The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, September 11, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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THE, ALTO HERALD
PUBLIC SCHOOL MONEY
Hit LSBORC. ,
northern korest fires.
A TEXAS CLERGYMAN
T. M. McCLURE, Proprietor.
alto,
KXAS
Indiana lias evolved
kiss." The scared kiss
raon.
"the sacred |
is more com- |
OFFICIALS GIVE THE PER CAPITA
FOR THIS YEAR AT $6.75—56
LAST YEAR.
News comes from all the summer re-
sorts that, tills Is a very Rood season
for mosquitoes.
New Jersey announces
covery of "flying bedbugs."
get there, just the same.
the din
And they
Injured
Ilillsboro, Sept.
Ilillsboro were inten-
,t tragedy which ni.
j (he principal streets
; :.'!0 o'clock yostcrdu\
volving tlie iuimedia'
EXCEEDS ANY PAST AMOUNT SEMtfSStt
-hi. ;i prominent ni
I .nut the possibly lat
Prediction Was Made Some Time Ago Miss Libel I'.dsal'.
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FATAL TRAGEDY AT
Two Men Killed and O-r Old Fatally Towns Are Swept Before the Great
Fire and Thousands Are
Homeless.
Minneapolis. Mum : A special
from Ilibbing, .Minn., says: j-orest
fires which for three days
in1 tins district swrpt <
11 ] ( !I ('hisliollll, s' V'H 111 11<'S
lions latf tins iitifriioun, mi<
• i on
I'lllllL
at |
arl j
' <>i (
!>umih'>*
II Wat-
I jr\U'l« r.
Hid i i)
ii if
I. H
lv
That the Amount Would Be
More Than $6.00.
u ho bus
t line
London coni]ilalns that the hams we }
send over are not sutllclently smoked.
Well, what can't he cured must bo j
endured. plot In
-i- I
been einph
past as night
local telephone e\
Southwestern Tclcg
photic Company, all
pi-i
rclat i\ civ
the liscal j
n\ail.i111 • I charged from tin
According to the fashion piiRe, "hats
are to he blRRcr next spring." W< 're
from Missouri—we don't believe such
things can be.
■ I
1 >r. Watson. All'
; others. lie Itimed lli
iiiniM'lI' .mil inflict' -
A list in :. Sept. S. The
i.chonl fund at the outset o
condition id' the
year is one id' the raiuarkublo mi
dents of the current administration.
The school fund available this yeai
will he partitioned among scholas-
tics of Texas at tin* late of $ii.?o
King Alfonso has had a quarrel with j each, the largest m the history ol
'B I the slate. The per capita last year
was $0. and when it was 1'ivd b\
the board it was declared to have
been tho largest yet made. It was ear-
ly predicted that the iipport:oi:inent
this yeai would reach over >H(i. lint
the fondest expectation.* of iho nut-. , ,.
. ' , the lire swept rapid
rotis ol education were surpassed
'when the apportionment was deter-.
i .p. ii, i , i avenue to within
mined. I ho scholastic population ot
I he slalo numbers Mll.O.'il. against
81IH.M 1 last your an increase of -.'o.-
o!i;i. The apportionment this rear
is i.'ic higher per capita than last
his mother-In law. lint, then, ht
backed by the consciousness of his au-
thority as boss.
To be sure, the finder of (he $50,000
check in Chicago was rewarded with
only two dollars, but the two dollars
was real money.
Herewith the coo of tho dove, ac-
cording to an eminent scientific au-
thority, takes its place among the use-
less and unmeaning noises.
Castro hasn't a crown, but that's
no sign that he doesn't have some
fellow feeling for the sultan, the shah,
the czar and the shereef of Morocco.
3000 Homeless in
Rawhide, \"ev. : I
people homeless, a
juivd and property
.in.ooo, is the rcsut
lire which started at "
morning in the i'a\y
pain's building.
the li
to Balloon avenue . •
ire midnight the town was coin
i pletcly wiped out and its LlOOO res
idents homeless A sliilt in
wind saved Hibbing from (lestrue-
f fion, iiinl is sweeping the flro di-
rectly down upon \ irifiuia. littccn
miles from < 'liisludin. Thousands
l ! 1 I of people have be n made home
shot 'li— |,,ss property valued at several
million dollars lias been destroy i d,
and the fire is sweeping over
Northern Wisconsin and Northern
, Minnesota. The town of Betel is
thought to have been destroyed,
| and has been deserted by its pen-
pie. Many smtdl vilbiges and inin-
| ing local ions ltH\' been wiped out
TWO DROWNED AT GALVESTON.
•on
~ \y >
iii the hands
-hoot tig the
wen upou
fatal wo
Nevada.
I ret llioi
,i disastrous
!.t, k Friday
I irug ('otn-
.
nth and east
up Kawhide
...I'll- of til'
•r ,i ton of
i|t-ni"l i si ling
•asiii-<• u,i- a
Capt. Baldwin's dirigible balloon Is
a little one compared with the Zep-
pelin airship, but success looks just
as large (o one Inventor as to the
other.
and the available school fund u"'.'io-
gntcs $(i,1(i!),7^!i. against $o.:i(i0.ii-Hi
last year an increase of $«0!i,os:;,
Governor Offers Reward.
People's Hospital.
j dynamite was used
; building, which in ;i
cheek to the flani' < . ■ I he
I volunteer tire departn and o'lO
i i t i/ens worked hei > • ■ • ct on ac-
count of the inflami .-. - ' ■ h-tnii -
11ion of the buildings tie '■ ' re rwept
iiwav like tinder.
add-
Dies in
Kin I.
Washington.
T' Sargent,
and labor
!,n of stomach
was •)."> years
locomotive
''irenicn. In J896 l'i' - cut McKin-
i'V appointed him a member of the
.laekson. Miss.: tiov. N Prominent Man
It may be true that some of the ed $100 to the statutory reward ol .....
ocean liners now are Infested by card | t$.r>0 and the $100 private rewards of- " ashtnglon .
sharps, but even if they arc, passen I ferd for the arrest of a man who i~ conimisaioner of in : jia.ion ol tin
gers who do not gamble will not lose j charged with the murder of M fs. i department of conn: re .,ml hibni
their money. i Nona Ncwberg. a pretty young wid-: died in this city l't
l'rof. Herrick says the American !ow «'hila picnicking on I leaf River trouble. Mr. Sargent
woman asks for cash only. How else j near Augusta last week and who dis- j of age. lie was born u Orange. \ I.
does he expect her to get it? Would appeared immediately afterward.; From 18!)5 to H>0'.' In uhs chief of
the American man hand it out without J The man not only murdered the wo- j the Brotherhood
its being called for? | T|inni hut rcAbed her of a consider-
A New York man who has been i ub'p s,lnl of nioncy Hint she carried
blind can now see at the age of 89 i mid outraged her and left her body ; Industrial Commission and when hit
Some New Yorkers will have to live j in the woods. j resigned from that l - i v lie declined
longer than that, however, before they ill,, position of chief of the Bureau
will be able to see miirh Decide On Twelve Cents. . id.- "
"" •" """"■ .ot Lngra\ing and 1'ruiting.
The czar was Introduced to a sub Fort Worth:: Twelve rents is the j
ject 126 years old last week. His j price of cotton agreed upon by the, Tragedy at Wichita Falls.
majesty must Iwcm «i"'i to hc« j Funnel's* Union in convention hen* a < Wichita Falls: Mr-. N\ a 11«• i All u.
man who had evidently I ^(,w nj,0 'p],js nnnounccnient wife of the proprietor of the N
! comes from a most reliable source., Charles Hotel, Friday night she:
It is always well to be prepared for! This price was adopted after a bitter | and almost instantly killed Lillian
any emergency. Wo should employ t j fight, many opposing naming a mini- When tier, who lived near the laic
soli and crop expert to tell us if the jmim figure which likely resulted in ' eis| of the I
ground we now devote to baseball j Ul(, ,]iM.ol8ing of the secret, lv A. | (.|(„t(.s
parks would make good onitiu licds. '.. , , i , r ,i -r ■ 'iiuti..
( alvin lorincr president ol the I ex- shortly after
A man was shot in a quarrel in Mls-j11^ 1'nion, lead the opposition
sourl over a bam sandwldi and the gales.
man who shot him is under arrest !
John Goggan and John L Moore Per
ish When sW.ff Swamps.
(inhesion, Tex . Sept. > By
the swamping of a skill' at Redfish
Reef, about twenty four miles up
tli • bay trom tlalveston. .Inlin 'log-
gun of the tirm of Thomas liopfjan
vV; Bros, prominent merchants of
(ialvestoii. titid John I. Moore ol
Moore Bros., retail grocers, h st
theiri lives Saturdaj night. The
news of the accident was brought
lo this city Sunday morning, when
the launch Maria Louise ol lions-
ton brought the body of .lolui ' iog-
gan to the wharf at the foot of
Twenty first street. 1'he body of
•lobn Moore wa's not recovered
until 4 :'i0 o'clock Sunday after-
noon.
in ifahi. one
been letting bombs severely alone
"It
Want to Shoot Dovcb.
Brownwood: Local sportsmen,
together with the farmers, arc on?
with petitions asking the Senator
and .Representative from this
district to have the law changed
regarding the killing of doves. As
the lav, is now tin dove is proteet-
' e same a- th< quail and can
not be killed before Nov. 1. The
petitions are being well signed by
all. and especially the farmers who
rais< wheat, as the dove is said to
lie the greatest pest Hie wheat rais-
ers have.
Japs Are Sent Home.
.art-do, 'I e\ : The five Japanese
Worth and I iciiver. who have been detained here for
shooting occurred ! several weeks and ifivon
Speaks Out for the Benefit of Suffering
Thousands.
H' v C. M. Gray, Baptist Clergyman
of Whltesboro, Tex., says: "Four yea,
ago I suffered mi>
cry with lumbago
Ever y movement
was one of pain
Uoan's Kidney | n|-
removed the who!*
difficulty after only
y a short time. A)
i though I do not
like to have my
name used publicly,
I make an exception in this ease, h,
[that other sufferers from kidney trou
hie may profit by my experience."
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Poster .Mllburn Co , liuffalo. N. Y.
Satisfied.
"I.ook here!" grumbled the old farm
or. "This here almanac Is a fraud It
nreilictcd snow for yesterday and, by
gum, it was hot as blazes all day."
"But my dear sir," responded the
bland almanac peddler, "it snowed up
at the north pole yesterday."
The old farmer's Jaw fell.
"It did'."' he drawled slowly "Wal,
I reckon the almanac Is all right then,
it did 'ell the truth, didn't it?"
Never Disappoints. "
"Many extensively advertised rem-
edies are failures when put to the
| test. Hunt's Lightning Oil Is an ex
(•option Confidence In It Is never
misplaced disappointment never fol
lows its use It Is certainly the great
j cm emergency remedy now obtainable
For cuts, burns, sprains, aches and
pains 1 know no equal."
GKO. E. PADDOCK.
Doniphan, Mo.
Danger in New York Roads.
There Is an average of seven car
rollislons a day on thr> steam, subway,
elevated and surface railways of New
York.
Capudine Cures Indigestion Pains.
Sour stomorh and heartburn no mutter
fr-..in what muse. Otvc* Immediate nllef
Prescribed by physicians In en use It is
pure ami rfT'-ettve. Trial bottle 10c. Heifii-
l.ir stie and toe ut all druKKists.
Fven boarding house landladies
must pay out good money for the privi-
lege of boarding street cars.
Vro. Wln low'« Soothing Njron.
for ehlidr«n the irutus, rmlurrs tx>-
id«;i pAUi,cur«a wtudcoUc 'Ex. • lioitie.
I tie man who jiays his debts is true
to bis trust
without ball. Doubtless our vegetarian
friends will be able to see a moral in
this.
Dragon Llzzards at Bronx Zoo.
New York:; A pair of dragon liz-
• l nan Is from Vera Cruz, said by scient-
Soven tons of bells will be hung on lst., to be the lineal descendants of
the forty-sixth floor of the Metropoi-j lh(, (|im,s,Hlnis the giant lizznrd of
oric days, have arrived at the
Bronx zoo. The lizzards are very
the Wheatly
she was scab
Mrs. Allen had
driven to the
she got out. t«• i I
for her.
11 o'clock in front of
woman's hou-. . while
in a buggy with Allen,
i ailed a cab and had
neighborhood w here
ng the driver to uail
:board f
ieo iuti
San Fr
'I an iiiiinitrrn 1 ion
tak ti from there to t
•lapan at the cost of
lllellt.
r crossing over from M
this country were sent t<
iieiseo Saturda.v in chargt
oflicer to
eir lionic<
this
itan Life Insurance Company's tower, j
but if they weighed 70 times seven 1 '
tons they couldn't ring curfew for;
New York I rare. I hey arc about two feet in
Ion
Fire Loss $100,000; One Dead.
Surlier. Mis.- Practically tin- t ii-
l ire busim ; ion of this place u as
If England wants to keep on talking | though harmless and stand ami run \ i ,
about the great self-confidence and on t'|„.ir ],jlu] U* dragging '
even niidncitv nf Amprlptm if.
even audacity of American women, it J
will have to be reminded that this suf j
frngette agitation did not start on our j
side of the pond.
of ferocious appearance, ai- in.;..,...
i i i . i i .... i j M"
their
troyed. and
hi em
1-' along
Fatally Gored By Bull.
Goliad :: .1. K. Blvthe.
lie man, A. M.
I' "ye of the S ii in in
life in a fire of un-
Iiich as disi i\ ci -t|
I riday. I 'hipp- «,1-
hc slejit.
.ith while
Orphan Boy Killed.
• ircenvilh : Salunlay
one ot the boys from the
age at I'eiiit I. while drivin
ol wood a mile nnd a half wt ,t c
liefe, tell oil' the Wagon, which fi
over him. breaking ln^ liet-k am
crushing his breast, lie died in-
stantly. Ills name was Frank Kd-
ind he was Hi years old.
Hill Lrs
a
An employe in a power company's , . , .
plant at Vlsalia, Cal., while at work 111 ;l ti\ing to catch
one day last week, received 5M,000 .V '-tiragcd bull Monday
\olts of electricity in his system and'and the animal gave chase. Met
was knocked senseless, but revived, prehistoric da}
if he had received the electric com lie managed to
pany's hill at the same time the shock
probably would have killed liini.
the
in
teller
his
rich
,i horse
lie was
ttise
have arrived tit the
rawl pariially under
life was saved though.b
known origin
, iii a building
| smothered to
, The los.- i- .x I (IIi.(100.
Negro Lynched in Georgia.
... . Albany. Ca.: John Towne, a
lie chanipion pa up- ltl.(.1|s„d ^|rs
l"'! doseph Wheeler last Tliursilav
'V;- captur.-d at Damascus. <
::il|e
L'o\ eru
Born In Poorhouse; Dies There.
I I icll. N *1
er is dead. .il'tcr being i
charge for i; ; v-tive year-
Monk «a- 'i n in Hie Herkimer
-use eighty-live \e,u-
din^ his davs there
* 13 f \ *
and j.ite
taken out
the town.
tit.,
Saturday night was
and hung by citizen:; of
1 IN
t Sunjcry Saves Life.
\ ottgli his « indpipe
u he was struck b\
ii whose name ilh
't in is still ulivi in
-pital. Dr. < W.
the hospital. sa\-
hy making a hui
^ Luke s hos
a silver tube
-iretlgt belled
iiiped air into
l: man.
Said to Be lnterurbr.n L
ine.
San
inli r ,
•re
A tlge!
lift I ■! 11 It
make
posed new line
bad :tu<I Sit r!i
lllellt was .-tarti
Land i 'oinp.iiiy,
ill ir
A
the
the
irveymg party
of 1'erc. .lont-s is
survey of the pro-
"f railrtta I to t arl - -
g I ity. Thi* iiiove-
1 by ihc t'orn-lio
wlio asketI terminal
city, right of wav
iiul a bonus c.f
s a suggi-tion that it
'nteiirban project, backed
| by the Mor< .n doiu-s
which i vent it
; faeilitii s
i for ten mil -
11(100. Ther
Is to b(
an
Silt i
ides
interest-,
> assured.
ir
I
Down Wire.
-a.: \\ bile attempi-
etlie light wire from
II front of the (ity
red Brown, an em-
it reveport Kb trie
touched 11 liye yyn-e
ick that tan-. ,t his
iwn against a guy
s body slid to the
'i -seiice of .seuits oi
Earthquake In Porto Rico.
An earth-
1210 n'.fl 1 • W"S f0lt hcr«
lu " 'Saturday al'ternoon.
I the city
I lltld Ilia
The peopl, i
much alarm,
rushed from
street. Tin i
Wer.
\ cry
. . them
heir houses into the
,i . , was n" repetition of
the (|tiake and eulm was soon re-
S| ' N" "laterial damage was
'lone here and no damage or loss
" '<-• has be,-,, reported from
'erntr points.
rI hotisand.s of American women
ii our liotncs aro daily eacrifleing
their lives to duty.
In order to keep tho homo neat
uid pretty, tho children well dressed
• nd tidy, women overdo. A femalo
weakness or displacement is often
iii'iiught on and they stiller in silence,
lulling along fmui bad to worse,
knowing well that they ought to
'ave help to overcome tho pains and
aches whi< b daily mako life a burden,
it is to these faithful women that
LYDIAE.PINKHAM'S
VEGETABLE COMPOUND
■onus aa a Ikmui and a blessing,
is it dtil to Mrs. F. Ellsworth, of
MayviHo, N. T„ and to Airs. \\. V.
Li>yd,of Ik-aver Falls, I'a^who say:
I was not able to do my own work,
?w ing to the female trouble from which
suffered, l.ydia B. rinkham's Xege-
, '< ompound helped nie wonderfully,
sail, I am so wdi that I can do as big a
.lav s work a' 1 over did. I wish every
bick womau vouid try It.
facts for sick women.
l or thirty yer.rs Lydia E. l*ink-
nain s A egetablo Compound, made
'""i roots and herbs, Las been tho
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have neon troubled with
(lisptaeeni nts, iiitlimmation,ulcera-
tion, librotd tumors, irregularities,
periodic paiui, backache, that In-ar-
uig-diiwii feeling, tkitulency,indiges-
>' 'i i,(I i/./n iess,or nervous prostration,
o ny don t you try it?
Invites nil sick
«i ttctl to w rite lu r f r a-lviee.
I,U8 KUlilwl thousands to
ulth. AUUreiw, Lyirn, Muss.
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