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The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-03
RACING AT COLUMB US.
SearchlightD Does Some Wonderful Work
Easily Wins 2:O4 Pace.

Columbus, O., Aug. 2.-This was q
day of great racing at the Columbus
Driving park. The weather was ideal
and the track very fast. Searchlight,
owned by j. H. Bronson of New Haven
Conn, paced the three fastest heats of
the season. :0314, 2:04A and 2:04-and
clipped a half second off his record.
The Maid created q sensation by win
ming the postponed 2:10 pace after fail
ing to finish better than third in any
one of the four heats paced Tuesday.
The Maid also established new world S
record for -year-old mares when
she paced the fifth heat in 2:05%. The
best previous record was 2:06A made
by The Maid at Cleveland last week.
The 2:04 pace, despite the fast time,
was won by Searchlight apparently
without effort. The gelding is undoubt-
edly the fastest PAGER out this season,
and he was almost a prohitibitve ia
vorite. His performance in the first
heat was sensational. There were six
starters Anaconda took the lead at
the start and went the first quarter at
almost two-minue gait. Searchlight
moved up slowly and it was a pretty
race all the way to the three-quarters,
with the two horses neck and neck af-
ter they passed the half, and Directly
close behind. AS the horses came into
the stretch Searchlght shot ahead and
passed under the wire two lengths ahead
of Anaconda. The official time by
quarters was :30A, 1:01, 1:29A, 2:0314
A protest was raised against the time,
it being claimed that the heat was
made in 2;O214. The official time indi-
Gated that the third quarter was made
in 2SA seconds. The protest was not
regarded, however. The gelding easily
won the two remaining heats. Sum
mary:
Summary: 2:1O Pace, Purse $1,000, post
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MORE BOGUS CHECKS PASSED.
Three Merchants Fell Easy Victims to
SwiMdler Yesterday.

Check swindlers have again visited
New Haven and piled their game sue
cessfuly. The trick was done yesterday
when well dressed man called at three
stores in the central part of the city and
at each one passed off worthless check
without any questions being asked. The
fellow first called at Fl. M Towers S
store on Congress avenue and ordered
some hay, oats and salt and ordered it
sent to Dol Columbus avenue. In pay
ment he rendered a check for $14.05,
purporting to have been drawn by Bas-
sett & Reeves in favor of &C. M. Cham
bers" The fellow received change out
of the check, and when some time later
the delivery wagon of the store was sent
to deliver the goods the number given
could not be found on Columbus ave-
nue..
1t was some time BEFORE Mr. Tower
began to suspect that he had been bun
coed, and when he began to investigate
he found that the check was no good.
A check for 81 was presented at l. T.
Benham's feed store, and one for $40 at
Konold's coal office. All the checks
were drawn in favor of &c. M. Cham
bers,' and were written in a fine hand.
At none of the stores where the checks
were passed could a good description of
the swindler be obtained and no arrests
in connection with the job had been
made yet early this morning.
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Newcastle, N. H, Aug. 2,-The Hotel
Wentworth tennis tournament, which
began yesterday, has progressed into
the first round of both singles and dou-
bles. This afternoon J. P. Paret of New
York beat James Terry, the old Yale
player. in straight sets. In the doubles
Haehett and Wright Won an easy match
from H. King and C. Adams Sum-
mary: Single, preliminary round, j. P.
Paret beat James Terry 6-2 7-5. First
round, E. P. Fischer beat w. c. Grant,
6-3. 81. Beals Wright beat j. c. Dav-
idson 6-1. 6-2. Doubles, preliminary
round, H. H. Hackett and Beals Wright
beat II. King and c. Adams 6-3, 63.
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THE M1ZET COMlTIITEE.
Every Member of Municipal Council
SubpOonued 10 Appear To-day.

New York, Aug. 2.-The most inter-
connection with the Mazet legislative
investigation committee was the fact
that every member of the municipal
council had been subpoenaed for to-
morrow for the purpose of determining
why the city legislative body should not
be abolished. Charles f. Dillon, of the
staff of Mr.. Moss, the attorney of the
MaZet committee attended the meeting
of the municipal assembly to-day and
served subpoenaes. With each subpoena
was this letter:
Assembly Investigation Committee:
Dear Sir: am much impressed with
the. reasons as published in the City
Record which are given for not adopt
ing the resolutions to issue bonds for
street paving. You will be subpoenaed
to appear before this committee on
Thursday at II a. m. and will be treated
fairly and courteously. The assembly
will be urged to convene and legislate
against the municipal assembly and |
desire that your side of the controver-
sy shall be correctly presented.
Crank Moss"
The swirl of forces at the investiga-
tion to-day was largely around the dock
department. The principal witness was
Charles F. Murphy, treasurer of the
dock board. Mr.. Murphy was on the
stand for nearly two hours and was
asked many questions by Mr. Moss as
to why the dredging firm of Morris q
Cummings had been awarded so many
contracts and why other firms interest
ed in the dredging work were unwilling
to compete in this work. Considerable
evidence was elected to show that the
Uvalde Asphalt company obtained the
lions share of the dock boards con-
tracts for asphalt pavements. Just be-
fore the adjournment until tomorrow
the question of influences and methods
connected with the changing OF the
motive power on different street rail-
roads came before the committee. Com
missioner of Highway Heating and
President Elias and Treasurer Beaver
of the Third avenue road were on the
witness stand. Nothing of Importance,
however, was elected from these wit
nesses before adjournment.
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STROUS SOUTHERN STORM.
One Town OH Gulf of Mexico Reported
Almost Completely Destroyed.

Almost Dps'Hcyeu.
Tallahassee, Fla, Aug. 2.-The town of
Carrabelle, prosperous port on the
Gulf of Mexico southwest of this city,
is reported almost completely destroyed
by a. terrific wind and rain storm which
ragged in this section all day yesterday
and until late last night. Many boats
in the harbor have been wrecked, and
most of the long wharf is gone, togeth-
er with large quantities of naval stores.
There are many rumors afioat here
tonight as to the loss of life. One mill
hand is known to have been drowned at
Mcintyre. One man was drowned at
st. Marks, but rumors place the loss of
life there are fifteen 1t is not believed
here that any lives were lost at the nu-
merous summer resorts, but reliable
news is unobtainable. A large relief
party will leave Tallahassee for the
stricken section tomorrow. The steam
er Crescent City, which is reported lost,
carried crew of eight, but the number
of passengers is not known. 1t is be-
lieved here tonight that she made the
Cattahoochee river safely.
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ROBBED OF OYER $4,000.
Representative lowering of Massachu-
setts While on Way to Brussels.

Brussels, Aug. 2.-William G. Lover
ing, member of the United States house
of Representatives from Massachusetts,
was robbed on Saturda last while on
his way from Ostend to this city. Mr..
Lowering while in the station at Ostend
was jostled by two men but took little
notice of the occurrence at the time.
On arriving in this city however, he
discovered that his pocketbook together
with $4,000, valuable papers and notes
for G35 sterling had disappeared Mr.
Lowering at once notified the authorities
and the matter was placed in the hands
of the police.
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A TORNADO HITS ELIZABETH
CUTS THROUGH VERY CENTER OF
NEW JERSEY TOWN.
Wind Blew Eighty Miles an Hour and
Cut swnth 1000 Feet Wide-Three
Church Towers Blown Down and
Scores of Dwellings UnrOofed-The
Loss VIII be $25O,OOO.

New York, Aug. 2.-Elizabeth, N j.,
was visited by a form of tornado this
afternoon which cut a swath about
1000 feet wide through the center of the
city, causing great damage to buildings
and property, but strange to say not a
person was killed and no one was seri-
ously injured. Those who were hurt
were only slightly injured. The wind
attained a velocity of eighty miles an
hour.
The path of the tornado included
many of the prominent church buildings
and other structures and no other course
could have been taken through the city
where the possibilities for damage were
as great. The towers of the First Pres
byterian, Third Presbyterian and Cen
trail Baptist churches were blown
down. The Lyceum theater was totally
unroofed Scores of dwellings in the path
OF the storm are without roofs Trees
and electric poles went down before the
gale. The roof was lifted off the three
story shirt factory in which several
score of girls and men were at work and
the building was blown five inches out
OF plumb. There was a panic in the
building, but all escaped injury. The
building will have to be torn down if it
does not fall.
The roof was lifted off the home of
Councilman Reinhardt and carried two
blocks and then crashed into another
house, breaking in the side. In manv
cases the wind, after unroofing houses,
whipped all the furniture out of the up
per stories and scattered it through the
streets and yards many blocks distant
AT the First Presbyterian church,
when the tower crashed down. it fell
upon the graves in the church yard.
This caused an upheaval of the earth
and brought to the surface skeletons
and skulls that had long lain under
ground Old trees in the church yard
were uprooted and these brought up in
their roots other skeletons and skulls
The streets are almost impossible with
debris.
1t took about ten minutes for the
tornado to pass through the city and
then the rain fell in torrents, flooding
everything, and adding to the damage
done by the wind. Just ahead of the
storm cloud itself there was a severe
shower of hail stones. Many persons
were slightly injured by being struck
by flying debris. The greatest excite
ment prevailed in the city. Fremen
and police were placed on duty In the
wrecked section. The police and fire
men say the loss will be close to $780,
900, but this estimate is believed by ex-
perts to be excessive, perhaps three
times the actual loss
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The st. AlOystus ExCursinn.

About eight hundred persons went on
the st. Aloysius 7. A. and B. excursion
to New York and Coney Island yester-
day. They returned about midnight
last night and reported that they had
spent very enjoyable day. The party
left New Haven on the iron steamboat
Sirius at $3.50 yesterday morning and
arrived at New York at 2:15 and at
Coney Island at 3:45. A number stayed
at New York and rejoined the party at
the boat at $40, when the Sirius touch
ed at New York on her way back to
New Haven.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-03
NInY he a Stolen WheeI

Yesterday morning man named
Schelmaier, who lives in Allingtown,
found & bicycle lying upon his front
porch. The wheel was a high grade
one, but the tire of the rear wheel was
punctured. The machine had not been
called for last evening and it is thought
to be a stolen one which was left on
the porch by the thief after the tire
was punctured. The wheel was taken
in charge by Policeman Malarigh and
is now at the town hall in West Ha-
ven.
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TRIAL or SPANISH OFFICERS.
Like Defense for Surrendcring Made
by All.

Madrid Aug AT to-day's sitting
of the court-martial before which Cen
erals Toral and Pareja are being tried
on charges of having surrendered to the
Americans before exhausting all means
of defense at their command, General
Parejas counsel read kilograms ex-
changed with the commander in-chief
showing that Guantanamo only capitu-
lated on orders from a superior officer
and that the town was without either
provisions or means of defense. The
other officers advanced a similar de-
fense. The judgment of the court mar
tial was deferred
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BOSTON TAKES PRECA UTTON.
Ships from Yellow Fever District to be
Held ut Quarantine.

Boston, Aug. 2.-On account ,of the
prevalence of yellow fever at the Sol
diers' home, Hampton, Va. the Boston
board of health issued the following or
der to-day: Until further orders all
vessels arriving at this port from any
port in Virginia or from Chesapeake
bay shall first stop at quarantine for
examination and no such vessel nor any
person on board such vessel shall pro-
ceed to the city until authorized to do
so by the port physicians"
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1STOR'S BRITISH CITIZENSHIP.
He Considers IT n Personal Matter-Wiu
Not See Reporters.

London, Aug. 2.-William Waldorf
since the official announcement yester"
day that he was naturalized a British
subject July 27 of this year, He abso-
lutely declines to see anyone, but has
authorized his agents to say he consid-
ers the matter purely personal, has no
explanation to offer, is quite prepared to
meet the attacks of the American news
papers and in conclusion that any inter
views purporting to come from him are
devoid of foundation.
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TENNIS TOURNAMENTS.
Results of Play at southampton, N. Y.
and Newcastle, N. III.

southampton, N. Y, Aug. 2.-The
scores in the tennis tournament this af-
ternoon resulted as follows: Champion
ship singles, first round, Malcolm D.
Whitman beat Owen Johnson 60, 6-1
60. Bob Huntington beat Malcolm M.
Chase by default. J. A. Allen beat P.
McKittrick 60, SO, 6-3. Leo E. Ware
beat Ferdinand Huntington So, ga, GA,
So. Alfred Goldman beat e, P. Larned
rs, &c, AS, Cd, SO. Dwight f. Davis
beat S. v, Skidmore 6-3, 6-3 6-2.
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Lynchfng Reported MT Oklahoma.

Ell Reno, o. T., Aug. 2.-It is reported
here that Taylor Kirk. who murdered
his sister here at Cordell on July 4, was
lynched last night at Cloud Chief, WASH
ita county, near the scene of the crime
Kirk escaped shortly after the murder
and was recaDtured in Texas after q
long chase,
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DIR. #. s. GREENE DEAD.
Aged Physician of East Hampton Ma.
tive of New Haven.

East Hampton, Mass, Aug 2.-Dr.
Francis S. Greene, aged seventy two
years, practicing physician In this
town for more than forty-five years,
died at his home early this morning
after several weeks illness with heart
trouble. He was a native of New Ha-
ven and a graduate of Yale Medical
school. He leaves a widow. During
the civil war DR.. Greene served with
Mcclellan in the Peninsular campaign
aa a surgeon.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-03
LIGHTNING STRIKES IN NEW4RK
Big Power House Destroyed-The Loss
Over $500, 900

New York, Aug. 2.-Lightning struck
the big power-house and car-house of
the South Orange avenue electric road
on South Orange avenue at Newark, N.
j., tonight The building caught fire
and was destroyed. The railroad Off
cials claim the Joss is over 100000. The
amount of insurance is not known.
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Anglo-Vehcznela Arbitration.

Paris. Aug. IN. Mallett-Prevost,
the secretary of the Anglo-Venezuelan
boundary commission, in his presenta-
tion of the Venezuelan case before that
body to-day devoted his argument to
showing that up to 1914 Spain had eff
fective control of the coast from the
Orinoco to the EseiquibO
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BRIDGE STEEL ron INDI4.
FOrty-three Carloads shipped by Penn-
sylvanin Steel Company.

Harrisburg, Pa, Aug. 2.-The Penn
sylvania Steel company to-day shipped
forty-three carloads of bridge and con-
struction steel to New York city and
from there it will be sent by ship to In
dia. 1t comprises one half of the iron
to be used in the building of the huge
viaduct across the Gokteik borge, about
eighty miles west of Mandalay. The re-
naming half will be shipped in the fall
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Saratoga, Aug. 2.-"Billy' Mcbride,
aged thirty-seven years of New Haven,
Conn, famous steeplechase Jockey and
trainer of running horses. died here to-
day of nervous prostration.
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I25O,00O In Gold for A IN erica.

Sydney, N. S. W., Aug 2.-The Amer
lean steamer Alameda, which sailed
from this port to-day for San Francis
co, has on board e25O,000 in gold.
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DIED IN NEW YORK.
Walter c. Berkelee of 13S Carlisle Street,
New Haven.

New York, Aug. 2.-Leonard E. Wood
of Bridgeport and Walter c. Berkelee
of 1873 Carlisle street, New Haven, came
here together several days ago. This
morning Wood called at the Jamaica
station house and said that he had lost
his friend The captain told him that
an old man answering the description
of Berkelee had been found wandering
around the village last night and had
been sent to the Jamaica hospital.
Wood went there and found that Berke-
lee had died there Of apoplexy.
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Paunoefote Returns so london.

London. Aug. 2-The British ambas-
sador to the United States Sir Julian
Pauncefote, who has been acting as
head of the British delegation at the
peace conference at The Hague, has ar
rived in London. He visited the foreign
office to-day and was congratulated by
the officials on his elevation TO the peer
age His title has not yet been an
nounced.
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Two Assassims of Heureauy Cnucnt

assassine of President Heureaux have
been captured and shot. The country is
entirely quiet and no movement of
troops, etc., are in progress
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Hans Knudsen up to three weeks ago
boarded at the house Of Mrs. Anna Mis-
sen, No. 150 Congress avenue. Then he
left suddenly, leaving his trunk behind
and saying that he had obtained po-
sition in Brooklyn. He also said that
he expected to return to New Haven
within two months and that in the
meantime he would write.
Mrs Nissen said that that was the
last she saw or heard of him up to last
evening. She described him as an hon
est hardworking man who always SEEM
ed to be trying to better his lot He
came to this country from Denmark
ten years ago, and for five of these
years had boarded with Mrs. Nissen.
He has worked successfully for the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad, the Seamless Rubber company
and as snlelter for the Stiles Metal
company at 24S Cedar street. This last
position he held up to the time of his
leaving for Brooklyn. Mrs. Nissen
states that he intended to engage in
the same work with a Brooklyn firm,
where he had been promised more mon
ey. He was not respondent when
leaving, she says, but seemed unusually
hopeful. His only relative in this
country is a married brother residing in
Port Chester.
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Taunton Man Killed by Trolley.

Taunton. Mass, Aug. 2.-George H.
Pratt, sixty years old, was struck and
killed by an electric car on the Provi-
dence and Taunton line this noon.
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Dnyfs Automobile Party.

Buffalo, Aug. 2.-The Davis automo-
bile party arrived here this afternoon
and will start for the west in the morn
ing.
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Hans X hudson Who Formerly Boarded
at $50 Congress Avenue.

New York, Aug. 2.-Workmen engag-
ed on the Osborne estate. one and one
half miles from Rye, N. Y, to-day dis
covered the body of u man hanging
from branch of tree From letters
found in the clothes the man is supposed
to have been Hans Knudsen, of 91a
Congress avenue New Haven, Conn. 1t
was evidently case of suicide. The
body hung from the tree by means of a
strap around the neck Of the man. The
body had evidently been hanging there
for at least two months.
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The New Haven directory says that
Walter G. Berkelee travelling sales
man, lives at 1873 Carlisle street.
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Expense of Re-Rigging

1Continued on Sixth Page.)
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1899-04-21

This issue of the Inter- Ocean is
an evidence of what the new plant
is capable of.doing on short notice.
The work of setting up the machin-
cry was not completed until Tues
day. In addition to the printing
and folding the Is pages Of the
Inter- ocean, the Free Press reg
ular edition and a four-page extra
were printed in this ofice-and
there was plenty Of time to spare.
For a splendidly equipped modern
printing Office the Inter Ocean has
no equal in the state outside OF
Fargo and Grand Forks, and it is
not excelled by any of the Offices
in either one Of those cities.
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1 CIRCULATING LIBRARY.
A Good Plan That Ought to Be
Adopted in Devils Lake.

Rev. FL. A. Sather, Of Grand
Forks, is in town for the purpose
Of establishing q branch Of the
Tarmelee circulating library. The
library consists Of a thousand vol
umes, divided into twenty sections
Of fifty volumes each. Each Sec
ton is a complete library Of itself,
being composed Of such a proper
ton Of this different class Of litera-
.ture, as will supply the needs Of
an average community; comprising
for instance, history, biography,
science, fiction, temperance, health
studies, etc., etc., forming q "cir-
cult" along one or two lines of
railway. Each town has one of
the twenty sections for three
months, then that town ships it on
to the next in the circuit, receiving
a fresh section from the town be-
fore it. In this way each town
receives new section every three
months for five years; at the ex-
piration of which time they will
have had all of the twenty sections
Of the library. Besides that each
subscriber can secure of the COM
panies at any time any book,
periodical or paper published at
lowest wholesale rates, become a
paid up subscriber to the Bulletin,
a high-grade quarterly magazine.
and get any kind Of music at a
very low rate.