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BANDITS WIIECK TRAIN
Great Northern Passenger He and
Up Near Spokane, Wash.
$20,900 TAKEN FROM MAIL
Twelve
Wreck---SIO,OOO Reward Offered
For Each Robber.
Spokane, Wash. —In a hold up of tho
Great Northern passenger train, No.
3, between Colbert and Mead, 13
persons were injured, when the en
gine and mail ear started running
wild down tho track by the bandits,
after they had rifled the mails, col
lided with the remaining cars of the
train.
The bandits detached the engine
and mail car from the train, ran
them down the track a considerable
distance and then, after the register
ed mail had been opened, they sent
the engine back to collide with the
cars standing on the track.
The conductor saw the wild cars
coming down the track at the rate of
25 miles an hour, when they were a
short distance away, and he and one
of the trainmen placed a tie on the
track in an effort to stop their wild
flight. The engine and car were
partly stopped by this means, but
plunged into tho coaches. There was
a loud crash, and passengers were
thrown from their seats, most of
the Injured being hurt by glass from
the broken windows.
When the train reached Colbert,
some switching had to be done. Wliilo
the engine crew was busy at this
work, two men suddenly appeared on
the engine cab, and, thrusting a re
volver against the body of Engineer
William Miller, ordered him to do as
commanded.
The engineer and Fireman John
Hall obeyed. The mail car was cou
pled on to the train and pulled out.
After the train had proceeded a few
miles, the engineer was ordered to
stop, and lie and his firemen were
forced to leave the cab.
Two of the robbers then went to
the door of the mail car and ordered
it opened. Their command was obey
ed by Benjamin F. Stumpf, the mail
clerk
It. is reported that the bandits ob
tained a large sum of money from the
registered mail, the amount being
plaeed at $20,000.
The Great Northern lias offered a
reward of SIO,OOO for each robber cap
tured.
ENGLAND LEADS THE WORLD.
United States is Second in Volume of
Commerce.
Washington, D. C. —The interna
tional commerce of the world estab
lished anew record in 1907, with an
aggregated value of $30,000,000,000, ac
cording to figures compiled by the bu
reau of statistics of the department of
commerce and labgr. The trade of ev
ery country, colony, protectorate and
island in the world which makes any
report of its commerce is included in
the statement.
Practically two-thirds of the vast to
tal is credited to Europe, whose ex
perts are estimated at $8,000,000,000
and imports at $11,000,000,000. North
America, including Central America
and the West Indies, exported nearl.t
$2,500,000,000 and imported a little
.less than $2,000,000,000. Asia supplied
about $1,5000,000 of the exports and
received about the same value in im
ports, South America sent forth about
$750,000 worth of goods and imported
slightly less.
The United States exported $2,133,-
000,000 of goods, or a little more than
14 per cent of the world’s grand total,
while the imports aggregated $1,156,-
000.000, or about 9.2 per cent of the
total. The ten countries which contrib
uted more than two-thirds to the
world's total commerce for the year,
in their order, were the United King
dom. United States, Germany, France,
Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Austria-
Hungary, India and Russia.
KEEPER BECOMES INSANE.
Man Now a Patient Where He Has
Been an Employee.
Elgin. 111.—James Dougherty, for
the last twenty years an attendant
ami employee at the Northern Illi
nois Insane Apylura, has been taken
to the institution as an inmate. Per
fectly sane, according to physicians
at the hospital, Dougherty left the in
stitution two months ago on leave of
absence. A fortnieht ago he returned
and In a few days he had become vio
lently insane. Dr. Podstata, superin
tendent of tire hospital, declares that
constant association with insane pa
tients was not the cause of the man’s
afflictions, but local physicians are in
clined to believe that it was.
10,000 DEAD AT ADANA.
First Estimates of People Killed
Exaggerated.
Adana, Turkey.—The estimate-3 of
from 20,000 to 25,000 Christians kill
ed by Mohammedans in the province
of Adana, made a fortnight ago. must
be revised. It is now ascertained that
the number can hardly reach more
than 10,0(50, possibly less. Thousands
who were supposed to have been kill
ed in the country districts have since
come into some of the large towns
for relief.
Fugitives from the villages or set
tlements who first reached the large
towns after the masaeres began, ex
exaggerted, through their fears, the
extent of the slaughter.
88,1)1)0,000 PEOPLE IN U. S.
Original States Have a Third of the
Population.
Washington, I). C. —Of the 88,000,-
000 people in the United States, Alas
ka included, about one-third live In
the original thirteen states, accord
ing to a statistical abstract of the
United States to be issued in a few
days by the bureau of statistics of the
department of commerce and 7 labor.
Another third live in the states cre
ated from the territory ceded to the
common union by the original states,
and the remaining third in the area
added by purchase or annexation.
In 1008 there were 754,808,000 acres
of unappropriated and unreserved
land, of which one-half was in Alas
ka. 44,778,000 in New Mexico and
42 7fit),ooo in Arizona.
Of swamps and overflow lanas
there are about 75,000,000 acres in the
country, of which 18,500,000 acres are
in Florida, Louisiana coming next
with about half 'bat amount.
HIGH HATS ALLOWED TO WOMEN.
Chicago City Council Proposes to Be
Good to Females.
Chicago, 111. —The city council’s gal
lant judiciary committee has removed
the limit on the height of women’s
hats. It. has decided on a- city ordi
nance which will permit the construc
tion of three story hats.
The aldermen have no patience with
fhe Elgin minister, Chicago 1 heater
owners or Illinois legislators who are
attempting to interfere with the Maja*
na Charta rights of women to wear
any size or shaped head ornament
which pleases their fancy.
Therefore, the aldermen propose to
raise the awnings. All must be hoist
ed to a height of 8 feet and 6 full
inches above the sidewalk level.
Alderman Lipps was the man who
discovered the reason for the “squatty
hats.’’ He noticed that it. is not pos
sible for the women to walk under an
awning in many places without “duck
ing.” So he had the ordinance pre
pared. He also thought higher awn
ings would be of benefit to tall men
and to those who wear theater and
silk hats.
STRAW PAVING A SUCCESS.
It Prevents Dust and Holds Heavy
Traffic Well.
Endicott, Wash. —Paving town
streets with wheat straw as a means
of binding the mud in the spring and
keeping the dust down later in the
season is being demonstrated here,
where two miles of streets were treat
ed this spring, a foot of fresh straw
being laid from curb to curb and
packed into the wet ground following
a slight rainfall. The experiment is
considered to be a success, as the
streets are neat and clean, and there
is no dust, though traffic to and from
the big wheat ranches is heavy. Coun
try toads in other parts of Washing
ton have been “strawed” for years
during the summer months to hold
the dust, but this is the first time
it has been tried in town, and it is
not unlikely that other communities
will take up the work until permanent
pavements are built.
ART ORGANIZED.
Object of the Federatoin is to Culti
vate the Taste of the Public.
Washington, D. C. —The American
Federation of Arts was formally in
augurated by the adoption of a con
stitution. The object of the federa
tion is the amalgamation of art in
stitutions and organizations for the
advancement of art; and the cultiva
tion of public taste. It fs provided
that the headquarters of the federa
tion shall be in Washington, and that
there shall be annual meetings in this
city. More than one hundred dele
gatee attended the session, which was
presided over by Charles L. Hutch
inson, president of the Chicago Art
Institute, and president of the
National Academy of Art.
CHAMPION TIGER SLAYER.
Englishman Has Killed One Hundred
and Thirty Maneaters.
London. England. —Sainthill Eard
ley Wilmot, who is said to have kill
ed more tigers than any other man,
has just arrived in England, after
thirty-five years experience of Indian
forest service, the last six as inspec
tor general of forests to the Indian
government. Mr. Wilmot, in the
course of an interview, said:
“l know the Indian forests from
end to end, and in the course of my
daily duty, during thirty-five years, I
have come across many tigers. My
record is one hundred and thirty, and
most of them were killed when, with
two or. three others. I was strolling
through the jungles.”
$5,000 For Florida School.
Binghampton, N. Y. —By the terms
of his will, offered for probate in sur
rogate’s court here, S. Mills Ely, who
died last week, bequeaths $5,000 to
the Hungerford Normal school of Cot
tonville, Fla.
Man Loses His Identity.
McNeil, Ark. Claiming complete
lapse of memory, a stranger arrived
here with the only means of identi
fication being the letters “H. A. W.”
on his linen. He says he remembers
he was in Texas and that he was a
professor at a university, but his rec
ollection further than thiij is blank.
Prohibition Bill Lost in Missouri.
Jefferson City. Mo. —The Missouri
state senate refused to recede from
the tax rider amendment to the pro
hibition joint resolution and asked
the house for a conference commit
tee. This action is taken generally
as spelling the end of legislative ac
tion on the subject.
SUICIDE ON THE INCREASE.
Dr. Devine Says There is More Mis
ery in New York Than in Milton's
Hell.
The rate of suicides in this city
has increased tenfold in the last fifty
years, while the mortality rate has
decreased. These 'were facts em
phasized by Dr. Edward T. Devine,
Professor of Social Economy at Co
lumbia University and General Sec
retary of thp Charity Organization
.Society, in the first of the threo
Kennedy lectures given for the New
York School of Philanthropy.
Whatever may be the cause of sui
cide, the fact, Dr. Devine said, was an
evidence of misery. The city at pres
ent has 1,000 suicides a year; last
year’s record was seventy-seven in
excess of that for any previous sea
son. Forty-three cases of attempted
suicide were carefully investigated.
Two were directly due to poverty,
and four to unemployment. The re
maining thirty-seven were laid to a
variety of reasons, which led the in
vestigators to the conclusion that
poverty is not the greatest cause of
suicide.
Statistics also show that the age
at which the greatest number of
cases occur is from 50 to 60. Three
men to one woman kill themselves.
There are more suicides among
Protestants than Catholics, more
among Roman than Greek Catholics,
more among Greek Catholics than
Jews.
There are more kinds of misery
in New York, Dr. Devine declared,
than Milton imagined in his “Hell.”
Contrary to the idea that misery is
a retribution for a man’s or his par
ents’ misdeeds, Dr. Devine stated
that it depended largely on condi
tions which society could control.
Dr. Devine discussed at length the
statement of a probation officer that
nine-tenths of the misery in New
York could be traced to the social
evil. He pointed out the .fact that
since the framing of the model law
in 1902 by William Baldwin and the
Committee of Fifteen to protect the
children in the tenements there had
not been one single conviction. Of
1,094 complaints, 811 were dismissed
by the Tenement House Department,
274 were dismissed by the Corpora
tion Counsel, only 9 were brought
to trial, and they were acquitted.
“The complete uninforcement is a
most unfortunate breakdown of mu
nicipal government,” Dr. Devine de
clared and he said that the part of
the police courts in it was “a miser
able fiasco.” —New York Times.
A Poor Salesman.
:Carey Johnson Ludlam, the South
ern philologist, said at a dinner: I
hope that tihe salesman who accoste l
me on my way here this evening will
take in one of the many schools of
salesmanship an eight or nine years’
course. I’m sure he needs it.
“This salesman, a shabby young
man, laid his hand on my arm and
said:
“ ‘Say, friend, lemme sell ye ia box
of this here patent cement.’
“I shook off his filthy paw.
“‘Cement!’ I sneered, annoyed at
his familiarity. ‘What do I want with
cement?’
“ ‘Why,’ cried the man, in apparent
surprise ‘ain't ye broke? Ye look it.
Solitude is as sacred as prayer, but
the born intruder will never learn
that fact.
LIGHT BOOZE
I)o You Drink It?
A minister’s wife had quite a tussle
with coffee, and her experience is in
teresting. She says:
“During the two years of my train
ing as a nurse, while on night dut>, I
became addicted to coffee drinking.
Between midnight and four in the
morning, when the patients were
asleep, there was little to do except
make the rounds, and it was quite
natural that I should want a good,
hot cup of coffee about that time. It
stimulated me and I could keep
awake better.
“After three or four years of coffee
drinking I became a nervous wreck,
and thought that I simply could not
live without my coffee. All this time
I was subject to frequent bilious at
tacks, sometimes so severe as to keep
me in bed for several days.
“After being married. Husband
begged mo to leave off coffee, for he
feared that it had already hurt me al
most beyond repair, so I resolved to
make an effort to release myself from
the hurtful habit.
“I began taking Postum and for a
few days felt the languid, tired feel
ing from the lack of the stimulant,
hut I liked the taste of Postum, and
that answered for the breakfast bev
erage all right.
“Finally I began to feel clearer
headed and had steadier nerves. Af
ter a year’s use of Postum I now feel
like anew woman—have not had. any
bilious attacks since 1 left off coffee."
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Wants It Easier.
Sir William Ramsay’s feat of trans
muting zirconium, thorium, hvdrofiuo
silicic acid and bismuth into carbon is
great, but it ought to be easier to dig
the dusky diamonds right out of the
ground, —Boston Herald.
Cured of Persistent Case of
Eczema.
St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 1, 1903.
Mr J. T. Shuptrlne, Savannah, Ga.
Dear Sir:—l have been a very great
sufferer from eczema for four or five
years, and have used many remedies and
have been treated by the most prominent
specialists here for skin diseases without
success. Some time ago, my sister. Mrs.
Elton, formerly of your city, induced me
to use Tetterine, and after using same
a few weeks, I am grateful to realize that
l am at last cured of the tormenting,
burning eczema. So valuable a remedy as
Tetterine should be known of by the
thousands throughout the country who
are suffering as I have been, and I shall
take pleasure in recommending it wher
ever an opportunity presents.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) Miss A. B. King, 5639 Vernon St
Tetterine cures Eczema. Tetter, King
Worm, Ground Itch. Itching Piles. In
fant’s Sore Head, Pimples, Boils, Rough
Scaly Patches on the Face, Old Itching
Sores. Dandruff. Cankered Scalp. Bun
ions. Corns. Chilblains and every form of
Skin Disease. Tetterine 50c; Tetterine
Soap 25c. Your druggist, or by mail from
the manufacturer, The Shuptnne Cos.,
Savannah, Ga.
THE INCONSISTENCIES OF
SPEECH.
“Funny, isn’t it?”
“What?”
“Call a man level-headed and he’s
pleased; but call him a flat-head aril
he’ll knock you down.” —Boston Tran
script.
For COLDS and GRIP.
Hick’s Capudinjs is the best remedy—
relieves the aching ami feverishness—cures
the Cold and restores normal conditions. It’s
liquid—effects immediately. 10c., 25c. and
50c., at drug stores.
BLISSFUL IGNORANCE.
Tommy—Teacher, may I go cut to
sneeze? x
Teacher —That is unnecessary, Tom
my. You can sneeze in here without
disturbing anybody.
Tommy—T expect you never heard
me sneeze.—Tit-Bits.
A Domestic Eye Remedy
Compounded by Experienced Physicians.
Conforms to Pure Food and Drugs Laws.
Wins Friends Wherever Used. Ask Drug
gists for Murine Eye Remedy. Try Murine.
CORRECT.
"Mildred had hard luck with her
beaux. Four of them shook her off
before Bob married her.”
“Ah! I see. Well shaken before
taken, eh 9”—Pick-Me-Up.
Tn four years a pair of rabbits could
have a progeny of nearly 1,500,000. A
doe rabbit produces as many as seven
(families a year.
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A Mild Reproach!
One cold morning little Elsie was
being bathed by her mother, and us
ually her bath was a great delight
to her. But this morning her moth
er talked incessantly, while she work
ed.
Elsie loved her dearly, and tried
hard to he patient. But the lecture
was so tiresome! Her mother was
laying out a course of conduct for
the day—and it was all so old. She
had heard it over and over again!
Finally she S3id very sweetly, but
very wearily: “Please, mamma, don’t
taik any more. You do make such a
draught!”—New York Times.'
French Writer’s Idea.
It is -often woman who inspires us
with the great things that she will
prevent us from accomplishing.—Alex
under Dumas.
SACRIFICE SACE OF
Town Property
AT
Milltown, Georgia.
To meet our subscription on two new
railway enterprises coming to our town
with other factory enterprises, we are offer
ing 200 choice lots close in at the low price
of $35.00 each, payable $lO cash, balance $6
monthly. This is the greatest sacrifice ever
offered in Real Estate, as our town has
nearly 2,003 people now, and with convict
labor driven out of our town, a $50,000
Baptist College completed, two more rail
ways headed this way, with several factorj
enterprises, we cannot help doubling out
population in another year.
This is a snap; write quick, as they can
not list long. No delays. No waiting. You
get deed the day payments are completed.
South Gsorgla Land & Industrial Cos.
Box 29, Milltown. Ga.
LOW EXCURSION RATES
-TO THE-
Unitetf Confederate Veterans’ Reunion
At Memphis, Tenn., June 8-10, 1909.
Th Atlanta, Birmingham Sc Atlantic Railroad will
, fell round trip tickets on June sth to 9th. inclusive.
Stopovers will he allowed on return trip at certain
points. Rates are baMed on about one cent per mile
traveled.
FARES FROM PRINCIPAL STATIONS:
WavcroM, Ga., ... $12.70
Tifton, Ga.. • - - 11.30
ThomasviJle, Ga., - - 11.40
Fitzgerald, Ga., ... 11.35
Douglas, Ga., ... 11.90
Cordele, Ga., - - - 10.60
B runs wick, Ga., ... 13.85
Talladejra, Ala., - - - 6.45
i Corresponding rates from other points.
This affords an opportunity to viit one of the
trreateft cities in th* Mississippi Valley and enjoy
the arrest Reunion at small cost
W. H. LEAHY. CHAS. PATTON.
I General Passenger Asrt. Traveling Passenger Ag4t
Atlanta, Ga.