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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-07-22
NEW INCORPORATIO%S.

Montpelier, July Gothic Richmond Co.
operative Puilding 6 1Oan company
with a capital stock Of 5000, organized
for the purpose of building tenement
houses to he sold on the monthly pay
ment plan. filed to-day articles of incor-
poration in the office of the secretary Of
State.
Tho Solid Reversible Propeller company
OF Pennington. organized Will q capital
OF 500 for the manufacture of reversible
propellers. also filed to-day the necessary
association papers.
GRADE CROSSING ABOLISHED.
wells River, July M-The Vermont
public service commission has ordered
the abolition OF q grade crossing on tho
Montpelier g. wells River Railroad. in
the town OF Newbury, and the construc-
ton of n connecting section Of public
highway, to be completed by December
10. This crossing is on the road here
to Ryegatc Corners. being the first
grade crossing east of the Wells River
station.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1909-07-22
SUES STREET RAILWAY.
West Rutland Woman Claims $1,000
Due Her FOR Iujurics.

Rutland, July 2o.-Mrs. Max Myers OF
West Rutland has brought suit in Rut-
land county court against the Rutland
street Railway company to recover 1880
damages because of injuries she alleges
she received when n passenger in one OF
two trolley cars which met head on while
going full speed at a curve In Center
Rutland in August. 1907. She alleges that
IT was duo to the company's negligence
in allowing brush to grow along tho track
and ohstruct the view Of tho motormen
at the curve that the accident was duo.
The public service commission in report
ing on the accident found it duo to the
failure of a car crew to report an extra
car on the line. +. n. O'Brien and W. l..
Foley are counsel for the plaintiff.
ATTENTION, BIRD VERMONT.
Hartford. July 19.-Thc Hon. Samuel T..
Pingree, secretary OF tho 3rd VI. Regiment
Reunion association, announces that the
9th annual session will be held in the
G.. A. r. hall at st. Johnsbury Tuesday.
september ID. a business meeting will DO
held at II 90 n. m, dinner viii he served
by the W. II. c.. as usual at noon. an adj
dress will be given by Comradc Horace
French and tho remainder of the day WHY
he devoted to short speeches and the re-
newing Of Friendships. Tho members of
tho executive committee are Carleton
Fetch, John Mcdonald and Charles y.
Woodbury..
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
ADOPTED IN KANSAS.
Bryan's Guarantee Law Endorsed by
Republicans.

The bank guarantee law originated
by Bryan and first adopted in Okla
homa has been put in effect in Kan
sas by act of Republican legisla-
ture. While the law will effect only
such banks as elect to comply with
it, it is expected that all of the 1T
States banks in Kansas will place
themselves under its provisions with
out delay.
The banks under the new law are
to be partners in sort of mutual in
surance company. They will have to
put up million dollars in State and
national securities TO guarantee the
payment of deposits, and the dues or
insurance premiums will be only one
twentieth OF one per cent annually.
In self-defence the national banks
have started a movement to organize
an insurance company among them
selves to insure deposits in their
banks. Eventually, however, it is en-
pected that many of the national
banks, especially those in the smaller
towns will DECIDE to denationallze and
become State institutions in order to
participate in the guaranty law.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
TO FLY ACROSS CHANNEL.
Three ivint@rS at Calais to Make
Aerial Voyage to Dover.

Herbert Latham, Count de- Lam
bert and Henri Farman are on the
coast, near Calais, awaiting favorable
weather conditions to attempt an
aeroplane flight across the English
Channel for prize of $4,000 Of
fered hy London paper. French
torpedo boats are being held in read
mess to guide the aviators in their
flight and rescue item in case of
need
Count de Lambert will make use
OF a Wright aerOplane. Mr.. Farman
will use a new machine like the
one with which he made his cele
brated flight from Chalons to
Rheims. except that he has intro
duced an arrangement by which the
aighting wheels give way and allow
skids to bear the shock of the i'm
pact. Latham will use his Mono
place, with which he recently has
made a number of successful flights.
lie purposes starting from the top of
cliff, near Calais, and heading
straight for the Admiralty pier at
Dover The distance, as the crow
flies. is 21.77% miles.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
CHINESE DELIVERER.
Out law Is Making Much Trouble
For the French.

French colonial authorities in Up
per Tonquin, China, are having no
end of trouble in their efforts to
check the onslaughts of De Than,
a notorious outlaw, and his followers.
From private advices the government
is informed that for humanitarian
and political reasons the officials are
unable to adopt the necessary sharp
and ruthless measures which the
EorayS against villages favorinE
French rule seem to demand.
De Tham's fanatical followers have
now spread the report that he is the
divinely appointed delivcrer Of the
Chinese from the French. His men
are armed with rifles while the ma
tives defend themselves only with
sharpenrd sticks Chinese who are
favorable to the French. when caught
by the outlaws. are carried TO the
forest, tied to trees and there left
to die after their tongues have been
mutilated.
De Than appears to be guarded by
a special providence. He has never
been captured. although at times he
could touch the French soldiers as
they uased his hiding place. On one
occasion they pressed so close that
the intrepid outlaw killed his wife
and child to make certain his es-
cape. Frequently he has sent mcm-
bcrs Of his band 10 parley for sur
render Will. he and the rest have
wormed their way out Of tight
place to their stronghold In the hills.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
EQUANIMIlTY JARRED
.,1S
EXPRESSMAN CAUSES CHINAMAN
TO HAVE BRAIN STORM.
Former Room Mate of Alleged Slay-
CT of Elsie Sigcl Confronted by

A dispatch from New York says
the complacency Of Chung Sin, once
the room mate of Leon Ling, who is
wanted for the murder of Elsie Sigel,
on June 9, went all to pieces Wednes-
day afternoon, when Arthur Logan,
all eXpressman, walked into the cell
where Chung Sin is held as more than
a material witness, and brusquely
shouted "Hullo."
Logan is the man who carried the
trunk containing the body Of the
girl downstairs from Icons room
on the day Of the murder. He had
told the police that Chung Sin is
one Of the men he saw on the top
floor of the house. Chung Sin, on
the contrary, has sworn by all his
ancestors that he never saw the trunk
packed or moved.
You are the man." Logan said in
Chung Sins presence, who told me
to take the trunk downstairs care
fully. There was another slim fell
low with you in the room-the same
that came over to the Office half an
hour before to give ME the order to
call for the trunk.
"All mistake" protested Chung
Sin, never see you before.
The Chinaman's voice broke, and
he shook as in fear as Logan was
led out, still positive in his identiii-
cation.
Chung was not kept waiting long
before he had another visitor-this
time Martin Luria, the chauffeur,
who drove Chinaman and trunk
from the Harlem laundry to chop
Suey restaurant in Newark on the
morning Of June 10. The police had
Il theory that Chung Sin might have
been the fare and not Leon Ling.
But Luria could not identify Chung
Sin, and still believes that it WAS
Leon he had in his taXicab A letter
from Chung Sin, written since his
arrest, to the Society of the Four
Brothers, was intercepted and trans
lated to the district attorneys Of
flee. 1t protests that the murder
was done by one man, and that,
therefore, only the murderer should
be held; denounces the ggauthorities
and implores aid of all members in
freeing him.
The police believe more and more
that little reliance can be placed
in any of the various rewards and
offers OF cooperation promised by
the clans OF Chinatown, and accord
ingly District Attorney Jerome wrote
John Edincott Gardner, professor of
Oriental language and laerature in
the University of the Pacific at San
lose, Cal, requesting his co-opera-
ton in the case as a trustworthy
interpreter
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
Messina Again Visited by Severe
Seismic TremorS.
WALLS DESTROYED
The Residents Thrown Into State
Of Terror, but it is Believed That
Only Two Persons Were Killed.
Broken Walls Fall and Dust Cloud
Envelopes the City.

Messina experienced two terrific
earthquakes about 1880 o'clock
Thursday morning, which were ac-
companied by roaring sounds and are
said to have had stronger and more
undulatory movement than the earth
quake of last December, which de-
stroyed Messina, Reggie and other
cities, laid waste many villages in
Calabria and killed 100000 people.
Although the shocks had no such
terrible consequences, the $4,000
residents OF that city were thrown
into a state of terror. They ran into
the streets panic-stricken and nearly
the entire population is encampcd in
the open.
The broken walls of the old ruins
were thrown to the ground and Mes
sna was for few minutes smother
ed in cloud OF dust.
The casualties were few, and the
only persons killed so far as is known
were young woman and her in
FAINT. The woman had gone there
only a few days ago and had settled
in rooms which the great earthquake
had left relatively undamaged. She
was standing at the door when the
shock occurred and rushed inside to
save her child. Before she could
escape from the room the second
shock threw down the walls, bury
ing both mother and child under the
debris.
Soldiers and engineers who rush
ed to the rescue heard the voice oil
the mother calling for help, and
they worked heroically for several
hours, when they found the dead
bodies, the mother with her child in
her arms.
The first shock was followed quick
ly by second, and the people fled
pell-mell TO the American quarter,
which they seemed to Icel was their
safest place of refuge. So great was
the rush to the American huts that
the authorities were unable TO check
the invasion and as a consequence
these structures which were designed
for the most needy Of the popuIace
were taken possession of by the first
comers. The police. however. drew
Gordon around this quarter and
guard was mounted at the bridge
leading to it. Many Of the panic
stricken people were driven off and
orders were issued that no one be
permitted to occupy the American
quarters pending further Instructions.
Reggie suffered almost as severe Il
shock as McSSina.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
TLLMAN SEES THE TEST.
The Senior Senator Among the Spec
tators of Acroplane Trial.

A dispatch from Washington says
Senator Tillman stopped discussing
cotton bagging and ties, lumber and
tea long enough to witness the trial
trip of the Wright aeroplane at Fort
Myer Wednesday afternoon. In COM
pany with Senator Elkins, of West
Virginia, Senator Tillman quit the
Senate chamber to study aerial nagi-
CATION. He was close to the air ship,
and when someone told the Wright
Brothers who he was he was allowed
to examine it carefully. and asked
many questions regarding its con-
struction and manipulation.
Edgefield folks need not be sur
prised to see Senator Tillman arrive
from the National Capital some day
in an air ship. Automobiles never
we're to his liking and trains are too
slow and out of date for these
modern days. Air locomotion is the
proper stunt.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03

total output of shingles last year
Among the other shingle producing
States, Michigan, Louisiana, Maine
and California were the most lmpor-
tant. The shingles cut in Michigan
and Maine are chiefly of white cedar.
those in Louisiana of cypress, and
those in California of redwood.
Laths are generally by-product OF
lumber manufacture. and are made
to some extent from almost every
wood that is cut into lumber. Among
the kinds of lath which are most
proinent are white pine, douglas tir,
spruce, yellow pine, cypress and hem
lock.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03

Who Is Confined to n Cottage and
Not Allowed to Associate With
Any One.

In Mary Mallon the New York
health authorities have an unusual
prisoner on their hands. Typhoid
Mary" as she is known, because Of
her alleged habit of communicating
the fever to others, although i'm
mune herself, is a prisoner in a small
cottage which she occupies all by
herself on North Brother Island,
where contagious diseases are treat
ed. She is now seeking her freedom
through the courts.
About two years ago. when Miss
Mallon was a cook in the family of
]. Clayton Drayton, the butler and
two maids suffered from typhoid fe-
yer and in investigating the case the
health inspectors reported that Miss
Mallon, although, herself immune,
had spread the disease to the other
servants. Following her case farth-
er back they declared that typhoid
fever had appeared at nearly every
place in which she had lived.
On this evidence the woman was
seized and sent to North Brother Is
land, where she has since remained
in the strictest isolation, although
not at all i'll. Her meals have been
passed through window OF her cot
tage to her and she is permitted to
associate with no one.
Miss Mallon, through her attorney,
declares that she does not communi-
cate typhoid fever and that her case
is somewhat similar to that of John
A. Early, whom the Washington au-
thorities have isolated under suspic-
ion of being leper.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
AFTER STANDARD Oil.
Attorney Would Dust il
from State and Collect Penalties.


Application was made Wednesday
in the Chancrry Court Of Clay coun-
ty., Miss. by District Atoreny A. H..
Lamb for perpetual Injunction re-
straining the Standard Oil Company
from operating in the State of Mis-
sissippi and seeking TO collect penal
ties aggregating $11.000,000 for al
legged violations of the antitrust law
of the Commonwealth.
The injunction bill rccites in detail
the history Of the Standard Oil Com
pany and the methods by which 1t
is alleged to have stifled competition
in this State.
Under the Mississippi code as
amended by the legislature in 1906.
the State is entitled to recover a
statutory penalty of $4,000 day
for each specific violation of the anto-
trust laws. and the penalties sought
to be recovered in this case cover
three wears. The hearing. it is un-
dcrstood, will take place at West
Point during the November term OF
the Chancery Court.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
FIGHT Fatal. DUEL.
Encounter Between Two German
Army Officers.


Although dueling is nominally IL
legal in Germany, details of a most
remarkable encounter in which the
prelminaries were arranged by the
State, are given in cablegram from
Berlin. which states that Lieut..
Granier shot and killed Lieut. Zwitz-
ers near BlankenDurg.
Zwitzers, although a married man
with a family. tried to kiss Granier's
fiancee and a military court Of honor
sanctioned the duel and arranged
the fight. Two companies OF infan-
try kept the grounds. a locomotive
and an ambulance car were provided
by the State railway to carry the
expected victim to the nearest hos
pital.
Granier's second shot pierced his
opponents lungs. and the wounded
man died in the hospital soon after
the special train got him there.
Lieut.. Granier will probably now
undergo few months comfortable
detention in fortress, the message
declares
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
Corpse of Chinsman Found in
Hudson River.
LEON LlNG'S BODY
Although Complete Identification
Was Impossible Thursday Night in
Salient Features the Body Bears
a Marked Resemblance to the Miss
ing Chinaman.
ing Chinalnan.

A dispatch from New York
Thursday says, although complete
Identification was impossible, there
appeared TO be strong probability
that the body Of a Chinaman, which
was found floating in the Hudson
River in the upper part of the city,
was that Of Leon Ling, or William
l.. Leon. the murderer of Elsie
Sisel. The mans height, weight and
general appearance tallies with that
OF Leon Ling, but as the body was
nude, except for silk undershirt,
and had been in the water for more
than a week, thorough examina-
ton will be necessary. Coroner Nc
Fonald, who was the first to inspect
the body, believes that it is Icons
as do a number of policemen, but
until measurements and facial char
acteristics are carefully gone over
the identification will remain in
doubt.
If it is Leon the cause Of his death
will be another mystery, although
one theory, that Of suicide, would
appear reasonable.
In salient features the body bore
a marked esemblance to Leon Ling.
The teeth were good, as were Icons;
the height about five feet, four inch
es, which was Icons height, and the
weight 125 pounds, which was about
Icons. The age appeared to be
about twenty-five or thirty years.
Icons age was given out by the
police as thirty An autopsy will be
performed. The coroner's jury was
unable to arrive at a conclusion as
to how the Chinaman met his death.
Early Thursday morning Ung Vow,
an inconspicuous, hard working Chi
nese laundryman Of the East Side,
was found by his neighbors strung
between two wash tubs with his head
beneath the water OF one and his
feet in the other. There were bloody
finger marks on his neck, bloody
footprints on the floor and knot
ted cord about the mans neck. In
the cash drawer the police found
one cent.
All attempts 10 connect the murder
of ING Vow with the murder OF Elsie
Sigel by Leon Ling have failed.
Investigation soon showed that
ing Vow Was beaten over the head
with fiat irons, probably by more
than one man, and then flung in the
ruhs He probably died by drowning
While unconscious.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
SPIRIT GUIDES NAM
REMARKABLE STORY OF GOLD.
SMITH WHO TURNS PAINTER.
Widow Shows Sketches That Lead
to Observation-Disclosures Re-
search Experts Tell Of Results.

The strange story of the spirit Of
dead artist taking possession of the
mind of living man and impellins
him to carry on the artists unfinish-
ed work is related by Prof. James
H. Hyslop, secretary of the American
Society for Psychical Research, Of
New York, who in connection with
Prof. Isaac K. Funk, recently came
to the conclusion that the spirit of
man lives after his body is dead.
Robert Swain Clifford, the artist.
died in 1905 at his summer home
near New Bedford, Mass. Freder-
ick L. Thompson, goldsmith, had
met Mr.. Clifford only twice and knew
him but slightly Thompson had
never indicated any ability as an
artist until six months after the
death of Clifford, when he did not
even know that Mr.. Clifford had died.
He was suddenly seized with an i'm
pulse to paint picture, and going
to work on it, lie was surprised at
his ability. While he was painting
the voice of Mr.. Clifford seemed to
tell him to continue his work he had
started.
Mr.. Thompson continued painting
pictures, always possessed by the
spirit of Mr. Clifford, and found a
ready market for them. Many pur-
chasers commented on their SINH
larity to Mr.. Gifford's paintings.
Fearing that his mind was giving
away in 1907, Mr.. Thompson called
on Prof. Hyslop. BY arrangement
he made several sketches for pictures
at the instance Of what he considered
to be Gifford's spirit. Prof. Hyslop
looked these up in safe and then
Thompson went to New Bedford and
called on Giffords widow, where he
had never been and whom he mad
never met. One of the first things
Mrs. Clifford showed him was a
sketch which Mr.. Clifford had made
short time before his death and
which had been locked up and seen
by no one until a few days ago,
when Thompson called. The sketch
was exactly similar in every detail
to one of the sketches Thompson had
left with Prof. Hyslop.
This fact and ether equally sur
prising features in the case prompt
Prof. Hyslop to even stronger be-
lief that the spirit lives after death
and that the artist Gitford's spirit
is in communication with this world
through the medium of the gold
smith THOMPSON
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
Good Place for Them.

At Chicago Wednesday Isl
weapons which the police have con-
fiscated in the last six months were
cast into the lake. The city tug
took the police department custo-
dian beyond the thrcrmle limit and
be dropped overheard the rcrolvers,
dirks, slung-shots, knives and other
deadly weapons in thirty feet of WI
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
BIRt:I.A LIS POLICEMAN.
Caught in lrt OF Forcing Entrance
to Stolr-Shots Exchanged.

At Chicago Policeman Htnry
Schnadlc was killed Thursday BY {:
burglar he was attempting to ar
rest
The burglar. who is thought TO
he Il negro, was forcing an entrance
to store at Wabash avenue and
Thiriy-fourths street when surpris-
ed by the policeman.
In an exchange Of shots Ihe pO-
liceman was wounded dying few
minutes later His assailant is also
thought to he wounded.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
A NOVEL EXPERIMENT
Makes Il Preacher Chief OF Police
For One Night.

Mason City, Iowa. is to be policed
for one night by the pastor OF the
Methodist church, Dr.. Will w. Carl
ton. For this one night he will be
the chief. The force will obey his
instructions to the letter.
Mayor kirschman has promised
that he would prosecute all cases
brought before him by the preacher
policeman.
When Mayor KirSchman was elect
ed to the position. he, it is said,
rendered the position of chief of 20
lice 10 Or. Carlton. Or. Carlton re-
fused.
Nam persons are not now pleased
with the general ron" Of the city
at night time. so the preacher was
asked TO see what he could uncarth.
There will be no public announce
mcnt made of the night when the
minister is to police the city.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
LYNCHED IN GUATEMALA.
State Department Demands Thor
ough Investigation.

Demand upon Guatemala for
thorough investigation into the kill
ing of William Wright, an American
negro citizen, who was cluhbcd al
most to death and then lynched in
Guatemala last December, has been
made by American Minister William
Heimake. at Guatemala City, under
instructions from the State depart
ment Reports to the department
intimate that the trial Of the man $
murderers was farce. and that there
was corruption among the local OF
ficials having to do with the punish
ment OF the Offenders Guatamala s
reply to the representative OF this
government has not been received.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
Three Fatally Injured.

An pight-year-old newsboy, an
eleven-year-old office boy and for
ty-eight-year-old CRIPPLED man, wer"
probably all fatally injured few
nights ago by being run down by au-
tomobies at Pitsburg, Pa. Only in
one instance that of the newsboy.
did the driver of the machine stop to
find ont how badly his victim had
been hurt.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
Killed by Lightning.

Maffett Parker and Neil l.atman,
two bows of North birmingham. Ala.
were killed by lightning this after
noon. The bodies were found under
large tree and the body Of their
fayorite dog was lying between them.
The boys were II and - years old,
respectively.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-07-03
Suflilrn Death.

Aiken was again startled and sur
prised Tuesday morning by the sud
den death of Mrs. Julia B. Kennedy.
who dropped dead while combing
her hair before looking glass at
her residence there. This is the
third sudden death OF prominent
women in Aiken in a few weeks.