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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02

druggists some little Candy Cold Tablets
called Preventics. Druggists everywhere
are now dispensing Preventics, for they
are not only safe, but decidedly prompt
and certain. Preventics contain no qui-
nine, no laxative, nothing harsh nor
sickening. Taken at the "sneeze stage
Preventics will prevent Pneumonia
Bronchitus, LaGrippe, hence the name
Preyentics, geod for feverish children
4S PreventIcs, % cents. Trial boxes DC
Sold by Schultz & Ketcham.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02
Woman Cashier Arrested.

Minneapolis, Jan. miss Augusta
Fahrm, since last May the cashier of
the A. E. Johnson steamship agency,
is in cell at the Minneapolis city
Jail charged with embezZling $4,000
of the funds of the company. Will
lam E. Hewitt, attorney for Miss
Fahrm, declares there is a misunder-
standing and that the case will be
adjusted satisfactorily. She was
placed under arrest at her apart
ments in the Hotel Berkeley imme-
diately following her arrival from
Omaha, where she went to spend the
Christmas season with her parents.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02

Toad Found Buried in Limestone
Rock Slowly Recovering.

New York, Jan. 2.-Pythagoras, the
toad, has taken his first meal in
1000 years at the Bronx Zoo. Four
flies and an earthworm constituted
the meal of the little black creature
that had been buried for SO many
centuries in limestone rock 500 feet
down in a silver mine at Butte, Mont.
The ancient toad is slowly recovering
his eyesight and the use of his limbs
and is gradually turning green again,
as he was in the middle ages. He
has already emitted several feeble
sounds, but the croak has not come
back
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02
NINE MINERS KILLED.
Explosion Occurs In a New Mexican
Colliery.

Albuquerque, N. M, Jan. AT
least nine miners were killed and
three fatally and two seriously in
jured in an explosion of gas and coal
dust in the Bernal mine at Carthage,
Socorro county, N. NJ, one of three
large coal nines owned by the Garth
age Fuel company.
Nine dead bodies have been taken
out and although the mine is still
filled with gas it is believed that no
more victims remain in the workings.
No cause for the explosion is as,
signed
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02
SHOT BY AN EMPLOYE.
St. Louis Editor Probably Fatally
Wounded.

ST. Louis. Jan. 2.-Alfred III. Sphinx,
editor and president of the company
publishing the st. Louis World, au-
thor of THE Derby Winner" and sew
eral other plays and formerly sport
ing writer of national reputation, was
shot and perhaps fatally injured by
Victor Groves, an employe, following
editors son. Mr.. Sphinx was rushi1. !.
10 the scene Of the quarrel when
Groves whipped out revolver and
fred two shots, one of them entering
the editors left shoulder and penetrat-
Ing lung.
Groves surrendered to the police i'm
mediately after the shooting.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02
DIVORCE SUIT WITHDRAWN
Chicago Couple Resolves to Live Hap
1iIy Together.

Chicago, Jan. 2.-To celebrate New
Years day in a fit and proper manner
Edwin ~ Earle and his wife Hannah
have sworn off from getting a divorce
and have taken a resolution to be
happy together again. The resolution
is legal in form, typewriter and
signed by both parties and is the pre-
liminary to the stipulation for the dis
missal of the divorce proceedings
which were started by Mrs. Earle two
weeks ago.
Each will try to make the home
life of the other bright and happy"
says the resolution. That each may
be reminded throughout the year Of
the New Years promise it is men
toned in the bond that "it is agreed
that a copy of these agreements be
hung in the parlor of their new home"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02
Became Prominent by Marriage.

New York, Jan. 2.-Charles Franck-
lyn Reglid, former actor, more recent
ly wealthy whip and automobilist,
who came into prominence about ten
years ago when. at the age of thirty
two, he married Mrs. Adele Ronalds,
then seventy, and widow of Thomas
A. Ronalds, New York society lead
er, is dead at his country mansion,
Avenal, at New Rochelle. His death
was due to typhoid fever.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02
misraken ror Burglar and Shot.

Beresford, S. d., Jan. flames
Taubert, farmland working for John
Hanson, some miles south of Beres-
ford, was accidentally shot, but 1t is
not thought that he wounds will prove
serious. Mr.. and Mrs. Hanson had
gone from home to spend the even
ing, leaving 1t in charge Of a son
some fifteen years of age. Upon Mr..
Taubert returning from town at late
hour the boy took him for burglar
and fired a shot at him.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02
New Mayor of Cincinnati

Cincinnati, Jan. 2.-Retiring Mayor
Edward ]. Dempsey swore in as his
successor Colonel Leopold Markbreit,
veteran soldier, editor and diplomat,
and although it signalized the chang
ing OF the city Offices from Demo
cratic to Republican control recep-
ton of cordiality was rendered by
citizens generally without regard to
political affiliations.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02
URCES:SDMERE REFORMS
Message o. Governor Hughes to
New York Legislature.
BANK REGULATION FOREMOST
Lawmakers Urged to Adopt "Every
Practicable Means to Prevent Repe-
tition of ReprehensibIe Practices"
Would End Racetrack Gambling.

Albany, N Y, Jan. 2.-The annual
sent to the legislature, contains many
important recommendations Chief
among these, in the light of certain
conditions disclosed by the recent
financial upheaval, is a recommends
ton regarding the amendment of the
law relating to banks and trust COM
panies. In bringing this matter to
the attention of the Legislators the
governor urges them to adopt every
practicable means ito prevent repeti-
ton of reprehensible practices and to
assure the proper management of the
financial institutions chartered and
supervised by the state, on whose sta
bility and prosperity the interests of
our people in every walk of life SO
largely depend"
Another important recommendation
has as its object the complete sup
preston of racetrack gambling
throughout the state.
Direct nominations at primaries and
a simplified form of ballot are urged
in the message and recommendations
are also made for better provision for
the care and protection of immigrants.
With reference to the banking laws
the message says:
Banks Need Regulation.
Recent events have demonstrated
the necessity for providing effective
means for preventing the exploitation
of banks and trust companies and the
acquisition and use of control of a
number of institutions to facilitate
selfish schemes opposed to sound
banking. If suitable restrictions are
imposed in explicit form and with
appropriate penalties, insuring ade-
quate knowledge and proper action on
the part of the board of directors with
regard to loans and other transac
tions; preventing the deposits of mon
eys of one institution with another in
order that the officers, directors or
stockholders of the former may OBJ
tain desired credits from the latter;
limiting the amount which may be
loaned by any bank or trust company
on the stock of another financial In
stitution; reducing the amount which
may be loaned on collateral to any
one interest; and erecting proper safe
guards against loans and investments
In aid of schemes Of promotion repre-
sentsd by unmarketable securities
and IL additional suitable means are
provided for the enforcement of the
rulings of the superintendent Of banks
with regard to improper or unsafe
practices the security of our financia
institutions and the confidence which
springs from just reliance on theil
proper management will greatly b'
strengthened"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02
ARGUMENTS ARE ENDED.
Case Of Caleb Powers Will Shortly
Go to Jury.

Georgetown, KY, Jan. Wv. G..
Owens and States Attorney Franklin
closed the arguments in the fourth
trial of Caleb Powers, which has been
In progress here for the past eight
weeks. The building was wholly in
adequate to accommodate the crowds,
men and women literally fighting for
admission to the courtroom.
Major Owens consumed the entire
forenoon arguing on the theory that
Goebel was assassinated, by Henry
Youtsey, whom he denominated a
murderous crank of the Guiteau and
Czolgosz pattern, who had committed
the crime on his own responsibility
and of his own volition and that
there was no conspiracy concocted by
Powers or ANYBODY else.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02
Montana Mines Had Big Year.

Helena, Mont, Jan. 2.-During the
year 1907 Montana contributed in
precious metals to the wealth of the
nation approximately $5S,o00,o0O, di-
vided AS near as possible as follows:
Copper, 225 900, 900 pounds, at 20 cents
on an average, s45 100000; silver, H.
500 900 ounces, at so cents, $6,250,000;
gold, 225. 900 ounces, at $40, $4,500,000,
and $4,000 tons of lead, at cents a
pound, $2,500,000.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02

Address of Negroes Counsel Decided
Novelty.

st. Francisville, La, Jan. I'm
a thirty-minute trial the death pen.
atty was passed on Robert Weston, a
negro. On Dec. 21 he "shot up" a
passenger train near Baton Rouge,
killing A. K Widert, a student The
address of the negros counsel, ap-
proved by the state, was remarkable.
Counsel said nothing about saving his
client. but appealed to the jury TO
bring about prohibition to save other
negroes from like fate.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02
Clerical Force to Be Reduced.

Norfolk, Va, Jan. 2.-Off1cial con-
flrmation is given of the report that
the Seaboard Air Line will dispense
with as many of it's clerks as the de-
partment heads shall determine, this,
1t is declared, having been made nee
essary by the general falling off of
business In the South.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02
Iiva,v Time at ST. Louis.

ST. Louis, Jan "A recapitulation
Of New Years celebration shows that
four persons were shot, one was
stabbed, one was beaten and robbed
and there were numerous fights In
which the belligerents we're badly
pummelled. Many arrssts vQA nAAs.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02
Shot and Killed by Burglar.

Newark, N. j., Jan. 2.-George A.
Fisher, Building inspector, was shot
and killed by burglar. The burglar,
who was breaking into store by the
rear door when Fisher disturbed him,
escaped, leaving no clue TO his iden-
titys
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02
Dozen Passengers Injured

Sunburg, Pa, Jan, 2.-The Penn
sylvania railroad express from Buff
falo was wrecked at Montandcn, ten
miles west of here, and more than
dessn passengers weyo injured.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02

Do you know that Pinesalye Carboliz
ed acts like poultice in drawing infiam
nation and poison. 1t is antiseptic. Fol
cuts, burns, eczema, cracked hands il
is immediate relief. % cts. at Schultz 6
Ketcham.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1908-01-02

Dewitts carbolized witch hazel Salv,
penetrates the pores throughly cleanse
and is healing and soothing Good for
piles. Sold Holiday & Porter
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-06
LETTERS TO THE --DITOR.
LEST We Regret"

To the Editor of The Age-Herald.
l do not know that anything l could
say about Greater Birmingham would
influence voter, nevertheless l feel that
I have duty to perform as long as
| live in this community and that is to
DE out-spoken as to how l stand upon
any subject that in my opinion concerns
the welfare eof Jefferson county. ] am
not a politician and never was a candi-
date for any office, political civil, re-
ligious, military, social or commercial,
therefore my motives in this instance
should not be misconstrued. l am always
an advocate of progress and business de-
velopment, therefore 1 will cast my bal
lot for Greater Birmingham. There are
some features of what is known as the
king bill that do not suit me; but was
there even a bill framed and passed to
please everyone? So let us all accept it
as it is and support it.
There was a little "unpleasantness' on
October 2Sth, the result of which did not
meet with my approval but 1 accepted
it and I am taking my medicine like
little man, straight and without whis-
ky, sugar or ice. The year 1907 was
fraught with more happenings to retard
the growth of Birmingham, from my
viewpoint, than have occurred in the q
years of my residence here, and 1 do
but except the booms, the depressions the
panics, the soup houses or Governor Co.
mer's little Carrie Nation Ratchet that
has been used so freely, but do not I
beseech you drive the last nail in our
future existence that our children and
grand children can never extract. My
honest convictions is that if Greater Bir-
mingham does not carry on the 9Th in
slant, that this city will be dealt the
greatest single blow that it can ever re-
ceive. To my suburban friends l say
come in, it will be the best thing for
you to do. Come in and have something
to say about the management of this
great city. We have many good men
in charge of city affairs and all are my
friends. but they have wrangled amongst
themselves until the conservative business
interests of this city have 1 imagine,
grown sick of it,. To the outside kicker,
and to one particularly in the western
end 1 allude, who I find upon nvestiga-
ton pays s1.35 tax on $500 assessment.
Now would it hurt him to pay $2.35 per
thousand or just $1.0O more annually on
his $500 assessment? 1t will be worth
ten times that $3.50 yearly that you pay.
To the prohibitionist and the anti-pro-
hibitionist, to the Conner man and the
anti-Comer man, the Rhodes man and the
anti-Rhodes man, to the Barrett and
Cruikshank men and all the other antics
I beg of you to come in, get together
and pile up your differences and set fire
to them and burn them upon the altar of
Greater Birmingham. Now is the ac-
cepted time; it is now or never. Wait
ten years more and we are forever lost
in the great struggle, for supremacy in
the business world. Yours truly,
w. B. LEEDY.
Rirn1ipp m January
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-06
PROTEST AGAINST
IMMIGRATION
FARMERS UNION OF MISSISSIPPI
DECLARES THAT FOREIGNERS
MAKE RACE PROBLEM Diff
CULT AND SHOULD BE BARRED.

Jackson, Miss, January 5-(Special.)-
The Farmers union adopted a number of
resolutions before their adjournment,
chief among which was one protesting
against dealing in futures, as follows:
Resolved that we ask our legislature to
amend the bucketshop law and make it
strict, and the punishment so great that
it will be impossible for bucketshop to
exist in this state"
"Other resolutions urge the adoption of
the 2-cent mileage law, the reduction
of the bond of the state treasurer from
250,0oO to 100000, child labor law pre-
venting the employment of children at
most everything save farming. The fol-
lowing was adopted:
Resolved, That we have seen so MANY
troubles caused by mixing low races of
people with our own, and in view of the
fact that the race problem is becoming
more and more difficult, we recommend
that if it takes total abolition, the i'm
portation of this low class of immigrants
must cease"
The legislature was urged to establish
a system of rural high schools and
school of cotton grading at the A. and NJ.
college.
Following delegates to the national con-
vention at Memphis, were elected viz.
G. R. Hightower, Lafayette; j. W. Boat
right, Marshall; r. A. N. Wilson, Pan
ola; H. w. Bradshaw Rankin j. M.
BAGS, Copian; g. w. Russell Copiah; w.
w. WEIGH, Itawamba; f. s. Coffin.
Clarke; Mrs. G. w. Russell, Copiah Mrs.
Russell WIS the only lady attending the
convention.
President Hightower has consulted the
attorney general the governor and other
state officials and has determined that
he will not resign the office of state SEN
ator yet awhle-giving his district time
to elect his successor
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-06
Pioneer Cure for Asthma,

Petersburg Qnd) Dispatch to Indian
apolis News.
While Omer Lynch and Edward
Armstrong. east of this city, were in
the woods Telling trees they cut down
a large white oak tree and found in
the body evidences of an augur hole.
On close examination, trimmings of
finger nails and lock of hair were
found to have been plugged UP in the
hole, tight-fitting plug preserving
the collection from the elements. The
plug evidently had been there for many
years, as several inches of new timber
had formed over it. An old citizen
says that in the early days 1t was a
common belief that if a person had
asthma and he would take a lock of
his hair and the trimmings of his nails
and put them in hole bored in a
green tree, at a height equal to his
own height, the disease would be
cured
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-06
MISSING STEAMER
NOT YET REPORTED
MOUNT ROYAL HAS BEEN OUT
NEARLY A MONTH AND NOT A
WORD CONCERNING SHIP OR
PASSENGERS is KNOWN.

St. John, N. B., January 5.-No word
has reached here of the long overdue
Canadian Pacific steamer Mount Royal.
Two steamers, the Soho from the West In
dies, and the Alcdes from Glasgow, ar
rived today, but they report no sign of
any disabled steamer. Although the
Mount Royal has been out 20 days, Can
adam police officers still hope that she
has drifted south on account of an acct
dent to her machinery and may yet be re-
ported.
The Mount Royal sailed from Antwerp
for this port with 304 immigrants and a
crew of more than 100. While nothing has
been heard of her in that time the of
fcials of the line have not abandoned
nope that she is still afioat They are
extremely anxious, nevertheless, and fear
that the vessel is drifting about the At
lantic in practically helpless condition
with her machinery disa bled. The COM
pany has caused inquiry to be made at
all ocean ports on both sides of the At
lantic, but up to tonight no report from
the big vessel has been received. The
arrival of the Allan line steamer Hun
garian at Portland, 20 days from Green
och, today disposed of the theory that
she had fallen in with the Mount Royal.
Many steamers have been delayed from
few days to more than a week in cross
ing the Atlantic since December / on ac-
count of heavy weather, and for this
reason there has been no anxiety over the
Mount Royal until this week. The feel
ing of uneasiness has increased daily,
however, as the absence of news con-
tinued.
Captain Murray of the Canadian Pa
cific steamer Express of Britain, which
arrived here from Liverpool yesterday,
expressed the opinion that the MISSING
vessel is safe and will be heard from in
a short time. He reported an uneventful
trip across the only sighted steamer re-
sembling the Mount Royal. The latter
ship is not equipped with wireless tele-
graph apparatus. so that if she is afoat
nothing will be heard from her until she
approaches land or is sighted by some
vessel
The Mount Royal is single screw
steamer of 1893 tons and nearly 10 years
old. Shipping men express the opinion
that in the event of her shaft being
broken, one of the reasons advanced for
her failure to reach port, she would drift
out of the track of passing steamers.
either east or westbound and finally find
herself in the vicinity of Bermuda, driven
by the currents.
So far as known. few if any Americans
or Canadians sailed on the vessel The
passengers are nearly all Hebrew and
Russian immigrants, some of whom are
thought to have formerly lived in
America.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-01-06

a number of manufacturers who instruct
their travelling men to never stop in towns
that have not a certain number of in
habitants, frequently causing them to
have to pay local rate of freights across
the United States on such goods as they
would need, or else huy them in very
large quantities and carry them indefin-
itely on their shelves, as they frequently
have no brother merchant to go in with
them and divide a carload. This will
doubtless seem strange to many, yet
there are a number of people who have
representatives throughout the United
States that never call in Birmingham as
it now is, yet as Greater Birmingham
they would gladly do SO.
The banker realizes that the greater
the metropolis that he is trying to do
business in, the greater number of de-
positors he will have, as everyone is
inclined to look to the larger centers to
make their deposits and transact their
general banking business
The property owner in times of depres-
sion is confronted with the fact that it
only takes money and a general interest
upon the part of the people to start the
public to buying, and that anything that
would cause capital to flow into our midst
would better his conditions as he would
have less empty houses, and his income
rather on the increase than as to the
reverse. He also knows that people al
ways buy freely on a rising market and
shrink from falling, and that pros
perity depends entirely upon the concert
ed action OF all the people in the dis
trict pulling and working together to
build up the community, and now is the
time for people to lay aside their per-
sonal whims az to taxes, love of power,
love of petty position, love of public cour-
tesies and put their shoulders to the
wheel and work for the great and COM
mon good of all the people, realizing and
believing that all those who pass out of
this life without making a sacrifice of
personal interest to the general good of
a community have lived a failure Re-
spectfully, S. P. MOORE,
President Post B. T. P. A.
H. J. DAVIS,
Vice President.
Birmingham, January 8, 1907.