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Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
TRIES TO SAVE CHILD
Congressman de Almond Of Mis-
souri, Burned to Death

Kansas City, Nov. 24.-It was inSa
vain effort to save the life of his 1it1As
grandson that Congressman David A..
de Almond of the Sixth Missouri dis
trict perished in a fire that destroyer
his home in Butler, Mo.
The heroism of the congressMsR
was made known when, with his arLss
locked around the blackened and
burned body of the little boy, the cen-
gressman's body was found. Iae&aaaA
caught up the six-year-old lad, Dasaa
A. de Almond, Jr., and rushed .w3sS
him through +he leaping flames thaa
filed their sleeping room
The congressman fell with his ua-
conscious burden and both sank
through the floor to quick death
Whit makes the tragedy unusually
pathetic is the fact that the graz dso0
was the grandfather's idol. The tive
were inseparable and often slept to-
gether. The boy went to his grand
fathers house as usual and after q
happy evening the two retired.
James A. de Almond, son of the
congressman and father of the boy
who was burned, tried to rush iDto
the burning house to save the victims.
but was prevented by friends, who
knew his effort would be in vain. :,
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
Cavlngs Of Earth Delay RescueTs
OF EntOmbed Miners.
PASSAGE WHOLLY BLOCKED
Hope Of Saving Any More Alive
About Abandoned.

Cherry ILL.,, Nov. 23.-Fire in the
second gallery resulted in heavy cav
ings of earth, blocking rescue work te
the east In this section will be the
best chance of finding Of survivors. II
is found that the passage is SO com
pletely blocked that it will be impossi
BILE for many days to make an en-
trance. Meanwhile men now alive
may starve. The news spread gloom
throughout the village and was re
ieved only by the fairer prospects OF
exploring the 500-foot level, the bot
tom of the mine.
1t is said the blockade in the entry
to the east is near the main shaft. As
one caving was followed by another
endangering the lives Of the workers
attempts to remove the debris were
halted and an attempt will be made to
hew new passage through solid earth
around the fire and piles Of earth.
According to Duncan Mcdonald,
president of the United Mine Workers
of Illinois, this will take several days.
docs that not mean that practically
all hope of reaching imprisoned men
in the east workings have been aban.
doned, or practically so?" Mr.. Nc.
Donald was asked.
Hope About Abandoned.
The union official looked very
gloomy and did not answer directly
I'VE have hope of rescues in the 500.
foot level he said.
There will be no more private funer.
ais in Cherry. The condition of the
latest bodies recovered from the mine
is such that the Illinois state health
board has ordered all be buried within
six hours by the authorities. The
only deviation from this rule is that
bodies may be shipped to other cities
in metal caskets.
Dan Holofchak, the last of the i'm
prisoned miners to be brought up
alive, is dead after desperate fight
for life. Holofchak was carried
through 400 feet of black damp by r.
Y. Williams of the state rescue sta
ton. His body was cold. Oxygen was
pumped into his lungs for twenty min.
utes and his heart began oeating
again. For several hours after he was
carried to the surface he seemed re-
covering and then he collapsed, laps
ing into unconsciousness. Physicians
and nurses battled with death, but
vainly,
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
DEN MARK.

In the latter part of August a me-
mortal service was held in one of The
large Lutheran churches in Copen
hagen, Denmark, in honor of the Dan
1sh-American visitors who were at the
time sojourning in that city. Bishor
Nordman made the principal address
and commended the Danish Americans
for their faithful adherence to their
Christian principles and to the church
OF their fathers. They showed even
greater faithfu1ness than many of their
clergymen who remained in the father.
land. A number of other prominent
clergymen were present and partici-
pated in the services.
The King of Denmark is a very
wealthy man and it is said of him that
he makes some pretty good invest
ments from time to time. He is much
interested too in business affairs and
is not averse to little speculation
now and then. At present he is re-
puted worth all of s25,00O,000 Be IL
said to his credit, he is generous
hearted monarch and HUNDREDS are
those who receive aid at his hands.
A robbery occurred in Berbstorffs
palace in the apartments occupied by
prince Waldemar. A sum of $1,000
was stolen from his secretary's room
directly adjoining. The prfnee'e
sleeping apartment was not entered. A
diligent search is: being conducted, but
thus far there is not the slightest clew
as TO who committed the robbery.
The Swedish Lutheran congregation
in Corenhaeen, Denmark, is planning
to build a $4,000 church edifoe in the
Danish capital The Danish govern-
ment viii contribute $4,000 towards.
its erection.
MARION 8. K0RELIUs.
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
ABOUT The STATE
News Of Especial Interest to
Minnesota Readers.
TRAGIC DEATHS IN MILL CITY
Five Persons Meet Their End In
side of TWenty-four Hours.

Five persons met tragic deaths In
Minneapolis within twenty-four hours
one as the result of an accident, one
by his own hand, one from an un
known cause and two from disease.
Albert Cent? was instantly killed
and Henry c. Richter was painfully
injured when struck by an incoming
Northern Pacific freight train two
miles north of Northtown Junction.
Charles J. Hall, sixty-eight years
old, committed suicide. Suffering
caused by severe form of asthma IS
believed to have been the motive for
his act. His dead body was found in
the woodshed by his wife.
When Byron Dolphin returned home
he found his wife, Edna Marie Dol
phin, lying dead on the kitchen floor.
He had been absent only an hour,
when she had complained of feeling
i'll, but she did not at that time appear
to be in serious condition. Coroner
Seashore is uncertain what caused
death, although inclined to believe it
was heart disease.
Edward Youngren, a transient, was
taken violently insane at his lodgings
some time ago. He was brought be-
fore Commissioner Bates, who ordered
him taken to Mollan's hospital,
whence he was removed to the city
hospital. He died shortly afterward,
the cause of death being due to an
infection superinduced by pleurisy.
John Peters was found dead in his
bed at the Union City mission. The
coroner says death was due to hemor-
rhage of the lungs.
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26

right for the first time In 130 years
There were 2,246 votes cast.
Three-fourths of million crowns j!
what the university of Upsala received
In donations during the past year. Thi:
is the largest amount that has evel
been received by the university in any
single year.
Not only is everything expensive In
the capital city but when 1t comes tt
loaf of bread it is the worst ever
The price on bread is now SO high thai
it has never reached such figures
before.
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
MANY employees LET Du1
Wholesale Dismissals In New y1s1
Customs Service.

Washington, Nov. 20.The eIimina-
tion from the customs service of Aef-
Ing Deputy Surveyor James F. Van.
the abolition Of that Office in the New
York customs house, the dismissal or
104 men at New York from March u
up to the present, together with near
ly $50 other changes included in Cox
lector Loeb's statement from New
York, were announced by Secretary
MacVeagh.
There will be no further grants aE
immunity In the customs investigates
at New York Secretary MacVeasA
made this clear, explaining that he
received this assurance when he Wzs
in New York comforting with CoIlee-
tor Loeb and others. Collector Loeh.
the secretary said, assured him thaE
there would be no further occasiaE
for it.
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
AUsTRIA's BACHELOR TAX
New Budget Contains Provision. Which
Is Blow at Race Suicide.

Vienna, Nov. PA blow at race
suicide" is struck by the new Austrian
budget, which includes a bachelor tax
among other novel imposts proposed
to meet the serious deficit in the
country's revenue.
This, by the way, is the first time
that there has been balance on the
wrong side of Austria's national ac-
counts for twenty years. There is
now deficit of more than $8,000,009
The bachelor" tax is really a
super tax on the incomes of persons
who have only themselves or one 9th.
er person to support.
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
Poison Ends Woman,s Life.

New York, Nov 23.-In a fashion
able apartment in West Fiftieth street
Mrs. Daisy Won NARROW, twenty-four
years7eld, wife of Clyde Won Marlo5gS;
: a magazine editor, is dead, supposedly
from poison. A bottle which had con-
tainedfa deadly fluid was found on a
bureau in Mrs. Won MarloW's room.
Whether the poison was taken accis
dentally is not known.
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
DEATH FOLLOWS OPERATION
w. M. Laffan, Publisher Of the New
York Sun, Passes Away.

York Sun, Passes Away.
New York, Nov. 19.-William NJ
Laffan, publisher of the New York
Sun, is dead following an operation
for appendicitis performed last MaR-
day.
Mr.. Laffan was born in Dublin, HR.
land, Jan. %, 1848, and had beeaaR
prominent newspaper man since 1874
At the time of his death he was presf
dent, treasurer and manager Of SAE
Sun Publishing company, directm
OF Harper & Bros, and president AND
director of the Lanston Monotype Msr
chine company.
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
saIeswoman Heir to Fortune.

Mrs. E. L. Reiplinger, saleswoman
employed in the toy department at
Sshuneman & Evans at st. Paul
and distantly connected with Hetty
Green. has just received notice that
she is one of four benefciaries under
the will of her uncle,aEdward Brennan
of New. York. The estate is valued at
100000 and Mrs Reiplinger's share
will be S25 900.
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
THREE MEN BADLY INJURED
Two May Die as Result of Accident at
Duluth.

1ulUkns
An accident which may prove fata
to one man and possibly to two and
badly injured third occurred at the
new Allworth building at Duluth
The injured are:
Henry Moollei, St. Paul, may die;
N. ]. Newell, Duluth, serious; Charley
Mcdonald, forty-two years old, resi-
dence unknown; may die.
A scaffold on the ninth story of the
building gave way, and the men fell
to the seventh story, where they land.
ed on a structure built Of boards.
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
Building Collapse Fatal.

Joseph Curtin. laborer, was killed
and Andrew Odre, an employe OF the
Washburn-Crosby company, was in
jured by the collapse Of roof of
warming house near a storage tank at
Minneapolis.
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
MoxLEY GOES TO CONGRESS
Senator Lorimer's Candidate Wins
Contest in Illinois.

Chicago, Nov. 24.-WilHam ]. Mox-
ley, Republican, was elected to con-
gress in the Sixth Illinois district tn
succeed William Lorimer recently
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26

elected to the United States senate n
place of Albert J. Hopkins.
Moxley, who was backed by Sex
ator Lorimer, was opposed by Frank
s. Ryan, Democrat, and Carl l..
Barnes, an independent candidafE.
Moxley received 1854 votes, Barnasl
8,317 and Ryan 6,414.
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
GEORGE CROCKER is DYING
California Millionaire Has Only Few
Hours to Live.

New York, Nov. 23.-George Crock.
er, the California millionaire, who has
been suffering for long time from an
incurable malady. is dying at his home
..in Fifth avenue, and it was an.
nounced that he had but a few hours
to i've His family is at the bedside.
Mr.. Crocker is son of the late
Charles G. Crocker.
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
Surprising.

First LADY, was so sorry to hear
of poor Mrs. Browns death. What
was her complaint? Second Lady-Oh
didn't you know? The poor thing was
found asphyxiated. First Lady Coed
gracious. you do surprise me. always
thought she was a teetotaler.
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
HILLS OLD PARTNER HURT
Aged Minnesota Man Probably Fa-
tally Injured.

J.W. Gregg aged eighty three, forty
five years ago in partnership with
James ]. Hill, chairman of the Great
Northern board of directors, in the
wood and coal business and once a
prosperous contractor in st. Paul and
Minneapolis, in both of which cities
buildings yet are monuments to his
activity, lies penniless, without rela-
tlves and wounded near to death, in
the Cass Lake hospital following an
accident in which he was run over by
boy driving a heavy sled.
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
TWO MEN ARE ASPHYXlATED
Killed by Gas in Their Room at 81
Paul.

PauI.
Ed Ikeson and Myles Nolan, team
sters employed in the Midway, were
killed by gas and both were found
dead in the same bed with the gas in
the room partly turned on. The bodies
were taken to the county morgue after
an investigation by DR.. e. F. Murphy,
acting coroner. 1t is supposed that
the workmen met their deaths by ac-
cident
Morris tribune., 1909-11-26
RESULTS ON THE GRIDlRa
Kansas 20, Iowa z.
7, Yale 8, Harvard 0.
Oberlin rs, Ohio s, .
Brown Il, Carlisle 8.

e 1HUfdIla YV, : U UuO q
Navy As, Davidson s.
NEBRASKA 6, Denver 5.
Illinois IL, Syracuse 8.
Wisconsin 6, Chicago 6.
Michigan Is, Minnesota 6.
SWaTtnnlore 29, Rucknell 0.
Cornell GoWa) 6, Grinnell o.
Monmouth II. Reloit (Wis.) 5
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-15
MAIL RULING
FOR CHRISTMAS
ALL WRITTEN INSCRIPTIONS ARE SUB
ECT TOFRST. CLASS RATES NOW
MEANS BIG DIFFERENCE.

Washington, Dec. e.-It has been
decided by the Classification com
mittee of the Post-ofice department
that the words not to open until
Christmas day. or similar inscrip-
ton may be written only on such
parcels as bear postage at frst-class
rates. Packages that are mailed at
third class or fourth class rates may
bear the same INSCRIPTION provided
that it is printed or stamped on them.
When written on the parcel with
pen or pencil the words are held to
be a personal communication from
the sender to the addressee, thus,
making the matter subject to first
class rates.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-15
SCHOOL ON FRIDAY.

Scattered over the state are a
couple of thousand teachers of
country schools who are asking the
state department of schools a ques-
ton in which they are very much
interested. That query is whether
or not they can suspend school Fri
day, December e4th, and call it
Christmas. The department answers
that they cannot.
In the city schools the local boards
regulate the time taken off for the
holiday season, but in the country
schools the general law applies.
Christmas comes this year on Satur-
day, which is not school day. If
teachers suspend school on Friday,
the day before, they must teach a
day to make it up, according to the
ruling of the department.
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men.
SMALLPOX RIFE.

An epidemic ofsmallpox has struck
portions of West Virginia during the
past month and the dreaded disease
in some sections is increasing at an
alarming rate, although no deaths
have resulted. Tyler is the latest
county infested by the disease. Rich
wood, Kingwood, and several lumber
camps in the eastern portion of the
state are infected with nearly half
hundred cases. For the past two
weeks the doctors have been treating
a number of mild cases in Mt. Hope,
but from latest reports the disease is
stated to be well under control.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-15
INDUSTRY HASTSDRAWBACKS.

The people of Kenova asenot feel
ing any too friendly toward the re-
cent advent into that community Of
several hundred Huns, slays and
Poles, all of whom expect tobegiyen
work at the new steel plant now in
course ofconstruction at that point.
catlettsburg Is overrun with this OBJ
jecdOnable class ofpeople.
Whether the company operating
the steel plant viii give this class of
labOrs employment, to the exclusion
of American citizens, is not known,
but it is very probable that large
numbers 9th m will be given work.
The Kenova citizens are of the opin-
ion that the incoming of this class of
ignorant foreigners will transform
their peaceful little city into a brawl-
ing, turbulent community and will
make strenuous objections to their
being allowed to settle there
Huntington Herald d-Dispatch.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-15
O.RATES COMEBACK TO lWO-CENT
RATE.

Announcement has been made by
the Kanawha & Michigan Railroad
thatarrangements have been made
with the Baltimore s Ohio Railroad
by which the railroad fare from Char
lesion to Wheeling over the Kama
wha & Michigan and Baltimore &
Ohio via Point Pleasant has been re-
.duced from s6.ss to $3.50. The fare
from Charleston to Parkersburs has
been reduced from ss.5l to ss.75.
The decrease brings the rates back to
the fat rate of two cents per mile to
these cities, bat the: higher rate to
Grafton, Fairmont and clarksburg
over the two roads still prevails.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-15
LAYMEES MISSIONARY CONVENTION.

A great national llaymen's mission
ary movement is sweeping over the
country. Laymen's Missionary Con-
ventions will be held in seventy-fve
of the principal cities of the United
States from the Atlantic to the Pa
cifc beginning with October and con-
tinuing until May 1910. These meet
ings are heartily entered into by all
the leading evangelical nominations.
More than a dozen conventions
have already been held some of
which has been attended by as many
as 1900 and 100 men as delegates.
One of these great conventions will
be held in Wheeling, W. Va, Jan.
e5 to 81. The convention will open
with banquet the first evening.
Many prominent speakers will be
present. Delegates will be in at
tendance from Ohio, Pennsylvania
and ailparts of fwest Virginia. Minis
tiers and laymen are invited to attend.
Many are already registering as del
esates. The registration fee is one
dollar. Mr.. Ferris R. Miller, of
Wheeling, W. Va, is the secretary
of the local committee and will
furnish information to all interested
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-15
bun THEY LKE TORN.

Butter and eggs and meats and
other foods all up above the clouds
in prices and still going up, is what
accounts for the general town talk of
back to the farm again. p where an
Independent living can be secured
with much less worry than digging
it out in dingy city.
There are thousands of acres of
waste land in all parts of the
country that should be producing an
Independent living for people who
are pinching scant subsistence in
towns.-Moundsville Echo.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-15
DRY OPPOSE
EXTRA SESSION
ACTION TAKEN By PROHIBITION EXEC.
UTTVE COMMITTEE

clarksburg, W. Va, Dec. s.-At
am eeting Of the state executive come
mittee of the prohibition party of
West Virginia. held today the
walao hotel, a resolution was passed
expressing the committees disap-
proval of a proposed extra session Of
the Legislature. The resolution is
as follows:
where's, There is considerable
discussion in the public press of our
state in regard to a proposed extra
session of the legislature, and as the
governor has not indicated his in-
tention in the matter, we desire to
express our doubts as to the pro-
priety of calling any such special
session before the time for the legis-
lature to meet in regular session.
Inasmuch as it is but thirteen months
until such time, in this expression
we believe we not only voice the
judgment of the 5000 party Prohi.
bitionists, but as well, the Thought
fal convictions of a large majority of
the citizens ofthe state. But should
the governor decide to call such
special session, we earnestly request
that he embrace in the call the ques-
ton of the submission to vote of
the people of a prohibition amend
ment to the state constitution, in
conformity with the platform pledge
upon which he was elected. "
A voters pledge was adopted by
the committee, plans were Sormu-
lated for increasing the circulation
of the Mountain State Patriot, pub
lished at Parsons, and miscellaneous
business was transacted.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-15
B. & 0. ELECTS OFFICERS.

Baltimore, Md, Dec. 1o.-The
board of directors of the B. & O.,
which met in New York yesterday,
reelected oscarG. Murray president,
this being his 7th election as chief
executive of the company; Geo. F.
Randolph was reelected lst vice
president; Hugh L. Bond, Jr., end
vice-president; ]. V. McNeal, 4th
vice-president and treasurer, and
Curtis W. woolford secretary. Capt.
Geo. W. Booth, for many years as
sistant comptroller, was elected to
succeed the late Major H. D. Bulk
Ley
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-12-15
OBITUARY.

Saturday, December 4th, 1909,
Mrs. Sarah Lavinia SomervilIe, died
at her home in Robinson District.
She was the wife of Mr.. E. G. Som
erville, to whom she was married
January 6, 1869, and to which union
there was born three children; Van
B., Byron E., and Cora Somerville.
Mrs. Somerville was born septem-
Der eS, 1916, and was the fifth daugh-
ter of Thomas Ball and Julia Ann
(Hogg) Ball,and was a sister of Mrs.
Mary NJ. Somerville, Mrs. Frances
somerville, Mrs. Patsey Rice, Mrs.
Arabella Shirley and Mrs. Maria Ray
burn, all of whom are living; tie two
brothers ofthe family, Robert Ball
and Lewis Ball having died many
years since.
Some fifteen years ago Mrs. Som
erville united with the Presbyterian
Church, in Pleasant Flats, during
which time she was most loyal and
consistent member.
AS wife, she faithfully performed
her duty, by showing her devotion
to her home and her people. As a
mother, she used her best efforts in
teaching the principles of honesty
and'right living. Asaneighbor, she
always stood ready to- do her part,
and no one could say ought against
her. To her long list of friends, she
leaves behind a store of blessed rec
objections, for none knew her, who
could not truthfully praise her. By
her industry and economy, she was
enabled to have the comforts of life,
and leave something behind for those
who were near and dear to her. and
by whom she will be most sadly
missed.
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PATHEFC Story
REVEAIDN CONNECTION WIN E
FORETOEID Parents OF BABY
GIRL LAST SEEN VAS At
POINT PLEASANT, VIVA.

Newark, n: j., Dec. lo.-The eff
forts of Mrs. Rosie Leyenthal to find
the supposed parents ofthe baby girl
left in her care three and half years
ago have revealed pathetic story of
a little aaxen haired four-years-Old.
seemingly deserted by her father and
mother whom she has never seen and
knows nothing about. For more
than two years Mrs. Leventhal re-
eeised money orders for SIS each
month to pay for the little ones
board Then these payments sud-
denly ceased.
1t was on Labor Day, 1905, that
some one knocked at the door ofMrs.
Leyenthals home. A young man and
young woman, the-latter with an in
fant in her arms, entered. Their
names were given as Mr.. and Mrs.
P. Mann. : They wished to leave
Their child and pay its board. The
charge was accepted. They gave
their address as General Delivery,
Philadelphia. This was changed la
ter tothe Phoenix Hotel, Point Pleas
ant w Va