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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-08-11
SENATORW B. ALLISON DEAD |
Spent More Than Half His Life in
National Service.
Dean of the Upper House of Com
gress Victim of Kidney Trouble
at Dubuque (Iowa) Home.

Dubuque, Iowa. United States
Senator w. B. Allison died at his
home here after suffering for two
weeks from a prostate enlargement
complicated with a disease of the kid
ney. He died in a period of uncon-
seriousness.
He went to Congress in 1863, hay
ing been elected for the first time in
the preceding fall For forty-three
of the succeeding forty-five years he
has been man to be reckoned with
at Washington, D. G.
He was born in logcabin in Perry,
Wayne County, Ohio, on March Q,
1929, The son of a pioneer farmer,
he had hard struggle for an educa-
ton, earning himself the money
which took him through Allegheny
and Western Reserve Colleges, en-
ploying the familiar method of teach
ing school which has enabled so many
members of Congress to get their
start in life. He was admitted to the
bar in 1851 and soon afterward went
to Iowa and settled at Dubuque, ever
afterward his home. He had been in
politics in Ohio, and kept in them in
iowa, An Ohio birth and an Iowa
training give man all exceptional
advantage in the game of politics.
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In All Parts Of the State.

Scott Thompson, of PauIshoro,
broke knee-caD while playing bail.
Miss Julia Estelle Drucker was in
stantly killed at Seabright by tr&in
which struck the carriage in which
she rode.
Stephen P. Smith, of Leesburg.
who graduated from Pennington Sem
mary in June, has won scholarship
at Rutgers College.
While working on Captain Sails
burys boat al Paulsboro, J. Paul
HUFF fell and broke one rib ana sus-
tanned some bad bruises.
Christopher Knisell, of Mullica
Hill. was eighty-two years old re
Gently, and spent the day laying
bricks in the wall of the new school
house.
After sixty years consecutive SER
vice as telegrapher Charles II
Schermerhorn, for forty years man
ager Of the Plainfield Western Union
telegraph Office, was retired on a pen
sion of SOFA month by that company,
William L. Taylor, well-known
real estate operator, died at Belmar.
He was fifty-seyen years old and
leaves four sons, among them Com.
missioner Frank M. Taylor and Or
Walter Taylor.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-08-11
STRIKERS FIRE AT CARS.
Men in Ambush Shoot at Non-Union
Men in Alabama.

Birmingham, ALA special pas.
senger train on the Birmingham Min,
eral Road, bearing non-union miners
under protection of the Alabama Ma.
tional Guard and deputy sheriffs to
the coal mines at Blocton, was fired
on at o'clock in the morning. Three
men were killed and eleven wounded,
two of whom probably will die.
The killed. John T. Collins, con,
ductor; o. 2. Dent, deputy sheriff;
Willard Howell, non-union miner.
The wounded: A. G. Bryant, dep.
uty sheriff; j. B. Cornett, deputy
sheriff; E. e. Cox, superintendent OF
mines; A. E. Gross, chief clerk; Major
F. Fl. Dodge, superintendent of safety;
j. G. Johnson, deputy sheriff; ]. C..
Martin, wounded in head; w. H. Nc.
Auly, soldier; A. ]. Myer, laborer;
M. A. Pearson, soldier: Robert Sig
mon.
Dogs were hurried to the scene and
took trails through the woods directly
to the union quarters. Eight negroes
were arrested and other arrests are
expected.
The affair has caused widespread
indignation, and general demand Is
being made that vigorous steps be
taken looking to the preservation OF
order.
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Body Hangs AZ Half-Mast.

Hanging at half-mast on a fiagp lie
on the steel pier at Atlantic City, the
body of Ellsworth Mutt, Waterman
on that structure, was found. Mutt
had grown respondent through slf~
fering from an incurable disease.
Realizing he could not live many
months, he decided to commit suicide.
When supposed to be on duty, he
went to the ocean end of the pier.
Climbing forty feet up the fiagpole.
he fitted his head in a moose and let
himself hang free. He was missed
by his companion Waterman, who
started search for him. Though the
body was warm when found it was
too late for the physician who was
called to be of any service. Mutt had
been employed many years as a
Waterman. He left wife and two
children.
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oULD BARNEY 10 THE Roy.

Arrahl Barney ma bouqGal, It's courtin'
X AM You 6ut. just out oilyour dressesl
Ills the light in your eye, like new-risen
star,
That this news to your father confesses.
Now ye're off to the town,
For the sun has gone down,
An the spell O the gloamin' is Ger ye.
Faith, yeer started like me,
But it's lucky yen be
III ye end like yer father before ye
Oh, the glamour O. night
Breeds a passion too light
For dacint long life-time's adornin',
But the blessin' that cheers
All the slow-wheelin' years
Is the love, that blooms warm in the
mornin'
Arrah! Barney ma bouchal, when I was
courted one lass an another,
But the sorra bit comfort from amy had
1lll l came on the heart O. your mother.
On, her charms they were rare
In the dusk, at the fair
At the dance. in the house SHE was born in,
But her heart, it was found
When | happened around
Where she sang at her work in the mornin'
Oh, the glamour O. night
Breeds passion too light
For dacint long life-time7s adornin'.
But the blessin' that cheers
All the slow-wheelin' years
Is the love that blooms warm in the
mornin'
81 A. DAILY, in the Catholic Standard and
Times.
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The Unemployed.
By ELLIS 0. JONES.

II understand you have what Is
called the problem of the unem-
ployed What might that be?" asked
the Man from Mars.
THAT is very serious problem, !"
answered the Professor of Political
Economy. Now and then, we are
unable to find work for a large nuns
Der of our people. ("
II don't see any problem in that, "
said the Man from Mars. where
came from, no one wants to work any
more than one has to and, if there
were no work to be done, it would
merely indicate that we were in a
highly prosperous condition. How
ever, I must say that your country
does not appear to me to have reached
that stage of perfection where any
considerable number of people could
profitably remain idle. That is tc
say, l see lot of matters in an I'M
finished and imperfect condition upon
which human labor could well be APP
Piled with profit to the community. =
"You are right, said the Professor
of Political Economy. "But don't you
see that, under our system of individ.
ual initiative, we have parceled out
the control of our jobs to the wise
and stable men of the community and
of course they could not be expected
to provide work unless they could
make profit out of it?"
"Oh, that's different. said the Man
from Mars. You say the people
make this arrangement and then you
say it doesn't work well. Why do the
people not change it?"
"That would be unconstitutional
and an abrogation of long line OF
judicial decisions "
Are constitutions and judicial de.
cisions of more Importance than pop.
ular decisions?" asked the Man from
Mars, not for the purpose of starting
an argument, but to get information.
Eyes and no." answered the Pro.
lessor
@Then it looks to me as if the PEG.
pie would some day decide to change
the system" said the Marsian.
"That's what we are afraid of. re.
piled the Professor; but we hope to
keep them satisfied by organized char.
ity and free libraries. must say it's
too bad Adam Smith did not explain
the matter a little more fully. -
From Puck.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-08-11
AUCKLAND GREETS
FLEETS OFFICERS
New ZeaIands Prime Minister
Presents Album TO Roosevelt.
FINE RECORD FOR BATTLEsHIps
American Commander, Admiral Sper-
ry, Says Meeting of Atlantic and
British Fleets Makes For the
Maintenance Of Peace.

Auckland, New Zealand Cloudy
weather greeted the landing Of Adj
miral Sperry, Commander-in-Chi Of
the United States Atlantic feet, and
his officers to receive official welcome
to Australasian waters at the hands Of
Sir Joseph George Ward on behalf of
the Government
Battered by Pacific gales, washed
by seas that swept the decks and
shook the great masses of steel like
chips on pond, the battleships
looked as fresh and clean as though
they had just completed cruise
around the harbor, instead of a cruel
ling grind of 1850 miles through the
wastes of the Pacific
Never has such record been made
by modern navy. Without once
stopping, without once adding to the
coal supply or equipment with which
they left Honolulu, the battleships
have plowed through waters which
never before held such an aggregation
of sea power, to be received in for
eign port hours ahead of the time
planned.
The landing was made at the newly
erected quay at the foot of Queen
street, the city's principal thorough
fare, at the shore end of which an
deliberately decorated stand had been
erected for the reception. Grouped
about the Prime Minister were the
members of the Cabinet and repre-
sentatives of the various town, Dor
ough and country districts of the do
minion
Immense crowds thronged the
streets, and the roofs and verandas of
houses adjacent were moving masses
Of humanity. 1t was a great recep-
ton and unbounded enthusiasm pre-
vailed
In his address Sir Joseph eulogized
President Roosevelt as representing
the best traditions of the common
blood of civilization. He then pre-
sented to Admiral Sperry for Presi-
dent Roosevelt decorated gold and
silver album. suitably inscribed as a
souvenir of the visit of the American
feet to New Zealand. Admiral Sperry
received beautifully illuminated adj
dress of welcome enclosed I'M hand
some casket of wood with an inlaid
cover having design emblematic of
New Zealand
The American Commander-in.
Chief, in replying to the Prime Min.
lister, said that no greeting would ap.
peal more strongly to President
Roosevelt than that coming from q
people small in number, but great in
achievements. The reception of the
American feet, the Admiral con,
tinued, showed that the ties of blood
and friendship meant more than peo-
pie understood
He described Auckland Harbor as
magnificent and safe, and as excelling
any harbor in the Pacific, except that
at Sydney, and perhaps Manila.
Every facility the naval commander
might desire was to be had here.
In his address of welcome on be.
half of the citizens of New Zealand
Lord Plunkitt, the Governor, said
that King Edward and President
Roosevelt were honored, not because
of their positions, but for the noble
work they had done and were doing
for their countries and for humanity,
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NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Fatal Auto Accident.

A shocking automobile accident oc-
Cured on the Susquehanna & West
ern Railroad crossing at Bogota,
when big touring car, hired by DR..
James Curtis, of Church street, Pater-
son, was struck by train, west
bound. Donald Holmes, a lawyer, of
Paterson, was killed, the top of his
head being crushed in. DR.. Curtis
had his leg broken between the hip
and the knee, suffered internal injur-
les and his head was cut and bruised
Wallace Paul, of Ellison street, Pat
erson, had his head and body cut and
bruised. James Shaw, the chauffeur,
suffered fractured skull and was in
iured internally w H. Turner, Of
No. 394 Fifteenth avenue, Paterson,
had his shoulder wrenched and head
severely cut. Harry Fernback was
slightly cut and bruised.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-08-11
STRIKE ON CANADIAN PACIFIC
$4,000 Union Shop Men Qrit Work
Weekly Pay S25O.OOO.

Winnipeg, Manitoba. Union shop
men employed by the Canadian Pa.
cific Railway struck in all shops on
the system from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and all shops are idle. 1t is
estimated that 10000 men went out,
the largest number being $500 in
Montreal. Fifteen hundred quit al
Winnipeg. Two thousand men left
work between Fort William and Van.
couver, all at the dictates of the Elk
ecutive Committees of the various
unions affected. Even old workmen
in line for pensions went home, and
1t seems to be the most extensive
strike in the history of railway shops
in Canada.
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Jottings About Sports.

John Sanford's Mohawk H. broke
down when leading in a race at Sarss
toga.
I.eander Boat Club representatives
and the Belgian eight qualified fol-
the final in the Olympic regatta al
Henley ON Thames, England.
Jack Gilday, an elghteen-year-old
life-saver, swan five and half miles
through He'll Gate, N. r., in l hour
and 90 minutes, record.
Arrangements have been made
whereby there will be race between
German and American Sonderklasse
yachts OF Marblehead next year.
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MoER1srowN rosrorFrcR.
Open from Z in the Morning l-ltII 7
In the Evening.


MAILS CLOSE.
1904. NJ For New York and all iatermedi-
ate stations.
s.1b A. M.-For Easton. Newton, Chester and
all intermediate stations. Whippany.
s.15A. M-For Brookside, Mendham and al.
stations on the Rockaway Valley Railroad
s.l5A. M.--For New York and intermediate
Stations.
p.l5A. M.-For Mount Freedom.
e.45 a. M.-For Newark. New York and be-
yond.
HIS M.-For Newark. New York and hs
yond.
l25 P. M-For New York and all intesnle-
date stations.
Esp. M-For Rockaway and Dover
$50 p. M.-For New York and all interme-
date stations
MAILS READY FOR DELIVERY.
1904. M-From New York and intsrn.edi-
ate stations.
$50 A. M.-From Haekettstown and inter
mediate stations whippany. Mt Freedom.
A.M--From Broolzside, Mendham and All
stations on the Roekaway Valley Railroad
$500 A. M.-From New Yort= and intermedi-
ate stations.
IL A.. NJ. From poFer.
.l.1O ?. ". From New York and intsrmeds-
ate stations
I.2S r. M.-Frum New York.
s.s0P. M.-From Philadelphia, Easton, New
ton, Chester and intermediate stations
Asp. M.-From Brookside, Mendham and Al
stations on the RcclxAway Valley Railroad
%4APM .-From New York and tntermedis
ate stations
sAl4 From Newark and New York
sDeIiyered By carriers.
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When Governor Fort was thrown
from his horse while at the military
encampment at Sea Grit it was not
known that he had sustained any
more serious injury than Slight
bruises. A few days ago he felt a
soreness under his left arm, and upon
examination it was found rib had
been broken. w. G. Schauffier, sur
geon of the second troop, atssr led
the Governor.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-08-11
CUMMINs A CANDIDATE.
Cuts Short His Vacation and viii
Confer With Political Friends.

Lake Forest, Hit shall certain
.ly make an effort to succeed Senator
Allison" said Governor Cummins,
when he was told of the Senator's
death and asked concerning his polit-
ical intentions. He refused, however,
to say what he would do regarding
the Senatorship during the unexpired
portion of Senator Allison's term,
which ends on March 4, 1909. Gov
ernor Cummins will cut short his va
cation and return to Des Moines.
The death of Allison is hard blow
to- the "Old Guard" which had al
ready begun to lose its dominating
inHuencG in the Senate
AIlison's place will undoubtedly be
filed first by the appointment and
then by the election of Governor
Cummins, who is another radical, and
opposed to much if not all that the
other remaining members of the "Old
Guard" stand for. 1t is. the begin
ming of the greatest change that has
taken place in the Senate in many
years.
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Kites Protect Chicks.

The science of aviation has been
adopted by John Wolfe, poultry
man, who has farm at the top OF
Hook Mountain, to protect his young
chicken from the depradations of
hawks. Wolfe keeps several large
box kites flying above his memories.
and the hawks take no chances of an
encounter with such uncanny looking
birds
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CANCER KILLS pETTIBoNE.
Death of Miners Leader Follows an
Operation in Denver.

Denver, Col. - George Pettibone.
for years prominent in the councils
of the Western Federation of Miners.
and charged with President Meyer
and former Secretary Haywood with
completely in the murder of former
Governor Stuenenberg, of Idaho, died
In st. .Joseph's Hospital after an OPP
Grafton for cancer.
Pettibone had been i'll ever since
his confinement in the Idaho peni-
Tertiary, which lasted more than
year, before the trial at Boise. A
widow survives him.
Pettibone was tried and acquitted
In Boise after the acquittal of Hay
wood Meyer was discharged.
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Police Chief Resigns After Probe.

Chief of Police Creeden, of Rari-
tan, who was on the rack before the
State Excise probers for owning q
saloon while at the head of the vii
lage constabulary. has resigned his
office and will devote his time to the
saloon. Creeden was charged with
having given beer to his friends on
Sunday, which is forbidden by the
law. Creeden conducted the saloon
under the name of William H9onen,
one of his employees.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-08-11
pythians March, 10000 Strong.

Ten thousand members of the Uni.
form Lodge, Knights of Pythias. re-
splendent in uniform, and led by
bands. marched through the streets
of Boston. The parade was composed
of twenty-five brigades of Pythians
from every section of the country. as
well as Canada.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-08-11
Shedding His Skin.

William Cake, an employee of the
Trenton Linoleum Company, at Tren-
ton, is shedding his skin, the twenty.
eighth time in his fifty-three years Of
life. His ailment battles all treat
ment by physicians. Cake has beer
afflicted since infancy. He once had
the same skin for nine years. Al an
other time he shed his skin three
times in fourteen weeks.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-08-11
HORSE FELL; JOCKEY KILLED.
j. Boadwee, Rider of Rufus, Died in
Saratoga Hospital.

Saratoga, N. Hockey ]. Boad.
wee. who was thrown while riding
Rufus in the Beverwyck Steeplechase
at the race track, died at the Saratoga
Hospital several hours later. Boad-
wee was picked up after his fall and
taken to the hospital unconscious.
Rufus was remounted after throwing
Boadwee and finished third in the
race
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ENDS LIFE in BANK.
Assistant Bookkeeper of New YorA
Concern Shoots Himself in Vault.

New York City.-Charles w. Wes-,
terfeld, assistant bookkeeper of the
New York Produce Exchange Bank, at
10 Broadway, committed suicide in
vault in the basement of the bank
by shooting himself in the head
rather than face exposure for having
drawn two checks for $40 each
against a fictitious account. He was
twenty-one years old and lived with
his parents and two sisters at 201
East Seventy street.
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WORLDS 1oo-YARD RECORD.
Walker. South African Athlete, Makes
New Time Of 600 2-5.

Abergayenny, England. r. e.
Walker, the South African Splinter,
who won the final of the 100 meters
dash at the recent Olympic games,
at the games here broke the worlds
record for 100 yards, his time being
3 2-5 seconds, one-fifth of second
less than the record made by Dan ].
Kelly at Spokane. Washington, June
90. 1906.
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80 BELOW ZERO Q MILES IN SKY.
Balloon Reaches Highest Altitude
Attained in New England.

Readville, Mass. - The Blue Hill
Observatory has received from Silver
nails, N. Y, the "sounder" balloon,
which was sent up from Pittsfield,
Mass, by Fl. H. Clayton, and while
the records, which were received in
tact, have not been worked out in de-
tail, it was asserted that the sound
er" reached height of six miles and
experienced a temperature of more
than thirty degrees below zero. The
saunders" height was the greatest
SO far reached by those balloons in
New England, although in similar
experiments at st. Louis last year a
sounder reached the height of ten
miles.
The saunders" are small balloons
weighing only few ounces and car
rying an aluminium box containing
various meteorological instruments
for recording the temperature and
wind velocity of the upper air and
the altitude attained.
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Law Not Retroactive.

In refusing to grant a divorce to
Percy F. Williams, of Livingston,
from Lola Marie Brokaw, nurse in
the Mountainside Hospital, Montclair,
Vice-Chancellor Stevens, in an opin-
ion handed down in the Chancery
Court at Trenton, rules that the New
Jersey divorce law is not retroactive,
but that future. marriages between
iegal minors may be annulled at the
mere wish of such minor and on the
ground of minority
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High Quality For Rice.

New crop rice samples indicate
nigh quality. About 2700 sacks OF
1ew crop rough have been received
At New Orleans and sold at firm
prices. There will be no old crop
his year to carry over and supplies
from now on must be drawn entirely
from the new crop.
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Bitten By Mad Dog; Fears Rabies.

William Haaf, associated with the
Gorham Manufacturing Company,
and living at haywood, was bitten by
his pet bull terrier. The terrier died
the following night, and Dr. Free
land, of haywood, who took the dogs
head to New York City, learned that
the dog was rabid Haaf went to the
Pasteur Institute for treatment. The
dog also nipped Haaf's baby, but the
skin on the face was not broken.
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Negro shoots WIG and Her SISTER.

Angered because his wife refused
to give him money, Clarence Price, a
negro, shot his wife and sister-in-
law, Mrs. Minnie Borden, in Spring
wood avenue, Asbury Park, but with
out fatal results. One bullet struck
Mrs. Prices corset steel and, glanc-
ing, wounded her slightly. Mrs Bor-
den was wounded in the breast Price
was arrested.
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Priest and MERCHANT KilIcd,

Father Valley, priest, and C. w.
Postman, an importer, both of Cleve-
land, were killed In an automobile
accident near Sylvania, Ohio.
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9. N. ELLIOTT DROWNED.
Wife and Child Saved When Canoe
Upsets in Connecticut River.

Upsets in Connecticut River.
Turner's Falls, Mass. While shoot
Ing the rapids in canoe in the Con-
inecticut River, just below Turner's
Falls, G. N. Elliott, of Nutley, n. j.,
an architect with McKim, Mead &
White, of New York, was drowned.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Rea and the
older Elliott boy were in the first
canoe, which shot the rapids without
Incident. The second canoe struck
the current and overturned. Mr..
Rea beached his canoe and managed
TO rescue Mrs. Elliott and the young
CT Elliott boy, but Mr.. Elliott sank
before help could reach him.
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Texas Quarantine Against Mexico.
The State of Texas has established
a rigid yellow fever quarantine
against Mexico, an outcome of tour
OF the republic by DR.. j. r. Eayes, of
the State Health Department of Aus
tin.
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FELL INTO HIS BALLOON.

captain LoveIace, OF America, Nearly
Suffocated by Singular Accident.
London. Captain Lovelace, the
American balloonist, had a narrow
escape at the Franco British Exhibit
ton.
While he was climbing over the
gas bag of balloon the cover gave
way and he fell into the balloon.
BY the time an assistant was able
to rescue him he was nearly suffo-
Gated.