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The midland journal., 1908-06-12
Moroney Suspended.

Parkersburg, W. Va. Especially =
AS a result of charges being pre-
ferred against him. alleging drunk
enness, City Recorder P. H. Moroney
was suspended by the board of af-
fairs. His suspension has created a
tremendous sensation in local poll
tical circles. The accused mans
friends say that it is plot instigated
by his political enemies, and that
when the hearing comes up counter
charges will be made that will cause
a still greater sensation.
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
FORTUNE FOR GOOD CAUSE.
MIR. Averin To Make 10000 People
Happy.


Los Angeles, Cal. Especially. = c.
w. Averill, who recently inherited
S1O,0OO,O0O from an aunt in Massa-
chusetts, declares he is going to make
10000 or more people happy. After
a visit to his old home in Farming
ton, Me-, he will establish headquar-
ters in big city, where, he says,
all who need help and deserve it can
find it.
II am not going to be fool about
this" he said, but if being fool
is being deceived occasionally, all
right / have succeeded in piling up
few hundred thousand by my own
exertions, but can never spend the in
come of $10,000,000.
"If a man has $500 and needs as
much more to carry out his plans
and make him success and thereby
happy, l propose to give him the ad-
ded $500.
Another thing, I am going to help
bad people as well as good. The
good people have churches and re-
spectacle folks to care for them, but
the bad have no one but the devil
and the police.
IT want to help the incorporate,
the convict, the girl who has to hang
her head, the man who has made
failure of himself. Lots of us cannot
resist temptation.
''I have set the number / will aid
at 10000, but if / succeed in helping
them I will look for 10000 more.
suppose my headquarters will be in
New York of Chicago, because l can
reach farther from either of those
places than any other"
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
FOURTH LINE IN DIFFICULTY.
Wheeling And Lake Erie Part or
Gould's Trancontinental.

New York Especially The Wheel-
ing and Lake Erie is the fourth
Gould road to go into the hands OF
a receiver since the panic. With the
International and Great Northern,
the first of these to go under, 1t
had no connection, but it was con-
nected in general way with the
plan for the construction of a Gould
transcontinental system in connec-
ton with the Western Maryland, in
the hands of a receiver, and was
directly connected with the Wabash
Pittsburg Terminal. which went into
the hands of a receiver few weeks
ago. Predictions that the Wheeling
and Lake Erie, would follow the Wa
bash Terminal have been made fre-
quently since the courts took charge
of the Terminal Company.
Fifty-one per cent. of the capital
stock of the Wheeling and Lake Erie
is owned by the Wabash Pittsburg
Terminal, which in turn is owned
by the Wabash Railroad. The COM
pany operates 49S miles of track,
with its main lines running from
Toledo and Cleveland to connections
with the Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal.
At Toledo it's line connects with the
Wabash and in the Gould transconti-
mental plan, and is the connecting
link between the Wabash and the
Wabash-Pittsburg Terminal, which
was to have been linked with the
Western Maryland by short, but ex-
pensive, line OF railroad construction
across the Alleghenies.
The company has $37,000,O00
stock, of which $20,OO0,O00 is COM
mon, $5,O0O,000 first preferred and
$12,00Q,O0O second preferred. 1t
has never paid a dividend, and in
no year of its existence have the
earnings been greatly in excess of
fixed charges. For several weeks
all classes of its stocks have sold
at receivership prices. The total of
its bonded Indebtedness, with the
exception of bonds pledged as secur-
ity for notes is $4,000. 900.
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
s PEOPLE KILLED on
UNITED STATES CRUISER
Boiler Tube Breaks on Tennessee
While at Sea.
THE MEN WERE BAKED ALIVE.
The Vessel Is Under Command of
Capt. Thomas B. Howard, and Had
Left Santa Barbara for the Port
Of Los Angeles When the Accident
Occurred.

San Pedro, CAL Especially A ter
rible accident occurred on board the
United States armored cruiser Ten
nessee while the ship was steaming
at 10 knots on speed trial of Point
Huenene, CAL, a steampipe in the
starboard engine-room bursting un-
der 235 pounds pressure, killing six
men and injuring eight others, all
the men in the compartment at the
time.
The explosion, the cause of which
is unknown, occurred only a few
minutes after Admiral Uriel Sebree,
Capt. w. H. Ward and Chief Engi-
neer Robertson had left the engine
room on tour of inspection. Four
of the men we're killed instantly and
two more died at San Pedro after
the arrival of the Tennessee.
There were IA men in the fireroom
when the tube, which is inches in
diameter and inclosed with water in
side the boiler, blew out, driving a
torrent of scalding steam, coal dust,
cinders and hot ashes through the
ash pit and showered the half-naked
men.
A blast of white steam from the
ventilators told those on deck of the
accident, and Lieutenant Command
er S. S. Robinson, the navigator, in
stantly sounded a general alarm and
dropped twenty lines of hose ready
for instant use in case of fire.
Within the doomed fireroom, No.
8, amidship on the starboard side,
which is one of the 16 inclosed fire
compartments. the surviving sea-
men were fighting for life. Rein
hold and Meek were stricken dead at
their posts Boggs and Wood crawl
ed into the adjoining fireroom, No.
II, and died almost Immediately.
The surviving seamen, all of whom
suffered some injuries, acted with
the greatest heroism in aiding their
unfortunate mates.
Crew Acted HeroicalIy.
Rear Admiral Sebree himself es-
capped death or serious injury in the
fated fire pit by narrow margin.
He had left the room where the ex-
plosion occurred not so seconds be-
for the fatal blast. The Admiral
stood in the engine-room adjoining
the fireroom with Chief Engineer
Robertson and Captain Howard. His
first intimation of the tragedy was
as he mounted the ladder and half
naked fireman leaped past him suffer-
ing of severe scalds.
When the smoke came from the
fireroom the fire call was sounded
and all the crew went to their sta
tions in perfect order, and in a few
seconds fifteen to twenty lines of
hose were ready to turn on the fire.
Several of the crew behaved with her
oism and will be reported to the
department later when full particu-
lars are known.
The ship was undergoing inspec-
ton by the commander of the Second
Division, and had been under way
for over two hours, the engines, boil
ers and all machinery working per-
tectly and fully equal to the accept
ance trial.
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
USED HORSE WHIPS ON sOL-
DIERS.
German Sergeant Punished On 600
Cruelty Charges.

Berlin (By Cable). ~ Eight non
commissioned officers of the Guard
Artillery Regiment who were tried
by court-martial have been sentenced
to terms of Imprisonment varying
from 2 weeks to 15 months. They
were charged with the maltreatment
of subordinates.
There we're no fewer than 600
counts in the charges against the
principal prisoner, Sergeant Thamm.
who is said to have caused a gun
ner to commit suicide for fear of
further i'll treatment. Thamm, ac-
cording to the evidence Of the SOL
diers, freely used horse whips and
bit chains upon his victims and fore
ed them to run'the gauntlet between
two lines of older soldiers.
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
Deatb And Life Together.

Columbus, o. (SpeciaD Stricken
with apoplexy at the bedside of Mrs.
Edward Loney, who had just brought
into the world a tiny boy baby, DR..
r. D. Connell, equally well-known
as homeopathic physician and public
spirited citizen, breathed his last on
the porch, where he had been taken
in the hope that fresh air would re-
vive him, before his wife and daugh-
ter, who had been hastily summoned,
could reach his side
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
FINANCIAL

Atchinson directors declared a
semi-annual dividend of " per cent.
Readings output of anthracite in
May was 1,261,000 tons, compared
with 249,00O a year ago.
Regular dividends were declared
on American Smelling common pre-
ferred. The formers rate is now 4
per cent.
"Steel manufacturers are working
in absolute harmony" said G. M.
Schwab in reference to the cut in
steel prices.
Commercial failures in the United
States during the month of May, ac-
cording to statistics compiled by R.
G. Dun & Co., were 1879 in number
and $13,643,381 in amount of liabili-
ties. This is the most encouraging
monthly statement as to the amount
of defaulted Indebtedness since July
of last year.
There is no verification of the re-
port from St. Petersburg that Russia
will buy 100000 tons of heavy
steel rails with which to relay the
tracks of a part of the Siberian and
other lines.
May fire losses in the United States
and Canada were only s15,0O0,000,
the smallest amount for any month
in just one year.
Wabash cut the passenger fare
from Chicago to New York and the
Nickel Plate has now met the reduc-
tion.
London Iiquidated 10000 shares of
American stock.
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
Holdnp MAN Kills Policeman.

San Francisco Especially Police
man w. H. Helms was shot and killed
in a dance hall by a holdup man
named T. o. Young. Young entered
the hall, drew a revolver and covered
the bar tender, who promptly ran for
the door and escaped. Policeman
Helms, who saw the disturbance, en-:
tered the hall. At the doorway. be-
fore he had time to draw his reyol-
yer, Young met him and fred at close
range. Young was captured and is
now in the city prison.
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
ADRIFT ON A RAFT.
An Entire Family Floating Down The
Mississippi River.

St. Louis, Mo. Especially u. W
Appleton, of Missouri Point, Mo-, is
floating down the Mississippi River
with his family. IL pigs, cows, 2
horses and some poultry on a large
raft, which he launched just before
the river broke over its bank and
covered his farm with several feet
of water. He started Tuesday aft
ernoon, intending to steer his raft
for high ground, but thus far has
not been able to effect landing.
The raft, which is an enormous af-
fair, was built by Appleton two weeks
ago in preparation for the food 1t
is surrounded by railing to keep
the cattle from falling into the river!
Food for man, beast and fowl to last
several days was taken along.
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
HANGED Himself ON scarold.

Lincoln, Neb. (SpeciaD G. F.
WILDER, a Beatrice, Neb., butcher,
improvised a gallows in the presence
of workmen and hanged himself
The deed was done in the building
he formerly occupied as a store. He
parried questions while attaching q
rope to a ceiling hook and. when
attention was diverted, drew moose
over his head, leaped from his lad
der and was killed. His neck was
broken by fall of seven feet 1t is
supposed he was demented
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
On Horseback Across Continent.

Reno, New Especially Robert H.
Treupel, prominent real estate man
of Mamaroneck, N. Y, is in, this
city with his father preparatory to
making a horseback trip across the
continent He will leave Verdi, Cal.
pass through Denver, San Antonio,
st. Louis, Washington and New York.
He expects to make the trip in less
than four months.
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
Hia Wives Confiscated.

Mequinez (By Cable) Mulai Ha-
fid, the usurping sultan of Morocco,
has confiscated the wives of General
Bagdani and his brother and has in
formed them that the women will
be sold unless submission is sent to
him Immediately. General Bagdani
has laid the case before the Moroc-
can Foreign Board, which suggested
that he request the intervention of
the diplomatic corps.
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
The Good Templars.

Washington. D. c. Especially Tho
International Convention of Good
Templars decided to hold the next
triennial meeting at Hamburg, Ger
many, June, 1911. The delegates
visited the White House this after
noon and were received by President
Roosevelt. The line of temperance
advocates was headed by Information
al Chief Templar Wavrinsky.
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
spencer Eddy's New Post.

washington, D. c. Especially -
Spencer Eddy, who has just been
promoted from the post of first Sec
retary of the American Embassy at
Berlin to that of minister to the
Argentine Republic, called at the
White House and paid his respects
to President Roosevelt.
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
To Succeed General Lee.

Washington, d. C. Especially -
The President appointed Capt. Lewis
Guion, of the Twenty-sixth Louisiana
Infantry, a member of the Vicksburg
National Park Commission to fill the
vacancy caused by the recent deatn
of Gen. Stephen ID. Lee.
The midland journal., 1908-06-12

The Yorodzu Choho, paper of
Toxic, Announces that it has discover
ed in Kosaburo Fujimatsu, resident
of the Province of Chikugo, the old
est person in the world. His age is
asserted to be ITO, and he has one
of his NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. living
with him.
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
Spanish warship At Havana.

Havana Especially The Spanish
schoolship Nautilus, the first Spanish
warship to visit Havana since the.
war, arrived off Moro. Elaborate
preparations have been made. by the
Spanish colony for the reception of
the ship and the entertainment OF
the officers.
The midland journal., 1908-06-12
nllnd MAN PIants Two Acres of Corn.

Winstead. CT. (SpeciaD .-Correl
F. North, aged and almost blind, has
just finished planting two acres of
corn He had sticks whitewashed
and placed where each hill of corn
was to be planted. Being just able
to discern the whitewash, he went
from one stick to the other in the
long rows planting the corn. He
will also hoe the corn when it is up,
being guided by the same white
sticks
The midland journal., 1908-06-12

Countess Tolstoi is in Moscow su-
pervising the organization VI nlu-
scum in honor of her illustrious hus-
band. The museum will contain
great mass of letters received by the
Count, many of them being froml
America
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-13

feet across, with imperturbable propri- etors smoking waterpipes, constant procession through the streets of donkeys, carts loaded with yelled women. camels treading stealthiy, one of which was seen daintily nibbing at the flowers on the Parisian bonnet of the lady in victoria just ahead.
 Flocks of geese and turkeys might be seen driven along the street by vendors, who guide them with little switch, keeping them under perfect control.
 A funeral Is sure to be met with soon, heralded by the most frightful sounds of lamentation. First will come a company of blind men, clinging to- gether and leading each other, all la menting and crying. their faces twisted into the most fearful expressions of assumed grief. Behind them walk two little boys carrying something covered with an embroidered napkin probably the koran, and the reader of the koran, who, with his hand beside his mouth like a huckster, shouts verses of the koran at the top of his lungs. Then the body comes next, resting without coffin on a bier carried high above the bearers heads and covered with an embroidered cloth. Directly back of it walk the hired women mourners, heavily yelled and rivaling the blind men in the volume and pene- trating quality of their lamentation. Taken altogether, a Cairo funeral is about as noisy an affair as one could imagine, and the whole thing reminded me irresistibly of the Irish undertaken who, in the first glory of his official dignity, announced to the assembled company the order of the procession.
 Now, thin, all of yees attind to me! First. the departed, thin tn frinds of the departed; an thin, the pop'liss (populace)!"
 The professional women mourners will sit outside house where per son is known to be i'll, waiting patient ly for the time when they may be needed, for their services begin from the moment of 1eath, their wild cries and lamentations apprising the neigh borhood of the event.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-13

dancing, or, more properly, whirling dervishes, who dance every Friday afternoon. Friday is the Mohamme- dan Sunday, and in the afternoon they conduct this performance, which is a religious ceremony. but palpably worked up for the benefit of the hun dreds of tourists who flock to see it.
 The performance takes place on an inclosed circular floor, with rugs about the edge, upon which at the begin ming the dervishes. to the number of about 16. sit, wrapped in big black sheik, in . green turban. sits on . rug
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-13
A Linen Gown.

At fashionable southern resort not long ago was seen an extremely mod ish gown of rough white linen, great ly resembling the roughweave pongee. The material was handsome and cut in the latest jacket-suit style, with a cutaway coat, long sleeves and a miniature linen vest of barred white damask. The coat was trimmed with large white buttons on the front and the sleeves were trimmed with small buttons in wide braid buttonholes from the bottom of the cuffs to the el- bows. A panel effect on the skirt was trimmed down both sides with small white buttons in braid buttonhoes. The waist worn with this was heavy white Irish lace.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-13
IN SETTING OF YELLOW.
Sunny Room Made Brighter by Ar.
 tstc Furnishing.

It was not a north room, either, brightening a cold quarter of the house, but it was one of the sunny eastern rooms The walls were GOV cred with yellow paper-one of the od-time chintz prints-without bor- der, and the ceiling was a bright cream. A holding of gold was placed at the dividing space between walls and ceiling The furniture of this room was a light oak, an imitation of mission furniture, and the plain bed, dresser and wash stand were trimmed with white dotted swiss over yellow covers. The pictures-and they were few, though lively selections-were small with good gold frames-that lit tie narrow gold material that sells for three cents foot. The floor was painted a yellow to match the walls, then highly vanished and the rugs were yellow, all edges bound with cloth to make them more substantial and protect edges from fraying. Three windows were draped alike at one side of the room, while between them was placed large yellow wood table, covered with house plants. Every blind was pulled to the ceiling, the sunshine flooded the room and it would be impossible to find a prettier room any place, unless, perhaps, it's chief charm was luxuries.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-13

of extra elegance, with the koran on cushion in front of him. A solo on a wailing flute opened the performance, piercing squeals and breathless triiis putting our nerves and teeth on edge, until an unseen man in the balcony cuts it short by beginning to intone in a high-pitched voice long incantation about a young person by the name of Mall; at least her name was all we heard After that the dervshes arose, cast their cloaks on the ground and stood revealed in white robes, with exceedingly full skirts, from under which their bare feet peeped out.
 Then they began solemn process sion about the space, lowing to their neighbors either way as they reached the rug of the sheik. This was done
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-13
Turninu 3 Fold.

When turning a fold. either bias or straight, it is hard sometimes to fold it evenly and quickly. Fold and lap a strip of paper, securing it (with pin or mucilage) and make it the width you wish your fold to be when it is finished. Now run the fold (wide enough to allow for seams) through this paper gauge and press the fold, sliding the paper along in front of the iron. This process turns, presses and finishes the band in uniform width.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-13
For Insomnia.

The woman who is never tired and cannot sleep ought to try the German rest cure. It is very simple method, for they are made to work.-that is all. If patient has insomnia she is set to sweeping off the garden walks, raking up the cut grass, at all kinds of light outdoor tasks calculated to make her physically tired. And she does it all cheerfully, because it is part of an expensive cure" She could do it all just as we'll at home, of course, but she never would. So she takes her course of labor because it is the thing to do, she is told, and soon, to her great delight, she finds herself ready for her healthy sleep at night, and generally quite willing to take a nap in the daytime also.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-13

three times, the men walking and lowing, not without grace and dignity. Suddenly, as the third round was com- pleted, the first man flung out his arms and began to spin round and round, his skirts standing away stiffly from his limbs. One could not but expect to see him suddenly duck, his skirts billowing up around him, as lit tie girls do when they play the game of making cheeses." Momentarily he was joined by others, until the ring became filled with whirling figures, each holding it's arms and head in some distinctive position, some going about sedately in one spot, while others piouretted airily in and out among the other dancers.
 One man had his arms held out in . singularly appealing manner, while his head was cuddled down on his shoul- der, giving him ridiculously coy ex- pression
 This is the last act, for after about 15 minutes of this whirling the der wishes cease, resume their cloaks and the performance is Over
 From there we were driven to see the bowling dervishes. different de- nomination who conduct their religious worship on different lines.
 The commercial instinct of this sect seems more highly developed than that of the other, for here the sum of two piastees each was charged for ad- mittance. As we entered the door a great volume of sound greeted us and rose and fell like the sound of mems voices chanting.
 Here was another inclosed circular space, another venerable sheik in green turban and about 20 dervishes seated around the rail, all chanting: Allah il Allah" their bodies swayipg from side to side as they shouted the assertion that God is God" over and over again.
 They next stood up and, swaying back and forth convulsively, emitted gusty signs that gradually grew into horrible noises as leader after leader sprang in front of them, setting the pace faster and faster, new leader taking the place of the exhausted one as he turned and bowed to the sheik. signifying that he could do no more. All this time a blind sheik chanted un. ceasingly in high piccolo voice.
 The bodies swayed and jerked more and more quickly, the noises grew to frenzied howls and animal-like sounds that reminded one forcibly of the zoo at feeding time. A tall, gaunt desert priest stepped in front of the men, lowing and swaying, his long hair al- ternately covering his face and tossed back over his shoulders.
 Under his leadership the dervishes became frantic, their eyes were glazed foam flew from their lips and some fell prone from exhaustion. We stayed to see no more, but hurried out, followed by the volume of inhuman cries and howls.
The Prescott daily news., 1908-06-13

It seems almost waste of time to have so much ceremony attend so cas- fly dissolved relation as marriage is in Cairo. A man. with or without any just cause, has only to say before wit nesses, Woman, I divorce thee!" and repeat it three times, and he is as free as before he married her. He has to return to her her house plenishing and she returns her dowry to him. This dowry consists of one-third of mans possessions, which he settles on her when he marries her.
 According to the Mohammedan faith a man may have four wives, that is, all to onct, as they say in the west He may divorce and re-marry, still keeping to his allowance of four, as many times as he likes.
 All these sights, and many more may be seen during drive to see the