Putnam patriot., 1909-11-19
Editorial Scraps.

Ten IflDHsHU1 HAfflhil }flHEzf ID k9sfH as the ordinary class of people, per. haps, women among the number, un- der frenzy Of excitement, at tairo, H., Hast Thursday, lynebed negro and white man in the nsnalibfa style, screaming and dancing with joy ! while committing the horrid deed in | the most prominent square of the city The negro WAS accused Of mufdering n | white girl, but he made no confession. The white man, who murdered his l wife last July, and was convicted, WIS | taken from jail aud hung from tele- graph pole, allowing him ten minutes | to pray. The bodies Of both were rid died with 500 shots. Several of the | ministers of The city, at their Sunday | services, justified the Iynehing as les son to teach the officers to pay more re- gard 10 the enforcement of the laws. In m educational institution for the | s.gided' youth, in one of their rough games, stamped on the face of com panion, then tied him 50 he couldn't move, then kicked and msuled him So badly that he died of his wounds. During Inc past few weeks four per sons were severely Injured at their in- stitutions playing the game of football two of whom died within week causing great lamentalion. The game of football attracts greater crowds of our best citizens who pay higher prices than for any other attraction In the land. The only amusement to which football can be compared is royal bullfight in Spain, the difference being that in the latter the beasts suiler-in the former young men.
 On the same day, Nov. l4, in colli- sion of two steamers, of Singapore, India, one of them was cut in two and sank, with 1t i0i persons. At Cherry, H., q coal mine explosion occurred, and 400 of the miners were entoInbed in . burning furnace and perished. 0i those who escaped. 50 left the mine at the noon hour, and the others escaped after the fire broke out. There are more accidents of the latter kind in this country, which Is inexcusable.
 Says the New York Tribune: "rhere has been an astonishing abundance oi tropical hurricanes this season. Not infrequcutly year passes without more than one or two bein reported Within the last four months fully 2 dozen have been observed" And II might have added, "more fearfully de structive to life sndtproperty. "fhe seas and the waves roaring.'
 Last Monday a hurricane storm was very destructive to property in Jamai- ga Island, and fifty were drowned In the floods.
 A pointer: "on the trip with the President down the Mississippi, Cover nor Weeks made the acquaintance ot ex.Governor Blanchard of Louisiana. Recently he received n letter from him containing the following paragraph;
 "lf we of the South and you of the North would see more ot each other, am sure the bonds of union between tht two sections would be cemented even more strongly than they are al the pre- sent time
 Present Taft took the North with him when he faced he South and the bonds arc now stronger than ever, and eN Governor Blanehard's testimony i' proof of Il.
 South Carolina first tried the dispen sary, but the Stale officials combine, 10 use il 10 enrich themselves at th' expense ol the people and the users O liquor. Now the State is thoro1ghl, sdry.s The dispensats leads to that,
 Mrs. Eddy wrote letter ie the in surgent New York tirst Church Sci enlist, with her own signature, an, ..presto,n they became al once loyal and the breach is healed, Mrs. Edd, is a remarkable woman.
 The charge recently made that Japar had made treaty with China whsei closed the s.open door into Manchu ria, 10 which those two nations wer' pledged, turns out, like all the othel charges impugning them of duplieit, and selfishness, To be without tounda ton. So says our government aftel investigation. Equal opportunities for all, ''is respected as are all lheinoth CT obligations.
 Maryland rejected, \, the recent cleo ton, the proposition to amend it's con siitution so as 10 eliminate the negro vote. by majority of id,T7s. That fin ishes up that nefatioas scheme.
 The Connecticut ponologieal Socie ty executive committee held \ meeting in Hartford, Monday. IL was decided to hold the annual meeting in Unity Hall, Hartford, on February ai and Sd next. Plans for the meeting we're iis' cnssed. IL was expected 10 be one ol the best annual fruit conventions eSel held in the State. A new upiift has Apon felt since the great fruit exhihi- 11ca was held In Boston.