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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
MARYLAND

BALTIMORE, Aug. 25.-The semi
annual report of the Consolidated Cotton
Duck company shows good increase in
The receivership order. for the Marvel
Manufacturing company was again re-
scinded.
Judge Wickes received letter of ap-
probation from his former colleagues on
the bench.
The Rockdale campmeeting of the United
Evangelical church was opened.
Mayor Mahool continues to be besieged
with applications for positions.
The timeball service on the American
building was resumed.
. DENTON-Willie, aged years, and Ell
sic. aged 10, children of Mr.. and Mrs
Lambert Ivens, were drowned in Tucka-
hoe river, about half mile from their
home. in Tuckahoe Neck.
The boy was wading in the river. when
suddenly he went down and the sister
went to his rescue. Both were drowned.
The body of the boy was recovered in an
hour and the girls body two hours later.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
GEORGIA

ATLANTA, Aug. 25.-J. C. Haskell of
the Southern Car Service ASSOCIATION
was thrown from moving car at the
corner of Peachtree and Fifth streets
and received painful If not serious In
;uries.
The first announcement of the detailed
itinerary of the special train which VIII
hear the delegates to the meeting here
NJ international and domestic spinners,
representatives of the cotton exchanges
and cotton growers throughout the cot
ton belt was made here, following re-
cent conference between President Har-
vie Jordan Of the Southern Cotton asso-
citation and representative of M. V.
Richards of the Southern railway Inc
delegates will leave New York on octo-
her and after three days spent In AT
lanta-October I, s and. 9-=wiil tour the
cotton belt, besides visiting Toronto
Niagara, Chicago, and will return TO
New York October e1. They Will see
cotton manufacture at every stage.
over his signature in personal caro-
w. E. Christian, father of Miss Juiia
Jackson Christian, only granddaugnter
of Stonewall Jackson of the ConIeuer-
acy. denounces Edmund Randolph fres-
ton, the young Virginian to whom she
was married a few days ago at Salls-
bury N. C., after an elopement. Mr-
Preston, according to Mr.. Cnristlan' -
the direct descendant of epilectlcs' MS
mother having died in sanltariuHl, q,
while his grandmother was victim Oh
that malady.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
OREGON

SALEM, Ore, Aug Ex-Governor Cham
berlain has accepted an invitation to de-
liver an address on October before the
inland waterways convention at Mem
phis, Tenn. His subject will be 'The I'M
portance Of River and Harbor Improve
ment." While his address will have gen
eral application it will set forth particu-
larly, by way of illustration, the indus
trial resources of Oregon, the commercial
opportunities that here are presented, and
the need of river and harbor Improvement
in this state.
ASTORIA--All the seining grounds on
Sand island closed down for the season
Yesterday afternoon on account of the
run of fish having dropped off in the lower
harbor to practically nothing. The season
has not been a very successful one for
those seining grounds and one of the
largest outfits operating there secured
only forty-three tons.
OREGON CITY-Interest is growing IN
the coming Clackamas county fair at
Gladstone Park, October 10, IL and u, and
the local push" clubs of the county are
giving the movement their hearty co-ope-
ration. The Mount Pleasant Civic Devel-
opment club decided to make an exhibit
at the fair and appointed committee to
solicit exhibits.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
RHODE ISLAND

NEWPORT, r. l., Aug. 25.--James Law
renee Van Allen, the only brother of Miss
May Van Allen, reported in New York to
be engaged to Zoltan Doehme, Nordica'
ex-husband. said at Ochre Point that he
knew absolutely nothing of the truth or
falsity of the report, but he limited that II
the rumor was correct ne would nave
heard something about it. His manner In
dicated he did not credit the engagement
of his sister.
Joseph B. Parsonage, secretary OF James
j. Van Allen, her father, who has been III
charge of the Van Allen eHtate for years
stated that he received a Ietter from MISS
Van Allen and that she rote in connec-
ton with business affairs that she had no
intention of ever marrying.
NEWPORT-The engagement was an
nounced by Mr.. and Mrs. James A. Blair
of New York that their daughter, Miss
Mary M. Blair, to William Gould Brokaw
of New York city, and owner OF the We'll
known racing yacht, the sloop Sybrita,
which was built in England.
Mr.. Brokaw was divorced several years
ago by his wife, who is now Mrs. VIII
liam q. Rocker, one of the prominent
members of the fashionable set at New
port
PAsCOAG-The police working on the
mystery surrounding the death OF Helen
Brown, the 7-year- child who was found
dead in a house near here, are working
on a new tack, and they are hopeful they
may shortly locate Ernest Petsold, whom
they want to question on the case.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
QUARREL REVEALS LIFE
STORY OF CYCLONE VICTIM

4 OMAHA, Neb.. Aug. 25.-Stranger i
!. than romance is the life story of !
!. Charles II. Bennett of Melbourne, i
+ La, who eighteen years ago, when i
i child of 6, was picked up by cy- +
i clone at his fathers home in Iowa i
/. and carried into Harrison county !
!. Mo-, a distance of twelve miles, /
/ where he was found by farmer and !
1. his wife, who adopted him. 4
+ He believed that he was their son +
i until a few weeks ago, when they =
j revealed to him their secret, where i
i upon he returned to Iowa to institute !
i a search for his parents and brother \
! and sister, whom he has now found =
j. Recently the young man had y
4 quarrel with Hudson, and In the +
i heat of anger Hudson told him that i
i his name was Benrett, and related Z
4. to him the story Of his life. He dis !
j. covered that years ago his father and 4
i mother had moved to California. :
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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
SOUTH DAKOTA

DEADWooD, S. D., Aug. 25.-George A..
Karr, who has just made the big strike
on the 10 Dollar property near Keystone,
has opened vein of free milling gold
ore, 100 feet wide, which assays well. on
the Black Anaconda Mining company s
property in the Southern hills. Mr.. Karr
has been developing the Black Hills Ana
conda by means of a shaft and tunnel Tor
over three years and has done several
thousand feet of work.
DEADWOOD-Undern the recent
announcement that s. T. Mckinney. a
mining man who has been working over
the old dumps around the idle Golden Re-
ward smelter in this city, has netted over
s4O,O since the first of the year, lies an
interesting story which is vouched for by
one of the pioneer mining men here. Some
thing like ten years ago, when the old
Deadwood & Delaware smelter passen
into the hands of the Golden Reward COM
pany, of which e. H. Hartman, the New
York railroad magante, is the head,s a
SOW of matte which was valued at $40,
900 was taken out and put on the dumps.
Although the D. G. D. people knew its
value, they figured that it was too heavy
to carry off and that it was perfectly safe
as no one outside the company knew of
its value. Later il was to be broken up
and sent to a refinery.
Slayonian workmen, not believing it to
be of value, soon after covered 1t up with
other Stag, and the SOW" which Is matte
run into a trough to cool, was lost sight
of.
1t is believed that this is what McKin-
ney found while cleaning up the old
dumps left by the D. & d. people, and
that 1t furnished the start of his large
stake here.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
NEW JERSEY

ELIZABETH, N. J., Aug, 25.-Traced
by finger prints discernible in an ink
impression OF a black hand signed to
letter received by Father Foretti of ST.
Anthony's Roman Catholic church, in
which the priest was threatened with
death unless he turned over $500 by Sep
tember 1, Michael Venzio an Italian
barber, was arrested as the writer of
the letter.
HOLLY BEACH-The largest number
of guests ever entertained at this resort
is here. Every hotel and cottage is filled
to overfiowing, and some of the larger
ones are turning guests away. The
amusement features on the board walk
have been augmented by number Of
new attractions notably among the num-
Der being one which carries a single pas
senger. seated in chair suspended from
a trolley which runs the length of a
square over the sti and and returns to
the starting point.
RED BANK-Ezra Lincoln, New
York broker and son of Lowell Lincoln
of Locust Point, committed suicide by
hanging. He had been melancholy for
several months. 1t is said that he be-
came Christian Scientist some time ago
and that he had refused medicine.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
NORTH CAROLINA


RALEIGH, N. c.. Aug. 25-The next
United States senate is more than likely
to have one member who is Prohibitions
ist The probabilities are that Governor
Glenn will be elected to the senate by the
next legislature as Prohibitionist and
not as a Democrat. The governor Is the
most bitter foe of the liquor traffic to be
found in the state, and it is likely that
the next legislature, at his instigation.
may exclude all alcoholic beverages from
the state.
ASHEVILLE-Sheri Hunter left for
Shelby. where he will get negro man
by the name of White, who is wanted
here for running over and injuring a
little child, the effects of which caused
its death
The crime, or fatal accident, occurred
here some time ago, but it was not re-
ported to the officer until after the child
was dead
RALEIGH-There is much qualification
here over the fact that Miss Sallie Whit
aker has signlfied her intention to donate
more than 100 acres of land, the Rogers
mill site, to the Raleigh Electric com
pany for public park purposes, the cleo
trio line to be extended there through
Glenwood.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
SOUTH CAROLINA

sPARTANsBURG, S. c., Aug. 25.-The
cotton crop in upper South Carolina con
tinues to grow under the most favoraple
weather conditions. The plant is iuxuriant
and is fruiting heavily. gentleman VINO
has a large plantation near the city salo
that they have never had a finer crop on
his place.
COLUMBIA-W. Stockman White was
found guilty at Lexington of the murder
of his son-in-law, Captain j. Hartley on
December 20, 1905, and was recommended
to mercy, which gives him life imprison-
ment. In the first trial year ago the
jury failed to agree.
YORKVILDE-Mrs Nancy l.. Dunlap,
lady highly, esteemed by all who knew
her, died at the residence of her daughter,
Mrs. Joseph G. Dickson. in Yorkville. She
was in the seventy-ei year of her age,
GAFFNEY--D. F. Phillips. former dep
uty marshal who recently has been filling
the position of special officer at the Nine
ty-Nine islands, died at his home in Gaff~
ney He was a very amiable man and
was we'll thought of by all his acqualnt-
ances. He leaves a wife and three chill
dren to mourn his loss.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
WASHINGTON

VANCOUVER, Aug. 25.-Leslie Cook, a
we'll known business man of La Center,
died at his home in that city. Cook was
well known throughout the country. For
the past eight years he has Deen running
hotel at La Center. He was a native of
Wisconsin, and was AZ years of age. Death
was due to consumption. He leaves a
widow and three children.
Sheriff Sappington is in receipt of let
ter from Mrs. Mary M. Bross of Chico,
CAL, asking for information concerning
her son, B. M. Hulen, who, she states,
left her home June 10 for Vancouver. The
aged mother says she has not heard from
her son since he left, and is most anxious
for tidings of him
COLFAx-The annual report of County
Auditor Duncan for the year ending July
shows that the resources of Whitman
county exceed the liabilities to the amount
of $S66,36l.5S.
DAYTON-As Mrs. ]. G. Lewis was pre-
pairing to milk she met with serious ac-
cident. She was leading calf out of the
barn when he spied his mother and made
up his mind that he ought to have some
breakfast Immediately he made a dive
for his mother, breaking the rope that
held him, and Mrs. Lewis fell backward,
striking on her spine. Mrs. Lewis hus-
band was notified and drove twelve miles
in IS minutes to reach his wife's bedside.
This is a record-brealSing drive for man
of so years.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
MAINE

BAR HARBOR. Aug. 25.-A large gal
lery was on hand at the swimming club
courts to witness the challenge match
between s. M. Howland of st. Johns
bury, VT, who recently won the Maine
championship, and DeKoven Bowen of
Chicago, who carried of the same honor
last year.
PORTLANDS-T annual reunion of the
Eighth Maine Reglmental association was
held at the association building on Peake
island, nearly 175 of the veterans and
their wives being in attendance for din
ner. At the meeting of the association
the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year:
President, l.. p. woodward, Lisbon
Falls; vice presidents, j. G.. Harding of
Monroe and o.. e. Canwell. Dorchester,
Mass; secretary and treasurer, M. d.
Jacobs, Stratton; necrologist and his
torian, Gustavus Pease, Bath; executive
committee, Mr.. and Mrs. George S. Dutch,
Alfred; Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Larrabee of
New Gloucester and H. b. Sawyer of
Auburn.
BANGOR-The long expected happened
when six Sturgis deputies landed in town
and made series of sudden raids on the
hotels, bars and saloons. The raid was
a complete surprise and seizures were
easily made in half dozen places be-
fore the alarm spread through the saloon
districts.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
WAIF OF CHANGEABLE
COLOR Dice IN ALMSH0USE

4 WHITE PLAINS. N. Y, Aug. .. I.
+ Martha Washington, waif who 4
4 was found on the highway at Pleas =
4. ant on July and adopted by Mr.. and !
i Mrs. Peter Quick, who returned her !
4 to the Westchester county almshouse !
I. when they discovered that she was a :
!. pickanirny, has died in that insti- I
!. tuition. =
+ AS the colored baby was taken by !
4 white family and afterward !
4 changed her color, Superintendent :
i. of Poor E. B. Long has been flooded !
!. with letters from persons who want Z
4 to adopt the infant. !
;. Some of the applicants are colored, !
]. who have no children Of their own, I
4. and some are white women who !
j. think 1t would be novelty to bring !
4 up pickaninny. :
i Superintendent Long has replied to !
j. the inquiries stating that he has an !
+ other pickaninny at the almshouse, !
i a regular "Topsy,' who will be !
+ prize for any one who wants her. =
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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
ALL OF THE LATE NEWS FROM YOUR OLD HOME STATE
NEW YORK

NEW YORK, Aug. 25-Nine leading
companies affiliated with the Steel cor
poration have leased four floors of the
great office structure which the Hudson
Tunnel company Is erecting at the
Church street terminal, for which they
will pay a record rental OF s6O,Ooo f0r eacn
floor, or 81 100000 for the ten years lease.
This is said to be the largest rental paid
anywhere on earth.
RTOWN-According to private
dispatches Daniel w. Cahill of this city,
state superintendent of public buildings,
suffered the loss of his personal effects
and narrowly escaped with his life in
the fire at Old Orchard.
ATTICA--The committee, consisting Of
Hon. e. T.. Charles and Chester A. Van
Arsdale of Warsaw. appointed by the
wyoming County Bar association to ar
range for its first picnic, has decided
that the same be held at Walkers
grove, Silver lake, Saturday, August 81
Members Of the Bar association and their
families and county officials of Wyom-
ing county are invited to join in the out
ing. Unmarried attorneys have the
privilege Of inviting a lady friend.
TONAWANDA-Rumor that Alexander
Soman of Grove street had been killed
on the dredge at work in the barge canal
here created considerable excitement for
time. Solman is well known and popu-
lar among city officials and other down
town men, The rumor came to police
headquarters as an assured fact that
the man had been crushed to death be-
tween the dredge and mud scow.
Chief of Police Arthur Ellicott went to
Solman's home to notify the family of
the death of the husband and father and
found Solman sitting at the table eating
dinner. He had fallen into the canal and
gone home early to change his clothes.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
BOY SWALLOWS WHISTLE;
BECOMES LIVING CALLl0PE

i DES MONIES, Aug. 25.-The past 4
!. week little Willie Sampson, living =
+ six miles east of the city, has been i
i human steam calliope. Suddenly \
+ one day last week Willie developed +
+ q subterranean music box somewhere I.
+ In the cavities OF his body. Every +
\. time Willie sobbed there was long i
+ tuneful whistle. Finally distracted !
4 over willie's phenomena Of existence =
!. his mother brought him unwillingly =
i. to the Drake medical dlspensary 4
i on Center. street. Willie was planked Z
i. down on an X-ray photograph ma =
j chine. Fifteen minutes later there !.
i. was held up before the gaze Of Willie !.
i and his mother Photographic plate. :.
!. Willie gazed with awe. There were =
i. his ribs and bones and right In the Z
i. center of his insides was round 7
i. object that had a hole in the mid =
4. die "A1 this fuss over cent whis- =
]. tie that 1 swallowed weeks ago. :.
i said Willie, who remembered sud =
!. denly.
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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
TENNESSEE

BOLIVAR, Tenn, Aug. 25.-The north
winds of the past ten days have been
very detrimental to the cotton plant, dry
ing out the moisture from the soil ana
checking the growth of the plant caus-
ing 1t to mature too rapidly, thereby at
fecting the fruitage by making the boils
drop off
Both late and early corn are being dam
aged. Late corn is tasseling too low.
Grasses are dying, though a great
quantity has been cut The continued
drouth is affecting everything.
GRAYSvILLE-Charle l.. Gilgore and
wife and Mrs. Will Eldrige left the first
of the week for the jamestown exposi-
ton going via Asheville, N. c., where
they will visit friends, thence to Wash
ington, returning via Savannah, Ga. by
water. They will be away about thirty
days.
Miss Grace Crow is selling books in
Chattanooga.
Everett Melendy and family left for
Cleveland, Tenn, to attend the Adventist
Ncampmeeting.
Milo Emmerson has returned from his
missionary labors in northeastern Ken
lucky, near Catlettsburg. He has met
with remarkable success.
ROCKWOOD-A force of hands is now
engaged in repairing the school buildings
of this city and getting them in the best
possible condition for the opening the
first Monday in September. Both white
and colored buildings are being over
hauled generally, which will require the
expenditure of several hundred dollars.
The old plastering will be removed and
a more presentable coating put on that
will not show dirt so readily. This will
be tinted so as to make the rooms as
light as possible.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
TEXAS

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Aug, 25.--Matsua
Hiatsuka, a Japanese who recently
crossed the border and came to San
Antonio, was taken i'll on his arrival
here. 1t developed that he was suffer-
ing from the dreaded tropical disease,
beri-beri. Physicians state that although
the disease is deadly and contagious in
hot climates there is little danger in
temperate zones.
Ell PASO-Two horses perished in the
uuicksands of the Rio Grande near the
smelter. The animals became mired in
the treacherous sand on the Mexican sido
OF the river and 1t was impossible to ex-
tricate them before they had succumbed
PARIS-The daughter of Alexander
Taylor eloped to a neghboring town and
was married. The father on learning of
the wedding, which he had opposed. at
once went to an clubhouse and hanged
himself.
The daughter and her husband were
recalled from their honeymoon to attend
the funeral.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
DELAWARE

WILMINGTON, Del, Aug. 25.-Mos-
quitoes are playing havoc with the de-
livery of the mails along the shores OF
Delaware bay Dozens of rural carriers
who start from Dover have been made
i'll by attacks from the pests. The in
sects attack the carriers and their horses
in swarms. In order to alleviate the suf-
ferings of men and beasts 1t is necessary
to plunge into the bay for salt water
treatment.
MILTON-The secret of "Uncle Billy"
Warnings ability to forecast the weather
has leaked out. Recently he has been
able, with an exactitude not equaled by
the best .barometers, to tell his neigh
bors twenty-four and sometimes thirty
six hours ahead what weather to ex-
pect. His predictions have been OF great
benefit to farmers. Now 1t is learned
that he gets his tips from two pigs. In
dry weather the tails of the pigs have
one curl in wet weather two curls, ana
Just before a rain their tails hang limp.
WILMINGTON = Realizing the bad
start which the team made this season,
due to signing young and inexperienced
players, the owners of the Wilmington
Tristate league club intend to guard
against this possibility another season
Nand already are planning for next year
" has practically settled that Manager
GnSdy a ito have charge again, and ne
is fiowIsSScurrying around In search Oh
players ut is hoped to keep many OF
this sHS>%n's players and by doing So
start ~ with better team work in lsOS'
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
MICHIGAN

SAULT STE. MAIZE, Aug. 25.--After
comforting with local Republicans, Con-
gressman II. Olin Young today announced
that he would recommend 9. Horatio scott
for postmaster of this city. The present
postmaster, William Webster, backed
Deputy Postmaster Frank Higgins Tor the
place and hot fight resulted. Webster
long dictated the policies of the party IN
the east end of the upper peninsula.
NEWBERRY-Because of their reluct-
ance to have her committed to the insane
asylum here, the husband and SON OF Mrs.
Joseph Gariepy of Wolverine, Houghton
county, have suffered the loss of $1,000 Oh
hard earned money. Within minute the
cash had been converted into ashes. The
men had no faith in banks and were won't
to deposit their savings in a secret cacne'
Discovering the hiding place and hnding
the boarded wealth. Mrs Gariepy, labor
ing under the hallucination that there
were evil spirits in the bank notes, rushed
with the package to the kitchen stove and
thrust 1t into the James Her act was no
ticed shortly, but the fire had done Its
work.
EsCANABA-A wood cruiser returning
to Escanaba after inspecting tract OF
timber forty miles north of the city, esti-
mates that one-half of the standing hem
lock on 500 acres of land has been Killed
by porcupines. The district is overrun
with the little animals, which In the early
spring of each year have clipped OH the
budding foliage killing the trees, until
now there is more dead than live timber
on the tract.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-26
IDAHO

BOISE, Aug. pa cutting affray that
was not known generally occurred in
the red light district and Alisert Randall
alias Albert Randall, formerly a convict
at the penitentiary, and Thomas Duff
field, Boise drayman, were the partici-
pants. A large knife was drawn by Ran
dali as he sprang at Duffeld, who was
passing the ex-convict, and both men
we're severely cut in the scufie that fol-
lowed Randall was arrested, charged
with assault with deadly weapon, and
is now in the county Jail awaiting a
hearing.
TETON-A coach on the Yellowstone
route turned over a mile above the vir-
ginia cascades and eight of eleven pas
sengers were bruised. The accident was
caused by a runaway. The horses
dragged the driver, named Brady, long
distance and broke his arm and collar
bone.
MEADOWS--John Stone, while out hunt
ing, shot off the little finger of his right
hand. He found bear with two cubs,
which frightened his horse and acciden-
tally discharged his gun.
BOISE-Work was begun on the grade
for the main line of the Short Line into
Boise and 1t will be built from Mora,
fourteen miles east of Nampa, instead OF
Orchard, as generally expected. The men,
teams and grading outfit were unloaded
at Mora, and 1t consisted of twenty-five
men and graders and scrapers, making
in all two carloads.
1t is said that the Mora survey is the
only one ever approved by the officials,
who would not L-lieve that it would have
an advantage in mileage and grade over
the one surveyed from Orchard. The
Orchard route has been abandoned alto
eether. A. L. Throop of Nampa Is in
charge of construction on the cutoff.