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Rural mm m Voii. XXIX. New Series No. 25. OTEGO O t s e g o C o ., N. Y., WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29, 1909 W hole N o . 1486 R ilp a l T in g e s. V. S. PULLER, Editor and Proprietor! PTTBLI8HEI} E V E R T W E D N E S D A Y M O R N IN G IN T H E TIMES BLOCK, RIVER STREET, OTEGO, OTSEGO CO., N. Y. D E V O T E D TO LOCAL AND FAMILY READING A ND TO T H E NTEREST OP AGRICULTURE AND FARM The O e I t Agriealtnral Paper in the Second sembly District of Otsego County. TBSansffS : In Advance. Not in Ad’ STORHKIilftGE IS WiESFSEAD Many Cities Hard Hit by Snow and Wind. T “ \ “'J l PHIIADELP|4 SUFFERS MOST Three M onths, .......................... 3 5 . ............................ 4 0 . ^ ____________ Atthe right ofthe name stamped on the paper is | the date to which the sabscnp on is paid. Ni paperstopped ui til all back claims are paid up unless at the option of the publisher Jorrespo Interes age, apparently from the’ five masted schooner Davis Palmer of Boston, were found on the beach at Hull, and it is believed the vessel struck on one of the outer ledges of the harbor dur ing the storm and wen| to pieces, with the loss of all on board, a total of twelve men. CHICAGO DOLES OUT COAL. Correspondence on ail matters of Local orQi \ erest solicited. The names of correspor i8t,in all cases, accompany communicatioi Only Customers In Actual Want Re ceiving Supplies. Chicago, r>ec. 27.—Owing to the shortage coal will be distributed by Chicago dealers in homeopathic doses ! ; until the city’s fuel supply is vestored ! to normal and the streets are cleared paid up\ City Almost Completely Tied Up. of snow. Called Worst In New York Since! The large dealers took steps to make Great Blizza'^d of 1888—City Puts sure that no deliveries were made to UP LIKE RUGKET, DOWNJJE STICK Rock Island Stock Goes Kiting, but Fails Soon. LEADING ST^L MAN DIES. f The failure ofthe notification ofit^ will be considered a renewal > tint criptior. TOOK OOSE OF THE WRONG MEOIGINL Two Minutes Later Sick Ital ian Was Dead. New York, Dec. 27.—The holiday fes tivities of Bruno Gastiuo, an Italian single man forty years old, who lived at 69 Rivington street, were brought New England, to a sudden stop when he went to visit his brother Frank in rooms on the fifth floor rear of 6 Chrystie street. Bruno had eaten too much, and he admitted it. He told his brother that he was all in and that he felt so sick that he would have to go home. As he was about to start he became sud denly worse and while he putting on his overcoat fell to the couch, which oceuplfea''t^e -cofner of the room. Among the guests present was Duigi Chrino, a baker, who lived in the same bunding. He said he had some medi cine that would fix the^ sick man and ran downstairs to get it. He brought back a quart bottle in which there was a small portion of a Many Thoussjfnds of Men at Work Shoveling Snow From Streets—Tele graphic Commuhication Not Badly Hampered. New York, Dec. ^7.—With every pros pect of further heavy snow to compli cate the local storm situation. New York is nevertheless finding consola tion in the fact that this city was by no means the worst sufferer from the storm. The damage done in and around Bos ton by the wind, snow and phenome nally high tide is estimated at $5,000.- 000. Five lives were lost in Chelsea, where the tidal wave the dike. city by wire was maintained with difficulty, as wires are down all over consumers not in actual want. The supply on baud in the city has been found to be somewhat larger than was reported. With care in dis tributing, attending to the most ur gent cases first and making deliveries ill small amounts, the dealers hope to get past the shortage period without suffering or less to fuel users. “SQUEEZiGTHEBRiTISHERS” James W. Friend of Pittsburg Was Pioneer In the Business. Pittsburg, Dec. 27. — James W. Friend, one of the most widely known men in Pittsburg business and finan- cial affairs, died at his residence in his sixty-fifth year. Mr. Friend had been ill for some time, and his death was not unexpected. With the death of Mr. Friend one of the pioneer iron and steel masters passed away. Mr, Friend at the lime of his death was vice president of the Pressed Steel Car company and ofli» daily identified with numerous finan cial institutions in this city. SCIENTIST IN PRISON SEEKS A PAROON. Mlnnasola Confiers W lions Rival Rurtank's. The five mastefi schooner Davis Pal- gau^patcr, Minn., Dec. 27,-“p i n a ^ ) | mer of Boston-is supposed to have been Sailor,” whose real name isk)ha^ip^^' wrecked on oife of the outer ledges of pi-jce, for five years supervisor of ey-. Boston harbor with twelve meu. j erything growing on the state PhiladeFphia All Tied Up. I about the Minnesota prtepn ' he has been incarcerated sin,ce^p|c^ Wall Street Manipulators Take Advan tage of Holiday on British Exchange to Force Price From 50% to 81, Win ning About $1^000,000 From Foreign ers, but Price Drops Rapidly to 50. Exchange to. Punish Speculators. New York, Dec. 27.—One of the most sensatioual movements in Stock Ex- 0h^ga: history occurred at the open ing of the market when Rock Island common, which had closed Friday at 49%, started at 50%, and in one string of transactions amounting to 18,800 shares ran up to 80. A minute later it touched 81, at which price one block of 1,800 shares changed hands. It then fell back, as rapidly as it had risen, to 50. During the balance of the first hour it fluctuated between 50 and 52. The corner in the stock, the first since the famous Northern Pacific epi- so3e> came as a complete surprise and •cafi|ed a sharp reaction in the rest market, which had opened gen- higher. Other stocks fell back 5 points-the lal^er in Southern ■ ^fellic—but when Rpek Island started again they hardened, .aud most Q®ne losses wjere' soon recovered. •;^|iere were all so]cts .of reasons given ^ ^ ‘^aqcount fqr -tlplC rise^ but tfie one FIRE DAMAGE SLIGHT. ized, and street, cars, with the excep-i release on the ’basi||^^f-his c'q L ^ ^ di^ hbt run at alb ^tlons t4 The city could get no milk. Five j ^ party- Entertained loy Warden to jmc-the p o c k e ts :of\ 6 Roqk deaths from exhaustion were due to ’ wolfer at his home for dinner, dur- the storm. Chicago fears a coal fam- ^^bieh a member of the state par- ine. ^ Washington did not suffer severely, but on account of traffic conditons to the north President Taft decided to postpone an engagement to speak in light, colorless liquid. Although there i was no label on the bottle, Chrino | Jtorm is called in some quarters claimed' that he knew what it was and ' worst that has struck New York that it.^.was fine stuff. • si^ce the great blizzard of 1888. Thir- Gastlno took one swallow. Two min- i deaths have already been report- utes l^er he died. ' g^ ^y the police. fMany more in the Pollc^au Rupley of the Eldridge j hospitals and charitable institutions street station was called and after in- i ^g ^j^g i-gsult of the blizzard don board was present,' becamd inter ested in an immense lemon-like fruit j on the table. Thq fruit weighed three pounds. Siudbad -the Sailor, bejing in troduced as the grower of this fruit, explained that it ^as a lemon ^e had created by grafting a lemon and po melo, or gTapefruit, and which could be grow’u in Minnesota. » The grapefruit does not retain its identity in the graft, the resultant growth being adapted for lemon pies and lemonade, both of which products vestigajing the case arrested Chrino on . eighty mile wind accompanying it. gj ^jjg fruit were served on the festive n V»/-irvM i 1/I rv • *i • _ j_ _ ji ’ . _ 1 - a charge of homicide. Chrino admitted buying the supposed medicine at a drug store, but that he did not know the exact amount. He said that it was a prescription that some doctor had ordered him to take for stomach trouble. Detective Flinn was gist. Colder w^eather is predicted. T h o u s a n d s of Men Shoveling Snow. Putting 5,000 emergency men and board. This impjisoned Burjiank’s flow^ers, grown in the prison green house at Stillwater, long have recei 3,700 regular sweepers at work, the j ed premiums in St. Paul stores, and in department of street cleaning dug into | other extraordinary manipulations of the suow’ blanket that came on the i plant life he is said to have produced priceless creations for the state. . NEW YORK’S BIG BUILDING. T . , fi .1 Vhl , i wings of one of the wildest Christmas p 4 on the ease to hnd the drug- 1^.^^^ York has ever experienced. I On the w’hole, business m6n had lit- jtle difficulty in getting to towu. and the Manhattan and Brooklyn surface car.s ran fairly well, considering the , volume of snow in the streets. Some , of the suburban trolleys were tied up, but the railroflids brought their pas sengers into town without many de- ; lays. The main thoroughfares w’ere at tacked first by the shovelers. The ; majority of the meu w’ere at w<wk on j Broattiyay and in the downtown sec tion. -.Xll the Bowery lodging houses Cornerstone of $10,000,000 Municipal Edifice Laid. New York, Dec. 27.—Without osteu- tatiou or display of auy kind Mayor McClellan laid the cornerstone of the $10,000,060 municipal building that for | generations to come will be a land- ' mark at the Manhattan entrance to . the Brooklyn bridge. Only the mayur. Bridge Commis- NEW MISSISSIPPI SENATOR. island insiders. f Bast w^e'ek,* it seems, the Bock Is land! crowd, jWhen the stock • was at 46, tfought calls on 100;000 shares good untii March, paying therefor 4 per centjand interest for the option. Fol lowing the usual custom, the sellers bought in 50,000 shares of the stock, forcing the price up to above 50 and leaving the remaining 50,000 shares opemuntil the price had touched 53. * Squeezing th e B ritish e r s . ThEre w’as a holiday on the London Exet^nge, and this, it is said, was taken advantage of to squeeze the Britishers, ^ilarket buying orders were put ip before the opening, and when the stock reached 53 the orders from Londbn for 50,000 shares were ex ecuted. It was this buying which forced the price to 81. The average price paid for the 50,000 shares was something above 75 and the loss on the transaction to the sellers of the calls about $1,000,000. Rock Island Active of Late. Rock Island has been very active re cently, the stock rising more than five points last week. Many traders who Will Not Interfere With Work of th# American Press Association. New York, Dec. 27.—The fire in the building occupied by the American Press Association, 45 Park place, will not interfere wdth the -work of the association, although several depart-* ments suffered damage oy fire and water. The news service for daily papers will not be interrupted, and othet schedules of the association’s service will be carried out with their usual regularity. .SUCCESS WITH STOVAINE. Girl’s Legs Cut Off While Under In*! fluence of New Anaesthetic. Auburn, N. Y., Dec. 27.—Anna Dono» van, the' girl whose right leg was am putated last week while she was un der the influence of stovaine, the spinal anaesthetic demonstrated by Dr. Jonnesco, underwent successfully a second operation by means of stovaine for the amputation of her left leg. She had frozen both feet, and gan grene setting in necessitated the dou ble, an^utation. Her Tecovery.is ex- ’ it.:;.'.-:. '■. pare For Big Fight.- Chlcago, Dec. 27.—James J. Corbett* now? more actor* than fighter, began mild training to become more fighter than actor thatv he may engage ift three finish fights with Jame^ J. Jef fries at the traintog camp of the latter In the six weeks^ immediately - preced ing the Jeffries-Johnson battle of July 4 next. That is the campaign which Corbett thinks is necessary to remove .nil doubt as to Jeff’s ability to win back the ' world's heavyweight champion ship: for the white race. He is coml- deut.of .Jeffries’ ability to l.ent .T(*hn- son i f the white champion can get into good shape. Temporary Appointment Made by. Gov ernor—Vardaman Leading Candidate. Jackson, Miss., Dec. 27.—Governor ___ __ Noel appointed Colonel James Gordon ■ figure out little intrinsic value of OkOlona senatortosucceedA. J. Me- freely, and the short in- Lauriu, deceased. The understanding ^g stated above, was undoubt -1 uu, ms arri\:u iime ue ** is that Gordon is not to he a candi- g^jy yg^-y large. That a great part o f , second cable from Bui li irest telling of o vi/^ ICS fn cornea nnlTT till tba 1 aois * - * _ . _ j t ... it __ JONNESCO M.AY Doctor’s Father Bett-.r. and H-s' Defers His Departure For Europe. New York, Dec. 2r.- Di. Thomas Jonue.sco, the noted R<’uu.aijian sur geon, arrived here on 'viy hom& in response to a caljle tidling ,of the serious illness of ids iVilher. Dr. Jonnesco received t\ie news in Rochester, Minn., v. lieie lie was the guest of the Drs. Mayo. On, his arrival here he received ti sioner Stevenson, under whose super- ■ vision the building is to be construct- tractors, aud those who wanted work ed; Kingsley Mai tin, chief eiigiueei ^ygyg quickly engaged, of the department of bridges, aud half j ^jg^ employed in a dozen other city officials were pres- i gigaring the tracks of the surface ent at the ceremony. It is hoped that ^nd as a consquence cars w'ere the big edifice will be completed with- | gq q slow schedule, delays in two years. | t)gjqg tiue principally to the large num- ' her of vehicles and automobiles which YALE NOT IN ASSOCIATION, the tracks as their path. _ _____ Curiously enough, the telegraph com- Will Not Be Officially Represented at ' Panie« were not seriously hampered. New York Meeting. ‘^ave by the trouble in maintaiumg communication with New England. “Our chief trouble,” said Charles C. New Haven, Conn., Dec. 27.—It was announced at Yale that the imivei-sity . ^ a. t would not bo offictally represented at Ad«ms, vice president of tbe Festal the meeting of the intercollegiate Ath- 'W a p h company, “has been with letie association In New York city, o\' to Boston-between Yale has never joined the association and is not planning to send its mem bership for this yea date and is to serve only till the legis lature elects on Jan. 18. There are a dozen candidates, and it Is the-field against Vardaman. • ANOTHER COOK PROP GONE. Defection of Charles Wake Leaves'Him Almost Friendless! In New York. New York, Dec. 27.—The defection of Charles Wake, an intimate friend and heretofore stanch defender of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, has left the arctic explorer almost friendless in this oity. He tacitly admits that he has been “roped in” by Dr. Cook. He refers to the latter as a man with a magnetic personality and sincerity of manner it was eliminated by the violent rise goes without saying. The governors of’ the exchange, it was said, will make every effort to punish those who were responsible for the pyrotechnics. It has been an un written law on the exchange for sev eral years that no stock must be cor nered. HUGHES APPOINTS JUDGE. iuiproveiiiciit iii father s condition, and he may defer his departure. Randall J. Le Boeuf to Take Fitts’.Place bn Supreme Court Bench. Albany, N. Y., Dec. 27.—Governor Hughes has appointed a supreme court took place in ____ justice from Albany county without Wales; which impressed him greatly when he I consulting the Albany county Repub- AGE BEAT “LANKY BOB.\ His Defeat by Bill Lang Lamented by New York Sports. New York, Dec. 27.—Sporting men in this city, with whom Bob Fitzsim mons has always been a favorite, are lamenting his downfall. They are a^ tributing his defeat in twelve rounds by Bill Lang to the inevitable effects of age and express astonishment at his ability to last so long. The fight Sydney, New South first met the eli^orer. In concluding ^-his statement Mr. Wake said that he had an exaggerated lican organization. \Alone In Saw Kill a t llidnight. to fill the va- llartford and Boston, Lowell and!Bos- ton and Providence and Boston.” At the offices of the Western Union Telegraph company it was said that- the chifct interruptions were in New Idea o f frien d s h ip a n d ( f t th e d e g r e e i court Justice of Io,yalty a man owes to his friends, ' ' Sneh exposure gave! him a severe cold Ivnf i-h a f in Hii«a in s t n iiP A liA hail hpAn i George H. FlttS Of CohoeS, Albany n n lii« liincTR. A t. last or cold, W. J . Atkins worked as Night Watchman, at Banner Springs, Tenn. Looking One’s Best. It’s a woman *3 delight to look hei best' “^ont the neighborhood of but,pirn pies, skin eruptions, sores and : boston, boils rol> life of joy. Listen 1 Buck— j ----------- FEAR TWELVE ARE LOST. len’S Arnici Sa’-ve cures them; makes the skin soft and velvety. It glorifies I the face. Cures pimples, 8ore Eyes, • Cold Bores, Cracked' Eilps, Chapped Hands Try it- Iulid?Sble for Piles. 25c at O. B. Woodruff; Entire Crew of Schooner Believed to Be Drowned at Hull, Mass. Boston, Dec. 27.—Masses of wreck- hut that in this instance he had been deceived. He announced that he^ was willing to abide by the decision o'f Co penhagen, which, to his mind, disposes of the matter with finality. Lobsters W ill Be Scarce. George county. Stung For Fifteen Years, by Indigestion’s pangs—trying many doctors and $2 000 worth of medicine in vain B. P Avecue, of Ingleside. N. C. at last used Dr- King’s New Life that settled on his lungs. At last pad to ^ v e u|i,.work. He tried many remedies but all failed till he used Dr, Kind’s :New Drecovery.“ After using ouB bottle”'he writes,*T went back to work as well-as ever.” Severe colds, stubborn Coughs, inflamtidtbr^fcs and sore InngS cording to reports made to the Do- j ney and Bowel troubles. 25c. at c. 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