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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
A DoubIy Fatal Wreck.

iSandusky, o.. Sept. 1.-two col
ored men were killed. one injured ant
~ white man is missing as the result
of a wreck on the Lake Shore railway
Sunday, which made kindling wood OF
II freight cars, between Huron and
.yermillion. The dead: Oliver West
0berlin,. o.; Elmer Smith, Springfield
q, Albert Sheridan of Wheeling, w
Va, was badly cut and bruised. Sher.
idan says a white man Joined them al
Cleveland, but he cannot be found
The four were riding in a freight car
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
A Pair Of sulclden.

New York, Sept. 1i.--Frank V. Ben
nett, former manager of the Hotel
Gotham and n protcge Of Dan Il. Han.
ma. son Of the late Mark Hanna com.
mitted suicide Saturday in the Hotel
Gotham Almost simultaneously,
George Crouch, a financial writer and
a close friend of Bennett, ended his
life in brokerage Office in the IIof.
man house. Each man shot himself
in the right temple with a revolver.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
Endorsed eompers, Policy.

Boston, Sept l4.-The part which
organized labor In Massachusetts Is tc
take in the political campaign was out.
lined Sunday at a meeting of the ex.
ecutiye board OF the officers OF the
state branch, American Federation OF
Labor, its legislative committee and
the members OF a special committee
The representatives adopted resolu.
tions approving the attitude of Presi.
dent Gompers and the executive coun.
ell OF the American Federation OF La.
Dor on national politics.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
prouth VIII be Broken.

"a Washington, Sept. 14.---The weather
bureau on Sunday issued a specia.
forecast as follows: The first wei.
defined disturbance of the present sea
son is approaching the North Pacific
coast and a West Indian storm is ad
Nancing toward our southern coast
This combination should produce
abundant rains in the drouth stricken
districts of the north central and east
central states before the close Of the
preset week"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
No Cause for complaInt.

Landlord" said the boarder at
the summer resort hotel. "you ad-
vertised that you had good fishing
here, I've fished every day. and all
I've caught is half a dozen carp and
three or four bullheads."
Didn't some of the FISH you hook
ed get away?" asked the proprietor.
"Yes, of course"
well, those are the good fish we
advertise. What are you kicking
about?"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
A Raid on Gamblers.

Atlantic City, n. j., Sept. l4.-Act.
ing under instructions from Prosecu.
tor Goldenberg, representing Gov.
Fort, % detectives on Sunday raided
several Of the largest negro gambling
houses in the city, capturing go in,
mates. The rates were made over the
head of Chief OF Police Woodruff and
the city authorities, who knew moth.
ing of the roundup until an order was
sent to the city hall for the police
patrol. The detectives used in the
raid were brought from Newark.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
EnaIlsh compIalns Of tl,e police.

Omaha, Sept, ll.--County Attorney
English and Chief of Police Donahue
held n conference Sunday In regard
to the DR. Rustin tragedy, TO bring
the work of their departments in
closer touch than heretofore The
county attorney has complained that
the police department has failed to
submit possible clues that might aid
him In unraveling the mystery of DR..
Rustin's death.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
WrIoht ereaks Three Reeords.

~ Washington, Sept. IA. In two
flights at Fort Myer Saturday orvill,
SWright with the Wright flyer" brok,
lthree records. Staying up nine min
1ltes In the first flight, in which Maj
lGeorge o. Squler accompanied him
AR. Wright broke the record for 8
two-man flight which he established
,on Thursday In the second fight Mr.
Wright broke the record for time ant
distance by remaining In the air on,
hour, IA minutes and "a seconds II
this Night he went higher than aI
aeroplanlst has ever gone.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
Not What He Wanted.

This cash register you sold me is
a fraud" declared the country edi-
tor.
Just like the sample" argued the
salesman.
Il thought that was a model In
miniature. Why man, can't put
potatoes, turnips and the like in
those tiny bins"
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
nav 70 pc Iakon TO Ano,ner .nI

Saratoga, n. v, Sept. 14.-SheriH
Lane of Wostchester county, who Is
here, learned Sunday that Harry X.
rhaw had been transferred from the
Duchess county jail 20 his custody.
lie tclegraphed instructions to the
warden Of the White Plains jail to
place Thaw In the hospital ward Of
lho prison. Lane said that this ward
was a large room, with barred win
lows and doors and that Thaw would
have no exercise except what he could
set in this room. There would be no
objection, he said, to his having meals
sent in from restaurant.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
Fear.crazed Man suIcIdcd.

Springfield ILL.,, Sept 14.--Fearing
hydrophobia as the result OF bite IN.
aicted by squirrel suffering with
rabies, Fred Peterson. 45 years old.
died Sunday Of carbolic acid poison.
Ing. lie swallowed the acid because,
MS he remarked, he preferred to kill
himself than die of rabies.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
banker indicted for EmbozzIement.

Johnstown. Pa, Sept l4--The
grand jury at Ebensburg has returned
Il true bills charging embezzlement
against Boz Cojsoylc, a foreign banker
OF this city who until recently was
considered wealthy. Depositors IN
Cojsovic's bank, recently closed, and
men who gave him money to be for
warded to old world countries, are
the prosecutors
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
Watkins Attacks Bryan and Taft.

Atlanta, Ca, Sept l4.--Aaron S.
Watkins of Ohio, Prohibition vice
presidential candidate, delivered three
speeches here Sunday. Mr.. Watkins
devoted most OF his speech last night
to an attack on the Democratic and
the Republican presidential candi
dates, saying that both Bryan and
Taft were opposed to prohibition.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
He Had Hon.s.

Anyway" said tNr omstour poul-
try raiser, "if don, l-....~ 49, hing
at the game, have hopes that my
hens viii soon be self-supporting.
How do YOU figure that?" quericd
the gentleman from Missouri.
They have taken to eating their
own eggs" explained the a. D. r.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
Police Arrested 50 Rioters.

Buda Pest, Sept, 14,-The Socialists
created serious disturbances during
the eueharistic procession which was
held Sunday in connection with The
congress now sitting here The po
lice used their swords to restore order
and so rioters were arrested.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
"FratsD VIII Fioht fot ExIs,snes.

Chicago, Sept li.--The struggle fol
existence that high school fraternities
Of Chicago are waging against the
board OF education is scheduled tc
reach the civil courts today. Just the
nature of the contemplated court pro
eedure to be started Is not known.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
Wheat Crop Movement Begins EARLY

st. Paul, Sept, l4,--According to the
general freight agents Of the railroads
which run through the wheat belt Of
the northwest, this years wheat CROP
movement has Just started aud IL
from two TO three weeks earlier than
In 1907.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
Trsoedy IN a sunday school

Charlotte. N. c., Sept 1i-Mis,
Willis Bullinger, 10 years old. wal
stabbed to death Sunday by Loi
RAIDER. aged 2l while she was seate,
at the organ playing a hymn at sun
day school RAIDER was arrested.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
A EuuItlve Is Arraatcn.

New York, Sept 14.--Detectives on
Sunday arrested Pasquale Caponiari
AN Italian banker, who is alleged to
have absconded from this city a year
and half ago with 100000 b, longing
to deposltors.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
erewerY Workera convene.

New York, Sept 14--The annual
convention OF the United Brewery
Workers OF America, an organization
numbering 10000 members in all parts
of the United States, assembled here
Sunday.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-14
olI can ExpIoded-peath Followed

Pomeroy, o., Sept 14.--A can Of OF
Standing near stove in the home o.
John c. Roush in Mason county, Wes
Virginia, exploded Sunday. ond chile
vas burned to death and Mr. and Mrs
;iaoush and three, other children were
perhaps fatally injured. The house
was consumed,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-17
TALE OF A PROPERTY MAN PORTE, ? BROWNE

the door, as I watzes in the lobby. THAT dam
animated door-mat you've got In behind is tearing
1t off so the audience is frightened to DEATH Three
women has tainted already and the people Is going
out faster n ever seen EN- come in In my life.
Look a. there
81 looked Seventeen people was all at
trying to get through door that originally
intended to accommodate thin guy going side
ways
"'I guess I better go inside. I says
al guess you'd better says the door-man.
There ought to be at least person in there for
the actors to play to-
by violent efforts I manages to get inside and
work my way halfway down side aisle, SOS to be
out of the rush
81 could hear EN- on the stage setting scenery at
a rate fit to ust the speed ordinances into chunks
and I knowed the manager had how things
going but shamed to admit that his idea
frost, and was trying to get the scene over
with and reyoonite and Estelle before the audi
ence had went home.
THE curtain rung up in a jify; and of
course the people that was still in the theayter
turned to look. Poor Estelle was nosing around
the stage dragging the mountain after him, d
aiming his good eye this way and that in a
frantic effort to find me, and all the while letting
out roars and yowls and yips and yells that made
the photograph frames in the lobby rattle.
He only had good eye. But that
certainly peach. In less than minute he had
spotted me- and with delighted, joyous heller
of pure happiness, he leaps the ootlights still
towing the mountain after him. and begins to sprad-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-17

die his way jubilany across the backs of the seats
to the spot where I'm standing.
"Of course, for what was left of the audience,
that a-plenty and then some They stood not
the order of their going. They just went
How they done it is too many for The light
people climbed over the heavy ones and the thin
people crawled under the fat ones Winders or
DOORS it was all the same to them. couldn't tell
you any more about it to my life. All know
is that in less n thirty seconds me and Estelle Is
standing alone in that vast ampitheayter listening
to the manager say soothingly from the stage:
cts all right, ladies and gents. They is really
no cause for alarm, ashore you It's all right,
ladies and gents And when at last he realizes
that it's only and Estele he's talking to, he
says, kind of helpless and feeble-like Well, wha'
d yer know about that!' and tries to walk through
the curtain"
The property ceased speaking and thought
fully gazed into his beer.
"And what them" I queried
81 got me two weeks notice. he returned sue
cincty.
For WHAT? I demanded in surprise
you search me-" he returned; and then
with the disdan and hauteur of the true historian,
"Only the good Lords knows why they do the
things they do in some companies. But they gives
excuse that they thought if they could get
some one Estelle didn't love much as he did me,
maybe they could get him to stay the stage long
enough to let them play the scene"
"And Estelle," I persisted. What became of
him?"
The property man was gazing into his beer with
saddened eyes
1 reiterated my query.
oh Estelle" he exclaimed, banishing with
effort the clinging mists of retrospection "Estelle
committed suicide"
What" l cried
YES" he nodded sadly. ~And they rewrote his
part for a stuffed tiger"
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and heller every time 1 go away from him. and take
on SO he'll the whole community into fits;
and after they had to send for fifteen twenty
him. [ decided the best thing to do to sleep
there. l saved lot of money in lodgings by 1t,
too.
"By the time we gets to Kokomo, we're Demon
and Pythas Romeo and Juliet enemies COM
pared to us, and Hamlet and Ophelia hated each
others signatures on promssory note. Estelle
couldn't spare long enough even to give me
time to get a drink, and had to have all my meals
brought into the theayter to me.
az had to swear off smoking complete when there
wasn't no one around; for couldn't go out
side the stage door for cigarette but what Estele
would be whooping and bowling and yowling and
yelping SO that people would come running from
every which way; and once the Society for the In
vention of Cruelty to animals got after US; and
had to put my head in Estells mouth and show the
places where his hair coming out from high
feeding to prove that wasn't maltreating him.
HE loved me SO that could hardly get him to
stay on the stage while the leading lady
saving her lover from him. The only way could
work it at all was for to stay with him until
the last minute and then to stand out far
dared in the wings and whisper to him. And even
then the whole scene had to be played in the time
it took Estee to turn around and make his exit
lone night the manager around and he
was sore.
g" Now, look a here he says to This
thing has gotter quit It's getting worse an worse
all the time. Having to play that whole dam
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-17

into the cage with my hair standing up like
German diplomats.
But there wasn't no call at all to be afraid Just
like the manager said, Estelle the height Of
COMPATIBILITY. A mustard plaster cold and
distant compared to him. And without trouble
at all except that he jumps on me and tries to
kiss me- takes him out and bitches him to the
mountain.
"The curtain goes up showing panorama Of
burning sand embellished with potted palms
and the mountain which Estelle Is tied to. And in
another minute the dragging the
leading
"Of course nobody but me and the manager has
yet mixed up with Estelle socially, and for all the
rest may know, he's the concentrated squntessonse
of unauthorized savagery. So you can bet them
coons ties up the leading man like they'd worked
all their lives at the bundle counter. and then
ducks Off the stage like the theayter ahre;
which, of course adds verismilitood to the scene
and don't encourage the leading none too
much.
"Estelle after gazing in disappointment and lonely
surprise after the disappearing coons, sees the
leading man and perks up quite some. He purrs
little and rubs himself socially against the noun
tain and then starts to go across to where that
hysterica guy is tethered
THE leading man forgets his bonds and gets
ready to make a flying start for the wings With
his eyes plugged out SO you could have knocked
'em off with a stick and his hair standing up all
over his head like needles on the peevish porcupine
as the Teller says he waits until Estelle is within
eighteen inches of him. Then so sudden that in
comparison to him a streak of lightning would be
slow and sedentary, he gives yell and starts OF
for the wings in such hurry that he knocks the
leading woman, who's just coming on to rescue
him. off into the bass drum and disappears from
view.
''The curtains rung down. and the manager goes
out onto the apron of the stage and tells the audi
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there they stands sizing up his nobs, who is sleep
ing as peaceful a hobo on park bench who
knows the cop the beat is in saloon.
"'Ain't she beauty says the leading lady,
whose knowledge Of zoology seems to be somewhat
sooperfcal. What is her name?'
80 don't know says. The guys that brought
her over here calls her lot of things but none
don't to be exactly what you might term
cognomen.
Then said the leading lady, excitedy, 4 shall
name her after myself. She shall be called Es-
telle; and shall buy her gold collar!
"a set OF false teeth would be far more use
full present. / says. But am interrupted by a
chorus Of enthusiastic but bashfu ladies, all of
who thinks her own name is the best and wants to
name the lion after herself. I've always found that
ladies are very careless students of natooral his
tory
They're having row which would wake up
anything but that lion when the manager comes in.
He is kind of soft on the leading lady. So when
she promulgates her decision to name the lion Es-
telle he sees a chance to make himself solid with
out 1t costing him cent; he merely grins and
announces that hereafter the lion is named Estelle
And that settles it. He's Estelle.
Now the big scene comes in the third act. Just
before the curtain rings up, it's my job to take
Estee out Of his cage and tie him to mountain,
stage left
when they signing the company, they
had seventeen property refuse the job on &C
count of the lion tanning speciality that went with
it, But had been doing the Dead March up and
down Broadway all summer and just at that mo-
ment would have agreed to be valet de shamber
to whole African jungle If there was chance to
eat went with the job So signs.
"You can make up your mind I'm on the point
of giving up the job several more times before
the show gets going. But decides to wait long
enough at least to what kind of a quadruped
thew stacks up against.
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ence, which is all trying to get out of the theayter
at once, that there amt danger-that the
age brute has been subiued and put back into his
cage and on and so forth until there amt
body left in the house to talk to- and next afternoon
opens in Paterson.
knowing Estelles social propensities, we
somewhat doubtful next day when raises the
curtain the third act But being we've
aged to give the leading full, and unqualified
confidence in Estelle's pacific intentions and
bounded amiabty, we're hoping for the best
And SO it was, when the coons had dragged
the leading on and had departed like bunch
of two-year-olds in steeplechase leaving the lead
ing man to tie his own hands and feet, he done
unmoved And when Estelle went socially toward
him, he didn't try to break sprintng records,
but just lay there grtting his teeth and trying to
appear dignifed and courageous.
''But would you believe it, before the leading
woman had chance to get on the stage and save
the leading man. Estelle has laid down comfortably
alongside that langushing guy and went to sleep!
And all through that thrilling saving he
don't wake up at ALL but just lays there and snores
that when the herowine yels, Sweetheart, you
are safe at last!' you can't hear her at all. He
don't wake up until after the curtain is down and
the audience is yelling itself sick. And then has
to go out and prod him six or eight times with a
scimiter before he'll come to-
During the next six weeks got to be very fond
of Estelle, and he got to be very fond of me, too
You know how you'll grow to love good, faithful,
anectionate dorg that's big, and SLOW and poky,
and that is perfectly and soopremely happy when
he can put his head on your knee and have you rub
his
well. that's just how it with me and Es-
telle
"And kept getting and that
way every day. In fact, bymebye Estelle gets so
attached to me that he Just can't abide to have
leave him at ALL He'll cry and NOPE and whine
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scene in seventeen seconds makes it lose all it's
thrilling mpressiveness. Why, the leading lady
has to like the driver of Chemical A, and
If she misses the first swpe she makes at them
bonds, the lions got his back turned and Is ON his
way home. 1t wont do.
Now he goes on, I want you to keep out of
the way tonight after you've led him onto the
stage. Duck quick when he amt looking and may
be he'll be busy thinking things over long enough
to let us get through the scene right
well. done what he told to. And that
night before the leading lady could reach the
leading man, Estelle had turned around and, hear
ing my footsteps had tried to climb through the
back drop curtain, with the result that he tore it
down and thereby exposed to the gaze of the audi
ence a full view of Estee kissing me like we
just been reyoonited after of separation the
manager cursng blue streak and the company
and stage hands laffing and sapping their legs
fit to kill. 1t was the most appreciated scene
give; but it didn't seem to make hit with
the management They cancelled us and we had
to lay off the rest of the week
by the time opens in the next burg this
brany manager of ourn has framed up a new
scheme.
III lead him myself tonight he says. You
ouck right after the second act. Then we'll
let him hunt all around until he knows you amt
there, and maybe he'll be contented to do the
right. OF course he'll howl ard all that; but
thatn only lend extra color to the thing
"'All right I says, though was mighty dubious
about the lustre of his idea. You're the doctor
81 done what he told me to. Right after the
curtain had fell on the second act. beat it out
the stage door.
'Icould hear Estelle already yelling and yowling
and wauling fit to make siren whistle ashamed of
itself, and my heart ached for him in his loneli-
ness But wouldn't go back. Orders is orders
I says, and stroed down to the front of the house.
What the matter in there?' asks the man on
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LION WITH HER GAZE LONG ENOUGH TO UNITE THE LEADI

Estelles friendly attitood encourages let;
but still all my doubts amt dispeed by long
way for. Notwithstanding her grateful attentions
after feeds her, I'm not so sure that when goes
into the cage she won't remember that, even If
her teeth compes mentis, her hooks are
still good, and want to practice little vivisecton
work my shrinking form. Wild animals, you
know have grace of bearing and gentleness of
manner when they Gagged up alone that they
sometimes forgets when they are in human socie-
ty.
"Al through the first and second acts that night,
my pedal extremeties Is getting more and more
chilled; and when the curtain finally rings down
the last scene of the second, they're cold that
/ could have put 'em in tub of hot alcohol and
froze it solid. My knees wabbles like has the
ague and keeps tapping my lips with my tongue
and then wondering why done it; for it's like WHIP
ing gravel roof with doormat.
81 watches them Hoboken sammers put
ting up the mountain and has almost decided to
beat 1t when the manager comes Waiting to
where I'm giving an imitation of the unfortunate
herowne freezing to death on the church steps at
midnight in Turned Adrift; or, Out in the Cold,
Cold World
"'Aw what's the matter with you?' says the
manager sourcastically. Have you got locomotive
ataxia, or are you only shaking yourself for the
drinks? Get Estelle out of his cage and hitch him
to that ring bolt on the mountain. And get
move on. Seer
IT tries to answer; but the words get lost in the
gravel in my elementary canal, and nothing comes
out
do a Daniel says the manager. DO Dan
lei. What's the matter, anyhow? You amt
afraid, you? Why, he wouldn't bite a cream
pun. But If you're scared I'll send home for my
three-year-old niece to come in and do 1t. He'll!
Did hire or a blooming old woman? Huh?
Now no guy stand being talked to like that.
So bristled myself up, shut my eyes and wabbed
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Copyright 1908, by Thomas H. Mckee,

Copyright IVOa BY Thon1hs H. Muhus
YER in one corner OF the little cafe q
careless and cursory orchestra was
painfully maltreating the latest speci-
man Of rnaIojious petit larceny that had