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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21

There can be no defense of thu
wooden schedules, no justification fol
the sugar tariffs except to insure per
petuity to the Sugar Trust.
Opposes Investigation.
II cannot see what good results
would flow from an investigation o.:
these conditions at this time.
Senator Perkins, of California, be
lieves the advance is due to the Law
of supply and demand, that produc
ton has not kept pace with the
growth of population.
Many years ago, I was a cattle
raiser" he said ""We got SIP tc
SIS for a steer To-day that steer
brings $45 to $50. | sold sheep al
$3.50 head. They now bring So
for mutton Wheat has sold at fifty
cents bushel; it is now more thar
81 in Chicago. The cattle raiser ane
the wheat grower get a large per
centage of this increase.
Formerly the cities could be fec
in large part by the product of sur
rounding territory Now the neces.
stiles are demanded in such bulk they
must be transported great distances
This increases the cost of the neces
stiles.
Cost to Go Still Higher.
That the cost of living soon will be
greater than ever before, is indicated
by the December report, just issued
by the Bradstreet Company. The re-
port shows that the prices of com.
modities to-day are within a small
fraction of the record.
Up to date the highest prices ever
known in this country for commodi.
ties was March 1, 1907. According
to Bradstreet's table of index mum.
bers, on December 1, this year, the
level stood at S9.1262. On March 1
1907, the level was $9.1293. That
is, the price of commodities to-day Is
within a small fraction of one per
cent. of the highest record.
Bradstreet's report shows that
theoretically. man going to the
wholesale market place to purchase a
pound of each of ninety-six articles
would have had to pay on December
Of this year about $9.12ss. On
March last like goods might have
been purchased for nearly ninoty-one
cents less, while on December 1,
1908, they were cheaper by 91.35
cents.
Bradstreet's index numbers are the
totals of the prices per pound of nine
ty-six articles, quarterly or monthly
which is used as standard OF com.
parison.
The groups that make UP the index
numbers are set out in the following
table, which shows the striking in.
crease in the cost of living thissyear
as compared to last:
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
WRECK ON n. !. CENTRAL
Three Killed In a Snow Storm
Collision.
Eighteen Persons Were Injured When
the Limited From st. Louis
Rammed Express Train.

Erie, Pa.-Three men were killed
seven persons were seriously injured
though none is believed to be fatally
hurt, and eleven more were taken to
Buffalo suffering from minor hurts as
a result of q rear-end collision be-
tween the HBig -Four flyer, No. 26,
known as thesNew York Central Linn
tied, from st. Louis to New York
City, and the Chicago to Boston spec
cial, known as No. 10. on the Lake
Shore road near North East, six miles
east of here. The wreck occurred
during a raging snowstorm. All Of
the dead and injured were passengers
on the Boston train.
The dead are: Francis Bernard.
Cedar Point, Kan; Jack Claib, Cedar
Point, Kan; Anton Lund, Hullville.
Cal. Lund had ticket to New York
and a Cunard steamship ticket from
New York to Copenhagen.
The seriously injured are. w. L.
McFadden, Buffalo, left shoulder
broken; Luiga Eriale, Cincinnati.
head cut and minor bruises; Frank
r. Cook, Green Bay, Wis, legs broken
and spine injured; E. L. Elogston,
Jamaica Plain, Mass, legs fractured
and hands injured; George e. Nc
Eangle, Indian Harbor. Conn, head
bruised; Aecola Delaques, Auburn, N.
r., badly cut; Louis Zidole, travelling
man, with nothing to indicate resi-
dence; George S. McFadden, Green
witch, Conn; Frank A. Starks, Green
Vile, Wis; Mrs. Edna Lostus, New
York City; w. L. Burr, New York
City, head bruised; t. T. Harding.
Cleveland, head bruised; M Masters,
Cincinnati; Clayton Chapman, Elyria,
O.; William Coale, Warren, O.; three
men whose names were not given.
The New York Central Limited u.s.
ually meets the Twentieth Century
Limited at Cleveland and is made a
part of that train If both are not
too heavy they are combined. If
there are too many cars the Limited
is run in as the second section of the
Twentieth Century. The Limited
reached Cleveland before the Tween
tieth Century from Chicago got there
and went on ahead
The New York Central Limited
left Cleveland at 9.05 o'clock, fifteen
minutes late. Engineer Berger, of
Collinwood, and Fireman Falken-
stein, of Buffalo, were in the cab.
The Boston flyer had pulled out at
7.57 O'Clock. BY the time she left
Erie a binding sEowstorm was rag
ing.
A freight preceded the Boston train
and out of Erie she delayed the spe-
cial, so that by the time the Limited
left Erie she was only few minutes
behind the Boston train. Near North
East the Boston flyer had come al
most to a stop behind the freight.
The Limited was bowling along at
close to top speed. The snow OBJ
scured the rear signal lights of the
flyer and the Limited plowed into
her.
The flyer carried smoker as the
rear coach. 1t was splintered. 1t was
in this that the dead and injured were
riding. None of the passengers on
the Limited was injured. Engineer
Berger and Fireman Falkenstein
were only slightly scratched.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
DEATH ON THE RAILWAYS
Trains Collide In SnoWstorm at
Cleveland, Ohio.
Party of Eassar Girls Give Tempo
rary Aid TO the None Of
the Students Was Hurt.

Clevelanda OHIO. Five trainmen
were killed and another was severely
injured when a westbound Lake
Shore Messenger train collided with q
fraiob+ gtroiu - tbo f.alra choro ana
Assafs.a,s ca..4, -,1.1-. '1--S-
~ io1l s g ueAlVi I eaiiWay 20 ~
mo passengers were injured
me dead are:
H, L. Collingwood, passenger en-
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
"BLocKs OF FIVE" DUDLEY DIES.
His Famous Campaign Device Earned
Him Office.

Washington, D. General Will
lam Wade Dudley, famous through
out the country because of his blocks
of five" device during the Harrison
campaign, died here at sixty-seven
years of age.
General Dudley was treasurer of
the Republican National Committee
during the Harrison campaign of
1888 and distributed the funds raised
for missionary work. Indiana was
pivotal State then. General Dudley
wired to his lieutenants in the State
on the eve of election to buy the vot-
ers in blocks of FIVE" One Of his
kilograms was intercepted and pub
lished, and from that day he was
known as Blocks of Five" Dudley.
General Dudley served in fifteen bat
ties of the Civil War, losing his right
leg at Gettysburg. He was United
States Marshal for Indiana 1879.
1881, and Commissioner of Pensions
1881|85.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
SENATOR RAINEs DEAD.
Republican Leader of State Senate
Dies at Canandaigua, N. Y.

Canandaigua, N. Y.-Senator John
Raines is dead. He had been serious
ly i'll for several weeks. His physi-
clans diagnosed his case as ulcer of
the abdomen. With the death of
John Raines there was removed from
public life man who, more than any
body now active in the political game
in New York State, stood out both as
a party leader and legislator.
Senator Raines was born in 1910
in Geneva, N. ", where he was edu-
Gated in the common schools and af-
terward studied law. He was gradu-
ated from the Albany Law School just
before tr-> war He taught school for
a short time and then took up the
practice OF law in his native town,
later removing to the town of Canaan
daigua, where there was less compe-
tition.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
Russia Taxes Cotton.

Russia Taxes IOttOh.
st. Petersburg. The Ministerial
Commission approved the suggestion
OF placing a tax of seven-tenths OF one
cent on each pound of cotton grown
in European Russia, Bokhara and
Khiva.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
Telegraphic Ticks.

The Very Rev. DR.. Brann, CT New
York City, was received by the Pope
at Rome.
Rumors OF battle at Rama, Mic
aragua, with heavy loss of life, were
received at Managua
China issued circular protest to
the powers against Russia's attempt
to control the administration of Man
churian railways.
Secretary Macveagh's tariff speech
at Boston aroused Congress and re-
suited in the holding up OF the nom
nations Of Curtis and Cabell. new
Treasury appolntees,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
z DEAD IN WRECK
GOULDS ARE UNHURT
Cars Plunge From Trestle Near
Greensboro, N c.
PASSENGERS ARE CRUSHED
George ]. Gould and His Son Jay Are
Not Harmed by Fall of More
Than Twenty Feet to the Creek
Below.

Greensboro, S. CA local passen-
ger train on the Southern Railway,
known as the Richmond and Atlanta
train, due in Greensboro at $40 a. M,
was wrecked at Reedy Fork trestle,
ten miles north of here Twelve bod
les have been removed from the
wreckage. 1t is reported that several
others are dead. twenty-five injured
were taken to st. Leo's Hospital.
The dead were: Ed. ,Bagby, Rich
mond; Charles T. Broadfield, Ameri-
Gus; John G. Brodnax, Richmond,
Va; A. p Cone, Superintendent of
the Richmond and Danville Division
of the Southern Railway, Richmond,
Va; Isaac Dammals, porter on the
Richmond sleeper; Richard Eames,
mining engineer, New York; Virgil
E. Holcomb, Mount Airy, N. c.; F..
W. Kilby, Birmingham, Ala, or
both places); c. B. Nolan, Pullman
Denton, N c.; H. G. White, travelling
auditor, Washington; unidentified
white man.
Among the patients at the hospital
who are fatally injured are Henry L..
Stribling, of Decatur, Ga, and F. G..
Smith, Of Spencer, N. G.
Robert Russell, of IA East Forty
first street, New York City, former ed
itor of the Metropolitan Magazine,
was one of the injured. He will re-
cover
Much time was required to remove
the dead and the injured from the de-
bris. The injured were brought to
this city as rapidly as they could be
extricated and placed in st. Leo's Hos
pital.
George ]. Gould, who with his son,
Jay, was in one of the sleepers when
the train jumped the track, and who
was reported dead, escaped unin-
jured. He with his son, Jay, and Mr..
Russell. who is friend of his, had
just got out of their berths when the
wreck occurred. Mr.. Russell was hurt
by coming in contact with a car stove
and is in the hospital
Mr.. Gould and his son came in on
special train bearing the dead and
the injured. He left in the afternoon
for his hunting lodge, fifteen miles
from here, for a weeks outing.
The derailment was caused by a
broken rail about 200 feet from the
trestle that spans the small stream.
The train was composed of two bag
gage. express and mail cars, three day
coaches and two sleepers. The loco
motive and baggage, mail and express
cars passed over in safety. The day
coaches and sleepers were thrown
from the trestle into the creek and
along the banks some twenty to thirty
feet below.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
Newsy Gleanings.

Congress opened with the ''regu-
lars" in supreme control.
The Police Department moved into
Its new headquarters at $50 Centre
street, New York City.
Frederic c. Selous. the African
hunter who practically QUILTED the
Roosevelt party, arrived in New York
City.
Herbert Knox Smith. Commissioner
of Corporations at Washington. D. G..
|criticises conditions in the New York
Cotton Exchange as responsible for
real injury to producers and mer-
chants.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
ICE TRUST LOSES.
Appellate Division Decides a Point
Against the Company.

New York City.--The American Ice
Company lost point when the APP
pellate Division of the Supreme Court
reversed an order of the Special Term
striking from the complaint in the
suit brought against it by the Attor-
ney-General in the name of the people.
The court in reversing the lower
court said that the suit against the
American Ice Company was brought
by the People in their sovereign
right for redress by way of injunction
and cancellation of the permit to do
business in this State upon the ground
that it has deliberately repeatedly
and continuously violated the provis-
ions Of laws (set forth) by combining
with other corporations and persons
for the creation of a monopoly in the
ice trade in the city of New York and
adjacent territory"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
$500 Year From Government IL
You're IS and Don't Make &24O

Washington, d. Gam old age
home guard bilr' was introduced in,
the House by Mr.. Wilson, of Penn
syavania. 1t provides that all persons
over sixty-five years of age who have
resided in the United States for TWEEN
sy-five years and have been citizens
for fifteen years not possessing prop
an income in excess Of s240 a year.
may be enrolled to receive a pension
Of $120 a year, to be paid quarterly.
Mr.. Wilson is labor man.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
The Labor world.

The labor temple project has been
revived in Pittsburg.
Iron workers in Wales have been
awarded an advance OF one-half per
cent, dating from October l.
During the last seventeen years
American coal mines have killed
22,S40 men, made at least 10000
widows and upward Of 10000 or
phans.
In 1908 fatal accidents In mines
Tin Great Brittany caused 1908
deaths. while the non-fataI accidents
kept 141.851 men incapacitated more
than seven days.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
AUTOS PLUNGE KILLS GIRL.
Her Fiance Badly Injured as Car
Falls 100 Feet Down Incline.

Pasadena, Cal.-Miss Agnes Clay
pool, eighteen years old, daughter of
resident Of Pasadena. was killed,
and Harvey Bissel, of Grand Rapids.
Mich. was fatally injured in an auto
mobile accident.
Mr.. Bissell and Miss Claypool were
riding in a racing automobile, which
went over the edge of the narrow
Eagle Rock Valley road and fell 100
feet down the steep incline. Miss
Claypools body was found under the
machine. A broken rib had pune.
tured her lungs. Bissell was lying
near by. His collarbone and right
leg were broken ard his spine was
injured.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
About Noted People.

Ambassador Bryce called at the
White House to introduce his brother,
Amman Bryce. M. r.
J. Pierpont Morgan said that he is
acting solely In the interest Of the
Equitable policyholders
The will Of the late William M.
Laffan, owner of the New York Sun,
gave everything to his widow.
Theodore w Myers. former Comp
troller, returned from Europe declar-
ing New York City the best governed
city, but with suggestions for big
economies in municipal expenditures:
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
GIFT FATAL TO CHILD.
Little Girl Poured Oil in Toy Stove as
She Had Seen Her Mother Do.

East 81. Louis, Ill.-A toy stove
which her father gave her resulted in
the death of Minnie Coming, six years
old, the probably fatal burning of the
child's mother and the injury Of her
father
stove by pouring in kerosene oil, as
she had often seen her mother do in
a real stove. The child's clothes were
enveloped in fiamesas soon as a match
was applied to the oily stove and she
died within two hours.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
MANY SOLDIERS GO INSANE.
hIelanchoIia and Strong Native Drink
in the Philippines Responsible.

hIelanch0lia and Strong Native Drink
in the Philippines Responsible.
Pittsburg, PA carload of in
sane soldiers from the Philippines
passed through Pittsburg in charge
of Major J. M. Kennedy, who was
taking them to Washington, d. c.,
from the Pacific Coast. Speaking of
the prevalence OF insanity in the
army, Major Kennedy said:
There is greater increase in the
number of cases of insanity among
the soldiers in the Philippines than
in any other branch Of the service.
This increase is thought to be due
principally to Inconsistencies and over
indulgence in 'bino,' a native Philip
pine drink. Melancholia also adds
its quota to the number of insane
cases
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
BURNED TO DEATH BY A CIGASs.
Thomas v. Cooper, Fgvzner siee2vctor
in Philadelphia, Found Dead.

Media, Pa. Thomas Valentine
Cooper, member of the Pennsylva-
mia Legislature from Delaware Coun-
ty and formerly Collector OF the Port
Of Philadelphia, was burned to death
in his home here.
Mr.. Cooper was a sufferer from in
sonnia and just before o'clock in
the morning he entered the room oc-
cupiedtby one. of his nephews and got
cigar Afterward his daughter-in-
law smelled smoke and awakened her
husband Thomas v. Cooper, Jr.
An alarm of fire was turned in, but
before the firemen arrived Mr.. Coop
srs body was found lyingson blaz-
ing couch in the sitting room, 1t was
badly charred. AS no cutlery was
heard his family believe he suffered a
stroke of paralysis before the cigar
fell from his mouth. He was seven
ty-four years old.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
Oklahoma Inspector Determined
to Have Orders Obeved

.McAlester. Okla.-Eleven collieries
Of four different companies were
closed at Coalgate, Okla, by Mine
Inspector Hanraty, because they~had
ignored his formal notice that they
must cease maintaining mule stables
in the mines.
Inspector Hanratys order for all
operations to cease until his rule is
complied with Immediately threw
5000 miners there temporarily out of
employment. Electrical appliances
will be installed to do the work.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
BIGGEST DRY CITY GOES WET.
Worcester, Mass, With Landslide
Vote, Returns to the Saloons.

Worcester, Mass.-With a land
slide vote the people of Worcester.
the largest no license city in the
world, decided for a return of the
saloon by a majority of 374O, as
against the no license majority last
year of 209.
The landslide for license was big
enough to cause even the most rabid
liquor man in the city to wonder how
1t happened, and although during the
campaign all kinds of predictions
were made, no one believed that Ii.
cense would win at all.
James Logan, Republican candidate
for reelection as Mayor, and one OF
the strongest advocates of prohibition
in the State of Massachusetts, de.
feated his opponent by majority OF
1882.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
LuRToN NAMED FOR JUSTICE.
President dominates Him For the
Supreme Court.

Washington, d. C.-President Taft
nominated Horace H. Lurton, of Ten
nessee, to be an Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United
States. He will succeed the late JUS
tice Peckham, of New York
Horace H. Lurton, who was born
in Kentucky sixty-five years ago, was
graduated as lawyer from Cumber-
land University, after brief aca-
demic career in Douglas University,
later the University of Chicago, which
was cut short by his service through
the Civil War His first public Office
was that of Chancellor of the Sixth
District of Tennessee, in which he
served three years. He was never ac-
tive in politics. though a lifelong
Democrat.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21

Secretary Knox s policy with regard
to Nicaragua, as laid before a Senate
committee at Washington, d. c., is to
give the insurgents chance to pun
ish Zelaya, but If they cannot do it to
employ United States forces to secure
reparation for the murder of two
Americans.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
Morgan Bays Telephones.

It was announced at Toledo, Ohio,
that J. p. Morgan G. Co had bought
control of the United States Tele-
phone Company and the Cuyahoga
Telephone Company, Ohio independ-
ents. The purchase was said to be
for permanent investment by Morgan
C Co, their FIRST in the telephone
field.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
Mae Wood in Prison.

Mae Wood, indicted for perjury
growing out of her suit against ex-
Senator Tom c. Platt, surrendered in
General Sessions and was committed
to the Tombs, New York City. 1t is
admitted that she will not be tried, as
Platt is too i'll to appear in court.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
BOY DIES FOR LOVE.
Kills Himself at Home of Sixteen
Year-Old Sweetheart.


Year-Old Sweetheart.
Reading, Par die for love, was
the last declaration of Walter Sher-
man, seventeen years old, who com
mitted suicide at the home of his
sweetheart, near Stonetown. under ro-
mantle circumstances.
He had been devoted to sixteen
year-old Susie Hoch, and asked her
parents to announce their engage
meht. They objected on the ground
Of the girls youth and ordered him to-
cease his attentions to her.
He spent the evening with the Hoch
family, departing at / 0 o'clock with a
cheerful Good night" About mid
night the Hoch family heard a shot,
followed by call from Sherman for
help. He was taken into the house
and died an hour later, asking for
giveness and saying he was "love
crazy =
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
LATEST News.
BY WIRE.

Newport to Get Lobsters.
Newport. r. I.-lyewport's lobster
| famine. which has been on since De-
! eember /, when closed season is de-
clared will be broken when Nova
Scotia Holsters are received Next
May the Management Bay lobster
laws will be oil.
Cannot Be L. 81. Consul.
Washington, d. There has been
so much objection in the Mexican
Congress to bill giving Gabriel Al
sion to, act as deputy American Consul
| hat the measure has been withdrawn.
Three Postmasters ReappOinted.
Washington, D. ca President Taft
decided upon the reappointment OF
The following postmasters: Philadel-
phia, Richard 4. Ashhurst; Detroit,
Homer Warren; Buffalo, Fred Grei-
ner
Switch Cleaner to Share $40, 0,000.~
Michigan City, Ind From switch
, cleaner on an electric railroad to
millionaire was the long step made by
letter from an aunt at Posen, Prussia,
advising him that he was one of ten
heirs to an estate valued at $20,000,-
/ 900.
Urges Gas Companies TO Re Frank.
New York Clyde frank with
The public" was the advice given by
/ George Bruce Cortelyou, former Sec
retary of the Treasury and now pres
ident of the Consolidated Gas Com
pany, of this city, in addressing the
annual convention of the National
Commercial Gas Association.
Ballxy Merger Witness Fined.
Cleveland, Ohio Notary Chestnut
fined James S. Bradley, of Toledo.
$50 for failing to appear and give
testimony in the probing of the tele
phone merger in this State.
Says Ship VIII Fly in Gale.
Providence, r. I.-Otto Herman,
mechanician, is working on a biplane
In which he intends to fly even in a
lhirty-knot gale. He has patented
steering device, which, he asserts,
will permit heretofore impossible
feats.
Eirst Oil Station For Navy.
Newport, r. 1.-THE first naval oil
stations to supply battleships, torpedo
boats and destroyers with oil for fuel
will be erected on the grounds of the
naval coaling station in Nar.agansett
Bay.
Love Merely Whim.'
New York City.-Dr Anibal Zelaya
testified that when he told Miss Hero
he loved her he meant nothing, be-
ing in All .5eal mood, characteristic
ct IRE Latin race, and that he con-
sidered love merely faneiful whim.
Liquor Locker Legas,
Montgomery, Afs.-The Alabama
Supreme Court established what is
known as the locker system, the in
dividual's right to own and store
t.quor where and in what quantity he
wishes, despite the prohibition law.
Mrs. Horace d. Taft Dies.
Baltimore, Me..---,<Ass Winifrea
Taft, wife OF Horace D. Taft, of "
.ertown, Conn, brother Of President
Taft, died here at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital She had been under treat
rncnt there for several weeks, sup
oosedly for brain trouble
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-12-21
~ interference Rrookefl.

Secretary Knox notified the Mexi-
can envoy, at Washington, d. c., that
ahis country will brook no outside in
reference. friendly or unfriendly,
with its dealings with Nicaragua.