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The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-10-01
Coming Eyeats Of Interest .

State Fair Sedalia, October 5
70 10 inclusive.
Old Settlers Picnic. Butler.
October 9TH.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-10-01

Earl Kinloch. superintendent
Of the Rich Hill Brick and Tile
plant has been quite seriously iii
OF rheumatism for the last week.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-10-01

Henry MerieIe, OF Kansas City,
spent Sunday in this city.
The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1908-10-01
FOR ROossvsIt's Policies.

IfIam elected president
/ propose to devote all the
ability that is in me TO the
constructive work Of sug
gesting to Congress the
means by which the ROlse-
welt policies shall be clinch-
cd. Hon. Wm. II. Taft at
Sandusky, o., Sept. sth.
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.PuNGY AND CREW ARE SAVED
STEAMER NORTHUMBERLAND
RESCUEs DISTRESSED VESSEL.
Oyster Dredgers Had Been Working
Pumps for Twenty-Six Hours
and End Was Near.

The crew OF the Baltimore oyster
dredging pungy Andrew Bradshaw owe
preservation from drowning I'm the mouth
of the Potomac river to Capt. Joseph
Smith and the crew OF the steamer Nor
cumberland.
The steamer reached the pungy as the
vessel was rapidly filling with water. 1t
would soon have gone to the bottom. The
heavy northwest gale would have swamp
ed a small boat had the crew tried to es-
cape.
The Northumberland of the Maryland
Delaware and Virginia Railway Company
line, left here Wednesday afternoon for
the mouth of the river and Baltimore.
Thursday afternoon as the Northumber-
land was leaving Coan river for the land
ings in Maryland Capt. Smith saw the
pungy about four miles away flying dis
tress signals and laboring heavily.
Under full speed the Northumberland
Bradshaw badly damaged. with the water
coming into her at rapid rate.
1t was impossible in the heavy sea TO
launch a lifeboat. Finally. after much
difficulty, line was gotten To the pungy.
The steamer lowed the Bradshaw into
shoal and shelter water.
When the Northumberland was sighted
by the Bradshaw the crew had been
working at the pumps for twenty-six
hours to keep the vessel afioat. In the
gale she had lost her masts the bow had
hole in It, and her planking was sprung.
They could have kept afioat more than a
few hours longer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08
MOUNTAIN FORESTS ABlAzE
FIRES RAGING EAST AND SOUTH
OF CUMBERLAND.
Much Timber Already Destroyed and
Property in Danger-Men
Fighting Flames.

CUMBERLAND. Md, November r.
The mountains in Allegany county east
of Cumberland and in West Virginia in
view of Cumberland are all abiaze from
forest fires
miles east of Cumberland. near Rush,
sent message to Cumberland that the
mountains in that vicinity were all afire
and that his own property and that of
George Cross, Boyd Smith and Luther
Martin was in danger All the farmers
were out last night fighting the flames.
after having moved their stock, farm
ing implements and household property
to places of safety. Hundreds of pan
els Of fencing have already been burn
ed and much timber destroyed. The
farmers asked for assistance. and
Charles A. Smouse took a force of men
to the scene. The fire is in the vicinity
of Rush and near the farm of Cation L.
BretZ of Cumberland, general manager
of the Cumberland and Pennsylvania
railroad. Bx-Mayor Warren c. White
of Cumberland, who has lumber mill
in the vicinity of Rush, went out with a
party in three automobiles to fight the
fire. He found that the wind was car
rying the flames away from his mill.
which was in no danger.
fierce fire is raging on knobley
mountain. across the river from South
Cumberland, and Haystack mountain,
west of Cumberland, is also ablaZe. The
mountains are afire along the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad east of Cum
was serious 1t is believed by many that
the fires have been accidentally started
by hunters. There has been no settled
rain for months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08
Ash Barrel School of Criticism.

Richard Harding Davis. in Golfers.
Today dramatic critics might be divided
into two classes the msanthrope, who
has set his standard SO high that in the
modern theater he can see nothing to
enjoy and nothing to praise. and the
newspaper comedian, who regards the
men and women on the stage only as per-
sons in a pillory. Owing to some strange
inertia on the part of the public he has
acquired the right to hurl at actors and
actresses impertinent personalities. wit
ticsms. sometimes cruel jests that tester
and leave a scar. To some men, the
mere fact that fellow human being Is
in the stocks, unable to retaliate, already
figure for laughter, is reason enough
for passing him in silence. with averted
eyes. But the low-comedy critic is not
paid to be magnanimous. If by flash
of his wit he can make his readers laugh.
even though 1t send leading lady into
Mysteries or sets an actor swearing, he
is satisfied. To him, to see his name on
an ash can. under some such stirrinG
quotation from his deathless prose as
"A chuckle every minute" 1T will make
Comstock sit up" is Fame. 1t is his
business. by ridicule, to send chorus girls
sobbing to bed.
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DOUBLE MURDER AND SUICIDE
HUSBAND FINDS WIFE, CHILD
AND SLAYER DEAD.
Son-in-Law After Committing Deed
Gets Into Trouble and
Takes Poison.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
wife and daughter lying dead, with their
threats cut and the body of their alleged
slayer, George Hartsell, who died by his
own hands, damned into a trunk, was
the discovery made by William Casey
when he returned to his home in 5th ave-
nue., East Mckeesport, late last night.
In his absence Hartsell, who was his
son-in-law, had murdered Casey's wife
and daughter as they were about to re-
tire for the night. Squeezing his own
body into a trunk, Hartsell then drained
the contents of a bottle which. 1t is sup
posed, contained poison. His victims
were Mrs. Mary Casey thirty-seven years
old. and Irene Casey. six years old,
adopted daughter of Mrs. Casey.
Hartsell was twenty-three years OLD
Less than a year ago he was acquitted of
a charge of numbering his wife. Since
then he had been living with the Caseys
and in that time there had been constant
unpleasantness between him and the fam
lily.
Hartsell chose a time when Casey was
absent from home to commit the crime.
When Casey left the house at 1880 O'Clock
last night to visit sick brother at Pit
cain Hartsell is thought to have planned
the deed Mrs. Casey and her daughter
were fully dressed when found. The
woman lay across the bed in pool of
blood and the little girls body lay on
the floor at the foot of the bed. The
trunk lid was damned down on HartselIs
body, which was bespattered with the
blood of his two victims.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08
GIANT WARSAIP LAUNCHED
BRITISH BATTLESHIP CoLLING-
WOOD TAKES THE WATER.
Sixth Vessel of the Dreadnought
Class-Premier Asquith Gives
the Signal.

DEVONPORT. England, November l.
The Collingwood, the most powerful OF
all British battleships, and the sixth YES
sci of the Dreadnought class to be placed
in the water, was successfully launched
here this afternoon.
Mrs Asquith, who was accompanied by
her husband, the prime minister, gave the
signal which set the launching machinery
in motion, and as the huge mass of steel
plunged into the water she chrstened the
vessel Collingwood.
While this new battleship is of the
same type as the Dreadnought and has
the same number of heavy guns, the same
radius of action and the same speed. there
are some variations of detail which make
her more formidable Her big guns have
a greater caliber. and the guns for de-
Tense against torpedoes have higher
muzZle energy and velocity.
The CollingwOod was laid down in Feb
ruary, and as more work has been done
on her than is usual before launching the
admiralty expects to place her in COM
mission early in 1910.
The hull of this ship is the heaviest
dead weight that ever left the launching
Slip 1t is estimated that it displaces
s. 300 tons of water. When completed the
displacement of the Collingwood will be
over 1920 tons.
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turesque cities in America. Here he will
find nothing stolen from Europe-nothing
derivative. 1t is the very quintessence
of what one is in the habit of styling
American
The temptation is very great for the
writer who is handling Pittsburg to fill
pages with ponderous figures, and to
take the unsuspecting reader into his
confidence and tell him he struck a 2OO,-
OOO-pound blow by the mere touching Of
a button. or to talk glibly of mill build
ings a, quarter of mile long, or to cas-
ually refer to steel plants mile in
length.
You leave with an overpowerng sense
of your utter insignificance, and si
speeches., gazing through your car win
dow as titanic hills loom up in all their
grandeur and race past in mighty pa
geant into the night their sides and
crests flaming with acres upon acres of
coke furnaces, tingeing the vast rolling
forms, slowly pacing across the glowing
heavens with the golden splendor of some
gigantic confagration.
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Winter Drainage Suggestion.

From the Outing Magazine.
Winter drainage is not the same as sum-
mer drainage, and it must be attended to
very carefully at this closing-up sea son.
In summer we simply want capacious
tiles running through the soil, capable of
keeping it from being waterlogged, and
we want sloping of drives so that swift
showers shall be carried quickly by sur
face bitches. But in winter there is often
body of melting snow very suddenly
let loose that will wash the best soil off
your land, tear cutters through your
strawberry beds. and possibly even heave
out your young trees. 1t is extremely i'm
portant just as you wind up your work
to cut surface drains Of a temporary
sort where the slopes are likely to be
washed, so as to catch the flush of water
before it accumulates and throw 1t out of
your garden and off Your lawn. These
superficial drains can be closed in the
spring or, if left at all. can be modified
to very Swallows and almost unnoticeable
Sluices.
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method is only qualitative and not very
sensitive. but Ii Is convenient for dis
covering leaks in furnace pipes and fiues
and in ascertaining whether the latter
have been sufficiently ventilated to be
safely opened for cleaning.
NM. Levy and Pecoul have devised a
method and apparatus by which as small
proportion of carbon monoxide as one
part In 100000 can be detected. and very
small quantities can be determined guam
titatively by persons entirely Snexpe-
rienced in chemical manipulations. This
method Is based on the power of carbon
monoxide to decompose iodic acid. with
the liberation of iodine, which is betrayed
by its color
AS prolonged exposure to an atmos-
phere containing even one part of carbon
monoNide in 10000 is injurious to health,
tests of this character should be fire.
quently made in all establishments in
which there is danger of contamination
of the air with this poisonous gas all
leaks should be promptly discovered and
repaired, pipes should be thoroughly ven-
tilated before they are entered for clean
ing, men should not be compelled TO re-
main long at posts where the air is I'M
aSoidably contaminated all conduts
WHICH may contain carbon monoxide
should be painted red and workmen
should be strictly forbidden to remain in
their vicinity except when actually at
work there
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08
BUYS AN F STREET BUILDING
LOCAL BUSINESS MAN EXPENDS
$4,000 FOR PROPERTY.
Intends to Remodel Structure.
Wilkes Booths Horse Tied to
Post on Premises.

Ben Schwartz has purchased the
building $40 F street, the first floor of
which he occupies as tailoring estab-
lishment. He intends to tear down the
structure and erect in it's place mod
ern office building of eight stories.
The property was for many years
owned by the heirs of Mary Moore. The
price paid by Mr.. Schwartz was $9404O
The ground was included in the sale at
the rate of SIT a square foot. Mr..
Schwartz, in announcing his purchase,
said last night that he proposes to
commence the reconstruction early in
January.
The building has frontage of
twenty four feet on street and runs
back for 159 feet to an alley in the
rear. There is wing to the building
that takes in the rear of 81 and 924 r
street, giving the rear of the building
seventy-three feet in all.
Post of Historic Interest.
The rear of the structul; adjoins the
Atlantic building, in which the forestry
bureau of the Department of Agriculture
is located, 1t is said that several of the
upper floors of Mr.. Schwartz's new build
ing will probably also be used by the
bureau.
There is an old wooden post in the rear
of go street which is of historical in
terest and value and which is the prop
erty of the owner of the building. 1t
was at the post that Wilkes Booth Is
said to have had his horse tied when he
assassnated President Lincoln.
According to the story, Booth. after
shooting the President, rushed from the
theater, facing 10th street. to the alley
in the rear. and, freeing the animal, gal
Hoped away. In his haste he did not I'M
tie the hitch knot. Rather than lose any
time he reached for his pocket knife and
cut the halter strap. The part of the
halter left dangling on the post is in the
possession of Mr. Schwartz.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08
McFarland's Ashes Reach Home.

NEW YORK. November THE ashes
of Silas C. Mcfarland Of Iowa, former
consul general at large for the European
district who committed suicide October
"a on train between Hamburg and
Berlin were brought here today on the
Kaiserin Auguste Victoria from Ham
burg. Mrs. Silas c. Mcfarland, the
widow. and her daughter were on the
steamer.
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Dreaded Facing the People.

Offutt dreaded facing the people of
Rockville on the way from the station to
the jail and in Difference to his wishes the
officers took him by an unfrequented
route. Offutt seemed relieved when he
reached the jail
Edward G.. Peter and w. Outerbridge
Spates of the local bar have been re-
tanned to represent Offutt. No intimation
has been given as to what the defense
VIII be or whether an effort will be made
to have the case removed to another
county for trial.
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scribes his journey across country from
Garrett Park to Chevy Chase as having
been rough. He says that when he reached
the car line he was nearly exhausted
Offutt explains he had not been in New
York more than three minutes before he
was placed in arrest by policeman, be-
ing pointed out to the officer by cab
man. who had been requested to be on
the lookout. The prisoner is said to thor
oughly appreciate the seriousness of his
position. and his appearance indicates that
he has experienced much mental suffer-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08
Aeroplane Talk.
From the Paris Gaulois.

The whole civilized world owes. at least
one thing To the Wright brothers-an ex-
cellent subject of conversation. Nine
persons out of ten speak of aviation: it
is a better topic than bridge or even
politics.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08
OFFUTT IN ROCKVILLE JAIL
SLAYER OF FRANK KERTZEMER
RETURNED TO HOME TOWN.
Averse to Facing the Populace.
Gives Details Of Escape a
Week Ago.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 Ihe star
ROCKVILLE, Md, November T.
Sheriff George w. Mullican and Special
Deputy Joseph l.. Clagett returned from
New York this evening with Nicholas
Onutt who shot and fatally wounded
Frank Kertzemer last Saturday night
while in the latters place OF business In
this town. Offutt was arrested within
very few minutes after his arrival in
New York city the day following the
shooting.
Immediately on reaching Rockville the
prisoner was placed in Jail, being held on
"A charge of murder. His cell had been
comfortably furnished by his Rockville
who WILL it is understood see
that he wants for nothing in the way of
food Not once since his arrest has
young Offutt referred to the shooting any
further than to say a single time that he
remembered nothing that occurred the
night OF the tragedy. He has, however.
laughingly REFER d to his escape from
Constable Whalen as that officer was
about 10 close the Jail door on him here.
He says he had no idea of trying to es-
cape until he was about to enter the Jail,
when he suddenly became desperate at
the thought OF being locked up. He de-
MES striking Whalen. declaring that he
simply pushed the officer to one side and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08
Pittsburg the Picturesque.

From Harpcr's Magazine.
Beneath it's SCOT and CRIME he will dis
cover in Pittsburg one Of the most pic
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Ran Through the Town.

Offutt says that after getting away from
Whalen he ran down the main street of
Rockville to the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, down the tracks to Garrett Park
and across country TO Chevy Chase lake
where he took a car TO Washington. go
Ing straight to the Union station and
boarding Q train for New York. He de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-08

Specials" are our Speciality" Read
the ad.
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BLAEIS. At Garfield Hospital. Saturday. No
vember 4. 1905. JACOB BLAEIS. formerly
of Rupert Home, Anacostia, ID. &.
Funeral from Thomas II. Nalley & Sons funeral
parlOrs, Monday, November - 10 am.
Relatives and friends respectfully invited U
attend. lnterment at Prospect Hill Gene
terry.
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Danger in Gas Stoves.

According to him the greatest danger
from the poison comes from gas stoves.
Flues and pipes carrying the gas become
clogged and imperfect combustion results.
SCOT or grease will cause this. Unless
the kitchen is ventilated we'll. the results
may be just as fatal as in the case of
the Bremerman family.
Gas burning at the tip of a chandelier
or gas fixture is not liable to produce the
poison for the reason that the lava gas
tip becomes superheated and gas pass
ing through is fully combusted.
The danger from gas tips or chandeliers
lies only in taking up all the oxygen in
the room. Then imperfect combustion will
result as oxygen Is needed for perfect
combustion. People in room affected in
this way will suffer suffocation from
carbon dioxide known to every student
Of primary school physiology.
Inspector Runyan's explanation to
why more people do not die or suffer
from the effects Of the pOfsons cast off
from burners is that houses are gener-
ally more or less ventilated He also
corroborated DR.. Haywoods statement
that the suicides who inhale the fumes
Of charcoal are poisoned by carbon mon
oxide.
Recent Published Article.
An article in the current issue of the
Scientific American dealing with this sub
ject has great local interest at this time.
1t is entitled, Detection of Carbon Mo-
noxide In the Air" and is as follows:
Poisoning by carbon monoxide is of
frequent occurrence, for this gas is ex-
tremely poisonous and it is generated in
many ways The danger of poisoning is
increased by the fact that the gas is
colorless, odorless and tasteless. It's toxic
power is sixty times that of carbon dioX-
ide.
Il. is absorbed in appreciate quanti-
ties by the blood from an atmosphere con-
tanning it in the proportion of one part
in 5000. When air containing one part
of carbon monoxide in 1900 is inhaled.
the blood absorbs as much carbon monox-
ide as oxygen. and death ensues.
1.-The presence of carbon monoxide in
considerable proportions may be detected
by drawing some of the suspected air.
with an aspiration, through solution of
silver nitrate. If the air contains much
carbon monoxide the liquid soon assumes
grayish tint. due to the reduction of
the nitrate to the metallic form. This
New-York tribune., 1908-04-19
4 FIFTH AYE. PHOENIX.
Features Of office Building to Oc-
cupy Famous Hotel Site.

II may be that some Of that regard, approaching
Nehefatlon' Tor the old Fifth Avenue Hotel which
me public has manifested since the announcement
was made that 1t IS TO be torn down possessed tho
architects charged with the designing op tho ITO
Office building which is TO take its place on the
Fifth avenue Broadway site, between ord apd o4tb
streets, for much of the general outward snnear
ance Of almost defiant solidity and stability nos
sessed by it's famous predecessor has been ,ncor-
porated in the design of the new structure Eut
II IN outward appearance the building may
recall the old hotel. modernzed and fully deveoped
along present-day lines there is nothing else an
preaching similarity between the two structures
Tor the Fifth Avenue Building, the structure is
20 be known Will be one of the LARGEST oaics
structures IN the city
Extending not only over the site of the old hotel
but over the sites of the Madison Square Theatre
and No y West 23d as we'll an area or
about 5000 square feet. II viii have a frontage Of
900 feet In Fifth avenue and will extend back 24O
feet deep in &d street and 26j feet i'm 24th street
II will he fourteen stories high and will contain
SIX hundred Offices the different stories being
served by nineteen elevators. operating on the over
head traction system. Each Of these cars will be
capable Of making the trip from the first story 10
The roof in nineteen seconds Al this rate each
can make ninety-sIx complete trips up and down.
an hour ana the whole nineteen cars will be
capable OF making ! $50 complete trips in an hour
total of 2.0s5 structural columns will he 1Ised
in the building having a total length Of about
seven and half miles. If these were laid out end
10 end they would reach from the Battery 10 lIOfh
street, and If placed vertically, end on end they
would stand more than hfty-eight times as high as
the new Metropolitan tower. II all the iron and
steel entering into the construction OF the building
could be reduced 70 ordinary telegraph wire il
would reach five times around the earth The
electric wires used in the building would reach
distance Of ninety miles, from New York 10
Philadelphia. There are 10 be fourteen and a half
miles OF steam pipes in the building, enough to
reach from the Battery past Spuyten Duyvil, and
the plumbing pipes VIII have a total length of
about six and quarter miles
There viii be total of 1926 windows in the build
ing. covering total Of 10j 600 square feet or
about two and half acres The total number Of
doors viii be J. 100.
The building viii be Of limestone and polished
granite. The eornce and balustrade usually Of
metal, Will on this building he of stone The
structure Will be as nearly freproof as il can be
made no wood being employed in its construction.
The floors viii be Of concrete the doors of metal.
wire glass viii be used for all interior doors and
windows. tne bases viii he OF polished marble ana
ctcn the trim for the doors and windows Will he of
heavy drawn steel.
The building viii have its own electric plant with