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The sun., 1897-11-23
THE GREAT GAME.
Warren VS.. U. s. Artillery School
Thanksgiving Day.

Everything is in readiness for the great
game to be played here on Thanksgiving
Day between the Warren and the L. S.
Artillery School Of Fort Monroe, Va. The
game is the talk of the town. Never be-
fore has there been an event in sporting
circles in his city that has created the
excitement and talk that this game has.
1t seems to be the talk Of every one.
1t so happenes that aside from the
playing quality merits Of the Artillery
team it is a very appropriate time to
have them here because it is composed
entirely OF officers and enlisted men in
the Z. S. Army and getting them at this
time when we have the gunboat Will
mington here, makes it Il sort Of a re-
union OF the army and navy. An invi-
tation will be extended to the officers Of
the Wilmington to attend the game.
The Warren boys meyer were in better
condition and coach Mcdaniel has
several tricks to spring on the Artillery
School team that will not only surprise
them but the spectators as well, for the
boys have been practicing them ever
since the season has opened and they
have them down to perfection. They
have reserved them for this particular
game. The boys call one of them the
Mcdaniel trick and everyone who
attends the game wants to be on the
lookout for the Mcdaniel trick.
The advance sale of tickets never has
been SO large. In order toencourage the
advance sale of tickets for protection
from loss in case of a bad day the tickets
are sold until midnight Tuesday Nov. %,
for IS cents, after that the price is 50
cents. Ladies 25 cents. A great many
people have taken advantage of the re-
duction. Tickets for sale at Selak q
Young's S17 Market Street, Jefferies' $40
Madison and Weaver's 4l5 Madison
Street. Game will be called at 2.3O p.
m. Union Street grounds can be reached
by either W. sth street, W. 4th Street,
any Front street cars. Special ar
rangements have been made with the
Wilmington City Railway Company to
handle the crowd no matter how large it
NAV bn
The sun., 1897-11-23
DEADLY COAL gas AGAIN
A Family Within the Valley and
the Shadow.
THE SPARROWS NESTS DID IT.
Flucs stopped Up by Birds Nests
Built Last Summer---Ne-
elected to Examine
the Chimney.

Special to THE Sun.
Dover, DEL, Noy. 22-"Save the
Opper Soul"
This reads the first line of an old
Hymn.
When Mrs Thomas G. Roll stopped Il
second this morning she risked her life
to "save the oppcr SOUL
There lay her husband and two daugh-
tcrs at deaths demonstrating from coal
gas. The windows locked, the shutters
and doors highly barred and not a breath
of pure air could reach them. Almost
crazed by the horrible sensation of suffo-
cation Mrs. Rell reused herself from a
sleep that meant death, and tried to call
her loved ones. Her voice was but a
whisper-thcy were past hearing-they
were dying
With blinded vision and tottcring
limbs she crawled along the floor to the
hall door, She could have pressed her
mouth close to the crack beneath and
gained breath of pure air and thus re-
vived herself. The poisonous fumes OF
escaping gas were surely killing her low
ed ones. She must get air for them. 1t
was the effort Of her life, but she opened
that hall door. A gust of wind revived
her and it was but a seconds work to
smash window light with her fist,
push wide open the shutters and let in
the air from the street that meant life to
her family.
They did not rouse.
Their heads were low, their faces blue
and bloated; their hands clinched-they
were suffering-yet sleeping More air
was needed.
The other windows were soon opened.
The sleepers aroused and dragged to the
windows that their poisoned lungs might
be quicker freed of the noxious gas. 1t
was but a moments work, but it saved
three lives, or rather gave three people a
chance to live. None OF the family are
yet out Of danger save Mrs. Roe. Inves-
tigaton showed that Mr.. Roe buift 4
coal fire just before retiring last night
without having first examined the flues.
Examination to-day shows that the
chimney was full Of birds nests built by
English sparrows, and it was these tiny
homes that imperiled the lives OF foul
people.
The sun., 1897-11-23
KILLED ON THE RAIL.
An Oystcrman Loses His Life in the
West Yartl--Had Been Drinking.

An Oystcrman Loses His Life in the
West Yard---Had Been Drinking.
An unknown man was run over and
killed by freight train in the West
Yard yesterday afternoon. The body
was horribly mangled, the head being
severed from the trunk. The remains
were taken to the morgue, where they
were recognized by Walter G. Cheavier,
who keeps a saloon at Front and Walnut
streets, as those of man, who, together
with a companion, had been in lis place
during the morning The men stated
while there, that they were oystcrmen
and had come up the road from Balti-
more that morning in a 'sidedoor Pull
man.
His companion disappeared during
the excitement and has not since been
heard Of.
While in the saloon the two men told
Mr.. Cheavicr a little Of their history,
but omitted to tell their names. The
man who was killed said he lived in
Boston where his parents were well to
do, and said that his object in riding on
the freights was to save what little
money he had, SO that when he arrived
home he would not be dead broke. y
His companion claimed Brooklyn as his
home, and was evidently without
money. On the dead man, besides some
cards and papers, about $S in money
WAS found.
The sun., 1897-11-23
Martin Thorn on Trial.
Special to The Sun.

Special to The SUN.
LONG ISLAND Cry, Nov. 22.--Seven
Jurors were accepted to try Martin Thorn
this afternoon. Lawyer Howe appeared
very prodigal in his peemptory chal-
lenges The jurors chosen were Thomas
Morse, carpenter; Jacob M. Weeks, far
mer; George Cox, mason; William w.
Hatfield, carpenter; Wellington Ger
mond, builder; John S. Dorlon, farmer;
Louis Fisher, carpenter. The Court
then adjourned until nine thirty to-mor-
row morning, when they will resume
selecting the other five jurors. Thorn
continues to be very nervous and it is
feared that he will break down before
the trial is completed. 1t is thought by
the Jail guards that Thorn will try
suicide. His movements are very sus-
picious and he is being watched all time
very closely.
The sun., 1897-11-23
And II Showed.

Policemen, buns and newspaper re-
porters all gave vent to Courses not loud
but deep about three o'clock this morn
ing. About that time it began to snow
and the snow, the beautiful snow SIZED
inside their collars and melted along
their spinal column. Also the snow
was of the slippery variety and more
than one unlucky member had his first
fall of the season by reason OF not having
his winter gait on.
Rah for Winter!
The sun., 1897-11-23
PYLE AGAINST HOLIDAYS.
Stir in the Board of Education Over
Closing of Schools Next Friday.
They Will be Closed,


A motion to close the public schools
on Friday next, caused a stir in the
Board Of Education meeting last night,
but although the opposition fought hard
the motion prevailed. The heated dis
cussion brought out the fact that certain
members of the Board are unalterably
opposed to too many holidays. DR.. Pyle
considered it outrageous, and DR.. Short
lidge was of the same opinion, that tie
Friday following Thanksgiving Day
should be a holiday for the teachers and
children Of our public schools.
Several committees reported and other
committees were given instructions to
have some needed repairs made at No. 2,
No. 6 and No. % schools. The advisa-
bility Of substituting MANILA paper for
states is being considered. At the last
meeting it was decided to close the pub
lie schools for half day on Tuesday,
and last night Mr.. Morrow, member
from fifth ward, moved that the schools
remain closed until Wednesday morn
ing, and shall also be closed all day FIJI
day.
Dr. Pyle said he was opposed to closing.
Dr. Shorlidge amended the motion so
as to keep the schools open on Friday.
''It will be an outrage he said, ''if the
schools are closed ON that day. 1t costs
500 each day to maintain our public
schools. Close them for that day! Do
you know what that means? Throwing
away that much of the peoples money,
and l am opposed to doing that" There
seemed to be some little sentiment in
favor of DR.. Pyle and Mr.. Morrow rose
and said that he had never before asked
for holiday and that this time he did
not expect to meet with any opposition,
for as long as he had been member Of
the Board the Friday next following
Thanksgiving had been holiday.
DR.. Shortlidge said that you might
Just as we'll close the schools on Wednes-
day as on Friday and Mr.. Ross thought
that the pupils would be better prepared
to study on Friday than onWednesday, as
they would be running around seeing
the parade on Tuesday and would be
more tired than they would on Friday.
The amendment was lost by a vote of 16
to and the original motion prevailed.
The Board received an invitation to at
tend the presentation services of tho
bible to be given the Wilmington by the
school children. 1t was accepted and
the Board will meet at their rooms at 10
o'clock and march to the Opera House.
They will also meet at the High School
on Wednesday to be present at entertain
mcnt to be given in honor of the Will
mngtons officers.
President Baird presented Colonel
Ross with a handsome badge sent to the
Colonel by the ladies of Columbus, Ohio,
who showed him the schools Of that
city. After talk from Chairman Nor
rison, pressing the Board to attend the
presentation services today the Board
adjourned
The sun., 1897-11-23
Two Boilers Exploded.
Special to TIE Sun.

Special to TIE Sun.
ROCHESTER, n. Y, Nov. 22.-Two 25O
horse power boilers in the Graves Eleva-
tor Works exploded today. They were
erected in the one story building at the
They generated power used to operate
three big Commercial blocks. No cause
can be assigned at present for the ex-
ploslon, but an inspection of the boilers
was in progress when the accident oc.
Cured. Robert Henry, firemen; Rob't.
Starr, boiler inspector, were killed and
several others were injured. Two other
men are missing and are supposed to be
dead under the wrecked building.
The sun., 1897-11-23
The Steal Completed.

Special to The sun.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. 23.-The
Treasury Department today received from
reorganization of the Union Pacific $13,-
G45, $50 in cash and at once turned over
to the committee that amount in bonds
which have been on deposit with the
government in the Sinking Fund Of the
road
The sun., 1897-11-23
Mr.. Bayard and the Mayfiower.
Special to THE Sun.

Special to TIE Sun.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 22.---Hon. Thomas
T. Bayard, ex-Ambassador at the Court
of St. James, addressed the Society OF
Mayhowcr Descendants in the Common
wealth Of Pennsylvania this evening.
The meeting was held at the Hotel STEM
ton and the usual routine brsincs of the
annual session was transacted before the
banquet was served. Mr. Bnyard gave
an account of how the record of the May
flower expedition was left in English
hands, all OF which has already been
published
The sun., 1897-11-23

Martin Brown the proprietor of the
United States Hotel on French street,
was this morning about A. NJ assaulted
by Joe Dougherty and Joe Mcconnell two
characters about town. After the as
sault they began destroying some pro-
perty by breaking the door and windows.
Doughelty has been arrested and Nc
Connell up to this hour has not been
captured.
The sun., 1897-11-23
AMATEUR THEATR[CALS,
Successful Entertainment at the
Century Rooms.

The annual dramatic entertainment
given last evening at the new Century
rooms by the Woman's Alliance OF the
Epworth League was most enjoyable
affair. The audience represented the
most fashionable set in the city. The
hall was beautifully decorated witt
palms and flowers. The attendance
was large, some 500 seats being occupied
and many held tickets that did not
come owing to the disagrpeable weather
Financially it was great success the
proceeds will go towards the Unitarian
Church. The entertainment was all the
more enjoyable, because everybody III
the audience knew everybody on the
stage. The committee who had charge
of the entertainment were Mrs. L. c.
Vandergrift Mrs. A. D. Warner, Mrs.
Horace Belts Albert S. L. Hewes. The
program was as follows:
A BLIND ATTACHMENT.
BY Miss ESTHER B. TIFFANY.
Mrs. Phillips. Miss Preston.
Mary Phillips, daughter to Mrs. Phil
lips) Mrs. Allen.
Miss Maria Fosdick, (aunt to Mrs. Phil
lips) Miss Ferris.
Elinor Christy, (school friend to Mary)
Miss Garrett.
Mrs. Fogarty, (boarding housekeeper)
Miss Hewes.
PROF. BANTER'S INVENTION.
BY MARY r. HORNE.
Benjamin franklin Baxter, (Inventor),
Mr.. Robinson.
Peter Crawford, (age seventy-two), Mr.
Preston.
Samuel Wooley, (age seventy and
sprightly for his years., Mr.. Hewes.
Roxana Tucker, (age seventy-one, dig
nifed), Mrs. Robinson.
Dorothy Tucker, (age sixty-cight frivol-
ous), Miss Webb.
Mary Ann O'Flinn, Gage uncertain, SER
want to Baxter), Miss Pyle.
The patronesscs We're: Mrs. Samuel
Bancroft, ,Jr.. Mrs. William Belts, Mrs.
Alexander T. Bowser, Mrs. James B.
Garrison, Mrs. Frances S. Garrett, Miss
Helen S. Garrett, Mrs. William II. Hill,
Mrs. Emlen llewcs, Miss Annie r.
Finn, Mrs. Elizabeth w. Mcndinhall,
Mrs. Samuel McCaullcy, Mrs Benjamin
Nields. Mrs. Frank Pyle, Mrs. Linton
Smith, Mrs. Theodore Lciscn, Mrs. $.
NJ. Knox, Mrs. John P. Wales and Mrs.
John J. Satterthwaite.
The sun., 1897-11-23
The Cuban Prisoners Arrive.
Special to TIE Sun.

Special to TIE Sun.
New York, Nov. 23.-The ward line
steamer Saratoga from Havana arrived at
her pier at the foot of Wall Street this
evening. Captain Laborde and his com.
panions, the competitors prisoners were
among passengers. They were well
received at the dock by many cuban
sympathizers.
The sun., 1897-11-23
Two Hundred On Strike.

Special to TIE Sun.
New YoRK, Nov. 22.-TwO hundred
cloakmakcrs struck here this afternoon
because the contractors demanded eleven
hours work instead OF ten. Trouble is
expected by many more firms.
The sun., 1897-11-23
To Tax Speak-Easies.

Special to THE Sun.
CIcAGo, Noy. ll.---Revenuc officers
here are making sellers OF soft drinks in
the Prohibition Districts OF Hyde Park
and Evanston take ont liquor license or
quit selling 'Tonica'
Thomas Minus, a small colored boy,
living at Odessa, Delaware, fell while
playing "prisoners base yesterday,
breaking his left leg below the knee. He
was brought to this city and sent to the
Delaware Hospital for treatment.
The sun., 1897-11-23
Ad football

Today the local team will play the
Central Manuel Training School team of
Philadelphia. Everybody who goes out
will be we'll paid for their trip, as it will
be good game,
The advocate., 1897-03-10
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

The Governor has signed the stock
yards bill and the bill prohibiting the
dOckage Of hogs.
Representative Crosby Of Cheyenne is
writing some very sensible reports Of the
Legislature to his homo paper.
Senator King has been appointed to
succeed Senator Harris as Chairman Of
the Senate Railroads committee.
In the House Saturday thirty-thres
employees, for whom the House had no
further use, owing to the advanced con-
dition Of the work, were relieved and
their pay stopped.
Wichita CommOner: "The Harris
bill puts the power Of regulating rates
in the hands Of three Railroad Commis-
sioners. The Brown bill fixes the rates.
The people voted for the maximum rate
bill last fall.
Jefferson county e Treasurer defsuIted
In 1872, leaving the county short $4,000,
The advocate., 1897-03-10
SATURDAY,

In the Senate, Senator Hanna pre-.
sented the following: "As / was nee
esssrily absent from the first part Of
the evening session Of the Sen.
ate Of March 2, l did not know
at that time Of the newspaper article
that had been read, relating to an in.
tervlew with one Of the Senators, in
which /, with other Senators, am cred
tied BY one r.. s. Boyd as having &C.
cepted q bribe FOX supporting Senate
bill No. 490. have said nothing about
this before in the hope that r. S. Boyd
would be spprehended, in which case
/ would have been fully exonerated,
bat as he has not been, feel, In JUS
tice to myself, must now state, In 80
far az l am concerned, the statement Of
Boyd is utterly false. have never
been offered money for my vote, by
Boyd OK anyone else, for any meaaure
The advocate., 1897-03-10

Hanna, Hart, Helm, Helmick, House,
holder, Jumper, King, Lupfer, MOsher
PritChsrd, Reser, Ryan, Shsffer,
Sheldon, Titus, WallsCk and Young.
Nsys--Battey, Fulton, Hessln, John.
son, Lamb, Morrow, Sterne and Stocks,
Absent or not votlng--Caldwell,
Coleman, Fsrrely, FOrney, LewellinR,
Matthews and thinner.
At the evening session Of the Senate
the Rlggs.Smart Judicial contest was
taken up. Smart (Rep.) secured q GER
ti6cate of election as Judge of the
Fourth district, consisting Of Douglas,
Anderson and Franklin counties,
Riggs contested. A committee of the
Senate recOunted the ballots, having
put In several weeks at this work. The
number of undlsputed ballots counted
showed that Riggs had a majority Of
%. The attorneys for Smart did
not attack the count, but questioned
the jurisdiction Of the Senate to try
the contest. A law of 1861 clearly pro-
Vldes that the Senate shall act In such
cases, but Smsrt's attorneys held that
the law was unconstitutional. Riggs
was present end had as attorneys David
0vermyeT, M. B. Nicholson and Waters
& Waters. Smart was represented by
7. F. Carver, w. G. Webb and F. M.
McHale. The case was argued and
the Senate decided to delay final &C.
tion In the matter until the following
noon.
In the House, the Committee on
Penal Institutions recommended that
the Senate bill creating a Board of
Control Of Penal Institutions, and
abolishing the Board of Directors of
the Penltentlary, the Board of Par
dons and the Hutchinson Reformatory
Board, be substituted for the House bill
and that 1t be passed. The special
committee to investigate investments
by the School Fund Commissioners of
Cowley and Klngmsn county bonds
reported. A resolution was adopted
providing for an investigation Of the
methods, practices and management
Of foreign and domestic corporations
doing business In Kansas, in order to
determine whether the methods used
are injurious to the interests of citi-
zens Of the State and to recommend
such legislation as may be deemed
proper for their better government.
The House In Committee of the Whole
considered the textbook bill, but did
not complete 1t and continued Consid-
GRAFTON In the afternoon. The Speaker
announced q number Of conference
committees. The Committee of the
Whole reported the Congressional sp-
bill with amendments.
AT the evening session the school book
bill was again taken up In Committee
Of the Whole, but before It's consider.
alton was completed the House ad.
journed.
The advocate., 1897-03-10

State taxes have been held up against
that county FOR all these years, but re-
lief has finally been secured by the pas
sage OF bill cancelling the indebted.
ness.
Senator King, in explaining his vote on
the railroad bill, i'd: "Ths platform on
which was elected declared emphati.
Cally in favor Of maximum freight bill.
am opposed to this bill and when vote
for it feel that / sm stepping on the
Republican platform. want to step off
Immediately after I cast this vote, for I
want to protest"
In the debate Of the Hackney amend
ment Marty wanted to know Of Brown Of
COwley il he had made the same talk to
his constituents that he had here made
against the railroad bill, He said that
he knew what the people wanted, and
that il members voting against their
wishes did not now know that they
would soon learn after they got home.
Outcslt voted no on the Senate rail
road bill on every occasion and voted
aye every time a maximum freight bill
was being considered. He tells his 2eO-
pie all about his action in letter to his
paper. Do the Populist members who
voted against a maximum freight rate
law dare to give their constituents o
detailed account Of their action and
their reasons therefori
Lyons Eagle: "The Populist mem-
bers Of the House at Topeka must re-
member that they have the majority,
and that IL they allow the Republican
minority to bamboozle them and defeat
the important legislation they were sent
there TO enact, they Che partly will be
held responsible, and should be-, for the
failure. The people elected majority
OF the Legislature and sent them there
to do business and expect them to do Il,
il they have to run the bsnd-wagOn over
ob8tFucting Republicans every day in
the week"
In explaining his vote on the railroad
bill, Senator Householder ssid: "I am
going to cast vote that does not accord
with my judgment on this bill. / voted
for this bill on it's final passage by the
Senate. believing and hoping that tho
House would substitute the bill that the
people demand-a maximum rate bill;
but / was disappointed In my hope and
belief, and now, under the ultimatum
given by few Senators on this floor, that
it must be this bill or no railroad leRia-
lation, l shall vote to concur in the House
amendments. But / do not believe that
this iS any better than the bill now on
the statute books. Ifeel that 1t in no wise
gives the people any relief from the Op-
precision OF these great corporations, but
this bill, this Senate bill, instead of rs.
lieving in any manner the great burdens
imposed upon our people by these cOrpor-
atiOna, is absolutely without benefit. II
is Ike a hornet without q sting, like
viper without poison, like o Copperhead
without fangs, like an eagle without tai
Ons. In fact, il gives new additional arms
TO this great octopus by which it will
tighten the hold II now has upon the
throats Of the producers On the other
hand, it is giving the people stone when
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