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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
Where Church and CIRCUS Meet.

ON one point at least the church
and the circus touch common
ground" said clerk in the Naturali-
cation Bureau. Each member of a
circus performers family and each
member of country preachers fam
lily claims a different birthplace.
Very often families consisting of
grown-up brothers apply for citizen
ship. In most cases they are poor
people whose parents certainly could
not afford to be globe trotters, and
all the children were born in the
same village or town. But once in
while meet three or four or maybe
five or six brothers each of whom has
first seen the light in a different
place. In case of that kind my first
question is:
Parents in the circus?'"
Usually they were. If not, I
guess again.
church, | ask, and that time |
hit it. Funny, isn't it, that of all in
situations only the church and the
circus produce professional wander
ers? "-New Yrok Press.
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SEVEN KILLED WHEN
BIG BUILDING COLLAPSES
Fatal Accident in Crowded Street
of Philadelphia.
FALLING WALLS BURY LABORERS
Many Narrow Escapes and Heroic
Rescues-Kiiled and Injured
Were Workmen Employed in
Reconstruction Work.

Philadelphia, Pain one of the
busiest sections and when thou
sands of pedestrians were passing the
five-story brick building at the north
east corner of Eleventh and Market
streets, being reconstructed for the
United Gas improvement Company
collapsed with terrific roar, bury
ing or pinning beneath the ruins thir-
ty-persons, seven of whom are dead
one missing, one fatally injured and
twenty-four more o.. less seriously in
jured
The dead, all of whom were work
men, were: Alfred Davis, eighteen,
negro laborer; Peter Fritz, fifty-six,
carpenter; Paul Hanning, forty-nine,
laborer; Sigmund Lansberg, twenty
three, laborer; Charles Larson, forty
five, sub-foreman of carpenters; AL
vim ----, fifty, a Swede; Unidentified
man, terribly mangled.
James Haggerty, forty, was fatally
injured.
All were in the employ of Sax &
Abbott, contractors
The building had a frontage of
twenty-five feet on Market street and
seventy-five feet on Eleventh street.
The two lower floors had been torn
out and the three upper floors were
shored UP by heavy timbers. Steel
girders were bracing the snoring 1t
is supposed the moving of a girder
loosened the entire structure
The crash came without warning
and narrow escapes were many. The
roar of the collapse was heard for
blocks. Bystanders and passersby
fed in desperation in the belief that
an explosion had occurred When
they realized what had happened
they began a series of thrilling res
cues Automobiles and all sorts of
vehicles were pressed into service to
take the dead and injured to hospi-
tails.
Service on the subway line on Mar
ket street which runs near the cellar
of the building was tied up. Some
of the debris fell into the entrance
on Market street and on the platform
and tracks. A woman ticket seller
terrified by the crash and shower of
bricks, tainted.
Business along Market street was
paralyzed. Shoppers ran out of
stores and fought to get nearer the
scene The windows of the high
buildings were filled with spectators.
Friends and relatives of the workmen
came in scores, and the women
shrieked as mangled corpses were
taken from the wreckage.
Many instances of heroism were
witnessed. One man with broken
leg, and pinned under timbers, asked
that the more seriously injured be at
tended first
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
EONE TESTING
A Sure and Easy Test on Coffee.

To decide the all important ques-
ton of coffee, whether or not it is
really the hidden cause of physical
ails and approaching fixed disease,
one should make test of 10 days by
leaving off coffee entirely and using
well-made Postum
If relief follows you may know to
a certainty that coffee has been your
vicious enemy. OF course you can
take 1t back to your heart again, If
you like to keep sick.
A lady says: Il had suffered with
stomach trouble. nervousness and
terrible sick headaches ever since
was little child, for my people were
always great coffee drinkers and let
us children have all we wanted.
got so | thought | could not live
without coffee, but / would not ac-
knowledge that it caused my suffer
ing.
"Then l read so many articles
about Postum that decided to give
1t fair trial, had not used it two
weeks in place of coffee until began
to feel like a different person. The
headaches and nervousness disap-
peared, and whereas'I used to be sick
two or three days out of a week while
drinking coffee am now well and
strong and sturdy seven days a week,
thanks to Postum
81 had been using Postum three
months and had never been sick a
day when / thought | would expert
ment and see if 1t really was coffee
that caused the trouble, so began to
drink coffee again, and inside of a
week had sick spell. was so ill
! was soon convinced that coffee was
the cause of all my misery, and I
went back to Postum, with the result
that was soon we'll and strong again
and determined to stick to Postum
and leave coffee alone in the future.
Read the little book, 1.-THE Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's Rea-
SON."
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true, and full of
human interest.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
TEN DROWN WHEN
LITTLE SLOOP CAPSIzES
Wind 0verturnS the RUxana, Con-
tanning Outing Party.
% IN a STRUGGLE FOR LIFE
Merry Party From Brooklyn, N. Y,
Caught in Sudden Squall and
Thrown Into the Bay After
Starting For the Shore.

st. George, Staten Island. Ten
persons were drowned when the nine
ton sloop Roxana, with party OF
Brooklyn Swedish-Americans aboard,
was overturned by sudden squall
in the lower bay, off Norton's Point,
as they started for the shore. Among
the lost were three women and two
little girls
The list of dead, as reported by
the survivors are: Selma Sameason,
of No 375 East Fifty-sixth street,
Manhattan; Ella Olsen, No. 1876
Clarkson street, Flatbush; Olga and
Selma Knudsen, sisters, fourteen
and eleven years old, of No. s Sec
ond place, Brooklyn; John Christen-
sen, No. 3 First place, Brooklyn;
Abraham Hunsen, No. LOT First
place, BROOKLYN; Abraham jamie
son, Brooklyn; Alice Engleson,
BROOKLYN; Peter Spielson, No. 80
First place, Brooklyn; John Thomp-
son. No. 80 First place, Brooklyn.
The survivors,: Mrs. Selma Knud-
sen, No. 8 Second place, Brooklyn;
badly shocked and may die; Johan-
ma Johnson, No. rs McDonough
street, Brooklyn; Thora Hendrick-
son, No. First place, Brooklyn;
Carrie Knudsen, No 8 Second place,
Brooklyn; Nils Christensen, No.
800 East Twenty-first street, Man
haitian; Captain Jacob Sameason, At
lantic Highlands; Anna Jacobson,
No. 279 Kingsland avenue, Brook
lyn; Abram Sameason, No. 1870 Union
avenue, Brooklyn; Herman jacobson,
No. 279 Kingsland avenue; Jacob
Jacobson, Atlantic Highlands; Sig
mund Sameason, Atlantic Highlands;
unknown man, supposed to have been
picked up by small boat and landed
in Brooklyn
The survivors were treated in the
Smith Infirmary, on Staten Island.
Mrs. Knudsen is the mother of the
two girls who were drowned She
herself was almost dead when res
cued, and, in her excitement, swal-
lowed her upper and lower false
teeth. She was not told of the loss of
her daughters.
Most of those aboard the Roxana
had been drinking, and it was mani
fest from the condition of some of
the survivors, the police say, that
Ah4OtO A1NCo Aul5AJ nave UGSA SdNGQ IL
everybody aboard had been sober.
Captain Sameason admitted, the po-
lice say, considerable beer and liquor
was drunk at South Beach and also
aboard the boat.
The tragedy came almost without
a moments warning to the merry
frolickers on the Roxana They were
laughing and sitting or lying about
the deck when the craft keeled over,
and they had scarcely time to scream
when all of them, men, women and
children. in struggling heap, were
dumped into the water
The Roxana was forty-foot oys-
ter and claiming boat and hailed
from Atlantic Highlands. She was
owned by Sigmund Sameason and
captained by his brother, Jacob
Sameason. Jacob had promised Mrs.
Knudsen, boarding house keeper,
in No. Second place, Brooklyn, he
would make up party of their Swed-
ish-American relatives and friends,
and take them all out for sail.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
BUTTER CORNER RAISES PRICES
Western Beef Packers Make Pittsburgers Pay a.
Much Cents.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Through corner
in butter manipulated by the oleo-
margarine manufacturers, otherwise
known as the Western Beef Packers,
the people of Pittsburg face prices
ranging from thirty cents to thirty
eight cents pound in August and
from forty-two to forty-eight cents
during January, February and
March Pittsburg jobbers say the
oleomargarine interests have been
buying up the available supply of
butter during June and July, paying
one and two cents pound in advance
OF the open market price.
1t is estimated by the butter men
of Pittsburg that the Chicago pack
ers have about 100000 tubs of pure
butter stored in Chicago, and this is
to be held either to mix with the
oleomargarine and to be sold as pure
butter, to force consumers to buy
oleomargarine, or to bring about the
repeal of the tax on oleo Butter has
been exceedingly high for several
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
| ANTHRAX EPIDEMIC
KILLS MAN AND COWS
Deadly Disease Appears Near
MiddletOWn, N. Y.
/ MANY FARMS GUARANTEED
In an Act of Bravado Man Puts
Hide of Animal Around His
Neck and is Infected With the
Disease.

Middletown, N. Y.-As the result
of an epidemic of the deadly anthrax,
which broke out here recently, one
man, four horses, and forty cows
have died. This infectious dis
ease, one of the hardest to stamp
out in cattle, seems already we'll de-
veloped here.
Theodore Wright, aged fifty,
caught the disease while indulging in
a piece of bravado. He lives in Gard
nerville, near here He skinned sew
eral cows which had died of the dis
ease. He was told not to get the
green skins near any wound he
might have and to wash himself thor
oughly with an antiseptic after hand
ling the hides.
He said he wasn't afraid of catch
ing anthrax, and to show that he
meant it he wrapped one of the green
hides around his neck and carried it
thus to the house. 1t is supposed
that the bacilli found entrance
through some little break in the skip
of Wright's neck.
His face and throat began to swell
in two days. Prostitution followed
fever, and from this Mr.. Wright
could not rally, dying in agony after
! five days.
Albany, N. Y.-Acting Chief veter
marian j. F. Devine, who was sent
to Orange County by State Commits
sioner of Agriculture Raymond A
Pearson, has returned and reports
the anthrax epidemic well under con-
troll, with thirteen farms quarantined
and applications for vaccination OF
cattle from three other farms adjoin
ing the infected district
Between twenty-five and thirty cat
tie have died in Orange County from
the disease. One farmer and dairy
man lost eleven cows out of hero
of thirty-one.
A peculiar feature of the present
outbreak was the exhibition of high
temperature and the usual symptoms
of anthrax in some of the infected
herds and the sudden lowering of the
animals temperature after vaccina.
ton and their recovery and in some
instances recovery without vaccina
ton. This is believed to be due tc
the attack being in milder form
The present outbreak was reported tt
the department about ten days ago
In all such cases veterinaries were
at once sent to the district, and the
farmers were instructed what to do.
There are other parts of the State
that periodically have outbreaks OF
anthrax among cattle. At this time
in st. Lawrence and Franklin Coun
ties the vaccination of herds is go.
ing on as it did last year, and no
deaths have been reported. But nc
less than forty or fifty herds are
under surveillance there.
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months, but according to those in
business here these high prices will
not equal the prices which will be
demanded during the winter.
Elgin butter went up one-half a
cent recently, making the price
twenty-six cents to jobbers. This
means a retail rate of from thirty to
thirty-two cents, which is five cents
higher than butter ever cost at this
time of the wear, when it should be
cheapest.
The August prices are expected to
6o record breakers, and the people
wishing pure butter will have to pay
from thirty-two to thirty-eight cents
pound for it. The January prices
are usually ten cents pound in ex-
cess of the August figures. so that
butter near fifty cents a pound is a
probability by the middle of winter.
Pure butter men assert that the
only remedy for these high prices is
increased vigilance on the part of the
State dairy and food department.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20

given me, and / am recommending it
to all my friends. Mrs. w. S. FORD,
1898 Lansdowne St., Baltimore, Md.
The most successful remedy in this
country for the cure of all forms Of
female complaints is Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. It has
stood the test of years and to-day is
more widely and successfully used than
any other female remedy. Ithas cured
thousands of women who have been
troubled with displacements, infam-
nation, liberation, fibroid tumors, IL
regularities, periodic pains, backache,
that bearing-down feeling, flatulency,
indigestion, and nervous prostration,
after all other means had failed.
If you are suffering from any of these
ailments, don't give up hope antil you
have given Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound trial.
If you would like special advice
write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn,
Mass, for it. She has guided
thousands to health, free of
charge
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
The WorId al Snort.

Cornell now holds all the records
for the intercollegiate regatta course
on the Hudson.
Who will coach the Princeton
track team next season appears to
be mystery right now.
r. N. frame, No, 8 in the Wiscon-
sin varsity boat. is captain of the
crew for the coming season.
Langford seems to be unable to
secure match with anybody in this
country He says nobody but JEFF
fries is barred, but there's no chance
for him to hook UP with Johnson or
Ketchel.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
MINISTER'S ODD ENCOUNTER
Battles in Church With Mysterious
Man Armed With Hatchet.

Roanoke, Va.-When the Rev. W
H. H. Joyce, pastor of the Trinity
Methodist Church, entered that edifice
to go into his study, he met a sup
posed burglar, who attacked him with
Ratchet
The intruder aimed blow at the
minister's head, but Joyce, who is an
athlete of powerful build, warded off
the blow, and in desperate struggle
got possession of the Ratchet. His
opponent then drew a large knife.
but the minister forced him to a
door. The former dashed into the
street and Mr.. Joyce chased him for
several blocks.
The fleeing man dropped a pocket.
book containing card bearing the
words, dan Rice, aged twenty-five
years"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
NEW SHAH ON PERSIAN THRONE.
Sultan Ahmed Mira, the Crown
Prince, Displaces Father.

Teheran, Persia. ---Mohamed Ali,
Shah of Persia, was dethroned and
the Crown Prince, Sultan Ahmed
Mira, twelve years old, was pro-
claimed Shah by the National AS
sembly, composed of the chief Mute
bids and the leaders of the National
list forces, in the presence of an inn
mense crowd in Parliament Square.
Mohamed Ali took refuge in the
Russian summer legation at Zerzende,
under the protection of detachments
of Cossacks and Sepoys, dispatched to
Zerzende by the Russian and British
diplomatic representatives. The new
Shah is yet in his minority, and Azad
ell Mulk, head of the Kajar family,
has been appointed Regent.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20

Rockefeller's Gift to Son.
Cleveland, Ohio.-John D. Rookie
Teller celebrated his SEVENTEEN
birthday and transferred Cleveland
real estate valued at $4,000, 900 to
his son, John d. Rockefeller, Jr.
Anti-Trading Stamp Law.
Atlanta, Ga. The House passed a
bill making it illegal to give trading
stamps, sor other like Devices and
making the penalty for this method
of securing trade misdemeanor.
The Senate already has passed sim
liar bill
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
"MEMOIRS OF DAN RICE" THE
CLOWN OF OUR DADDIES.
Dan Rice in His memoirs" Tells In
side Mysteries of Show Life.

Dan Rice in His "Memoirs" Tells In
side Mysteries of Show Life.
Any bookseller will tell you that
the constant quest of his customers
is for "a book which will make me
laugh" The bookman is compelled
to reply that the race of American
humorists has run out and comic lit
erature is scarcer than funny plays.
A wide sale is therefore predicted for
the Memoirs of Dan Rice" the
Clown of Our Daddies, written by
Maria Ward Brown, book guar
anteed TO make you roar with laugh
ter. The author presents to the pub
lie a volume of the great TESTERS
most pungent jokes, comic harangues,
caustic hits upon men and manners,
lectures, anecdotes, sketches of ad-
venture, original songs and poetical
effusions; wise and witty, serious,
satirical, and sentimental sayings of
the sawdust arena of other days.
Old Dan Rice, as proprietor of the
famous "One Horse Show" was more
of a national character than Artemus
Ward, and this volume contains the
humor which made the nation laugh
even while the great Civil War ragged.
This fascinating book of 500 pages,
beautifully illustrated, will be sent
postpaid to you for $3.50. Address
Book Publishing House. 1874 Leonard
street, New York City.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
Both Spelled Alike. Anyhow.

Friend returning MS. poem to
author) Your work reminds me
greatly of Chaucer's."
Poet-"%hank you, thank you,
very much. That is the finest com.
pliment ever paid to my poetry"
Friend-"Oh, l wasn't referring
tc the poetry The part of your
wc~-z that reminded me of Chaucer's
was the spelling, New York Press.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
Among Noted People.

President Taft and family arrived
at their summer home, near Beverly,
Mass.
Threats from Rome of the Social
lists have prevented the Cars visit to
the Italian capital
Governor Gilchrist, of Florida, adj
dressed the Tammany Society on the
suggested political division of the
South
Ambassador and Mrs. Reid held a
reception at Dorchester House, and
the American Society in London gave
, dinner to mark the celebration Of
the Fourth.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
THREE STRIKERS SHOT.
Others Hurt as Pennsylvania Constab.
u1ary Attacked Them at Lyndora.


Butler, Pa. - Taking the striking
employees of the Standard Steel Car
Company completely by surprise de-
tachment of the State Constabulary
arrived here from Punxutawney to
guard the companys property at Lyn-
dora. The strikers, angered by the
appearance of the troops, gathered
around the plant yard, and in clash
with the mounted troopers one strik-
er was probably fatally shot, two
members of the crowd were wounded
and over ten injured. Thirteen al
legged strike leaders were arrested by
the troopers.
The entrance of 500 employees of
the Standard Wheel Company, a con-
Germ manufacturing pressed steel
wheels, into the ranks of the $500
striking men of the Standard Steel
Car Company, makes the situation at
Butler more serious. The wheel com
pany employees refused to report for
duty.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
Great Improvement.

The patient told the doctor all his
symptoms. At the end of the re-
cital the medical man looked severe.
My dear sir" he said, you must
gradually give up whisky and soda"
Some months later he met the pa
tient and inquired whether the advice
had been followed.
ITO the letter." replied the pa
tient, beaming. why, I've already
given up soda completely. New
York Press.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
Woman in Auto Wreck.

Mrs, Ella Marvel, of Wareham,
Mass, was run down by an automo-
bile and fatally injured at Atlantic
City, N. ]. Leo j.. Carnell, chauffeur
for Isaac Baker, owner of the ma
chine, was arrested and held to await
the result Of the woman's injuries.
Mrs. Marvel had several ribs broken
and fractured skull.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
BISHOP STANLEY FOUND DEAD.
Stricken With ApopIexy in His Room
in Fargo, N. ID.

Fargo, N. D.-Bishop John Shan
ley, of the Roman Catholic diocese of
North Dakota, was found dead in his
room in the Episcopal residence from
apoplexy.
Bishop Stanley was born in Albion,
N. Y, in 1852, and removed to St.
Paul in 1857 He was educated at
the College Of the Propaganda, Rome,
receiving his ID. degree in 1874.
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can orator." Mr. Beveridge said,
twas addressing an assemblage Of
people He recounted the peoples
wrongs, Then he passionately cried:
Where are Americas great men?
Why don't they take up the cudgel in
our defense? In the face Of manifold
wrongs why do they remain cold, inn
movable. silent?'
Because they're all cast in
bronze!' shouted a cynic IN the rear"
Baltimore American.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
MURDER FOLLOWED BY SUICIDE.
Frank Elbera, of Cleveland, Ohio,
Fearing Arrest Takes Poison.

Port Huron, Mich.-R. Rosenberg,
a cigarmaker, living at No. 1885 East
Thirty-eighth street, Cleveland, Ohio,
was murdered on lonely island in
the St. Clair flats, just above the Joe
Bedore summer resort. A few hours
later Frank w. Elbera, also of Cleve-
land, who is charged with the MUIR
der, was also dead from poison, self
administered, when he found that ar
rest was imminent. A third Cleve-
land man, Sam Frisbie, was held at
the county Jail here as an accomplice
to the murder of Rosenberg, and has
made a confession to Prosecutor
Stewart of the details of the killing.
The three men met at Bedore's Ho-
tel, where they had gone for vaea-
ton.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
Singer and Her brother Drown.

Jeanette Dolan, known through
out the country as member of Rich
ard Carries companies, and her
brother, James Dolan, of Chillicolhe,
Ohio, attempted to change seats in
boat from which they were fishing
at Peoria, Ill The boat capsized and
both ware drowned
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
KILLED IN LONELY HOME.


Poughkeepsie, N. y Miss Emma
Brooks, aged seventy-two. was found
in her lonely home near Highland,
Ulster County, with her throat cut
from ear to ear. Three hundred dol
lars which she had in pocket Of
her wrapper had been taken.
The authorities are of the opinion
that the aged woman was murdered
by a trap berry picker who had been
driven off her little fruit farm earlier
In the afternoon.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
Another Son For Anna Gould.

Paris. The Princess De Sagan,
. formerly Anna Gould, and once the
wife Of Count Boni De CasteIlane,
gave birth to son in her palace in
the Rue Du Malakof. Prince Hello
De Sagan and Nine. Anna Gould were
married on July Z. 1908, at the
Registers Office In the Strand dis
trict. London.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-07-20
HOW \ Woman Picks 'Em.

Maybe the reason some women can
love the little onery, shaggy, off-col-
ored thing with hair all in it's eyes,
which charity permits you to call q
dog, better than their husbands is
that the average wife selects the dog
she really wants, but takes her hus-
band out of a job lot.--New York
Press.