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Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
DRIVEN CUT BY FIRE.
Forty Chicago Families Left Homeless
by Blaze Which Destroys Three
Apartment Houses.

CHICAGO, H., Nov. 25.-Forty fami-
lies were driven from their homes today
in chilling rain by fire which de-
stroyed three four-story buildings in
North Winchester avenue and occasioned
a loss of $4,000. Three firemen We're
injured by falling beams while they
sought to extinguish the flames and res
cue the occupants of the buildings. Three
sick women were carried through smoke
filled corridors by the fremen while the
blaze was sprea ding.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
STEAMER BURNS:
200 LIVES LOST
SARDINIA DESTROYED NEAR IS
LAND OF MALTA AND FEW
LIVES ARE SAVED.
PASSENGERS IN WILD PANIC.
Decks Are Clustered with Tents Erected
by Those Taking Passage on
Inflated Ship.
STRONG WIND FANS THE BLAZE

NALETTA, Island of Malta, Nov. %.
Nearly two hundred persons, passen-
gers and crew of the Ellerman line
steamship Sardinia, are believed TO have
persisted today when the steamer was
destroyed by fire after she had arrived
from Alexandria, Egypt. The Sardinia
was scarcely a mile off Grand Harbor
when the first sign of fire appeared, but
with a strong wind to fan the flames
the whole ship was soon ablaze and the
passengers and crew had scarcely a
chance for their lives.
Wild Scene of Panic.
There was a wild scene of panic on
board as the rapidly spreading flames
drove the passengers to the rails, and
many of the excited ones, not even wait
ing for the boats to be lowered, plunged
into the sea. Scores are believed to have
been drowned. Others, trapped by the
fire, We're literally roasted to death or
smothered without chance for life.
There were many craft in the harbor
at the time of the disaster and several
tugs and other swift, small vessels
rushed to the assistance of the imperilled
liner The high sea and half gale
Whlch prevailed at the time, however,
made it impossible for them even to
approach the Sardinia, and they could do
little in the way of aid.
The Sardinia left Liverpool, NOvem-
Der II, with a cargo of general merchan-
disc for Mediterranean ports. Her crew
numbered forty-four, and about twenty
tirst-class and six second-class passengers
embarked at Liverpool. Most of her
other 200 hundred passengers undoubt-
edly were Levantines, Maltese and
Egyptians.
Pitch Tents on Decks
Many of these people cross on the
steamers of this line from Malta to
/ Alexandria. 1t is their custom to pitch
their tents on decks for shelter during
the four days trip. The decks are clut-
tered and this condition undoubtedly
made the orderly clearing of the ship
J li fficI1lf
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
Dunn County Farmer Struck While
Standing in Doorway of His
Barn

EAU CLAIRE, Wis, Nov. 26.-[Spe-
cial. Frank Maves, u years old, of
Illk Mound township, Dunn county,
while standing in a barn door way last
might, was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed. The barn was destroyed.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
ILLNESS OF WILHELM.
Cold with Which German Emperor Is
Suffering Takes Its Normal
Course

BERLIN. Nov. 26.-According TO a
bulletin issued this afternoon from the
new palace at Potsdam the cold with
which the Emperor is suffering continues
to take its normal course.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
RACE GOES TO CROWLY.
Irish American Athletic Club Athlete
Wins Thanksgiving Day Mara
thon Event.

YONKERS. n. Y, Nov. 26.-The
Marathon race was won by j. F. Crow
lev of the Irish-American Athletic club
of New York. Time 2 hours 40 minutes.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
Killed by Stray Bullet.

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Nov. 26.
Edward Eiseth was killed by stray
bullet. fred by an unknown man in the
woods near Park Falls. He was work
ing for a lumber company at the tine ne
was shot.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
WAGNER VICTOR
IN AUTO RACE
At SAVANNAH
FINISHES FIRST WITH HIS ITALIAN
CAR FIAT IN SAVANNAH
CONTEST.
HEMERY IS CLOSE SECOND.
Americans Fail Early in the Game and
Fight Is Between For
eigners.
SEVERAL ARE SERIOUSLY HURT.

SAVANNAH. Ga. Nov. 26.-Louis
Wagner, Frenchman. driving the Ital-
ian Fiat car No. IA. won the grand
prize race of 402 miles here today. His
total time was $40 minutes 81 seconds
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
REIGN OF TERROR
IN HAYTI island.
GOVERNMENT FORCES AND INSUR-
GENTS BOTH BUTCHER RUTH
LESSLY.
FOREIGNERS NEARLY FRANTIC.
French Regards Situation So Seriously
That Warships May Come
to Scene.
UNITED STATES MAY TAKE HAND.

NEW ORLEANS, La, Nov. 26.-Ac-
Icording to cable dispatch received to-
day by The Picayune from St Thomas,
danish West Indies, private cable adj
vices received there from Port au Prince
are to the effect that the cansGred dis
patches sent from Hayti only give a
faint idea of the reign of terror now ex-
listing on that island The dispatch con-
tinues:
Anarchy Reigns Throughout.
Anarchy regns throughout Hayti
and the country is literally running with
blood Private cables received here from
Port au Prince state that wholesale exc
Eutions are i'll progress, both by the gov
brnment forces and the reVolutOnlsts.
sPersons who are suspected Of sympathy
with the insurgents are being summary
shot by order of President NOrd Alexis,
and as n result a panic prevails.
Foreigners in Terror.
The same course is being followed
by the revolutionists, who have control
of the southern portion of the republic.
EVERY person i'll that section who sym
pathiZes with the government Is promptly
put to death when his sympathies be-
come known to Gen. Simon, the leader
of the insurgents.
4 ''Fogeigners in Hayti are making fran
tic appeals to their governments for pro-
lection and the French representative
regards the situation so serious that he
has cabled for ships. The German min
lister. it is stated, has cabled a similar
message to Berlin.
ut is the general opinion in st. Thorn
as that Intervention by the United States
ps necessary to protect life and property
hn Hayti."
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
Advertise in this paper, and make your
wants known to your home people, and
stimulate enterprise in our vicinity.

For monogram stationery see the ad.
the Sullivan Engraving Co. in this
i-~ue.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27
STEAMER SINKS
IN new YORK BAY.
SIX ARE DEAD
PANAMA LINER FINANCE STRUCK
BY WHITE STAR FREIGHTER
GEORGIC.
GOES DOWN IMMEDIATELY.
Three Passengers and Three of Crew
Are Believed to Have
Drowned.
GOES DOWN IMMEDIATELY.


NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-Fog, the
heaviest known for years, which has
paralyzed traffic in the New York harbor
for four days, caused the loss of six
lives today when the Panama railroad
steamer Finance. bound for Colon with
eighty-fve passengers Oh board, was
sunk in collision with the White Star
freight steamship George in the main
ship channel off Sandy Hook. Chief
Engineer John w. Pickett, his third
assistant engineer, William II. Todd, and
an oiler named Charles Eric all of the
Finance, either remained at their posts
or were caught in the wreckage and
went down with the ship.
Three passengers are missing and be-
lieved to be drowned. They are:
CAMPBELL, MRS. IRENE, of Colon
MULLER, HENRY, conductor on the
Panama railroad.
RHIDELAND, POLICE, Of the Canal
zone police.
Passengers at Breakfast.
Most of the passengers were at break
fast when the great steel Prov of the
George came crashing through the side
Oh llle Il ludLCt dS TIE dldIlld Illcl was
making her way slowly down the chan
mel. Nineteen women and fifteen chill
dren were still asleep in their state
rooms. With the uproar of the collision
all fed to the deck and while the boats
were being lowered several Of the wom-
EN-, too frantic with fright to be Gained
by the steady assurances of the officers
that all would be saved, plunged over
board. Dressed only in their night cloth
ing they were picked up by boats from
both the Finance and the Georgia while
their cooler fellow passengers clustered
about the other boats as the Finance
carl, up5ar
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-27

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Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
Government Ownership.

Washington.-Senator Burkett Of
Nebraska was the principal speaker
at the winter convocation of the Geo.
Washington University held at the
Belasco Theatre. Senator Burkett's
theme was "The Protest of Ameri-
cans Against Government Ownership
of Railways" Government ownership
he declared, would be spear thrust
to the very heart Of our body polite
and would mean revolution not only
politically. but commercially, as we'll as
paternalism in politics and socialism
in commerce. The system was Euro
pean and un-American. The present
large amount of money collected in
taxes on railroads would be lost he
said, and the government would not
operate the railroads as economical.
as private ownership.
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
Deep Waterway.

Washington.-The committee on
rivers and harbors of the house gave
a hearing on two projects. The first
was on the bill introduced by Mr..
Davey of Louisiana to provide for the
construction and operation of deep
waterway between the cities Of Chica-
go and st. Louis.
The measure authorizes the secre-
tary of war to enter into contracts
with the Joliet Power Co., the Ottawa
Power Co., of Illinois, and w. d. Ba-
den Power Co., of Missouri, for the
construction and operation of COM
bined waterway and power develop
ment in the Desplaines, the Illinois
and the Mississippi river between Chi
cago and st. Louis.
The government is to pay the whole
cost of the work and for this purpose
$6O,OOO,OOO is appropriated, for which
the secretary of the treasury Is au-
thorized to issue two per cent. bonds
to run for fifty years.
The bill directs that a channel
twenty-five feet in depth at low wa
ter be maintained.
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
italian Anarchists.

Winnepeg.-It became known that
sertain Italian laborers a Port Ar
thur and Fort William, attempted
last week to blow up the huge Cana
dian Northern Railway coal docks,
recently erected at large cost. Fol-
lowing the custom of the "Black
Hand" and similar societies, they
first sent letter to the manager of
the docks that they would blow him
and his institution up unless he
found them work, advising that an
explosion would create plenty of work
for the shovelers clearing away the
debris.
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
The Proud chIeftain.

When DIR. Klopsch, the editor of the
Christian Herald, was congratulated
upon the honor done him when the
Emperor of japan bestowed upon him
the Order of the Rising Sun, he laugh
ed and said: Yes, my new decoration
makes me feel very proud. feel as
proud, in fact, as a Highland chief.
and no one could be prouder than that.
"A certain earl" he went on, "once
gave a dinner in honor OF a great
Highland chief who rarely came down
from the hills.
Though there were many illutri-
Gus persons at this dinner, the proud
Highlander was curt and naughty
with the grandest.
when the coffee came on, the host
leading his Highland guest up and
down the great hall. asked him what
he thought Of the company.
''Och,' said the chieftain. they're
no bad. They're no bad chiefs"
Then he frowned, and proudly
swelling out his broad chest, struck
1t a. blow.
"'But the fack is,' he cried, I never
met man yet wha was the equal O
myself The Circle Magazine.
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
A. Drag Net for Crooks.

New Orleans Detectives from
thirteen large American cities will ar
rive here to protect the visiting Mar
di Gras carnival crowd. Inspector of
Police O'Connor announced the names
of these detectives saying that they
will serve as a protection from the
large influx of thieves, from all over
the country who have in the past in
tested New Orleans at carnival times
The inspector has secured one or two
leading detectives from each of the
13 cities. Added to these city de-
tectives there will be six Pinkerton
men making a total of twenty-five
visiting detectives. These men, the
inspector said knew by sight nearly
every prominent pickpocket or other
thief in the United States. The fol-
lowing cities will furnish detectives,
two each: New York, Chicago, Phil
adelphia and Pittsburg. The following
will furnish one each: Detroit, Buff
falo, Louisville, Kansas City, Wash
ington. Baltimore, Boston and Cincin-
natl, st. Louis will furnish three de-
tectiyes.
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
Louisiana Seeks Labor.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Sixteen umemploy-
ed Pittburgers, having families, left
here for Monroe, La, where they will
be given farm, home, tools and seed
and an opportunity to buy the land
they cultivate. The same induce
ments are being offered to forty 9th
er families. Their transportation Is
paid.
All the arrangements are under the
direction of Jas. l.. Knoepfer, sec
retary of the Louisiana state board
of immigration, who is now in this
city. Speaking of the plan Mr.. Knoe-
pher said tonight:
''I am here to give men opportuni-
ty to better their conditions. 1 repre-
sent the state and no land company.
We have in Louisiana, 27,000,O0O
acres of land and only 100000 acres
are being cultivated.
"We want families to till the soil
and study our methods. The legisla-
ture of Louisiana is promoting the
present plan and in order to enlarge
our scope of usefulness, we must get
men who are willing to work. We
want men who are progressive, and
planters with large tracts of land,
stand ready and willing to aid every
man who is willing to help himself
and sell him small farms on ten years
credit
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
To Cough Properly.

few people know how to cough
properly. 1t never occurs to the or
dinary individual that there is right
way and wrong way of doing 1t. Yet
1t is a matter of no small impor-
tance.
If every sigh means drop of blood
out of the heart, as people say. every
cough means some greater or less
proportion of time knocked OF ones
life.
Most people cough as loudly and
forcibly as they can. But 1t is rath-
er costly noise. for the single reason
that it tears and infiames the lungs.
The lungs consist of an extraordin-
Erily delicate sponge-like tissue.
which sometimes gets infiamed and
choked with phlegm. When we try
to get rid of this substance we cough.
But obviously, IL we remove it vio-
lently, we must necessarily injure
the delicate lung tissue. Therefore,
train yourself to cough as gently az
possible.-From Health.
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
} Observation-Disclosures
Irving the Listener.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. o

Clara Morris has written many in
.eresting things about the New York
stage, and not the least interesting
Of these is her story of how, on he,
return from London in the very
early seventies, she described to her
manager, Augustin Daily, new actor
who had at that moment taken a
strong hold on the English public
through his performances of a WELL
worn part in an old-time melodrama.
'It was what he did not do-what
he left to the imagination" and then
she described in detail his first en-
trance, telling how he came into the
warm inn, chilled to the bone, and
sat down to remove his leggings.
He drew a great colored hand
kerchief and brushed away some
clinging snow; then leaning forward,
with slightly trembling fingers he be-
gan to unfasten top buckle. Sud-
denly the trembling ceased, the fin
gers clenched hard upon the buckle.
the whole body became still, then
rigid-it seemed not to breathe! The
one sign of life in the man was the
agonizingly strained sense of hear
ing! His tortured eyes saw nothing.
Utterly without speech, without feel
ing. he listened-breathlessly lis.
tened! A cold chill crept stealthily
about the roots of my hair. l
clenched my hands and whispered to
myself: Will it come. good God.
VIII it come, the thing he listens
for?'
When, with a wild bound, as il
every nerve and muscle had been
rent by an electric shock, he was upon
his feet; and / was answered even
before that suffocating cry of terror
The bellsl The bells!'-and
under cover of the applause that fol-
lowed l said: Haunted! Innocent or
guilty. this man is haunted!'"
And the actor who gained his first
great success by his mastery of lis
tening proved strong enough to live
down the many mannerisms and &C.
centricities of speech and gesture
that furnished food for talk to the
light-minded and to become in time
the one dominant figure on the Eng
disappearing stage and to gather
about the name of Henry Irving a
halo Of public respect and honor that
made his knighthood look cheap and
common in comparison.-From Serb,
ner's.
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Think before you spea--s,.

Think before you spea-s.
Be not tedious in discourse.
Let your relations be manful.
Don't pretend to be a physician.
Let your countenance be pleasant.
Speak not of doleful things at
table.
Let your discourse with business
be short.
Use no reproachfu- language at
Be not angry at table whatever
happens.
Be not forward but friendly and
courteous.
Be not curious to know the affairs
of others.
Associate yourself with men of
good quality.
Give way to one of greater quality
than yourself.
Speak not in an unknown tongue
in company.
Tell not your dreams but to your
intimate friends.
Detract not from others; neither
be excessive in commencing.
Labor to keep alive in your breast
that little spark of celestial fire called
conscience. = From .'Washington's
Rules of Behavior" in the Magazine
of American History.
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
Death By Gas.

New York.-Mrs. William Proudfit
Burden, who was Natica Rives, jaugh
ter of o. HI. p. Belmont, and socie-
ty favorite in New York Newport ard
Washington, was found dead in bed
at her Fifth Avenue home. Death, the
coroner decided was accidentally and
due to gas poisoning. A disconnected
gas tube, which had led from chan
delier to a drop lift, so placed last
night that Mrs. Burden might read
while propped up in bed, mad per-
mitted of gas that filled the room and
escaping into the hall, finally attrae
ed the attention of the servants.
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28

James Harper and w. T. Smith
were given a sentence Of six years
in the Federal prison by Judge Niles,
sitting at Biloxi. They are the two
bank employees Of Hattiesburg, who
defaulted for the aggregate of $780,
600 fed to Canada, but later surren-
iered and were brought back from
Van Couver. Smith withdrew his plea
of not guilty and both men went be-
fore the court on his admission Of
guilt.
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
Central Bank Suspends.

Very little surprise has been occa-
stoned by the appointment of re-
ceiver for the Central Bank of Mis-
sissippi at jackson ordered by Chan
cellor Lyell. The bank was organized
here last year with an authorized
capital of $500,000, but only 100000
of the amount was paid in. The bank
secured a very small patronage, and
it is understood that it will be able
to pay Its depositors in full.
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
WIT HUN1WR
gT1D
SAE GAS N

Papa, what for it gets dark 81
soon?' Because, my boy, winter is
comm. and it gets late early now
Life.
There's something in that last
poem from the new poet" ''Indeed?'
"Yes-a whole years subscription u
Atlanta Constitution.
tom, it's dreadful for you to lose SO
much money gambling" do you want
me to renounce the card table?" mo
dear; l want you to play better
game."-Judge.
On the Milky Speedawy-Venus- =
Gracious! These comets are awful.
ly reckless! The last one almost ran
me down" Saturn-Did you get hfs
number?"-Puck.
Isn't he one Of the most success
full financiers Of the times?" Ishould
say SO. Why, three grand juries
have tried in vain to get him in jail. -
Baltimore American.
Singleton-You wife seems to be
an up-to-date woman. Wedderly-Huh!
She's away ahead of the date. Why,
she has lot of trouble borrowed for
next year.-Chicago Daily News.
Mike" said Plodding Pete, what
would you say If some one was to Of
fer you work." Il wouldn't say any.
thing. Such bad Judge of human ma.
ture wouldn't be worth talxin' to-
Washington Star.
Deacon-You never told me, Maria
that when you wuz in New York you
went to Sunday night concert. Ma.
ria--It was sacred concert, Joshua.
Deacon-Too sacred to mention / sup
pose.-Town and Country.
Local magnate (about to try his
hand with pick on occasion of first
visit to coal mine)-Tm afraid shan't
make much of job of it. Miner-But
tha'll be able to say tha's tried to do
an honest bit O. work for once In tha
life.-Punch.
JOSIAH" asked Mrs. Chugwater,
what do the papers mean when they
talk about tainted money!" Money
that's been kept in an old yarn sock. ;"
answered Mr.. Chugwater. Cant you
give your mind chance to work once
in while?" Chicago Tribune.
Miss Yerner-But would you die for
me? Jack Brightly-To tell you the
truth, dear, l would not. Miss Yer
ner-Ah! l just knew you wouldn't
and yet you talk to me of love
Jack Brightly-Ny dear, my love is
of the undying sort.-Philadelphia
Press.
Gunner-So the celebrated poet mar
ried Miss Penner, the short-story
writer? Guyer-Yes, and some of
their wedding presents were cruel in
situations. Gunner-What did they re-
ceive? Guyer-Sixteen waste bask-
cts embellished with ribbons.-Chi-
cago Daily News.
Pa Twaddles-Tommy, l am not at
all pleased with the report your
mother gives me of your conduct to-
day. Tommy Twaddles-I knowed
you wouldn't be, an l told her so.
But she went right ahead an made tn
report. Just like woman, amt it?--
Cleveland Leader.
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
Two Classes of Deaf Mutes.

In the experience of DR.. Marage.
a reported in the Paris Academy Of
Medicine, very few deaf mutes have
proven incurable, but of the others
there are two classes-those who
eventually understand and speak al
most as well as anybody, and those
who get no further than hearing and
understanding music. A recent class
of pupils from eleven to fourteen
years Of age had been given a six
weeks course of acoustic exercise
with the voice siren. BY this system
the teacher avoids fatigue, and the
children had not only acquired the
ability to hear and understand
French, but their voices had lost the
harshness characteristic of deaf
nutes.-Philadelphia Record.
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
sYRoNIc.

She looked at me coldly,
In silence at first;
A threatening silence
Implying some Whence:
Not that which falls goldly.
But calm at its worst
Was the way she looked coldly,
In silence at first.
She looked at me coldly.
And chill was her tone:
And though l sought gravely
To meet her gaze bravely,
To give II back boldly,
/ couldn't, i own
While she eyed me so coldly.
With ice in her tone.
She looked at me coldly.
As cold natures must:
Then sudden she muttered.
Next spluttered. then uttered
CAS- folk have of oldly):
"The steampipes has bust!
And she looked at me coldly.
AS cold ladies must.
-Richmond Times-Despatch
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28

Three things to govern-temper
tongue, and conduct.
Three things to cultivate-courage
affection and gentleness.
Three things to commemorative.
industry and promptness.
Three things to despise-cruelty,
arrogance and ingratitude.
Three things to wish for-health.
friends and contentment.
Three things to admire-dignity,
gracefulness and intellectual power.
Three things to give-alms to the
needy, comfort to the sad and appre
citation to the worthy.-New York
Journal
Tensas gazette., 1908-02-28
Rush Of Unemployed

Rush Of Unemployed
To Join the Army.
New York City. - The army re-
| cruiting officers have had all they
could do enlisting or rejecting men,
bers Of the army of the unem-
ployed" who showed up at the va
rious recruiting Offices to enlist. 1t
is said that at least 5000 of them
have offered their services within the
last two months. There has Jeen an
increase of nearly 800 per cent. in the
average of applicants. At no time
since the Spanish War have recruit
Ing officers had so many applications.