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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-05-25
MssoURrs CORN COB PIPES.
Last Year Factories Turned Out 81.
10000 Valued at SIS. 600

The Missouri meerschaum's -four
ishing. Last year the factories of
the state turned out 27,730,OOO corn
cobs, valued at $448,OO0, and en-
ployed 359 hands. In addition 454-
236 wooden pipes, 152,7S5 pipe
cleaners and 100000 stems were
turned out. Every year the corn cob
output is increased by from 2,O0O,-
900 to 5000, 900.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-05-25
DEVICES FOR CHEATING.
Short Weights and Measures Are
Used by Dealers.

Some things that add to the high
cost of living are shown in the quar-
terly report of Acting Chief Mccoy
of the bureau of weights and meas
ures in New York city. Nearly 400
violations of the laws are reported.
One shortage of Az quarts out of
a supposed 80 quarts of milk was
discovered, and one coal dealer was
found short in weight four times in
month. Devices for cheating in
cluded measures containing false
bottoms, while weights were found
to be drilled out and the holes filled
in with wax and blackened over, some
four ounces short on the pound.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-05-25
A Tabby Carries Her Kitten Forty
Miles in Two Days and Nights.

mllcS III TWO DayS anu N1SnIS.
Eighty miles in two days and two
nights, half the distance covered
while carrying a four-weeks '-old kit
ten, is the record set by an athletic
tabby belonging to Mrs. Ann Grant
or Waterville, Me.
The Grants moved from Stetson to
Waterville, 40 miles away. Not
wanting to be bothered with the
month-old kitten Mrs. Grant gave it
to a neighbor. Then the mother cat
was shut in box and carried to the
new home.
When the family arrived it was
dark but the cat, as soon as it could
escape from the house, started for
Stetson. Two nights later it walked
into the house in Waterville, with the
kitten in its mouth.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
WOMAN KNOCKS Thief
To DEATH OUT WINDOW
Uses Rolling Pin on Him Until
He Falls and Breaks Neck.

New York, May 27.-Louis Gratch,
twenty-five years old, painter by day
and burglar after dark, was discov
cred by Mrs. Dora Gieteman in hei
apartments on the fifth floor of a
Delaney street house, and after beat
ing the man with a cuspidor until he
backed against an open window witt.
low sill, was smashing him acros:
the face with a rolling pin, when he
toppled to instant death on the con
crete pavement fifty feet below.
Gratch got into the house by climb
ing up the fire escape. To get to the
Gietemans' bedroom he had to step
across a couch on which slept Miss
Lena Berkenholtz. boarder. Gratch
was searching Gieteman's clothing for
money, when Mrs. Gieteman awOke
suddenly and screamed. She leaped
out of bed and seized the man. En-
ragged more than frightened, Mrs
Gietenan pushed him into the kitchen.
where she seized an iron cuspidor and
struck him over the head and should
ers with it.
The man broke away and made for
the parlor window. Mrs. Gieteman
pursued him and seized him by the
collar, holding him until a boy board
er in the house ran up and handed
her a rolling pin. With this she be-
labored Gratch furiously. Two or three
blows were effective, and as the man
struggled in front of the window at
the side yard she struck him across
the jaw With a scream he toppled
headlong into the yard.
An ambulance surgeon found that
Gratch had died of a broken neck,
caused by the fall
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
BEEF TRUST CASESIN COURT
Governments Attack on the Big Pack
ers Disputed by Counsel.

Chicago, May 26.-The first skir-
mish in the governments attack on
the so-called beef trust began before
Judge Landis in the United States dis
trict court here. Counsel for the Ma
tional Packing company and its ten
subsidiary concerns assailed the valid
ity of the indictments charging a
combination in restraint of trade.
The defendants were represented by
Ralph Crewes, George T. Buckingham
and Joseph D. Frees; the government
by District Attorney Edwin W. Sims,
James H. Wilkerson, Elwood Goldman
and Oliver E. Papan. In his argument
Mr.. Buckingham alleged:
That the indictment does not go into
particulars sufficiently.
That it does not charge crime, nor
cite facts constituting a crime.
That if there was crime the stat
ute of limitations (three years. had
run against it.
That the indictment charges no in
terstate commerce transaction.
That no place in which the combi-
nation operated, or had existence. is
alleged.
1t is a combination which is illegal /;
not its acts.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
Governor PennewiIps Father Dead.

Dover, Del, May 27.-Death entered
the home of the governor of Delaware
taking Simeon Pennewill, father OF
Governor Simeon S. Pennewill and of
Chief Justice James Pennewill. He
was eighty-ffve years old. and said he
was ''the happiest man in the world"
at the age of eightyfour on the center
of the stage of the Dover Opera House
when he saw his youngest son, Sim
con, sworn in as governor of his state,
with his son James administering the
oath.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
JIM PATTEN SQUEEZED"
Gets Out of Wheat Market With Loss
of About $4,000.

Chicago, May 27.-James A. Patten,
almost on the eve of his retirement,
was forced to take the count" in one
of the liveliest bouts he has ever had
with the bears on the bog of trade.
The big speculator acknowledged de
feat by throwing over several million
bushels of September wheat at quota
tions said to average fully 10 cents a
bushel under the purchase price. Many
of his followers likewise suffered big
losses. The total loss sustained by Pat
ten was $1,200,OOO and by his friends
$500, 900, according to estimates.
Not content with stampeding the
Patten forces, the bears, led by AT
mour and Lichstern, attacked the po-
sition of T. w. Waterman, the Albany
miller, in May wheat, forcing the price
of that delivery down from $1.107s TO
$1.05. The Armour house is said to
have bought altogether in the neigh
borhood of 100000 bushels of actual
wheat, which will be delivered to Wa
terman next Tuesday.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
SHERIFF'S DEPUTIES
DISPERSE STRIKERS
Mine Workers Picket Roads
Leading to COIIIGrlGS.

Wilkes-Barre, Pa, May 27.-Further
the Pennsylvania Coal company and
efforts to reach an agreement marked
the developments in the strike OF the
10000 employees of the Pennsylvania
company at their mines near this city.
Reinforcements of state troopers and
sheriff's deputies were placed at the
collieries to prevent further outbreaks
Of violence, while the strikers closely
picketed the roads leading to the col
lieries and turned back workmen who
tried to reach the mines
Sheriff Rodda took personal charge
at the central colliery, near Avoca,
where many shots had been fred and
stones thrown by strikers. Discover
ing that a number of them were be-
ing gathered into a crowd for the pur-
pose of rushing the works, he charged
them and arrested the ringleader An
gelo Capomassa, who was brought to
this city and sent to Jail in default of
$1,000 bail. After the arrest the depu-
ties dispersed the other strikers.
County Detective Powell, of Luzerne
county, and County Detective Rafter,
of Lackawanna, arrested Mine Fore
man Thomas r. Muir, of Pittston
Foreman G. A. Kingsley, of Scranton
and his son, William Kingsley. They
are charged with shooting and fatally
wounding one of the strikers, Antonio
Bernardo, on Tuesday morning at No
IA colliery. The strikers who caused
the arrests say that the shooting in
cited the rioting that followed. The
three were held under bail for trial.
President Benjamin McEnanay, OF
the Mine Workers union; W. A. May
general manager of the company, and
William Connell, of the Cancellation
board, held conference, and the Goa
company will now aid the union off
cials in trying to end the strike. The
men, most of them non-union, declare
however, that they will not return tc
work until they receive a positive as
surance from some responsible person
that their grievances in regard tt
overweight of cars and heavy dockag'
will be adjusted.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
KAISER HOTLY CRITICISED
German Press Attacks Him For Max
ina Peace OVertures to French.

German Press Attacks Him For Max.
ing Peace Overtures to French.
Berlin, May 27.-A storm of criti-
cism of the kaiser has been brought
out by a report that he discussed
peace plans with NJ. Pinchon, the
French foreign minister, in London
while attending King Edwards fu-
neral The Conservative and Pan-Ger-
man press contains the most virulen
attacks published since November
1908. which followed an interview al
legged to have been given to an Eng
lisA paper.
To talk peace with the French is
the worst possible move, according TO
the Deutsche Zeitung, and the Schle
siche Zeitung says the kaiser has
abandoned the reserve he has mani
tested of late. Several papers charge
fatty t'7at the kaiser went further in
broach, peace to NJ. Pinchon than he
can now admit.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
SEYLER FOUND
NOT GUILTY
Accused Slayer Of Jane Adams
Acquitted by Jury.

Mays Landing, N. j., May 26.-After
a three days trial William Seyler was
acquitted of the murder of Jane
Adams, on Feb. 4, on the Million Dol
lar pier at Atlantic City The jury de
liberated five hours, and when the
verdict of not guilty was announced
there was an outburst of cheering in
the court room.
The prisoner shook hands with the
jurymen and thanked them fervently.
Seyler was ordered discharged from
custody and left for Atlantic City. His
wife went home on an earlier train
and didn't hear the verdict His
brother Orvis, detained as witness,
was released from custody. 1t is re-
ported that the jury only balloted for
first degree or acquittal.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
SUBMARINE SUNK
IN COLLISION
French Vessel Run Down by
FerTybOat.
ALL ABOARD PROBABLY LOST
Coming to Surface Under Water, Boat
Was Struck by Paddle of Ferryboat.
Carried Crew of Twenty-seVen.

Calais, France, May 27.-The ferry
boat Pas de Calais, crowded with
cross-channel passengers bound for
Dover, England, had just left Calais
when one of her side wheels expert
enced a violent shock. The captain, be-
lieving that his boat had struck a sub
merged buoy, stopped his vessel, and
a moment later the hull of a subma-
rine, the Pluvoise, came to the surface
short distance astern.
A boat was hurriedly launched from
the ferryboat and went alongside of
the stricken craft, but the sailors rap
ped in vain against her metal sides,
and in a few minutes after the sub
marine arose to the surface she sank
again beneath the surface into $50 feet
of water.
The passengers aboard the Pas de
Calais were horror stricken by the
tragedy enacted before their eyes. The
ferryboat, which was making water
rapidly, summoned two tugs to the
scene of the disaster and then put
back to the French shore.
The Pluvoise, with three officers and
a crew of twenty-four men, left Calais
thirty minutes before the time it is
presumed she came up under the pad
die wheels of the Pas de Calais, al
though it is impossible to conceive
that she would dive in such crowded
waters.
Advices received by the minister Of
marine confirm the report of the prob
able loss of the ill-fated submarines
entire crew The maritime prefect of
Calais in reporting his action to the
marine ministry of sending boats to
the scene offers the opinion that the
naphtha reservoirs of the Pluvoise
burst A torpedoboat destroyer has
been anchored near where the Plu-
voise sank and divers have gone down
to the submarine. A wrecking vessel
has also gone to the scene, and tor
pedoboat destroyers have been dis
patched from Dunkirk to aid
After official advices had been re-
ceiyed in Paris confirming the loss of
the Pluviose, Admiral B. de la Pay
rere of the ministry of marine, left
for Calais
The submarine was of the Laubenf
type. Her length was 100 feet and
her displacement was 39S tons.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
Preachers Pay Averages $6ea.

Washington, May 27.-The average
annual salary of minister of the gos-
pei in the United States was but $663
in all denomimatio tions, according to the
census of religious bodies for 1906,
The statistics are for the cities having
a population in 1900 of $4,000 and over.
The denominations showing the high.
est averages are: Unitarian, 1858;
Protestant Episcopal, s1242; General
Convention of the New Jerusalem
1929; Jewish Congregation, s1222;
Presbyterian, SLIT.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
BALL PLAYER IN STUPOR
Lad Injured Month Ago Now In Seri.
Gus Condition.

Georgetown, Del, May 27.-Struck
on the head by pitched ball month
ago, Howard Bramhall, young high
school boy, is now in serious condi
ton. Bramhall was playing on a scrub
nine against the regular team and was
at bat, when an inshoot struck him be-
hind the ear.
The blow made the boy ILL., but he
walked home and complained of no
i'll effects until the next morning. Fer
several days the injury kept him il
bed, but he -nally seemed to recover
and went about as usual until this
week, when he was again taken i'll and
has since remained in stupor. All
examination has failed to show Just
yhat injury was done and it is be
Geved an X-ray examination and ar
operation will be the only thing te
save the boys life.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
Claims kinshlp With KING George.

GAINESVILLE, o., May 26.-In a little,
lonely, poverty stricken home in
Woodsfield, O., lives Mrs. Kate D. VI
lem, who says that she is a descend
ant of the English royal family The
grandfather of King Edward VII. and
her great-grandmother, she says, were
brother and sister, and she claims to
be a descendant of Sir James McIn-
tosh, second son, according to her
story, of the Earl of Somerset. Mrs.
Ullem is sixty-six years of age and is
said to be in want
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
WOMAN BECOMES CITIZEN
First Female In New Jersey to Take
Out Papers.

Passaic, N. j.. May 27.-Mrs. Maria
Emma Lindenstruth, editor and pub
Usher of the Passaic Wochenblatt. a
German weekly, became citizen of
the United States, the first woman in
New Jersey to take out citizenship pa
pers. She is widow and has no chill
dren. Soon after the announcement
that she had made application for the
papers she received offers of marriage
from a wealthy Brooklyn doctor, a
New England lawyer and a retired
New York merchant. These she turned
down.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
DEP0RT TURBULENT MINERS
Governor of Georgia Scrds Aid to Off
ciaIs Threatened by italians.

Durham. Ca, May 27.-State militia
captured twenty-five Italian miners,
who are accused OF intimidating the
officials of the Durham Coal and Coke
company here. The miners were de-
ported without trial.
violence a telegram was dispatched to
Governor Joseph M. Brown, of Geor-
gia, asking the aid of the state. The
governor Immediately rushed troops to
the scene. The miners were rounded
up and deported on special train.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
Held For Killing Her step.pauahter

Hazleton, Pa, May 27-Mrs. Ignatz
Kverys, of West Hazleton, was com
mitted to prison without bail on a
charge of manslaughter in connection
with the death recently of her three
year-old step-daughter Josephine. Ac-
cording to the coroner's jury the chill
died from the effects of a blow o,
blows inflicted by the mother The VIC
man denies the charge
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
DRY DOCK MAY BE SAVED
Accident Believed to Have Been caus-
ed by Carelessness.

ed by CareIessness.
Manila, P. l., May 26.-sst is the gen
eral opinion that the SIking of the
dry dock Dewey was due to careless
ness rather than to a deliberate pur-
pose upon the part of the station en-
ployes, who are Japanese, to cause
damage
The experts declare the great float
ing dock, which was towed here from
the United States at much expense,
will be saved.
The port side, including the pumps,
was submerged and partly resting on
the bottom. The starboard was still
exposed, but was settling slowly. 1t is
doubtful whether the starboard pumps
alone could avail much Meantime the
tug Piscataqua was waiting to assist
when the sea was calmer.
The electrical machinery, which op-
crates the valves, is badly damaged.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
Witness Murdered.

Lexington, KY. May 27. = While
standing in his back yard looking a
the comet, Lincoln Oliver, farmer
of Caldwell county, near here. was
shot by some unknown enemy. He re
Gently testified against several alleged
night riders, and it is believed that
the killing was the result of that tes
timony.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
Oil Trust After Control of Gas

Pittsburg, Pa, May 26.-S Standard
Oil, through its Hope Natural Gas
company, closed $1,0O0,OO0 deal with
the Manufacturers Light and Heat
company for the latter's great hold
ings of undeveloped gas territory in
West Virginia. This is understood to
be the first of a series of purchases to
be made by the Standard, which aims
at complete control of gas production.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
QUEEN MARY'S BIRTHDAY
Barring Booming of Cannon the Event
Was Quietly Celebrated.


London, May 27.-Queen Mary was
forty-three years old Thursday, and
there was a general, though quiet, eel
ebration of the event.
While in the court mourning for Ed
ward prevented festivities, the day
was announced by the booming of
forty-one guns in salute in st. James
park. The batteries and warships at
Portsmouth also fired the same sa-
lutte.
The queens popularity is growing.
To her influence is ascribed the cur
failing of the period of mourning by
a month, saving millions to British
tradesmen.
Hundreds of congratulatory tele
grams and cablegrams were received
by the queen.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
Ate Glass; May Die.

Bethlehem, Pa, May 27.-From eat
ing glass. George Harlatt, a ninety
year-old resident of Pequert Furnace,
Northampton county, who is blind is
at the point of death. He thought he
was picking up piece of candy. His
mouth and tongue are badly cut.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
"white sIaverD Sent to Prison,

New York, May 27.-Belle Moore,
the colored woman who was convicted
in the white slave" trial for placing
two girls for immoral purposes, was
sentenced to the Auburn state prison
for women for not less than two years
and six months nor more than FIVE
years.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
seyler Refuses Stage offer.

Atlantic City, May 27.-William Sey-
Ter, acquitted of having slain Jane
Adams, received several offers to show
himself on the stage, but he has turned
them all down. 81 will rest for few
days and then I will settle down to
hard work and live in Atlantic City,
he said.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
Too Many Pension Claims.

Washington, May 27, = Explaining
that congress has already passed one
third more private pension claims than
any previous session, Senator Scott,
acting chairman of the senate commit,
tee on pensions, informed the senate
that the committee would not report
any more such claims before adjourn
ment.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
All Switzerland Shaken.

Berne, Switzerland, May 81 = An
earth shock was felt throughout Swift
zerland. The movement was most pro-
nounced in the vicinity of this city,
where household furniture in some in
stances was overturned
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
Panama Railroad Coal Contract.

Washington, May 27.-The Panama
Railroad company has made contracts
with four American firms for $4,000
tons of semi-bituminous coal for the
year ending March 81, 1911.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
The Weather.

Forecast for this section: Fair t.
day; cooler in southeast portion: 4
morrow, fair; light northwest to no. d
east winds
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02
Hetty Green to Have Sons Aid.

Dallas, Tex, May 27. = E. H. r
Green, president of the Texas MidlanG
railroad, son of Mrs. Hetty Green. G
New York, villa, make his residence II
the east to assist his mother in he,
financial affairs
Bridgeton pioneer., 1910-06-02

Jailed For Not Keeping Son In sohoo,
Rockford, H., May 27. Charle.
Holtz has been sent to Jail for faiu.
to keep his son in school. He had beer
fined and refused to pay.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-07
Topeka Holds
First Contest
Under New Rule
Billiard Probable mayor Under Com
mission Form of Government-Re-
ligious Element in Contest.

TOPEKA, Kan, April 5.-This city held
its first election under the commission form
Of government today, and late returns in
dictate the election Of j. f.. Billiard for
mayor over William Green, the incumbent
by about 1000 majority.
Partisan tickets are impossible under the
commission charter and the campaign that
closed today was waged around the per
soEality OF the candidates.
Billiard, who was a former police com-
missioner, was accused Of favorinR a
forcement Of the prohibitory law. A
liberal policy, and Green was supported
largely by those who favor a strict en-
religious element was injected into the
canvass, in that Billiard was accused OF
being an atheist. This he denied in a
published statement.
Municipal elections also were held
throughout Kansas today. In several cities
the commission form Of government is in
and there party lines were not
drawn.
w J., Newbold was elected mayor Of
Wellington, which today held its first
election under the commission form OF
government Taylor Miller was elected
mayor Of sslina. which is also under the
commission form.
Indications are that c. +. Moses was re-
elected mayor of independence.
About one-sixth the full vote was polled
at Abilene, where A. W. Rice was elected
mayor under a commission charter. At
torneys say the election was illegally called
and its validity probably will be tested
in the courts. Cherryvale voted to adopt
the commission form of government.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-07
HUNDREDS PAY TRIBUTE
AT JOHN R0SICKY FUNERAL
Services for Burial of Prominent
Omaha bohemian Held Yesterday
Were Largely Attended.

Several hundred persons, among whom
were a number of distinguished men Of
the city and state, packed the Bohemian
Turned hall at the funeral Of John Rosicky
Tuesday afternoon.
The services opened impressively at 2
o'clock, with an Grafton in Bohemian by
L. ]. Palda of Cedar Rapids, Ia. Mr..
Palda had been a life long friend of Mr..
Rosicky, the two having known each other
since they were school children in their
native land. F. Fuchs, editor Of Amerika,
the Bohemian periodical OF which Mr..
Rosicky had been publisher, followed with
an address over the bier. In his address
in English, Councilman Louis Berka ex-
pressed the deep respect felt for the de-
ceased. Mr.. Berka, with references to
the accomplishment of the deceased
Bohemian, told how he had stood out
as a figure in Omaha and Nebraska.
The active pall-bearers, chosen from the
various groups Of local Bohemian turner's
were: Joseph Mix, Dr.. Frank Jellen.
Anton Hudecek. V. Sebek and Adam
sloup. The honorary pall-bearers were:
John Steiger, Charles Bartos. V. Fuchs.
V. Vancura, J. Jsnak, Joseph spicek,
Joseph Kavan, Frank Swoboda, V. Engel-
thaler. Frank Bandhauer, v. Wolesensky
and X. w. Bartos.
Great draperles In black and white
clothed the walls and galleries of the
hall and the floral offering Of wreaths and
shields Of splendid size and design, formed
the setting for the occasion.
The Quartet Lyra, a Bohemian chorus OF
male voices, and an orchestra Of five must
clans had their part in the ceremony.
With the close Of the orations, the as
semblage was formed into a line and per
mitted TO pass round the bier for a last
view Of the dead. The funeral procession
started at $50 o'clock. Burial was in the
Bohemian National cemetery.
After the services, two wagon loads Of
flowers which had been sent to the funeral
were distributed TO the sick in Omaha
hospitals.
Omaha daily bee., 1910-04-07

Why suffer from rheumatism when one
applica ion Of Chamberlain Eminent gives
relief?