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The Detroit times., 1911-02-23

her life, the later years of which have
been made long tragedy by the raw
ages of nervous disease. Her hus-
band, John Neukom. also has searched
IN vain. There Is one child, Evelyn.
Blk years old, who constantly cries tor
her mother.
: Mrs. Neukom's illness has caused
fits of insanity, which have become
1uore and more frequent. Her has.
hand, a frugal and Woodworking Swiss.
has been faithful through all the
trouble. BY night, he has sat up win
her, trying to soothe her. Every
morning. he has dragged himself TO
work, weary in mind and body. until
his efforts to placate her and meet
Tie heavy demands upon his modest
Purse, have left him almost wreck
of a man.
Twice Mrs. Neukom has been treat
cd in Eloise. Recently, when her Goa,
d'tion became worse, physicians ad
used her being taken to Pontiac. SAC
heard of the plan to send her there
end declared she would never sc
Her husband sat all night, watchin :
over her. Finally, when sleep would
ret be denied, he dozed off and III
ths dead OF night, she stole on, She
took with her two valuable rings AID
her husbands gold watch, which she
had given him. II Is inscribed From
Florence to John"
George X. Long, her father, has had
more than his share OF hard knocks.
Once he was well-to-do. A fortune OF
81 900 was lost in investments. tic
and his wife stood this bravely, but
this most recent trouble and struggles
to keep the wolf from the door. have
almost bereft Mrs. Long OF her rea'
son.
Mr.. Long has faint hope that the
IT !ssing woman may be In Toledo.
where they formerly lived. He has
sought the aid of the police depart
ment there. Mrs. Neukom Ia so years
old.
Relatives of Fred Pickler, No. 1871
ty-fifth-st., informed the polite.
Wednesday, that he disappeared IAN
Z. They think he is in Cleveland.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-23
COUNCIL GIVES VOTE OF THANKS
supt. John L. Mcdonnell, Of House OF
Correction, Praised In Resolutions.

The customary vote OF thanks for
Supt. John l.. Mcdonnell, Of the De-
troit House OF Correction was forth.
coming, Tuesday night, when the
board OF inspectors OF the institution
submitted to the council its annual
report. the gist OF which has been
previously published. Aid. Littleheld
introduced a resolution, which was
adopted, authorizing the superinten-
dent to turn over TO the city the $780,.
600 remaining from the profits OF last
year, and incidentally thanking Supt.
Mcdonnell for the able and efficient
manner In which he. has conducted
the affairs OF the Institution"
The Detroit times., 1911-02-23
FEARED WOMAN
HAS KILLED SELF
Father and Husband of Mrs. Florence
Neukon Search Streets for Her
Night and Day.

Haggard and hollow-Ayed for want
OF sleep. George X. Long. OF No. AZ
i.yman-pl.. came to police headQuar-
tiers. Wednesday morning. on a hope
less errand. Since Feb. 10, he has
walked the streets night and day,
seeking his daughter, Mrs. Florence
Neukom, who disappeared from her
home at No. 4351s Milwaukee-ave.
east, on that date.
Her last words were threats to end
The Detroit times., 1911-02-23

y Not long agoa Boston paper printed two of
a score of items included in shipment of fur
niture consigned from London to George
The Detroit times., 1911-02-23
To Hold patriotic Service.

In the Woodward-aye. Baptist
church, Wednesday evening. Fred
Butler, the noted basso singer, who in
assisting DIR. NJ. p. Fixes I'm his spe-
cial services, will sing MY Own Uni
ted States" and Near the Campfires
Pickering Light" DIT. Fixes will
speak. Service will be held at 1880 In
the church auditorium, and old sol
dIers are especially invited.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-23
Fails vle,im To Thieves.

8. W.. Bends. OF Coal City, Ala. has
a jusufiable grievance. Two thieves
stole his health for twelve years
They we're liver end kidney trouble.
fhen DR.. Kings New Lifc Pills thrut.
tied them. He's well now. Unrivalad
for Constipation, Malaria. Headache.
Dyspepsia. &c T. &. Kinsel, Gray
q Wooster. Central Drug Go.
The Detroit times., 1911-02-23
Report. FortIfieatIont sIII.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22r-CarryIng
over s5,0O0.0o0 the fortihcation 'appro
briation bill was passed this afternoon
by the house. Practically all Of the
sums appropriated by the bill were
for perfection OF defenccs In the Ha.
waiisn and Philippine islands.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
MILK BUSINESS IN THIS STATE; .' HOW CONDUCTED
Bridgeport Samples Showed up Well - Testimony Before h. vestigating Committee

Hartford. March 31-Interesting evidence as to the milk business in the state and the value of inspections Of all sources of milk supplies was given yesterday before the special committee of the Legislature which is looking into the price of food stuffs. Analyses of five samples of cream taken in New Haven were giv- en, showing all adulterated, and an- alyses of three samples of milk from New Haven and Bridgeport, showing all good. Dr. Arthur J. Wolff, bac- teriologist for the Hartford board of health, gave the results of the exam nations of the milk and cream. All the cream contained gelatine, he said.
 Fred Tuthill, manager of the Rog- CT Farm Dairy company of Bridge port told the committee that his cream is ''let down" with pure milk. Walter Engles of the Borden com, pany said that since the pure food porated cream has been changed into 'evaporated milk"
 Charles G. Morris president of the New Haven Dairy Company said that the company buys milk in New Hamp- shire, Vermont, Massachusetts and sometimes in Philadelphia. Perhaps for Q week last year, during milk shortage, milk was mixed with con- densed milk and Van Camps cream. This product was not labeled
 The witness provoked a smile when he said, you can't afford to pay freight on water from Vermont. The water is taken out and additions are made when the product arrives.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
GIRLS ARRESTED IN
 STRIKE MOB
May be Charged With Contempt of CourtFor Violating Injunc- ton Clause
Strikers Complain to Mayor Smith Against Police Commis- sioner Normand F. Allen
tSpecial from IJnited Press !,

tSpocldI rom OnlIeQ HEeSS.J
 Hartford March 31.-Eight strik- ing alteration tailors were arrested, today out of a mob that demonstrat- ed their dislike of the injunction suit filed yesterday, by the department store owners. The strikers and sym pathizers marched to the Sage & AL len Companys store and chorused to the strikebreakers, There's a general strike on here"
 Alleging that they used the word ''scab' the police charged each of the prisoners with breach of peace and resisting an officer. The more seri- ous charge of contempt of court for injunction against picketing may be entered against the prisoners.
 After a brief preliminary hearing their trials were postponed until next Monday under s2oO bond each which was furnished. Already five strikers are out Gn like bonds on the same charges.
 The strikers handed Mayor Smith petition, today, alleging abuse of pub lie office on the part of Police Com missioner Normand F. Allen who is a member of the firm of Sage & AL len, owners of one of the largest de- partment stores affected by the strike. The alteration tailors charge that he has used his official position to pre- judice the police against the workers and secure an unnecessary amount of police protection.
 Eight striking girls are said to have made oath to having violated the State law at the order of their em- ployers. Every day produces indica- tions that the entire union labor forces and the open shop employers interests are lined up for finish fight. The department store owners are receiving the moral and financial support Of all other classes of en- ployers who have organized into as- sociations and the wage workers are backed by their fellow unionists.
 The strikers today, admitted that they had met a temporary setback in the suit for s10,00O and the temporary injunction against picketing brought by the employers, yesterday. The cases are returnable in the Superior court May 1. The injunction was en- tered by Judge Williams.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
X-SCIENCE AND
 MRS. SCHIOTT

George A Law of New Haven, writ ing to the New Haven Journal-Cour- Ter regarding the death of Mrs. Jo- names Schiott, daughter of E.. T. Bed ford. of Greens Farms, claims that Mrs. Schiott was kept alive several years through Christian Science.
 Allow me to state,' writes MT. Law, that Mrs. Schiott some years ago through Christian Science was healed of a severe heart trouble which Materia Medica had failed to heal and relatfv etc whic htllis physicians yer dict had been rendered: We have done an.'
 This statement of MT. Laws does not agree with the statement of the New York physician who was Mrs. Schiott's doctor the greater part of her lifetime, who says that she was never afflicted with any form of heart trou- ble, to his knowledge.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
The Automobile.

In some respects the automobile is the most marvellous machine the world has yet seen. It can go anywhere at any time, floundering through two feet of snow. ford any stream that isn't deep enough to drown out the mag neto. triumph over mud axle deep. jump fences and cavort over piowed ground at fifteen miles an hour. It has been used with brilliant success in various kinds of hunting, including coyote coursing on the prairies of Col orado, where 1t can run all around the broncho. formerly in favor, since it nev- CT runs any risk of breaking leg in a prairie dog hole. Educated automo- piles have been trained to shell corn. saw wood. pump water. churn. blow. and. in short. do anything required of them. except figure out where the con- sumer gets off under the tariff law.- Outing
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
Tho Jerboa and the Melons.


 An odd fact relative to a little Afr. can melon is thus related by an offi. ctal of khartum:
 The jerboa or kangaroo rat is found in considerable numbers in places miles and miles away from any water or even dew. and 1 was at a loss to un- derstand how these little animals could exist through the ten months of drought 1t appears. however, that after the scanty rains a small wild melon of bitter taste. but full of juice. fiourishes in the desert. The jerboa. as soon as the melon is ripe, bites off the stem and proceeds to dig away the sand under the melon, so that it gradually sinks below the level of the ground. The constant wind soon cov- CTS it with six to eight inches of sand. which protects 1t from the scorching sur and from drying up. When all other moisture has evaporated the jer- boa goes to his Iarder and drinks the juice of the melon till the rains come on again, One Jerboa " will bury as many as forty of these little melons to last him through the dry season.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
LOVED WEES
 BOSOM FRIEND
Stone Went Wide World Over to be Cured of Alcoholism But Kept on Drinking-D- .vorce Mill Grinds

Coming to his wife. telling her that he loved another and could live with her no longer and also calling his two sons aside. and relating to them the same story, Dr. Isaac Lyons' "a dentist. formerly residing in New Ha- ven. but now a resident of New York city. left his wife, Adelaide Lyon, now a resident of Greenwich, July lo, 1907. This is what Mrs. Lyon and her two sons, Theodore B. and William w.. told Judge Joel H. Reed in the Civil Superior court this Dtternoon. Mrs. Lyon was granted decree for desertion. She had suspected that her husband loved another. bosom friend, a constant caller at her nome. The boys told the court that their father stated to them that he loved thiz other woman. The couple married Sept 15. 1885.
 Walter Lyman Stone, residing with his mother in Rochester, N. Y, mar ried Helen Hurlbutt, now with her parents in Westport, Jan 5, 190o. TWO months after the wedding, stone went to drinking. Doctors were caheo m 10 treat him for tremens. Stone spent most of his married life in sanitari- ums. His wife. told Judge Reed this afternoon in sanitariums in New York state Once he went to Null doon's famous place in White Plains, V. Y. but without result. Stones course of treatment brought him to Europe, where in Paris he drank all the fancy mixtures and also to Den yer. hut he was not cured. After the Denver trip. Mrs. Stone returned to Westport, March 1910.
 Judge Reed allowed Mrs. Stone her freedom on the ground of habitual in- temperance.
 Bridget Agnes Flannery in charge of the female ward of pr. Given's sanitarium in Stamford was freed from her husband, Michael F'lannery for intolerable cruelty. They married April 23 1898.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
MAYOR RESUMES CRUSADE TO KEEP
 CHILDREN SAFE
Recent Fatal Accident Called to Attention of ParentS-POIice
 Are Instructed

Mayor Buckingham called at police headquarters this afternoon to confer with Supt. Birmingham relative to the protection of the lives of little chill dren The recent tragedy in Main street where a little life was sacri- feed because the victim was allowed to play in the path of trolley cars, has spurred the Mayor to a renewal of the crusade he inaugurated through the police department last summer.
 The Mayor and Supt Birmingham talked over the conditions at length and decided to issue instructions to the patrolmen throughout the city to keep the children at play out Of the street.
 Mayor Buckingham has asked the Farmer to bring to the minds of par ents the danger of allowing their iit- tie ones to roam through the public thoroughfares. He is anxious to se- cure the cooperation of parents in the undertaking, for he feels confident that the exercise of a little foresight in this matter will mean tn esaving of lives and limbs.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
A Death Lure,

According to tradition, ken1th. the legendary sking of Scotland. was al- lured to his death in most novel man. ner. Kenith had slain son and broth CT of Fennella, who to be avenged or dered Wiltus, famous silversmith. to construct death dealing statue of sil- yer. In it's right hand the statue held a basin and in the left hand an apple of pure gold, both set with diamonds and other precious stones. To touch the apple was to defy death. 1t being so arranged that any one guilty of such vandalism would be immediately riddied by poisoned arrows shot from openings in the body of the statue. Zenith was invited to inspect the won- der, and. as Fennella had hoped. he tried to pluck the precious imitation fruit. When his hand touched the ap- pie he was wounded by the arrows and died where he tell.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
Animal Life on Venus.

"There are many physical reasons for thinking that if any other planet besides the earth is inhabited it is probably venus." says Professor Pick erfng. Tt is about the same size as the earth, and its density is about the same. The force of gravity upon it's surface is only slightly less than that on the earth. The temperature on Venus is probably the same as in our own tropics, and the dense atmos- phere may be of composition such as enveloped the earth when in the carboniferous period As to the ex- istence of intelligent life. the question is still open. If it is ever established that the planet Venus is inhabited 1t will be less surprising than if the same were proved copclusively of any other planet, owing to the similarity in many respects of Venus and the earth"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
Ths Goose Tower.

In the early years of the fourteenth century the free cities"-Hamburg Lubeck and Bremen-sent delegation of seventy-seven members to King Valdemar to demand increased rights and privileges in their trade with Den. mark. The delegates were not very respectful ip their language and de meanor, and the king. who was at Vordingborg. told them they acted like a drove of geese and clapped them into prison in the tower, telling them they would stay there until they learn. ed better manners. Over the heavy tower door the king put up stone with the inscriptions:
 Sieben und siebenteg Hause:
 Sieben und siebenteg Ganse:
 Ware nicht so yiele Hause
 Hat !ch auch nicht so viele Ganse. -s Translated this reads: Seventy. seven houses and seventy-seven geese. If there were not so many houses I would not have so many geese"
 On top of the tower. which still stands solid and strong. was placed a big gilt goose. with neck outstretched as if it were hissing.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31

back at least tu the fifteenth century. and the origin of that is lost, though etymologists compare all sorts of ing an old German word for baby's christening cloth. The one certainty is that gaiters has nothing to do with gait in spite of the punning line in the Rejected Addresses"-"Lax in their gaiters. laxer in their gait"-London Standard
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
MASS MEETING ON NEW YORK'S
 FIRE HORROR
Especial from United Press.)

New York, March 31-A general mass meeting to protest against dan gerous factory conditions in this city will be held on Sunday afternoon, in the Metropolitan Opera House. A formal call for the meeting was issued by David H. Greer, Episcopal Bishop of New York, today. Jacob H. Schif will open the meeting and addresses are to be made by Governor Dix, John Mitchell, Rev Dr. S. s. Wise, Rose Schniederman, Prof R. F. Seligman. and others.
 Of the IA victims of the fire IA re- main unidentified.
 The police are today Investigating a complaint that s1,600,which was sewed in the clothing of Mary Colletti, was missing when the body was searched in the morgue.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
The Self Sacrifice of Fadzsau.

A fine historical dog story is recalled by MT. Edwin Noble in "The Dog Low. CTS Book" The incident is connected with the flight ot William Wallace to the mountains after Erneside, accom- panied by only sixteen followers, among whom was one named Fad xeau. When the paying of the blood hounds was heard announcing the coming of the English Fadzeau refused to go any farther. affecting weariness. and Wallace. suspecting him of traitor. ous intentions, killed him. When the English came up the hounds stayed upon the dead body and refused to fol. low beyond the stains of blood.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
OBITUARY

Funeral services over the remains of Annie, widow of Lieutenant John O'Neil were held this morning from her late home. 966 East Main street at S:30 o'clock and thence to St. Charles church where Rev. J. V. Illusion sang high mass of requiem. At the offertory. Mrs. John Lanze sang, Ave Maria" after the mass, Face to Face" and as the remains were being borne from the church, Nearer My God to Thee" The bear CTS were John Kiernan, Edward Dunn phy, Charles Slattery, Edward Mur- ray, Sr., Peter Ring and Edward
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
GAVE BIRTHDAY PARTY.

Miss Wiunifred Kelley, daughter of MT. and Mrs. F. Kelley of Calhoun avenue, entertained a number of her friends at her home last evening in musical selections helped pass the evening very pleasantly Among those who took part in the entertainment were Miss Kelley and Miss Margaret Tierney, Miss Handley and James Kelley. Afterward a dainty collation. was served. Miss Kelley was made the recipient of many handsome pres ents.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
He Beat Her.

A woman said to the railway sta ton ticket agent angrily:
 "Lcok here. sir, I've been standing before this window twenty-five min utesw
 The agent. gray. withered little man. answered gently:
 "Ah, madam. I've been standing be- hind it twenty-five years"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
A Cation iedend.

Cotton was the theme of one of the most fabulous nature stories on it's first introduction into Europe. Trav- elers related that in Tartary there grew shrub and that when its ripe, fruit was cut open within was "a lyttle Beaste in fesche. in bone and blodel as though it were a lyttle Lamb with outer wolle.'' The flesh of this "vege- table lamb" was eaten. ran the story, and the wool made into cloth.t The basis of the legend is the way in which the cotton pod ripens and bursts, show ing the white fluffy raw cotton. which closely resembles wool. Raw cotton is still called "cotton wool"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
OUT
 STATE DEPUTY

William J. Flynn, grand knight of John F. Rogers Council, K of C., one of the organizers of that council and one of the most active members of the Knights in Bridgeport, has entered the field as a candidate for the post of State Deputy. the highest office of the Knights of Columbus in the State
 MT. Flynn has as his chief opponent the present State Deputy, William J. Mulligan, of Thompsonvilie, who is a candidate for reelection. The selec- tion will be made at the State conven- tion in Torrington in May.
 MT. Hymns friends in this city are sanguine as to the outlook for his can- didacy
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
LOCAL MEASURES APPROVED TODAY
 BY THE HOUSE
(Special to the Farmer. !

Hartford, March 31-In the House to- day was passed the resolution giving Bridgeport the right to issue s1OO,000 in paving notes. a bill increasing the salary of the city attorney to $3,OOO, the bill increasing salaries in the city court and the bill giving the Board of Health in Bridgeport power to incur expense in handling contagious dis eases without waiting for special ap- propriation, but subject to the ap- proval of the Mayor. Also amending the charter of the Hungarian Sick Benefit Society of Bridgeport.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
DIAMONDS LATEST
 IN DOG STYLES

Dog owners will be welcome guests beginning tomorrow for the entire month. and the earlier and quicker they come the better will the attach es of the office be pleased.
 Tomorrow begins the annual period for the issuance of dog licenses. All dog owners who fail to register their canines with the town clerk and se- cure the dog tag during April will be liable to an extra charge of ST. The dog tags this year are diamond shaped. Last year they were clover Shaped.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
The Word "Gaiters."

Episcopal gaiters cannot date from very remote antiquity. The very word ''gaiters'' is almost a newcomer to the language. Johnson's Dictionary does not recognize its existence It does not occur before 176O. and even in 1902 a military dictionary had to define it as "a sort of spatterdashes" "Guetre." however, the French original, goes
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
A Hint.

Teacher-I have been trying for soma time to get the room so quiet that we could hear a pin drop. l have drop ped the pin several times, but you have been making so much noise that it has been impossible to hear it. What do you think we had better do, chfldrenf Reddy Backrow-Tie dumbbeli to it next time, teacher.-Brooklyn Life.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
WALL STREET TODAY
Especial from United Press.)

ISpeCIaI IrOfn UnIteQ PfeSS.1
 New York, March 31-Opening-The stocc market opened heavy, today. with important changes generally in the shape of losses Canadian Paci- fic fell from ? 3-8, Union Pacific lost 3-4 and Steel Common dropped 5-S.
 II a. m.-The market tended lower after the first hour, declines ranging around q point being sustained in nearly all the issues.
 Government bonds unchanged; other bonds steady.
 Noon-The market became f1rmer during the last half of the forenoon and many stock recovered part of their early losses.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
Murray, Jr. Interment was in St. Michael's cemetery.

The funeral of Bridget, widow of James Broderick was largely attend. ed from her late residence No. 8S4 Hancock avenue, this morning and from St. Peters church where a high mass of requiem was sung by Rev. T. J. Kelley. The floral offerings were numerous and exceedingly hand some. The church quartet as the casket was being borne from the church rendered the hymn, Nearer My God to Thee" Interment was in St. MichaePs cemetery.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-31
TUG AND BARGE
 CAUGHT IN GALE.

Especial from United Press.)
 New London, March 31-The large ocean going tug Shawenese and coal barge of the Lehigh Valley Rail- road are ashore on Fishers Island, near Fort Wright reservation. today. Eha tug Is in bad shape