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OYSTERS IN ALL STYLESWESTERN STEAKSHAM AND EGGSFISH AND GAME IN SEASONCHICKEN TO ORDER

Give us a call and we guarantee yougood service reasonable prices anoprompt attention

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One Hundred and Sixty Five Children

Lose Their Lives in a Fire Trap

Which Did Duty as an Ohio-

as an Ohio School

Cleveland March 5Over 300 child-

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were trapped in a fire at the NorthCollinswood school yesterday

The fire started at 10SO oclock andwas caused by an overheated furnace j

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Probably 310 children were in thebuilding at the moment when the s

alarm rang out The teachers werebeside the children and the little oneslaughing thinking it was a fire drill onthe lower floor saw fiames shootingup from the basement began scream-Ing and a rush was made for the front 1

door which opened inward and a massI

of bodies plied up against it I

The first little bodies were crushedI

into an unrecognizable mass One ladleaped up and walked over the tangledmuss of heaped bodies safely otherstried to follow and

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they piled upthigher until those underneath weresuffocated Those near the door were

I not burned but were either crushed orsuffocated and cut off from escape by

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the mass oflbodiow at the front doorI The children in the second and third

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floors tried windows Those in the at ¬

tic were carried down fire escapes toI safety The children oil the third floor I

were trapped without hope w escape I

became insane from fear and ran downthe stairs until they met the sweep ¬

ing flanies and perishedEstimates say that over seventyfive

children lost their lives Nothing isleft of the building but the four wallsThirty bodies have boon taken fromthe ruins ft is legit that the wallsmay fall at any moment and entombother bodies now past hope of recov-ery

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A great pile of bodies is at whatwas the front door of the buiMingMothers and friends and firemen arctugging away at heaps of debris in an

unorganized search for bodies Privatehomes near the fire have been con-verted

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into temporary morgues-It will be impossible to lix the total

number of dead until a house to housecanvass has been completed-One Hundred and SixtyFive Corpses

I At 10 oclock last night one hundredand sixtyfive corpses were in themorgue at Collinwood six childrenwere still unaccounted for and all thehospitals and houses for two miles

I around contained numbers of childrensome fatally and many less seriouslyinjured

Only Eighty Escaped Unhurt-All of the victims were between the

ages of 6 and 15 years The schoolcontained between 310 to 325 pupilsand of this entire number only about

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IF HE HAD

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Callbreeze Would Have Been Safe buti

He Shot Himself to Avoid Drown ¬

ing in Four Feet of Water

Boston Mass March 3With oacongenital fear of drowning ever pres ¬

ent with him Raffael Callbreeeze de-

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shot and killed himself af-

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frantically struggling for his lifein the Charles river rather than facewhat he thought was certain drown

ring When his dead body sank it reach-ed solid bottom in four feet Had Callbreeze stoop up his head and shoulderswould have been above water

Callbreeze met his death in chasing-a boy whom he thought had stolen abicycle from him With revolver inhand he followed the boy over the iceon Charles river and fired at him fourtimes When about halfway acrossCallbreeze stumbled into an airhole-and went into the water

He fought desperately for lifeswimming around and around strug-gling

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to make a landing but with theice always breaking under his handFriends on the shore made little effort-to reach him for they seemed para ¬

lyzed with fright At last Callbreezeseemed to tire-

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to you If Ive got to dieIll die quick he shouted Then heput the revolver that he had carefully-held in his hand to his head and tiredAn hour later his body was recoveredIt was just four feet below the sur ¬

faceRafael always had a ghastly fear

of death by drowning his wife saidThe fear was awful He chose to kill

himself by shooting than to drownunder the ice Oh if IK had only stoodup-

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Frank J Cheney makes oath that heis senior partner of the firm of F JClIeney and CV> doing business in thecity of Toledo county and state afore-said

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and that said firm will pay thesum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARSfor each and every case of catarrhthat cannot be cured by the use ofHalls Catarrh Cure

Sworn to before me and subscribedin my presence this 6th day of De-

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A W Glenson Notary PublicHulls Catarrh Cure is taken inter ¬

nally and acts directly on the bloodand mucous surfaces of the systemSend for testimonials free-

F J Cheney Co ToledoOSold by all druggists 75c Take

Halls Family Pills for constipation

WANTED men wanted to chopwood at Cornell Fla Also ten teamsApply to Northern R Southern Com ¬

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ANNOmiCEMBHS I

For Sheriff I

I T am a auulidate for sheriff ofIMarion county subJcct to the ratJn1cation of the Democratic primary

I hich will be held May 19th 1908Your votes arc earnestly solicited j

and if I am elected I will perform-the duties of the office faithfully

Very respectfully yours 1

John L Edwards i

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To the Democratic Voters of Marion I

County I

I hereby announce that I willbe a I

candidate for the office of sheriff ofjMarion county in the coming dem-ocratic primary of 1908 and respect-fully

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solicit the support of the people-of

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Marion county If I am elected to t

this office I pledge an honest and im-

partialI

administration of the duties ofjsaid office Respectfully-

John P Galloway-

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hereby announce myself a candi-date

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for the office of sheriff of Marion county Florida subject to thecoming democratic primary andpromise if elected an honest and im-

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administration of said officei J L Smoak-

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announce my candidacy for sheriff-of Marion county subject to the rulesand regulations prescribed for thedemocratic primaries I respectfullysolicit the hearty support of the dem-ocratic

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voters of Marion I

C I Miller

For the Legislature I-

To the Voters of Marion County I

At the request of a number of citizcns of Marion county I have decided I

to make the race for representative I

I and solicit the support of the voters-i

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W D Carna

Superintendent of Public InstructionITo the Voters of Marlon County-

I hereby announce my candidacy forI

the office of superintendent of publicinstruction in the coming democratic I

primary and respectfully solicit yoursupport I have been engaged in school-work

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in this county for the greaterpart of the past seven years and have

imfully Ftu7il the conGstion-arfcds

yazdtIof our present school system

Sincerely yoursi Richard W Ervin IC l

For Countyk

JudgeTo the Democratic Electors bf Marion I

County FloridaBelieving that my record in the ad-

ministration fof the duties of the ab Y1office has met with the approvalwill receive the endorsement of tin k

democratic electors of Marion county1 rI announce that I am a candidate Jreelection as county judge and iej ispectfully solicit your support In-

coming1

primary Respectfully X

Joseph Ben1I tay

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