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The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
BATTLESHIP PLANS
o. K BY PRESIDENT.
Florida and Utah to BE in All ESSEN
tials Like Delaware.

Washington, Sept. 2.-Plans for
the battleships Florida and Utah,
came back to the Navy Department,
hearing the approval Of President
Roosevelt. In all essentials they are
like those of the Delaware and North
Dakota, the so-called Dreadnoughts
under construction. Some improve
ments In the way of ann unition
hoists not directly connected with
he handling room, less top-hammer.
fewer whale boats and things like
that are to be made, but to the lay
man they will look like the pioneer
big ships.
Wire waste paper basket masks
rarrying the fire control wires, speak
ing tubes, &C., will be installed, as
veil as the kind of bulkhead tested
with torpedo fire on the monitor
Tallahassee, then the Florida.
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Fifteen YEARS TO
FINISH THE CANAL.

Congressman DENLY Says the Rain Is
the Greatest Hindranoe.
Middle Bass, o.. Sept. 3.-Con-
gresham Edward DENLY has Just re-
turned from trip to Panama. He
said:
Engineers on the isthmus estimate
the time within whic.. the canal will
be completed at fifteen years. This
is considered generally very con-
servative estimate. The great dim
Guilty with which we have to contend
Is the rainfall"
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
VERMONT GOES 10000
FOR REPUBLICANS.
Vote of the Party Falls on
Per Cent. and Democrats Show
2 Per Cent less.

Burlington, Vt, Sept. 3.-With all
Vermont's 246 towns heard from but
thirteen small and unimportant ones
the total vote OF the different parties
is as follows:
Republican, 41,519; Democratic,
15.161; Prohibitionist, 639; Social
list. 4S7; Independence, 1,012.
This makes the plurality for
Prouty, Republican, for Governor
over Burke, Democrat. 25,91S.
In 1904 Roosevelt's plurality was
30,6S2.
One OF the surprises in the cleo
tion has been the large number OF
Democrats elected as Representa-
tives. The Legislature of 1906 had
thirty-two Democrats in total Of
246 Representatives. This year there
will be nearly sixty Democrats in the
lower house.
In the First district. David J. Fos-
ter OF Burlington, Republican, was
elected Representative to Congress
by a large majority over Emile Blais
OF Colchester, Democrat, and Edwin
r. Towle OF Franklin, Prohibition.
A corresponding victory was won by
Frank Plumley of Northfield, Repuo-
lican in the Second district.
These figures indicate a Republi-
can loss OF s per cent. and Demo-
cratic loss OF per cent. On this basis
Prouty's plurality is estimated at 2S.-
900, compared with Bells plurality
Of 1857 in 1904.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
Nother Drowned With Two Children.

Brooklyn, n. Y, Sept. Mrs.
hnna Rademacher sacrificed her life
n a vain attempt to save her little
on and daughter from drowning at
8road Channel, on Jamaica Bay.
More than two hundred persons wit
aessed her struggles, but before any
one could aid her the mother and her
two children We're swept away by the
,ide and drowned, The bodies of the
children were recovered.
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KILLED BY A CLOUDBURSI
Raging Wall of Water Over
Eight Feet High Sweeps
Through Folsom, n. M.
TOWN BLOTTED OUT
A Prosperous Mining Camp OF 5000
People at the Foot of Mount Capu-
lin, 40 Miles South of the Colo
RADIO Line, Destroyed in In
stant-Great Suffering Entailcd.

Trinidad, Col, Sept 3.-Twenty
three persons are known to be dead
and scores are missing as the re-
suit of cloudburst which sent rag
ing wall of water eight feet deep
over Folsom. n. NJ, a mining camp
Of thirty-five hundred people situated
:. the foot of Mount Capulin forty
miles south of the Colorado-New
Mexico line.
The identified dead:-
Wenger. Daniel b.. proprietor
Wenger Mercantile Company, wife
and daughter Daisy.
Craighton. Lucy, young woman
living with the Wengers.
Wheeler, Theodore w, mine opera
tor. wife and two babies, and sis
ter-in-law and her baby, living with
Wheeler
Rookie, Dalla, telephone operator,
washed away while at duty.
Edward Wright, president of the
Trinidad National Bank, who was
visiting the Wengers, is thought to
be lost.
II is impossible to estimate the
total loss of life, which will probably
reach thirtyfve or forty. Already
nineteen bodies have been found bur
led under the silt. The hotel In
which five travelling men were stop
ping was washed away and they were
drowned. The register has been
lost and their clothes were carried
away. II may be impossible to
identify these victims
The town is completely blotted
out of existence. Hundreds Of
houses were carried away, and
where stood a thriving coal camp
now remain only desolation and
waste. Hundreds of citizens are out
of homes. food and clothes, and re-
lief is being rushed from all New
Mexico and Southern California.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
SEVEN TOURISTS
LOST FROM YACHT.

Sudden Squall Upsets Party Of Pleas
ure Seekers Near Deer Isle, Me.
Bangor, Me-, Sept. 3.-The open
auxiliary sloop Minnie Belle OF Deer
Isle, Capt. Samuel Haskell carrying
a party of ten summer residents, was
capsized by squall between Oak and
Eagle islands and seven Of the party
were drowned.
The lost are Miss Alice Tairo and
Miss Eleanor Tairo, Washington, D.
c.; Miss Kellogg, Baltimore; Miss
Lutte Kellogg, Baltimore; Mrs. Lucy
s. Crawley, Philadelphia, and Miss
Elizabeth G. Evans, Mount Holyoke
Seminary. Mass: Jason Herbert
Hutchings Of Balleria. Mass. O senior
in Bangor Theological Seminary.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
FIVE ARE KILLED IN
MINE DISASTER.
Runaway Car Slides Back One
Thousand Feet, Striking Train.

Thousand Feet, Striking Train.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Sept. 2.-Five
men were killed, another is expected
to die and five others were seriously
injured in a collision at the Warrior
Run Colliery, of the Lehigh Vs0ey
Coal Company. six miles from this
city. The men were being hoisted
up a slope when a.runaway mine car
struck a train Of mine cars on which
were twenty men. Only six escaped
injury.
The dead are James Gallagher
frank Ostrosky, Simon Buscivage.
John Torkarchack and julius Mortz
William Nawaoeny was fatally in
1ured. Ostrosky leaves a wife and
eight children.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
ENDS LIFE IN CELL;
MAD FROM REMORSE.
Jealous Farmer Killed Wife Walking
With Son,

Clay City, H., Sept. Unable
to bear the biting pangs of remorse
that had made him almost a nervous
wreck since he was locked up in
June last for having killed his wife
and wounded his son in a AT Of
groundless jealousy, julius Turner,
one of the wealthiest farmers in
southern Illinois, committed suicide
by hanging himself in his cell. His
body was discovered by a jailer next
morning, who went to the cell to
awaken Turner and tell him to get
ready for breakfast.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
Szechenyi Baby Dead.

London, Sept 3.-The Countess
Szechenyi, who was Miss Gladys Van
derbilt of New York, gave prema-
ture birth to child, according to a
despatch to the Central News from
Vienna. The child did not survive.
The Countess is believed to be out
of danger
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
Pastor Kills Himself With Gun.

Canton. o.. Sept. 2.-The Rev. o.
b. Milligan. pasto- of the First
Presbyterian Church and we'll known
us a golf player. killed himself with
shot gun 1t is not known whether
the shooting was accidental or pre-
meGitated.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
Olympic Athletes.

New York, n. Y, Sept. NEARLY
half a million people massed In two
solid walls from Forty-sixth street
down Fifth avenue and Broadway to
the City Hall, gave stupendous well
come to the American athletes who,
in the Olympic games at London
trounced the nations of the world to
the glory of American Drawn. muscle
and grit
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
Spofford's Successor Named.

Washington, Sept. 1.-The Libra
rian of Congress announced the ap-
pointment of Appleton Prentiss
Clark Griffin to the position of Chief
Assistant Librarian, made vacant by
the death of DR., Ainsworth r. Spot
ford.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
KILLS WIFE AND SELF,
Husband Angered Because Handsome
Wife Stayed Out Late.

Indianapolis, Sept. 3.-Mrs. Eliza
beth Struckman, noted in her neigh
borhood for her beauty, was killed by
her husband, Henry Struckman. in
their bedroom about 3 o'clock a. m,
after they had quarrelled for an
hour, Struckman then killed him
self The weapon used was q repeat
ing shotgun.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
Killed in Sunday Baseball Game.

Chicago, sept. Morgan Cum
bingham, fifteen years old, while at
bat in a baseball game between
teams organized by employees of two
Chicago business houses at a West
Side park was struck over the heart
BY pitched bayy and instantly kill
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
So, 500, ,208, 1877 Of Real Estate.

Albany, n. Y, Sept. AT a meet
ing of the State Board Of EQualiza-
tion it was announced that the total
real estate valuation in this State for
the fiscal year Just closed was S.
A year ago It was ST.
H8S,057,
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
Havana p. O. Looter Caught.

Havana, Sept. 1,-Ricardo Rodri-
guez. chief of the bureau OF stamps
and materials in the Havana post Of
nee, was arrested tonight on the
charge OF having stolen stamps to
the value OF s53,l35.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
MR.. ROOSEVELT IS
FOR Mr.. HUGHES.
As n Citizen OF the State, President
Takes Stand.

Oyster Bay, l.. l., Sept. 3-"I have
no intention OF trying to dictate the
action of the Republican State Con-
vention. But I am citizen Of New
York State and am therefore entitled
to express my Judgment on such an
issue as the nomination for Cover
nor, and my Judgment is that It is
absolutely necessary to renominate
Mr.. Hughes"
President Roosevelt made this de-
cided statement to william l.. Ward,
OF Port Chester, who is a member OF
the Republican National Committee
and also of the State Committee.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
supper Late, Man Kills Wife.

Westerly, R. l., Sept. because
ais wife did not have his supper
-eady when he reached home. John
\. Tent. a stevadore. discharged q
hotgun at her at close range. killing
Ler instantly.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
Boys Blood Saves Mother.

Hartford, Conn. Sept. 2.-The
pfc of Mrs. John H. Mcfarland, of
Wethersfield, has been saved by the
Infusion Of blood from her son Hem
ry. sixteen years old.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
CALCUTTA REBELS
SLAY BETRAYER.
Gossans Revealed Widespread Plot
Against the British.

Calcutta, British India, Sept. a.
Gossans. a native who was arrested
With thirty others for completely in
chs recent bomb outrages. and who
turned Kings evidence, was killed by
swo fellow prisoners in a cell of the
all at Alipur, a suburb.
The evidence given by Gossans
revealed a widespread rebellious con-
,pdracy, which included plans to as
iassinate the Viceroy, Lord Minto,
ind other high officials.
The revolvers with which he was
sflled were smuggled into the prison
~ relatives of other prisoners.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03

Biloxi, Miss, Sept. 1.-General
Alexander p. Stewart, one of the last
two Lieutenant-Generals of the Con-
federate Army, died at his home
here. He was in his eighty-seventh
year.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
NEGRO is NOT GUILTY.
Woman Exonerates Man About
Whom Springfield Riots Centred.

Springfield, H.. Sept 3.-Mrs.
Earl Hallam has sworn to an afidavit
that George Richardson who she at
first identified as the negro who at
tackled her and whom the mob tried
TO capture on the evening Of August
IA. is not her assailant. In the afr
davit which is in the hands OF State
Attorney Hatch. she asks that Rich
ardson who is confined in Blooming
ton, be released.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
BUCKET SHOPS LAW.
Prohibits Purchase or Sale of Securi-
ties Based Merely on Quotations.

Albany, n. Y. Sept. 2.-The anti
bucket shop law has gone into ef-
feet. 1t prohibits the purchase or
sale OF securities when the contract
is based merely on the public market
quotations and there is no actual
bona-fide receipt Of delivery Of such
securities. 1t provides that brokers
must furnish, upon the written de-
mand Of any customer. an order for
the actual purchase or sale of securi-
ties. containing the names Of the per-
sons or firms from which the stock
was purchased and to whom 1t was
SOLD.
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
ONE AND S4-Ioo ACRES
OF LAND.

whereon is erected a certain building
located at the intersection of the south,
ern line of the right of way of the Della.
ware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Company IN the Town of Bloomsburg.
said county, and the eastern line Of
tract of land known as the Mcclure
Farm, and is a
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03
BRICK BREWERY BUILDING

four stories in heighth in front, and
three stories in the rear. with a from age
of about fifty feet and a depth of about
one hundred and forty-fve feet parallel
with line of u. l.. & w. K. X. and was
built for the purpose of a brewery fot
the manufacture of brewed and malt
liquors and extracts.
Seized, taken into execution at the suit
of John Keim vs. The Bloomsburg
Brewing Company. and to be sold as
the property of The Bloomsbury Brew.
ing Company.
CHAS. B. EN1' Sheriff,
Fred Ikeler, Attorney. q3.4t
The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1908-09-03

Governor Hughes refused to dis
miss the charges of neglect of duty
in not suppressing gambling made
against Sheriff Beck of Albany Coun-
ty.
Mr.. Taft arrived at the Middle
Bass Club, on the island of that
name out in Lake Erie, where he will
fish and play golf.
William ]. Bryan plans an attack
on socialism in speech to be deliv-
cred in New York in September.
Speaker Cannon arrived in Boston
and held a brief conference with Sen
ator Crane over the Presidential
campaign.
The popular subscription" plan
of campaign adopted by the Demo-
Gratis has swelled Mr. Bryan's mail,
which was very large before the
Campaign contributions began to
come in, to enormous size.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-04-16
CHARM OF FRENCH RURAL LIFE.
Even the Poorest Give Something to
Beautifying the Villages.

Normandy and Brittany towns have
a quiet sweetness to which the strident
call of commerce and the hustle and
noise of our American towns are
strangers. Wherever commercial &C.
tivity comes in the charm goes out.
There is little striking in the con-
trast between the country and the
small towns. You leave the brilliant
colored peoples in the fields to meet
the timid open-eyed children in the
village streets and you simply ex-
change the peasants working at the
roadside for the white-capped women
knitting in their doorways, and the
men, wooden-saboted and clad in
blouses and baggy trousers at their
work. There are no striking contrasts
between country and village such as
we are accustomed to in America.
A Normandy or Brittany village is
but a cluster of houses and matched
rooted cottages, pfcturesquely set
amid the trees and fields. Of course,
the larger places lose from necessity
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-04-16
An End MISSING.

An Irishman who served on board
q man-of-war was selected by one or
the officers to haul in towline of con-
siderable length that was towing over
the taffrail. After pulling in 40 or 90
fathoms, which had put his patience
severely to proof, as well as every
muscle of his arms, he muttered to
himself:
Surely it's as long as to-day and to-
morrow. It's good weeks work for
any five in the ship. Bad luck to the
leg or the arm it'll leave at last. What,
more of it yet? Och, murder! The
says mighty deep, to be sure!"
After continuing In a similar strain
and conceiving there was little prob.
ability Of the completion of his labor,
he suddenly stopped short, and, adj
dressing the officer of the watch, ex-
claimed: bad manners to me, sir, II
/ don't think somebody's cut off the
other end of it!"-The Pathfinder.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-04-16
Washington College Girls Angry.

w d0IlIiIJIOh 0OiNSN VITO FNhSA y
When Bishop Scadding of the do
cese of Oregon, in the Episcopal
church, said that western girls are
cheaper to entertain than the eastern
variety, he was unaware that he
touched a tender spot in the make.
up of the girls at the University of
Washington. The varsity young won.
en- say the Bishop does not know
whereof he speaks, or he would not
make such assertions.
The girls say that a gaze at Mount
Rainier is not a substitute for ice
cream, and that they demand other ar
ticles of diet besides sea food. They
also intimate that the Bishop has
not been in the habit of entertaining
the sweet girl graduates of the land
or he would not say they are cheap to
feed.
The girls do not want the impress
sion to get out, however, that they
are expensive luxuries and that they
bleed the youthful SWANS of the
west. A happy medium is the key
note of their sentiments.-Seatt
Times.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-04-16

the big doors, into the dawn of the
fresh day they go. If a thought of
fight visits them a harsh voice at
their elbows calls: Hurry on, there!
No fooling youl" They march to the
shore, empty their pals and go back
through the great doors into the
tainted prison air once more. Up the
stairs to their cells. hoods off, pals
deposited, and they resume their
march into the mess hall below.
Plain Bill of Fare.
If it is Monday they breakfast from
the tin pan and cup, and, with the aid
of the spoon, off bread and hash and
coffee. If it be Tuesday their meal is
oatmeal and coffee. If Wednesday,
they have bread and jelly and coffee
They march around the tables, de-
post their spoons in a box at the end
of the table and go in regular file to
the work that has been assigned them.
The Poillons, as a first essay at hard
labor, were ordered to the big, square
sewing room. There Katherine darned
socks, Charlotte mended torn sheets
and tattered blue and white striped
dresses.
They sat on rough chairs and
stopped until their backs ached over
their tasks. Through Charloties mind
fitted recollections of the diversified
golf links. Before Katherine's vision
danced the gay invitation of the spring
shop windows.
BY noon they were faint, but their
delicate stomachs rebelled at the mid
day dinner, vegetable soup, roast rump
steak, potatoes, cabbage and thick,
though not strong coffee. Katherine's
tears dripped into the big tin cup of
coffee. Charlotte frOwned heavily.
Back again for the afternoons work.
They were interrupted only by an at
tendant's Cant you do better than
that? Every woman ought to be able
to do a little light family washing
During the morning sewing Charlotte
complained that the brass thimbles
might cause blood poisoning. But no
one paid any attention to the pair
who had been in thespublic eye until
they had grown to like it. Their fell
low prisoners, when they looked at
them at all, looked insults. When
they spoke to them they jeered.
Jeered by Companions.
How do you like the Hotel Black.
well?" whispered a hard-faced dame
over the wash tubs, during the after
noon session.
"O'Fallon's a mighty sharp hotel
keeper. Nobody ever beats his bills
The Poillon sisters redeemed, and
were mad through and through. Char.
lotte thumped her washboard viciously.
At five came the call to tea, then
back to their cells went the sisters,
to read little if they chose, from
books in the prison library. Lights
must be out at $3.50, the hour at which
these gay women of upper Bohemia
were wont to dine.
The next day both sisters were
heavy-eyed and pale. Katherine could
not answer the matron when she
spoke to her.
Huh; prison sore throat I sup.
pose," said Miss Moriarity, and sent
for the hospital physician. He or.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-04-16
LOST $500.
Buying Medicine When Right Food
Was Needed.

Money spent for "tonics" and "brac.
ers" to relieve Indigestion, while the
poor old stomach is loaded with pas.
try and pork, is worse than losing a
pocketbook containing the money.
If the money only is lost it's bad
enough, but with lost health from
wrong eating, it is hard to make the
money back.
A Mich. young lady lost money on
drugs but is thankful she found
way to get back her health by proper
food. She writes:
81 had been a victim of nervous dys.
pepsia for six years and spent three
hundred dollars for treatment in the
attempt to get well. None of it did
me any good.
FINALLY l tried Grape-Nuts food,
and the results were such that, If II
cost dollar a package, l would not
be without it. My trouble had been
caused by eating rich food such as
pastry and pork.
"The most wonderful thing that
ever happened to me, am sure, was
the change in my condition after
began to eat Grape-Nuts. / began to
improve at once and the first week
gained four pounds.
81 feel that I cannot express my
self in terms that are worthy of the
benefit Grape-Nuts has brought to
me, and you are perfectly free to
publish this letter if it will send some
poor sufferer relief, such as has come
to me-"
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, 1.-THE Road to Well
VILE" in pkgs. There's a Reason"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-04-16
IN THE MULLET BELT.
What the Inhabitants of the Gulf
Coast Owe to Biloxi Bacon.

Down on the easy going gulf coast,
where everybody loafs and is happy,
there are one or two awful thoughts
which occasionally shudder through
the pleasant dreams of the inhabitants.
The most dreadful of these is the hor-
rife suggestion of possible failure OF
the mullet crop.
The mullet crop is locally known as
Biloxi bacon, because down there it IS
as absolute necessary of life as pork
is elsewhere in the south. The visitor
10 all the gulf resorts is more addicted
to mullet than he realizes. 1t some
times parades on the bill of fare as
trout or something else which gives
variety to the menu.
But be not deceived. While the
coast can furnish a good mullet no
other fish need apply. The names are
changed to satisfy the uneducated
northerner, but the fish remains the
same. Just what a hold the mullet
diet has on the natives is clear from
a story they tell about Biloxi.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-04-16

The chief reason for leaving home
is that one may the better enjoy COM
ing back to it. Home is the place
we have so studiously suited to our
own needs that it fits us like on out.
er envelope In no other house do
we feel so absolutely ourssives.-Lon.
don Truth.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-04-16
A Counter Stroke.

A stylishly-dressed woman entered
a Chinese laundry and paid for
Numbered shirt.
"Why do you wear those rats !
think you call them, in your hair?" in
quired the Chinaman, who had an i'm
quisitive turn of mind.
"Tush, Mr.. john" replied his Gus.
toner. II always thought it was Chi.
nese etiquette not to talk about the
things they like best"
The Oriental blinked his eyes as the
lady passed out.