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The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-15
KILLED AND BODY CUT UP
Farmer Accused of the Murder
of a JeWelry Salesman.
George Schaeffer, of Schnecksville,
Pa, Arrested For a Brutal Crime
-DismemberedR Remains Found.

Allentown, Pa.-The dismembered
body of Leopold Ermann, a jewelry
salesman, living at 1905 North Sew
enth street, Philadelphia, has been
found under the newly concerted
floor of a chicken house on the farm
of George Schaeffer, near Schnecks-
vile, a village eleven miles north of
here.
II to sell Schaeffer, who is twenty
four years old, a $3.50 diamond ring
which he wanted to- present to his
f1ancee, Miss Flora Schiller. Ermann
stayed over night with Mr.. and Mrs.
Oliver Hunicker. stepfather and
mother of Schaeffer, who say that be-
sides $500 worth of jewelry Ermann
had about $1,000 in cash.
After breakfast next morning Err
mann left to call on Schaeffer, in
tending next to go to the home of
Owen Peter, a quarter of a mile
away, to deliver a gold watch which
Mr.. Peter had ordered as a birthday
present for one of his daughters. Err
mann never got to the Peter home,
and after a day or two suspicion be-
gan to be directed at .Schaeffer.
Within a week Jacob Ermann, a
brother of the missing man, came on
from Philadelphia and began a
search, assisted by the Allentown po-
lice. A few days ago they arrested
Schaeffer and he was committed to
jail. His attorney, former Congress-
man Kline, started habeas corpus pro-
ceedings for Schaeffer's release on the
score that the prosecution was not
warranted in the absence of both
corpse and loot.
The police then started to dig on
Schaeffer's farm, tearing up the con
crete which he had laid since Novem-
Der 10. They found first the missing
mans clothes and then in sir places
the six parts into which Schaeffer had
cut Ermann's corpse. Further dig
ging brought forth all the murdered
mans jewelry except the missing dia-
mond ring. The jewelry was In Err
mann's satchel, labelled with his
name.
1t was dark by the time the clothes
we're found and the rest of the dig
ging was done by lantern light. Clin-
ton Trumbower, a brother-in-1aw of
Schaeffer, was arrested and commit
ted to jail on a charge of completely.
Schaeffer, it is believed, fel:ed Err
mann with the blunt end of a Ratchet
and then severed his head, arms and
legs with an axe.
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How to Prevent Forest Fires.

A more effective precaution
against the setting of forest fires by
locomotives is, probably, to compel
the railroads that run through the
forest reservations to use Oil fuel or
electricity. We do not understand,
however, that the forest fires this
fall have been especially due to 10
comotives. The woods are full of
hunters, and a careless camper is
ven more dangerous than a locomo-
tive, becaase the woods that line a
railroad are under constant observa-
ton, whereas an abandoned camp
fire isn't. The great trouble this
year is, of course, the extreme dry
ness of the season. 1t is the worst
year for forest fires that is remem-
bered, and the disastrous extent of
them is so very serious a matter that
the whole problem of forest protec-
ton ia likely to be oyerhauled. We
presume the railroads will be ready
to do what the experts determine to
be necessary to diminish the risk
from locomotive sparks. They have
a very large interest in preserving
the woods. Where they hang back,
however, they can be prodded.-
Harper's Weekly.
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junk DEALING a Great industry.

But few of the thousands of peo-
pie who sfe an told iron" man polk
ing through a heap of rubbish realize
that the junk business in this country
has grown to stupendous proportions
In Philadelphia last year over $25,-
900, 900 changed hands in dealing in
old metal ranging from the trivial
sums paid to the men who search the
alleys fortsmall discarded articles to
the many thousands of dollars paid
for machinery from dismantled fac
tories.
The Pennsylvania Railroad alone
disposes Of from 10000 to 10000
tons of waste material a month to
Philadelphia dealers. This is chiefly
worn-out rolling stock and rails. The
company which controls the street
railways of that city disposes OF al
most an equal amount, and hundreds
OF other industrial concerns add their
quota.-Popular Mechanics.
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searching among the ruins for bodies
to despoil, or treasure to sack. The
dead have been found with fingers
cut OF to remove rings and with ears
torn to remove ear-pendants. Many
signs of robbery have been discovered
in ~half-ruined houses, which the
thieves penetrated during the days Of
general fright and disorder. The
other night a group Of peasants who
wanted to enter the city for evident
motives of theft, fired against three
carbineers. wounding one seriously.
Every day since the state of siege,
which I intend to maintain vigorous
ly, the military tribunals have dis
tributed the gravest penalties to hun
dreds of persons suspected OF theft.
All the severity of the military re-
gime will be invoked against those in
whose possession are found objects
of value or money of which they can
give no satisfactory account.
"In order to clear the city of GRIM
inals, my program Is to allow no one
to enter the city except those whose
interests make it absolutely neces-
sary, and to themI shall give an es-
cort of sailors and soldiers to guard
against any harm to public or pri-
vate property. The city shall be
emptied as much as possible of in
habitants. above all, the vagabonds
who obstruct the work of the author
tiles. The vagabonds will be elected,
while will try to persuade the in
habitants to go to nearby villages or
to construct huts outside of the
town.
"Above all, it is necessary to OBJ
viate the danger of an epidemic. The
10000 corpses which are now putre-
flying under the debris are a menace
to public health. The greatest pos
sible number of bodies will be exca-
waited and buried. To escape the ex-
halation when excavation is impos-
sible, the ruins will be flooded with
quicklime and disinfectants."
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TILLMAN ATTACKS PRESIDENT.
Senator Says He Did Nothing Wrong,
and Courts an Investigation.

Washington, D. C.-Declaring with
vigor that he had told no falsehood
and broken no law, Senator Tillman,
in the densely crowded Senate replied
to the attack of President Roosevelt
in connection with the Senator's ne
gotiations for the purchase of Oregon
lands. Tillman asserted that the
Presidents accusation was due to ami
mus, based on personal malice and
hatred, and a fdesire to get revenge
on Ben Tillman."
The South Carolinian told in detail
the whole story of his attempt to pur-
chase nine quarter sections of land in
Oregon, and how he Cancelled his or
der and denounced the promoters as
swindlers when he heard they were
making improper use of his name.
He denied that he had been guilty
even of indiscretion in the dealings,
and demanded the fullest investiga-
ton of every phase of them.
He accused the President Of falsi-
flying the Secret Service report.
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THE GU|LL0TME IN FRANCE
Four Men Beheaded In Presence
of Great Crowd.
Punishment of Death Restored After
Many Years, During Which Life
Imprisonment Was inflicted.

Bethune, Pas de Calais, France
The first infections of capital punish
ment in France for a number of years
were witnessed in this town, when
four murderers were deeapitated by
the guillotine. The executions were
public, and took place in the pres
ence of a large crowd. The record
of crime against the four men was a
long me-. Working together, they
formed a band which had ~terrorized
northern France and southern Bel
GUM for several years, robbing, as
saulting and numbering at will. The
men executed were Abel Pollet, his
brother, and two other men named
respectively Canut and Terru.
AS the condemned men were led
out of prison, cries of vengeance
arose from the assembled crowd,
whose members did not hesitate to
show their satisfaction when the knife
fell.
The effect upon the crowd was the
most horrible feature of the execu-
tons. AS Abel Pollet marched de-
family towards the steps of the plat
form, cries of rage broke from the
crowd, which endeayored to break
through the lines of soldiers closely
formed around the guillotine. Pollet
brutally repulsed a priest, who sought
to console him. Shouts of joy burst
from the crowd as the knife dropped.
The troops, Immediately after the
executions, dispersed the crowd, and
ended what was regarded by foreign
observers as a degrading spectacle.
The French Parliament recently
passed a resolution in favor of the
retention of the death penalty in
France, and the Cabinet decided to
carry out Parliament's ruling. The
law permitting the infection of cap
ital punishment had been practically
a dead letter, for-~it had been the
custom of theNPresident of the Re-
public to commute all death SEN
fences to life Imprisonment. There
remain eighteen persons in France
under sentence Of death, and the
guillotine will be used for these ex-
ecutions.
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PREACHER A SUICIDE.
Rev. j. H. Carmichael Found at Car
thage, ILL.,, With Throat Cut.


Carthage, Tl.-The Rev. John Hav-
lion Carmichael committed suicide
here by cutting his throat, after con
Tossing to the murder of Gideon
Browning, whose dismembered body
was found partly burned in the stove
of a country church at Rattle Run,
st. Clair County, Mich, a week be-
fore. Carmichael's confession gives
details of the murder, and ascribes
the act to self-defense and moral cow
ardice because of the hypnotic infu-
ence that Browning, an illiterate
carpenter, held over him.
While the confession of the circuit
rider is extensive it leaves many ques-
lions in regard to the tragedy un-
solved.
The authorities here regard the
confession as the production of an
unsound mind.
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KNAPP PROTESTS TO McCREA.
Says the Pennsylvania is Publishing
Misleading Advertisements.

Washington, D. Gin a letter to
President McCrea, of the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad Company, Chairman
Knapp, of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, declares that a newspa-
per advertisement of that company
giving notice of withdrawal of re-
duced rates to school children be-
tween interstate point because of a
recent ruling Of the commission does
not fairly state or indicate the ques-
ton that was passed upon by the
commission.
Judge Knapp states that the action
of the Pennsylvania Railroad, wheth-
er intentionally or unintentionally,
discredits the efforts of the commits
sion to fairly administer the law. and
that the commissions order did not
require the withdrawal of the rates.
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A BODY BUYS SITE.
Commercial Congress Buys
Home in Washington. ID. G.

Southern Commercial Congress Buys
Home in Washington, d. G.
Washington, D. C.-Representa.
tives of the Southern Commercial
Congress have closed the purchase of
the st. Matthew's Roman Catholic
Church property at Fifteenth and H
streets, Northwest, to erect an Office
building and permanent home in this
city.
1t is planned to raise an endow.
ment fund of 81, 900, 000. About one.
half is necessary to pay for the
ground, and the rest to construct the
~twelve-story Office building. One floor
will contain a large auditorium and
committee rooms for the meetings of
the congress, while another will be
assigned for permanent exhibits of
products of the South.
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and a doctor told me l would never
get more than temporary relief. A
dragging pain and lameness in my
back almost disabled me. Dizzy
spells came and went and the kidney
secretions were irregular. Doan's
Kidney Pills rid me of these troubles
and I feel better than for years past"
Sold by all dealers. soc. a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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FILIPINO EDITORS CONVICTED
Ocampo and Reyes Get Six Months in
Bidbid For LibeIing Worcester.

Manila, P. I.-Martin Ocampo and
Fidel Reyes, members of the editorial
staff of the Filipino daily paper 81
Renacimiento, were convicted of hav-
ing printed in the paper articles of a
libelous nature regarding Dean C.
Worcester, one of the Philippine
Commissioners, and were sentenced
to six months in Bidbid Prison, in
addition to a fine of 500 each.
Worcester's complaint alleges that
his personal and professional charac-
ter has been attacked.
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500 W a s1n0

The readers Of this paper will be pleased tn
learn that there is at least one dreaded dis
ease that science has been able to cure in ali
its stages, and hiatt Is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh
the medical paternity. Catarrh being a con.
stitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. HalPsC atarrh Cure is taken inter.
nally, acting directly Upon the blood and mn.
cous surfacesof the system, thereby DESTROY.
ing the foundation of the disease, and giving
the patient Strength by building up the con.
~stitution and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith
in its curatiYe powers that they offer One
Hundred DoIlars for any case that it fails to
cure. Send fSr list of testimonials. Address
F.y CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation
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General Macarthur was the first
military Governor of the Philippines.
Judge Taft was the first civil Gov
ernor, being appointed in 1901. He
was followed by Luke e. Wright in
1904, and by j.. F. Smith in 1907.
Leonard Wood was Governor of Cuba.
not the Philippines.
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The assistants at a large linen
Diapers shop were preparing for che
yearly sale. "What shall l mark that
lot of black sikh" asked an assistant
of the employer.
MARK the selling price fifteen
shillings a yard" was the answer.
"But it only cost ten shillings a
yard" said the astonished employe.
81 don't care what it cost. I am
selling off regardless of cost" retort-
ed the shop owner.
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Final Report on San Francisco
Earthquake Relief Work.
100000 Expended For Fire Su~feers-Balance on Hand
OF $397,2o7.

San Francisco, Cal.-With a bal
ance OF ~$397,267 that will be turned
over to the hospitals and charitable
institutions of San Francisco, the
Relief and Red Cross Society, that at
the time of the big fire received for
distribution to refugees donations
amounting to $9,5O0,000, is ready
to make its final report and with the
end of the old year go out of exist
ence. The actual cost of administer
ing the $9,500,000 was only 2.03 per
cent. of the entire sum disbursed.
The relief corporation has provid-
ed and assisted in nroyidinpf for about
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-15

Asbestos workers at Denver, Col,
are preparing to organize.
The Union Labor Advocate will be
published in Greater New York in
1909.
In October, 1908, 241 work people
In Canada were injured, and of these
seventy-nine died.
A metal trades department of the
American Federation of Labor is be-
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5000 homes IN this city, or shelter
for about 10000 persons, at a cost
of about $~1,900,000, which is of a
permanent character and ranges
from refugee cottages to North
Beach flats constructed with the aid
of the building bonus money. The
relief Home for the Aged and Infrm,
built at a cost of $374,567 and pre-
sented to the city, is of a permanent
character. Besides this large contri-
buttons by the society to many hos
pitfalls and various other charities
have materially aided in their reha-
Utilization.
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TEST OF CIVILIZATION.
Prcsident-Elect Taft ON Private Prop
erty Rights.

Augusta, Cain his speech to the
Augusta Bar Association President
elect Taft asserted that the supreme
test of civilization was to come in the
present and the two succeeding de-
cades in the form Of the survival or
dc-t-uction of the rights If private
property. He regarded these as es-
sential to civilization as the right of
liberty, and said that the tests of the
lawyers and the courts would come
on this question.
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Looting in Earthquake Zone.

Rome.-The Corriere Italia pub
fishes an interview with General
Mazza, dealing especially with the
footing in the earthquake zone. The
General is quoted as follows:
What especially preoccupies me is
the succession of thefts since the first
day of the disaster. Hundreds of ma
tive and foreign malefactors have
poured into the devastated districts.
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pEEKsKILL ACADEMY IN RUINS.
Fire Practically Destroys the Famous
Institution on the Hudson.

IHSt1tutfoH UH tIe IHUuSUH'
Peekskill, N. Y.-Fire practically
destroyed the Peekskill Military
Academy, causing a loss Of $4,000.
The students all escaped unhurt, and
had time to save their books and
those belonging to the faculty, to-
gether with other movable property
Only the armory escaped the flames.
The Peekskill Military Academy,
originally established as a high school
in 1888, is n of the oldest institu.
lions Of its kind in the country.
Among its most distinguished alumni
are: Senator Depew, Frank Vincent,
the explorer; Captain John G. Ere.
mont, U. s. N, and Professor Frank
Dempster Sherman, of Columbia Uni.
versity.
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Field estate sss.45e.Os2,

The exact value of the estate of
the late Marshall Field was placed at
$83,459,032, when the appraisers re-
port was filed in the County Court, at
Chicago. A score of appraisers have
been working on the report since Mr..
Fields death.
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IT'S, dud anu UIII-
er symptoms of kid
ney disease. There Is
a way to end these
troubles quickly. Mrs.
John H. Wright, sos
East First St., Mitch
ell, S. D., says: 81
suffered ten years
with kidney eomn,aint
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Embalming Fluid Killed Actor!
Embalming fluid killed Charles L.
Pjppin, the amateur actor, who died
at Marydel, Md, after drinking stage
wine" Pippin vas an undertaken,
and made a mistake in using embalm-
ing fluid instead of h%uckleberry wine.
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Thirty-two Nations in Cole

Thirty-two Nations in College Club.
The largest clubhouse ever con-
structed at an American university by
foreign students will be built by the
Cornell Cosmopolitan Club in Ithaca,
N. Y. 1t will cost $4,000. Repre-
~sentatives of thirty-two different
countries are members of this club.
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Brandegee For Senator.

United States Senator Frank B.
Brandegee, Of New London, Conn.
will succeed himself as the Junior
Senator from Connecticut. He was
nominated by the Republican legisla-
tive caucus over Congressman Eb.
enezer J.. Hill, of Norwalk.
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What more proof can any n ask ?

For 80 years Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has been the standard remedy for
female ills. No sick woman does justice to
herself who will not try this famous medicine.
Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and
has thousands of cures to its credit
@1gAp Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick women
- to write her for advice. She has
guided thousands to health free of charge.
Address Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass.
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ROSY AND PLUMP
Good Health From Right Food.

TITS not a new food to me-" re-
marked a Va. man, in speaking of
Grape-Nuts.
about twelve months ago my wife
was in very bad health, could not
keep anything on her stomach. The
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-15
Foraker's Denunciatio

oenatOr DenHl1C1atIOn.
Senator Foraker, at Washington,
D. c., denounced President Roosevelt
for using detectives to get confessions
from negro soldiers dismissed for
completely in the Brownsville raid,
accusing the President of violating
both the Constitution and the Federal
statutes.
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Kerr Hardie in New York.

Kerr Hardie. member of the British
Parliament, addressed an enthusiast
tic audience in Carnegie Hall, New
York City. Suffragists, Socialists and
others asked questions, which he an.
swered.
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Another Real Daughter Dead.

Mrs. Salome Sellers, los years old,
a real daughte of the Revolution,
and said to be the oldest person in
New England, died at Deer Isle, Me.
Mrs. Sellers was born and lived there
all her life.
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The Italhn Government has estab-
lished a Hreau to deal exclusively
with the identification of the State
railways, which is making rapid
strides. N.Y.-3
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DREADFUL DANDRUFF.
Girls Head Unconstitutional Los.
of All Her Hair-Baby Had Milk
Crust-Missionary's Wife Made

M y Nkdu6
Perfect Cures by Cuticura.
For several years my husband was a
missionary in the Southwest. Every one in
that high and dry atmosphere has more or
less trouble with dandruf and NV dauph-
ter's scalp became SO encrusted with it that
| was alarmed for fear she would lose ali
her hair. After trying various remedies. in
desperation / bought a cake of Cuticnra
Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment
They left the scalp beautifully clean aad
free from dandruff and l am happy to saw
that the Cuticura Remedies were a com.
plete success. l nave also used successfullv
the Cuticura Remedies for s~o-called milk.
crust on baby's head. Cuticura is a bless.
ing. Mrs. j. A. Darling, 80 Fifth St,
Carthage, Ohio, Jan. 20, l9Os."
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole Props.
of Cuticura Remedies, Boston, Mass.
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The streams of the Himalaya
Mountains will soon be engaged in
the prosaic work of turning wheels.
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Piles Cured in 6 to IA DAYS.
True to the Letter.

Pazo Ointment is guaranteed to cure any
Of Itching. Blind, Bleeding or Protruding
Piles in 6 to Ia DAYS or money refunded. 5Qc.
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Killed His Mother.

Paul C. Finn, of New York City,
stabbed his mother to- death because
she scolded him.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-15

In t~wenty-three years of Atlantic steam.
ing the Britannia burned $4,000 tons of
coal
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Judge Anderson to Hear Oil Case.
Federal Judge Alfred B. Anderson,
of Indianapolis, Ind, has accepted the

Sf @2aS2s .<.g &tlTaerf
MenasBg II 1hfsA fuag Il. ~. fsa
8 posed 3Q4et 10
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The Best Laxative-Garfield Tea! Com
posed of Herbs. it exerts a beneficial effect
upon the entire system, regulating liver,
kidneys. stomach and bowels.
The Penn's Grove record., 1909-01-15

Mrs; Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softenst the gums, reduces iniamma.
llon, allays pam, cures van colic. DC a hottie
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U. S. LEADS IN RELIEF.
More Than $1O,OO0,o0o Sent by the
World to Earthquake Region.

Paris A Turin dispatch to the
Matin says the following sums have
been sent to Italy from various coun-
tries from the date of the earthquake
up to the present time:
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Cracks in floors may be neatly and
permanently filled with a paste made
from old newspapers, -four, alum and
water, thoroughly boiled together
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EASY ON CONVICT BANKER.
Governor Buchtel, of Colorado, Com.
mutes j. e. Godding's Sentence.

Denver, Col.-Governor Henry A.
Buchtel committed the sentence of
John e. Godding, president of the
defunct State Bank, of Rocky Ford.
to two years. Godding was originally
sentenced to from eight to ten years
in the p~enitentiary for receiving de.
posits when he knew the bank to be
insolvent. Godding was sentenced on
November z.
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The bones of an average whale weigh
forty-five tons. ~
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Only One 'Bromo Quinine"
That is Laxative Bromo Ouinine root
for the signature Of E. w. Grove. TIsed The
World over to Cure a Cold in One Dav DC
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Held For 100000 Forgery.

Fred B. Signor, charged with forg-
ing the sipnatnra nf Tn~os Ar-----
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Mrs. Griswold GRAY Injured.

E1fOs O1ioWUiu dIdy, an AIuSTICdu
,sesider+ Of Darts Traren wrr ~r-~-c
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In point of area New Orleans is the ser
ond largest city in this country.
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Itch cured in 30 minutes by Woolford
Sanitary Lotion. Never fails. At drnoo;sts
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