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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-09-01
MARYLAND WEEK EXPOSITION.
OF Particular Interest to Farmers,
Fruit Growers, Florists, Dairymen,
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OF Particular Interest to Farmers,
Fruit Growers, Florists, Dairymen,
Etc.
Arrangements are rapidly progress
sing for the Maryland Week" expo
sition to be held in the 9Th Regiment
Armory, December 4th-9th, under the
auspices of the Maryland Horticul-
tural Society, the Cereal & Forage
Crop Breeders Association, The Ma
ryland State Dairymen's Association
and the Maryland Bee Keepers As
sociation. The annual meetings of
these associations, al well AZ those
Of the Maryland State Grange and the
Maryland Farmers League, will be
held at the same time in the Armory.
Already the indications are that
the exhibits of all products of the
farm, the dairy, ETC., will far exceed
any before shown I'm Maryland along
this line. There is nothing better
than Maryland wheat and corn, Its
nne varieties of apples, peaches,
pears and other fruit, its vegetables,
it, dairy products, It's flowers and
ornamental plants, etc
Besides the beauty and attractive
ness OF the exhibit, it will be highly
educational for the farmer, fruit
grower and others. The time for
holding the exposition IL believed to
be best suited for the country and
city people to join together and ex-
change ideas on the growing of crops
and the best way to market them, and
to become closer linked socially.
More than $4,000 IN prizes will Be
rdnd fn ~
ers, florists, dairymen and bee-keep-
ers OF the State for best exhibits. The
Greater Baltimore Committee and
other business men or that City are
actively cooperating and have help
ed the management or the different
associations in making much more
attractive premium list than ever be-
fore.
Prof. Thomas B. Symons, Secre-
tary-Treasurer, OF the Maryland
State Horticultural Society, is work
ing necessarily for the success OF the
show, because he fully realizes what
a great opportunity 1t offers To show
the wonderful progress Maryland il
making in agricultural and other
lines. In a recent conference Prof
Symons had with Edwin L. Quarles
Director of the Greater Baltimore
Committee, It was decided, to spare
no effort to make the exposition such
that it will attract every individual
In the State to see IL. The idea u To
make il banner week in the State
for the promotion or agriculture Id
all lines and to- demonstrate the great
possibilities that Maryland holds out
for future development
James s. Harris, OF Worton, is
President OF the Maryland State Hor-
tfcultural Society; Fl. P. Skipper, of
Chestertown, ID President Oh the Ma
ryland Cereal g. Forage Crop Breed
ers' Association; 8. M Shoemaker, or
Eccleston, il President OF the Mary
land State Dairymen's Association
and wv. IT, McCardell, OF Gather, is
President Of the Maryland Bee Keep
ers' sociation-Mandel Sener.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-09-01

Mrs. Susannah Tobey, of Wareham,
Mass, who has just died in her one
and first year, won deserved
fame by keeping a servant for more
than fifty years and another for thir-
ty years, while a servant is still en-
ployed in her house after thirty-five
years of service.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-09-01

. Black Hand bomb exploded in St
Louis on August III, killed two Ital-
ians and injured fourteen
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-09-01

John w. Gates, the powerful Amer
lean financier and stock operator,
died in Paris on August 8, after a
long and heroic struggle with dis
ease. It is estimated that his for
tune il about $4O,OOO,OOO.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-09-01

Chicago will have new union sta
ton, to cost S20,00O,000.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-09-01
CURRENT NEWS.

Chicago will have new union sta
ton, to cost s20,00O,000.
a Black Hand bomb exploded in St.
Louis on August Ill, killed two Ital-
fans and injured fourteen
More than ten barrels of flies were
gathered by 232 contestants in an
anti-fly crusade at Worcester, Mass.
The winner who gets a prize of 500,
turned in 81 quarts Oh $4,000 flies.
John w. Gates, the powerful Amer
lean financier and stock operator,
died in Paris on August 8, after a
long and heroic struggle with dis
ease. It is estimated that his for
tune is about $40,0OO,000.
The Post-office Department has fin
ally decided that the official name Of
the city OF Pittsburgh shall be spell
ed with the final b. This made it
necessary for the President to re
nominate the postmaster of that city.
David, 10-year-old-son of Mrs. Al
vernon Buchanan, Of Hagerstown,
udu AlS hAGG 50IIOuSly CuL OH d SAdI ~
stone on the road just east of Brad
dock Heights, having jumped Off an
automobile before the car came to a
full stop.
During the present year the Black
Hand society il credited with is muir
ders in Chicago, more than 100 bomb
explosions, and $500,000 collected In
fr1-o of
the plotters have been convicted OF
their crimes.
Mrs. Susannah Tobey, of Wareham,
Mass, who has just died in her one
hundred and first year, won deserved
fame by keeping servant for more
than fifty years and another for thir-
ty years, while a servant Is still en-
ployed in her house after thirty-five
years of service.
One hundred years ago John Jacob
Aston founded Astoria, Oregon. The
celebration of this centenary, which
began on August 10, was really the
celebration OF the centenary of the
great Oregon country" out of which
were carved Washington Oregon,
Idaho, and parts of Montana and
Wyoming.
James Hazen Hyde has founded a
permanent prize of 5000 under the
patronage of the Franco-American
committee, to be given annually to
the author of the best manuscript
book or translation which serves to
bring the United States and France
closer together or make the two peo-
pies better known to each other.
A coppersnake that had Just swal-
lowed a live rabbit was killed by an
Italian workman of the new State
road at FairWiew, near Hagerstown,
Md. Noticing that the reptiles body
was larger at one portion, George
Martin, foreman on the road, cut the
snake open with a shovel and the
rabbit hoped out and ran away.
The University of Michigan has just
granted the degree of Doctor of Phil
osophy to Miss Dorothea Jones of
Toledo, Ohio, whose age il only nine
teen. She is probably the youngest
person in America to receive this
honor. She was graduated from the
University Of Michigan when only
seventeen, and has received the de-
grees Of Bachelor OF Arts and Mas
ter of Arts.
George ID. Ladd, OF Pen-Mar, was
arrested in Hagerstown as he was
about to board a Western Maryland
train, on the charge of stealing 1919
from his wife, who keeps boarders at
Pen-Mar- The money was concealed
in an attic, which was broken open.
hadd was taken to Waynesboro,
where Justice Porter held him for
court in $700 bail on charges OF lar
ceny and non-support Of his wife.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-09-01

The Post-office Department has fin
ally decided that the official name Of
the city or Pittsburgh shall be spell
ed with the final h. This made ii
necessary for the President to re-
nominate the postmaster of that city.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-09-01

A coppersnake that had Just swal-
lowed live rabbit was killed by an
Italian workman of the new State
road at Fairview, near Hagerstown,
Md. Noticing that the reptiles body
was larger at one portion, George
Martin, foreman on the road, cut the
snake open with a shovel and the
rabbit hoped out and ran away.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-09-01

The University Of Michigan has just
granted the degree of Doctor of Phil
osophy to Miss Dorothea Jones of
Toledo, Ohio, whose age il only nine
teen. She is probably the youngest
person in America to receive this
honor. She was graduated from the
University OF Michigan when only
seventeen, and has received the de-
grees Of Bachelor OF Arts and Mas
ter of Arts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24
THAW FILES ANS WEIR.
says If He Ever Was Crazy He Is
Cured Now.

Pittsburg. Ang. 24.-An answer has
been filed by Harry K. Thaw. through
his attorney, former Governor Stone,
to the petition of his wife, Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw, in which Judge Davis
was asked to appoint a lunacy. COM
mission to take charge of the income
of Thaw in this state and provide for
the support of the wife. Thaw's in
come is said to be 100000 year.
Thaw asserts that the verdict of the
jury in New York state was not
finding that he was insane and that
the decree combining him in Mat
teawan was statutory and not pro-
ceeding as to the lunacy of Thaw. He
contends that the fact that he is still
confined in the Matteawan hospital
under the order of court does not
judicially or in any way establish his
present insanity.
In the second part of the answer
Thaw states:
your affiant is not at present in
sane. He is quite capable of attend
ing to his own affairs, and does at
tend to his own affairs. He transa cts
his own business. If there was ever
any arrangement mentally, the af-
fiant has entirely recovered from it
and is now in the possession of all his
mental faculties"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24
WILL FIGHT TO FINISH.
President Taft Declares War on mos
trums of Reform

Rochester, N Y, Aug. 24.-On the
eve Of his 40-day swing around the
circle on which Republican leaders ex-
pect him to define the issues Of the
Campaign Of 1912, President Taft an
nounced himself unalterably opposed to
the ''nostrums of reform which he
declared demagogueS ana theoretical
extremists have advanced for the solu-
ton Of the problem of concentrated
wealth in this country.
The president spoke to the veterans
Of the Grand Army of the Republic
and he found in the struggle which
they went through 50 years ago and
the one which, he said, now confronts
though the struggle of today, he de-
clared, would be bIoodless,
In the end, the president said, the
peace-lOving, straight thinking people
of the country would be victorious, but
the fight itself might be the longer be-
cause it vould be fought to the end
without bloodshed and the roar of the
battlefield.
Higher aims for the betterment Of
society, these new evils growing out of
the concentration Of wealth and these
combinations, which, properly controll-
ed, are a great good in the reduction
of the cost of production" said the
president have invited from the ac-
tive minded of today suggestions of
remedies that are so extreme that the
medicine to many of us seems worse
than the disease.
I'VE who are charged with the re-
sponsibility and sobered with the diff
| ficulties find ourselves in the middle
of he road, resisting the tendency to
socialism en- the one hand and the
| inertia of reactiOlary contentment with
present evils and ambition for greater
concentration Of financial power on the
other but we are gradually solving the
problem.
ss,The message that YOU bear, with
your experience and your success, to
those of US struggling now with the
/ problem is, that however dark at times
the situation seems. 50 long as we re-
tain in this country a GOd-fearing, So
! Der, intelligent people. we can count
| in the long run upon their working
out safely and sanely the problems set
| before them, no matter how many mis-
takes in the form of 'nostrums they
may have been led into by the .Specious-
} ness of half-baked theories of prog
: ress. 10 matter how often they may
have been defeated in their purpose by
the temporary success of undue and
corrupt influence of concentrates
I wealth.
From the moment he reached Rockies
ter until he left for Beverly, the presi-
/ dent was surrounded by veterans. He
stood on a reviewing stand for more
than two hours in the morning while
thousands CT old soldiers, most of then
lin blue. many of them lettering along
| with the aid of friends filed slowly by
Major General Frederick D. Grant
Mayor Edgerron and COMMANDMENT.
chief Gilman, of the G. A. R., stool
with the president.
Peace was really the subject of thu
presidents speech to the veterans bu
he said he could not miss an oppor
tunity to draw an analogy between tn
: contests of the past and those of TIN
. present and the near future.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24
THROWN OVER A CLIFF.
Colorado Woman Is First Assaulted
and Robbed.

Telluride, Col, Aug. 24.-The body of
Mrs. Lee Borg. who mysteriously dis
appeared near here last Thursday, has
been found at the bottom of a 700-foot
cliff She had been robbed and as
saulted.
Mrs. Borg, % years old. the wife of
a machine man employed in the Tom
Boy mine. six miles from Telluride,
Left the mine Thursday with $3.50, which
she intended to deposit at Telluride.
Although searching parties had been
looking Tor her constantly since then,
no trace of her was found until the
body was discovered at the bottom of
the precfpice over which it had been
thrown. The money and a. watch which
she had when she left the mine was
missing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24
WILL he GO BACK?
Andrew j. White Says He'll
Prove He Is Kimmel.
Strange Home Coming When
Convict Arrives.
DOCTOR is DOUBTFUL
Declares Prisoner Will Never
Come to Niles.
Big Insurance Stake Being
Fought For.
DOCTOR is DOUBTFUL

Niles, Mich. AIg. 24.-This little city
will witness a strange homecoming
within a few weeks. A prisoner now
confined in the pc nitentiary at Auburn.
n. Y, will be released September Is.
In prison he is known as Andrew J.
White. He claims to be George A.
Kimmel, former banker of Arkansas
City, Kan, missing since 1898. Niles is
the former home of Kimmel. He was
reared and went to school here. Dozens
Of people here believe they can tell
positively whether White is Kimmel. A
good many of them have even cores
ponded with White or Kimmel during
his Imprisonment.
Upon whether White, the prisoner,
is in reality Kimmel, the former bank
er, depends not only the solution Of
a puzzling mystery, but also involves
the payment of $4,000
Kimmel had $4,000 life insurance in
the New York Life company. The ben
eficiary is Mrs. Mary Bonslett of Chi
cago, his sister. The insurance COM
pany is resisting the payment Of the
policy on the ground that White is
Kimmel and that being alive there is
no occasion for the payment of the
policy Relatives say they have proof
died that White is an imposter, that
the money is due and should be paid
the sister and sued to recover it.
Soon after the discovery of White,
came a settled fact that the New York
Life Insurance company intended to
resist the payment of the $4,000 insur-
ance on his life, Dr. Bonine made a
trip to Auburn prison at the instance
of Fred Bacon of St. Louis, attorney
for Mrs. Bonslett, the beneficiary
named in the Kimmel insurance poll
cies. The doctor went to the prison
with the attorneys and after some per-
suasion Kimmel consented to let the
physician examine his eyes. DR.. Bon
/ inc then asked the prisoner to step to
window and the Niles specialist took
out microscope and took several rapid
but thorough glances at both the pris-
1 oner's eyes
one glance was enough to satisfy. He
was looking for the scar from the OPP
| Grafton he had performed.
! He found not the slightest trace of
q scar and that instead of KimmeTs
black eyes, he looked into clear blue
| eyes with pupils that dilated and con-
tracted naturally, indicating to the
specialist that they had never been af-
fected by either disease, injury or op
Grafton.
I'm satisfied said DR.. Bonnie and
he terminated the interview and turn.
ed away from the prisoner.
But how did White or kimmel &c
lin prison. Under the name of Andrew
j. White. the man was found guilty o.
larceny in Cattaraugus county, thi:
state. and was sent to MatteaWan, N
y, to the state asylum for the insane
He later regained his sanity and wa:
transferred to the penitentiary at Au
burn His sentence Of five years com
muted for good behavior expires Sep
TENDER Is. The warden will not Civ
the exact time Of the prisoners releas
nor will he tell on what train kimme
will leave for Niles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24
START FROM CAsTIEToN.
Great Crowd Sees Atwood Begin Last
Stage of His Journey.

Castleton, Aug. 24.-F'lying down
the Hudson valley at an altitude of
over 500 feet so as to avoid the heavy
gusts of wind and unsteady breezes
caused by the Catskill mountains and
the hills along the Hudson river,
Harry n. Atwood, the Boston aviator
began at 1885 this morning his final
dash of 10 4miles so as to complete
before nightfall his record breaking
biplane flight from st. Louis to New
York city. When he reahces New
York, he will have flown 1885 miles,
or 101 miles more than the present
worlds long distance record. The
present record was broken by fifteen
miles as Atwood passed over Kings
ton opposite Rhinecliffe.
New York or bust, said Atwood be-
fore his departure. Atwood, who be-
gan his flight at st. Louis eleven days
ago, planned to make his first stop
at West Point about two hours after
leaving here. He expects to leave
West Point in sufficient time to cover
the distance from there to New York
by 4 o'clock His intended course all
the way was above the Hudson river.
Before daylight his mechanics were
busy putting his biplane in order for
the start. Atwood himself remained
| in a farm house to be ready to as
cend as soon after daylight as the
wind seemed favorable.
Atwood is the second aviator to fly
4 from Albany to New York over the
Hudson river. THE other was Glenn
H. Curtiss, who on May %, 1910,
covered the distance between here
and Governors island, New York. in
just 152 minutes maintaing an aver
age speed of 5404 miles an hour. He
made two intermediate stops, one at
| Poughkeepsie, necessitated because OF
| low gasoline supply, and a second at
the upper end of Manhattan.
The latter landing was made to
learn the LAY of the land further
down the river.
Conditions for the start probably
were the most favorable since At
wood began his long flight. Hardly
breath of air stirred and what little
mist there was earlier in the day was
| soon dissembled by the hot sun blaz-
| ing from an almost cloudless sky.
! Hundreds of persons were attracted
to the starting point coming in auto
mobiles, motorcycles carriages and
many even walked miles to see the
aviator on his way. They were sur
prised to find that the owner of the
lot was charging admission to his
farm. netting a good profit Shortly
after 1880 O'Clock, all was announced
ready and Atwood climbed into his
seat, first strapping his suit case to
the machine. When the motor was
started it was found that spark plus
was broken and this caused some de
lay Atwood left the ground at :36
and after circling the field twice
/ came back over his starting point ano
waving his hand to the people, head
4 ed his machine due south over the
river In less than a minute he dis
appeared from sight behind the tree
tops.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24

wall ST. New York, Aug. 24.-STOCKS-
Heaviness developed at the opening of
today's stock market All active issues
showed marked declines with a loss of
point and a quarter in America Tobacco
preferred and one in Canadian Pacific
and Erie There were heavy dealings in
United States Steel at a fractional loss
and Union Pacific, Reading, Northern Pa
cific and Southern Pacific all We're lower.
New low prices for the movement were
made by Southern Pacific and American
Tobacco preferred, with further declines
elsewhere. Selling was moderate except
in Steel and Union Pacific and the move
ment in small way resembbled the recent
liquidation movement Before the end
of the first hour Canadian Pacific had
fallen 1ss, Union Pacific 1as with l point
losses in nearly al tsocks of the specu-
ilative class. From this level there was
a very slight recovery.
A substantial rally from the low prices
of midday was made in the next hour,
the recovery being due to denials of a
crisis in the labor situation on Southern
Pacific Union Pacific and Reading rallied
a point or more with lesser gains in Unit
ed States steel and the balance of the
active group. The list then resumed its
accustomed apathy and uncertainty of
movement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24

Chicago. Aug. Receipts
estimated at 1000 Market weak. Beeves,
IS. 10q8. TO- Texas steers, $4.50d6.45; western
steers, $4.25q695; stockers and feeders,
s3.10d5.50; cows and heifers, $2-25d6- 40;
calves, $6.00dS.75.
HOGS~Receipts estimated at IS. co.,
Market slow. Light, $7.20Q7. 721a; MIXED,
$7.O507.7215; heavy. $6-9Od7.65; rough, $500
7.15; good to choice heavy, $7-15G765; pigs,
Sc. 1901. As; bulk of sales $7.2007.50.
SHEEP-Receipts estimated at $4,000.
Market steady. Native, S2.75d3.75; west
ern, 81. 6Od3. 20: yearIings, s4O0a5. Is; lambs,
native, S4.006i6.60; western, $4.7546S5.
DAILY MOVEMENT OF PRODUCE.
WHEAT Receipts. 10000 bushels; ship
ments, 393, 900 bushels.
CORN-Receipts, 352, 400 bushels; ship
ments, 321, 900 bushels.
Car lot receipts: Wheat 116 cars, with
% of contract grade; corn 242 cars, with
126 of contract grade; oats POI cars.
Total receipts of wheat at Chicago,
Minneapolis and Duluth today were 374
cars compared with 319 cars last week
and 525 cars the corresponding day year
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24
He BEAT OUT THE STORK
Husband of Helen Hunt jackson Re-
tires from Business.

Colorado Springs, Col, Aug. 24.-Re-
tirement from business delayed for Is
years by repeated visits of the "stork'
to his home has come to W. S. jack
son, pioneer financier Of this city. Fiji
teen years ago Mr.. Jackson declared
he would not retire until he had 81,
OOO, 600 for each of his children. Before
he secured So, OOO. 600 for his three chill
dren the "stork' paid depeated visits
until the family increased to six chill
dran. Now that Mr.. Jackson has
anassed a fortune of more than So
DOC, OOO he determined to retire ard has
sold his interest in the Ell PasO Ma
tional bank to NJ. D. Thatcher presi-
Dent Of the First National bank Of
Pueblo. Mr. Jackson's first wife was
Helen Hant, author Of Ramona and
other novels
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-08-24
RECORD IS HIS.
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about ESQ feet in the air. When last
seen from the house tops of Pough-
keepsie he appeared to be travelling 40
to so miles an hour
1t was learned later. however, that
Atwood had telephoned West Point
that he feared to land on the parade
grounds because of the crowd there,
but would try to fly back there later
and make the start for New York At
wood left Castleton, N. Y, at 1885
O'Clock this morning, and when ne
passed Rhinecliff, an hour and four
minutes later, he had exceeded the
previous record for long distance aero
plane flight of 1, 164 miles by exactly
10 miles. Atwood made the flight from
Castleton to Garrison, a distance Of 80
miles. in two hours and nine minutes
His average speed this morning was
Al miles an hour. The birdman hopes
to resume his flight from here or West
Point to New York City this afternoon
and land at Sheepshead Bay race
track.
! The Boston aviator executed a thrill
ing feat in sight of hundreds this
morning when he passed the city OF
Poughkeepsie. Flying down the Hud-
son about 300 feet above the rivers sur
face, Atwood approached the loft!
| Poughkeepsie bridge. Slackening his
speed he glided down in a graceful ar
and swept under the Cantelever spal
nearest the city shore which was hneC
with cheering hundreds. Atwood thel
rose again and few off down the river
The West Point parade ground wa
throEged with cadets and watcher
from Highland Falls when Atwood wa
sighted rounding the Storm King noun
| tain. Instead of landing, Atwood mad
a sweeping circle over the encamp
ment and then flew off and landed in
field near here.
4 Hundreds of observers in the littl
towns and villages that fringe tn
Hudson saw Atwood today in his fiigh
on the last lap of his journey to New
York.