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Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
REAL BEER FLOWED FREELY.

Eight Hundred Barrels Emptied In a
Sewer at Oklahoma, Okla.
Oklahoma, Okla, Aug. 2S.-Eight
hundred barrels OF beer, valued at
$4,000. belonging to local brew
cry company, were emptied into a
sewer in this city in the presence Of
State Dispensary Agent Robt. e. Los
Ter and Internal Revenue Collector C.
Howard.
Two thousand people attended the
opening, some with buckets and pitch
ers, hoping for a chance of salvage.
This hope was disappointed The beer
was ON hand when the prohibition law
became effective.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
Had Won rhounht Of lt7

Th~re are more people living in
New York city thar in IA of our states
and territories: Arizona, Delaware.
Montana, Nevada, Indian territory,
Idaho, New Hampshire, New Mexico.
North Dakota, Rhode Island, South
Dakota, Utah, Wyoming and Vermont.
--McClure'S.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
TROLLEY CAR STRIKES AUTO.
Widely Known Musician Receives Fa-
tai Injuries at Covina, Cal.

Widely Known Musician Receives Fa-
tai Injuries at covina, Cal.
CoVina, Cal. Aug. Professor
Fitzgerald, formerly of Chicago.
teacher of music in the public schools
and known throughout the United
States as an orchestra leader, was
fatally injured by an electric car
while crossing the tracks in his auto
mobile. He was hurled 125 feet by
the coucussion and was found in the
top Of his machine in an unconscious
condition nwhich he remained until
death came, twelve hours later at the
hospital
An eyewitness to the tragedy says
Fitzgerald's machine stopped on the
track when the car was about 900 feet
from the crossing. He saw Fitzgerald
attempt to start his machine. but the
machine went dead and left the We.
hicle between the tracks.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

People are loved not for their good
IS. their beauty, their wit or the.'
isdom, but for their utility. Can l.
1. she be of any use to me?' is the
le tiCn which arises in the minds OF
many men and women when intro
Iuced. and if the answer is in the
negative there is no continuance oil
the acquaintanceship.- -Gentlewoman.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

London is a marvel; but we Lon
doners do not wax passionate over iss
qualities as the enthusiastic French
man does over his Paris. There Is
more beauty, more charm, more
wealth, more culture and more art 10
be found In London than anywhere IN
the world, and we stolid English peo-
pie do not really appreciate it.-Lon-
don Graphic.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
Ninesy.EIqht Added to Church.

Roanoke, Ala, Sept Rev. T. I.
Porter, pastor of the FIRST Baptist
church Of Roanoke, Ala, held one Of
the greatest revivals with the First
Baptist church of Tallapoosa, Ga. !.
ever conducted in that part of the
state. The meeting lasted just ten
days. which resulted in ninety-eight
additions to the church.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
Camp Ground Building. Burn

Russellvile, Ky, Aug. 29.-The
buildings on the famous Methodist
Evangelistic meeting grounds of Ken.
lucky, Parsons Camp Grounds" s
miles from here, were destroyed by
fire Thursday night. The loss has
not yet been estimated. The origin
Of the fire is not known
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
aruns,xlck Iadv Suicides.

Brunswick, Ca, Aug. 29.-Wnile
suffering from sudden mental derange-
ment, Mrs. Christie, wife of DR.. AL
fred Christie, well known physician
of this city, sent a 3S-caliber bullet
through her left temple. Death was
instantaneous
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
FATAL HEAD-oN COLLISION.
Fatal Wreck on ST. Louis and San
Francisco Road.

FrancIsco Rodd.
Fort Smith, Ark, Aug. 29-South
bound ST. Louis and San Francisco
passenger train No. 1 collided head-on
with a work train at a point mile
and half east of Hardin. Okla, $50
miles from Fort Smith Friday
Both engines were derailed, but the
cars were not damaged. A J. Bal
lard. engineer of the work train, was
killed; Engineer Campbell and his
fireman, name unknown, and Fireman
Van Nogner, OF the work train, we're
slightly nurt. Thomas Graham, con-
ductor of the work train, is reported
to be missing.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

Jackson, Ky, Aug. 2S.-Circuit
Judge Adams Thursday overruled the
motion made by the prosecution for
change Of venue in the case Of
Beach Hargis. charged with the muir
der of his father, Judge James Har-
sis, and the case will be tried In the
county OF Breathitt.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
ROBBERS GET s12 ZOO.
Masked Men Held Up Cashier Of Bank
in Canada,

Montreal, Aug 29-Five masked
men dynamited the safe OF the Pro
vincial bank at st. Eustache, 10 miles
from Montreal and secured $12, 900
early Saturday They held up the
cashier and kept a posse of citizens
at bay with revolvers and made good
their escape to Montreal.
Two arrests have been made on sus-
picion.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

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because 1t is protected by the tarir in
so doing, and in spite of the so-called
trust busting, the trust Is still doing
business at the old stand and has q
virtual monopoly of the buying of cat
lie and sheep and the sale OF beef and
mutton.
And these things, and many others
like them, are all done under the
plundering system called protection,
which Republicans declare is the
cardinal principle of their party.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
CONTRACT FOR FOOTBALL GAME.

University Of Alabama Versus Univer-
atty Of Cincinnati.
Chicago, Aug. 2S.-A dispatch from
Tuscaloosa, Ala, says:
A contract has been signed by man.
ayers OF the University of Alahar m
and the University OF Cincinnati for
a football game on Oct. IL in Bir-
mingnam.
Tho contract calls for the drawing OF
the color line.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
TO HOLD SECOND PRIMARY.
Interest in Senatorial Race In South
Carolina.

A&EOlInAs
Columbia, s. c., Sept Although
the Storm which followed the primary
OF last Tuesday has badly crippled
schedules and wire communications the
candidates who led in the election
have lost I'd time in building up their
fences and making preparations for
the second primary, which will be held
on Sept. s, two weeks following the
first.
uuB ,luimba. ETA ono aocimf afowo
Interest centers in the senatorial
contest. In this race are p. D. Smith,
who has ben prominently identified
with the Southern Cotton association
throughout the south, and former Gov.
John Gary Evans Smith led in the
hrst primary with 30,012 votes. while
Evans was second with 1854.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

When the first passenger train In
England took its trial spin along the
tracks of the Stockton & Darlington
railway In 1925, horseman, bearing
a red danger flag, galloped along just
ahead of the engine to warn the
crowds of spectators, and to act as
part of what was intended as a rail-
wav naQoant
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

Were essfyoeated In a Mine Near Nc
Alester, Okla.

McAlester: Okla, Aug. 27.-More
than thirty miners were suffocated
Wednesday in Hailey-Ola coal mine
No. 1, at HAileyville, IA miles east of
McAlester. when fre destroyed the
hoisting shaft and air shaft and cut
OF air from the men below.
Twenty-Five dead bodies were re-
moved from the mine following a
three hours successful battle with the
flames. It is believed that six or
eight more will be brought out.
Twenty-Five mules were suffocated.
After the entombed miners had gone
down In the cage, q fire broke out.
occasioned by the ignition Of barrel
OF oil which q miner was trying to
divide. The flames spread at once to
the hosting shaft and the air shaft,
and all communication with the top
was cut OFF.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
We'll Known Playwright Dead

New Orleans, Aug. 29-Espy W.
H. Williams, well known play
wright, died at his home here, aged
fifty-six years. Mr.. Williams was
one of the charter members of the
American Dramatist Club and was the
author Of a number OF plays present
ed by famous actors.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

Several earthquake shocks have
been felt recently in the. Kongo dis
trict, Africa. There have been no
casualties, but the natives were panic
stricken. Many of them ran for miles
and refused to return to their villages
ton.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
AucUTA RALLYINe.
From the Effects Of the Late Disae.
troua Overflow.


Augusta, Ca. Aug. 2S.-Saturday
dawned cold and dreary, with a pail OF
heavy clouds hanging low over the
desolated city. the weather adding to
the suffering of the hundreds OF nome
less who are shiyering in the east
wind
The city was again In total dark,
ness Friday night, with the exception
Of a few blocks on Broad street,
where fickerins gasligdts gave weird
roloring to the scene OF wreck and
tuin left In the trail Of the food.
City Rallies from blow.
But Augusta has rallied from the
staggering blow that was dealt Wed.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
BAPTIsTs MEETIN BERLIN.
One Thousand Delegates Attend the
Convention In German Capital.

Convention In German Capital.
Berlin, Sept Every Baptist pull
pit i'll Berlin was occupied Sunday by
a foreign pastor, and the churches
were crowded. Many nations were
represented, there being about 900
delegates in attendance on the con-
gress of European Baptists, represent
ing all the greater nations.
David Floyd-George, British chancel-
lOr Of the exchequer, sent a message
to the president of the congress urg-
ing Bartists to do their part in the pro-
motion Of peace, and all the sermons
and addresses delivered advocated a
better understanding between Great
Britain and Germany. +?
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
Money order CLERK Arrested.

Chattanooga, Tenn, Aug. 2S-Chas.
w. Brown, money order clerk of the
postoffice at Hartman, Tenn, was ar
rested Thursday night by an inspec-
tor charged with the theft of ordinary
letters from the mails.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
Rock Island Bars cIuarettes.

Little Rock, Ark, Aug. 27.-F. j.
Easter, SUI erintendent OF the Rock
Island railroad, has issued a bulletin
notifying all employees that cigarette
smoking will not be permitted. and the
first violator will be discharged.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

Let Mr.. Taft and Mr.. Bryan both
hammer on the tariff ISSUE" and the
one who convinces the people most
deeply Of his sincerity and commits
his party most strongly to tariR TO
vision will be elected presiden&.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
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Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

Knoxville. Tenn, Aug. 27-Tne iron
furnace at Embreeville, Tenn, after
having been closed down ninety days.
has resumed operations. The plant
employs about 800 men and is one of
the largest in this section OF the south.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

Women even In the time of Pepys
took care of their complexions. as he
sets down in his diary the fact that
his wife and Jane went down to Wool.
wich to get the May dew, with which
to wash their faces, and later tells OF
her rising at three clock in the morn
ing to 60 forth for May dew while he
lay troubled lest harm come to her at
that early hour.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
Rear Admiral Fithian Dead.

Bridgetown, n. j., Sept. Rear
Admiral Edwin Fithian, retired. chief
engineer of the United States navy,
died at his homo here, aged eighty
three years.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

Rochester, N. Y, Aug. ga bank
in Fillmore, Allegheny county, was
robbed Saturday morning. 1t is said
the robbers got large sum of money.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
overleapinn Ambitions,

BY San Geronimo a great gun lies
useless, too heavy TO be mounted on
the walls. Some ambitious are like
that.-From pOrtn Rico.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

"Yes.' said the honest dealer. head
Ing up the barrel of apples he had just
packed there's always room at the
top. r. ats why | generally put the
bigges: ones in the top row."
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

"De black crow not only don't know
des how black he Is, but he live an
die in de belief dat no mockin' bird kin
beat him singing. Atlanta Constitu-
tion.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

In Pennsylvania the remedy pre-
scri5ed for swelling of the glands OF
the neck is to steal a piece of bacon
and bind slice of 1t over the swell
ing. This is sovereign remedy for
- a o-t,-----.- =. -.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

1t Is a credit to Americas scientific
spirit that money can be found to
finance a polar expedition instead OF
ag Invested in trust nAs-~- %----
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
Whaf He Wanted.

Papa said Jimmieboy, as he
watched he new canary with much in
erest, when the bird dies can | have
his whistler
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

when goes 20 do cot house."
~ Uncle Eben. ut sometimes looks
like de jury was committee tc
Il pri e to de smar,-s. s.v-.-
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

Prince Tarkhanof, the celebrated
physiologist and biologist of st. Pc
tersburg, is dead.
Alexander London, a prominent law
yer, of Birmingham, Ala, died sud
denly of. heart failure at Cnautauqua,
N. Y. The family was spending tie
summer there
Assistant Secretary of the Navy
Newberry has approved plans for the
dredging of the channel at Pearl Har-
Dor, Hawaiian islands, and for the To-
cation Of the dry dock to be construct
ed there.
Adalfo Rossi, formerly inspector Of
italian emigration, has been appointed
consul general of Italy at Denver. He
will leave Havre for his new post on
September 10. Signor Rossi mas made
many journeys to the United States.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

Margaret NOkeS, the well-known
comeiienne, died at her summer
home in Lynnfield, Mass, after a
long illness of tuberculosis.
The democratic congressional con-
vention in the Thirty-sixth district Of
New York, nominated William H. Fol-
lette, mayor OF Tonawanda.
The Rev. DR.. Donald Sage AacKay :,
pastor of the Collegiate Church &f st.
Nicholas, of New York, died in Port
land, Me.
The German war department, accord
ing to semi official statement, has in
vited Wilbur Wright, the American
aeroplanist, to carry out his expert
ments in Berlin.
Russell Sage's estate is valued at
$54 1863, 500 This fact became known
for the first time through the signing
Of the order for the transfer tax pay
able to the state.
1t is believed at Toxic that the sue
cessor to Count Komura as Japanese
ambassador at London will be Baron
Maxine Nobuaki, former minister Of
education
The exchange of ratification Of the
arbitration treaty between Japan and
the United States is now being made
by mail because Of the absence from
Washington of Ambassador Takahira.
Donald G. Mitchell, who, as Ike
Marvel, charmed the world with
Dream Life" and "Reveries of Bach.
elor," is ill at his home in Connect
cut. Mr.. Mitchell Is eighty-six years
OF age.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
LEAKEsvILLE, GREENE COUNTY. MISS.
DISPATCHES IN BR|E[
Summary Of a Weeks News CT
the World.
CULLED FOR BUSY READERS
conniet. .sstIon Of Telegraphie Dispatch
es ~ :he Ready Perusal Of Those
Too Busy to Read the Longer Ao.
countS

Too Busy to Read the Longer AZ.
counts.
The American Institute of Mining
Engineers will hold its annual meet
ing in Chattanooga in October.
W. l.. Merry, the American min
lister to Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
has been received in private audience
by President Zelaya
Mrs William E. Corey, formerly
Miss Mabel Gilman, the comic opera
singer, who has been abroad studying
under Jean de Dez Rezke, has return
ed to New York.
David E. Thompson, American am.
bassador to Mexico, was rur down by
a bicyclist in the center of the city
and suffered a fracture of one arm
and contusions of the face.
Grain men estimate that about TO-
100000 bushels of the new crop in
the Pacific northwest have been sold
to date. Practically all this wheat
has been bought by a few large ex-
porters
The president has issued a procla-
nation for the opening to settlement of
the surplus lands the Rosebud Indian
reservation in South Dakota. The
area covered comprises about 600, 900
acres
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

wen Known Fique IN theatrical world
Of New New York.
Elm Hurst. l.. L., Aug. 27.-Anto-
MO (Tony) Pastor, the theatrical man
ager, died Wednesday night after an
illness Of several weeks.
Mr.. Pastor was seventy-one years of
age and was one OF the best known
theatrical men In New York city.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

Universal peace will come az Bcon
as everybody stops fighting.-Phila-
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

Trinidad, Coo, Aug. ga local
undertaking firm has received a mes
sage from Folsom, n. NJ, ordering
six cOffins for persons drowned there.
Folsom is a hundred miles south Of
Trinidad on the Colorado Southern
railnoad. The town is reported to have
been badly damaged by the food
The known dead at Folsom, be-
sides Dan B. Wenger and his two
children, are:
T. Wheeler and wife. whose bodies
were found buried in the sand. Their
house was washed away and it is
feared that in addition to Mr.. and 4.
Mrs. Wheeler, their two children and
Mr. ANnnoInr,r ricto.. -
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04
80 REPORTED DEAD
Nearly Half the Town Of Folsom,
N. M, Swept Away.
RESULT OF TERRIBLE FLOOD
Only Stone Buildings and Those on
Higher Ground Were Left Standing.
Brave Telephone Operator StaId by
Post and Lost Life.

Trinidad, Colo. Aug. 29.-Between
twenty and thirty dead ;, nearly half
the t. yn swept away, thousands Of
dollars damage to the town proper
ty, and great loss of live stock, tell
briefly the story of the food at Fol.
som early Friday. ,.-..-s s-asas.
Twenty-four hours after the disaster
the first definite news from the stricl1
en- town reached this city when refu-
gees and passengers of a stranded Col-
orado train reached the city shortly
after o'clock Saturday morning.
TO the list of ten known, Friday, to
have been drowned are added seven
more victims. -s-
Many are still missing and several
days may elapse before complete
list of the dead is obtainable.
Eye witnesses of the disaster tell
OF seeing lights fiickering for a mo-
ment In doomed buildings and seeing
the structures crash together as they
drifted into the narrow canon and
were crushed like bits of pasteboard
Some lights could be seen a distance
of nearly mile down stream before
the buildings were finally broken up
and the occupants drowned.
Only stone buildings and those on
higher ground were left standing.
To Mrs. S. ]. Rookie, telephone op-
orator, who lost her life in the food,
many residents owe their escape.
In the face of certain death, tnis
brave woman staid in doomed build
ing until every method of escape was
cut off by water, sending alarms to
every resident who had a telephone.
Greene County herald., 1908-09-04

The Right Rev Robert F. Gailor,
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Tennes-
see, has arrived in New York from
Europe.
Andrew Carnegie has donated $1,000
for tho relief of the families of the
seventy miners who lost their lives as
a result of an explosion in the May
pole coal mine August IS.
Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel, of Phila
delphia, makes denial of the reported
engagement of her daughter, Miss
Margaretta, to Lord Herbert Vane,-
Tempest.
A Texas and Pacific passenger train
was wrecked near Abneys Station
Deputy Sheriff Rogers, of Harrison
county, was killed. There were no
other fatalities.
According to Dr. H. F. Harris, sec
retary of the state board of health,
there al forty cases of suspected hy-
drophObia in and around Atlanta un-
der treatment by the state Pasteur
institute, over which he presides
The convention of American Press
Humorists at Denver, Colo, elected
/ Edmund vance Cooke. of ClavO-
land, o., secretary-treasurer, and re.
elected Frank J. Searight, of Los An.
geles. Cal, president.
Fifty persons narrowly escaped
death, half a dozen were overooms
by smoke, one woman was injured and
a child seriously burned as a result
of a fire in three story tenement
building on Woodlawn avenue, in the
city of Chicago.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-11-18

to the other, we concluded that by run
ming along its top we would be most
certain to get good shot. Clambering
instantly up the steep side, digging my
hands and feet into the loose snow.
and grasping at every tile rock or
frozen projection, reached the top:
and then ran forward along the ridge
a few PAGES. crouching behind the
masses of queerly-shaped sandstone:
and saw. about ninety yards off across
the ravine, couple of mountain rams
The one with the largest horns was
broadside toward me, his sturdy. mass
i've form outlined clearly against the
sky. as he stood on the crest of the
ridge. l dropped on my knee, raising
the rifle as l did so; for a second he
cid not quite make me out, turning his
head half round to look. l held the
sight fairly on the point just behind
his shoulder and pulled the trigger.
At the report he staggered and
pitched forward, but recovered himself
and crossed over the ridge out of sight
We jumped and slid down into the ra-
vine again, and clambered up the op-
posite side as fast as our lungs and
slippery ice would let us; then taking
the trail Of the wounded ram we trot-
ted along. We had not far to go; for
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-11-18
He Couldn't See the Joke.

tThe mother-in-law joke isn't half
as funny to me as 1t was when I was
a bachelor" said a young New Yorker
to his old chum "I've got a pretty
good mother-in-law myself, and she's
visiting us now. That's all right too
But here's my crouch:
whenever we go out in bunch, as
we generally do, ma grabs the baby
every time we sit down-subway, ele-
waited, bridge, surface or ferryboat.
Just grabs the kid, you know. as If it
was her private property; exhibits it
in way to everybody near by, tells
the woman next to her all about how
to raise children and what she's doing
for this particular one; attracts gen
eral attention, you see, with my baby
as star performer and my wife and I
sitting there without chance to say a
word and looking as if we wanted to
apologize for being on earth"
Don't think that's funny, eh?" said
his friend. How your sense of humor
has shrunkr' New York Globe.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-11-18
Absurd STAGE Business.

Theatrical production is full of abb
surdities in business. A situation is
required, situation is thrown in. 1t
makes not the slightest difference if it
be a trolley car crew of song and dance
brothers manning yacht in the desert
Of Sahara. You have the trolley crew
and the yacht and if the scene hap
pens to be section of the arid west
where typhoons take the place of wa
terspouts-well, so much the worse for
the scene. And if the conductors col
lect fares from the sailors to carry out
the business of the song, 1--WE Are Jol-
~, Jolly Street Car Men," the audience
must be prepared to submit calmly to
sandstone Immediately following.
which is necessary to bring on the
wind machine and stereopticon. When
4 comic opera (heaven save the markD
opened at Madison Square roof with
Japanese costumes, Broadway dialogue
Marian setting and Irish comedy
there were absurdities enough to de-
| light a dozen stage directors.-Henry
e. Warner in Bohemian Magazine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-11-18
Runninu For the Car,

If you feel like emulating Sherlock
Holmes try your luck occasionally
when you see some one run for street
car. It's good, easy way to deter
mine the previous training and the
present occupation of the subject.
You will see one fellow dash easily
toward the car with a long, swinging
stride that usually means athletics, but
no special training in the sprint. The
old time college runner can be picked
out by the way he throws his knees in
front, like high bred trotter.
Some waddle, and you must relegate
them to the general category of busy
business men" whose duty to the desk
has robbed them of wind and waist
Others are getting more than their
share Of avoirdupois, but in spite OF
that manage to show you that they are
not out of it by any means. To thai
type 1t is a veritable triumph to over
haul moving car and to swing OF
without the assistance of the conduct
or.-Louisville Courier-J ournal.