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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-02

loss, and that the company must pay
a round sum for salvage OF the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse. Insurance men
are rejoicing over the fact that the
risks on the steamers were placed
abroad.
The lighters and other small craft
that were lost were insured by their
owners, many of whom also have poll
cies covering the cargoes, the insur-
ance being for account OF all parties at
. interest.
Outward bound merchandise still on
the piers at the time OF the fire was
largely covered by floating policies I'm
hre companies. The goods on the pier
which had arrived from the other side
were in'large part protected by marine
policies. The ,argoes of the burned
North German steamers were covered
by marine insurance.
The warehouses known as Campbell's
stores were owned by the Hoboken
Land and Improvement company, and
were fully insured in various fire in
surance companies. M
LOSSES ON MERCHANDISE.
The merchandise on storage is of very
diversified ownership and nothing could
be ascertained ss to which companies
insured II. The entire loss on property
covered by fire insurance Is about 81. :
100000. and $500 900 will equal the loss
by water borne and other merchandise
protected by marine insurance. The
North German Lloyd steamship com
panys piers were insured I'm fire COM
panles for 100000. and II also had $500.
600 insurance on common carriers liza
blity for merchandise on piers.
IL is expected that the owners and
crews Of the tugs that pulled the Kaiser
Wilhelm away from the blazing piers
Will today file libels for more than n
million dollars against her Salvage
VIII be claimed. too upon all the other
steamers that were on fire. but what
the amount will be I'm the case of the
Bremen. Main and Saale Is entirely pro-
bematical since II depends upon the
success that attends the efforts OF the
wreckers.
GREEDY FOR MONEY.
Along with the stories OF heroic rescue
come others of greed and disregard Of
human life.
John Lupth. painter employed IN
decorating the frst cabin OF the Saale,
was alarmed by the cry Of FIRE and
rushed from the cabin to the deck just
In time 10 ace q great sheet OF flame
sweep over The forward part OF the ves-
scl and envelop Capt. Mirow. who was
standing between tho bridge and the
f'rehatch. giving orders TO panic
stricken group OF iaborefs 10 batten the
hatch down. The Are wrapped around
him, and In en- instant he was
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-02

fainting condition and barely able "a
raise his oar from the water; NO.
was distressed and the diagonal course
of the shell was explained by the loss
OF these two sweeps. They continued
on and struggled manfully 10 keep ur
but soon found themselves In the eel
grass almost ashore.
They were right among lot OF row.
boats that had to hurry out of their
way and they eventually came 10 a
stop, while numbers and pulled
themselves together and endeavored
10 revive the bow men by throwing
water over them. .+-s~tr. @hW
A rowboat took their shell In tow
and the men were taken TO meet the
Cornell launch where the bow oarsman
was laid out half unconscious and COW
cred with coats and sweaters.
The Pennsylvania mn finished in ex-
cellent condition and Immediately
turned out and pulled for their boat
house. while the Columbia four. loud
ly cheered by the men on their launch,
rowed easily across the river to their
quarters.
Pennsylvania has thus won the var
sity and the four-oar races OF this
years regatta Columbia has secured
one second, while Cornell has been
forced to take third place in two events
and been unable TO finish in the third.
The result fairly bears out what many
thought from Coach Courtney's attitude
upon his arrival here. namely: That
the Cornell men were at that time
about at the fine point in their training
and that they all went stale before the
first race was rowed. The fact that
Brinckerhoff gave out after FIVE min
utes work. and that Boyer. No. 3. was
in nearly as bad shape. shows the
physical condition of these two men TO
have been far beyond the point required
for hard rowing.
The official time in today's race was:
Pennsylvania 10:31 1-5.
Columbia l0:31.
Cornell did not finish.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-02
PENNSYLVANIA WINS m
THE-FOUR- DARED RACE.
TEA IMPORTERS,
207 WEYBOSSET ST.

Poughkeepsie, ~. ", July 2.--The
VARSITY four-oar event Of the annual
regatta of the intercollegiate rowing
association was won today by Pennsyl-
vanit in the fast time OF. 10 minutes
81 1-5 seconds.
Columbia was second by three and a
half lengths. official time 1898. and
Cornell three hundred feet back. her
crew exhausted and her bowman,
BrinckeIhoff. in helpless faint. came
TO stop nifty feet from the west bank
of the rives.
1t was a race filed with spectacular
features seldom looked for IN, so short
a row. Pennsylvania and cornell we're
nip and tuck for the first half mile. Be-
fore reaching 'the bridge, marking the
first half mile. Cornell and Columbia
were both out of their courses.
Urged by Referee Armstrong the Col
umbia men gradually regained their
proper place In the course making a
pretty spurt as they did so just below
the bridge.
At this point there was seen to be
trouble in the front of the Cornell shell
and the boat pointed slightly toward
the west bank Of the. river The Penn
sylvania men. hit il sp little as they
neared the last half mile and prevented
the Columbia boys, who were doing
magnificent work. from overhauling
them. a.tf
Referee Armstrong shouted again
and again through his megaphone for
the Cornell crew TO get into their
course but soon all aboard the ref
eree's boat saw that this. was useless
and attention was divided between
the splendid oarsmanship OF the Qua
kers. the beautiful squirt of the. New
Workers and the distress OF the Itha-
cans. which was becoming very mark
cd.
The Cornell bow oar Brnckerhoff
half mile from the finish was in a
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crumped into shapeless mass, falling
where ne stood. t
"At that" says Lupth, half dozen
tugs, blowing their whistles, steamed
up toward the Kaiser Wilhelm. which
was lying on. the opposite side OF the
dock. Sixty men followed me in q leap
10 lighter, and we began shouting Tor
help TO the tugs that were coming up
to help the Kaiser wilhelm. Those
tugboat men were too greedy for money
TO help us. We could not understand
that we had been deserted and thought
our cries had not been heard.
"A tug came along within mailing dis
tance and we spoke her. but the only
answer we got was, No time now. VIII
see you later
There were not less than a dozen
tugs close by us then, but no one OF
them could do anything for U.S.
ASKED FOR MONEY TO RESCUE.
John voss was on the pier when the
cotton burst into blaze. He was weii
out at the end of the wharf and saw
the fleet OF tugs coming toward the
Kaiser Wilhelm.
II saw three men swimming ana
trying to get away from the burning
pier" said Voss. THE hair OF one OF
them was on fire. He ducked his head
TO nut II out. When ne came up Ne
shouted Help. help. In German.
"A man on a small tug leaned over
the side and yelled out. Have you apy
gelf? We are not here for our health.
THE man In the water must have
been hurt in some way. because ne
could not make any reply. He threw
up his hands and sank.
II could not tel what became or the
others One of them cried out, For
Gods sake. for Gods sake. two or
three times, but nobody would do any
7 thing for him. guess he must have
been struck on the head by one OF the
tugs The crew on board kept calling
out, How much have you got7 Where
Is all your money!"
NO HELP FROM TUGS
For four hours and thirty minutes
wilhelm Meyer a fireman Of the Main
clung to pile on the front Of the pier
where the Saale was. unable. by rca-
son OF burns and his exhausted condi-
ton, 20 swim more than a dozen yards
In frequent attempts 10 gain a place OF
greater safety. The heat over his head
was bllstering. and he was nearly
drowned by being obliged TO dive be-
Continued on page Two)
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-02
GOING TO THE KLOMDIKE.

New York. July 2.-Mrs. " r. Clements
of Brookline, Mass, wife of a dentist re-
puted to be a millionaire, Is on her way
TO Cape Nome, with we'll equipped
party 10 gain fortune with which TO
found new school OF philosophy.
Land for the site of the new institution
has been purchased by her husband at
East Norwich. Mrs. Clements is to
found her school on the lines laid down
by Charles, III. Mackay. which he calls
his ''West Gate Philosophy"
She has been in Alaska before. She
went there two years ago and came back
penniless. but not discouraged She was
tie first white woman to cross the Chill
koot Pass. The mot of the West Gate
school of philosophy Is the Golden Rule
do unto others as you would others
would do unto YOU"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-02
Leading Providence Merchant May Be
Subjected to Fine and Imprison-
ment Under This Decision.

The appellate court In an opinion
handed down today denies the defend
ants petition for a new trial In the
case of State VS.. James A. Foster. and
the case is remitted to the common
pleas division of the supreme court for
ment.
Mr.. Foster was indicted under the
itinerant venders act for the sale OF a
pair OF opera glasses at Woonsocket in
December, 1897.
He may be fined not less than 500
nor more than $3.50 and imprisoned not
less than 10 nor more than 80 days. Mr..
Foster went TO the state treasurer be-
fore going TO Woonsocket and offered
TO pay $1,000 as deposit, but was told
the act did not apply to him.
At the trial in the common pleas
division after the evidence for the state
was all in, counsel for the. defendant
asked the court to direct verdict for
the defendant upon the ground that the
evidence did not show that he had vio-
lated the statute In question. Ii was
claimed that being a permanent resi-
dent and merchant of this state he had
a right TO temporarily own store in
w OOHrOChtI .lOf TIE cdit vi fiiS StOocs
and that such conduct did not consti-
tute him an "Itinerant vender'' within
the meaning OF said statute.
The court refused 10 so rule. and said
the sale was In violation OF the statute.
To this ruling the defendant excepted
and also set up the claim that the stat
ute was unconstitutional.
TO TRAMP MERCHANTS.
In the argument before the appellate
court defendant contended that the
statute was intended 10 apply only TO
tramp merchants who have no per-
manent and regular place of business in
this state. but who temporarily locate
in given place for the purpose or dis
posing of their goods and merchandise.
Concerning this construction, Judge
Tillinghast. who writes the opinion.
says. "A careful examination of the
statute under consideration. shows that
such construction as that contended
for would materially limit and restrict
the meaning thereof.
And while the act may have been
framed within the special view Of ac-
complishing the object specified by the
defendant. its language Is too broad
to confine 1t thereto. II contains its
own definition OF the words itinerant
vender. and hence. we have no occasion
nor. indeed. the language Deing entirely
plain. have we the right to look else
where for their meaning.
1T provides that they shall be con-
strued TO mean and include all persons.
both principals and agents. who engage
in temporary or transient business N
this state'
A Massachusetts case is cited TO show
that party may be engaged in selling
temporarily. or transiently in one city
or town while having permanent place
OF business In another.
TO PROTECT LOCAL TRADE.
Judge Tllinghast thinks the main OBJ
jects of the statute being TO regulate
the carrying on Of temporary CONNER
clal business as to protect local trades
people from what is evidently deemed
by the general assembly 10 be unfair
Competition, namely, the selling OF
ones's goods from place to place in
very much the same manner as is done
by ordinary hawkers and peddlers. and
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also to protect the public from inn
position and fraud, the statute ought
to be so construed as to effectuate
these objects as far as may be.
The local law as amended in 1892 is
held 10 be identical with that of Massa-
chusetts and the construction put upon
IL there is held TO be entitled to much
weight.
NO DEPOSIT NECESSARY.
During the trial the defendant Of
fered to prove that before locating in
woonsocket he went TO the state treas
urer and offered II II wag necessary.
to deposit $1,000. but the state treasurer
said no such deposit was necessary.
The attorney general objected to this
testimony and the court sustained the
objection.
An exception was taken. but the ap-
pellate court says the ruling was cor
rect. Ignorance of the law Will not ex-
cuse its violation even when one en-
deavors 10 ascertain the law, and is
misled by the advice OF counsel and the
mistake was one of law on the part of
the state treasurer and the defendant
and hence no excuse.
Judge rillinghast speaking for the
court says the act Is not against pub
lie policy, and whether given act Is
expedient or inexpedient., polite or un-
polite, is for the determination OF the
Legislature and not the court.
The court agrees that the restrictions
and license fees are very stringent and
more burdensomesfhan are imposed by
statutes In other states. but in view
of the general power OF the General
Assembly the court VIII not say the re-
strictions are so clearly an invasion as
to render 1t obnoxious to the constitu-
ton.
NOT UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
The opinion of the court is that the
point made by the defendant that the
act Is unconstitutional because il is
class legislation, cannot be maintained.
Laws" the court says. which arc
public in their objects, may in the alb
sence of express constitutional pro-
vision extend to all citizens. or be con-
fined to particular classes. AS TO the
claim that statute Is unconstitutional
because of the penalties being exces-
sive, the court says:
There is clearly nothing in the char
acter and extent OF the punishment pre-
scribed by this statute. which would
bring II within the category of those
degrading and cruel punishments
which had become obsolete In this
country long before the adoption OF our
state constitution. and which 1t was
intended to forever thereafter pro-
hibit"
THE court finds nothing in the penal
ties that is unusually oppressive or
cruel" -s.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-02
THREE TONS OF GOLD.

Seattle, Wash, July 2.-Three tons of
gold have arrived In Seattle from Alaska.
being brought by the steamer City of
Seattle and City OF Topeka.
OF this gold which Is valued at over
a million dollars. S600,0O0 was consigned
to the United States Assay Office here
by the Canadian Bank of Commerce, In
Dawson. and $500. 900 represents the clean
up on the properties owned. by millionaire
r. S. Lippy and his associates.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-02
TO SUPPRESS INDIAN UPRISING.

Duluth. July accompany A. Third
Regiment NJ. ~. O.. forty-fvc men iln-
der Capt. Eva. will leave on a special
train today under orders from Gov. Lind
10 proceed 10 the scene Or the threaten
ed Indian uprising in the Rainy Lake re-
gion
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-02
AMERICAN MOTHERS TO MEET.

Chicago. July The League OF Amer
ican Mothers has sent out call for a
national conference 10 &c held I'm Chi
csgo. Aug. D. ?. 3 and T. The four days
will be given TO the study and discus
sion OF child training and how 10 create
right neighborhood conditions for the up
liftment of the young.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-07-02
vauItine Ambition n

Not the kind that "o'erleaps ITSELF" but
ambition TO do best work at low prices
I'm Designing, Engraving, Electrotypng
ness OF The j. j. Ryder Co., ~ Washing
ton. cor. Eddy street Pleased TO do
yours
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-18
HE AND Ii AUTHORIZED
Similar Message to Other Powers.
Washington Has Not Replied
COMMISSIONER RocKHlLL AT TAKU
The Expedition in Which Two Companies of
the Fourteenth Infantry Participated Has
Returned to Tien Tsin. Germans
Burn the Town of LANG,
Burn the Town Of LANG.
(By the Associated Press }

Washington, Sept. 1.-THE Chinese
Minister has received a dispatch from
Prince Ching, dated Pekin, Septem-
ber Sth, stating that he and Ii Hung
Chang have been clothed with au-
thority to negotiate peace and request
ing Minister WI to ask the Secretary
to instruct Minister Conger to open
negotiations at once Minister WI
took the dispatch to the State Depart
ment.
1t is probable that no immediate re-
sponse to the request for instructions
to Minister Conger, can be given as
Prince Chings request will have to be
laid before the President and suffi-
cient time given to consider the ques-
tion of his credentials, as well as the
desirability of proceeding at once.
Moreover, it is likely that Minister
Conger's Judgment as to when the ac-
tual negotiations should open wnl
govern to a considerable extent.
Prince Ching has communicated a
similar message to all the powers,
each being requested to authorize its
Minister To go on with the negotia-
tions at least in the preliminary
stages. This may make necessary
some discussion between the powers
as to the desirability of acceding to
the request although there appears to
be a rather general idea that there
will be no immediate instructions to
go on.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-18
A HUNDRED YESTERDAY
They Dare Not Fire the Debris Con-
tanning the Bodies.
THOUGH 1T is A MENACE TO THE CITY
Removing and Burning the Debris. Work Of
Opening the Streets and Disinfecting
Them Pushed With Energcy.
l,i00 Tents Received.
(By the Associated Press.)

Galveston, Texas, Sept. 1.-THE ninth
day after the storm and still the grue-
some work goes on of recovering the
dead from the gigantic mass of debris
that lines the south side of what remains
of the city.
Yesterday 1O7 bodies were recovered
and cremated Among them was mother
with a sucking babe lightly clasped to
her breast
The body of Major w. T. Levy, United
States emigrant inspector of this dis
trict, was among the number. He made
a struggle to save his wife and three
children. All were lost The bodies of
the wife and children have not been re-
covered and are still among the unin-
tered dead
The number recovered and cremated
today will exceed one hundred or more.
The task of recovering the bodies that
are beneath or jammed into this immense
mass of debris, extending from the east
{ern to the western limits of the city, a dis
atselce of over three miles is a herculean
one, and the most expeditions way of re-
moving the whole from a sanitary point
VI view 10 ny uiSs 1uiS, nONCNCI, III IhS
crippled condition of the fire department
and water-works would endanger the re-
naming portion of the city. AS it now
stands this immense mass of debris
strewn with dead bodies, the carcasses
of decaying animals, etc, is a sore menace
to the heaoNh of the city and is the most
difficult problem the Board of Health has
to deal with.
The work of opening up the streets and
disinfecting them is being pushed vigo-
Tously. The debris and garbage is being
removed, ESQ vehicles of every description
carrying it cut to a safe place where it
is burned. In few days all the streets
will be opened for the passage of vehicles.
Today it was announced at a meeting of
the Central Executive committee that
all the laborers now employed in bury
ing the dead, cleaning the buildings and
moving the debris from the streets and
sidewalks shall receive $3.50 per day and
rations. Heretofore they have been work
ing for nothing and if they refused were
impressed by the military
The work of relief of the sick and in
iured is we'll in hand. and under the di-
rection of skilled physicians and nurses
it is improved daily.
Eleven hundred tents were received TO-
day by the Board of Health. All except
three hundred, retained for hospital pur-
poses, will be distributed by the chairmen
of the various ward committees to shell
ter the homeless in their respective
wards.
A hopeful feature of the situation
is the rapid progress being made by the
railroads in their efforts to restore rail
communication. The Santa Fe has
reached Texas City with it's tracks and
it is announced that trains will enter
the Union depot here on Thursday next.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-18
THEIR GRAVE OF FIRE
Five Dead and Three Dying.
Caught in a Burning
Building.
(By the Associated Press.)

Cincinanti, Ohio, Sept 17.-An old
four-story tenement building at 403 East
Front street, used as a branch nursery
of the Salvation Army, burned this even
ing and its occupants were so imprisoned
that five were suffocated to DEATH three
fatally injured and four seriously
On account of the cold weather today
a fire had been started in the stove for
the little tots who are cared for there
during the day while their mothers are
engaged at work elsewhere 1t is thought
that this caused the fire through some
defect in the flues. Most of the mothers
knew nothing of the calamity until they
were through with their days work.
The first floor of the building was used
as church, the second floor as headquar-
ters for the destitute and for cooking and
the upper floors for the nursery. The
women and children could be seen from
these upper stories pleading for help
when the stairways were enveloped in
flames. The fire was soon controlled.
The fire occurred near the river front
the most densely populated part of the
city. The nursery is near the old Spen-
Ger House and children from the tene-
ment were in the burned building
John Hankins, who lives in the old
Spencer House, now used as tenement
quarters, lost his life while endeavoring
to save his children. Four children were
suffocated
The property loss was $1,000.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-09-18
He KILLED GOEBEL
James StubbIefieId Declares
That James Howard Boast
ed of His Crime.
(By the Associated Press.)

Frankfort, KY. Sept. 1.-THE first
really sensational testimony in the trial
of James Howard, charged with having
fired the shot that killed William Goebel
was given today by Bowman Gaines,
local livery man, and James Stubbleheld,
a former deputy sheriff of Clay county.
The former identified Howard as the man
who ran out from the rear of the State
House grounds and jumped over the fence
Immediately after the shooting. Gaines
was positive in his Identification of the
prisoner as the man and said the latter
then wore a moustache and was follow
ed by a man who was tall and slender.
A boy who was nearby at the time will
also be introduced as a witness to cor
roborate Gaines.
The most sensational witness, however,
and at the same time the most important
witness from the prosecution standpoint,
was James Stubblefeld, one-legged and
one armed ex-deputy sheriff of Clay
county. Stubblefeld testified that How
ard exultingly told him that he fired the
shot that took Goebels life.
Stubblefield lost his limbs as result
of the Clay county feuds last year, His
testimony in detail was that Howard
stopped at his house in February shortly
after the shooting. Shortly after he came
in Stubblefield says he remarked to him:
Jim, you all have been having trouble
down at Frankfort?"
Yes" responded Howard, according to
the witness. I'VE have raised hell and
cleaned the platter, and added, Il never
sight down my gun barrel but what get
meat or money, and this time l got both. ="
The witness says Howard was again at
his house several days later, and he
asked him what he meant by his remark
on the former occasion. Howard re-
sDonded
by God, l meant just what l said"
Witness said he then pressed him, put
ting the direct question:
Jim, do you mean to say that you killed
Goebel?"
Howard, he says, responded in the
affirmative and said he believed his noun
tain friends would stand by him, and that
five hundred men could not take him to
Frankfort for trial
Stubblefeld said he did not tell the
story of Howard's confession to him until
he heard that Howard and his friends
were planning to kill him.
The defense subjected the witness to a
severe cross examination, but failed to
tangle him to anv extent.