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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-02-09
Dissolution Notice.

The law firm OF Brown & Turner
has been dissolved Mr. Brown re-
tans the old Offices and Mr.. Turner
occupies rooms and II, Wheeler
building.
II. II. BROWN,
r. +. TURNER.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-02-09

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-02-09

Caseasweet the Wei, known rem
edy for babies and Cl .ldren, will
quiet the little ones In short
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16
LITTLE GIRL
BURNS TO DEATH

Milwaukee, Jan. 12.-Playing with
fire in the kitchen stove cost the life
Of Mabel, the three-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dodge, Saturday.
The child was left alone for a few
minutes by the mother, and upon the
Iatter's return, she found her daugh-
ter enYeloped by a mass of flames.
The child's clothes had caught fire
from the blaze in the stove, and her
screams could be heard all over the
neighborbood.
Mrs. Dodge made a heroic attempt
to extinguish the flames before they
had caused the fatal injuries, but she
did not succeed. She was painfully
burned about the hands and arms. She
called for assistance. and the girl was
hurried to the Emergency hospital
1t was found upon investigation at
the hospital that the child's flesh had
been burned almost to a crisp in many
places. There was hardly an inch
that was not burned Her hair was
gene and there was not sign Of her
eyebrows or eyelashes. She died five
minutes after the ambulance arrived
at the hospital.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16
FOREIGN.

The fact became known tnat the ar
rest of the Earl of Yarmouth for debt
caused a wait before his wedding to
Alice Thaw.
Counselor Miyaoka, charge d affaires
Of the Japanese embassy, says he has
heard nothing of the reported activity
of his government in shipping salt
peter and yucca from Chile to Japan
for manufacture into explosives.
Indictments have been returned
against the executive committee of
the popular socialist party in Russia.
They are mostly veterans of the revo-
lutiOnary struggle who withdrew from
the party to participate IN the cleo
lions TO the third duma The men are
accused Of being members Of a secret
organization which aimed to over
throw the government.
A steamer thought to be the Ca
madam Pacific liner Mount Royal,
twenty-five days out from Antwerp for
st. John, N. B. with 304 immigrants
aboard, was passed Off Sable Island,
n. S., by the Lake Champlain of the
same line. Capt. Webster of the Lake
Champlain reports that he passed
four masted steamer about fifteen
miles away. No signals were seen.
Some of the Paris newspapers have
taken cabled reports of Japan's action
on the American conditions in the
matter OF immigration, together with
the decision of the navy department
to keep the torpedo boat fiotilla and
the battleships together for the re-
mainder of the cruise to the Pacific,
and made of them a subject for fresh
alarm. The Matin regards the coinci-
dence of those facts as highly signifi-
cant.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16
BIC INDUSTRIES
To START WHEELS

Sandusky, O., Jan. 1.-THE San
dusky Portland Cement company
plants at Baybridge, o., Syracuse, Ind,
and Dixon, Ill, will be Teopened Feb
ruary Is.
Newcastle, Pa, Jan. 12.-It was Of
fcialIy announced Saturday that OPP
erations at the American Tin Can COM
pany's plant here will begin February
l. The plant will employ 600 men at
the outset and this number will be in
creased later. The can company has
ordered $4,000 boxes of tin for imme
diate delivery from the American
Sheet and Tin Plate company, to sup
ply which the two large tin plants
here will resume January 20.
Bloomington, H., Jan. 12.-The AL
ton railroad announced that all en-
ployes will be paid in god Monday.
All the forms of checks in vogue for
three months past are to be aban-
dOned.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16
AWFUL SLAUGHTER
Of The INNOCENTS
SIXTEEN CHILDREN TRAMPLEO
TO DEATH IN PUBLIC HALL.
40 OTHERS BADLY INJURED
Cries of the Injured and Means of
the Dying Cause Greatest Excite
ment-Narrow Staircase Practic-
ally Blocked With Bodies-Sobbins
Women Search for Their Missing.

Barnsley, England, Jan. 13.-Sixteen
children were trampled to death and
80 others, several of whom cannot
live, were injured in a mad rush for
better seats at an entertainment given
in the public hall here Saturday al
ternoon. The hall gallery was liter
ally packed with children who filled
the aisles and were dangerously
massed against the lower railing.
With view to relieving this crowd
ing in the gallery the attendants ue-
cided to transfer some of the chill
dren to the body of the house. Fol
lowing the call of an usher, the chill
dren made rush and within a few
seconds hundreds of them were being
trampled under foot. Even those who
had seats in the gallery, doubtless
being panic stricken by screams and
struggles of the crowds fighting to
stampede. The scene was terrible,
the cries Of the injured and the means
of the dying causing the greatest ex-
element among those in the body of
the hall Police and ushers rushed
TO the head of the staircases, which
were literally streWn with the dead
and the dying, and by most desperate
efforts managed to drag scores OF
struggling children to the corridors
below. 1t was with the greatest dit
f1culties that the panic among the
children in the lower part of the house
was aVerted, all of these eventually
being taken into the street in safety.
When the reserve police arrived
they found narrow stairway prac-
ticaIly blocked with bodies which were
crushed, in some cases almost beyond
recognition. Scores of children were
forced by the pressure from the
crowd behind them to scramble over
those that had fallen, whether living
or dead, and many of the injured
children were found later to be suffer.
ing from fractured bones and severe
decorations, caused by the indescrib-
able manner in which they had been
trampled upon.
Soon after the accident the ap-
proaches to the hall were crowded
with sobbing women searching for
their missing children.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16
DOMESTIC.

An automobile containing Miss
Bessie Turney, aged II years OF Nash
vile, Tenn, and her cousin, A. R.
Faris, was caught between street cars
and completely smashed at St. Louis.
Both occupants were seriously injured.
Jeremiah O'Meara, 70 years old, and
Helen NaughtOn, 60 years old, were
married at Stanford, Conn, after a
wait of forty years. They were sweet
hearts when the civil war broke out
and OMeara enlisted. 1t was only a
short time ago that they found each
other, after forty years waiting.
At San Francisco. the arraignment
of former Mayor Eugene E. Schmitz,
James Coffroth, Eddie Graney and
Willis Britt on indictments charging
bribery in connection with obtaining
from the former board Of supervisors
permits for the so-called fight trust
has been set by Superior JCoge Dunno
for Jan. II.
A plan, world wide in its scope. to
crush out the BLACK Hand has h..an
devised by Lieut., Joseph Petrosnl. of
New York. He has established cor
resPonuence with beads OF the police
departments In Rome and other Italian
cities and through them viii learn
whenever brigand or blackmailer has
left for America.
After long discussion at Boston. rep
resentatives of all branches of inter
UNCONVENTIONAL Sunday school work
adopted resolutions recommending the
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16
OBITUARY..

! James r. DRAPER died at Valparaiso,
, Ind. He was deputy postmaster for
! sixteen years, and once county clerk.
Samuel A. Baxter, former mayor of
Lima, O., died under the surgeons
knife. He was in his siXty-ninth year.
Mr.. G. M. Lane, mother of Franklin
NJ. Lane, a member of the interstate
commerce commission, died in San
Francisco. She was 20 years old
Alois Kaiser, whose compositions
were sung in all of the synagogues of
the world, is dead in his home in Bal
ish cantor and we'll known musician.
Rev. P. B. Morrison is dead of pneu-
monia at his home in Eau Claire. He
was Is years of age and was one of
the pioneer Episcopal clergymen of
the state.
Mrs. A. D. Perry, wife Of General
Agent a. D. Perry of the Chicago and
Alton road in Peoria, died at the Proc
tor hospital in Peoria from the effects
Of a surgical operation.
Albert August Mack, associate pro-
lessor Of piano and theory of music in
the college of fine arts Of Syracuse
university, we'll known as the COM
poser of songs and piano pieces, is
dead.
George w. Eckert, known all over
the world as the breeder of owl pig
cons that have won first prizes at
shows in all parts of the country, is
dead at his home in Allentown, Pa,
aged 50 years.
William II. Fairbank, former Massa-
chusetts commissioner 70 the Portland
exposition, and more recently com
missioner to the jamestown exposi-
ton is dead at his home in Warren,
Mass. He was II lars of age.
William L. Dai ey, who with William
n. Byers founded the Rocky Mountain
News in 1859, is dead at Denver, after
an illness of several months. Before
coming to Colorado Mr.. Daley was
connected with newspapers in Iowa
and Nebraska
Charles Augustus Young, one of the
foremost astronomers in the United
States, is dead of pneumonia at Han
over, n. H. He had been living in
Hanover since his retirement as pro-
fessor of astronomy at Princeton
about a year ago. He discovered the
solar reversing layer and was the
author of several astronomical books.
John F. Tanning, well known. among
railroad men as a pioneer railroad
builder, who built the Des Moines d.
vision OF the Rock Island railroad and
considerable portion of the Northern
Pacific and Union Pacific systems,
died after long illness, at his home,
aged 81. Mr.. Tanning came to this
country from Ireland in 1874. He is
survived by widow, six daughters,
and a son, all of whom live in Chi
cago.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY

Washington, D. c., Jan. 7.-Several
sident Roosevelt in the house of repre-
sentatiYes by Mr. Willet of New York,
who in speaking on the financial ques-
ton charged the president with not
being a sensible man and with having
characterized the heads of great indus
trial institutions as dishonest, thereby
bringing lack of confidence and ult-
mateIy a panic. The trouble with the
president, he said, had been that ne
had not been turning on the light,
but turning on gas. Representative
Gall of Maryland offered a resolution
designed to open the way for a con-
gressional airing of the Admiral
Brownson incident. Representative
ton asking the committee on foreign
affairs to inquire into the "expediency
of requesting the president of the
United States to intercede with the
government of Russia, for the liberia
ton of the members of the Russian
douma now in prison or under duress
within that country with tender to
them of the United States as an asy-
lum, and providing if necessary, for
their immediate removal here" Re
publican policies were attacked by
Hardwick of Georgia who predicted
that the only safety for the party lay
in the nomination of Secretary Taft
for the presidency.
In the senate the financial bill
which has for some time been in pre-
paration by leading republican mem
bers of the senate committee on fin
ances, was today printed and given to
the public. The bill provides for an
additional issue of bank circulation
which shall at no time exceed $780,,
$1,000, upon bonds other than those
issued by the government including
state and municipal bonds. The con-
troller is authorized to decide as TO
the time and the amount to be
awarded to any banking institution.
1t is provided that the increased circu-
lation shall N no case exceed Is per
cent of the value of the bonds de
posted.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16

continuance and fullest development
Of the present system of Sunday
school lessons, and at the same time
expressing recognition Of the demand
for graded instruction.
Fire destroyed a business block In
Culbertson, Mont, town of 2,5OO in
habitants. The fire spread so rapidly
that it was necessary to use dynamite
to prevent the complete destruction
of the town. The explosion wrecked
nearly ali The plate glass windows IN
that portion OF Lne business secrIon
that was not destroyed by the flames.
At Joliet, Judge Dibell has given a
decision involving the estate of Mrs.
Cornelia Miller. amounting to $250,000.
Three nephews, George, Charles and
Manning Fish were the heirs. Charles
as executor and agent of the estate, is
alleged to have absorbed all the prop
erty. The court ruled that he resign
as executor and that an accounting
covering the last ten years be had.
At Columbus, Ind, jury returned a
verdict of guilty against David Fox of
Smfthville and Jacob Kirk of Kinks
vile, charged with Whitecapping Viii
liam L. Vanest of South Bethany last
June. Several other mon have been
on trial with Fox and Kirk, but their
names were dropped by the jury. The
two men convicted will serve term
at Michigan City of from two to four
teen years.
Clarence Sturgeon, 10 years of age,
was executed at Louisville, KY, for
numbering Ira Brunek, James Black
erly, and Wilfred McMicnael a year
ago. The execution was rendered ex-
tremely painful for those present by a
failure of the mechanism to work
properly and a consequent delay OF
several minutes while the condemned
man stood rigidly awaiting the end
Sturgeon was not pronounced dead for
seventeen minutes.
A sworn confession by Alfred Ma
han of the murder of his little niece,
Ethel Mahan, was read by Judge Bates
of the Bennington, VT, police court,
Just before the prosecution rested its
case in the Superior court. Mahan
confessed to wrongdoing with the
little girl, after which he said he cut
her throat Counsel proceeded with
the intention of showing that the muir
derer was insane.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16

branches in Goldfeld, Tonopah, and
Reno, closed its doors Oct. q, has re-
sumed operations.
A petition in involuntary bank
ruptcy was fled against the Long
Leaf Lumber company of Houton,
Texas, by w. A. Bell, L. B. Menefee,
and E. G. Becker, receivers, with an
alleged Indebtedness Of S57,957.
1t is expected that fully 1000 ovens
of the H. c. Frfck Coke company in
the Connellsville and lower Connells-
vile regions will be put in operation
within ten days. 1t is believed the op-
orators will have trouble in securing
enough yorkmen.
After being shut down for repairs
No. works of the Pittsburg Plate
Glass company has resumed opera
tons. The department employs from
1900 to 1900 men, and there is gen.
eral rejoicing. No. works, employ
ing 1000 men, will also resume.
The Platt iron works, at Dayton, O.,
employing hundreds Of men; the steel
mills of the Barney & Smith Car CON-
pany, the Brownell boiler shops, and
a few other establi shments have re-
sumed operations after a shut down.
The Davis Seating Machine company
has increased its force.
A strike which is expected to as
augurated in McKinnon mills, Utica,
N. Y. Forty-one spinners notified to
instruct Poles and other foreigners
to work looms refused to go to work.
Unless there is a speedy settlement
the employment of 3,UU0 persons will
be affected.
Attorneys for the Bluff City Lumber
company at Little Rock, Ark, have pc
titioned the federal court for the ap
pointment of a receiver and that tie
company be declared bankrupt. 4
dispute between owners as coreceiv'
ers brought about the litigation. The
debts of the corporation amount tC
sl50,0OO, with property valued al
twenty times that amount.
An evidence Of the country's re
markable purchasing power is found
in the annual report of the appraiser
of the port Of New York. The value
of merchandise imported in 1907 in
excess of importations in 1906 was
SGT, 100000. The report shows that
the American public spent much less
for diamonds and precious stones thar
in 1906 Duty was paid on jewels val
ued at $31,713, O15, a decrease of nearly
| $12,O00,00O from 1906.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16
CHICAGO.

Lyman ". Barber was found dead
On the IL" tracks; his brother sus-
poets murder.
Judge Newcomer said new blood
from the country cannot save Chicago,
as farmer boys go wrong more quickly
than city boys.
John D. Rockefeller gave s2,191. 900
to Chicago university and the day of
financial independence for the institu-
tIon seems near.
A rent strike began in Chicago.
Nineteen tenants in the Marsel build
ing gave notice that they would not
paw the rent unless reduction Is made.
The police received word from Du-
buque, that Ella Hates, II years old,
kidnapped from her home in Kansas
City, Kas., several years ago, has been
found in a convent there. The dis
covery followed statements made by
William Birmingham and his wife who
are awaiting trial in Chicago on a
charge of stealing Lillian Wulff, s
years old, from her home a few weeks
since.
Testimony was introduced in the
trial Of John R. Walsh to show that
the properties to which he is alleged
to have diverted the funds of the Chi
cago National bank were in good ply
steal and financial condition. M. w.
Wells, general manager of the Chicago
Southern and of the Illinois Southern
railroads, testified that he had great
faith in the future of these Walsh
ventures.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16

Washington, d. c., Jan. 8-The sub
committee of the house committee on
banking and currency, to which was
entrusted the framing of a bill to in
crease the elasticity of the currency,
reached a conclusion and Will report
favorably to the full committee bill
drawn in the main by Chairman Fow-
Ter. The bill provides for the COM
plete retirement of all present out
standing national bank bond secured
currency and authorizes in lieu thereof
a currency based upon general assets
of the banks. By its terms the con-
troller of the currency will designate
certain redemption cities. Each ma
tional bank in each district will be
entitled to one vote at meeting to
elect board of managers, to consist
of seven members. These seven will
elect a chairman. who will become a
deputy controller CT the currency and
assume control OF his district. In the
entire house, Representative Williams
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16
ALDRICH BILL NIT.
Wall Street Measure for Which West
Has No Liking.

Washington, Jan. Ex-senator Hans
brough of North Dakota, who refused
to indorse the AIdrich currency bill
when it was agreed upon by, the SEN
ate finance committee, expressed
openly his disapproval of it since it's
introduction in the senate.
Il do not like the Aldrich BILL" said
Senator Hansbrough. at is simply
another patch on our financial crazy
quilt Its restrictions as to bonds
which may be deposited against new
circulation are almost prohibitory. 1t
has other bad features. The big
bankers of the east will no doubt ia
Yor it"
The expressions of other western
members of both houses indicate
strong opposition to the Aldrich bill.
based an the belief that it will afford
no relief to western and northwestern
banks. In case of a financial string
ency, similar 10 that of last October,
it is pointed out that the banks did
not avail themselves of the full limit
of bank notes which could have been
issued in the recent trouble, and that
the Aldrich bill will serve only to in
fate the currency in the east, where
speculative interests will take advant-
age of its provision.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16

of Mississippi and Representative De-
Almond of Missouri. whose physical
encounter before the Christmas ad-
journment attracted attention, en-
gagged in an exchange of amenities
which was generally accepted as a
public announcement of their intention
not to permit personal differences 10
interfere with the courteous discharge
of their public duties. The house
committee on banking and currency
has decided to report fayorably the
resolution calling on the secretary OF
the treasury for information as to the
amount of currency in circulation i'm
mediately before the recent financial
disturbance and the amount now in
circulation.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16
WEST POINT FOR
B. CHYNOWETH
SON OF MAJOR IN REGULAR
ARMY GETS HIGHEST MARK
AND APPOINTMENT.
NOMINATED BY SENATOR Ia
TOILETTE AS CANDIDATE
FROM STATE AT LARGE.
Madison, Jan. Is.


AS the result of a competitive exam-
ination held Friday Senator La Fol
lette Saturday nominated Bradford
Chynoweth of Madison as the candi-
date from the state at large to West
Point military academy and Hugo
Schaldach of La Crosse and Harvey
Bullock of Appleton as alternates.
The three nominees will go to ST.
Louis and take the admission exam
nations next Tuesday. These exam
nations will be both mental and
physical, and will be conducted by
regular army officers at Jefferson bar
racks.
The competitive examination was
conducted by the state civil service
commission and there were Ia candi-
dates from different parts of the state,
some of whom had been coached for
several months for the test. The eX-
animation was unusually difficult,
which is shown by the standings of
the candidates. The time also was
limited, which in part accounts for
the rather low marks. Chynoweth Sc
cured an average mark of "A points,
Schaldach one of 591a points and Bull
lock one of SO points Young Chyno-
weth is II years old and is son OF
Major Edward Chynoweth of the reg
ular army, who is now serving on de
tail duty at Washington. Major Chy-
noweth is himself a graduate of West
Point and some years ago served as
instructor in military tactics at the
Wisconsin university. The major is
q brother of the late II. w. Chyno~
Weth.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16
To Cut Operators Pay.

Chippewa Falls, Wis, Jan. 13.-The
Wisconsin Central has sent notices
to its operators stating that after
February 1, 1908, their salaries would
be cut about 5 per cent AS result
of the proposed cut, a number Of op-
orators along the line have resigned
and more are planning TO do SO. 1t
is said that the cut is the result OF
the new eight-hour law which went
into effect January ]
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16

New York, ia. 13.-The total bank
clearings compiled by Bradstreet's
for the principal cities of the United
States the past week were s2,616,30S,-
600, against s3,4S0, $4,000 in the cor
responding week Of last year.
The showing indicates a material
betterment of conditions compared
with a week ago, Whe-4 the clearings
were but $1,906,67 or s1,26S,53S.
900 less than for the same week a
year previous.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16
SHOOTS LOVER
IN COURTROOM

Waukegan, H., Jan. 12.-Miss
Maude Crews fired two shots at Ar
thur Nichols in a crowded courtroom
here Saturday, wounding him seri.
onsIy and causing the Judge and spec
tators to take refuge in flight. She
was arrested.
The shooting followed Nichols dis
charge by Judge Weise after he had
been arraigned in police court on COM
plant of Miss Crews, who alleged that
he had tried to run her down with
his horse and had struck at her with
a whip Friday night Nichols as
serted the womans act was the result
of insane infatuation" for him
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-01-16
GRAND DUKE JOINS PRINCE.
Refuses to Act Unless Kein Pulls
Out.


Berlin, Jan. 12.-Grand Duke Fred
erick August of Oldenburg has writ
ten a letter to Prince Zu Salm
Horstmar, honorary president of the
Navy League, associating himself
with Prince Henry of Prussia, who
Friday, as representative of Emper-
or William as patron Of the league,
decided to retire from this pos
in the event of Major General Keim
continuing as managing director. The
grand duke declares he viii resign
his protectorate of the Oldenburg
branch unless Keim resigns. The
Brandenburg group of the Navy
League held a meeting Saturday
night and adopted resolutions calling
upon Keim to resign in order to set
tie the crisis in the league,