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The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-02

in West Tennessee, consisting Of "a
acres, in the heart of the town. Such
a site in Memphis if it could be had at
all would cost 5000, 900. In addition,
Humboldt is offering rasni f. ri;s.as
Of So acres just outside the city limits
that if in Shelby County and within five
miles of Memphis would cost $100, 900.
Besides this Humboldt is offering the
equivalent of $3.50. 900.
The fight this splendid little city is
making against the great city of
Memphis is marvel, and we hope she
will get the school,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-02
NEWS NOTES.

Jacob j. Shubert, Sam S. and Lee
Shubert, Incorporated, signed contracts
for the construction of a new theater at
ST. Louis to seat 1900 persons. The
Shuberts already operate one theater
there.
For the first time since the long
wrangle over the tariff schedules, Sena-
tor Aldrich met defeat when Senator
Penrose's amendment to place duty of
cent gallon on crude oil was lost by
vote of "a to 40.
The French Government has submit
ted to the Chamber of Deputies a meas
ure to put an end to the numerous lot
teries which are the curse of France.
After term of eighteen months they
will be prohibited.
The President nominated Jordan
Herbert Stabler, of Maryland, and
Philip NJ. Hoefele, of Missouri, to be
secretaries of legations of the United
States at Quito, Ecuador, and Madrid,
Spain, respectively.
The resignation of Thomas F. Ryan.
I. Jefferson Coolidge, of Boston, and
James H. Dooley, of Richmond, from
the board of directors of the Seaboard
Air Line was announced. Mr.. Ryan s
resignation was in line with his in
tention of retiring from many directo-
rates.
Dispatches to Dunn S Review indicate
that stocks of seasonable merchandise
undergo sufficient reduction and adj
vices from all sections are uniformly
favorable. Good crop prospects, large
employment of labor and restoration of
wages at iron and steel plants create an
optimistic sentiment.
The inquiry under the direction of
Attorney General Wickersham into GER
tain acts of the American Sugar Re-
filming Company will be continued in
New York this week. 1t is understood
that the Government is trying to de-
termine whether the so-called sugar
trust" acted in restraint of trade when
it secured control of the Pennsylvania
Sugar Refining Company and then kept
the plant of the latter idle.
Further search of the bungalow of
Lame Bob' Eastman, near st.
Mich@ls, Nd, revealed small bottle,
which had contained narcotic drugs,
strengthens the theory that Mrs. Edith
Woodill was lured to the shack,
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-02
.Wagirg war on the Fly.

Il
!. Many learned writers have assured
us that everything in nature wa
lcreated for mans use and service, anl
/. i if if properly understood and rightly
managed we would doubtless find thi.
to be true.
The little fly that is now such q
menace to health and comfort would
fulfill its intended mission, which is to
destroy minute poisonous animalcula
in the air, thereby ministering to man s
welfare.
| If no impurities were allowed for
them to feed upon, or become laden
with germs of disease, by being per-
mitted to enter and leave infected
rooms and buildings, they would not
be menace to health.
Even the deadly ella monster would
be harmless if its surroundings were
different. Living in hot climate and
dragging its body over the burning
sand Of the desert, everything it feeds
upon Immediately putrifies and renders
its bite one of the most fatal.
The common house fly likewise feeds
upon poisonous matter and alights on
garbage and all kinds of filth and
slyly steals into our homes to accom-
plish its deadly work
To Dr. Alexander B. Tadlock, the
credit is given that the fly is one of the
greatest enemies to mankind under
present conditions.
Quoted from the Knoxville Journal and Tribune)
In 1873 when the C h o | era was
raging in many cities, Greenville was a
sufferer and Dr. Tadlock responded to
the appeal sent out from that city. As
he always did when in active practice
and in his profession, he looked for the
cause of things. He finally reached |
the conclusion that the house flies had |
to do with transmitting
disease. That year the whole country
became interested in the h r a
epidemic, and the Surgeon General of
the United States called upon physi-
clans who had had actual experience in
the treatment of disease to make re-
ports.
One of those was DR.. Tadlock and in
the report he made he touched upon the
theory that flies transmitted the disease.
So it may be truthfully said, that, while
always a man of peace, DR.. Tadlock
may be given the credit of war which
while not furious in the beginning, has
not been suppressed, and in recent
days has broken out with renewed |
enegy."
Later on we shall pay our respects to
the mosquito, another peril to the hui
man race as now regarded.
MARY H. PIERCE.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-02

The annual Fourth of July celebration
in Union City takes place tomorrow
with parade, athletics, horse races, au-
tomobile races, baseball, concert band
music and display of fireworks. Every
one of these attractions will be worth
coming to see and the indications are
that there will be numbers of people
here to see them. Everybody is invited
to celebrate with us, with assurances of
a glorious time.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-02
CLERK OF THE CIRCUIT COURT.

GOLDEN.-We are authorized to announce H
NJ Golden as a candidate for Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Obion County subject TO the action of
the Democratic party,
REEVES.-We are authorized to announce J.
A. (Alva) Reeves candidate for Clerk of the Cir
cult Court of Obion County. subject to the action
of the Democratic party.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-02

Idrugged and murdered BY Lame Bob
after she had refused his advances.
Eastman was buried at his bungalow.
Mrs. Eastman was not present and
there was no clergyman A Baltimore
merchant repeated the Lords prayer.
The assembling Of the Atlantic bait
tleship fleet at Hampton Roads, Va,
for the summer maneuvers is already
under way. Twelve Of the battleships
will sail from Hampton Roads for New
England and points where the officers
and men will be given brief shore
leave.
Voters Of dh|porn parish, in Louis
lana, held meeting condemhing the
action of the Representatives Of that
State in Congress who had been voting
with the Republicans for high tariff.
They declared all such members are de-
serters from party principles and called
on them to resign, as they did not
the party that elected them to
office
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-02
COUNTY COURT CLERK

BoND.-We have the authority to announce K.
H Bond as a candidate for County Court Clerk of
obion County, subject to the action of the Demo
cratic party.
TALLEY.-We are authorized to announce c.
S. Talley d candidate for County Court Clerk of
obion County, subject to the action of the Demo
cratic party.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-02

The Grand Prix de Paris, the world S
richest horse race, was run at Paris in
the presence Of 10000 people. The
stake, worth S74, 155 to the winner, was
won by Baron Maurice de Rothchild' s
colt Yerdon. The American starters
failed to show prominently.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-02

Mrs. Howard Gould says she is GO
ing to economic and build school for
ophan boys at Blue Gap Farm. Mrs.
Gould announced that she had refused
an offer of 81, ZOO week for forty
weeks to go on the vaudeville stage.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-02
FOR MAYOR.

ALExANDER-we are authorized to announce
S. S. Alexander as acandidate for Mayor Of I'm
ion City Election in January, 1910
REYNoLDS-We are authorized to announce
j. c. Reynolds as candidate for Mayor of Union
City Election in January 1910
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-02
REGISTER.

CHAPEL-We are authorized TO announce ]. NJ.
(Marvin) Chapel as a candidate for reelection to
the office of Register of obion County. subject to
the action of the Democratic party.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-02

There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together. and
until the last few years supposed to be in
nounced it a local disease and prescribed local
remedies and by constantly failing to cure with
local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science
has proven catarrh to be constitutional disease
Halls catarrh Cure, manufactured by +, j. Che
ney & Co.. Toledo, Ohio. is the only constitu
tional cure on the market 1t is taken internally
in doses from 10 drops to a teasponful, 1t acts
directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system. They offer one hundred dollars for any
case it fails to cure Send for circulars and testi
nonials,
Address +. ]. CHENEY & Co.. Toledo. Ohio.
Sold by Druggists 75c
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1909-07-02
CHANCELLOR.

MeKINNEY-we are authorized to announce
Colin P. Mckinney. Esq. of Ripley. as candi-
date for Chancellor of the Ninth chancery Divi-
sion, subject to the action of the Democratic
party
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-11
SHIPS ONLY GRAzED
Georgia-Nebraska Collision Is
Rather InconsequentiaI.
PAINT WAS SCRAPED OFF
No One Hurt or Frightened on
Either Vessel.
FIRST REPORT SENSATIONAL
FIRST REPORT SENSATIONAL
Court of Inquiry to Be Appointed
to Investigate Accident to
the Hoodoo of the Navy.

NORFOLK. Va, December 1.-THE COL
lision between the battleships Georgia
and Nebraska during tactical evolutions
on the southern drill grounds off the Vir-
ginia capes Thursday seems to have been
rather inconsequential, sensational re-
ports giving high color to the accident
being declared today to be much in ex
aggeration of the facts.
The Georgia was maneuvering on the
firing line and the Nebraska was just re-
turning from the line. According to the
story brought ashore at Old Point. when
the two ships were passing near each
other the Nebraska suddenly swerved
from her course and bore down on the
Georgia. Before the Georgia could change
her course and get out of the way her
port side was raked by the Nebraska.
The Georgia has a very small amount
of paint scraped off one side. with her
bridge slightly bent, as result OF the
impact but reports to the effect that
two signal men on her bridge at the time
were badly hurt are denied. No one. 1t is
said, was either hurt or frightened by
the accident. and neither the Georgia
nor the Nebraska will have to withdraw
from the fleet. The Nebraska Old Point
reports say was mot scratched"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-11
Told of the Texas.
WOUND MAY PROVE FATAL.
John MCGOWAN Shot While Inter.
fering With Robbery.

PHILADELPHIA. December 11-Inter-
ference with q masked llighwayman as he
was about to ho'd up the crew Of troll
ley car ,early today under a railroad
bridge in Germantown. a suburb, result
ed in the probable fatal shooting of John
MCGOWAN, one Of four men that came
upon the scene In an automobile at the
moment the robbery was about to be
committed. The victim is in a hospital
with a bullet in his stomach.
MCGOWAN. who is the superintendent of
the Supplee Dairy Company; William Sup
pee and two other men were passing un-
der the bridge, when they saw a masked
man standing alongside car AS the
automobile approached the highwayman
stepped back to the sidewalk and pushed
the mask up under his hat. Realizing
what was about to occur, the occupants
Of the automobile jumped out and seized
the man. In the struggle in the dark un-
der the bridge the highwayman fired one
shot. Supplee grappled with him, but he
broke away and fled toward the out
skirts of the city. While the struggle was
on the car disappeared up Wayne avenue.
policeman came on the scene a few
minutes after the struggle, having heard
the shot, but the robber was out of sight.
MCGOWAN was placed In the automobile
and taken to hospital, where 1t is said
he probably will die.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-11
THREE MEN LOSE LIVES
IN BLAZING TAR RIVER
Stuck Fast in Thick Fluid as.
Flames Spread Through
Paint Shop.

PITTSBURG, December 1l.-Ehtrapped
in lake OF flowing tar, started by a
fire which destroyed the building, four
men were held fast at the McClintock u
Irvine CoYnpany's roofing plant, in this
city early today. and were compelled to
watch the gradually approaching flames.
Three of them were burned to death. but
the fourth managed to extricate himself
and escape the horrible fate Of his fell
low companions. although he was serious
ly burned. The dead are Peter McGon-
nigle, John Trent and Patrick Carry.
The man who escaped with burns was
Patrick Moran
1t is said that the men were not em-
ployed at the works. but had been In the
habit of sleeping there at night.
The dead mems bodies were dug from
the masses of tar and pitch among the
debris after the fire had been gotten un-
der control.
The fire, which was discovered by the
watchman, started about !. o'clock this
morning in the boiler room When the
watchman turned in the alarm he was
startled to hear cries and screams, and
saw that there were some tramps IN
the building who were trying to get out.
In their efforts. the prisoners, 1T was
evident later, had torn pieces of stone
from a blank wall 1t also was apparent
that they had tried to reach windows
through which they might escape.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-11
RESTORED BY ACCIDENT.
w. F. Meyers Loses Memory Dur
ing Frisco Earthquake.

CHICAGO. ILL.,. December 11.--Robbed,
he says, of memory in the San Francisco
earthquake. and restored to the recollec-
ton of past events two weeks ago by
seeing a man ground TO death under a
freight train. William r. Meyers yes
terday returned to his wife, whom he
left in Chicago a few days after their
wedding, three years ago last March. to
supervise the erection of building in
San Francisco. His wife had not heard
from him from that time until today.
According to the story told by Meyers.
he was hit on the head during the San
Francisco earthquake of April 16. 1906.
This blow impaired his mind so that he
had no recollection of his family in Chi
cago. He wandered about the country
until two weeks ago he saw a man killed
by train in Tama, Iowa. This sight
caused his memory to return and he
hastened to Chicago to find his wife
Mr.. and Mrs. Meyers will leave for the
south tomorrow to continue their inter-
rupted honeymoon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-11
Aged North Carolinian Dies.

DURHAM. n. c.. December l1.-Mrs.
Ei1ze Adams, who died Thursday in
Johnston county. was perhaps the oldest
North Carolinian, her 100 years being
rounded up this fall.
She was the widow of a Methodist
minister who died sixteen years ago.
Her oldest child was seventy-eight and
her youngest sixty. Her grandson, Rev
G. T. Adams, is pastor of Trinity Meth
01fst Church here.
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No Hope for Clarion Crew.
FORMER QUEEN COMING.
Liliuokalani of Hawaii Arrives il
Frisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 11.-For-
mer Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii. ac-
companied by a maid and her secretary.
J. d. Aimoku. arrived on the liner Mon
golia yesterday from Honolulu en- route
TO Washington and Boston. She will re-
main In San Francisco until after the hol-
idays to visit the Princess Kawananakoa.
Upon the arrival of Prince Jonah kala-
nianaole, otherwise known as Prince Gu
pid. delegate in Congress from Hawaii,
the queen will go to Washington.
At the capital she will await some ac-
ton on her claim for $25O,OOO for seizure
by the United States of what are termed
the crown lands In Hawaii.
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Fined for Attempting Suicide.

DURHAM. n. c., December 1l.-In this
city yesterday Berry Ellis. a white man.
the father of fifteen children. and charged
with violation of the city ordinance in
firing a pistol in the city limits, pleaded
that he was attempting suicide and paid
a fine of so. AS there is In North Caro-
lima a statute against attempting self
destruction, Judge Sykes told him that
the defense was more grave than the
original crime.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-11
SCOTT C. BONE ELECTED.
Unanimously Chosen President Of
the Gridiron Club.

At the annual meeting of the Gridiron
Club, held today. Scott G. Bone of the
Washington Herald was unanimously
elected president of the club and Rich
ard v. Oulahan of the New York Sun
unanimously elected vice president. John
S. Shriver and Louis Garthe Of the Bal
timOre American were unanimously re-
elected secretary and treasurer, re-
spectively. Philander c. Johnson of The
Washington Star. Edwin S. Hood of the
Associated Press and w. W. Jermane of
the Minneapolis Journal We're elected
members of the executive committee.
The annual fall dinner Of the club will
be given at the New Willard at 1880
o'clock tonight, and in point of attend
ance will be the largest in the history OF
the club.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-11
Oil Man Blown to Pieces.

SISTERVILLE. w. Va. December H.
The third nitroglycerin explosion caus-
ing loss of life within ten days occurred
yesterday. when James Hoy, a well
known oil operator, was blown to atoms
BY an explosion of the fluid. The ex-
plosion was heard for miles and was
caused by wagon loaded with the ex-
plosiye passing over bowlders.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-11
HIS BODY NOT FOUND.
Colored Laborer Hit Some Dyna-
mite With q Club.
il Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND. Va, December 11-Juuius
Pagan, a colored man employed as a
laborer in the dredging force at work
along James river. was thawing some
dynamite this morning. The stuff caught
fire and Pagan took a club and tried to
beat out the flames. He struck the stun
one hard blow.
huge hole In the ground is all that
can be seen. and the body Of Pagan has
not been found.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-11
Starts Anti-German Scare.

LONDON, December 11.-Mr. Blatch-
ford, well known socialist. has started
campaign in a London newspaper on
''the German peril" which he declares is
far more serious to the British people
than any budget question. He asserts
that Germany is preparing to attack
France, with a view to Germanizing Hol-
land and Belgium and obtaining domi-
nance in Europe. The only way for
Great Britain to ward off this danger,
he declares, is to adopt copscription and
go ahead with the navy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-11
City Clerk Commits Suicide.

SCHENECTADY, n. T.. December IL.
Crank L. Fonda. thirty-six years old,
city clerk. committed suicide mere late
yesterday by shooting :. His motive for
self-destruction is made plain by let
ter sent to a newspaper In the after
noon. Bearing evidence of being calmly
written. the letter rectes the details OF
shortage in the city clerks accounts Of
about $500.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-11
Swung to Safety.

Then ke,win reached with a hook that
was passed UP TO him and caught ho'd
OF the bottom of the scaling ladder. He
endeavored TO draw it nearer. but could
not bring ii within reach the first time.
Swinging 1t back and forth like PEN
dulum. the scaling ladder finally came
near enough for him to reach the woman
and take her from Nelson's arms. Nell
son, half overcome, was also borne down.
The woman was Nine. Caroline Rich
mond. She was wrapped in q blanket
and taken to an apartment across the
street She was uninjured.
The financial loss was comparatively
small
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-11
Hangs Between Flames.

The life net which had been spread be-
low now seemed likely to receive both the
woman and the fireman. Ne son drew
her over the sill and started down. Be-
fore he had descended three runes fire
burst from the window below him and
he was enveloped in sitting smoke 1t
was as impossible to return to the fourth
story window as to descend
While the woman and her rescuer dan
gled on the scaling ladder from the side
of the building. enveloped in smoke and
flames. the firemen's comrades were max
ing desperate efforts to raise an exten
sion ladder. Up it went at last But
when Fireman Kerwin. the first of the
men to get up the ladder. tried to reach
Nelson and the woman 1t was seen that
the truck was too far out from the build
ing for him to succeed. The firemen
were stumped for a moment and the men
on the NE net tghtened their GRIP. ex-
pecting Nelson to succumb and lose his
grip.
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DEATH AND DAMAGE
IN WAKE OF STORM
Fifty-Nine Lives and Proper
ty Worth $1,000, 900 Lost
on Lake Erie.

CLEVELAND Ohio, December H.
The terrific storm which passed over
Lake Erie Wednesday night and Thurs
day reaped a deadly harvest and laid
waste more than $1,000, 600 worth of yes
sci property.
Late reports show that fifty-nine lives
We're lost, that twenty sailors were res
clied, that four boats were destroyed and
that one Is aground and sustained heavy
damage. The summary shows:
Steamer Clarion burned: fifteen lives
lost, six saved.
Steamer w. c. Richardson. sunk; five
drowned, fourteen saved.
Car ferry Marquette and Bessemer No.
., wrecked: thirty-eight lives lost
Steamer Josiah G. Munro. aground, at
Clarion.
Tow barge. sunk; no lives lost
Sailor from Richardson, crazed by ex-
posure committed suicide.
No Hope for Clarion Crew.
No one now considers that there is any
of the crew of the Clarion have survived.
Two of the crew are known to have
perished Neither is any hope now held
out for any of the members of the crew
of thirty eight of the car ferry Marquette
and Isassemer No. ., who have been
missing four days.
At Conneaut where all the members
of the crew lived. their friends and rel
of news. but there is not crumb OF
comfort
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-11
Inquiry to Be Made.

Unless Rear Admiral Schroeder, COM
mander-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet,
takes time by the forelock and appoints
a court of inquiry into the collision
Thursday of the battleships Georgia and
Nebraska off the Virginia capes. the
Navy Department will do so as soon as
the full reports of the accident arrive In
Washington.
For weeks the Nebraska has been
navy. Some officers have come to dread
her as they did the Texas for her hoo
docs. The Nebraska poking her nose
against the Georgia is likely to reveal an
interesting tale of American naval life.
Lieut.. Macy,s Complaint.
The latest trouble of the Nebraska was
linked with the name of Lieut.. u. 8. Ma
cy, for some time ordnance officer of that
vessel. Unable to overcome the unkind-
ly fates that seem to hover over her, the
Nebraska made miserable showing in
target practice, as compared with some
of the other battleships. The Nebraska
was called upon to explain, other ships
were complimented. Lieut.. Macy was in
immediate charge of this feature of the
ships work. In order to Justify himself.
he wrote a letter. addressed to the Navy
Department, explaining that the low score
w
tical state Of lnutiny aboard the ship.
and other things that We're not very conf
plimentary to the commander of the YES
sci.
That letter got no further than Rear
Admiral Schroeder. He ordered Il court
martial of Lieut.. Macy, who was acquit-
ted He was transferred to the other
hoodco of the navy. the Texas, but was
finally rescued from that ship and sent
by Assistant Secretary Winthrop to Min
neapolis as recruiting officer.
Told of the Texas.
The hoodoo of the Nebraska recalls
vividly the i'll luck which followed the
Texas. To what extent the officers of
the navy came to believe in this is con-
veyed by the story that is in circulation
in regard to a visit officers of another ship
paid to officers on the Texas. The hosts
invited their visitors to take off their
overcOats: they declined. Finally 1t be-
came almost imperative for them to do
SO. Then it was seen that the officers
wore life preservers.