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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
PAID 4 LONG DIE DEBT.
Police Sergeant DALEY Hears From Two
Honest Regulars.

Sergt, John F. Daley Of the East Thirty
fifth street police station received visit
from two United States soldiers yes, erday.
Hello, Sarge" said the bluecoat who
acted as spokesman
Good afternoon. gentlemen" replied
the sergeant. What's the trouble now?
Been touched?"
No trouble at all. but don't you remem-
bcr us?"
Il can't say that do, said Daley.
well. if Won don't remember us, you prob
ably recDllcct hat lust before the Spanish
war two soldiers walked into the West
Forty-sC""nth street station. where you
were, and ,od they were from Fort Slocum,
and ASKED you to loan them 81, promising
To pay the next time they visited tho CITY.
You handed over 81 without taking their
names. Before they could return tho
money their regiment left for Cuba for q
wears service and was then sent to the
Philippines. We are those soldiers and we
are just home. Here's the money We
borrowed. with 81 interest.
Before the sergeant could recover from
he shock his two visitors had grasped his
hand and departed
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
WOMAN BROKE IN ON SERMON
AND SET OTHER WOMEN IN THE
CHURCH TO SOBBING.
Rose and Went To the (hancel In Holy
Trinity. Harlem, While the Rev. DR..
Parks Was Preaching on Fashions.
bic immortality Is Out OF Health.

4 woman interrupted the serenity Of the
morning service yesterday in Holy Trinity
Protestant Episcopal Church of Harlem.
where. in the absence of the rector, who
H. i'll, the Rev DR. j. Lewis Parks, rector Of
Calvary Church. was preaching He had
selected for his text:
Beware Of false prophets, which come
to you in sleeps clothing, bL. inwardly
they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know
them by their fruits Do men gather
grapes of thorns or figs Of thistles?"
There was a large congregation. more
than half women. The sermon at one
point dealt with some Of tho current plays
and warned the hearers not to be led by
glittering immortality to think that immor-
ality was of small consequence or might
be overlooked because il was fashionable. Z"
Dr. Parks had preached the same sermon
in his own church,
He was in the midst Of il yesterday when
young woman got up from one Of the
back seats and came down the aisle. She
walked straight up TO the pulpit. stood
in front OF the preacher and said 10 him
something inaudible TO the congregation,
at the same time removing one of her white
| kid gloves. Then she took out a handker.
the preacher.
/ DR.. Parks kept on with his sermon as il
| he had not seen the woman approach
| She sobbed aloud and motioned with her
| gloved hand as II asking him to stop and
| listen to her.
The women in the congregation began
| to catch the contagion OF sobbing and
| several hundred handkerchiefs came out
They were weeping Some who were
| near the tower entrance were sobbing
| violently. Near the back door woman
became suddenly i'll and several others
| assisted her 10 the sidewalk
One woman left her pew TO go TO the
woman who stood before the pulpit and
lead her away DR. Parks motioned to one
| he stepped between the two women in
| front of the pulpit.
DR.. Parks said that he would talk with
| the women at the conclu.iDn OF the sermon.
The second woman TOOK the others arm
| and led her away, assisted by the vestryman
The woman who had approached tie
| pulpit after The other explained that she
\ was sister. At TIE conclusion az the
services DR.. Parks went into the vestry
and had a talk with both women. The
| sister in the case explained that the young
woman was i'll and not accountable.
In speaking Of the matter last night
the Rev. DR.. Parks said
The sermon | preached was the came
| preached last Sunday downtown in my
own church. There was nothing remark
| able about it that ] could see. II was an
| ordinary sermon. II the folks uD in Har-
lem consider IL a powerful one. | am glad
to hear il. After talking with the woman
for few minutes | became convinced
that she was not right in hcr mind so left
her there with her sister"
The woman is not a member Of Holy
Trinity Church
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
EDU ARD or SANE-WEINAR DEAD.
Prince Was 10 Years Ola and Field Marshal
In the british Army.
special Cable Despatch to The srs.

special Cable Despatch to The SuS.
LONDON, Nov. l8.-rrince Edward of
Saxe-Wemar, who was Field Marshal
in the British Army is dead
The death Of Prince Edward deprives
the King of a lifelong and. perhaps. his
most intimate friend. DR.. Treves lately
performed upon him successful operat ion
for appendicitis, which was identical with
the operation performed upon the King
After the operation his kidneys became
congested and the action Of his heart
failed
There are many interesting incide nts
in his long career in the British Ar my
Al Sebastopol he volunteered to carry n
message TO a fire-swept trench. He crawlcd
on his hands and knees across the inter-
vening space, which was being swept by
a hail Of bullets, unframed and delivered
the message.
Prince Edward vas 20 years old. He
entered the British Army in 1871, Ten
years later he married Augusta Catherine,
daughter Of the Duke Of Richmond. He
served in the Crimean War, commanded
the Home district, Is70-7s and, was Com.
mander Of the forces in Ireland. lss5-p0.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
FIGHT AT NAVAL y. W. &. 4.
Policeman and citizen Injured Severely
by sailors In Norfolk.

NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 18.-Policeman r. T..
Powers was stabbed and Harry Post, a
civilian, was .beaten by sailors here
tonight. The policeman attempted TO
quiet several sailors in Church street at
the Naval Y. NJ. c. A. building when the
crowd of bluejackets set uron him. After
beating him severely they threw him and
Harry Post, who Went 10 the policeman 5
assistance. out OF the building with violence.
Policeman Powers was hurled through the
plate glass front by the crowd of about 200
bluejackets, some of whom were in,oxl-
Gated.
The Richmond and the Franklin, both
training ships, are here and they have
1000 hluejackets, many Of whom frequent
the Naval Y. NJ. &. 4, dedicated by Miss
Helen Gould, who was here last month.
After the squad Of police arrived in Church
street 10 rescue Policeman Pow erg a guard
of eight policemen was placed In the naval
building to prevent another outbreak
During the fight large crowd 81 citizens
gathered outside the hall and STAYED there
for hours expecting further trouble and
apparently ready to assist the police.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
MISS M'LAUGULIN'S BODY FOUND
II Was Ten Feet From the Spot IA the IIud.
son Where Mntcrs'S nOdN MaS

PouaHKErPsIE, Nov. ls,-Thc mystery
of tho disappearance Of James Waters
and Mrs Kitty Mclaughlin, who were
supposed to have eloptd on Oct. 20. vas
all cleared up to-day. The body of Miss
Mclaughlin was found in the Hudson
River. on tho dock ut Hyde Park, at about
/ O'Clock thi' afternoon, Ten rcet from the
spot where the body Of James Waters wa,
found Yesterday. The young Momans
waist and automobile coat were torn where
IN" graphing irons had repeatedly caught
and torn out. One eye vas dscolored
DR.. r. h. Tuth,ll said that the mark vas
duo 10 the action Of the water.
There was Il large crowd Of morbid pco-
pie on tho deck "hen Miss McLaugh,iu's
body was brought ashore. Coroner SELF
ridge had the young woman's coat turned
up over her face 20 that nobody could see
II, The remains were brought TO Pough-
keepsie. BY direction of her sister, Mrs
Mamie Welsh, who arrived here last night
from Chicago, the body will be taken to
Ca'@kill for inierment. Tho funeral Of
James Waters will he held tomorrow
All tho organizations to which he belonged
will turn out in a body 10 attend il.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
MRS. OGLESBY TO WE'D IN ITALYs
widow OF the Late Governor OF Illinois May
Marry an Italian.

LINCOLN, H.. Nov. le-Reports come
from over the Atlantic that Mrs Emma
Gillett Oglesby OF Elkhart will not return
to America soon. because Of her approach
ing marriage to an Italian nobleman.
Mrs Oglesby has been visiting an Ameri-
can woman who married an Italian Count,
and there met the Italian whom she is TO
wed. Mrs. Oglesby has sent for many
articles needed in a home and leased a
chateau in Italy. Her friends in Illinois
are much exercised over the report and
believe il to be true
Mrs. Oglesby il the widow Of the late
Gov, Richard j. Ogesby and the mother
Of Col. John d. G.. Oglesby, private secre-
tary TO Gov. Yates.
SPRINGFIELD, III, Nov. ls-Col John
Oglesby does not believe that his mother
Is engaged TO an Italian nobleman. He
says Mrs. Oglesby is touring the Continent
and has no intention to wed
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
50 DAYS ON A RAFT; NO FOOD.
EIGHT SURVIVE THE TERRIBLE
ORDEAL; EIGHT DIE.
Only Two Apples and No water on the
Raft when They Left the wrecked
British steamer Eiinsamite-EverySc a
swept over Them-A Woman Died.
Special Cable D.spa'cs 10 THE Sun

Special Cable Desp1ich 10 THE Sun.
WELLINGTON. n. T., Nov. 10 The eight
survivors Of the wreck of the British steamer
Elingsmite, who were picked up on a raft
by the British sloop-of-war Penguin. were
rescued last Thursday sixty miles from
West King Island, the scene Of the wreck
They had been drifting since Oct. o.
without any food except two apples. Each
apple was cut into sixteen pieces, there
being fifteen men and the stewaroiess on
the raft when it left the wreck.
Three of the men became maddened
by drinking sea water and leaped over
board. -Four others and the stewardess
died OF starvation and exposure.
The survivors suffered agonizingly on
the raft. This was IL feet long by feet
wide, IL was half submerged and every
sea swept over 1t, dronching it, occupants.
On the night Of Nov. IL the castaways
saw the lights of a steamer and shouted
frantically. The steamer lowered a boat
which passed within fifty yards Of the
raft Then, although those on the raft
continued shouting, the boat turned and
went back to the steamer, apparently not
having heard the cries for help.
After this despondency seized the occu-
pants of the raft. One Of them tried TO
appease his hunger by chewing his hand
kerchief.
When the Pengtin's boat went alongside
the raft only one Of the shipwrecked men
was able TO stand All Of them were in a
most emaciated condition. and their faces.
hands and legs were raw from exposure
to the sun and water.
All hope of finding the remaining forty
persons from the Elingamite has been
abandoned
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
BOY on Stills THE GHOST.
He Frightened the Residents Of Upper New
RDchclle

NEW ROCHELLE, y. Y. Nov. i8-The
mysterious figure known as the Black Ghost
which has for several weeks frightened
the residents of Upper New Rochelle by
appearing in the highway in the vicinity
Of the Tom Paine monument, has at last
been identified.
Last night a farmer on his way home
encountered the figure, which sprang
from behind stone wall The farmer
instead Of running away, struck The object
a sharp blow with his whip, which felled II
t. the roadside
A. tho figure fell il gave yell Of pain
and then +campercd away The ghost
proved to b. boy who lives in the neigh
borhood He left his paraphernalia be-
hind, consisting Of pair of stills five feet
tall, a sheet and a black mask
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
FlREMEN CHASE BLAZING AUTO
SEE 1T DASH ny AND REACH IT
Just As N ENPLODES.
Owner Had Decided That the Hest Way TO
Put Out the Blaze Was 10 Hurry
Didn't Reckon on the Men Of Truck
Z Seeing n streak Of Flame Nhix Past.

Edward = Lea. the sales manager Of the
De Laval Steam Turbine Company at 70
Cortlandr street, took a friend out 10 ride
yesterday in his rev steam automobile.
A. they were coming down Eighth avenue
at fifty-oighth stree, persons on the side
walk began TO point at the machine. but
the two mca in ii didn't realize what the
pointing meant until they got to Fifty
third street
Then Lea leaned over and saw that the
body OF the machine had caught fire from
the gasoere fame under II, He had an
idea that the best way TO put out the flames
was 20 go a. fast a. he could and perhaps
exhaust the gasolene 80 be put on all speed.
As the automobile dashed by Forty
ninth street Foreman Thomas s. Kelly
and Fireman Charles I3yrnes. who were
l'aning from the sccond-story window
Of Truck Is house. saw IT,
Kelly and Byrncs slid down he rod With
out waiting for request, got he hook and
ladder truck out and started on chase after
the burning machine. Tho whole business
was done so quickly that the fire truck was
well on It's way after the machine when the
expected happened.
AZ for'y-lith stfeet the Rasolene tank
OF the machine blew up with a roar. Both
men in the machine were thrown out Lea
landing fifteen feet at one side. The flames
then enveloped the machine as it bumped
up against post and stopped. The fire.
men jumped of and fired several hand
grenades into the wreck and put out the
fire.
La and his companion were unhurt
except for few bruises. They went home
in a carriage drawn by horses
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
LABOR DELEGATE ROBBED.
One Of the visiting English commission
Loses Ills Money In (lcN Gland.

(LEyFL.SD. Nov. lev. G. Steadman
former member Of the English Parliament
and Of the commission Of twenty
Englishmen who are visiting this country
tn study the industrial conditions. was
robbed cf E!2 in English money in the
Forest City House in his city last night
In England, in some places. l. Is the
custom of hotel guests to leave the doors
of their rooms unlocked, and Mr.. Stead
man thought the same custom prevailed
in this country. He knows differently
now. for during tho night some one entered
his room and stole all the money he had
There il NO clue to the robbery.
The other members Of the commission
hav" decided 10 give s. apiece to Mr.. Stead
man so that he viii not have TO cable home
for money.
Mr. Steadman, when telling Of the robbery
to-day said:
Il suppose all England will be laughing
when informed about the affair Monday
morning"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
LINCHED ~ kENTICkY.
Mdb Wasn't satisfied With Life Imprison
ment for Negro.

ELIzABETH. Ky. Nov. ie-Harlan Buck
les. the negro who was sentenced to life
imprisonment in the Hardin Circuit Court
Yesterday for the murder of Robert l..
Reid. at Utopia Island in this county, on
July TO- 1901, was hanged in the court yard
by mob al o. clock this morning.
The members of the mob marched to
the Jail where they Knocked for admit
lance. Ban Patterson, the jailer, was
absent, and his son Leslie. answered the
call and was covered with rifles and sho, =
guns as soon a. he opened the door. HI
was forced to open the Jail and unlock the
cell door where Buckles was confined.
The mob Immediately took Buckles
TO the court yard where he was har god
The Coroner's jury returned this morning
a verdict 81 death by han ging at the hands
OF unknown parties"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
PISTOL FOR ". BECKER's ENEMY
Teacher OF Fenc'ns and Languages Says a
Rival Is Seeking His Life. =

Francois Becker. a teacher Of langua Rcs
and fencing al iO4 East Twenty-third stree,
applied TO Capt, Fitzpatrick Of the Fast
Invent y-second street station last night for
a permit to carry a revolver Becker told
the captain that he had enemies that werc
seeking his life. A week ago. he said. he
had been attacked by n man in Ffty-first
street near Fifth avenue
Becker intimated that n business ril al
was the man he wa afraid Of. he said that
in 1879 he roIrssonted South American
republic al Washington. He got the permit
to carry the revolver.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
MARIE DRESSLER ~ DANGER.
Her Illness From Typhoid Has Taken .
Serious Turn-She Worked While III.

Serious Turn-She Worked While III.
Marie Dressler the actress. who has been
III for some weeks with typhoid fever.
has had relapse and her condition Is
dangerous.
Miss Dressler was taken sick with typhoid
in September at her summer home at Bav
Side, l.. I. She was up and out before she
really should have been and three weeks
ago she played a weeks enga gement at the
Orpheum Theatre In Brooklyn.
The last night of this enga cement she
tainted in her ,dressing room. The next
day she was in bed In her apart menth in
the Lorella in West Fory-fifth street. She
was again victim OF typhoid and for sew
eral days was delirious. Last Thursday
the fever had abated and her temperature
was normal That night she was attacked
with acute gastrits and her Temperature,
went up to iO4. For the following day it
was one degree higher.
DR.. Frauenthal was attending her and
he called in Dr. A. H. Smith. professor
Of clinical medicine In the Post Graduate
Hospital. He administered stomach anti
septics and the fever decreased some
Her temperature was still high last nj gh,
and DR.. Frauenthal said that there were
indications Of hemorrhages.
Miss Dressler is better known TO theatre
goers Of this city than to any other Prob.
ably she has done more TO popularize coon
songs than any other actress. Three
years ago she starred in the musical comedy
miss Print" Since that time she has
acted almost continually in this city.
She played the leading roles in all the
New York Theatre burlesques when the
Sires had that playhouse. Her h,lmor wa,
spontaneous and her popularity unques.
TONED.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
GOT S2O,OOO FOR Sff,OOO.
Mexican Of,cer Didn't Return u 10 the
Bank and Is Arrested.

CITY OF MEXICO, Nov. l6.-A sensation
has been caused here by the imprisonment
of Fortunate de Ia Fuentc, paymaster of
the War Department, on the charge Of
stealing $1,000. The money was overchange
given 10 him by bank clerk,
Fuente went into the National Pank Of
Mexico with 400 in bills in large dcnomi-
nations and asked for bills Of smaller de-
nominations. The paying teller changed
the money for him, A short time after
ward he discovered that he had given the
payrnaster $4,000 instead OF $4,000 The
police gay they have found the $4,000 Sc
GREETED in wardrobe.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
Their Auto Ahre: Didn't Know II.

EAST ORANGE. y. j., Nov. I8.-With the
rear of their big automobile ablaze from
leak in the gssolenc tank, Mr. and Mrs.
Al gus Sinclair of II Beech street, this city,
rode two miles through Springfield yester-
cay afternoon without being aware Of
their danger. 1t was only when Postmaster
George Mcdonald, who saw the vehicle
approaching. ran out into the read waving
his arms that it dawred upon Mr.. and Mn.
Sinclair that something was wrong. They
alighted from the vehicle with considerable
expedition. The blaze was extin guhhed .
but the machine YVES so much injured that
Mr.. and Mrs. Sinclair went home on train
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
f.. II. DALTON FOUND.
Taken From Burlington to His Home In
Trenton-I,ost In stocks.

TRENTON, n. j.. Nov. i8.-Edward b.
Dalton. whose father was one of the
wealthiest merchants in this city. disap-
peared last Thursday afternoon and his
family spent two days in searching for
him. assisted by detectives.
Last night Mrs. Dalton received tele-
gram from Burlington from her husband.
saying that Yale had defeated Princeton
and that Princeton was no good. Later
in the evening MIR. Dalton was found in
; Burlington hotel and he is now at his
home, suffering from nervous prostration.
Mr.. Dalton had become depressed over
financial matters. He failed recently and
lost heavily by recent slurnps in the stock
market.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
NEW FILIPINO CHURCH.
Dissenters VIII Hold = Conference In Manila
This Week.

Special Cao,s Despatch to THE Sun.
MANILA, Nov. l8.-The self-styled
Bishop Aglipay and other leaders Of the
independent Catholic movement will hold
a conference here commencing tomorrow
II il probable that they will present an
ultmatum to Archbishop Guidi, Apostolic
Delegate to the Philippines, stating the
conditions under which they will return to
the Roman Church Some Of the delegates
To the confere nee come instructed to re :
frain from any action until they learn the
attitude of Archbishop Guidi.
A large group of native priests are still
loyal TO Rome. but they are wavertng in their
allegiance These priests will hold an in
dependent conference with the Archbi hop
in order to ascertain the policy Of the Church
here before deciding upon the action to be
taken by them.
The dissenters are still holding OPEN
air services. They have made no further
attempt to secure a church in which to
worship since the authorities compelled
them to give up the one they had seized.
Cholera has developed among the oasuals
encamped at Santa Mesa There are also
a few cases in the First Reserve Hospital.
The surgeons say they have the disease
under control The number OF cases in
Manila is increasing. and it is feared that
the disease will again ass.,.ne epidemic
form. On saturday forty-one cases were
reported, To-day there were thirty-tw q
new cases.
Lieut. Gen. Miles landed az Malabang
on the southwest coast Of Mindanao
Friday. He rode out and inspected Camp
Wears and other scenes Of trouble between
the Americans and Moros. He will visit
Iamboanga and lligan, and will then go
to Cebu, leyte. Samar and South Luzon.
He is expected TO return TO Manila next
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
DE WET DOESN'T SPARE BOFRs.
Says There We're towards and Traitors
In Their Camps.

Spetf1T tdhf Dfsp1Ich 70 THE Sun
BERLIN Nov. l6 The Lokdi Arspiqer
prints from the advance sheets summary
of Gen. De Vets book The Struggle Be-
tween Boer and Briton"
1t says the work dispassionately, dig
nifedly and frankly approaches England
for provoking the war and for committing
crielties in conducting it, but the author
does not spare his own people. Of whom he
says that noble characters were extremely
rare among the fighting Beers
Stupidity, cowardice, lack of discipline,
fai,hlessness and abominable treason were
to be met with among them to an appalling
degree Had there not been SO many
traitors in their own camp the Beers would
never have been so utterly defeated.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
BUTLER BACK AND WOyLDN'T GO.
Mrs. Henry T.. Lawrence Has Trouble With
a DISCHARGED servant

A butler named Peter Hudson, who had
formerly been employed by Mrs Henry
T.. Lawrence Of 81 East Twenty-ffth street ,
called at Mrs I.awrence's house last night
and made such disturbance that Mrs
Lawrence asked him TO leave.
He refused and some of the servants
tried 10 put him out Of the house In doing
40 Hudson put his hand through a window
Mrs. Lawrence notified the Tenderloin
station by telephone and two policemen
locked him up. He had been employed
by Mrs. Law renee for twelve years up to
two years ago, when she discharged him.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
KILLED HIMSELF ~ 1 PARK.
johnson. who'd Been Twice Married, Had
Had "DonicstIc Troubles"

George W. johnson, who for eighteen
years had been a clerk in the American.
Express Company's office at e5 Broadway,
committed suicide last nigh, in Morning
side Park.
He had been married twice, and daugh-
ter by his first wife and two sons by his
second are living,
He had not been living with his wife.
whose home IL at South Amboy, y. j.,
for several months. The suicide left SOW
eral letters In which he said that domestic
troubles had caused him to resolve to kill
himself
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-17
SOUTH AFRICAN SHARES DROP.
scheme to Influence the Government, .
London Paper Thinks.

Special Cable Dtypi'ches 10 THE Sun,
JOHANNES BURG, Nov. l8.-The prices
Of mining shares at the Stock Exchange
here slumped heavily yesterday. One
failure occurred
LONDON. Nov. 17,-The Daily Mail de-
clares that the decline in mining shares
was engineered by great financial houses
interested in the Rand for the purpose Of
pro, ing that the mere suggestion Of taxa
ton has had a disastrous effect on the
mines, and to furnish an argument in favor
OF introducing Chinese and other Asiatic
labor, which the Government opposes