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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-01-14
STORE WRECKED
Explosion Of Gas Occurs in a Eve and
Ten Cent Store Thursday.
CLERKS ARE MISSING
The Walls Collapsed and Fell in the
Street, Burying People Under
Them-Rescuers Hampered by the
Danger From the Live Electric
Wires-Cause Not known.

..
McCrory's five and ten cent store
at North Pittsburg and Apple streets,
Connellsville, Pa, was wrecked by
gas explosion Thursday and the
flames which followed communicated
to adjoining structures.
Three young women clerks are
missing, two clerks and the assistant
manager and a carpenter are in the
hospital dangerously burned and in
jured, while dozen or more en-
ployees are at their homes suffering
from injuries, more or less serious
by noon the flames were under con-
troll, and the property loss had been
placed at $4,000.
1t can not be determined whether
the list of missing will be increased
until the debris from the collapsed
walls have been gone over. There
were customers in the store when the
explosion occurred, but the exact
number is not known, nor have their
names been learned.
The known missing are: Christie
bal Smith, Nellie Mitchell and Mary
Wagner, all clerks.
There were about twenty custom
ers in the store when, the explosion
took place. The front wall was
thrown into the street and in falling
carried with it large number OF
electric wires. These were tangled
in mass and prevented, for time,
any thought Of rescue for those i'm
prisoned in the wrecked building.
The cause of the disaster lies in
the removal of a meter, it is stated,
and according to Manager Poff, work
men neglected to make the proper
connections Gas escaping from the
pipes filled the store and probably
the bank building. This was ignited
in some manner and the explosion
followed.
Ada Mitchell, the store plano play
er, who was sitting at the piano, was
carried with the instrument from the
back of the building through its en-
tire length and into Apple street.
Four carpenters were at work in the
cellar. Three escaped with slight
burns. The fourth probably will die.
Fire appeared to break out in all
parts of the building at the same time
and within few minutes other
walls began TO fall.
The walls of adjoining buildings
began to so down, but a party OF
rescuers had been organized, and,
clearing away the wires, forced a
passage into the five and ten cent
store. Here they located some OF
the stricken employees and custom
ers and as each was found he was
carried out. Anlbrlances had been
summoned and those Of the injured
who could not be cared for by ply
socians on the ground were hurried
away to hospitals.
Uniontown responded to the call
for help and sent fire apparatus and
a large force of men. These aided
the Connellsville department in COM
pleting the work Of rescue and in
fighting the fire, which was gaining
rapidly. With the flames subdued, ii
is hoped to recover the bodies OF
those believed to be in the ruins be-
fore night.
Later it developed that there had
been two explosions. one. in the Citi.
zens' National Bank, whose front
was also blown out.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-01-14
PRESENTS HIS BILL.

Senator Lide Offers His Bill for Re-
apnortionment of Representatives.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
Father Rings Popularity.

From San Antonio, Tex, where ne
has been staying for the past three
years the great Oblate priest, Father
Ring, has returned to Dublin. At In
chicore, Ireland, where he formerly
lived, he was much beloved by the
people of the district, irrespective of
class or creed. One never-to-be-for-
gotten memorial that remains in their
hearts was the great Irish pilgrimage
which he guided to Rome about ten
years ago. The reception accorded
him then on his return-with the pill
grimage the Eternal City is
still remembered as being one of the
largest and most touching manifesto
tons Of public esteem ever witnessed
in the city. All the city Catholic or
CARNATIONS turned out en- masse, &C.
companied by several bands, and
greeted the white-haired priest on his
arrival at the North Wall, and led him
in professional order out to Inchicore.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
By E. J. EDWARDS
Bit of Unwritten History

ways come unsolicited he had never
asked for any appointment under the
government, Lincoln's selection of
him as assistant secretary of the
navy coming as a complete surprise
to him.
But shortly after he had refused
to become rear-admiral, he did
break, in way, his well-known rule
of asking anything for himself. But
he did this not for his own advance
ment, but to prove practicable a
theory he had long held. And here
comes in a bit of unwritten history.
After the failure Of the attempt to
assassinate Car Alexander II, in
1856, congress by resolution expressed
its sense of gratitude that the life of
the European sovereign who had been
so friendly to the Union in our own
time OF great emergency should have
been spared President Johnson at
once decided that this congratulatory
resolution should be delivered to the
czar by special representative of
the government, and he designated
Mr.. Fox for the mission.
AT that time there was serious
question of the seaworthiness of the
type of war vessel known as the mon
itor The marine engineers were prac-
tically unanimous in declaring that
the monitor was unfit for any service
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
Story About Amos Kendall

enough, a few days later, Mr.. Kendall
was served with papers in a proceed
ing asking for q mandamus to issue
against the acknowledgement to
compel him to grant extra compensa-
ton to Extra Billy and to restore
certain of his mail routes.
Again Mr.. Kendall laid the situa-
ton before the president. old Hick.
ory's' ire was up on the instant.
Kendall he said-and I had the
conversation direct from Kendall him
self-'Kendail, don't you pay any at
tention to that paper. If the courts
try to commit you for contempt, you
turn to me. I'll make 1t speedily I'M
derstood that the executive depart
ment Of this government is indepen-
dent of the courts. No court can man
damus me or any member of my cab
met. We can be impeached, but we
can't be mandamused, and it is time
that the courts understood It,
$50 Amos Kendall went back to the
postoffice department and paid no at
tention to the mandamus proceedings.
Then there began move to have him
punished for contempt. Mr.. Kendall
told me that he believed that had 1t
been necessary, President Jackson
himself would have gone into court
and denounced the court to its face
for even daring to summon a member
of the cabinet to the court to answer
charges Of contempt. But the law
officers Of the government took the
matter up, contending that the courts
could not mandamus the executive
department-the president and the
cabinet officers-and the higher court
sustained that view, settling the issue
once for all"
Copyright, 1911, by E. j. Edwards AL
Rights Reserved)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
GustaVus V. Fox, Carrying Message
to Gar, Crossed Ocean in Mon
tor Miantonomah to Prove Its
SeaWorthiness.

TO Gustavus Y. Fox, assistant Sec
rotary Of war during the Civil war.
was popularity credited, and rightly,
the plan for opening the Mississippi,
for the capture of New Orleans. and
the selection of Farragut for high
command" said Frederick w. Seward,
assistant secretary Of state during the
war and also under Johnson.
I think 1 am safe in saying" con-
tinued Mr.. Seward, who is now in his
eighty-f1rst year, that of all the men
who had an influential part In public
affairs during the war Fox was the
most modest and the freest from any
OF the tricks of self-advertisemen
But while he was personally one of
the most retiring OF men, he was a
curious combination of great bravery,
great ability, and a tremendous ca
pacitS for work and self assertion
when important official action was de-
manded of him.
Often during the war the closest
cooperation was necessary between
tho state and navy departments. At
such time my father would ask Fox
to take dinner with us, and while at
dinner the whole subject would be
threshed out, Fox never failing us
with pertinent suggestions and adj
vice. He was a man who could al
ways be depended upon, and his sole
aim was to do what he could, and do
1t as we'll as he could, for the Union.
After the war was over it seemed
to my father that there should be
some high official recognition Of Mr.
Fox's work during the war. Others
high in the administration agreed
with the secretary of state, and so a
hint was carried to Fox that If he
would ask for appointment as rear
admiral-he had served for eighteen
years in the navy before retiring to
private life as a wool manufacturer
in 1856-that appointment would
surely be made and confirmed. But
Fox absolutely declined to ask for the
appointment l knew the reason; he
felt that high appointment should al
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
NEW NEWS of YESTERDAY

except that which was near shore.
But Mr.. Fox had long been confident
that the monitor was perfectly sea-
worthy, and he had stated at various
times that he would be willing, should
opportunity offer, to risk his own life
and stake his reputation as naval
authority upon an experiment which
would decide once for all the question
of the seaworthiness of the monitor.
When he was asked to carry the con-
gratulatory message to the car he at
once saw an opportunity of putting
the monitor to the test he had long
had in mind, and he stated that he
would be glad to undertake the mis-
sion provided the monitor Miantono-
nah was commissioned to take him
across the Atlantic as the official rep
resentative of the United States.
His request was granted. He
boarded the monitor with perfect con-
fidence. She steamed easily across
the ocean, demonstrating beyond the
shadow of a doubt that this type of
vessel could cope with any emergency
Of wind or weather which any other
type of vessel could meet. And when
this had been demonstrated Mr.. Fox
was never happier. He was, 1 be-
lieve, prouder of his victory over the
marine engineers than of the i'm
portant part he played in opening the
Mississippi, one Of the greatest feats
of the war"
Copyright, 1911, by E. ]. Edwards All
Rights Reserved)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
His Fight Against Extra Billy"
Smith Which Settled Point That
President and Cabinet Cannot
Be Mandamused.

Under twenty-stX pOStmaSterS-gen
eral of the United States did James
Henry Mari serve before he was gath
cred to his fathers. He entered the
department in 1885 under Amos Ken
dali, who has gone down in history as
the brains" of Jackson's two admin
istrations, and he died chief clerk
when William F. Villas was enjoying
under Cleveland the distinction Of be-
ing the country's first Democratic
postmaster-general since Buchanan's
administration.
Kendall has been called the man
who really put Jackson up to many of
his best-known acts as president,
said Mr.. MARI to me one day in the
early eighties. 81 remember that it
was freely said all through Jackson's
administrations that Kendall was the
real author of most of old Hickory's'
state papers. But however that was,
I do know that 1t was Amos Kendall
who made the fight, with Jackson
back of him, which established the
fact that the federal courts could not
mandamus a president or any mem
Der of his cabinet
THAT fight all came about because
of the persistence of Extra Billy
Smith. Extra Billy as q young man.
in the late twenties, had established
mail routes running across Virginia
into the Carolinas and even into
Georgia; he was what a good many
years later would have been called a
Star Reuter- Now Extra Billy was
not content with the regular COM
pensation from the government; he
was always asking for extras, and
when he did not get them he usually
made a fuss; hence his nickname,
which gave him national notoriety
long before he was elected governor
of Virginia in 1916.
well, when Amos Kendall became
acknowledgement he made UP his
mind that some of the mail routes in
Virginia IN which Extra Billy Smith
was interested were costing a good
bit more than they ought to, and that
still other routes were unnecessary,
and he proceeded to act accordingly,
only to find himself at once in hot
water with Extra Billy who threat
ened all sorts or political conse-
Quences.
mfr. Kendall. in his dilemma, called
upon the president and laid the
whole matter before him.
"cHe threatens, does hep cried old
Hickory when he had been told Of
the rage of Extra Billy Well, you
can say to him that if he threatens
you he threatens me. Let him under
stand that I have never yet been
frightened by threat
Amos Kendall went back to the
postoffice department and gave final
and emphatic mo- to Extra Billy
who swore nightly that he would
have the law on Kendall; and SIRE
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
How James Parton's Life of Greeley
Aroused the Interest of "Fan-
ny Fern" In the
Author.

Recently told the story of how an
obscure writer on Nathaniel P. Will
lis Home Journal-James Parton
made himself famous as a biographer
by writing an anecdotal life of Hor-
ace Greeley in the middle fifties, when
the name and deeds of the great Wing
editor were on the lips of every Amer
lean, north and south. My authority
for the story was Parton's friend, Hen
ry B. Stanton, husband Of Elizabeth
Cady Stanton; and Mr.. Stanton is
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
Book That Won Writer a Bride

also authority for the story told here
of how his life of Greeley won Parton
bride.
II had the story from the lips of
the lady who became Parton's wife the
year after his life of Greeley was pub
lished-the widowed sister of Nathan
lei P. Willis" sand Mr. Stanton. "She
was then Sara Eldridge in private life,
though known from one end Of the
country to the other as Fanny Fern
Up to the time of the appearance of
Uncle Toms Cabin Fanny Fern stood
pre-eminent among American women
authors, her sketches in the New York
Ledger bringing her in a handsome
income.
mot long after James Parton had
seen his life of Greeley leap into fn6
stant popularity, winning him per
manent place among American biog-
raphers, Fanny Fern visited her broth
er at his estate, Tdlewild,' near New
burg, N. Y. There she met for the
first time James Parton, an old en-
ployee of her brothers and a friend.
Naturally, the subject Of Parton's sue
cess came up in the ordinary course
of conversation-the book was the talk
Of the day-and the poets sister
evinced a lively interest in the man
ner in which the material had been
collected for the life. Parton had spent
weeks travelling all over New Hamp-
shire, Vermont and Pennsylvania in
terviewing persons who had known
Greeley in the days of his obscurity.
and Fanny Fern became SO interested
in Parten's story Of his travels that
she laughingly declared to him that
if he wrote book entitled How l
Wrote My Life of Greeley she be-
lieved it would be quite as popular as
the life itself.
Thus Parton entertained the IA
nous Fanny Fern, whose collected
sketches sold over 100000 copies be-
fore the sale dropped off; while she, in
turn, found Parton deeply interested
in her stories of her own career
how, for example, after the death OF
her husband she was in such strait
ened circumstances that she decided
to open q sewing school, a venture
which was not very profitable. Then,
one day, she wrote out little sketch
and sent it to newspaper, which pub
lished it and sent her dollar. But
Is was not the pay that impressed
Fanny Fern; it was the fact that she
found the little sketch copied into
great number of newspapers; and,
Judging from this that she had struck
q popular chord, she went on her way
writing, and so wrote herself into
fame.
I'm this way, and over Parton's Life
of Greeley as it were, the courtship
of the two writer's began. And when
their betrothal was made it was mu-
tually agreed that each should go on
as he or She had gone on in the past
that each would maintain separate
literary identity. That agreement was
perfectly kept, neither interfering in
the slightest degree with the others
literary work And their married life
was ideal, and it was ideal because
Mr. and Mrs. James Parton were one,
while James Parton, biographer, and
Fanny Fern, popular author, were two
entirely different persons"
Copyright 1911, by E. J. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13

HedlH my eyes and my feet were so
swollen 1 could scarcely wear nv
shoes. I noticed improvement after 1
began taking Doan's Kidney Pills
and was soon cured. The swelling
and bloating disappeared, I can rest
like child and have gained ten
pounds in weight"
Remember the name-Doan's.
For sale by druggists and general
storekeepers everywhere. Price soc,
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
Reckoning hy Penrees

1t was one of those warm spring
days when the temperature suddenly
seems unbearably torrid. Thelma,
four years of age, broke off her play
to plead thus with her mother:
"Oh, mother, please let me take
off some of my clothes! I'm a whole
petticoat too hot!"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
To Be Consistent.

do you think that man can con-
vince people that he is greater than
his party?"
Perhaps" replied Senator Sorghum,
but the only way he can do 1t is to
make his party look exceedingly
small"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
Valuable Dog.

Herr Langbart-A very intelligent
puppy, that
Herr Grosspaunch-Ach! Does he
not bark at the letter carrier like a
common cur?
Herr Langbart-Aber he barks at
the letter carrier only on the first Of
the month!
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13

ney Pills have cured
thousands. Mrs.
George Earl, Madi.
son, Neb., says:
For over a year I
was afflicted with
terrible kidney trou-
BILE. I was subject to
hot flashes, became
dizzy and felt tired
and exhausted. Puff.
fy spots appeared be-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
Similar Characteristics.

1T is seldom that a child who is
named after a famous politician resem-
bies him."
Mine does" replied Mr. Bliggins
Even at his early age nothing will
convince him that he cannot secure
his own wa1 by persistent v-"e1izing
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
WHY eE WEAkt

Why suffer backache. beadooho
dizziness, WEAKNESS, urinary irregu.
larltles and other troubles that arise
from disordered kidneys when re-
lief is so near at hand? Dnan,s KID
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
important to Mothers
Bears the

Always strive to practice what you
preach, but do not stop preaching if
you sometimes falls. Eldon.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13

Just set to work and do a thing,
and don't talk about it. This is the
great secret of success in all enter
prises.-Sarah Grand.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13

Mrs Wtnslow's Soothing Syrup for Children
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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
ANOTHER SIMILAR CASE.

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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13

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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13

Rheumatism, Neuralgia and Sore Throat
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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13

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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
Not Much of a Water User.

Hewitt-Gruet spends money like
water.
Jewett-I thought you said he spent
1t freely.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13
Good Reason.

why did Jagsby leave the cast of
that tank drama?"
Because he wanted to be the tank"
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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-13

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