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POMONA HILL NURaDn,

POMONA, N. G.
Two miles west Of Greenshoro
Southern Railway. Well known 100
years. Up with the times with All ~ IoF tn
as the old fruits that are suited tneVRN
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A New Southern Journal

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value to the prospective Southern inVs5Efb s1
publishes letters from Northerner5 WIS DsrgB
settled in the southern country. hVoLy Trrfra
interested In Southern investments OF OsJbosB
or who Is contemplating a visit SouIn nJTssdbi
subscribe, the low price, Is cents a yeaF'P"
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John Ehret, SO years old, of o Essex street.
Railway, n. j.. foreman OF u bookbindery and
printing establishment in the Rhinelandcr
building at 2 Duane street. was crushed to
death by a freight elevator early last night.
Ehret and a fellow workman, William Wadell
Of l Laurence street. Railway, opened the slid
Ing door of the Duane street entrance to tho
freight elevator. intending to ascend to the
bookoindery on the seventh floor. The elevator
is operated by steam. and when the valve is
opened suddenly the car shoots upward. Ehret
WAS not accustomed to running it.
He pulled the valve rope and leaned over to
see II the car was ascending from the basement.
The top of the cage struck him on the head and
threw him against the wall of the elevator shaft,
where he was damned between the car and the
wall. He died Immediately.
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sroUrn 10 : nUrAWxr HANOI.
pHarriea IN neoa, Separated In nees-Ths
Bride Hsrs okihk fr Separation.


uIaRriea IN reoa. Separated IN
Hride view shihk rr sepnrntten.
P~oueHKEEPsrE. Nov. n0.AIn March. 1894,
Miss Alice Decker, one Of the prettiest girls In
Tivoli, made = runaway match with John 7.
Hoffman, son of Theodore A. Hoffman, the
County Clerk Of Dutchoss county, who was re-
moved by Gov. Hill for his stand in the Osborne
Senatorial contest, and who 10 at present filling
his third term In the Office from which he was
removed,
At the time of their marriage Norman was
20 and his bride 10. The couple lived together
until August, 1895, when they separated, and
have since lived apart. Mrs. HOFFMAN has sup
ported herself by teaching school. She sued for
q separation, and the case came up before
Mrs. Hoffman alleges that a week after her
marriage che visited her parents IN Mestchester
county, and on her return her husband accused
her OF being at q hotel in barrytown witha
drummer He. maintained a constant attitude
Once she left home to visit friends in Bridge
port, and although she took her husbands hand
and Attempted to kiss him good.by as she. got on
the boat at Rhinebeck, he turned his head away.
with James Stewart, a.younR lawyer In Bridge
port. and of posing there as Q single woman.
Stewart was put on tho stand, and acknowl-
edged that Mrs. Hoffman was introduced tohim
as 9 single woman, but denied any impropriety.
infdelitv, but sought to prove that he had been
kind to her.
Mrs. HOFFMAN dramatically told of a scene
last September, when her husband sought her
IN the schooihouse where she WAS h teac ne TO get
jump through q window. The decision OF the
Court was reserved.
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GRIEF DROVE HER TO SUICIDE.
Insane ut the Death or Her Child. Mrs. Moser.
. Fortune Teller, Kills Herself.

Mrs. Florentine Moser, a fortune teller of 3
Leonard street, Williamsburg, who was fined
800 by Justice Kramer In the Lee Avenue
Police Court about three weeks ago for cruelty
to seven-year-old Celia Mack, committed sui
eide last night by shooting herself in the head
and chest with a revolver. She was 40 years
old and about four years ago married John
Moser, a widower with several children. Mrs.
Moser did not like her stcpchildren, and there
were many quarrels between her and her hus-
band. The children left her. and a year ago she
separated from her husband. She carried on a
prosperous business telling fortunes by cards
and had several thousand dollars to her credit
in the German Savings Bank.
About two months ago Mrs. Moser adopted
girl with extreme cruelty. Celia ran away and
tho Children's Aid Society caused Mrs. Moser's
arrest. She was fined 800, which she paid af-
ter serving one day in the penitentiary.
A week ago Mrs. Mosers two-y ear-old child
Wilhelmina ate the sulphur from twenty-five
matches.
She fingered until IL o'clock yesterday morn
ing, when she died. Mrs. Moser became vio-
lently insane. and shortly after 4 O'Clock Mrs.
Donjes, n friend, heard several pistol shots in
Mrs. Moser's bedroom. She ran into the room
and found Mrs. Moser lying on the floor with
the revolver at her side. Ambulance surgeon
Connors of st. Gatherings Hospital found that
and in the left side lear the heart. She was
taken 10 the hospital. where she died three
hours later.
Coroner Mason found n will in which Mrs.
Moser bequeathed all her property to the child.
and in tho event OF its death, to her husband.
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stagvation. claimed eight and tSros fever thir
ty.snree: The greaseat nuinber Of DEATHS
surgeon'oenernl Wynnan some voeks aeo. by
the detail of two members. Of bis sta6 Of IN.
origin of yellow fever in Cuba, a course OF
action which n committee OF the National
Mckinley to enter upon by the appointment of a
commission Of physicianH,
Mr.. Louis A. Dent. Consul at Kingston, ia
Secretary Of state, says;
81. believe that after ak weeks, certainly
after Jan; I. Il will DO safe for Americans to
visit the island. y
see no reason why the course of trade should
bc disturbed.
-. l consider IL advisable for the'next three
weeks that all passengers from Jamaica be
placed under observation quarantine for at
least twenty-four hours and their baggage dis.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
CHURCH ROW OVER MONEY.
TRUSTEE SEEKS TO PREYENT THE
PASTORtS USING CHURCH FUNDS.

ne Alleges That tire rev. John w. N,clrnard
ana Trustees Messy and Russell or the
FIRST Free whn baptist Church Have
Converted $3.50 TO Their Own Uses.
There IL a lovely row in the First Free viii
| Baptist Church. whose regular services nre held
at present in tho Grand Opera House. The
.ras....,,orIori v IN intoros, = = 10000 -
parI,es HTn :, 'ne paStot
the church, the Rev. john W.. kjclgaard,a and two
~, Az 80 h.nd ana Frodoria,, n CIos.
v" e"o oHO - Sloeo'
another trustee, on the other. The row will DO
49, oanns., sor Chose w,,i rsomoS, ,n",,ou Ia,-s
r r,m ~ tSo sopromo Court to sI make su n.rm.nsn.
an , R,...,1 ssom 1' ,nssl5ar,ss k xi,n nd I mss.9y
of the church, which they are charged with ir
regularly converting to their own use. The
temporary Injunction was granted by Justice
Lawrence on Friday.
The First , Free WIN Baptist Sa Church was
rounded In 1901. IL was tnen endowed by the
Free VIII Baptist Homo Missionary Society with
strong enough 10 oulla charoh eaihce. ms
H. "anausnatSon rror.hinnas III ~.
spring Of 1895, when tho church building was a
sold to tho corporation of tho Bethel (colored)
Church which now owns and uses IT, rho Eroo
Will Baptists got about 500, 900 for the prop.
ertv sae ooo of which was in thc form NJ
mortrsa.
Soon after that, and while the Free Will folks
were yyorsbippine in the Grand opera House.
KioIaaora was called - ,ho n.stor,to A. ,hat
time, as now, he was Superintendent of the So.
ciety for the Amelioration of the Condition OF the
Poor. whose headquarters are in Cooper Union.
His salary was not much at first, but later the
congregation agreed to give him So, 800 a year.
That is HE salary now, About a year ago
troubles arose between pastor and people, and
these troubles eliminated in tho action brought
by Close.
In his complaint Close recites that Kjelgaard,
although he draws a salary of 81, 800 as pastor
of the church, the work Of the pastor
Is really done by an assistant, q
nephew of Kjelgaard of the name of
F, 8. Bernaud, to whom Kjelgaard pays $50.
This arrangement, Close AYERS, enables KEEL.
gard to hold his 81, 200 Job as superintendent
OF the charitable organization. Close further
alleges that on Oct. IS. 1897, Kjelgaard, Hes
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
The Champion sLusr Killer.

BINGHAMToN. Nov. oO.-The Rev. +. NJ. Spoon.
er of Mount Upton has earned the reputation of
being the champion skunk killer. He has a
record of despatching forty six during the past
week. The reverend gentleman does not use
firearms 10 kill the little skunks, as that would
injure their pelts, which are worth from 70 cents
himself with a club. The supply of skInks this
year in this vicinity is unusually large; in fact,
so many. were never seen before. They are a
use traps TO capture them. In tho case of the
Rev. MIR. Spooner IL has become u settled bust
ness. He gets about $500 - year only Tor preach.
ing, and IL 10 said that his skunk business will
double that amount.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
LABOR TYRANNY DENOUNCED.
Judge White ON the Methods Used 10 Cripple
the ne Arnitt Coai Company.

PTTTsBURG. Nov. 20.-Judge ]. w. f. White
to-day granted a permanent injunction restrain.
ing the directors Of the Department Of Public
Works from roadvertising for bids to supply the
city pumping station with coal. The directors
had awarded the contract to the New York and
Cleveland Gas Coal Company. w. p. De Armitt,
President, but the City Council, at the instance
of q number Of labor leaders, disapproved the
award and ordered the directors to readvertise
for bids.
In his order Judge White says:
The, evidence shows that they. certain labor
leadersl were influenced by n spirit of revenge
toward the coal company, or the President of It,
because Of the failure last summer during the
strike, by intimidation and unlawful means, to
induce the miners in tho mines of the com.
pany to quit work and thus break down
their business. One argument they used before
the committee and Council was that the com
pany might not be able, because of the strike,
to furnish the coal during the period of this
contract. In other words, that labor leaders
and organizations would continue the fight
against this company, and. might possibly so
cripple 1t that 1t might not be able to fulfil its
contract. 1t required unblushing effrontery to
make such an argument to intelligent men,"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
SHOT BY HIS STEPSON.
A 18.Year.Old Boy lmterferes in n Quarrl
Retween His stepfather ana Mother.

A 18-Year.Old Boy lnterferes I'm n Quarrel
Between His stepfather and Mother.
ROCHESTER,, Nov. 2o.-wesley Webb, a 16-
year-old lad, late yesterday afternoon shot his
stepfather. Wesley is a sensitive. passionate
youth. Some time ago his mother. a widow.
married John Smith. a Mendon farmer. Step
son and stepfather did not get along well to-
gether. Shortly before supper yesterday Smith
and his wife quarrellcd over a trivial matter.
The argument became heated and young Webb
interfered. but was promptly knocked down by
his stepfather.
The boy then drew a revolver and fred. the
bullet taking effect in Smiths right arm. Smith
ing. fired twice, one bullet striking Smith in the
fleshy part Of the neck. The stepfather sank To
the floor and the boy fed. A warrant hes been
issued for Webb's arrest, and n deputy is look
ing for him.. Smith is at the Hahnemann Hos
pital in this city. 1t is not thought that his
wounds will prove fatal.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
WE1Ls-FARGo CAR BURNED.
1t wal Loaded with Valuable Merchandis
Destined for Points in Ohio.

1t was Loaded with Valuable Merchandise
Destined for Points In Ohio.
BINGHAMToN. Nov. 20.-Early this morning q
Wells.Fargo Express car was discovered to DO
on fire as the train was coming into this city.
The flames were famed into a furious blaze by
tho motion of the train. which was behind time
and running at q high rate of speed. So fast did
the fire burn that it was impossible to get the
car near the city where the fire companies could
get at 1t. and 1t was accordingly detached
near the State Hospital, and the fire depart
ment of that institution was called out
to quench the blaze. AS their hose would not
reach the car, some hose was furnished from
this city. The car was sealed and not to be
opened until it had reached Salamanca 1t was
loaded with valuable merchandise for points in
Ohio. The loss Is estimated at $15, 900, besides
the car. which was destroyed.
The articles that were saved were removed 10
n barn. Rolls of valuable silks and dress goods
were piled in a Heterogeneous mass with silver:
ware, jewelry, bicycle supplies, ~coffees. teas. and
many other articles. L. J. Grove. superintend-
ent of this division Of the company, is asserting
the goods, and the barn presents the appear
ance of a veritable curiosity shop.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
THEY REFUSE TO FIGHT.
apanish Volunteers Won't fake the Fisia-Po
lice Force Compelled to 1seuirn.

apauish voluntosrs Won't Take the Pisia-Po.
lice Force Compelled to ReuiEn.
HAVANA. Nov. 20, via Key west.-The Span.
fish volunteers in Havana have refused to take
the field. and so have the "bomberos" or armed
nremen Of Havana.
A Spanish convoy was captured by the insur-
gents between Manzanilloi and veguitas in San.
tiago de Cuba province. The engagement was
very spirited and the SparSards beh~aved;brave-
~. but they were ~overbowered after several
hours, fighting and. left on the field twenty
FIVE killed and forty.four wounded.
Near Esperanza, Santa Clara province, the
Spanish forces of Luzon were dispersed by dyna-
mite, bombs and retreated TO the town panic
stricken.
There is great apprehension here in Govern
ment circles about Senior Canalejas. and the
report WAS current late In the evening that he Is
writing to Spain very pessimistic Impressions,
declaring that Cuba 10 lost to the Spanish crown.
and that American Intervention Is unavoidable.
Tho whole police force Of tho city of Havana
was compelled to-day to resign by Gen. Blanco
and the new Governor, Senior Bruzon.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
woRK OF TRAIN wRECKERs.
The Western Fast PASSENGER Train on the Erie
Thrown from the Track.

S~LoATsBuRG, n. ", Nov. 20.-The train
wrcckcrs who made an attempt on Sunday
night last to wreck tho fast Western passenger
train No. 3 on the Erie Railroad by placing fish
plates upon the track, and. on failing. piled ties
in front of a freight train, had better success
from the fish plates along one rail, and pulled
enough spikes TO throw the rail out Of line three
inches. The fast Western freight, No. 70,
struck the rail. and the engine and two cars
leaped across on the east-bound TRACKS. Engi-
neer Crissman jumped and escaped, but Fire
hands who live in shantics near by were sum
moned, and the work of clearing up the tracks
reached their quarters they found that they had
all been ransacked AID their savings stolen.
One man lost $500. Railroad men believe that
laden east. bound Wells Fargo train into the
wreck, but II was running three hours late and
eSpADp1
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
MARQUIS OF MoNroRo VERY III.

He IL Not Likely to Recover-senor CannIeIas
Hunting for Facts.
HAVANA, Nov. 20.-The Marquis OF Montoro,
q well.known leader of the Autonomists here. is
dangerously i'll. Though he was better this
morning than last night, his physicians say
there 10 little hope of his recovery.
Tho schooner Maria Julia was wrecked this
morning near Jaruco, Havana province, five
persons being drowned, three of them passengers
from Havana.
is interviewing prominent persons in the capital.
He called to-day on the Autonomist newspaper
EI Pals and held n long conference with its
editor, Senior Del Monte. Sehor Canalejas has
not expressed any opinion as yet and Is chary
about saying what he thinks.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
suicide Caused BY Neuralgia.

BOSTON, Nov. 20.-Oscar GOwing. Ii wealthy
shirt manufacturer whose place Of business was
at 352 Washington street for thirty years,
hanged himself yesterday in his apartments at
100 Mount Vernon street. lie was % years old
and a bachelor. He had been n sufferer for u
long time from neuralgia. lie left the following
note:
| know l shall never get well; my Hes work ia
done. l have made provisions for my friends 10 start
them Ia business. Have my body taken Ia an under.
takers ana from there to Forest HIS Cemetery. there
10 be- cremated al once. Ny ashes | wish to be scat
tered 10 the winds. Good by, Love % my friendS.
OSCAR GOwIN0,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
Former Assemblyman Douglass or Syracuse Ar
rested for Wife Beating.

TROY, Nov. 2O.-William o. Douglass. a for
mer Assemblyman from Syracuse. was lodged
in jail here tonight on a charge of wife beating.
Drink is the cause of his downfall. Douglass
and his wife went to Albany some time ago. He
had lost his business and all social influence in
Syracuse.
Mrs. Douglass sought and found employment,
and for some time supported her husband.
went to her home, Rensselaer, county. Douglass
followed her there and beat her. She retaliated
been taken to the County Jail Detective Con.
nors of Albany came here with a warrant for his
arrest on a charge OF petit larceny. Douglass
will be arraigne on Monday on charges OF as.
eault and petit larceny.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
SHERIFF DUNN's TERM TWO YEARS.

But if the Term IL Short the Pay Is Uncoms
monty Good.
1t Is not generally known that the term Of
sheriff-elect DUN of this county will DO for
two years only. Tho terms of the Register,
County Clerk, and District Attorney were fixed
at four years by law SO as to have the election of
those officers occur at the same time with the
election Of city officers. The term of the Sheriff,
by chapter 1888 of the Laws of 1896 fixed at two
years: The act of this year, which gives TO tho
Sheriff half the fees collected by his office as
some compensation for the shortness of the
term.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21

p. M,-li2o. 90 Great Jones street. Moses Phillip a
Co, damage $40; 4:i0. $40 East Twenty'eighth
street, Jackson Bros, damage 90; 5;lb. Park avenue
avenue, no damage; 7;2O, Oh Ann street. Sellew n Co,
danaRe trining, Si45, oOS Lexington avenue Jame'
Downing. damage sligDti Siju, . MinettA lane James
OoopeF, uAniAge S0v,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
BIG GIRL RoBs LITTLE ONE.
snatched y 90 Note from the Hand or . Five
Tear-Old In the Street.

BHutCHeu y % Nut6 o n HHuuU 7 . FIVO.
Hear-Old In the Street.
Eta Hughes, 8 years old. who said she lived
in 135th street. near Fifth avenue, and another
little girl,who was crying 30 hard that she could
not talk, complained to Policeman HILTON Of
the West 125th street station last night that Q
big girl had stolen u 50 note from Eta.
The two little girls were on an crrand for
Etta's mother when they stopped to look at o
stereopticon show on the southeast corner of
Seventh avenue and 125th street.
Eta had the $2 note in her hand when a girl
tence Of fastening Etta's coat, snatched the
money and ran. The police are watching out
for the 16-year-old girl.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
The Return or saeiba.

Nine. Melba. who will head the Damrosch-
Ellis Opera Company this season. arrived yes.
terday by the Lucania in the best of health.
She closed a very successful concert tour
through England and Scotland the night before
she sailed. Her company included Nine. Belle
Cole, Mr.. Ben Davies and other well-known
artists. Nine. Melba will sing In Faust" with
the French tenor hos on the opening night Of
the opera season in Philadelphia, Nov. 90.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
LONDON,S GREAT FIRE.
IN BuildinEs B~urned-Many Merchants Were
Not HuauFed.

Rot HahuFed.
~ Special Gable Despatch to THE Sun.
LONDON. Nov. 20.-The official figures show
that III buildings were destroyed in yesterdays
fire. The area burned over is two acres.
1t is still impossible, and will be for some time
to come, to accurately estimate the loss by the
fire. The estimates which nave up to this time
been given by different authorities vary from
$40, 600. 900 to SAC. OOO. 900. The fremen have
been busy oil day pouring tons OF water upon
theruins. which are still full Pf Gre. More than
800 firms which were burned out yesterday are
seeking new quarters to-day. Many of TIT mer-
chants who were sufferers were not insured.
owing to the bad repute of the district and the
consequent high premiums demanded by the
comnanies.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
FOR ANOTHER EyRoLLMENE
Yersancs and sIeCOok Threaten = New Repub-
lican Organization

TTUUH VTEuUTEWTTUUs
At a conference of enrolled Republicans who
supported Seth low for Mayor, held at the Plaza
Republican Club in the Twcnty-ninth Assembly
district on Friday night, u committee COM
posed Of James Yereance, Arson G.. McCook,
well was appointed to confer with other
Republicans throughout the city with a view
to securing a new general enrolment Of Re
ance is the member OF the Republican
County CommittsS who, at the mesllng OF
resolution providing for the purging of the
rolls by n committee headed. By ten. McCook.
Mr.. Ycreancc said last night that unless the
present organization consents to have a re-en-
rollment the movement will be Tor a new Itepub-
lican county organization.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
CARS ROLL DOWN AN EMBANKMENE.
Three Men Mortally Hurt ana y Score Injured
Seriously or . Coal Railroad.

BRAZIL. Ind, Nov. 2O.-Three men were
mortally hurt and q score seriously injured by
an accident on the Chicago and Indiana Coal
Railroad last evening near Coal Bluff. Tho
miners train on its homeward journey, and
carrying about 500 miners. was wrecked.
the embankment, and lodged at the bottom
in a ditch filled with water to the depth of
several feet. The fatally injured are: Asbury
Rummel. check weIghman at the Zeller & Nc
Clellan Coal Company's mine; Gus Reubert and
Guy Alderman.
The accident was caused by the trains run.
ming over a horse.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-21
; IA ING SPAIN IN HER OWN COIN.
~ She Wanted Nothing to DO with Italy. aud New
Hta!y Wants Nothing TO DO with Her.


Hta!y Wants Nothing to DO with Her.
? Special Gable Despatoh to THE Sun.
LONDON, Nov. 20.-A semi.oficial news agen-
cy at Rome makes the interesting statement
that last year Germany opened negotiations
with Madrid with a view to inducing Spain to
enter the Triple Alliance. Spain was perfectly
willing to join with Austria and Germany in
the closest bonds, but fatty refused to have
anything to do with Italy. the power which had
despoiled the Church and insulted the Pope,
Consequently, the negotiations came to moth
ing.
Recently. however. says .the agency, Spain,
finding herself in imminent danger of war with
the United States, made now proposals to Ger
many and Austria, and oven offered to treat
with Italy. Emperor William talked the mat
ter over with King Humbert, when in HON.
burg, but the Italian sovereign declined en-
phatically to have'anythinR to do with Spain as
an ally, and there the matter ended.
The story is by no means SO preposterous.