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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-07

The accident which occurred on a
corner where d number of men have
been killed or seriously injured. was
witnessed by a number of persons, one
of whom l. N Orner 301 Chester
avenue, says the car was travelling at
the rate of 25 miles an hour as it sped
down the incline
The car struck the child just as she
stepped on the track. She fell on the
fender She was struck with such force
that her weight broke the fender She
was carried from 20 to 80 feet, accord
ing to witnesses, but was no. dragged
under the car.
George Hampe, a farmer, witnessed
the accident from the corner of Sixth
and jackson streets. He rushed to
where the car had stopped. picked up
the child and carried her into the office
a the Watson livery stable. There
she was recognized and taken to her
home at 219 West Sixth avenue. DR.. G.
surgeon. was called. He gave her tenn
porary treatment and calling an ambu-
lance had her removed to Christ's hos
pital.
At the time of her injury the girl was
re urning to her home from a grocery
store on the north side of West Sixth
avenue, between Van Buren and Jack
son street Her father, L B. Higgin-
botham runs q wall paper store at 219
" est Sixth avenue.
At the offices Of the Topeka Street
Railway this afternoon it was announc-
ed in answer to a request for a state
ment concerning the affair. that there
was no one present who knew anything
about the accident. The same replv
was made when the names of the mo-
torman and conductor We're asked
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-07
REBELS BURN BRIDGES
Mexican Northwestern Railroad Has
AnnuIled All Trains.

Ell Paso, Feb. 7.-Mexican National
trains are all operating south of Chi
huahua today as usual, but the Mex
lean Northwestern, owned by the
Pearson syndicate of New York and
London. has annuIled all trains until
further orders. Mexican rebels last
night burned seven bridges south Of
Santa sofia, which is 1O5 miles south
Of here. An attempt to load train
of cattle on this railroad this morning
at san Pedro was prevented by the
rebels who declared that they might
need the cattle themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-07
SCHEDULE FIGHT.
western Owners Not Agreed on 1853
Game Program

Chicago. Feb. IA contest was ex-
pected when the Western league mag
mates went into session today at 10
o'clock to adopt a schedule Last
night it was thought that the adoption
of the 168 game program would go
through without a protest Today
some of the members are hedging on
the proposition. The arguments
against the longer schedule is the add
ed expense with little return A vice
president and member of the board of
directors are to be elected. but it is
not believed this work viii require
much time. The business should be
finished and the meeting adjourned by
this afternoon, according to the Off
GERS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-07
HECHT JURY D!SAGREES
vote in Robbery case stood 8 TO for
AcquittaI.

After being out since o'clock Tues
day afternoon the jury in the case Of
Charles Hecht, charged with robbing
W r. Kuykendall of $500. was dis
charged this morning by Judge Danu
of the district court. Whether OF not
he will be tried again is prOblematicai.
The evidence against Hecht was no-
particularly strong while a lot Of it tina:
was damaging 10 the complaining Wit
ness was brought out. The jury stood
eight for acquittaI and four for con-
victicn-
heimer. a hack driver. charged with
completely in the offense, will be placed
on trial
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-07

report made by former department
Engineer J. o. Wright, as revised by
a second version made by Wright after
a second@Eeeion made by Wrigh Gafter
he had lsf BE employ of the govern
ment to &eb@eome chief engineer of
Florida. Inya letter to Secretary Will
son on @Nokember %, 1911, Wright
said tit in the revision of the re
port 9es had been aided by Senator
Fletcher The senate document did
not contain the circular to the public
which it is charged was suppressed by
Secretary Wilson
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-07
TEACHER HAS DISEASE
Spinal Meningitis Appears in Valley
Center. Near Wichita.

Wichita. Kan, Feb. Miss Fern Ir-
win. % years -. a school teacher at
Valley Center, is i'll at her home here
with spinal meningitis. She contracted
pneumonia Friday. and the physicians
say it developed into meningitis today.
This is the first case Of spinal menin-
gifts reported in this section.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-07
STRIKE TALK STOPS.
Rock Island Arsenal Employees Show
Signs of Weakening.

Davenport, Ia, Feb. 7.-Strike talk
among employees of the Rock Island
arsenal was at a discount today as the
result of a movement for the accept
ance of the Taylor system job cards
under protest until the congressional
committee appointed to investigate
the system shall have reported.
definite announcement that the
union men will not strike pending the
congressional investigation was ex-
pected to follow conference between
labor leaders and George W. Burr
late this afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-07
FROM z TO 20 YEARS.
Sentence of Imprisonment Passed on
the Starvation Doctor.

Seattle, Feb. An indeterminate
twenty years was pronounced today at
Port Orchard on Mrs. Linda Burfield
Hazard, the fasting specialist con
victed of manslaughter for having
caused the death of Miss Claire VII
hanson, a wealthy English woman
Application for a new trial because Of
alleged improper conduct of the jury
was oVerruled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-07
Dodges Speeding West Bound
Car Just Before Accident.
FENDER BROKEN BY IMPACT
ChiId's Arm Broken and Skull
May Be Fractured.
Witnesses Say Car Was Travel
ing Beyond Speed Limit.

Having successfully lodged fast
travelling west bound car at the corner
of West Sixth avenue and Van Buren
street Pearl Higginbotham, aged 10
years was struck by an east bound
Potwin car shortly after noon today
She is seriously if not fatally injured
Her arm is broken, the skull is believed
to be fractured and internal injuries
are feared.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-07
HERRICK is NAMED.
Taft Nonninates Former Governor for
Ambassador TO France.

Washington, Feb. THE nomina-
ton of former Governor Myron T.
Herrick of Ohio to be ambassador to
France was sent by President Taft to
fbe senate today. He will succeed
Pobert Bacon, resigned to become
fellow of Harvard university. An eff
FORT will be made to secure his i'm
mediate confirmation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-07
Mcfarland Sentenced to Die

Newark. N. j., Feb. 7.-Allison Me-
FarIand, found guilty of numbering
his wife Evelyn by giving her cyanide
of potassium, was sentenced today by
Chief Justice Gumme ere to die in the
electric chair at Trenton in the week
beginning March IT. Mcfarland s
counsel says he will appeal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-07
WEATHER BRIGHT And SUNNY
NO Indications of a Change, Says the
Eorecaster.

It is an excellent brand of weather
that is being dealt out by the weather
man just now. The forecast for to-
morrow calls for an almost equally
pleasant day as is being enjoyed to-
day.
The shippers forecast: Protect 26
hour shipments north and east against
temperature of 10 degrees: west against
IS: south 1s-"
The wind is blowing 10 miles an hour
from, the north The hourly readinp nps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-07

Chicago. Feb kansas: General
" fair tonight and Thursday; colder
in east portion tonight
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07
Asked For a Criticism.

Mir. Albon P. Man, the American scientist who invented incandescent lighting by the use of carbon filam mt im a vacuum, when he was about seventy years of age looked more like a banker than a scientist, and in the subdued light of lecture room appeared at distance like a young man.
 Some years ago he attended a lecture in Brooklyn upon the higher problems of electrical science, delivered by pro. lessor with many titles and degrees At the close the speaker called for com mpnts and criticisms from the auditors
 MT Man who was sitting well back i'll the hall arose aud quoting long state ment from the lecture concerning diff cult process, asked If he had heard it cor reCtly.
 ''With remarkable accuracy, sir" re- piled the lecturer, "They are almost my very words"
 The inventor then clearly but cOgently tore the lecturers argument to pieces, greatly to the latter's astonishment and to the amusement of the audience. As he sat down the lecturer said:
 II can hardly reply at present. You seem to have some information on the subject.
 "Yes,'| replied Mr Man. II discov- cred the process myself nearly thirty. years ago. "-Pearson's Weekly.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07
THE RE SUIT

The fight is over and the tumult and "housecleaning" appears to have been pretty thorough. For the third time in nearly 60 years the democrats have elected 0 president of the United States, thanks to the helpful opposition of a 7 new party engineered by eX-President Roosevelt, and the victory is so sweep ing and complete that there can be no mistaking the verdict of the people. The Hartford Cour-nt, the chief Taft journal of the state, says lugubriously: "The state has gone, hook, bob, and sinker, line too nothing saved but the boat and that leaks" The result has been a surprise, even to many who foresaw and prophesied the election of the dem- ocratic ticket, and the prophecies of the average political prophet have gone so wide of the mark as to seem ridiculous.
 The cause is admitted by experienced observers to have been the unrest" of the people, desire for change, and a popular conviction that relief from the burden of the eXtortlonate cost of living might be found in turning out of the present government administration and the installation ot new outfit in positions of power.
 Whether the process will bring about the results desired, time will tell. The ascendant party have made fine promises and won out on them. It will be up to that party after March 1, to make good and "deliver the goods" If they fail. the same forces that exalted them will cast them down and sweep them out on tidal wave as irresistible as the wave that swept them ill.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07
Letters From the People
Harris s Boyhood.
itor of Tue News :

To the Editor of Tue News:
 Did you have fun when you was a boy? 1 did, you bet. Let me tell you what my chums and used to do to amuse ourselves. There was a regular band or league of us in the place where l lived. We used to get under the wagon shed at church during the noon hour, to plan up mischief and fun. We had captain, or leader and his word vas sure to be O. K. with us. Of course we were good boys, and would not do wrong for anything. On Hallowe 'en there was always something doing, and the astonishment and surprise of some of our townsmeu the next morning, at changes that had taken place during the night. can be imagined, if not described. Some found that their gates had been changed, perhaps hung on the top of some tree or on top of the barn. Others would go to hitch up their wagon or carnage and learn that someone had traded with them, and perhaps mud DObbin in the COW stable and Daisy would be in Dobbin's stall. The calves and pigs had changed there abode. Small buildings had habit of tiping over at this time of the year. l remem Der a farmer that had loaded up some pOGdbO6S anu Su udS1 SO ho UO SOo oh Ce1A y start tO town in the morning, and when he got there he fOnnd some of the sacks contained turnips instead of potatoes, and the squash proved to be pumpkins.
 When a young couple went away to be married on the sly they would be sure to receive warm welcome when they returned, for we made it a point to give them a good serenading We had all sorts of instruments, dinner horns, tin pans, old saws, COW bells, horse fiddles, etc, to produce loud and sweet music. Sometimes we were invited ln and treat ed fine at other places we would have to make use of our legs to escape bullets. Sometimes we got piece of money for our beautiful noise. On one occasion we had just started to serenade a young couple they were swells, regular top notchers. The groom came out and said he was awful fond of good music but as the bride was not feeling well, he would give us ten dollars to omit the music on this occasion.
 fher1 was lots of other fun ill those days, Fishing, hunting and nuttlng in the fall and going to the cider mill and sucking the sweet substance through straw huslIing bees, barn ralslngs and singing and spelling schools in the win ter. 1 don't think they have as good gone, never to return 1 wish 1 could live them all over again.
 Very sincerely,
 Chas. A. Harris.
 Two Harbors, Minn.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07
Suffrage Notes THE B lLLOT AND VICE.

THE Al4LOT AND VICE,
 Mrs. Goodwin says "The suffrapists claim that the ballot in the hands of woman will cleanse our national life from the dread evils of intemperance and prostitution. If this were so, there would not be m anti-suffragists in America. "
 Does Mrs. Goodwin really imagine that there is nobody in America who wants intemperauce and prostitution to continue? Those who make cash profit out of these vices are unanimously op- posed to equal suffrage. and are ut alT times ready topour outmoney like water to defeat it. They probably do not be. iove (any more than any sensible suff- ragist believes), that womau's ballot would do away with these age. long evils but they know that it's influence would be antagonistic to them. ' They know tfor they are much better informed on the subject than Mrs. Goodwin that in all the enfranchised States equal suffrage has led to a large extension of "dry" ter ritory, and to a marked lessening of the power of the saloon in politics. 1t has raised the age of protection for girls, and has many times helped to keep cor rupt candidates out of office. A ncte. worthy lnstapce was when the mothers of Denver reelected Judge Lindsey us head of the Juvenile Court after he had been marked for defeat by the machines of both the political parties, and by all the vicious interests, from whose clutches he was saving the little boys and girls. Another conspicuous instance was when Seattle, by the help of the women. first recalled and afterwards defeated for re. election mayor notorious for hls com plicity with the traders in all kinds of vice.
 Noting the timidity which many good people show about supporting woman suffrage, and the unhesitating ferooity with which all the vicious interests fight it. one is reminded of the Scripture: "The children of darkness are wiser in their generation than the children of light" Mrs. Zorelda c. Wallace of Indiana, from whom Gen. Lew Wallace said that he drew the portrait of his mother Tn his novel Ben Hur." once remarked that it pained her to see how much more faith bad mon had than good men that the majority of woman could be counted upon to vote on the side of righteousness l-Alice Stone Blackwell in Woman's Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07
What the Other Fellows Say

/The state campaign has been particu- larly gratifying in that it has been kept tolerably clean. It has been a campaign of issues rather than of ud-slinging.- AnsOnla Sentinel.
 France offers $So,ooo for device that will make aeroplanes safe. It would be just as easy and quite as sensible to offer $So,ooo, o,Ooo-Hartford Post.
 Apparently the heckling of candidates for office has come into style.-Ncw ILA- ven Journal-Courier.
 Wouldn't it be great if every campaign button meant vote for the candidate whose image it Waterbury Re publican.
 Mir. Pierpont Morgan's gift of $2oo, ,ooo to Trinity college, Hartford, is well be- slowed and will be productive of good We'll may Hartford cherish the good name of Mir. Morgan who has not for gotten that he was and is Ia Hartford man.'--Bridgeport Standard.
 The New York Sun speaks of "booze and beer"-a distinction which will as tOnish the hoboes, if not the whisky drinkers.-Hartford Times.
 Unless there is an immediate correction of the evils disclosed New York will be permanently and deservedly disgraced in the estimation of the world. Now Beckerism must be electrocuted.-B Bristol Press.
 If the democrats do tear down the tariff wall they may rest assured that in due course the people will call on the republicans to restore it.-Pittsfeld Eagle.
 Probably the cidermill will remain for a long time but it is just as we'll to re member that it has all the possibilities of the brewery and the distillery.-Norton in Shore Line Times.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07

The women are incompetent and inn practical in business procedure, of course. That's understood. Aud their incom- potency was impreSslvely shown in New Haven last Friday, when it took the con- vention of suffrage ladies almost whole hour to raise the pitiful and insignificant sum of $7, 300 for their cause. If they had only entrusted tue job to the con- potent management of their men-folks, they might have had something to slow for the time and effort expended.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07
Where the Laugh Comes In
Jack Sgrat could eat no fat,
 His wife could eat no lean, But they could eat substitute, And so they ate a bean.

-N6W Ork Sun. - "What does the busy bee teach us Freddie?"
 Not to go near the hive, uncle '- Tatler
 At the opera-"That singer has a pow erfut voice"
 Il should say so. can't hear myself speak when he's singing. "-Baltimore American. "What sort of chap is he?"
 "Well, after beggar has touched him for dime he'll tell you he gave a little dinner to an acquaintance of his. ."-Lip- pincOtt's. "I am surprised that you are not a suffragette.' ''
 1t is all my husbands fault"
 Why, 1 thought he wanted woman to vote ?"
 "He does. "-Houston Post.
 Restaurant patron Ccaustically)-"I am glad to see your baby has shut up, madam
 Mother-"Yes. sir. You are the only thing that's pleased him since he saw the animals eat at the Zoo. ''-Puck "These doughnuts," began the man "What's the matter with them ?" de- manded the We're de We're behind the lunch counter.
 II think their inner tubes are punc- tured. ."-Louisville Courier Journal. Griggs-"There's one thing about my wife, l never go home exhausted and find myself slated to accompany her to a dinner or the theatre"
 Briggs (with sigh)-"I wish I could say that. When I get home evenings tired and ready to rest, find my wife rested and ready to attire. Boston Tran script.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07
Our T own.

I believe ill myself.
 I believe in my town.
 hold this to be true as respects this old town of ours.
 The man who does not believe in our town does not belong ill our town !! Moreover 1 cannot believe i'll the man who does not believe in his town.
 We print the above because we believe it. You\should. Do you? The best town is of the best people. This town is the best. If there were a better we would move to it.-Wilkes-B Barre Cham Der of Commerce Journal.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07
Cent-a- Word Advertisements Minimum Charge 25 Cents
 FOR SALE

FOR SALE-One new gasoline engine 8 h. D., with wood saving outfit or exchange for live stock. D. D. Corners, Canaan, Conn, k. r. D. FOR SALE-Wagon gear ; just the thing for q milk wagon C. E. Badgley. POST YOUR LAND Cards ready for your use forbdding hunting, fishing and trcspassinE, 10 cents each, 75 cents dozen. Canaan Print ing Co.
 FOR SALES mows hay 5. 2. 14 tons each esti- mated. Stock and No. horse hay, Sl0 per ton and up 10 acres wood and timber standing. One car baled horse hay. One horse. A. k. Benton. Canaan. K. F D. FOR SALE Six x. c. White Leghorn Cocker els. two $. C. White Leghorn Pullcts, full blood. Four months old. Eggs imported from England. Rev. II. Cornford Canaan, Conn.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07
THE LIFE SPLENDID.
BY EMMA RoDEMEYER WATT

Iris such a splendid thing to live
 In this great world of ours, To hold cOmpanionship with birds,
 And with the fragrant flowers. To feel the thrill of bounding life
 As seasons come and go. To feel the thrill of joy to come,
 Fen through present woe. To know the great world-thought is good, And we, too, add part When we send gladness on each breeze From out a happy heart Iris such a splendid thing to live!
 To live, to serve, to love; Knowing we all CO workers are
 With the great Power above.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07

MT. Whitman mas accomplished what many believed to be impossible. He has performed substantial public service by this conviction. He has served notice on New York that there is power big ger than the police force there and that despite cabals and rings, however protent they may be, that justice still prevails in the metropolis.-N Haven Union.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07

Agreeable to the recognized function of the really and truly independent, non- partisan journal. The News takes mournful pleasure ill mixing it's emotions, and smiles through it's tears while it proceeds to rejoice with them that do re- joice and weep with them that weep.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07

An important press dispatch from Philadelphia says: No employe of the department of public works may here after use profane language without a permit, Ill accordance with the new rule said down by Director Cooke" Phila- lelphia may be considered slow, but it's ertainly advancing some when 1t re- .ises, the Commandments.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07
SELESS MAGNANIMITY.

It isn't a state secret, and the world entitlePto Nuow 1t. A group of To- cal democrats agreed before the election, to save Justice of the Peace George w, Ford from the imp ~...lhg republican, wreckage.
 They reasoned it out that MT. Ford has always dispensed court verdicts and marriage benedictiOns fairly and fear lessly; that he was already in training for the job, and wouldn't have to go through the routine again of making for himself the clientele of enemies that naturally and inevitably result from the administration of justice, and that none of~the democrats who were to be elected would qualify any way, and it was magnanim0usly resolved to insure his reelection by scratching their own jus. tice candidates just enough to let him squeeze through with them.
 But when the pie was opened, they all began to sing. "WereE't we the chumps, to do that idiotic thing"
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07

Now, once again, two or three may be gathered together. on the street corner or elsewhere. without being looked at askance and subject to suspicion as po- litical conspirAtUrS.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07
THE NEWS AGENTS

Extra copies of The News are on sale at tho officeof publication and at
 Dempsey's Drug Store, Canaan, Egglestor's Drug Store, Sharon, Post Office, East Canaan
 D. H. Oakes Store. Lakeville, Post Office, Falls Village, George T. Johnson's Store, Norfolk, F. H. Smith &, Cos Store Ashley Falls. W. D. French, Sheffield, Mass. A. l.. Dickinson, Salisbury J. W. Morgan, Great Harrington, Mass.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07

Subscribers are requested to notify the pub sber promptly of any failure to receive papers egularly, changes of residence etc.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07

Says the Hartford Times. dem. "Chairman Roraback attempted the inn possible. That he did not succeed is therefore nothing to his discredit."
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07

The Taft Hotel, ill New Haven has had it's tax assessment reduced. And there be those who believe that institu- tion should subject It's menu tariff sched- ule to the same treatment.
Connecticut western news., 1912-11-07

Any way, there's grim satisfaction in the fact that there will bo no deadlock in the electoral college, for the con- gressional lock -pickers to pick.