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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-12-14
SADLY NEEDED IMPROVEMENT

The improvement Of Twenty+hifd
street 10 tue vicinity OF Roanoke ave
nue.. provision for which has nov been
made L. the council. vas badly need
ed. and tie Highways and sewers
committee cannot proceed too quickly
with the proposed work. The street
at his point Is practically impossible
and tas been for sor,e time.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-12-14

l. 7. Frazier. WITH SOC points. beat
the hish scare In the ducs-pin con
test row "a progress az the Hotel
Newport bowling alleys. W. IL Hodge.
who formerly vas high With fsS
posns. drops 70 second place. Con
siderable Interest has been manifested
IN this contest for two handsome
prizes offered ~ Manager HCDdlcy.
The contest will coise On New Years
day. end - open 20 al comers.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-12-14
KILLS WIFE AND SELF.
Massachusetts Man Commits Double
Crime After Domestic Quarrel.

(Bv Associated Press)
MAIDEN. MASS. Dec. 13.-During
a domestic quarrel tonight Alonzo w.
Campbell killed his wife and himself
with a revolver at the home OF his
wife's parents. The couple had had
an argument which the woman's
father and mother tried to adjust
Campbell, however. drew his revolver
and said:
I've been threatening to do this
long enough. guess now is good
time He then shot his wife through
the brain and. placing the weapon to
his mouth. fired a bullet through his
own head.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-12-14
TRIAL POSTPONED.
Court Grants Extension in West vir
| .ginia Poisoning Case.
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated PreSs)
WHEELING, w. VA. Dec. BAR
er hearing arguments in csurt today.
Judge L. S. Jordan ordered that the
trial of Mrs. Iauran Earnsworth
Schenck, set for December 10. be
postponed until Janraty 10. Ccun-
sci for Mrs. Schenck argued that a
number of witnesses desired 10 use
could not be reported if the trial We're
20 take place at the time appointed
and asked an extension order that
these witnesses be reached and
brought within the jurisdiction of the
court.
Mrs Schenck was indicted for adj
ministering poison 10 her husband,
who Is now recovering.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-12-14

People easily censtipated dead the
vint-s soothing but hnrd coarse
meals No fruiis. 10 vegetables n
kssp TIC ytopaeA active. -Your bezf
relirf, ycur greatest friend nov -
HOLSTERS rocky Mountain Tea. tn
wcsidt sroe&ch regniaior. DO Il 20
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-12-14
NEGROES ROB eRoceRYmAN.
Robert Davis ard Robert oises Com
init Crime in Broad Daylight.

Robert Davis and Robert Diges Com
NIT Crime in Broad Daylight.
Convicted OF the charge Of robbing
a crippled groceryman on Ivy avenue
in the broad daylight. Robert DAVIS
and Robert Digs. negroes, were SEN
fenced TO twelve months in Jail by
Justice Jones. OF Bloodfield. Moncay-
Davis and Diggs left man on
watch outside and went into the. store
conducted by Abraham Goffetz on the
opposite side OF ivy avenue from the
Bloodiield police station The men
made a trifiing purchase and when
the merchant opened the cash drawer
to- make change. they knocked him
down aud made on with the drawer
and $4.65 in cash.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-12-14

SAX SALVADOR. DEE. 1e.--Laiesl
ady.ces from Honduras Indicate tha;
al : quiet there. The Telegraph
lines are net interrupted snd rumorz
81 rising n Honduras arc believed
20 % false
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-12-14
Jan try C. B. s. spscial.

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Would you miss bargain like this?
Cook Stoves from $3.50 up, Wood
Stoves from soc up, slightly used
Stovepipe from sc up, Dining Room
Coal Stoves from $3.50 up. Kitchen
Chairs from 95c up. Dining Room
Chairs from soc up, Rocking Chairs
from 75c up. Sideboards from $3.50
up, Hall Racks from SETS up, Ores
sers and Bureaus from $3.50 up, 1
1000 ID. Iron Safe. cost S55, slightly
used, $3.50; 1 new Bicycle, shop
worn, cost $25. now $15.75; 1 nearly
new drophead Singer Machine. $3.50;
1 double-barreled shot gun, $3.50; 6
Mirrors. 16x20 feet, CSC: Extension
Tables from s2.75 up and Kitchen Ia
bles from SOC up.
White Front Auction House
Auction Sale Saturday and saturday
Night.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1910-12-14

IN tho police court yesterday morn
INK Jas;ice Brown continued untn De
c-mbcr p the case OF Charles Fish.
Who was arrested Monday IN connec
ton with the Gcrscn ca-e. Fish u
charged with grand larceny.
The Springfield herald., 1910-03-04
INSTRUCTION in THE SCHOOLS
Children Being Taught the Nature and
Methods Of Prevention Of
tuberculosis.

Definite instruction concerning the
nature and methods of prevention OF
tuberculosis is being given to less
than six per cent. OF the public school
children of the United States, accord
Ing to bulletin of the National Asso-
citation for the Study and Prevention
of tuberculosis. Recent investigation
has shown that in only nine cities.
Washington. Dallas, Tex. Richmond.
Va. Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Detroit.
Mich. Maiden. Mass. Salem. Mass.
Saginaw. Mich, and Knoxville. Tenn.
are special text books being used or
lectures being given about tubcrculo-
sis. In three states and one territory.
Michigan. Massachusetts. North Caro-
lima and Porto Rico. laws have been
passed requiring that instruction
about the nature and methods of pre-
vcntion of tuberculosis be given in all
public schools. In Tennessee the
state department of education has re-
quested that such instruction be given
and has issued circulars for this pur
pose. In New Jersey and West Vir-
ginia wall cards giving instruction
are hung in every schoolroom and the
attention of all children is called to
them
The Springfield herald., 1910-03-04

A duel with pistols was fought at
Vienna few days since by two Aus
trian government officials, DR.. Oscar
Mayer and Baron Hermann Widenofer.
Mayer shot Widenofer dead. DR.. Mayer
was grief-stricken at the result Of the
duel.
Arthur Fraser Walter. who at one
lime was chief proprietor Of the Lon.
don Times. and more recently chair
man of the board -of directors OF the
company that purchased the paper.
died at London, February ED, from
influenza.
w. Cameron Forbes. governor gener'
al Of the Philippines. intends to call
an extra session Of the legislature to
meet at BaguiO the end of March to
complete legislation on public works,
which was delayed waiting tariff de-
velopments.
The Royal Geographical Society of
Italy has bestowed gold medal upon
Commander Robert E. Peary for the
discovery of the North pole and a sill
yer medal upon Capt. Robert A. Bart
lett. who commanded the Roosevelt on
the Peary expedition.
II shall believe DIR. Cook the explor-
er. is an honest man until there is def
mite proof to the contrary" declared
Maurice F. Egan, minister to Denmark.
in an address at Washington. Fully
half the people in Denmark. DR.. Egan
said. still believe that DR.. Cook reached
the pole.
A cottage hospital for the treatment
Of tuberculosis. each cottage to be
built in tree top. is announced as the
plan of DR.. Arthur Funk. a medical
missionary Of the Presbyterian
church. for the conquering Of the dig
ease in Persia. DR.. Funk and his wife
are stationed at Hamadan. a city of
so 900 population, about 200 miles west
of Teheran.
f. Hopkinson Smith, the noted auth
or, is quoted as saying that the man.
ners of the people OF New York are
the worst in the world. THE great
trouble" he says. "is that our young
men are coming back from the colleges
ignorant of manners. II were put in
charge of a college should establish
a chair Of manners"
Heavy sentences were dealt out at
Sydney, New South Wales. to half .
hundred miners who were found guilty
of melting to riot and unlawfully as
sembling in the Cape Breton coal
fields. where 5000 members of the
United Mine Workers of America are
on strike. Five leaders were SEN
fenced to two years in the peniten-
tiary.
Through the generosity OF Mr.. Ran
dolph H. Guggenheimer. 1000 news
boys of Greater New York dined royal
ly at Washingtons birthday spread
in the newsboys' lodging house. After
the spread each boy received small
American flag and a pair of warm
gloves. The custom was begun by the
late Mr.. Guggenheimer.
Mrs. Jacob Wetmore. wife of guide
in the Adirondacks, is the inventor Of
new bread recipe which army Off
GERS of the commissary department,
believe will prove of the greatest i'm
portance to the army. The bread,
called hard bread for campers use,"
appears to last indefinitely, when
baked according to Mrs. Wetmore's In
structions, and likewise has the advan-
tage of being healthful. crisp and
tasteful as the French breads.
The Springfield herald., 1910-03-04
Marriaq qe.

A game of chance in which the
chances are about even. The man
leads at first but after leaving the al
tar he usually follows breathlessly in
his wife's trail. The rules are very
confusing. If masked player holds
you up some night at the end OF long
gun, 1t is called robbery. and entities
you to telephone the police, but II your
wife holds you up for a much larger
amount the next morning at the end OF
long hug. 1t is termed diplomacy.
and counts in her favor. In this. as in
other games OF life. wives are usually
allowed more privileges than other
outlaws.-Judge.
The Springfield herald., 1910-03-04
LATEST NEWS
EP|T0MIzED
FROM TELEeRAPAic RE.
PORTS THAT COVER THE
WEEKS EvENTs.
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPiNGTHE READER POST.
ED ON MOST IMPORTANT
CURRENT TOPICS.
WESTERN NEWS.

Barton o. Aylesworth, former presi-
dent of the Colorado Agricultural col
lege, has been engaged to lecture in
Illinois on the conditions in Colorado
since women were given the ballot.
Mrs. Tishima. wife Of the manager Of
the Japanese bank. at Fresno. Calf.
is the first and only woman Of her
race who draws a salary from Uncle
Sam. She has been appointed post
mistress of No. postoffice station.
The Postal Telegraph Company has
announced its intention to devote the
proceeds of its recent sale OF the stock
which 1t held in the American Tele-
phone & Telegraph Company amount
ing to $8.200.OO0, to the betterment
and improvement of its lines from Den
yer to the Pacific coast.
A $40,0O0.000 railway project de-
signed to open up the west coast Of
Mexico, has Just been incorporated in
Delaware under the name OF the Mex
lean Pacific. The line is to connect
Salin Cruz and Manzanillo and is to
have steamer connections from Aca.
pulco to California ports.
Friends OF the late Mrs. NJ. Given.
for many years a prominent Colorado
restaurant keeper. say that she was
not the divorced wife of Charles Gui-
teau, the slayer of President Garfield.
as was reported. The real Mrs. Gui-
teau married man by the name Of
Giben and died at Aspen some eight
years ago.
In dire straits for food because Of
the failure of their food crops and
without even seed corn for planting,
Madres are reported to be wandering
through the states of Chihuahua and
Coahuila in Mexico. The Tarahumares
are peaceful, and follow agricultural
pursuits.
The deal whereby Martinus Thomp-
son, representing the Canadian Asbes-
tos Trust, sought to secure control OF
the Wyoming asbestos field. on Casper
mountain, is said to be off, the direc-
tors of the North American and Wyo-
ming Consolidated companies having
refused Thompson's offer of $S50,000
for their holdings.
Louis Paulhan, the aviator, who was
under contract to make flights with
his airship at Oklahoma City. received
a telegram that the Wright brothers
had secured an injunction in New
York which prevents him from making
further exhibitions. Paulhan said he
would make no more flights until the
matter is cleared up. He left for New
York City.
Not daunted by his accident at Ell
Paso, when his bioplane dropped to
the ground. breaking a wing of the
machine and slightly injuring the avi-
ator, Charles X. Hamilton repaired his
machine overnight and gave other ex-
hibitions the next day. In one Of his
flights Hamilton crossed over the line
into Mexico, to the amazement OF
some of the natives.
News has reached Los Angeles OF
the marriage at Laguna. N. NJ, of Miss
Alice Kate Goodman, a missionary who
came to Los Angeles year or more
ago from Chicago, to the Rev. Kenichi
tnazawana. pastor of Japanese church
in Los Angeles. The bride told her
friends that she had reached the con-
clusion that inter-racial marriage is
both absolutely right and concretely
WISE"
The Springfield herald., 1910-03-04
A GOOD CHANGE
A Change of Food Works Wonders.

The wrong food and drink causes
lot of trouble in this world. To
change the food is the first duty of
every person that is Ill. particularly
from stomach and nervous troubles.
AS an illustrations: lady in Mo has.
with her husband. been brought around
to health again by leaving of coffee
and some articles of food that did
not agree with them. They began u.s.
ing Postum and Grape Nuts food She
says:
For a number OF years | suffered
with stomach and bowel trouble
which kept getting worse unutil ! was
very i'll most OF the time. About four
years ago 1 left OF coffee and began
taking Postum. My stomach and
bowels improved right along. but was
SO reduced in flesh and SO nervous that
the least thing would overcome me.
Then 1 changed my food and be-
gan using Grape-Nuts in addition to
Postum. l lived on these two prin-
cipally for about four months: Day
by day l gained in flesh and strength
until now the nervous trouble has en-
tirely disappeared and l feel that
owe my life and health to Postum and
Grape-Nuts.
Husband is 73 years old and he was
troubled for a long time with occa-
sional cramps, and slept badly. Finally
prevailed upon him to leave off coffee
and take Postum. He had stood out
for a long time, but after he tried
Postum for few days he found that
he could sleep and that his cramps
disappeared. He was satisfied and has
never gone back to coffee
Il have a brother in California who
has been using Postum for several
years; his whole family use 1t also be-
cause they have had such good results
from It,"
Look in pkgs. for the little book, THE
Road to Wellville." There's Reason"
Ever rend the above letter. A new
ono appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true and full of human
AAterest-
The Springfield herald., 1910-03-04
GENERAL NEWS.

The $40 hog reached Buffalo. N. Y,
and Columbus, O., February oath, that
price per hundred being paid on both
markets.
The Philadelphia Street Car Com
pany has posted notice in each Of
its nineteen barns that all employees
who have remained loyal to the com
pany and who may become incapaci-
tated by reason of injuries received
in the strike disorders, will be cared
for during the rest of their lives.
The American consuls in Europe
have received instructions by cable
from the state department at Washing
ton to prepare and forward forthwith
comparative statistics, showing the diff.
ference in the cost of living in 1900
and 1910. These statistics will cover
food, clothing. rents and similar neces
sary expenses. They are intended for
the use of the Senate committee which
is investigating the increase in prices.
At the meeting of the National
Builders Supply Association, at Chi
cago it was freely predicted that the
present year will be the greatest in
building operations in the history Of
the country.
An agreement among the heirs ap-
proved by Supreme Court Justice
Gerard of New York saves for the pur-
pose intended by the testator the sum
of $1.000,O0O bequeathed by the late
Mrs. Caroline Phelps Stokes for the
education of whites, Indians and me-
groes.
The British Aero Club has sent a
challenge to the Aero Club of America
for contest for the Gordon Bennett
aviation cup and the Gordon Bennett
balloon cup.
The official report of the flood dam
age in eighteen of eighty-six depart
ments of France shows monetary
loss of $14,60O.OO0. This includes the
$10.O00,000 damage done in Paris.
Fifty persons are reported to have
been killed in panic following fire
In the municipal theater at Trujilli,
Peru. The fire started in moving
picture show.
The Springfield herald., 1910-03-04
GRAND HALL OF
HOUSEHOLD ARTS
NEW BUILDING FOR COLORADO
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE AT
FORT COLLINS.
COST Will Be $4,000
ALL THE APPLIANCES OF UP.To
DATE KITCHENS, PANTRIEs
AND LAUNDRIES.

Fort Collins.-An enduring monu
ment to the generosity and public
spiritedness of United States Senator
simon GuggenheIm of Colorado, and
one Of the most perfect institutions in
the United States for instruction along
the lines designed, will be the Guggen-
helm hall of household arts, which will
be erected at once at the State Agri.
cultural college at Fort Collins, at a
cost of $4,000.
Senator Guggenheim has already
contributed several buildings to the
school, as well as to the State univer-
sity at Boulder and to the State School
of Mines at Golden.
The Fort Collins building will be 10S
teet long. seventy-one feet wide and
two stories in height. 1t will have
space for heating pipes under the first
floor. and will be faced with gray brick
with white stone trimmings. The roof
will be slate with tile ridges.
The first story, thirteen feet high,
will be entered from the main portico.
by entrance hall and corridor nine feet
wide, from which will open the super
intendent's office. dinning room. libra
ry, teachers room, toilet and cloak
rooms, and the main staircase to the
second story. facing entrance hall.
The two kitchens, each thirty feet
square, with cold storage and store
rooms and the laundry. forty by thirty
feet, are planned for the east and west
sides of the building. These will be
lifted with the most modern appliances
and machinery. as well as with cook
ing tables, cupboards. and other con,
veniences. There will be open porches
in the rear with cement floors.
These, with the courtyard enclosure,
will form an arcade one story high
fronting the college campus. A good
architectural appearance thus VIII be
lent the campus as well as toward the
northeast. The second story, fifteen
feet high, will be occupied by two sew
ing rooms, each twenty-eight, by thirty,
in the east wing. There Will be fitting
room and store room, with class rooms,
teachers room and a large entertain
ment room, with small kitchen and
pantry adjoining. 1t will be Joined by
dumb waiter with the main kitchen on
the first floor There are planned also
rooms which will be fitted up to repre-
sent small model house. and in these
will be given lessons in practical house
keeping.
Probably the main architectural fea-
ture provided is a handsome portico
over the front entrance. with stone
steps. columns twenty-six feet high and
rr.tt n.
THAN caps, bases and entablature.
Members of the faculty expect ths
departure to prove of great value. IN
building up the institution along prac-
teal lines. The girls will have oppor'
tunities equal to those of the boys,
through the agency of the courses OF
study which will be developed In the
new building.
The Springfield herald., 1910-03-04

w. C. Johnston, formerly OF Denver,
and president of the Fountain Valley
Land and Irrigation Company. has
pledged $4,000 to the building of a
canning factory near Fountain. The
factory is to cost $4,000. The re-
mainder of the money is promised
from eastern sources. The plans in
clude a colonization scheme.
The larger part of the estate of the
late George w. Clayton has been
turned over to the city of Denver by
former Judge Moses Hallett. executor.
The estate is valued at over million
dollars and the city officials received
s3SS, 900 In bonds. SS0.000 in notes Sc
cured by first mortgage, together
with deeds to much valuable real es-
tate. The estate is to be held in trust
by the city for the uses of the Clayton
college for orphan white children.
One hundred thousand acres of des-
ert land In Routt and Rio Blancc
counties, recently restored to the pub
lie domain, are to be irrigated by the
Northwestern Irrigation Company,
which has filed articles of incorpora'
ton in the office of the secretary OF
state. The incorporators are w. ].
Fine, II. B. Boughner and D. S. Ham
ilton. Engineers have staked the line
of the canal for ninety miles from the
north fork OF the White river. by tun'
mel through Yellow Jacket pass, to
Axial Basin and Maybelle. The tunnel
will be 5000 feet long. Four reser'
voirs with a total capacity of 100000
acre feet will be constructed.
The contract for building training
school for the State Normal school al
Greeley has been let to w. E. Towers
of Denver for $4,000. When com
pleted the school will cost 100000
and will house the grades and high
school of the State Normal. The con
tract calls for its completion in eleven
months.
A meeting OF the stockholders oi
the Colorado-Kansas Railroad Compa-
ny will be held in Pueblo March 22d
to authorize the issuance of bonds to
build the road into Fremont county,
The company is considering plans fol
a line to the top of the Royal Gorge.
Greeley is planning to celebrate the
fortieth anniversary of the arrival OF
the Union Colony in May, 1870. For
the sixteenth successive time, Henry
r. West, eighty-five years old, the
only surviving member of the commit
tee which located Greeley. has beer
elected president OF the society.
The Springfield herald., 1910-03-04
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

The Senate passed Senator GuSyen
helms bill authorizing the sale to the
town of Fruita of 1850 acres of public
land at SLIPS an acre for water storage
purposes.
Representative Mondell OF Wyoming
has introduced bill approprIating
$4,000 to build an iron stairway from
the foot to the summit Of the Devils
tower, in DEVILS Tower park. Wyo.
ming; also bill to place the ceded
portion of the Shoshone Indian reser-
walton. Wyoming, within the provisions
OF the Carey desert land act.
The secretary of agriculture has an
nounced that there will be substan-
tial increase in the number of live
stock which will be allowed this year
to Craze in the national forests. The
increase over last year will be 100000
cattle and horses and 100000 sheep and
goats. The most substantial increases
will be in Colorado, Montana, Utah.
Nevada and Washington.
The Wyoming delegation in Con-
gress will make an effort to secure
legislation by which the provisions Of
the Carey act will be extended to the
lands included in the ceded portion of
the Wind River. Indian reservation,
opened to entry and settlement in
1905.
Delegate Andrews has introduced
bill authorizing the city of Gallup to
issue $4,000 in five per cent bonds to
provide funds for constructing water
works. Also bills authorizing New
Mexico to sell one township of school
lands for city park purposes to each
of the towns of Tucumcari, Roswell Ar
tesla and Melrose.
Senator Warren secured the passage
in the Senate of his bill permitting
the state of Wyoming to relinquish 16,-
900 acres Of school and state lands par
TALLY occupied by government recla-
nation reservoirs and works and to
select In lieu of the lands to be re-
linquished an equal area in other parts
of the state.
LESS than five feet high? All right,
you can't be a telephone girl" Such
is the rule of the big telephone compa-
MES, according to report compiled
for the United States Senate by the
labor bureau. Girls must be tall enough
to reach the tops of the switchboards.
The Senate has passed Senator War
ren's bill authorizing the secretary OF
the interior to sell Rawlins, Wyo., 16O
acres for water purposes. The House
passed Mondell's bill granting similar
authority to sell 800 acres to Buffalo,
Wyo, for poor farm purposes.
A favorable report was made in the
Senate upon resolution which has
passed the House providing that 20
per cent of the annual appropriations
for surveys and re-surveys OF public
land may be devoted to re-surveys and
retracements instead Of per cent. as
at present.
Moses Haas of New York, indicted
in the District of Columbia in connec-
ton with the cotton leak scandal
of the Department OF Agriculture In
1905. must come to Washington for
trial. Such is the decision OF the Su
preme Court of the United States.
The Springfield herald., 1910-03-04
What II Meant

Robbie" asked the school mistress.
"what does history mean when 1t says
that in the country's pioneer days
some of the settlers didn't have roof
over their heads?"
ut means that in them days the
woman couldn't afford any merry wild
Ow hatSi"