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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1908-10-02
FOR The BUSY READER

Forest fires, which nave done mucn
damage in tne lake regions of me
United States, are still raging.
There was frost in North Alabama,
Western Kentucky and portions of
Tennessee yesterday morning. 1t was
not heavy enough TO do much dam
age.
1t is believed tnat Japan will with
draw a large portion of the Japanese
corps now stationed in North China.
leaving only small number at Pc
kin and Tien Tsin.
Tine Valley Savings Bank of Fres-
no, Cal, incorporated last January
with an authorized capital of 5000, 900,
has been closed by order of the State
Bank Commission.
Navigation between Montreal and
Quebec is still tied up owing 10 the
dense pail Of fog and smoke wnicn
nas pevailed except for s"uri inler-
walls for the last ten days.
the daylight special ,nortn-bound,
the last train on tle Illinois Cen
trail between S.. Louis and Cricagu.
was wrecked near Springfield III.
One was XII led ard sevelal were in
Jured
The formal reception Of the Allan
tic batllesnip fleet 81 Manila, except
the water parade, ras been suspended
until early in November, because of
the bitter weather conditions usually
prevailing then.
Accident in coal mines of the Unit
ed States during IN last calendar year
resulted in ire .deaIn of 1926 men
and injury of 5,1S4 more, according TO
statistics just made public by the
geological survey.
The lives of nearly 100 miners in
the mine of the Union Pacific Coal
company at Winter Quarters, Utah,
Were endangered ly a IRE mat dc
stroyed the power mouse Trio loss is
estimated at about $4,000
According 10 figures compiled in the
General Land Office, receipIs ON ac-
count of the sales of public lands dur
ing tre last fiscal year amounted TO
$11, 492, 453. There were POI, 1853 entries
covering 1s,93s,S36 acres.
Mrs. Elsie Bragg. widow of the late
slajor General Braxton Brsgg, of Con-
federaie fame; died in New Orleans
one day last week. She was a good
christian woman and will be widely
mourned in her beloved Southland.
the faculty Of the Kentucyk Uni
lversily are anxious rs to the where
abouts of Willis f. Smith,a college
student, who has been missing for a
week. The missing students family
advance the theory that he has met
with foul play.
The Rev. F. H. Hill and his wife
were accidently drowned in Chaplin
River. Nelson county Monday after
noon. They were Iserried at the Gait
House in Louisville Saturday night.
Mrs. Hill was formerly Miss Margaret
Bellwood, Of Choppers, Shelby county.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1908-10-02

Tine Valley Savings Bank of Fres-
no, Cal, incorporated last January
with an authorized capital of $500, O0O
has been closed by order of the State
Bank Commission.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1908-10-02

The Rev. F. H. Hill and mis- wife
were accidently drowned in Chaplin
River. Nelson county Monday after
noon. They were Iserried at the Gait
House in Louisville Saturday night.
Mrs. Hill was formerly Miss Margaret
Bellwood, OF Choppers, Shelby county.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1908-10-02

Navigation between Montreal and
Quebec is still tied up owing 10 the
dense pail Of fog and smoke wnicn
nas pevailed except for snort inler-
walls for the last ten days.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1908-10-02

1t is believed tnat Japan will with
draw large portion of the Japanese
corps now stationed in North China.
leaving only a small number at Pc
kin and Tien Tsin.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1908-10-02

The formal reception Of lhr Allan
tic batllesnip fleet 81 Manila, except
the water parade, ras been suspended
until early in November, because Of
the bitter weather conditions usually
prevailing then.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16
SUFFERING Aftermath.

Those who have suffered much are
Ike those who know many languages;
they have learned to understand and
TO be understood by all,-Mme. SWEET
chine.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16

LITTLE GIRL A HEROINE.
Waves Red Shawl as Signal and Saves
Two Rushing Trains.

Benton, Ark.-Frantically waving a
little red shawl, Millie Tarver, IL years
old, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Milton
Tarver, saved two trains from running
into a burning trestle ON the Hot
Springs G. Western railroad and re,
ceived what she asked for, Christmas
tree, loaded with presents from Santa
Claus, as reward for heroism.
The Tarvers reside in a modest
house four miles from town. The ia.
Their and daughter discovered the
burning trestle, which had been on fire
~an night. In his excitement Tarver
rushed back home to summon aid,
forgetting that two trains were about
due. The child was equal to the emer-
gency, however, and, running around
the curve, stood in the center of the
track and waving her red shawl caused
Engineer Allen to reverse the throttle
The tot then turned and ran home.
Superintendent II. II. Martin, Con.
ductor Loomis and Engineer Allen re.
gard the child as an 1S-karat her.
Dine. Everything she asked for and
more was provided for her Christmas
tree
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16
Doing a Wild West Stunt.

There was some delay, and Mr.. AL
bertson went to ascertain the reason.
The noise above, trifiing at first, so
increased as to draw the remainder
of the family to the scene of action
They found young Albertson and
the monkey circling rapidly about the
room, doing a wild west stunt, the
monkey trifie in the lead, while be-
hind him came Mr.. Albertson hurting
converted into lasso.
The monkey instead of the son be.
ing the pursued, the family joined in
the chase, and though all agreed that
the lariat throwing of Mr.. Albertson
was excellent, 1t took some time to
capture the brute, for as fast as the
clothes line whizzed around his neck
the monkey raised an agile paw and
removed It, But his capture came
when he mounted shelf In the
clothes closet, and in an unguarded
moment allowed the moose to tighten.
From the time of his introduction
to the household there had never
been minute when the monkey was
not busy. He made himself one of
the family and helped himself to the
delicacies of the table when no one
was looking. He slid down the cellar
door and swung on the screen door,
his abode being the screened-in back
porch with sleeping apartments in
the basement He ate fruits pies
and jellies, and, being fastidious and
unprovided with a napkin, wiped his
face on his hands and his hands on
the screens.
But his doom was sealed so far as
his new home was concerned when
he began to hurl cups and saucerl
| of Haviland china at the children.
This showed a lack of discrimination
that was not to be endured. Had the
animal chosen tinware he probably
would have been basking in the com.
forts of the Albertson home to-day
But his tastes were too expensive
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16
|'m Going to Shoot Myself!"

bands office, where there was door
connecting with the bedroom in front
of which we had placed heavy ward
robe. He was a shortish, unpleasant
looking man. and he held the revolver
in his left hand. Neither my husband
nor / We're at all nervous people, and
when we could find nothing to ex-
plain what had occurred we decided
that 1t must have been Imagination,
and that our being in strong sympathy
with each other had caused us to
share the same hallucination. We re-
freshed ourselves with iced drinks and
biscuits and then went to bed and
slept soundly after having decided to
keep our own counsel about the af-
fair"
Now for the sequel to 1t. Shortly
afterward the writer accompanied her
husband on a tour of the district.
Among the hills they met a Madame
de Beverly, who had been a widow for
several years. In the course of a CON
versation with her Mrs s. dis
covered that at one time she had
lived in the bungalow at Tirzapur
where the spectral suicide had mani,
tested himself.
"On hearing that she knew our bun.
galow, and had actually lived in it,
the writer adds, 81 was impelled to
relate our strange experience there,
which hitherto my husband and | had
kept 10 ourselves. She listened with
out comment, but when | ended nv
narrative by saying that we had come
to the conclusion it must have been
either indigestion or imagination. she
turned very pale and said You have
related something that really han
pened; my husband shot himself there
before my eyes exactly as you have
described
She then told me that her husband
had gone into the bedroom, through
door which we kept closed, and had
used the very words quoted, and the
whole affair conceded exactly with
what had seen, down to the smallest
detail"
The bungalow, il seems, had stood
empty for some years after the TRACE
dy and had then been occupied only
at odd intervals during cold weather.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16
Divorce Record Broken.

New York,-New York broke the
divorce record the other day, when it
was announced that there were $50
cases on the calendar of Justice New
burgers branch of the supreme court,
Only 81 Of the cases were ready for
hearing T'wenty-four were disposed
of before court adjourned at night.
The largest number Of divorce matters
on calendar before was several years
ago, when record of 105 was estab-
lished
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16
GHOST Of SUICIDE
REENACTS TRAGEDY
APPEARS BEFORE NEW TENANT
OF BUNGALOW IN INDIA AND
SHOOTS SELF.
STRANGE SEQUEL OF STORY
Woman Sees and Hears Specter While
Husband Is Awakened by Re-
port Of Revolver, But Mo-
body Is Found.

Bombay. An amazing spook story
told by contributor to the Indian
Daily Telegraph has aroused much in
terest here II is the tale of ghost
who shot himself. The woman who re-
lates 1t had accompanied her husband
to Tirzapur. He had been sent there
to undertake the duties of an agent
who had been sent home on sick leave.
The only accommodation they could
find when they arrived July 20 was an
inspection bungalow.
They retired about ten o'clock, but
Mrs S. remained awake for some
time reading a novel by the light OF
a lamp. She was just thinking of
turning it out when suddenly man
holding revolver appeared in the
room. She continues
Before l could move or speak, he
said Don't stop me, ! am going to
shoot myself AS he put the revolver
to his head / shut my eyes and was
nearly deafened by the report that
followed. My husband jumped up,
wide awake at once, with a cry of
Who fired| and | opened my eyes ex-
pecting to see a CHASTITY heap on the
floor.
"To my amazement the room was
empty-there was no stain on the
matting-and no sign of the tragedy
that had just taken place in front of
me. My husband said that he had
been wakened out of sound sleep
by the noise of the shot, and when
told him what had seen we searched
the house together. Neither the pun
kah coolie, who was sleeping on the
veranda, nor the servants. whose
houses were close by in the com
pound had heard anything. Even the
dogs chained in the veranda had not
been disturbed. 1t all happened SO
suddenly that | had no feeling OF
fright or terror. The man seemed to
come from the direction of my hus
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16
Bullet Fired by Accident Warded of
by Receptacle She Carried.

Oakland, Gala granite iron choco-
late pot probably saved the life of
Agnes Snow, a chocolate dipper en-
ployed at candy factory. The uten-
sill acted as a foil between her and a
bullet accidentally fired from the office
of an electrical company.
Miss Snow was at work in the fac.
tory when steel.capped bullet sud
denly thudded against the pot of chloe
olate which she was carrying in front
of her. Immediately there was
sound of three other shots, a panic be.
ing created among the employees of the
factory, many of whom are girls.
A telephone call was sent to Police
headquarters. Detectives investigated
the case and traced the course of the
bullets from the electrical concerns
place of business. Nobody there would
shed any light on the subject. Then
the detectives recoy ed one of the
bullets, and little .4yesugation fur.
nished the information that a revolver
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16
POWER PLANT INSIDE DAM.
Unique House Near Baltimore Con.
structed Under Water.

Baltimore Md. An absolutely
unique power plant has recently been
completed about Is miles below this
city on the Patapsco river. 1t Is built
within dam and is entirely under
water. 1t is the first of It's kind ever
built, and cost much less than it would
have If built in any other known way.
The dam is 220 feet long, 40 feet
thick at the base and 261a feet high.
The spillway is 1853 feet long, but at
present only 10S feet of this distance
Is used for housing the power plant.
The dam is of REINFORCED concrete,
the shell being IS inches thick at the
bottom and taperlng to ten inches at
the top.
The apron extends only half way
down from the crown. the remaining
down stream portion being entirely
open and provided with windows by
means of which the interior is light
ed. The shape of the apron is such
that the water is thrown some little
distance away from the windows.
The part used by the power house
is Hlteu with lalSe ceiling hung five
feet from the inside of the dam, so as
to protect the apparatus from any
water that might seep through the
outer shell of the dam. The dam is
built of fine and rich mixture, which
was laid very wet. Aside from this
no precautions were taken to elimi.
nate water
The water is fed TO the turbines
through steel pipes passing through
the upstream splllway shell, and dis
charged by draft tubes into the base
of the dam, dropping into a well sunk
some three feet below the river bed.
The water passes thence by way of a
channel constructed in the river bed
out of the dam. The intake is five and
one-half feet below the crest of the
sillway. so that the trash racks are
Ike. clear of driftwood, etc.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16
PUMPKIN IS MONSTER

room TO spare, and Matched out a
brood Of chickens.
The vine on which the monster
grew came up, of its own accord. on
a spot where Joseph Wilson, steward
of the island station of the Rhode
Island Yacht club, threw pan of
garbage and vegetable parings, which
doubtless contained the seed The
vine was of phenomenal growth, be-
ing, by measurement, rs feet from root
to tip, bat was slow In maturing and
the pumpkins did not ripen till after
a light frost had pinched the vine.
All of the pumpkins were large, but
the largest was three feet eight inches
in diameter, and Of proportionate
weight Charles Smith, of the Nara.
gansett Bay Oyster company, and
David Buffman, Jr.. of the Twin Beach
Inn farm, carried the pumpkin to a
shed near Mr.. Smiths dwelling. II
was their intention to place it on a
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16

high shelf out OF reach of rats, but the
great weight OF the fruit made this i'm
possible and It was left on the floor
The fondness of rats for pumpkin
seeds is we'll known, however. and IL
was not long before they had gnawed
a hole into the side of the mammoth
and completely excavated the soft in
terror which contained the seeds.
The pumpkin seemed destined to
have a domestic career. Some three
weeks ago MIR. Smith missed a choice
Rhode Island red hen from his flock
and soon found her in the pumpkin
with IA chickens. When discovered
The chicks were busily consuming the
floor and wall of their dwelling, and
the rind was so thin in spots rs to
show that their mother had sub listed
largely upon II during the period OF
incubation
Thinking that the pumpkin may
have been of some unusual variety
the friends had notified the secretary
If the Portsmouth Grange Agricultural
society, asking that a committee be
.ent to Prudence to make official
measurement and record of its di
nensions, but the unpleasantness OF
winter boating caused the examina
ion to be postponed from time tc
ime ald the pumpkin is now in such
state of collapse as to make veri
jcation of existing measurements i'm
possible. 1t Is matter Of regret thai
zone of the seeds was saved.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16
Teacher,s Perllous Ride

Amboy, Ind.-Miss Nellie Bailey, a
teacher here, wishing to spend the
night at Marion, reached the station
just as the fast vestibuled train was
pulling out. She grabbed the rail of
a vestibuled car and got on the step,
thinking she could open the door
The station agent saw her predica.
ment as the train passed, and tele.
graphed to Convoise, where the train
was tagged and the young woman
rescued. She had chung for ten mile.
to the rail with one hand, holding hel
suitcase in the other. She suffered in
tensely from cold and fright, but soor
recovered.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16
MISCHIEVOUS APE SOON
WEARS OUT HIS WELCOME
INTENDED PET UPsETs HOUSE
HOLD AND CAUSES WILD
WEST CHASE.

Denver.-when the family of Fl. j.
Albertson was presented with a mon
key of an exceedingly lively DISPOSE
ton a short time ago, the little brown
guest was made welcome and petted.
He quickly wore out his welcome and
became such nuisance that adver-
tisements were inserted in the local
papers offering him as gift to the
first corners. Two small boys, to the
family unknown, answered the adver.
tisement, and were made happy pos.
SCISSORS of the simian.
When it was decided to dispose OF
the unruly guest young Albertson was
sent upstairs to bring him down
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16
HeIpfuI Household Hln.

Lovely chicken salad may be made
by adding chopped veal to anything
left over from dinner.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16

BUTTERFLIES AT A BALL.
Insects Help Make Debut of PhiladeI
phia Girl Notable Affair.

Philadelphia Five hundred beauti-
full butterflies, gathered in Peru, Bra
I'll and even in India, were turned
loose the other night over the heads
Of half that many gorgeously dressed
women at the ball given by James W.
Paul, Jr., to mark the 100000 debut
of his daughter, Mary Aston Paul, into
society.
The insects futtered about helpless
ly, rested upon the shoulders of the
women, perched on the flowers and in
cdentally fell into the plates. This
was the star feature of an affair in
which Mr.. Paul, who is member of
the Drexel banking firm, eclipsed the
famous ball which he gave to his elder
daughter, Mrs. Paul Dencia Mills, four
years ago.
The bill for the flowers alone was
S35, 900, one of the features being a
new rose, cross between the Amer
lean beauty and another, which 1t
took nine years to develop. 1t is
called the Wynnemore, and 5000 were
used in the decorations.
The ballroom of the horticultural
hall had been TRANSFORMED into an ex-
act replica of French garden of the
Louis XVI. period. Sixteen magnifi-
cent boxes were built on the sides.
A waterfall vas arranged at one end
and splashed down into mass of
verdure.
Collectors, II is said, spent months
getting the butterflies, many of which
died on their way to this country
Scores dropped 20 the floor during
the dancing and were crushed under
the dancers feet.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16
GROWS FROM SEED CAST AWAY
IN GARBAGE.
Shell of Vegetable Colossus In Rhode
Island Used by Hen as Broodina
Place and Fourteen Chicks
Are Hatched Out.

Providence, r. I.-Those good and
exact people who may have doubted
that Cinderella, after all, had pump
kin as chariot, are respectfully re-
ferred to Prudence island production
In the pumpkin line, which residents
Of that part of the state proudly claim
was the largest and heaviest ever
raised in New England. They are sure
the princess could have ridden in 1t.
After rats had cleaned the shell
OF the Prudence island colossus of It's
contents, a hen took possession and
established her nest, with lot of
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16
Big Fresh Water Pearl.

Barlesville. /. Thomas Cook and
George Henry, who recently estab-
lished pearl fishing station few
miles south of this city, have found
the largest pearl ever discovered in
this country.
1t is about the size of pigeons egg.
Robert Henry, president of the Henry
OIL company, has offered $500 for 1t,
but the owners have been informed
by local jewelers. that it is worth
$4,000.
Many oil drillers are leaving work
to dig for mussels along Caney river.
The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-01-16
PITCHER SA YES LIFE OF GIRL

using such proiectiles had been sold
by the proprietor of the electrical
concern. Then the detectives found
that Houston had been examining the
weapon, when an employee volunteered
to Show him how to work it, with the
result that four shots We're accidental.
ly fired. No arrests were made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-01
WHAT THE EDITOR WANTED.

The following instructions are sent to
correspondents by the editor of an
American paper:
Our country correspondents are re-
quested to write briefly and to the point
in preparing their accounts of quiet
weddings They may however. con-
slider themselves at perfect liberty to
spread themselves in giving details of
any uproarious weddings that may &C.
cur to break the monotony in their re-
spective neighborhoods.
I'VE further wish them to remember
that a groom attired in the conven-
tional black is sufficiently covered
without any description of his dress,
but a groom married in tar and feath-
ers is worthy of special rates and a full
column with headlines. If the happy
couple then depart, they should be per-
mitted to go without saying, but should
they begin to pull hair before the min
lister has got out of hearing we want
all the particulars.
IF the table 'groans.' let II groan, but
if any of the guests choke to death on
the collation. it will be a serious mat
ter with our special correspondent il we
don't get complete and early returns.
What we want is news that is news"