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The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-22
JAIL LIFE IN NEW YORK.
How . Wealthy Prisoner Fares in the
 Ludlow Street Jail.

How . Wealthy Prisoner Fares in the
 Ludlow Street Jail.
 A man well known in Wall street who is at the head of a new insurance company not long since spent fifty-nine days in Ludlow street jail, Q civil pris- oner at the instance of dry goods firm. He was well supplied with spend ing money, says the New York World, and lacked no creature comforts during his retirement. He described the na- ture of the prisoner who can pay his way as follows:
 You register as you do in hotel. and then you are a boarder, and you arc allowed all the privileges of the place, and for q five or ten to the keeper off duty you can take an even- ing promenade. You are supposed to retire to your room at nine o'clock, but for consideration you can stay up by fixing the keeper downstairs. You can play poker and other games, in which the keeper always takes a hand.
 After the game is over downstairs you arc allowed, for consideration, ito retire to the warden's dining-room, have a cold lunch, and if you happen to be an epicure you can retire to the kitchen, make q Welsh rarebit or any other dish you have mind to. Then when supper is over you go to your room and if you desire to continue the game left off downstairs, for a consid- eration paid to the keeper upstairs you can play p oker all night.
 "The two keepers on watch will al- ways supply you with all the liquor, cigars, etc, for Q consideration, as they have an arrangement with saloon over the way, winch by signs is easily called. The poor devil who is not a boarder suffers for all the attention the boarders have. Money can buy any thing in Ludlow, including liberty, and 1t is my opinion that there is only one man in the whole layout that couldn't be bought, and that man is Jack Me- Cabe, who is an honest, fearless man, with big, kind Irish heart. The others are all out for the stuff-and ii reigns supreme in Ludlow"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-22
An Ancient Tusls.

Another relic of the prehistoric elc- phant has been found on the north side of Penns cove, on Whidby island, in the Pacific. It is tuslS from which Q set of billiard balls, six or more inches in diameter, could be carved. MT. Love joy dug out a section two and half feet in length. Upon exposure to the air it soon lost its bony appearance and crumbled away. The strata of Whidby island have long been known to be rich in fossil remains, especially in those of the Elastodon, or prehistoric elephant numerous traces of which have been uncovered by the crunhling of banks along the shores.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-22
FATALITIES AT SEA.

Large Increase shown by. the Report of
 the Inspector General
 The records of the United States steamboat inspection service, which during the last nineteen years has been under the direction of Gen. Dumont as inspector general, show that during the last fiscal ye;sr the number of lives lost on steam vessels was approximate ly 3Gs. This, says the Washington Post, was an increase over the average of the preceding eighteen years of 1SS. This great increase was caused by the large loss of life by the laundering of the steamship Colima recently off the Pacific coast. This makes the average for the last nineteen years 247. The highest previous annual loss was ooo, m 1874. The lowest was 133, III 1sS6. Notwithstanding the great increase in the number of vessels since 1s70-over 100 per cent.-there have been but 759 disasters to steIm vessels, with a loss of but 5.O57 lives, the number of pas sengers carried per annua having ln- creased from 192, ,5S9, ,13o, carried in 1870, to not less than 650, 100000, c.r- ried in 1892.
 The average loss of life under the law of 1852 was one person to every 250, ,1s1 passengers carried, while under the act of 1871, which greatly improved the efficiency of the service. there was only one life lost in each 2,70S, ,SS3 pas sengers carried, or reduction in the number of lives lost of nearly Il to in proportion to the number of passengers carried. The service consists of about 175 officers and clerks, one supervising inspector general, ten supervising in- spectors, divided among the various customs collection districts of the United States. One Of the most strik- ing instances of the benefits derived from the powers conferred upon in- spectors under the law is the almost entire absence of intemperance at the present time upon the part of licensed officers. 's
 An alleged defect in the laws, and one which has caused much criticism, is in the local inspectors power to in- vestigate the cause of boiler explosions and casualties to steam vessels, thus giving the inspectors the right to pass judgment upon their own acts. The present head of the inspection service, Gen. Dumont, shares in the opinion of the opponents of such power. and has, unnecessarily however, endeavored to have the laws amended to correct the evil. As long ago as 1889 he called at tention in his annual report to the mat ter, and suggested remedy in the form of bill, which, however, never became law. The bill provided for a court of inquiry to be appointed by the secretary of the treasury to investigate acts of local inspectors in granting licenses, etc., such court to consist of three supervising inspectors of other districts than the one in which the in spector belongs. It is very likely that this matter will again be brought be- fore congress at the next session.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-22
LET THE DOG LIVE.
It Helps the Doctor to Tell Whether No
 VIII Go Mad.

It Helps the Doctor to Tell Whether You
 VIII Go Mad.
 If you are bitten by dog, don't kill the dog, but take every precaution to let him live for few days at least"
 Prof. Logan, chief of the Pasteur in- stitute in Chicago, made this oracular statement to 8 reporter for the Tribune, and he is supposed to be an authority on ''dogs that bite and what to do with them"
 ''It is great mistake people make" he said, ito start in at once to kill dog that has bitten them or have it killed for them. 1t has been proven scientifically and is admitted now by all physicians who are posted that hydrophobia is not spontaneous dis ease and cannot be given to a person by a dog bite unless the dog is mad when it causes the wound. The dogs condition, if it be mad, will be mani. fested within two days, or two weeks at the latest. By permitting it to live, therefore, the physicians can tell def initely whether the person bitten is liable to have hydrophobia. If the dog goes mad within that time they know the person bitten may be inocu- lated with the same dread disease and may have the same fate. If the dog does not go mad then there is no fear of hydrophobia and the wound can be treated as any other wound would be. By killing the dog you destroy the chance of certainty as to the fate of the person bitten and leave the imagina- ton full rein to fear the worst results when it might have been possible to know in advance that hydrophobia was impossible.
 "Of course," continued the doctor, ''there are exceptions to this rule that will suggest themselves to persons. When a dog is so vicious that to leave it alive is to endanger other people then the first duty would be to destroy it unless it could be kept carefully se- cluded where the possibility of harm would be removed. But even in such case where the dog is killed it should be done by a physician, who should keep portion of the brain, by which can be determined whether the dog had rabies or not"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-22
nut ot I,ore for His Mother.

A notable case of fliel love came to light in Pittsburgh few days ago, says the New York Sun, when sev- enty-six-ycar-old son came to the office of an aid society to claim his mother, who is two years past the century mark, from whom he had been sep arated by the long illness of both. It was shown that the man had remained a bachelor all his life in order to care for his mother. They came from Ire land thirty years az }, end had lived to- gether since that time, as they had previously in the old country, until five months ago, when both were taken sick and had 70 be removed to hos nital. ...---..- --------.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-22
A Usssul Waterfall.

The street cars of Sacramento City, in California, are now run by electricity generated by the falls of the American river at Folsom, twenty-four miles away. The river has been damned, creating . reservoir three miles long, with a flow of eighty-fve thousand cubic feet minute. After turning the turbine wheels at the dam the water is not al- lowed to escape further service, but is used for irrigation. Sacramento City expects soon to he warmed and lighted
The St. Johns herald., 1896-02-22
Some Punkins.

This is how Latin-American journal describes Gen. Eloy Alfaro, ''campea- dor, libertador, regeneration and su- preme chief" of the Ecuador rebels: t'Imagine all indomitable sadness, all nostalgia, all aspirations toward the infinite, all revolutionary somberness, all luminous and grand ideas, all the abrupt energies of the insurrectionary conscience placed in the tangible form of man, indomitable and generous, cumulative and austere; such as Alfaro. His indigenous head wears golden aureOlp "
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-18
STATEN ISLAND HAPPENINGS.

Fifteen thousand visitors crossed the ferry yester
day 10 South Beach. and found no difficulty in
getting all they wanted TO drink. William Oppoldl
a bartender, and George Tarrer the proprietor Of
Il hotel were arrested for selling without sand
witches.
Benjamin Spind,er. twenty-seven years old. was
stabbed IN the at an early hour yesterday
morning IN front Of the house OF Robinson Hose
Company, in Richmond Road. Stapleton. Thomas
Meubort and a man named Richardson had "a
tercation after being elected from the house and
Splnder attempted TO separate them.
Two men visited Coroner Oatess Morgue in Sta
pleton yesterday with a picture of Miss Maude
Williams the young woman thought by the Rev
Chandler Ill., OF Ston!ng;on. Conn. 10 be the muir
dered woman picked up on Thursday at Grant City.
II was decided that me body was not that OF Miss
Williams as the men said she was feet inches
in height while the woman found Is Only feet
tall.
John Curry, the Tompkinsville ship carpenter
who late Saturday night. It Is alleged. fired
1--WE shots at his young Wife Bessie, while at a
dance In the Atlantic Hotel. South Beach, was
arragned before Police Justice Kullmann. in the
Edgewater Police Court yesterday morning and
pleaded not guilty. He was remanded and locked
I'D for further hearing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-18
NETWORK CITY.

William aco6eld the Armonk hotel-keeper.
charged with killing his wife, was arraigned In
Yorkvile Court yesterday, and held TO await MS
examination on Tuesday.
William A. Thompson OF No. 100 East Twenty
frst-st who said he was publisher, was heId
in N,JOO bail for examination yesterday on
charge OF uttering worthless checN TOT
1913 20 on the Stamford Comm National Bank
According to the evidence. Thompson assumed
a debt 0. ES 30 that young woman had
contracted at Gustave Heinemann's riding acad-
envy No g34 Seventh-ave. on April q he bought
two horses at the same place for $50 and gave
the check In question in payment OF the whole OBJ
legation This was returned from Stamford marked
mo account"
Tho annual dinner If the Society OF the Alumni
OF St. Iuke's Hospital will take place at the Hotel
Savoy tomorrow evening
Tho Rev. Or. McEwen, pastor OF the Fourteenth
Street Presbyterian Church. at the request OF his
congregation. yesterday morning preached a SER
mon the Armenian question
Andrew Anderson, the longshoreman from East
New-York who fell into the hold of the ship r.
Thomas while unloading her cargo on Saturday
morning. sustaining fractured skull. died In
Gouverneur Hospital early yesterday morning. He
leaves widow and three children.
At the Lexington Avenue Baptist Church yester-
day the pastor. the Rev. Dr. j. l.. Campbell made
apprecatve address at the morning service re-
garding the late Rev DIT. Halsey Moore. who was
the previous pastor OF the church and mnistered
to it for over seventeen years. erecting In that
time the present church building. At the close OF
his address he read series OF resolutions that
were carried by the unanimous standing vote OF
the congregation. The funeral services Of Dr.
Moore will be held In Calvary Baptist Church al
1870 o'clock this morning.
The side wheel steamboat Mcdonald, before re.
ported sunk at Engewood Hudson River was
hoated by the Baxter Wrecking Company yester-
day and put in the drydock at Hoboken.
The Ward Line steamer Seneca arrived yester-
day afternoon from Mexico and Havana. Twelve
- ser passengers were unable TO produce css.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-18

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MsAndrews 8 Forbes =, yes $50 10 D. m~wlnd we''
west; clear; moderate breeze.
Steamers Mannheim Gen, for fius"'"'
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NOTICE TO MARINERS
Hog Island Light ,-.,, 1Ish Sta,
Notice is given that the lens a. hT sand north sac
ton the southery par, OF Iepsired May 10 asa sS
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light shows It's proper e""' a,.nsA
every forty five seconds =, LIGHTS and Fog "a ths
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-18
WHAT IS GOING on TO-DAY.

Park Board Arsenal. morning.
Mrs Flemings trial. before Recorder Con- lo''o
a. m.
Methodist. Baptist and Reformed ministers. morn
Ing - .
Reception for Dr. and Mrs Greer. No. 70 ST
Marks Place. evening
Launching of NJ c. D. Bordcn's steam yacht,
Erie Basin drydock. IL m.
Electrical Exposition. Grand Central Palace.
sunday-school officers meeting. Broadway Taber-
nacle. p. m.
Republican Club No 40 Fifth-ave. p. m.
Society Of Chemical Industry No. 10 West sixty
cighth-st., S:l5 p. m.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-18
PEEKSKILL.

The bicycle race which was TO take place TO-DAY
from the Allen House to Verpancks and return 10Y
god watch has been postponed. 1t VIII take place
week from to-day. Four or more wheeimeh mus
start or there will be no race
George A. Ferguson. assistant cashier of the West
chester County National Bank, is enjoying two
weeks vacation.
IIubbeu. Deputy County Clerk OF Orondaga County,
are both visiting Peekskill. their birthplace
Peckk gong to have Tgmen yed pari ,here h
a fire parade in this place Inc ioTeneh aha 40 NE
assistant foremen Of the I'VE e p agb S e
the trustees of the incorporated FIRE DeparImeh,
T paTade They have ordered each Company
a special meeting at once and appoint a conih.tt
neers in the truck house at o'clock p m. on May
26 to arrange for the parade
The following additional trustees have been elected ,s
to the Peekskll Fire Department: Columbian lose
COMPANY, No. Clarence W. Renike; Ma'Gnge1n
Edward Manser the manager of the Highland
Photo Engraving Company, Is about again after d
The Peekskl Driving Park Association has con
racted with Washburn Brothers, the builders. ior
the erection of large water tank in the Peekskih
Driving Park.
There will be convocation of Michigan Chapter,
No. %; r. A. NJ. this evening at o'clock In Ma
The trial of the case of Adelia McNsh agt. the
Village of Peekskil VII probably be called IL the
called last Monday, but adjourned one week. The
action was brought TO recover damages for injuries
alleged 10 have been received by Adea McNsh the
wife of Andrew McNsh a plumber, by falling In
Hudson-ave.. near Ringgold-st. She believed that
she sued for $4,000 The village denied that the
place where the accident occurred was public side
walk and denied It's liability. The case was tried
before Justice Barnard in White Plains In March
1895 The Jury gave verdict OF 5000 and costs for
Mrs McNish. The village appealed the case and the
Judgment Of the lower court was reversed Now the
case proceeds a trial and the hearing will
probably occupy several days. Mr.. McNish also has
an action or the calendar. A suit for $4,000 dam
ages against the village for the loss OF his wife's
services.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-18
WESTCHESTER COUNTY.
YONKERS.

a snecial meeting of the Westchester County
Grand Army Association was held on Saturday
evening In the City Court ROOM Manor Hail. TOT
the purpose Of electng president in place or the
late Henry S. Sproull and TO make arrangements
for attending the State Encampment. which opens
this week in Utica. George W. Robertson, VICE
president of Peekskill chosen president, and
James II jenkins Of Mount Vernon vce-presideht
in ex-senator RobertsOn's place Speeches. were
Shots Alderman Abram H. Tompkins, Edward j.
Mitchell William Riley Of this city; w ". Ryder
of Sing Sing; James II. Jenkins. Of Mount vernon
and H. b. Long of White Plains. The members OF
the association will leave for Utica at ~ CLOCK
this morning on train that VIII stop mere iCi
them The association Endorsed COmrade John g
Shots for National Commander. and ne mas the
support OF the Westminster County delegates
Members of Rising Sun and Nepperhan lodges. OF
this city. will make fraternal visit this evening
TO Marble Lodge, at Tuckahoe They VIII go %. 10y
trolley 10 Mount Vernon, and from there by tram
to Tuckahoe.
In the Warburton Avenue Baptist Church last
night the Rev. Dr. Avah 5 Hobart pTeachea , ,he
Christian Religion" His topic vas Ih Ioh Irue
Church-what Is 1t, and Where Is T.; John a.
service of the First Methodist Episcopal Church
and at the evening service OF me trsi ~
Baptist Church. and the Kings Daughters OF 1hIIst
Church conducted the services in ST. Johh River
side Hospital.
4 meeting of the Yonkers branch of the Mckinley
League has been called for tomorrow night; Ihe
resolutions adopted at the Dssaai@s Wniam IT,
Robertson. of Katonah and John q. Peene. OF TINS
city to vote for Major Mckinley at me Mation nt
Convention have been sent to these gentlemen. ana
Il is hoped that a reply will be received In time 70
be read at the meeting A large humper 81 Peiso"'
have Joined the League.
The May meeting of the Yonkers Board OF TRACE
will be held tomorrow evening In It's rooms IN the
New-York and Putnam Railroad building, IN Ge'Iy
Square and on Thursday evening the members or
the an Separate Company will give an entertain
ment in the armory. in Waverly-st.
Mrs Norton =. Otis will give the second OF her
afternoon teas tomorrow at her home, In hudson
Terrace.
The Silver Lake Crusaders are holding series OF
temnerance meetings each evening in Temperance
Hall in North Broadway. They will be held every
evening this week except FRIDAY ana oa'uiu'9
evenings
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-18
SHIPPING NEWS.
PORT OF NETWORK. SUNDAY. MAY IT. 1893.
ARRIVED.

Steamer Calico OBJ Forth. Hull May 3. with mdss to
Sanderson & Son. Arrived at the fhr at IL May TO-
steamer Taormna Ger. Fendt Hamburg May and
Havre 3, with mdse and 42 steerage passengers to
Punch. Edge q Co. Arrived at the Bar at 940
Steamer Amsterdam DUTCH. Stenger, Rotterdam May
and Bouogne l. with mdse 81 cabin and 400 steerase
Passengers to Netherlands American Line. Arrived at
the Bar at 1:43
Steamer Prussia Ger. Kariowa Hamburg May 5. with
American Line. Arrived at the Bar at $50 M
Steamer La Normande Orr. Delonce. .Havre May o.
Forget. Arrived the Bar 73o "A m.
Steamer Prins Frederick Hendrix Dutch. Sibbelee
Paramaribo April - Demerara -. Trinidad 30 Carupano
30 Cumana and uuanta May |. la Guayra 2. Puerto
tabello t. Curacao D. Jacmel g. Aux Cages and Port
Prince H. with mdse and 80 passengers 10 kunhardt IL
Co. Arrived the Bar $50 a
Steamer Rose ,r Leary. Santos April TO- Victoria 20
and ST Lucia May o. with mdse TO Busk Jevons. Ar
riN ed at the Rar at 35 D IA.
Steamer Ixia OBr> Churnside, Progreso May o, with
mdse to Thebaud Bros vessel John Seager Arrived
at the Bar at 1870
Steamer Seneca, Stevens. Tampico May and Havana
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-18
VALUABLE BOOKS TO BE SOLD ATAUCTION

There VIII be only catalogues disposed OF this
week the rooms OF Bangs 81 Co.. Nos. 81 and IS
Flfth-ave.. but they will include and
valuable works. To-day a small collection OF Eng
lsh works for the most part first editions
In original cloth bindings and a complete OF the
publications OF the Groier Club, will be offered and
the remaining days Of the week Will be devoted TO
a large and interesting collection OF Americana In
Guiding many State and county histories. first edl-
TORS OF American authors, Confederate imprns.
Samuel Penhaows History of the Wars of New
rare works
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-18

order to win the Senatorship. with 81 Assem-,
blymen and II Senators they would have lol
votes against the votes of 81 Republican Senao
tors and 63 Republican Assembiymen. or 10
votes In opposition in all. The Democrats may
make some gains In the counties or New orK
Kings, Albany. Onondaga, Monroe ana Erle,
but only a potica! revolution Will give them
forty seats more in the Assembly. The revolu-
tion this wear 10 in the other political direction:
II is to be a Republican who Is to succeed
David H. Hill as United States Senator
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-18
HOME NEWS.
PROMINENT ARRIVALS AT THE HOTEL

PROMINENT ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS.
A1REMARIE-Sr Arthur Hdyier and Lady
uavter. OF London. BRUNSWlCK-Sir Theodore
rrl Of England. REPRESENTATIONS Russell
Young. Of Philadelphia. ENERETT-HrnIy VI.
o. l.. q R,.Jlngs OF Chicago IMPEKlAI>-J.
p Parton Wiling OF Philadelphia MttRAi
UIII-E A. MacDowel.. OF Boston fAHN
AVENt'E-Rear- Admiral Richard W Meade l. >.
Navy. PIAZA-Senator Frank j. cannon, Oh
ran ST JAMES-Will!am i. Hazen Chiei OF the
rnI,ed States Secret Service. WALDORF -DF.
paul SECOND, OF Paris.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-18
THE IRON FOUNTAINS SPLIT.
From The Chattanooga Times

From The Chattanooga Times.
report has reached Johnson City. Tenn. OF an
immense opening on the top OF Iron Mountain near
the Tennessee and North Carolina line. which Is
six feet wide and one and one-half miles long. 1t
Is thought to have been caused by the recent very
hard rains In that vicinity The ground became
saturated that II gave way causing this mammoth
crack The story Is reported by an eyewitness
whose veraclty Is beyond question.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-18
HERE'S A TEMPERANCE TRACT. p

Hodgenville Hy) Correspondence of The Louisville
Post
Reports have just reached here OF large fish
slaughter on the Rolling Fork River In which from
1900 TO 1000 pounds OF fish have been killed.
OF them weighing thirty pounds. The death Of the
from the distillery. making the fish all drunk While
they were In this condition several men and boys
gigged them. - +