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GUN CREW BLOWN TO PIECES
Many Others Injured in Accident
on a French Warship.
Codes of Those Slain Hurled Into the
Sea-Horrible Scenes-Rigid
Investigation to Follow.

Toulon, France.-During gunnery
drill M of the big turret guns on the
French armored cruiser LA Touche
Treville exploded with terrific vio-
lence. completely wrecking the after
turret and killing outright the entire
gun crew of thirteen. e
A number of men we're seriously
injured, some OF them probably
fatally.
The accident was similar to that
aboard the gunnery school ship Cou-
rome Off Les Saline d'Hyeres, August
II last, when by the bursting of the
breech Of n of the guns six men
we're killed and eighteen injured.
The drill had been proceeding for
a considerable time when, without
warning, the whole turret seemed to
blow out. Dismembered bodies were
thrown in all direction, and several
of them were hurled into the sea
through the great breech caused by
the explosion.
The spectacle was horrible, the
dead and wounded, together with
shattered arms and legs, littering the
decks. A call to quarters was sound
ed, and as speedily as possible the
wounded were cared for.
The gun that exploded was 7.6
inches bore, of which the cruiser car
ried two. Happening so soon after
the accident to the Couronne, the ex-
plosion has caused a sensation in
naval circles, and doubtless will lead
to a most rigid investigation.
The La Touche Treville carries a
complement of $40 men.
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About Nnted People.

Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., attained
his majority. He has not chosen his
profession in life.
Suit was brought to break the will
of Etienne Giyernaud, the Hoboken
IN. j. millionaire silk manufacturer.
James ]. Hill, returning from the
West, refused to repudiate the state
ment of Hartman that all was peace
between them.
Percy William Bunting, editor of
the Contemporary Review, London,
who has reached the age of seventy
two, was made a knight on the Kings
recent birthday anniversary.
Keir Hardie told the Central Fed
Grated Union in New York City that
the working class would rule the ma
ton and make the laws.
Baron Sackviile, former British
Minister TO the United States. who
was dismissed by President Cleveland
died at Sevenoaks, England.
Lord Wolseley, who has passed his
seyenty-fifth birthday, has probably
had more narrow escapes from death
than any other living British officer.
The celebration of the seventy
eighth anniversary of the birth If
Emperor Francis Joseph was the oc-
casion OF patriotic festivals in Vienna
and Throughout Austria and Hungary.
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Turkish Loan Propos!

Constantinople, Turkey.-The new
Council of Ministers has been ap.
proved. The Council will provide
bonds for about $20,50O,000 bearing
interest nominally at four and a hall
per cent, issue price eighty-five, WITT
an option in favor of the bank O.
fifteen days, dating from the sane.
tioning of the measure by Parliament
This loan is for immediate necessities,
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New Party in Cuba.

Havana, Cuba.-Cuban negroes or.
ganized a political party and threat
ened to make the island a black re-
public, similar to Haiti.
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Dividing the Work.

1.-THE outgoing janitor helped me to
move up stairs" said the fiat dweller.
when he had finished / paid him,
foolishly putting my roll Of bills back
in the tall vase on the mantel where
l kept it, while he was looking. Then
in the rush / forgot all about it and
him until after a while he brought
his wife up to tell me goodbye. Thew
were leaving the next day. Thew
complimented me on my beautiful
new fiat, wished me luck in it, then
the ~janitor said all at once, as If re.
Numbering:
"'Your dresses are all hanging in
the fiat down stairs. You'd better go
down and get them. Somebody might
take them
Like an idiot, I started down. I
got to the door when suddenly the
thought of the roll of money in the
vase came to me, together with the
remembrance of his having seen me
put it there. I came back into the
room and found his wife half wav
across to the vase and the roll of bills.
"'You goodwin and get my dresses
I said to the %janitor. I'll stay here
and watch the roll of bills. New
York Press.
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AFRAID TO EAT
Girl Starving ON Ill-Selected Food.

Several years ago l was actually
starving" writes a Me. girl, "yet
dared not eat for fear of the conse-
quences.
Il had suffered from Indigestion
from overwork. irregular meals and
improper food, until at last my
stomach became SO weak | could eat
scarcely any food without great dis
tress.
Many kinds of food were tried,
all with the same discouraging eff
fects. | steadily lost health and
strength until l was but a wreck of
my former self.
Having heard of Grape-Nuts and
its great merits. l purchased a pack
age, but with little hope that it would
help mel was so discouraged.
Il found it not only appetizing but
that l could eat it as / liked and that
it satisfied the craving for food with
out causing distress, and if may use
the expression. 1T filled the BILL
For months Grape-Nuts was my
principal article of diet. | felt from
the very first that | had found the
right way to health and happiness,
and my anticipations were fully
realized.
With its continued use | regained
my usual health and strength. To-
day | am well and can eat anything
like, yet Grape-Nuts food forms a
part of my bill of sare." There's a
Reason"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. p ad "The Road to
Wellville.r in IS.
Ever boye letter? A new
one ap time to time. They
are &c and full of human
intcre
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a Spiders Strength.

The strength of some of the spiders
which build their webs in trees and
other places in Central America is
astounding. One of them had in
captivity in a tree there not long ago
a wild canary.
The ends of the wings, the tail and
the feet of the bird were bound to-
gether by some sticky substance, to
which were attached the threads of
the spider, which was slowly but sure
ly drawing up the bird by an in
genious arrangement.
The bird, says Home Notes, hung
head downward and was SO securely
bound with little threads that it could
not struggle and would soon have
been a prey to it's great, ugly captor
Il it had not been rescued.
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FATAL CHOLERA RAGING
IN ST. PETERSBURG
Hospitals Have $50 New Cases
and 155 Deaths.
MORE PATIENTS THAN ROOM
Pathological Effect of Fright OH Citi-
zens a Curious Feature of the
Epidemic-Typhoid in City In
tensiies the Calamity.

st. Petersburg, Russia.-The chol-
era continues to increase rapidly day
by day in st. Petersburg. The efforts
or the authorities in stopping the sale
OF liquor and the other preventive
measures taken have had but little if
any effect in checking the epidemic.
Between noon and noon the NUM-
cipal hospitals reported the entrance
OF $50 cases and 1856 deaths, and the
addition of the statistics from the
military and suburban hospitals for
this same period of dime will swell
this total to truly formidable proper
lions. There are thirty-four cases of
pollcemen alone in the Seminoffsky
military hospitals.
: Dispatches received here from
three provinces report 4S8 new cases
and 201 deaths in twenty-four hours,
INSTRUMENTATION furnishing 1872
cases and 80 deaths.
The Government liquor shops were
closed for two days, and this brought
a notable decrease in the customary
street drunkenness. The lower
SiooSCo, uOWSFST, refused TO De de-
pr1ved entirely of their usual holiday
indulgence in vodka. and the Illicit
sale of this liquor fiourished. The
police summarily closed several res
taurants that violated the Injunction
against the sale of spirits and seized
the stocks of a number of unlicensed
dealers, but in spite Of this there was
little difficulty in obtaining liquor in
an illegal way.
The hospital situation has reached
a crisis. The Obuchoff Hospital,
which is in the centre of one of the
worst districts, is turning away pa
tients, and the Kalinkin Hospital,
which was opened September is, al
ready is full. Two new hospitals will
be opened Immediately. The Govern
ment has given the city the use of
the dormitories in the TechnologicaI
Institute, and two military barracks
for the housing of patients with or
binary diseases. This will make
more room for the cholera cases.
The situation is complicated by the
presence of a large number of typhoid
fever cases in the city.
A curious development of the epi-
demic has been the pathological eff
feet of fright on the people. A num-
Der of persons have been taken to
hospitals with all the characteristic
symptoms of the disease, but upon
examination they were found to be
suffering from nothing more than
fear.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-09-25

Holland has 10, 100 windmills, each drain
ing on an average of 80 acres.
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GUST TEMPERANCE WORKERS.
They Cafse a Row in the Indiana
House of Representatives.

House of Representatives.
Indianapolis, Ind. - Feeling that
has been aroused over the calling of a
special session of the Legislature to
enact a county local option law led to
a row in the House of Representa-
lives. =,
The House had adjourned, but many
Representatives were at their desks
Engaged in writing when a delegation
Of about fifty temperance workers en-
Tered the hall. Horace G. Murphy, a
lawyer, of Muncie, mounted a chair
nd spoke aggressively in advocacy of
lac county local option bill. He
finally declared that the men who are
opposed to it ARE saloon buns and
brewery representatives"
Representative Coble, of Dubois
County. who had been listening,
pointed his finger at Murphy and de-
.iberately said:
You are a liar, sir, and you know
it,"
Murphy jumped down from the
chair and started toward Coble. The
crowd followed and engaged in an
angry demonstration. The Rev. Mr..
Eyerson, of Muncie, threw himself be.
tween the two men and forced Muir.
ply away.
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Kaiser Assures Alsatians of Peace.

Colmar, Alsace.-Emperor Will
lam, speaking at a reception by the
city, assured the Alsatians that they
could develop their country peace
fully. Peace will be maintained"
he said, land Alsace will be able to
prosper further than she yet has
done. Under the protection of the
Imperial German Eagle and my fag
her developments will continue ami
be completed, and, God willing, will
never be disturbed"
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Chickens Still Dressed.

One evening on the farm a little
slum child was enjoying the first
glimpse of pastoral life. On a little
stool he sat, under a tree, bent with
its load of ripe peaches, beside tho
cook, who was plucking a chicken.
He watched that plucking operation
gravely for some time. Then he saids
do We take off their clothes every
night. loidy?"
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Old Cemetery Left.

Many travellers ON the Third and
Second avenue elevated railways OF
New York City wonder how the little
cemetery at New Bowery and Oliver
street came to be there. 1t is a rem
nant of the first Jewish cemetery In
the United States, and was estab-
lished in 1856.
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To Ear Cholera From
ealing Into America

Washington, b. C.-Asiatic chol-
era's spread in the Philippines, China
and Russia has spurred the Govern.
ment officials here to vigorous action
to keep the plague out of the United
States.
Surgeon-General Wyman, of the
Public Health and Marine Hospital
Service, has warned all quarantine
officers to be on their guard, and in
particular to rigidly examine immi-
grants.
On account of conditions in Russia
DR.. Wyman will send to that country
a cholera expert to study the condi-
tions.
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Fetes Stopped by cholerai in Philippines

Manila, P. 1.-The Civil Commits
sion summoned to special session by
Governor-General Smith to combat
the cholera ordered the constabulary
to send 200 men into the city imme-
diately to assist the health inspectors,
and more if they are needed.
1t was decided to discourage gath
erings of people and to refuse per-
mits for festivals. More volunteer
physicians and more nurses have
gone to the cholera hospital, where
accommodation has been provided for
100 additional patients.
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ADMITS 100000 GEM THEFT.
Sunday-School Teacher Tells How He
Robbed Marshall Fields Daughter.

Leicester, England.-John F. Spen-
GER, a former Sunday-school teacher,
who recently was sentenced to a
years imprisonment for a series of
robberies, has confessed to the bur-
glary of Brooksby Hall, the country
residence of Captain David Beatty,
whose wife was the daughter of the
late Marshall Field, of Chicago. The
burglary was committed last Deem
Der, and jewelry to the value of $780,
600 was stolen.
AS a result of %Spencer's confession
three of his c~onfederates and the re-
ceiver of the stolen jewelry have been
arrested. Spencer told the police that
the diamonds and pearls were taken
from their settings and sent to the
United States for disposal.
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Harry 0. Landers Dead.

Chicago.-Harry o. Landers, the
painter of Irish scenes, died from in
iuries received by being run over by
a sightseeing automobile. He was
crossing Dearborn avenue and did
not notice the approach of the auto
mobile. His relatives live in SYRIA
cuse, n. Y.
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MANIAC KILLS TWO.
Surrounded by Washington, d. c.,
Police in Swamp and Wounded.

Washington, D. C.-In demoniaca1
fury Andrew Light, a mulatto inmate
at the st. Elizabeth Asylum for the
Insane, killed Patrick Maloney, the
overseer of the grounds, and Millie
Follin, a young inmate of the asylum,
and severely injured Miss Robinson,
another inmate. The murderer es-
capped from the grounds and fed to
the swamp near by, where shortly
afterward a Gordon of police sur
rounded him. He was finally caught
after the police found it necessary to
shoot him, inficting wounds in the
leg, and was taken back to the
asylum.
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Bird Reservation of 20, 600 Acres.

Redding, Cal.-By an order of
President Roosevelt about 10000
acres OF land adjoining the Oregon
California line is to be set aside as a
reservation for the propagation and
protection OF native birds. The order
includes land not suitable for agri-
cultural purposes. The tract is prob
ably the greatest breeding ground in
the world for water fowl.
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400 English Cotton Mills Idle

More than 400 cotton mills in Ian
cashire, England, are idle because of
the wage dispute between operatives
and employers. This means that 40
600 900 spindles are wholly or par
TALLY stopped, that more than $780,
600, 900 capital is not bringing in any
return, and that 100000 operatives
are losing something over 100000 a
week in wages.
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The First EyoIutionist.

The first to suggest the transmuta-
ton of species among animals was
Button, about 1850. The eccentric
Lord Monboddo was the first to sug-
gest the possible descent of man from
the ape, about 1774. In 1913 a DR..
w. G. Wells first proposed to apply
the principle of natural selection to
the natural history of man, and In
1922 Herbert first asserted the trans
mutation of species in plants.-The
American.
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f. M. Howarth Dead.

At Philadelphia, F. M. Howarth,
one of the best known comic artists
in the country, died of pneumonia,
aged forty-three years. Mi. Howarth
is credited with having originated the
comic series, using the same charac-
tiers day after day in the newspapers.
Two of his best known series were
"E. u. Mark and Lulu and Lean
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HEARS DOOM AND KILLS TWO.
Wife Murderer Also Wounds Foul

ing took possession of Edward Ayles
a negro prisoner, when his death war.
rant for the murder of his wife was
read to him in Jail. He grasped a
case knife and killed Tip" Davis
and Garfield Bradley, and severely
wounded four other prisoners, all
negroes.
The screams Of the victims attract.
ed almost a thousand persons to the
vicinity of the Jail. Meanwhile, jai,
officers played a fire hose on Ayles.
the cold water finally bringing him
back to reason.
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In the Law Courts.

A barrister was urging that no man
should be convicted on circumstan-
tial evidence alone.
why" he said, when l was a
boy l knew another lad who, while
his parents we're absent, went into the
pantry and nearly devoured a cus-
tard pie. Then, fearing the conse-
quences, he looked about for means
of hiding his guilt.
HE seized the cat, smeared hel
face and paws with the custard, and
then took the innocent criminal into
the back yard and shot her. AS he
did so, the boy observed to me:
""There goes one more victim Of
circumstantial evidence!''-London
Opinion.
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Missouri Pacific lowers Oil Ra.

On November 4 the Missouri Pa
cific will reduce the rate on petroleum
and it's products from the Kansas oil
fields to twenty-five cents a hundred
weight from the present rate of twen-
sy-fve cents, thus making the Lincoln,
Neb., rate the same as that to Omaha.
The reduction will amount to about
SIS a car.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-09-25

An electric railway is being built
on the Zugspitze, the highest peak in
the Alps, on Bavarian territory. Its
height is about 10000 feet. The
railway will run to the summit, while
a hotel will be built at the 7O0O-foot
level.
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ENDS CONVICT LEASES.
Georgia Legislature Passes Measure
Doing Away With System.

Atlanta, Ga.-The extra session of
the Georgia assembly finished it's
work and adjourned sine die after
agreeing upon a bill which it is be-
lieved will effect the abolition of the
convict lease system. The bill leaves
any convicts not taken by counties
on a pro rata distribution, not taken
by municipalities al $500 a year, or
not needed on the State farm or other
State institution to be disposed of at
the discretion of the Governor and
the Prison Commission. 1t is be-
lieved that this will end the lease
system definitely on March 81, 1909.
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DEEP CRACKS FROM ECZEMA.
Could Lay Slate-Pencil in One
Hands in Dreadful State-Disease
Defied Treatment for z Years
Cured nv Cuticura.

81 had eczema on my hands for about
seven years and during that time L had
used several so-called remedies, together
with physicians and druggists prescrip-
tons. The disease was so bad on my
hands that | could lay a slate-pencil in one
of the cracks and a rule placed across the
hand would not touch the pencil. l kept
using remedy after remedy, and while some
gave partial relief, none relieved as much
as did the first box of Cuticura Ointment.
l made a purchase of Cuticura Soap and
Ointment and my hands were perfectly
cured after two boxes of Cuticura Oint-
ment and n cake of Soap were used. w.
II. Dean, Newark, Del. Mar. %. 1907"
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Deadheads in Paris Again.

Deadheads in Paris Again.
Paris.-The Theatrical Directors
Association met and rescinded the de.
cision taken six months ago which
suppressed the practice of issuing
free tickets.
South Germans Firm.
Berlin.-In the Social Democratic
Congress at Nuremburg a resolution
proposed by DR.. Bebel and the north.
efners to the effect that the party
should invariably yo the
budgets in the Reichs
amid a scene of nprl
was 25S to 119.
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Modieska to Publish Memoirs.

Los Angeles, Cal.-Mme. Mod
jeska, who has permanently retired
from the stage, started for New York
to arrange to have her memoirs pub
lished.
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Forest Fires Burn Village.

Satuit, a settlement of half a dozen
houses three miles east of Rhine
lander, Wis, was destroyed by fire.
The settlers fled to Moons Lake,
where they were cared for. No loss
of life has been reported. Rhine
lander was regarded as safe and the
fires quieted down, as there was no
wind to fan the flames.
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JOHN ROBINSON WEEDS NURSE.
Aged Circus Proprietor Shows His
Gratitude.

Cincinnati, Ohio.-Old John Rob-
inson, known far and wide among cir
Gus people as 1.-The Governor and
the proprietor of Robinson's Circus,
was married here to Miss Maud Lo-
gan, his trained nurse. Governor"
Robinson is seventy-five years old,
and has been ill for a long time, but
has insisted upon travelling in his pri-
vate car with the circus. Miss Lo-
gan, who is now Mrs. Robinson, is
thirty years old, and is handsome.
She has been nursing the millionaire
circus mar for a long time and travel
ing with him and the circus. The
ceremony took place in the private
car at Nashville.
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LATEST NEWS
BY WIRE.
Fires Threaten Maine.

Fires Threaten Maine. =.
Augusta, Me.-Adense pail of smoke
that in many places obscured the set
ting sun or made it appear blood red
enveloped the State as the result of
numerous forest fires. The most
serious fire was in Hancock County,
but vast sections of woodland were
burned in P~iscataquis, Androscoggin,
Somerset, Oxford, York, Cumberland
and Penobscot Counties. The towns
and villages where the danger is
great or damage heavy include
Brooksville, West Hancock, Surry,
Dicksvale, Jackman, Lisbon, Scar
boro, Biddeford, Eliot, York, Clamon,
Milford, CardviIle and Costigan.
Modjeska to Publish Memoirs.
Los Angeles, Cal.-Mme. Mod
jeska, who has permanently retired
from the stage, started for New York
to arrange to have her memoirs pub
lished.
George f. Parkman Dead.
Boston.-George Francis Parkman,
a member of one of the oldest fami-
lies in Boston, died at his home on
Beacon Hill, in his eighty-ffth year.
lege and the Law School. His father
der cas- years ago.
Nominated For Governor.
Concord, N. H.-Henry B. Quinby
was nominated for Governor by the
Republican State Convention in New
Hampshire.
Bird Reservation of 20, 900 Acres.
Redding, Cal.-By an order of
President Roosevelt about 10000
acres OF land adjoining the Oregon
California line is to be set aside as a
reservation for the propagation and
protection OF native birds. The order
includes land not suitable for agri-
cultural purposes. The tract is prob
ably the greatest breeding ground in
the world for water fowl.
Harry O. Landers Dead.
Chicago.-Harry o. Landers, the
painter of Irish scenes, died from in
iuries received by being run over by
u SlSll0SSlAS duLOulOUllc. I1G was
crossing Dearborn avenue and did
not notice the approach of the auto
mobile. His relatives live in SYRIA
cuse, N. Y.
G50,000 Feet of Lumber Burn.
Calais, Me.-The big mills of the
American Lumber Company at Tai
mage and $4,000 feet of lumber
were destroyed by fire, entailing a
loss of ~$150,000. The fire started in
the d~ry-house, a wooden building,
containing 10000 feet of lumber
ready for shipment. The principal
stakeholder is j. Franklin Faxon, of
Quincy, Mass.
He Insulted Lincoln.
Glen Echo, Md.-William Henry
Piles, who once insulted President
Lincoln and on another occasion
dared Jefferson Davis to slap his face,
died here, aged ninety-seyen years.
Captain Walton For New York.
Washington, D. Cat the request
OF the Governor of New York Captain
RomoluS F. Walton, now at the River
View Academy, PoughkeeIsie, N. Y,
has been assigned to the organized
militia of that State. He will report
in person to the Governor at Albany,
Bay Shore Hotel Burned.
Jacksonville, Fla.-Tbe Bay Shor4
Hotel, at Green Springs, one Of the
largest hotels on the west coast, was
destroyed by fire, forty guests having
narrow escapes. Several women
were rescued through windows. The
hotel was owned by R. T. Young
blood, of Tarpon Springs.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-09-25

The greatest two power develop
ment projects in the world are under
way in Colorado, where two compan-
les plan to furnish 10000 electrical
horsepower for the industries of the
State.
The Penn's Grove record., 1908-09-25
TRAIN HITS AUTO, ONE DEAD.
Buffalo Bank Secretary's Wife Killed
and He is Badly Injured.

Buffalo, N. Y.-Mrs. Stephen B.
Lee, wife of Assistant Secretary Lee
of the Erie County Bank, was killed
and Mr.. Lee fatally injured in a COL
lision between their automobile and a
Lackawanna freight train.
Lees skull is fractured. Mrs. Lee
was the daughter Of J. w. Healey, of
Bradford, Pa.