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The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-01-24

Capt j. ID. McRae last night re-
ceived telephone message from
Hope. Ark, stating that his brother
was seriously i'll and advising MIN
to come at once. He made prepara-
tion to leave for that place on the
KATY FLYER this morning. but later
in the night another message came
stating a marked change for the bet
ter had taken place in the condition
OF his brother. He will defer going
to the bedside OF his brother until
he hears further from him.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-01-24
Little Girl Burned.

A little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
II. F. Reeves of Ferris, while play
ing with some other children Tues
day in their yard, was dangerously
burned by fire in which the chill
dren were burning trash Her burns
are very dangerous, but are not like
ly to prove fatal
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-01-24
RAN ON \ ROk.
Battle>hip Connecticut Reported rs
Having Sustained Damages

San Juan, 7. r., Jan. 23.--lt is
ticut ran on a rock while entering
the harbor at Culebra island Jan.
Is and that she sustained serious
damage as a result. The naval au-
thorities at San Juan. however, dis
claim any knowledge of the accident.
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-01-24

Miss Mary Sue Pickett will enter
tain the Euchre club Friday after
noon at o'clock at her home on
Oldham avenue. 52
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-01-24
would

Nothing would more quickly
sweeten a mans temper on rainy
night than a dish of Sealshipt oys-
ters. full of the true half-shell fla
vor. Telephone H N. Nycum. Only
10 cents per dozen. So
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-01-24

Commissioner Tom Martins house
together with all his household
goods, were destroyed by fire at
Palmer Wednesday morning at 7
O'Clock. Mr. Martin had small
amount of insurance on his house ant
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-01-24

You did not nave your picture
made before Xmas. Medallions free
only for a short time longer. Now is
the time Mrs. G. f. Jackson, the
photographer II
The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-01-24

The Main Street Rink will be turn
ed over to the school children Satur-
day afternoon.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
STEAMSHIPS IN A COLLISION.
THE JOHN w. MOORE GOES TO
BOTTOM OF DETROIT RIVER.
Wheelsman of the Moore was Crushed
to Death When His Boat Collided
with the Queen City.

Detroit Oct. 14-One man was
killed and the steel steamer John w
Moore was sunk early Sunday in d
collision between the Moore and
Queen City In the Detroit river just
above the l.imekiln Crossing. The
Queen City is at the Ecorse yard OF
the Great Lakes engineering works
with her bulwarks fattened to the
deck and her forepeak filled with
water.
The two steamers met almost head
on. and the Queen City crushed in the
bows of the John W. Moore as far
back as the pilot house. Wbeelman
Duncan Mcintyre was asleep in his
room on the port side of the Moore
and was crushed to death in the
crash and his body carried down with
the steamer. II was recovered by a
diver.
Little can be learned about the
cause of the accident, as the crew OF
neither steamer will talk. The Moore
Is owned by Frank NJ. and NJ. o. Os-
borne, OF Cleveland, and is 24G feet
long. The Queen City is owned by
the Pittsburg Steamship Co.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
CONDO Wilcs.

An ivory dealer uttered cry o.
rage.
Done again" he said. Done out OF
$50"
And he laid aside one OF the tusSs
from the great heap that he lae been
examining
ut Is tallastcd with lca'l." lic SAID.
"That is common Congo trick. The
native. when he gets n good big t,lsk
of so pounds or SO, mclis Zip 10 or
rs pounds or lead and pours II down
into the tusk's hollow. He fills ;t,
so 80 speak, as a dentist fills .
tooth
I'VE dealers know the dodge, and
every tl:sk Is gone ovcf carefully for a
lead Cling. My. new 'redrr, though,
Is rather careless, and this is the sec.
md ,illledl tpsN ihstihasejiym' Marked
off on him in the Last quarter
The .dedler's ftovii vanished and ne
smiled. "A
"Qf course the trader, and not ], MI
have 10 stand the loss he said. ~
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14

One OF the most interesting types
on the American track is the profes-
sional money lender. Money lending
Is absolutely forbidden, and so the en-
tire transaction must be conducted
sub rosa, but II person who is on
goes broke, and he has some article
Of jewelry of value with him, II is
easy for him to realize money ON 1t.
The lender is an irreproachably
dressed person who sits on the grand
stand with the rest of the crowd. and
Is known in his true colors only, to
the habitues of the track. A man vino
wants some capital makes an unob.
trusive sign to him, and twirls a. ring
he may be wearing at the time. Short
ly afterward both will proceed to a
restaurant. where, for the benefit Of
onlookers. they will greet each other
as ordinary acquaintances. The ex-
change is then made over the drink
they order; the loan broker has the
ring and the bettor his capital II the
latter cashes in on the next race, he
will return the money and the agreed
upon premium and will receive back
his ring.-The Bohemian.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
A CHOIR SCHOOL FoR sovs.
Splendid Episcopal Institution jus'
Dedicated at Washington.

Washington. The I.ane-Johnston
Memorial building of the Washington
Cathedral Choir School, Just complet-
ed on the Protestant Episcopal Cathc
dral grounds ON Wisconsin avenue
st. Adams, d. c., marks a new depar'
ture in educational work. The late
Mrs. Harriet Lane-Johnston, niece ol
President Buchanan, bequeathed tc
the cathedral foundation 100000 'fol
the building and endowment of
choir school for boys, in which the pu
pills should receive thorough train
ing in church music, as well as in the
studies OF preparatory school foi
college. W
The completed memorial building
is regarded as model school ftn
boys. and Is believed to be the bes
arranged and best equipped structure
of its kind in the United. states. i
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
"rhe confederate Colonel

No class of men in the world have
better manners than the southern gen.
t!eman. The type of this class is a
digniied man. who insists upon being
treated with respect but who always
comedies to others that which he de.
mands from them. lie is deferential
in his manner and assumes that the
customs and Views of others are en-
titled to RESPECT. In intercourse with
a Spaniard the typical confederate
colonel would never by word or ges.
ture intimate that he considered him
SELF in any respect the superior of the
gentleman with whom he might be
talking or that his business methods
we're more modern. In other words,
the southern colonel" has charming
manners. AMI what was written by
"Native of New England" was to say
in effect that good manners are a busi.
ness assets worth using.-Baltimore
Sun.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
Glass Telegraph Poles.

! A stock company has been organs
ICED and a factory for the manufac;
turing of glass poles has been built
at Grossalmerode. town near Cassel,
Germany. The glass mass OF wE;ch
The poles are made Is strengthened by
Interlacing and INTERVIEWING with
strong wire threads.
One of the principal advantages OF
.hese poles would be their use in tropi-
cal countries, where wooden poles are
soon destroyed by the ravages of in.
sects and where climatical influences
are ruinous to wood The selling price
Of the poles has not been fixed yet.
but the company is willing to accept
g5 marks ts6) for pole of the length
of seven meters (about % feeD. The
imperial post department which has
central Of the telegraph and telephone
lines In Germany, has ordered the use
Of these glass poles on one Of their
tracts
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
'WulI euIld cltles for Refuaees.

Athens, Oct. l4.-In the presence OF
the crown prince, high dignitaries and
q vast crowd OF Greeks there occurred
Sunday the unique ceremony of laying
the foundation stones OF the new cities
Of Anchialos and Euxinoupolis, which
the government will build In Thessaly,
to provide homes for refugees from
Greek cities In Bulgaria. The Bul.
Garian town OF Anchialos was burned
r. leO6 as the result OF anti-Greek
ytats. The population OF this place
Will be housed at the new Anchialos,
while the refugees from Varna. Burgac
and Gozoupolis will be domiciled IN
noxinoupolis.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
NAVAL OFFICER SUICIDES.
A Second Lieutenant in the Marine
Corps Shoots Himself.

Annapolis, Md. Oct 14.--Second
Lieut. James y. Sutton United States
marine corps. is dead ut the naval
academy marine barracks, his death
resulting from bullet fired into the
right side of the head. board of in.
quiry detailed by Superintendent
Badger, of the naval academy, has
prepared a report which will be sub
mitted TO the navy department.
Sutton, in company with Second
Lieuts. X. +. Adams and Il. p. Roelk-
er, returned to the marine camp at
1880 o'clock Sunday morning after
having attended dance given at the
academy. Shortly afterwards Sutton
Is said TO have been discovered on
the road nearby with revolver in his
right hand and several officers at.
tempted to disarm him This they
succeeded in doing. but not before
the weapon was discharged and Ad-
ans and Rocker received slight
wounds. Quick as fash Sutton
took from his blouse another revolver
and with this fired the fatal shot into
his brain. Sutton was 22 years old
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
Love Me, Love Ny Doa.

A curious incident. involving a
young and good looking Fyench
woman and her dog. occurred recently
on a Continental railway. For several
hours the young woman bestowed
more attention and tender care upon
the pretty little creature than the ma.
jority of women do upon their fist
born. and at every station it was
taken out for exercise. and between
stations 1t was fed with dainty nib
bles taken from Its special basket,
which also contained extra wraps,
fresh shoes and a gay collar with a
huge bow. What attracted most at.
tention was. however, the purchasing
OF a bottle of mineral water, the tax.
Ing out OF tiny foldihg>traveling cup,
into which some of the water was
poured and the tapping Of 1t up by the
pet.--Dundee Advertiser.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
CUBS ARE WORLDS CHAMPIONS
CHICAGO NATIONALS WON FOUR
. STRAIGHT FROM DETROIT.
president Of the Detroit Club Gives
$4,000 to His Players for Winning
American League Pennsnt.

Detroit Oct 14.-President William
II. Yawkey, of the Detroit American
league baseball club, on Saturday
night added as a gift TO his players
for winning the American league pen.
nant, $4,000 to their share of the re.
lceipts from the worlds series which
CLOSED here Saturday afternoon when
the Chicago National league team by
score of 2 TO o won the fourth
straight victory from Detroit, making
$36,9i3.36 which the local players will
divide. The share of the Chicago
National league team in the world s
series receipts is $32 .96003. Secre-
tary Bruce, OF the National baseball
commission, announced that the total
attendance at the five games which
were played in the series was 1S.0S6
and the gross receipts $l0l, ,12S50. The
receipts We're divided as follows:
National commission $i0,t72.Sj. Chi.
cago and Detroit baseball clubs $751;
3lI13 each: Chicago National league
team s32 $50 03. and the Detroit Amer.
ican League team $21.9T3.36. Had the
American league team been successful
IN the series just closed and won the
worlds championship ON top of their
capture of the American league pen
hant. Mr. Yawkey's gift. it was an.
nounced. would have been 100000 in
stead of $4,000.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
Cardinal Mannins's Tomb.

The long-deferred monument to the
memory of the late Cardinal Manning
is at last, to be erected--a movement
being on foot to place an effigy in
bronze over the cardinals resting
place in the crypt of the Westminster
cathedral The form OF the memorial
Is to be recumbent figure of the prel
ate clad in the full vestments OF an
archbishop. A panel Of red marble IN
front of the tomb will bear suitable
inscription, recording the rank and
dignity of the late Cardinal. The sai'
cophagus will be carved with the ar
mortal bearings OF his eminence. and
also the arms of the See OF Westihin
ster. The cost Of the memorial Is es
timated at from $4,000 to $4,000, Of
which about one-third is already In
and.---Westminster Gazette.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
TElECRAPHlC BREViTlES.

One man was killed and three others
perhaps fatally injured in boiler eX.
ploslon at the sawnlill of jacob
Markle, near Punxsutawney, Pa.
Brig. Gen. Franklin Bell, chief OF
staff, L. S. A., has succumbed to the
strain of overwork and is recuperat-
ing at AIuldoon's sanitarium at White
Plains, n. Y.
While the locomotive of freight
train on the Central of Georgia rail
road was taking water at Reynolds,
Ga, the boiler. exploded, killing Engi,
neer Avery, Conductor Allen and a
negro fireman.
George n. BroNwer, former mem
Der of the New York stock exchange
and who has been arrested, has dis
closed the method by which he used
in speculation 100000 of the funds of
James IL. oliphant & Co., of New
York City.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14

Roanoke, Va, Oct l4.-An Norfolk
& Western passenger train westbound
from Norfolk to Columbus, o., and a
coal train eastbound sideswiped near
AIontvale, l6 miles east of Roanoke,
Sunday, resulting in the death OF one
man and the injury of a dozen passen-
gers, none OF whom was seriously
hurt. The dead man is X. p I'm.
brager, express messenger, OF Wythe-
vile, Va. The two engines had just
passed each other when a flange on
an outside wheel on coal car broke,
throwing the coal train over on the
passenger train. Three passenger
coaches wera demolished and 20 coal
cars piled up.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
Barge stranded-Thres Men Drowned.

Baltimore. Oct. 14.-A dispatch from
Cape Henry says: Barge Saxon, llim.
Der loaded and which was being towed
by the steamer Katahdin from George
town, S. c.. to New York. stranded 80
miles north of Cape Hatteras at mid
night October 12. The captain and
two men OF the barge were drowned.
One man, Fred .unt. managed to
reach the shore and was picked up by
the life savers. The barge appears to
be full of water, with the sea washing
over her, and the deck load of lumber
Is coming ashore.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
A Lover Of Mankind.

A good man is friendly To his fellow
creatures and )oyer OF mankind; and
SO will, upon every occasion, and often
without any, say all the good he can of
everybody; but. solar as he IL good
man. will never be disposed to speak
evil OF any, unless there be some other
reason for 1t besides barely that it is
true. II he be charged with having
given ali III character he will scarce
think II a sufficient Justification at
himself to say that 1t was a true one,
unless he can also give some further
account how he came to do SO; just
Indignation against particular instan-
ces OF vilainy where they are great
and scandalous: or to prevent al in
nocent man from being deceived and
betrayed, when he has great trust
and confidenee In one who does not
deserve it.--Joseph Butler.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
HONORS TO PEMAQU|D
MAINE TOWN EARLIEST NEW
ENGLAND COLONY.
Antedates the Settlements on Cape
Cod Of Princeton and Plymouth
by Thirteen Years.

Pemaquid Harbor. Me.-Pemaquid
Thanks to J. Henry Garland, of Pema-
quid Harbor, the legislature of Maine
and the admirable work of Architect
Austin W. Pease, of Portland, Me-,
Fort William Henry is soon to bloom
again in all its old splendor and
strength
Jamestown. Va, is not alone with its
tercentenary celebration, for the like
anniversary of the short-lived North
Virginia (or Popham) colony and the
beginning of ship building in the Unit
ed States has recently been observed
at Bath. Me-. Nor is Provincetown,
Mass, unique in laying the corner
stone of a massive monument to conf
memorate the first landing Of the PHI
glims on the shores of America. Work
has begun on rebuilding the castle"
of Fort William Henry. 1t is at Pema-
quid. midway between the Kennebec
and Penobscot rivers, Me.
This monument inclosing the rock
of Pemaauid" commentaries the first
landing OF the Popham colony on the
mainland of Maine, 10 years before
the Leyden refugees touched foot on
the sands of Cape Cod, and likewise
marks the extreme eastern English
outpost in New England-the site OF
four forts, for nearly two centuries
the barrier against French possession
of our eastern territory.
Any grammar school boy win tell
you that Fort William Henry--a tim
ber and earthwork entrenchment at
| the head of Lake George, N. WAS
captured by the French in 1857, and
that part of its brave defenders were
massacred by the savages, but--such
is the neglect of historians and teach
ers--not one in 10000 ever heard of
the massive stone Fort William Henry
of Main, strongest and most expen-
sive fortress ever erected i'm the Unit.
ed States, captured by three. French
| men-ofwar and land force of Indians
G1 years before!
The second fort at Pemaquid---Fort
Charles-was destroyed in 1859 by a
force OF Indians under the noted Bar
on de Castin, and the eastern country
devastated. In 1892 Sir William
Phips was appointed royal governor
of New England. with special instruc.
tions for the establishment of strong
fortress here to keep the French at
bay. In August, Phips arrived at
Pemaquid. bringing the great guns
from the ruins of Fort Royal, Fal.
mouth (Portland), laid out the work
and left 100 men to finish 1t.
According to Cotton Mather, the
only original English authority on the
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
NEW CHOIR SCHOOL FOR BOYS
Splendid Gift to Episcopalian Church
by Niece Of President Buchanan.

Is q fireproof construction of Potomac
stone. three stories high, and Is the
Gothic style of architecture. The
building is in the form of letter Il,
so familiar in the structures of the
Tudor period of English architecture:
In the small or middle arm of the T.
is a self-contained eight-room house
for the .headmaster and his family,
with its separate entrance and stair
cases, but opening on each floor into
the main school building, thus com
bining the privacy of home with inn
mediate access at all times to the stu
denE and their work.
The west arm of the T. contains the
educational features of the school, the
study hall, the class rooms and the
laboratories, and in this wing Is the
entrance for day pupils. In the east
arm are the dining room, the kitchen
and housekeeping departments and a
steam laundry provided with drying
facilities, electric irons and a full
equipment of the latest labor-saving
devices. The kitchen arrangements
are equally complete, and the entire
building is lighted by electricity.
On the, second floor are the dormi-
tories for the boarding pupils with
individual cubicles, or sleeping rooms.
arranged after the manner OF those at
croton school,, and each dormitory is
provided with shower baths in addi,
tion to the usual bathrooms. The
master In charge of each dormitory
has sleeping apartment and study
Of his own, with open fireplaces in
them. A self-contained suite of sit.
ting room, bedroom and bath Is pro,
vided for the matron of the school,
connecting with the linen and serving
room. There is also a large gymna-
sium for physical training,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14

Chicago. Oct 14.-The struggle
for the control OF the Illinois Central
railroad between Stuyvesant Fish
and Il. n. Hartman may be taken into
the courts. Attorneys for Mr.. Fish
are preparing petition asking the
courts to enjoin any person from v6t-
ing any stock In the annual meeting
to be held Wednesday next, which
may be shown TO he owned or con-
trolled by the Union Pacific railroad.
The action VIII be brought under an
Illinois law which prohibits one cor.
poration from owning stock in an
other. Attorneys for Mr.. Hartman
have declared. in view of proceedings
along this line. that the Illinois Cen
trail by reason OF It's special charter
would be exempt from the operation
of this law. S
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14

subject, Fort William Henry was
quadrangle, 1877 feet In circumference,
with walls sly feet or moro thick: 90
feet high on the seaward side, ten
feet in the rear, 12 on the east and
1S on the west side. In assaulting
Tort Charles, the savages had hidden
behind immense granite rock near
the shore, from which shelter they
poured a murderous fire. This was
now inclosed by the Southwest flank
er," a round tower or castle, 30 feet
high, commanding the bay river.
In the revolution the fort was torn
down by the inhabitants to prevent
English occupation. AS 1t obstructed
their view, subsequent owners Of the
property carted off much of the front
walls, throwing them down the river
bank or using them for building pur-
I poses.
Some Is years ago j. Henry Cart
land came here. became interested,
| and organized society to excavate
and preserve the relics of Pemaquid.
At that time the Fort Rock was al
most covered by debris, shrubs, etc.
A little excavating soon brought to
light the original foundations Of Fort
| William Henry, as sound as when first
laid 200 years before In 1904, after
q dozen years persistent effort and
agitation, the legislature grudgipgly
appropriated $4,000 and commission
was appointed by the governor.
Nothing further was accomplished
until a bill granting $4,000 more was
passed last winter. The long desired
work of rebuilding the old castle to its
original height OF 29 feet was begun
Aug. /, from the plans Of Austin w.
Pease, architect. Portland. II will
contain fireproof museum for the ex.
hibition Of the many priceless relics
found here, PORTRAITS OF those connect,
ed with Its history. ETC. At the pres.
ent time some Of these are shown In
q little wooden building. and many
more are stored away for lack vi ex
hihiuon room.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14

San francisco, Oct 1.-THE steam
er Mariposa. which was adrift with
out fuel 20 miles off Monterey. was
towed into port Sunday by the tugs
Dauntless and Relief Last Thursday
night the sariposa exhausted her
supply of fuel On Friday First Off
Ger Watson volunteered to try to
reach the coast to procure q tow
Watson. accompanied by four seamen
embarked in the wrecl,ing boat They
headed for Monterey Bay until they
were about Is miles off shore. The
wind then died out Taking down
sail, the sailors roOd to Monterey
whence word of the steamers plight
was sent here.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-14
Murdered His Bride and Suicided.

Pikesville, KY, Oct. 14.-Gen. Webb
Syck, a civil war veteran. murdered
his young bride of two weeks and
then committed suicide at their home
in Fairview. suburb, Saturday. Syck
was found dead in the yard while his
wife's body lay nearby. Both were
clothed only in nightgowns. She was
formerly Mrs. Jane Burris, connected
with some of the most prominent
families in northwestern Kentucky.
The shooting is supposed to have fol-
lowed a bitter quarrel Gen. Syck
and his bride had just returned from
their honeymoon trip. The murdered
woman was Syck's third wife. His
first wife died many years ago and his
second wife divorced him ten years