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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
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witnesses Say Mrs. Taylor Thought sheo
Heard From Dead Husband.

Heard From Dead Husband.
The contest over the will Of Mrs. Adeline
barrow Townsend, who died In February
last, AGED 30, leaving an estate valued
at more than 100000, was resumed
yesterday before Surrogate Thomas. Mrs
Townsend, who was the widow OF Henry r.
Townsend. lawyer, bequeathed almost AL
of her property to Joseph H. Mahan her
husbands law partner; The contestants
are cousins who allege that Mrs. Townsend
was incompetent to make will mainly
because sle was Spiritualist
DR. Albert A. Davis, one OF the subscribing
witnesses TO the WILL testified yesterday mat
he had received a check for 600 from MRS
townsend after witnessing her WV
DR.. Davis denied that Mrs Townsend
was a believer in spiritualism when she
died. He said she told him that she mad
believed In and practised spiritualism 1or
forty years, but that she had never got any
good out of IL and knew no more az the END
concerning the hereafter than did anyone
else.
Harriet f. Duncan, white-haire woman
about 40 years old. told of having at
tended spiritualistic seances WITH Win MIS-.
Townsend at the house OF Mrs Wlil'aihsi
medium At several of these seances she
said, they saw visions of Mr.. Townsend
and his son. and heard their voices. Mrs.
Townsend, said the witness, derived great
comfort and peace of mind from these Sc
ances and visions.
Mrs. Julia Walker, the last witness OF
the day, also testified that Mrs, Townsend
was a believer in spritualism She said
that Mrs Townsend had told her that abe
had spoken with Mr. Townsend. and that
the latter had informed her that her pet
parrot. which had just died, had joined him
in the great spirit world.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
JEROME AFTER WESTON.
Deputy Coroner Goes to the Country After
subpoena Had Been Left at His House.

The trial of Gertrude Wade indicted
for manslaughter, was set down for
last Monday before Judge Mcmahon in
the General Sessions. After the jury
was obtained it was discovered that
Coroner's Physician Weston. who was
one of the main witnesses, was not on
hand, although subpoena had been left at
his house last Saturday. The trial was adj
journed and District Attorney jerome
wrote to Coroner Scholer IN complaint of
DR.. Weston. whom the Coroners have been
trying to bounce. Coroner Scholer sent a
letter to Mr.. Jerome yesterday saying
that he didn't know where DR., Weston
was and intimating that he would feel no
regret should Mr.. Jerome take steps to
punish DR.. Weston for his failure to appear
In court. 1t does not appear that the sub
poena was served on DR.. Weston person
ally.
DR.. Weston lives in an apartment house
at 228 Central Park West. 1t was said
there last evening that he and Mrs Yves ton
and their child left for the country on Mon
day. DR.. Weston left word that he ex-
pected to be back June or 8.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
STONY POINT LIGHTHOUSE,
Mrs. Nancy Rose Completes Her Forty.
.a seventh Year as Keeper.

NYAcK, May IA This week Mrs. Nancy
Rose, mother OF Supervisor Alexander
Roee Of Stony Point, completes her forty
seventh year as the official keeper OF the
lighthouse at Stony Point. Mrs Roses
career has been a remarkable one for faith
fulness, and to her untiring watchfulness
"a due the safety OF hundreds OF vessels
that have sailed up and down the Hudson
in the last half-century.
Mrs. Rose has lived at Stony Point for
just fifty years. Her husband, Alexander
Rose. Sr, was appointed lighthouse keeper
In the spring of 1852, and the family moved
into the lighthouse in 1853. While lifting
timbers for the bell tower in 1857 he ruptured
. blood vessel. which occasioned his death
. few weeks later.
After her husbands death Mrs. Rose
was appointed lighthouse keeper, and
during all the long years that have passed
she has never been known to shirk her
duty or to be away from her post when
needed. Through clear weather and storm
this woman has kept her beacon light
shining. to, warn passing vessels OF the
rocks which encircle the huge promontory.
She gets only $3.50 year for her arduons
services, and strong effort is being made
TO pension her and give her the rest from
nor work which she has 80 well earned.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
JURY VOTES ON RABBIS "GET.'
Six for Letting an Fast Side Bigamist Go
Six for Furnishing Her.

Eva Moscow. an East Side Jewess, pleaded
guilty yesterday in the General Sessions
to an indictment for bigamy. She got q
Rabbinical divorce or get" from her first
husband from Rabbi Abramovich. and
remarked. That kind OF divorce is
illegal, and Assistant District Attorney
Isefln wanted Judge Foster to impose a
prison sentence because, he said, the case
was but one Of many on the East Side and
drastic measures ought to be taken to
break up the Rabbnical divorce business.
Judge Foster turned to the jury and said
As the case has been taken from your
consideration, / will ask your help in reach
ing a, decision. How many of you advo-
cate no punishment? Stand up" Six
stood up.
How many think she ought to be pun
ished?' The remaining six arose, five Of
whom were Jews.
"I1l postpone the matter until l have a
talk with the counsel for the Educational
Alliance said Judge Foster.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
Close Of the d. r. Convention.

Mrs. D. Phoenix Ingraham and the officers
of the New York Chapter of the Daughters
of the Revolution entertained the $50 sitting
regents and other officers Of the organization
at reception yesterday in the ballroom
of the Waldorf-Astoria. Mrs. Ingraham
was assisted in receiving by Miss Antoinette
Steele, president of the board of managers;
Mrs Charles W Dayton Miss Hunt and Mrs
Ashbel p. Fitch.
The convention Of the society will close
to-day. A special train will convey about
two hundred OF the visiting delegates to
Peekskill for tallyho party
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
COcOanut Oh in Enormous Packages.

NEW ORLEANS, May 1.-THE arrival
here from Africa of a cargo of sixty-one
packages of cocoanut oil, intended for a
soap manufacturing house. has upset the
weighers and railroads, IA the oil is put
up in pipes, or wooden packages, of such
size and weight that they cannot be weighed
here or carried in ordinary cars. The
easily handled, but the larger ones are too
big for any railroad oar
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
YALE MEN HAVE 4 LARK.
Put q Hat and . Coat on the Statue OF
Abraham PtersOn.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, May fan in
vestigation has been started by Yale Of
ficials to-day to ascertain who dressed the
statue of Abraham Pierson, the first presi
dent Of Yale, during the night with black
derby hat and cape overcoat. When the
undergraduates started for chapel this
morning they were startled to see the staid
old president with badly battered black
hat over his left ear and a cape overcoat
thrown rakishly over one shoulder. He
had the appearance of returning from
spending a hard night out with the boys.
This is the first time in many years that
liberties of this kind have been taken with
any Of the statues on the campus.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
Mr.. Rr,,xulere Out Of DANGER.

NEWPORT. r. l., May 4.-Louis Bruguiere
who was severely injured in being thrown
from his horse yesterday. is now thought
to be out Of danger. He passed a bad night
state ard bled profusey from the ears.
me skull was not fractured as was at first
feared. Mrs. Emile Bruguiere, mother of the
w4xnded man. arrived from New York this
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
Unwilling Striker q suicide.

Michael Dorsch, a miller, who lived
at Onderdonk and DeKalb avenues,
Brooklyn, and who for more than seven
teen years was employed in the Hecker
-four mills at POS Cherry street, Manhat-
tan, committed suicide yesterday with
carbol!c acid. Dorsch belonged to union.
which ordered him on strike two weeks
ago. He didn't want to strike and told
the walking delegate so. Dorsch became
very Respondent and frequently told his
wife that there was no reason for him to
60 on strike and he wished he was back
at work
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
Prv,ssian Finance Minister Has Luncheon
With FinnnCiers.

George w. Perkins of j. P. Morgan d
Co. gave a luncheon at the Lawyers Club
yesterday to the Baron Won Rheinbaben,
Prussian Minister of Finance. Those
present included James Stillman, George
NJ Schwab, E. h. Gary, Jacob H. Schiff,
Richard H. McCuroly, John A, Mccall,
satt, Charles steeie and George T. stotes-
hurry
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
Two Cents Fer Sock Size Unit.

The Willing Workers Society of st..
Johns Evangelical Lutheran Church. Jersey
City, gave a successful Sock Sociable"
at the church on Wednesday night. Every
body who attended paid an admission fee of
two cents for every unit in the size OF the
sock or stocking worn by him or her.
The money was placed in small socks and
handed In at the door.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
PRESIDENT MONROE's FAMILY.
hin Passed In Virginia 10 Bring Their
Remains to Richmond. . 's

RICHMOND. Va, May A.-After having
defeated the measure once the House of
Delegates to-day passed bill making an
appropriation of $500 to remove the re-
mains of the wife and daughter Of Pres-
to Hollywood Cemetery. Richmond.
President Monroe died in New York
city. The State Of Virginia had his re-
mains brought here and costly tomb
erected. Later his wife and daughter
died in Loudoun county and the graveyard
wherein their remains rest Is owned by
strangers and their graves are neglected.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
SLAPPED A WASHER, SHE SAYS.
Anits Bridger's Story Of Lone Actress's
Bravery In the Street.

After the matinee at the Madison Square
Theatre yesterday. Anita Bridger. who
is the leading woman Of "A Fool and His
Money" had, she Gays, an encounter with
q masher. Miss Bridger was on her way
to tller home in West Sxty-ninth street,
she says, when the masher appeared, just
after she left the theatre.
When he finally asked il he couldn't take
her TO dinner she slapped his face Then
he hurried away. When Miss Bridger
reached the theatre last night she told the
press agent Of her experience and he hast
ened to make it public.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
Casino Show Girls and Frocks on View,

Casino Show Girls and Frocks on View.
The show girls and chorus of "The Run
Always" were on view at the Casino for two
hours yesterday afternoon. The girls were
not on the stage. They wore their stage
frocks in the foyer for the benefit of many
fashion reporters, and when the inspection
was over they had tea and then refresh
m6nts.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
TRUANT,S FATHER FINED.
jewish Holiday ana ToWthache Excuses
Wouldn't Go With the Court.

John Schulman of Port Richmond, Staten
Island. was fined S25 in the Court of SEES
sions yesterday for having kept his son
out Of school. Truant officer John West
said that the boy. Michael Schulman. who
is 10 years old, had been absent from school
forty-four full days and seven half days.
Schulnian said that half of the days on
which his boy was absent We're Jewish
holidays, and on the other half the boy
had the toothache.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
Health and Pleasure
cost
IN TIE MOUNTAINS

OF Orange, sullivan. lister and Delaware Coun-
ties. n " on the New York Ontario Western
Railway. Physicians heartily recommend this
region as OF great natural beauty and absolute
healthfuness 1900 feet above the sea, with Pure
qultoes and within three hours ride from New
York. Send $ cents for postage to the under
signed, or call and get free at Offices below the
StpERBLy ILLUSTRATED nook. SUMMER
HOMES" OF 200 pages. II gives list OF over 900
location, rates OF board facilities, attractions, &c.
On May 10th and soth Excursion tickets at re.
duced rates will be sold at 425 broadway 1854
broadway and Ferry Offices, giving an opportunity
enjoying n days hshing In this delightful region
Tickets good returning un to Monday. June
IN NEW YORK: III. l4i. 1876. 425. 1854, 1870 Broad.
way; Park Place: ISL L ?s9 lth Az: 2i5 Columbus
Az: lss East l25th ST. 273 West l25th ST.: lse sth
Av. ticket Offices Franklin and AID st. Ferries.
IN BROOKLYN: I Court ST.: 800 Fulton ST.
% Broadway: Eagle Once.
]. {, ANDERSON.
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-15
DANCING ACADEMIES.
MISS McCABE'S
Dancing School. 81 Eas, 18th st.
Private and class lessons daily: beginners any Uho.
MILLINERY AND DRESsMAKING,

DRESSMAKING, millinery learners wanted
liberal Induce ments: latest spring slirtwnsi OF
skirt pattern cut To mt, oplX 20. AcO0Ni III
SCHOOL. Sl0-sls ethlsvI
Douglas Island news., 1903-01-14

tommy James, dAIu9S luQlau, uHV- ing got white mans religion, confessed that Metlakahtla Indian named Bux- ter had during the fall of last year shot and killed white man in the little in- let directly across the canal from Haines. He told the story that in com pany with Buxter, they were in the in- let paddling towards shore when man was seen to be looking ct them from behind trees near the shore. Buxter caught sight of the man, and as the latter looked from behind tree, Bux- ter shot him. He lays all the blame and the full responsibility upon the shoul- ders of Buxter.
 The largest nugget ever found in the Koyukuk country was found on No. above discovery on Hammond in Sept ember by Frank Smith. The single piece of gold is worth, according to weight, the small fortune of $937. The second largest nugget ever found in the Koyukuk came from No. above on Hammond. It was found by Fris- by, and weighed s926.25. Frank Smith, owner of the record nugget, found an other large one on Swift creek this year. The Swift creek nugget weighed little more than $700. Another which the same man found there weighed $40O. The finding of these nuggets has help ed increase the general interest in Hammond and Swift creeks.
 Gov. Jno. G. Brady in his annual re- port for 1902 in speaking of the mines on Douglas Island says: The Tread we'll mines, upon Douglas Island, are the best of the kind in the world. The ore body is large and of a low grade, but the scale upon which it is worked and the intelligent mannerin which the 1 plants are managed make them steady dividend payers. These properties are under one management, but an annual statement Is published for each mill. The Ready Bullion, 120 stamps; the Alaska Mexican, l20 stamps; the United, 100 stamps; but one statement for the Treadwell mill, 240 stamps, and the Union, 300 stamps-SS0 stamps in all, working night and day the year through, excepting two holidays, Christmas and the Fourth of July. The duty of a stamp has been increased from 31a tons per twenty-four hours to5119 tons. The remarkable success of this enterprise gives tone and encouragement to all quarz mining in the southeast section. There are certainly many places where such plants can be duplicated and made as profitable. Some large bodies of low grade-ore are under development, and from now on more will be accom- plished. The Treadwell mine gets bet ter as it goes deeper. The more we can increase such plants on low-grade ores the better it is for the general com munities. Most of the product is paid out for labor and material. The total yield of the Alaska Mexican mine to December 15, 1901, is given as s2,3S9, 546.27. Out of this sum only $465,3S1 were paid as dividends. Low-grade properties of this kind are about as good distributors of earnings as are sawmills. The net profit for each ton of ore treated in the Mexican for 1901 was little less than IA cents (S0.13SI, The yield per ton was about S1.9O and the operating cost per ton was Sl.76. This is wonderful showing in eeono- mical and efficient mining and milling and it is something that every Alaskan 1 feels proud of.
Douglas Island news., 1903-01-14
Mr. I. Banta. charged with the killing

NIT. !. DduId, CuALSON WAOh OhO hAAAAHo of Guy Morrison at Valdez, was given a preliminary hearing before the local commissioner and bound over to await the action of the grand jury, without bail, on the charge of murder in the first degree.
 If you see a man sneaking around the corner with a pick handle in his hands, don't take him for a footpad, says the Valdez News. He is only a Skagwayite looking for the man who said that the wind never blew as hard here as it does in the Lynn Canal me- tropolis.
 Senator Willard, on December 20. introduced a bill extending for two years the time within which the Akron, Stirling & Northern Railroad Company may construct it's railroad from the head of Valdez bay, Alaska, by Lowe river to Keystone canyon and on to Thompson pass.
 At the Gold Standard, Helm Bay, sinking is in progress and will be con- tinued during the winter. 1t IS under stood that the work now in progress IS being done preliminary to an inspec- tion of the property by parties who are negotiating for the purchase of a con- trolling interest.
 Some time during the carly spring. Judge Wickersham and other court of- flcials will go in to Eagle, and after holding term of court there will pro- ceed on down the Yukon and out by way of St. Michaels, holding court at the various places along the coast, and returning to Valdez for the winter.
 The completion of the long overland road and general highway between Daw- son and White Horse this fall has made possible new route which may cut no small fignre in the bringing olive stock into the country on foot all the way from the seacoast. Ferries are to be placed on rivers along the route next summer.
 The police of Paris, France, have siezed the papers of Jean de la Mar, manager of Klondike Mining Company He is suspected of irregular proceed ings. The company is Paris concern and all parties interested are French men. Three arrests have been made. Mir. de la Mar claims that the mines are being worked, and that they yield $12,OOo per month.
 The authorities at Nome gathered up all the tough and undesirable characters and shipped them out of the country on the last boat leaving for the States. The Seattle police met these same un- desirable characters on the wharf when they landed, and took them in charge Those fly cops knew that if the toughs got mixed up with their own people they could never pick them out agair
 A wedding in high life was the oc casion of the illumination of the Rus sian church by every available candle last Sunday evening, says Kenai cor respondent of the Valdez Prospector' Miss Aggrippina Yakalof, ayoung lady who has been brought up by the Rev Ivan Bortnovsky of this place, and who is a niece of Mrs. Dan Kennedy of Ju neau, was the bride and Prof. H. P. Neil son, the superintendent of the experi mental station here, was thegroom.
Douglas Island news., 1903-01-14
The NOrthIand The Latest News, from Reliable Sources, Concerning the Great
 North, Condensed.
Information for Everybody,

The skagway city treasury is nearly dry.
 Valdez has blacksmith whose name is Dgarf.
 The oldest inhabitant is in evidence at Valdez
 White Horse gentlemen indulged in New Years calls
 A negro minstrel show will be pulled off in White Horse.
 skagwsy pays sS542 per month for water for fire purposes
 Six quarts for SlOO is the price of cows milk at Valdez.
 Over 200 packages of express arrived at Skagway on the Dirigo-
 The FaraIlon is now making flying trips to and from the Sound.
 Capt. z. c. Moore, of the Nome City, is sailing in company with new wife
 The project to build a railroad from Iliamna to the Yukon has been aban- doned- Luther M. Davis and Henry Hyde are reported lost in the Rampant dis trict-
 That Valdez will have hospital in the near future, is now almost an as' sured fact. s2S to $50 to the pan is reported on the north fork of the KOyukuk, in American territory. Seattle closed the year 1902 having done a business with Alaska exceeding in volume, $40, 100000.
 Fred T. Congdon, crown prosecutor for the Yukon territory, will succeed Hon. J. H. Ross, as governor. Rampant merchants attempted to re- duce the price of dust to s15, which caused howl from the miners. l The stage drivers on the road between White Horse and Dawson, celebrated holiday week by going on strike.
 It is reported that Michael Izzo, a barber, who resided in Rampant for the last five years, went insane October 4.
 Ex-governor J. W. Leedy, of Kansas. is city attorney at Valdez and recently pocketed fee of s175 from the city.
 The Ketchikan Mining Journal is now two years old, and still Editor Swineford objects to being called an old man.
 The government wharf at Ft. Liscum has almost completly collapsed, and freight for the post is being put ashore on lighters.
 Clark Callarman has gone to work ir the superintendent's office of the W. P Y. in the position lately vacated by " | A.. Cunnyham.
Douglas Island news., 1903-01-14

The Loomis Transportation Company will start sledding by Feb. 1st to interi- or points. They will establish posts at Tonsina and Nizina.
 There seems to be some difference of opinion between Judges Wickersham and Brown in regard to the merits of Alaska's criminal code.
 A queer difficulty that presents itself to the establishment of postottice on the Nazina is that no one can be found that wants to be postmaster.
 The Alaska Bar Association endorses Thomas R. Lyons for the presidential appointment, to succeed the late Gen. Friedrich, as U. S. Dist. attorney.
 Judge Wickersham has in contempla- tion the appointment of Commission CT at Controller bay, which will include the large oil country from Kayak to Yakutat-
 A Nome paper says that Alaska don't raise strawberries, Valdez paper says she can, and Juneau paper says she may, when the fact of the business is they grow wild.
 The Ketchikan Journal does not agree with .Judse Wickersham as to the leg islative needs of Alaska. However there is nothing strange about that to those who know Swineford.
 The first consignment of steel rails to be used in the proposed Valdez, Cop per River and Yukon railroad, an enter prise projected by F. c. Helm and J. B. Bradshaw, have reached Seattle.
 Parties supposed to be representa- tives of the Pacific Coast Steamship Co.,, are making overtures to the city of Valdez for franchise, to build large wharf at the foot of Keystone avenue.
 The rate on cattle from Skagway to Dawson during the summer of 1902 was s3O head and during the transporta' tion over the distance the cattle had to be fed by the owners on hay at North ern prices.
 The Nome Gold Digger says sure sign that litigation is fast disappearing from this country is the fact that a large number of attorneys have quietly packed their carpet bags and departed for greener fields.
 Albert Andrews, formerly of Domin ion creek, in the Klondike district, com mited suicide at Coldfootin September. He tied 30 pound rock to his neck and plunged into the Koyukuk river in front of Coldfoot.
 pr. L. Schofeld Sugden, candidate for the position of White Horse repre- sentative on the Yukon council, adopt ed a novel method of winning votes He gave free oaII to Gne cIUINenS oN the eve of election day.
 The Alaska Packers Association has announced that it will enlarge its hatcheries and that there shall be nc diminution of red salmonin Southeast ern Alaska that can be charged to its account. That sounds good.
 On Christmas morning the Presby terians of White Horse presented theil preacher with an otter cap and gaunt, lets; a sublime manner of conveying g hint to get something in bis head ane keep his fingers out of other peoples business.
Douglas Island news., 1903-01-14
PROFESSIONAL.

H. R. GARNER, MD. Physician and Surgeon.
Douglas Island news., 1903-01-14

OFFICE ON D. St.. BETWEEN 2d & sd- RESIDENCE Sd St., NEWS BUILDING.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-05
Robbed AlIRound.

Merchant - Yes,
I've lost my entire
fortune. Our most
trusted employee
r o b b e d us of
enough to force
my company into
bankruptcy.
Friend-But you
surely saved some
thing from the
wreck?
Merchant = No.
We found the re-
ceiver as bad as
the thief.