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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-01

Miss Lovisa Prentiss of Waterville
passed Sunday at her home in this
city.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-01

Buy Wendenburg's cough candy,
sure cure. For sale by L. c. Cochrane,
259 Water street. dl4monZmos
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-02-01

In the Year of Our Lord One Thousand
Seven Hundred and Ninety-Seven
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
Fire Starts Panic
in Insane Asylum
Main Building Saved by Hard Work
of L.remen and No Lives
Are Lost.

WOODWARD, Cal, April 5.-six hun
dred helpless insane persons were in danger
OF death this afternoon when a blaze, start
ing from a prairie fire, destroyed several
buildings of the state insane asylum at
Fort Sully. near here. The fire broke out
In the laundry building shortly after the
noon meal, and the inmates had been re-
turned TO their quarters. The asylum fire
department was ordered out and every ef-
fort made to conceal from the patients the
fact that the building was burning. One
woman, looking out OF a window, however,
saw the fire and excitedly gave the alarm.
wen be burned to death" she screamed.
The attendants rushed among their charges
to pacify them, but a panic was narrowly
averted.
The fire spread from the laundry to the
pharmacy supply building and threatened
the asylum itself. When the blaze was
near them the inmates had yielded to the
entreaties of the attendants and kept good
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
Careless Boy
and Cigarette
Starts Big Fire
One Killed, Six People Injured and
Two Million Dollars Loss
Fort Worth Record.

FORT WORTH, Tex, April $40 a
party Of small boys and a carelessly thrown
cigarette Is credited the fire OF Saturday
which had the following results:
Destroyed property in South Fort Worth
valued at $2,000, 900; caused the death Of j.
j. Newton, a bank employe; caused the
serious injury Of six others; rendered 800
families homeless; caused temporary idle
ness of several hundred workmen.
Today and tonight the burned district
was under guard of state troops to pre-
vent looting. Although worn out by con-
tinuous labor, the entire fire-fighting force
OF the city was still engaged in extinguish-
Ing burning embers. A mass meeting Of
citizens was held and g relief committee
formed.
The fire originated in a barn near the
corner of May and Tucker streets. Driven
by a gale blowing from the southwest the
flames quickly spread to adjoining build
ings. quick to ignite because Of the ex-
IRENE dryness of the wood following a pro-
tracted drouth. Within a few moments the
fire was beyond all control. The flames
leaped from building to building, across
broad avenues. The rapidity of the fire
rendered impossible the removal of house
hold effects. After eating its way through
the residence district, after reducing TO
ashes the 300 dwellings, the Broadway
Presbyterian and Baptist churches and the
Swedish chapel and Walker sanitarium. the
flames, spreading to the south, attacked
the manufacturing plant OF the Sawyer
Electrical company. This building was
quickly destroyed and five large ware
houses and several smaller business houses
suffered a like fate.
The yards of the Texas & Pacific rail-
road were next in the path. The round
house. repair shops. coal chutes and box
cars were destroyed.
To the east the stone and steel depot
building proved a barrier to the encroach-
ment toward the wholesale district.
The burned area is approximately a mile
and a half in length and a half mile wide.
The largest individual loss was suffered by
the Texas & Pacific railroad, officials of
the road placing the damage at $3.50, OOO.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
Good Citizens Leaguers
Engage in a Hot Fight

WELLSNGLLE, o., April 5.-Four persons
were injured in a fight between members
of the Good Citizens league and men
who had been drinking on a house boat
anchored in the Ohio river, sixty feet from
Wellsville, but in West Virginia jurisdic-
ton, this afternoon. While the west Vir-
Ginia line comes to the Ohio side of the
river, the Ohio authorities have been claim
ing jurisdiction over the sale of liquor
close to the shore until a decision, last
week, gave undisputed right to sell liquor
in boats sixty feet from the Ohio shore
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
Iowa

expenditure. and in fact there Is no report
showing the employment Of experts or any
such investigation as that which was con-
templsted.
No salary Changes.
Salary ~changing has not taken up much
time this session. The senate Wrestled
with a proposal to increase tho salary
of the state superintendent TO $4,000
a year. Some of the men who the day
before had complained because of the
increase of expense, especially in the
department Of the attorney general. ad-
vocated the increase, but the bill was
lost. The legislature has already in
creased the pay OF the adjutant gem
eral to the same figure as that of a state
official. Bills to increase the pay of
railroad commissioners have been pre-
scented, but not considered very much.
A bill is pending TO increase the pay OF
legislators to 81, 900 for the session, but
This will not likely reach a vote.
Looking for Scandals.
The committee of the house appointed
to search for scandals at the state hos
pitfalls will report early this week. The
committee will justify the time il has
taken in this purely perfunctory investi-
CATION by a report which will recon-
mend some reforms and leave the in
ference that II the committee had had
the time Il could have found something.
The evidence secured was largely from
sources such as would hardly be ac-
cepted in court. On one occasion a
group of ex-pstients was before the
committee and later they were about
the building, accompanied by an at
tendant. Members of the committee ad-
NIT that nothing has been discovered
more than the rumors and wild stories
Of prejudiced or incompetent witnesses.
and that in fact the whole investigation
was ill-timed and without reason. The
committee appointed to find out whether
there is any reason for an Investigation
Of the prison at Fort Madison will report
recommending that the matter be taken
up in some other way.
Parole Board Reform.
The bill to give the Board Of Parole
auth to investigate the applications
for clemency on the part of lifers, instead
OF burdening the legislature with this
duty, passed the senate, but, as usual,
tn ere bobbed up the somewhat amusing
argument that it was better to keep it
in the hands of the legislators, so as
to make sure that no man ever sent
to prison for life has any chance OF get
ting out. This, of course, ~presupposes
that all courts are immaculate and that
every person In prison ought TO remain
there as long as he lives. But the sem
ate did not hearken to this argument.
The committees have just found that
In the case of a Decatur county con-
Wet the courts erred to the extent OF
giving a life sentence to a man very
probably innocent of the crime.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
Two Girls Shot
in Fight Over
Church Trouble
Two Factions Strive for Possession
and Little Ones Are the
Victims.

DENVER. April 1.-Two little girls were
injured early today in a fight between
opposing sides made up of members of the
German Evangelicals at Globeville, a sub
urb. A dozen shots were fired. The girls
Lizzie Wetzel, aged s, and Mary Wolf.
aged II, were struck by a charge fired
from a shotgun. the police say, by Adam
Jacoby. jr. The trouble grew out of an at
tempt to GUST Rev. Adam Trant, the pastor.
Friday night the pastor stood guard be-
hind the barricaded doors Of his church TO
prevent the entrance of the faction oppos-
ing him.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
TO FIGHT PROHIBITION
B~srtenders' Union Advocates a
system of Permanent
Licenses.

BOSTON, April 1.-The growing prohibit
ton sentiment throughout the country was
discussed today by the executive board OF
the New England branch of the Hotel and
Restaurant Employees association and Of the
Bartenders' International alliance, which
met here to form plans for the convention
In Minneapolis in May. A resolution, which
was framed to be presented to the national
convention as embodying the ideas and
plans of the New England branch for the
better protection of the liquor interests.
calls for a law granting a permanent
license system to all cities of 50, 900 popula-
ton or over, a bill limiting local option
to municipalities and towns with a popula.
ton Of less than $4,000; each municipality
to have complete control of the license
commission and two-thirds OF the fees to
go to the town, one third TO the state.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06

without interference by Ohio authorities.
A boat, said to have been we'll stocked
with liquors, arrived here late today and
anchored sixty feet from shore. During
the day skiffs and small boats we're busy
plying between the shore and the boat.
while the shore was lined with men.
Members of the Citizens league appeared
and the liquor sellers, expecting lnterfer-
enee, started a fight. Revolvers were
drawn and soon a hail of shot passed be-
tween the boat and shore. The police in
terfered and caused arrests after the four
wounded had been taken 10 the hospital
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
EX-SECRETARY HITCHCOCK ILL
Fears Are Entertained that He VIII
Not Recover from CompIica-
tion of Diseases.

WASHINGTON, April 5.-Ethan Allen
Hitchcock, former secretary OF the interior,
is critically ill at the home of his son-in-
law. Commander w. S. Sims, u. S. N, and
grave fears for his recover are enter
tained. Mr.. Hitchcock has been confined
to his bed for the last two weeks. suffer-
Ing from heart and kidney trouble and
he has had several sinking spells.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
PRINCETON STUDENTS REVOLT
Theological Undergraduates Demand
n More Cur
ricuIum.

NEW YORK, April 5.-The differences
which rave existed between DIR. Francis
l.. Patton, president of the Princeton Theo-
logical seminary, and the undergraduates,
eliminated today. Resolutions were
adopted by the students in which the ulti-
matum is set forth that DR.. Patton is to
be made TO provide a more modern curri-
culum or else the student body will resign.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
BLOODY RIOT AT COAL MINES
One Man Fatally and Several Seri-
ousIy Injured During Its
Progress.

DIES MONIES, Ia, April 5.-Durins a
riot at Scandal coal mines here late to-
night, Joseph Brady. Is years old was
struck in the head with a beer bottle, suf-
fering a fractured skull and Frank Bow
Itch received a load Of buckshot in the
abdomen. Bowlich cannot live. Felix Me-
Itch was stabbed, but not fatally. Both
Brady and Melioh are hiding in the hills
near there and defy officers. All the in
iured men are Austrians. Officers from
Woodward are on the scene.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
Good Chance for Pension BiII,

81 sec 10 reason why the police PEN
sion bill should not be passed at this
session." said Senator c. G.. Saunders.
who spent Sunday at his home in this
city, returning to Des Moines last even
ing. Tt has passed the senate and been
favorably reported from the house. The
provisions OF the bill are similar to
those In the firemen's pension bill which
WAS recently passed. Any member of
the police force on attaining the age of
So years after twenty-five years Of serv-
ice, can retire on a pension equal to
half pay, Disability while on active duty
also entities a member of the department
to a pension. To provide a pension
fund cities can levy a tax annually not
to exceed u mill. The members of the
force Will be required to pay / per cent
OF their salaries monthly into the fund"
Colonel Saunders expressed the opinion
also that the bill providing for the con-
demnation by municipalities of public
utilities, the franchises of which have
expired, would be passed before the leg
islature adjourns, which it will do on
Friday Of this week.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
Council Bluffs

criminal case, that against Harry Hall,
charged with larceny from the person.
Tbe first case on the assignment Is the
suit OF A. Sigman against the Burlington
Railroad company TO recover ti,eSs.57 for
alleged injury to a shipment Of horses
while in transit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
matters In District Court.

The petit jury is summoned to appear to-
day. and the trial of law cases will he
taken up in the district court by Judge
Wheeler. The docket includes a long list of
personal injury and other damage suits
against railroad and other corporations.
The present assignment contains only one
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
Council Bluffs
CHURCH CONFERENCE ENDS
Young Peoples Rally in Evening the
Closing Exercises.
BISHOP HORN BREACHES SERMON
AssiRnments of Pastors for Ensuing
Year Made, including Change
In Passionate of Local
Churches.

The forty ninth annual meeting Of the
Iowa conference Of the German Evangel-
zeal association came 10 a close Sunday
evening With a yopng peoples rally at the
German Evangelical church on Glen avenue
and Pierce street, where Tho sessions OF the
conference we're held. The closing services
included the ordination OF Rev. F. ]. Haas
of Corning in the afternoon and the an
nusl missionary meeting held at the close
Of the ordination. Bishop william Horn
OF Cleveland, who presided over the con-
ference, preached at the morning service.
Among the assignments of ministers Of
the conference to pastorates for the en-
suing year is that of Rev. J. II. Engle to
the church in Council Bluffs. In addition
to filling the local pestorate, Rev. Mr.. En-
gle will serve the congregation at Dunn
fries. The new pastor. who succeeds Rev.
G. p. Cawelti. comes to Council Bluffs
from Abbott. la. Rev. Mr.. Cawelti, who
retires from the local pastorate. has been
compelled also. on account Of III health, to
give up active work in the ministry, at
least for a time. lie is planning on enter
ing into mercantile business.
The following assignment of ministers
was announced by the conference:
DIES MONIES DISTRICT.
/. W Book. presiding elder.
Des Moines-M. Gruener.
Laurel and MingoAJ. j. Braun.
Dysart-W c. Lang.
Van Horn .. Mehnert.
Hubbard- Peek.
Rsdcliff,- schluter.
Grand T. Striccher.
Perry and r. J. Haas.
Defiance an. Ss-E. Granner.
silver Creek--W. Fisher.
Noble-J. ". Knoll.
Corning-J. D.. Schaible.
DUBUQUE DISTRICT.
&C.. Nolte, presiding elder.
~Dubuque-A. Bogen.
Clinton-E. j. Long.
Wilton-L. Schuerer.
Cedar Rapids-E. ]. Schultz.
Otter Creek-Jesse Nolte.
Garrlson-A. Bunte.
LaPorte City-L. r. Smith.
~Butler-David Land.
Waterloo-J. II. Bauernfeind.
Black Hawk-A. f. Herzberg.
Waverley-H. Sassman.
Sumner-E. Schroeder.
Alta Vista-w. r. Muether.
Cresco-E. c. Schwab.
Lansing-A. Raecker.
FORT DODGE DISTRICT.
A. J.. Hauser, presiding elder.
Fort Dodge-A. Goetz.
Cedar Falls-H. o. LOrenz,
Ackley-G. Bergman.
Abbott-c. S. Lang.
Dumont-C. f.. Hellmsn.
Hampton-F. Lantow.
Sheffield-J. M. Kraft.
Meservey-H. Raecker.
Britt. p. Pflaum.
Luverne-J. w. Wiemands.
Cromwell Center-A. Beckman.
HRrtley-P. Schott.
Magnoiia-W Grobe.
Stanton-F. w. Koenig.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06

order when the danger was the greatest. Il
took hard work to save the ward building.
A high wind made It seem for the mo-
ment that the whole institution was
doomed. The buildings destroyed we're the
stables. laundry. pharmacy and employees
quarters. The loss is stated at n 5000.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06
BUSY DAY FOR AUTO CHASERS
Round Tn sixty ~Speeders In New
York m Result of AntI-Speed
Crusade.

NEW YORK, April 5.-The recent whole
sale manning and killing of pedestrians
by reckless chauffeurs running their cars
at excessive speed through the city streets,
eliminated today in the organization of a
special squad of auto chasers,' by Police
COMMISSIONS Bingham.
AS a result of their first days efforts
the auto chasers' all mounted on fast
motorcycles rounded up and arrested six
ty-five chauffeurs who were caught ex-
ceeding the speed limit.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-06

Bigger, Better, Busier-Tnat's what ad-
vertising in The Bee does for your
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-04-06
SoIomon's Bathtub.


With Chronicles as its authority, the
Plumbers Trade Journal says that the
bathroom was an invention Of King
Solomon, who put it in use q thousand
years before the Christian era. 1t was
sinful to enter the sanctuary unless
the body was perfectly clean, and for
the accommodation Of priests a bath
tub was erected at the entrance to the
temple. 1t was said Of Solomon, HE
made a molten sea Of ten cubits from
brim to brim round in compass and
Ave cubits the height thereof, and a
line Of thirty cubits did compass it
roundabout" According to the meas
urements, the Solomonian tub was for
ty-five feet in circumference at the top
and six and one-half feet deep. It
rested on carved figures Of oxen and
was Of solid brass cast in one piece,
decorated with a floral design. Con-
nected with it there were ten small
sinks. which were used for washing
the Offering.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-04-06
It Couldn't Be Done.

An individual with considerably
more lung power than was agreeable
to his hearers was hawking fish one
morning In a northern town.
Zine fresh .herrin'! Fower a pen
ny.' he roaredfin q fashion that made
the windows rattle.
A woman approached the barrow
and eyed the nsh with a certain
amount Of suspicion, which, consider
ing the circumstances. was not IN
natural.
Are they freshr she demanded,
with suspicious snin.
They're tower penny. num-" was
the guarded reply.
Yes" responded the other, with q
touch Of sarcasm. II think card yer
say 80. But are they fresh?"
For aught know, num- they IS"
when wor they cotched:"
This was too much. and, adopting
the sarcastic style Of his quesdoner.
the hawker replied:
Cant say Ter sartain, mum. ap-
piled for tse birth an death st;dcate
of every fish on the barrier, bat II
fower ! penny It simply couldn't Be
done!
ERE = are! Powers penny, hsr-
xins.~-L,ondon AngWoEA
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-04-06
GO up AHEAD.

Then SEE That You Stay Thsrs-vss
Can IL You Work Hard.
Thirty years ago In a poor school,
house In q back district a boy 1T the
foot OF the class Unexpectedly spelled
a word that had passed down the en-.
tire class.
Go up ahead" said the master. and
see that you stay there. You can II
you work hard"
The boy hung his head. But the next
day he did not miss word In spelling.
The brighter scholars knew every worl
in the lesson, hoping there might be
a chance to get ahead. but there was
not q single one. Dave stayed at the
head. He had been an Indifferent
speller before. but now he knew every
word.
"Dave, how do you get your lesson
% well nowf' said the mastsr.
II learn every word In the lesson
and get ny mother to hear me- at
night, then 20 over them In the mem
ing before come to school. and 90
over than At my seat before TIE class
= called up"
Good boy. Dave.' said the master.
That's the way to have success: Al
ways work that way and you'll do"
Dave II today the manager Of q big
lumber company. and he attributes his
start to the words:
'@Co MP ahead and see that you stay
there. You can II you work hard
Genesee Courier.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-04-06
CLEVER EXHIBITION
George Spears, Billiard Ex-
pert, Startled the Ma
tives by Play.
IS WIZARD WITH HIS CUE

In clever exhibition of billiards at
the Westcott Hotel parlors last even
ing. George Spears of Indianapolis.
had an easy time disposing of two local
players. Hibberd and Suffers. The To-
cal men went into the games simply %
provide an opponent to Spears and give
him a chance to display his skill. Hib-
berd lost 100 to 45 and Suffers was
trimmed $50 to s. In the game against
Suffers Spears got the balls in the cor
ner and ran out his string with run
of 1863 His playing was exceptional
ly dexterous.
An exhibition of finger billiards was
given by the professional and some of
the plays made were real astonishing
to the natives. He placed fifteen pool
balls tight against the rail and twisted
the cue ball with english. so that it hit
each one of the pool balls. forcing them
from the rail. He showed how the
game of four ball billiards is played
and gave an illustrated talk on the
chief points of how to play billiards.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-04-06
DO HEARTS sREAk7

Human Mature Ne Same 0eepiAs Mod.
sen improvements.
Droken hearts, % the British Jour-
nal Of Nursing tells us. are quite out
Of fashion. The disease has become
obsolete. and tive reasons are assigned
for this. In the hrst place. we are told
that women Do not fall In love a once
they did. Mere children are not en-
couraged to think On love and matri-
mony. and then women. having como
TO ripper years and sounAer judgment
before they decide to marry, do not
let themselves fan into that state
which was supposed to produce card1Ac
rupture.
One ventures to express The opinion
that the statement h not altogether
accurate.
Human nature does not altar from
one generation to another. People
fell IN love" . thousand years ago: Z
thousand years hence they WIN b Do
ing tho same. But they wore their
rue with . difference: % win those
who are to succeed %. The 1act u
we do not now wear our hearts on, our
sleeves, and we have learned that II
lovers prove untrue o. unworthy there
are better and mere digniled ways Of
lamenting them than ssuring or tenn
pers. wasting away and allowing oar
frieads and relations to treat - -
derelicts.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-04-06
He DEMANDS THE
LIFE OF COUSIN
Prosecutor Gilbert Asks Death
Penalty for Mrs. Georgia
Sampson.
CITES MONEY AS MOTIVE.
ACCUSED ALLEGED TO HAVE
KILLED HUSBAND, WHO WAS A
SON OF THE LATE REAR AD-
MlRAl SAMPSON.

Lyons. n. Y, April 6.-District At
torney Joseph Gilbert today demand
ed the life of his own cousin, Mrs.
Georgia Allyn Sampson. who is on
trial here charged with the murder
of her husband. Harry Sampson. son
OF the late Admiral Sampson. Gil
bert made the demand in his opening
address to the jury. as prosecutor.
He dwelt upon every point which
he expected the evidence would indi-
cate her guilty and declared that the
many quarrels between the couple had
taken place because Mrs. Sampson
stayed away from home so often. As
a probable motive for the crime he
mentioned the will in her favor made
BY Sampson
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-04-06
LOCAL MINISTERS
RETAIN CHARGES
All of the Richmond Methodist
Pastors Returned to
This City.
CONFERENCE NOW CLOSED
LAST THREE DAYS OF THE MEET
ING, CHURCH POLITICS WAS
RIFE-A SLAP is TAKEN At
WAYNE COUNTY.
CONFERENCE NOW CLOSED
SONS OF eELIAL.

Yesterday at the North Indiana
Methodist Conference the following
resolution was offered as a joke,
but was not adopted:
Whereas, The hitherto Old
county Of Wayne and the city of
Richmond has gone astray from the
paths of orthodox rectitude and
Joined herself to the sons of Beliai
for the coming two years; therefore
be it
Resolved, That it is thesense OF
this conference that the name Of
Richmond district be changed to
Newcastle district until such time
as the staid old town shall bring
firth fruits meet for repentance"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-04-06
Men Who Cheat Themselves.

have known employees actually to
work harder In scheming. Sinking.
trying to keep from working hard in
the performance Of their duties, says
Orison SWEET Marden in Success Mag
azine, than they would have worked
II they had tried to do their best and
had given the largest, the most liberal
service possible to their employers.
The hardest work in the world is that
which is grudgingly done. The youth
who is always haggiing over the ques-
ton OF how many dollars and cents he
will sell his services for little realizes
how he is cheating himself by not look
ing at the larger salary he can pay
himself In increasing his skill, in ex-
panding hts experience and in making
himself better, stronger, more useful
man.