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Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
Malicious Work.

On September Goth the Hall auto
matte signals at Meshoppen refused
to work and when w. C. Long, the
local maintainer made an investiga-
ton, he found that one of the bat
teries had been broken open, the
working parts removed, and bond
wires which carry the current from
rail to rail had been cut. The matter
was at once taken up by railroad de-
tectiyes Hillebrand and Booth and as
a result Harry Spencer and Clinton
Spencer were taken last Saturday,
charged with tampering with the sig
nails. They were taken before Squire
Bossard and gave bail in the sum of
5000 for their appearance when want.
ed. A warrant was also issued for
the arrest of Charley Bramhall, the
Spencer boys claiming that Bramhall
is responsible for the damaging of
the signals. The Spencer boys have
never been accused before of doing
criminal acts, and it seems to be the
general opinion that another party
was the chief offender-Laceyville
Messengers.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
ILLNESS CAUSES DELAY
IN DRILLING FOR COAL.
Test in CoIiey Township, Sullivan
County. Has Been Stopped.

Says the Dushore Herald William
\. Moulter of Kingston, F. B. Walton
of Plymouth, Martin d. Beirne and
Stephen Jones of Wilkes Barre, c. A.
Johnson of Lopez, have been drilling
on the farm of Lloyd w. Kinsley in
Colley township, for coal. The drilling
was in charge of Mr.. Moulter, who is
now seriously i'll with typhoid pneu-
Aonia, and the drilling has been
stopped after reaching depth of 120
feet. No coal was found.
About five years ago E. J. Billings
of New Albany, and Edward Sherman
of Ulster drilled on the same farm to
a depth of 800 feet finding several
small veins of coal and at a depth of
1S0 found a good vein Of coal but as
the core was very mach broken up
when coming to the surfact it was i'm
possible to tell just what the depth
of the vein was. The sickness of the
foreman of the gentlemen who are now
drilling has prevented them from going
on with the work. Mr.. kinsley says
they have treated him well and he is
very anxious to have them go on with
the drilling. The indications are that
there is coal on Mr.. Kinsley's farm,
but at considerable depth, and it is
hoped that the above named gentlemen
will test the matter thoroughly
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
HUNTING ACCIDENT
MAY COST FOOT.
Charles Ward Received Load of Shot
In Ankle.

As the result of an accident while
hunting near Meshoppen Tuesday
Charles Ward, Lehigh engineer
may lose his right foot. A charge of
shot entered the ankle and the phys
icians at the Packer hospital where
he was taken fear half amputation of
the member will be necessary in or.
der to save the patients life.
In company with Harry Clendenny
and another man. Mr.. Ward was
securing the woods near Meshoppen
for game. After several hours tramp,
ing the party sat down to rest, Mr..
Clendenny kept his gun in his lap.
Mr.. Ward who sat on Mr. Clendenny's
right was playing with the dog, when
Me animal in jumping about struck
the gun with sufficient force to dis
charge the weapon and the charge
struck Mr.. Ward in the ankle The
injured man was carried to Meshop-
pen by his companions and brought
TO Sayre on Lehigh train and taken
directly to the hospital, An eXamin-
alton of the wound showed that the
leaden pellets had torn away the
flesh and injured the bones badly.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
FALLING STARS WILL
SOON BE NUMEROUS
Earth Will Run Into the leonids
About the 18th of This Month.

Earth Will Run Into the Leonids
About the 18th of This Month.
The Leonid showers Of falling stars
are due to fall on the nights of No
vember 12, Is and IA, and Bradford
Countians will watch the skies for
this beautiful display of meteors.
Last years display fxes the date for
this year for many years to come.
The November meteors will scarce
ly be at their best this year. In fact
the earth cuts their orbit at perhaps
its most sparsely settled spot. This
shower has period roughly cores
ponding to the generations of human
life, computed roughly at three to the
century. The last great display was
due in 1899, but it was disappoint-
ment when compared with former
manifestations of this periodic max
imum.
This year the earth crosses the or
bit of this belt of minuscule members
Of the solar system at point ten
years away from the maximum dem
sity, about third Of the circuit of
that orbit. The prospects, therefore
are that the display will not approach
anything like the brilliance that from
time to time has been observed.
On the other hand the exhibition,
chiefly in the early morning hours Of
November IA, should far exceed the
count of the wandering stars which
blaze for a moment almost every
night, silent flights of cold incandes-
cence.
The pea size estimate is generally
accepted as the measure Of the COM
ponents of the periodic shower me-
teors. Only slightly larger is the esti-
mate made by DR.. Johnstone Stoney
in his address to the British Associa-
ton upon the Leonids of 1856.
''The meteors themselves he said,
"are probably little pebbes, the larger
about an ounce, or perhaps two ounc-
es, in weight and spaced in the dens-
est part of the swarm at intervals OF
one or two miles asunder every way.
The thickness of the stream is about
100000 miles, which, however, Is a
mere nothing compared with its enor-
nous length. The width is such that
the earth when it passes obliquetly
through the stream is exposed to the
downpour of meteors for about five
hours
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
Bruin Is Too Cav.

It is all right to talk about bears
and to hunt for them when You are
armed with a Winchester, but one
wants something more than lantern
when he sees big black bruin with
not the pleasentest expression on his
face coming down the path after the
dog and making a bee line in your
direction says the Canton World.
While Barney Paul, of Cold Spring
was going to the barn to do his
chores on Tuesday night with lantern
in hand monster black bear took af
ter his dog which was following him
and chased the yelping canine past
him within few feet. Mr.. Paul says
that he did not like the expression
of Mr.. Bears face as the light of the
lantern fell on him as he went by
and had rather he would stay little
father away.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
Judge Won Moschzisker's Nationality.

What is Judge Won Moschzisker's ma
tionality? This is a question which
was asked before election, and is
still being asked by many. His name
has been handicap to him, but he
was not ashamed of it and a few
years ago when he was asked by
friends TO change his name as it would
prove a handicap he said to them:
mo; | will not change my name. It
is the name of my father, and / am
not ashamed of it. Succeed or fail
the name stands But few people
outside of Philadelphia, know Won
Moschzisker's nationally, and thus
the question. what is he?" The
truth is that his father was native
of Poland and fed his country be-
cause he loved liberty better than
tyranny. The mother of the justice
elect was Miss Harrison, of Philadel-
phia. He was born in that city, re-
ceiving his education in the public
schools and private institutions. They
who know him best hold him in the
highest regard as citizen and a
jurist.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
ON RAILWAY
TRAINS is THE LATEST.
Erie is Trying Out System Which May
Prove a Boom to RaiIroadinq.

Erie is ITyin9 out oyStSW WHICH WdJ
Prove Boom to RaiIroadins.
The Erie Railroad company is test
ing out new automatic signal system.
The company has IL miles of track
between Newark and South Paterson
equipped with the third rail of the
Electrical Automatic Railroad Safety
Signal company, and yesterday spec
ial train containing railroad officials
and Frederick I.acroix, the inventor,
made trip.
The engine has brush arrangement
that connects with the third rail In
the cab are instruments that will bring
the train to q stop the moment IL
enters a block on which there is an
other train or a broken rail, or any
other obstruction.
The train is stopped automatically
Then the engineer takes down his tele-
phone and Calls up the nearest station
and asks what is the matter. He can
also talk with the other engines on the
line
A time meter, similar to the paper
disk time clock of the watchman in
the big buildings, renders it impossible
for him to make a false report as to
the time he received the danger signal
and what he did. 1t is all written out
for him in red ink.
Mr.. LaXroix called up Nutley while
the train was south of that station
asked to be switched to the long dis
tance talephor Jut his engine in
CO. the New York office,
....t up Chicago as easily,
and we could talk as plainly. 1t makes
train wrecks almost impossible, and it
makes it possible for a New Yorker
whose wife is speeding to Frisco on
train to call her up. Trains can have
news tickers in the smoking cars and
every birth its telephone connected
with the outside world"
Another signal in the engineers cab
is green light that burns as long as
the track is clear, but goes dark as
soon as a danger zone is entered.
push button in every station will
stop any train along the track for
miles. AS soon as the station agent
pushes this button the train comes 20
a sudden stop. The engineer calls
back to find what it is all about. The
agent explains and gives orders.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
Meet by Chance and Wed.

A news dispatch from Bethlehem
says: "While visiting friends here,
unknown to each other, Miss May
of Tunkhannock, and former sweet
hearts, yesterday Unexpectedly met
on the street. The old flame was re-
lNindled, and deciding to lose no time,
the couple hurried to the Lehigh
county seat and secured marriage
license. They then went to a Squire
and were married"
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
INJURED PLAYING FOOTBALL.
Was Playing With Cazenovia Semin-
ary Eleven Against Colgate Aca-
deny at Hamilton, N. Y.-success-
full Operation Performed.

1ui operation Performed.
The brutal game of football as it
has been played this Fall, has laid
low Bradford county youth, who
like Cadet Byrne. and nearly so 9TH
ers, may lose his life as result of in
juries received in a game.
The victim of this accident is JOS
eph Pickering of Athens township. a
son of the late William Pickering, who
was well known in Eastern Bradford
county. Pickering who is 18 years
of age, is a student in the Cazenovia
Seminary at Cazenovia, n. Y, and a
member of the football team repre-
senting that school. During the an
nual game with the Colgate Academy
eleven at Hamilton, N. Y, on Satur-
day, Pickering was found unconscious
at the bottom Of a pile Of players
following a lively scrimmage, and
was carried from the field.
An examination by doctors disclosed
the fact that a vertebrae had been
fractured, and his entire body par
uiy i1Su. Ilio iHJuiiSo arc diinoSt lucll-
tical with those which caused the
death of Cadet Bryne of the West
Point eleven two weeks ago. Picker
ing regained consciousness soon after
being carried from the field, but his
condition is critical.
Sunday morning in the Faxton hos
pital at Utica, n. Y, he was operated up
Oh successfully, and his chances for re-
covery are very good. The operation
disclosed the fact that both sides of
the arch of the seventh cervicular
vertebrae had been broken and the
spinal cord lacerated. The compress
ing bone was removed, and following
the operation the surgeon said that
the lad had a fair chance to recover.
Pickering Getting Along Nicely.
Prothonotary w. G. Gordon and J. n.
Califf, Esq, returned Tuesday from
Utica, n. Y, where they went to see
Joseph Pickering, the Athens town
ship youth who was injured in a foot
ball game last Saturday. Pickering
has been placed in plaster east, and
is getting along nicely The doctors
believe he will fully recover. Picker
ing was playing half back for the Gaze
novia seminary team against Colgate
academy eleven when injured.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
WELLSBORO MAN DIED
AT PoSToFFicE DOOR.
Assistant Postmaster Sullivan Sue
cumbs to Heart Disease.

Assistant postmaster Sullivan Sue
cumbs to Heart Disease.
William Sullivan, assistant postmas.
ter of Wellsboro, died very Suddenly
Thursday night of last week. He had
just left the postoffice after conclud-
ing the work of the day, and was on
his way to a meeting of the hose
company, when stricken with heart
diseaes. Friends found him leaning
against the building outside the rear
door of the postoffice, and he was
carried into an adjoining store and
several physicians summoned. Life
was extinct, however.
Mr.. Sullivan was fifty-three years of
age. He was employed for a time in
the freight office but for over twenty.
one years he has been deputy post
master in this borough serving dur
ing the terms of Postmaster Dou-
maux, a part of the term of James T..
White and also with Postnasters
Wright, Roy and Champaign. Mr..
Sullivan in politics was a Democrat
but had served under four Republican
postmasters which was a proof of the
competent manner in which he kept
the affairs of his department. He
was an authority on postal affairs and
was the secretary Of the Deputy Post.
masters Association of Pennsylvania
He took a lively interest in the
work of the volunteer firemen of
Wellsboro and was prominent in the
affairs of the Seven County Volun-
teer Firemen's association. He has
visited Towanda several times, the
last time to attend the firemens con-
vention.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
Munson Can Have Place.

The vote given by Lycoming county
for c. LaRue Munson for Judge Of
Supreme Court was history-maker.
In WillIamsport alone he has 1901, as
against Won Moschzisker's SCI, and in
the county as whole he has a plural
ity of 5.S40 over the Republican can
didate. One deduction from this over.
whelming vote is that 1t points directly
to him as the candidate for Judge of
Lycoming county next year, If he
wants It,
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
UnseIfsh Man.

you can keep my wife, but bring
back my fnrniture," said William Dear
in aldermanic court at Wilkes Barre,
where he was prosecuting William
Carl for larceny of furniture. 1t ap-
peared that Dear's wife had been living
with Carl for some time and that the
couple had taken some furniture with
them. Dear insisted that he did not
want his wife, but placed a higher
value on his furniture.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
Peculiar Accident.

Near the same spot where his faith
er met death by being run down by an
automobile over year ago, Martin
Nolan, a 12-yeaG-old North Scranton
boy, was struck by an automobile
Tuesday and received injuries of
serious nature. Several of the youths
ribs were broken, his legs were badly
lacerated and he is suffering from
severe bruises to the body
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
Prosperous Banking Institution.

The Citizens National Bank of
Tunkhannock celebrated their seventh
anniversary by issuing neatly print
ed folder showing their annual state
ments since organization. The capi-
tai has increased from $4,000 to $50.
900 and the deposits are now nearly
100000. The total earnings are $685.
562.31.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
DWELLING Burned.
562.331.

At $3.50 on Tuesday morning of
last week the dwelling of the late
Fl. Browning Taylor Of Brushville
was burned to the ground. The cause
was defective chimney and the
owner, Stephen Trowbridge, was able
to get his household goods out of the
burning building. There was an in
surance of $500 on the property.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
Bolts Return to Church.

Lightning Thursday afternoon
struck the First italian Presbyterian
Church, at Hazleton causing the de-
struction of the steeple and portion
of the roof. and entailine u $1,000 loss
Two weeks ago the residence of Rev.
Brunn, pastor of the church, was
struck by lightning, and the loss was
about the same.
Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1909-11-11
Planting Chestnut Trees.

The Larrys Greek Fish and Game
Club, composed of Williamsport cit
izens, which owns a 5000 acre pre-
serve back Of Salladasburg, is plan
ming to plant one thousand Paragon
chestnut trees on the tract next
Spring. Among the objects of the
tree planting is to shade the trout
streams and provide food for game.
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-07-01
Notice for Bids

Notice is hereby given that the
school board of Iowa School district
No. g. will receive sealed bids for the
of a school house to be
erected at the Sc corner of the .SW
IA section 2, 1922. All material to
be furnished by contractor. A bond
or certified check for 10 per cent Of
bid must accompany each bid. Bids
to be received up to 2 p. m. of Satur-
dey, July 8. 1909. Board reserves the
right to reject any or all bids. Plans
and specifications to be found at the
office of the county superintendent or
with the clerk.
Bond shall be given for full amount
OF lid. Building to be completed by
Aug. Is. 1919 ,a .s.ar .n,.-..
21E7.". BY order school board.
C. B. Perine.
Clerk of District,
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Clys1.,e stations 70, Sale

Four full blsod and registered
Clydesdale stalliens from two to four
years old. These horses have sbeen
raised on my ranch and are. .acclimat-
ed and superior lin many ways to
horses breaght 'fIom distant loeali-
ties: Also a few ,1nll blood Galloway
, bulls. Address w. GLIB. nBrookbalk
:Montratlse Co., N. Oak. g. y.s.2
An ad. in the Independent
zig read by over $500 families.
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S0mething About Hail Insurance

Read it carefully, consider serious
ly and don't let your growing crop
be destroyed.
B. F. Warren Writes Hail Insurance,
( and 1t Costs You Only 30 Cents
/ Per Acre
7 To protect your growing crops
against loss from, this destructive ele-
ment, you don't have to pay this pre-
mium till fall, and you don't have
to pay any interest and you don't
have to pay policy fee, and you
don't have to pay five dollars to get
man to come and adjust your loss
when you have one, you don't have
to pay twenty-five dollars cash be-
fore you can call an arbitration
meeting, in fact, you don't need to
have an arbitration meeting, because
you always get square deal at every
turn of the game. l want to write a
policy on every field Of growing
grain in Ward county. ~
Talk with Martin Jacobson, R. w.
Jones, ]. B. Tracy and hundreds OF
| other members now living in Ward
county. Call on B. F. Warren the
authorized agent for Minot and vic
Unity also superintendent Of adjust
ments for this district.
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WANTED-A middle aged couple
to stay on farm for e month to do
chores while owner is away. "A
sober single man would do. Refer
ence required. Address Box 8, r. F.
ID. 1, Burlington, N. D. 1tp
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-07-01
Rheumatism

More than nine out of every
ten cases Of rheumatism are
simply rheumatism Of the
muscles, due to cold or damp,
q chronic rheumatism. lp
such cases no internal treat
nent is required. The Tres
application Of
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1909-07-01
Notice of Mortgage Sale

Default having been made in the
conditions of the hereinafter describ-
ed mortgage, which default consists
OF failure to pay the debt secured By
said mortgage and tie taxes assess
ed against the land covered by said
mortgage, and by reason OF said de-
fault the power of sale contained in
said mortgage having become oper-
ative and no action or proceeding
having been instituted at law to re-
cover the debt secured by said mort
gage. or any part thereof:
Now, therefore, notice is hereby
given that that certain mortgage ex-
eeuted and delivered by Edith Nuren-
berger and John J. Nurenberger, he,
husband, mortgagors, to Phil @.
HeintZ, MORTGAGE, dated the 18th
day of December, A. D. 1904, and filed
for record in the Office of the register
of deeds of the county Of Ward and
state of North Dakota on the oath
day of December, A. D. 1904, at 2:35
o'clock, p. m. and recorded in book
Nv" of mortgage deeds at page 222
will be fOreclosed by sale of thu
premises in such mortgage and here
matter described at the front doc
of the court house in the city of MI
not. in the county of Ward and state
of North Dakota, az the hour OF
200 p. m. on Saturday, the 10th day
of July, A. d. 1909. to satisfy III,
amount duo upon such mortgage Ga
the day of sale.
The premises described in such
mortgage and which wAl be sold to
satisfy the same are described al
follows:
! Lots numbered fourteen Q4) and
fifteen Q5), of block numbered
l6), of the village of Carpio, accord
ing to a plat thereof IN file and OF
record in the Office OF the register OF
deeds in and for the county Of Ward
and state of Nortl Dakota, said
premises being situate in Ward couE-
ty, North Dakota.
/ There will tie due on said mortgage
at the date of sale me sum of si1
hundred fifty-five dollars and thirty
five cents, (se55.95.), including taxes
paid by said mortgage on said real
Iestate, and interest thereon in &C.
cordance with the terms of the
mortgage, and in addition thereto the
statutory attorneys fees as provided
by law and the costs and disburse-
ments of sale.
1 Dated this oath day Of May, A. d
1909.
;, Phil G. Heintz
MortgageA
il. ". Gammons. Attorney for Mort
gagee, Minot, N. Oak. 5-27 81
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DISEASED FEET

We. make q. specially OF correcting
lame and diseased fee Of horses.
We invite all classes of horse shoe
ing. General hlacksmithing, plow
work. ETC. Opposite Scoaeld's livery
barn. Barlow & sisybsugh. II
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N01eIQ

NO8oo
General order Of ths Maot CITY
Board o. hsaltA: y,r.. $50 rs., ,r,e ~ !
al psrsoaS are hersey noft4sd that
sAs uu,splas AZ mAaars. saraaes o.
rsasss a ~ nn1 q 49, 3oh,
or place wttAan ras tu6n ~ The
cry Of MnSt q u he MOSS River
/: .sbsolsps.y pAsnlsGtsl. ~ !
Az oae 1uana vtotaeang TIE AotSes
wln - pstsssoss1. ~ { z I.
Dy orosr q City Board 1t HaaatA
,- - , .,s~ q. .. ssvsrs.oa. -
1917 q &c. q Baara
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Farm Fer Sale

First class 100 acre-farm, 2 miles
from good market and miles from
county seat Mountrail county. Good
water. All tillable, nearly 40 acres
broken. Fifteen or twenty acres
good hay land. For terms address X
Care Independent. ga lib
FOR SALE-Some good young
horses, or will trade for cattle. H
J. Hecht miles northeast of Minot
6-24 tt.
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c. A. FISHER, photogra pnic
art studio, frst-class work, al,
sizes, 3O3 5. Main st., Minot.
N. u. list.
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Estrayed-From my home, Sec. 81
1924, one bay mare colt two years
old, weight about 800 lbs. Wire mark
shove knee on front leg. Finder
please notify D. vaAett, Douglass, N.
>. 0-As