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Georgia SteGmS!n Into Boston
With Light Dead.
AFTER DIRE TURRET EXPLOSION
twenty-five Dead and Dying from
Horrible Disaster.
ADMIRAL GOOD2ICH'S SON KILLED.

ny "a Terrible Accident on the Bat
tIeshtp Named For the Empire state
OF the south Our Snvy suffers Los-
of Two Promising Young Officers
One Turret Captain aud Five En-
listed sauorS-The Calamity Hap
pened on the Cape cod Practice
Grounds. hut she Cause OF the Ex-
pIosion Has sot Yet neen Funy
Determined.
BOSTON. July 1T.-With eight OF her
officers and crew dead and thirteen
others either dying or suffering from
terrible burns received IN an explosion
OF powder in the after superlmposed
turret. the battleship Georgia steamed
slowly up Boston harbor from the tar
get practice grounds in Cape Cod bay
at late hour and landed her human
freight of dead and injured men at the
CharlestOwn navy yard.
With the arrival OF the Georgia there
became known the details Of the most
terrible naval catastrophe that has
ever taken place along the coast oe
New England.
The accident occurred shortly before
noon while the Georgias crew were az
target practice Off Barnstable, in Cape
Cod bay In some manner as yet un-
explained two bags of powder became
ignited and I'm the terrific fash that
followed the entire turret crew. CON
sisting of three officers and eighteen
men, were enveloped in fire aud re-
ceived horrible burns. one officer and
five men dying before the ship reached
port.
The Georgia IS one OF the ships com
posing the second squadron OF the At
lantic fleet. that squadron being In
charge Of Rear Admiral Charles Thorn
0s.
The dead are Midshipman Faulkner
Goldthwaite, Kentucky; Chief Tur-
ret Captain William j. Thatcher. VII
mington. Del; Seaman William JO-
seph Burke, Quincy, Mass: Ordinary
Seaman George G.. Hamilton. south
Framingham, Mass; Ordinary Seaman
George +. Miller. Brooklyn: Seaman
William NJ. Thomas. Newport. X. l.,
and Seaman William Pair. Brooklyn.
Lieutenant Caspar Goodrich, appoint
ed from Connecticut. died after the
Georgia reached Boston.
The seriously Injured are Midshipman
John T. Cruise. Nebraska. hands and
face burned very seriously; Boat
SWANS Mate second class Frank
Schlapp. North Adams. Mass, back,
chest. arms and face burned: Gun
ners' Mate first class Charles HanseII.
New York. face and hands burned, and
ten other enlisted seamen.
The explosion occurred in the after
turret. where the men, under command
OF Lieutenant Casper Goodrich, son OF
Rear Admiral Goodrich. commandant
Of the New York navy yard. and Mid
shipmen Faulkner Goldthwaite and
John T. Cruise, were operating the eight
inch guns.
The guns in the forward turrets had
finished eight rounds OF practice. and
the guns OF the after turret had fired
one round Two cases as the big 100
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BRYANT-Ar. David W. Bryant died
IN Sharlestown, Mass, Wednesday. July
illness of about FIVE months Mr.. Bry.
ant was formerly of this city. bat had
lived in Mass, for about twenty-five
years. He was the son of the late Mr..
Richard /. and Mrs Rosa Bryant and
brother of Mrs. Roberta Smith aud Mrs
Agnes b. Reese. all of this city. In
addition TO these, his wife Mrs. Lizzie
Bryant and FIVE children survive him.
The interment was in Charlestown,
Saturday, July 18th. 1907.
One by one our links are broken
And we wonder why it is,
But. t'is God who gives the token
Yes, tomorrow, we must aos
Richmond planet., 1907-07-20

LONDON. ont. July 1.-THE build
ing occupied 10y Reid's Crystal hall.
Longs clothing store. McCallum's pho
togruph store and Rrcwster's Eve and
ten cent stores on Dundas street col
lapsed here. huryinS a number OF peo-
pie yuriouSly estimated from twenty
10 thirty in the ruins. Several are re-
ported Killed. hat 70 Is impossible at
this time to state definitely. The build
ings are completely wrecked
Richmond planet., 1907-07-20

SAN FRANCISCO July 1T.-Dr Ed
ward r. Tavlor physician AMI law
yer. dean OF the Hastings Law college
and OF the University ot California.
WAS elected mayor of san Francisco
by the board 81 supervisors. by the
open avowal ~ the bribery graft pros
ccution the so called reign OF the biz
stick" has come 10 an end
Richmond planet., 1907-07-20

bridegroom Held For wife Murder.
SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 15.--Freder-
lex III. Magill, formerly cashier of the
Warner National bank OF Clinton, III,
was arrested here on Saturday night
with his bride on charge of killing
MagilPs frst wife at Clinton. Ma.
gills present wife was Miss Faye
Graham, a stenographer, who lived
with the Magill family before Magilrs
first wife died OF alleged strychnine
poisoning. A coroner's Jury returned
a verdict OF suicide.
Richmond planet., 1907-07-20
Torpedoed Ria,tnr Steamer

ORAN. Algeria, July 15.-Flre broke
out with such violence aboard the
British steamer Canada, lying In the
harbOr here. that a destroyer towed
her ont into the roadstead and torpe-
doed her as the only means OF saving
her from destruction. The Canada can
be raised without difficulty, as she
lies In shallow water.
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$4,000 Endowment Paid.

Lynchburg, Va, July .. 'O7
This is TO certify that / have re,
ceived from John Mitchell, Jr., Grand
chancellor of the Grand Court OF
va, l. o. OF Calanthe (S1OO.OO)
One Hundred Dollars in payment OF
the death claim of Mildred Merchant
VINO was member of Celestial Court
NO. 2l1 of Lynchburg. Va.
his
Signed-John X Merchant
mark
Witnesses:
w. J. Wells, d. Deputy.
j. A. Watts. G. w. /.
Annie M. Johnson, r. of D.
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Johnsoa waster.on,s DARK HORSE

WASHINGTON, July 16.-"Governor
John A. Johnson of Minnesota is the
candidate to whom referred as capa-
BILE OF carrying the Democratic party
TO victory next year" said Henry Wat
terson, according 10 Colonel Charles A.
Edwards. secretary OF the Democratic
congressional committee. who has just
returned from Louisville.
Richmond planet., 1907-07-20

LONDON, July II. - A telephone
message received I'm St. Petersburg
from Moscow said that Count Tolstoi
had died at his country seat at JAS
nays Poliana. Ia the government Of
Tula The Reuter- telegraph service
denied the report later and said tina:
Count Tolstoi is enjoying his usual
go. health.
Richmond planet., 1907-07-20
$4,000 Endowment Paid.

Ashland, Va, July Il. 'O7
This is to certify that / have re-
ceived from John Mitchell, Jr..
Grand Chancellor of the Grand
Lodge of Virginia. Knights of Pyth-
las, n. A, s. A., E., A. A and A,
($l5O.00) One Hundred and Fifty
Dollars in payment of the death
claim Of Jacob Mallory, who was a
member of Scotland Lodge. No. 119
of Ashland, Va.
Signed-C. NJ. Carter,
Administrator.
By Hill Carter, his Atty.
Witnesses.
Mary p. Steinlein.
Willoughby Newton, Jr.
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On Trial For Kming Husband.

ELIZABETH, n. J.. July II. In
twenty-five minutes q jury was found
to try Mrs. Edna Rash, cOlored. ac-
cused OF having murdered her white
husband, Charles Rash. June %. The
prisoner is being defended by former
Governor Foster w. voorhees,.
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crok~r DecIine. Nominatson.

DUBLIN. July 16.-Richard Croker
has declined the Nationalist nomina-
ton for member OF parliament for East
wicklow. 20 replace d. ]. Cogan (Na-
tionalist). resigned II ls believed that
Arthur Chamberlain. brother OF Joseph
Chamberlain. viii permit bis name to
be placed before the convention
Richmond planet., 1907-07-20
Police Get brewer nnrten..

TORONTO. July 16.-Herman Bar
tells. the Syrucusc brewer. who es-
capped 'rctu cuS oily here whilO argu-
ment was In progress on his appeal
against eXtraditiOn. was arrested last
night In a house on William street.
Richmond planet., 1907-07-20
PECULIAR CONDITIONS IN THE SOUTHLAND.

the Judge.
Coke said the officer.
''Ten-seventy-five," said the Judge
naming the amount OF the fine.
They buy the coke" I'm the form
Of a powder and snuff Il up the nose:
certain pVtent catarrh medicine
which is nearly all cocaine is some
times used; ten cents will purchase
enough TO make a man wholly ir-
responsible for his acts. and capa-
Bile OF any crime. The cocaine hah-
it. which seems 10 be spreading. for
there are always druggists who will
break the law, has been a curse 20
the Negro and has resulted. directly.
as the police told me, in much crime.
was told OF two cases in particular.
OF ofenses against women. in which
the Negro was a victim Of the drug
habit
SO society. in pursuit OF wealth.
south and North preys upon the ig-
norant and weak-and then wonders
why crime is prevalent,
One has only TO visit police courts
in the South TO see in how many en-
rious ways the contact OF the races
generates fire.
What's the trouble here?" in
quires the judge.
The white complainant boy
says.
This nigger insulted me,' and
he tells the epithet the Negro an
Tlied.
Did YOU call him that?"
No sab, I never called aim no
such name"
'Three-sevsns sy-fsve-lyou mustn't
insult white people"
And here is the report OF the case
OF a six-year-old Negro boy from
The Georgian:
Because Robert Lee Buster n
I slx-year-old Negro boy. insulted Mag
gle McDermott. a little girl who
ives az 507 Simpson Street. Wednes
DAY afternoon, he was given a whip-
ping In the police station Thursday
morning that will make him remem-
Der 10 be good
The case was heard In the juve-
nile court before Judge Broyles. II
was shown that the little Negro had
made an insulting remark to the lit
tie girl"
SO IL goes back and forth
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NEGRO COCAINE VICTIMS.

Not few OF the cases both black
and white showed evidences OF CO.
caine or morphine poisoning-the
bear eyes, the unsteady nerves.
What's the trouble here?" asked
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So it goes back and forth.
STORY OF A NEGRO ARREs

The very suspicion and fear that
exist give rise TO many difficulties.
one Illuminating case came up that
morning. A strappling Negro man
was brought before the Judge He
showed no marks of dissipation and
was respectfully dressed. Confront
ing him were two plain-clothes ro-
iicemen, one with his neck wrapped
up one with bandage around mis-
arm. Both said they had been stab
oed Dy the Negro with a jack-knife
The Negro said he was a hotel
porter and he had the white manager
of the hotel in court TO testify to
MS good character and sobriety and
industry. IL seems that he was 90
ing home from work at nine o'clock
In the evening. and it was dark. He
said he was afraid and had been a.
fraid since the riot AT the same
tinUe the two policemen were look
ing for a burglar They saw the
Negro porter and ordered him to
stop. Not being in uniform the Ne
gro said he thought the officers were
Jes plain white men" who were go
ing TO attack him When he started
10 run the officers tried to arrest him
and he drew his jack-knife and be-
gan TO fight. And here he was in
court! The Judge said:
You mustn't attack Officers
and bound him over TO trial in the
higher court.
(To be Continued)
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-05
Politics in Board of Health.

In the discussion of tuberculous
infect on from bovine and other
germs the national association for its
study and prevention was told by its
president at a recent meeting In
Washington that the United States
are very far behind in respect to the
efficiency of their san tary organiza-
tons as compared with those If Great
Britain and Germany" This is very
likely the case and the reason for it
is probably to be found in the ten
dency we have and always have had
to mix politics with our appointive
offices. Speaking generally and with
no local application at all, 1t is prob
ably true that boards of health
throughnt the United States are
largely composed of men without any
special or trained fitness for their
places. They owe their appointment
to political reasons nine times out OF
ten.-Bsston Herald
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WARE THE LOVING CUP.

Boston Transcript--Some 2S Bryn
Mawr girls, can testify to the dan
ger tina: turks in the loving cup,
1t is reported that the young women
.of the college were banquetting in
the gymnasium and as a closing cerc-
mony, one that is popularity supposed
to strengthen the ties of friendship
between those who take part in t..
the loving cup was passed. Not all
who slipped from it were unpleasantly
affected, but twenty-eight began on
Sunday to repent their indiscretion
and they are still in a repentant
mood But their suffering is not to
be called remorse and the members
of the Christian Temperance Union
have no occasion to take any special
interest in the story The cup was
filled with lemonade and the disturb
ance Is not to the consciences of the
afflicted ones but to their threats, as
they have tonsflitis. But those who
work in the interests Of hygiene AMI
have already gone On record as dis
approving the loving cup as a drink
ing vessel will find the incident =
case I'm point, if the facts prove to be
correctly stated
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rabbit dies, the spinal cord is re
moved, and, socne: or later, this is
put into use. The longer the cord is
kept the weaker is its effect, so the
usual treatment begins with inocula-
ton with emulsion made from a piece
of cord that has been drying" for at
least 16 days. The following day the
emulsion used is made from a cord
that was removed Is days before; and
so the treatment goes on, step by step,
until finally the patient is inoculated
with dose containing cord only a
day old. In urgent cases the progress
sion is more rapid; it may jump from
the sixteenth day cord to the twelfth.
and from that to the tenth or eighth,
and so forth. In the case Of an adult,
usually two injections are made sim
ultaneously A single dose contains
three cubic centimeters of the emul-
sion.
Such is the treatment the discovery
of which has given Pasteur a place
among the great benefactors of the
human race Pasteur found rabies a
source Of universal dread, but he
robbed it of its worst terrors and left
it comparatively innocuous. From the
early part of the Christian era the
disease had periodically ravaged GER
tain parts of Europe, notably France,
Spain and Italy. All sorts of remedies
had been tried without avail. The
immortal Galen himself recommended
the use of a compound of crayfish
eyes. Later. the Hyers--unfortunate
not the spines-of mad dogs were adj
ministered and today the so called
mad stone is applied to some victims
even In this country. But Pasteur,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-05

after the customary discouragements
succeeded where all his predecessors
had .aiied. There was no longer any
excuse for smothering victims, as they
used to do in the old days, nor for
nurses in hospitals to refuse to attend
hydrophobia patients because they
feared they would be bitten.
The only difficulty that remained
when Pasteur died was that due to the
absence of any sound method of dag
nosis; even Pasteur himself did not
know the cause of rabies. Now.
thanks in a large measure to the
efforts of American stude1.ss, his final
difficulty has gradually SoeI. removed.
until today by means of the discover
les made in the laboratory at Brown.
an accurate means of diagnosis is Of
fered to the medical world through re-
search work done in the ordinary
course of preparation for advance de
grees in the department of biology.
Mr.. Hadley. the discoverer of the
improved smear" method, comes
from Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts.
He received his degree at Brown four
years ago, since which he has done
special work in comparative anatomy
and baeteriology
The preventive treatment of Pas
teur and the recent smear" method
of diagnosis are positive facts in the
life saving revolution which has been
accomplished by applied bacteriology
in recent times. But there are other
positive facts not SO well known.
One is that stray dogs are the chief
carriers of the disease. Therefore no
mongrel cur can be above suspicion.
Beware the dog when rabies is
prevalent in the community, and par
ticularly the dog that nobody owns.
He is the animal that does the most
damage, for he is the one that is
usually seen running around biting
and swapping. The home-trained dog
more ofte gets rabies in the paralytic
form, But in any case the disease
cannot, so far as is known, be COM
municated except by biting, for the
germ, which is peculiar and belongs
in the lowest forms of animal life, the
protocol, does not arise spontaneous
ly, nor does it like the bacteria which
produce diphtheria, typhoid fever,
scarlet fever, and tuberculosis, and
which are low forms of plant life,
haunt the air we breathe. the water
We drink and the food we eat In
deed, if all the rabid animals could be
exterminated, it is probable that the
disease would never be heard of again.
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American P!ayers in london.

The Lon ion criticisms of Marlowe
and Sothern's appearance at the Wal
dorf theater, have just reached this
country. The two American stars
should be highly fattered at their
reception, for the reason that their
welcome in London in The Sunken
Bell was no less enthusiastic and ap-
preciative than their late New York
triumph The critic of the London
Times said:
They received a cordial welcome.
Miss Marlowe gives the grace and
elfshness and charm of Rautendelein;
Mr.. oothern gives the alternate cour-
age and despair OF Heinrich. They do
not, that is to say, hide the authors
imaginative figures from us. Both
players do all that they have to do
with intelligence. tact and taste
The critic of the Tribune said: Mr.
Sothern spoke his lines with a sense
of dignity and with an earnest sin
cerity. He played terribly emotion.
al part with true emotional effect AS
the fairy creature, Miss MarTowe was
exceedingly good. Her voice is beau
tiful, and modulated most unsteady
Her figure is wonderfully supple and
full of grace, and in her wildness, her
abandonment, her quick transitions OF
mood and motion, she seemed a very
child of nature
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Science Victorious
Over the Mad DOG
Experts, Particularly in This Country,
Complete the work Begun by Pasteur

Providence, May 31-Among the
conquests over disease which science
has made in recent times none is
more striking than that which has
reduced mortality in the case of
hy4=ophobia from more than SO per
cent down TO twenty five thousandths
Of one per cent of the victims treated.
This wonderful achievement is due
largely to the preventive method of
incubation discovered by the great
Pasteur.
But Pasteur's benefcent work stop
ped with the discovery of a proven
tive. 1t remained for Negri, an
Italian scientist. to discover the germ
Of rabies or hydrophobia This sec
ond remarkable step in the conquest
of the disease was taken only three
years ago. and since then, particularly
in this country. considerable advance
has been made in the methods of
diagnosis. The very latest, and. up
to date. the method regarded as most
nearly iniallible, was devised last
September in the biological laboratory
of Brown university shortly after the
outbreak of the epidemic of so-called
rabies which has been raging in the
eastern part of Rhode Island
One common method of diagnosis
that is, of discovering the presence of
the rabies GERMS the microscopic
examination of brain sections. But
the results of this method, it was
found, were not always sufficiently
conclusive 1t was still possible that
the germ might be overlooked. So
the Brown specialist, Philip B. Had
ley, graduate student working I'M
der the direction of the head of the de-
paytment. Professor Albert D. Mead.
whose original work along biological
lines has done so much to give Brown
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human beings have been bitten by
dogs, but of all those treated by the
Pasteur method only one has died, and
that, apparently. was a case in which
complications set in Altogether six
persons have died.
The Brown specialist. up to the first
of May. had examined LAG cases, and
Of these just one half had rabies.
These were all dog or cat cases. The
advantage of the comparatively quick
method of diagnosis in use at Brown
lasting never more than half a day
is that in case person has been
bitten the Pasteur treatment can be
administered without delay. The
earlier the treatment is given the
surer are the results If there is a
delay of several weeks It is apt to
fail
This wonderful treatment. which
makes recovery possible according to
the records, in Ill but one out Of every
10000 cases, consists of inoculating
the patient with an emulsion of the
spinal cord of rabbit that has been
inoculated and has died of rabies,
pieces of the cord, when dried, being
ground up and mixed with sterile
water or with a sterile salt solution
The treatment is given in the Pasteur
hospitals in New York, Baltimore, Chi
cago, st. Louis, New Orleans and San
Francisco. The board of health of
New York City also sends the emul-
sion out of town for use in cases that
for some reason need to be treated
at home. The treatment takes from
Is to % days.
In New York, at the Pasteur hospi-
tai is kept supply of rabbits that
have been inoculated with rabies.
Every day there are deaths in this
life saving collection. AS soon as the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1907-06-05
KITCHEN HINTS FOR
HONE QUEENS

Brown Bread Moids.-
One pound baking powder cans are
the incest baking pans for brown
bread. The loayes are just the size
for sandwiches. They are nice for
steamed fruit or suet puddings.
Slicing Pineapples.--
The knife used for peeling pine
apple should not be used for slicing it,
as the rind contains an acid that is
apt to cause a swollen mouth or sore
lips. The Cubans use salt as an anti
dote for the i'll effects of the peel.
To Test Nutmegs.--
Prick them with pin, and il they
are good the oil instantly viii spread
Ground the puncture.
To Clean Bread Pans
Do not wash bread pans or muffin
pans. Have ready some soft. clean
tissue paper and use to wipe pans
perfectly clean Immediately after
contents havs been removed II this