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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-07
SHOOTS man; KILLS HERSELF
Tragedy at Casino, Near Boston,
Puts Dancers In Panic.
Victim Of Angry Woman Declined to
Tell Why She Made the Attack
Had Known Her Three Years.

Boston, Mass Ella Lawson, TWEEN
ty-three years old, of Charlestown,
Issent three bullets into the body of
Theodore Shannon, twenty-seven
years old, of No. so Otis street, Cam
bridge, in front of crowded dance
hall in Hough's Neck. Then, stand
ing over her writhing victim, she
turned the pistol on herself, pulled
the trigger twice and, with two bull
lets in her breast, ran fifty yards and
fell. Within five minutes she was
dead. Shannon was taken to tho
Quincy Hospital fatally wounded.
Jealousy, it is reported, prompted
the shooting The shooting created
panic among the dancers, almost all
of whom knew the girl and the man
she shot. The dance was abandoned
at once and the crowd rushed to the
street to get the details of the trag
edy. Shannon said he had known the
woman three years, and that she must
have followed him from Boston to do
the shooting. He just had alighted
from a trolley car in front of the
dance hall when she alighted from the
other end of the car and faced him.
Not word was spoken by either. he
said, before the gSrl opened fire upon
him
The way in which she did the
shooting showed how determined she
was to have Shannon's life. Her first
shot struck the man on the breast
bone, four inches below the neck. He
fell, but retained consciousness. The
girl stood menacingly over him. She
permitted him to stagger to his feet
and then fired again. That bullet
crashed into the lower part of his left
side, although she had tried to hit the
heart Again Shannon fell to the
street. AS he rolled about seeking
relief from pain, the woman shot him
again, that time in the small of the
back.
On the way to the hospital Shannon
told the story of what had preceded
the shooting. He said he went to
Quincy on the 1910 train from Bos-
ton.
Shannon refused to tell why the
woman had shot him. He said to DR..
William H. Ferris, one of the sur
geons:
If / die, Ella Lawson shot me.
Don't forget it"
Shannon is a graduate of the Cam
bridge High School and member OF
the Institute and the Lake View Yacht
Club. He is son of Patrick Shan
non, of Cambridge. Little was heard
of the antecedents of the girl
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In Ann Paris Of tIle state.

Governor Fort has moved to his
summer home at Spring Lake.
A rat entered the brooder of w. s
Bethel, a Pine Grove farmer. and
killed 135 chicks.
Miss Mary E. CoIburn sent her dec.
lination to the Woodbury. Board Of
Education as a teacher of the High
School
The Ocean City Board of Educa.
ton has approved the bond of Lewis
2. Smith, the new secretary. The
bondsmen are Mayor Crosse and CITY
Treasurer r. Curtis Robinson.
Little Miss Marie vickery Of
Bridgeport, received a prize for being
neither absent nor tardy from school
the past year
Smith Gilbert, eighty years old.
died at his home in Bridgeton. Ne
was one Of the leading builders and
contractors of South Jersey.
A fire company has been formed a,
Thorofare with "A. S. Truncer. Drasi.
dent; Charles s. Budd. vice-presi.
dent, and Carl Davis, treasurer m
A man named Lewisky was arrest.
ed in Woodbury. at the instance 4,
Mrs. Edward Taylor. charged win
abusing q horse, and Squire Mankin
lined him SIS Z
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Observation-Disclosures
Harriman's Will Fade From Human
Mind, But Oil Magnate's Never.

Palo Alto, Calm President David
Starr Jordan's address to the gradu-
ating class at Stanford University, the
subject of which was "The Wealth of
Nations, reference was made to the
lives of e. H. Hartman and other
great financiers in drawing the lesson
that mans success in life is not meas
ured by what he does for himself, but
rather by what he does for humanity.
"In those matters in which the
permanent wealth of nations is con-
cerned, in the long future of mental
and spiritual development. the name
of Hartman" said DR.. Jordan, finds
no place. The name of Newcomb in
the same connection will stand in
larger letters among those who by
life and influence have made this
world a broader and better one.
Continuing, he said; "The name of
Rockefeller will not suggest Standard
Oil or the association of monopolies.
The Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research represents one of the wisest
and most far-reaching uses to which
any mans money can ever be put"
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JEFFR|ES JOHNSON FIGHT.
A Frame-Up, Says Governor Gil
Iette, of California.
White Man Would Not Enter Ring
Till Assured That Championship
Would Come Back to His Race.

Chicago, Ill 20 think the Jeffries.
Johnson fight is frame-up, and thai
Johnson had no chance to win and
doesn't expect to win. / am convinced
Jeffries was assured he would be the
winner before he consented to re-en-
ter the game, and that Johnson has
been offered and has agreed to ac-
cept big sum and an interest in the
moving pictures to let Jeffries win
and thus throw the championship
back to the white race. I"
Governor J. N. Gillette, of Califor-
mia, thus expressed himself concern
ing the heavyweight championship
fight which is scheduled to take place
in San Francisco on July 4. Governor
Gillette was seen at the Congress Ho-
tel, where he stopped over for the day
on his way home from Washington,
d. G. He did not mince his words.
II believe it's frame up he re-
peated. There was no chance to
get Jeffries in the ring again, in my
opinion, unless he was assured in adj
vance of victory. Jeffries doesn't
need the money, and, while he may
be patriotic and willing to bear the
white mans burden, he has too much
to lose in prestige to take a chance
on defeat. On the other hand, john
son has very little to lose. If he
makes good showing against the UNI
beaten champion, it will be great
honor in itself, and if he can win
enough to make him independent for
life by letting Jeffries gain the title,
/ think he will do it. He needs the
money and think he has arranged
to get it.
"But eliminating frame up for
Jeffries to win, what chance has john
son? He would have to go into the
ring prepared to whip not only JEFF
fries, but the referee and a majority
of the male population of California.
/ don't believe the crowd would stand
for the negro being returned the win
'ner, and l am confident that Johnson
before he would take a chance would
fall down and knock himself out if
that were the only way he could let
JEFF win.
IT am not going to interfere. The
law permits these bouts. the Board of
Supervisors has granted a permit, and
that ends it so far as l am con-
cerned."
Los Angeles, Cal.-James ]. JEFF
fries declares that he has received a
statement from Governor Gillette dis
crediting the above interview.
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NEW JERSEY STATE NEWS
woman's Ballot Thrown out.


Miss May Kerwin, employed in the
Bank of Montclair as stenographer,
was surprised to learn that the vote
she cast against the adoption of the
town improvement" plan in the Sec
ond District Of the Second Ward had
not been counted She also was sur
prised to learn that she was the only
woman in Montclair who voted at the
special election When Miss Kerwin,
who lives with her mother in No. 81
Montague place, entered the polling
place the election officers thought her
request to vote was joke and they
smilingly permitted her to cast bal
lot. When the vote was being count
ed in the Second Ward the officers
found Miss Kerwin's ballot, which
was identified because it was not in
closed in an envelope. She had
marked it in opposition to the town
improvement plan When the young
woman was told that her vote against
the proposition had not been counted
she said; s'Well, it wasn't needed,
anyhow, and I'm glad had an ex-
perience which SO many suffragists
crave
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Knowledge worth Having.

The cut-and-dry knowledge which
is acquired from the study of man
uals or from so-called examiners is
very apt to share the fate of cut
flowers. 1t makes a brilliant show
for one evening, but it fades and
leaves nothing behind. The only
knowledge worth having, and which
lasts us for life, must not be cut-and-
dry, but, on the contrary, it should
be living and growing knowledge,
knowledge of which we know the
beginning, the middle and the end,
knowledge of which we can produce
the title deeds whenever they are
called for. That knowledge may be
small in appearance, but, remember.
the knowledge required for life is
really very small.-Max Muller.
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Vii vi. W.: 4: ThOmpsOns Water
PATIENTS wss.1s g gsss. l.s, T, ,.
- Dsv $50 est refsrencsA Best results
Happiness ard Sorrow.

In happiness there are far more
regions unknown than there are in
misfortune. The voice of misfortune
is ever the same; happiness becomes
the more silent as it penetrates
deeper. He is the happiest man who
best understands his happiness; for
he is of all men most fully aware
that it is only the lofty idea, the .un-
firing, courageous, human idea, that
separates gladness from sorrow
Maeterlinck
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-07

poor health could scarcelv attend to
my homework. My back ached as If
II We're being pulled apart, and my
Ieet and ankles were badly swollen.
Inc kidney secretions were in terri
Die condition. was extremely ner-
vous and my heart palpitated violent
~. Short use OF Doan's Kidney Pills
relieved me and soon my whole sys-
tenn was renovated"
Remember the name-Doan's. For
sale by all dealers. SO cents boy.
Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo. N Y.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-07
Woman a Citizen Now.

Mrs. Maria Emma Lindenstruth.
editor and publisher of the Passaic
Wochenblatt. German weekly, be-
came citizen of the United States,
and has the honor of being the first
woman in New Jersey to take out cit
izenship papers. She is widow and
has no children. Because of the fact
that her business and property are in
this country she decided last Feb
ruary to become citizen. Soon after
the ammo uncement that she had made
application for the papers she re-
ceived offers of marriage from a
Brooklyn broker, a New England
lawyer, and a retired New York City
merchant. These she declined. She
had no difficulty in passing natural
ization test.
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His Changing Calling.

DR.. Harvey w. Wiley, the Govern
ment food expert, was talking of a
new sort" of food preservative.
"They are all the same thing under
different names," he said. 1t re-
minded him of the old caretaker of
an Episcopal church, of whom he
once heard.
This old fellow, as he sat on tomb
in the churchyard, dismissed as triv-
ial the question of his proper title.
'The good old creed keeps the
same for all, he said, though they
may change the words they use.
Look at me, here, used to be pani-
tor. Then we had a parson who
called me the sextant DR.. Thirdly
give me the name Of virgin. And
the young man we've got now says
I'm the sacrilege. Youth Com
panion.
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Convicted Under Tire Law.

Assemblyman Edward T, Moore,
automobile inspector for Passaic
County, caused the arraignment OF
Paul Kubler, of No. 233 Hope ave-
nue.. employed as chauffeur by a
motor company, before Judge Costel-
10 at Passaic, charged with violating
a law passed by the last Legislature
prohibiting the use of certain tires
that, it is asserted, destroy the public
highways. Kubler was convicted af-
ter lively legal tilt between Assem-
blyman Moore. representing the State.
and counsel representing the motor
company A fine of $25 was imposed,
and the defendant has ten days in
which to pay. 1t is the first case to
be tried under the new law, and man
ufacturers of tires throughout the
country are interested. More than
500 cars in this State are using the
prohibited tires. The cars weigh from
five to six tons each when empty, and
the tires used, it is said, cut deeply
into the roads.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-07
Humoring Him.

ooh! forgot to tell you to bring
down my scissors, too" said the
spoiled wife. They're on the table
in the bedroom. Won't you get them
for me?"
"See here" complained the indul-
gent husband. I'm tired of waiting
on you in this way"
Are you, dear?" Well, just be
patient and I'll let you wait on me
in some other way. Catholic STAN
dard and Times.
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Feminine Notes.

Hettys Green's son will come from
Texas to manage her financial affairs.
Queen Mary will become the hon.
orary colonel of German regiment
Miss Belle Squire is president OF
the No Vote, No Tax Club, Of Chica-
go.
Nine. Faisey-Lanmennler Is the
first woman to be appointed a mail
carrier in France.
Brooklyn Manual Training High
School girls. whose athletic meet was
limited by the Board of Education to
three events, abandoned their field
day.
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100000 LIFE INSURANCE.

Chicago Cement Firm Takes Policy
to Protect Those Interested IN 1t.
Chicago, Ill.-One of the largest
life assurances ever placed in Chicago
was effected by Arthur s. Ford, treas
urer Of a cement company amounting
to 100000.
The premiums are to be paid by the
company The purpose OF the insur-
ance is the greater protection of those
financially interested in the corpora
ton.
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NIadriz,s ARMY Defeated.

Madriz's army, attacking Blue
fields, was put to flight, and Com,
mander Gllmer reported to Washing
ton. D. c., that the only way Near
agua's President can save his forces is
by evacuating the east coast
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-07
Princes in Auto Stoned.

Detmold. Lippe.-Prince Leopold
w.. the reigning Prince of Lippe, and
his brother, Prince Julius, were
stoned by gang of Italian laborers
while motoring. Prince julius re-
ceived a wound on the head.
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BY CABLE.
viscount Chelsea Dead.

Viscount Chelsea Dead.
London.-Edward George John
Humphrey, Viscount Chelsea, the
seven-year-old grandson and heir OF
the Earl of Cadogan, died, following
an operation of appendicitis.
King Georges Birthday.
Halifax, N. STATUTES we're fired
in honor of the birthday of King
George v. The day was bank holt
day in Canada.
hIinnehaha's Captain Suspended.
London. The Board of Trade held
Captain Leyland responsible for the
stranding of the Atlantic transport
liner Minnehaha on the Sicily Islands
on April IS, and suspended his GER
titicate for three months.
Princes in Auto Stoned.
Detmold, Lippe.-Prince Leopold
w.. the reigning Prince of Lippe, and
his brother. Prince Julius, were
stoned by gang of Italian laborers
while motoring. Prince julius re-
ceived wound on the head.
Madrid An imperial decree di.
reefs religious orders not authorized
by the Concordat of 1851, or en-.
gagged in industry, to seek immediate.
ly authorization under the law adopt
ed in 1887. This latter law provides
that members of foreign religious or.
ders must be registered.
Txa;e;os A ..os~ c3....t.,~. nax<.S
Potsdam Emperor William was
able to resume the signing Of official
documents, the abscess on his right
wrist having nearly healed. While
his majesty was incapacitated state
papers were signed by Grown Prince
Frederick William.
Exhibition at San Juan.
San Juan, Porto Rico.
Cotton has notified the foreign con.
suls that an exhibition will be held
at San Juan next February, and has
extended an invitation to the nations
to participate in it.
More Pay For the Kaiser
Berlin. Owing to the enormous
cost of maintaining his fifty-twO town
and country residences. the civil in,
come of Emperor William will be in,
creased to $5,0O0,O00. 1t now
amounts to $S,S25.0o0.
Asylum For Can Thrower.
Berlin,-Abraham Eierweiss, who
threw can of beans at the Crown
Prince, has been placed in an insane
asylum at Dalldorf.
Aviator Loses Life.
Budapest. Zosily, the Hungarian.
who won big aviation prize. was
killed while attempting a fight. His
aeroplane was smashed
WeyIer's Story Published.
Madrid. The flrst volume Of GEN
erai Weyler's long promised mem
oirs has been published and Is en-
titled Ny Rule Ia Cuba"
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MAURICE b. JOYCE browns.

Washington Stock Broker Loses Life
When Small Boat Caps.zes.
Washington, d. C.-Maurice H.
Joyce, stock broker of this city, was
drowned in the Potomac River of
Quantico, Va. Mr.. Joyce left Wash
ington early in the day with party
of friends in his yacht Quantico
He left the yacht in small boat
for the purpose of landing at Guam.
tico. The boat capsized.
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Beheaded by a Train.

Martin Mitchell took off his cloth
ing and laid his head on rail of the
Central Railroad at Madison. A train
decapitated him. Mitchell attempted
to end his life five weeks ago by
jumping from dock into Staten ISL
and Sound, but was rescued. He had
been an inmate Of the almshouse some
time,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-07
Doctors Seek HIGHER Fees.

Efforts are being made by members
of the local medical fraternity to
double the rates for medical service
which have been in force in Burling-
ton for years. 1t is said a round
robin" agreement has been held up
by refusal of two of the most prom
inent physicians to attach their sig
natures. The agreement would make
the rate for Office calls 81 and the fee
for home visits 50. The doctors re-
fuse to discuss the situation.
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o. HENRY DIES SUDDENLY.
Short Story Writer Victim Of
Cirrhosis at Forty-three.

New York City.-O. Henry, the
brilliant short story writer, whose
real name was William Sidney Porter,
died in the Polytechnic Hospital, in
East Thirty-fourth street. Death was
due to a weak heart and cirrhosis of
the liver. He was forty three years
old, and was born in Guilford County,
N. G.
Just before the author died he said
to Dr. Charles Russell Hancock, who
had been attending him since he was
taken i'll:
IT don't want to go home in the
dark
Tears came to the physicians eyes
at the odd mixture of humor and
pathos. Dr. Hancock said the end
came suddenly, and he had expected
the author would live for a day or
so. The writer's wife did not reach
the city from Whitmeyer, S. c., in
time to see her husband before he
died
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Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Cummings.
Joseph Cummings, Jr., and Martin
Cumming and Patrick Tansey expect
to spend the greater part of the sum-
mer at the county Jail. Milburn, N. J.
They were convicted Of lighting on
Sunday.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-07
RAINBOW BRIDGE A WONDER.

Proclamation by President to Pro-
tect Natures Work in Utah.
Washington, D. President Taft
issued a proclamation creating Rain
bow Bridge National Monument, a
natural wonder discovered by Piute
Indian within the Navajo Indian res
ervation near the southern boundary
of Utah.
The bridge not only has a symmet-
rical arch below. but has a curved
surface above. thus presenting the
form of rainbow It's height above
the water is, 307 feet and it's span
278 feet. Under the provisions of the
monument act, 100 acres of land sur
rounding the bridge are reserved for
its protection
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Death Sewers Pair.

Eleanor, wife of Joseph Pearce,
died at her home at Chesterfield,
where they had resided all their lives.
She was eighty-six years old and her
husband is eighty-seven. They had
been married sixty-six years, and have
one son.
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Within less than year and half
1t is hoped that through Pullman cars
from the United States and Mexico
will enter Guatemala City via the
Pan-American and Guatemala North
ern railroads.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-07
Mayor Drops Dead.

Dr. Calvin Anderson. Mayor OF
Madison, died of heart disease in the
fire house there. He was to have at.
tended meeting of the Fire Commit
tee to discuss the question of buying
new apparatus. Dr. Anderson, sixty
nine years old, was serving his sec.
ond term as Mayor.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-07

headache and dizzy
spells tell of disor-
dered kidneys. Neg
lect of these warn
ings may prove ia
tai. Begin using
Doan's Kidney Pills.
They cure. sick kid
neys.
Mrs. w. B. Conway,
III Railroad St..
Punxsutawney. Pa,
saws "T was in s,ch
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-07
GRAFT EVEN IN FISH BILL.
Dealers Raised $500 FOR Jackpot to
Kill Fishermen's License.

sprung here when it was learned that
the Sangammon County Grand Jury
had heard the testimony of witnesses
produced by States Attorney Burke
in regard to the killing of bill in
the State Legislature licensing fisher
men.
States Attorney Burke said he had
chain of evidence to show that up
ward of $500 was paid by various
fish dealers to have the bill defeated
in committee. He said that the legis-
lator who collected the money failed
to turn it in to the holder of the jack
pot that was divided among various
Representatives and Senators.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-07
"MooNsH1NING@ IN CHICAGO.
Quintet Charged With Having Evad-
ed S112, 900 in Taxes.

Chicago. Enlarged with having
operated "moonshine' brandy still
in the heart of Chicago and with de-
frauding the government out of
$4,000 internal revenue tax, Simon
Frindel, Max Bronstein, Abram
Weise, Frank Weise and Jacob Sell
ger were indicted by Federal Grand
Jury.
Federal officers say that more in
dictments against wholesale and re-
tail liquor dealers. through whom, it
is alleged. Frindel disposed of his
product, will follow.
Frindel is president of a concern
known as the Illinois Fruit Distilling
Company.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-07

Pipeline connections, says the
American Machinist, have been COM
pleted by which it is possible to nina
oil from the Oklahoma wells to New
York Harbor. Oil has been started
on the long journey of 1900 miles
This is the longest pipeline in the
world. - ING
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-07
JOCKEY KILLED AT RACE TRACK.
Langan's Life Crushed Out as Three
Horses Go Down.

Brooklyn, N. Y.-Fred Langan, a
jockey in the employ of Richard F..
Carman, the we'll known amateur
whip, was instantly killed in race
at Gravesend He had the mount on
the Oneck Stables Stalwart Lad,
which was one of the three animals
that went crashing to the track as
the field of thirteen horses rushed
around the turn into the stretch in
the last race on the program.
The boy never moved after falling,
and the doctors say that death must
have been instantaneous, probably
from a fracture OF the skull.
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Professor Harry Thurston Peck, OF
Columbia University, New York City,
was sued for $4,000 damages by
Miss Esther Quinn, who alleged he
broke his promise to marry her
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-07

Mrs. r. H. Thompson, of Tampa.
Fla, was run down by an automobile
driven by Mrs. Oscar Windhorst. The
skull Of the victim was fractured and
she died In a few minutes She was
struck lust after alighting from & car