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The Washington times., 1910-04-08
Pair Hidden on Train Dis
covered By Ticket
Puncher, Who Fights.
REPORT SAYS LOOT
WAS OBTAINED
Train Crew, However, Denies
StOTy-Escape Is Made By
Cutting Air Hose.

Ia CROSSE, Wis, April S.-one OF
the most sensational hcld-upe in the
history o. the Chicago. Milwaukee and
s. Paul railroad TOOK place today, and
that the robbers did not secure a large
amount Of loot was due entirely 20 the
heroism Of Conductor Schumwav.
The train was bowling along between
Tomah and OakdaIc. at Z. high rate
Of spasd. when the two rnbbers. who
were masked and well armed, were dis
covered by Schumway, Who graDpled
with the bandits. defyinz their weapons
and was overpOTverinE the leader when
his associate cut the air hose, bringing
tho train 10 q suudeu stop
The pair then threw of the con
Juctor and escaped
A posse IS IN search OF them
An early report that the robbers Sc
cured money and Jewelry valued al
$500 from the passengers Of one Of
the Pullman cars on the train is denied
10y the train crew
Hide on Train.
The men are believed 10 have boarded
the train az New Lisbon. taking a pos
ton between tho nail car and the first
Pullman
Conductor ScIumvay. after the train
left that point went forward with his
tEaiu orders. When he starred back
through the train he found the door
OF the first sleeper locked He pounded
on f. thinking that the porter had
closed II ~ accident. but failed 70 &c,
a response He then opened Il with
his own KEY and as he started inside
the door was confronted by two men
armed with revOIvers and with the low
er part OF their faces concealed by red
hand kercLiefS
-SCEumUaE was ordered to throw I'D
his hands" but instead jumped al
the foremost bandit and they were soon
rolling over and over IN the narrow
vesrfbUle engaged in a desperate hand
% hand conflict
Afraid 70 FiYe.
The otEe- rob5er tried 70 aid his as
Eociate, bgC was afraid 70 fire as ne
could not tel IN the seml-darkness Of
the car vesubule who was ouItop. r.
ually the second man managed 20 slash
tie a5r-Eose and. as the train came TO
a sudden stop the pair threw SChum-
way back IEI0 The car. and Ieaped on
while the W. eels we're still turning.
The crew went TO the conductors as
sistauce. and word was teleSraphed 20
headquarters 10 send men ana dogs 10
pursue the bandits, who escaped IN the
woods
The Washington times., 1910-04-08
STEEL BUSINESS GOOD.

CHICAGO. April S.-WfHfar1 p ~orar
and a score Of steel maenates are in
Chicago 70 look over the Gar fine
Joliet. and the South CHICAGO plants.
The steel business - good said 17-
SoTey- In fact, r. is more trar good
] don't talk for publication. hf-s even
one knows business in all lines is good p
The Washington times., 1910-04-08
WOMAN SHOOTS HERSELF

NIDDLETOWN. y. Y. April V-yT-z
Charles F. Kent. wife Of a railroad ON
nloye OF THIS CITY committed suicide n,-
shooting No cause -- known for her
destruction. She had been urruzr-
Ing 10 visit her aunt Mrs s. r. Nash.
and her EraudmCrEer, N-s. Garrison
in Danhr---.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
Who Pays Import Duties?

Joseph Chamberlain, the Bri- tish protectionist, i'll a recent speech at Glasgow, said:
 "I propose to pnt no tax what ever on maize, becausei it is a food ot the very poorest of the people I propose to exclude bacon ffom protection also, because bacon forms the staple food for many of the poorest of the population.
 Why should Mir. Chamberlain do this if the foreigner was going to pay the import duties? The answer is that he did not wish to put a tariff on maize and bacon because he knew the amount of the duty would be added to the cost of these articles He realized that the import duty would not be paid by the foreign CT, but by the consumer.-Albuq Tribune Citizen.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
Will Kiss and Make Up.

It may be expected that the congressman will surrender to President Taft rather than to give up the patronage for their district, but it is not to be expec- ted that the insurgent republi- can senators will be so easily suppressed. However the repub- licans have a habit of getting together on election day, regard less of whether they agree with the policies of the majority or not. So the democrats must not depend too much on republi- can dissention for success. The democratic party should need nothing more as an issue next fall than the miserable makeshift tariff revision which was enacted by the republicans last summer. -Bisbee Daily Review.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
The Bisbee Evening Miner

The Bisbee Evening Miner reports that " Congressman Ralph Cameron and Hoval A. Smith charged down on the house committee on territorial affairs and as result the committee decided to report the statehood bill out OH the following day. Has the Miner become reconciled to accept ing without protest the efforts of anyone but the delegate in advancing statehood? If so, it Is in pleasant contrast to its hysterical whining on a recent. occasion when Marcus A. Smiths going to Washing ton was objected to as an eff fort to usurp the prerogative of the Honorable Ralph Cam eron.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
Principal Or Pie.

Mir. Victor RoscWater, editor of the Omaha Bee, Ill an author ized interview denies that the president is using the patronage club to whip insurgents into line. But MT. ROsewater quotes the president as saying that "there is a well founded custom that has become almost a rule that i'll making certain appointments such as postmasters, the presi- dent should act on recommenda- tion of the members of congress in whose districts the appoint ments lie ii reported by a mem Der of the same political party. This obligation to resting on the president, however, is recipro- cal. The republican congress man is under a similar obligation to support administration 1nea- sures recommended by the presi- dent to carry out platform pled- ges on which both were elected" Mir. Rosew;lter adds: "The pre- sident says he has not turned down recommendations ofinsur- gent congressman but is simply preserving the status quo to impress them of their obligation. Could anything be plainer than that? 1t is the old demand to "bend the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning. ."-Commoner.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
observation Must Be Wide.

"My observation in life teaches me" so and so, you often hear. But the observation of any indi- vidual teaches but little, and that mostly error. 1t takes a comprehension of the observa- tions of millions of people for many centuries to give us the little we know and we are fast discarding that and taking on
 newer observations. Ifyou were
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
Secretary Ba1linger,

Secretary Ballinger, an swering the charges aimed at his department by Represen- tative Hitchcock, character izes them as false, equally false; rediculously false and peculiarly unwarrented.' One Bwano Tumbo will probably view this as an extravagant waste of words.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25

The citizens of a New Hampshire town are up in arms because the bakers have enlarged the doughnut hole without extending the outside circumference. Evidently this conservation idea appeals to the bakers i'll protecting their dough.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
Statehood Started.

The maieuvers are sufficiently transparent. Itisn not at all that Congress cares a button what sort of constitution may seem good to Arizona or New Mexico but the politicians fear nothing so much as possible change of alignment, or the introduction of new and unknown factors in the sum that makes for office It is this uncertainty as to politi- cal alignment of the new states that inspires hesitation and delay.-San Francisco Call.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25

Four butchers have already been put out of business in Toledo by the womens' boy colt of high priced retailers. It is hoped that the efforts of the fair sex will. yet evoke a squeal from the butchers higher up.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
Disagreeable Facts.

Disagreeable Facts.
 A meddling somebody calls at tention to the fact that the mOn- keys in a New York zoo are housed in a granite and terra cotta palace, while three blocks away. stands a plain red brick school house built to hold l,2OO pupils and crowded with 2.1OO. Next thing you know some one will be calling attention to the fact that III many parts of the country the farmers have better barns than houses.-Saint Paul Dispatch.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
Work for Uncle Wilson.

Costs of living have become so high in Switzerland that some of the cantons are being forced to raise the salaries of public employees. It is up to the heexperts of the Department ofAgriculture to explain that the Swiss eat too much.-St. Paul Dispatch.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
Science Scores Victory.

Epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis Used to be rare in France, occurring chiefly in military centers. Now doctor is likely to meet with it in gen eral practice. If he antimeningococcic serum of Dr. Gopter or Wassermaun is used at an early stage the disease generally stops short and clears up in two or three days without leaving any traces,
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25

Peanut shells are said to be used in the manufacture of breakfast food. Itis hard to believethat anything so whole some as goober shells enter into the morning muscle makers.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
The Belt for Chauncey.

About half the meat eaters in the United States, listening to the advice of the big packer, who tells us to educate ourselves to eat the cheaper cuts, would like to sec that worthy plutocrat put on a diet of rump steaks for the balance of his life.-Albuq. Journal.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25

A Texas aeronaut promises to find the north pole if pro- vided with a balloon and $2o,- 900. Better wait till the pub lie forgets about the $8o,o GOO 1t paid a man who only thought he found it.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25

Il is now just sixty years since rne khaki uniform was first introduced into the British army, being worn by the Punjab frontier force in 1S49. The mutiny spread it's use, and it became general in India during the Afghan war. Though still further employed in the Soudan campaign, 1: was not ''.-tn the South African war that " khaki became familiar wo.d to the majority of Englishmen.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
Not Longing to Fly.

It may be that before many years people i'll large numbers will be carried in airships and on monorail roads, but some more of the oldfashioned railways will be welcomed. by Arizona mean while.-Arizona Republican.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
SPIRIT of the TER PRESS
 A N D O T H E R s
Long Fight Ahead.

The insurgents dare not admit that they care more for patron age than they do for principle, and the chances are that the row will continue beautifully for scv- eral months. ArizonaDemOcrat
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25

Now that the prize fight promoters are showing real proficiency in vocal effort the pugilists have been retired to the tin whistle class.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25

The governor of Missouri refuses to appoint delegates to the hookworm convention at Atlanta. Couldn't they show lem to His Excellency?
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25

to judge the worlds population by the number you had seen there wouldn't be many people. It takes the observation of all the census takers in the world to get something like a correct idea. Study of any subject from a wide horizon, is the right way to know.-Appeal to Reason.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
No Kicking In Winslow.

Do you remember last July when you prayed for cool wealth CT and do you also remember the longing eyes you cast toward the winter months? We'll you've got them. What are you kicking about.-Tucson Citizen.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
A Righteous Sentence.

Senator Depew is determined to make a fight for reelection. We suggest that the belt for the championship nerve be taken from Dr. Cook and surrendered to Senator Depew--St. Paul Dispatch.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25

The Standard Oil Company paid ST, ,ooo, GOO for coal lands. John D. must be losing his grip if unable to acquire a little thing like coal lands without paying for them.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
Arizona Pre-eminent.

If there is a better place i'll all the world than ArizOna-a coun- try offering better opportunities to hOmeseeker and investor will somebody please point out said country on the map.-Ariz. Republican.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25
As a Matter of Course.

Tt used to be that we got eX- cited at an influx of tourists and winter soiourners iii southern California. Now we take them as matter of course. Los Ange- les Times. And likewise skin them and often make them like it.-Albuq. Journal.
Holbrook argus., 1910-01-25

Women Brick Workers. Prussia's brick yards employ nearly 20.00G women.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-26
s.....lsl nepar1ae.


 Once in the senate chamber John J. Ingalls, was directing some remarks to. Senator Hoar of Massachusetts. The other senator from that state, MT: Dawes, having come in while MT. In gals was speaking, thought the words were meant for his ear, and so, inter- rupting, he asked Ingalls, if he was d1- recting the remarks at him. The Kan sas senator turned slowly around, for MT. Dawes sat behind him, and then, with delicious intonation, but an in stant wit, he said, T was directing my remarks to the successor of Charles Sumner and not to the successor of Daniel Webster" ~
 The repartee has become traditional, and the utterance was at once placed alongside of that reply of Conkling to Senator Thurman, which is also traditional in the senate chamber.
 Conkling was speaking. and Thur nan had said, interrupting him, "Does he. senator aim his remarks at me; le constantly turns to me? when MT. Jonkling, with delicious gra> 'ty, bow ng to Thurman, with whom he was rery friendly, said: "When turn to he senator I turn as the Mussulman urns to Mecca; turn as would turn to the common law of England-the worlds most copious fount of juris- ,Io,,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-26
WRECKED VESSELS.
Difficulties That Beset the Work of
 the Saivers.

Difficulties That Beset the Work of
 the Saivers.
 What it means to salve a wreck is something that few outside of prac- tical seamen can properly appreciate The wreck is ponderous, unwieldy mountain of steel and oak. weighing between 5000 and 12.O0O tons often dangerous for any vessel to approach, and this must be nlifted bodily and doated from the decks of pitc hing. un- stable scows and barges. The wreck may be submerged beneath fifteen or thirty feet of water and so stove in that divers must go down and effect temporary. repairs before 1t can be raised. It may be wreck so shat tered that it is not worth raising, so that the wrecker's work consists mere ly in blowing up the hulk and re- moving 1t as menace to navigation Or the vessel may be fairly intact. but sunk too deep to make attempt at raising advisable, the wrecker's work consisting in salving valuable cargo Often the wreck is one not submerged at all. A ship may have run on to a reef, where it lies. nose on a crag and stern afloat. rising and falling on the ocean swell. pounding, pounding and pounding until the very ocean bottom drones and she is gradually broken to pieces. Or, again. the wreck may be that of steamer which has pointed it's nose shoreward in fog. finding a beach. blowing furrow through the yielding sand and never coming to a halt until it is stuck fast all but high and dry, a helpless victim to the next storm that comes screeching up the coast to pile breakers against her and crowd her even higher upon the beach. -Appleton's.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-26
RAILROAD COMPANY OFFERS TO SHARE
 COST OF BRIDGE
Proposition Made at Meet
 ing of Tax Board Today

The Board of Apportionment con- vened this afternoon to listen to the report of Auditor Bernard Keating. Prior to the meeting c. c. Elwell en- gineer for the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad appeared and stat ed that his company was Willing to pay it's proportionate share for the construction of a bridge over the Rooster river at Brooklawn avenue and that although his company does not use the bridge at present they the right of way there, and may use 1t in the future. He stated that his com pany has been solicited by the sub- committee on miscellaneous matter of the Board of Apportionment. Engineer Elwell will look up the maps on the proposed bridge and will later state the amount the company is willing to expend. ]
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-26

an interview with the girl. She is robust negress, looking older than the age she gives, and she does not realize how i'll she is.
 When Captain Arnold disclosed to her the nature of his mission she asked first if she were obliged to tell. He assured her she should give him all the inforwation possible, and she readily enough assented. According to Cap tain Arnold's report. she said she had gone to the office of Dr. Bunnell in Stratford avenue on the night of New Years. He prescribed a course of treat ment for her to follow. Several days later, the treatment taking effect, she again visited the doctor, she says, and he then told her she was all right and need not call again. Later she was taken severely i'll.
 Captain Arnold asked the girl if she thought she would get well, and she replied in the affirmative. This fact is regarded with more than passing sig nificarce, for in a court the jury is directed to place more than ordinary weight upon the statement of a per son who realized that death is immi- nent.
 Following his interview with the girl, Captain Arnold reported the re- suits of his investigation to the prose- cutting. attorney. who issued the war rant following "a special form to cover violations of Section 1155 of the Gen. eraI Statutes.
 Detective, Sergeant Cronan arrested Dr. Bunnell at his office in Stratford avenue about 2:3O. He accompanied the sergeant to police headquarters ar irving there just before press hour. He sent for his attorney, Henry E..
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-26
Si.-i s.~LNlWG.
In Some Parts of France 1t Is an Alb.
 solute Necessity.

In Some Parts of France 1t Is an Alb.
 soute Necessity.
 In some parts of the world, partic. uiarly' in the low districts of Francs. stilt walking is necessity. In Cas- cony there are great level plains cov- cred with stunted bushes of dry heath. These waste lands have a soil that is so permeable. so soft and yield ing. that the slightest fall of rain makes them practically impossible by ordinary methods of pedestrianism. But these wastes must be traversed at all seasons by the poor people of Gascony. and necessity has according ly made the GasconS stilt walking people. and men. women and children may be seen at all seasons of the year stuck upon high stilts. trudging through the waste lands. carrying bas- kets, bundles and the like The stilts used are about five feet long and often longer.
 The shepherds of Landes all go on stilts. The shepherd is provided with stout staff that answers for many purposes. At the proper place in the staff is flap. which makes a com fortable seat when turned down. On this the shepherd quietly sits and watches his flock. and while he sits up there he knits OF spins with a dis taff thrust in his girdle.
 The Landes stilt walker can do mar velous things with these five foot leg extensions. He can run with speed that will tax a horse. pick up pebble or pluck flower as the cowboy reaches to the earth from his pony. and he can drop to the ground level and regain the perpendicular as quickly as boy can turn handspring.-Chicago News.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-26
DOCTOR BUNNELL ARRESTED, CHARGE
 IS SERIOUS ONE
(continued from Page 1.)

Broad street, charged with com plicity in the operation. The arrests follow the story told Captain Arnold this morning by seventeen years old Evelyn Sunshine Nichols, negress who is lowering between life and death in St. Vincent's hospital, the result, it is alleged, of an illegal oper- ation. Luckett, according to the story of the girl, is responsible for her con- dition.
 The Nichols girl was removed from a little tenement in Columbus Place by the Charities department on Mon day afternoon. She was being treated by Dr. Bradley. a colored' practitioner, who reported her as a town charge to Superintendent Brennan of the Chari- ties department. The latter dispatched Dr. c. J. Leverty of the citys staff of physicians to see the girl, and on his recommendation she was transferred to the hospital. Today she is in a very serious condition, and should her death occur it is not unlikely that a graver charge will be substituted for that up- on which the physician and negro are now held.
 This morning Superintendent Bir- mingham, Captain Arnold and Assist ant Prosecuting Attorney W. A. Red- den held a conference in the police headquarters. Supt. Birmingham sent Captain Arnold to St. Vincent's Hos pital, where he was permitted to have
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-01-26
Two Towns in France
 Drowned Out
(Continued from Page 1.)

(Continued from Page 1.) ing requisition upon all vacant houses in the city for the homeless. The vault under the July Coumn in the Place Bastile in which rest the sar- cophagi containing the bodies of heroes of the Bastile, is threatened by the flood.
 Pumps are in operation to prevent the water from gaining the vault. Several bQ-lses along the Avenue Yer saille and the Quai De Pasy were reached by the flood today, necessitat- ing the vacating ot the premises.
 Almost the entire standing army of France is now mobilized in the work of combating the ravages of the flood and in rescuing the imperilled inhabitants of many towns. Many thrilling rescues have already been reported. Artillery crews in all the seaport, towns are manning rescue boats.
 Communication with other parts of France is still in a demoralized condi- ton.
 Robert Bacon, the American Am- bassador, is showing his Americanism by sticking to the ship the ship" in his case being his own residence in the Avenue Kleber in the base ment of which is five feet of water. The house is now without light, heat or telephone, but MT. Bacon has re- fused to follow the example of his neighbors in deserting their homes.
 The Halle Au Vines, the worlds largest bonded V\ne house, covering l2 squares in the Quai St. Bernard, is menaced by the continued rise of the Seine. Director of Police Research Pezarich today directed M. Bertillon, of police measurement fame, to take official photographs of the Seine and the flooded sections of Paris for his torical reference.
 Naples, Jan. 26.-No ships are en- tering the harbor today owing to the violence of the storm that is sweep ing the Mediterranean. The harbor- master is sending out wireless mes- sages to ships. bound for this port not to attempt to enter until the storm subsidies. The Duke of Con- naught, King Edwards brother, who is bound for East Africa on hunt ing expedition, is one of those whose ship is being held up by the storm. Inside the harbor~ ~there have been numerous collisions among the ships and several small vessels have sunk. The water is so rough that all ships are dragging their anchors.