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Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21

aged to feather his nest with the fight
Win or lose, the shrewd scrapper is to
get $4,000, while Johnson will get
only $4,000. Much other cash will flow
to the men in the shape of picture
royalties, theatrical engagements ETC.,
but in everything Burns will come in
for the lions share. Burns profits
from the fight will be over 100000.
He makes no bones of the fact that
fighting is his business and he is in it
for all he can get.
Johnson's supporters harp on the
fact that he is so anxious to face
Burns in the ring that he would al
most fight him for nothing. Both men
have good records as fighters, Burns
being more brilliant, while Johnson s
is longer.
In tomorrow's battle Burns is ex-
pected to carry the war into Johnson's
territory as long as he is able to fight
on the aggressive, while Johnson will
probably rely on his skill as a long
range boxer and try to stand off rushes
until he is able to deliver a knockout
blow. A long battle is expected.
Many reports have come here from
America to the effect that Yankee
sports look on the fight with suspicion
1t is declared here also in some quar-
ters that it will be fake, and it is
pointed out that the terms of the con-
test are such that Burns has little in
ducement to fight ION the level" How
ever, Australian sports are keen OBJ
servers. They would be the first tc
spot any taking and would be quick
to resent it. They are going to give
up great deal of their money to see
fight, and they want to see real one.
The general opinion here seems to be
that they will get one.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21
MANY HAT MAKERS
STRIKE FOR LABEL
Manufacturers Drop Union Mark
and Men Quit Work.

New York, Jan. ia general strike
OF hat makers, that may involve some
$4,000 workers, was inaugurated in
the hat manufacturing centers of the
country as the result of a decision OF
the Associated Hat Manufacturers to
discontinue the use of the union label
in the factories represented in the
association. Reports from various
places received here indicate that the
hatters in this vicinity, including those
in the factories in New York, New Jer-
sey and Connecticut, have generally
obeyed the order to strike.
The manufacturers, in explaining
their order to discard the union label.
said it was the result of the failure Of
the union to keep a working agree
ment made with the Guyer Hat COM
pany, of Philadelphia. Their action to
discontinue the label, they declared,
was unanimous.
The leaders of the hatters, on the
other hand, claim that the step was
only the first in an organized and gen
eral plan of employers in all lines to
do away with the union label and that
union labor was prepared to combat it,
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21
BIC FIGHT Will
Be ON TOMORROW
Burns and JOhnson's Meeting
in Australia.
WILL Be next DAY THERE

Difference In Time Brings Scrap For
ward Into Americas Christmas Day.
Antipodean Sports Talking of Moth
ing Else But Battle Between Texas
Negro and French Canadian Heavy
weight-Reports of "Fakina."
Sydney, Australia, Dec. 24.-At 500
tomorrow night (New York time) the
Burns-J Johnson heavyweight fight will
begin. Sydney time is fourteen hours
and forty minutes earlier than New
York time, so that when the big black
from Texas and the French Canadian
cross arms it will be Dec. 26 here, and
in the United States the Christmas
bells will still be ringing.
All Australia seems to have gone
sport mad over the fight, although the
church people have made some efforts
to prevent it. Nothing else is talked
of wherever men get together in all
parts of the commonwealth, and there
is much betting on the result Burns
seems to have the call among the bet
ting men, but followers of Johnson are
not shy.
Before the men get together in the
ring the main things talked about in
the cafes here are their records and
the fine way in which Burns has man
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21
CUE EXPERTS BUSY,
Many Billiard Journeys ScheduI-
ed to Take Place This Year.
SUTTON TO PLAY SLOSSON.
They Will Meet In New York For 1871
Balk Line Title Jan. 26-WorId's
Championship Tournament to Start
March 22-Hoppe Posts Forfeit.

Billiard events arranged and project
ed promise activity and interest dur
ing the first three months of 1909.
George Sutton and George Slosso- are
to play for the ISL balk line champion
ship in New York Jan. 26. Announce
ment has been made that a tourna-
ment to revive the 1872 championship
will be held in New York March %,
and the National Association of ANA
teur Billiard Players will meet the
latter part of February or the early
part Of March either in New York or
Chicago.
The Sutton-Slosson match, besides
being for the championship, will in
volve side bet of $1,000.
In the 1872 tournament to begin at
Madison Square Garden concert hall
March % the contestants will be limit
ed to six, each of whom must pay an
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21
DYNAMITE KILLS TWO
Premature Explosion Nearly Fatal to
Five Others.

Allentown Pa, Jan. 16 - Stanley
Noscho and Michael Kust, quarrymen
in the employ of the Lehigh Portland
Cement company, at Fogelsville, were
instantly killed by premature explo-
sion of dynamite. Foreman Roger Guth
and six men were filling a hole with
fifty pounds of dynamite when there
was an awful explosion. The dynamite
did not rend the rock, and the force of
the explosion was upward, and Kust
and Noscho, who were directly over
the place, were killed. Guth and the
four others escaped injury, though they
stood only three feet away.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21
CHAMPIONS MEET TONIGHT
Some of Country's Best Athletes In
Contests In BROOKLYN.

New York, Jan. 16. - Some of the
country's leading athletes, men who
have upheld the athletic fame OF
America in England and other lands,
will meet tonight in Brooklyn at the
games of the Postoffice Clerks assa
citation.
The program calls for twenty-sfx
events. Many members of the Ameri-
can Olympic team will be on hand to
contest for the diamond prizes includs.
ing all of the six famous athletes who
were reinstated by the registration
committee last week-Bellairs, Shep-
pard, Bacon, Porter, Lee and Bonhag.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21

GEORGE SLOSSON, WHO IS TO PLAY SUTTON
FOR 19.1 TITLE.
entrance fee Of S1OO. Prize money
amounting to $4,000 is offered, and to
this sum will be added the entrance
money and net gate receipts, all of
which will be divided among the play
ers who finish first, second, third and
fourth, the proportions being so, %, 15
and 10 per cent.
Tournament games will be of 400
points, and ties must be played off. To
the winner of first prize will be award
ed trophy emblematic of the cham
pionship of the world, which he will
be required to defend according to the
rules heretofore governing such title
Before the tournament opens the play
ers about to engage in it will be asked
to determine whether or not champion
ship matches shall be of one, two or
more nights duration.
Assured entrants are George Sutton,
George F. Slosson and Calvin Dema-
rest. Among other probable competi-
tors are Ora Morningstar, Harry Cline
and A. G. Cutler.
Willie Hoppe, the "boy wonder" hav-
ing delivered his opinions on billiards
in general, now comes out with chal-
lenge to play George Sutton a match
game. Hoppe announced recently that
he had deposited $1,000 with John Kel-
ly as a forfeit or side bet for the
match with Sutton.
Hoppe specifies that he will play
Sutton 1,500 point match at IS inch
balk line, one shot in, or a 5000 point
match at IS inch balk line, two Shots
in.
What promises to be one of the
best professional championship billiard
tournaments ever held in this country
is that slated for Chicago during the
latter part of February or early Marc h.
Practically all the star players in the
world of the cue and ivory ball have
announced their intention of entering
the competition for the worlds title at
IL inch balk line, two shots in. Of all
the probable entries there is none that
has attracted more attention than that
of Calvin Demarest, the former anna
teur champion, who created quite
sensation last winter by establishing a
new amateur record for a high run.
Willie Hoppe also has stated that he
will be there to try to regain his title.
while Slosson, Sutton, Cutler and
Morningstar will probably be among
those present at the green cloth table,
At the present time it appears that
Schaefer will be the only luminary of
the cue who will not shine at the tour
nament.
Schaefer is afraid that his health
will not permit him to show in Chica-
go until the spring of the year. The
rest of the would be contestants are
busily engaged in practice, and all
eyes are watching the play of Dem
Arrest. His work is improving rapid
ly, and those who know the game like
a book predict that before many more
championship contests have been play
ed the former amateur will hold the
worlds professional title. When he
enters the play in February or March
he will lack one important requisite of
a neutrality-suspicious. in tight places.
However, he has been wonderfully
steady in all of his practice matches to
date.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21
PRODUCE QUOTATIONS.
The Latest Closing Prices For Produces.
and i've Stock

PHILADELPHIA = FLOUR firm;
winter extras, new, $S.75@4; winter
clear, S4.2504,50; city mills, fancy.
RYE FLOUR steady, at s4.10@415
per barrel.
WHEAT steady; No. 2 red, western
$1.06@1.061a.
CORN quiet; No. 2 yellow, local.
6613Q67c.
OATS firm; No. white, clipped.
561ac.; lower grades, sac.
HAY firm; timothy, large bales
SIS per ton.
POULTRY-Live steady; hens. 13
@14c.; old roosters, 10c Dres e firlns
choice fowls, 141ac,; old roos, ,ors. 10c..
BUTTER steady; extra creamery
36c. per ID.
EGGS firm; selected, 3S@40c.; near
by, SAC. western, SAC.
POTATOES steady, at S508Sc. per
bushel. Sweet Potatoes steady; per
basket, 50Q60c.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21
FINDS $4,000 IN CAN
Ice Wagon Driver Picked 1t Up In
Alley In Illinois CITY,

East st. Louis, ILL.,, Dec. 24.-Patrick
Sullivan, an ice wagon driver, found a
$4,000 bill in the bottom of an old
tomato can which he picked up in an
alley in the residence part of the city.
Conrad Reeb, cashier of the Southern
Illinois National bank, examined the
bill through a microscope and said 1t
appeared to be genuine gold GER
tificate. The bill was taken to the sub
treasury in st. Louis for further ex
animation.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21
Boy Guilty of Second Degree Murder

Todelo, o., Dec. 24.-After deliber-
ating twelve hours, the jury in the case
OF Harvey Hazel, the seventeen-year-
old boy, charged with murder in the
first degree for the killing of his
mother, returned verdict of murder
in the second degree. The finding of
the jury means that the boy must go
to the penitentiary for the remainder
of his natural life. Harvey Hazel was
placed on trial Nov. 80, accused OF
Staying his mother by beating her to
Seath with a hammer. Robbery was as.
signed as the cause.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21
Football Pays For Other Sports.

Princeton, N. j., Jan. 16.-That the
receipts from baseball and football are
sufficient to pay the expenses of all
the other sports engaged in by Prince
ton university and still leave balance
of s1075.75, was evidenced by the
financial statement of the athletic as
sociation for the year beginning July /.
1907, and ending July 1, 1908. The
gross receipts from football were
$49,69550.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21
Bodies OF Entombed Miners Found.

Mount Carmel, Pa, Dec "a. = En-
tombed in the Pennsylvania colliery
by an avalanche of coal, the bodies of
Frank Logan and Stanishus Morris
wage were found in a manway by a
resouing party The rescuers had been
working twenty hours amid great peri
to learn the fate Of the two miners
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21
EULOGIZIMG SENATOR WHYTE
Senate Devotes Time Today to Mem
ory of Late MaryIander,.

ory of Late MaryIander..
Washington, Jan. 16--Today does
not exist on the calendar of the United
States senate so far as the transaction
Of public business is concerned. Differ
ences with the president, with the
house of representatives and other
causes of vexation were forgotten in
the homage paid to the memory of the
late William Pinkney Whyte, senator
from Maryland, who died last March
public service.
The address of eulogy was delivered
by Senator Rayner, of Maryland, col
league of the late statesman
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21
Live Stock Markets.

PITTSBURG (Union Stock Yards
CATTLE steady; choice, $6.3006.50s
prime, S6.100625.
SHEEP lower; prime wethers. $6.53
@665; culls and common, $2@Ss
lambs, S5Q750; veal calves, $3.50
Q10.
HOGS lower; prime heavies, $645,
mediums. $500; heavy Workers. So @
@615; light Workers, $5.65 q 5.7Ss
roughs, $5Q5.65.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21
Francis Kossuth Seriously IN.

Budapest, Dec. "a. - Francis Kos
suth, the minister of commerce. is
seriously i'll. Francis Kossuth is the
son OF the celebrated Hungarian pa
tTiot, Louis Kossuth
Bridgeton pioneer., 1909-01-21

Chas. w. Eliot Heads Harvard Alumni
Boston, Jan. 16-President Charles
w. Eliot, of Harvard college, has been
elected president Of the Harvard
Alumni association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-07
Customs at launchinqs.
l the Lewiston Journal.

From the Lewiston Journal.
 Custom decrees that a gold coin, or at the very least silver, shall be put under the mainmost of each new ship launched The coin bears the date of the year when the vessel is completed, a fact well known to collectors who keep an eye on ships that are likely to be the depository of numismatic prizes. Thus at Liver pool some years back a derelict Yankee schooner was bought for song, yielded an 1S0i dollar, the rarest and most eagerly sought after of all American coins. It sold readily for .e1500 and would be worth today at least double that sum, for 1t was in perfect preservation, hay ing rested in it's cotton wool wad beneath the hollow sleeping of the mast since the day it was first placed in position. Its recovery was the result of foresight and business enterprise, combined of course, with special knowledge. A man passing the worthless hulk on the day of the sale noticed the date 1904 on her stern, and rightly guessed that she might likely be the bearer of a dollar of that year. In the same way have been preserved many of the ancient silver Scottish pennies known as dolts, which were so tiny that 12 of them were barely equal in value to the penny sterling. The old Scottish shipbuilders of the days when these coins were in circulation used, with character istic national thfiftiness, to put one of them beneath each mast they stepped, , in preference to the more valuable groat. Owing to their small size, however, com bined with their welnigh infnitesmal value regarded simply as money most dolts that were in circulation were speed fly lost. leaving those that had been plac- ed beneath the masts to become, from the collectors point of view, of extreme yalue
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-07
Weight of the Brain.
rom the London Globe.

From the London Globe.
 Prof. Frederick W. Mott. featuring be- fore the Royal Institution of Great Brit ain on 1.-The Brain," said that although in SS per cent of the cases in which the brains of great men had been weighed the weight was above the average. brain weight itself did not always mean brain quality.
 When there was lack of the functional ing tissue, the lecturer explained, the structural material might receive more than it's normal share of nourishment and the extra weight be due to overgrowth of "brain scaffoldng." This accounted for the very large and heavy brains some times found in congenital idiots Pointing out that the brain weight of a race long civilized surpassed that of aborigines the lecturer stated that whereas the ordinary European hospital patient had a heavier brain than a savage, the Chinese coolie laborer's brain. developed by centuries of use, weighed IF ounces more than that of the European hospital patient.
 Referring to the relative brain weights of caucasian. men and women, Professor Mott said that the female brain had a good start, weighing 11h ounces more than the male brain at birth. In adult life, however, the average mans brain weighed about 5ia ounces more than the woman's.
 The average weight of the European male brain was pounds 15 ounces drams to pounds IS ounces drams. and of the female brain 2 pounds 10 ounces Il drams to pounds II ounces 1 dram Among savages there was not this difference. since in the struggle for existence the female had to apply her brain as fully as the male: hence 1t has developed at practically the same rate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-07
REFORM IN NEW JERSEY.
Saloon Keepers Prohibited From Dis
 playing Liquor Signs.
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald
 By July 4 next there will have been re- moved from the exterior of every saloon, restaurant, hotel in New Jersey the hun dreds of thousands of dollars worth of signs advertising various makes of beer and ale and brands of whisky and other liquors, in compliance with a law passed at the recent session of the New Jersey legislature and signed by Governor Fort.
 The bill was introduced by Assembly, man Eppinger of Hudson county. and went through the house of assembly and the senate without much opposition. It provides that all signs advertising brew cries and wholesale liquor dealers or manufacturers must be removed from the outside of the establishments of retail dealers in intoxicating beverages by July 4. Failure to do so will result in crim- inal action against the violator of the law.
 In Trenton, while the bill was under consideration by the legislature, it was freely said the brewers were behind the bill. The retail liquor interests were wildly opposed to 1t, but no serious clash resulted.
 The purpose of the brewers in procur- ing the passage of the law is to put an end to the growing and expensive prac- tice of putting up large and costly signs, often of elaborate design and sometimes expensive to maintain, on retail beer and liquor selling places. The sign building had reached such a point owing to the competition among brewers and liquor dealers, as well as among retailers, that it meant an annual outlay of thousands of dollars by the wholesale interests, which were invariably called upon to pay bills. It Is said the money signs now in existence in New Jersey represent is equal to an outlay of more than s2O0,000 by the brewers, from which they get no direct return.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-07
Was Blind. \
From the Strand Magazine.

T iOhi lHO htedZlut.
 There Is story of an elderly lady standing on the curb by crowded cross ing in the height of the season, too ner- vous to venture off the pavement. She was anxious to get to her destination on the other side of the thoroughfare, but hestated to risk the journey Presently she perceived a stranger offering his hand. She seized it and they both plunged into the traffic. A notorious all but ran over them; a taxi-cab whizzed past so close that the lady fancied her last moment had come. She chung tighter to her guide, who never flinched. but went madly on under the heads of the horses. Then they all but collded with a bicycle, and the wheels of hanson twisted the feathers of the lady's toque. A tram-car at that moment passed an inch from their toes and butchers cart knocked her handbag yards away A motor horn at her ear nearly frightened her out of her wits, and the pole of bus, catching her in the back, pushed her on to the pavement. By this time she had found voice to upbraid the man to whom she had been clinging.
 "Oh, dear! Oh, dear! It's a wonder I'm alive! What do you mean, man? I might have been killed dozen times over. Are you bind?"
 That's just what I am, marm." re- piled the poor fellow; "so I held out my hand for someone to lead me across.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-07
UNION STATION
Louisville and Nashville Railroad.
Birmingham Mineral Railroad.
to-
Atlanta, Birminunan-

Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic. Arrive from Depart to- Brunswick ..12 20 pm Brunswick .. 3:2o pm Trains marked thus @ run daily except Sunday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-07
DR, BROWN WRITES
 ON HYDROrHOBIA
fCoNrINUED FROM PAGE s.)


 are very much more likely to be mad than dogs that bite. Now that they have an almost certain dagnostic sign in the Negri bodies found in the brain of the infected animal they will be able to show accurately the number of biting animals that have the disease and from these we will be able to roughly estimate about what proportion of people formerly died without treatment. Aside from Dr. Ma sons admonitions. his facts point out clearly the course that should be taken by all state and city authorities; a course that should be taken swiftly and unfal- terngly and that should brush aside all sentimental foolishness that would stand in the way. The doctor says "The re- suits that have been obtained from mug zling justify it's enforcement wherever rabies exists. Sporadic muzzing is of no value The measure must be rigidly en- forced until the disease is eradicated. The interesting and instructive statistics col- lected by Salmon in the year book of the department of agriculture for 1900 will prove valuable to those who are inter- ested in this phase of the subject. Rabies has become practically non-existent in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-07
OF BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

for the money he received Madame Dal- berts bill receipted in full.
 That's all right so far said Jacques, but I want the letter"
 What letter?"
 What letter? Why. mine. of course the one you mentioned"
 My dear sir. all I know about it is that such a letter exists. I've never even seen it."
 Tell Me the Name.
 "But in the name of all-who is the person? Quick, tell me the name" Well, it is due to myself that you should be satisfied that I have been quite straightforward. You can read this let ter, which l wrote in advance when you promised to come back with the money" Jacques took the letter, and read 'To Madame Dalbert-I have the honor to inform you that your plan has been a complete success. Monsieur J. has paid the money. I cannot thank you enough for your clever idea it is extremely diff fcult to get in money just now.
 Awaiting further orders, and hoping for a fresh account with you, l beg to remain. madame. with sincere respect your humble servant.
 ALFRED PRIGAL."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-06-07
Personal and General.

Miss Alice Wood of Sylacauga is the guest of Mrs. Sam Delaney, Jr., 2412 Avenue G.
 The Rev. Joseph Meade occupied the pulpit of St. Johns Episcopal church at the morning service. He preached an elo- quent and instructive sermon which was much appreciated by the congregation. MT. Meade has completed his course at Sawanee university and will get his de- gree next week. He has decided to de- vote his life to mission work, and will leave in a few weeks for China.
 The Ladies' Aid society of the Metho- dist church will meet Monday afternoon at o'clock at the tabernacle. All mem- bers are urged to be present.
 The Epworth league will meet at the Methodist church Monday night at 7:&.
 Choir practice will be held at St. Johns Episcopal church Wednesday evening at o'clock. The Brotherhood of St. An drew will meet at the church Monday night A full attendance of the member ship is desired