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The Penn's Grove record., 1909-03-12
FATAL TENEMENT HOUSE FIRE
Ten Victims of Italian Black Hand
Outrage in New York City.
While Praying in Their Smoke
Filled Rooms.

New York City.-Sweeping with a
great roar from the cellar to the roof
and endangering other nearby build
tngs, flames started by an ~incendiary
In the fve-story tenement at No. 374
Seventh venue caused the loss of
ten lives, injured a score, and i'm
perilled the lives of fifty persons,
who escaped only by means of lad
ders put up by the firemen.
Half a score of detectives and many
policemen are securing that section
of the city in search of the fiend who
fired the building after cutting off
all means of escape.
Agents of the dread italian BLACK
Hand" are believed to have started
the fire in the cellar, after planning
wholesale destruction of lives and
property.
When the blaze was first discovered
1t had gained considerable Roadway.
From that moment until the firemen
ran their ladders up to the front
windows the greatest confusion pre-
vailed. The i~ncendiary had nailed
down the scuttle on the roof, and
the panic stricken tenants had only
the ladders and fire escape as a means
to reach the street.
Feats of daring such as are rarely
witnessed, even among the hardest
of the city's firemen and police, were
performed by members of both forces
in sight of a wonder-struck crowd
that had gathered on the
Two police officers crept along a
dizzy cornice at the fourth floor,
clinging to seemingly insecure shut
tiers, and saved a whole family. One
fireman, after catching three babies
hurled from a window, descended to
the street carrying all of them in his
arms. Another made a flying leap
from a swinging ladder to a win
dow ledge.
The dead we're:
Rosalio Filiberti, sixty years old.
Contanzo Gruppi, fifty-eight years
old, sister of Rosalio Filiberti.
Evelyn Pasifo, four years old.
P~rovenzio Placia, thirteen years
old, niece of Rosalio Filiberti.
Rosa Placia, v years old, niece
of Rosalie Filiberti.
Mrs. Josephine Travisano, fifty
years old.
Lena Travisano, twenty years old,
a daughter.
Joseph Travisano, seventeen years
old, a son.
Caroline Samone, eighty years old.
Mrs. Travisano's mother.
Unidentified man, about thirty
years old.
With the exception of Minnie. a
ffteen-year old daughter, the entire
Travisano family was killed. The
girl was visiting friends in Harlem.
After the flames had been extin-
guished search was made of the upper
floors for bodies. Lying on the floor
in the parlor of their rooms, the Ira
visano family was found. The son
and daughter were on their knees
with their heads On the lap of their
mother, apparently having been suf-
located as they were praying.
Several months ago, Antonio Urso,
the barber, in the real of whose place
the fire started. received a Black Hand
letter, the writer of which demanded
5000. 1t closed by saying that unless
the money was paid his place would
be set aire.
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Mothers Insist ON Knockers.

The boys of Northern New Jersey,
If the tyranny of parents is continued
much longer, will organize an Anti
Short Pants League. Many youngs-
tiers of Montclair section of the State
are compelled to wear knickerbockers
long after they are fourteen years
old, even though they have devel-
oped the underpinnings of athletes.
The reason is that their mothers,
knowing that s~hopkeepers are averse
to selling tobacco to boys in knee
breeches, persist in keeping the lads
in abbreviated trousers, so that they
will be handicapped in their efforts
to smoke. 1t is almost impossible for
a boy who wear kn~ickerbockers to
purchase tobacco in many of the New
Jersey towns, and the mothers have
shrewdly taken advantage of this con-
dition.
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John 7. Thatcher Dead.

The man who interested Thomas
A. Edison, according to his friends, in
the manufacture of Portland cement
and induced him to establish his
plant at Edison, died in New Village.
He was John T. Thatcher, postmaster
Tor thirty-four years. Mr.. Thatcher
was foremost in the development of
the local trolley line. Several years
ago Mr.. Thatcher began to take an
interest in cement. He noted that
the country in the vicinity of New
Village was well supplied with the
kind of rock used in making cement.
He learned that Edison was on the
watch for a place where he could To-
cate a cement plant, and he person
ally went to the inventor and placed
the matter before him.
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NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Deposits $1,000, Gets $500.

A man giving his name as Julius
Gorden went to Paterson recently and
opened an account with a local bank,
He said he was about to engage in
business, and showed a receipt for a
months rent on a store on Main
street. Then he made a deposit of
$1,000. A few days later he deposited
$500 and then a check on a New
York bank for $2600. The following
day he went to New York City, drew
a check on the Paterson bank for
$4,000 and had it cashed at the Bank
ct the Metropolis. Meanwhile the
$4,000 check deposited in Paterson
had been returned marked IN. g."
and when the check cashed at the
Bank of the Metropolis came the act
ual amount of the credit of Gordon
was $1,000. 1t is not known how
Gordon succeeded in having the New
York bank officials cash the check.
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Effects of

The three cronies at the. summer
garden had dined together for years.
Then one night one of them passed
the other two, went way back, and
sat down at a table by himself.
Nov, what do you suppose is the
matter?" asked a woman at a table
in another corner, who hated to see
him sitting SO sadly by himself. and
trying so hard not to look at the 9th.
ers, or seem to notice them.
Just a little quarrel" explained
her companion, who was a f~requenter
of the place. "Once in a blue moor
that happens, and he goes off and
dimes a few evenings alone. Then
when they make it up they are hap.
pier than ever, so don't you care"
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NON-SPINNING ROPE
AS MINING INVENTION.
Twisting Prevented by Peculiar
Construction of Strands, it
Promises to Be Useful.

A n~on-spinning rope has peen re-
Gently made for use in quarr1es,
mines and similar places where it Is
desired to hoist heavy weights with
a single rope, says the Washington
Herald. With the use of the rope OF
standard design the load has a ten
dency to rotate, because the action OF
the weight is to untwist the strands,
and this tendency must be overcome
by the use of a guide rope, by which
the load is controlled on its journey
through the air. AS a test a block of
marble suspended by the single line
was raised from q depth of more
than $50 feet without making a half
turn in its ascent. No guide rope was
necessary.
In the construction of this rope an
inner series of wire strands Is wound
in n direction over a core and an
outer series of wire strands is wound
in the opposite direction about the
inner series as a core. The wires
which make up each of the individual
inner strands are twisted in the same
direction as the lay of the strands,
but in the outer strands the indi-
vidual wires are laid in opposite d.
rections to the lay Of the strands.
The number of strands required for
the second or outer layer must, of
course. be greater than the number
of strands in the inner layer. For
this reason the inner layer has the
wires as well al the strands all laid
in one direction, as described, there
by giving them a tendency to untwist
very much faster than If they were
twisted in the direction opposite to
the lay of the strands. The wires in
the outer layer, being laid in an op-
posite direction to the lay of the
strands, do not tend to untwist as
fast as the inner layer.
The strands in the outer layer,
however, counterfeit the tendency of
untwisting the rope as a whole.
When a weight is applied to the end
of the rope the greater number of
strands of the outer layer have a ten
dency to untwist in one direction.
whereas the fewer strands of the in
ner layer have q tendency to untwist
very much faster in the opposite d.
rection, and it is found in practice
that these two actions almost perfect
ly balance each other.
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Election of d. A. r.

Hannah Arnett Chapter, Daughters
of the Revolution, held its annual
meeting at Vineland and elected the
following officers: Regent, Mrs. e. H.
P. Hawkins; vice-regent, Mrs. Myron
J. Kimball; secretary, Mrs. c. H. An
derson; treasurer, Mrs. Harriet E.
Lee; historian, Mrs. Mary H. Irish;
registrar, Mrs. E. c. Howe; delegate
to the national convention, Mrs. M.
]. Kimball; alternate, Miss Lucy A.
Barker; substitute for the regent,
Mrs. Mary H. Irish.
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Prize Beauty Wants a Divorce.
BY CABLE.
Find Mrs. sargent's Wards.

Find Mrs. Sargent'S Wards.
Paris.-The police have discovered
the whereabouts of the three children
who were adopted some time ago by
Mr.. and Mrs. Sargent, now under ar
rest charged with cruelty. One of
these, Jean Ducasse, who was born
at Versailles in 1902, is being cared
for in Brooklyn, N. Y, and the two
othars in London, at the expense Of
the Sargents. The Magistrate before
whom the case came, appointed three
doctors to examine into the mental
condition of Mrs. Sargent.
U. S. CavaIrymen Believed Slain.
Manila, P. lit is reported that
Lieutenant Harry L.. King, First Cav
airy, u. S. A., and a detachment were
slain, while mapping Luzon, by head
hunters.
Servia Looks to Powers.
Paris.-The Foreign Office has
been advised that Servia, regarding
a settlement Of her controversy with
Austria-Hungary, expresses her will
ingness to leave the protection OF her
interests to the Powers.
Was Missing, Sails For N. Y.
Naples, Italy.-Edward P. Fitch,
of Council Bluffs, Iowa. who disap-
peared last October and was found
here recently by the American Con-
sulate, sailed for New York.
Loisy Gets Professorship.
Paris.-The Academy of Moral Sci
ences has reversed it's selection, ade
February 27, of a professor to fill the
Chair of Religious History in the Col
lege of France. At that time George
Foucart was elected over the Abbe
Loisy. The Academy, by 10 votes to
IT, elected the Able to the chair.
English Bondholders Accept.
London.-At a meeting held here
of the debenture holders of the Pills.
bury-Washburn Flour Mills Company.
of Minneapolis, the plan of reorgan-
ization was approved.
Peruvian Minister Coming.
Lima.-Felipe Pardo, the Peruvian
Minister at Washington, D. c., accom-
panied by his wife, prepared to ieaVe
here for his post of duty.
Manila Railway Employees Strike.
Manila, P. 1.-The employees OF the
Manila street railway system have
struck for higher wages and shor1er
hours.
Baron Guenzburg Dead.
St. Petersburg, Russia.
G%uenzburg, president of the CentraF
Committee of the Jewish Colonization
Company. died of cancer.
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California Senate adopts Resolu-
ton Calling Upon Congress to Act

Sacramento, Calm lieu of an
anti-Japanese statute, the Senate ex-
pressed its views on the subject of
Asiatic immigration by adopting a
resolution calling upon Congress to
enact an Asiatic exclusion law that
would keep Japanese as we'll as Chi
nese aliens out.
Senator ]. B. Sanford tried to
amend the resolution so that Jap
anese would be denied the right of
naturalization. but this was voted
down % to z
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With His Little Hatchet.

S~ix-year-old George Guest, of Ber-
nardsviile, was impersonating George
Washington, showing Robert Palmer,
of the same age, how the immortal
George cut his fathers cherry tree.
In his demonstration he cut off the
little finger of Roberts left hand.
Scared almost out of his wits, but
honest as Washington, George helped
his fainting comrade home and told
a truthful story Of how it happened.
Il did it, Mrs. Palmer" he said, be-
tween sobs; "it was all my fault"
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THE TAFT CABINET.

PhiIander Chase Knox, Secre-
taPy of State.
Franklin MacVeagh, Secretary
of the Treasury.
Jacob Med. Dickinson, Secre-
tary of War.
George Won L.. Meyer, Secre-
tary of the Navy.
Frank 1T. Hitchcock, Postmas-
ter-GenePal.
James Wilson, Secretary of
Agriculture.
George w. Wickersham, At
torney-General.
II. A. Ballinger, Secretary of
the Interior.
Charles Nagel, Secretary of
Commerce and Labor.
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The Doctors Orders,

Mrs. O'Harrigan-"Phoy have We
stuck this empty flask under TIL
baby3"
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Wadden Asks Divorce.

st. Louis, Mo.-A petition for d.
vorce has been filed by George Ed
ward "Rube" Waddell, the baseball
pitcher.
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Bic CARGO of wool Arriyes.

With more than a million and a
half dollars worth of wool, the Sec
ond largest shipment ever received
at Boston, slowed below decks, the
steamer Memnon arrived from Mel
bourne, Australia. The shipment of
wool consists of 1880 bales, valued
at $1,600,000, on which the con-
signees will have to pay a duty of
$3.50, 900.
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EXTRA SESSION CALLED.
President Taft Does Not Mention Tariff
Revision in His Proclamation.

Washington, D. president Taft
Issued a proclamation calling for an
extra session of Congress on March
Is. At the extra session Congress
will consider the revision of the tariff,
which the Republican party in its
platform last year pledged itself to
bring about.
President Taft has repeatedly told
of his intention to secure the revision
OF the tariff. In his inaugural adj
dress he declared that at the earliest
opportunity he would call Congress
to meet in special session, at which
only the question of the tariff would
be considered.
The call does not mention the OBJ
iect for which the special session is
called.
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Disc For Hooker Telescope.

Word has been received by DR..
George E. Hale, at Los Angeles, CAL,
head of the Mount Lowe Solar OBJ
se~rvatory, that the glass works in
Gobain, France, will at once under
take another cast of the 100-inch disc
for the q se%rvatory, to be placed in
the Hooker telescope to cost 100000.
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san BOY ON HOT STOVE.
Now He's Dead and Housekeepcr is
Held For Murder.

Brooklyn. N Y Mrs. Marjorie
Miles, housekeeper for William John
son, a cabinetmaker, of 125 Walton
street, Brooklyn, was arrested and
locked up in the Flushing Avenue
Police Station, charged with homi-
eide in causing the death of Arthur,
the three-year-old son of MI. Johnson.
The woman is accused of setting
the boy on a hot stove to punish him
for misbehaving.
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Mrs. Carey-"The doctors ord
theirs. He told me Old have to keep
tn baby On a bottle. Judge.
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Unfit For Chaperons.

Going to take your chaperon to
the play to-night?"
well, I don't know. There are
so many passages in these modern
plays that are hardly fit for elderly
folks to hear."-Kansas City Jour-
nal.
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Son and Daughter Heirs.
Colonel Tucker Retired.

Washington, D. Secretary of
War Wright, as a last act in his ad-
ministration. disposed of the case of
Colonel William F. Tucker, who was
examined by an army board at Chi
cago for retirement. The announce
ment was made on behalf Of the Pres
ident that the Colonel was unfit for
active service On account of cirrhosis
of the liver.
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Tn All Parts of the State.

Frank Budd, of Woodbury., cap,
tured a hen hawk measuring foul
feet from tip to tip.
Resolution Hose Company, of Mill
Vile, reelected Paul T. Ludlam fire
chief.
The Pennington Board of Educa.
ton awarded se~venty-five out of a to-
tai of ninety school bonds at a pre-
MUM of $64S.10.
The horse driven to John Pedricks
rural mail wagon ran away and scat:
tered mail, stamps and coin off fol
miles around Clarksboro.
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Heavy Damages From Railroad.

After celebrating several hours a
Jury in the case of Walter Dobbs and
J. Berton fischer, to recover $4,000
damages against the West Jersey and
Seashore Railroad Company, rem
dered a verdict in the Circuit Court
in Camden for $4,000 for Dobbs and
$1,000 for fischer. When a team they
were driving vas struck by a train on
April 4, 1908, Dobbs was permanent
ly injured and Fischer was badly
hurt. The horse was killed and the
carriage wrecked.
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Omissions of History.

II presume you have a family tree,
joe" observed his friend.
Sure" answered Joe Miller. TITS
a chestnut"
But this, being apparently original,
was omitted from his published
works.-Chicago Tribune.
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-.
With the Fanny


"How would you like, the man exclaimed
His youthly passion yet untamed,
How would you like to sail with me,
Forever Ger the moonlit sea-"
She glanced about and heaved a sigh,
The ocean, birch canoe and sky;
With wintry smile, she answered back,
Il should like nothing better, Jack"
He started towards her, eyes afame,
In honeyed tones he called her name,
When haughtily she shook her head,
I'D like nothing better, sir, I said"
w. Carey Wonderly, in Brooklyn Life.
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ont Of work. Kills himself.

Andrew Brown, thirty-three year
old, of No. 325 John street, Harrison,
shot and killed himself in his home.
Brown had become respondent over
his inability to get steady employ.
ment. He gave $50 to his wife just
before he shot himself. He leaves
four small children.
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Self Convicted.

"The constable seems wonderfully
certain about the details of my CASE"
said a defendant with a sheer, "but
how is it he doesn't call his fellow Of
icers to c%orroborate what he says?"
There's only one constable sta
toned in the village, sir!" exclaimed
the policeman.
"But I saw two last night" indig-
nantly asserted the defendant.
Exactly" the policeman reioined.
smiling broadly, that's Jest the
charge agenst you!"-Punch,
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Not Her Fault.

"It is the duty of every man and
woman to be married at the age~of
twenty-five" said the lecturer.
Well" said a oma of thirty,
with some asperity, you needn't tell
me that. Talk to the men."-Phila-
delphia Ledger.
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Line as One Eiftr.senen Years.

Live as One Fifty-seven Years.
The unusual event of the celebra-
ton of the ~ifty-seventh anniversary
of their marriage was observed by
Captain and Mrs. David W. Lenox. oil
Centre street, Trenton. Captain
Lenox is eighty-seven years and his
wife eighty-two years old.
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Des Moines Wants Girls.

Des Moines, Iowa.-Members of
the Greater Des Moines Committee
have determined to import 500 girls
from New York and put them at
work in the local factories. This
action was taken at a meeting of the
committee when several factory own
ers declared that they have not
enough girls available to conduct
their industries.
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Diplomacy.

why do you insist on underrat-
ing the kind of golf you play?"
Because" answered the wise Of
fetal, there is no use of making a
whole lot of people jealous and an
tagonistic over a little thing like
golf."-Washington Star.
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ALWAYS Grained to BE Poor.

1t is authoritatively stated that
William Rogers, of Long Branch. IA
miliarly known as "Old Rogers" who
died recently, and who had always
been known as a great miser, left
$500 on deposit in three New York
banks. "Old Rogers" who was a
widely known character, had lived on
the bare necessities of life and had
always denied he had any money, al
though friends felt hat he had a for
tune hidden away. The discovery
and proof of this has been revealed.
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ExtOrtiOn.

Mamma" said little John, II just
made a bet"
you naughty boy, Johnny! What
made you do it?" she asked.
II bet Billy Roberts my cap against
two buttons that you'd give a penny
to me to buy some apples with. You
don't want me to lose my cap, do
you?"
He got the penny.-Tit-Bits.
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A Near One.

He-"Won't you miss me when
I'm far away?"
She-No; I'll always think of you
as very close."-Cornell Widow,
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II. 8. Cavalrvmen Believed Slain.

Manila, P. lit is reported that
Lieutenant Harry l.. King, First Cav
airy, u. S. A., and a detachment were
slain, while mapping Luzon, by head
hunters.
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Tennis Cabinet Dinner.

President Roosevelt gave a fare
well dinner to his tennis cabinet"
at Washington, D. c., and spoke
gratefully of the loyal support given
to him by the members of his Admin
i~stration
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A Business Proposition.

Ella-"Do you know that noble.
MANI"
Stella-"In a business way. have
a thirty days option on his title."-
Town Topics. sT
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'PossUM HUNTERS BARRED.
Seven Months Closed Season in Geor-
gia-Prices Rise to $40.

Atlanta, Ga.-@Marsupial blind
tiger is the correct appellation of the
concern in Georgia which deals in
'possums between March 1 and Octo-
Der /, and unless the ~violator of the
law continues to supply the mad de-
mand of the Eastern market there
will be no more 'possums shipped
from this State for the next seven
months.
A rise in the market price of from
fifty cents to $40 is recorded within
less than a month, but the hopes of
Georgia 'possum hunters of amassing
fortunes have been ruthlessly cast to
the ground.
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colonel Britton Guilty.

Colonel Edward f. Britton and
Quarantine Commissioner Schroeder
were found guilty of grand larceny,
first degree, in taking funds of the
Eagle Savings and Loan Company, Of
Brooklyn, N. Y.
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Taft,s Salary Made $4,000

The salary of the President of the
United States has been definitely fixed
by Congress, at Washington, D. c.,
at $4,000 per annum, without any
additional allowances for travelling
expenSeS.
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Spirits.

Are you a believer in spiritual
ISM"
Yes; the ghost walks every Satur-
day, and by Monday I have nothing
left but a Authorization. bohemian.
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WOman's WAY.

Blobbs-"Have you ever noticed
that the average woman gets off a
trolley car Backward"
Slobbs-"That's the way she gets
off a joke, too."-Philadelphia Rec
ord.
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The Goods.

1--WE live in exacting times"
"As to how?"
Zone must deliver the goods and
yet not be caught with them
Washington Herald.
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Not q Romance.

Dear heart" she murmured.
"Only twenty cents a pound" ex
planned the butcher.
Il think I'll take some liver."-
Washington Herald.
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STRAWBERRIES in Demand.

Strawberries have been less plenty
with demand showing some improve
ment and stock cleaned up at dear
prices.
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Lumbermen Urge Conservatism.

The National Wholesale Lumber
Dealers Association, in convention at
Philadelphia, Pa, passed a resolu-
ton urging conservatism in State
and Federal measures for the regula-
ton of railroads.
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meath Inv Fast Eypress.

While crossing the tracks OF the
Lackawanna Railroad opposite the
Lyndhurst station, Edward DECKER.
mann, fifty-nine years old, whose
home is on Livingston street, was
struck by the New York express and
instantly killed.
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Legal Aid Society.

The Legal Aid Society, of New
York City, started a movement to I'D
the Criminal Courts Building of legN
leeches who prey on the ignorant and
defenseless.
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SONS FATE CAUSES DEATH.
Shock Kills Mother of Victim OF
Church Murder.

Church Murder.
Port Huron, Mich.-Mrs. Joseph
Browning, the aged mother of Gideon
Browning, the victim of the famous
Rattle Run Methodist Church muir
der, when the Rev. John H. Car
michael killed Browning, dismem-
bered his body and cremated it in
the church stove, is dead at her home
In the village of Adair.
Mrs. Browning had steadily de-
clined since the horror and shock
of her sons murder by the crazed
minister in the lonely little country
church,
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A Majestic Outlet.

There is no more majestic outlet
FOR all the true love Christ pours into
our lives than the missionary work
of the church.-Rey. Marshall Hart
ley.