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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-09


to work his passage
ng the decks and then goaded him beyond endurance by
insult and Morson to resent he
otre by the consprators kilograms rushed to New York
getting aboard he examined Ormon till the latter
officers and threatened him with Then it
gage or protested note without Endorsement"
Polly, my DEAR, whispered Aunt Mary from be-
hind the dining room door, isn't he perfectly splen-
did? l did not believe he had it in hin-really!"
Polly dabbed at her eyes with hard little ball of
handkerchief and made no answer.
A SILENCE to the Spitfre's main saloon,
and for nearly minute nothing was heard but
the whine of the wind outside the hiss of waters,
the purr of the engines at quarter speed and the
Mr. Morson" said Marcus Girard with sud-
denness that made Valda start, I'm going to ask
you several questions and want you to answer with
out evasion reserve. Are you wlll1ng!"
We'll, that depends returned the defense, "on
the nature of your inquiries. reserve the right to
not at my own discretion. Go on, SIR
This was not particularly good beginning, and
Ormond smiled Girard on the other hand, con-
sidered the matter soberly, nodded approval pro-
duced a notebook. and opened his nquisiton. Then
followed series of questions and similar to
examination IN court:
" How long have you been away
from New York Mr. Morson?"
"A little than three years
Fine How many times since then have
,,;d R-,n you visited London!'
"Twce-on business for the
Uganda Railroad Company"
did you work personally the
Uganda brdge!"
Yes, sir.
What! 1 under the impress
sion that this bridge completed
more than three years ago.,
so it was; but l have superin-
tended it's repair work from time to
1 time, though very little has been
i required"
H. The Uganda road is managed by
an English syndicate is it not?'
Yes. Sir.
w Do you know what English firm
IN of contractors erected this bridge!"
!. !: Z
III. g 1t was built in America, sir
IN Impossible! How you say
HIM that when the road is owned by a
Yin British syndicate and the bridge in
: HIN question is in Egypt!".
EW\A = {" Because it is true. Each part
j "a " was made in America shipped to
III Egypt, and put in place by Ameri-
can engineers. Look it up.
DO you know anyone connected
with the Pencoyd Iron Works of
X Philadelphia"
aN 81 think not
,6xsg4 Do you know anyone in New
HIM York who might identify your"
q 4E - Il hope So but not
kS There are several gentlemen on the
rs staff of the American Bridge Com
pany who might remember me; but
their offices are now in Pittsburgh
, Girard made memorandum In
ii his notebook and started off on
other tack: Can you say positively
that before coming aboard the Spitfre
.1,Io <1a~M NJ nv,d
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-03-04
HELP FROM CLEVELAND.

When the fire department arrived
on the scene the firemen found their
ladders were too short to reach the
children. Many children could be
seen leaning out of the windows try
ing to escape the smoke which was
pouring up from beneath. When the
aerial ladders arrived from Cleveland
many children were carried down, but
the first and second floors of the
building soon fell and stopped this
method of rescue. At noon only the
ruined walls of the building were
standing, and the cries of the buried
children had died away. The hospitals
were told to prepare to receive the
injured, and the ambulances made
many trips.
No attempt was made to identify
the bodies as they were taken out of
the building.
The Lake Shore Railroad shops
were closed down, that the employees
might aid the firemen.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-03-04
[AFTs PLATFORM GIVEN
BY the State Republican Convention
of ohio-Written BY His Friends,
Represents His Ideas.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Columbus, Ohio, March 4.-The
state republican convention, in ses-
sion here today, adopted the platform
on which Secretary Taft will appeal
to the voters of the country for his
nomination and election as president.
The platform was dictated by Taft's
friends, and can be accepted as repre-
senting his policies. 1t calls for the
re-enactment in constitutional form
of the employees liability act, for linz
itation in the exercise of injunctions
to prevent abuses, a revision of the
tariff by special session of the next
congress, commends Roosevelt's adj
ministration without calling names,
congratulates the people of the nation
for having Foraker and Dick in the
senate, instructs delegates to vote for
Taft until he is nominated, favors a
reduction in congress electoral col
lege in the states where whites and
negroes are disfranchised, and urges
the prosecution of the trusts.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-03-04
JUVENILE BLACK HAND"
Boys Arrested For Blackmailing Wild
ow and Securing Money Under
Threat of Death.
Special to the Herald.

Special to the Herald.
Emporia, Kas., March 4.-Merril
Mardias, age twelve years, and Nor
ris McCrery, age sixteen, have been
arrested on a charge of Matchmaking
Mrs. Mary Roberts, a widow The
woman received a letter stating that
she would be killed and her barn
burned if she did not leave $23 in
an alley at place designated The
letter was signed BLACK Hand"
When the boys went to the place they
were arrested by the police. They
said they got their idea from reading
black hand stories.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-03-04

who stood below. The last child was
a girl, and as he seized her by the
arm she was so badly burned that the
arm came from the socket. This caus-
ed the man to fall, and he could not
get up. He was carried from the
building.
At o'clock this afternoon thirty
two bodies have been identified.
CoIIinwood is a suburb where the
Lake Shore shops are located. These
employ five thousand skilled mechan-
les.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-03-04
REscUER LOST LIFE.

Wallace Upton, age forty-four years,
is dying from burns received while
rescuing little children. He brought
eighteen children from the building
before being overcome. He dropped
in his tracks, and his death is certain.
Upton threw eighteen children into
the arms of two Lake Shore workmen
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-03-04
ONE HUNDRED ARE DEAD.

1880 p. MAT this hour ninety-nine
bodies are at the Lake Shore morgue.
Five of this number are women, the
remainder children. 1t is now esti-
mated that one hundred lives were
lost in the fire.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-03-04
SENATOR HOPKINS HELPS
Push the AIdrich Financial Billie
Says It Is Good Thing.

Special to the Herald.
Washington, d. c., March 4.-Sen-
ator Hopkins championed the Aldrich
financial bill in the senate today. He
characterized some of the attacks on
the bill as carping criticism. He
maintained that it was the best Iegis-
lation that could be obtained at this
time.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-03-04
LITTLE CHILDREN WERE TRAP.
PED ON THIRD FLOOR OF COL
LINWooD, O., SCHOOL
BUILDING TODAY.
NO MEANS OF ESCAPE
Fire Started Under Stairway From
An Overheated Furnace-No
Fire Escapes on Building,
Ladders Could Not
Reach Them.

Special to the Herald.
Cleveland, Ohio, March "A hum
dred little children were trapped by a
fire in the North ColIinwood school to-
day, and the first reports indicate
that seventy-five of them lost their
lives.
Thirty bodies have been recovered.
The children were on the third floor,
with no means of escape.
The coIlinwood fire department lad
ders were too short to reach the win
dows, and they had to stand by and
see the little ones burned in the trap
that held them. The fire started from
unknown causes under the stairway
leading to the third floor.
The high school pupils on the lower
floors were able to escape, but those
| of the lower grades were caught, as
the stairway was shut off almost as
soon as the fire was discovered.
There were no fire escapes on the
building. At the first alarm the high
school pupils rushed in panic fron,
the building, and many of them werr
! injured.
The building was a three-story one,
and contained $50 pupils.
Many private homes near the school
have been converted into morgues,
and the chiIdren's bodies are being
carried to them by the scores. 1t will
| be impossible to fix the death rate
until a house to house canvass can be
made. A great pile of bodies are at
what was the front door of the build
| ing, and the parents and friends and
firemen are working and Juggling at
the heap of debris in search of bodies.
Only three walls of the building were
left standing. Inside of an enclosure
the firemen are working at the peril
| of their lives if the other walls should
fall. It is now known that the fire
started from an overheated furnace.
The ianitor, as soon as he discovered
the fire, turned in an alarm. Some
of the children marched out in order,
while others fled in terror. Those
marching out thought fire drill was
in progress, until they were stopped
at the first floor by the flames.
Miss Carrie Wiley, one of the teach
ers, while trying to hold the children
in line, was run over by the frantic
children and crushed to death. Miss
Grace Fisk, who also tried to control
the children, was badly crushed.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-03-04
ONE HUNDRED PEOPLE
WERE BURNED TO DEATH.
" =**#*****"****
ONE HUNDRED AND
SEVENTY-FIVE DEAD.

: Special to the Herald.
!: Cleveland, O., March 4.-2:3o
: p. MAT this hour the cor
:. orner announces that the dead
!. will number one hundred and
!: seventy-five. One hundred and
I: thirty-two bodies are in the
s morgue.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-28
A CALL.

a call meeting 81 the Critteudeu
County Farmers Union, for the 2nd
Friday ~ June, at Marion, Ky 10
a. m, to attend to any aud all bust
ness which may come up.
Let each Local elect one delegate
for each twenty or majority fraction
Of twenty. aud one at large,
Let all the County officers be pres
ent Il possible
Let all committees be present
Let the County Secretary have bis
bond prepared, also tue board Of dir
ectors be present with their bond,
to be approved by County Union.
Let all the delegates be furnished
with credentials. Let credentials
show number Of members in good
standing. REV. RoBT. JOHNSON,
County President
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-28

arrayed in those splendid draperies
of green and gold, charm the eye in
midwinter aud awaken the commend
able y,arning within the beholder,
to have a part, share, in this we'll
ordered culture Of fields, and the
prosperity so general, "the man is
greater than the land however aud by
this nile. must W. determine the
prospect for advantageous change Of
ones location The frequent an
pouncement of the departure of we'll
known citizens. from Critteudon, aud
other counties Of dear Old Kentucky
to the west, aud sometimes to the
aired northwest, 10 search Of better
farming, produces a feeling Of sor.
row in the soul Of the writer, as |
often read them, 10 the pages Of the
Crittendeu Record Press somewhat
a kin to that "sad ache in the heart
produced By the too oft-told tale Of
"friends departed to the great be
yond. In the latter instances we are
at least hopeful that it is we'll, with
them, but when the aired west, aud
frozen region Of the cruel north,
allure a Kentuckian, and at sacrifice
he sells out, his belongings-and
lives him away, | declare, would
intercept him in his fight, of folly
and implore him to see Florida be-
fore he drops his anchor, yes sir
see Florida, the poor man : friendly
land. | am not employed to sell
land and own but little in Florida,
most Of ny earthly belongings are at
Marion, Kentucky, aud are for sale
to any GOOD man, with the price
which assure shall be an induce
ment
The city Of Jacksonville is now
perhaps the most growing city in the
South, and on several lines Of railroad
on the east aud west coast and in
many counties in middle and south
Florida, the growing cities, new
fields in cultivation and and thous-
and prosperous enterprises make
Florida the garden spot of these I'm
tied States.
Now permit one word of brotherly
council. The numerous obituaries
published in your paper, do not fav-
orably impress the reader, for Crit
tenden county, "a a health resort
And the many accounts Of "Night
Riders" exploits the menance Of
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-28
DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.

The Democrats of Crittenden coun-
ty will assemble in mass convention,
on Saturday, June 9th, 1908, at the
hour of two o'clock, P. IN, on SAID
day, and appoint delegates to repre-
sent the said county in the State
Convention. The basis of represen-
tation in the State Convention, shall
be one delegate for each two hundred
votes and fraction over one hundred
votes, cast in the respective counties
for the Democratic Electors in the
Preside o tial Election Of 1904,
Signed,
c. S. NUM-, Chairman
W, II. CLARK, Sec'y.
Crittenden County Democratic
Committee
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-28

Business interests generally are
apparently heading towards better
position, and the tone of sentiment
is gaining substantially in the hope
full element. If no further obstacles
to industrial improvement are encoun
tered the trade situation will gradu-
ally right itself The indonitable
spirit of the American people will
not be satisfied long with the present
lethargy, and We may expect to see
a rewakening of activity IN all Sec
tons. The recent strength and
buoyancy of the securite markets may
be taken as a forerunner of better
conditions. A long period Of cur
tailed consumption should be succeed
ed by more urgency on the part of
consumers who have allowed their
supplies to become greatly reduced
Cheap and sbundant money will facil-
itate the restoration of normal con
ditions, and with the prospect for
good crops there are solid reasons for
encouragement.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-28
Compromise for $4,000 In HOIIOwelI
Damage Suits.

Princeton, KY, May 25.-The
CON tromise which has been under dis
cussiou for the past week between
the attorney, for the defendants and
plaintiffs in the Hollowel damage
suit against twenty-nine Caldwell
county farmers was agreed to-day.
Al. the defendants were here to day
aud arranged to meet the agreement,
which was els, 900 Each side
agreed to pay their part Of the costs
This settles the other caser pend
ing also, wiping the case from the
United States civil docket.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-28

soldier. aud arrests and tials. The
large space given to accounts Of the
Society of Equity meeting and 9th
er combines for protection Of your
good people from the rascality Of
money powers, aud inetheency Of
pour laws, will not secure for your
part Of Kentucky a very great tide Of
desirable migration, what the out
side world wants to hear about j.,
the Intelligence Of your prosperity,
I'VE have none aud representations
Of your successful industries, We
have none, tell US about your min
ing industries (paLie has closed many
Of them new railroad prospects,
crushed by big stick,) improve
meuts IN dirt roads, were impossible
last winter,) aud there advantages
for travel, (have none,) schools aud
churches, big crops, drowned out
and stock sales, have none wed
dings, all come in June and
big meetings, Zone been going on
for two weeks, at this place, and few
mourners. Amen,
J. ". BIGHAM.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-28
EYE TIME"

Is that time in every ones life
some young. some old-when the
eyes give evidence of strain, tire
or other signs of needing care.
Then see eye specialists else you
may not see anything later on.
Our reputation for selecting and
fitting correct glasses is estab-
lished. For eye troubles you'll
do we'll to consult us.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-28
Letter From Florida.
jacksonville, Fla, May -
Editor REcoRD-PREss,
Marion, Ky.


Editor REcoRD-PREss,
Marion, Ky.
1 was very happy on May 18th, to
have for my guests, Ctas. Fl. Lef-
fer, a Livingston county, Kenruck-
ian and his excellent wife---a daugh-
ter of Capt. Northern, and whose
first husband was our lsmented Eb
Flanary. They are by this time 10
Paducah, Ky. aud after brlef stay
they will visit l. vlugston and Crit
tendeu counties Mr.. Letter is a
cultured gentleman aud well inform
ed on agriculture aud other pursuits
in Florida. Sanford is the great
celery section of the south. This in
dustry now is in its infancy, is per-
haps the most profitable Of all agri-
cultural persuits, the yield, per acre,
often amounting to one thousand to
twelve hundred dollars, 10 celery.
A crop of lettuce may be produced
with the celery, and both crops fol-
lowed with potatoes, tomatoes or
other profitable product, making
three crops from the same land in
one year, and each crop yielding a
handsome return for the investment
Lands in that section worth from
two to five dollars few years ago,
are now selling for fifty, to one hun
bred and fifty dollars per acre. The
flowing wells easily and cheapily OBJ
tanned, afford best faculties for iIrlga-
ton indispensi bly,, necessary in pro.
producing these popular add profta-
bic product-. The mid rin,er Of
fords the IDEAL climate for this in .
dustry and while the cherries tields
of Michigan aud other gardenin :
lands triumphant the north, are in
grip of the storm and frost, and veg
itation wrapped in the cold draping
of snow and ice, Lies dead, here in
Florida the genuine breath of sum
mer and the blessed sunshine repels
the March of the Northern cold, aud
fandles in loving carresses the new
springing, shedding upon it the
dewey comfort of nights restful
hours and flow of buried streams,
all the time responding joyously and
abundantly, to the invlgoratlng fer
tillzers and the skIllful touch of the
husbandman. Hundreds of acres
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-28
THURSDAY, MAY % 1908.
Do You Believe In The GOIdeD Rule?

When the catalogue CO mes from
your mail or der house, draw an easy
chair to the table where the light
will shine full upon the page and
put on yourglasses that no bargain
may escape your eye. What a won
derful book it is to be see n wonder
full for what it does not contain as
we'll as what it does. We miss some
things we would be glad to see.
Where is their offer to pay cash or
exchange goods for your wheat, oats,
corn, beans, butter, eggs and hay?
How much do they pay for cattle
sheep and hogs {. b. at your depotY
How much tax will they pay to sup
port your schools and educate your
children, for improving roads and
bridges, the support of the poor OF
the county, for the expense OF run
ming the business of township county
and state? On what page is their
offer to contribute money to the
church? What line of credit will
they extend to you when your crops
are poor and your money gone, when
thru illness or misfortune. you are
not able to send "cash with order"
for your groceries, clothing, farm
tools and crockery? Where is their
offer to contribute to your entertain
ment next year? In short, will they
do anything to provide market for
what you have to sell and thereby
keep up the value OF your estate?
Viii they do anything for social,
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-28

Notice

| have opened a first class
Meat Market on West Bellville
Street and would be glad for the
public to give me a trial.
| shall be glad to receive all
Sunday orders by seven thirty
o'clock so the boys may attend
Sunday School. X. H. KEMP.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-28

church, school or government support
or do they take your dollars out
of the community, with no returns
except the goods they buy? DID
YOU EVER LOOK AT 1T THIS
WAY.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-28
For sale or Rent.

One house on Poplar Street. APP
ply to Mrs. Sam Hurst or Mrs. 5.
A Wilborn, Marion ny.
Crittenden record=press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1907-1909, 1908-05-28
Corn Wanted.

We will pay 20 cents cash for
white shocked corn, and 65 cents for
white corn (snapped) at the mill, I'M
til further notice.
Marion Milling Company.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-18
$t.0O Fare to Maude Adams.

The Maine Central r. r. has made a
round trip fare of $1.00 from Gardiner,
Augusta and Hallowell, for the coming
engagement of Maude Adams to the
Empire Theatre, Lewiston on April list.
Augusta theatre goers who desire to
secure their seats in advance should
make an early application to the box
Office of the Opera House in this city,
where orders are to be taken for local
theatre patrons. The costumes that
Maudc Adams wears as Rene De
Chanccnac and later as the supposed
jester. "Chicot" in her new play, The
TESTERS" are all of her own designing.
Her second act costume especially, a
suit that suggests the cap and bells OF
the jester and yet retains the romantic.
picturesque garb OF a Sixteenth
Century squire of France, is the result
OF over 80 plates. representing as many
different draw ingS
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-18
Boston Wool Market.

Boston. Mar. Il. 1875.
The receipts of wool for this week were
136 bales foreign and $40 bales dUrnes-
tic against H.1l5 bales foreign and
CT. bales domestic for the same time last
year.
REMAEKS&Trading continues on a
rather limited scale in the local wool
market. hut prices seem to be a little
stcad'cr .han they have been. and the
general situation has somewhat
brighter aspect. There IS a growing dis
position on the part of the merchants To
carry good WOODS Owe into season
rather than force them upon an unwilling
market. Faulty stock is Still offered
freely and the best bid is quickly accept
ed, but is is always possible at this time
of the wear. even when trade conditions
are normal. to find such bargains. The
an evidence of weakness than desire
rev clips which will begin to arrive here
within a couple of months.
Ohio and Penn-XN and above SIC; y
s1a3os: No /. 37@3Sc: No >. 36G37:
fine washed e4@ IS; a blood 2sGrsoc.:
Z. blood rnwashed. 27dScc.; fine washed
delaine. 37GfSSc.
Michigan and New York.-Fino I'M
washed 23Gcic.: y. blood inwashed &c:
q blood unwashed, 2S029c.; unwashed de-
laine, &c.
Kentucky. Indian and Missouri, Is
blood, 27G&oS: =, blood. o6c.
Pulled (Scoured basiS)-EXtra 63iie5c.
finc a 52155c.: a super 50I55; B super
%56+2c.; c super 27aI22c.: coarse con,bing
4sf'f-c.: medium combing 52G55c.: fine
combins Coo: fine California 6SI65c.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-03-18
GUILTY OF CHARGE
OF BEING A WORKER. "
Charles II. Gale of Winthrop HUI
man Dynamo===Road Commission
er For 81 Consecutive Years.

y dynamo, wound with unnunbered
wires, through which are sent the cleo
trio fluid, Is a good Illustration of the
physical makeup of one OF Wmthrop's
honOred citizens, Charles II. Gale, ard
if one We're asked TO apply a name for
this mass II energy confined within a
living being. it could With good grace
bc given the name of q human dynamo.
Everybody ir Winthrop and for miles
around knows the subject of this
sketch He has been in The linaIignt
Of WinthrDps history for "a cnnsecu-
tive years. holding the Office of road
commissioner for that number Of
years.
tfrop Dec. ), 1892. and outside of about
Ii months passed in Ashland and
Bridgewater, Mass, he has been q resi-
dent OF Maine. His work in the MaSSa-
chuSettS towns was in shoe shops. not
like those, perhaps, OF the present day,
but in the day when the long leg ged
boot was in vogue. While engaged at
this work he at one time worked -
hours a Gay for Ia consecutive weeks.
Mr.. Gale learned his knowledge OF
the shoe trade from the late JoSephuS
Stevens, who occupied the shop now
run as a barber shop by A. d. Hall. He
worked for the Wings, VIII" at one time
were large manufacturers in the long
legged boots for the California trade.
also +. NJ. Clark and others.
Mr.. Gales first connection with the
roads Of Winthrop was at the time that