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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-22
Trespass Notice.

All persons are hereby warned and
prohibited from cutting. burning, dead
ening, carrying or floating away, or
otherwise injuring or destroying any
trees, timber or wood growing or lying
upon the lands OF PoiteVent & Favre
Lumber Company. Any person so do
ing will be prosecuted under the pro-
visions of Act No. l03 of the laws of
1902. VIC. HUTCHINSON,
Land Agentfor Poite snt 8 Fayre Lum-
Der Company. ap 27t1
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-22
KEEPING 0pFN H0lISF,

Everybody is welcom when we fee
good, and we feel that way only wher
our digestive organs are working
properly. DIR. Kings New Life Pills
regulate the action of stomach, liver
and bowels so perfectly one can t heir
feeling good when he uses these pills
5c at all drug stores.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-22
The Northwestern Dental Co.

When you go to New Orleans to get
yopr dental work done, be sure TO call
At the Northw estern Dental Co. No. 1910
Canal Street. You will lind the finest
and best equipped dental office in the
south, under the management of DIR. L.
4. Brewster. Moderate prices; first.
class work, is the motto. Everything
strictly first class. and q ten year guar
antee on all work.
Open Sundays from to A; evenings
until p. m.
NORTHWESTERN DENTAL. CO..
1910 Canal St. New Orleans. Tia.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-02-22

Charles w. Morse Indicted.
New York, Feb. 1.-THE legal en-
tanglements Of Charles w. Morse,
former banker and promoter, are multi
plying. a third indictment, alleging
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
ED0WNPOURS END $3.50.
1HELONG DROUTH
COpious Rains Fall ID: All States East
the Mississippi River.

Washington, D. G. Especially The
Weather Bureau announced Monday
night that the heavy rains which have
prevailed throughout the country
would be followed by drop in the
temperature. Forecaster Garriott
says it will be about rs degrees cool
er. The rains will cease by Tuesday
in the Middle Atlantic States, but may
continue for "a hours longer in the
New England States.
The breaking Of the prolonged
drouth throughout the country is an
nounced in reports to- the Weather
Bureau. The rains now prevailing
in the territory east Of the Mississip-
pi River started in the Far West
several days ago. While it has not
been of sufficient volume to have any
marked effect on the disastrous for
est and brush fires which have been
sweeping hundreds of thousands of
acres, or on water courses which have
fallen to the lowest points in many
years, the prospect of heavier and
continued rains throughout the East
is held out by the weather forecas-
tiers. If these expectations are real
lied the work of the fire fighters will
be relieved; the wheels of many fac
tories which ceased to turn because
of lack of water power will again
become active, and farmers, for the
first time in many weeks, will be
assured adequate supplies of water
for their livestock.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
THIRTY YEARS IN PRISON.
Sentence Imposed On August Eber-
hard Who Killed His Aunt.

Hackensack, N. ]. Especially .-Au-
gust Eberhard, on trial here for the
murder of his aunt, Mrs. Ottilie
Eberhard, changed his plea to guilty
and was sentenced to serve 80 years
in state prison.
After a conference between the
prosecutor and counsel for Eber-
hard it was started to the court
that the prisoner had agreed to
plead non vult. The prisoners coun-
sci said Eberhard's grandfather
died in an insane asylum, that his
sister now is in an institution for
the insane and that the young man
himself had been acting strangely for
sometime prior to the crime. Judge
Parker said the very fact that Eber-
hard had agreed to changing his
plea proved that his mental derange-
ment was not severe enough to alb
solve him from punishment. There
remained nothing for the court to
do, he said, but to impose sentence
Immediately. Eberhard heard the
sentence without tremor.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
BECAUSE HER f'. 80. !.
LOVER |. DRANK
Disheartened Iowa Girl Committed
Suicide.

Des Moines, Ia. Especially Unable
to stife the love she had for Bert
Willitts, an employee of her fathers
farm, and unwilling to become the
wife of man she believed to be a
drunkard, Miss Lucy Handley, II
years old, living near this city,
wrote pathetic note to her parents
and then drank carbolic acid. She
was missed three days before her
dead body, the empty bottle and note
by her side were found in an unused
corn crib. 1t was believed at first she
had eloped, as Willitts disappeared
the day after she did. He was ar
rested Sunday in Des Moines, to be
held pending investigation. He con-
tends he never made any protestation
of love to the girl
The note to her parents, found by
her side, reads:
September 10, 1908.
My Dear Parents--I really do not
know what to do. am in sorrow
and have hid it as long as possible.
do not just want to die. rather
die than be drunkard's wife, and
l cannot live without him. 1t is
Bert Will1ttS who / mean / love
him. I worship Bert.
God forgive me for this sin l am
about to commit. I know it is
wrong. Bury me in my pink dress as
as possible to Mrs. Ringgenberg.
You can read this to Bert. / have
my own reasons.
God bless you all and help him to
quit drinking.
From your loving daughter,
LUCY HANDLEY.
The girl left home last week, APP
parently light-hearted, saying she
was going down the lane to escape
the MONDAY heat. She never re-
turned. sWillitts disappeared next
day. When arrested, he told the
detectives here that there was moth
ing between him and Lucy, and that
he left the farm because her parents
had accused him of trying to get her
to elope with him. He says he never
went anywhere with her but to
church once, and that her 10-year-
old brother was with them at the
time. He adds that. he never made
any protestations of love and did
not know that the girl cared for
him.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
FINANCIAL

The Guanajuato district of Mexico
is now producing at the rate of $13,-
100000 year.
Since July l twenty Nevada min
ing company stocks have advanced
in value an aggregate off $8,000,000.
New York city sold $4,000, 900 of
revenue warrants to run 80 days and
to yield rs per cent. interest.
Pennsylvania Salt has declared the
regular semi-annual dividend of 6
per cent.
St. Paul directors are said to be
contemplating the identification of
a large part of the mountain sections
of their road.
to convert a decrease of $799,1S9 in
gross earnings to an increase iof
$103,591 in net profits.
Twenty-Five railroads for the sec
ond week of September report a de-
crease of per cent. in gross earn
ings.
The Colorado Mining Company, of
Tintic, is declaring monthly divi-
dends of II cents a share. The
amount distributed each month
among shareholders is $4,000.
American securities are being
bought with confidence by foreign
investors" said Chairman E. H. Gary,
of United States Steel. as he arrived
from Europe.
A fourth dividend of $4,000 has
been paid by the Engineers lease on
the Florence property. The leasers
are taking out $4,000 a day. AS in
the case of other Goldfeld mines,
the leasers are getting the money.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
.SUSQuEHANNA BRIDGE
BREAKS WITH COAL TRAIN
The Perryville End Of B. 6 o. Struc-
ture a Wreck.

Perryville. Md. Especially. - The
377-foot span Of the Baltimore G.
Ohio Railroad bridge over the east
channel of the Susquehanna River,
which is in course OF, reconstruction,
collapsed shortly before o'clock
A. M. carrying with it to the river
below distance of 80 feet, IL cars,
tons of twisted iron Orders and
timbers. The bridge is one of the
finest structures of its kind in the
country, and the damage will amount
to several hundred thousand dollars.
The work was being done by the
American Bridge Company.
When the span gave way a freight
train, composed of loaded coal cars,
was passing over the structure, and
IL of the cars were broken loose
and carried along with the debris.
A Waterman on the bridge was car
ried down with the mass of iron and
timber and seriously injured.
The injured man is William H.
Wilson, of Stokes Street. Havre de
Grace, a Waterman employed by the
railroad company. At the time of
the accident he was standing out on
the span about 25 feet from the
stone pier, and when the crash came,
was carried down along with the
twisted girders and other debris.
He was extricated from the wreck
and hurried to his home, where he
is now lying in critical condition,
suffering from shock and severe
decorations of the body and head.
The collapse of the bridge caused
a slight delay in the regular SEIZED
ule of the road but ARRANGEMENTS
were quickly made with the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad for the use of its
tracks between Swan Creek and
Wilmington. At the former place,
the trains were switched over to
the main line of the Pennsylvania,
using the latter's bridge over the
Susquehanna, with but slight de-
lay in the regular schedule.
The accident caused considerable
trouble for the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, whose cables are
attached to the structure. The lat
ter were broken by the collapse, and
communication between that point
and the North was temporarily cut
OF.
The Baltimore and Ohio has ar
ranged for the building of a tenn
porary branch line from the Perry
vile station of the Pennsylvania.
on the east side of the river to
Akin. a station on the main line of
the former road.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
FLYER PLOWS HEAD-0N -
I IL into Freight LOCOMOTIVE
All in the Shaking Car Dsad Of
Badly Injured. s sgog
CORPSES WEDCED IN THE WRCKaGE,
Snow Prevented Engineer of Passen-
ger Train From Seeing Signals
Baggage. Smoking and Day Coach
Telescoped Or Wrecked Debris of
Smoker Filled With 'Corpses.

Livingston, Mont. Especially. -
Flowing through a snowstorm, east
ward bound, Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy passenger train, running
over the Northern Pacific Railroad,
crashed headon into freight train
at Young's Point, where the trains
were to pass, and in the demo-
lition that resulted, score of lives
were crushed out and a score CT
persons were injured, several prob
ably fatally. The freight fiagman
failed. to signal the passenger in
time to prevent the collision, it is
said, because of the snow.
The express car telescoped with
the smoking car and most of the ia
talities and injuries were of persons
in the latter car. The express car
was raised over the platform of the
smoking car, and the superstructure
swept the seats away. Not a passen-
ger in the smoking car escaped death
or injury. Passengers in other cars
escaped with cuts and bruises.
Corpses Wedged Together.
On the train was the Spokane
delegation to the National Irrigation
Congress at albuquerque. None of
these was injured.
Fireman Ora Babcock jumped and
was killed, striking on his head
Milo Holloway, brakeman, was
killed. The smoking car debris was
hopelessly mixed with heads, bodies,
legs and arms, presenting a horrible
sight. In one place seven bodies
were so tightly wedged together
that they were separated only with
great difficulty. 1t was impossible
to succor the injured without tram
ping on the dead.
Three Coaches Wrecked.
Wrecking and relief trains were
sent out from Livingston and Bill
ings. The freight, which was an
extra westbound in charge of Con-
cuctor Hickey, was heading in at
the east end of the siding on short
time, when the passenger train,
running into the snowstorm, struck
it. On account of the storm neither
train had any warning, and the pas
senger struck the freight locomotive
full in the side, telescoping the bag
gage car and smoking car, and part
ly crashing the day coach. = Little
could be done towards rescuing the
buried and injured passengers until
the wrecking trains arrived. None
of the passengers in the two Sleep
ing cars was injured.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
CHINESE GIFTS TO
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
Ancient PorceIains For the American
Official.

Picking (By Cab1e) Bearing a
letter to the people of the United
States from the hand of the Emper-
or of China, Tang-ShaoYi, a Chin
csc official of high standing, left here
for America by way of Japan. By
the time he returns to Peking he
will have made tour of the world.
He is accompanied by Chung Men
Yew, who succeeds WI Ting-fang
as Chinese minister at Washington.
Tang-Shao-Yi's principal errand to
America is to thank the United
States government for its remission
of a portion of the Boxer indemnity
and to enlist American capital in
the development of Northern China.
Tang-Shao-Yi is taking with him a
number of valuable presents for
American officials. These include 10
ancient porcelains, relics of the
Manchu conquest, taken from the
palace of the present ruling family
at Mukden, and other valuable por-
celainS and jades obtained in the
Peking markets. The Dowager En-
press is sending special presents to
President Roosevelt, as well as sew
eral valuable jades to Mrs. Nicholas
Longworth, the Presidents daughter,
in remembrance of Mrs. Longworth's
visit to Picking in 1905.
The Dowager Empress recently
presented rare Yungching vase to
the Smithsonian Institution, in ac-
knowledge of the restoration by
the United States of one of the an
cestral tablets of the reigning family
that was looted from Picking in 1900.
The gifts being sent out by Tang
hao-Yi-they are so numerous that
several cars are required for their
ansportation-are an expression of
the national sense of obligation for
the remission by America of part of
the boxer indemnity.
The mission is composed of Tang
ShaoYi, its chief; Prince Tsaifu, sec
ond son of Prince Ching and prince
of the fourth grade; Chung Men Yew
and Yung-Kwai, who were at one
time in the diplomatic service at
Washington, and Is secretaries, who
represent various government boards,
but especially. the department of
public works, agriculture and COM
munications. With it go Is Chin
csc students, who are to enter Ameri-
can colleges.
The mission of Tang-Shao-Yi is re-
plete with political possibilities. and
it's outcome is being regarded with
great interest by some of the Euro
pean powers interested in Man
churia.S Efforts have been made to
discredit it. but the sendoff given the
envoy indicates that, no matter what
is thought of his purposes. person
ally he is regarded as an able diplo-
mat.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
Crew Held For Fl Deaths.

Billings, Mont. Especially. = The
coroner's jury returned verdict
holding the crew of the Northern Pa
cific freight train responsible for the
collision near here Friday between a
freight and passenger train in which
FL persons were killed. The jury
found that the freight crew was run
ming on the time of the passenger
train. Prosecutions of the freight
crew will follow.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
Lieut.. selfridge Buried.

Washington, D. C. Especially The
funeral of Lieutenant Selfridge, who
was killed in the fall of the Wright
aeroplane at Fort Myer a few DAYS
ago, was held at Arlington National
Cemetery Friday. The Episcopal
burial rite was observed at the grave
and troopers from the fort fred a
salute. The honorary pallbearers
included Alexander Graham, Bell;
Major G. o. Squier. of the Signal
Corps; Octave Chanute. Glenn Cur
tiss. Capt. F. w. Baldwin. Percy
Bradford and ]. A. d. McCurdy.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
A NEW HERO FUND.
Carnegie Gives $1,25O,OOO For One
For His Native Land.

London (By Cable) Encouraged
by the success that has attended tho
establishment of his hero fund" IN
America, Andrew Carnegie has de-
cided to found similar fund in "his
native land" To this end he is
about to hand over to trustees the
sum of $1.250,00O.
In letter to the trustees, dated
September 81, Mr.. Carnegie says:
The success of my hero fund upon
the North American Continent has
been so great that / have decided to
extend its benefits TO my native
land"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
A Military Tragedy.

Manila Especially "A tragedy oc-
CURED at Camp Jessman Saturday
night, resulting in the death of Lieu
tenant Edward ]. Bloom, of the
Fouth Infantry, and Private Suttles,
Company K. OF the same regiment.
Suttles, for some reason, shot Bloom
and then cut his own throat. SUIT
ties died immeditely, but Bloom lin
gered until Sunday night. An in
vestigation of the affair is being made
by the military officers.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
convicted Murderer Escapes.

Leadville. Col. Especially - Sher-
man Morris, alias Frank Shercliffe,
recently convicted of the murder of
john Walsh, 10 years ago. escaped
from the sheriff while being taken to
the penitentiary at Canyon City to
serve 25-year sentence. Morris,
while handcuffed. jumped from a
car window as the train was APP
preaching Canyon City. He was
brought here for trial from Michi-
gan.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
Dynamite Kills Five.

Scranton, Pa. Especially. = Three
Americans and two Italians were
blown to piecesoin an explosion of
dynamite while working at Cross
Keys Cut. along the Delaware. Lacka-
wanna and Western Railroad, near
Tobyhanna. The five men were
tamping a hole containing Is inches
of dynamite, when is exploded pre-
maturely. The bodies were assem-
bled by means of matching the cloth
ing of the victims.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
woMAN's TRAGIC DEATH.
Priest Administers Last Rites To Sui
eide On The Elevated.

New York (Speciall In the pres
ence of crowd of women shoppers
waiting for. an uptown train at the
Fourteenth Street station of the
Sixth Avenue elevated railroad, a
well-dressed women of &c threw her
self in front of a moving train and
was so terribly injured that she died
few moments later,
The tragic act created almost q
panic on the crowded platform.
Women ran shieking toward the exits
leading to the street and half doz-
en- of them fell in a faint.
While the woman's mangled body
was still lying on the tracks, priest
knelt by it and administered the last
rites of the church while hundreds
of persons who had poured from the
train stood with barred heads.
On the woman's underclothing was
the name Sherwood" written in ink.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
YOUNG Rooseyelt,s job.

Hartford, CT. Especially Theodore
Roosevelt. Jr., is to begin service with
the Hartford Carpet Works, at
Thompsonville, on Monday Recent
ly Mr.. Roosevelt visited the plant
and was shown over 1t by General
Manager Higgins. 1t it not yet
known what his duties will be, but it
is thought he will enter the operating
departments.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
BLACK Hand Worx In Geneva.

Geneva, N. Y. Especially The no.
tel and residence of Raymond Del
Papa, wealthy Italian merchant
and banker, was practically destroy
ed at lao o'clock A. M, by the ex-
plosion of a dynamite bomb, which
is supposed to have been placed in
the bar room by member of the
Black Hand Society.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
WASHING I |. {
BY TELEGRAPH

-
Miss Katharine Wright, on behalf
of her brother for an extension of
the time set for the delivery Of the
aeroplane to the government the
time limit having expired Monday.
The War Department made public
the names of 81 persons appointed
second lieutenants from civil life as
the result of the examination at Fort
Leavenworth, Kan.
According to the report of the
Geological Survey. accidents in coal
mines in the United States caused the
death of 3,125 men, while 5,316 were
injured.
Col. William F. Stewart, of the
Coast Artillery, who is to appear be-
fore a retiring board, reported to the
War Department.
The receipts on account of the sales
of public lands during the last fiscal
year amounted to 11,492,453.
Capt. Edward H. Campbell, judge
advocate general of the Navy, has
been detailed by Secretary Metcalf to
make tour. of inspection of the
naval prisons at Portsmouth, Boston
and Mare Island.
The Postmaster General has decid-
ed not to take up the case of Sher-
man G. Denham, postmaster at
Clarksburg, w. Va, charged with
pernicious political activity, until af
ter the election.
Z President Roosevelt designated
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Frank Pierce to represent the gov
eminent at the Transmiss:ssipp Com
mercial Congress in San Francisco,
October 6 to 10.
ComptrolleR of the Currency Muir
ray assured the bank examiners that
he would consider every complaint
against them as a mark of common
dation.
The Postoffice Department has de-
cided to give up the old postoff1ce
quarters at Ardmore, Okla, and to
lease new building for the post
Office
Samuel Gompers testified in the
contempt hearing that he had been
followed by detectives employed by
Van Cleave, who also sent an ennis
sary to bride him.
China must conserve her fisheries
as a national food declared Wei
Ching Yen before the International
Fisheries Congress at Washington.
DR.. D. Laszio Detre, an Austrian
delegate to the tuberculosis Con-
gress, will innoculate patients with
human and bovine tubercle bacilli.
T. P. Kane, the deputy comptrol-
Ter of the currency, delivered an adj
dress before the National Bank EX-
aminers of the East.
permanent international fish
commission is advocated by dele
gates to the International Fisheries
Congress.
Postofice inspectors arrested James
M. Baucum, a railway postal clerk.
for rlf1ing the mail.
The Census Bureaus report shows
total of 4,575,43S running bales
consumed in the United States dur
ing the year ending August 81 last
compared with 4,9S4,936 for 1907
Comptroller of the Currency Muir
ray has called for a conference of
receivers of banks in the East, num-
bering 16, to be held in his office, be-
ginning October s.
The cruiser Yankee, while bound
from Cuttyhunk for Newport for
coal, in a thick fog ran aground on
Spindle Rock.
The American Fisheries Conven-
ton. in session at Washington, con-
sidered the effect of big-gun firing
on the fish and named a committee
to investigate.
The conference between Comptrol-
Ter of the Currency Murray and the
bank examiners was continued and
additional caution was given.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
To End Night-Riding.

New Orleans Especially Governor
E. F. Noel, of Mississippi. speaking
of the possible growth of night-rid-
ing in the cotton belt. said that if
necessary he would call on the Fed
eral Government for troops to stop
such raids. He would first use State
troops, Governor Noel said, and final
ly seek Federal aid to restrain law
lessness at any cost.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
vANDERBILTs PARTED

Decree OF Absolute Divorce Granted
Elsie French Vanderbilt.
New York Especially Justice Ger
ard, in the Supreme Court, signed the
final decree Of absolute divorce in
favor of Elsie French Vanderbilt
from Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt on
the recommendation of the referee,
David Mcclure.
The introductory decree was
granted on May 26. The custody of
the one child, William Henry Van
derbilt, now about six years of age,
is given to the mother.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
The Pest In Manila.

Manila (By Cable)-The epidemic
of cholera continues to assume less
alarming proportions. The daily av-
erage of new cases discovered or re-
ported is about 80. Josephine Hall,
an American infant, attacked sew
eral days ago. is dead. No Ameri-
cans have been stricken by cholera
since the last report.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-10-02
5000, 900 Feet OF Lumber Burned.

Milford, Me. Especially More than
100000 feet of partially finished
lumber, piled in the yards of the
George w. Barker Company and the
Jordan Lumber Company in this
town, was destroyed by a fire. The
lumber was valued at nearly $175,-
900, the loss being equally divided
between both companies.