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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-04-12
Tuesday, April 9.

Twelve inches of ssnow has fallen at
Tomahawk, Wis.
]. Pierpont Morgan of New York has
arrived in Rome for a short visit.
George Benedict, editor-in-chief of
the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press, died
Monday at Camden, N. c.
Thomas H. Clay, grandson Of
Henry Clay and we'll known Ken
tuckian, is dead at Lexington, KY.
The Standard Oil company Monday
put up quotations on all grades of re.
fined oil half cent per gallon. Quo
tations on gasoline and naphtha are
unchanged.
Widespread foods, caused by the
melting of the snow, have wrought
devastation in many Servian towns.
Railway traffic is interrupted and a
number of fatalities have been re-
DOrted
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-04-12

Had dyspepsia or indigestion
for years. No appetite, and what
j did eat distressed me terribly.
BurdOck Blood Bitters cured me. "
). Fl W alker, Snudusky, Ohio.
Ed. johnson has Doug nt the Joe
.Loveless dwelling on tho lake shore
and moved in this week.
Constipation causes headache
nausea. dizziness, langor, heart pal
pitation. Drastic physics, grippe
sicken, weaken the bowels and
don't cure. Doan's Regulets acts
gently and cure constipation. 25
cents. Ask your druggist.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1907-04-12
Friday, April 5.

Representative and Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth expect to spend month in
Alaska the coming summer.
Robbers partially wrecked the safe
of the Redfield State bank at Redfeld,
Kan, but only secured little change.
Mrs. John F. Olson of New Rich
mond, Wis, was instantly killed by
a thunderbolt during severe elec-
trical storm.
Over 1900 brewery employees in
Western Pennsylvania threaten to
strike unless the brewers sign their
contract for 1907.
Myer l.. Wilson, aged twenty-three
years, son of H. I. Wilson, a prom
tnent business man of Kansas City,
committed suicide by shooting.
The division of dead letters of the
postofice department broke all records
by returning to senders during the
month of March 374,279 undelivered
letters and packages.
Saturday, April s.
Governor Stuart of Pennsylvania
has signed the bill making the maxi
mum rate of fare on railroads within
that state 2 cents mile.
Professor Willis L. Moore, chief of
the weather bureau, has been appoint
ed president of the jamestown expo
siticn aeronautic congress.
The Mcdonald engineering building
at McGili university. Montreal, was
DESTROYED by fire Friday. The loss is
estimated at between 100000 and
$4,000
Edward c. Hauseman, widely known
as a successful racer on the national
bicycle circuit and afterwards pro
moter OF motor paced races, is dead
at New Haven, Conn
At the request of Queen W1lhelmina
the cabinet of The Netherlands has
withdrawn its resignation, rendered
Feb. II, but the war minister, General
H. P. Stahl, will give up his portfolio.
Monday, April 8.
Scurvy is making great strides in
the famine districts of Russia.
The failure of Webster F. Putnam
& Co., bankers and brokers of Boston,
is announced.
Charles w. Strine, manager OF the
Metropolitan Opera company of New
York, is dead at the Boothby hospital
in Boston. Mr.. Strine was operated
upon for appendicitis eight days ago.
The receipts of the Barnum &
Bailey circus, according to a circular
issued to the shareholders, show a
falling of in the last few years, while
the expenses have correspondence in.
creased.
The Prince of Monaco's Monte Carlo
Opera company is occupying the Royal
Opera House at Berlin, giving a series
Of operas, the entire proceeds of
which go to charity. The company
costs the prince personally $11,250
daily.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
MORE INDICTMENTS
GRAND JURY ENDS WEEK or
 ACTIVITY.
Thirteen of Twenty-Five True BiIIa Reported Are Against CaRitalisf Defweiler of Toledo, and
 Louis G2lRsm

San Francisco. March 23--The grand jury ended a weeks intense activity of probing into tho alleged corruption and graft of the city gov srnment by filing twenty-two more indie txnenss with Judge Coffey Of the superaor Court at noon today.
 These are the secret indictments voted by the inquisitorial body early in the week. Thirteen of the true bills reported today are against 4. x Detweiler. capitalist and prominent man of Toledo, Ohio. and nine arc President and General Manager of tho Pacific States Telephone and Tele- graph Company of this city. Tho charge in each indictment is bribery.
 A lengthy indictment was returned against Glass. but was withheld at the last moment on account Of its defective form. Glass has been in Nevada for some time and is storm bound on c train en route home. He will be ar- rested upon his arrival.
 Detective Burns today received word from his agents that Detweiler has been located in Cairo. Egypt. Orders for his arrest have not yet been cabled. but if necessary, he will be apprshend. ed and extradited. Burns seemed tD be of the belief that Detweiler would return voluntarily.
 Judge Coffey fixed the bail at i0.00A surety or $5.000 cash. on each charge or $eO, 900 for Glass and $130.00o for Detweiler.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
What is Justice.
Birmingham Ledger.

Birmingham Ledger
 In Lauderdale County a few days ago little girl was indicted by the grand jury and is now in jail because she threw a rock at a boy and the stone killed him.
 little girl is in jail in Etowah County because she killed man who was trying to force his way into the house, where she and her mother were. It was proven that the man was drunk but a frightened girl could not know that, and was surely justified In shoot ing if she did know 1t. No animal ia more dangerous to a girl than drunk on man.
 The Ledger knows only the facts as published, but 1t does protest that such killings should not be treated as mur- ders. This is particularly so when the slayers are little girls. Girls are not murderous. They are not dangerous to the community. If one should kill a. person 1t is to all intent an accident. even though anger plgys a part and brain storms" reign for the moment.
 The sooner we separate such cases from the brutal and Intentional kiIlinR by men. the better. No jury will con vict those girls of murder. Our juries do not convict men of murder. Why then, throw these little girls into vile falls? They will not run away. To them a jail term is horrible. To right thinking people it is horrible that these children should be held without bail.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24

cry for the business of the first sta tion south of Montgomery.
 One of the charges of the complaint is that, while the defendant lines have ignored the old established differen- tials between East St. Louis and Ohio and Mississippi crossings. they have ad- hered to the differential of cents a hundred pounds from Memphis.
 The petition closes with the request that the defendant lines be required to give relief by establishing from the points in question to Montgomery a differential higher than published rates from those points to Mobile and Pensacola, a differentiai that shall be fair and reasonable in the opinion oi the commission, but which shall moi be so great as to cause the rates from these points to be any higher than the rates from te same points to .Birming- lam
 The petition is sworn to Manage
 H. s. Kealhofer of the Montgomer! Freight Bureau.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
PETITION FOR
 LOWER RATES Strong Plea for Relief is
 Filed. DISCRIMINATION IS CHARGED Freight Bureau Complains to Inter- state Commerce Commission. Rates From Nfississippi and ohio River Crossings To Montgomery Uni-
 formIy Higher Than To
 Birminsham or Gulf
DISCRIMINATION IS CHARGED

The Merchants of Montgomery, through the Montgomery Freight Bu- reau. filed yesterday in Washington, with the Interstate Commerce Commits sion. complaint that the city of Mont gomery was discriminated against in favor of Birmingham, Pensacola and Mobile on interstate rates from cross- ings of the Mississippi and Ohio. The complaint was filed by Manager H. s. Kealhofer of the Bureau. md it will be urged by Horace String gfellow. attor- ney for the Bureau,
 The date on which the Commission will give a hearing to tho Monsgom- cry complaint Is not known. The pe- tition and complaint has been drawn with exhaustive care. Its arrange ment displays a thorough knowledge of rate conditions and printed in pam pfilet form 1t contains fifty eight pages. The pamphlet contains table after ta- ble and schedule after schedule to es- fablish the alleged discrimination. The discrimination is further empaasised by maps and charts of comparison.
 The meat of the complaint, however. Is contained in paragraph five. which says:
 That the rates published by the said defendant railway companies from said ohio and Mississippi River Crossings to Montgomery Alabama, are unreas- onable and unjust in their relations to the rates from the same points to Pen ! saeoIa and Mobile, as hereinafter shown, which points are In direct com petition with Montgomery, Alabama, for trade in sections intermediate to Montgomery and said several points that should be common territory and served on equal basis"
 The complaint is filed against the Louisville & Nashville, the Mobile & ohio, the Southern Railway; Cincin- natl, New Orleans & Texas; Illinois Central and the Nashville, Chatta. nooga & St. Louis.
 Method of Fixing Rates.
 The complains gives the method of making the rates from the West and Central West adopted by the railroads. It declares that the rates to Montgom- cry. Mobile Birmingham and Pensa- cola are constructed by adding fixed charges or differentials from points Of origin therein to the rates authorized and regularly issued by the lines in question from points known commonly as Ohio and Mississippi Crossings.
 Those points include Cincinnati, Louisville Evansville, Paducah and a number of other cities. The first table sets forth that the average rate per ton per mile from St. Louis to Birming- ham is .0259. From St. Louis to Pensa- cola the average rate per mile. per ton ery8the table shows that the average rate per mile per ton is .O2T0 The average rate under the same condi- tions from St. Louis to Mobile is put down in the same table as .0146.
 Tn the same way the tonnage rates
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
Chrlatmaa a southerner.

Mangua. Nicaragua. Bulletin. Mem phis. Tenn, March 2s.--General Lee Christmas. reported to have been cap tured by the Honduran- -Nicaraglan forces today near Marietta, formerly lived in this city and held several railroad positions. He is A years old and was born in Livingston Parish, La. He married Miss Mamie Reid at Vicks- burg Miss. and his family has resided in Memphis since 1885.
 General Christmas went to Hondu- ras ten years ago and entered the rail road business of that country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
BIG PRICE
 FOR SUBURB Capitol Heights is Sold
 For Over S2OO,0O0. NEARLY 600 LOTS INCLUDED West Virginia Land Company Ac- l quires Unsold Property. Original Development Company Re- talns Its Interest fin Lots Sold But Net Fully Paid For In Addition.
NEARLY 500 LOTS INCLUDED

In one of the most important real l estate transactions of the year. the West Virginia Land Company Saturday purchased from the Capitol Heights Development Company. the unsold lots of the Capitol Heights suburb east of the city. The price was not made pub lic. but 1t is understood that the deal involved more than $200,000
 The purchase does not include the interest of the Capitol Heights Devel- opment Company in the lots already sold and partly paid for The retir- ing company retains it's interest in these lots. The unsold lots, however. with all the improvements and good will of the old company, go to the West Virginia Land Company, under the deal that was consummated
 The Capitol Heights Improvement Company was composed of J. s. Pinckard, Ex-Attorney General Massey Wilson. Albert Wilson and a number of other prominent citizens of Montgom- cry. Some years ago they purchased the, old Vickers plantation adjoining the city limits, forseeing that the rapid development of Montgomery would de- mand additional room for residences. They secured from the city the exten- sion of Madison Avenue from the city limits to the Red Bridge Road. The undertaking involved considerable en- gineering feat in building a causeway for the avenue over several culverts and right-of-way of the Central Of Georgia Railroad.
 The company plated its valuable property opened and graded streets. laid cement sidewalks and planted shade trees The property in question Is high, level and well adapted to be residential section. The opening Of it attracted general attention and a large number of lots were sold. Many of the purchasers. having complete faith in the future of Montgomery. came from other cities in Alabama to invest In the property. A number of handsome and costly residences have been built by the purchasers of these lots and considerable building is now going on in the extension.
 The unsold portion of the property which was embraced in the sale just consummated, includes between 300 and 500 lots at Capitol Heights
 The West Virginia Land Company Is composed of Joseph Lee Rhodes and c. W. Hopkins. The company has been in the real estate bushes in Montgom- cry for some time and has maintained an office in this city. The officers are familiar with real estate conditions in Montgomery, and like other men in that line of business are epkhusiastic over the growth and progress of the city.
 The liberal policy of tho old company will be pursued by the new owners and the new suburbs will be continually improved.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
Cost of Crime to tse Un,ted states.

Cost of Crime to the United states.
 Harper's Weekly.
 The cost of crime to the government reaches the enormous sum of s140,000,- 900. Of this sum sso.ooo.ooo are ex- pended in certain per centage of the maintenance of the Supreme and Fed eral Courts United Stases District Attorneys. United States Marshals. and the Secret Service Blu. sau; part of If is the cost of crime to tho Treasury Department to prevent smuggling. the cost of crime In the army and the navy and to the postoffice and to allied de- partments. The government losses by smuggling and postal frauds, etc, add the s60.000. 900 to make the aforesaid total. In the last statement. which is only an estimate of what the national government pays for crime, 1t should be remembered that there are no relia- ble figures on the subject In estinnat- ing the government losses at s60,000,- 900 a year for smuggling, fraud, etc.. the writer has endeavored to keep strictly under the mark. It is esti- mated that the government loses from SIS, ,000, 900 to $100.000rsoo a year by smuggling alone: while the postofice frauds are believed to have cost the government something like s4o.ooo.ooo a year.
 The detailed cost of crime fin the Uni- ted States presents some astounding figures. In 1906 the cost of crime in Greater New York was $35.5S2.1SS.2A. The State, County and city authorities outside of Greater New York spent for 1t .$42, ,605, ,472.T5. In forty-flve States (New York excluded) the expenditure was, $s9t ,080,000. Criminal losses. by fires totaled $100, ,ooo. .ooo. By customs frauds the national government lost $s0, ,0o0, 900. During this one year, the loss in wages of 10o.o State prisoners was $2s. .os0,0 900, while the loss in wages of 150.o00 prisoners in city ana county jails was s33,00o,eo0. The grand total. United States reaches the stupendous figures of s1.o7s. s.s27,so5. .ss.
 The cost of religious work in the United States is enormous The cost of foreign missions, comprising all de- nominations, Is $7,000,UO0: home mis- sions expend the same sum. We spend for education, s2oo,Ooo,ooo; for church expenses and ministers salaries. $780, 000, ,000: hospitals and dispensaries for the. sick poor cost us s1o0,ooo,ooo; for sanitariums of all kinds we spend $6o,- .o0O. City missions and rescue work of all kinds demand and receive $s.o0o,- 900; humanitarian work of every kind, Si2.OO0OO0. Our Young Mems and Young womcn's Christian Associations cost S5, ,ooo,O0O; while ell other moral and social work in the United States requires an expenditure of $5,000, 900. The total expenditure for, humanitarian and religious work is, then. s54s, ,0oo, 900. As against this, the total cost of crime in the United states for the year reach- ed the incredible total of SLOTS, ,s17,- e05.99. This is to say, we spend more than $500, 0,O0o, ,000 a year more on crime than we do on all spiritualG ecclesias- tical, physical. humanitarian. educa- tional and healing agencies put togeth- CT.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24

bearer this time, Devery seeks to get around the action of the Executive Committee against permitting him per- sonally to occupy a seat in that body
 When the chowder season arrives and midsummer politics reaches its height, Devery and his friends can be counted on to promote more interest Ing political news than can Dc found in all the other assembly districts in Greater New York where leadership fights will be made this year.
 For several weeks tho legal frater- nifty in New York has been treated to the spectacle of an elected judge who has failed to take his place on the bench for fear of losing hts job. He Is Francis s. McAvoy. who some weeks ago was elected Recorder by the Board of Aldermen, to fill a vacancy.
 Since his election he has made no attempt to qualify, because he and his Tammany political managers fear that such an act on his part would further the passage of a bill in the Legisia- ture to abolish the ofiice of Recorder in this county. The bill was intro duced right after the scandal fin the Board of Aldermen over the recorder ship election. Several Aldermen are under indictment now as the result of the scandal.
 While his friends represent that Mc- Avoy is "sick." it is a matter of com mon knowledge that he does not in- tend to take his seat until some time in May when the Legislature has ad- tourned for the session.
 Oscar Hammerstein has scored again in the operatic battle that is being waged between his Manhattan Opera House and the old Metropolitan Opera House, which is under the direction of Heinrich Confeid
 TIammerstein has succeeded in secur- ing Mme. Emma Calve for several per- formances during the remainder of the present season. The diva already has sailed on the steamer La Provence from the other side and will be heard here on the evening of March 27 in 'Car- men," This will be Calves first ap- pearance in opera in New York in three years and will be a decided treat to the music-loving public.
 The death of Maurice Grau in Paris brings freshly to mind in New York the last of the first grand opera wars that this city ever witnessed. It was during the winter of 1883 to 1884 when Academy of Music. with Patti and Gerstor as his stars.
 The Metropolitan Opera House was opened with Christine Nilsson and Sembrich as the great attractions. Ab- bey, schooffel and Grau were the man agers The war was fought as bit- terly as that now being waged be- tween Heinrich Conreid and Oscar Hammerstein, but the city was not big enough for the strife and the losses were tremendous
 Grau introduced the De Reszkes, Flames, Poncon. Melba and Calve to the American public.
 Edward staats Luther.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
INVALID WIFE SHOOTS.
oubIe Tragedy May Result From
 F,amfIv 0uarreI

Double Tragedy May Result From
 FamiIy Quarrel. Cleveland, Ohio, March 23-What may result in a double tragedy resulted tonight when Charles F. Avery sales man. was probably fatally shot by his invalid wife.
 After the shooting the woman col lapsed and her condition Is serious, The shooting occurred during a quarrel between the couple. Becoming greatly excited the woman reached under her pillow and taking revolver she had secreted. shot Avery in the back. Mrs. Avery Is the daughter of q well known business man.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
Needln Something.

Anni8ton Htar.
 Ebert Hubbard has roasted the newspaper business 70 a brown finish. declaring all papers bad and some much worse. For a man in Hubbard's con dition a good course of liver medicine, followed with a sttff treatment for in- digestion would be good, unless his liv- CT is as badly derangsd as his temper. In that event hls case is hopeless.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24

mother thinks it's queer that she can't teach her daughter to avoid tho things she could never be taught to avoid herself New York Press.
 A New York dressmaker announcss the advent from France of the "dress that buttons in front" Now agitate for the dress with pockets -Milwauhee Sentinel.
 Cotton is making possible the gains in the export trade of the United States this year. Score a big credit mark for the South.-- Cleveland Lead er-
 A Nebraska woman is said to have talked herself to death the other day A Nebraska Colonel is In danger Of fol- lowing her example. Charleston News and Courier.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
Hnt Wenther Rernrhn Rrnken.

Chicago, March 2S. All records for high temperatures for the month of March in the last thirty-two years in Chicago were broken today whom the government thermometer recorded sol degrees. Two hours afterwards a heavy thunder and rain storm brought a drop in the mercury.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
RESULTS IN DRAW.
American And British college Team.

American And British C0llege Teams
 Have Chess Match.
 New York, March 23.-The seventh intercollegiate chess match by cable today between the American Univer- sities Columbia, Harvard and Yale and the British Universities Oxford and Cambridge for the Isaac L. Rice trophy resulted in a draw, each side winning two games, the other two games be- ing drawn.
 The trophy is now in custody of Cs- ford and Cambridge. wdo won the last ford and Cambridge, who won the last resulted in a draw.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
We Offer for Your Ap'
 prOVaI Tomorrow

in Voiles, imported mixtures and Chiffon Panamas we have ever owned and the best part of the offer is that we are making sweeping reductions.
 Special line of very jaunty Eton Pony Coat and Gibson styles in black and colors, with wde pretty or %A"'V"
 At $2500 each we present collection of Tail ored Suits every known style and leading shade in cluding black yoies and soft chiffon Panama that have sold all season at $3O.OO to $35OO.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
weIl-Deserved Compliment.

The Fort Payne Journal of March % was a model weekly paper. It cov- cred all the news of the country. and and Fort Payne to the very smallest item. The Ledger does not often stop in it's busy work to say things like strikingly excellent that 1t will serve as a model for other weeklies.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
CaIl. For PrenIaent.

San Francisco, March 23.--By a vote of 68 to '. resolutions were adopted by a San Francisco labor council last night. condemning the municipal gov ernment and those of officials who have betrayed their trust and calling for the vigorous prosecution of every. corruptionist. the bribe gfver as well as the bribed officials.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
NOTHING TO CONFESS.
Schlnltm Indignantly Denies Rumors 0f
 Prohahle Surrender.

Schmsf1 Indignantly Demfe@ Nhm@HN UN
 Probable Surrender.
 San Francisco. March 23.--"ft is ab- soluteIy false. There is not the slight est foundation for such an outrageous falsehood" vshemently declared Mayor Schmitz in an interview with a repre- sentative of the Associated PreBs this morning when his attention was called to the positive statement in local paper that he had sent an enissary yesterday to Secret Service Agent Burns and Assistant District Attorney Heney to arrange terms for a confes- sion.
 Tt is false. absolutely false," said the mayor. T have nothing to confess There Is nothing that could confess: therefore 1t is impossible that I could have sent any one to Heney and Burns or that 1 have any such intention. repeat, there will be no confession from me because there Is nothing to com fess"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24

That $10.ooo,e00 of Mrs. Russell Sages is likely to improve the com ditions of living" Of some of those who draw salaries from charity funds.-- Baltimore Sun.