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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
Congressional.

Washington, Jan. 9.--Little business
was transacted by the house Wednes
day A resolution was adopted giving
the bill to revise, codiry and amend
the laws the right Of way along with
other preferred measures. The bill
was taken up. but on the conclusion
Of its reading was laid aside to permit
Mr. Gaines. OF Tennessee, to address
The house in favor Of an appropriation
for The Hermitage" the home of An
drew Jackson. near Nashville, Tenn.
The senate was not in session.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
ingalls, Advocates Tariff Reductions.

Lancaster, o., Jan, 9.-Melville II.
ingalls,, of Cincinnati, speaking last
night at the Jackson day banquet ad.
vocated taxation of franchises, tariff
reform. control of corporations, re.
form in banking laws and a higher
grade of citizenship He declared that
the country was in the midst of a
panic due to unwise republican legis-
lation
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
squirrel Hunters" Want Pensions.

Columbus, o., Jan. 9.-Survivors OF
the Squirrel Hunters the men who
In September, 1862, responded to the
call of Gov Tod to save Cincinnati
from the advance of the Confederatcs
under Gen. Kirby Smith, will ask the
Ohio legislature for pensions. They
are not eligible to pensions from the
general government, because not regu'
larly enlisted as members OF the vol.
unteer regiments In the civil war.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09

Washington. Jan. 9.-Attorney Gen
eral Bonaparte has directed the vari.
ous United States attorneys to insti-
tute suits against large number of
railroad companies to recover penal.
ties incurred by them for alleged vio
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
Must Pay $1,000 Fine.

Cincinnati, Jan. 9.-The national
baseball commission in session here
Wednesday wired President Brush, of
the New York National league club,
that he must pay within week the
81 900 fine assessed against that club
last winter for> refusing to play at
New Orleans according to agreement.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
Earmer .Attempted suicide.

Delaware. o., Jan. 9.-Because his
wife was not saving wood as fast as
he thought she might, Logan Snyder
a farmer west OF here. became SO
angry that he attempted to take his
life. lie secured rifle and attempted
to blow out his brains, but the bullet
glanced, only shattering his skull. He
may recover.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
sontlls is Fined $50 for Assault.

Denver, Jan. 9.-Fred c. BOnfils,
one of the proprietors of the Denver
Post. was on Wednesday found guilty
OF assault and battery on ex-United
States Senator Thomas NJ. Patterson,
principal owner of the Rocky Noun.
tain News and the Denver Times. JUS
tice of the Peace Carlon fined Bonfils
$50 and costs
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
suiclded by the Acid Route.

Cleveland, Jan. 9.-Standing before
his wife and with his three small chill
dren in the next room, Fred Raiman
27, took carbolic acid last night at his
home on the West Side. Hurried to
st. Johns hospital in an ambulance
he died just as he was placed on the
operating table.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
Made a New Record.

Philadelphia, Jan. 9.-The anthra.
cite coal tonnage for the year 1907
was the greatest in the history of the
hard coal trade. The various rail.
roads which transport anthracite
moved 67,109393 tens. This exceeds
TIE tonnage of 1906 by / 100000 tons
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
Was Asphyxlated by Natural Gas.

Canton, o., Jan. 9.-William Harris
of Windsor, Canada, was found dead
IN his room here Wednesday. He was
'asphyxiated BY fumes from q natural
gas stove. Harris was u marble cutter
and recently worked In Akron.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
Negro Shot a Cigar Dealer.

Cleveland, Jan. 9.-Harry l.. Car
penter, aged Al, of 134S East One Hun
dred and Twelfth street, was fatally
shot by negro in his cigar store al
922 Superior avenue Wednesday after
noon. The negro, whom he had or
dered to leave the store, escaped.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
All the Injured viii Recover.

Atlanta, Ga, Jan. 9.--Of the nearly
100 persons who suffered injuries In
the wreck of the Collyer special on
the Southern railway near Hiram, Ca,
Tuesday, nearly score are confined
to hospitals, but 1t is expected all will
recover.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
Ruef Joins His Old Pal.

San Francisco, Jan. 9.-Abraham
Ruei confessed bribe taker was last
night transferred from his private
prison to the jail at Ingleside. where
he joined ex-Mayor Schmitz
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
Troops Guard a Tobacco Warehouse

Frankfort, KY, Jan, 9.-Gov Will
son last night ordered ten militiamen
to so to Lebanon to guard the tobacco
warehouse. A Calling gun was order,
ed TO Lexington.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09

There is more Catarrh in this sec
tion of the country than all other
diseases together, and until the
last few years was supposed to
be incurable. For a great many
years doctors pronounced 1t a local
disease and prescribed local RENE
dies, and by constantly falling to
cure with local treatment, pro.
nounced it incurable Science has
proven catarrh to be a constitutional
disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall Is
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by
+. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is the only constitutional cure on
the market. It is taken internally
In doses from 10 drops to a tea
spoonful. 1t acts directly on the
blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case It falls ito
cure. Send for circulars and testi-
monials.
Address F. j. Cheney 4 Co., To-
ledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for
constipation.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
The chIcaaoan Got the Decision.

Peoria. ILL.,, Jan. 0.-John Conlon, OF
Chicago. last night won the decision
over kid Murphy, Of New York, In
the tenth round OF fight for the ban
tanweight championship.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
Low Rent War Is Less Fierce.

New York, Jan. 9-The gloom OF
the rent strikers was turned to Joy
Wednesday when the large number Of
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-09
$40 TO HOLD BABY A MINUTE.
Father Pays High for Caress and
Wife Later Has Him Arrested.

Pittsburg, Pa.--Forty dollars min
ute was the price paid by Frederick
Leonard for the privilege of holding
his own child in his arms. according
to a statement he made In court
Leonard Is the husband of Rev. Mrs
Mary +. Leonard, of the Free Meth
odist church, and he was brought in
to court by his wife on a charge ol
nonsupport.
"We have little baby that
haven't seen for months" Leonard
said. 81 got so hungry for a sight ol
the little fellow that one day | trav
eled to East Liverpool, o., where my
wife had gone to conduct services.
offered her all the money | had with
me, $40, if she would put the baby ir
my arms The child was brought
out, paid over the money, the baby
was placed in my arms and IN min
ute's time it was snatched away again
by my wife"
The court ordered Leonard to pay
his wife three dollars a week.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16
Hearst's Statement

Omaha, Neb. Oct. 16.-W. R. Hearst, en route to Chicago, last night gave out the following state- ment regarding the suit brought by Governor Haskell, against him:
 When MT Haskell first declared several long weeks ago that he was going to suit me, he said that he was unable to raise the necessary money. At that time offered to supply any deficit in order that he might speed fly bring the suit. When he stated that he could not find me to serve me. stated that I would accept service if the summonses were mere> ly mailed to my address.
 "Mr Haskell adopted the sansa- tional method of breaking into my sleeping rooms to serve the summons but he did not adopt the sincere method of setting the trial before the election.
 T am called 10 answer on the 1e day of November. 1908. I reinerate all that I have said of MT Haskell and all that he has proved by his resignation as national treasurer. do not believe that this case will ever come to trial and I defy him to bring 1t to trial long enough before November for his true character to be thoroughly exposed in court"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16
Governor Has Resigned

St Pierre, Mia. Oct. Ex-Governor Antoinetti of the French colony of Miquelon has resigned his position and will no longer make his resi- dence here, according to information received from the celoial department in Paris. because of sSolitical differ ences between him and Louis Legas- se,. a member of the French chamber of deputies. Following his resigna- tion of the Miquelon governorship, Governor Antoinetti accepted the of flee of secretary general to France at Dahomey, one of the French possess sions on the west coast of Africa. The governor went to Paris recently and placed the matter before the colonial officials in an attempt to ad- just it. He was offered the cross of the Legion of Honor and urged to return to the Miquelon governorship but he declined.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16

impossible to assume that both pos sess the sterling qualities of charac- ter which we demand of the occu- pants of the ofices for which they are nominated. A square deal with injustice to none, is what we, in Con necticut, demand. If the congress sional committees report is true as to his (Lilley's) character, then you nor any other republican of national re- pute has any right to engage in an effort to secure his election to the governorship of this state even by a passive endorsement. If, on the other hand, the report is not true or justified by the fact bearing upon the case, then a great injustice has been done George l.. Lilley and state by the nominee for vice-president, and you cannot be justified in helping to elect to the second highest office in the United States man (J. s. Sher- man) who was party to the finding of that committee.
 ask you in all seriousness as one desires to know the truth in the mat ter, If you, knowing the facts, will endorse him in view of the commit tees report and brand 1t and MT Sher- man as dishonest?
 Who is worthy and which Is right? J. 5. sherman or George l.. Lilley? It Is evident that both cannot be and appeal to you to set me right in the matter, involving, as it does, the character of the two candidates in
 Yours respectfully,
 N. A. TANNER,
 190 Grand Avenue
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16
FLEET IS LATE
All Plans Kpecked 0ui al Tetlo For EpieriaIuIDg American
 Sailors.

Tokio, Oct 16.-The announcement of days delay in the arrival of the American battleship fleet has caused something akin to consternation in Tokio and Yokohama because of the necessity for wide departures from the programme of entertainment which had been arranged d-up to the last minute details.
 Officers of the Japanese navy who have taken active part in the prepara- tions have been in constant consulta- ton with Commander John A. Dough- erty, the naval attache at the Ameri- can embassy. The date of various social functions has been changed and the fleet is expected to depart on Sunday, October 25, instead of on the day preceding.
 No word has been received here from Rear Admiral Sperry since early this morning. At 3:30 a. m. the sixteeen battieships were off Cape Shiomi, about 400 miles south of the entrance to the harbor.
 The tender Yankton preceding the fleet is slowly approaching Yokoha- ma and may possibly enter during the night. The weather is cold and cloudy and the sea is, ~till very rough.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16
LilIey Would Drop Matter.

Congressman George l.. Lilley re- publican candidate for governor, when asked yesterday if he intended to make public at that or any time in the near future the other letter" from President Roosevelt which MT Lilley did not read at the rally here Tuesday night, said:
 "The first letter was merely re- quest from President Roosevelt for g copy of my speech regarding navy yards, and wishing me success, as has been published. The second letter 1 read at the rally here"
 MT Lilley was asked the dates of the letters, and replied that the first was written the Eth and the second the 10th, as its publication shows.
 The republican candidate said that he did not care to make any fur ther statement on the matter at pres ent.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16
CITY NEWS.

Fulton's band concert and social at Buckingham hall Saturday evening.
 The selectmen, registrars of voters and the town clerk sat in the city court room to-day for the purpose of making voters, and up until 2:45 o'clock this afternoon 166 new names were placed on the voting lists of Waterbury. The session opened at 9 o'clock this morning and will close this evening at o'clock. The latter part of the morning there was a big rush of voters to be made and the board was kept very busy during the noon hour. The men took only a short recess for lunch and started again this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The number made to-day is only a small fraction of the number of names on the list to be made.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16
To Welcome Bryan.

Denver, Oct 16.-Elaborate pre- parations have been made for the re- ception to w. J. Bryan, democratic candidate for president. who win ar rive here tonight to address a Mon- ster mass meeting at the auditorium and also overflow meetings. A re- cetpion committee headed by Johr E. Osborne of Wyoming, chairman of the western democratic national headquarters committee. will meet the candidate at Barr, twenty miles from the city, and accompany him to the city. A parade will move through the principal streets, stop ping at selected points, where MT Bryan will speak briefly. Marching clubs from all sections of the state will escort MT Bryan to the Audi torium and will occupy reserved seats within during his address.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16
Presidents Positive DisavOwal.
 (By Associated Press

Washington, Oct 15.-President Roosevelt has not interfered in the Connecticut political situation, either for or against Representative George l.. Lilley,, republican candidate for governor, it was stated at the white house to-day.
 In a letter to MT Lilley made pub lie yesterday at Waterbury, the presi- dent said he heartily approved of MT Lilley's speech in the house last win ter relative to the conduct of navy yards and the bureau system. At the white house to-day 1t was said that only part of the letter had been made public by MT Lilley.
 The congressman wrote to the pres ident recently for confirmation of a conversation which took place be- tween them last winter after the speech had been delivered. The pres ident requested MT Lilley to send him a copy of the speech and when he re- ceived it he recollected the converse tion. He then wrote the letter re- quested by MT Lilley, explaining in the first paragraph that he was writ ing merely to confirm the converse tion as requested.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16
American Women.

Buffalo, N. r., Oct 16.-Tributes to the pioneers in the woman suffrage movement and study of ways and means to spread their propaganda in the future, engrossed the attention of the delegates at to-day's sessions of the fortieth annual convention of the National American Woman s Suffrage association. The speakers at the commemorative services in honor of the first woman's rights con- vention included many descendants of the delegates who took part in that gathering at Seneca Falls in 1S4S. Reports of state presidents submitted at the morning session in- cluded: Connecticut, Elizabeth D. Bacon.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16
SALT DOCK FIRE
Fire Ia CbIcsgo Damaged One Million Dol.
 lars Worth of Properly
BLAZED LIKE A FORCE

Chicago, Oct 16.-The Internation- al Salt docks, the Calumet elevator, the offices of the Elgin. Joliet & East ern railway and two steamships were destroyed early to-day in one of the most spectacular fires Chicago has had in many year. The loss it is estimated will reach $1,000,000.
 The salt docks are owned by the Joy Morton Co., The Calumet eleva- tor, which is nearby the salt docks was stocked with 1,500,000 bushels of corn. It blazed like a great torch and the strong wind sent burning brands in showers over the dwellings in the neighborhood. It is thought that spark from a passing locomo- tive started the fire.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16
LILLEY HIT HARD
President Says Be Dld Nol Pub. lIsh All Ills Leiler-Lllley
 Says lt Was Private
AND THE END NOT YET

President Roosevelt yesterday pub. licly and emphatically denied the in- situation of George L. Lilley that he, the president, had wished him every success in his campaign. for the governorship of Connecticut. In . statement given out at the white house to the Associated Press last night, which will reach the papers of every city Of importance In the coun- try, and also in a letter to a private citizen of New Haven, the president declares he has not interefered in the Connecticut political situation either for or against MT Lilley.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16
Tanner Letter to President.


 Following is the fetter of MT Tan ner to MT Roosevelt:
 New Haven, Conn, Oct 13, 1908. President Theodore Roosevelt, Wash
 ington, D. O..
 Dear Sir: In your letter to George L. Lilley of Waterbury you are cred ited by the press as expressing your hearty wishes for his success in his canvass for governor for this state. Will you kindly permit me, as life long republican, to ask you a perti. nent question in reference to the man you so earnestly hope to see elevated to the gubernatorial chair of this state. Do you consider him worthy of the honor? If the report of the congressional committee appointed to investigate the charges made by George L. Lilley against members of congress. and especially against the members of the naval committee, is essentially true, in which he (Lilley) Is charged with being liar and un- fit to associate with gentlemen" then he is unworthy to be governor of the state of Connecticut or to hold any other political office, and your en- dorsement of him with the earnest wish for success, is only to give moral support to his candidacy, but to use the prestige of your high of flee to secure the election of a man, who, according to your expressed and acknowledged high standard of char knt nI 5e wholly unworthy the honor he seeks.
 If, on the other hand, the report as presented to congress Is not true, 1t is a gross libel on the Hon George l.. Llley and the state he represents in congress, in which case the signers of that report and those who voted for 1t, including the Hon James Schoolcraft Sherman, vice-presiden- tial nominee on the republican ticket, have been guilty of great and ir- reparable crime against an innocent colleague. thereby forfeiting the re- spect of all honorable citizens. And in the event of which, not one could vote the national republican ticket with the said Sherman as yice-presi- dent without stultifying himself. In view of the congressional commit tees report. both nominees (Sher- man and Lilley) cannot. by any possi- ble reasoning, be worthy the ofices for which they have been nominated, and I appeal to you for the truth which I and many other republicans of this state, desire upon this point, that we may vote intelllgently for the one representing the highest ideals of honor and integrity.
 Under all rules of evidance It is
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16
WORKING AS USUAL.
Paper Makers Ordered Out on Strike
 Refuse to Go.

Berlin, N. H., Oct 16.--The paper makers employed at the Cascade and Riverside mills in fs,Nis city who were ordered out on strike in telegram received yesterday from President Ca- rey of the International Brotherhood of Paper Makers went to work as us. ual to-day. In accordance with the decision reached at their meeting last night, the paper makers prepared to hold meeting at o'clock this after noon to consider the matter further and meanwhile officials of the local brotherhood got into telegraphic com munication with President Carey at Watertown, N. Y. The employees of these two mills which are independ. ent concerns. appear satisfied with the conditions there and the min agents deny the allegation tnat. the mills have been making paper for the International and Great Northern Pa- per Co.'S against which the brother hood is conducting strike at several points.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16
THE DOGS OF WAR.
Mere Than Mere Figure of Speech h
 Remote Times.

Mere Than Mere Figure of Speech h
 Remote Times.
 The "dogs of war" is not a mere fig- ure of speech. In remote times dogs were used for war purposes. Plutarch and Pliny relate many instances-i. e., of Agesilaus at the siege of Mantinea, of Cambyses in his expedition to Egypt, of the king of the Geromantians in re- gaining his throne. Aeneas (6OO B. O tells of dogs that carried letters In their collars; also the Clmbrians and Teutons kept dogs. These, however, were fight. ing dogs. justly dreaded by the Roman soldiers <.
 The Roman military author Vegetius reports that dogs were used in the for ti6ed towers to make known by their barking the approach of the enemy and to keep the garrisons awake; also dur ing the middle ages war dogs were used for guarding camps and bulwarks. Scotch bloodhounds were specially re- puted for tracking escaped prisoners. They were also used for attacking the enemy's cavalry, mutilatlng the horses with the prongs and hooks of their coats of mail. To these coats firepots were attached, which set the camps on fire. Tn the days of Granson and Mur- ten CATO the battles started with a fight of Swiss dogs against Burgundian dogs, and at Murten the Burgundian dogs were dismembered by their ad- versaries from the Alps. It is said that after the discovery of America war dogs slaughtered not less than 1000 Indians.
 The employment of dogs for fighting purposes continued in modern times. Emperor Charles V. Q51S-155G re- ceiyed from England 4.000 dogs as subsidiary forces against France. At valence French and Spanish dogs joined battle. in which the latter re- mained victors. As late as in the sev- enteenth century war dogs were used as scouts against the Turks. In 1922 an assault on the Acropolis of Athens by the Greeks was frustrated by dogs. The French employed dogs in Tunis against Arabian tribes. In Mexico in 1864 the dogs of the Zaccateca volun- teer corps proved the most terrible ad- versaries of the Mexican guerrillas until they were got rid of by poison. Tn the last Turko-Russian war uS77- 1873 the Russians employed war dogs both In Europe and in Asia. The Austrians and Hollanders also used trained dogs successfully to protect themselves against being surprised by the enemy and to find their adver- saries in the impenetrable thickets.
 Today the dog is no longer employed as fighter He is trained to carry ammunition 10 the battlefield, to guard the outposts. prevent skirmishers from stealing at too close range. forward letters and. finally, as a samaritan in finding the wounded after . battle.- Minneapolis Journal.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-16
Many Actuaries There.

Newark, N. J., Oct 16.-With sixty actuaries representing all the lead ing life insurance companies of the United States in attendance the an- nual meeting of the Actuarial society of America which began here yester- day was continued to-day. It was expected that many motters of inn portance to both the companies and the insured would be discussed by the various speakers. Former United States Senator John F. Dryden, presi- dent of the Prudential Insurance Co. was one of the principal speakers of the day.