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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-03
16G PERSONS
TRAPPED IN A
TENEMENT FIRE
Fire Escapes damned in the
Panic, and Three Per-
sons Were Killed.
5-STORY BUILDING
Quilted BY FLAMES
Good Work of Police and
Firemen Save Many Lives
in New York Disaster
Women and Children Are
Dragged From Escapes by
Strength of Arm.
speelar to The journal.

New York. April 2-Three persons
met death. more than score received
bnrlls and were injured by jumping
from fire escapes, and an entire neigh
borhood was thrown into a panic
early today, by a fire declared to be
oil incendiary origin, which burned
from cellar To roof in a five-story ten
eIIent house at No. Al Hester street
The fire marshal has ordered an in.
Nestlgation of the blaze and central
office detectives today are working
on the Theory that the building, which
contained twenty families, was set on
hre by burglars TO attract the atten
ton of the police, leaving them free
TO plumber stores in another part oil
the neighbOrhood
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-03
LILEY'S CHARGES
ARE AGAIN DENIED
Officials of Boat Companies
Say No Improper In
luence" Was Used.

Lilley Qualities the Testi-
mony of Waterbury Man,
Saying That Witness Did
Not Hear All Regarding
Lilley's Threat to Make
Open Statement on Floor
of the House.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-03
The Nebraskans Will Bolt If
Watson or Another is
Nominated.
A HARD FIGHT
FOR MR.. BRYAN

Postponement OF Convention
Until After the Democrat
ic Convention in Denver is
Procedure of Bryan Ad-
nirers-Neithers the Ne
braskans or the Conven-
ton Makes Any Roadway
in Work.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-03
TERRIBLE FIRE
RAGING IN ONTARIO.
BY Associated Press.

London. Ont. April "A Sc
Tious fire is raging here. Loss
at 10 o'clock is eStimat.i at
$500, 600 Reported two FIRE
men were killed by failing
walls
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-03
S107,600 OF
HOTEL STOCK
SUBSCRIBED
Meeting of Committee Held
Yesterday and Reports
Received.
Chairman Stillsnar Makes a
Statement Saying That the
Property of Investment
Co. Will Not Be Offered
as Site for the Hotel.

The meeting of the hotel subscrip-
ton committee of the Chamber of
Commerce yesterday afternoon re-
Vedled the fact that there is now in
sight $107,6 500 out OF the $150.000 sub
ScriptiOn needed for stock for
the proposed $350,000 modern fire
proof hotel to be leased to the Hervey
Hotel company.
The following table shows the
amount signed for and the amount
reported as assured at the meeting
last week, with the additional signed
for and the additional in sight re-
ported yesterday. together with the
total signed up and the total reported
as promised or otherwise assured:
Thu Ar,,o,,rtc Sec,1reI
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-03
GEORGIA RAILROAD PAYS
TAXES OF S350,o00.
BY Associated Press

Atlanta, April 2--The Geor-
GA Railroad today agreed 10
nav the state, city of Augusta,
and Richmond county 1886, 900
back taxes. which had been in
litigation for a number OF
wears The case had been 70
the United States supreme
court
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-03

To reach all of the Deo=
pie, use both the DAILY
and the WEEKLY JOUR-
NAL.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
A Bit of Blue Sky.

Professor John Tyndall, who, with
many great gifts, possessed a singular
skill in devising and conducting beau
tiful experimental Illustrations actual
ly produced in 1869 a bit of blue sky
in the lecture room. In glass tube
three feet in length and three inches in
diameter he exhausted the air until it
was less than one-tenth the density of
the atmosphere we breathe and repre-
sented the rarer air high overhead.
Into this exhausted air he introduced
nitrite of butyle vapor, which is ex-
tremely volatile. Then strong beam
of light in a room otherwise dark was
passed through the mixture, and in the
glass tube there glowed beautiful
blue cloud, rivaling in color the finest
Italian sky. Here was blue sky
brought down to earth.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
Eick,eness in Penmanshlo.

Speaking of check signatures and
forgery, a downtown, paying teller re-
marked: Zone of the most peculiar
points in our business is one little COM
pretended by the public | mean the
embarrassment caused by the man
whose signature is seldom the same, or
nearly so, two weeks in succession.
"This fickleness is not Intentional. 1t
is in almost every case Temperament
tai. The man guilty of it is generally
nervous and not infrequently is greatly
lacking in stability of character. At
times you, as a layman, would hardly
believe it possible that his signature
on two different checks was the work
Of the same hand.
''Of course we come to know these
cases in time, and there are always
certain characteristics in persons
handwriting which the expert can de-
tect and which go far to convince.
Nevertheless the changeable signature
is nuisance and involves an added
perl. New York Globe
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
Too Well Initiated.

1t is no easy matter for violin max
er to rival the famous Stradivarius in
struments, but this an American maker
did, and did so effectively that experts
pronounced his violin genuine Stradi-
yarius.
The successful man was the late
George Gemunder, :. famous violin
maker of New York His remarkable
ability as a preparer of violins was
known to many distinguished player.
such as Ole Bull, Remenyi and VIII
helmj. But he made, so runs the story,
his greatest success at the Paris expo.
sition of Eiffel tower fame. To that ex-
hibition he sent an imitation Stradiya-
RUS and to test its merits had 1t placed
on exhibition as the genuine article.
A committee of experts carefully ex-
amined the instrument and pronounced
1t a Stradivarius. So far Mr.. Gemun-
ders triumph was complete. But now
came n difficulty. When he claimed
that it was not an old violin, but new
one made by himself, the committee
would not believe him. They declared
he never made the instrument and pro
nounced him an impostor. He had
done his work too well.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
The Andromeda NebuIa.

One of the most astonishing objects
In the heavens, especially when photo
graphed, Is the great nebula in the
constellation Andromeda. which is Wis
ible as misty speck to the naked eye.
1t has long puzzled astronomers, be-
cause while its structural series of
vast rings surrounding central mass
suggests a gaseoHs constitution, Its
spectrum is continuous, resembling
that of the sun. 1t has been suggested
that it may be composed of stars con-
stituting 4 universe external to ours
Recent studies of its parallax, how
ever, indicate that it is nearer to US
than some of the we'll known stars,
such as Capella, and Mr.. J. Ellard
Gore, the English astronomer, points
out that If the Andromeda nebula
were assumed to be an external uni
verse, having diameter comparable
with that of the Milky way, it's mass
would be forty million million million
times the mass of the sun. This is
regarded as Incredible and so may be
taken as an additional argument in
favor of the view that this nebula is
a member of our system Youths
Companion
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
How Men and Women Face Death,

How do men and women face death
when the sentence is pronounced by
the doctor? A medical man tells us
his experience. Tell the man of higher
type and greater intelligence, he says,
that he is facing death and he begins
to fight, demands a consultation, talks
about going to specialists and fights
grimly to the finish. Tell woman
the same facts, and she lies back to
await her fate. All women are fatal
lists. On the other hand, tell man
that he has one chance in thousand
to recover if he will undergo an opera
ton, and he will trust to his own
strength and endurance rather than
undergo the knife The woman will
choose the thousandth chance and sub
NIT to the operation with astounding
calmness.- Life.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
A Deal In Gum.

Some of these little newsboys are re-
eourceful little mites. A day or two
ago a business man dropped silver
mounted fountain pen through the
grating in front of building on West
Third street. They told him in the
store that there was no access to the
hole from the inside. He seemed to
be up against it. Two newsies saw
him peering down into the grating and
got interested.
.sI'll git it out fer you, mister" spoke
up one of them, IF you'll stand the ex-
pense. It'll take about nickePs
worth O. chewin' gum"
The man said he would finance the
gum scheme, whatever it might be.
A minute or two later the boy had
dashed into a store and got yard
stick He was chewing hard on an
entire cents worth of gum. AS soon
as this was properly softened by the
process of mastication he placed it on
the end of the yardstick, stuck the
stick through the grating until the gum
met the pen and brought the pen up
with the utmost dispatch Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
A Curious Superstition.

There is 4 curious superstition COM
mon to Shetlanders and Cingalese.
How islanders so wide apart-some
$4,000 miles managed to adopt each
others views one does not know, but
here is the fact. The rice cultivators
of Ceylon and the fishermen of Shet-
land resemble each other in one or two
rather remarkable points. They re-
frain from speaking of the implements
Of their calling by their names. They
call them something else, by names
known only to themselves. The reason
is that IL the evil spirit were to think
that they were speaking of spades and
rakes or of nets and hooks he would
be tempted to damage them or even
to appropriate them. The train of
thought Is the same with both races:
There is an evil spirit always on the
lookout for opportunities of doing mis-
chief. He even hears what we say. If
we let him understand that we are
talking about our implements and
tools, we shall direct his attention to
them and shall suggest to him a way
Of doing an injury. Therefore we will
agree to call boat or spade by some
fancy name known only to ourselves"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
Can't TwiddIe Their Thumbs.

The gorilla and chimpanzee, which
belong to the higher order of apes,
have many points of resemblance to
man, but there is one thing they can
not do-that is, twiddle their thumbs.
In the gorilla the thumb is short and
does not reach much beyond the bot
tom of the first joint of the forehnger.
1t is very much restricted in its move
ments, and the animal can neither
twiddle his thumbs nor turn them
round so that the tips describe a circle.
There are the same number of bones in
the hand of gorilla as in the hand of
a man, but the thumbs of the monkey
have no separate flexor or bending
muscle This is why monkey always
keeps the thumb on the same side as
the fingers and never bends 1t round
any object that may be grasped. In
the gorilla the web between the fingers
extends to the second joint, the fingers
taper to the tips, and there is callos-
ity on the knuckles on which the ami
NAL rests when walking on all tours.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
Poultry Fakes.

ooh. yes said the poultry farmer.
there are tricks III every trade. Take,
for instance. this old rooster here"
The rooster was old. There was no
denying It. He was as tough an old
rooster as ever graced the summer
boarders' table of New England
farm
"Take this cid rooster" said the
farmer, selling a paint brush BLACK
up his feet Then break hid breast
bone. so, with a long pair Of scissors.
Then push the breast up high What's
the result? A fine young turkeys
the result, and knowing housewives
will scramble over one another to buy
him.
With a harsh laugh the farmer turn
ed to skeleton chicken. This bird
is a regular skeleton. isn't she?" he
said. Nov watch me. See. i lay
her on her back Then | place this
heavy board on her breast Then to-
morrow when | come to take her to
market the board will have made her
scraggy breastbone almost invisible.
and it will have given her very full.
plump sides-no breastbone. fat sides
the sure signs of fat and tender
young chicken
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
"PERNICIOUS ACTIVITY"
Presumably Has Caused Woe to Gov
eminent Employees Who Will
Indulge in Politics.

The disciplining of government en-
ployes because of political activity is
announced in statement given out by
the civil service commission. AS a re-
suit of representations and investiga-
tons of noth the commission and the
postoffice department, j. III. Rhinehart,
a letter carrier in the Denver, Colo,
pcstofice. has been reduced, and e. w.
Hill and w. r. Phillips, clerks in the
Goldsboro. n. c., postoffice, have been
warned that their political activity
must cease, under penalty of dismissal.
Hill had been nominated for state
senator. and he was informed also that
if he desired to retain his position in
the postal service it would be neces-
sary to decline the nomination at
once.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
Coronets.

The coronet of a duke consists of al
ternate crosses and leaves, the leaves
being a representation of the leaves of
the parsley plant. The princes of the
blood royal also wear similar crown.
The state headgear of a marquis con-
sists of a diadem surrounded by flow
ers and pearls placed alternately. An
earl, however, has neither flowers nor
leaves surrounding his circlet, but only
points rising, each with pearl on the
top. A yiscount has neither flowers
nor points, but only the plain circlet
adorned with pearls, which, regardless
Of number, are placed on the crown it.
self. A baron has only six pearls on
the golden border, not raised, to dis
tinguish him from an earl, and the
number of pearls render his diadem
distinct from that of a viscount
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
CROP MOVEMENT rs EARLY
Northwest Railways Report That
There Is No Great Danger
of Car Shortage.

According to freight agents of the
railroads which run through the north
west wheat belt, tie wheat crop move
ment has started two or three weeks
earlier than last year.
Duluth and Superior report receipts
of from five to six hundred cars dali
ly. Mr.. J. o. Dalzell, of the Northern
Pacific, said the crop was more
abundant in some places and less in
others, but the average was larger.
The percentage of No. ] northern
wheat was greater than usual.
w. G.. Watrous, superintendent of
transportation of the Great Northern
railroad, said there will be no car
shortage if the cars are properly
handled at terminals. This also was
the statement of Mr.. George c. Conn,
general freight agent of the 500 line.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
PROGRESS rs VERY SLOW
Only in the Aggregate Can ANY Be
Discerned in the Trade Situa-
ton, Says Dun & Co.

r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review of
Trade says:
Small gains are the rule in trade
reports. although changes are often in
significant and it is only in the aggre-
gate that any tangible progress can be
discerned. Interruption OF a holiday
made comparisons with the same week
last year unusually adverse, but indus
trial reports indicate that much ma
chinery that has been idle for months
resumed after Labor Day.
Production of pig iron is now at a
higher rate than at any previous time
this year, and many hands have return
ed to work at textile mills, while ship
ping departments in all wearing appar-
ell houses are beginning to feel the
pressure of demand for fall and winter
trade. Depleted stocks in the hands of
country merchants and confidence in
steady Improvement in business en-
courage producers, although actual
contracts come forward conserVatiyely.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
Reade's Dramatic Failures.

1t was not until 1856, when Charles
Reade was forty-twO, that he obtained
reputation as a novelist. a reputation
to which he did not aspire, for it was
his ambition to be dramatist From
the beginning of his career until the
last year of his life he wrote play aft
er play, every one of them a failure
and he alone refusing to believe it. He
attributed their want Of success to ev
cry cause but the right one, and he
went on squandering the money gained
from his more successful novels on
the production of bad plays. The ac-
tors are buffers, SIR he would say.
who have defled my composition.
mixed ditch water with my cham
payne. murdered my work." and be
would pour out maledictions on the
heads of all who had anything to do
with the unfortunate piece, from seen
ic artist to super, never conceiving
that he himself was the sole culprit
And yet. as his novels show, he had
dramatic ability of high order and
could produce the most thrilling eff
fects and situations He wrote two or
three dramas in collaboration with
Tom Taylor and Dion Boucicault that
had brief success, but apart from
these he never wrote a play that met
with the slightest degree Of popular
favor
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18

Only a little cold in the head may
be the beginning of an obstinate case Of
Nasal Catarrh. Drive out the invader
with Ely's Cream Balm appliei straight
to the inhamed stuffed up passagee.
Price Soc If you prefer to use an atom
izer, ask for Liuuid Cream Balm. 1t has
all the good qualities of the remedy in
solid form and will rid you of catarrh or
hay fever. No cocaine to br. ed dread
full habit. No mercury to dry out the
secretion. Price 75c, with spraying tube.
All druggists, or mailed by Ely Bros,
56 Warren street, New York. 2
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
In the Taproot of an Oak.

remember a curious incident con-
nected with the taproot of an oak.
This oak, good tree of perhaps 200
years growth, was being felled at
Brakeman wood when the woodmen
called attention to something peculiar
on the taproot. On clearing this of
soil we found that the object was a
horseshoe of ancient make. Obviously
in the beginning an acorn must have
fallen into the hollow of this cast
shoe, and as it grew through the slow
generations the root filed up the cir
Gle, carrying it down into the earth in
the process Of it's increase till at
length we found wood and iron thus
strangely welded. That taproot with
the shoe about it is now or used to be
a paperweight in the vestibule Of
Brakeman Hall.-Rider Haggard.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
An Unobservino Thief.

Yosouf owned q beautiful horse
which was very valuable. While Yo-
souf was transacting business a thief
stole the horse. The owner shortly
afterward saw the thief leading his
horse and took him before the kaid. or
judge.
'The horse is NINE" sturdily insist
ed the thief
In vain the other argued, and the
kaid was about to give his decision in
favor Of the villain when Yosouf adj
vanced suddenly. threw his cloak over
the horses head and demanded of his
enemy:
"Since you own the horse, tell the
kaid in which eye the animal is blind"
"In the left" said the thief. making
a wild guess.
Yosouf looked toward the kaid tri-
umphantly. "He's blind in neither
eye," said he.
So the noble horse came into its
rightful owners possession again. and
the wicked Arab was punished.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
Excursionists in a Wreck.

Mrs Esther Hexon, and an unidenti-
nearly two score of other persons,
most of them residents of Indianapolis,
were more or less seriously injured in
one of the worst excursion wrecks of
the year, which occurred at Chester
ton Ind, twenty-one miles from Chi
cago. at 1850 O'Clock in the morning.
A lake Shore suburban train known
as the "Chesterton theater dummy"
crashed into an indianapolis excursion
train which had been stalled near the
station. The dense smoke blown down
clared to have been one reason for the
accident.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
NEW ENGLAND MOVES
She Proposes to Begin Measures Tor
the Conservation of Her Natur-
al Resources.

A conference of governors of the
New England states, together with
prominent representatives of the vari
Gus walks of life, for the purpose of
ural and business resources of this
section of the country was definitely
projected at an informal gathering Of
the governors of five of the New Eng
land states: held in Boston. The
gathering. yesterday took the form Of a
luncheon at the Algonquin club, and
was called by Governor Curtis Guild,
Jr.. of Massachusetts, and Governors
Proctor. of Vermont; Floyd. of New
Hampshire: Higgins, of Rhode Island,
and Woodruff, of Connecticut, were
present Governor Cobb, of Maine,
has signified his approval of the idea,
but the election in Maine prevented
his attendance.
After the matter had been thorough
~ discussed it was decided that a con-
ference such as Governor Guild had
suggested should be called for date
some time after the presidential elec-
ton. and should be held in Boston.
Should the conference prove successful
it was expected that meetings in future
years will be held in the various New
England states. Greater uniformity of
state legislation will be particularly
aimed at
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
FIRES ARE sMoLDER1NG NOW
But Rain Is a Necessity to Make the
Situation Safe in the Mesa
ha Range.

Absence OF wind gave the Mesaba
range a day Of quiet. and the forest
fires ceased to be a menace in every
locality. No rain has fallen, and the
situation will be serious until moisture
puts an end to the Smouldering fires
and makes the forests of northern
Minnesota less like finder. Grand
Marais, on the north shore of Lake
Superior, is considered safe from fur
ther invasion by the flames.
The woods for nearly ore hundred
miles along the north shore are ablaZe
and millions of feet of standing TIM
Der is still in danger. Under orders
from General c. c.. Andrews, state fire
warden, Chief JOHN L. Black, of the
local fire department has sent forty
men to the scene of the worst forest
fire above Grand Marais. At Grand
Rapids and Cohasset which were the
center of the fire activity on the Mesa
ba range Saturday, no fires are re
ported.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-18
shippers Problems Discussed.

At st. Louis. No.. the Nation
al Industrial Traffic league began
a meeting at the Planters Hotel. The
organization is composed Of large
manufacturing and mercantile con-
Germs in ali parts of the country and
devotes its efforts to the relations be-
tween shippers and the railroads. j..
C. Lincoln, of ST. Louis. is president
and w. E. Cooke, of Chicago, is sec
rotary. Matters pertaining to the or
ganization of the body occupied the at
tention of the first session.