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Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-11-21
PLAN SOCIAL EVENT.

A Sunday afternoon dance Will be
held by he Y. NJ. H. A. December 2e
for the benefit of the athletic asso'
citation. In the evening a roast an6
entertainment will be held in he clut
rooms. Where the afternoon dance
will be held has not yet been decided
upon.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-11-21

A meeting Of the Woman's AUX
itiary to the Board of Missions was
held in the Parish House in Rector
street yesterday Afternoon. The OFF,
Gals stated that that meeting would
be the last meeting until the first
Wednesday in February, when they
Will have a speaker who Will address
on a familiar subject.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07
STEAMBOAT IS FIREsWEPT
Two Thousand Houses Burned In Mo-
hammedan Section.

Constantinople. June 5.-A great fire
swept over STEAMBOAT. the Mohamme-
dan section of Constantinople. Two
thousand houses and several mosques
were burned. A wide lane was cleared
by the flames from the walls of the
old Seraglio palace grounds as far as
Little Aga mosque. distance of three.
quarters of a mile.
This mosque escaped destruction.
and the open space about it appears
to have stayed the fire.
Another outbreak occurred In the
Greek quarter of Tatavia, opposite
Pera. Great distress has resulted to
the poorer population and pathetic
scenes were plentiful outside the line
OF the fire, where hundreds Of power
ty-stricken families weep over the
remnants OF their household furnish.
ings.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

but it was stated that all the space
had been appropriated.
lsrimer Resumes His Seat.
Worn and weak, Senator Lorimer of
Illinois. the central figure in the great.
est election contest fought ont in con-
gress fer many years, resumed his
seat in the senate. Senator Kern of
Indiana, leading for the investigation
committee minority. which declared
by bribery, will begin series of
speeches on the subject
Protection for U. S. Commerce.
The house passed a bill designed to
protect American shipping and COM
merce against alleged monopoly of
the so-callcd foreign shipping trust
The committee in charge of the meas
ure reported that 80 per cent of all
shipping entering American ports was
in foreign pools. and that no competi.
ton existed.
Refusal of clearance papers to
trust" ships. refusing entry to Amer
lean ports and the imposition of heavy
fines or the confiscation of such YES
sells are among the penalties provided
for conviction of violation of the law.
The proposed measure also would
empower the postmaster-general to
cancel mail contracts with vessels
that are parties to pool" or other
wise are committed to restraint of
trade.
With the beginning of the investiga-
ton of the alleged beef trust" by the
house judiciary committee, II is de-
clared there will begin an inquiry into
! big combinations that will make re-
! cent congressional efforts along that
| line insignificant by comparison. The
object Of the proposed far-reaching in
vestigation, according to Representa-
| tive Clayton, chairman of the commit
| tee, is the complete reconstruction of
! the Sherman antitrust law or the en-
actment of some legislation calculated
| to take its place Insisting that the
| Sherman law is obsolete" Mr.. Clay
/ ton said that some statute should be
provided that would make monopolies
! impossible.
The economy wave in congress
washed away an appropriation of $780,
900. sought for the entertainment or
delegates to the international congress
of chambers of commerce and indus
trial associations. to be held in Bos-
ton In September. Representative
Peters of Massachusetts, (Democrat),
in despair. gave up his fight for the
appropriation, and agreed to accept a
substitute measure passed by the SEN
ate, which merely authorized the pres
ident to invite the delegates.
The national government will issue
invitations, but there will be no meal
tickets or hotel reservations enclosed.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07
WILBUR WRIGHT DIES
coINvENToR OF THE AERoPLANE
sUccUMss AFTER SIEGE
WITH TYPHOID
PIONEER. IN AIR WORK.
erothers Worked for Years on cIIdes-
Won Fame and Worldwide
Recognition After Many
Disbursements.

Dayton, Ohio. - Wilbur Wright.
the noted aviator. died Of typhoid
fever, after an illness Of about three
weeks. Wright had been near death
for many days and. although his con-
ditisn from time to time gave some
hopes to members Of his family. the
attending physicians, Drs. d. B. Conk-
lin and Levi Splitter, maintained
throughout the latter part of his sick
ness that he could not recover.
When the patient succumbed there
were at his bedside the members Of
his family, which Includes his aged
father, Bishop Milton Wright, Miss
Catherine Wright, Orville, the coin
ventor of the aeroplanes; Reuchlin
Wright and Lerin Wright
The Noted patient was seized with
typhoid May on a business trip in
the East. On that day he returned
to Dayton from Boston and consulted
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07
Extra Forest Fire Patrol.

Washington, ID. c - More than
1000 900 miles of roadway territory
In comparatively sparsely settled Sec
tions of the country will be covered
daily by a forest fire preventive force
Of $1,000 men. as result OF an order
issued by Postmaster General Hitch
cock. These men are the rural and
star route mail carriers who are di-
rected to cooperate with the forest
rangers and stats IRE wardens In
every way possible. Last year forest
fires destroyed approximately $5o.o0o.-
900 worth Of property.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07
Was Born In Indiana.

case was dennitely diagnosed a. W
phoid.
Was Born In Indiana.
Wilbur Wright was born on q farm
near Milleville, Henry county, lndi-
ana. in 1867. His father, Rev. Milton
Wright. was then presiding elder of
the United Brethren church.
When Wilbur was still child his
father removed to Dayton, Ohio, and
1t was there that Orville Wright, who
was associated with flying machines,
was born.
The boys invented telegraph instru-
ments, printing machinery, then be-
gan building bicycles and then turned
their inventive genius to the study
of aviation. They became interested
in the experiments Of a German scien-
fist, Lilienthal. who lost his life In
one of his heavier-than-air elders.
The Wright brothers went on expe-
rimentins quietly In Dayton. In 1904
their machine had assumed it's pres
emit type. That was two years after
they had made their first flight. They
worked together and refused to dis
cuss their invention. Nobody but
themselves knew what part either had
had In the invention.
The great triumphs of Wilbur
Wright and his brother came to them
In France. when they took their ma
chine over for exhibition purposes.
Their vogue was almost unparalleled.
The great impetus which they gave to
the science Of aviation resulted In
aviation meets In almost every civil
liked country.
They earned a good deal Of money
during their stay abroad, and this
money they have devoted largely to
building new machines and seeking to
improve on their own design.
In 1911 they acquired 1000 acres Of
land at Kitty Hawk, N. c.. where they
had first flown in 1900. They planned
to build a great laboratory and expe-
riment station on the farm, where
they could carry on their work to-
gether In proper seclusion. Wilbur
Wright was awarded a gold medal by
the French Academy of Science In
1909, and the same year was given an
honorary B. 8. by Earlham college.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07
American Horse Favorite.

London. June 6.-Herman B. Dur.
yeas Sweeper II. the only American
horse entered for the derby is such
. general favorite for the biggest
event of the year that the betting
shortened to to 2. The American
horse will have the advantage OF
Danny Makers 3ockeyship.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07
FOUR MORE DEATHS
Result From Moving Picture Fire In
Spain.

villareal. Spain. - Four additional
deaths have occurred among the in
jured In the fire which burned down
. cinematograph theater here. The.
total of the fatalities 10 "a. The
proprietor Of the theater has been
arrested on the charge Of giving per.
formances without q license and with
out submitting his apparatus to az.
animation by the authorities.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

A Wisconsin dairyman says tina,
cows can be induced to give more
milk by music. but wouldn't a ragtime
tune make the Juice taste like rag
weed?
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07
Operation on Booth Fails.

London. England.-The surgeons in
attendance on General William Booth.
the venerable head Of the Salvation
Army admit that he II now hopelessly
blind. The recent operation to re.
store his sight proved . failure.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07
DARRoW'S DEFENSE.
Likely to Involve Pleadings Of the Mo
kamara Brothers.

Los Angeles, June 5.-Clarence s.
Darrow, the former Mcnamara lawyer.
now on trial accused of having bribed
jurors on the assertion that the agree
ment for the Mcnamara brothers to
plead guilty had been made before the
conclusion of the alleged negotiations
for the bribery Of Juror George N.
Lockwood.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

Lots. Of dwellers In flats and closely
built districts vim nout that profes.
por's idea Of playing the piano eontin.
nously for nifty hours and making q
worlds record. They are prepared to
Hsstify that pianos In their neighbor.
hood have been pounded continuously
much loagsr than that Or It has
booDo6 -
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07
Railroad Men Provided For.

New York, N. Y. - A building
costing more than 100000 il to be
erected near the Grand Central sta
ton here to house the railroad mems
Young Mems Christian association. 1t
will have sleeping quarters for 500
men.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

st Louis has been drinking Mis-
sissippi river water ever since II was
. trading post and even brags about
It." Which may account for some of
the st. Louis peculiarities.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

A Kentucky university is to add
chicken farming to its courses. This
enterprise will give 1t cause to crow
over its rivals. and probably egg them
on to emulation.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

Now It is limited that the tight skirt
Is responsible for knock-kneed women.
Probably a canard started by the cloth
manufacturers.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

A scientist claims to have discover
ed 1S.SS3.432 microbes on a dollar
bill. Probably he included those who
died Of old age while he was count
ing.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

The women first" rule is held to be
unapplicable to street cars. for on
them women stand first. last and al
ways.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

Most street cars are built on the
incontrovertible theory that a stand
Ing passenger occupies less space
than a sitting passenger.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07
New Liner Named "erItannIc."

New York. n. Y.-It is announced
here that the new $1,000 ton White
Star liner which will take the place Of
the Titanic in the fall Of 1913 is to be
named Britannia" It viii be the
same length as the Olympic. $50 feet.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

Ragtime music. It is said. Is respon.
sible for the turkey trot and other
such contortions. but We are inclined
to lay the blame on ragtime morality.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

Boston has begun a crusade for
sterilized sausages and bacillus-proof
beefsteak. but Wen bet they won't
start anything on beans.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

The Office boy who had killed on
all his grandDoth and aunts Is now
trying to devise more elderly relatives
10 fit the present baseball season.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

City people who don't realize the
value of shade trees forty or fifty
years old should go out and try to
buy a few.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

All the recreation magazines nova
days are telling their readers how to
catch fish. but what we really need is
somebody to tell the fish how to bite.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

An American airwoman has now
flown across the English Channel
This leaves the sexes still equal In the
modern race OF achievement
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

A Pennsylvania cat is keeping an
estate OF $4,000 from distribution.
While that cat lives the estate must
remain intact.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

Cleveland wants a three-cent piece
with a hole in II to pay those three
cent fares. Do they want to carry
car fare strung around their necks!
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

A Mount Vernon Ull.) bird dog at.
tackled a hive of bees and was stung
TO death. Let the bird dog stick TO
birds.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

A Pennsylvania Judge has decided
that a voters home is where his wife
lives. What more can the suffragettes
ask?
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

A Brooklyn man found and severely
punished the man who ran away with
his wife, says an exchange. BY refus
ing to take her back. we infer.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

There has been a $4,000. 900 fire In
the bazars Of Damascus. but the sup
ply Of oriental rugs will probably not
be diminished. They make good ones
In Connecticut.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

A Kansas City man has informed
his family that he has been instruct
cd by the Lord 10 rest for q year.
Some men have luck!
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

We zee BY the papers that a Los
Angeles citizen takes nitroglycerin as
. heart toaic. II may not be q pleas.
ant diet. but II renders him immune
from being kicked around.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

Michigan telephone girls complain
that the instruments they wear cause
corns to form on their ears.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

by federal authorities is demanded In
bill by Representative Edwards.
democrat, of Georgia.
The senate passed. As to IL, the
house eight-hour bill requiring that
every contract made in which the
United States is party shall contain
a proviso that no mechanic or laborer
shall be permitted to work more than
eight hours in any one day.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

By breaking his own leg a motor
'cyclist has reversed the usual order
of breaking other peoples bones.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

All that China wants to borrow Just
now is s3oo.oos.o 600. Have you SO
much change about you?
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

New York's latest delicacy is pen
gum eggs. all the way from the south
pole.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

mosphere has been quite convincingly
accounted for.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

An Ohio farmer has recovered his
eyesight by the extraction of two OF
bis teeth. Eye teeth, probably.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

The modern youngster would rath-
er have a baseball pass that be pres
ldent
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07

but 1t was stated that all the space
had been appropriated.
The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1912-06-07
TX s, REED, Publisher.

cuLRERTsoN. MONTANA
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-02-15
FAMOUS MEN IN WISCONSIN
Two Of Them, Gen. Zachary Taylor and
Second Lieut.. Jefferson Davis,
Became Presidents.

Three United States army forts,
built before Wisconsin was territory,
did much to attract attention to what
has become one Of the solid common
wealths of the nation, writes Lieut..
Col. ]. A. Watrous in Chicago Tribune
They were Fort Howard, at Green
Bay; Fort Winnebago, near Portage,
in Columbia county, and Fort Craw-
ford, at Prairie du Chen. There we're
soldiers in those rude forts rs years
ago and since, who became famous.
Two of them, Gen. Zachary Taylor,
who went to Fort Howard as lieuten-
ant colonel more than seyenty-five
years ago, and Lieut.. Col. Jefferson
Davis, who went there little later.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-02-15

became presidents, one Of the UAited
States, the other of the confederacy.
These two officers were on duty for a
short time in the two other forts
named,
While at Fort Crawford Lieutenant
Davis wooed and won General Taylor's
daughter, his first wife. 1t is said to
have been a runaway match, but that
/ has been disputed. At all events Gen.
eral Taylor was so much offended
that he and Lieutenant Davis were
enemies until one day, while Taylor
was commanding an army and Davis
was colonel of Mississippi regiment
in the Mexican war, Davis was serious
ly wounded in battle.
At the next general election Taylor
-"Old Rough and Ready" as he was
called--was elected president Four
years later General Pierce was chosen
president and one Of the first things
he did was to offer his Mexican war
comrade, Colonel Jefferson Davis, a
seat in his cabiRet, which the future
Confederate leader accepted He made
a very good secretary Of war.
Speaking of presidents, Wisconsin
people do not forget that volunteer
captain from Illinois campaigned in
their territory during the Black
Hawk war He camped for night
where Whitewater now stands, and
was also at Fort Atkinson before Gov
ernor W. D. Hoard made 1t prominent
by becoming the foremost butter and
cheese man In the country That was
Capt. Abraham Lincoln. Nor should
l stop here. A young lieutenant, with
his wife and daughter, went 10 years
ago to Fort Winnebago, where the
lieutenant was stationed for several
years. He was r. B. Marcy. Mrs.
Marcy was prime social favorite and
their girl was beloved by the entire
garrison. She grew to beautiful wom-
anhood and married a captain of the
engineer corps. In 1851 the captain,
who had retired to civil life, was ad-
vanced over all the officers in the
army except Brevet Lieut.. Gen. Win
field Scott, and was placed in active
command Of the army That Is what
happened to Maj. Gen. George B. Nc
Clellan, who three years later was the
choice of his party for president, and
officers who knew little Miss Marcy at
Fort Winnebago were almost per-
suaded to favor her husbands election
so that she could be mistress of the
White House. A recent mayor of New
York is her f1rstborn.
When General Mcclellan assumed
command Of the army In 1861 his
father-in-law was major and pay
master The general lost little time in
placing him on his staff as a brigadIer
general
This story would not be complete
without reference to the social life
at those army posts of the early days.
BY the Fox river 1t is something over
100 miles from Fort Howard to Fort
Winnebago, and by the Wisconsin riy |
er from Fort Winnebago to Fort Craw |
ford it Is 100 miles. In making visits
the trave, was always by canoe. on
the rivers named and on Lake Winnie
bago from Oshkosh to Neenah. The
trip from Fort Howard to Fort Whine. |
bago required week or longer !
Sometimes friendly Indian did the
padding, but more frequently the
young officers and their wives we're
the propellers.
The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1912-02-15
CONDITIONS ENCOURAGING
Management of Southern Railway Is
Making It Helpful Factor In
Southern Development.

Washington.-A most encouraging
view of conditions in the Southeast
is presented in the annual report OF
the Southern Railway company, which
states that one of the most import
ant factors in the strength of the com
pany's position is the industrial and
agricultural development of the ter
ritory traversed by it's lines. The
marked agricultural progress due to
the general adoption Of approved
methods by the farmers of the South
east, particularly the increase OF di'
versified farming, and the diversified
ton of industries are noted.
The management of the company
with a broad conception of its rela'
lions to the public, is making the rail-
way not merely a carrier of the peo-
pie and products of the South, but
also a helpful factor in Southern de-
velopment. The report sets out the
efforts being put forward to increase
the prosperity of the people already
in the Southeast, and, to attract In
Vestors and desirable settlers to the
territory served by the lines OF the
Southern railway. A review is given
of the work being done by the cotton
culture department, which is teach
ing farmers, in localities where it Is
possible the boil weevil may spread,
to successfully combat the insect
should it ever appear in their fields,
and thus maintain their production
instead of having to learn how to
deal with 1t after it appears. The
work of this department will be ex-
tended to cover all territory along
the company's lines to which there
is even a remote danger that the
weevil may spread. The importance
to the South Of maintaining its mon
opoly of cotton production is pointed
out in connection with the vigorous
efforts being made to raise cotton
in other parts of the world The re-
port shows that the company is also
encouraging live stock raising and
dairying in its territory. Recognition
is given the newspapers of the South
east for their valuable assistance and
also to commercial organizations, to
banks and individuals who have aid
ed the company in all its efforts to
advance the agricultural prosperity OF
the Southeast
The more important additions and
betterments completed and undertake
en- during the year are shown, among
them the double track lines through
Lynchburg, Va, and into Chattanooga,
Tenn, 50 miles of double track be-
tween Atlanta and Gainesville, Ga,
modern lap-sidings on the line be-
tween Atlanta and Macon, Ga, Knox
Vile and Chattanooga, Tenn, and
Morristown, Tenn, and Asheville, n.
c., new freight station and office
building at Atlanta, additional freight
station and yard facilities at Macon,
and additional wharf facilities at Mo
bile, Ala,