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THE COLUMBIAN.
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1TO7,
NEGRESS VS. ADMIRAL.
Says She Was Ranchman Beresford's
Wife and Claims Estate.
An American tiegress of low
birth will contest with the Lord
Admiral of the British Navy for
the vast estate left bv Ranchman S
Deleval Bsresford, who was killed
in the Soo Railroad wreck last
week. Flora Wolff, the negress to
whom the dead man left $10,000,
djclares she was his wife, and will
fight for a widow's rights to the
property. By the will all the prop
erty except the $10,000 to the ne
gress goes to two brothers in Eng
land, Lord Admiral Charles Beres
ford and the Marquis Beresford.but
the negress says she intends to
make a fight lor it all.
"By the laws of Mexico I am
recognized as Beresford's wife, and
I mean to have his estate. I have
lived with him for 25 years and
was always recognized as his wife,"
said she. "I often came to El Paso
or went to Chihuahua and bought
goods and had them charged to
Beresford, and he always paid the
bills. He told the merchants in
El Paso that I was his wife, and he
told other people, too. We were
never married, but everybody in
Mexico and El Paso recognized me
as Mrs. Beresford, or Lady Beres
ford, and I can bring hundreds of
witnesses to prove it. In Mexico
as well as Texas it is only necessa
ry for a man to live with a woman
and introduce her as his wife for
the law to consider her ps such.
"The story about nursing Beres
ford through an attack of yellow
fever and his declaration that I
should never want for anything is
made of whole cloth, and was told
by his friends as an excuse for him
living with me. Beresford met me
in Chihuahua, Mexico, 25 years
ago, when I was working in the
family of the United States Consul,
nd he took a liking to me and fell
in love with me. He was then
young, only 23 years of age, and
had little mouey. We lived togeth
er ever since, and I went with him
to his first ranch, and have seen
him accumulate all he had when he
died.
"Beresford had ofteu promised
that he would marry me, but he
often said there was no use having
i wedding, as the world recognized
us as married. He told me he had
left a will 01 that he would make a
will, leaving all his estate to me.
He told me this not long ago, and
I believe there is a lt.terone than the
one found in the bank appointing
nis brother execuior and only leav
ing 2000 pounds to me."
The woman says she was never
in New Orleans where Beresford's
riends said she met him, while he
lad fever, but that she came here
rom Chicago, stopping over in
Kinsas. She is now 40 years old,
nut is still a fairly good looking
ellow womau. The woman says
ler "husband" was worth $1,000, -100
if he was worth a cent, and
hat he held some valuable British
.tock in addition to his Canadian,
Mexican and Texas ranches. She
-ays there were five of the Beresford
ioys at one time, but three of them
Deluding Delavel, .are now dead,
he Lord Admiral and the Marquis
ieresford being the sole survivors
Delavel was younger than either of
:he surviving brothers and would
lot have come under the title of
;ord unless both had remained
.-hildless, although his associates
n El Paso referred to him as
"Lord" Beresford, and to the ne
jress as "Lady" Flo.
Han Murders His Wife With Razor.
William Whittager; a well known
resident of Mt. Carmel, Friday
night murdered bis wife by cutting
lier throat with a razor in the pres
ence of his own mother and that of
his victim. The two mothers and
ihe wife were conferring in the
home of the wife's parents when
Whittager entered the parlor and
afier addressing his wife drew the
razor and cut ht-r throat from ear
to ear.
Following the murder Whittager
fled toward Centralia pursued by a
crowd which threatened him with
violence. Whittager left the main
road and entered the mountains,
thus evading his pursuers. He later
returned to Mt. Carmel, where he
was arrested.
Whittager and his wife were
married two years ago. Three
weeks ago they quarreled and the
wife returned to her father's home,
alleging her husband treated her
cruelly.
Bwntli 4 Ilia Kind You Haw Always Bought
Rheumatism,
Is one of the constitutional
diseases. It manifests itself
in local aches and pains,
inflamed joints and stiff
muscles, but it cannot be
cared by local applications.
It requires constitutional
treatment acting through
the blood, and the best is a
course of the great medicine
Hood'sSarsapariUa
which has permanently
cured thousands or cases.
for testimonials of remarkable cures
lend for Book on Rheumatism, No. 7.
, C L Hood Co., Lowell, Mass.
Money For Snakes.
If any person in Pennsylvania be
able to kill and send to State Zoo
logist Surface a snake which has
been seen swallowing its young he
w:ll be well paid for his trouble.
Surface says he wbishes the snakes
sent dead, but with the young in
the stomach just as they were swal
lowed at the time the observation
was made and the parent killed.
"The many stories that are told
concerning serpents swallowing
their young for protection must
have truth as their basis," said Sur
face, "but by the most careful efforts
we have been unable to find any
evidence of this, excepting from
the reports of other persons. In
more than 200 specimens which we
have examined at my office we
have never yet found any young in
the stomach of the parent."
Surface also said the stories some
times told about garter snakes at
tempting to choke persons are en
tirely without foundation and that
there is no reason why superstition
and ignorance should combine to
crush out the life of this animal,
which is perfectly harmless and un
able to inflict any injury whatever
upon mankind.
Wages Advanced.
The Danville Structural Tubing
Company, one of the largest indus
tries in our neighboring town and
employing some four hundred men,
has announced an advance of wages
beginning on the 1st of January.
The advance will affect the differ
ent departments and the different
kinds of work variously. In some
instances it amounts to ten percent.
Ia readjusting wages the object of
the management has been to fall in
with other firms that are advancing
wage schedules, thereby keeping
pace with the upward thndency of
values.
That the roots of many native
plants, growing wild in our Ameri
can forests, possess remarkable
properties for the cure of human
maladies is well proveu. Even the
untutored Indian had learned the
curative value of some of these and
taught the early settlers their uses.
The Indian never liked to work so
he wanted his squaw to get well as
soon as possible that she might do
the work and let him hunt, There
fore, he dug "papoose root" for
her, for that was their great remedy
for female weakness. Dr. Pierce
uses the same root, called Blue Co
hosh, in his Favorite Prescription"
skillfully combined with other
agents that make it more effective
than any other medicine in curing
all tne various weaknesses and pain
ful derangements peculiar to
women.
Many afflicted women' have oeen
saved from the operating table and
surgeon's knife by the timely use
of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescript
ion. Tenderness over the lower
region, with backache, spells of
dizziness, faintness, bearing down
pains or distress should not go un
heeded. A course of "Favorite
Prescription" will work marvelous
benefit in all such cases, and gener
ally effect a permanent cure if per
sisted in for a reasonable length of
time.
For constipation, the true, scien
tific cure is Dr. Pierce's Pleasant
Pellets. Mild, harmless, yet sure.
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To have cash is luck, but the
man who has hard cash doesn't
have hard luck.
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will appreciate Klv's Linuid Oreom
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Cold in the head. There i
in the first dash ol spray upon the
heated sensitive air-passages. All
druggists 75c, including spraving
uiDe, or manea Dy lily Bros.. s6
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Card signs "No Trespassing" for
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THE COLUMBIAN,
Murdered Body Thrown on Tracks.
Boltev That Young Man Mot With Foul Play
Near Trevorlon.
On Sunday morning Dec. 23, the
first fatal accident happened on the
Trevorton branch ol the Shamokin
Extension Trolley company, which
was attended with circumstances of
a mysterious character that may im
ply something mo e than an acci
dental occurrence.
According to the reported lacts
it appears that when car No. 16,
was running into Trevorton at 12:
30 o'clock, Sunday morning, a per
son was truck at the corner of
First and Shamokin streets and
dragged a distance of some thirty
feet. Upon examination it wos
found to be the body of Mathias
Schascheck a young man of about
19 years of Age. He was found to
be dead with his head crushed to a
pulp.
At first it was believed that the
young man had fallen across the
track and as it was very dark at
that place, the motorman, who is
one of the most careful and reliable
in the employ of the company, was
unable to see him. But a further
examination of the circumstances
attending the case does not sustain
the theory of an accident. It is
found that his overcoat and other
articles of clothing that were known
to be in his possession are missing.
He had been attending a party on
Saturday evening, and is not known
to have been iu a condition that
would have led to his falling on the
track and remaining there in t help
less condition. Besides his head
was contused in a manner that
could not have been caused by con
tact with car wheels. The case is
is enveloped in mystery which,
when solved, may add another to
the numerous Northumbeilaud
county murders.
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That Little Pain in Your Back
Threatens your kidneys. If al
owed to go on a little while you
will suffer throughout the whole
system. Take at once Dr. David
Kennedy's Favorite Remedy. It
is the most certain cure known lor
the treatment of all diseases of the
kidueys, liver and blood. Write
Dr. David Kennedy's Sons, Ron-
dout, N. Y., for free sample bottle
and medical booklet. All drug
gist $1.00.
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Site For Miners' Hospital.
Moser's field, which is midway
between Tamaqua and Lansford,
has been selected as the site of the
proposed new miners' hospital for
the Panther Creek Valley section.
The site was selected bv the com
mittee appointed by Samuel G.
Dixon, head of the State depart
ment of public health. . The Lehigh
Coal & Navigation Co., objects to
the hospital being located there, as
they own the ground, and as the
company intends to mine the coal
underlying the plot, it is feared
that the surface might become dis
turbed in time. The committee,
however, is of the opinion that the
company will consent to the project
on accouat of the coal measures
lying very deep in that particular
section, and there is a strong strata
ot rock overlying the coal veins.
Another Goose-Bone Prophet
William W. Potts, the aged
goose-bone prophet of Swedeland,
says that there are indications of
an early spring in the breast-bone
of the goose which he served to the
family gathering at bis home
Christmas.
The dark coloring of the trout of
the bone predicts a stormy and
cold January, but as the bone clears
up toward the end, the spring
weather can be expected to be mod
erate.
Mr. Potts is past 70 years of age
and has long made a study of goose
bones. DR. KENNEDY'S
FAVORITE
If EH EM ED Y
is hacked by over 80 year, of
rcmarkatilo success In the euro of
Kidney, Llvur and Mood trouble,
nd tbe diseases peculiar to wo
men. Not a patent medicine, but
a prescription ucd by Dr. David
Kennedy In liii laruoand success
ful practice lone before lie placed
It before the public The formula
ii In keeping with strict iciontiflo
Drinciolra. and tnnnv uhvulrlnn
CSWk of the biL'hcut Btanilinir have r.
crlbed Dr. David Kennedy'. Favorite Kurnody for
Hi" lr imlienta. This Htuteiiieut cim be proved alwo.
Intely. We have never claimed Hint Favor i to Item
edy will cure all case, of Kidney, Liver anil llladdvr
dieHu mid associated ttllmema, but th. fact re
main that it baa cured many caw practically aban
doned iiy physicians.
i)o you sillier from any dnnnerous eyinptoms of
Kidney, Llvur and Mood troublea? llavo you pain
in back, cloudy urine with sediment, pain ill pimalng
water, couatipatlon, skill eruption, etc. f If so,
(hurt delay, but use lr. David Kennedy's Favorite
Heinedy at once. You may liuve a sample bottle
and booklet containing valuable advice mailed abao.
iiueiy rrue ny .imply writing Dr. David Kouuedy'a.
Hons, Ifondoiit, N, T. Mention, this paper. Larua
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BLOOMzBURU, PA.
I'hltrKTL'ATE T1IK WAIt IIOKMi.
Government to Kutnlillftli 11 Monster
Stork Farm In Vermont.
The national government has de
cided to equip the mounted portion
of the army with horses which Rhnll 1
bn either descendants or relatives of
the famous ateed which, over two
score years ago, carried General
"Phil" Sheridan to "Winchester,
twenty miles away."
Sheridan's gallant mount, by his
pluck and endurance .saved one bat
tle for the Union.
He was of Morgan breed, the most
famous brand of horseflesh which
ever came out of Vermont.
The government is to establish a
monstor stock form at .Weybrldge,
Vt., Just to breed these Morgan
horses for the army.
Kolnr.l was the name of Sheridan's
horse.
Uoth the War and Agricultural de
partments at Washington have taken
an active Interest In breeding these
horses that nave brought fame to
Vermont through their great endur
ance, combined with activity and In
telligence. "The Tankee Horse" Is the namo
that has been given all over the
country to this strain of horseflesh.
"Justin Morgan," the founder of
the breed In the Green Mountain
State, was a wonderful little horse.
He had a very low action, for he was
close to the Arabic foundation In
breeding, and it Is a well-known
fact that the Arabian horse bends
his knees less than any of the mod
ern thoroughbreds.
Yet despite that descent, among
the descendants of Justin Morgan,
high steppers, though not valued
greatly, soon began to appear.
Through the Infusion of Hamblo
tonlan and Wilkes blood, the de
scendants of Justin Morgan have be
come the most prized horses of Now
England, and can be recognized as
Morgans, though there may be but
a fraction of original Morgan strain
In them.
About 1870. the preference for the
Morgan strain began to die out
among New England horsemen, and
from that tinie until about 1890.
nearly all of the fnrmers In New
England who raised colts wanted the
Hnmbletonlan blood that showed the
Wilkes strain.
In the breeding a Wilkes stallion
was preferred, even if he was
unsound or vicious, rather than a
Morgan sire.
A few breeders in other parts of
the country religiously clung to the
Morgan strain.
No family of horses Is said to be
more remarkable for their longevity;
at the present time they are bred to
some extent In New Hampshire but
to a greater extent in the vicinity of
the new stock farm.
Throughout Maine and Vermont
they still tell well authenicated
stories of the marvellous endurance
and speed of the old-time Morgan
driver and charger that the govern
ment is now Intending to revive. The
government, however. Intends to
breed them in such a manner as to
Insure a gain in size.
It is said to be the proposal of the
scientists who are to tako charge of
the stock, furm to gather a band of
pure Morgan mares, or as nearly pure
as may be purchased, and thorough
breds and begin breeding for size
first, and then for a revival of the old
Morgnn strain as narly perfect as
possible.
They believe that the combination
of the Morgan mares with thorough
breds will produce horses with the
rounded forms, and arched necks of
the best carriage horses.
I3y many it Is believed that these
experiments may result In producing
Morgans that will be be very easy,
elastic in action, moving close to the
ground and acting as if they were
aupple as a snake.
Less than a decade ago one ot the
most highly prlred "hackney" sires
In England was a Maine-bred horse.
It was raised In the roughest part of
the backwoods, far from the rail
roads and large towns.
The dam of this horse happened to
be a hlghstrung Morgan mare and
the aire of Messenger descent, one of
the type that possessed sice, a long,
low gait and speed.
The colt'a ability was not mark
edly shown as a fast trotter, but the
beauty of shape and fine actiou
brought about his sale to New York
parties.
After performing there on the
road and track for a few years he
was taken to France, where he won
many races against the Russian
horses with American breeding. He
was afterward taken to England,
where the rest of his life was spent,
and the Morgan cross of his strain Is
still valued by the English breeders,
as his get has shown not only speed
but ripe finish and quality.
Leading the Strenuous Life.
A very busy man Is the Amoer of
Afghanistan. Sometimes he even
forgets to have his meals and Is ob
liged to auk his courtiers whether ha
has eaten his dinner or not. He goeB
to bed at 5 or 6 In the morning and
gets up at about 2 in the afternoon,
and always has his horse ready sad
dled at his door, fresh bread in the
pockets of his clothes and revolvers
find swords clone at hand, In enso ho
is compelled to go on a sudden
Journey.
HuknIjui Ofllri'i-'s Pay.
The pay of the Russian army offi
cer Is very small. A full General gets
from 1,600 to $2,000 a year, ac
cording to the length of service; a
Lieutenant General from $1,175 to
? 1,750; a Major General from 1780
to $1,400, and a Colonel command
ing a three battalion regiment,
2,400 strong, gets $C0O.
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NOW IS THE TIME
of year when you think' of cleaning
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binli and foul matter which has ac
cumulated about your premises, to
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Just received the best
line of FALL SHOES for
Women that it has ever
been our good fortune to
purchase.
They are made from the
best material, by the most
expert' operators in the
John Keily factory, and
have the distinct style for
which the John Kelly shoe
is noted.
W. H.MOORE,
Corner Jlain ami Iron Sts.,
BLOOMSBURG, PA.
Our Pianos
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clude the following makes :
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