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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
BURGLaR LIKES MUSIC

"A phonograph and 70 records
were stolen from the residence of
M. o. Elingson, S593 Mckinley
avenue, about 8 O'Clock last
might. by burglars who entered a
rear Window Some silverware
and handbag were included tn
the booty.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
KING WORSE

fBy United Press Leased Wire.)
LONDON, Dec. 15.-King Leo
pold suffered another sinking
spell late today, according to ad-
vices received here. II is be-
lieved that the aged monarch's
end is near.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15
Marines Land.

PANAMA, Dec. 15.-Fragments
of wireless messages, picked up
by the local station, indicate that
marines from the United States
warship either have been landed
or will land today, at Corinto.
Adverse weather conditions pre-
vented the full text of the mes
sages from being learnd. Ans
othr dispatch Indicated that Man
aqua still is in the hands OF .
m OBJ.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15

Copyright, 1909, by George Barr
McCutcheOn.)
Copyright, 1909, by DOdd, Mead
& Company. Published. Sept, 1900
Oh ApVER
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-12-15

abuse OF Justice become through
this long line Of condemnation
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05

ORDER OF HEARING, FOR GENERAL.
PURPOSES AND FOR APPOINTMENT OF
ADMINISTRATORS.
STATE OF MICHIGAN L.
COUNTY OF GRATIoT -
At a session of the Probate Court for said
county held at this Probate Office in the village
of Ithaca, on the l2th day of July IN the year
one Thousand nine hundred and nine.
Present Isaac ). Seaver Judge of Probate
In the matter of the estate OF Eugene Fran
els Fitzgerald deceased.
on reading and filing the petition duly veri-
fed, of Dennis Fitzgerald, father and heif-at-
law of said deceased, praying that the admin
stration of said estate be granted TO Dennis
Fitzgerald, some other suitable person.
Thereupon il is Ordered, That Monday the
9th day of August, next, at ten O'Clock in
the forenoon. be assigned for the hearing of said
petition, and that the heirs-at-law of said de
ceased, and all other persons interested in said
estate, are required 10 appear at a session OF
said court then TO be holden at the Probate
Office in the village of Ithaca and show cause, II
any there be, why the prayer OF the petitioner
should not be granted.
And il is Further Ordered That said petitioner
give notice to the persons interested in said
estate, of the tendency of said petition, and the
hearing thereof. by causing copy of this order
to be published in The Alma Record. news
paper published and circulated in said county
three successive weeks previous to said day OF
hearing.
A true copy.l ISAAC 5. SEAVER,
Seal.l 1878
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05
Registration Notice.

Notice is hereby given that the sew
eral Boards of Registration in the City
of Alma, Gratiot County, Michigan, will
be in session from eight o'clock in the
morning until eight o'clock in the after
noon on Saturday, the 18th day of Au-
gust, 1909, for the purpose of registering
the names of such qualified electors of
said city as shall present themselves to
such boards as provided by law, and for
the purpose of registering the names Of
all women taxpayers in said city, having
the qualifications of male electors who
present themselves to such boards, as
provided by law.
The said Boards of Registration shall
hold their session in the following places:
First Ward-City Hall.
Second Ward-Second Floor Vermeu-
len Block.
Third Ward-Dr. J. N Days Office.
Fourth Ward - Cases Photograph
Studio.
DELoS w. ADAMS, City Clerk.
Dated the Goth day of July, 1909.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05
ELECTION NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that a Special
Election will be held on Tuesday, the
10th day of August. 1909, in the several
wards in the City of Alma. Gratiot
County, Michigan, at the several places
mentioned in the Resolution of the Com
mon Council of said City passed at a
regular meeting held OH Tuesday, the
Both day of July, 1909. which Resolution
is herewith published. for the purpose of
voting upon an ordinance granting the
Chippewa River Power Company, cor
poration organized and existing under
the laws of the State Of Michigan, its
successors and assigns, the right, power
and authority to construct, acquire,
maintain and use electric lines consist
ing of towers, masts, poles, cross-arms,
guys, braces, feeders, transmission wires,
transformers, conduits, and other cleo
trical appliances, on, along, across and
under avenues, streets, alleys, highways
and other public places in the City of
Alma, Gratiot County, Michigan, SUBJ
ject 10 certain limitations, conditions,
and restrictions, and to transact a local
business in said City by furnishing to
the inhabitants thereof electric current
for light, heat and power, for period of
ordinance shall be approved by vote
Of three-ffths of the electors of said City
voting thereon, and its final adoption by
the common council of said city, a copy
of which proposed ordinance appears in
the records of said meeting of the COM
mon council published herewith.
The polling places in the several wards
in the said city for said special election
will be as follows:
First Ward-City Hall.
Second Ward-Second Floor Vermeu-
len Block.
Third Ward-Second Floor Record
Office.
Fourth Ward - Cases Photograph
Studio.
The polls of said election will be open
from seven O'Clock in the forenoon until
five o'clock in the afternoon, as provid-
ed by statute.
DELos w. ADAMS, City Clerk.
Dated Tuesday, the Goth day of July,
1909
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05
Its A Crime

to neglect your health and there is a
severe penalty attached when You allow
constipation, biliousness, or any liver or
bowel trouble to run on. 1t is poison-
ing your entire system, aud may lead to
a serious disease. Take DR.. Herrick's
Sugar Coated Pills and get absolutely
we'll. The sure cure for any and all
troubles of the stomach, liver and DO "
els. Price 25c per box. Ask for free
sample. Sold by c. F. Brown, dealer
in drugs.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05
WaShingtOn'S Plague Spots.

lie in the low, marshv bottoms of the
Potomac the breeding ground of ma
laria germs. These germs cause chllls.
fever and ague. billiousness. jaundice,
lasstitude, weak and general debility
and bring suffering or death to thous-
ands yearly. But Electric Bittters
never fail to destroy them and cure
malaria troubles. They are the best
all-rcund tonic and cure for malaria
/ ever used" writes r. NJ James. of
Luellen. S. G. Tnev cure stomach,
liver. kidney and blood troubles. and
will prevent typhoid. Try them, soc.
Guaranteed by G. F. Brown.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05
Their Property Exempt.

BY a new law passed bv the legisla-
ture it is provided that all propertv
used rs homesteads not exceeding in
value $1,000 of any soldier or sailor
who has served three months or more
in the civil war or all real estate of
any widow of soldier or sailor who
has served in the civil war to the same
value shall be exempt from taxes. The
section provides expressly that benefits
shall not go to persons holding other
property in excess of the sum men,
toned.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05

/, Delos w. Adams. clerk Of the City
of Alma, said county and state, do here
by certify that the above and foregoing is
true copy of the proceedings OF the
Common Council of the said City of
Alma, at regular meeting held on
Tuesday, the 10Th Of July, 1909, relative
to a resolution adopted at such meeting,
ordering a special election to be held in
the City of Alma, on Tuesday, the 10th
day of August, 1909.
DELos w. ADAMS, City Clerk.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05
State of Ohio. City of Toledo, .,
Iucas County ''

Frank j. Cheney makes oath that be
is senior partner of their firm of +. j.
Cheney 81 Co doing business IN the
CITY of Toledo. County and State
aforesaid, and that said firm will nay
the sum of One Hundred Dollars for
each and every case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured nv the use of Hall s
Catarrh Cure. Frank j Cheney.
Sworn to before ne and subscribed in
nv presence. this 9Th dav of Deem
ter. A. ID. 1886
"A. W. Gleason,
seal Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken in ern-
ally. and acts directly on the blood
and mucus surface of the system.
Send for testimonials free.
f. j. Cheney e. Co.. Toledo, O.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05
Scared With A Hot Iron.

or scalded by overturned kettle cut
with a knife-bruised bv slammed
door-injured by gun or in any other
way-the thing needed at once is
flammation and kill the pain. It's
esrth's supreme healer, Invaluable for
hollis. ulcers. fever sores, eczema and
piles 25c. at G. F. Browns.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05
Round Trip Far S:
To SAGINAW, BAY CITY. :. .65e
Lived with Broken Back.

Having survived for 50 years with
his spine broken but the spinal cord
intact, Joseph Alcoc,I, who was well
known to summer visitors in his
donkey chaise on the Parade at Var
mouth, England, died recently at the
age of y. The gaff OF a wherry came
down with a run and broke his back
when he was 20
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05
Less to Do.

THE late Russell Sturgis," said a
New York architect, continually
marveled at the swift passage of time
This great architect and critic con-
tinually found new examples of the
swift way men grow old and ugly
while still believing themselves
young.
He repeated to me one day a re-
mark he had heard in a barber shop
AN old chap with hardly hair on
his head, snapped at the young bar
Der, on the completion of haircut:
"'You are not the thorough work
man your father was. my boy. He
used to take a good half-hour to cut
my hair"
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05
"Rllnd 1laersn Even in China.

For retailing intoxicating liquors
without a license at $50 Chapoo road
on the 29th instant. f. Ziffenburg was
fined ten francs at the French con-
sular court yesterday. He was also
ordered to take out a license or close
his establishment at once.-Shanghai
Times.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05
Joke on the Joker.

Even a policeman can't arrest the
fight of time" said the funny man.
ooh. I don't know" rejoined the mat
ter-of-fact person. only this morn
ing / saw a policeman enter a side
door and stop a few minutes. IL
lutrated Bits.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05
New Material for Paper.

II has been found that good paper
can be made. from the lalang grass
az Malaysia.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-08-05
DETROIT
TRUST
COMPANY

Detroit, Michigan.
Capital $500, 900
Surplus and Undivided
Profits, over 100000
Issues Certificates of Deposit
bearing attractive rates Of interest.
Authorized by law TO act as
Administrator, Executor, Trustee
under Wills, Guardian, Etc.
DIRECTORS.
Ammi w. Wright Charles A. Dean
Arthur H. Bull Edwin {. Nichols
lanes r. Davidson George Peck
Frederick r. briggs Edward II. Butler
Benton Hanceett John IA. Avery
lanes NJ Wright Daniel l.. Qulrk, Jr.
Elisha II. Finn Edward ID. stair
Henry p. Baldwin sidney II, Miller
Chester G White frank w. Gilchrist
Alex Mcpherson Frank w. Eddy
James r. Danaher Rasmus Hanson
Walter Scotch Samuel T. Douglas
Benjamin.. Berry 1.ucius Lilley
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-06
DRAWS BAD CHECKS
RICH YOUNG MIssOURIAN LANDS
 IN JAIL.
Is Charged With Forgery of Employ ers' Names---Said to Have Squan- dered Fortune Received
 From Mother.

Newark, N. J., Oct. 5-Eugene H Schlande. formerly a member of the firm of Schlande and Sons, of St. Louis, where he Is said to have been social ly prominent. is a prisoner tonight at police headquarters here charged with forgery. The young mans arrest grew out of the repudiation by F. Matts. a Newark manufacturer, of several checks, one of which was for $275, drawn on the Union National Bank of this city.
 According to the police, young Schlande. upon leaving the St. Louis firm. came in possession of $60,000 in cash from his mothers estate, which he squandered within less than a year He was dismissed as Mir. Matts' book keeper few days ago. and with his departure. checks which stnvestigatien sisevsed Sto- ss t5eas4 fofgeffes drawn ir Schlande's favor and endorsed with the spurious signature of Matts, began to arrive. The young man gave the of- ficers a fight before his arrest today.
 To add to his troubles, a warrant from New York, where he Is wanted for forgery rached here tonight simul- taneously with another from a detect i've agency representing the American Bankers Association.
 It Is said that young Schlande mar rieda Miss Schubert F. Busch. of St Louis, but was divorced.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-06
MISSIONARY
 IS ACQUITTED w. H. Sheppard Is Not Guilty. WAS ACCUSED OF LIBEL American Was Prosecuted in
 Congo Country. Suit Against Rev. William Morrison is withdrawn-Both of the Preach
 CTS Criticized the Belgian
 Government.

Leopoldville, Belgian Congo. Oct. B. Rev. w. H. Sheppard. an American missionary. was today acquitted of the charges of libel brought against him by one of the Congo concession companies which has a monopoly of rubber gath ering in the Kasai region.
 Two American missionaries. w. H. Sheppard and Rev. William Morrison. were charged with "calumnious de- nunciation" and libel by the concession company.
 The suit was based on an article which appeared in The kasai Herald. The charges against Morrison. howsv- CT, were withdrawn.
 The company sought to recover S6.000 from Sheppard. In substance, the charges made by the missionaries. were that Congo officials levy upon the na tives oppressive taxes to be paid in rubber; that whole villages, including women and children, are impressed by the soldiers for gathering the rubber; that they often are compelled to travel many miles to the rubber forests and to sleep there for more than a week under unhealthy conditions; that they are cruelty punished for failure to meet the taxes imposed and that so large a proportion of their time Is taken for gathering these taxes that they are unable to cultivate crops and raise food necessary for their support.
 The Belgian government holds half the stock of the Kasai Company and a majority of the company directors are Belgian officials So that the suit has been considered as practically one by the Belgian government against the missionaries.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-06
HONOR PRESS CHIEF
ASSOCIATED PRESS MANAGER
 STARTS LONG TOUR.
Men of National Prominence Gather fo Pay Tribute to Melville E.
 Stone on Eve of HI.
 DeDarfure

New York, Oct. 5.-As a tribute of their affections and regard on the eve of his departure for trip around the world, friends of Melville E. Stone. General Manager of the Associated Press. gave him a dinner tonight at the Lotus Club in this city. Of the invited guests and the subscribers to the din- ner, there were 130 present.
 Messages of regret were read, among them greetings from Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain. Dr. Nicholas Murray But Ter. Colonel George Harvey. Frank R. Lawrence. James Speyer and Colonel J. c. HemphilI. An original poem of trib- ute was read by Francis D. Carley.
 The speakers included Frank B. Moves, President of the Associated Press: Judge Ebert H. Gray, John c. Spooner, former United States Senator from Wisconsin,: J. Hartley Manners, the dramatist; Bourlke Cockrane Victor Lawson and Myron T. Herrick, former Governor, of Ohio.
 After the dinner. Mir. conoyer pre- sented Mr, stone with siIie1d taken from one of similar design of the ff- teenth Century .fS of. cast. Bronze, about sixteen inches wide by twenty one inches high, with ornamentation appropriate to the period. In the cen ter is a disk likeness of Mfr. Stone, sur rounded by exact reproduction by gold and enamel of the foreign decorations which have been bestowed upon him by France. Germany, Italy, Russia, Swe- den and Japan. .....
 The following officers and directors of the Associated Press were present: Frank D. Moves, of Chicago; General c. H. Taylor and J. H. Fahey, of Bos- ton: Herman Ridder: Clark Howell. of Atlanta: Charles H. Grasty, of St Paul: Colonel Harvey Scott. of Port land; Charles s. Diehl. Thomas F. Ra- pier, of New Orleans: Adolph s. ochs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-06
OFFICERS SEEK MONEY
 WHICH CAUSED CRIME

Graham. Va. Oct. 5.-officers are searching today for the money taken from the aged Mrs. Justice and se- creted by the murderer after he had killed her and her daughter and son. in-law, MT. and Mrs George Meadows and their three children near Hurley Va. few nights ago.
 Howard Little, who is under arrest, charged with the crime, protests he Is innocent His wife, who says she is telling all she knows regarding the actions of her husband today desfg- mated a spot where she thinks the money taken from Mrs. Justice Is hid den. Mrs. Little gave this informa- tion since learning that her husband had been preparing to leave for the West with another woman.
 It has been established that the wound in Littie's leg was not receIv- ed while trimming tree with an axe as he claims. To every appearance, the blood stained trousers which Mrs. Little says she washed on the morn ing after the murder are the same trousers which were cut by the axe. Some of the Meadows family were killed with an axe. The theory is that the man who committed the murder wounded himself accidentally with the axe.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-06
AFFORD MAY UPH0L !IS8AG0 Shss Not Cited For Contempt. COURT HAS DIFFERENT VIEW Now Believes Official Can Hold
 Liquor. Hearing of Motion to Dissolve Injunc- ton Against Brewing Company
 at Gulf City te Be Heard
 Today.

Mobile, Oct. 5.-Attorneys represent ing the liquor interests of this city who announced yesterday that they would file a motion to cite Sheriff Ora go for contempt for scorning the order: of Judge Afford of the Inferior Court failed to appear in court up to noon.
 Judge Afford, when asked today If hs would commit the sherin for violating his order to turn seized liquors over te claimants, said he would not as he be- lieved since issuing the order that the sheriff mad the right to hold the liquors for evidence although not seized undeI order of court.
 Hearing of the motion to dissolve tho injuno ton against the Mobile Brewer, whose stock of goods were seized un' der the Fuller law Is set for tomorrow
 Attorneys representing both side: have set Thursday as the date for ar guing the application to mandamus Judge Afford to try liquor violations and render judgment without~a~juf, trial sssasras
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-06
TWO TRAINS CRASH
FOUR KILLED, THIRTY INJURED,
 SEVERAL FATALLY.
Special Returning From Illinois State Fair in Head-on Collision With Passenger Train on Iili-
 nOia Central.

Farmer City. H.. oct. 5.-In a head on collision three miles south of here tonight between the. State Fair special from Springfield. and a southbound passenger train on the Illinois Central, four persons were killed and thirty in- jured several fatally.
 The wreck occurred on a curve while the trains were running at a high rate of speed and the trains came together with terrific impact. The north bound train was heavily loaded with visitors returning home from the State Fair at Springfield.
 It was some little time after the crash that word was sent by telephone to Clinton. A special train was made up and with all the physicians avail able left for the scene.
 Clara Watson, of Kenny, H.. is among the killed and Engineer. Clark. of the southbound train, had his leg cut off.
 The southbound train, which left Farmer City at g p. m. was loaded with delegates to the Sunday School .copven.- ton which concluded its session at Farmer City tonight. The train con sisted of an engine and three cars. Misconstruction of orders caused the wreck. Engineers of both trains jump ed and escaped death.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-06
NEGRO ATTACKS WIFE
 OF ARMY SERGEANT

Chattanooga. Tenn. Oct. 5--Excite ment runs high about the military reservation at Fort Oglethorpe over the attempted criminal assault on the wife of Sergeant H. F. Perkins by Jay Williams, a negro. Williams Is Tn jail at Ringgold. and this morning Mrs, Perkins, with her husband. went to Ringgold and positively identified him.
 Mrs. Perkins was preparing for her bath Saturday afternoon, and while stooping over trunk searching for wearing apparel. the negro Williams entered the house. She discovered him just as he was preparing to seize her.
 She started to run but was caugnt by the negro. She struggled with him and escaped, running nearly mile to a neighbor's house. The negro escaped, but was captured at Ringgold late last night.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-06
ADVOCATES SHIP SUBSIDY.
Con&ressman Landis Speaks to Ger
 mains.

Cincinnati. Oct. 5.-The so-called s'Union of Defense between the Unit ed States and Great Britain to offset the growing naval power of Germany as advocated by Lords Northcliffe, Beresford and Close. of England. is declared to be absurd in resolution offered today in the German American Alliance national convention by Dr Ernest Richards, professor of German in Columbia University, New York city.
 Former Congressman Charles B. Landis. of Indiana, representing the Navy League. said:
 '"The American merchant marine as at present constituted. is a fiction. Those Americans who are informed consider our navy a bluff, other ma tions do not regard it seriously. They know that without practically any thing in the shape of adequate mer- chant marine as an auxiliary in time of war. It's effectiveness is reduced to a minimum"
 MT. Landis advocated ship subsi- dy" to build up the merchant ma- rine
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-06
FOILS NEGROES PLAN
POLICE ON TRAIL OF FIENDIsH
 HICKMAN.
Attacks White " O..an I'm Lonely Spot, But Is Frightened Away By Her Screams for
 Aid.

Chattanooga, Tenn. Oct 5.-oficers are hot on the trail of negro hack man who. late tonight. attempted att sault on Mrs. Hattie Satcher. white woman.
 Mrs Satcher reached this city late tonight from Atlanta on her way to Huntsville to visit her sister. She approached a negro hackman and ask ed to be driven to a medium-priced hotel. The negro drove her to the country. Mrs. Satcher saw that she was being taken out of the city. She sprang from the hack, but the negro seized her and compelled her to get back in the carriage, telling her he would bring her back to the city.
 Instead, he drove at top steep to- wards the woods. She again succeed ed in jumping from the cab. The ne- gro followed her, throwing his arms about her. The woman's screams frightened him~off and he sprang into the hack and drove away.
 Mrs. Satcher was found later by of- fcers, prostrated and hysterical. A large posse has joined the officers and threats of-lynching are freely made.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-06
Tragedy In Funeral March.

Savannah. Ga. Oct 5.-Five human