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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16
MANY CHILDREN IN
A DEADLY CRUSH
Sixteen Killed. and Forty Others
Badly Injured.
PANIC IN AN ENGLISH MUSIC HALL.
The Gallery Being Overcrowded, an
Usher Calls to the Children to Come
Down Stairs for Better Seats-In
the Wild Rush Following the Little
Ones Are Trampled TO DeatF.

Barnsley, England (By Cable).-
sixteen children were trampled to
death and 40 others, several OF whom
cannot live, were injured in a mad
rush for better seats at an entertain
ment given in the public hall here.
There was a great crush to secure
admittance to the entertainment and
when tho show opened every seat was
taken and the gallery was literally
packed with children, who filled the
aisles and were dangerously massed
against the lower railing. With a
view to relieving this crowding in
the gallery, the attendants decided
to transfer some of the children to
the body of the house, and one of
the ushers called out:
Some Of you children come down
stairs
Immediately the rush started and
within a few seconds hundreds of
children were being trampled under
foot Even those who had seats in
the gallery, doubtless being panic
stricken by the screams and struggles
of the crowds fighting to reach the
staircases, Joined in the stempede.
The scene was a terrible one. The
cries Of the injured and means of
the dying caused the greatest excite
ment among those gathered in the
body of the hall. Police and ushers
rushed to the head of the staircases,
which were literally strewn with dead
and dying, and by the most desper-
ate efforts managed to drag scores
of the struggling children to the
corridors below. 1t was with the
greatest difficulty that panic among
the children in the lower part OF the
house was averted, all of these event.
ually being taken to the street In
safety.
When the reserve police arrived
they found the narrow stairway prac-
tically blocked with bodies, which
were crushed in some cases beyond
recognition. Scores of children were
forced by the pressure from the
crowd behind them to scramble over
those that had fallen, whether liv-
ing or dead, and many of the injur-
ed children were found lateR- to be
suffering from fractured bones and
severe lacerations, caused by the in
describable manner In which they
had been trampled upon.
Soon after the accident the ap-
proaches to the hall were crowded
with sobbing women searching for
their missing children.
This disaster recalled that of June
16, 1883, when 1S6 children were
crushed to death while rushing down
from gallery in Victoria Hall, Sun
derland, 10 obtain toys given away
by Fay, a conjurer, at the close of
his performance.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16
TRAIN DROPS 20 FEET.
Four-Score Passengers Hurt In
Wreck OF Special.

Atlanta, Ga. Especially The sec
ond section of what is known as the
Coiliver special, running from Cleve-
land, Ohio, to st. Augustine, Fla,
was wrecked between Dallas and Hi
ram, Ga, on the Southern Railroad
on trestle twenty-five feet over the
nearly dry bed of Copper Mine Creek
Five of the seven cars went into the
mud. Three trainmen are dead, and
more than eighty passengers, most Of
them residents of Ohio, were injured
Engineer James Edwards, who was
caught beneath the cab Of HIS engine
when it overturned, after clearing
the trestle, was killed. Road Fore
man of Engines Schnapps, and the
negro fireman, Nose Baldwin, were
injured fatally and died soon after
reaching Atlanta on the second relief
train.
Mrs. Emil Hoover, of Columbus.
Ohio, is in q dying condition, aud
Miss Florence Studebaker, of Cleve-
land, probably will die.
The injuries TO the passengers
consist chiefly OF broken limbs and
bruises.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16
Canal Under Mountains.

A report has just reached the State
Department of what is declared to be
the greatest engineering work of the
kind yet attempted on the European
Continent. 1t is to be canal under
the Rove Mountains to connect the
port of Marseilles more directly with
the River Rhone. Consular Clerk
M. b. Kirk, of Paris, reports that
the Minister of Public Works in
France and the Counsel General of
Bridges have recently reported the
expenditure of over $15,000,000 for
the construction of the tunnel canal,
which is to be four and one-halt
miles long, seventy-three feet wide
and forty-three feet above the water
level to the yaulted roof. 1t will be
completely lighted by electricity and
will possess small railroad running
along sts side, Washington Dispatch
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16
Foreign

The Transvaal's opposition to East
Indians has brought the British gov
ernment face to face with a serious
race problem, as the action of the
officials and the courts in the Trans
vaal is bitterly resented in India.
Armenians, Greeks, Bulgarians,
Jews and others oppressed by Turkey
held a congress in Paris and decided
to organize for the overthrow of the
present Turkish government.
Captain Kayutin, commander of q
Russian Black Sea steamer, has been
brought to ST. Petersburg a prisoner
on the charge of bringing in arms for
Russian revOlutionists.
The Socialist agitation in Berlin
has subsidized, but the neighbOrhood
of the palace and the public squares
were still guarded by large forces
of police.
The Car has manifested his conf
dcnce in Father John Of Cronstadt
by appointing him TO take part in the
sittings of the Russian Synod.
The White Star Line has reduced
Atlantic rates on second and third
class passages, by $3.50 to S., respcc-
lively. for the purpose, 1t is said, of
fighting the Cunard Company, and
the latter has announced similar re-
ductions.
Rioters burned the Protestant
Episcopal chapel in the Province of
Chekiang, China. The disorders are
directed! against the dynasty.
STORMS on the English Channel
and the kwest coast of Europe caused
numbHr OF small wrecks and the
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16
WASHINGTON

There was an interesting debate il
the House between Representatives
Burlison and Payne over the part
leading newspapers are taking in the
financial and political questions of
the day.
The House Committee on Naval
Affairs has decided to report favor
ably the resolution of Representative
Gill calling for an investigation of
the Brownson incident.
The State Department denies that
Ambassador O'Brien was instructed
to demand that Japan sign a treaty
restricting immigration to the Unit
ed States.
The House of Representatives has
asked the Secretary of the Treasury
for a report On the condition of the
banks.
The Senate Committee on Inter
oceanic Canals figures that Panama
may cost 00,000.000. or a total of
$235, 100000.
"A Prohibition lobby is at work
urging that federal liquor laws not
conflict with state prohibition pro-
visions.
An increase of q million dollars in
the appropriation for projectiles and
ammunition was asked for by Rear
Admiral Mason, chief of the Naval
Bureau of Ordnance.
A congressional lottery was con-
Quoted in the House of Representa-
tives for rooms in the new Office
building of that body, which is now
nearing completion.
Judge James +. Tracey, of the Su-
preme Court of the Philippines, de-
clined the proffered appointment as
member Of the Philippine Commits
sion.
In his annual Chief of Staff Cen
eral J. Franklin Bell urges more pay
for the Army and the restoration of
the canteen.
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf sent
to the House an estimation of $2,-
100000 for submarine torpedo boats
The President listened to argu-
ments for and against the use Of
hanZoate of soda in catsup.
Representative Sterling introduced
an employers liability bill in the
House.
The subcommittee of the Banking
and Currency Committee of the
House agreed to the proposition of
Chairman Fowler for national bank
guaranteed credit notes.
A measure making train-wrecking,
where life is lost, capital offense,
was offered in the House OF Repre-
sentative Moore, of Philadelphia.
A number of coal operators met
to perfect an organization with O
view to have effective precautions
against mine disasters
Representative Gaines introduced
resolution for the preservation of
the old home OF Andrew Jackson,
near Nashville. Tenn.
Surgeon Stokes received anal In
structions from Secretary Metcalf
prior TO leaving for his duties on
the hospital ship Relief.
Gen. Winfield. s. Edgerly has been
lordered TO assume command of the
ipepaTtment Of Dakota,
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16
Kipling With the Dentist.

Rudyard Kipling, when in San
Francisco, had to pass through q ia
miliar and trying experience. He
wrote of it thus: II might as we'll
tell you that my head is getting
swelled from the treatment l have re-
ceived in 'Frico. In the last day it
has swelled to such an extent as al
most to bury my left eye. 1t is q
bad tooth! This morning by the aid
a,bf the other eye 1 managed to steer
my way through the crowded streets
into firm of dentists, where one viii
lain, after looking me over, passed
me over to another, who, after an
hours work, hewed off the end of
my toof.
Il 'quealed and 'quealed like any,
thing, and flung me down MANNED
and exhausted on q chair. They told
me that, if 1 would come back to-
morrow, they would put a crown on
it; but / feel as If 1 already deserve
a martyrs crown of suffering and go
not back. Pacific Monthly.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16
Shot Himself On Wife's Grave.

Ravenna, o. (SpeciaD D-Edward j.
Collier. of Cleveland, who killed his
blind son and then shot himself at
the grave of his wife and died. Col
lier or Williams, as he was known
here, died as a result of exposure
According to his wish, as express
cd I'm a letter found in his pocket,
Collier and his son will be buried
by the side of Mrs. Golfers grave.
Collier was respondent both over the
loss of his wife and his sons afflic-
fiOn
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16
chinese civil Service school.

Consul General James w. Rags.
dale transmits the following report
from a Chinese newspaper on a pro-
posed school for officials in Tient.
sin:
''Viceroy Yuan is going to estab.
lish Kiao-lien Chu examination
halD inside his yamen in the city OF
Tientsin for the education of Chi.
nese officials for government ap.
pointments il North China The pro,
posed hall will be divided into five
departments, namely: Experience
and education, writing Chinese com.
positions upon modern subjects
moral conduct, foreign and Chinese
law and speaking and writing. The
object of the Viceroy is to prevent
ignorant, uneducated officials from
getting appointments in Chilhli. Both
civil and military officials will be ad.
mitted into the hall. ll."-School Jour.
nal
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16
TOOK AWAY $t&O,OOO, 900.
Immigrants Returning 20 Europe
Carried About $500 Apiece.

AAiihiSistillS lsCtuIliAlaS ~ EUROPE
Carried About $500 Apiece.
New York Especially According
to the North German Lloyd Line,
which has made a careful computa-
tion based on the figures of steam
ship agents, money changers, and
railroad men, more than $11O,OOO,-
600 was taken ont of the United
States by the immigrants who re-
turned to their native places last
year. The estimate is that each of
the 550.045 foreigners had about
$500 with him.
AS an offset to millions that de-
parted, it is noted that 1,346,6SS
aliens who arrived last year brought
with them, according to the esti-
mate of the Commissioner Of Immi-
grafton, about $27.273,26O. Much
of this, however, was furnished to
the immigrants by relatives or friends
in the United States.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16
Flyer Hits A Freight.

Bristol, Tenn. (SpeciaD While
travelling so miles an hour the Chat
tNnooga Washington limited collided
head-on with a freight near this city
without serious injury to a soul. En-
gineers John Smith and John Milton
and their firemen escaped by jump
ing. Postal plerk c. w. Caldwell,
brother-in-law>of Congressman Glass,
OF Virginia, aid Albert Riminger, an
express mssh henger, were slightly
hurt. The "a 4sengers received a bad
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16


bits oo nsy trust to luck they pin their faith to the magic Of ra
morse chestnut
nve room Reader what doing? taken
your own brain
Rip Van Wrinkle sleep?
% can can Tor brains enriched brains
world In this the
two 20 you want position do brains
Behod the worlds natural resources! These natural
materials in
until transformed by the
In thousand
T most people nave brains but they using them
Ie let their
% every cross road on street throngs youth that
the daughters
r How frequently the rich tries awaken his
son Oy saying to him. IF wouldn't
a nave as young is error With his sons un
spending with his
associates he too would have been a cipheSa1efbing
%o calls Tor brains educated brains sedng brains The school
mouse calls and
every robust boy and girl who hungers and sts for knowledge
the CALL All
capacity In every human vocation the
whose brains and hands
Wake up fathers mothers
You are never too old do something be something Work
hodk this
age of his
realizing possibilities; fulfilling divine
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16
DEVOURED by WOLVES.
More Than Two Hundred Russians
Victims OF The Beasts.

st. Petersburg (By Cable) -
Wolves have eaten at least 245 men,
women and children throughout Eu-
ropean Russia in the past few weeks,
according to official statistics here.
The reports are undoubtedly incom-
plete, so that the number is probably
considerably larger than given by
the authorities.
The severe winter has driven
thousands of packs from the wilder
ness to the more populous sections
of the country, where they haunt
the country roads and even venture
into the outskirts of the smaller
towns.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16

Paris (By Cable) The Rome cor
respondent of thesMatin says that NJ.
,Takahira, Japanese Minister to Italy,
who, it was recently reported, had
been appoiHtedS Ambassador to thc
United. States, has not yet begun
packing his household effects. In
diplomatic quarters it is doubted that
he is going to America.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16
"Eork kIvcr Linc."
ELEGANT PASSENGER STEAMER
"ATLANTA"

AILA NTA'
For WEST POINT and RICH
MOND VA.
steamers leave Bal imore Tu, sdav.
Thursday and Saturday at +. NJ, and
arrive West Point Is A NJ. and Rich
mond at o 20 A. M
Steamers call at Gloucester Point, Gle
ments, Clay Bank and Allmond's s
= Weather and Ice permitting.
STEAMERS LEAVE BALTIMORE
FROM PIERS Is AND 10
LIGHT STREET WHARF
Through Tickets 10 all points may
be secured, baggage checked and
staterooms reserved from the City
Ticket Offices. 119 l.. Baltimore
Street, ARTHUR w. ROBSON. Agent,
1877 f.. Baltimore Street, or the Gen
eral Offices, Light and Lee Streets,
Baltimore, Md.
REUBEN FOSTER.
General Manager.
f. j. CHISM,
General Passenger Agent.
T. H. MCDANIEL,
Asst Genl Passenger Agent.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16
Clean -or--rsr-~~~>>->-
Handling of MIX and
Ue9et0b!eS i
Epiden1icS of Typhoid FeOer and Other Dis
eases Often Due to Lack of Cleanliness. +,
.-.Aur~~IN,. BY DR.. IL. 7. JedgOtck

UGH is said and nowadays dirty milk
and any one familiar with the primitive methods or
keeping and milking cows especially stables, does
not need to be told likely to be seriously polut
ed with dirt pamphlet has been issued by
the United department. of agriculture aAd by the
state experimental drawing attention to this aet
and greater cleanliness in the milk industry
The writer constantly urging city of milk
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16

should not only demand purer and cleaner milk u also mat the
required industry where belongs hghV
plan of care cleanliness
in traced to milk polluted by
appliances
the table; it, like
carefully
protected from dirt above OF below them
only hands-Youths
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16
CHESAPEAKE STEAMSHIP ca
PANY.
Chesapeake Line"

chesapeake Line"
ELEGANT PASSENGER STEAMERS
COLUMBIA" AND AUGUSTA"
For OLD POINT COMFORT and
NORFOLK, VA.
Steamers leave Baltimore daily
Cexcept Sunday at 700 p. NJ. and
arrive Old Point Comfort at 6 A. NJ.
and Norfolk at 7.30 A. NJ. where
connection is made with the Rail
Lines for ali points South and South
west.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1908-01-16

The Call for Brains
Enriched Brains Educated Brains.
81 " od ,ridge ~. Eerrfs.

- Ok ages, men and trying
clothpg and shelter without the They
not been even moderate successful there
man has awakened to the realization
90 Things and get things element
IL Is worth while live ALL it is while live
% We'll to live noby to live happily something
~ than bundle and impulses He has intei
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-22
drill, YE TAR.
RIERS, DRILL
GOVERNMENT ENcAMPMENTs OF
REGULARS AND MILITIA WILL
BE NO SNAP THIS YEAR.

Washington, May 21.-Preparations
have been completed by the war de-
partment for joint maneuvers during
the coming summer of all branches of
the regular service and many state
militia organizations, including North
Dakota, for which congress has ap.
propriated $1,O0O,OOO. For these ma.
neuvers instruction camps will be es.
tablished and maneuvers held for one
month at several places.
North Dakota militiamen will prob
ably be sent to American Lake.
Washington, for the maneuvers in Au-
gust.
Orders issued governing details of
the maneuvers prescribe "a minimum
of formal ceremonies and a total abb
sence of merely spectacular exhibit
tons" Practice marches have heer
ordered in which infantry will cover
200 miles and cavalry $50 miles. The
exercise will be carried out in pro-
gressive manner, beginning with
small bodies of troops and ending
with the entire command
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-22
GRAND HAReoR ?. Q. ROBBED

Grand Harbor. Nd, May 21.-Some
time between and 8 o'clock this
morning the postof6bce safe here was
blown open and $100 in money and
stamps taken. Two shotguns and a
revolver were also taken from the
Holmes & Strand store, in which the
postoffice is located. Nothing was
known Of the robbery until this morn
ing when the store was opened. The
sheriff's office at Devils Lake was no.
tilted at once and Deputy Sheriff Frye
came at once to the scene and sue
ceeded in tracing the robbers as far
as the stock yards at Devils Lake,
where he found an abandoned hand
car Further than this no trace was
found of the robbers.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-22
JURY FAILS TO
agree ON RUFF
Forty.7hree Hours FutiIly
Used Up Before Verdict
Is Abandoned

San Francisco, CAL, May 12.-After
being out for forty-three and half
hours, the jury in the trial of Abra-
ham Rueff, the former political boss
of San Francisco, the central figure
in the bribery graft prosecution,
against whom wholesale. indictments
were returned, failed to agree upon
a verdict and was discharged at s
o'clock this afternoon by Judge Maui
rice T. Dooling.
The specific charge against Rueff
in the trial just closed was the Offer
of bride of $1,000 to former Super
visor Jennings P. Phillips to influ.
ence his vote favorably upon an cleo.
trio railway franchise applied for by
the Parkside Realty company.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-22
The TALL SOLDIER.
Adventure Of an English Military Off.
Ger In Warsaw,

Adventure Of an English Military Off.
Ger In Warsaw.
In "Tales Of My Father Mr.. Falls
tells Of an adventure experienced by
him while visiting friend in Warsaw,
He had been walking with the prince
and had stepped into small cafe.
At the next table sat tall Russian
soldier with one or two companions.
The soldier took out box of dominos
and challenged one of his friends to
game.
The prince said to my father:
go ask him to play with you.
know him, and he is an interesting man
to talk to-"
Ny father crossed over to the table
with the prince, who said something
In Polish. The soldier Immediately in.
.vited my father to sit down and play.
At the end Of game the soldier re-
marked:
my regiment is quartered at st. Pc.
tersburg. If you ever go there call at
the barracks and ask for Sergeant R"
IF you ever go to London call at the
life guards barracks and ask for Cap.
tain a." returned my father.
The Russian rose, saying 1t was not
for him to sit in the presence Of his
superior officer, saluted and left the
cafe.
whoever your friend is, he is tall
man." remarked my father.
my friend with whom you have
been talking and playing dominos Is
the great czar-the Emperor Nicholas
He has been here for a week. It Is
his habit to go about disguised and to
mix among the people. Those who
know him would not lift finger to
harm him. He trusts himself to us
and carries his life in his hand. BE
is safer in these cafes than In the
gilded halls Of the White palace at st
Petersburg"
The next day my father saw the EN-
peror leave Warsaw, followed by the
muttered curses Of the people. With 8
wonderful remembrance Of faces, he
recognized my father In the crowd and
bowed to him courteously.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-22
Close Divorce Doors to
Couples With Children.

- HRoW WIDE MARRIAGE, WHERE
= CHILDREN ARE PRODUCED CLOSE DOORS
~ = OF DIVORCE EVERY CHILD
TO FATHER MOTHER PEOPLE
SHOULD PRODUCE CHILDREN PRE-
PARED TO GIVE THEM PARENTAL CARE FOR LIFE.
knowledge what wanted and the dissemination Of that now
the people it should be clearly shown that CERTAIN
GLASSES OF MARRIAGES ARE HURTFUL TO THE OFF
SPRING AND OTHERS BENEFICIAL the mere dissemination
that knowledge would of itself tend promote
vent undesirable unions of the sexes
The grand spectacle presented eyes NEW PEOPLE
being gradually evolved the United States nng together
Of the different of the world varying proportions
greatest that the final
luton Of HIGHER AND NOBLER TYPE OF MAN IN
AMERICA and deterioration of the nation
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-22
SANG HER VERY BEST.

Frederick the Great Was Posted and
Marie Frausch Was Wise.
There is good story told Of a prima
donna named Marie Frausch, who lived
in the time of Frederick the Great
Whenever anything or anybody dis
pleased the naughty Frausch she, after
the manner Of prima donnas In gener
al, would suddenly become too hoarse
to sing. One evening there was to be
sung an opera in her repertory, and II
was expected that the king would at.
tend.
at the appointed hour the manager
came forward and announced that,
owing to sore throat, Fraulein
Frausch was unable to appear.
The people were preparing to leave
the house, but his majesty rose and
commanded them to keep their seats
A few moments afterward an officer
and four dragons entered the capri
cious singers room.
"Fraulein," said the officer, s'the king
inquiries after your health"
''The king is very good" said
Frausch, with pout, "but I have q
sore throat"
Ellis majesty Is aware Of the fact
and has charged me to take you to the
military hospital to be cured"
Fraulein, turning very pale, suggest.
ed that they We're TESTING, but was told
that Prussian officers never INDUCED
in persifage. Soon she found herself
in coach with four men.
II am a little better now" Frausch
faltered, "and I will try to sing"
Back to the theaterv' said the officer
to the coachman.
The fraulein began to think she had
yielded too easily. II shall not be able
to sing my BEST" she interposed.
Pardon, fraulein," responded the Of
6cer, "but I think you WILL"
"And why?"
Because two Dragons in attend.
ance behind the scenes have orders to
carry you of to the military hospital
at the least cough"
Fraulein Frausch never sang better
than she did that night Chicago Rec.
ord-Herald.