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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
WITH POMP.
Remains Of Prominent Chinaman
Burned at Chicago.

Chicago, May s.-With almost pomp and
magniicence Sam Moy. the late mayor OF
Chinatown, was borne yesterday through
the streets of Chicago and his body laid
to rest in Rose Hill cemetery.
One hundred thousand Chicagoans did
honor to Sans memory. either through
friendship or curiosity. and probably no
citizen OF Chicago ever went 70 his grave
with such a conglomeration OF color set
ting. weird music, dscordant noises. and
fantastic funeral rites. Thousands watch
ed the Cinnamon I'm their religious and
fraternal funeral rites Gorgeously robed
Mengolisns passed and repassed I'm the
crowd. Lurid banners with strange de-
Vices were In the hands OF hundreds OF
wonderfully gowned celestials. Deputa-
-tiens-frem New York. San Francisco
Portland. Oregon, Boston and other Chi
nese headquarters IN the United States
We'd with one another in doing honor TO
the dead chief
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
SHOT DOWN
IN THE
STREET
Di Coma Shot and Instantly
Killed at Brook|yn--He Was
A Politician,

New York, May 5.-Frank Di Coma, a
political leader among the naturalized citi-
zens In the Williamsburg section Of
Brooklyn. has been shot and instantly
killed by two unknown men.
The police believe that he was a VIC
tim OF the Malta. The shooting occurred
In briggs avenue. Two shots were heard
and two men We're seen running from the
body OF the fallen Italian.
The motive for the murder is as mys-
terious as the identity OF the assassins. Di
Coma, who was 40 years old and lived
with his wife and three children at $40
briggs avenue, was power In a political
way.
His aid was sought by leaders on ac-
count OF his influence with his fellow
countrymen who had votes. He generally
was a Democrat and able 10 swing for
his side considerable following
Di Coma WAS never known TO work
He lived comfortably ana spent most OF
his time at political club. He had been
al the club before the shooting and later
was seen with several members near their
club room, but when he was killed he was
alone.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
EAST PROVIDENCE.

The smallpox nurse Is geeting along
very nicely, and attending physician says
that IL is but "A question Of a few days,
when she will be out and the smallpox
question other than paying the bills VIII
be settled for good.
Patrolman Taggart Is being congra tu-
lated. for thework he performed In catch
ing the men VINO assaulted Grant, the
Colored man a few days ago.
Some one who wrote poem In honor
OF somebody else's birthday Will. unless
they call at the police station before night.
find themselves with but their lines, for
the poem was picked up on the square this
morning. IL was headed "Thirty-eight, T"
and signed IL. IL. c.
f.. A. Hopper went fishing Saturday
evening and returned this morning with
about l60 pounds OF tautaug.
The Church OF the Sacred Heart VIII
open n fair in the town hall Wednesday.
while which be continued for one week.
G. III. Brown OF lngraham street reported
the loss OF nine hens and one rooster.
The fire company will meet this evening
and talk over matters pertaining 10 the
coming state league muster.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
FINANCIAL NEWS
BULLS AND BEARS.

Wall Street, May 5.-The sstock market
opened weak under the sin1uence OF the
financial troubles growing out OF last
weeks collapse In some OF the specials
ties and the prospects of a coal miners
strike. The low priced eoaiers fell be-
tween and 2 points and Delaware and
Hudson lost 2h. Louisville fell l%, but
recovered to above Saturdays close and
declines reached about a point or over
in Brooklyn Transit. Southern Railway,
Peoples Gas, Missouri Pacific and xtch-
ison. A few stocks showed slight gains.
ex-dividend. and Amalgamated Copper,
but these did not affect the general tone
OF weakness. trh
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
NOTES FROM THt HbR50R.

The following vessels have arrived and
sailed during the past - hours:
Arrived-Steamers Pilgrim, Hazard.
Virginia, Wise. New York: Norman.
Chase. Philadelphia; City Of Newport.
Robertson. Newport and return; War
wick. Bowen. Fall River and return: tugs
Covington. $. Thomas Brown. America.
Harold, Tormentor. r. r. Little. George
s. Tice. Prudence. W. Y. Gladwish; F;
schooners Sycamore, Gould. Norfolk
Hume. Thompson. Rockland; l.. l..
IIamln. Nelsor. hudson; Eliza Jane.
Rose. New Bev.ord; barges Moonbeam.
Graham's Polly. Georgia. City Of Mon
treal. Thcresc. j. r.. Mulholland. Che
mango. Davidson. w. q. Burlee.
Sailed-Steamers Pilgrim. Virginia.
New York: tugs Harold. Gaspee. w. r..
Gladwish. r. Il. Little. s Thos. Brown,
Providence. schooners Edith Olcott Nor
folk. N. Whitcnden. Peterson. sullivan.
Maine; bargcs Walton. Delhi A. A. sum-
ncr. Ada l.. Tice. ". winnis. Lewis
Thompson. New York: Marvin, Below.
Tobasco, u. j. Berwind
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
With AONORS
Major Fly RstIres From Brigade
Of Rhode Island Militia.

AAjutant General sackett. acting for
ais Exce1ency Governor Kimbali. com
handsr-in!chief. has Just issued the fol-
Sewing orders:
Upon the application of Major William
lily. assistant inspector-general. b. r. 1
n. TO be placed upon the retired list OF
eommlssiohed officers Of the Rhode ISL
ana milstIf Il is hereby ordered:
Major William Ely. assistant Inspector
general, n r.. /. M. 10 hereby placed up
% the retired list of commissioned offi-
cers Of the Rhode Island militia, with
the rank .of major. In accordance with
section IN chapter 2sS, OF the general
laws "Of khe Miiitia," to date April 18th
1Do7, and ls entitled. on state occasions.
% wear the uniform OF the highest rank
held BY him.
The following Is his military record:
March L 1881, mustered in COMPANY r.
First Battalion infantry. p. r. l. M;
July Is. 1881. appointed corporal. April
Is 1883. appointed sergeant; July TO-
1884. commissioned second lieutenant;
June "a, f1sS5. detailed to organize and
take command OF the First Machine Gun
platoon: June is. 1881. appointed TO take
command OF the First Machine Gun bat
tery. ands promoted first lieutenantsa saJuly
III, 1914 appointed and commissioned
captain and served as such until placed
upon the retired list Of commissioned Of
hcers OF the Rhode Island militia by Cen
eral Orders No. Is, Aug. i3, 1894 10 date
Aus. 3. iss4; May Il, 1896 appointed and
commissioned captain and alde-de- camp
upon the brigade stan; Dec. 13. 1897. ap-
pointed and commissioned major and as
sistsnt irfpector general y. r. I. NJ. and
served slsuch until April IL. 1902.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05

nouncement was made Saturday that they
had experienced some difficulty In secur-
Ing loans TO enable them 10 carry stocks
for the interests which they represented.
on Saturday afternoon, however,
statement was made on behalf OF the firm,
10 the effect that temporary arrangements
had been made and that IL was hoped
funds might be obtained today 10 pay
their obligations and continue BUSINESS
Todays suspension shows, however,
that these hopes were not realized. The
offices OF Offenbach and Moore were not
opened for business at all today. Mr..
Gordon OF Henry brothers, whose sus-
pension followed that of Offenbach and
Moore was director OF the Dominion
Securities company.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
WASHBURM
WILL FACE
CHARGES.
General Misconduct In Manage.
ment Of the State AgrlcuI-
turaI College Alleged.

Formal charges against John III. Wash
burn, president of the Rhode Island Col
lege of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts at
Kingston, were filed with Henry l..
Greene, chairman OF the board OF man
ayers OF the institution today.
The board Of managers will hold pub
lie hearing at Kingston on Wednesday
next when an inquiry into President
washburns conduct will begin.
Mr.. Greene said today that he did not
think IL would be fair to make public
the charges against Mr.. washburn until
the regular meeting OF the board on We'd
nesday. Orrin L. Bosworth, attorney for
the complainants has no such delicacy of
feeling. however. He admitted that hehad
supplied newspaper jn this city with
copy of the charges. but refused to ex-
tend the same courtesy 60 this news
paper. When told of Lawyer Bosworth's
act a member OF the board declared that
he considered the attorneys course in
very bad taste. to say the least.
The charges against President wash
burn are, II is admitted by Lawyer Bos-
worth, OF the gravest character. He is
charged with using improper language be-
fore students and others: with being alto
gether too companionable TO fill the
highest office in an agricultural college,
and with general misconduct In the man
agement of the institution.
MANY OPPOSED no WASHBURN.
From a couroe independent OF COM
plainant's attorney twas learned that the
resolutions calling for an investigation
into the affairs Of the college and the
management OF the institution has been
widely signed by interested persons in
South County and adjoining counties.
Graduates of the college as well as stu
dents now attening the classes will be
called upon to give evidence against Presi-
dent Washburn.
IL was said that the financial condition
OF the institution. which is in part sup
ported by a liberal annual appropriation
by thefederal government, Will also be
touched upon incidentally. The real fight,
improper habits of Mr.. Washburn. and
the charge that his personal conduct un-
fits him to be at the head OF an educa-
tional institution In this state.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
WILL BIO THE STREET CAR WORKERS

Chicago. Nay 5.--Tho movement for
labor unions among the conductors and
motormen Of the Chicago street car lines
has been indorsed by the Chicago Fed
Grafton of Labor. says the Chronicle.
For the new unions Of the traction
workmen the federation has pledged IT.
self 10 do everything In its power. voting
TO give 10 the organized street car work.
ers the fullest measure VI financial and
moral support from the 500. 900 organized
wage earners of .ook county.
Labor conditions on the street car
lines under non-union system. I'm vogue
for years. were denounced by Information
al President N...,am -. Mahon as "in-
human. a disgrace to civilization and In
tolereble to american workingmen,
claiming TO be free and independent"
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
DECEIT DENIED.
But John Martin Demands Dam
ages From Fred Oemus.

Before jury. In Judge Biodgetts court
was tried today the suit OF John Martin
against Fred Demus to re~cssr 800 for
alleged deceit Mr.. Martin says he trad
ed some of his carriages for some belong
Ing to Demus. or which were believed to
be owned by Demus.
Later. Martin claims. he found that
some OF the carriages were only leased
10 Denus by the w. w. Rand company
and In order 90 get them he. Martin. had
10 pay note Of $50 owed by Demus for
the carriages. Demus denies the deceit
n. NJ. OReilly 10 attorney for plain
Ut and ID. J. Holland attorney for the
defendant
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
SEVERAL KILLED
Many Parsons Also Injured in
Flrp In New York City.

New York, May s.-Fire was discovered
Sodsy In three-ttory building at sos
Pearl strpet. this city. occupied by the
Eureka Hedding company. -e. sa- p.
Many Employees OF the company were
- the bS<s<s~s ard there was a frantic
rush for the stairs and fire escapes.
n man and a woman were killed and
000 woman was fatally burned.
n<Aay other persons were injured.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
"A BAD DAY ON N.
'Y.S STOCK EXCHANGE
Three Brokerage Firms Announce Their
Inability to Meet Their Obligations.
Cause Of Trouble

New York; May 5.--rhe developments Of
the latter half Of last week in Wall street.
IN connection with the stocks of the
Dominion Securities company. the Rut-
land Railroad company and the Hacken-
sack Meadows company. resulted today in
the announcement in rapid succession of
Che suspension OF stock brokerage houses.
The first ,nrm to declare inability to
meet obligations were Offenbach &
Moore. and Henry Brothers and Lock-
wood. Hurd & Co. followed rapidly.
Offenbach,a land Moore were known prin-
Olpally as Traders In what were known as
sWebb-Mewr'' securities. and the an
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
TWO KILLED

Leipsic. ssxony. May 5--shortly 'aref
the express train left here this morning
for Berlin. an axle OF the tender broke.
the train was derailed- apd Herr Friedel.
a member OF the Reichstag and two 9TH
er yersons were killed and six persons
wer9 wounded.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
WALL FELL

BuYalo. N. Y, May Sat an early hour
today while the flremen were stu work
ing on the burning Wells elevator, the
entire Ohio street front fell into the
street. burying Lieutenant John Hoolele
and Pipoman John Kennel.
Whom rescued the lieutenant was able
TO walk 10 the hospital Kennel was un-
conscious At the hospital II was said
that his injuries would probably prove
fatl
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
SHERIFF
RESTORES
! | ORDER.
supprss|ss a Mob Of Frsnzlsd
Italians Who Were Making
. Trouble at CorHss, Wis. Z

Racine. Wis. May 5.--A mob OF 80 Ital-
ians crase} from liquor took charge of
the town OF corliss. near here. terrorizlng
she people, and driving them from the
streets.
Two women were wounded slightly by
fsvolver bdllets and two men were cut by
Knives in NE hands Of the invaders. Help
vas asked from this city and Sheriff
6aufman With a posse OF deputies. drove
over to Cobliss. where order was restored
hitter q sfprt but exciting encounter.
Two of the Italians are under arrest
md the others have fed.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-05
AlBsE COMPANY PLAYS PING PONG

sEx Ex-dividend
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-09-06
LATER.

Mccullough, regular republican
nominee for governor in Vermont,
failed to secure majority and the
election is thrown into the legislature.
The republicans were successful on
the rest of the ticket by $4,000 ma
jority.
Judge Albert III. Horton, ex-chief
| justice of Kansas, died at his home
in Topeka.
President Roosevelt, in an address
at Fitchburg, Mass, repeated his dec
larations favoring trust legislation;
institutional amendment giving con-
gfess more power likely.
Gen. Miles will delay starting to
the Philippines one week because of
| a pressure of work in his office
The American bicycle trust, organ
lied with inflated capital, has been
placed in a receivers hands at New
York.
A special grand jury has begun in
vestigation of tax-fXing frauds in Chi
cago.
Senators Quay and Penrose, fearing
the loss of the labor vote in Pennsyl-
vania, are reported to have forced coal
operators to make concessions and to
end the big strike.
Jefferson Davis (dem.) has been re-
elected governor of Arkansas by $4,000
majority.
Iowa socialists met in Davenport and
nominated state ticket headed by W.
A. Jacobs, of Davenport, for secretary
| of state
Iowa democrats have nominated
Farley Sheldon in the Seventeenth
district for congress.
Later advices from the Island of
| Martinique say that LOGO persons
were killed and 1,50O injured during
the last eruptions of Mont Pelee.
The democrats of the Third Wis
consin district have nominated Jack
Silsbaugh for congress.
| Two soldiers were killed by the
premature discharge of a gun at
Fort Wright during an engagement
with the fleet of Higginson. The
battle in the war game was indie
cisive.
| In wreck on the Rock Island
road near Birmingham, Mo-, four
trainmen were killed.
The public debt statement issued
in the I'd shows that the debt de-
creased SIS, S1S,646 during the month
of August. The cash balance in the
treasury was $359, 491, 500. The total
debt, less the cash in the treasury,
amounts to $96S, O91, 1921.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-09-06
FINAL SESSIONS HELD.
Convention of League of American
Municipalities at Grand Rapids
Comes to Close

Grand Rapids, Mich, Aug. 3O.-The
final sessions of the convention of
Leagues of American Municipalities
Friday were the busiest. Important
papers and discussions, elections and
incidental business took up the time of
the delegates.
The convention closed Friday after
noon. Next years convention will be
held at Baltimore. Officers were elect
ed as follows: President, Mayor j.
Adger Smyt the, Charleston S. c.; first
vice president, Hon. M. N. Stevens,
East st. Louis, ILL.,; second vice presi-
dent, Mayor Richard J. Barr, Joliet,
ILL.,; third vice president, Mayor J. M.
Head, Nashville, Tenn; treasurer,
Hon. Thomas P. Taylor, Bridgeport,
Conn.,; secretary, Hon. John M. Mac
vicar, Des Moines, Ia.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-09-06

Convenient shirt waist boxes are
made of grass fiber.
ST. Louis manufactures more cut
glass than any other city IN the union.
Wood intended to be made into pi-
amos requires to be kept 40 years to be
in perfect condition.
A saver of time and temper is that
new trunk strap with a lever arrange
ment which makes the fastening easy
and secure.
An elephants sense of smell is SC
delicate that the animal can scent a
human being at a distance of 1,OOC
yards.
Tablets are to be put up to mark the
sites of the first schoolhouse and the
first courthouse in Buffalo. The
schoolhouse was built in 1907, and was
destroyed when the British burned the
city in 1913.
Prof. Hamlin asserts, in the Forum
that low estimate of the extent and
cost of the buildings erected during
the last IL months in the United States
equals or exceeds that involved in the
erection Of all the important ca
thedrals of England and France to-
gether through the whole of the thir-
teenth century.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-09-06

Violent storms in France caused
great damage to vineyards. Buds were
killed by hail.
In the Straits of Malacca the Dutch
mail steamer Prinz Alexander and
the British steamer Ban Hin GUM
collided and 81 persons were drowned.
AS n result of the war, rinderpest
among the cattle and the epidemic
of cholera, agriculture is at present
seriously depressed throughout the
Philippine islands.
The sultan of Kinidayan, who was
held as a hostage by the Americ;
forces at Camp Vickers, island of
Mindanao, attempted to escape
from his guards last Thursday, and
was shot and killed by sentry.
The village of Morne Rouge, on the
island of Martinique, was destroyed
by an eruption of Mont Pelee last
Saturday and 200 lives are reported
lost; La Carbet was flooded by a
tidal wave.
Thirtyeight ships were wrecked in
Algoa bay, near Cape Town. Fifty
bodies were recovered and others are
being sought.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-09-06
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

A Baltimore chemist is said to have
perfected fuel made Of street dirt.
Four million dollars is the sum annu-
ally left in Paris by visiting Ameri-
cans.
Post office liberties of Great Brit
ain are to start an independent parcels
post to the United States.
A New Yorker, after 80 years exper-
imenting, claims TO have discovered
| launches.
! German steel mills are preparing to
jain the worldwide combine planned by
Morgan and an agreement on exports
is already reached.
King Edward has signed a charter
for the British Royal academy, which
is to be counterpart of the famous
French institution.
| A treasury depa rtment report shows
that the world has 1,75O submarine tel
egraph cables, having total length of
nearly 100000 miles.
According to treasury statistics the
consumption of champagne in this
| y uGs
during the last three years.
Capt. Planta. Swiss, has, after a
| long litigation, succeeded in esta blish-
ing his right to the credit of having
first invented the automobile
The United States war department.
has bought the right to use the new
lightweight field artillery perfected by
Herr Ehrhardt. of Dusseldorf.
! During the coming year 10000, 900
| young salmon will be turned loose
from hatcheries in Oregon along the
Columbia river and it's tributaries.
| Miss Elizabeth Silsby Archer, who
died in Salem, Mass, aged nearly 1O1
| years, witnessed the naval fight be-
| tween the Chesapeake and the Shan
non off Salem during the war of 1912.
The revenue cutter Tuscarora, which
will see service on the great lakes, has
been given her sea trial off Chesapeake
bay. She is expected at Milwaukee Oc-
tober Is.
Charles T. Yerkes returned to New
York after eight months abroad and
says millions will be spent if necessary
to prevent competition by J. Pierpont
Morgan in London electric railways
German, iron steel and coal indus
tries formed combination to paw a
bonus to members exporting to for
eign countries, thus making it posi-
bic for them to ,undersell all competi-
tors.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-09-06
SCIENCE SIFTINGS.

A writer IN the Lancet says that
cancer is attacking people at young
er age than it used to do.
eff all sick people had good cooks.e
says the London Hospital, chow much
greater might be the proportion of re-
coveries.''
According to DR.. Flagge, air will go
through the walls Of a closed room at
a rate depending on difference of tenn
perature between the inside and the
outside.
The average temperature of Great
Britain has risen nearly 1 1-3 degrees
within the last half century. January
is now nearly three degrees warmer
than it was.
BESIDES the skylark, number Of
other birds sing as they fly. Among
these are the titlark, woodlark, wa
ter peppet, sedge warbler, willow
warbler and win chat.
Another Princeton professor. Wall
ter A. Wyckoff, is to visit Colorado
soon and make tour of the regions
of greatest interest afoot. He ex-
poets to learn something new about
| the mound builders and will also pur-
sue geological research to some ex-
tent.
The textbooks say that twilight is
short in the tropics. But this is now
condemned as myth. At the Harvard
observatory at Arequipa, Peru, June
IS, the sun set at $3.50. AS late as GAO
one hour and ten minutes after-the
light was still sufficient to cast shad-
ow. Twilight lasts nearly until the
sun is Is degrees below the horizon.
This takes longer in the higher lati-
tudes than nearer the equator, but
even in the tropics the light of day
does not $50 out like a lamp"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1902-09-06
A FAITHFUL FRIEND.

Lenox, Mo-, Sept. 1st.-Mr. W. 81.
Brown, of this place, has reason to be
thankful that he has at least one friend
by whose good advice he has been
spared much pain and trouble. He
says:
81 have had backache for over twelve
months. Sometimes | could hardly get
up when was down, the pain in my
back was SO great.
81 tried many things but could not
get anything to help me or give me
relief till good friend of mine advised
me to try Dodd's Kidney Pills.
''After had used two boxes the pain
in my back had all left me and was
as well as ever / was.
81 am very thankful to Dodd's Kid
ney Pills for what they have done for
me, and I will never forget my friend
for having suggested this remedy"