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The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-16
PENIS GROVE. N. j. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 16. 1910. N
NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
Manager Starved Alone.

Manager Starved Alone.
Red Bank.-The mystery of the
strange disappearance of Frederick
F. Gardner, general manager of the
Shore Electric company, was solved
by the finding of his body in the Pine
Land, at Pine Brook, about six miles
southwest of Red Bank and near the
tracks of the Central railroad, which
runs to Lakewood and Atlantic City.
He had been dead about ten days.
The body was found by Amos Reevey
near Daniel Cooks saw mill. He ran
home and notified his mother, Mrs.
Esther Reevey, who, with Mrs. Mary
Williams and Richard Reevey, went
to the mill. A few days after Gard
ner disappeared Mrs. Rock noticed a
man acting strangely, hiding behind
and lodging from bush to bush.
When she sent her son out to see
what the man wanted he disappeared
in the pines. Harry Fay of Red
Bank, Coroner John 1. Sickles and
DR.. William Sayre identified the man
as Gardner by his light hair, gold
capped teeth, his suit and combina-
ton underwear. In the right trous-
ers pocket was found $27 in bills and
a rule. Gardeners straw hat was
found in one corner Of the mill room
and one of his shoes in another cor
ner. Blood was spattered about the
floor and on a pillow. The door Of
the mill was found open, and from
the position in which the body was
found and the condition of the cloth
Ing it is apparent that the man had
crawled out of the mill into the pines,
where he probably died from starva-
ton. Gardner had been general
manager of the Shore Electric COM
pany which operates here, at Rum
son and Seabright. For several
months Gardner had been superin-
tending the erection of a new power
plant in the southern limits of the
town which was being built by the
company at a cost of $4,000. He
had been working very hard on the
new plant, and is known to have wor-
ried greatly over the new project.
Mr.. Gardner is survived by his widow
and an eighteen-month-old son. Four
years ago he took charge Of the
Shore Electric company. He built
up a run down plant to a paying
basis.
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Francis D. Hyde a Suicide.

Plainfeld. = Francis De Lacey
Hyde, well known banker and club
man and brother-in-law of former
Senator Colby, took his life at his
home, Hydewood Hall, North Plain
field, by shooting himself in the head
with a revolver. The deed was the
elimination of more than two years
of continued illness and mental de-
preston. During the afternoon Mr..
Hyde played golf with friends on the
links of the Park Golf club, which
adjoins his own handsome grounds,
and appeared to be in better spirits
than usual. He returned home dur
ing the early part of the evening and
after dinner divided his time between
reading and playing with his children.
Nothing unusual was noted about his
condition. Mr.. Hyde retired about
1890 O'Clock. 1t was shortly after
midnight that the family was startled
by the discharge of a revolver. Mrs.
Hyde fastened to her husbands
room, adjoining her own, and there
she found Mr.. Hyde lying on the
floor dead with the revolver by his
side. The family physician was sum-
moned. He said death must have
followed the shooting Immediately.
DR.. William H. Long of Somerville,
county physician of Somerset, after
an investigation gave a permit for
burial. About two years ago Mr..
Hyde planned an extended trip
through Mexico, in the belief that he
could regain his health. He then
made a number of other trips, by
sea and land, one taking him far into
the North, over the trail followed by
hansen the explorer, but no perma-
nent improvement resulted in his
condition. Mr.. Hyde was born in this
city in 1865. and was the youngest
son of the late Charles Hyde, the
banker and oil man. He was gradu-
ated from Yale in the class of 81
For a time he lived at Titusville, Pa.
where his father owned several oil
wells and a bank. The younger Hyde
became vice-presidtnt of the Second
National bank of that city.
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BIG RAILROAD TRANSPORT
SINKS IN LAKE MICHIGAN
Cars Rolling in Storm Caused Fatal
Wreck-WirelesS Sum-
mons Aid.

Ludington, Mich.-In a battle In
the darkness against a vicious Lake
Michigan storm, the huge a ferry
No. IS of the Pere Marquette railroad
was beaten into helplessness and
finally sunk midway between Milwau-
kee and this port, carrying twenty
nine men and n woman to deatn.
Her sister ship left here at 5 a. M,
answering wireless signals OF distress.
Two of her crew were drowned IN ef-
forts to save those struggling for
their lives in the tossing waters.
These lives were saved owing to
the heroism of Stephen Sczepanek,
the wireless operator on board the
doomed transport. Completely fgnor-
ing thought of his own safety, he sat
at his post and flashed messages again
and again to this city sailing for as
s~istance for those aboard the labor
ing and sinking vessel.
Peter Kitty, the captain, went down
with his ship. The lone woman
aboard the lost vessel was Mrs. Ma
rian Turner, the s~tewardess.
The lost ship bore no name. Sne
was known as Car Ferry No. IL, and
carried trains of the Pere Marquette
railroad to and from Ludington and
Milwaukee. She was a big, shallow
steamship. Her length was 33S feet,
her width Sc feet, her depth 20 feet.
But at any rate the messages o
the herioc wireless operator began TO
arrive at Ludington some time before
5 o'clock. They told Of the hopeless
ness of the fight the ship was makins
and signalled for aid to be, started
with the least possible delay. The
captain and crew of Car Ferry No. IT,
sister ship of the one in distress, were
Immediately aroused and long before
the wireless messages stopped she
had started on her mission of rescue.
1t is thought that the big steel
boat rolling in the seas caused rail-
way cars loaded with coal standing
on her decks to break away and that
they were hurled about till they bat
tered the ship to pieces so that the
incoming water engulfed her.
The dead:
N. l.. Bertrand, passenger, Lud-
ington; Joseph B%rezinski, mate, OF
Manitodoc; w. H. Brown, second
mate, of Ludington; William H. Cum
mings, Chicago, a passenger; Peter
Kitty, of Ludington, captain; 3. r.
Leedham, chief engineer, of Luding-
ton; A. j. Mack of Westfield, N. Y, a
passenger; Paul Rennere. second as
sistant engineer, of Ludington;
Chalmer Rosencranz, assistant engi-
neer, Of Northport, Mich; S. F. Sc
zepanek, purser and wireless opera
tor, So Gold street, Worcester, Mass;
Mrs. Marion Turner, cabin maid. OF
Ludington; eighteen members OF the
crew.
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DEMOCRATS VICTORIOUS
IN MAINE BY OVER 5000
Governor and Three Congressman
Conceded by Republicans.
WASHINGTON IS AsToNIsHED
First Landslide in Thirty Years Sur
prises Dominant Party-Mayor
Fred. w. Plaisted Of Augusta to
Be Democratic Governor.

Augusta, Me.-Maine went Demo-
cratic, for the first time electing a
straight Democrat without the aid of
fusion and defeating a Republican
nominee for Governor for the first
time since 1880.
Returns from 578 out of 6?8 cleo
tion districts give MI. Fernald $3.50,
MI. Plaisted, 1880, a plurality for
the Democratic nominee of 5000.
Returns from the remaining districts
in the outlying sections and on ISL
ands along the coast come slowly, but
probably will not change the result
materially.
Frederick w. Plaisted, Democrat,
was elected governor over Gov. Bert
M. Fernald by about 5000 plurality.
Three and possibly four members of
the house in the Sixty-second congress
will be Democrats in place of a solid
Republican delegation in the present
house.
The legislature is claimed by the
Democrats, which would mean the
election of a Democrat to succeed Eu-
gene Hale, the second man in inlu-
ence in the present senate. The state
senate will surely have a Democratic
majority.
Late returns for the legislature
give 20 Democrats and 8 Republicans
out of 81 in the senate and So Demo-
Gratis and 48 Republicans out of 151
in the house. The legislature will
elect a successor to United States Sem
ator Eugene Hale next winter.
Returns from all except 48 of the
election districts of the state showed
a plurality for Plaisted for governor
of $500. The missing districts are
nearly all in remote parts of Aroo-
stock county and in. outlying islands
along the coast. !.
The vote for governor with 43
small districts missing, was: Plaisted,
Democratic. 72,708; Fernald, Repub-
lican, 63,715. The corresponding
vote in 1906, also an off year, was:
Cobb, Republican, 6S,0S7; Davis,
Democrat, 60,784.
In the second district, which was
formerly represented by the late Nell
son M. Dingley, father of the Dingley
law, Daniel j. McGillicuddy was elect
ed congressman by 5000 over John
P. Swasey, the present incumbent,
and Congressman Edwin c. Burleigh.
who has represented the third district
since 1892, was defeated by Samuel
w. Gould, another Democrat, by a
small margin.
The Republican leaders in the first
district claimed Asher C. Kinds cleo
ton by over 200 over Pennell, Demo-
crat. In the fourth district late re-
turns indicated Frank e. Guernsey's
reelection over Hanson by about 400.
The Democrats claim a majority in
the state senate and house sufficient
to give them control of the legislature
and enough to elect a United States
senator to succeed Eugene Hale.
Charles F. Johnson of Waterville and
William M. Pencil of Brunswick are
likely to be the candidates for this po-
sition.
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Democrats Win in Arkansas.

Little Rock, Ark.-Arkansas voted
for state, district, legislative and
county officers and for and against a
constitutional amendment providing
for the initiative and referendum.
The vote throughout the state was
light in comparison to two years ago,
when the vote was $4,000.
Governor Donaghey said that from
the returns at hand his vote will not
fall below 10000, which would give
him a majority ove Andrew I. Ro-
land, his Republican opponent, OF
10000.
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TEXAS AUTOS, $40, 900, 900.
Cost Exceeds Half the Capital of All
the States Banks.

Washington. = Statements that
Western banks were loaning money
too freely for luxuries, particularly
automobiles, has led to the gathering
of some statistics In Texas.
The bankers there estimate the
value of all automobiles in the state
at $45, 5000 which is more than
half the combined capital of all the
states banks. They also estimate the
annual depreciation, for which there
is no remedy, at $15,000,000, or four
times the annual fire losses of the
state.
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$4,000 IN GOLD STOLEN.
Thieves Loot Strong Box After II
Leaves Alaskan Custom House.

Tacoma, Wash. - Gold bullion
worth $57,500. part of a $4,000
shipment from the Washington-Alas-
ka bank of Fairbanks, Alaska, to the
Dexter-Horton National bank of Sc
attic, was stolen and lead was substi-
tuted in the strong box containing it,
between the time the precious parcel
was examined by customs officers at
Dawson, Yukon territory, and 1t was
opened at the United States assay
office here.
When and how the treasure was
spirited away forms a mystery the de-
tectives have been unable to solve.
They have no evidence to suggest at
what place along the 1,40O-mile route
the robbery was committed.
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BOSTON HAS e7o,5s5.
Is Still Fifth in Point of Size of
American Cities.

Washington.-Boston from 1900 to
1910 increased 1876 per cent. This
was less than the increase from 1890
to 1900, when it was 25.1 per cent.
Boston therefore retains her position
as the fifth in point of size of Amer
lean cities, New York, Chicago, Phila-
delphia and st. Louis, in the order
named, leading her. Following is the
official announcement Of the census
bureau:
According to the official count of
the returns of the thirteenth census
the population of the city Of Boston,
Mass, is 670,5S5, al compared with
560,S92 in 1900 and 448,477 in 1890.
The increase from 1900 to 1910 there
fore is 109,693, or 1876 per cent, as
compared with an increase for the
preceding decade of 112,415, or PSI
per cent"
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PLACE WHERE lola RESTS
Great Writer'S Remains Lie in the
Pantheon, the Terrestrial Valhalla
of the French.

Paris.-Years of effort made Emile
lola a great writer and earned for
him the prospective honor of a grave
in the Pantheon, the Westminster abb
hey Of France. One little letter took
him that privilege. Then a court de-
cision made it possible ten years after
the letter was written for his body to
rest with Frances immortal ones un.
der the legend on the P~antheon's
dome: ITO Great Men, the Grateful
Fatherland."
lola died in 1902 from accidental
~sufocation by coal gas escaping from
a patent heater. Literary glory came
to lola through his great works, La
Sebacle," La Fortune de Rougon,"
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-16
Arizona Democratic.

Phoenix, Ariz. - The Democrats
have carried Arizona. The constitu-
tional convention will contain about
35 Democrats, II Republicans and s
Laborites. The sole issue was the in
itiative, referendum and recall, strong
ly opposed by Republicans as some
thing that would insure rejection of
the Constitution when it reaches the
President.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-16
ALL ENGLAND IN UNREST.
Strikes and Lock-Outs Threaten to
Check Many Industries.

London.-Day by day the outlook
in the British industrial world be-
comes more threatening and trade
unionism itself is on trial. The
boilermakers concerned in the recent
shipyard lockout have revolted
against their leaders and emphatical-
" refuse to authorize the executive
to give assurances to the Shipbuild-
ing Federation against local strikes.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-16
Snake scares Women.

Butler, PA live house snake,
three feet long, without stamp or
postmark, crawled from a mail sack
the other night when Mrs. Winifred
Turk, postmistress of billiard. open
ed the sack. Mrs. Turk and MISS
Mary Smith, her assistant, fed IN ter
rer, and SO did the snake.
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DIR. EMILY BLACKWELL DEAD.

She Founded the First Hospital for
the Sex in America.
Chilmark, Mass.-Dr: Emily Black
we'll, one of the best known women
physicians in this country, is dead in
her summer home, in York Cliffs, Me.
With her sister, DR.. Elizabeth Black
we'll, who died several years ago, DR..
Blackwell founded the first women's
hospital in the United States, the New
York infrmary for women and chill
dren, in New York city. Her degree
of doctor of medicine was awarded to
her in 1854 by the Western Reserve
university in Cleveland. Ohio.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-16
RECORD CORN CROP.
Government Figures Show Yield Well
Ahead of Last Year.

Washington. = Record yields OF
corr and oats are promised by the
government crop report just Issued
showing the average condition OF va
rious crops as compiled by the crop
reporting board of the department OF
agriculture. The average condition
of corn on September 1 was 7S.2,
compared with 1913 last month.
These figures indicate a crop this
year of 2,977,561,000 bushels, which
will be the greatest on record. Inc
government indicates an oat crop OF
1,O55,0OO,00O bushels, which com,
pares with last years record crop OF
1,OO7,353,000 bushels.
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Happiness Within Us.

Our happiness mainly depends on
the freedom hat reigns within us; a
freedom that widens with every good
deed and contracts beneath acts OF
evil. Not metaphorically, but literal
ly, does Marcus Aurelius free himself
each time he discovers a new truth
in Indulgence, each time that he par
dons, each time he refects.-Maeter-
linck.
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KILLED When Motor Hits Pole.

Nahant, Mass.-Albert b. rama,
thirty-eight years old, OF Loweii u
Mrs. Fannie Reed, wife of Charles J..
Reed, of Colby Hill, Nahant, were
killed when an automobile In wnlcn
they were riding crashed into an eiec-
trio light pole on the Nahant roao.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-16
VIII Of RIobt.

God has given every mar the will to
do right. the will to succeed and to
persevere. That will is ours as long
as we keep it under control and do
not allow 1t to become subservient to
our passions and our Weaknesses
Rev. T. H. Mcdonald, Roman Catho-
lie. Utica.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-16
Tbrasbinp Machine Kills Man.

Cortland, N. Y. = While cutting
bands to feed a ~thrashing machine
Darwin Spencer, a prosperous farmer
of this town, slipped and thrust his
right leg into one of the cylinders OF
the machine. The leg was ground
off above the knee, and he died hall
an hour later.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-16
Train Mangles Aged Man.

Ocean City.-Henry R. Montgom.
cry. ninety-fve years old, and who
lived at No. 1894 Wakefield street
Germantown, was killed by a Penn
sylvania railroad train while crossing
the tracks at Fifty-first street here.
The mangled body was removed to
Coroner Lakes morgue by Chief oil
Police Scull. The aged man is said
to have been deaf and failed to heal
the engines warning whistle, and II
was impossible to stop the tram.
when he was seen, in time to save
him. He had spent the summer III
the lower section of this city with q
relative, Charles A. Klink. The fam
lily was returning home in the morning
and Mr.. Montgomery left the cottage
a little in advance of the others.
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Washington is Surprised.

Washington.-The few politicians
left in Washington we're exceedingly
surprised at the extent of the Demo-
cratic victory in Maine. Almost to a
man the Republicans declined to COM
ment further than to say that the re-
suit was due entirely to local coudi-
lions.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-16

To be beaten but not broken; to
strive and contend for the prize, and
to win it honestly, or lose 1t cheer
fully-in all this there is testing and
training of character which is worth
all that It costs us.-Bishop Peter.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-16
N E BROWNE FREED.
Democratic Leader in Illinois Legis.
lature Acquitted.

Chicago.-Lee O'NeiI Browne of
Ottawa, ILL.,, Democratic legislative
leader, charged with bribery III con-
nection with the election of William
Lorimer of Chicago to the United
States senate, was acquitted by a jury
here in Judge George Kersten's divi-
sion of the criminal court.
The jury, which took eight ballots,
was out twenty-one hours. The YER
dict was returned in open court a few
minutes before three o'clock p. m.
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60, ElIwood Dead.

Chicago. - Col, Isaac L. Ellwood
died Sunday of paralysis in his resi-
dence in De Kalb, Ill. He was seven
ty-seven years old. Several days pc
for he distributed his fortune Oh
about s7,ooo,O00 ameng his heirs,
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-16
CHURCH WORKER KILLS WIFE.
Enraged When She Doesn't Believe
He Passed Time With Priest,

Pittsburg.-Enraged because of
gibes and insinuations of his wife, S.
G. Gagleardo, one of the leading
Italian church workers of Pittsburg,
shot her dead. He fired at her first as
she stood in the doorway of his place
of business, No. 239 Pearl street, and
followed her as she ran screaming
into the street, shooting her again
and again.
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SHOOTS AND KILLS HUSBAND.
Asked Attorney to Have Him Meet
and Talk Over Troubles.

and Talk Over Troubles.
Salisbury, Md.-Mrs. Annie Eliza
beth Hudson of Cambridge, Md, shot
| and killed her husband, Tobias Hud-
son, an expert locksmith, duEing a
quarrel in the Office of States Attor-
ney Joseph H. Bailey. Hudson and
| his wife had been separated af1d he
had gone to Bailey's office on 'lhe in
| yitation of the states attorney to
meet his wife, who had asked him to
send for her husband that sshe might
have a talk I.ith him ABOUT their
marital affairs.
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TRAIN TURNS TURTLE; 8 DIE
Nearly a Dozen Also Hurt in Hooking
Valley Wreck Near Toledo.

Toledo, Ohio. - George Milburn,
engineer; l.. c. Engler, road foreman
of engines, and J. G. De Vilbiss, SUI
perintendent of motive power, all of
the Hooking Valley railroad, were
killed in the wreck of a north-bound
passenger train on that road, near
Lemoyne, about eleven miles south of
Toledo.
Nearly a dozen persons were in
jured. The entire train was deralied
and turned upside down in the ditch.
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But II oreases the Street.
A word for the automobile. 1t does
not lunch on the shade trees.-Mfnne-
apolis Journal s4
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CNcINNAT1's RACE SUICIDE.
Shown by Decreased Attendance at
Schools.

Cincinnati.-There were sos fewer
pupils registered in the public schools
of Cincinnati the first week of the
school year of 1910 than were regis
tered at a similar period of 1909, and
Superintendent of Public Schools
Dyer said that the cause is race sui
eide"
The decline in attendance has no
exceptions, not even in the so-called
German wards, where the large fam
lily still was thought to prevail.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-16
Bones of Flood Victims.

Johnstown, Pa.-The bones OF
eight victims of the famous Johns
town Good were found here by work
men excavating for a pipe line.
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FIRST WORK ON THE MAINE.
US. Engineer Officers Begin Sounding
and Measuring About the Wreck.

Hayana.-Col. William M. Black
and Capt. Harley B. Ferguson, en-
gineer corps, United States army
members of the board appointed TO
devise means for raising the wreck
of the Maine, have done their nrst
preparatory work.
They carefully sounded and meas
ured around the wreck to procure
data on which to prepare their plans.
The Penn's Grove record., 1910-09-16
WOMAN FOR CONGRESS

Head of Kentucky w. G. T. U. Calls
for Votes of the Chivalrous.
Lexington, Ky.-Mrs. Frances p.
Beauchamp, president of the state w.
C. T. u, announced her candidacy for
congress in the seventh district
against ]. Campbell Cantrill, Demo-
crat. and M. C. Rankin, Republican.
She will run Independently on a
platform opposed to liquor, white
slave traffic and tobacco.
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PARDEE's DAUGHTER KILLED.
Ex-Governor of California Loses Ed
est Girl in Auto Accident.

San Rafael, Cal. = Miss Florence
Pardee. eldest daughter of former
Governor George c. Pardee of Cali
fornia was killed in an automobile
accident at Corte MADEIRA.
The machine went over. an embank-
ment and Miss Pardee was thrown
out, sustaining injuries from Wnicn
she died shortly afterward.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-01-27

omitted from the press dispatches, but
where there are unusual features on
where important persons are concern.
ed--the newspaper which failed "a
print such news would be considered
much behind the times. Much of the
best standard Action Is based on crime
OF various sorts, and many of the stor-
les OF crime carried in the daily press
are even more marvellous than the in
ventions of novelists.
Newspaper accounts OF crimes sell
dom excuse or justify them IN any way.
AS matter OF fact, the punishment Of
the crime is generally the last chapter
given 70 the public by the press. The
general tendency OF newspapers is to
punish crime and reward virtue
through their news columns. Noyel,sts
and dramatists usually follow the same
plan. 1t conforms to Anglo Saxon
ideals.
The squeamish sentiment which
causes foolish men and women tn
make hero of a murderer often finds
too large place in the public press.
but this is generally overcome by the
news of the courts action and the pun
ishment which Justly comes to the
The average amount Of space given
to crime in American daily papers il
lower than is generally beIiev-
ed. A Thaw case or a Nan Patterson
ease is remembered indefinitely by the
public, while the average reader for
gets the intervening time in which lit
lie is said about crimes. At any rate.
ear Of the law seems to be a greater
deterrent than respect for the law with
he criminal classes-and most per-
IONS will still believe it necessary to
sustain a free and untrammeIed press
which will print the news without GEN.
orship.