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Passaic City record., 1900-06-09

Captain George w. Streeter, Of the
so-callcd Territory of Lake Michi-
gan" was arrested in Chicago on a
warrant charging him with conspiracy
to commit murder. Streeter's ''Mili-
tary Governor" William Niles, and
five followers who were arrested while
trying to hold a tract Of land on the
take front claimed by Captain Street.
er, were bound over to the Grand Jury
on charges of assault with intent to
commit murder. conspiracy, and un.
lawful assembly :
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
THE RUSH FOR CAPE ENOME
Outgoing Steamers Are Crowded
With Men Seeking Fortunes.
More Than $4,000 Gold Seekers Will
Have Reached There by the End of
July-A "Hot" Camp Expected.

Tacoma, Wash. (SpeciaD.-The first
and biggest part of the Cape Nome
rush is over, SO far as the departure
of 10000 gold seekers from Tacoma
and Seattle is concerned. The argo.
nauts have come from the four cor.
ners of the earth. Miners from far
away Australia have mingled with
their fellows from South America,
South Africa, and every mining State
and Territory of the Union on the
streets of the Puget Sound cities dur
ing the past month. They were all
headed the same way-for the golden
beaches and tundra stretching along
Bering Sea between Cape Nome and
Cape York.
Since April Is no less than fifty-two
parted from Puget Sound for the north
parted from uget Sound for the north
ern gold fields. These vessels have
taken northward just about 10000
men and women. Most of the steam
ships will make second and some of
them third trips. making. at 4 cOnser-
vative estimate, the number from Pu-
get Sound alone 10000 to $4,000. The
rush from California and down the
Yukon from Dawson will easily bring
the total number Of newcomers to be
landed at Nome during the next sixty
days to above $4,000.
1t goes without saying that Nome
will soon be the hottest" mining
camp ever seen in the United States
or American territory. The miners
themselves look forward to this.
Many of the oldtimers glory in the
fact that they are to participate in
one of the widest scrambles for
wealth that the world has ever seen.
Other things point in the same direc-
ton. By the middle of June Nome
will have enough resorts" in opera
tion to put Deadwood, Leadville or
Butte to the blush.
Ordinary supplies have, of course,
not been overlooked, else this vast
throng of humanity would soon be
foodless and shelterless. Lumber and
other building materials. food and
clothing supplies and mining appara-
tus to the value of over $5000,0O0
comprise the cargoes of the fifty-two
vessels already sailed. Seafaring
men are wondering what will result
when all these craft reach Nome and
attempt to unload their cargoes, both
human and freight, at one time,
through the heavy surf. That some
of the sailing vessels will be wrecked
is considered very probable. At least
the loss of some of their cargo is likely
on account of the grave difficulties ex-
perienced in unloading by means Of
lighters.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
State Tax on Corporations.

The State Board of Assessors has
filed in the office of Controller Han
cock a partial schedule of the tax as
sessments on miscellaneous corpora.
tions for the year 1000. Railroad and
canal companies are not in this class
The list filed embraces only about &C
per cent. of the companies to be taxed
this year, but as all the big trusts are
in the schedule it is estimated that the
assessments represent about 80 pei
cent. of all the taxes to be imposed
under this head. The whole number
of companies in the schedule is 37773
and their taxes aggregate 1854, 12601.
which is $653,000 more than the
amount of last years schedule.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09

Edward Durrell, a member of the
Township Committee of Florence, was
held up and robbed by three colored
men. He was proceeding along a lone
ly road when halted by them. He re
sisted, and for this was beaten severe
ly. The men were pursued by citizens
who responded to Mr.. DurrelFs calls
for help, and after long chase they
were taken. They proved to be Isaac
Harris, William Timbers and William
Courskey They were taken to the
Jail at Burlington under commitment
for the Grand Jury.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
THE GREAT DESTROYER.
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF lNTEMPERANcE.

Toll Quitting In-Sone of the Best and
Most Experienced Generals in the
World Declare That Grog is Inj jurious
to an Army's Morale.
Toll out the death knell of Liquor!
Ring In the temperance reign.
Toll out the woes of the drunkardl
Ring In his fair hopes again.
Tbll ont the griefs that are clinging
Fast to the swift-aying years!
Ring in the smiles that are hidden
Deep meath an ocean of tears.
Toll out the sorrows OF childhood
Caused by the horrors OF RTm
Toll out wants shadowy speetrpa,
Ring In the blessings OF home!
Toll out the sighs OF the pris'ne-l
Ring in his freedom aganl
Toll ont the sneer5 OF Isum's menialsl
Ring In the ballots of men.
Temperance Advocate.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09

Every single day should be to you II day
of royal discomfort. You never thought az
we'll as you ought to think. You never
planned as nobly as you ought to plan. You
never executed as we'll as you ought to exc
cute. Over the production OF the scholar,
over tins canvas Of the artist, over the task
OF tho landscape gardener, over the pruner's
knife, there ought to hover perpetually his
blessed ideal, telling him, ''Your work is poor
it should be better," SO that every day he
should lift himself higher and higher. with
an everlasting pursuit of hope which shall
only end in perfection when he reaches the
land beyond.-Henry Ward Beecher.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
TO STUDY WILD BIRDS.
University Professor Has New Method oi
Approaching Them.

Professor F. II. Her-ick, Of Western Ee.
serve University, has discovered a new
method OF approaching birds in n state al
nature. It Is an application OF certain
well-known principles OF animal psychol-
ogy, and makes it possible to study the
behavior OF wild birds at u distanes OF from
eighteen to twenty-seven inches and 20
focus a camera directly upon the bird Itself
and take pictures of great interest and
value. Professor Herrick expects to spend
the summer in New England experimenting
with wild birds.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
Killed Herself with a Shotgun.

Mrs. Mary Stevens, the wife of
farmer living near Franklin, COM
mitted suicide by shooting herself in
the neck with single-barrelled,
breech-loading shotgun. The charge
went through her neck, killing her i'll.
stantly.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
CARLOAD OF MORMON CONVERTS.
cwsnty-one Yonng Women Go West to
BE Married.


Denver, Col. fSpeciaD.-A carload Of
girls converted to Mormonism passed
through Denver to join the Utah fol-
lowers of Joseph Smith and Brigham
Young. They were in charge OF a
deacon and the deacon's wife. Some
we're eighteen and others were twenty
two years of age, but there was none
older than that. They came from
Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, and other val
icy States. All expect to marry rich
Mormons.
Miss Jennie Hodges, a Peoria wom-
an, speaking for the other briues-elect,
said: IF l find no one to suit me,
won't get married. Young men are
becoming Mormons and going to Utah
from our State all the time. There
are enough eligible men for all the
girls in the East"
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
Country Trolley Line Completed.

The first trolley car to run direcl
from Plainfeld to Elizabeth made the
trip few days ago. 1t was made pos
sible by the completion of the bridge
that crosses the tracks of the B. and 0
r. R. at East Crawford. The through
county line has been open for foui
weeks, but the passengers had to walk
across the 3. and o. tracks.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
John the Baptist, the greatest OF tbs

John the Baptist, the greatest Of the
prophets, gathered together the scattered
rays of Old Testament prediction into these
two sayings, which will be forever asso.
ciated with his name: 'Behold the Lamb Of
God, that taketh away the sins of the
world ~ and 'He shall baptizs you with
the Holy Ghost, and with fire." The first
is the gospel OF atonement; the second is
the gospel of regeneration, and both to-
gether give comprehensive summary Of
all that Jesns brings to man.-Wiliam NJ.
Taylor.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09

From June until August 1 the crews
of the New Jersey life-saving stations
VIII. be Off duty. The captains of the
stations remain on duty all the year,
When the men resume work their pay
will be increased So a month. They
now receive $50 month.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09

The French army has taken a hand in
the war against alcoholism. Although tha
great military organization has not de-
cided upon any united action in the mat
ter, certain eminent generals have given
an example that may be later followed by
the supreme heads OF the army. The steps
taken by these officers are in the direction
of restricting the privileges hitherto en-
ioyed by soldiers for obtaining liquor.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
A Polyga,nist Convicted.

John G. Graham, formerly postmas.
ter at Provo, Utah, who was removed
by President Mckinley because he
was living in polygamy, was convicted
by jury in Salt Lake Of unlawful
cohabitation.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
CASUALTIES IN THE PHILIPPINES.
Number of Officers and Men Killed and
Wounded During the War.


Washington, D. G. (SpeciaD. - Sec
:etary Root sent to the Senate a report
On the number Of soldiers who have
been killed and have died of wounds
in the Philippines.
The deaths in the Philippines, from
July /, 1898, to May "a, 1900, We're:
Regulars, SO officers and 920 men; vol
unteers, Al officers and S54 men. The
wounded were: Regulars, 81 officers
and I'll men; volunteers, Ills officers
and men.
The number Of insane soldiers ad-
mitted to the hospital at Washington
from the Philippines to May "a, 1900,
is: Regulars, At, and volunteers, 10.
of whom 10 have been discharged as
recovered, and Al still remain, one
discharged unimproved and one on a
visit from hospital.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
Farmer Dies of Hydrophobia,

James Sims, farmer, died at Jack
son, Ga, of hydrophobia. He was
bitten by his own dog several weeks
ago. A few days ago hydrophobia
developed in most violent form.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
To Search For Copper in the State.

Activity around the entrance to the
century-old Field copper mine near
Warrenville, during the last few days
leads to the belief that Philadelphia
capitalists have secured control of the
property and will work it again.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
Census Man Found a Suicide.

Mrs. Harriet Barnes, a prominent
resident of Millville, committed sui
eide by hanging herself. The body
was found by her daughter, who had
gone in search of her mother to obtain
information for the census enumera-
tor
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
KNOW. Ahout Neelx,. rrauds.

w. II. Reeves, former Deputy Au-
ditor, was arrested in Havana and
lodged in jail. He is believed TO know
much more than he told about Neely's
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
Made Drunkard by Prescription.

A funeral took place in Paterson, N. j.,
the other day of a young wife. The phy-
sicifn's certificate of death was ''died of
chronic alcoholism" The husband said:
"Our marriage had been happy one un-
til my wife was ordered to take whisky.
am not to blame for the scandal. Although
l have been Il temperance man for tfty-
nine years I was forced to give my wife
liquor at home or suffer scandal or dis
grnce." The story is a sad one.
On the death of her child about a year
ago she was taken ill. In an evil moment
the attending physician prescribed whisky
for her. She continued to use it and al
most before the husband knew it his young
wife was drunkard. The craving for
liquor overmastered her.
For more than half a century her hus-
band had been total abstainer. He has a
horror OF liquor. He consented to it's being
Administered to his wife because the doctor
said 1t was necessary.
When he found that his wife had become
a slave to liquor he tried to keep it from
her. This was mpossible, for il she could
not get it at home she would go out for it.
On that account the husband gave her all
she demanded to prevent scandal.
Passaic City record., 1900-06-09
Liquor in the Army.

1t has long been claimed that the sol.
d er must have his grog, but some OF the
best and most experienced generals, Eng
lish and American, of modern times, bear
different testimony and hold that 1t is in
furious to the N orale OF an army. 1t is in
teresting, as we'll as profitable. to note
how by precept and example they have
sought to promote temperance reforma-
tion In the soldiery under their commands,
and to educate their governments and
countrymen up to the highest water-mark
OF teetotallsm In military organization and
campaigning.
We give some testimonies upon this SUBJ
iect worth ponderlng and acting upon.
Professor James Miller says:
Experience has taught the Russian mill
itary authorities that spirits are inimical
TO the strength and power of endurance OF
the Russian soldier" Captain Peary, who
knew whereof he spoke, has said .Peo-
pie say that ardent spirits keep the cold
out. / say, they let it in. Few seamen
have been in the cold more than 1 have,
and know that spirits do harm" Field
Marshall Lord Napier observes: con re-
viewing the records of soldiers offences,
all, practically, have their origin i'll drunk
enuess. OF IS 900 men under my command
In India, the total abstaners had no
crimes. The temperance men had prac-
ticaliY none. The whole body of crime
was among non-abstaners.'
Speaking of their observation and ex-
perence during our Civil War, George E.
Mcclellan affirmed: "Would all the officers
unite in setting the soldiers an example of
total abstinence from Intoxicating drinks,
1t would be equal to an addition of $4,000
men to the armies of the United States''
General Robert Z. Lee, declared: "Men
need no stimulant. 1t is something, I am
persuaded, they can get along without"
General Stonewall JACKSON, said: 81 never
use liquor; 1 am more afraid of it than Of
Yankee bullets"
To-day the two most successful and IA
nous officers in the British Army are Lord
Roberts and Lord Kitchener, and yet they
believe in keeping rum out OF the army
and have gained their most notable vic-
tories with soldiers who were not given its
use. 1t was Lord Roberts who made ex.
periments In India by which he proved that
$4,000 soldier-abstainers could put in the
field 1000 more effective troops than so 900
non-abstainers. It was Lord Kitchener
who led teetotal army to victory in the
Soudan, where he established prohibition
upon a marked scale. Lord Wolseley
agrees with these chieftains, and is doing
all he can to encourage temperance among
the soldiers Of Great Britain.
In the light OF these testimonies, there is
no excuse for the caateen in the American
army. Public sentiment is against il, and
law ought to be. Those in authority who
uphold and keep it there, do SO at their
peril. We hope the day will come when
not only 1t, but the drink-eurse in all its
forms, will be banished from the army AMI
navy OF our growing repubiic.-rhe Pres
byterian.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-03
PARKHURST AND GRAND JURY
GEORGE n. PUTNAM DENIES THAT THE
CLERGYMAN GAVE ADVICE.

Grand Jury sailed yesterday in the American Line
| steamship st. Louis and before sairne tooh occa-
sion to deny that the March Grand Jury hau sought
| legal advice from the Rev. DIR. ParKnurst' MT
Putnam is going abroad for two months 10 attend
to business at the London Office of the puonshine
| house in which he is interested.
When asked as to the doings of the Grand Jury
! of which he was foreman whose presentment
| against District Attorney Gardiner and the ponce
| force Judge Foster passed upon last Monday ne
| said: Judge Fosters decision is foolish
Mr. Putnam thought little while. and after re-
| fectfon said:
1t is certainly very foolish and absolute rubbish
an adviser to the Grand Jury l remember the II
charge ha % on the
Jury BY ae as ba to m bsen eaed before the Grand
Jury to give tesimony This before the agents
was examined as to what instructions he gave his
ana a o Wfa their and aby
DR.. Parkhurst's direct examination had been mn, nm
to leaving the Grand Jury room. I was attending
to some matters and was not ia the "a.
| He just stepping down when member OF 2ah the
rrRd Snr5t repsd pHs and M remember that said
thing about what Grand Jury had & dome e Seme sa
hardly be charged on this grouna 5haf oI te S M
Grand jury to tender 1t advice
Mr. Putnam said that he had not much time be-
fore sailing of the boat to discuss the matter
but he wanted to say before he departed that Re-
corder Gof had the legal adviser Of the Grand
Jury but that his advice had been given after
March Is. He added:
We sought advice from Recorder Gof because we
fe whom we could trust, ana,
Furthermore. the Jaw specifically says, and even
Judge Foster has pointed out in his decision that
when the Grand Jury needs advice 1t should seek
1t from the Judge having the transactions of the
Grand Jury in charge.
They spent two hours at the Gardiner hearing
yesterday. and the fact brought out that Re
corder Golf had advised the Grand Jury. There is
| ney mot
Judge Foster says the Judge must do this. There
is certainly nothing strange in the Grand Jury
complying with the law. ] say 1t again, and IN
less time that Recorder Goff did advise the Grand
Jury And the Grand Jury was glad to get the ad-
vice of Recorder Goff.
Just then the warning cry "An ashore! SOUNDED,
and Mr. Putnam turned hurredly and said:
AS to the report that would not follow the
District Attorneys advice to subpoena newspaper
men I want to say that the Grand Jury was glad
paper men, There few of them subponnaed
and brought before the Grand Jury to give their
testimony One of the troubles along this line was
that did not wish hearsay evidence. or facts
that had been picked by second third hand, nor
did we desire to hear from them what they had
What wanted direct knowledge, otherwise
did to listen.
At the suggestion of District Attorney Gardiner
some of the editors subpoenaed, but some or
the subponnas returned-I believe they call 1t
unsatisfed
At this Mr.. Putnam disappeared down the COM
panonway.
New-York tribune., 1900-05-03
MANY PASSENGERS IN QUARANTINE.

FIFTY-EIGHT PERSONS WITHOUT HEALTH GER.
TIFIcATEs ARRIVE FROM HAVANA
Fffty-etsht of the passengers Of the New-Yorl
and Cuba Line steamship Mexico who had fatled
TO provide themselves with certificates of health
before leaving Havana, were taken off the steamer
at Quarantine yesterday morning and transferred
to Hoffman Island for twenty four hours obserys
ton.
When the Mexico moored to her pier Can
tain John Mcintosh left the bridge for the las,
time. He will go to the Cramps yards al pbi1a
deIphia to superintend the finishing touches unon
and launching OF the steamship MORO Castle
which will leave the ways about July / and aug
ment the New-fork and Cuba Line feet plying be-
tween the ports OF New-York and Havana Car
tain Cleveland Downs has been appointed ~ com
mand the Mexico He is veteran in the line $
Cuban trade and a popular commander ~
Among the passengers the Mexico uas M
Berndes the Austrian Consul at HsVana ard
Sehor j. Carbonell. who is a brother OF Carbonei
who married Evangeline Cisneros. after The three
New-York tribune., 1900-05-03
Subscriptions for the 100000
shares of the Preferred Stock

will be received in person, or by mail, on blank
forms provided for that purpose, by the Central
Siegel-Cooper Co., New York and Chicago,
beginning at 10 a. m. Monday, May 9TH, 1900,
and will continue for period of One Week the
right however, is reserved to close subscriptions
upon one days notice in the New York and
Chicago daily papers. The above Trust Com
pany, for the convenience of our patrons and
the public, will receive subscriptions at the
Siegel-Cooper Co. store in New York, or at its
own office, 81 Wall Street. All subscriptions
must be accompanied by money, check, money
order or draft. payable to the Central Trust
Company of New York, to the amount of 20 per
cent. of such subscription equal to $1,000 per
share), for which proper receipts will be given
by said Trust Company. Notice will be given
as soon as practicable of the number of shares
allotted to each subscriber. and the balance due
must be paid to said Trust Company On or
before July 5th. 1900, upon the delivery by
said Trust Company of the stock allotted
New-York tribune., 1900-05-03
LAST OF THE TITTERINGTONs.
HER SONS WERE WELL KNOWN CRIMINALS, But
SHE WAS HARDwoRKING WOMAN


Mrs. Isabella Titterington. seventy years old
was found dead in her room on the top floor OF the
tenement house No. o0s Second ave, yesterday
afternoon by Louis p Teyer, of No. 317 East
Thirty-fourth-st.. who doing work in the
building. Teyer informed the police of the East
Thirty -ffth-st. station, and the body removed
TO the Morgue with the consent Of the Coroner. An
autopsy viii be performed some time to-day
Mrs. Titterington IS the last Of the Titterington
family who were we'll known about Thirteenth-st.
and Avenue B. locality which known as
''Mackerelville" James Titterington. her son.
known Filters" the leader of the Mack
ereville gang Sixteen years go he held up the
collector Of Jacob Rupperts brewery, on the ele-
waited road station at Twenty -thirdst.. and Third
ave, and robbed him of $4,000 He was sentenced
10 fourteen years in prison. This so preyed upon
his father. Richard Iitterington, veteran of the
Civil War that he died afterward.
Joseph r. Titterington, ffty-nine years old, died
in Bellevue Hospital April l3 from pneumonia.
He had been admitted three days prior for intoXi-
cation. He also a son OF the woman who died
suddenly yesterday. and a member of the
MackereIve gang" The brother known as
Filters died shortly after his release from prison.
Since the death of her husband Mrs. Titterngton
had been earning her own living She hard
working woman and was much thought of by her
neighbors
New-York tribune., 1900-05-03
BODY FOUND AT THE RESERVOIR
WORKMAN DIED STANDING UP TO HIS
NECK IN THE MIRE.

The body of Paul Nuici, Italian workman was
recovered from the vault of the reservoir at Bryant
Park little after O'Clock yesterday. The
original plan of blasting the side walls TO get
the body abandoned. and the task of re-
moving the debris from the top of the vault into
which the had been preciptated was begun
with great energy. After hard hustle of about
three hours enough Of the superintendent debris
removed by throwing 1t aside into branch
openings to allow the letting down of man by a
rope. The opening of the vault is forty-ve feet in
depth. A laborer named Michael Lemon was
lowered. Lemon pushed aside some debris and un-
covered the body of Nuci, who had died standing
erect. buried his neck in the mire. There was
long cash his head. made by some falling
debris Policeman James Kelly, of the West Thir-
tieth-st station took the body in a patrol wagon
the Morgue.
George Farley, the foreman who was in charge
of the work. arragned in jefferson Market
Court yesterday by Policeman Kelly. Eugene Len
tilhon the contractor, appeared in behalf of the
prisoner and said that the mans death was moth
ing but accident, and that no one could be held
responsible. He asked that Farley be remanded
to the Coroner and the bail continued. Magistrate
Meade consented to this.