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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22
Only One Occupied


The local car was crowded with pas
sengers bound for the Fort Wayne
fair. The southbound car contained no
passengers.
A misunderstanding or neglect of
signals and orders is believed to have
brought the cars together in a collision,
the most tragic in its loss of life in the
history of American electric traction.
Completely TeIescOped.
The big special telescoped complete
ly the lighter local car, mounting the
latter and sweeping almost completely
over it. The passengers, jammed into
a mangled heap by the terrific impact
of the collision, we're crushed from
above, too.
There was not a single person in the
local car who escaped injury. Motor
man Corkwell of the southbound spe-
cial car was terribly injured. The mo-
torman of the local, who, it is believed,
failed to notice a signal at a switch
signifying him to stop, is known to
have jumped when he saw what was
coming and is said to have escaped
across a field.
Conductor Saves Limited.
Scarcely had he emerged from the
crash when Conductor Piller of the
limited was due to arrive He ran back
a hundred yards and tagged the limit
ed, his act averting a second horror by
a matter of seconds.
Two physicians were on the local
car. Both were injured in the collision,
but, in spite of their wounds, were the
first to give medical aid to the sur
vivors. Farmers in the vicinity heard
the crash. They began dragging the
dead and wounded from the wreckage
and laid the bodies out along the COM
pany's right of way, while wrecking
crew and physicians from Fort Wayne
and other nearby cities were being
summoned.
Meet on Curve.
There is a sharp curve around a
group of trees about half a mile north
of King3land, and both cars were rush
ing at full speed around this curve
when the motOrmen saw the danger. 1t
was too late, though. for use of the
brakes, and the special. a car used on
the limited schedules, telescoped the
local. The two cars jammed together
in a deadly embrace that held two
score and more in it's clutch.
Hospital Car Rushed.
For a few seconds there was an ON
nous hush following the shock, and
then the air was rent with the groans
and cries of the wounded. The farm
ers who rushed to the scene, with some
of the passengers not wounded into
began the work of rescue.
Calls for help were sent to Bluffton and
to the headquarters Of the company
here, and two special cars containing
doctors, nurses. medicines and other
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22
FOUR KILLED BY
LIGHTNING STROKE
Heavy Loss of Life During a Storm
in the Vicinity OF Colorado
Springs.

Colorado Springs, Colo, Sept. %
lightning killed four persons dur
ing a storm in the vicinity of Easton-
vile, and Ebert last evening. The
dead:
Mrs. Gus Krotze. EIbert, Colo.
Mrs. Julian Trotzy, Kiowa, Colo.
James Bland, Plattsburg, Mo.
William LoIcama, Eastonville.
Colo.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22
crippen and Leneve Held.

London, Sept 22.-Dr Hawley II.
Crippen and his typist, Ethel Clara
Leneve. yesterday were formally COM
mitted for trial for the murder Of the
formers wife, Cora Belle Crippen, the
American actress, who was known on
the stage as Belle Elmore. The doctor
is charged as the principal and his
companion as an accessory after the
fact.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22
CARDINAL Is AT OMAHA
VannutelH and Party Visit Catholic
Institutions of City.

Omaha, Sept. 22.-Cardinal Van
nutelli, who represented the pope at
the eucharist congress, Montreal. ac-
coIhpanied by party of distinguish
ed ecclesiasticals arrived this morn
ing. The party will visit Catholic
institutions and be entertained at
luncheon at the home of E. A. Cud-
ahy and attend a banquet and pub
lie reception this evening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22

new state organization, led by Cover
nor Deneen.
Prospects for Row.
Information that Speaker Cannon
and the republican congressional
crowd hoped to make strong capital
out of the convention by getting
through a standpat platform while no
body was looking, started an immedi-
ate commotion in republican ranks and
the prospects for row developed rap
idly.
Cannon's District Standpat.
Danville, ILL.,, Sept. 22.-The admin
stration of President Taft, the Payne
Aldrich tariff law, and the acts of Jo-
seph G.. Cannon as speaker were in
dorsed by the republican congressiona4
convention of the 18th district yester-
day. On the tariff the resolutions de-
clare:
"It has given the American people
the largest percentage of free impOrta-
tion they ever have enjoyed under any
previous tariff has mainland the true
principle of protection to American Ia
Dor and production, and has produced
more revenue with lower general
average of tariff rates than any other
tariff law ever enacted. In fact the
law by the operation for one year has
fully justied President Taft's declar-
alton that it carried out the pledge of
the republican party and is the best
tariff law ever enacted.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22
MUST FIND
VALUATION
Actual Sum Invested in
Railroads Only Basis
For Rates,
SAYS GOV. STUBBS
Outlines Purposes of Interstate
Conference of Shippers
Meeting at Topeka.

Topeka. Kan, Sept. 22.-Governor
Stubbs of Kansas outlined the purposes
of the interstate rate conference in a
speech at the opening of the session
here today. He said the railroads had
combined to advance freight rates on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22

a scale never before known, and the
conference was called to devise ways
to meet the situation and protect the
interests Of the producer, consumer,
shipper and the public generally in the
middle west.
Valuation Demanded.
The public demands bona fide val
uation of all railroad property and pub
lie officials will be criminally negligent
If they do not avail themselves of the
opportunity to go to bedrock and as
sist the interstate commerce commits
sion to make an exhaustive investiga-
ton so as to determine the actual
value of railroads.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22

Temperature at a. M, So. Maxi
mum temperature in last "a hours, rs.
minimum in II hours, 81. Velocity of
wind at a. M, miles per hour. Pre-
cipitation, none. Relative humidity, at
Z p. m. 4s, at a. m. SO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22

ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
From noon today to noon tomorrow1
Sun sets 5:54. rises 5:44; moon rises
500 p. m; II night, 265 days of the
year gone; 100 to follow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22
Population of Two More.

Washington, Sept. 22.-The populS
tion of Aurora, III, is 29,s07. an in
crease of $500. and of Elgin, III,
25,976, an increase OF 3,54s.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22
valuation Demanded.
TAFT SEES POLITICIANS
Dips Into Ohio Politics During His
Visit to Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Sept. 22.-President
Taft will today receive a number of
Ohio republican party leaders anxious
to consult him on the political situation
in the state. In the evening he will
dine with Congressman and Mrs. Mich
olas Longworth.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22
THE WEATHER

Unsettled with probably showers to
night or Friday; warmer tonight; cool
er Friday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22

little station four miles north of Bluff.
ton and 20 miles south OF Fort Wayne,
on the BIuffton division of the line
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22

cellent work being done Y the WON.
ans Relief Corps, Ladies of the G. A.
R., Sons of Veterans and Daughters
of Veterans. OF the Sons Of Veterans,
| he said:
COmmends Sons of Veterans.
"This can be made a still grander or
ganization. 1t is constantly increasing
in numbers and influence. The Sons of
Veterans with proper encouragement
should soon be the largest patriotic
body of men in the world. That It may
is my earnest wish. The Sons OF Vet
Grams should have all the encourage
ment possible from the Grand Army
of the Republic. 1t is a matter OF
great satisfaction that the sons meet
with us this year. 1 trust our national
encampments may in the future be
held at the same time and in the same
place.
OF the more liberal pension legisla-
tion recommended by the last annual
encampment and urged at Washington
by it's committee, Commander in Chief
Van SAINT said:
81 regret that nothing was accom-
plished, but it was no fault of the
committee. Congress would not pass
any general pension legislation. How
ever, some 5000 private pension bills
were enacted. The committee can
vassed the matter industriously with
senators and representatives but to no
purpose. The government was facing
a deficiency in its revenues and re-
trenchment and the strictest economy
was the watchword. This was the rea-
son given for non-action. In my judg-
ment, in view of the changed condi-
tions in our country's financial affairs,
if this encampment should again rec
ommend this measure, it would likely
pass.
For Rights of Members.
The Grand Army Of the Republic
has ever stood for the recognition of
the services of its members, regard
less of length of service-the 90-day's
man as well as the veteran who served
throughout the war. If the former
did not stand in line of battle, he stood
in the line of duty, and should have
just consideration"
The commander in chief expressed
himself as particularly gratifled at the
increasing determination Of the Blue
and the Gray" He voiced his pleasure
at the cordial reception given him
during his recent official visit to the
southern departments. not only from
the former Union soldiers, but from eX-
Confederates.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22
Grand Army Committee
Rejects Plan to Ask ST
a Day Pension
FOR ALL VETERANS
Commander n-Chief Van SAINT,
in Address, Pays Tribute
to ConfederateS.

Atlantic, N. j., Sept. 22.-John E.
Gilman of Boston was elected COM
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army to-
day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22

Regent of Persia Dies.
Teheran, Persia, Sept. 22.-The re-
gent of Persia, Aseadulmulk, died in
this city today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22

Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 22.-The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22

J. NJ. SHERIER, Local Forecaster.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-22

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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-07
Hard to Understand.

Supposing some one should spring this on you rapidly and ask you what it meant: ''Mare-zeat-toats- ts-deer-zeat-toats- lam-sleativy-lit- ie-kid-slea-tivy- too"
 You would never think it was plain English, but it is. It is simply: "Mares eat oats; deers eat oats; lambs I'll eat ivy; little kids II eat ivy too.'
 You should say this over many times to yourself until you can roll it off very quickly, run the words together, and then when you try it on your friends they will have to confess that they can't understand it. They will feel quite foolish when you show them that it is common English and that it sounds odd only because the words are spoken fast and run in together. It is this running of the words in together which makes it hard for a foreigner to understand our language or us theirs. Omaha lWorld-Hera1d.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-07
EnqIand,s Greatest Mine Fire.

The most serious colliery fire ever known in Britain was undoubtedly that which broke out at the Tawd val ley mine, near Preston, in 1872. Thou sands of pounds were spent in trying to get the flames under control, but they overcame everything and consumed some millions of tons of coal. A wall ten feet in thickness was built round the affected parts, but the heat cracked the masonry and brought it down as fast as it was rebuilt. However. in 1897 the river Tawd overfowed its banks and went pouring down into the mine. No fire could withstand such an immense volume of water hurled upon it, and, although the flames extended for 500 yards, they were quenched after having ragged for a quarter of a century-LonGon Tit-Bits.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-07
IN THE THEATRES 5
 POLI'S

Ax Polfts next week satIrical musi- 4al comedy s-CoNege Life" will be the headline attraction and if it meets with the success 1t is meeting with at Mr. Polra New Haven Theatre this sveek 1t will prove to be the biggest legs Life" is the product of the brain bf Charles Lovenberg manager or Keiths Theatre in Philadelphia the
 nan who has scored a phenomenal hcts for vaudeville some Of his most successful acts being the Six .Arneri- pan Dancers. La Petite Bevue, The Dperatic Festival and The NeapoH- kans."f Tn s'College Lffe'' which has h company of twenty clever singers, dancers and comedians, MT. Loven- he is pleased to term musical inter- huptionS'' and they are in the usual kuneful Lovenberg style. The scenes are laid on the campus at the Yank- kown University at the beginning or kf1e Fall term the stunts and saylngs bf the students and their girl friends being wittily proffered. Among the leading players secured are M1nerya aN,a kn the 'tHurdy Gurdy Gdrl'' and s"The Tenderfoot'' Harry Irwin formerly or Elsie Janis; Frank Giles of Lew Fields company and others. Some of the Enusica1 numbers are "A Belle ot Co1lege Town. 'Limeriekig, M4o1 Moon :;
  The production is splendidly staged land ginegry all the way. On the same bill will appear Ed De Corsia and company in ''Red Ike' rapid Hre comedy with western locale; fTyson and Brown classy singers and dancers featuring Miss Tyson the girl with the diamond dress; F,airnnan Fur man and Fairrnan the Big Three in Ia corking good singing act; V1ttorlo land Georgetto '"The Upside Down FBoys" in acrobatics remarkable for lthe ease which they do stunts while standing on their hands including Eboxing: Minnie St. Clare, the Girl from Missouri an eccentric and cleV- Ter entertainer and Matthews and IA shley =big favorites locally in their tscreamingly funny sketch Held Up' (which serves to introduce their mimi table style of parodies.
 This weeks big bill headed by Las qxys teThe Photo shop continues to ipiay to capacity and pleased audiences and the work of Charles J. Stine and Mamie Fleming serves to win plaud1ts and strengthen an act which really needs no strengthening fof the com spany of twenty is unusually c1evel in fsingfng, dancing and ensemble num- Ebers, Dave Ferguson in his mono Elogue is another big hit as is the play Eet t4Uncler Charles of Charleston fpresented by MT. and Mrs. James R. tMcCann and company and the splen- Edid violin and cello playing by Verona Ever1di and Brother. The other acts fare especially good and but few seats remain for the rest of the week.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-07
A Dream and It's Sequel.

''In one of the East Indian border wars there was engaged an officer of high repute, the member of an ancient county family says Mrs. Mayo in "Recollections of Fifty Years" One night the laird, it's head, started from his sleep, exclaiming:
 "'There's the shot that has killed my brotherY
 His wife told him it was but 9 dream. He must have given an anx- ious thought to his brothers before going to sleep. Next day the pair were in the garden directing their gar deners when the laird suddenly ex- claimed:
 Do you hear the bagpipes?
 "ENo.' answered the lady. I can hear nothing. I am sure there is no sound'
 "tStrange,' said the laird, for can even hear what is played. It is '"The Flowers O the Forest Are A Wefe Away."'
 "A few hours later came the tele- gram reporting cthat the brother had been shot down by some border war rior and over his lonely grave the men of his regiment had played the pa thettc air whose mysterious echo seem- ed to have reached the laird"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-07
She Didn't Mind.

A girl with a Gibson face and a green feather in her hat boarded a Chestnut street car the other after. noon. She carried something in a pa per sack under her arm. The car was crowded with passengers, and no one offered to rise.
 The girl looked worried, but set her lips and grabbed at strap. Just then the car lurched. the girl made a wild effort to keep on her feet and threw her bundle straight in a large mans lap. There was a peculiar grinding sound in the sack, and then something seeped out that looked suspiciously like the yellow of an egg.
 What in the thunder is this stuff ?'' he started to say. when she sweetly remarked as she clung to the strap:
 "Oh, never mind making apologies. can get another dozen of eggs at our grocery"
 The conductor removed the sack of eggs, and the man looked so savage that no one dared laugh.-Louisville Times.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-07
Maple In ths Days of Old.

Scarcely any wood was considered more valuable in the days of old" than maple wood. tables constructed from a mottled variety being particu- larly favored. Such a table. according to Evelyn, was Cicero's, costing 10000 sesterces-about 962. Another was es- timated at 1875, and yet another, be longing to one of the Ptolennies, is said to have been sold for it's weight in gold. There was, in fact. such craze for tables Of the rarest maple among the male sex in Rome and so wildly extravagant were they in this respect that when they reproached their wives for lavishness in pearls and other val uableS the ladies would remind them of their costly maple hobby. thus turning the tables on them;' hence the phrase. Virgil represents Evander. who was provincial king, as receiv- ing AeneaS seated on a maple throne
 Chaucer speaks of the maple as form ing bower for the fair Rosamond. In Evelyn's time the wood of the maple was much esteemed for all kinds of turnery.-Westmi Gazette.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-07
oaIiIei's caustie Humor.

In biography of Galilei some stories are told of the caustic humor of that bold investigator. Lotario Sarsi, a writer on science, having said that the Babylonians used to cook eggs by wh1rling them in a sling. Galilei re- piled: ''The cause of such an effect is very remote from that to which it is attributed. and to find the true cause shall reason thus: If an effect does not follow with us which followed
 with others at anottfer time it is be- cause in our experiments something is wanting which was the cause of the former success, and if only one thing is wanting to us that one thing is the true cause. Now we have eggs and slings and strong men to whirl them,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-07
SUPERINTENDENT
 IN WOOLSEY HALL.

Mdane Ernestine Schumann-He1nk will sing a program of ar1as from her most famous roles, and songs Tn EnS- fish, German, French and Italian n nesday evening, October 12, at s l5 Because of the hummer Of orders that have already come from Bridgeport, arrangements have been made with The M. Steinert Sons Co. of ~Br1dge- port whereby seats may be placed on sale there for the convenience Of those who may want to come to New Haven on the evening of the twelfth Some of the best seats at each price will be on sale, but for the benefit of those who can not reach the local selling station, seats for the concert may also be ordered by mail at the Yale School of Music, 126 College street. Following is the program that the famous singer will give Tn the classic University Auditorium:
 Recitative and aria ia; '.vitellia" tFrom
 the Opera Titus. Mozart (a) Aria from Samson and De1i1ah (ab) Waltraute scene-from Goetter-
 dammerurg. Richard Wagner (c) Aria-"Ah mon Fills (from the
 Opera Le ProPhet) ..- .Meyerbeer Ca) Die Almacht. -. Franz Schubert (b) FruhIingsfahrt .Schumann (c) Won Ewiger Lieber. Brahms (d) Allerseelen. Rlcharo strauss (f) Wiegendlied .-.J- Stein
 (F'ive songs in Eng1ish.)
 (a) The Rosary Ethelbert Nevin (b) o Let Light Speak of Me
 Chadwick (d) Lullaby Carrie J. Bond Gel Love in a Cottage. Rud. Ganz
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-07
FAIRFIELD

An interesting and practical meet ling of the Village Improvement So- tciety was held at the library, Tuesday evening MT. Betts presiding and Rev. EAl1en Beeman acting as secretary. The question of laying granolithic IsfdewaIk around the grounds of the Ii- fbrary was discussed, and it was agreed Ito ascertain if the town will pay one third of the expense, the library society one-third, providing the Improvement kSociety will pay the other third. It twas also agreed to, appoint a commit Etee to ascertain the difference fin cost between granolithic sidewalks and FThe intention is to adopt the plan (which is so successful in Westport, as liar as may be. A .granolithic- side walk would last for 50 years and need fvery little repairing. It would not tcost as much in this town as in West kport, since there would be no curbing Ito provide for, there being a strip of turf between the sidewalk and the stone curb which already exists. The meeting directed it's secretary to re- nurn a vote of thanks to MT. DeVer FWarner for the good example he has set the town in constructing a side walk in front of his grounds in Broad street.
 It is denied that Capt Smith has resigned his commission in the army and will reside hereafter with his mother-in-1aw, Mrs. John Henry Jen- nings. Capt Smith is the principal of large military school in Charles ton. s. C., and is now in that city at tending to his duties. Mrs. Smith starts today for Charleston to join her Husband for the winter.
 The latest letter from Miss Theodora Child, who is at Battle Harbor, in Labrador, gives a glowing account of ther work, in which she is deeply inter ested. She has sole charge of hos pitaI containing 2S patients. She will sremain all winter.
 Loretta Neal of Bridgeport, was the guest over Sunday of Miss Ella Mary fSeery, of .Sasco Hill.
 Harry Flint, who is suffering from fb1ood poisoning, is still confined to his bed, but is said to be getting on all right.
 Miss Ethel Wheeler of Southport, is Gn New York for a three weeks visit.
 Mrs. c. B. Bulkley has gone to Ken rosa Lake. to assist in celebrating her father's 87th birthday.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-07
shakespeare's Definition of Poetry.

What a pity it is that Shakespeare ever used that phrase fine frenzy!" It has become a fuddlesome factor in the framing of foolish fancies. It is to the honor of Shakespeare, however, that he came nearer to giving the world the true definition of poetry than has any other man, for he did explain what constitutes the true art of poe try making, and from this we are en- abled to know what Shakespeare con sidered poetry. Cur1ous1y enough, it is in the very passage where Shake speare uses that unfortunate phrase S'f1ne frenzy" Let us quote: The poets eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from
 earth to heaven,
 And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown the poets
 pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy
 nothing
 A local habitation and a name. Hudson A1axim's Science of Poetry
 and Philosophy of Language"