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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-03-07
CONDENSED NEWS
OF THE ENTIRE WEEK

after woundlng the chief, his son and
his police driver; Mayor Busse be
lieved to have been marked for death
by same hand.
Fourteen Massachusetts towns shifI
on the license question, eight from nc
to yes, and six the other way.
Before senate committee Command
er Sims admits responsibility for cri
ticisms OF naval construction; not
permitted to testify on several lines
Mrs. Roy says husband may have
meant to shoot her before he killed
brother; they had quarrelled over
Carkin.
Both parties claim prestige from
results thus far in New Brunswick
elections.
President makes public Sec. Roots
report on charges against Judge L. R
Wiley of Shanghai, warmly com
mending the accused.
Secretary Taft speaks in boyhood
home, Millbury, Mass, and at board
of trade banquet in Fitchburg.
Naval officers highly pleased with
cruiser Chester's trial.
Decision of judge at Ensenada, Mex
leo, looks favorable to extradltion OF
William F-Walker, absconding bank
er wanted at New Britain, Conn.
Senator W. A. Smith says the Aid
rich railroad bond would be first step
toward government ownership.
Granite workers in Vermont, Rhode
Island and Connecticut out after fail,
ure to agree with manufacturers on
new wage scale.
Municipal elections in IL Maine cit.
les Yesterday.
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AnaInat AnaIo.Amerlean rreatx.

New York.--The news of a contem-
plated treaty between the United States
and England led to rousing meeting
of the Phil Sheridan association, in its
headquarters recently, when resolu.
tions were passed vigorously denounc-
ing any attempt at the passage of such
a treaty.
This treaty, 1t is asserted, provides
for an offensive and defensive alliance
and its passage would mean the extra
dition of men accused Of political Of
fences, which is contray to all the
usages and customs of this country.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-03-07
REDFlELD PROCTOR.
Senator From Vermont Dies In Wash
ington After Brief illness.

ington After Brief illness.
Washington--Unit States Senator
RedHeld Proctor of Vermont died at
his apartments at the Champlaln We'd
nesday afternoon after short illness
following an attack of-grip. The sen.
ator's son, Governor Fletcher Proctor
OF Vermont, who was summoned to
the city, was at the bedside when the
senator passed away Senator Proc
tor was n years old,
The senator had been i'll for about
week. His ailment was diagnosed
as the grip, which later developed into
pleurisy with pneumonia complications
which affected the heart, and which,
in his enfeebled condition, proved too
much for his powers OF resistance.
Besides his son, Governor Proctor
the governors wife, and several in
innate friends were at the bedside
when death occurred
The senator had been in feeble
health ever since the assembling OF
congress, and 1t was remarked by his
friends that for the first time in their
recollection he had failed to return
from his usual summer fishing trip
in the high state of health which he
always enjoyed. His condition be.
came alarming later, and the mem.
bers of his family were notified that
the end was near
The news of his death reached the
eaYtofo Fauy t,,inrtac alton oioIAnIy
when Senator Warren was urging the
passage of a bill to increase the pay
Of the army, which is a measure that
for many years had attracted the in
terest of the late Vermont senator.
Senator Proctor had been a conspic-
uous factor in the political and bust
ness interests of Vermont for many
years, and was reputed to be one OF
the wealthiest members Of the United
States senate.
He was largely interested in the
marble industry, was identified with
other commercial pursuits, was Civ
II war veteran on the star of General
William F. ('Baldy') Smith, was sec
retary of war during President Harri-
sons administration and had been in
the senate since 1891, when he left
the cabinet to succeed George F. Ed,
munds
The senator was born in Proctors-
vile June 1, 1881, and before his en-
trance into public life in this city
had served his state as member of
each house of the legislature in turn,
and as governor and lieutenant-gov.
ernor.
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sohooner AoaIn Disabled.

Vineyard Haven, Mass.-Schooner
Ruth E. Merrill, Capt Wallace, Balti-
more, for Portland, arrived here the
other morning with her rudder dis
abIed, and is now awaiting the arrival
of tug to tow her to her destination.
The vessel was towed here Jan. %
by the steamer Massachusetts in a
leaky condition, while on trip from
Baltimore to Boston, and was towed
from here to destination, where she
completed repairs and sailed for Bal.
timore Feb. 20.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-03-07


pooaDy OF getting without OF money u " '
sickness for the inevitable their declining years
For the sake of of hard earnings Tor your
peace OF mind selfnhdence whatever else YOU d
no not neglect solid business training get Il as early IN me
possible 1t will from thousand enbarrasseh
perhaps from the humio compelled to face your we ana
ueh and confess that failure 1t save from
he mornon OF having home one oil see
property hands, having acknowledge
and lack of foresight thoughtunes your being maze
the dupe of shaTpers.
Many men who had good stores their working as CLERKS
upernndents in other peoples stores just
Others depending hem they the risks which they TOOK
young manhood mediocre positions still
mocked with ambitions which chance crafty
thousands living
poverty failed
writing Families
nave been turned penness because they trusted
relative without making
hard and fast practical with him.
IL does not matter forget 80
msundeandngs anything OF
portance to statement Reduce it to writing 1t costs but little
the best
time to formulate the This will often lawsuits
putting understandings the courts to-
day because writing part Of lawyers In
comes is derived from the
Business find
girls turned of
knowledge smatng without ability protect them
thieves something nothing
should higher
without grounded practical business methods
Parents who their children e without that they are
well vered ordinary business principles them ncuabe injustice
Success Magazine.
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canal Mork pronrennInn.

New York. N. Y.-Maj. Gen. G, w
Davis, sent as special representative
to Guatemala by President Roosevelt
10 represent the United States at the
opening Of the Guatemala Northern
railway, has just arrived on the steam
ship Finance from Cristobal
The general. who was at one time
governor Of the canal zone, member
of the first isthmian canal commits
sion. and one Of the board of consult
ing engineers to determine the type
of canal TO be built, stopped over at
the isthmus for week He said that
WORK on the canal was progressing as
satisfactorily as the engineers could
wish for.
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MAN rake plant to Ennland.

London, Eng.-The members Of the
Golden club are much interested in
a report published here that the Unit
ed shoe machinery company has de-
eided to transfer the center Of Its
operations from Boston, to this country
and that It will erect an extensive
plant here.
Donald NJ. Smeaton, liberal, brought
the matter up in the house of COM
mons recently and asked the foreign
office to request the British consul at
Boston to verify the report and ascer-
tain the reasons for the proposed
change The financial secretary Of the
treasury, Walter Runciman, promised
to make the desired inquiry.
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Cleyeland-Penned in narrow hall
ways, jammed against doors that
opened inward, between 100 and 10
school children, mostly of tender age,
in the suburb of North Collinwood,
were killed Wednesday by fire and
smoke or beneath the grinding heels
of their panic.stricken playmates.
The awful tragedy occurred in the
morning in the public school of North
Collinwood, 10 miles east of this CITY,
AT midnight 165 bodies were in
the morgue at Collnwood, six chill
dren were still unaccounted for, and
all the hospitals and houses for two
miles around contained children,
some fatally, and many less seriously
injured.
All of the victims were between the
ages of six and 10 years. The school
contained between $40 and S25 pupils
and of this entire number only about
so are known to have. left the build
ing unhurt.
1t will be several days before the ac-
tual number of killed is known, as
the ruins still may contain bodies and
the list Of fatalities may be increased
by deaths among the children who
are now lying in the hospitals.
The schoolhouse was of brick, two
stories and an attic in height The
number of pupils was more than nor
mally large, and the smaller children
had been placed in the upper part Of
the building.
There was but one fire escape. and
that was in the rear of the building
There were two stairways, one lead.
ing to a door in front and the other
to a door in the rear. Both of these
doors opened inward and it is said
the rear door was locked as well.
When the flames we're discovered
the teachers, who throughout seemed
to have acted with courage and self
possession and to have struggled he.
roically for the safety of their pupils,
marshaled the little ones into column
for the fire drill" which they had
often practiced
Unfortunately the line of march
in this exercise had always led to the
front door and the children had not
been trained to seek any other exit
The fire came from furnace directly
under this part of the building
When the little ones reached the
foot of the stairs they found the
flames close upon them, and so swift
rush was made for the door that
in an instant tightly packed mass of
children was piled up against 1t.
From that instant none of those
who were upon any portion of the first
flight of stairs had chance for their
lives. The children at the foot of the
stairs attempted to fight their way back
to the floors above, while those who
were coming down showed them merci-
lessly back into the flames below
In an instant there was a frightful
panic with 200 of the pupils fighting
for their lives. Most Of those who
were killed died here. The greater
part of those who escaped managed to
turn back and reached, the fire escape
and windows in the rear
What happened at the foot of that
first fight of stairs will never be
known for all of those who were
caught in the full fury of the panic
were killed.
After the flames had died away, how
ever, huge heap of little bodies told
the tale as well as anybody need to
know it.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-03-07

Paris. France.--Advices received re-
Gently from Gen. D'Amade, commander
of the French forces in Morocco. re-
port that after the recent engagement
with the Madakra trlbesmen, in which
large number of French were killed
or wounded, the troops continued their
march, completely traversing the Mad
alkra region and penetrating for some
distance beyond. They encountered no
resistance.
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Bequests for Deserving students.

Amherst, Mass.-It was recently an
nounced that by the will Of Mrs. Louisa
s. Baker, beQuests of $1,000 and $4,000
are made to the Massachusetts, agri-
cultural college and Amherst college
respectively, the income to be used to
help deserving students to an educa-
tion,
A number Of minor bequests we're
made in aid of the Congregational
church and missionary work. ~
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Two queens to Visit Norman.

London, Bng.-The Dowager empress
of Russia has just arrived here on a
visit to her sister, Queen Alexandra.
The police took extraordinary precau-
tions for her protection.
During her stay here the dowager
cypress will visit the residence of j.
Piefpont Morgan, in company with
Queen Alexandra to inspect his art
treasures. Mr.. Morgan is expected here
soon from New York.
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Writing Book in Prison.

st. Petersburg. Russia. Nicholas
Tschaikovsky. the revolutionary pat
riot who was arrested upon his return
from New York, whittier he had gone
to deliver a lecture, is suffering from
influenza in the fortress OF St. Peter
and st. Paul The government has
granted his wife's petition that two
specialists be allowed to visit him in
prison, and also that he receive other
privileges, including permission to do
literary work. He is translating an
American work on irrigation
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Reversed.

I'VE fnd," wrote the reviewing
court, that the trial Judge erred in
that he admitted testimony tending to
establish the guilt of the accused, and
also in neglecting to dot an in the
papers of commitment.
"The prosecuting attorney erred in
that he counselled witnesses to tell
The truth, knowing the same would be
damaging to the accused.
Reversed Defendants admitted to
all in the sum of fifteen cents.-Phil
adelphis Public Ledger.
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Historic Find In Mexico.

An important historical discovery in
Mexico has resulted from the efforts
OF DR.. Herbert E. Bolton, the American
historian, who is in research work un.
der the direction of the Carnegie In
stitute of Washington.
The discovery consists in the un.
earthing in Mexico city Of eighteen OF
twenty-one documents taken from the
person of Lieut. zebulon NJ. Pike of
the United States Army by Spanish
soldiers In 1906. The Lieutenant was
captured while HAAking his famous trip
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Good and Bad Features
of.
International Marriages

The Req. Dr. r. s. MacJ4rthur

newspaper reports
IL hl Americans with mingled
IL ID marriages
IL them without the slightest
political
I%=x Social international
political
influence in Britain and in other countries beyond
the
the political
Durbar
land that filed by the Great Britain She
honored America benedcon India the British
lat
Unfortunately types WIG contracted
oRca
other given their husbands wealth
THE little received.
There Americans
the old world Boosting Of their democratic ideas viii
title than
ambitious willing
for titles? famine
daughters which
civilized world
peculiarly contemplate cads and altogether worthless although
len
That purchase cannot be doubted These
the
these titled foreigners receive
How these
religious
countr o
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A Quaint Complaint.

On Mark Twain's seventy-second
birthday Hartford clergyman said
of him:
mo wonder he finds happiness in
old age. All the aged would be happy
II they we're as sympathetic and as
kind as he. He is constantly going
out Of his way to please others, and
the result is that he is continually
pleasing himself.
Listen, for instance. to the quaint
compliment he paid me the last tLne
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Our stranne rnnnue.

Your lankweedge," remarked the
visiting foreigner, 1T ees so strange"
why so, count?"
When a man spend all hees money
one may say hee's all in. Another
man say hee's all out. l no under
stand. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-03-07

up the Arkansas river to visit the
Usage and Comanche Indians, at the
instance of Gen. James Wilkinson,
then governor of Louisiana.
Secretary of State Root has wired
Or. Belton his congratulations.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-03-07
Ansnltal Patlnnta anved.

Piqua, o.-T'ire threatened to de-
stroy the Piqua memorial hospital Mar.
4, and amid scenes of wild excitement,
firemen rescued the sick and the
nurses through the windows, the corri-
dors being filled with smoke. The
building was saved.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-03-07
uartIe conspiraoy Case Ended.

Pittsburg, Pa.--The Hartje conspir
Acy case was brought to an abrupt
end when Judge MacFarlane instructed
the jury to acquit Hartje, Welshons
and Hobe, the three defendants, and
place the charges upon the county.
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FRIDAY.

FRIDAY, February %, 1908.
Independent statements by Mrs. Paul
E Roy and her husband that CarSin
met death in revolver duel borne out by
autopsy ON Carkin's body; Mrs. Roy
makes afidavit at Portsmouth, N. ii.
Petitioners for police commission for
New Bedford, Mass, continue to pile
up allegations of moral and political
evils in that city
President sends to the senate 13
treaties, the result of the recent Hague
conference.
Labor organizations on NJ Y ~ H.
& H. to plan to resist introduction Of
piece and bonus system,
House ways and means committee or
dered out of the capitol to the new Of
fee building
Cost of the Boston to Beaufort inland
waterway put at $77,00O,0 900.
Paul q. Roy, accused of Carkin mur
der, cannot be extradited but can be
tried in France.
Woodbury. held without bail. on
charge Of numbering his wife in hotel
at FoXcroft, Me.
James 2. Leach, prominent Boston
lawyer, dies in New York hotel
Mayor of Boston, Eng, writes to
Mayor Hlbbard, of Boston, Mass, for
help in proposed improvements in the
parish church and organ.
Business reports on the New York,
New Haven & Hartford show slight
improvement during last two weeks.
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MONDAY.
March 2, 1905

| ~ ~ lCSos
Sheriff Coils finds evidences of some
one having entered Roy house at New
ington. NJ H.; also traces of bullets
fred in duel in which Carkin was kill
ed -
Proposal to make Rear Admiral
Evans a vice admiral on arrival at
San Francisco; torpedo fiotilla at Cal
lao.
Edison invited TO pass convalescence
in Arizona City free of expense.
Newport naval training station ex-
poets to make record with 1000 grad
yates this year.
Many Chicago priests threatened
with fate Of FIR Heinriche at Denver,
have police guard at their altars.
Man in New Jersey rescues two boys
who turn out to be his sons
Defiance of law and government
mark speeches at Haywood meeting in
Philadelphia.
Car barn and paint factory in New
York burned with loss of $2,625, 900.
Sturgis men make spectacular raid
on 'the Battleship" at Bangor, Me-
Secretary Taft addresses an audi
ence of $500 in Springfield, talking Of
the work Of the Y. M. G. A.
Andrew Hamilton, noted insurance
lawyer, dies at Albany, N. Y.
Depositors of Oriental bank Of New
York may try to have Attorney Gener-
al jackson impeached.
Decreases shown for January in gross
and net earnings Of Pennsylvania rail-
road, although expenses were cut heay-
lily.
Strike seems certain in case Of N. Y,
N H. G. H. persists in determination to
Introduce piece and bonus system on
March 10.
w. P. McCOmas, who shot Lottie
Noyes at Los Angeles, badly burned
by acid; relatives Of woman will pro-
baby bring body east.
Interstate commerce commission ad-
vises against hampering carriers by the
arbitrary limitations Of the Fulton bill
on rates.
Bank teller at Winnipeg in revolver
duel fights of burglars and saves
pbank.
One life lost and property damage of
$500, 900 in flre that sweeps over 46
acres at Tampa, Fla.
TUESDAY, March ., 1908
LA4arus AysrbRch, q young Russian
anarchist, shot to death in home Of
Chief OF POlloe Shippy of Chicago,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-03-07
.plplomatic.

How do you suppose that vulgar
millionaire's wife ever manager to get
in the society of such exclusive wo-
men?"
Il believe she always loses at
bridGO."--paltiRerS American.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-03-07

An up-to-date architect predicts that
the house of one large room, small
electric kitchen attached and an In
closed porch with facilities for out
door sleeping, has come to stay,
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TAuRepAY.

THURSDAY, March 5, 1908
Nearly 10 school children crushed
and burned to death in school fire
panic at North Collinwood, near Cleve
land, Ohio
Attempt at train-wrecking in Will
mington, Mass.
Harry Mounier, aged 27, shot and
killed Vivian Phillips, aged 19, in
Worcester, Mass, and then committed
suicide.
Boston & Maine employees to sub,
NIT acceptance of 5 percent wage cut
to vote
Completed trials of cruiser Chester
prove her swiftest craft of more than
1900 tons in naval world.
Democratic state central commit.
tee OF Minnesota to start Johnson pres.
idential boom.
American trust company begins fore,
closure Of mortgages on Morse steam
ship lines.
Hitchcock of Nebraska declares in
house that committee on ways and
means was party, knowingly or 9TH
erwise, to gigantic schemes of plunder
in fixing tariff schedules.
Executive committee of National as.
ISOLATION of granite industries meets in
Boston to consider strike.
King Leopold afraid Of Great Britain
and United States.
Rear Admiral w. S. Cowles testifies
before the senate naval committee.
Chicago police get evidence Of band
of anarchists oathbound to kill city
officials.
Operation Of national nine-hour law
gives work to 10000 telegraphers.
Ohio state republican convention in.
structs presidential delegates to vote
for Taft until he is nominated.
Young negro marries a 15-year-old
white girl in Worcester, Mass, and
is arrested on charge of abduction.
Senator Vahey scores against capi.
tai punishment by inducing the Massa-
chusetts senate to adopt a referendum
bill on the matter.
Bread line" established in Boston.
Mrs. Roy expects to go soon to New
York on business matters.
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Robbers Get Away with 5000.

Cincinnati, o.-Safe crackers early
Wednesday robbed the bank at Mt.
Grab. 40 miles east OF Cincinnati, OF
$1,000 in currency and securities. The
robbers escaped.
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WEDNESDAY,,
March 4, 1908

WEONEODHV ~ malCH VI lSSo'
Secretary Taft takes offence at 81
neon Ford's remarks at dinner of real
estate exchange in Boston.
Secretary straus sends out sweep
ing order looking to cooperation for
rounding up of deplorable anarchists
in this country.
Lieut.. Oscar f. Boynton and Sergt.
Richard j. Neagle of the Boston po-
lice force dead.
Prof. Hart, in Lowell institute lee
ture, at Boston draws dark picture of
conditions In the South.
Sweeping victory for Taft in Ohio
convention; all Foraker committee
men eliminated.
Experts testify at senate hearing on
excellence of United States gunners.
New Bedford man burned to death
in his home.
Pig iron consumers at meeting to-
day will ask minimum price to be fixed
for year by furnace men.
National law limiting railroad tele-
graphers' working time to nine hours
daily went into effect at midnight
Long struggle for control of Illi-
nois Central railroad ends in re-elec.
tion of r. H. Hartman as a director.
New York grand jury calls oler in
ice trust probe.
Alfred Farlow of Boston at legisla-
tive hearing, accepts challenge to es-
tablish a Christian Science cure of
leprosy.
Senator McCumber in debate on AL
drich bill says president not respon-
sible for panic.
Papers seeking Roy's extradition
from France presented to state de-
partment.
Canvass of senate indicates that
Aldrlch bill will pass that body.
Miss Cornelia Hartman, daughter
of E, H. Hartman, the railroad mag
nate, weds Robert Livingston Gerry
strictly American wedding.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-03-07

William Sells, schoOlmaster in the
early days Of Michigan, now at so,
feels that he can spell down any high
school GLASS in the statA
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CHILDREN PERISH
Nearly no Pupils Killed In
Burning SChOOIhOuSG.

The Victims Were Penned in Narrow
Railways and damned Against
Doors That Opened lnward-col-
llngwood, a Suburb Of Cleveland,
the Scene Of the Tragedy-Teaehers
Unable to Control Their charses,
All Of Whom Were Under IA Years
Of Age.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1908-03-07

buffalo COW at the Wichita ma.
tional game preserve died recently
Of apoplsxy,