,
and suffered severely almost all the
time with palpitation of the heart. /
frequently woke up in the night with
the feeling that l was almost gone
my heart seemed so smothered and
weak in its action that l feared 1t
would stop beating. My breath grew
short and the least exertion set me to
painting. / slept but little and suf-
fered from rheumatism.
1.-TWO years ago stopped using the
old kind OF conee and began to use
Postum Food Coffee, and from the
very first began to improve. 1t
worked miracle! Now | can eat
anything and digest it without trou-
BILE. l sleep like baby, and my
heart beats full, strong and easily.
My breathing has become steady and
normal, and my rheumatism has left
me- l feel like another person, and
it is all due to quitting coffee and
using Postum Food Coffee, for ]
haven't used any medicine and none
would have done any good as long as
j kept drugging with coffee" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich. There's Reason" Read the
little book, 1.-THE Road to MELVILLE"
An pkgs. All grocers.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-05
OUR ADoPTED IsLANDs.

Advices from Cuba say that the
political parties are preparing for the
election of President; the sugar
crop promises to be a record one.
Senior Torriente, Cuban Minister to
Spain, gave as his reason for resign
ing his post the disgrace which Cuba
suffered in permitting conditions
which forced the intervention of the
United States.
The Honolulu Promotion Commit
tee has arranged to hold a Pan-Pa-
cific Exposition in that city.
It is believed that the Federal Gov
eminent is preparing to take steps to
prevent the passage by the Hawaiian
Territorial Legislature of any meas
ure tending to discriminate against
the Japanese.
There is much dissatisfaction
among the people of Cuba on account
of feeling that American capitalists
are land-grabbing, and may throttle
the small farmers in the island.
The native newspapers at Manila
in leading editorials express fear that
Japan will go to war over the con-
troversy concerning the segregation
of Japanese pupils in the San Fran
cisco schools and will sieze the Phil
ippine Islands and so crush all aspira-
tons for independence.
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DOMESTIC.

Thousands of ducks are dead and
as many more dying on the famous
hunting grounds of North Utah, the
cause being mystery.
The Baltimore Chamber of Com
merce has chosen Blanchard Randall
as president.
A lobster nipped Christian Rup-
pert, a restaurant chef, of New York
City, on the thumb, and he died of
lockjaw.
Edward P. Nipple, brother of the
late Frank K. Nipple, head of the de-
funct Real Estate Trust Company,
or Philadelphia, committed suicide.
Control of the Mobile, Jackson and
Kansas City and the Gulf and Chi.
cago Railroads has been vested in
John E. Borne, B. f. Yoakum and
Alexander Mcdonald.
Andrew D. White, a grandson of
the former president of Cornell and
Minister to Germany, shot himself on
a railway train and died at Los An
geles, Cal.
Alarmed by an unfounded report
depositors in the Mechanics Trust
Company, in Bayonnep N. j., started
a run on the bank and withdrew
$250,000
Zion City is to be deserted by Vo-
Iva; he will found new colony.
An estate of about 500, 900 was
left to James Cullen, who was
lynched at Charles City, Iowa, his
brother, r. c.. Cullens will, having
just been filed at Des Moines.
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Daily Life in America.

At a recent dinner in London the
conversation turned to the subject of
lynching in the United States. 1t was
the general opinion that large per-
centage of Americans met death at
the end of a rope. Finally the hos
tess turned to an American who had
taken no part in the conversation,
and said:
You, sir, must have often seen
these affairs?"
YES" he replied, 1--WE take kind
of municipal pride in seeing which
city can show the greatest number of
lynchings yearly"
ooh, do tell us about a lynching
you have seen yourself" broke in
half dozen voices at once.
1.-THE night before sailed for Eng
land" said the American, 81 was CIV
ing a dinner at hotel to party of
intimate friends when a colored wait
er spilled plate of soup over the
gown of a lady at an adjoining table.
The gown was utterly ruined, and the
gentlemen of her party at once seized
the waiter, tied rope around his
neck, and at signal from the injured
lady swung him into the air."
"Horrible!" said the hostess with
a shudder. "And did you actually
see this YOURSELF"
"Well, no." admitted the American
apologetically. Just at that moment
happened to be down stairs killing
the chef for putting mustard in the
blanc mango. Life.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-05
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.
merce Commission and the Congress
delegation from North Dakota are
grayely 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 telegraphic
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
Maxbass, and was carried across the
open prairieS ten miles to Eckman.
sMaxbass is small town on the Great
Northern Railway, close to the Can
adam line and 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 mail 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
| indicates that President hill, 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
a 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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$5,O0O,OOO FOR CHARITY.
William Whiteley's Will Provides For
Homes For Aged Poor.

London. The will of William
Whiteley, the London merchant who
was murdered last week, makes
number of generous charitable be-
quests, the chief being $5,00O,OOO to
provide and maintain almshouses to
be known as the "Whiteley Homes
For the Aged Poor
Mr.. Whiteley leaves $250,000 to
each of his two sons, and his sister
and her two daughters receive annu-
ities of $4,000 each. His wife, from
whom he had separated, was "pro-
vided for during life In addition
to several other family and household
requests Mr.. Whiteley leaves sums
varying from $500 to $4,000 to
number Of hospitals, while two sums
of $4,000 each are left in trust, one
to be applied to the giving annually
through a certain clergyman of
''Whiteley Christmas gifts while
the income of the second sum is to
be devoted to the promotion of
cricket, football, rowing and swim
ming. Any residue is to be divided
between Mr.. Whiteley's two sons.
The unusual public interest in the
Whiteley tragedy was shown by the
scenes at the funeral of the mer-
chant. Long before the hour for the
ceremony thousands of persons gath
cred about the home and dense
masses lined the streets leading to
the church where the service was
held.
Most Of the shops in the West.
bourne Grove districtkept their shut
tiers up and more than 100 carriages
followed the hearse to the cemetery.
-Four of these were laden with floral
MreathS
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-05
S1OO Reward. s1OO.

The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
Cure is the only positive curenow known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being con.
stitutional disease, requires constitutional
treatment Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood and mu-
cous surfaces of the system, thereby destroy
ing the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient strength by building up the con-
stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith
IN its curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails tG
cure. Send for list of testimonials Address
f. j. CHENEY Il Co., Toledo, q.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-05
FEARFUL BURNING SORES.
Boy in Misery IL Years-Eczema in
Rough Scales, Itching and In
Manufactured by Cuticura.

II wish to inform you that your won
derful Cuticura hes put stop to twelve
years of misery / passed with my son. As
an infant noticed on his body red spot
and treated same with different remedies
for about five years, but when the spot
began to get larger l put him under the
care of doctors. Under their treatment
the disease spread to four different parts
Of his body. The longer the doctors treated
him the worse it became During the day
it would get rough and form like scales.
At night it would be cracked, infiamed and
badly swollen, with terrible burning and
itching. When | think of his suffering, it
nearly breaks my heart. His screams
could be heard downstairs. The suffering
of my son made me full OF misery. l had
no ambition to work, to eat, nor could
sleep. Cne doctor told me that M sons
e; sema was incurable, and gave it up for a
bad job. One evening | saw an article in
the paper about the wonderful Cuticura
and decided to give it trial. ] tell you
that Cuticura Ointment is worth It's weight
in gold, and when ! had used the iirst box
of Ointment there was a great improve
ment, and by the time l had useu the
second set of Cuticura Soap, Cuticura
Ointment and Cuticura Resolvent my child
was cured. He is now twelve years old,
and his skin is as fine and smooth as silk.
Michael Steinman, Sumner Avenue,
Brooklyn, N. Y, April l6, 1906"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-05
EXPLOSION SUFFOCATES
SCORES IN COAL MINE
Powder Shot Ignites Dust in a
West Virginia CoIIiery.
REscUING PARTIES AT WORK
Two Hundred Were in Shaft at Time
of Accident-Sixty Perished In.
stantIy-VictiIns in Pit 500 Feet
Deem

of Accident-Sixty Perished In.
stantIy-Victims in Pit 800 Feet
Deep.
Charleston, w. Va.-With a deto-
nation heard for miles around, coal
dust and gas in the Stuart mine, near
Fayetteville, exploded, bringing ter
rible death to the eighty men who
were at work more than 500 feet be
low the surface. There is no chance
that any of the men will be taken oui
alive, for it is thought that the ter
rife force of the explosion snuffec
out their lives instantly. 1t will no,
be possible for the rescuers to reach
the bottom of the shaft for forty.
eight hours.
Most of the men were Americans
and many of them were married and
had large families There were a
dozen negroes and fifteen or more
foreigners
The rescue work was begun as
soon as the wrecked parts of the
shaft house could be repaired. About
two hours after the explosion three
men were lowered into the shaft
Before descending sixty feet two OF
the men were overcome with foul
air, and the third was barely able tc
give the signal to his comrades at the
top. All further attempts we're aban.
doned for the time.
Air was supplied to the mine by
several large fans, but the mechan.
ism was damaged, and the fans were
idle for about two hours. The fans
were then started again, and if the
men were not all dead by the force
Of the explosion, it may be that they
the rescuers reach them.
The scene about the mine is pa.
Ghetto, men, women and children cry.
ing for their dear ones and imploring
those on the ground to go to their
rescue.
The Stuart mine is a shaft 56S
ieet deep. The development is in the
Sewall seam, which ranges in thick
ness from four to five feet. The
mine is located on the White Oak
Fuel Company's private land, con-
Meeting with the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad at Carlisle. The man
ager is F. f. Dixon. The mine is
owned by the Stuart Colliery Com
pany.
The bodies lie 600 feet below the
surface of the earth.
Fifteen men had just left the mine
and were far enough away from the
mouth to escape injury when the ex.
plosion occurred.
The echo of the explosion had
hardly died away before the men on
the outside began to arrange rescue
parties. It was found that the force
of the explosion had put the ventilat.
ing fans out of commission and dis.
arranged the cage so that it took
two hours to get things in condition
for the first venture.
Superintendent Dixon, Tom Davis
and James Whistle started down in
the cage, but had not gone far when
they found themselves overcome by
the fumes and had to give the hoist.
ing signal. Dixon was the only one
who had sufficient strength to let ii
be known to those above what was
wanted, and but for him the three
would have perished.s They were
drawn back and no further attempt
has been made to go into the mine.
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al Voyage unriraIed.

Although anticipated as to geo.
graphical discoveries by his British
predecessors, yet the voyage of
Amundsen stands forth unrivaled as
to scant means, scientific work and
successful navigation. Under his
skilful handling the tiny Gjoa is the
first ship to make the Northwest pas
sage, and the REORGANIZATION of the
location of the north magnetic pole,
by observations covering nearly two
years in the immediate vicinity of the
pole, is a most notable contribution
to science. 1t should be borne in
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-05
Just sneeze Rieilt Out.

"Never suppress a sneeze," said
the trained nurse to the young
woman who had just performed that
polite act. st is a great strain on all
the nerves and the blood vessels of
the head, as it throws all the action
to the back of the head instead of
letting it come out of the mouth safe
ly and naturally. The unusual and
hard strain on little blood vessel
that may b /, weak is likely to burst it
and cause instant death. A loud
sneeze does not sound very nice, but
it is safe thing to do every time"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-05
Prominent People.

Andrew Carnegie gives $3.50, 900
to build a home in Washington for
the Bureau of American Republics.
President Roosevelt and $50 prom
inent men enjoyed the January din
ner of the Gridiron Club, in Wash
ington, D. G.
Francis Emory Warren, who has
just been elected for the fourth time
to represent Wyoming in the Senate,
is native of New England.
Senator Tillman probably earns
more money every year on the lecture
platform than any other American
who talks to the public for pay.
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mind that these results have been
produced by the labor Of only nine
men, without undue suffering, and
with most modest equipment The
outcome stamps Amundsen as man
endowed with high qualities Of ad-
ministration, judgment and resource
fitness. From A. W. Greely's Am
undsen's Expedition and the NORTH
west Passage" in The Century.
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Stub Ends of News.

The New York Central began its
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. Biakeslee, of Waterbury,
Conn, gave a STRAW ride" to 6O0O
children in that city.
1t was learned that the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit had formulated plans
to spend 100000 on new tracks
and an addition to one OF its power
plants.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1907-02-05
EP|DEMICs SWEEP
ALL OVER CHICAGO
Nearly $1,000 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.

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 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
| hgures Of the contagion were marked
I again by high numbers.
Three hundred and fourteen new
cases of scarlet fever. fifty-five of
aiphtheria and twenty-five of measles
were 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 10000, and
may reach $4,000.
Commissioner of Health G. w.
Whalen issued 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-schoo1s 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
to 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
Bpectors were doing competent work
toward 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 normal year.
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MANY CHINESE DROWNED.
Over Hundred Lives Lost in Squat
at Hong Kong.

Hong Kong. heavy squall broke
over Hong Kong, and in ten minutes
sank more than fifty Chinese craft in
the harbor, more than 100 natives
being drowned. There were no cas-
uaities among the white population
Launches rescued many persons. The
harbor was Uttered with wreckage
from the sunken junks.