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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
THE TRANSIT BUILDING.

DESCRIPTION OF OFFICE STRUCTURE TO BE
ERECTED FOR JOSEPH MILBANK.
The Transit Building, which is 10 be erected for
Joseph Mbank Nos 3 and East Forty-second-
st. is to be ten stories high and in the French clas
sic style On the first story will be stores.
large and small The feature the large store
is to be large octagonal bay window with pro-
jecting hood or prism glass. This will be
lighted by large interior court The part of
the is divided into stories giving private
offices and a cash department.
The westerly store will have large projecting
bay at the front, and will be lighted by the rear
windows and by a skylight, about IL by 20 feet. in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20

bring the extreme prices From Pine-st. up Broad
way rentals decrease, the rate square foot av-
eraging from 81 to 81. The next highest rents TO
those of Wall-st. obtained from offices in Mas
sau-st. south of Maiden Lane where prices run as
high sometimes IS and $40 a square foot. Fifth
ave office rentals generally lower than those In
the downtown section. In the modern elevator
office buildings in Fifth-ave., from Eighteenth TO
Twenty-third St, 81 and 81 square foot is asked
and in q much s.. The movement
uptown has thrown a large number of dwelling
houses into the hands of men who rent them as
offices and I'm the converted buildings even lower
rentals prevail when the tenants take leases for a
year or more. Just off the avenue in the side
streets a considerable reduction is found.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
POSTMA STER MISSING; FOUL PLAY FEARED

Paterson. n. J., May 19-Charles W. Thompson,
postmaster of West Milford. has been missing for
three weeks and 1t is feared that he has met with
foul play.
Three weeks ago Thompson left West Milford for
New-York to purchase supplies for his country
store. He had $500 when he left, and next day
shipment of goods received at the store. Elk
Assemblynan Thomas Vreeland and James Niblo
his bondsmen, have assumed charge of the post
office. Thompson's accounts are believed to be in
perfect shape
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
KILLED BY GRASPING A LIVE WIRE.

Oscar Hansen. painter, while standing an
improvsed scaffoding beneath the elevated station
at De Kalb-ave and Grand-st., Brooklyn, yester-
day. suddenly slipped and in falling grabbed live
electric wire under the structure. His companions
heard his outcry and then Hansens body
stiffen and fall the When an ambu-
lance arrived the dead. The ambulance
sur geon said that death probably instantane-
GUS. His body, by permission of the Coroner was
taken to his home in Gates
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
MARKED CARDS.
From The Waverly Magazine.

] "
Henry Lord de Ros was said to be of
the best whist players in England. Subsequently.
however, discovered that he was in the
habit aiding his skill by marking with his nails
the high honor cards OF the pack so that he might
observe to whom they were dealt During the
dal which followed this discovery a would be wit
who had been admitted his acquaint nee
dra wled
81 would leave my card his house but fear
he would mark IT."
That would depend" remarked q gentleman
present. ION whether he considered a high honor"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20

Houston, Tex. May ia dispatch from Austin
says that telegram received here
tonight confirming the reports of the existence
of the bubonic plague San Francisco, DR.. Blunt
declared absolute quarantine against San Fran
cisco, and stationed inspectors at Ell Paso and
Texarkana. No passengers goods of any kind
Will be admitted into the State from San Fran
cis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20

APARTMENT HOUSE ON NEW STYLE.
The building pictured herewith. and now being
erected the southeast corner of Broadway and
Ninety -second-st. from plans by George F. Pelham
represents departure from the conventional
apartment house architecture. 1t will contain
forty-two apartments. arranged in suites of five.
seven. eight and nine rooms and every window in
the building will have direct outside exposure
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
WOMEN ALLEGED FLAT ROBBERS.
MAN AND WIFE AND ANOTHER COUPLE AR
RESTED BY THE POLICE.

John H. Stedman. his wife. Annie Stedman
Marion Weston and William Thompson, all of No.
225 West Sixteenth-st., arrested shortly be-
fore midnight, charged with robbing the apart
ments of Jennie Lawrence, at No 245 West Thirty
seventh-st-. the night of March 81. The articles
stolen pocketbook containing 50. four satin
skirts silk skirts two petticoats and coat
and waistcoat. The police last night recovered the
clothing. The prisoners were locked up in the
West Twentieth-st station.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
BARD PENDLEToN scHENcK DEAD.
PASSED AWAY IN BRITISH MILITARY HOSPITAL
IN SOUTH AFRICA.

An announcement Of the death Of Bard Pendle-
ton Schenck on March 10 at the British Military
Hospital at Mochudi Bechuanaland, South Africa,
made yesterday.
Bard Pendleton Schenck well known in this
city. He a of the late Rev. DR.. Noah Hunt
Schenck, rector of St AIMS Church. Brooklyn, and
thirty-fve years old. He brother of
SpotsWood d. Schenck, of No 60 West Twelfth
ST and Elliott Schenck, the musician. He was
also a brother-in-law Of R. Fulton Cutting and
related ex-senator PendIeton He leaves,
besides two brothers, two maiden sisters who live
in this city.
Mr.. Schenck born in Baltimore May s.,
1864 He graduated from the United States
Military Academy June Il, 1887. and became
second lieutenant of the 18th Infantry the same
date. Several months later he assigned to the
18th Infantry
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
A USE FOR FAMILY SKELETONS.

frOm The Denver Post.
A st. Louis burglar became frightened at a
skeleton in a doctors house the other night and
hastily fed before securing the rich booty he was
AFTER: AS a safeguard in these burglarious DAYS
IL might be well for all families TO leave their
closet doors open at night.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
JUDGE COMING BUYS PROPERTY.

Emma c. Doughty yesterday transferred TO Judg
Rufus b. Cowing the property No. 1856 East Sew
enty-eighth-st 16,sxlO22. for a consideration o.
SIS. 500
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
UNBALANCED.
Chicago Tribune

from The Chicago Tribune.
haven't heard anything from Slankins for a
toIs ume He went out West and got to be
county treasurer or something OF that kind. How
was ne getting along last accounts?"
ance." 1850 '--NN' N'N- ooi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20

OFFICIAL REPORT OF SURGENO-GENERA
HOW THE DISEASE HAS BEEN FOLLOWED UP
Washington. May 1s.-Surgeon-General Wyman
tonight gave out the following in regard to the
plague situation at San Francisco:
March s. Surgeon Kinyoun reported a suspicious
of death in Chinatown and March IL that he
had found the plague bacillus. April q another
case occurred, verified by meteorological exanina-
ton and SO reported May 2 May 10 there were
deaths from plague May 16 another
reported. There have been six deaths. and SO far
known the disease has appeared only among
the Chinese. The Bureau has sent to San Francisco
about $500 bottles of Haffkine preventive. and is
still forwarding It, 1t has also sent a quantity of
the curative Inspectors have been stationed
the railroad crossings of the State and the rail-
road companies have been instructed to refuse the
sale Of tickets to Chinese passengers. train in
spection service has been ordered. The interstate
quarantine law of March o. $780, will be enforced.
The Bureau will operate through Surgeon Kin
youn who will cooperate with the State and local
boards of health. Special apparatus has been sent
to San Francisco and four additional commits
stoned medical officers have been report to
Surgeon Kinyoun. Surgeon Kinyoun reports to-
night that difficulty has been experienced in the
house house inspection, but believes the obstacles
be overcome IN short time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
BUILDING RECORDS FOR April.

The statistics received from the building depart
mens of the leading cities of the United States for
the month of April show marked decrease in
building operations in nearly every instance. says
THE Construction News in its issue OF May 10.
the average deficit amounting to about 50 per
cent. making the operations of the last month
about on par with those OF April. lSsS Ihere Is
tendency TO ascribe the deficit of last month 70
the labor difficulties. but this hardly be main
tanned. for the reason that strikes IN the building
trades have become annual occurrences under the
present industrial system. though IL can perhaps
be said that the strikes this year have been more
severe and widespread. The most important us-
duction 10 be made from the building records lor
April and the preceding months is that folloWlhs
custom. investors hesitating about oulldihs
with materials their present level After l. mas
been evident tina. there is To be no important ser
eral decline in materials building VIII De resumes
substantial basis -,
The following are the figures for the building
operations In New York and Brooklyn;
PEI
$50 cent
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
W. d. MORGAN OPENS AN OFFICE.

W. u. Morgan. for many years associated with
Messrs II. n. Cammann Il Co. has opened an
office at No. LSS5 Amsterdam-ave.. where he viii
devote his entire time TO the selling and rentin6
OF Washington Heights property.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
PLAGUE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
| THERE HAVE BEEN SIX DEATHS FROM THE
DREAD DISEASE IN THREE MONTHS

DREAD DISEASE IN THREE MONTHS.
San Francisco May 1a-The Board of Health has
adopted resolution declaring that bubonic plague
exists In San Francisco The health authorities
say that while there no living cases here there
have been six deaths in the last three months and
they have decided to take precautions against the
development and spread of the disease
force of physicians to-day went through China
town to treat Chinese with Hafkine prophylactic
as preventive against the plague
The members of the Board of Health say that
there is absolutely danger Of the development
the spread OF the disease at San Francisco, but
at the same time they do not propose to take any
chances and il is their duty to take precautions
When it became known in Chinatown that the
Board of Health had determined TO inoculate the
residents Of the Chinese section, groups of Chinese
gathered every corner and denounced the action
OF the Board outrageous. Some of the more
wealthy of the indignant Chinese hurried their
families into hacks and other vehicles in the at
tempt send them out of the district: Some sue
fhey we're Stopped BY the police Others attempted
to leave the ;ity on trains Several merchants en-
Maru which sailed for the Orient to-day, but there
was no room for them on the steamer
The doctors detailed to inoculate the Chinese are
to have a very hard time of 1t. every possible OBJ
The Consu-General is co-operating with the Board
STATIONS among the S chinese nave caused him to
keep quiet in the matter. He has urged his people
Yesterday a small mob surrounded the consulate
Saa poce bsnf h dee to- m
consulate
DR.. Buckley a member of the Board of Health.
stated to-day that there have been no deaths
result of NEGOTIATIONS. Dr. Buckley stated that
less the Chinese submit to the operations corps
of police or soldiers will surround Chinatown, and
tihcate will be allowed to pass through the lines
Dr. Buckley stated that while the heads of the Six
Companies seemed willing to cooperate with the
Board. far their efforts to influence their
trymen had not proved a success
Chicago, May 19.-Assstant Surgeon A. S. Lloyd
Of the United States Marine Hospital here, has
been ordered to San Francisco to assist in the
of preventing the spread of the bubonic plague.
Assistant Surgeon Amesse, Of Detroit. It Is an
nounced, has left Detroit for Honolulu similar
mission.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-20
New-York Csoroushs

New-York (boroughs
OF Manhattan and -.
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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-08-24

tor. A list of the men who have been
nominated by the fusion forces of
Kansas for the legislature will show
that the contract entered into between
the Democratic and so-called Popu-
list leaders to. nominate a Democrat
instead of Populist for United States
Senator has been made and the candi-
dates have been nominated with this
in view. If the Republicans do not
carry the legislative ticket tie new
legislature will he composed of the
members who are in entire sympathy
with the scheme to deliver Populism
to Democracy and the election of a
Democrat to the United States Senate
is assured.
Mr.. Ridgely, the chairman of the
Populist State Central committee
recognizes that this sale and delivery
of the Populist party does not meet
with the appreciation of many of the
old members of the party, and they
are refusing to be sold into the camp
of their old enemy. They are return
ing to the Republican party by the
thousands, and to check this Mr.
Ridgely issues an address calling
upon the Populists to stand by the
fusion deal made at Fort Scott" Why
should the Populists who has no par
or voice in making that deal stand by
it? Why should they be parties NTH
sale of principles they have advocated
that political leaders and Office seek
ers should be benefited? They hav,
been sold out but Mr.. Breidenthal anC
Mr.. Hoffman and other leaders of thu
party who made the deal will find OF
election day that they can not delive
the goods, The voters will insis
upon their right to elect of their owl
free will where they will make thei
political home.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-08-24
marking: IF we had good luck all the
time we would,get rich too fast"
HOw's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
f. j. Cheney q Co., Props, Toledo, O.
We, the undersigned, have known
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West & Truax, Wholesale Druggists,
Toledo, O. Walding, Kinnan & Mary
in, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system. Price,
Toe. per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Testimonials free.
Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-08-24
WHICH TELLS THE TRUTHY
Chicago Inter-Ocean

tnltuAb lNltI-DNthhs
w. j. Bryan said in his Indian
speech; "The Republican party
today Is responsible for every drop
of blood drawn from an American
soldier in the Philippine Islands or
drawn by an American soldier"
That is the assertion of the man
safe in the rear. What do the men on
the firing line say?
Major Arlington U. Belts, writing
on July from Tabaco, Luzon, to
Henry Tracy of Toledo, Ohio says
that if he and every other soldier
could be at home in November they
would vote for that party which was
not afraid to accept responsibility"
because they know that ballots for
Mckinley and Roosevelt ''would do
more to put down this rebellion than
Krag bullets"
Major Belts incloses a rebel circular
that has been posted at Tabaco. This
circular gives the result of straw
ballot taken by a Massachusetts
copperhead journal to prove that the
American people stand two to one in
favor of Tagal independence 1t
recites that at great meetings and
banquets in New York and Chicago
Aguinaldo was entitled one of the
worlds true heroes" 1t adds that
''the great Democrat, DR., Bryan, is
assured that he will be President, and
then our happy hours begin" Its
concluding threat, that the Filipinos
who favor American rule care only
raising their own scaffold," indicates
the chief joys of the "happy hours"
expected from Mr.. Bryan's policy.
Tabaco is in the extreme southeast
of Luzon, is a thriving hemp port,
and has about 10000 inhabitants.
"At the breaking out of the war, "
writes Major Belts, ''the people voted
not to defend the city against the
Americans. Early in the year the
Tagals came down, and on the
strength of this circular raised 5000
men. To leave here now would mean
the death of every Filipino who had
dared to be friendly to the Americans
If it was not for the assistance this
rebellion receives from the United
States it would quickly end. Every
drop of blood, both American anG
Filipino, spilled here at Tabaco, car
be laid to that circular, the founda
ton of which was taken from Ameri
can newspapers. So much to the
credit of our countrymen at home"
Lieutenant Oliver p. Robinson, {
Democrat, writes to a relative at Car
bondale, H.; "Many a poor boy
owes his death to the clamoring poll
ticians at home. If they THE Bryan
ties would only close their mouths
1t is too bad that we are made to suf
fer at the hands of our fellow citi
zens."
And the heroic Lawton wrote on tn,
brink of his opening grave; ''If an
shot by a Filipino bullet it might al
we'll come from one of my own men
because l know that the continuance
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-08-24

tears in his eyes. That is the kind of
devotion John j Ingalls, inspired.
Everybody in Kansas knows ingalls,
the orator. No other Kansas man
possessed so wonderful vocabulary,
or has given so many illustrations of
the beauty and strength of the English
language. But only those who knew
him intimately appreciated fully this
wonderful requirement, for his private
conversation was often more eloquent
and always more witty and piquant
than his public speech. 1t was partly
this. and partly his unassuming and
most engaging manners, particularly
toward women, that made him a
charming host and a delightful guest.
He was the idol of his wife and chill
dren. andno one who had ever enter
tanned or been entertained by him,
could find it in his heart TO speak dis
paragingly of him, however much he
he might afterwards disagree with his
public utterances.
There are some men whom one has
known all his life whose death it Is
hard to realize. Noble Prentis was
one of there Ingalls, is another. He
has so long been a part of Kansas
one of "our things" that it is nearl!
as hard to think of him dead as /
would be to imagine change in thu
air or the landscape or any other nat
ural and permanent feature of thu
State.
But sin the democracy of the grav
all men are equal" Death came Il
him. a it as it had come to others AM
must come to all. And he lay on hi
own deathbed as calm and unperturbe,
as he had stood by the deathbed o
others, a philosopher in death as h
had been in life. Born and bred afte
the strictest sect of the Puritans, h
was never able to get quite away fror
the faith of his fathers, although dun
ing most of his life he would probabl
have been classed as an agnostic. Bu
in the hour of his death it was to tn
hope and the belief of his childhoo
that his mind turned and his last cor
nected and conscious utterance wa
the Lords Prayer.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-08-24

of fighting here is due to reports sent
ut from America"
Such is the testimony of the men on
the firing line, living and dead,
against the Bryauite fire from tie
rear. The assertion of the politician,
touring the country in palace cars
after votes, is given the lie dir
by the man risking his life in Luz, N =
iungles to uphold American rights on
American soil. Which do the Ameri.
can people believe? Which speaks
the penetrating truth, and which the
shutting falsehoOd
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-08-24
JOHN JAMES INGALLS,.

AS a rule Kansas men have a good
many traits or characteristics in
common. This is particularly true of
Kansas public men. They all talk
what we call the "Kansas language, "
they all dress about alike, and when
you know their politics you may guess
pretty accurately what they will think
about any given matter.
But not any of this applies to John
J. Ingalls,, who now lies dead at Atch-
ison. From the moment when he came,
a boy of twenty-four, to the now de-
serted and all but forgotten town of
Sumner, all through the stormy years,
until the silvered head dropped back
upon the pillows and the wonderful
eyes closed forever, this man has had
no single trait in common with the
men among whom he lived and moved
and had his being. He did not look
like any other man in Kansas,-or on
earth for the matter of that, he did
not dress like any other man, he did
not view things from the standpoilt
of the ordinary man, and above all he
did not talk the language of the ordi-
nary man. In every feature, in every
natural and acquired characteristic,
he was absolutely unique, the most
marked and striking individuality that
ever lived, or is ever likely to live, in
Kansas.
In all Kansas history no man has
been more eXtravagantly praised and
more passionately denounced than
Ingalls,. That he deserved the praise
more nearly than he did the denuncia-
tion may be believed from the fact that
with the single exception of Jim Lane
no Kansas man ever had so devoted a
personal following. During the years
of his ascendancy in Kansas politics
his hold upon the people was some.
thing phenomenal. He was never a
politician, in the usual sense of that
word. He had no machine and nc
manager He was not a mixer.
| Ana yet ne was supreme IN Kansas
politics for eighteen years by sheer
force of intellect and of his strange
extraordinary and facinating person
atty. BY the rank and file of hi,
party, his leadership was unquestioned
and their enthusiasm and admiration
for him simply knew no bounds
Nothing short of the sheer, unreason
ing fanaticism which characterized the
early days of the Farmers Alliance
could ever have shaken him from the
throne upon which the people hat
placed him. And to how many thoui
ands all over the State he remained
enthroned to the end. John ingalls,
has said great many things that
utterly disagree with" we remember
hearing an old man say one day, "bu
by heaven / would rather have his ole
bones in the Senate of the United
States than the live body of any othe
man in Kansas" And he said it Will