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The citizen., 1913-04-04

"I think 1 suffered every pain wo.
man could before I began taking LYDIA
E. Pinliham's Vegetable Compound, and
/ think it saved this baby's life, as |
lost my first one.
"My health has been very good ever
since, and L praise your medicine to an
my friends" - Mrs. VERNA WILKES,
+. F. D. No. l, Plattsburg, Miss.
The darkest days of husband and wife
are when they come to look forward to
childless and lonely ole age.
Many q wife has found herself ines.
pable of motherhood owing to sore
arrangement of the feminine system,
often durable by the proper remedies.
In many homes once childless there
are now children because Of the fact
that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound makes women normal.
If yOu want special advice write to
Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine Go. (cOnl.
dentiaD Lynn, Mass Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by
woman and held in strict confidence.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

City. The good effects of this relief
work added much cheer to the dis
tressed. The city was alive with
boats controlled by hands that defied
the elements. People were rescued
from the residential sections of North
Dayton, Riverdale, West Dayton, Edge
mont and South Park. and the main
streets of the city were alive with
craft filled with people.
North Dayton has furnished some
surprises. The water there in many
parts of the residential se9tion was
over 20 feet deep, but, very strangely,
few bodies were found.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

her last remaining strength. One of
the rescuers had heard that she died
soon after her child's birth
All during the night rife shots were
heard throughout the food zone Most
Of the shooting was in the bottoms
near the river, but about midnight
there was lively volley OF shots
evidently an exchange of bullets be-
tween soldiers and pillagers. 1t was
officially reported that three looters
had been slain in various parts of the
city during the night
A provost guard sounded the cur
few for the stricken Dayton at eight
o'clock P NJ Military passes were re
voked automatically and none but the
State soldiers and those having the
task of rescuing the city from its
plight were permitted abroad on the
streets.
The few who ignored the martial
law decree were seized and placed
under shotgun guard until morning.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

\ woman whose name the officer
refused to make public was ordered
deported when she was caught trying
to force an entrance to one OF the
food-swept houses.
The fire at GAINESVILLE has been put
out ard some relief has reached that
city. The river has fallen there. The
flood and fire losses will reach $10,-
100000.
The floods in the Muskingum Valley
are now thought TO have drowned 500
persons. $50 of them residents of
GAINESVILLE.
Columbus, Ohio.-The morgues of
Columbus filled up slowly as the
swollen waters of the Scioto gradually
receded. The number of bodies re-
covered from the yellow food
reached 60.
Motor boats carried rescuers into
most of the flooded districts of Colum-
bus and excellent progress was made
in distributing food and clothing to
sufferers.
Since rescue work began 100 chill
dren have been born among the refu-
gees. The city opened a maternity
The citizen., 1913-04-04

DAYTON. Ohio-The chaotic ccndi-
tions which reigned in the aood-d
area through Ohio and Indiana tor
nearly three days were relieved and
thousands of destitute persons have
been rescued and fed and properly
clothed Martial law exists over a
large portion Of both States and per
feet order is maintained
The number of dead in both Ohio
and Indiana will not exceed 600. ac-
cording to the first accurate news re
ceiyed from the food districts. The
estimate OF dead in Dayton is 200 In
Columbus. where the latest reports
give 50 known dead total OF 200 is
estimated
The damage to business blocks, fac
tories and residences in Dayton will
be between $l5,O00,000 and S20OOg.OQ0.
The loss by fire alone will rot exceed
s1,500.000.
Relief for the food sufferers is
pouring in from all parts OF the United
The citizen., 1913-04-04

The entire telegraph service of
Canada was practically put out of
business by storms. Montreal mes
sages to New York were forwarded to
Ottawa, thence to Quebec, st. John,
N. B., Portland and Boston. Press
dispatches were only accepted in
shortest form and subject to delay.
Following an investigation in every
part of the city it was announced that
the death list in Dayton would not
exceed SOC. Riverdale and North Day
ton, which were supposed to have suf-
fered heaviest, were found to have
Jared much better than the rest.
The citizen., 1913-04-04
EXPLAINING the Needln

A typesetter IN printing hopse
came very adroit in explaining "
large number of misprints for a,, ue
he was responsible. Even wben 4'gl
changed his work and became ne
er in a restaurant, says Das Echo I''' ~
skill did not forsake him. us
One day he had served a guos+ 49,.
a plate of soup, and was tnr", "'n
away when he was called b.i a'ls
sharply. 0'cR
This is an outrage!" cried tbo
diSnant diner 81 find a needle in n ~.
soup! What does this mean?" D'
Just misprint, sir" explained N,
former typesetter. at should ~ '"e
been noodle. ."-Youth's Comno,,'e a'e
The citizen., 1913-04-04
RESINOL STOPS
SKIN TROUBLES

If you have eczema, ringworm, or
other itching, burning, unsightly skin
or scalp eruption, try Resinol 0int-
ment and Resinol Soap, and see how
quickly the itching stops and the
trouble disappears, even in severe and
stubborn cases. Pimples, blackheads
and red, sore, blotchy faces and hands
speedily yield TO Resinol.
Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap
heal skin humors, sores, boils, burns
scalds, cold-sores, chafngs and piles
Prescribed by physicians for eighteen
years. All druggists sell Resinol Soap
(25c) and Resinol Ointment (5Oc ana
81. Sent by parcel post on receipt Of
price. For sample of each write 10
Dept. OK, Resinol Chem. Co, Baltf
more, Nd.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

The waters are receding at Dayton,
Piqua, GAINESVILLE, Fremont, Tifin
Ch!llicothe. Hamilton, Middletown and
Columbus, and while the cold weather
when came vas welcome, because OF
the certain deterrent effect it would
have on the rising tide, still the pinch
OF the cold adds to the difficulties, be-
cause untold thousands of people are
homeless. Besides the fall of the
water will bring the real tragedy Of
the whole situation.
The indications are that the list may
rRt run as heavy as forecast at Day
ton, but there are grave fears that
The citizen., 1913-04-04

Merchants In Main. Front, state.
Mill and Andrews streets have sus-
pended business, most of these thor
oughfares being rivers Of rushing
waters.
The damage to property will be in
the hundreds of thousands.
In Albany a high water mark of
22.4 feet for the Hudson River was
set, surprising the record of 1857,
Soon afterward, however, the waters
began to recede,
New Yorks milk supply will not be
diminished in spite of floods in dairy
districts.
Great damage was sustained by the
fruit crop when rain froze on the
branches of the trees.
Flood conditions in the Hudson and
Mohawk valleys reached a climax,
sweeping everything within the mar
row limits of the valleys down stream,
Then the recession began.
A great consignment of food and
clothing left Brooklyn Navy Yard, des-
tined for Columbus, Dayton, Zanes-
Vile and environs.
More than $25O,O0O has been sub
scribed in New York City for relief of
sufferers in flooded districts.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

Riverdale, because of the large num-
ber of houses that were washed away
and upturned, may turn out to be the
greatest sufferer from human loss.
The water is still high in that section.
On the west side 100 bodies were
found in bunch on Williams street.
Lumber valued at 100000 was
swept down the river. Eight miles of
docks we're inundated at damage of
100000
Nearly every factory and plant in
the Cuyahoga Valley was flooded
work for at least week.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

Columbus awoke in blizzard, which
gave a cheerless aspect to things, but
the first word from Bell, the hero of
the whole situation, the operator who
has stood by his guns throughout,
were: "Good-morning, Governor. The
sun is shining in Dayton" He was
still at his post, and apparently firm
in his faith that things would still
come out all right.
Railroad traffic is almost at a stand
still, and the separation of travelling
men from their families is bringing
many piteous appeals every hour for
facilities to get them home.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

tremendous tragedy will be revealed
beyond the Scioto River, where the
western part OF Columbus is complete
ly devastated
Dayton is relieved in one respect.
The ten or twelve thousand persons
penned UP in the business buildings
were freed. the relief trains coming in
from the North, the Lake Shore hav-
ing surmounted the difficulties from
Toledo south.
From the west of Dayton troops and
supplies came from Eaton. From the
northwest 600 troops, with stores,
came by way of Troy and Tippecanoe
The citizen., 1913-04-04

A rescue crew sent from Chicago
succeeded in saving IS inmates of the
Orphans Home, in Fort Wayne, Ind.
The rescue was effected by five men
and a keeper in power boat, acting
on their own responsibility.
Reports from the points up the Mo-
hawk and Hudson valleys indicate that
the loss to property will approximate
$6,000,0O0. The State loss will total
about $3,5O0,0OO.
Subscriptions in Boston, for the ben
eft OF the food sufferers, reached a
total of $99,365. A carload of blank
els was shipped.
The citizen., 1913-04-04
GOV. COX NEITES 1HRILLIKG
STORY OF FLOOD DISASTER

Columbus, March 2S-Ths consen-
sus of opinion is that the property loss
in Ohio will exceed that sustained by
San Francisco. This apparently in,
credible statement is easily under
stood when the widespread destruc-
ton to railroad property is calculated.
1t is safe to assume that more than
half the large railroad bridges in Ohio
are down.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

The food situation in Pittsburgh
and it's environs showed considerable
improvement. There has been no loss
OF lie. The property loss will amount
to $3,O00,OO0.
One person is known to have been
drowned at Parkersburg, West, Va,
and II others are missing The city
is under 10 feet of water, and fully
1000 persons are homeless. The city
is without electric lights or gas.
The $4,000 employees of the General
Electric c., at Lynn, Mass, have
given 10 cents each from their pay
envelopes for the food fund.
The citizen., 1913-04-04
FLOTSAM AND JETS0N.

J., All of the residents of the Seventh
{ Ward in Wheeling, w. Va, were or
u dered to leave their homes by Mayor
CKirk, and they took refuge in the
/, higher parts of the city. 1t is esti-
mated that there are 10000 persons
I homeless in the city, and this list is
il swelled by residents of nearby towns
who have left their homes and taken
to the hills.
The Delaware River, above Trenton,
rRose IA feet in twenty-four hours.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

hospital, and mothers and little ones
are being we'll cared for
While bodies were picked up wher-
ever found. the energies of the author
tiles were directed toward rescuing
the thousands marooned in upper
stories, on roofs and in trees through
out the food zone.
For miles along the swollen river
there are great drifts Of debris, the
wreckage Of houses swept away and
demolished.
Hamilton, Ohio.-There are now 81
names in the list of identified dead at
Hamilton, and this is being added to
hourly
The citizens committee has issued
an order that all able bodied men who
refuse TO work in rescue or repair
crews shall not be fed Visitors from
out of the city are barred.
Middletown, Ohio.-The list of mis-
sing at Middletown was placed at
fifty. OF this number it is expected
half are safe. Suffering among refu-
gees has been greatly relieved.
The citizen., 1913-04-04
The Dearest
BARY
Mrs. Wilkes Fondest Hone,
ReaIized-Health, Hap.
piness and BABY,

flattsburg, Miss.-"Lydia E. Pint
ham 8 Vegetable Compound has proved
very beneficial to me, for now am well
and have sweet, healthy baby and
our home is happy.
II was an invalid from nervous pro..
tTation, Indigestion and female tronbIss
The citizen., 1913-04-04
City Built on Secure Foun4,.;.

Naples is built chiefly of a soft -,
canic rock called tufa, which is eao. ~
to work and yet shows remart.hI.
resistance to compression under ,h
weight of buildings. Nails can ~
driven into it without difficulty bnt !.
stands the strain of use in high wall,
as well as much harder materials
The citizen., 1913-04-04
The Latest GIeanings From All
Over the State.

Rev. Levin j. Sothoron, who has
been rector of Christ Church, Rock
Spring, for 20 years, has rendered his
resignation on account of impaired
health.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

The average girl treats new o.
quaintance far better than she do",
an old friend-so the old frions
thinks.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

A mouse can create as much eyci,o
ment among half a dozen spinsto,,
as an eligible bachelor.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

Pittsburgh-The city of Pittsburgh
forgot her own flood troubles for few
minutes and raised S25, 900 to relieve
sufferers in Ohio.
In the Pittsburgh district 100000
men are idle because of high rivers.
Pittsburgh is partly inundated. Rain
is falling through this end of the
State. Miles of streets in the down
town districts are submerged The
police patrol boats are out.
At Sharon woman and five chill
dren were drowned when their home
fell into the Shenango River. The
Shenango and Mahoning rivers at New
Castle are higher than ever before
All manufacturing plants are shut
down. One thousand homes are under
water. Thousands of cattle are
drowned All the bridges between War
rem and jamestown, n. Y, have been
washed away.
The floods spread to Pennsylvania
and in Western and Central New York
rivers we're rising rapidly and doing
much damage, 1000 persons being
driven from their homes in Olean.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

Miss Anna Woullard 10 years old,
of Brunswick, entered suit in court
against Charles Edgar Haller Of
Frederick, for $1,000 damage for
breach of promise
The citizen., 1913-04-04

Application has been made to Gov
ernor Goldsborough to pardon Charles
Wilcher, who was sentenced to the
Maryland Pententiary last May for
six years for burglary in Hagerstown.
The Western Maryland Railway
Company has decided IA acres Of land
on West Lee street, in Hagerstown,
to the newly-incorporated Terminal
Storage and Ice Company for $4,000.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

Senator Omar D. Crothers, who for
the past five weeks has been patient
at the Union Hospital in Elkton, has
entirely recovered and is again able to
attend to his law practice.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

The Cohee farm, located near
fredericksburg, has been sold by Gustav
Kurth to j. Seaman. of North Caro-
lima, for $4,000. The farm contains 81
acres. William H. Cannon has bought
the Coates farm from Mrs. James H.
Copper. of Denton. The farm contains
100 acres and the price was $4,000.
The citizen., 1913-04-04
How Dayton Was Overwhelmed.

How Dayton Was Overwhelmed.
For the most part the city of Day
ton lies on level ground. Three rivers,
the Miami, Saltwater and Mad, join
with another stream, known as Wolf
Creek. almost in the centre Of the city.
When the dam at the big Lewiston
reservoir, so miles above the city,
broke an avalanche of water went
rushing down the rivers and Joined in
one great torrent to overwhelm dwell
ings and buildings of all kinds.
Conservative estimates place the loss
Of life. attendant upon the flood, at
1000, and the property loss at well
over $10O,0O0,000
The food waters which, during the
past four days, have devastated half
a score of prosperous cities and ham
let's in Ohio and Indiana, are slowly
receding.
The Miami, Scioto and Mad rivers,
which accomplished most Of the dam
age, are now pouring their vast ton
mage of water into the Ohio, above and
below Cincinnati
Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville and
other cities along the Ohio face the
danger of the worst floods since 1867.
Dayton, GAINESVILLE and Columbus
are under martial law. Supplies have
reached all three cities, and refugees
are being clothed and fed by military
and Red Cross officials.
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, appears to be the
only stricken community in which the
death rate has not been over esti-
mated.
The waters have begun falling rap
idly at Fort Wayne, Ind, and some of
the 10000 refugees are returning to
their homes. The relief work in that
city is we'll in hand, and they have
sent word that no outside assistance
is necessary.
A complete Relief Commission has
been formed under the combined aus
pices of the State and the Red Cross
Commission.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

Fruit trees in Caroline are now COW
cred with blossoms, and the outlook is
for one Of the best fruit years known
for a long time, unless killing frost5
intervene.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

James Baker, of Long Island, has
purchased from Clinton McC. Henry
about one-half of the Pleasant Valley
farm, situated on Miles river. The
tract is partly wooded and consists
of about 400 acres. The price paid
was s20,20S.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

Joseph w Phelps has sold to Arthur
X. Austin and Sidney II. Henry his
farm in Biackwater, known as the
Darby farm. The place contained
about $40 acres.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

John Trout, the 70-year-old Union
veteran who gained notoriety by ad-
vertisins for a wife, desDairs Of Sc
curing a heIpmate and has advertised
his farm and household effects, near
Park Mills, for sale
The citizen., 1913-04-04

Miss Marian Coffin, 80 years old,
daughter Of Mrs. Mary Catherine
Coffin, of Muirkrk, Prince Georges
county, died at the Homeopathic Hos
pital Washington, from the effects o.
an operation performed about three
weeks ago.
The citizen., 1913-04-04

John Harvey, colored employed at
the Fleigh Garage, Hagerstown, was
badly injured by the explosion OF gas,
which accumulated in the furnace, into
which gasoline-soaked waste had been
thrown.
The chronicle=news., 1913-09-12

Each person taking the written u
oral examination must score s5 per
cent or over to obtain u certificate.
The uucSiions propoundcd test the
knowledge of the candidate relative
To actual mining. from a technical ~
we'll AS practical standpoint. The
questions set forth ai this first exam
ina'ion cover the ground from \ to !.
and the ability of on. examined 90
scor' up to requirements cstabiishcs
the competency Of that particular In
di,iiuai to hold the positions for
which he is being examined.
Tho answers OF each person who has
taken the examination arc placed In
an envelope and the envelope bcars
number starting at one and run
ming mp to rtcsncnd with the num-
bcr examined. There papers are gone
over and marked like n teacher or
principal would mark the cNamina-
ton papers In arithmetic aud lis,
The chronicle=news., 1913-09-12
baEAT NUMBER TAKE EXAMINATION FOR
NINE BOSS UNDER new MINING Law

10 room nj the corinado hotel
yesterday five men rat In their sh!r;
sleeves. their heads bcnt low over all
array Of papers upon which. to the
1aymxn. wan a lot of unrcadabic hy-
rosiyphics. Yet the notations and
writings on these papers mean.
much. Thcy were the answers %.
two hundred and ixty-cight men 10
the questions nut to them In the iir.,
examination under the coal mining
law. These papcrE decided the quail!
f1rations Of as many men for the po-
sttions OF fire boss and other posi-
tons that come under provisions of
the law. The five men who sat with
their eyes ri,.tcd upon the array yf
papers were the members OF the cN-
aiming board. state mine inspector
jamcs Dalrymplc. u. II. Wci,zci. zen
rvai manager OF the c. r. and COM
pany. George Pcart. \. H. Adamscn
and Thomas jenkins.
The chronicle=news., 1913-09-12

of naMcs corresponding with tho
numbers are kept, After I; 10 al:
over those who have scored ,3 per
cent and upward vii, rccciy, ccrtin.
catcs.
The list o! aucs;ions sst forth n'
tho examination which has been go.
,rg on this week 1t the Trinidad
Business College are herewith pub.
lish,d. The list of questions are
those propcundcd In written ssamin-
a,ions for mine fotcmcn. fire bosses
no; eligible for scryic. certificates: (:
also the qualifications for mine cx-
amincE. mine foreman. assistant mine
foreman and f.rc boss.
The chronicle=news., 1913-09-12

. mans fitness for \ committee po-
siiion he gave Il. bu, went no furth-
err Watson said he never was ap.
pniatcd by any National Association
" Manufacturer officials to favor
any LEGISLATION. aud never wss inter
osicd particularly In any bills they
tsvorcd. except an anti-inj junction
bill. and the proposed exemption Of
ls,.or unions from the operation Of
the Sherman law. lie said he held
the same View a. the association on
thcsr matters.
Watson explained that Mulhaii cx-
pccicd to assist him In his campaign
for Euvcrnor IN 1906. hut worked
only few months and did not make
his promises good. He denied that
Mulhal1 helped raise $::.O0O In that
connection. His employ ment by the
tariff association was about April I.
1908. nearly n month after he left
coaxrcss. lie said he was In charge
The chronicle=news., 1913-09-12

Of the campaign for \ tariff commits.
sion while the Payne bill was In the
house and later In the senate.
There was nothing secret or in
sidioun about my employment he
rnid. u was not In congress and
thought I had n right to that cm.
pioy'rcnt. I received $3.50 \ week
snd my expenses and probably u re-
iaincr oi $3.50. There may have
been somc talk Of = contingent fec.
but II must have been among tho Of.
ficrrs. I never heard anything about
H.
"whiic ! Was whip Of the house for
six year," declared Watsbn. pound
Ing ON the table In front of him. ~
WAS intimately acquainted with al
mos' every member aud ! never knew
corrupt man In the house,
When questioned about lectures
for tho manufacturers or allied or
San,sations Watson diverted 10 take
a shot at Secretary Bryan.
lie Is tho John u. Rockefeller Of
the chatauqua platform" said Wat
son. lie has made more none,
out Of II than anybody else and he
has made more money because he has
gone about abusing the other fellow.
for making money"
The chronicle=news., 1913-09-12
WRITTEN EXAMINATION FOR
FIRE BOSSES WHO ARE NOT
ELIGIBLE FOR SERVICE GER.
TfFlCATES.

l.-Wherc L. marsh gas. or fire
damp usually ofund aud why!
Whs, is mean, by a safety
lamp and what are its essential fca-
turcS.
3.-iIow would you remove FIR.
damp from working place.
What precautions should be
taken IN tn. use OF a safety lamp In
gaseous mine
5.-ip mine with n vcntilafing
current of $4,000 Gu. II. per minut, K.
the mine generating $500 GU. II. OF
gas per minute. what is the percent
age OF gas In tn. return air.
I.-Why does fir.-damp explode
in safety lamp without producing
an explosion of the gas outside the
lamp
I.-Dcscribc the action of the
flame OF safety lamp In firc-damp
end ir black-damp.
S.-Givc your idea of the proper
method Of caring FOR safety iamps
+ ''Hh''r'si hh' ''AhN '"'s s''
to the lamp cabin and given out to
the miner.
o.-undcr what conditions is a
safety lamp not safe,
1o.--In an airway six feet square
the velocity is 200 It, per minute.
Wha, quantity Ia travelling n tho
air course Is circular and six feet Ia
diameter with the same velocity
what quantity would be travelling.
Formula. constant 1854.
1i.-Iow should the fire boss
travel when making his examination.
with or against the air current. and
why?
l2.-lf before entering the mine
YOU notice the water gauge Is higher
than usual. what would YOU expect
TO find? If the gauge was lower than
The chronicle=news., 1913-09-12

Tho scarf sleeve IL a dainty aidi.
iion to the evening frock. Tho
sleeves diminntivc In icnsth. arc
formed Of chiffon. and each contin.
ucs In long scarf which is caught
loosely In at the waist. The sleeves
aud scarf ends can tc either Of tho
same color n the rest Of the gown
or Of contrasting color. figured chif-
Son " tho gown II Of plain material.
The chronicle=news., 1913-09-12
SELECT JUDGE TO
HEAR BlxDY CASI

f.o~ Angeles. Cal. Srpi. ia
conference Of county Judges with
counsel for George II. Bisby. the msl-
Iloaairc banker charged with offes.
s~s axaiast young xtrIs. resulted to-
day In tho selection Of Judge u. y.
Hlcdsoc Of Han Rcrnadino eouniy to
hear the case. The trial will bexta
next Monday.