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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-10-01
RAIN PUTS END
TO FOREST FIRES
HEAVY DOWNPOUR IN NORTHERN
COUNTIES STOPS PAvAGES
OF THE FLAMES.
FIRST SHOWERS SINCE JULY,
Fire Fighting Inhabitants Welcome Re-
lief from Arduous Duties of
Past Month.
FIREMEN LEAVE RHINELANDER,

MARINETTE, Wis. sept. 2S.-ISpe-
cial. IA soaking rain which began Sun
day evening and continued until this
morning has eXtinguishcd t,c many for
est fires III Marinette county which, Sat
urday, had grown more mcuacins than
ever. Before the rain came, the small
towns of Coil and kinsmal, on the Wis
cousin X Michigan railway, were wiped
out and the six or eight families in each
place had to flee fox their lives. They
came to Ma"incttc. The town Of Me
.\llistcr was saved by the residents as
sisted by volunteers frpm Marinctte.
The loss To the y. l.udiu-ton company,
Senator StcuhcnsDn and the Sawyer
Goodman company in standing timber
will be large. OtLer companies on The
Mcnomincc river. also lost heavily in
standing timber Million Of feet Of pine
and hardwood were Eur.uI over.
Upper Peninsula Safe
EScANABA. Mich, Sept Is
Further danger from FORE, fires in the
peninsula passed Sunday afternoon
whom 4 rain storm swept over the entire
district. Fires threatened III" Villages OF
La Blanche, BlHney and banning, hnt
were held in check without serious loss
10 property until the rain of sunday aft
rrnoUn.
Milwaukee Firemcn Leave.
RUINEI.ANDER, W, Sept. 2S.-
Special "A heavy doNulour. begin
ming Saturday night aud continuing
without interruption all d1y Sunday, put
uu end to the fires thai have been rag
IlTpuyrnp1It Oneida t.DlH1N for the
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-10-01
BANDITS GET BIG HAUL.
Gang of Thirty Robbers Hold Up Rus
sian Train and Secure Between
$4,000 and 100000

ST. pETERSBTRG. Sept. 2S.-A
successful train robbery has been exc.
cutcd 10y band Of thirty men near Vii.
ra No definite statement of the exact
amount of the booty has yet been made,
but il is estimated to vary between $50,
600 and 100000. In addition to this
money there was on board the train val,
liable registered correspondence ana the
days receipts from all the railway sta
tons between the frontier and Wilma. The
guard on board the train consisted of siN
men only. The robbers took possession
of II small station before the arrival Of
the lrain and shot down the train
guards as the engine slowed mp.
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MURDEREDATH HIS WORK
Foreman for Local Bridge and Iron Com
pany Killed Protecting Prop
ertV

CHICAGO. H., Sept 25.-Jeremiah
Lynch, night foreman from the Wiscon'
sin Bridge Il Iron company, was mys-
terously murdered today, near new
bridge which the company is erecting At
Thirty Eighth street and Center avenue.
The police state they believe Lynch was
shot while defending the bridge from
would be dynamiters, as one shot had
heeu fired from his revolver
Lynch had been shot twice. Police
Capt. Collins stated that the bridge com
pany had labor troubles, and that the
men at present working on the bridge
had been threatened with violence.
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TO ENFORCE BLUE LAW.
Portland (Ore.) Authorities Attempt tt
Keep All Shops Closed on
Sunday.

PORTLAND. Ore, Sept 2S.-Fifty
store and shopkecprrs. representing
practically every class Of business cX.
crptinG saloons. were placed under ar,
rest yesterday in this city in an effort
to put into effect a blue law which has
been resting undsturhed on the statute
books of the state since it was enacted,
some fifty years ago, No attempt was
made and it is understood none will be
made to cnforse actual closing of stores
until the constitutionality Of the law Is
InslnI.
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u DEAD IN TRAIN CRASH
PERLlN Il" CARS COLLIDE ON
TRIPLE CROSSING.
Passengers Dashed Forty Feet to Ground
Many Electrocuted by Deadly
Third Raj.

BERLIN. Sept 20 Two trains on the
Em.in elevated railroad were in collision
.are ibis afternoon As . result ag6-
fcnu persons are dead eight seriously
and many others slightly injured Most
Il IT, deaths resulted from contact with
tHe electrified rails
The accident was caused by mis-
piaced signal. one II the cars, which
gas crowded with passengers, was
thrown 10 the street forty feet below and
shattered The greatest mortality was
ID tlis car Tie police were quickly ii
lie scene and the work Of extrlcarlng
Sic dead and wounded was begun Am.
balances were summoned and waited
close Il tie scene Of the wreck while the
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-10-01
BOY IS KILLED BY
AUTO SPEED FIEND
NEGRO BORROWS MACHINE AND
RUNS DOWN AUGUST KURATH,
A YOUNG ART STUDENT.
ANGRY CROWD HOLDS DRIVER.
Boy on His Way to Get Rolls for Break
fast Loses His Life on Ogden
Avenue.
COLORED MAN TAKEN TO JAIL.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Sept. 2S.-
William Goston, a negro automobile
washer. early Sunday morning drove
over 15-year-old Matthew Kurath, an art
student, while driving ut a furious speed
around the corner of Ogden avenue and
Broadway, killing the boy almost instant
~. Goston, after an unsuccessful at
tempt to escape from an angry mob, was
placed under arrest and will be held ac-
countable for the death of the boy.
Tears UP Pavement.
1t was 6 o'clock Sunday morning when
kurath walked across the street to a
bakery with 10 cents and IA market bas-
ket to buy rolls for breakfast. Sudden
ly an automobile III charge of y negro
tore around the corner going south at Il
hreakneck speed, the wheels sklddlng and
tearing up the pavement. Gostun had
the machine under control, but at the
speed he was running WAS compelled To
drive a wide circle on the wrong side Of
the street to avoid 0yortUrnin@ the ma
chine. He saw the boy and tried to
avoid him, but the speed was too great
and in moment tn heavy machine
struck the boy, dragging the body some
distance in the road to lhe curb.
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RAIN is GENERAL.
Weather Bureau Reports Showers in Al
Parts of Country.

NOTION, y. G., Sept. IS
The breaking of the prolonged drought
throughout the country is announced IN
reports to the weather bureau today.
Rain has fallen generally in the United
States and forecaster tarrlUtt of the
weather bureau announced today that il
would continue today and tomorrow
through the eastern states, followed by
clear aud decidedly cooler weather. The
rains now prevailing in The territory east
OF the Mississippi river started IN the
far west several days ago.
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EXPLOSION KILLS ONE
ENGINEER ON MILWAUKEE, ROAD
MEETS DEATH IN ACCIDENT.
Fireman and Brakeman Escape Death
Miraculously Though Scalded When
Engine Blows Up.

MILWAUKEE. Wis. Sept, d
Engineer Fred j. Good. 1851 Park HllI
avenue, was killed, and Fireman Chris
tian j. Hanson, 1i3 Thirty-tirst avenue,
and Brakeman Il. y. Taylor, Il resident
of Milwaukee. badly scalded in an eXplo'
sion of the boiler of locomotive lII2 N
Portage, Wis. 1T / o'clock Sunday
morning. Hansen and Taylor were
scalded badly by escaping steam while
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-10-01
Saloon Cases Dismissed.

EAU CLAIRE, Wis, Sept. 25.-In
one of the saloon prosecutions instituted
by Victor Cronk, William Durham.
charged with keeping his saloon open
on Sunday. was found not guilty Thurs
day by a jury. All the other five cases
started by Cronk against saloon keepers
were thereupon dismissed with Cronk's
consent except one, which is set for Oc-
tober ).
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-10-01
TWENTY DIE IN SHIPWRECK.
British Ship Goes Down Near Launce-
ton. Tasmania

LATNCETON, Tasmania. Sept. 2S.--
The British ship Loeb Fihlas, from Port
Pirie. South Australia. for Callao was
wrecked off Foster island at daylight
vest crday and twenty Of the crew OF
iNyrnty-four were drowned. The other
four men were picked up by a passing
steamer.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-10-01
ST. PAUL IS SHIVERING.
Temperature Is Only Three Degrees
Above Freezing

ST PAUL. MINI. Sept. 2S.-With a
temperature of only 3 degree above
freezing today, st. Paul people shivered
and huddled near steam radiators, hav-
ing been caught unprepared for Il sudden
drop from 81 degrees above on Friday
when electric fans and the lightest sum
mer clothes We're necessary. high
north wind is blowing.
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Fined for Starting Fires.
Danger Past at Stiles.

The village of Stilo~ which Saturday
was seriously threatened by forest fires,
was yesterday placed ON IF danger from
the flames when the first rain that has
fallen here since the middle of July de
lnged the county. WHbcno, Lan,la.
.Johnson'S Siding and - number of other
places that were in grave danger Satur-
day are reported safe.
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oners Reward for Murderer.

MADISON. Wis, sept. IS Spe-
cu toy Davidson today offered
reward ~ 5000 for information which
will lead in thr arrest Of tue murderer
IF IIrnfy Rankin near MINERAL Point.
iowa county, The body was found IN
tie bushes viii large cuushot wound
IN the breast The sheriff oi the county
has offered 500 in addition.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-10-01
HEAVY FROST IN MISSOURI.
Late Corn Is Damaged by Sudden
Cold

ST JOSEPH. Mo. Sept 2S.-Thc
earth throughout northwest Missouri
was white with frost this morning. the
aged.
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Kills Masked Burglar.

CHICAGO. ILL.,. Sept IS \ masked
burglar armed with an open knife was
shot and instantly killed today by Dr.
Adolph Gehrmlnn, 3slG Ellis avenue in
his home.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-10-01
EVEN TEXAS FEELS COLD.
First Touch of Winter Sends Mercury
Down to 49,

WACO, Tex, Sept. 2S.-The first cold
snap of the season sent the thermometer
down To i6 this morning. Reports of
frost come from north Texas, where
tender vegetation has been hlppeu.
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Henry K. Edgerton, Wauwatosa.

Henry * Edgcrtou. for nearly half a
century resident of Ocouomowoc, and a
pioneer settler In Milwaukee,. died sun
dny nigh AZ : O'Clock ut the home Of his
daughter. Nrs H. :. Senmans in Wan
watoSa at the age Of IS years.
Mr.. Edgrrtpu WAS native of Con
uccticut aud came to milwaukee, from
Rome. y y ia 1912. He spent Il year
as an employ" Of the postoilicr here.
Mr., I.dg"rtuu went to DconumuWnC,
where he founded the Bank of Oconomo-
woe, remaining nj It's head until IN 1903.
lie is survived 10y his widow ana three
children Mrs Scamans, Wauwatosa;
benjamin q, Edgerton, oconompwoC,
and Leslie Edgprton, Minneapolis. The
funeral NjI To- held "Wednesday after
uUU,.s
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Rice Lake Gets Rain.

RICE LAKE. Wis Sept, 2S.-[ Spc-
cal. + Heavy rains Saturday and sun
day put an end to the forest fires in this
vicinity
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Fires Out all Tony.

TONY, Wis Sept. 2S-L Special J.
The long looked for rain came saturday
and continued all day Sunday. Every
fire hrrabouts is out and the danger Is
past.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-28
The coAtlx Rrier Pine.

sPeople don't understand brier pipe
making said dealer. IF they did
they wouldn't consider a five or six
dollar brier extravagant Did you
know, for instance, that brier pipe
after its completion is put away to
season for nine or ten years? French
brier Is the. best material for these
pipes. It isn't, though, brier, and it
doesn't come from France. It comes
from - etymologically speaking the
word 'bruyere,' which means 'furze.
French brier is really Italian furze
root, a growth Of the Tuscan Alps.
The plant is as carefully cultivated as
tobacco itself. All the sprouts and
leaves are kept we'll pruned; thus all
the sap goes to the roots nourishment.
The root is cut when fully developed
and boiled and dried before shipment.
Afterward the pipemaker boils and
dries it again. And when the pipe is
finished he stores it away for further
drying matter of eight years or so.
The best brier pipe Is one cut cross
wise Of the grain, and the grain should
be birdseye. Such pipe lasts life
tfme-can be handed down from father
to son. Of course it's dear"
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Only the Truth,

A virtue carried to excess may be-
come ridiculous. To such action one
may we'll preach, "Be temperate in all
things" even in virtue. Amelia Opie,
the English authoress, was not content
with any half measures, as is shown
in letter from her quoted in Quaker
Pictures," by Wilfred Written. Mrs.
Opie's course of conduct is to be re-
spected as proceeding from her con-
scfentious nature, but fiction readers
may congratulate themselves that her
opinions are not universal
Before she became a Quaker she
wrote fiction. After her conversion she
was asked to contribute a story to a
magazine. Her answer to the editor
ran as follows:
'Thou knowest or ought to know that
since I became a Friend I am not free
to what is called to make story. I
will write fact for thy perusal or any
little matter Of history or truth or a
poem if thou wishest, but I must not
lie and say such and such a thing took
place when it did not. Dost thou un-
derstand?"
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Times Is Changed"

eyes, stree, Bill; times is changed
since you an me was dom our court
tn'," said Adoniram Glover, with note
of sadness in his voice, to old Andy
Glover, who had come over to "set a
SPELL"
when we was dom our courtin',
Andy, a gal thought she was bein'
treated right harnsom If Teller bought
her 10 cents wuth O. pep'mints once in
awhile, an if he TUX her to any doin's
In town she didn't expect him to 60
down into his jeans to the tune of a
dollar or two for ice cream an soda
water an candy at fo'ty cents a
paound. My son 81 TUX his ducksy-
daddle to the band concert in town
ytstiday, an there want a quarter
left Of a dollar bill he struck me fer
time he got home. Beats all the way
young folks throw the money away
nowadays. I tell ye times is changed
nightly since we was boys, an the
Lawd only knows what the end will be
with Teller layin' out Is cents on a
gal in one day"-St. Louis Republic.
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Slim Women Of HUNGARY.

The women Of Hungary regard a
small waist as the greatest possible
beauty, and they will endure anything
In order to put on an appearance Of be-
ing small WASTED. Tight lacing is car
ried or. to an extraordinary extent, and
the waist is compressed by force until
one would think that the owner could
hardly breathe. Yet in this confined
state the women will plunge into the
widest of Hungarian dances, known
as the czardas, and prance frantically
like ballet dancers until at the end
they sink, gasping, exhausted and well
nigh suffocated, OH a sofa. AS they
grow older most Of these slim beauties
become enormously stout, and then
they are regarded as quite old. The
Hungarians, though they resemble the
Turks in many ways, have not the
Turkish admiration for fat women or
the English admiration for elderly
made up bellies. Hungary is land Of
slim young women, and when they
lose their figure they lose their attrac-
hveness and their power.-Modern So
ciety. 4~-.-
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The Innocent Young Thing.

The manufacturer of a moving pic
ture machine was explaining to a
group Of acquaintance how he had OBJ
tanned series Of pictures showing a
celebrated massacre that had once
taken place at a western army post
in the days when Indian warfare was
horrible reality instead of an exhibit
on Broadway stage.
''The commander Of the post" he
said, "had a detachment Of soldiers
and another of Indians re-enact the
scene for us, dressed exactly as in the
old days, so our machines could secure
every detail-the onslaught Of the In
dams, the defense by the white SOL
diers, their massacre and the destruc-
ton Of the fort.'
1T may be very interesting" said
the kindly citizen, "but should not
care to see it in even a picture"
The sweet young thing listened with
wide eyes.
"And did they really kill the white
soldiers for your" she asked. breath
less.-New York Press.
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a Prohibited Weapon

Every traveller knows that there are
certain restrictions upon the introduce
ton Of arms into foreign countries.
Among. the weapons which it is forbid
den to take into France is the sttrom-
blon," which is expressly mentioned In
the Bengal code as weapon the carry
ing and sale Of which are not allowed.
And yet the "tromblon" is not fire.
arm which is commonly used now
adays, for it is nothing else than the
blunderbuss, a weapon which old carl
catVres show to have been carried by
the guards of coaches as a protection
against highwaymen and to have been
hung over his fireplace by John Bull
ut the time Of the scare of a Napoleonic
invasion hundred years ago. The
blunderbuss had a flintlock, a short
barrel and muzzle like trumpet, the
bell mouth being designed to scatter
the slugs with which the primitive
piece was charged. Any one who buys
one at an old curiosity shop had better
take care how he introduces it into
France, for the penalty for doing so is
a fine of 200 francs.-London Chron-
icle
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SELLING AcarIxIe.n

. Here Is Whistler's story Of how he
sold his famous picture Of Carlyle to
the Glasgow corporation:
. received them, well, you know,
charmingly, Of course, and one who
spoke for the rest asked me If I did
not think L was putting large price
on the picture 1000 guineas-and I
said, Eyes, perhaps, If you will have
it so!''
And he said that it seemed to the
council excessive. "Why, the figure
was not even life SIZE"
And agreed. .-..
''But, you know I said, "few men
are life size.''
And that was all. It was an official
occasion, and I respected it. Then
they asked me to think over the mat
ter until the next day, and they would
come again. And they came. And they
said, ''Have you thought Of the thou
sand guineas and what we said about
It, Mr.. WhistlerY' -
And said, "Why, gentlemen, why
well, you know, how could think of
anything but the pleasure of seeing
you again?' 2 ......
And naturally, being gentlemen, they
understood, and they gave me check
Tor the thousand guineas.
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Took His Joke Seriously,

A funny incident occurred aboard
one Of our big battleships. While at
anchor off some large city delega-
ton Of ladies representing the w. G..
T. U. came aboard and were much in
terested in all they saw. One of the
visitors, spying the chit box for the
wine mess, which was fastened up in
the ward room, inquired. what it was.
A young officer, being facetiously in
clined and not for one moment suppos-
ing that his joke would be taken seri-
ously, told her it was box for foreign
missions and that the officers were al
ways glad to have all those who came
aboard contribute. Nothing more was
thought Of the matter till the end Of
the month, when the box was opened
and, to the astonish1uent of all, was
found to contain $12.3t. The dilemma
was overcome by sending a check for
the amount, together with a letter Of
explanation, to the secretary Of the
navy requesting that he have it for
warded through the proper channel to
the cause for which it was contrib
uted.-Army and Navy Life.
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Two Arctic Enemies.

Since the beginning of time there
probably has been enmity between the
polar bear and the walrus. Except for
the walrus, bruins reign over the arc
tic regions has been almost unchal-
lenged since the race Of mammoths
passed. All the hardy flesh eaters that
inhabit the bleak, unfertile northland
are his natural prey. But most of all
he depends upon the seals and sea
lions for his food. There is only one
animal that is powerful enough to
defend itself and offspring against the
polar bears attack, the huge and cum
brous walrus, but it's movements are
SO slow and awkward when out of
the water that often it is impossible
for the bulky animal to retard the
swift attack and retreat Of its smaller
opponent.-Frank Stick in st. Mich
Olas.
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A"Lady" In Pepys' 1ima.

There were worse terrors than the
matinee hat for the man who sat be-
hind lady in the seventeenth cen
fury theater, as recalled by the Lon
don Chronicle. At least, we may sup
pose so from Mr.. Pepys' experience on
Jan. %, 1861, when he saw '"The
Lost Lady" for the second time. Nine
days earlier that play had not pleased
him much, partly perhaps because he
was troubled to be seen by four of
our Office clerks, which sat in the half
crown box and in the Is. 3d." But
on the second occasion the play did
''please me better than before, and
here, I sitting behind In a dark place,
lady spit backward upon me by a
mistake, not seeing me-" However, it
was all right, for: latter seeing her to
be very pretty lady, I was not trou-
bled at it. at all.''-s:
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Few Buried Alive.

ut might be incidentally mentioned
for the relief Of anxious SOULS" says
DR.. Woods Hutchinson in the Amer
lean Magazine, "that the risk Of any
individual passing into a trance and
remaining in it long enough to be
buried alive is exceedingly slight.
There is no authentic instance of this
having ever occurred. I took occasion
to Investigate this question some years
ago and communicated with a number
Of leading undertakers, and they all
unanimously denounced it as one of
the myths Of the times. One Of them,
at the time president Of the National
Funeral Directors association, in
formed me that he had carefully in
vestigated every instance Of burial
alive reported in the newspapers for
fifteen years past and found every one
Of them to be, in his own language, a
pure fake.'"
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Interpreting q Gift.


A Philadelphia man sent as a pres
ent to his son and daughter-in-law a
gold eagle and with it the following
letter:
"The woman on the face Of this coin
is for you, Clarence, because men
usually like good looking women. The
eagle on the reverse, with the feathers
on its legs, is for Lottie, because wo-
men are supposed to like birds and
feathers.
'"The e Pluribus Unum,' which you
know is translated One of Many
means that of the many of them you
would like to have this is the only one
you get.
'The thirteen stars, being an un-
lucky number. indicate the hard luck
many Of us have in our efforts to gath.
er in the quantity Of these coins we
really have need for, but, then, the
forty-six stars around the rim tell you
that by working like forty six days tn
the week you can probably accumu-
late enough to see you through
Philadelphia Ledger.