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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Flaws in Old Courthouse.

Alterations made at the Burlington
County Court House brought to light
the fact that there were tricks in
building operations in the olden
times. When the plaster was re-
moved from the ceiling of the lower
courtroom it was revealed that in
stead of using twelve-inch floor joists
to correspond with the thickness of
the girder stretched across the build
ing to support the second floor, the
builder had used five and six-inch
material and make up the difference
with boards and strips until the re-
CURED width was reached. The joists
were not even cross-braced. The
Freeholders will strengthen the
building wherever necessary, as the
contractor on the alterations refused
to apply any plaster to such rickety
framework
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
About Noted People.

Governor Stuart, of Pennsylvania,
says silk hat Is "hoodoo" to him.
The death of Benoit Constant
Coquelin in Paris removes from the
French stage its greatest figure.
Thomas F. Ryan, the financier,
finds his health broken down at fifty
seven, and will practically retire to
live the simple life.
Italy decided to confer the honor Of
Roman citizenship on President
Roosevelt in recognition Of Americas
relief work among the earthquake
sufferers, according to special cable
dispatch from Rome
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
The World Of sport.

Now that Matty Mcintyre has
signed his contract, the Detroit out
field is all in line.
Jem Driscoll has made more than
$4,000 out OF boxing bouts since his
arrival here last fall.
Frank ". Goodman, who coached
the Columbia baseball nine last year,
has been re-engaged for the coming
season.
Mcclure will be Manager Lajoie's
right-hand man next season. He will
relieve Larry of the duties attending
the overlooking Of the catching and
pitching star.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Suicide League" a Grewsome Epidemic
One Man With Revolver Hunts Another With Bell in Dark
Correspondent Tells Of Strange Means
Taken to End Lives.

darkened rooms and the spectators
take refuge in safe corners.
The hunt begins. The hunters
eyes are bound He is allowed six
shots, guided by the sound of the
bell. If he fails to hit the tiger, the
roles are reversed, and the hunter be.
comes the tiger. This continues until
blood flows.
Another society has champagne
evenings" where one among twenty
bottles is drugged with morphia.
Sometimes in single night there are
numerous secret suicides, for which
there is no plausible explanation, Civ
ing rise, says the Mails correspond
ent. to the suspicion that the victims
belong to the same league of self-de-
structi0n
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23

London-The Daily Mails St.
Petersburg correspondent declares
that neurasthenia is claiming an ever
increasing number of victims in all
sections of st. Petersburg society and
throughout Russia in general
A surprising number of people,
tired of life, seek death by various
methods. Persons of fashionable So
ciety journey to Finland and fling
themselves into the romantic Imatra
Rapids. Strange clubs and societies
are in existence. One of these is
styled Tiger and Hunter Two
members draw lots to decide who
shall be the tiger and who the hunter,
A silver bell is hung around the
tigers neck, and the hunter is given a
loaded revolver. Both enter large
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Body of S-Year-Old Girl Shows
% Knife Wounds, Besides Burr

Marseilles, France. The discovery
of crime recalling a case which &C.
Cured in Paris in 1907 has caused a
sensation here.
The body of an eight-year-old girl,
torn by twenty-eight knife wounds
and further mutilated by burns, has
been found in populous quarter Of
the city.
A man who had been living with
the girls mother, who is a widow, has
been arrested. He proclaimed his
innocence.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Dog Bites Two Before Shot.

"A dog suffering from rabies ter
rorized sections of Montclair, Glen
Ridge, and East Orange. It bit a
young daughter of Charles L. Hol-
comb, of 10 Carroll street, East
Orange, and Charles Baker, of Mont
clair, who later killed the animal
with revolver. Baker saw the dog
attack another dog near his home,
and tried to separate the animals.
The mad dog, frothing at the mouth,
turned on Baker and bit him in the
leg. Bakers clothing was badly torn
in the struggle that followed. The
dog then headed into East Orange,
and in North Park street attacked the
little girl. In the meantime Baker
hurried home and procured revolt
yer. Jumping into grocer's wagon,
he gave chase to the dog, but did not
catch up to it until after IT had Bit
ten the Holcomb girl and attacked
other persons. Baker then killed the
dog with single shot.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Wanderer walks into BLOOMFIELD.

A@tOCAAAA@NAN
Nicholas Schneider, proprietor of a
Bloomfield barber shop, had the UNI
usual experience of shaving his
brother Joseph Schneider, whom he
did not recognize, and whom he had
not seen for thirty-two years. Schnei-
der was busy when stranger walked
in and took a seat When he had
been shaved the stranger told Schnei-
der that he has improved wonderful
ly in the last thirty years 1T is
just thirty-two years since you last
shaved me-" he said Schneider
looked the visitor over, and the two
became quite chummy, but still the
Bloomfield man did not recognize his
brother Joseph finally told him
who he was, and there was a joyous
reunion. Schneider had thought his
brother dead. Joseph said he had
been in San Francisco for many years,
and that he had just got things rum
ming smoothly after the earthquake,
and decided to visit the East to hunt
up relatives and friends.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Fall Brings Squirt of Flame.

James Merriman, of Weston, has
nobody except himself to blame for
loss of hair and whiskers, because
his little wife told him often that if
he persisted in carrying match
stuck back of his ear something
dreadful would happen some time. )"
1t happened when he fell while
sprinting and lighted the match.
Merriman's head and face look as it
they had passed through the Chicago
fire, the San Francisco earthquake
ard the Galveston food.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23

Professor Howard Crosby Butler,
Professor David Magic, Jr., and
Junius S. Morgan, a nephew of ].
Pierpont Morgan, until recently as
sociate librarian in Princeton Uni
versity, left Princeton, N. J., for
Cherbourg en- route to the Arabian
Desert, where they will conduct
Princeton University's second arch
geological expedition in that country.
A caravan with camp outfits awaits
the party at Jerusalem.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Wedding Secret out.

Surprise was caused by the an
noancement of the marriage on jan
uary 9 of Howard Eagleton Hanson
and Miss Ethel May Fletcher, both OF
Trenton. The marriage took place
at Atlantic City. Mr.. Hanson is
prominent young business man, and
his bride is graduate of the State
School, and for time taught school
in Trenton.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
WAR WITH JAPAN WAS NEAR.
State Senator in California Tells of
Seeing Roosevelt's Letters.

San Francisco, Cal-That this
country was on the verge of war with
naval Power of the Orient recently
was the assertion made by State Sem
ator Richard J. WEIGH, who is here
with legislative committee which
is investigating the Islais Creek pro-
iect.
WEIGH said: eff you had seen the
correspondence that passed between
President Roosevelt. Governor Gillett
and Speaker Stanton that have seen,
you would know that only short
time ago there was danger of con-
aict between two great naval Powers
Of the Pacific. !"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
INDIAN CHIEF SHOOTS TWO.
Ninety-Year-OId John Hudson Takes
Warpath on Shinnecock Reservation.

Southampton, l., John Hudson,
ninety-year-old Shinnecock Indian,
went on a rampage, murdered wom-
an, shot an old Indian named Nelson
Bum and held Sheriff's posse and
all the reservation Indians at bay
with a shotgun for two hours before
he was captured
The murdered woman was Mrs.
Henrietta Eleazor, who kept house for
the nonogenarian Shinnecock on
little farm he owned on the reserva-
ton. Some time ago Hudson gave
the farm and the small house on 1t
to the woman and her daughter, with
the understanding that they should
keep him comfortable.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
EDITORS INDICTED FOR LIBEL.
Grand Jury at Washington, d. c.,
Charges Joseph Pulitzer and Others.


Washington, D. C-The Federal
Grand Jury returned indictments
against the Press Publishing Com
pany of New York (the World) and
Joseph Pulitzer, owner; Caleb N.
Van Hamm, and Robert H. Lyman,
editors of that paper, and Delavan
Smith and Charles r.. Williams, own
ers of the Indianapolis News, charg-
ing libel in publications in connection
with the purchase of the Panama
Canal by the United States Govern
Ment.
The indictment against the pub
fishers of the Indianapolis News
charges Smith and Williams with the
crime of libel in seven counts, and
that directed against the New York
World charges Pulitzer, Van Hamm,
Lyman, and the Press Publishing
Company with libel in five counts.
The persons alleged to have been
libelled in the published stories are
President Roosevelt, j. Pierpont Nor.
gan, Charles P. Taft, Elihu Root,
Douglas Robinson and William Mel
son Cromwell
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Kansas Legislator Would Mulct
Bachelors After As Years oil

Topeka, Kan.-Kansas bachelors
over forty-five years of age may be
taxed $25 year. A bill to this effect
was introduced by Representative
Cron, and it was Immediately adj
vanced on the calendar.
A telegram sent to President Roose-
welt by its author says that when a
bachelor reaches the age of forty-five
there is no hope Of his getting mar
ried and that ne ought to be heavily
taxed as penalty for not raising q
family.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Rear-AdniraI Green Dead.

Rear-Admiral James G. Green,
United States Navy, retired, died at
Edenton. N. c. James Gilchrist
Green was born at Jamaica Plain,
Mass, on June 81, 1841. He entered
the navy as acting ensign in the vol
unteer service at the outbreak of the
Civil War. He served throughout
the war.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Attacks ON Women in Berlin.

The vicious attacks on women on
the streets of Berlin are startling.
Two new cases occurred in one day,
and both women were slightly wound
ed. The assailant got away. This
brings the aggregate since the be-
ginning of these ripper" outrages up
to TWENTY-FIVE.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Magee ELECTED Pittsbnrg Mayor.

BY majority conservatively esti-
mated at 10000, William A. Magee,
was elected Mayor of
Pittsburg. Owing to hard rain
storm the vote was much reduced,
but Magee's plurality is believed to
be larger in proportion to the number
of ballots cast than that of any other
Mayor in Pittsburgs history.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Loses Ear in TERRIFIC WhirI.

Whirled around shaft and expect,
ing each minute to be killed was the
terrible experience which befell Henry
Lober, of South Millville. at the Me
nantico Bleach and Dye Works. Lo'
ber's sweater caught in the machin'
cry and he was whirled about at a.
terrific rate. A fellow workman, who
witnessed the accident, shut off the
power. Lober lost an ear.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Former senator John Taylor.

Former State Senator John Taylor,
for whom Taylor Opera House at
Trenton, was named, he being the
builder, died by shock of paralysis.
He was Senator from Mercer County,
1881 to 1888, the head Of the Taylor
Provision Company and the Jersey
authority on pork.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
KILLS GIRL IN TAXICAB.
Young Telephone Inspector Ends
Night Ride With Double Crime.

Reading, Pa. - While speeding
along in taxicab here, Stella Rock
tashel eighteen years old, was shot
and killed, and her companion,
George E. Kraut, twenty years old,
after directing the chauffeur to hurry
to hospital, turned the revolver
that killed the girl upon himself and
sent bullet into his heart, dying
instantly.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
First Safety Matchmaker Dead.

Ephraim X. Smith, one of the
twenty-five men who incorporated the
Diamond Match Company, and who
made the first safety match produced
in the United States in his factory in
Philadelphia, died in that city Of
pneumonia, aged sixty-nine years.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Two Tailors Arrested.

Michael " Devine and Arthur A.
Roman. tailors, were arrested follow
ing indictment for grand larceny af-
ter bankruptcy proceedings in New
York City
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23

Extra Congress Session March 10.
The extra session of Congress will
be convened on March Is. President
elect Taft authorized the announce
ment. Discussion as to the time for
calling the extra session was had be-
tween Mr.. Taft, Senators Hale and
Knox and Speaker Cannon.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Bulge in oats.

Market conditions, existent and
prospective, seem to be shaping for a
bulge in the price Of oats. In Chi
cago the stock of oats is inconsider-
able Current receipts are light.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
snrins Bluebirds Arrive.

Eugene LIE Roy Cadmus, OF Forest
avenue, Glen Ridge, reports the ar
rival of two bluebirds on his front
lawn. This is sign OF an carry
spring, the farmers say.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Thlrtr Reported Dead IN Earthqaake.

Several houses and Government
buildings at Silvas, in Asiatic Tur-
key. collapsed as the result Of an
earthquake. 1t is reported that thir
ty persons were killed.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
Plumbing, Timing. Steam
and Gas Fitting

at their OFFICE, Al Mill street, tele-
phone 2S4-l, or at the store Of William
a. Hibler, South street, city.
The Senior member of this partner
ship, JOHN J. CARROLL, has been
plumbing in this city for twenty-nine
years, and his reputation as plumber
is too well known for any further COM
ment. 253S.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-23
NOTICE!

JOHN J. CARROLL. who for years,
has been In the firm of LooNEY & CAR-
ROLL, has formed partnership with
his son, WILLIAM J. CARROLL, and
they are now ready to receive orders for
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-04
Army and Navy News

One hundred and ten thousand feet
of lumber arrived on the freighter
Mexican last week consigned to Con-
tractor Pringle, who is putting up the
new Fort Shafter buildings. The lum-
Der for the sashes, doors and windows
is all on the ground and force of
seventy-four men is working steadily
every day. Contractor Pringie is GER
tain of turning the buildings over to
the army authorities before the con-
tract time expires.
The new quarters are rapidly going
up and all buildings are rising stimuli
taneously. 1t is not a case of finishing
one building while work on another
drags, but large force of men is work
ing on each, so that all will be com
pleted about the same time. There are
nine buildings under construction, in
Guiding two barracks for the additional
companies, two bathrooms and double
mess hall, two sets of officers quarters
and two additional sets for married
men of the non-commissioned staff
Mr.. Pringle contemplates taking the
best of the carpenters who come in from
Leilehua when work gets slack out
there. There is lumber enough on hand
now to keep all employees busy for two
or three months. The contractor has
about 100000 feet of lumber on hand
as well as half million shingles. A
steamer to arrive from the Sound il
March will bring additional shingles.
The barracks are 150x50 feet, two
stories in height, each with large base
ment or strong room, where are kept al
company properties, including guns
ammunition, etc. Directly in the real
of the barracks are the lavatories ant
a general mess hall, the latter being
156x57 feet, containing two dining halls
two kitchens, two sleeping rooms fol
the cooks, and four pantries. Undel
this large hall and at each end ar,
Easements to be used for refrigerator
and storerooms. Each of the lavatorie
is 50x39 feet. Each one cantains si1
showers and tub. The lavatories arr
well plumbed and are fitted with gran
lite washbowls. In each is a room tt
be set aside as a barber shop.
Of the officers quarters, one set i
for bachelor officers and is 100x72 feet
containing thirteen rooms and fv
bathrooms. The quarters for the fell
officers is S6x56 feet, containing a larg
number of rooms and two baths. TIL
| plumbing work on these quarters is al
ready finished. The quarters for tn
non commissioned officers are 59x3
| feet and have five rooms each
The completion of all these building
| (the coal storage she'd is finished an
filed with coaD viii give Fort Shafte
a more solid appearance than it ha
| before they were begun, and will max
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taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound to see what it would do.
and | am restored to my natural
health. Mrs. ETA DONOVAN, Box
299, Willimantic, Conn.
The success of Lydia T.. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, made from roots
and herbs, is unparalleled. 1t may be
used with perfect confidence by women
who suffer from displacements, infiam-
nation, alteration, fibroid tumors, ir-
Irregularities, periodic pains, backache,
bearing-down feeling, flatulency, indi-
gestion, dizziness, or nervous prostra-
ton.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has been the
standard remedy for female ills, and
suffering women owe it to themselves
to at least give this medicine trial.
Proof is abundant that it has cured
thousands of Others, and why should it
not cure you?
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-04

it one of the finest posts Of its size that
has been built in recent years.
No Q. M. Building Yet.
Captain Falls, depot quartermaster,
has heard nothing from Washington
lately concerning the quartermaster
building which it is planned to erect on
Federal land on lower Fort street. Since
the bids of local and mainland contrac-
tors were thrown out on the ground
that they were too high, there have
been no new developments as to the
proposed building. However, it is I'M
derstood that the War Department will
be compelled to recognize the additions
to the military force here by providing
ample storehouse room for supplies.
Guardhouse in USE
After more than two weeks occu-
pancy of the new cantonment the Fifth
Cavalry commander at Leilehua had
need for the first time to put the new
guardhouse into practical use. The
! guardhouse, or stoekade as it is gen
orally known at the cantonment, got its
first tenants last night The stockade
comprises four high walls of wood, open
at the top. The prisoners are kept ii
tents erected inside the walls, and their
| quarters are about as comfortable as
those of the troopers in camp, save
/ that they are restricted as to liberty
| etc. The guards keep watch by pa
1o4f
| the entire stockade about three feet
| from the top. There are two sentry
boxes at opposite corners.
Navy People Finished.
The Navy Department has completed
its preliminary work toward the devel
opment of Pearl Harbor and has brought
back all of the Honolulu naval station
property. The Navy Department ha
been engaged for long period il
making borings for both the channe
and harbor work, and latteriy for tn,
| great drydock. The contract has beer
let for the dredging of the harbor ant
channel and the contractors are now OF
the ground preparing to dig. The dry
dock bids are to be opened on the 13tl
of this month, and all work of tn
Navy Department preparing the plan
! has been concluded.
The tug Iroquois, in command o
Boatswain Kinney, went down to Pear
Harbor yesterday and collected all tn
floating paraphernalia, etc., and form
ing tow brought it here. The toy
was something of mosquito fleet,
and included the water barge, two Goa
barges, whaleboats, a launch, etc. I
was one of the longest and queeres
looking lows ever brought into Homo
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-04

An me just short distance west
V of us is the ''Idaho Mary
land where they have struck
wonderfully rich ore of late. They
have been taking out fortunes all the
way down, for that matter, but in their
deeper levels they have run into real
bonanza stuff. 1t is estimated that
this mine, of whose milling plant the
accompanying photograph is view,
has produced upwards of $4,000, 10000
in gold bullion. The Idaho Mary
land" is located on the same contact
formation as our property and is one
of the oldest mines in the district,
Just as the "Maytlower is one or
the Youngest, with all the glory of
great future ahead of it. Yes, when
the Mine is right, and the Men con
nected with it are also right, there is
no investment under the sun which is
so sure and profitable as gold mining.
A few dollars invested in a good gold
foundry NAV produce thousands. and
start poor man on the route to
riches. and all the money lost in
lifetime may be reeouped by just ONE
such investment. And gold mining,
conducted on modern scientific princi-
pies is not the speculative industry II
is so often imagined to be by many
people. It's a safer business than
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-02-04

most businesses, as matter of fact.
Its success is not imperiled by the
hazards attaching to most other enter
prises. Gold is the only commodity
which does not need to chase market
or fear competition, because it is the
standard of value all the world over.
And there are no bad debts to carry
in the gold mining business-Unele
Sam takes all the product and pays
cash every time for every ounce.
Under the cooperative organization
of the Mayfower" you are presented
TODAY with an OPPORTUNITY to pur-
chase stock, at a nominal price, in
what we are profoundly convinced will
become one of the leading and great
producing gold mines in the Nevada
CITY. California, district. We believe
that the Stock will be a heavy divi-
dend payer in the near coming future.
We advise that this is chance to buy
it which you can not afford to pass
UP. We urge that you be alive to
your best interests and acquire hold
ing Immediately. We offer to sell you
stock today at % Cents and until mid
night, February 2sth-after that, 80
Cents please Better place your order
right away. BUY "MAYFLOWER"
STOCK. BUY IT NOW!
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walk upstairs
without stopping
on the way. /
tried three differ
ent doctors and
each told me some
thing different. 1
received no benefit
from any of them,
but seemed TO suf-
fer more. The last
doctor said moth
ing would restore
my health. T began
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AFTER
DOCTORS
FAILED
LydiaE. Pinkham's Vegeta-
BILE Compound Cured Her.

Willimantic, Conn. For five years
| suffered untold agony from female
troubles, causing backache, IRREGULAR
tleS, dizziness and nervous prostra-
ton. 1t was impossible for me to