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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19

New York.-Inquiry among the ca
BILE companies failed to disclose any
interruption of communication be.
tween the two Americas. Those lines
Which run through the West Indies to
Central and South America were re-
ported working smoothly and the Off
cials Of the companies said that none
of their offices or those of their con-
Meeting lines to the south had report
ed any earthquake disturbances. 1t
is, therefore, evident that the quake
just recorded did not occur at any
largely populated region on the west
ern hemisphere. 1t probably was an
under.ocean disturbance.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
searchIioht for Isles of Shoals,

Manchester, N. H.-A plan has been
suggested by Capt. Charles H, Man
ming, U. S. N, retired, of this city,
whereby powerful modern search.
light could be installed at the isles of
Shoals off the Maine coast. Capt. Man.
ming states that with modern equip
ment the searchlight could be made
to work with a radius reaching from
Eastport, Me-, to the tip of cape Cod.
For naval department purposes it is
said that the value would be incalcula-
hlp
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
CHEAP FARES IN CLEVELAND.

Cleveland, Ohio.-The. Cleveland
Electric Railway is now selling street
car tickets at the rate Of seven for
twenty-five cents.
The announcement of the company
says the experiment Is made to show
the public that the company is ip
earnest in its effort to give the CleVe-
land public practically three and a
half-cent fare, which, it says, would
be permanent If its proposition to the
city is accented,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
NEGRO sTRANGLER's STORY.

Chiea go.-Richard Walton, ne
gro, has confessed that he alone muir
dered Mrs. Lillian White Grant, by
strangling her as she lay in bed at
her home. Using Police Inspector
Hunt as a dummy Walton illustrated
how he had tied an undervest about
Mrs. Grants neck and choked her
to death.
Afterward he stole her watch and
money and fed. He was arrested
In Springfield, ILL.,, by negro police
m
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
Lasts Nor. Than -Four Hours.

London.-The observatory on the
Isle of Wight recorded severe earth.
quake Oct. 16, beginning at 2.15 in
the afternoon and lasting more than
four hours. The distance of the dis
turbance is placed at 5000 miles.
The observatory at Laibach, Aus.
tria, also recorded an earthquake at
practically the same time, lasting for
two hours and half, and at a dis
tance of $3.50 miles.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
October II, 1907.
THURSDAY

| ] SShSSN' 49,
Word sent to Mrs. Stevenson Of
Brookline, Mass. that her daughter,
Grace, who disappeared 10 years ago,
is in New York playing at leading
theatre.
Two women out of three in auto.
seriously hurt in collision with street
car at Darlington, r. l.; Miss Laura
Mcguire of Fall River has fractured
skull and will probably die.
Vice-Pres. r. e. Byrnes tells Boston
! boot and shoe club that New England
railroads and ideas both need to be
| four-tracked.
Gen. Frederick Dent Grant person.
ally conducts 15-mile test horseback
ride for army officers of the depart
ment of the east.
Arthur l.. Dakin of Somerville,
Mass, killed while on duty as wire
less operator at South Wellheet.
Two New York "affinities" declared
insane.
Washington and other seismographs
record earthquake disturbance, prob
ably under ocean, of intensity equal
to that of San Francisco shock.
Council of the Congregational
church at Cleveland adopts amalgama-
tion report.
Heinze securities object fierce at
tack in New York market that brings
brothers firm into financial straits.
! Captain and eight of crew of steamer
Atheniana, stricken by malaria at Pan
anna, forced to leave their ship upon
arriving at Boston.
Solomon Lincoln, prominent citizen
and lawyer of Boston, dead.
Washington authorities order release
of eight immigrants whom Boston Off
| cials were to deport.
Police Commissioner Bingham OF
New York arrested on assault COM
plant of ex-Capt. Reynolds.
President Roosevelt almost got
chance to fire at bear.
New England ideas to be incorpor-
ated in proposed uniform bill of lad.
ing to be prepared by interstate com.
mission
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
About Noted People.

Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew, with
Mrs. Depew, returned from Europe.
The Siamese King bought $4,000
900 worth OF diamonds and gold and
silverware In Berlin.
Professor Albert M. Lythgoe,
Psychologist, has returned to New
York from Europe, after an absence
Of one year
Conservatives In China have been
shocked to learn that Duke Con-
fucius," direct descendant Of the sage
Confuclus in the seventy-sixth genera
ton, has Joined the liberal movement
In the Empirs,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
"AHinities" Declared Insane.

New York, N. Y.-ReX. Maxwell j
H. Walenta, pastor of st. Lucas Evan
gelical church, in Sutton street, near
Nassau avenue, Brooklyn and his "af-
finity," Mrs. Dora Bauer of - Sutton
street, Brooklyn, whom he calls his
soul affinity" have been declared in
sane, in reports to Magistrate O'Reilly
in the Manhattan avenue police court,
made by doctors of the Kings county
hospital, to which the two were sent
for observation.
Mrs. Bauer may go to an asylum.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
Sultan Short of Eunds-

Paris.-In a dispatch from Rabat
the correspondent of the Matin says
the extremity of Sultan Abd-El-Aziz is
worse than was first thought He has
only money for three days, and if
France does not come to his rescue
financially he will be forced to dis
band his army and shut himself up in
Rabat Such an event becoming
known among the partisans of Mulai
Hafd would have the gravest conse'
Quences. They probably would be,
siege Sultan Abd-El-Aziz in Rabat.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
MuIal to Attack the French.

Paris-In dispatch from Tangier a
correspondent of the Petit Journal
says that Mulai Hafd's army. 5000
strong, is marching on Casablanca
with the direct intention of attacking
General Drude, commander of the
French forces at Casablanca, who is
making elaborate preparations for de-
attacked French column near Oudja
also are reforming and preparing for
an attack,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
The Field Of Sports.

Pennsylvania had an easy victory
at football over North Carolina.
George Bonhag, the American
champion, is taking short rest.
Contests on land and on the sea
now pale in interest before those in
the air.
Jack" Johnson outfought Sailor"
Burke in their six round bout at
Bridgeport, Conn.
Captain c. e. Ide, of the Yale
Varsity eight, will not return to COLI
lege this fall, having decided to enter
into a business enterprise in SSD
Francisco, r1N
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
Money for Railroad Men.

New York, N. Y.-Mrs. Russell Sage
has added $4,000 to the $4,000 she al
ready had given for the erection of a
new Y. M. c. A. building in Long ISL
and City for the use of the men en-
ployed on the Long Island railroad
President Peters of the Long Island
railroad has pledged it for $4,000, max
ing the 100000 needed for the build
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19

Berlin-Crown Prince Frederick
William has begun years work in
the Prussian ministry of the interior,
as part of his preparation for assum.
ing the crown in due course of time.
1t is understood that the crown
prince will successfully serve in each
important monistry until he becomes
familiar with the whole system of the
administration.
The prince has been relieved from
military duty for year, in order to
enable him to study department
work
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
Steamer Laroer Than Lusitania

Berlin-Director Balm of the Ham
burg-American line has been quoted
in an interview published in the Zeit
of Vienpa as admitting the report that
his company intends to build a steam
er of $4,000 tons, larger than the Gu
nard liner Lusitania, to be driven by
a combination of turbine and recipro.
citating engines.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
Earthuuake of Great Violence.

Washington earthquake of
great violence was recorded by the
seismograph at the weather bureau
Oct 16. The strongest motion of the
disturbance began shortly after 8
o'clock and subsidized about six min.
utes later, the approximate time, as
first shown by the government instru-
ments, being GA to 9.20.
The earthquake was also shown on
the seismograph at the coast and geo.
detic survey magnetic observatory at
Cheltenham, Md.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19

demanded; but being a surly speci.
men Of his race, he fingered on and
on, becoming more and more a thorn
in the side of the administration. To
hints he was dumb, and when ordered
away, defiantly replied that he would
suit his own pleasure in going; a
course of action which resulted in the
enactment of statute empowering
the President to arrest and convey
out of the United States any envoy
who remained after his recall and rea.
sonable notice to leave.-From "The
Diplomat at Washington" by aubrey
Lanston in the Bohemian.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19

Our diplomacy has always been
marked by a refreshing republican
simplicity of speech. The fifth case
Is, of course, the recall of Senor Dupuy
de LONE, just prior to the war with
Spain, for having unwisely criticised
the administration in a letter to a
friend
The recall of De Irujo, though. was
marked by an unusual circumstance.
At the request of the Spanish govern
ment, actuated by a desire to avoid
scandal, the State Department had ar
ranged that Irujo should depart quiet,
Iy, as though his recall had not been
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
Woman shopper Killed.

Jersey City, N. Jan iron railing
which formed a guard for a scaffold
which had just been hoisted to the cor
nice of six-story department store
building, fell to the street among wo-
men shoppers recently. Mrs. w. H.
Flegg was struck by the iron and
crushed to death.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
Gave Larqe Sum for Missions.

New York.-The annual missionary
offering subscribed on the closing day
of the Christian and Missionary ALI.
ance convention, amounted to $65,625
The Rev. A. B. Simpson, president
of the Alliance, preached the mission
arY sermon.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
MONDAY.
October u. 1907

"'S'NDNi y 49,
Body of George w. Hardy of SOmer-
Vile, Mass, found in old magazine on
Castle Island in Boston harbor, with a
self-inhicted bullet wound in his head
Striking telegraphers in many cities
vote to continue the strike; Pres,
Small suspended by the executive
committee.
Man wearing heavy diving armor
falls overheard and browns at New
buryport, Mass.
President decides not to move furth-
er south; fresh bear trails seen.
Nearly 200 Boston firemen summoned
before grand jury to testify on charges
that promotions were bought.
Condition of Emperor Francis jos
eph causes much anxiety.
Death of John NJ. Oxton, dean of
Boston newspaper men.
Reconciliation of the Vanderbilt
family known to have taken place.
Navy department frowns on mar
riage of midshipmen.
Italians honor memory of Columbus
in meeting at Faneuil hall, Boston.
Stuyvesant Fish may seek the aid of
the courts to delay the Illinois Central
meeting.
Steamship Atheniana arrives at Bos-
ton from Progreso; her crew were
stricken with malaria on the passage
to that port from Colon.
Nine. Calve in Boston all this week
for rest.
William Garon, aged 3, shot and
killed while at play at Manchester,
N. H., it is believed by accident, though
two older boys tell improbable story.
Roosevelt third term movement dis
concerts Taft managers.
Meeting of 1900 shoeworkers at
Brockton, Mass, in lively session en-
dorses Independent movement of last
ers.
British schooner Demozelle is sunk
in collision in Vineyard sound.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19

Wages are low in France and living
expenses high. Common laborers re.
ceive from 40 cents to so cents a day
and dressmakers and milliners 4C
cents. High grade mechanics get 81 70
$1,20 a day.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19

Brazil will soon be able to raise all
the rice needed for home consumption.
The imports at Rio de Janiero in 1906
we're only SO, 3O5 bags as compared with
20 O31- in 1905
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19

Many French vineyards are likely to
be turned into rose gardens. The per-
fume factories pay 5000 per kllogramme
of pure essence of roses and the de-
mand is greater than the supply,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
nMove On SAYS Britain.

London-The British foreign Off
cials have refused to receive ENJOYS
of Mulai Hafid, sultan of the south,
and therefore he will proceed to Ber-
lin in an effort to interest the Ger
man foreign Office in the cause of the
would-be sultan of the whole of Moroc-
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19

The total production of all kinds Of
pigiron in Canada in the first half of
1907 was 100000 gross tons, as COM
pared with 2S2,010 tons in the cor
'esponding time last year.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
Gets PARDON
Man Serving Life Sentence
Liberated From Prison.

He Had Spent Twenty-Three Years in
the Penitentiary at Charlestown,
Mass, for Killing His Wife When
He Found She Was Untrue To Him
During His Long incarnation He
Has Become an Expert 5acteriolo-
gst and Could Pass an Examination
as a Dentist
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
9 CONDENSED NEWS
OF THE ENTIRE WEEK

DR.. S. C. K. Rutman Of India tells
Harvard students that uprising is inn
minent in that country.
Standard oil in south formerly sold
oil through nominally independent
concerns.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr., injured in
game between the Harvard second
team and Phillips Exeter.
Chicago National league players di.
vide s45,OOO as their share or the
worlds series money.
United States to conduct thorough
investigation of New England railroad
situation.
John II. Roberts, English temper
ance crusader, declares he has yet to
see a drunken woman in Boston.
Yale seniors adopt resolutions
against honor system" in eXamina-
tiOns.
Fish asks injunction to restrain Har-
riman from voting 286,OOO shares of
Illinois Central
Steamer Admiral Dewey brings in
to Boston captain and crew of wrecked
barkentine Addie Morrell.
New York striking telegraphers call
on President Small to resign at once.
Emperor Francis Joseph has a
change for the better.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19

Did ever a shadow sit on one side
OF the hearth without an angel on the
other?-James Buckham.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
TUESDAY,

TUESDAY, October is, 1907.
Police Commissioner O'Meara re-
fuses to be republican candidate for
mayor of Boston.
President John Mitchell Of the unit
ed mine workers operated on for ap-
pendlcitis at Lasalle, Ill.
Mrs, Maude c. Clark of New York
is charged with having kidnapped her
son.
Usual autumn advance in price of
coal announced.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
BOSTON WHOLESALE MARKETS.
OPEN DAY AND EVENING

To make the appended quotations Of valne
alike to buyer and seller, the resume Of the
market, prGtacing the quotations, should be
carefully read. In n market Of this charac'
ter 1t Is impossible to give prices for every
day of the week. Noting, however, me
general tendency of trade, sufficiently, &C.
Curate quotations will be given ON when
dealers can safely base their transactions
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
SATURDAY,


Massachusetts nautical training ship
Enterprise back at Boston from cruise.
Arthur II. Osborn of New York de-
clares he married in 1905 Helen Ma
Ioney the missing Philadelphia heiress.
Squirrels blamed for $4,000 fire at fire
works factory at Auburndale, Mass.
Congressman Roberts suggests fiat
reduction of tariff rates as means of de-
creasing Uncle Sans surplus at din
ner of Massachusetts Reform club.
First hazing of freshmen at Tufts
college for years.
Col. Attmore A. Tucker, nominated
by Rhode Island Democrats for secre-
tary of state, declines to make race.
Lessening of college entrance re-
quirement discussed by New England
association of college and preparatory
schools.
President moves camp 40 miles in
hope of finding bears in new section.
Rockefellers latest gift to the uni
versity of Chicago of $6O0,0OO.
Alienist Dana gets judgment against
Harry X. Thaw and his mother for
1851.
Three negroes lynched in Mississip-
pi.
Mcdonald surrenders to Providence
police, but says he is not implicated in
death of his baby boy.
Episcopal house of deputies adopts
the phrase This American Church; "
divorce, child labor and suffragan bish-
ops discussed.
Members of the Royal Swedish Yacht
club find New York Yacht clubs reply
to query concerning challenge unsatis-
factory.
Woman cuts her throat with a razor
at Lynn, Mass
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
FRIDAY,

FRIDAY, October II, 1907.
Lusitania makes trip, Daunts Rock
to Sandy Hook, in days 20 hours.
President kills fine buck in Louisi-
ana hunt
Mrs. Sarah Mcdonald charged with
murder in the Providence dress suit
case mystery, confesses that she left
body in Jefferds yard.
Balloonist seriously hurt by tumble
at fair at Claremont, N. ii.
Claims of several Massachusetts
officers for furlough pay in Spanish
war allowed.
Defendant takes stand in his own
behalf in Robens trial at Houlton, Me.
Mr.. Bryan declares his opposition
to President Roosevelt's suggestion
of national incorporation for rail
roads, on the ground of Capitalization.
Jacob Riis says President Roose-
welt will be compelled to serve anoth-
er term.
Mrs. Cassie Chadwick dead in Ohio
prison.
New York watchman in desperate
fight with robbers in office building.
p. S. Trainor, to whom Standard
Oil books record immense loans, says
he never got money, never heard of
the account.
Address given by Gov Hughes at
New York day at jamestown.
Bureau of labor statistics sends out
pamphlet reviewing recent legislation
for British workingmen.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1907-10-19
WEDN E SDAY,

WEDNESDAY, October 16, 1907.
Slight earthquake shock reported in
the Merrimac valley, extending from
Haverhill, Mass, nearly to Manches-
ter, N. H.
Emperor Francis Joseph expresses
desire for exercise, though fever has
returned to moderate extent
Interstate commerce commissioner
found proof in California of rebating
by Harriman's Southern Pacific.
U. s. supreme court dismisses
Strauss against commonwealth of
Massachusetts case, thus upholding
antitrust law.
President Roosevelt startles his
companions by his capacity for rough
ing =; goes swimming at daybreak.
Postotfice robbers get away with
$4,000 at Winchendon, Mass, and Troy,
N. H.
Six striking telegraphers go back to
work at Washington and six at Cleve-
land.
Congo reform association to ask U.
s. government to call for intervention
by the powers.
Charles II. Amadon, who was in bat
tie of Manila, dies at Dover, N. H.,
aged 5S.
Rumor in Budapest of difficulty be-
tween Miss Vanderbilt and tiance.
Grandson of late Senator Mcmillan
married while on sick bed in Boston
hospital.
Whereabouts in Boston of Mrs.
Maud G. Clark and her little son,
whom she is charged with abducting,
is unknown.
Modification of Illinois Central stock
injunction leaves Fish with a handi-
cap of 2SG731 shares in annual meet
ing
Capt. Amundsen, Norwegian explor-
er, plans to reach pole by aid of bears
trained for sled work.
Worcester county farmers tell Gov.
Guild that milk sent to Boston is con-
trolled by five contractors.
Trial of George A. Pettibone, ac'
cused of completely in the Gov. Steun-
enberg murder, reset for Oct. 2S, at
Boise, Idaho.
Explosion of powder mills wrecks
town of Fontanet, Ind, kills 25 to so
persons, and Injuries more than 900.
Steamship Symra and schooner
Temperance Bell in collision off Castle
island in Boston harbor.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-11-26
D|ABOL|CAL
WIFE MURDER
IS CHARGED

San Francisco. Nov. 26.-The police OF
Oakland yesterday unearthed a most dia-
bolieal crime and have taken into custody
M. A. wilkins. IA stationary engineer. and
will charge him with the murder of his
wife, whose body was found buried in
of the Wilkins home in Elmhurst, a sub
urb OF Oakland.
1t was known that Mrs. wilkins had
given birth to a child and wilkins stated
that she had gone to the home of her
parents I'm the East
friend OF the dead woman, Mrs. j. NJ.
Anderson OF San Francisco, had been
staying at the Wilkins home during the
past few days and now asserts that Will
kins had endeavored TO induce her TO
leave her husband and go away with him.
Her suspicious became aroused and Mon
day night, i'm dream she saw the body
of her farmer friend lying on the ground.
with the arms crossed over the breast.
She returned to San Francisco and in
formed her husband and the two told the
story to the Oakland police. The result
was the finding OF the body in trench
under an old carpet in the shed, lying as
described by Mrs. Anderson.
wilkins at first said his wife had COM
mtted suicide. Later he asserted she had
died during child birth and that he had
buried the body TO save expenses. At last
he refused TO talk further
Mrs. Anderson says that she was
awakened from her singular dream by
who was standing over her with
a knife in his hand. When she asked what
he meant. he replied that she had been
talking wildly in her sleep, He put away
the knife and asked her to take a drink
Of water. She slipped some of the water,
but did not swallow II. suspecting that it
had been poisoned. This proved TO be the
fact
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-11-26
EMPLOYEES ESCAPE
FIRE BY A RUSE

London, Nov. 26.-Fire broke out in a
big athletic Quitting establishment in
Holborn today and the building and
stock were heavily damaged before the
flames were extinguished. There were
1900 employees on the premises and one of
the managers conceived the expedient Of
emptying the building quickly by an
nouncing to the women employees that
the firm had decided to let them off 10
go out and see a passing parade. The
manager hurried through the rooms call
ing out to the girls and women: This
way for the parade, this way TO see tho
show" He got the women started toward
the star cases. down which they were
hustled. BY the time they discovered the
real cause of the rush they were in safe.
ty beyond the reach of the fire.
The only person injured was the secre-
tary of the firm, whose whiskers were
burned while he was saving the books