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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1909)
r . ' , . . w w t . { 1 1 j1 I 1 , The Valentine Democrat , i t ! 1 I l't ' l I . VALENTINE , NEB. l ; i L 5L RICE , - - - - Publisher l I { V _ 11 i , 'EOLL ' OF DEATH 1-,200 E , / ' \ IOr'E1tI . " I ; : CITY A SCENE OP r l DESOLATION > GRIEK _ s . 1 + 1t I i I . . :1 : oo Drowned Bodies ' E'oulld-Scorcs : . Yet I Thought to Be in Swollen . ' I St.rcam-Propcrt : Loss is Enormous ! t ' Placed as High as $20,000,000. ' At 110 * * Sunday it ceased raining C ; I for the first time since last Thursday j ! ' teit Monterey Mexico and some idea a i of the horrers of the flood of Friday 'I"I I Xiigh and Saturday could be obtained. 1 ; ; . : It was a * first reported that 800 lives I f i ; were lost fa the disaster but Sunday shows that the number of dead will I , 1 reach ; L.290 , and perhaps more. The i river has fallen considerably and while ! i still high the danger is over. Seven- : ! teen and n half inches of rainfall is :1 I the official record during Friday , Sat- i urday and Sunday. This rain was a -steady downpour and at no tint'- a\i- jproached the status of a cloudburst. : I The river was higher than it ever has P foeen in the history of Monterey and I , , . at one time the Plaza Zcarogosca. the , highest { part of the city was flooded to I r a depth of about one foot. This was early Saturday morning and only last- - 3 f . . . Cd 1 until life approach of the south - ' side : ; of the Santa Louisita bridge was h washed out. El I . Fully 15.000 people are homeless in : the flood and are b'ingcared for I { by the city government in the best - way possible. At noon .Sunday 5.000 . ) , people : wcrn given bread. coffee and soup at the municipal offices but ; jthere are many more on the south side . I of the river still out of reach of aid I I : on account of the still overflowed l' } ' \ ' . - ( er. Conservative estimates of the I property loss place the figures at $20- : : ( OOO.OffO throughout the city. ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN. - - . , ( IVork of Boy Bandits is i Discovered ! : Just in Time. \ i An attempt Sunday by four boys i to wreck the Chicago express south I c i bound on the Illinois Central railroad I i due in Kankakee. IlL. at 11:10 a. m. . I ; I was : discovered by a switching crew } in \ I time to prevent accident to the train + I ; : which was crowded. The boys had , : placed frog blocks and rail braces at ' a switch south of town. Werly Smith. Sam and David Blatt and Clayton r I ! Robertson ranging in age from 14 to 16 years were arrested near the scene J : of the intended wreck where they i . : were awaiting developments. They ad I ' : mitted placing the obstructions on the I I track and said they just "wanted ta I : see a wreck. " II I I - - II I I POISONS HER CIHLDREN. i JSt. .Toseph Mother 'fhen Attempts to ' Take Her Own Life. In a fit of insanity Sunday after- aoon Mrs. Carrie Sanders. aged 41 , of St. Joseph , Mo. . gave five of her six children morphine. While trying to feed the poison to the sixth she was deterred by a neighbor when she con- fessed to what she had done. Weldon , aged 5 years is dead but physicians say they will save : the lives of the other children. The mother also took poison and cut her throat after making her ( on- fession , but she is expected to recover. The children range in age from 2 : ! to 10 years. : I Number of RQbels Grows. According to information received I In Belgrade Sunday the Albania rebell- : ion is extremely serious. The number 1 of rebels is growing daily and the ! I whole region between Pristina and 1 c Prisrend in European Turkey and II the Montenegran frontier Is in a state I , I j , of revolt in a demand for complete J. ) ' reinforcement of the sherit laws. i , II 11 Five Meet Death. , / Five persons , four of them closely 'I ' II it related , were killed Sunday when an 11 automobile in which they were riding : ) J , was struck by a fast passenger train on the Chicago Rock Island : , and Pa- I I l , cific railroad two and a half miles I i I west of Vigus station on the Creve r , Cour lake road , St. Louis county , Mo. I ! Civil War Veteran Dead. I I Thomas A. Wood , newspaper club ' : and civil war veteran , died in St. I Louis , Mo. , Sunday aged 64. Until his retirement two years ago he had been i business manager of the St. Louis I Globe-Democrat for thirty-nine years. I Winnipeg Warehouse Damaged. . . . The ? McClary stove warehouse was f I damaged by fire Winnipeg Sunday to the extent of 250000. 1I 1 I Sioux : City I/ivc Stock Market. Saturday's quotations on the Sioux , . . City live stock market follow : Dutchf f er steers , $4.35@5.50. Top hogs , $7.65 , t , { l , s , Town is Wiped Out. .1 . Grand Forks Idaho , was destroyed by lire Sunday. The bystanders looted 'V % { t C the three burning saloons. Three C I.- hundred people are reported homeless n ¶ . .A and without food supply. ] 1 . Driven Out of Town. r Mrs. Brown and her daughter Mag- , ' r , ; Kie Brown , driven out of Keokuk , Ia. , r ? n & recent crusade : against the red 'n Alight dfstrlct , were tarred and feath- p re4 gf Alexandria , Ms. , Friday igtt , . - ' . ' h - - - - . . - , , , . , , . , , , - - - ' . \ 'I"'C'ufI'i"r l. . , . . . I , - \ " ; ! 'i - - ) tlt9"1PJ. . , . , ' \ . ; , ; ' . : : - . ' - - " . I' , ' 1 I' _ - f . - . " ' " , . . . . .1'1" STEAMER OHIO SINKS. Reef is Struck Off Steep Point ? . Alaska. One man , a wireless operator , gave his life that more than 200 : might be saved Friday , when George E. Eccles , of Seattle , went down on the Alaska Steamship company's steamer Ohio ' I while sounding the "C. Q. D. " His call for help as his vessel was sinking brought the steamers Kingfisher , Humboldt and Rupert City to' the 1 rock off Steep Point , in Hishkish nar- rows , British Columbia , and all but himself and four others were saved. The drowned : Purser Frederick J. Stephens , Seattle ; Wireless Operator George E. Eccles Seattle ; The quar- termaster , a soldier and a steerage passenger , names unknown. Pilot Snow was on the bridge when the ship struck. The boats were low- , ered at once and the women and I children taken off first. The soldier and the steerage passenger were kill- ed by the upsetting of the boat dur- 1 I ing the rescue of the passengers. : Operator Eccles assisted valiantly in I rescue work and is reported to have been drowned while so engaged. I Purser Stephens is also said to have given his life that the passengers and other members of the crew might be saved. It is 320 miles from Seattle to Steep Point. The rocks whe're the boat went down shelve off rapidly into , unusually deep water. The Ohio was : insured for $220,000 and was valued 'at ' 300,000. Capt John Johnson , her ' navigator , was regarded" as one of the most skillful on the Pacific coast. . I ODD AVRECK ON ROCK ISLAND. . ' M. & St. L. Train Jumps Track } Near Burlington. Ia. A miraculous escape from almost I total annihilation came to the Minnc- 'apolis-St. ' Louis through express Fri- 'day ' on the Rock Island road , which jumped the track three miles north of , Burlington , Ia. , while running at a high rate of speed. , One car left the rails and dragged : the others behind it , but , strange to say , not one was overturned and not , a passenger of the many on board ; was hurt. All were badly jostled , how- , ever. Special trains brought the stranded passengers to Burlington and a wreck crew went out to put the coaches on the track. Coroner's Verdict Public. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway company is held responsible for the deaths of William Bourque and Harry Holcomb , driver and mechanician of a Knox car in the automobile races in Indianapolis on August 19 in the findings of Coroner Blackwell , made public Friday. Five Deaths by Explosion. An explosion in the Weiss cartridge /actory at Budapest Thursday result- ed in the death of five men and the serious injury of ten others. Princess DC Sagim Robbed. A Paris newspaper publishes a Statement that Princess Helie de Sa- gan was robbed of $5,000 during her recent stay at Reinis , and her hus band , the prince , was at the same time relieved of $10,000. I Mechanician is Killed. Lewis Cole , mechanician of the Stearns car in the twenty-four hour automobile race , was killed at Brigh- ton Beach , N. Y. , Friday , and the driver , Laurant Gross , was fatally in- jured in a collision with the Acme car shortly before midnight. 3Iinnesota : Bank : Holdup. } . ' Two men entered ' the State bank at Wayzata , Minn. , on the north shore of Lake MInnetonka : , shortly before noon Thursday and , pointing guns at Cashier Frank Snures' head , com- pelled him to hand over between $200 and $300. The robbers fled. A posse ss in pursuit. , Desperate Negro Convict , After killing one man and serious- jy wounding two others in the posse which was chasing him , B. Clark : , a I negro serving a life sentence in the Bibb county , Ga. , chain gang for mur- der , was killed at sunrise Friday. ] Makes : a Test Case. The constitutional fight of a state to enact laws discriminating against the humble Chinese laundry man is to be investigated by the supreme court of the United States and the test IB to be made by Quong Wing , of Lewis and Clarke county. Mont. Fails to Swim Channel. Jabez Wolffe. the English swimmer , who started from Dover at 4 p. m. Thursday to swim across the channel r to France , was compelled to give up after having coVered thirteen miles in : right hours. t Nine Drowned iri Sea. A Spanish brIgantine has been vrecked , at Puerto Ventura. The cap- tain : and eight men were drowned.r. r.c Novelist Fenn Dead. 11 The death was announced In Lon- a ion Friday of George Manville Fenn , I ] the novelist. He was born in 1831. $ . Nine Men Killed : ; Six Injured. A dynamite explosion on the Key West extension of the Florida East tJ Coast railroad at Camp Bocachica , d near Key West killed nine men and c jinjured six : others. r , - Head of Negro K. of P. S. W. Green , of New Orleans , -was re-elected supreme chancellor of the d negro Knights of Pythias at Kansas S pity , Friday , by the supreme lodsr 'l' . . . / j , - 'S. . . . . . . ' . . J . 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Thursday at Reims , took glorious re venge for the hard luck which he ex - perienced in his recent attempts to cross the English channel , and his in- I defatigable but hitherto unsuccessful efforts to accomplish some notable achievement during the present nleet- ing , by establishing a new world's I record for distance , 154 kilor-inters. 650 meters , or 95.88 miles. . .ttham covered fifteen laps , or 150 kilc eters , in 2:14:00. : ! : and the full dista. , - e in 2:18:09 3-5 , which also are \ \ rld's records , the flight being at the rau of about G9J/2 kilometers an hour , as compared with 53 % mile by Wright at Le Mans , and a fraction under 50 made by Paulhan Wednesday. Except for the one-lap speed rec- ords made by Bleriot and Crutiss and" Paulhan's time record in the air , Latham now holds every record for distance and speed. ' Like Paulhan , he descended only when the gasoline tank was empty. Nothing could have exceeded the beauty and impressiveness of the pro- longed flight. In grace of lines no other aeroplane here compares with Latham's Monoplane. The slightly tilted planes from the long , skifflike body gives it a resemblance when : close to a winged canoe. While sail- ing high up in the air it looks from a : distance like a mammoth dragon fly. : For an hour with fluttering wings like a living thing it fought its way against the storm of rain and wind at an average height of 150 feet mounting higher as the wind rose un- til , during the worst part of the storm it was up fully 300 feet. The con- tention of the advocates of the bi- plane that the monoplane would be unable to live in a strong breeze ha . been amply refuted. INTERSTATE FAIR DKAWS XEA1J. Woodland Park : at Riverside. Sioux City , la. . Putting on Gala Attire. The week of the Interstate Live Stock Fair Woodland Park , River- side , Sioux City , Ia. , is less than a month off. The gates of these beauti- ful grounds will be thrown open at 9 o'clock the morning of Monday , Sep-/ tember 20. The attractions at the fair will be so varied that every one should bo pleased and entertained. First will be 1i 1I I the display of live stock which. of itself i , will far exceed in value $1,000- 000. Then there will be magnificent display of agricultural products , and the largest display of farm machinery ever made in the state. The bureau of animal industry of the United States department of agriculture will have an exhibit , in charge of experts who will deliver daily lectures. The Iowa tate Agricultural college will have an exhibit of seed corn , grains and seeds. Prof. P. G. Holden will be in charge " - and will deliver a : : series of lectures. In addition to these there will be an exhibit of pure and impure foods in chargo of State Food and Dairy Com- missioner Wright. The amusement features will be on a : : large scale. There ' will be a 22-car circus on the Midway , the free attrac- tions in front of the grandstand will be 1 of a high order of talent. They 1i include i aerialist acts , tumbling turns , gymnastic { gyrations and comedy ca- pers. 1 The Igorrote Village , which was 1I at 1i the St. Louis exposition. will be a great curiosity. The race program is classy from start to finish. Moreover , the harness horses ] will not be the whole thing this year ; there are to be some fine fields of runners. . TAFT ACTS ON PARDONS. Sentences ' of Three Prisoners Com muted to Six Montlis. President Taft has commuted to six months the terms of imprisonment im posed on W. S. Harlan , S. E. Huggins and C. C. Hilton and has denied com- mutation or pardon to Robert Galla- gher and Walter Grace , all of whom were convicted at Pensacola , Fla. , of conspiracy to commit peonage. The men were convicted in connec- tion with the recruiting of men to work in the Jackson Lumber com pany's plant. HOLLAND'S CHOLERA SCARE. Examination of Suspected Cases is . Still Going Forward. At Thursday's sitting of the munici- pal [ council in Rotterdam the burgo- master announced that there had been four : deaths from cholera and that of nine suspected cases now In the iso lations sheds , three had been found to be infected with cholera bacillus. There were no fresh cases reported Thursday. The general belief is that the disease was brought tc port by the steamer Ellewoutadyk from St. Pe- ersburg. Carnegie Gives $30,000. President Theodore Kemp , of Illi nois Wesleyan : university , Friday re- ceived : notice that Andrew Carnegie had given $30,000 to the university for . new science building , Wesleyan hav- ing raised endowment * fund of 60000. Panama Editor Slain. William Nichols Chandler editor or the Panama Press , was killed ' Thurs day by Herbert O. Jeffries , an Ameri ( can , who took part in the Panama revolution. 200 Children Stricken. . 11 More than 200 children in a limited t district of Brooklyn , N. Y. , have been ' v stricken within the past few days c with a form of infantile paralysis " . . . . , . . . . . - - - - - - - - . . . . . _ : r- . " " - > < " ; : ; . ' : ' . - - _ ; " ? " ' . ; : - : - . : - - - . . - - - - - - - . ' - . - - . - - - - - - - . - - - - - - ' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ' - - - - , , . . . . , " \ . . . . I ' 'X. * * * * : + : r r r ri * * I ! t'X. F IF If ' t of. NEBRASKA . ( STATE r = n 33 yy Si VS j : . t + ; . . . . . . . ! . J. . . ' .ew' ! . . . .tt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . . . . ! . ! . . . . J.d.rL L II . . . . . . : . : . : J. . . . . . . . . . . ' . . . . .t . . " " . . ; : 4444 " . " . - : - ' " " 't. _ : . . . . . , . . . . . . . . - . . - . . . ' " _ . - ' . . - - . . . . . . . . . ' " ' -.i. . a1- OLD FRIENDS MEET AGAIN. riiousands : Clasp Hands at Dakota County UC 1nion. An ideal midsummer day , filled with bright warm sunshine tempered : : by vagrant zephyrs playing through the tall cottonwoods , spreading elms and stately maples , with a strip of the river flashing in the sun across the bright green fields was the scene na : ture presented as the setting of the memorable gathering of the old settl- ers of Dakota county at Dakota City Thursday. The business meeting resulted in ; the election of the following officers for the ensuing year : President , A. H. Baker ; vice president , Emmet Grib- ble ; secretary , W. C. Eckhart ; assist- ant secretary , W. L. Rose , re-elected ; financial secretary , Barney Gribble ; treasurer , George T. Woods , re-elect- ed ; historian , M. M. Warner , re-elect- ed. The election of executive com- mittee resulted at follows : St. John's precinct , John Boler ; Covington pre- cinct , J. : J. Eimers ; Omadi precinct , W. H. Ryan ; Pigeon Creek precinct , Philo McAfee ; Emerson precinct , Ben I Bonderson ; Dakota precinct , L. H. Ambright ; Summit precinct , Thomas ! B. Jones ; Hubbard precinct , John C. Smith. Mrs. Fannie Crozier and Mrs. : Eva : : L. Orr were elected to member- ship on the _ badge committee. I I MAY S1.'IUIE1' LINCOLN. r - - I Street Railway Men File Demands j I' With the Company. I The Lincoln street railway employ- 'I j I es' union Thursday filed a written de- j mand with the Lincoln Traction com- I j I pany which operates all street car I lines in that city , for an increase of 1 I cent an hour in pay , for one day off I each week for each employ and for I recognition of the union. I It is expected the company will re- j sist the demands as an increase of I about one cent an hour was granted by the company two months ago. I' ' While no threat to strike was made I in the demand filed , it is probable the : men will strike if the demands are i not granted. ! a About 200 : men are employed and I of these 150 are members of the union ! i I affiliated with the national organiza- j I tion. I i ic i j Ij T. B. HORD BtHXI I > . I Central City ' Cattleman Severely In- I t jured When Gas "Explodes. ; T. B. Hord , the largest cattle feed- j i I er in Nebraska was severely burned at ! his home in Central City by the ex- i i plosion of acetelyne gas. J. H. With- i row , who was with him. was also ser- I ' c iously hurt. j Mr. Hord has an acetylene plant ! ' in the ba cment of his residence and j I went to see why it had become out of 'I ' order. Mr. Withrow accompanied him. I When one of the men struck a match I I I there followed so terrific an explosion ' ' 'I' that it was heard all over town. . Mr. Hord's hair and beard were singed and he was severely burned about the face , neck and legs. The I explosion almost stripped his cloth- | : ' ing from him. i ' I Parents ' ' 'in Race. I Chased in an automobile sometimes i at the rate of fifty or sixty miles an j I . hour , two young people from Auburn j who were trying to elope were over- I. j . taken by the parents of the young ! I I' woman near Louisville. The youth- i i ' ful lover jumped from the'sbuggy ' and 1 took to the fields when he saw. the . automobile chugging up behind him i ! , and the young woman was taken back | j , to Auburn. J s 1 ] si i 4 Struck by Engine. | i i While trying to cross the railroad j I track on a private crossing near Arl- I. i ington Sunday evening Gus Jensen j : Iy was struck by a freight train on the i i Northwestern road. The train was I switching and Jensen failed to see it i ' approach. The wagon was wrecked I I i I and Jensen suffered a broken arm. i c fi ! Bloomington Editor Sued. j ' s H. M. Crane the editor of The j Bloomington Advocate , was sued in j the district court for $10,000 for aI-I j ' leged libel by Miss Lady Nellie Dut- ! ; b ton ( , an organizer for the Highland I | n Noble order. I ° fl Gunness Victim Alive. flt flb Frank X. Reidinger , who was sup- I t posed to have been a victim of Mrs. i y Belle Gunness , at Laporte. Ind. . is j c alive and well on a farm near Free- i i / port , this state to ] according a letter I received from him by friends in Wis I consin. Wis-I p ' ja Fined for Killing Prairie Chickens. I' i tl h Deputy Game Warden Boehler ar rested O. G. Van Cleave , Emery Sny- der and Earl Perry of Elgin for having i prairie chickens in their possession. I The men all pleaded guilty and were I pi fined $5 and costs each. < ' ai Vc.5C ' ' " ' ! Vcsscy's Secretary Itesigns. t J. E. Wingfield , who has filled the I position of _ private secretary to Gov. ' Cihi Vessey since he took the office of gOVh ernor ! , has resigned. , . hiLi - . F Liw w Terminal Taxes. he h4w Under the terminal tax law the Un- w ion Pacific Railroad company will have to pay taxes on $3,527,358 in- vested in terminal property in the ! clte cities : and villages of the state. te o ; \ ' < , . . - - - ' ' ; : ' ' ' : ; ' : : ' - : : . : : : : - - - - . - : : : . ; : - = - = : = -at - . : : . . - - . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . - - - . . - SCANDAL . .I : : CO LN. Several Persons Anos'itl . } for Aban doning Xc.v KJM- ! Baby. G. E. Combes , a tr ' ; 'eling salesmat for a Lincoln typew lcr agency ; Dr. G. E. Spear , a prominent Lincoln phy- sician , and Miss Ann i Knorr. a nurse in a private maternity hospital : at Lin , coln , were arrested ' uesday night charged with abandoning the new born baby of Mr. and Mrs. Combes. The baby was found Sunday morning in a shoe box on the steps of St. Elizabeth's hospital , a Catholic institution. in an- other part of town. Investigation by the police resulted in the arrest of the father , the physician who treated Mrs. \ Combes and the nurse who attended her. The baby was born Saturday night. The doctor made a confession in an affidavit , when sweated by the police , that he left the baby on the hospital steps , the parents being anxious to dispose of it and keep the fact of its birth secret. Mrs. : Combes was for- merly telephone girl and was mar. ried to Combes a month ago. ) ! 'CO li. HAS A SERIOUS : : FIRE. High : Wind at Times Threatens Large Part of Town. McCook was threatened with a dis astrous fire Monday , which by dint of . hard work was finally held to a loss of about 10000. The livery barn and contents residence and part of the contents belonging to ' \ V.V. . Barritt , was entirely destroyed , his loss being about $ . . 000 , with an insurance on all of $4 , OO.\ The residence of E. F. Brunswick was damaged , entailing a loss of $200 , upon which there was no insurance. The Predemore blacksmith shop , im mediately adjoining the big barn , was also considerably damaged , but its contents escaped much loss. The shop I was also insured. A high wind prevailed and a : : conI I siderable part of the residence section of the city was and endangered many I small buildings } were burned and damaged. I ] ACCIDENT PROVES FATAL. j Lincoln's Amateur Aeronaut Dies at Result of Fall. Fred Scott's ambition to emulate tho Wright boys led 1 to his undoing. Ho died of injuries received while at- tempting to make a flight with a : : bal loon l at Lincoln undertaken to get money to push the construction of an aeroplane. Scott has been a dare- devil sort of a young man , and has made some fifteen balloon ascensions in ; his time. For the past two months he has put in all of his time and money in work I ing 5 on an aeroplane . modeled after the . . Wrights but with several differences ] that he insisted would make it possici ble to make longer flights at great t speed. He ' ran out of money , and some of his neighbors , who were in- : : terested in his project , made up s } purse to give him. He insisted that in a return he would make a balloon asi cension for their entertainment . . 1 . . i Elopes with Leigh Girl. i For several months past a youn : : man giving his name as Al Davenport , ( has : been stopping in Leigh working most of the time at the livery barn. 1 He has been keeping company with Miss Lily Moeller. daughter of Mrs. . Catherine Foeller one of the most highly respected families in Leigh. Wednesday , it is asserted , the couple eloped. It is asserted that Davenport r is ! a married man , having a : : wife and child ] in Omaha. I Drowned in the Platte. The dead body of Gust Kenne , i a Frenchman about 40 years of age , la 1 : was \ found in the Platte river near lan Plattsmouth. The body was identified le , by his watch and clothing. Mr. ; and lefi Mrs. Kenne and their 3-year-old son fi had been living on the J. H. Falter tl tlw farm near the Platte river since last w spring. si Young Man Badly Slashed. tl : tlei Gerry Tepley is the victim of a : : stab eim bing affray which occurred at the Her eioi oi man Johannes farm , nine miles south of Leigh. A man called Jack Hobo ' re flourished a knife and slashed Tepley reei badly in the abdomen. The gash ex eihs tends back to the bowels and the hsdi young man lies in a serious condition. ta Opium Joint Raided. tah : The police raided an opium joint ai tl. tl.ai Lincoln and overhauled two colored an : people and permitted one' to get away r. : = after shooting some of the hair out of his head. The officers confiscated three opium pipes , lamps and some of the drug. th Buys a Newspaper. ars F. J. Branaka , of Schleswig Ia , has is purchased the Cedar Rapids Outlook fe and has taken charge. feJc Haley Goes to Claim Girl. air H. A. Haley , of Norfolk , will go to Pi Chicago to take legal steps to recover .he is daughter , Marguerite , from the Lake Geneva boarding school , from .he which she fled ten days ago , and where or thinks she is being held against her pi 111. th : Pilger Dedicates New Church. of The new Methodist Episcopal hat church of Pilger was dedicated SUnth . . day. a. , LE \ _ : , r- . " . _ - - r - . . - ' ' " . : - = = : : - - - i - - HOLY GHOSTEES PBEPABE FOB THE EOT OP THE WORLD. I 1i r' , ; ' . . r r _ ' . 1 - - . .I - - - . . - The society of "The Holy Ghost and Us" is going'lo be ready for the end Df the world which is predicted will take place } Sept. 15 , 1903. : ) Tho home of this society is at Shiloh Me. , where they have erected : a tabernacle on the top of a high hill. The high priest of the cult , "Elijah" Sanford , is hurry- ing homo from the uttermost ends of the earth where he has been on a . long cruise and will be present on the fateful day. ' At 8 o'clock on the morning of the 15th the Shilohites will don the pure white garments which they have pre- pared over - and against the beginning of the end , and will meet together in front of the tabernacle in order to shake hands all around. After the handshaking they will mount to the roof of the tabernacle where with song and praise they will enliven the moments immediately preceding the expected end. In further preparation the vessel , built by the Shilohites , will be in readiness. The tabernacle has also been painted a shining white in preparation for the great day. The ship of the society lies in the harbor and all is expectancy. LIVES IN ONE STATE 95 YEARS. \ . .J.etlVOUUIU Ileenll.s Pioneer lla3 of Iucianl. Mrs. Jane Smith who recently cele- brated her 97th birtiiday ! anniversary at 'her home in Fulton county , In diana , remembers -when there were only two houses in Logansport , and these were log cabins. She was born in Virginia , and , 'with her parents , came to Logansport 95 years ago. The war of 1812 was still raging when she came to Indiana and there were many hostile Indians in this part of the country. Tihough Mrs. Smith remem bers nothing of those exciting days , except what she later learned from , her parents , incidents which occurred , , five and ten years afterward are still , vivid in her mind. . : e \ lT 1 Et r. } r/ l . www Speed nn 5 Death. While the country ; is continually called upon to bear the shock of fatal accidents due to automobiles , it is - . " made aware that nearly all these ac- 7 cidents are unnecessary. They are due / to : the high speeds at which machines are driven. The recent speed contests at Indianapolis proved especially bloody. On a course supposed to be as : safe as a course could be made there : was an amazing list of fatalities. , The remedy for these hideous killings is apparent. Demoniac performances in the line of speeding must be prohib- ited. Sanity must be applied to the automobile. The public does not re- quire racing : : machine in which to go from place to place. It wants a re- liable vehicle capable of traveling at proper speed. Anything beyond that / is a menace to human life. - - Chicago N ews. . : . . r. , , ' Women. " Evidently many -women consider h ' no disgrace to be caught smuggling ' provided they have husbands rich enough to pay the fine. - Rochester Express. A Northern : woman's club has spent couple of thousand t dollars in en- larging its cloakroom , an improvement t necessitated by the big hat - New Or - leans Item. $ A Philadelphia . I woman was saved from a cracked skull by her rat. And ' thus this unspeakable device - - - scored * when the world hoped and expected a r shutout. - Houston Post. The hats worn by the women during ? the first half of the year have been enough to frighten Satan ; hut you will note that the marriages have not fallen off any.-Galveston News. I A woman who prides herself on her resourcefulness is usually at her wits' end when she finds out that a moth has invaded the vest of her hU5bal d' * dress suit - Syracuse Post - Starda.3. I Perhaps those women who have f taken up the fight for pure whisky have had opportunity to make observa tions . on the varying qualities of jags and wish to eleyate ate the . product Council Bluffs Nonpareil -\eriai Ex 1oita . Another thing we need is' an air shi * I that can swim. swim.-Balt1more Sun. The friendship . of the Wright broth-f f : . _ _ _ _ is frequently b commented on , but it , only another instance of birds of a ' feather flocking together. Atlanta I ) urnal. Bett.er prepare for t the . coming o f the r : ShlP-wh the next skyscraper f ia i s planned it should have ( a fendta ' landing ont. . .e roof . - Florida Times Uhfon. ' There is a remote \ possibility that e aeroplane may . some day be used r flying over d dry districts and ' drop- 3ing liquid refreshments ' down on the " " nirsty inhabitants . - Toledo Bade ' ) t , , By way of excuse for the " limitations "J * j the aviators . , it might be remarked at many of the birds do not trust emselvos to their JV1ngs , it they can . aYOid it , when storms ' ra g e. - G l'evelsaQ _ V , : r" < . . . : : . . . . . / : " . : , : ; , , : : + . < ' , : . t i