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New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
CANVASS FAvoRs SUNDAY OPENING.

Interesting and significant figures tending 20 sup
port the statement made by some people that a
majority OF Brooklyn voters favor Sunday opening
were obtained by canvass conducted by THE
Brooklyn Eagle last week. The sentiment favor
ing open Sunday was overwhelming. more than
three-quarters OF the 4os5 voters by the can
vassers declaring for II. A greater diversity OF
opinion was shown as to the question OF the Sun
day sale. a larger percentage favoring the closing
. Of the saloons during church hours.
Lastly the verdict the Raines law In this can
New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
HARD TO BRING PRISONER NORTH.
SHERIFF HAD TO MOVE FROM TWO CARS
WITH COI.ORED MAN.

Sheriff Virtue and his brother. Frank who is
the Prosecutors detective. had hard experience
in bringing Henry L. Briggs. a negro murderer
from Richmond Va. last week The Sheriff In
qUired the ticket office in Richmond whether
there would be any objection to his taking the
prisoner In a car for white people. He was told
that there would he If first class tickets were
bought After the train started the conductor de
manded that Briggs should be taken to the car
for negroes. The Sheriff protested. but without
avail, and rather than n disturbance took
Briggs to the for Coored people
As soon as the occupants Of the car learned
that Briggs a criminal they rebelled against
his presence, and a committee waited on the cen
ductor with energetic protest Thereupon the
accommodating conductor informed the Sheriff
that Briggs would have TO ride in the colored
smoking car. and TO that car accordingly, he was
taken. The atmosphere of this was sickening,
even the prisoner but they had to stay there
while the train in Virginia.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
ELIZABETH BoARD OF TRADE DINNER.

Elizabeth. Feb. 2 (speciaD.-The arrangements
for the third annual dinner OF the Elizabeth Board
OF Trade have been practically completed, It
will be held at Jacobs's Opera House The chief
speaker Will be Lewis Nixon, who will respond to
the toast Our Manufacturing Industries" Ex-
Governor Voorhees,, Senator Kean and Mr.. Cham
berlin will also speak Covers Will be laid for
three hundred. The dinner viii take place Oh Feb
Tuary II.
The Lincoln Association Of Union County, which
for several years has given dinner on LinCOln's
Birthday. will not hold one this year.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
COULDN'T SEE RAILRoAD SIGNALS.

EXPRESS CRASHES INTO FREIGHT IN ROCHESTER,
YARDS RUNNING THROUC FOG
AND SMOKE.
Rochester, Feb. Am express train westbound
on the New-York Central crashed into a freight
train in the East Rochester yards at $40 o'clock
this morning and wrecked both engines demolished
express carload OF parcels and seriously in-
jursd engineer, Robert Metcalf, of Buffalo The
other engineer. Alya Goodwin. and his fireman, Nc
Cauley. escaped from the freight engine cab by
jumping.
The cause OF the accident is said to have been
inability to the signals through the fog and
ernok
New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
THIRTY-ONE EXCISE ARRESTS.
ELEVEN LESS CASES THAN ON THE PRE-
CEDING SUNDAY

There were thirty-one arrests for violation Of the
Excise law yesterday. against forty-two for the
preceding Sunday The arrests by precincts were
a follows;
Church-st. /; oak-st:. /: Leonard-st., l; Charles
st l. Macdougal-st. l; MUlberry-st-, /; Eldridge-
ST. /; Delancey-st !; Fifth-st. 2; West Twentieth
St. /; East Twenty 1; West Thirtieth-
st, !: West Thirty-seyenth-st-, l; East Thirty
nfth-st !: East F1fty-frst-st. =; East Sixty
enth-st.. !: West Sixty-eighth-st /; East Eighty
eighth-st. 1; East One-hundred-and- -fourth-st, 2;
West One -hundredth-st, q West One,hundred- and
twenty fifth st. 3; AleXander-aYe, The Bronx, !;
Morrisanla, The Bronx. l. fremont, The Bronx, i;
West Chester. The Bronx, !. and in Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
TO THANK ". N. JOHNSON FOR LIBRARY.

HACKENsACK BOARD OF TRADE THINKS THERE
SHOULD BE A PUBLIC EXPRESSION.
Hackensack. Feb. 2 (speciaD Though it Is sew
eral months since First Assistant Postmaster
General William NJ. johnson gave a 10000 library
building to Hackensack. the Board Of Trade
thinks is not too late for some public
milton of the gift DR.. c. F. Adams. member of
the board. said he had waited in the hope that
the Improvement Commission would act. He Is
chairman OF the special committee that will offer
suggestions to the board in few days 10 the
best means Of giving public thanks 10 Mr.. John
New-York tribune., 1902-02-03

$3.50. from s4.5o-Fancy Rockers, in golden
oak, highly polished; high bsnister and spindle
back; high arms, heavy turned spindles, saddle
shaped wood seat neatly embossed head rest.
Sc. from Sl2-One hundred Iron Bedsteads;
white ensmeled; sizes # and # 8 in.
1-inch continuous post tubing forming head and
foot pieces; fancy filing rods; ornamental
chills; gold decorated ornaments
SIS. from S2o-Golden oak China Closets, quar-
tered oak finish; 65 in. high, 40 in. wide; bent
glass ends; glass door; three shelves; shaped
legs; neatly moulded edges highly polished
$40 from S26-Polished Brass Bedstesds in full
size, fl. in. wide; II Inch corner posts
New-York tribune., 1902-02-03

yass was so overw helming to be well nigh unan-
imous Only ninetytlree supporters for this legis-
iation could be found, and OF these forty-one ad-
mitted 1t could not be enforced In New-York City.
The detailed statement Of the results are tabu-
lated herewith:
In favor partial opening 2OlS
In favor unrestricted opening LII
Total IN favor OF open Sunday y.....-.... s2aa
Of rigid closing oo<
This result in percentage would be:
Per
partial opening 80
of unrestricted opening. -
closing -S
New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
Dining Room Furniture

Never have we offered so good an assortment OF
choice patterns in Sideboards, China Closets Exten
sion Tables Bullets, and so on In large sized Side
boards of fine quality, in mahogany, golden oak,
Flemish and weathered oaks such variety has ever
before been shown in New York, and the values are
remarkable:
New-York tribune., 1902-02-03

with ornamental husks; 5s-inch top rails; z.
inch filing; 2z-inch vases; bow foot; nm.
filing tubes; highly polished.
slo.So. from sl6-one hundred golden o.k
Dressers; shaped top, 40 Z 81 inches; two loog
and two short drawers; upright oval, beveI edss
mirror, D K % inches; heavy, fine eonstrue.
ton; polished finish.
s45. from S7o-Polished Brass Bedsteads IN tour
sizes; 2-inch pillar; }f-inch top rail; x-nch
filing; extended foot piece; cast brass goose.
neck connections; ball connections between sT.
ings; large ornaments on corner posts; az.
inch vases finest construction and best auaLt,
lacquer.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
56tb
Annual Statement
of the
Connecticut Nutual
Life Insurance Company.
of Hartford, Conn.

Net Assets January l. 1901 s62 $40 o22 20
RECEIVED IN 1901.
For Premiums. --...---.-..--s5. 1Oe.O5S55
and Rents. .--- 2,9s4, ,s16.5S
Profit and Ioss......,...-.. Ss60S75
s1s247s.ss
$40. .522 49s.17
New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
M NaassmY&Jwe
The Friend that Comes Early

AVERY HOSTESS talking the nsp.
social function.
formaty; other thought and ar
II do and learn things
impossible when the formal hour
Wanamakers with sp1,,
wores-the most @
by visiting this
February Furniture Sale
aes which
mics as will double delight possession thrifty woman
areof today
Savings that Average Third
nd inudd-Paior Dning-roon
roou-in andeve wor grade
Word of the offerings follows:
New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
JACOB L. GREENE. President.
JOHN M. TAYLOR. Vice-Prest.
HERBERT n. WHITE, Secretary.
DANIEL n. WELLS, Actuary.

E. LANE, General Agent.
Boneei Building. 1l5 Broadway.
NEW YORK CITY.
New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
DIsBURSED IN 1901.

Balance Net Assets. Dec 81. 1901 se2 $40 6S2 90
New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
Library Furniture

Splendid values and large assortment in Booke.s..
Tables, Easy Chairs, Rockers, Couches and Sui,-x
Choicest goods, from best makers, in newest st,l.s
and hnishs
SO. from s15-Iuitation mahosany trams, tutst:
si2. from s1s-Plain green velour. tutt.d and
s14 from sis-Green Denim box couch
$40. from s5o-oak frame. tuftsd green v.laur
s25. from Ss5-Gray' corduroy. tutted and triar.a
$50. from s4s-Oak frame tapestry oovsr
sS5 from s5o-oak frame. green velour eev.r
sS7. from s6o-oak frame. turtsd. red tapestry
$40. from ss2-Emboss.d velour cover. tu+,.s
$40 from $e2-5o-Mahogany fram-. plain seat
s45. from ss2-Mahosany rrams. sut,ed embossed
velour cover.
$50 rom s7O-oak rrams. tuft.d embossed velour
LIBRARY TABLES
SIS. from s4o-Quartsred golden oak shap-d ton
three drawers each side one centre drawer
s45; from Ss5-GOiden oak heavy oSlonS top. Iarss
SIS. from ss5-ouartered golden oak. elabo-assIy
carved; shaped top with carved border. seven
LIBRARY SUITES
s7s from sll5-Mahogany. two pieces. carved
frames carved corner posts. uotre silk cover IN
s115 from s15S-Two pieces. mahogany rransx
Colonial design. large sized sofa. arm chair
richly carved frames. claw feet. embossed
velour cover.
s13S from S213-Afahogsny three pieces richly
carved moulded frames. plain seat tuftet backs
large sized sofa. tapestry cover.
S145- from S215-Three pieces, Colonial Ges.z-
mahogany frames. richly carved rnouidirgs ciar
feet, embossed velour cover. red figures On seru
ground.
siS5. from s2aO-Thres pieces, mahogany frames
crotch Veoeersd panels, claw fsel. tapestry
cover. wreath design on green ground.
y, Fourth Ave, Ninth and Tenth Sa
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-17
PEACE IN PACIFIC
WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ITS
MAINTENANCE.
MUST HAVE OCEAN CABLE.
TO ENLIGHTEN HAWAII AND THE
PHILIPPINES.

strong RepOrs in Favor of Govern
ment Construction and Ownership
of IA Pacific Cable to be Made by
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee-Gen. Greedy Says n Pa
cific Cable Can BE Constructed for
S1O.000,O0O and Maintained at Cost
of $525,O0O Annually.
Washington, Feb. 16.-The report to
be filed to- morrow by the House Com
mittee on Interstate and Foreign Com
merce, recommending the passage of
the bin introduced by Representative
Corllss providing for government own
ership of a Pacific cable, says that
the United States, by the annexation
of Hawaii and the acquisition of the
Philippines and other islands through
the ratification of the Paris treaty, as
sumed the responsibility of maintain
ing peace in the Pacific Ocean, and
that the future peace and prosperity
of these islands viii largely depend
upon the facilities extended by our
government for the advancement and
enlightment of the people there. If
we are to continue in control of these
Islands these people must be made to
Understand the character and purpose
of our government, and to feel the BEN
efits OF enlightened civilization and
American liberty. This can be accom-
plished through the medium of cable
communication.
Regarding government ownership of
cables, Mr.. Corlss says England for
fifty years has been constantly acquir-
ing by purchase and construction, ca
ble communication with her vast pos
sessions, until she has expended up
wards of hundred million dollars for
this purpose and operates her own ca
bles, connecting her colonies.
France. Germany and other nations
are not sleeping upon their rights as
the people Of the United States have
been" comments Mr.. Corliss, but are
establishing government telegraphic
communication with their respective
possessions.
The right to construct and operate
the Pacific cable is public utility or
franchise held by the people and should
not be transferred from their control,
General Greedy chief of the Sirnei
service of the War Department the
report says, estimated the entire cost
OF Pacific cable, including ships and
all possible contingencies at $40, 600. 900
and places the annual expenses at
$525,0O0. His judgement is confirmed
by the opinion of Rear Admiral Brad
ford, chief of the Bureau of Equipment
OF the Navy.
In conclusion the report says:
Every part of the world has been
enlightened by cable lines except the
Pacific Ocean. This vast body of wa
ter, under the control of our own gov
ernment, seems to be the one dark spot
upon the face of the EARTH and, for the
want of cable, the gem of the Pa
cifiic, the Hawaiian Islands, part of
our own country, is left in darkness
seven days behind the rest of the
world"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-17
LOOKS BAD FOR Mr.. CASTRO.
Venezuelan Forces Defeated and
Government Troops Desert to the
Enemy.

Willemstad. Island of Curacao, Feb.
16.-Bad news for the Venezuelan gov
ernment has been received from the
interior of the country. There have
been new and numerous uprisings in
the state of Carabobo, whittier the gov
ernment has sent a number of soldiers.
There were two engagements yester-
day-near Nela ses' Coro between the
government forces and the Revolution
lists under Gen. Riera. The govern
ment forces were completely routed in
these engagements, and a detachment
of them passed over to the side of the
Revolutionists.
Gen. Riera has issued revolution
ary proclamation from Sauca, dated
Feb. IA. Sauca is a village situated to
the east of, and not far from, Vela de
Coro. There are many government
soldiers in the neighborhood of Vela de
Coro, but these are principally COM
posed of boys from fourteen to fifteen
years of age.
President Castro's government at
Caracas has just issued a decree or
dering the expulsion from Venezuela of
Mrs. Matos, wife of Gen. Matos. the
leader of the present revolution against
Castro
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-17
AN OIL SHIP WRECKED.
trew of the Helene, Bound From
New York to liverpool, Landed in
GaiYeSfOu


New York to liverpool, Landed in
Galveston.
Galveston, Tex, Feb. 16.-The Head
Line steamer Torrhead arrived in port
to-day with a shipwrecked crew of
eighteen men of the ship Helene,
which went to pieces in a
hurricane ON Feb. 8, in lati-
tude 37:1S north, and longitude
f;4S. Capt. H. Kohlstadt, mas
ter Of the vessel. is included in the res
eued crew. The Helene left New York
lQr Liverpool on Jan. 19 with a cargo
OF naphtha valued at 100000 On the
morning of Jan. 81 the ship encounter
ed the hurricane and for three days
he crew struggled to keep the ship
aHoat Five of the crew succumbed
10 exhaustion before the end of the
second day : For thirty-eight hours
the eighteen men aboard worked with
vut tood pumping the water from the
noid- The food that escaped the wa
vsr was saturated with naphtha. The
Iorrhead having steered 120 miles out
ol IT'S course to avoid the hurricane,
came across the Helene, which was
sinking rapidly and, leaving his vessel,
Capt Kohlsadt fired her and she sank
III ten minutes. The crew of the He.
iene were brought to Galveston and de-
uyered to the German consul here.
All put four of the men have recovered
ana are now out of danger
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-17
The AUSTRIAN RIOTS
THE SITUATION AT TRIESTE Is
VERY GRAVE.
MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED.
SIXTEEN KILLED AND ABOUT A
HUNDRED WOUNDED.

0nicer in Command Knocked I'm
conscious, After which the Troops
Fired ReckIessIy, Innocent Parties
Police Commissioner Lost His Life.
Mob Became Crazed when 1t Be-
held Work of TrOOps-Victory of
Strikers Has a Quieting Eject.
Trieste, Austria Hungary, Feb. 49,
AS result of the strikes, martial law
has been proclaimed here. Altogether
one hundred arrests have been made.
In some of the trades it is expected
work will be resumed tomorrow.
Vienna, Feb. 16.-The riots at Trieste
are the gravest which have happened
in Austria in many years. The orig
inal strike is supposed to be an outcome
of Socialist or Anarchist agitation.
During Fridays riots, twelve persons
were killed and twenty-five wounded,
while on Saturday four persons met
death, including the Police Commits
sioner, who was Killed by a revolver
shot. Some of the reports of the oc-
currences say that over one hundred
persons were wounded. There is lit
tie doubt that the troops were over
hasty.
DR.. Won Koerber, the Imperial Pre-
mier, explained to the Reichsrath, Sat
urday, that the officer commanding the
troops was struck by stone and fell
unconscious, and that the officer next
in rank odered his men to fire, and
that. the latter were so excited they
fired recklessly, with the result that a
girl, sitting in a. second-story window,
and postal clerk sitting in his office,
were both shot dead. The Reichsrath
unanimously voted practical censure
on the government for permitting the
troops to fire on the mob. The munich
pal council of Trieste has adopted a
similar resolution and had decided to
provide for the families of the victims
of the encounters at public cost 1t is
not unlikely that the municipal coun-
Gil of Trieste will be dissolved for de-
nance of the government. All official
accounts describe the riots as a rev
olutionary outbreak" A cabinet coun-
Gil, hurriedly called Saturday night, OBJ
tanned the sanction of Emperor Fran
els Joseph to suspe1fa civil law al
Trieste and at many villages in the
vicinity while two battalions of troops
We're drafted into Trieste.
What, however, had a greater effect
in quieting the city, was the an
nouncement Saturday of the arbitra-
tion tribunal in favor of the strikers.
Not until an official, standing on the
balcony of the town hall had read
the decision aloud, and groups of
strikers had paraded the streets with
flags to spread the decision, was quiet
restored.
1t is said that on Friday, after the
troops had fired on the rioters, the
mob, composed mostly of Italians, be-
came infuriated and dragged the
bleeding corpses of their comrades be-
fore the soldiers, whom they assailed
with terrible imprecations as murder
ers and assassins.
The proclamation of martial law
provides for summary trial before a
special court, empowered to carry out
sentence of death within twenty
four hours.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-17
BY CANNIBALS
.opRIBLE FATE OF FRENCH SCI
ENTIFIC PARTY.
TWENTY-FIVE MASACRED.
SEVERAL FRENCHMEN OF NOTE
AMONG THE NUMBER.

NJ Rouyer, Correspondent for La
Patrie. who Was survivor of the
D,osSacre, Tells the News-EEad
vorroyv Escape From Being Eaten
t1imself-Saw the Bodies of His
Compnnions Around Him and One
uo,na Roasted over "a Fire When
the Rescue Was Made.
paris. Feb. Liza Patrie to-day
,,,,blishes a letter received from it's
correspondent, M. Rouyer, survivor
If the massacre of a French scientific
,,,ission bv cannibals at Sileraka, New
cr,rea Ian. 1. Mr.. Rouyer relates
that the yacht Salvatti, with the mis-
sion on board, had anchored off the
coast of New Guinea, and that several
of the explorers landed. After an ap-
rarentlv friendly reception from the
natives. the latter treacherously at
tackled them during the night, murder
ing twenty-five of the party, including
paron Villars, Count de Stromney, and
Mime. Hargenbock and M. Vries, and
younding thirty-three, including the
writer of the letter. NJ. Rouyer, the
chief of the mission and another
Frenchman named Remier.
NJ. Rouyer writes:
I'VE were all sleeping peacefully
when there was great uproar and we
we're attacked by hundreds of natives
CARRYING torches. Several of us were
felled to the ground with clubs, hatch
cts and spears. Others were overpow-
cred. carried away and bound to trees.
l was among this number. l received
a blow on the head and tainted. When
I recovered consciousness, at O'Clock
in the morning, l found myself tied
hand and foot and surrounded by saw
ages, WHO, believing me to be dead,
were keeping me for themselves. l saw
the body OF Baron VillarS near me,
bound to a tree. His body was naked,
his head had been split open, his eyes
had been gouged out and his groin was
horribly mutilated. The Count de
Saint Remy had been decapitated and
his head stuck on the end of a spear
as a trophy. NJ Hagenbock was spitted
on bamboo and was being roasted
over fire. The savages were about to
cut him up. | waited my fate. / was
afraid to move. MY head hurt me
dreadfully. All around me the ground
VAS strewn With corpses. Suddenly
great clamor arose, followed by a fusil-
lade. l opened my eyes and saw DR..
Foriter and the remainder of the mis-
sion from the yacht firing on the can
nibals. l shouted and the rescuers ran
to me and cut the bonds which bound
me to the tree. The cannibals fled,
leaving thirty-two dead. The clothes
of NJ. Vries We're found, but his body
was missing. He had evidently been
devoured by the savages during the
night"
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-17
THE BRITISH FOOLED AGAIN.
Single BOer Led 100 Mounted In
fantrymen Into Death Trap.

Pretoria, Feb. 16.-One hundred and
fifty mounted infantrymen, while pa
trolling the Kip river, south of Jo-
hannesburg, Feb. u, surrounded a
farmhouse, where they suspected Beers
were in hiding. A single Boer broke
away from the house, and the British
started to pursue him. The Boer
climbed kopje. the British following.
Immediately a heavy fire was opened
upon them from three sides. The Brit
ish found themselves in a trap and in
a position where they were unable to
make any defense. Eight of the Brit
ish officers made a gallant effort and
defended the ridge with carbines and
revolvers until they were overpowerd.
The British had two officers and ten
men killed, and several officers and
forty men wounded before the force
was able to fall back under cover of
a block house.
The Infantrymen Were Green.
London, Feb. 16.-According to spec
ial dispatches from Pretoria, the noun
ted infantry, who were trapped at
Kip River, were all fresh from home
and unused to Boer tactics. The bulk
of the casualties occurred during the
retreat of the British. The killed in
cluded Major Dowell, the commander
of the force.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-17
BELL CLEANS UP BATANGAS.
Rigorous Measures Drive Robber
Bands to other Provinces.

bunus 10 Other provinces.
Manila, Feb. 16.-Gen. j. Franklin
Bell has practically cleaned up the in
surrection in Batangas province, the
troops under his command having
made a clean sweep of the district.
1t is not believed that all the insur-
gent arms have been captured or sur
rendered but that a number of them
have been taken by the insurgents to
other provinces or safely hidden. The
increase of robber bands in the prov
inces of Tayabas and Cavite show the
effects of the drastic measures adopted
in Batangas province and Laguna.
Gen. Bell says the people of these lat
ter provinces never realized the terrors
of war until they personally expert
enced its hardships, owing to the clos
ing of the ports and the concentration
Of the natives in the towns. Gen. Bell
believes that the insurgent leader NAL
var is becoming exceedingly unpopu-
lar with the Filipinos and that when
the natives cease to fear his vengeance.
many will be found willing to betray
him.
What has been said of Batangas
province applies almost equally to La
guna.