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The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-09-01
AGRICULTURAL HINTS
FARMERS AND WHEELMEN,
Why They Should Work Together In
the Good Roads Crusade.

the Good Roads Crusade.
Otto Dorner. of Milwaukee, Wis.
chairman of the good roads bureau of
the League of American Wheelmen, re-
Gently delivered an excellent good
roads address before the Chautauqua
assembly at Dixon, Ill. His remarks re-
lated especially to the attitude of the
league towards the farmers, and it's
essential features, embodied in the fol-
lowing article, cannot fail to be of gen.
eral interest:
Now the great question before us is,
said Mr.. Dorner, how shall we obtain
better country highways. The ques-
ton is not, do we need good roads, but
how shall we get them? Road building
in the United States has been left en-
tirely in the hands of the farmers and
in charge of the local town authorities.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-09-01
LABOR-SAvING DEVICE.

With 1t the Filling of Bags Is Made
Comparatively Easy.
Bags at the threshing mill are often
filled from half-bushel measures or
boxes. The plan as illustrated herewith
shows a much easier method as the
grain can be more easily shoveled into
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-09-01

"A curious stone, called the ''ilmak-
iur," is found in Finland. The people
use it as barometer, because in foul
weather it turns black, or blackish gray,
while when fine weather is approaching
it becomes almost white.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1897-09-01

4 Rhyme with a Moral.
The narrow tire digs rut.
The wider tire rolls 1t shut.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-08
HERE'S Il NEW Il ELEVATED ROAD

From the Battery to Firtieth Street as an Aps
pronch 70 the New jersey bridge.
Charles q. Swan. Secretary of the New York
and New Jersey Bridge Company, gave out yes.
terday the following statements:
"The stockholders OF the New York and New
Jersey Bridge Company to-day authorized the
Board Of Directors to consolidate with the New
Jersey Company and bring the two companies
under tho management of one board Of man.
ayers. Secretary Swan presented the map adopt
ed by the Commissioners on Dec. 8. and the
descriptions of n location for a freight approach
along the marginal wharf or place from Pier
l, North River, TO q connection with the bridge
approach at Fiftieth street and the freight yards
OF the New York Central and Hudson River Rail-
road at Fifty.ninth street. The location was &C.
cepted by the Stockholders, It being necessary for
the accommodation of the freight commerce for
this port. The directors were authorized to
made at the earliest possible moment"
The following new Board of Directors was
elected: James S. Clarkson, Philadelphia; John
8. Runnells. Chicago; Daniel N. Lockwood. Buff
falo; Louis Windmuller., George Young, Charles
A. Smylie, William Bell, Thomas II. Bauchle.
William H; Ely. New York lorenzo Duncan.
and John Q. Adams, Newburg.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-08
BLOCK ON THE ELEVATED.
An Express Train Gets Stalled. ~stopping
Trnmc on Two Tracks

An Express Train Gets Stalled. s~topping
Trnmc on Two TrncLs
The Sixth avenue elevated railroad express
train which leaves Rector street at 5:l4 o'clock.
and runs into Ninth avenue from Fifty.third
street at $50 o'clock, was switched from tho
express track to the north.bound local track at
Ninth avenue last evening. because the middle
track 10 torn up for repairs. There is a heavy
grade at this part of the road. and tho engine,
after drawing the front car around the curve,
ran out OF steam. In spite of all tho efforts
of the engineer to keep tho train moving. it
came to . stop whilo the engine and one car was
on the Ninth avenue local track and the rest of
the train was on tho Fifty-third street express
track.
This blockaded the Ninth avenue np-bound
trains and the Sixth avenue trains. The next
express left Rector street at 5:2S and tho
stalled express had to wait until 1t came along.
The second engine pushed the express up tho
track. and the officers of the road Strengthened
out the taugle by letting four Sixth avenue ex.
presses n d three Ninth avenue expresses fol-
low the disabled one and it's helper. Then the
local trains which had been delayed were al
lowed to 20 on.
1t was $3.50 o'clock before tho trains began to
run on schedule time again.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-08
RESCUED WIFE AND CHILDREN.
An Accent or u euaoke-FiIlod Shan and o swinE
TO q NeiGhborinG Roof.

An Accent or y enoke-Fiiled BharS and . SWING
to n NeiGhborinE Roof.
ELIZABETH, N. j., Doc. T.-Clarence Burlew IL
the janitor OF tho Dix building, the tallest build
ing in the city, and his family lives on the top
floor, which ia the sixth. Fire was discovered
at 7:15 o'clock this evening In the basement,
which ives nearly filled with q stock of Christ
mas toys and novelties. These burned rapidly
and smoke poured into the elevator shaft.
Burlew was on the first floor when the fire
was discovered and at once started for his
rooms where his family live. He found
the elevator shaft filled with smoke. but
he jumped into the car and started It up. He
was almost overcome when the fifth floor was
nearly reached. and to add 10 his difficulties the
car stopped. It was so near the opening on the
fifth floor, however, hat Burlew succeeded in
crawling out of It. He then made his way up to
tho next floor by way Of the Btairs which circle
tho elevator shaft.
When no reached his rooms no found his wife
and two children In ono Of the rooms nearly
sufYocated. With great difficulty he succeeded
in getting the three down one flight Of stairs
and into o rear room. He closed the door and
opened Q window. The fresh air revived his
vito and children.
Then by q perilous undertaking Burlew sue
ceeded in swinging from tho window ledge to
the roof of the building next the Dix building.
his wife handed him the children and then Bur-
lew helped her to the roof. Afterward he broke
in @ skylight Of the building and got down to
the street. By the time he reached the street
the IRE had been extinRuished. 1t started from
an electric light wire. The damage to the build
ing by IRE was less than $1,000. but many Of
the goods were damaged.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-08
FRIGHTENED INTO ILLNESS.
niles Smiths Bliaht from . gtranEer who II
suited her.

niles Smiths Flight from . Stranger Who Ias
suited her.
ELIZABETH. N. J., Dec. 7.-Miss Mabel Smith
is very Ill at her home, 1853 Madison avenue, her
sickness being the result Of an encounter with
an unknown man last evening. She 10 oms
ployed in II. D.. Saunders's hardware store. IN
Broad street. The store closed at o o'clock last
night and Miss Smith started for her home.
She had gone but o block and was on East Jer.
sey street. opposite the Star Theatre. when .
young man stepped in front Of her from behind
q tree. He had evidently been waiting for her.
As he stepped directly in her path Miss Smith
was obliged to stop. and he then began to make
and he attempted to seize her. She sprang past
him, turned the corner. and ran up Jefferson
avenue, screaming loudly for help.
The young man chased her half q block. He
was gaining rapidly On her and had nearly
reached her when Miss Smith lodged into the
yard of q residence. Her pursuer did not follow
her there, but ran across the street and escaped
through Hampton place. Rushing up to the
basement door Of he house, Miss Smith pounded
on the door and cried for admittance. Then she
tainted. and when tho people In the house
opened the door they found her lying on the
pavement. She was carried into the house,
which is occupied by Mrs. johnson. All trace Of
the young man was lost.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-08
GOT HER FORTUNE TOLD.

..YouNI Soon Commit suicide." said the For
tune ToilerI '.One Dollar. Please, First."
At 3:45 p. NJ. Hattie Sheldon. 27 years old, of 100
West Twenty. fifth street. had a At at s77 Sixth ave-
nue.. Attended by DR.. Tracy OF the New York Hos
pital. and left for home.
This report adorns the blotter of the West
Thirtleth street station. At 377 Sixth avenue,
second floor. front. is the office of Leo S. Osman,
fortune teller. OsmRn 10 q young man with a
shock of red hair and a pair of dreamy eyes
walled in by glasses. He walks with a limp and
talks in subdued tones, as becomes one who can
see things. He solemnly AYERS that he has no
press agent. and that he shrinks from notoriety.
Hence his unwillingness to have this story
printed.
Hattie Sheldon is one of his customers. He
looked at the "life limo - in her hand yesterday
and informed her that she would soon commit
suicide.
She Jumped up and said: Its a lie."
lone dollar. please" said the fortune teller,
Then she had her fit. She is not known at the
address she gave. Osman says she had q bottle
of csrbolic acid in her satcheL.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-08
MISS BRADLEY ACCEPTS.
Che Thanks Secretary Long and the RattIeshi
Hucident u Closed.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.-The one-sided oontro-
versy raised by Miss Harriet cambridge Rich
ardson over her claim to the honor of christen-
ing the battleship Kentucky was settled to-day
in a note received by Secretary Long from Misc
Christine Bradley, the 1s.year-old daughter of
the Governor OF Kentucky. accepting Nj.
Longs invitation to act as sponsor for the yes.
col. Miss Bradley says:
Kentucky. tho first born Of the Union 10
Justly proud Of the distinction conferred in CIV
ing her name to the magnificent battleship soon
to be launched at Newport News. 1t may not DO
inappropriate or vain to say that the valiant
record made by her sons on land and sea entities
her to the compliment. Kindly accept my sin
core thanks for tho honor with which you have
clothed an unpretentious but ardent Kentucky
girl, who loves her state second onlyto hor coun-
Try. IL will give me much pleasure to assist in
serve. II possible. to bind the sympRthies Of every
citizen OF Kentucky more closely to the nation"
Miss BrRdley's acceptance ends the official
concern with the christening OF the Kentucky.
Secretary Long will notify the Governor OF the
state .I n and the Newport News shipbgilding and
tion. and tho young woman will be told the date
otthe christening when 1t II settled.
FRANKFORT, KY, Dec. 7.-Gov. Bradley to.
night gave out q red-hot statement in regard to
Hunters friends In naming battieship commits.
sioners.
AS to the Hunter faction he says. at have
not heard OF II since tho last election: but have
no apologies to make. II they have been ignored.
have no doubt 1t win cause the shedding OF
made from a list furnished me and made mp
from both parties"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-08
INDIANS MAY LEAVE Us.
e0 o Choctaws ana Chickasaws Talk or
Moving to Mexico.

ToPEKA, Kan, Dec. IA b. Hullett, repre-
senting the Mexican Land Company, came here
to-day from the Indian Territory and confirmed
the report that tho Chickasaw and Choctaw
tribes OF, Indians have agreed to start a colony in
Old Mexico. The work Of the Dawes Commits
sion greatly angered the Choctaws and Chicka-
saws, and Hullett says that 10000 of them
will join the new colony and cast their lot with
tho Mexican republic, a movement which, he
says, has the sympathy and Endorsement of
President Diaz and his Government. The con.
vention which Hullett attended was held last
week In the woods near Muskogee, where 1000
of the prominent Indians of tho two tribes con.
gregated to hear his proposition from the Mexi-
can Land Company.
By a unanimous vote 1t was agreed to send
fifteen Indians to view the lands. which are in
the state of Coahuila, about 300 miles west Of
Laredo, Tex. These men will start on Dec. 20.
and If they accept tho offer made them the
exodus will begin by the first of the year.
The Chickasaw reservation In the Indian Ter.
ritory contains $500. 600 acres and the Choc-
taw reservation over 100000 acres. The
population OF the Choctaw tribe is $4,000 and
OF the Chickasaws $1,000.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-08
BIG SWINDLE ALLEGED.
ARREST OF TWo MERCHANTS ON
SPECIFIC COMPLAINS.

Accused By the whitney Ginss Company oR
BsyinE Goods at Market Price. umned,-
ntely Selling Them Cheaper. ana om,t,,,-
to Pay-Poiics Have l2p Cou,,,,,,,.
Frank l.. Gerrish, who represented himself Ia
DO q general merchandise broker at 1863 Cream
wioh street. and Louis NJ. Schnadig. who
styled himself a Wholesale grocer at 90
Vestry street and a ship chandler on
Leonard street, were arrested on Sunday on
warrants issued by Magistrate Poole on com.
plant OF tho Whitney Glass Company, which
charges them with obtaining goods under false
protenccs. The arrests wero made by Capt.
McClusky's detectives.
According to tho complaint Of the whitney
Glass Company each Of the two mon arrested
went to the glass company In March. Ger
rlsh ordered thirty gross OF bottles 40
S2.oo O gross. Tho goods were shipped To
him. Before they reached his place OF business
he. according to the Glass Company, had sold
them to Leon Hirsch s. Son. 36s Greenwich
street. at $1.75 a gross. Tho Glass Company
alleges that Gerrish didn't pay for the bottles.
The complaint against sohnadig Is that In the
same month he bought fifty gross of two-ounoe
Company and sold them to Hirsch & Son for
SeihnS g g,S -. According TO the complaint
se Ths case Sia w nst p ps{ f 10 The the S Soaa. ., 1D,n,o.or
Cross, then in command Of the Leonard street
i%Ss nr t and and on 81 his RFomotioa tho p9oseotiyc
The prisoners were taken before Magistrate
Moadefn the Centre Street Court on Monday
counsel. Frederick House. Their defence n
that az soon as the title to the property passed
to them they became its sole owners and miRhf
sell 1t at any price they saw At.
According to the persons who worked up the
Whitney Glass Company did, and this viii lead
to other arrests.
Capt. McClusky is said to havo the names %
the merchants. who are wholesale bakers,
Wholesale fish dealers. druggists, and manufac.
turers Of all kinds OF goods.
According to the Detective Bureau, 1872 firms
that have been swindled have been found. Some
OF them lost as high as 81. 200. In each case the
sold Immediately at O great reduction.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-08
CHINA WILL BUY PEACE.
SIZE rs WILING TO PAP GERMANK
100000 TAELs DAMAGBS.

Gernany May occupy Kiao Chou nay fSr =
while. but China would Never Consent &c
Her Keeping lt-Cspt. Becker Marches Ia
land and Drives the chinese rron Thsrr Forta.
spsefaI Gable Despatch TO TEE SUE.
LONDON. Dec. IA news agency despatch
from Shanghai says that China IL willing to pay
100000 taels indemnity to Germany in salts.
faction of all claims. including the cost of the
occupation Of Kiao Chou Bay. which place she
will temporarily assign for the use Of the Ger
man navy.
The Government will also grant concessions
for railroads and mines in the province OF Sham
tung. degrade the Governor Of the province,
and execute the murderers Of the two German
Missionaries.
Another despatch represents that China 10
prepared to make every reparation for the
murder OF the missionaries, but is indignant
because OF Gormany's unjustihable seizure Of
Kiao Chou. and will never consent to her re-
naming In possession Of tho seized territory.
1t is reported that Capt. Becker of the German
Navy. with 210 mon, left tho feet on Friday
last and occupied the villages surrounding
Kiao Chou Bay. He then marched to the city
Of Kiao Chou, fifteen miles inland. Tho Chinese
forts fired on the Germans, who replied, killing
three men. The garrison then fed in disorder.
The Chinese General was captured, but was
afterward released. Several Of the sailors were
injured by stones that were thrown by in
habitants of the villages. The headmen of tho
villages were punished, being beaten with bam-
boos at Capt. Becker's orders.
A despatch to the Times from Pekin says that
China, hoping to bring about the evacuation Of
Kiao Chou, will agree Internationally to
all Of Germany's demands. namely, COM
pensation to the families Of tho murdered
missionaries; the erection of a memorial church
at Ts~ining-Chau and an imperial tablet at Kuye;
the permanent degradation of the Governor Of
the province in which the murders took place;
the payment of the expenses of the German occu-
patton Of Kiao Chou Bay, and the granting OF
mining and railway privileges in the province
Of Shantung. These mining and railway privi-
leges will not be exclusive. but will be Of SINH
lar tenor to the French convention Of June. 1895.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-08
A METER WITH a CONSCIENCE.
AFTER II Nae OveroharEed Rrr. Noble Tor water
IL Started backward at y RAPID Gait

le Started HnckWnru NJ y RAPID Rni-
It was told In THE Sun q few days ago how
tho Nutley Water Company presented a bin to
Clarence w. Noble for $3.50 for three months
water consumption In q ten.room house, and
at that time the trouble was assigned to q do
fectiye ball-cock, which was said to have per.
mitted q steady flow Of water In and out Of o
tank on tho attic. Mr.. Noble protested and said
that all of tho waste could not have been dis
posed Of by a cistern 8xs feet, into which tho
overflow from the tank led. Tho Water Com
mittee gave him no satisfaction, and no called
in local plumbers and experts, some OF whom
experimental while others figured. They all
said that there was something wrong with the
meter.
Somebody sought to remedy the trouble, and
in a day or two IL was discovered that the bare
faced instrument had developed u pang In Its
brazen conscience. and was trying to compen-
safe Mr.. Noble for the trouble 1t had caused.
An expert took its record for q day and disoov-
cred that 1t was running backward at the rate
OF seventy-hvo gallons q minute.
Impossible" said Water Clerk vreeland
and Plumber Thomas Hayes, but after they
had watched the meter for q while they were
convinced. Clerk Vreeland calculated that It
had sent back $4,000 gallons Of water to tho
company within five or six days, and that at this
rate the town would soon be In debt to Mr..
Noble for water. Then 1t was concluded to put
in q new meter, and this was done yesterday.
The old meter will be sent back to tho maker.
but what will BIO done about Mr.. Mobiles bill IL
still q matter Of doubt
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-08
LAWRENCE HANLEY IN TROUBLE.
His WIFI sues for . Divorce and Ho Has Been
DischarEed from n Theatre Company.

His WHO sues fof o divorce ana Ao HAS Ueon
Discharged from n Theatre Company.
ST. LOUIS. Dec. Z.-LAwrence Hanley. formerly
BArrett's leading man. is in trouble. He was
discharged from the Imperial Theatre stock
company after q quarrel with Manager Gum
perez. and now. 1t 10 learned. he has been sued
for divorce.
On Nov. 27 his wife. Edith, who resides with
her parents at Los Angeles. CAL. fled her plea
for divorce, alleging cruelty and intempcrance.
Mrs. Hanley was a Miss Edith Lammert of
Los Angeles. Her parents are wealthy, and. in
Q city noted for Its beautiful women, she was a
reigninR belle. She had predictions for the
stage. and when Hanloy's company visited the
coast in 1885, she secured an engagement. Two
mon his later she married Hanley.
Their welded bliss was short lived. Hanley's
She endured her troubles silently for two
IN Cincinnati. Henley went on one Of
that sho was forced to leave him. She was
playing In the company, but had TO throw up
her par and seek shelter In a strange hotel.
He found her and she was forced to foc to the
home OF a friend for protection. Later she re-
turned to her parents.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-08

Fire poss 90. 500 Damage at Police Head
quarters.

Police Headquarters was considerably dam
aged last night by a ere which was discovered
Just before 2 O'Clock in the Rogues' Gallery,
as the part Of tho top floor whore since last
February criminals have been measured and
pictured according to the Bortillon system has
como TO be called.
Mrs. Kate Travers, the matron Of the lost
children department, who occupies the adjoin-
ing rooms, smolled smoke while at supper, and
ran downstairs to give tho alarm. Sergeant
o'Brien of Commissioner Smiths Office and
Sergeant Wndo of the Detective Bdreau went to
the photograph gallery and opened the door. A
pun OF smoke caused them to close 1t quickly
and hustle down to the telegraph room In the
basement, where an alarm was sent to Fire
Hall over the private wire.
There was no indication OF fire from the street
at that time, and two minutes later persons
standing on the stoop were surprised by the ar
rival Of the frcmen. Soon. however, flames
burst through n skylight In the roof, and the
flremen got to work in a jiffy. Three lines Of
hose were dragged up the stairs, and in about
twenty minutes the Gre was extlnguished.
1t originated in the vicinity of tho photog-
raphcr's dark room. which was Quilted, and the
two adjoining rooms were also partly burned
out.
President Moss's room and the stationery dc.
partment on the third floor and the cashiers
office on the second floor were considerably dam
aged by water. Water also got into Chief Nc
Cullagh's office and into that OF his clerks.
Commissioned Smith was in his room at the
time Of tho fire. Fire seems to follow mo
wherever 1 co." he said. IF you remember 1
was with Mayor Strong at Richf1eld Springs
last summer when the hotel was burned"
The other Commissioner and Chief McCul-
lagh were notified by telephone. 1t was feared
0t first that the entire work of the Bertillon
system was destroyed. Sergeant Rowe, the
superintendent, made an INSPECTION OF the rooms
and reported that all the measurements and
pictures were safe and that but few Of the ,129
negatives were broken. The heat, however.
may have rendered them useless.
The police ostimated the damage at $4,000.
Tho aremen thought 1t would DO greater. The
building Is owned by the Police Department
and Is not insured. The Hremen thought the
IRE was due to the overheating of q door near
tho gas jet that was used to shed light through
q red glass window into tho dark room. Ser.
geant Rowe said that the burner had not been
used since Saturday.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-08
ALDERMEN AND MAYoR ENJoINED.
Courts Invoked to Stop the Pelham hay Park
Railroad Grant

Courts Invoked to Stop tho Pelham Hay Park
Railroad Grant
James G. Cooley. acting for himself and other
property owners in the vicinity Of Pelham Bay
Park. has secured a temporary injunction from
Justice Andrews of the Supreme Court pre-
venting the Mayor and Aldermen from selling a
franchise for a railroad through Pelham Park.
way, on the application of the Pelham Bay Park
Railway Company. The order is returnable
next Monday. Other property owners co5perat-
ing with the plaintiff are Adrian lselin, Jr.. and
F. w. jackson.
1t is stated in the moving papers that tho
Board of Aldermen on Nov. so passed o resolu.
ton granting certain rights Of franchise based
upon the report Of the Railroad COMMITTEES.
They ask that the Mayor be restrained from APP
proving the resolutions. and. II he has disap-
proved them by the time the papers are served,
that the board DO restrained from passing them
over his veto. 1t is alleged that the board Is
showing a hasty desire to dispose OF the fran
chise before 1t goes out of existence, and that,
In endeavoring to grant a franchise in perpe.
tuity, 1t is acting against the new charter, which
permits q franchise for twenty-five years only.
It Is claimed that the franchise is given over
ground controlled by the Department OF Parks
without tho approval of that board. and that
the Aldermen have. without authority, taken
upon themselves to fix the fares, manner of con-
struction, and the sum to be paid TO the city.