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The Penn's Grove record., 1909-08-06
Negro Kills Three Men.

Crazed by cocaine and whisky,
William F. Fason, a half-blind negro,
nicknamed "The Devil" opened FIRE
with a revolver in a saloon in
Paterson, after the bartender had
refused to serve him. Robert
Ferguson, his companion; Charles
Hummel, a white man, and Joseph
Geiger. another white man, died from
their injuries. Fason escaped from
the saloon after the shooting and
drew a revolver on Patrolman White,
who pursued him. Before he could
use it the policeman felled him with
his club. A party Of negro men and
women, who had been with Fason at
a dance, were detained as witnesses.
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new JERSEY STATE NEWS
Kills Himself in Woods.

Edward White, forty-eight years
old, a wealthy retired merchant of
Plainfield, and an enthusiastic auto
list, shot himself in the right temple
in the woods back of Interlaken. He
had suffered from insomnia for three
weeks. White and his wife were
guests in the Lyndhurst Hotel, in As
bury Park. They drove in automo-
biles to Manasquan with Mr.. and
Mrs. r. H. Seley, of Maplewood, who
are guests at a hotel. White left
them and drove in a car to a lonely
spot in Roma avenue, in Interlaken,
where he shot himself. He left two
notes in the automobile. One was
sealed and to his wife. The other
read: lyon will find my body in the
woods On the left" The body was
found by w. H. Reynolds, Of Asbury
Park. White had assisted Senator
w. j.. Morgan In the Daytona automo-
bile races. A son is employed by
Senator John Kean.
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rHE FUTURE on AERopLANEs.

Par1S.-GeneraI Brun, French Minis
lister. of War, commenting on Louis
Bleriot's feat in flying across the Eng
fish Channel on Sunday, says he re-
CARDS the aeroplane and the subma-
rine as the war instruments of the
future. "The aeroplane," said the
War Minister, SIS less vulnerable and
more rapid and cheaper than the di-
rigible, and as soon as it is perfect,
the French army will be provided
with a swarm of these wasps."
The committee of the International
Aeronautic Exposition, to be held
here in October, unanimously re-
served the central stand in honor of
Louis Bleriot.
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Gets Record Wheat Crop.

Farmers about Teetertown spend
much of their time ''talkin' crops
with Arthur w. Nauright. who has a
farm near Teetartown. Nauright is
know it all in the agricultural line.
With a record of 3645 sheaves har-
vested from five acres, he certainly
does feel entitled to claim the wheat
growing championship in northern
New Jersey. Nauright takes pride in
the fertility of his farm. When he
deliberately proclaimed his purpose
of winning the northern New Jersey
record for the number of sheaves har-
vested, his neighbors watched his
crops carefully. With 3645 sheaves
ready to thresh the championship
was admittedly his.
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BOY IN AMBUSH KILLS FATHER
Virgil Storms Says He Was Ill
Treated and His Life Threatened.

Lexington, Ky.-A case much like
that of Beach Hargis, who slew his
father, Judge James Hargis, the feud
leader of Breathitt County, came to
light when George and Samuel
Slaughter, colored, were arrested.
charged with being accessory to the
murder of James w. Storms, a rich
farmer of Pulaski County. The dead
mans son, Virgil Storms, fifteen years
old, was taken to the jail in Somerset
rs the principal in the crime. The
boy says his father ill-treated him
and threatened his life.
Young Storms, the officials say. has
confessed, saying he hid in the house,
armed with a double-barreled gun,
and lay for his fathers return from
town. The first barrel contained
small calibre shot, which only slight.
ly wounded the elder Storms. He
begged his son not to fire again, but
the boy discharged the second barrel
loaded with heavy slugs. The father
fell dead, a great hole torn in his
chest.
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Among the Workers.

There are $4,000 members of the
Transfers Union in the New York
City district.
Cincinnati will get the next con-
vention of the American Federation
OF Musicians.
Representatives of nineteen typo
graphical unions in Michigan held a
convention in Jackson recently.
The National Letter Carriers AS.
ISOLATION has acquired a tract of 100
acres of land in the vicinity of Color
ado Springs as a site for a home. The
land is contiguous to that of the
Union PrinterstsHoMeEa
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About Noted People.

e. H. Hartman has derived great
benefit from his stay at Semmering
Austria.
Earl Grey, Governor General OF
Canada, is urging forest preservation
in Canada.
Mr.. Henry Sagave Lander contem-
plates an expedition into the South
Polar regions.
Bishop Williams, of Michigan,
speaking in st. Bartholomew
Church, New York City, attacked
gambling and placed Wall Street on
a par with Monte Carlo, card playing
and horse racing.
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Feminine Notes.

Colorado women propose to send
a woman to Congress.
Trial Marriages" were discussed
at the recent Congress of Russian
Women in st. Petersburg.
Mrs. Winnie D. Smith is postmas-
ter, game warden and notary public
for the town of Ketchum, Idaho.
Mrs. Lucy o. Perkins has been APP
pointed official guide to the Metro
politan Museum of New York City.
Women were prominent in the
riotous street demonstrations in Ma
drid against sending troops to Nor.
Coco.
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MAYOR JOHNSON LOSES FIGHT.
Schmidt Ordinance Defeated in CIeve-
land by 3763 Majority.

Cleveland, Ohio.-The Schmidt or
dinance providing for the grant of a
franchise to Herman Schmidt, insur-
ing ~three-cent fares on a part of the
city street a lines, was defeated at
a referendum election here by a ma
jority of 1888. The total vote was
31,022 to 34,785. The Schmidt ordi-
nance was fostered by Mayor Tom L.
Johnson.
The campaign, which has waxed
warm for the last two months, has
been particularly bitter. Mayor John
son, municipal office holders and 9TH
ers held hundreds of tent meeting
and urged the granting of the fran
chise. A committee of 100 business
men opposed it.
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ZEPPELIN STEERS HIS AIRsH1P.

observation-disclosures Zeppelin
personally steered his airship Zeppe.
lin II. This was his first trip since
his recent accident. The airship re-
NAMED up for three hours. Repre-.
sentatives of the War Office were on
board. 1t is expected that Zeppelin
II. will proceed to the Frankfort ex-
hibition at once. From there it will
go to Cologne, where it will be sta
toned in the military hall.
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OFFERS $4,000 FOR AIR RACE.

Seattle, Wash.-J. E. Chilberg,
president of tie Alaska-Yukon Ex-
position, telegraphed Louis Bleriot,
Hubert Latham, the Wright brothers
and Glenn H. Curtiss, offering a
prize of $4,000 and gold medals for a
competitive aeroplane race, begin
ming at the exposition stadium and
extending over Lake Washington.
twenty-five miles long, one end OF
which touches the fair grounds.
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He Was On to Them.

Magistrate What brought you
here?"
Prisoner 1.-Two policemen, Your
Honor"
Magistrate-"Drunk again, I sup
pose?"
Prisoner-"Yes. sir; both OF them.
kansas City Journal.
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81 tried to sell him a cash regis
er."-Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Made the Editor Laugh,

"That country editor thinks I'm a
humorist."
"Why?"
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KILLED AT HUSBANDS COMMAND
Compelled to Shoot Object of He

Compelled to Shoot Object of Her
Spouse's Jealousy.
Mount Vernon, Ill.-Brs. Ben Mar
cri, in Jail at Marion charged with
killing Joseph Rodi, confessed that
she shot Rodi because her husband
forced her to do so.
MY husband threatened to kill me
if I did not kill Rodi," she said. "He
was jealous. Day after day he COM
PEELED me to practice shooting at a
target with a pistol, and when |
showed considerable skill he told me
I must shoot Rodi."
She obeyed and was arrested and
taken to Jail. Her husband disap-
peared after the shooting.
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Feared spanking Most.

Joe De Falca, eight years old,
stepped on the contact shoe of an
electric car in an effort to steal q ride
and was found unconscious on the
ground after the train left the sta
ton at Vineland. Spectators say the
hoy was thrown ten feet in the air.
After being revived by DR.. Hatch the
boy ran for home. saving his moth
er's spanking would hurt morn ths
train did,"
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In Au Parts of fhe State.

]. Edward Cramsey, of Dover, won
a share in an estate of s55,700 he had
sold to his aunts for $500.
President Taft named Frank ".
Leach as collector of customs for the
Little Egg Harbor district.
George H. Bloom, of Little York. is
an active candidate for surrogate for
Hunterdon County.
At a harvest home at the Imlays-
town Baptist Church over $50 was
realized for remodeling the narson.
age.
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-Four Geacrations nj Reunion.

Mrs. Warren Anderson, of No. ~
South Olden avenue, Trenton, held
a family reunion and five generation1
sat down to dinner. The youngest
guest was Dorothy Croshaw, two
years old, of Homestead, Pa, and the
Oldest was Dorothy's g~reat-great-
great-great-aunt. Mrs. Jane Clark,
seventy-three years old, of Hamilton
Square, near Trenton.
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Undecided

"Oh, dear" sighed her husbands
wife. II can't find a pin anywhere.
I wonder where all the pins go to,
anyway"
That's a difficult question to an
swer," replied his wife's husband,
because they r always pointed in
one direction and headed another
Chicago News.
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Meteor Fails in Garden.

A meteor, six fee in diameter, tore
up Manning Cooper's garden at New
ton. Some men who were playing
ball a short distance away say there
was a swishing noise and a rush of
fame through the air and that the
earth steamed where the ball of fire,
as they called it, entered. The green
stuff about the depression in Cooper's
garden is scorched. The meteor
would be dug up, only to do so would
destroy most of Cooper's garden
truck, and he refuses to permit it I'M
less he gets pay for the damage.
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Bows "Tap" wireless News.

H. E. Dodd, A. P. Morgan and three
other ~schoolboys each have wireless
telegraph stations at their homes in
Montclair and during vacation they
devote much time to the new science.
Their sending apparatus is not strong
enough to dispatch messages farther
than 100 miles, but they can receive
them from a distance of 1000 miles.
The boys obtain entertainment by
catching press. messages sent out
from New York City to transatlantic
liners. In this manner they hear the
late news.
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Hail Makes Ice Cream.

A violent windstorm, accompanied
by rain and hail, did much damage al
Hopewell. The hail was as large az
hickory nuts. 1t fell in such quanti
ties at the residence of Ira Wyckofi
that the members of the family gath
cred it and used it to make ice cream
Trees were uprooted and damage was
done to roofs of the residences of w;
B. Shepherd, Ira Wyckoff and George
Runyon. Corn stalks were stripped
of their leaves and the tomato vines
we're badly damaged.
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BLIND BOY SAVES HIS BROTHER
Guided by Voice, He Pulls Him Out
of Water as He is Sinking.

Philadelphia, Pa.-Directed only
by the sound of a voice, Henry Gil.
bert. a blind boy, Of Paschal, twelve
years old and an expert swimmer
saved the life of his brother John,
ten, in Baird's quarry, in Yeadon
The boys, with several companions
had been in the water for an hour
and decided to come out. Henry was
dressing on the bank when John
plunged in again. Treading water,
he waited when John rose ten feet
away and called feebly once more
AS his brother came up the third time
Henry caught him by the hair and
slowly swan toward shore, directed
by voices on the bank.
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Big Estate For Grandsons.

It IS estimated at Trenton that the
estate left by the late Mrs. Eleanor
Greame Green, widow of Judge Caleb
Smith Green, is worth at least ST.
500, the beneficiaries of which
ere Mrs. Green's two grandsons, Will
lam e. Green, who was captain OF
the Princeton Varsity baseball team
in 1901, and Caleb S. Green. The
estate was entailed to the elder Mrs.
Green, who was ninety-two years old
at her death, and was also entailed to
her son, the late Judge Elmer Ewing
Green. Here the entailment ends.
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Blamed if I know. I guess T.
Not Possible.

have to issue bonds" - Louisville
Courier-Journal.
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BoYcE ORDERS RALLooN.

New York City.-Mr. w. D. Boyce,
of Chicago, has ordered a balloon Of
Captain Baldwin, of this city, and
will start August Ia for Nairobi, Afri-
ca, where he says he will use the
balloon for procuring photographs of
native wild animals before they are
exterminated by hunters.
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The Mistress, Objection.

MARY, after the week is out I
sha'n't need your services" the
boarding house keeper told her cook;
your cooking doesn't suit me-"
"But the boarders seem to like it,
ma'am!"
"Yes. That's why I must get an
other cook."-The Bohemian.
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when a fellow starts to do any
thing he can always succeed if he
only sticks to it."
mot always. How about when
you start to remove a sheet of sticky
fy-paper that you've sat down on?"
New York Journal.
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MAN CRUSHED TO DEATH.
w. p. Mitchell Killed When Eight
Tons Fall on Him.

Pittsfield, Mass. - William P.
Mitchell, a graduate of Brown Uni
versity this year. was killed by eight
tons of pig iron, which broke through
a ceiling and fell upon him while he
was at his desk in the Office of the
Stanley Electric Manufacturing Com
pany. The iron had been stored in
a room over the Office.
Mitchell vas twenty-four years old.
He was the son of the Rev. Arthur
Mitchell, of Bordentown, N. j. At
Brown University he was known as a
general athlete and was populart.
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25 Indian Maidens to Live For
Two Weeks as F~orefathers Did

Atlanta, Ga.-Twenty-fve Indian
maidens from the Carlisle School in
Pennsylvania reached Blue Ridge, a
picturesque mountain town about
two hours ride from Atlanta, to
spend a fortnight in horseback rid
ing and general outdoor recreation.
Accompanying them as their chap
erons are the daughters of John Wan
amaker and John B. Stetson. The
girls are going into camp and for two
weeks they will live in the manner
of their forefathers.
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No Merit.

Magistrate-"And SO you sacrificed
name, honor, future, freedom for the
sake of two miserable dollars?"
Thief-"Right you are, Your Hon
or. But what was 1 to do? There
was not any more in the safe. New
York Journal.
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KILLED WIFE FOR BURGLAR.
Nervous Man Heard Noise and Fired
Without Asking Questions.

Without Asking Questions.
Boston, Mass.-In the belief that 9
burglar was in the house, Harry
Pierce, a shoe designer, thirty-one
years old, killed his wife at their
home in the Jamaica Plain district
He has been taken into custody, but
the police believe the shooting was
accidental.
Pierce feared burglars and kept 9
revolver near his bedside. In the
morning a noise in the room walked
him, he says, and with burglars In
mind, he jumped out of bed, grabbed
the revolver, and fired in the dark
There was a scream and fall. When
the room was lighted Mrs. Pierce was
found to have been shot through the
brain.
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Many Hurt in Baseball Riot.

A mob chased Umpire Eldredge, OF
the Southern Michigan League, from
the grounds at Jackson, Mich. In
the rush of the spectators the grand
stand collapsed, injuring fifteen per.
sons, three seriously.
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Precocious.

Conductor-"How old are you, lit.
tie girl?"
Little Girl-"If the company does
not object, I prefer to pay my fare
and keep my own statistics. New
York Journal.
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A Slave to Pleasure,

HWhat induces you to spend all
your time in your touring carr"
"Im economizing," answered Mr..
Chuggins. "It's the only way 1 can
stop the wear and tear of joy rides"
Washington Star.
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virginlan Railway Breaks Record.

The Virginian Railway broke all
records in the quick bunkering of
foreign steamers when in sixty min
utes 2S6 tons of coal were dumped
into the German steamer Adelheid,
at Norfolk, Va, for her voyage from
New Orleans and Pensacola to West
Hartlepool. The Adelheid arrived
of the Virginian's piers at 6 a. M;
was put under the crutes at z a. m,
and at 5 o'clock was ready to sail.
Steamers usually arrive one day.
take on 400 tons of coal and get away
the next day,
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Wheat Adds TO National Prosperity,
Inasmuch as the harvests are the
basis of National prosperity, the gen.
orally excellent wheat advices con.
tribute the principal development.
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Pretty Good Proof.

$50 you think he's really in love,
eh?"
"No doubt about it. Why, he
thinks she's attractive in auto Cog
les."-Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Able to Hold His Own.

1You say you enjoy having book
agents come around?"
yep answered Farmer Corntos-
sci.
But you are not fond of reading
"No. But / have made several
book agents pay ten cents a glass for
condensed milk, an | purity near sold
n of EN- a boss" - Washington
Star.
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State Income Tax Bin Killed.

At Atlanta, Ca, the House, by a
vote of rs to So, killed a bill to insert
an income tax in the State tax meas
ure. The resolution to amend the
Federal Constitution so as to permit
an income tax will come up later.
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G. c. Cayler's Body Sent Home.

The body of Cornelius C. Cuyler, oil
New York City, who died at Biarritz
Southern France, of injuries sus
tanned in an automobile accident neal
Cambo, was sent to Paris in a special
car draped in mourning for shipment
home.
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A Shrewd Man.

Hewitt-@How is it that your wife
likes that prettytypewriter of yours?"
Jewett-"I have her wear a gray
wig during Office hours. New York
Press.
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Often Very Puny.

Novelist-"I look upon my stories
as my Children"
Friend-"Naturally; they are re-
lated. you know."-Boston Trans
cript.
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olcomargarine Law in Effect

The Oleomargarine law went into
force, and restaurants and boarding
houses in New York State serving inn
itation butter must now announce the
fact plainly.
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Colombia's President Resigns.
Colombia's Congress unanimously
accepted General Reyes resignation
as President.
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Car Visits King.

The Gear arrived at Cowes, Eng,
land, on a formal visit to King Ed
ward.
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DRINK COST NAVAL CAREER,
Midshipman Kurfess Took Liquor
From Enlisted Man.

Annapolis, Md.-Because he was
guilty of too friendly intercourse with
a b~luejacket and took whisky from
n of the enlisted men aboard the
Hartford, Midshipman William F.
Kurfess, from Indiana, is to give up
his naval career.
Captain Cove investigated the mat
ter, reported its details to Captain
Bowyer, Superintendent of the Naval
Academy.
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Another Way.

"How can 1 remove green paint
from a white flannel suit?"
SIS the spot extensive?"
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Not on Your Life,

II wouldn't care to have a So grad
uating gown"
"But it might get you a husband"
"Well, I'd hate to have to dress the
rest of my life on a precedent like
that. Louisville. Courier-Journal.
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SEES CHILD SUFFER, AND DIES
Boy Had Broken His Arm Playing
See-SaW.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.-Unable to
stand the shock of seeing her eight.
year-old nephew suffer, Mrs. Johr
C~osgrove, of Barrytown, Duchess
County, died suddenly. The lad had
broken an arm playing see-saw and
suffered great pain when a surgeon
set the injured member. Mrs. Cos.
grove, who watched the operation
became unconscious and was stricken
with apopleyy.
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Left the Pope So. GOO.

The will of Don Carlos, the Pre-
tender to the throne of Spain, leaves
to the Pope works of art and money
to a total of 100000.
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1t Might Take a Bullet or Tn.
When Roosevelt has nothing to du
He might take a shot at the gnu.
To knock off the G.
Would fill him with glee,
And wouldn't embarrass. the nu.
Charles r. Angel, in Puck.
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So Could Wet

Old Lady Con top OF bus)-"Dri-
yer, l want the Bank of England"
Bus Driver-"Well, I could do with
it myself. New York Jour-
ual.
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Defined.

Tommy - Pop, what is retribu-
tion?"
Popley-"Retribution, my son, is
something we are sure will eventually
overtake other people. - hiladel-
phia Bulletin.
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Raising Funds.

"T've got a family of seven to send
away for the summer"
How are you going to do it, old
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"Then I think I'd dye the rest of
the suit to match. louisville Cour-
i~er-Journal.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-12-03
wene.Iey oak 600 Year. Old.

A wide-spreading oak which experts
have declared must have been grow
ing at the time Of the discovery Of
America by Columbus, is a landmark
on the estate of the late Arthur Hun.
newell in Wellesley, Mass
The magnificent tree measures 26
feet in circumference at the base. 1t
is noticeable landmark on account
OF It's unusual size. II intersects the
fence which separates the fertile fields
OF the Hunnewell estate from the
highway. and thus arrests the atten
tion of the passerby.
The late Mr. Hunnewell took great
pride in the ancient tree II has with.
stood the ravages OF pests for a great
many years and is apparently in con.
dition 20 live for great many more
decades. The late Mr. Hunnewell once
had the tree examined by an expert
from the Smithonian Institute, who de.
clared that ii was between 400 and
500 years old
Eliot, the apostle to the Indians fire..
quently passed the towering oak while
going to and from South Natick. where
he preached to the Indians, the tree
being beside what was the old trail.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-12-03

in coastwise business. The captains
OF ships on the northern lakes depend
on us to larger degree than do other
sailors, because we can more accurate
ly predict the velocity of the wind
than we can foretell a storm OF rain,
which occasionally changes its path
and goes somewhere else. Remember,
that where the pressure of the air Is
greatest upon the earth it will flow to
where the pressure Is the least-pre-
cisely like water going down stream.
Our instruments of measurement are
SO perfect that we can figure out the
velocity of the wind at certain places
several hours in advance the
high pressure in one region and the
low pressure elsewhere. We foretell
wind storms on the lakes, while along
the Atlantic Coast we give warnings
shout West Indian hurricanes.
"On two occasions, after warnings
of severe storms had been given, our
men saw all the customs officers on the
seaboard from Maine to Florida. We
found that ships valued at $66,000, 900,
taking no account of the cargoes, had
remained in the various ports until
the storms were over Authorities
outside of the bureau have estimated
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-12-03
Unexpected Prize.

With a deftness acquired by long
and patient practice the pickpocket ex-
tracted an old but well-filled purse
from the hip pocket OF the unsuspect-
Ing old gentleman with the beaming
countenance against whom he had
carelessly brushed when leaving the
Tube station, and on reaching a seclud-
ed place he opened It.
The contents had been wrapped with
great care In numerous thicknesses Of
blank paper. Removing the wrappings
one by one he found in the center Of
the package a card with this inscrip-
ton on it:
Young man, give up your career Of
crime! No'hirg in it'-Tit Bits.