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Police Chief Resigns After Probe.

Chief of Police Creeden, of Rari-
tan, who was on the rack before the
State Excise probers for owning a
saloon while at the head of the vii
lage constabulary, has resigned his
Office and will devote his time to the
saloon. Creeden was charged with
having given beer to his friends on
Sunday. which is forbidden by the
law. Creeden conducted the saloon
under the name of William Hoonen.
n of his employees.
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NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Fatal Auto Accident.

A shocking automobile accident oc-
Cured on the Sus~duehanna & West
ern Railroad crossing at Bogota,
when a big touring car, hired by DR..
James Curtis, of Church street, Pater-
son, was struck by a train, west
bound. Donald Holmes, a lawyer, of
Paterson, was killed, the top of his
head being crushed in. DR.. Curtis
had his leg broken between the hip
and the knee, suffered internal injur-
les and his head was cut and bruised.
Wallace Patti, of Ellison street, Pat
erson, had his head and body cut and
bruised. James Shaw, the chauffeur,
suffered a fractured skull and was in
iured internally. w. H. Turner, of
No. 394 Fifteenth avenue, Paterson,
had his shoulder wfehehed and head
severely cut. Harry Fernback was
slightly cut and bruised.
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Castro Demands Apology.
Silk Crop HaIved by Typhoon.

Hong Kong.-Seventy per cent. OF
h mulberry trees in the silk grow
Ing districts were destroyed in the
typhoon, decreasing the silk prospects
by half. The price of leaves has
doubled.
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Law Not Retroactive.

In refusing to grant a divorce to
Percy F. Williams, Of Livingston,
from Lola Marie Brokaw, a nurse in
the Mountainside Hospital, Montclair,
Vice-Chancellor Stevens, in an opin-
ion handed down in the Chancery
Court at Trenton, rules that the New
Jersey divorce law is not retroactive,
but that future marriages between
legal minors may be annulled at the
mere wish of such minor and on the
ground of minority.
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Thu Doubling Copper.

Magistrate (sternly) - Didn't I
tell you the last time you were here
1 never wanted you to come before
me AGAIN."
Prisoner-"Yes, sir, but 1 couldn't
make the policeman believe it,
Tit-Bits.
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80 BELOW ZERO 6 MILES IN SKY.
Balloon Reaches Highest Altitude
Attained in New England.

Readville, Mass. = The Blue Hill
Observatory has received from Silver
nails, N. Y, the "%sounder" balloon,
which was sent up from Pittsfield,
Mass, by H. H. Clayton, and while
the records, which were received in
tact, have not been worked out in de-
tail. it was asserted that the Sound
er" reached a height of siz miles and
experienced a temperature of more
than thirty degrees below zero. The
'sounder's" height was the greatest
so far reached by those balloons in
New England, although in similar
experiments at st. Louis last year a
sounder reached the height of ten
miles.
The saunders" are small balloons
Weighing only a few ounces and car
rying an aluminium box containing
various meteorological instruments
for recording the temperature and
wind velocity of the upper air and
the altitude attained.
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Gov. Forts Rib Broken.

When Governor Fort was thrown
from his horse while at the military
encampment at Sea Girt it was not
known that he had sustained n
more serious injury than slight
bruises. A few days ago he felt a
soreness under his left arm, and upon
examination it was found a rib had
been broken. w. G. Schaufler, sur
geon of the second troop, attended
the Governor.
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Revenge! or, the Cast Shoe.
Good Ears.

First Farmer-"That new hired
man of yours must have been a book
keeper before he came to you"
Second Farmer-"Why so?"
First Farmer-"Inotice that every
time he stops work for a few minutes
he puts the pitchfork behind his ear"
-Woman's Home Companion.
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Kites Protect Chicks.

The science of aviation has bee
adopted by John Wolfe, a poultry
man, who has a farm at the top of
Hook Mountain, to protect his young
chicken from the depradations of
hawks. Wolfe keeps several large
box kites flying above his memories.
and the hawks take no chances of an
encounter with such uncanny looking
birds.
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In All Parts of the State.

Scott Thompson, of ~Paulsboro,
broke a knee-cap while playing bail.
Miss Julia Estelle Drucker was in
stantly killed at Seabright by a train
which struck the carriage in which
she rode.
Stephen P. Smith, of Leesburg,
who graduated from Pennington Sem
mary in June, has won a scholarship
at Rutgers College.
While working on Captain Sails
bury's boat at P~aulsboro, j. Paul
Huff fell and broke one rib and sus-
tanned some bad bruises.
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The Boston Club hal ~.recalled pitch.
er Elmer Steele from the Scranton
Club.
When the Highlanders do get into
the game they get into 1t good and
hard.
Paskert is playing a swift game in
C~incinnati's left field and also hitting
timely.
Pitcher Jesse Tannehill is scouting
for the Washington Club in the Texas
League.
Cincinnati critics say that Ewing
and Spade nowadays seldom use the
spit ball. going through the mo.
lions only to deceive batsmen.
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Shedding His Skin.

William Cake, an employe of the
Trenton Linoleum Company, at Tren-
ton, is shedding his skin, the twenty
eighth time in his fifty-three years of
life. His ailment battles all treat
ment by physicians. Cake has been
afflicted since infancy. He once had
the same skin for nine years. AT an
other time he shed his skin three
times in fourteen weeks.
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Essential to Happiness,

Companionship is the one thing in
the world which is absolutely essen
tial to happiness. The human heart
needs fellowship more than anything
else, fellowship which is elevated and
enduring, stronger and Durfr than it.
self. and centred in that which death
cannot change. All it's springs are in
God. Without Him life Isl a failure.
and all beyond is a blsnk.-Henry
Van Dyke.
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Serves Five Years; Arrested Again.
William Wilson was arrested as he
emerged from New Jersey State
Prison after serving a ive-year term
for robbing the home of John w.
Hooper, in Trenton. Wilson was held
on a requisitiou from Washington,
D. C where he is wanted for stealing
diamonds worth $4,000.
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Hayes a Hero in Ireland.

Dublin, Ireland.-John j. Hayes,
the New Yorker, who won the Mara
thon race at the Olympic games, re-
,eived a popular welcome when he
arrived at Nenagh, Tipperary, the
home of his grandfather.
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American Packing House in France.
Observation-Disclosures of the first
American packing house in Europe is
to be commenced in Havre, France.
early in September.
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Baby Carriages Must Have Snri

Baby Carriages Must Have Springs.
Springless baby carriages and go
carts have come under the ban of the
Board of Health of Harrison, which
has adopted a resolution condemning
these vehicles, on the ground that the
bumps and jars of the springless
carts cause spinal trouble.
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100000 Fire in phijadelphia.

Philadelphia.-Pier No. 40 of the
International Mercantile Marine Com=
pany; in S. Delaware avenue, was de=
stroyed by a spectacular fire; entail
ing a loss estimated. at 100000. The
fire is supposed to have been started
by crossed electric wires.
armed Maniac Captured.
Lexington, Ky.-Henry Thrap, the
Breathitt County feudist, who created
a reign of terror there by arming him.
self and defying arrest when declared
insane, was captured and placed in
an asylum.
Lloyd Osbourne Sued by Wife.
San Francisco, Cal.-Mrs. Lloyd
Osbourne, wife of the novelist, Lloyd
Osbourne; has filed suit for separate
maintenance.
Pin Point Kills Little Girl.
Warsaw; Ind. = Violetta Marie
Bowen, the sixteen-year-old daughter
of Joseph L. Bowen, Gerlaw, ILL.,; died
following an illness of only five min-
utes. A post-mortem developed that
the. heart had been pierced by a
minute sharp instrument, which phy3
sicians believe followed the course of
the arteries.
To Build Expensive Furnaces.
Cleveland, Ohio. - Announcement
was made that Corrigan, Mckinney &
Co. will build two iron furnaces and
extensive ore docks along the upper
river that will cost about S2,500,000.
She Was Kissed by Lafayette.
P%ittsfeld, Mass.-Mrs. Caroline
Campbell Kellogg, who died here In
her ninety-fourth year., was kissed by
Lafayette in his triumpha1 tour in
1925. She was a flower girl at the
: .Pittsfield reception to the famous
friend of America.
Congressman Buried.
Pittsfield, Me.-The funeral SER
vices fo- Congressman Llewellyn
Powers we're held in the First Univer-
salist Church here. Governor Will
lam T. Cobb, former Governor John
F. Hill and a Congressional delega-
tior were among those present.
Glass Blowers Lose Ha1f-Ho1iday.
Atlantic City, N. J.-At the conven-
ton of glass blowers aud manufac-
turers here the union blowers failed
to win their point for a Saturday half.
holiday with full pay.
Killed Over Cent.
Wharton, Texas.-R. B. Pointer
shot and killed G.. w. Jackson at
Pierce, Texas, in a quarrel over a one
cent postage stamp. Jackson had
mailed a letter with only a %one-eent
stamp on and Pointer, who had
charge of the p%ostoffice, called his at
tention to the matter.
Biggest Elephant Dead.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., biggest of
elephants, died in his prison house at
the Philadelphia Geological Gardens.
The monster weighed six tons. For
twenty years the big fellow had been
confined within a small enclosure at
the Zoo because he was not safe.
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$500 For Dorando.

London. - Dorando, the italian
runner, who was defeated by HAYES
IN the Marathon race, at a meeting of
Ills admirers received a check for
$500, enclosed in a gold cigarette
The money was obtained by
subscription.
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UnobtainabIc.

The Doctors Wife-"Well. Jane.
SO your poor husbands gone at last
Didn't you give him his medicine
properly"
Jane-"Ah, poor dear, how could
I? Doctor said as how it was II be
took in a ~recumbent position, an !
'adn't got one. I asked Mrs. Green
to lend me one. She said she 'ad
one, but it was brokei So it were no
good."-The Sketch.
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More Art.

MISUNDERSTANDING Goingi Gone!
Here, sir, it's yours. Great bargain,
sir The frame alone is worth the
price"
Connoisseur Gripping out the pic
ture)-"The frame is what l want
ed."-Pick-Me-Up.
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A Female Syrup.

He-"Isn't she a seraph?"
Shelves, indeed! Just too sweet
for anything"
He CATER a pause) = did you
think I said SYRUP" = Harper's
Weekly.
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ENDS LIFE IN BANK.
Assistant Bookkeeper of New York
Concern Shoots Himself in Vault.

New York City.-Charles w. Wes-
terfeld, assistant bookkeeper of the
New York Produce Exchange Bank, at
10 Broadway, committed suicide in
a vault in the basement of the bank
by shooting himself in the head
rather than face exposure for having
drawn two checks for $40 each
against a fictitious account. He was
twenty-one years old and lived with
his parents and two sisters at 201
East Seyenty-seventh street
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High Quality For Rice.

New crop rice samples indicate
high quality. About 200 sacks of
new crop rough have been received
at New Orleans and sold at firm
prices. There will be no old crop
this year to carry over and supplies
from now on must be drawn entirely
from the new crop.
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Horse Market Active.

The general improvement reported
from all quarters in the business
world was s%trikingly reflected in the
horse market of New York City when
the big express companies and de.
partment stores began buying ag.
g~ressively for the first time since the
October panic.
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Gritty.

FIFTY miles an hour" yelled the
chauffeur; "are you brave?"
yes; I'm full of grit" replied
the girl, as she swallowed another
pint of dust.
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We'll Preserved.

at told Miss Knox to-day said he,
THAT the only word that properly
described you was peach"
~"Indeed?" replied Miss Butte. Il
suppose she said something real
NICE as usual"
"Well, she said: I suppose that is
the proper word. At any rate she
looks well preserved. - hiladel-
phia Press.
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Philadelphia.-Pier No. 40 of the
international Mercantile Marine Cons
stroyed by a spectacular Are, entail
ing a loss estimated at 100000. The
fire is supposed to have been started
by crossed electric wires.
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Not That Brand.

"Are you studying Esperanto. MI.
Idiot9" asked the linguist.
Il am not" said the idiot. Il can
talk too much in English if l want
to-"
1T is a very fine language" said
the linguist-"eondensed, concise and
easily acquired.
mo doubt said the idiot. but
I don't care for potted tongue
Catholic Mirror.
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Just AS He Said.

Investor ~(angrily) = See here.
you told me I'd surely clear between
five and six hundred dollars On that
deal"
Broker-"Well?"
Investor - "Well, 1 cleared just
$S.75 on it."
Broker-"Then you've got no kick.
That's between SIS and $500, isn't
it?"-Philadelphia Press.
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Negro Shoots Wife and Her Sister.

Negro Shoots Wife and Her Sister,
Angered because his wife refused
to give him money, Clarence Price, q
negro, shot his wife and sister-in-
law, Mrs. Minnie Borden, in Spring
wood avenue, Asbury Park, but with
out fatal results. One bullet struck
Mrs. Prices corset steel and, glanc-
ing, wounded her slightly. Mrs. Bor-
den was wounded in the breast. Price
was arrested.
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If Credits Poor Doctor Won't Come.
Atlanta (Ga.) physicians have
formed an association, the purpose of
which Is to have a report made on the
credit of a person summon.ng medi-
cal aid before a doctor responds to
The call
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armed Maniac Captured.

Lexington, Ky.-Henry Thrap, the
Breathitt County feudist, who created
a reign of terror there by arming him.
self and defying arrest when declared
insane, vas captured and placed in
an asylum.
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Bitten By Mad Dog; Fears Rabies.

William Haaf, associated with the
Gorham Manufacturing Company,
and living at haywood, was bitten by
his pet bull terrier. The terrier died
the following night, and DR.. Free
land, of haywood, who took the dogs
head to New York City, learned that
the dog was rabid. Haaf went to the
Pasteur Institute for treatment. The
dog also nipped Haaf's baby, but the
skin on the face was not broken.
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G. N. ELLIOTT DROWNED.
Wife and Child Saved When Canoe
tInsets i'm Connecticut River.

VIE ana Child baVeU IauOt
Upsets i'm Connecticut River.
Turner's Falls, Nashville shoot
ing the rapids in a canoe in the Con-
necticut River, just below Turner's
Falls, C. N. Elliott, of Nutley, N. j.,
an architect with McKim; Mead &
White, of New York, was drowned.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Rea and the
older Elliott boy were, in the first
canoe, which shot the rapids without
incident. The second canoe struck
the current and overturned, Mr..
Rea beached his canoe and managed
to rescue Mrs. Elliott and the young
er Elliott boy, but Mr.. Elliott sank
before help could reach him.
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Everybody Pleased.

Deacon-"Are you willing to go2"
Unpopular Citizen (dying)-"Oh,
yes; l am"
well, I'm glad you are, for that
makes it Yale Record.
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NEWS
BY WIRE.

Northwestern Orders 1000 Cars.
Chicago.-The Chicago and North=
western Railroad Company recently
placed an order for 1000 new freight.
ears. The order was distributed
among three companies, to insure
early delivery.
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CANCER KILLS PETTIBONE.
Death of Miners Leader Follows an
Operation in Denver.

Denver, Col. = George Pettibone,
for years prominent in the councils
of the Western Federation of Miners,
and charged with President Meyer
and former Secretary Haywood with
completely in the murder of former
Governor Stuenenberg, of Idaho, died
in St. Joseph's Hospital after an OPP
Grafton for cancer.
P%ettibone had been i'll ever since
his confinement i'll the Idaho peni-
Tertiary, which lasted more than d
year, before the trial at Boise. A
widow survives him.
Pettibone was tried and acquitted
in Boise after the acquittal of Hay
wood. Meyer was discharged.
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YOUNG COUPLE DROWNED.
Southern Man and Girl Companion
Lose Lives in Chautauqua Lake.

jamestown, N. Y.-Miss Elsie
Green, nineteen years old, of Savan.
nah, Ca, and Porter Parish, twenty,
one years old, of Memphis, Tenn.
were drowned in Chautauqua Lake.
The young people were visitors
with a party of friends at the Chau-
tauqua Assembly, and were rowing
on the lake. Their boat was struck
by the steamer Chadakoin of the
C~hautauqua Steamboat Company,
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Making a Hit.

"You have been staying with
James lately, haven't you, John?"
Eyes"
"They say his new wife has an aw-
full temper. How did she strike your"
with anything that came handy"
Baltimore American.
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The Milky Way.

How'd you get here, old MANI"
"In my airship."
Road good?"
"Cloudy."-Life.
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Loss Nav BE s1o.Ooo.0oo.

Spokane, Wash. - Reports from
British Columbia say that the loss il
the Kootenay Valley fire will run over
$10,000,000.
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Fishers Luck.

Stel1a-"Did she fish for compli-
ments?"
Bella-"Yes, but the big ones got
sway."-Harper's Weekly.
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Scores Dead in Storms.

Scores Dead in Storms.
Vienna, Austria.-A series of ter.
rife thunder and rain storms have
caused destruction and heavy loss of
life in the Austrian Tyrol. The Blu
kowina district and the Ziller Valley
suffered especially.
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Aid From Canadian Government.

Aid From Canadian Government.
Ottawa, Canada.-Sir Wilfrid Lau
rier received the following telegram
from Cranbrooke, B. c.:
Disastrous fire Kootenay Valley
Fernie, Hosmer, Crows Nest anc
other places completely burned. MOI
fewer than 5000 people homeless
Canadian Pacific Railway carryins
them to Elko and Cranbrooke. Every
effort is being made locally, but thest
people are utterly without food OF
shelter. Fire covers seventy miles
Seventy lives lost. Immediate relief
required. Telegraph instructions al
once. THOMAS ROBERTS,
Liberal Association.
81. H. KING, M. P"
Sill. Wilfrid also received a briei
message from Robert Jaffray, of To
ronto, who is now in the West, say.
ing that a terrible fire was raging ir
the Kootenay Valley, but giving nc
details. The Premier will consult
his colleagues to see what action car
be taken by the Federal Governmep4
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huffman & Co. to Assign.

With liabilities that may exceed
$500, 900, Bultman & Co., brokers, of
Cincinnati, Ohio, announced that an
assignment would be made for the
benefit of creditors.
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500 Men Thrown Out of Work.

Glens Falls, N; Y.-Employes at
the Fort. Edward and Glens Falls
mills Of the International Paper Conn
pany were informed that the two
mills would shut down for an indef.
mite period. About 500 men will be
thrown out of work.
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AFTER GETTING THE BALLOT.

In 1908
Women declare
Affairs of state
Owe them a share. u
Their campaign cry in full we quote:
women should be allowed to vote"
In 2008
We will, l wis, .
Hear men berate
The dears like this: 7
"Of state affairs they take no note.
Women should be compelled to vote
Louisville Courier-JournaI.
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HIDONS' PENA0ES QUICKLY SECURED,

John Wainwright & Co., Wilmington, Del.
Expert Pension Attorneys of 20 years prac-
nee Will send valuablc Information and
oianks to widows on application, by mail.
Of soldiers and officers who served ninety
DAYS IN the Civil WaElare entitled to from $
10 ssla month. Soldiers to $l2 when 81; ss
"neh ~ iS2o a month when IS years old.
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Leander Crew NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Henley, England. - The interna-
tional Olympic regatta came to an,
end with a sweeping victory, for the
United Kingdom oarsmen, who have
defeated all the Continental flowers
der beat the Belgians.
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BY CABLE.
Aged Sister Beaten to Death.

Aged Sister Beaten to Death.
Paris.-The suburb of Antony has
been aroused by a crime committed
in a girls boarding school. The aged
directress of the institution, Jeanne
Larrieu, a member of the Order OF
the Sisters of St. Andre, was beaten
to death by two masked men with
hammers.
Scores Dead in Storms.
Vienna, Austria.-A series of ter.
rife thunder and rain storms have
caused destruction and heavy loss of
life in the Austrian Tyrol. The Blu
kowina district and the Ziller Valley
suffered especially.
American Packing House in France.
Observation-Disclosures of the first
American packing house in Europe is
to be commenced in Havre, France.
early in September.
Hayes a Hero in Ireland.
Dublin, Ireland.-John J.. Hayes,
the New Yorker, who won the Mara
thon race at the Olympic games, re-
,eived a popular welcome when he
arrived at Nenagh, Tipperary, the
home of his grandfather.
$500 For Dorando.
London. = Dorando, the italian
runner, who was defeated by HAYES
IN the Marathon race, at a meeting of
Ills admirers received a check for
$500, enclosed in a gold cigarette
Ease. The money was obtained by
subscription.
Castro Demands Apology.
Caracas, Venezuela. - President
Castro has withdrawn the eXequaturs
Of the Netherlands Consuls and Vice
Consuls in Venezuela.
eight Cents Apiece For Rats.
Kingston, Jamaica.-The Govern
ment of Trinidad is paying eight cents
/ head for live rats. The rats are in
oculated with a virus and then given
TO citizens to turn loose in their
houses in an endeavor to kill off other
rats, to which disease is commune
Gated by the inocu1ated animals.
Silk Crop Halved by Typhoon.
Hong Kong.-Seventy per cent. of
h mulberry trees in the silk grow
Ing districts were destroyed in the
typhoon, decreasing the silk prospects
by half. The price of leaves has
doubled.
Leander Crew Beats iBelgians.
Henley, England. = The interna-
tional Olympic regatta came to an
end with a sweeping victory for the
United Kingdom oarsmen, who have
defeated all the Continental fowers
who participated in the races-k Lean
der heat the Pelpians y
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Biggest Elephant Dead.

Biggest Elephant Dead.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., biggest of
elephants, died in his prison house at
the Philadelphia Geological Gardens.
The monster weighed six tons. For
twenty years the big fellow had been
confined within a small enclosure at
the Zoo because he vas not safe.
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End SALT MEATS

ALWAYS ON HAND.
Fruits And Vegetables
IN SEASON.
Poultry, Game and Live Stock,
Also Live Poultry
BOUGHT EVERY MONDAY AND TauRsDAY
at highest cash prices. Patronage Solicited
q. V. DOLBOW & SONS,
Union Corner, Phone 23h, Penn's Grove