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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12
COMMERCIAL
Net Income Of p. r. r. Reduced.

Net Income of p. r. r. Reduced.
The annual report of the PennsyIva-
MIA railroad shows a falling off of ST.
090,244 in the net income at the same
time that the gross earnings increased
$16,572,913. The cause appears In the
large increase in operating expenses,
amounting to $1S,064.s President
McCrea says that the first effects of
the panic were not felt until the last
two months Of the year. The sum
used for the New York terminals to
date of report was $39,541, Ala.
Failures of Last Month.
Statistics compiled by r. G. Dun &
Co. show that there were 1921 COM
mercial failures in February, with ag-
gregate liabilities of S27O64. ST., against
924 failures and liabilities of $10,2S3,-
ITO in the same month of last year.
The note of encouragement Is that the
defaulted Indebtedness was slightly
less than in January. There were also
thirteen bank suspensions, involving
81, 1854, S24
Fish Out of |. C. Board.
At the meeting of the Illinois Central
board of directors the Hartman fac
ton had majority of the 950,O4O votes
and elected a successor to Stuyvesant
Fish. The latter stayed away from
the meeting and by SO doing prevented
Hartman from carrying out his plans
for the purchase of two branch lines,
as that required two-thirds vote.
Tobacco Factories Burned.
A large part of the city of Tampa,
Fla, comprising the great tobacco fac
tories and many residences, was swept
by fire March /, with loss estimated at
100000 Weak water pressure made
the efforts of the fire fighters futile.
Pullman Cars to Go Dry.
The Pullman Palace Car company
has decided to discontinue the sale of
liquors in it's buffet and dining cars
throughout the United States. This
has already been put in force on some
roads. and it is expected that the ac-
ton will be made general in the near
future.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12
IN UST RIAL
Freight Business Picking Up.


Evidence of the gradual resumption
of business and industrial activities is
found in the order of the Pennsylvania
railroad to fire up fifty freight locomo-
tives on the Pittsburg division which
have been laid up on sidings for sew
erai months
Montana Miners Made Happy.
Thousands of workmen at Butte and
Anaconda, Mont, paraded the streets,
sang songs and thronged the saloons to
express their joy over the announce
ment that the copper mines and smelt-
ers Of the Amalgamated Copper COM
pany would resume operations at full
capacity on March 8 and at the exist
ing scale of wages. Director Ryan
says that increasing orders for export
make the resumption possible.
Slips For 1000 Foot Liners.
At the Harlan & Wolff shipyard, Bel
fast, Ireland. work has been started on
new slips large enough to permit the
construction of 1000 foot liners for the
White Star company. The longest ship
now in service is the Cunard fines
Mauretania, which is 100 feet long.
A Sliding Scale Reduction.
The Norfolk and Western railroad
has proposed to the various labor I'M
ions among its employees that they
agree to cut in wages with the under
standing that when the revenues reach
$2,500.000 a month the present scale
will be restored.
Erie Machinists Win Strike.
Conferences between a committee OF
the striking machinists of the Erie rail
road repair shops and General Man
ager Stuart have resulted in the agree
ment of the company to try the per
diem system for at least six months
and to take back all the men as va
cancies occur, with a 10 per cent reduc-
ton in wages. The strike, which be-
gan May /. 1907. was against the piece
work plan.
Concrete Walk Begun.
Atlantic City has witnessed the be-
ginning of the great reconstruction
tdSn VI replacing tue lduOuS DOdTu
walk with concrete promenade.
New Uses of Concrete.
The Cement Age says that the exper-
iment of the Lackawanna railroad with
concrete car bumpers has been made
with great success They are of mono
lithic construction, with granite block
face to receive the blow of the car
buffer. The rails of the roadbed pro-
ject into the concrete. so that the i'm
pact force reacts against the weight of
the car. The same authority tells of
the successful operation of an immense
fywheel, or. rather, two fywheels.
made of REINFORCED concrete, in
pumping station near Johannesburg,
South Africa. Each weighs 5000
pounds and is fourteen feet in diane
ter. The difficulty and expense of
Transporting iron led to this surprising
use of concrete.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12
EDUcA TIONAL
New York Against Whipping.

New York Against Whipping.
BY vote of 21 to II the New York
board of education has rejected the
recommendation Of a special commit
tee in favor of restoring corporal pun
ishment to the public schools of that
city. thus ending long and hot cam
paign for the rod. In which Superin-
tendent Max gell joined. At the same
time 1t was agreed to have the plan OF
special disciplinary schools In various
parts Of the city taken up at once. The
consensus Of opinion seemed to be that
more attention to ethics should be paid
Ii all the schools The superintendent
had taken stand solidly against whip
ping.
Roosevelt TO Educators.
IN receiving at the White House the
delegates to the superintendence de-
partment Of the National Educational
society last week President Roosevelt
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12
e x We
To Drive Out Anarchists.


AS if moved to action by the attempt
ON the life of Chief Shippy of Chicago
and by other recent acts of violence,
the federal administration has begun
an aggressive campaign against all an
archists or advocates of violence. Sec
rotary of Commerce and Labor Straus
ordered all commissioners and inspect
ors of immigration to confer with the
police and detective authorities in the
various cities in order to obtain def
mite information about all alien an
archists. The order points out that any
such person who has been convicted of
a crime or misdemeanor may be de,
ported within three years after land
ing in this country. At the same time
added precautions will be taken to pre-
vent the admission of anarchists from
other countries.
To Enforce the Nine Hour Law.
All petitions for the extension Of the
time within which to comply with the
so called nine hour law limiting the
hours of service for railroad telegra-
piers were denied by the interstate
commerce commission, and the law
went into effect March 4. The commits
sion held that it had no discretion In
the matter and that it could make ex-
ceptions in particular cases after due
hearings. It had been intimated that
the railroads would close up thousands
of stations in out of the way places if
the law went into effect. In all the
larger places large increases in the
force of telegraphers were made neces-
sary.
New Record In Gunnery.
Lieutenant John n. Ferguson, in
charge of an eight inch gun engaged
In target practice at Magdalena bay,
has made the new record of twenty
five hits in twenty-five shots at the
rate of 2.08 shots minute.
National Expenditures Increasing.
During the month Of February the
expenses of operating the federal gov
eminent were nearly $10.000,000 great
er than in the same month of last year,
making the current years deficit over
100000
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12
70 EIGN

Japan Threatening China.
The report that the Chinese govern
ment had agreed to release the Japa-
nese steamship Tatsu Maru. which was
seized off Macao in Portuguese waters
while discharging cargo of arms on
Feb. Z, appears to have been prema-
ture. Tokyo was still considering the
terms of release proposed by China at
some future date, and this was not
satisfactory. Japan was still threaten
ing to declare war on China If the
Tatsu were not set free at once. The
Chinese contend that the vessel was
trying to smuggle arms to Chinese reb-
els. but the Japanese point out that the
Tatsu had regular permit from the
Portuguese officials openly declaring
the cargo of arms. Japan wants not
only release, but an apology and In
demnity.
A New Treaty For the Kongo.
The Belgian parliament has received
from King LeopoId's ministers a new
annexation treaty, In which the king
agrees to abandon the crown domain
in the Kongo Free State provided that
Belgium assume obligations amounting
to $21.O00.000. continue the kings use
Of the Kongo revenues for life and re-
spect the American concessions of 1906.
in which Thomas f. Ryan is identified.
The United States of Russia.
The rulers OF all the principal ma
lions, including the czar OF Russia him
self, have received formal notice signed
by General Norodny in the name Of the
Russian people that the Republic of
the United States OF Russia has been
formed. 1t contains sixteen accuse
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12

support Of the party's national leader,
Bryan. But this only intensified the
opposition Of certain factions. Before
the vote was announced the four re-
bellious Democrats were urged to
change to McCreary or any other Dem
ecrat, but stolidly- refused. Bryan's
comment on the result was, Il cannot
zee where the selection of Mr.. Bradley
will have any effect on national poll
tics, but l regard 1t as great mis-
fortune,
johnson In the Race.
After a bitter fight the Democratic
state committee of Minnesota. by
vote Of 68 to %. adopted resolution
Indorsing Governor John A. Johnson
Of Minnesota for the Democratic presi-
Dental nomination. The Bryan men
gave notice that they would not be
bound by the action of the committee,
but would make fight throughout the
state for the control of the state con
vention.
South Cardinals New Senator.
The South Carolina legislature CON
vened in special session has elected
Frank Boyd Gary to succeed Asbury
G. Latimer In the United States senate.
serving out the term to March 3. 1909.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12
POLITICAL
Kansas lnstructs For Taft.

Kansas Instructs For Taft.
The Kansas Republican convention
at Topeka, as was expected, gave the
delegates at large instructions for
Taft. Senator Long, who heads the
delegation, said that Kansas had start
ed the Taft boom.
Bryan's Nebraska Platform.
In the platform adopted by the Ne
braska Democratic state convention at
Omaha. when delegates were instruct
ed as a unit for Bryan as the party's
presidential nominee, the nation recog-
nizes the hand of the Nebraskan and
the principles and policies on which he
will ask the SURFACES of the people if
nominated at Denver. Bryan was
there in person to assist the resolutions
committee and to receive the plaudits
of his home state folks, who cheered
him wildly as 1.-The next president" In
the first place, 1t is noteworthy that
this platform contains no reference to
government ownership or to the initia-
tive and referendum, But it does de-
clare for the federal licensing of cor
porations and makes some quite point
ed references to specific reform of the
tariff. They would place on the free
list all articles that come in competi-
ton with trust made goods and reduc-
lions upon the necessaries of life.
Other important planks favor a ma
tional income and inheritance tax, urge
immediate independence for the Phil
ippines, demand reduction of railroad
dividends and oppose both the Aldrich
and Fowler currency bills now before
congress, saying that emergency cur
rency should be controlled by the gov
eminent. Many of the radical planks
are in line with the policies of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, including the postal
savings banks, employers liability. the
eight hour day, conciliation of labor.
modification of injunction law. etc
Taft Captures Ohio Convention.
The first day of the Ohio Republican
convention at Columbus made 1t plain
that Foraker had not corporars
guard as a following and that Taft
would be the unanimous choice of the
party for the presidential nomination
The friends Of the war secretary took
possession OF the state committee and
named w. F. Brown of Toledo as
chairman. Secretary Of the Interior
James r. Garfield was chosen tempo
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12
MISCELLANEOUS
Many School Children Burned.

Many School Children Burned.
More than TO children while attend
ing the Lake View public school at
Collinwood, suburb of Cleveland. o.,
were trapped in the stairways by a
fire and burned to death March 4,
many of their parents and friends look
ing on. helpless and crazed with grief.
The origin of the fire was not known.
and the flames spread so quickly that
the fire drill could not be executed.
Deaths.
United States Senator Proctor OF
Vermont died at Washington March 4
after brief illness from pneumonia.
Thomas B Wanamaker, proprietor
of the Philadelphia North American
and eldest son of John Wanamaker,
died in Paris March 2 at the age of
forty-seven
James H. Oliver of South Bend, Ind,
who is known widely among farmers
as the inventor and manufactures Of
the Oliver chilled plow. died at his
home in South Bend March at the
age of eighty-four.
Day Must Face Charges.
Because he called the acts of Presi-
dent Roosevelt anarchistic and in other
ways condemned the actions OF the
chief executive the Rev Dr. James r.
Day, chancellor of Syracuse university,
must face charges made against him
by the Rev. George A. Cooke of Bran
don. VT, a member OF the Troy con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12

George nj. shippy grabbed the
man, while Mrs. Shippy tried to get
the assailant's gun. Averbuch drew a
knife, stabbed the chief and then shot
a driver and the chiefs son, who were
coming to help Shippy. After seeing
his son fall the chief shot and killed
Averbuch on the spot. The whole po-
lice force at once started in to round
up the denizens of the various anarch-
ist resorts. Emma Goldman, the lead
er of the American group Of anarch-
lists. was interviewed at Springfield.
Mo-, where she was lecturing, and pro
tested against the statement that Az
erbuch was an anarchist.
Attorney General Accused.
In connection with the complaint
against Nathan Vidaver, recently a
deputy in the Office of Attorney Gen
eral Jackson of New York, charging
Vidaver with accepting $500 in mark
ed bills from former President Mont
gomery of the Hamilton bank as pro-
lection money, Jackson himself has
been drawn into the crooked affair
through afidavits lntimating that 9th
er payments had gone to a go-between
for the attorney general.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12

gave his views on educational metnoos
with considerable vigor of expression.
He thought the schools should train
toward and not away from the farm
and workshop and that it should be 4
matter of pride with every girl to be as
good housewife as her mother was
before her; that while the curse of
mere drudgery might be great it was
not SO great as the curse of yapid idle
ness, whether the idleness is that of
the hobo at one end of the scale or
the gilded youth at the other.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12


be heard. It was said that seventeen
Republican senators had showed signs
of joining the minority against the Al
drich bill. Andrew Carnegie wrote
Fowler in support Of his bill.
House Gag Rules Assailed.
Representative Murdoch Of Kansas,
a member Of the postoffice committee,
in advocating provision for making
general the new system of weighing
the mails which had been tried with
success by order of the postmaster
general, bitterly attacked the system
of legislation in the house. Under it
he said that the vitality of the indi-
viduars initiative was Slapped. A re-
form must come making the rules COM
mittee elective and all committee pro-
ceedings public.
Inquiry Into Bank Loans.
Senator Tiliman moved a resolution
designed to stop loans by national
banks to spectators, although its i'm
mediate purpose is to get information
from the treasury about all the loans
made by New York banks during the
six months prior to Dec. last. Till
man said, STOCK gambling is the most
pernicious, dangerous and devilish of
all the pernicious, dangerous and dew
ilish things done In New York" Sena-
tor Aldrich opposed the resolution on
the ground that it should include all
other cities where stock gambling takes
place 1t was referred to his commit
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12
SCIEN TIFIc
Why More Boy Babies Die.


DR.. Francis Warner, senior physician
of the London hospital, has drawn at
tention to curious sex problem. TAX
Ing the births of 1905, he showed that
81 per cent were boys, yet the death
rate of boys was SO much higher than
that of girls that of e-year-old chill
dren only 43 per cent were boys
Further statistics showed that 81 per
cent of boys as compared with only %
per cent of girls died in the first year.
Dr. Warner attributed the preponder-
ance of females in England despite
the more numerous birth of boys to the
fact that much larger proportion of
males had the same physical defect. A
minute examination of thousands of
children showed that 8 per cent of
boys were physically defective as
compared with Z per cent of girls, but
taking the children's medical wards.
where practically all were physically
defective, the mortality of defective
girls was higher than that of the boys;
hence he deduced that, while the fe-
male sex apparently approaches closer
to normality than the male, yet when
normalities are found equally in both
the girls have less vitality. a fact
which causes more rapid breakdown
under an added strain.
No Prehistoric Atlantis
DR.. j. Walter Fewkes, an investi-
gator employed by the bureau of eth
nology, who has been looking into the
origin of the first inhabitants of the
island of Porto Rico, now reports his
conclusion that the West Indies were
formerly connected with South Amer
lea, from whence came the primitive
Caribbeans to Porto Rico and not from
Yucatan, Florida or elsewhere. as held
by the scientists who accept the theory
of a prehistoric island extending al
the Caribbean sea to Africa. This fa-
bled Atlantis, now supposed TO have
been submerged in some change in the
earth's crust, has served as the hypoth-
esis to account for immigrations of
primitive man, mammals and plants
from the old world to the new, thus
accounting for the ruins of Egyptian
pyramids and architecture in Yucatan.
DR.. Fewkes virtually skaters this the
Org by asserting that the ridge of the
Antilles extends from north to south
instead of from east to west.
Holland Ready to Fly.
Again the announcement is made by
John P. Holland. the noted inventor of
submarines, at his home In East Or
ange, N. j., and this time with more
positiveness than before. that he has
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12

ORA wal of Beck
ham had made
pos sible the
breaking of the
long deadlock in
the legislature.
Beckham, who
served as gov
ernor after the
murder of Goe-
bel and the
fight of Gov
ernor Taylor,
had been named
FOR fha conatQ
by the Demo-
cratic primaries
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12

was killed in an
effort to assassi-
nate Chicago's
chief of police,
George NJ. Ship
py, at the home
of the latter.
March l. Aver
buch called at
the door on the
pretense of de-
livering a letter
to the c lie f.
Shippy suspect
ed trouble and
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12
KEEPING IAB
ON THE WORLD.

The House to Probe Submarine
ScandaI-FoWIer Bill TO the
Front - Ohio Platform Sets
Taft's Pace, and Bryan Strikes
His Keynote In Nebraska Plat
form-War on Anarchists Fol-
lows Attempt on Life of
Chief Shippy-Japan Rejects
Chinese Arbitration Proposal.
Russian Republic Proclaimed.
A Frightful School Fire.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12

Lilley Of Connect
cut to the effect
that certain mem
bers of the nava.
affairs committee
who voted for the
purchase of subma-
rines from the Elec-
trie Boat company
held improper rela-
tons with that COM
pany. A resolution
for this purpose
having been pushed
by the house, the
speaker appointed a
committee to do the
II 4
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12

perfected a new
and cheap ma
chine for nayi-
eating the air
and that he will
make a public
demon s tration
Of 1t by flying
from his home
to the New York
city hall short
". He gives
p a tic ulars
about his ma
chine. inilicat.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12

above the wingIike planes by revolv.
ing propeIlers horizontally in opposite
directions. thus causing the air to rush
from the underside of the wings with
a consequent uplifting power. Three
small gasoline engines of two horse
power will be employed. one being held
for emergency.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12

based on an entirely different principle
from the other airships now claiming
the attention Of the world. He says
that be has found the principle of bird
fight and applied 1t to man made ma
chinery. 1t Is in substance to create
rareiication Of the atmosphere directly
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12
CONGRESSIONAL

To Probe Submarine Charges.
After considering the matter for over
a week the house committee on rules
decided to authorize an investigation
of the charges made by Representative
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12
LEGAL CRIMINAL
Tried to Kill Police Chief.

Tried to Kill Police Chief.
A young Russian Jew named Laza-
rus Averbuch, who came TO this coun-
try from Kishinev about three months
ago to live with his sister at Chicago
and who is said to have been identified
with the radical group of anarchists.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12

Beef cattle and calves wanted Fresh 49,.
and springers always on hand Cali on a I'd.
dress Fl. NATHAN.
" Clayton, n. J.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1908-03-12
Horses and Mules
At Private Sale

have from twens TO thirty horses and n, n,..
on hand constantly, which win sell AZ privase
sale. They are Western and accIimattsi ami rnsls
firstciass chunks and some good mated tearos
ready for Immediate use,
will take horses in exchange and allow you
the high dollar.
Come and see them
John II. Schoch
PtTMAN. N.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-08-28
OHIO MEN CAPTURE
TROPHIES AT PERRY

camp Perry o. Aug 2'-Sergeant
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tionai pistol match late today captur-
rd lHt H"H"IS OF tht ~c"ncIuUlhg tNtut
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l'u 0t"t'h army lhtS' "l'tches Wef"
h'ta uh"'r lhe a'IeelI'h OF inc ma
'l"ii'l O"ara i"f tie p'""'olIoh OF fiII'
pia'li'" ana uho'I iH' patronage 81
IN. mica states government
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."'l,'S' Voc won pf lieutenant ~ l''i'
l'otH'"'h' OF ono, an OF l"day o.
'Ve,''s' 'h' '~on''ualoE contests 'here-
bN peIns captured by ON" men
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