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New-York tribune., 1903-07-14
CROWD CHASES NEGRO.
He Ch0kes Woman and Steals Her
POcketbOOk.

William Conover, nineteen years old. negro,
who said he lived at No Il North Third-ave.
Mount Vernon, was locked up in the East
Eighty-e -eighth-st. station last night charge
Of highway robbery. He was chased for four
blocks by Patrolman James T. Galligan.
Mrs. Nathan Kahn, of No. 100 East Ninety
second-st., was returning to her home, after
visiting a daughter She had reached the
northwest corner of Park-ave. and Ninety-hfth-
st when a negro stepped up to her, seized her
by the throat with his left hand and with the
right hand grabbed her pocketbook. containing
So 10
Mrs. Kahn screamed and attempted to hold
the negro but he broke away and up Park
ave. to Ninety-eighth-st.. with five hundred peo-
pie chasing him. Seeing the crowd close to him,
he stopped and made motion as if to draw a
revolver from his hip pocket. This rUse was
successful. and the crowd fell back. Then he
started west in Ninety-eighth-st. The crowd
again took UP the chase.
Patrolman. Galligan had been attracted by the
crowd, and was also in pursuit. He gained on
the man, and caught him at Madison-ave. The
negro showed fight. and Galligan had to draw
his revolver to subdue him.
Galligan had gone but few feet with his
prisoner. and was attempting to put on the
handouts. when the negro made a break for
liberty. Taking out an improvised slungshot
which he had made out of a stone and a hand
kerchief. and evidently had had ready before the
robbery of Mrs Kahn, he struck Galligan
with It, The blow not hard enough, how
ever, to disable Galligan and the prisoner was
beaten into subiection. He was taken to the
East Eighty y-eighth-st. station and locked up.
On the way to the station the prisoner was
taken to Park-ave. and Ninety-ffth-st., where
Mrs. Kahn, still waiting, positively identified the
man as her assaiIant. Her pocketbook was
found in his pocket
New-York tribune., 1903-07-14
WILL LEASE IT'S TRACKS.
Other Systems VIII Enter Pittsburg
bg WdbaSb Lines.
[BY TELEGRArn TO THE TRIBUNE ]

Pittsburg. July 13.-More than one big rail-
road system will have entrance to Pittsburg
the tracks of the Wabash when they are
opened for traffic While George ]. Gould and his
party were here on Saturday and Sunday it de-
velepode that negotiations were now looking
to the use of the Wabash tracks by two or three
other large Western systems. The Wabash told
these companies that it would be glad to allow
them to enter the city its tracks. but they
must provide their terminals here.
This is the same kind of an agreement that
the Wabash has with the Grand Trunk. by
which the Wabash gets from Toledo to Buff
falo. The terms provide for the payment of a
certain amount a year and a liked proportion
of the operating expenses Circular letters were
issued to-day calling for bids for thirty seven
miles of track into Greene County. Penn, the
contract to be let soon after August /.
Mr.. Gould said while here: I'VE intend TO
make Baltimore our seaport the Atlantic
1t is magnificent one, but has been neglected
We propose to develop it. and make 1t a great
port. We do not intend to go II New-York
There is more eclat in trunk line into the
metropolis. of course, but 1t is too expensive as
a freight exporting terminal Baltimore is the
best port the Atlantic for the exporting Of
such commodities will make up our ton
mage"
Mr.. Gould and his party left here for Beling-
ton w. Va, to inspect the West Virginia Cen
tral and Western Maryland roads.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-14
NEW CENTRAL CONTROL
Rockefeller Stock Holdings Sad to
Haze Increased.

The recent severe decline in the price of New
York Central stock has revived interest in the
announcement published in The Tribune about four
months ago that control Of that great railway sys-
TEN had passed from the Vanderbilts to a com
bination of Rockefeller, Morgan and Pennsylvania
Railroad interests. The Rockefellers have long
been large stockholders in the NewYork Central,
of which William Rockefeller is a director and
according to Wall Street report the Rockefeller
holdings have been mGteraIly increased during
the fall in price of nearly Is points which has oc-
CURED within the last fortnight. Wall Street
news agency yesterday made the positive state
ment that ION Saturday block of New-York Cen
trail was sold privately to prominent Standard Oil
interests. The stock held in Philadelphia, and
the amount it is stated, slightly over 10000
shares"
This statement could not be confirmed here, but
there was a disposition to regard it not in
credible. Significance also attached by the
Street to the news from London that William K.
Vanderbilt would sail for home tomorrow the
Oceanic. it having previously been understood that
his intention was remain abroad for con-
siderable period
According THE Wall Street Journal "it is
said in railroad circles that within six months all
West Shore passenger trains will into the
Pennsylvania station at Jersey City instead of into
Weehawken. Much interest is taken by railroad
men in this proposed change. since the West Shore
d part OF the New-York Central
New-York tribune., 1903-07-14
DIES FROM FIREWORKS.
Lock- jazo FOIIo7oS Fourth of July
Injury to Exhibitor.

Henry Bridgewater. of La Forge-ave., Port Rich
mond Staten Island. died suddenly ut the S. r.
Smith Inhrmary on Sunday, from lockjaw, follow
ing an injury received on the Fourth of July in an
explosion of fireworks he exhibiting at the
home of George Westing ghouse, at Farhaven. Conn.
Mr.. Bridgewater always had presentiment. so it
is said. that he would be blown up or meet with
some other serious accident.
Mr.. BridgeWater was employed by the Charlton
Fireworks Company of Graniteville, and an
exhibitor of the set pieces. On the Fourth of July
he was sent to the home of George Westinghouse
the inventor of the Westinghouse air brake, at
Fairhaven Conn, where he was to give exhibi-
ton of pieces. The show successful until the
third piece when explosion took place. injuring
his thigh. Despite the great pain he suffered, he
had been hurt He was then, by Mr.. Westing
houses order. attended by a physician, and was
sent to his home, in Port Richmond. He grad
ually grew worse, and Saturday complained
that he could not open his mouth. his jaws being
set and stiff He was then removed to the Smith
Inffrmary. where he died from lockjaw.
Mr.. Bridgewater leaves young widow. twins five
years old. a girl Of three years and a baby three
Philadelphia. July 10 (speciaD.-Tetanus claimed
its eighth Fourth of July victim in this city this
morning. when George Paffrey, thirteen years old,
of No 2,S52 Farhill-ave., died In St. ChriStopher's
Hospital On July he struck the finger
by a flying piece of cap that he had exploded in a
toy pistol. The wound was not painful, and little
attention was given 1t until last Friday night,
when his jaws locked he was eating supper
He was hurried to the hospital, but nothing could
be done to save his life.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-14
BOAT THE THREE HIRED IS FOUND.
Mystery Over Disappearance of Occupants a
Week Ago Is Complicated.

Oyster Bay. Long Island. July I3-The mystery
over the disappearance of a rowboat in which a
young man and two young women started for
row in the bay was complicated by the finding of
the boat to-day.
week ago Sunday the party hired the boat from
Henry Townsend. They were persons of refine
ment. They started out in rough water. but the
young man seemed fairly used TO handling a boat
From The time they rowed out toward Cove Neck
until this morning nothing has been heard from
the trio. and until to-day OF the boat was
found. To-day the boat was discovered ahoat right
side up in the water and bobbing up and down
against the stone wall Of the E. c. Benedict Prop
erty away out on the Cove Neck The anchor was
out, and the oars lay in the bottom of the boat
Evidently the boat had not been upset.
From the position OF the boat il seemed that the
party had climbed on the wall and made their way
home By land. The complication is the positive as
sertion that last week the boat where it
was found, and not there yesterday. While the
anchor might have dragged. boatmen say that wind
and waves strong enough cause this would have
swamped the boat enough the float
out. AIr. Townsend thinks the boat rowed to
where it was found some time since yesterday noon.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-14
YOUNG ROOT ENDS Walk.
Var Secretary's Son Home After
Tao Hundred Nile Journey.

Tired and dusty with their tramp of nearly
two hundred miles. about halfway across the
State. Elhu Root. jr.. son of the Secretary of
War, and his classmate. Frederick B. Bastian,
reached this city about o'clock last evening.
after two weeks the road. from Clinton.
Oneida County, where they had finished year
al Hamilton College. They undertook the long
walk in the spirit of a lark, and found it fine
fun" Although the trip in hot weather
most of the time. they covered distances worthy
of veterans some days, and the treatment Of
the farmers along the way gave them an op-
portunity to thoroughly appreciate the rural
beauties of the Empire State.
Leaving Clinton. their route lay in as straight
a line as possible toward this city, through
Madison. Chenango, Delaware, Orange and
Rockland counties, along the southwestern bor-
der of the State On Sunday night they reached
the little village of Suffern, near the Jersey
border, and about ten miles from the Hudson,
and the final stage yesterday was a short one,
although the rain delayed them a little. Cross
ing from the Jersey side early last evening.
they reached Secretary Roots home at No. %
East SiXty-ninth-St., and, wanting rest after
their long tramp, Immediately retired.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-14
AUTOMOBILE EXTRACTED FROM CHILD
Boy Swallows Toy Machine-Almost Dies
Before Reaching Hospital.

The physicians at Gouverneur Hospital report
ed a case, which they said was the first on rec
ord, where an automobile had been swallowed by
a human being. The automobile, however, was
a toy aluminium machine, one and a quarter
inches long and half an inch wide.
Early yesterday Samuel Lamb Russian, of
No. 322 Rivington-st.. ran into the drug store
at Rivington and Goerck SITS. carrying his five
months-old son, Aaron Lamb. He told the drug
gist that the child had swallowed piece of tin
The druggist unable to extract it. and Dr.
Batchelder took the child to Gouverneur Hospi-
tai for an operation.
The child was nearly dead on its arrival there
but with all haste the operation was performed
and in the phaTynX the tin, aluminium auto
mobile was found 1t was extracted with great
difficulty. The child recovered sufficiently to
be taken home
New-York tribune., 1903-07-14
NEW Low PRICE RECORDS
RALLY IN THE AFTERNOON
Ne1U-Y York Central and Pennsylvania
Figures LozCest Since 1898.

New low records for the year were made In
few stocks yesterday. but in the afternoon a
rally occurred which brought closing prices in
many instances, well above Saturdays last figures
The total transactions were large about nine hun
dred thousand shares The gloom of last week had
caused the accumulation over Sunday of a mass of
selling orders from out-of-town, the execution of
which added TO renewed short selling, sent prices
down with, rush. The end of the first hour
brought partial recovery in some issues, and the
volume of trading diminished materially. but the
tone continued feverish and unsettled.
1t was not until along in the afternoon, when the
bears realized from the scarcity of the offerings
brought out by their bids to that their posi-
ton was over extended. that the substantial rally
of the day set in. High grade issues among
the principal sufferers in the decline. Illinois Cen
Tal, for example. sold down to 1261s 43a points
DER Saturdays close, and only 2a points above the
price registered on Nav g. 1901. and closed out at
129, net loss Of 24 points for the day Two hun
0red shareS of Chicago, ST. Paul. Minneapolis and
Omaha sold at 10. loss OF twenty points from the
New ork Central was pushed down to 1885, ana
PeihnsyIvana to lg%4 going under the subscription
lowest since 1898. New-York Central. when the
sylVania closing at 121$s a per cent lower than
Saturday. Amalgamated Copper touched a new
gndlhS the day with net gain of IS per cent. St.
down to 142A, but closed Is of a point under Satur-
day at 14412. Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
against 245 Saturday. Metropolitan declined to
the lowest Of the year, u.s., and rallied to l2219,
Among the stocks which scored full recoveries
tario and Western. Southern Railway Southern
Rapid Transit and the United States Steel issues
A significant feature of the days operations
houses which have heretofore been prominent on
one side or the other These houses discouraged
hN- heir clio
New-York tribune., 1903-07-14
PE0NAGE INVESTIGATION.
Governor Terrell of Georgia Orders One
Begun Today.
[BY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE.

Atlanta, Ga, July 15.-By the order of Gov
ernOr Terrell, the State Prison Commission will
begin tomorrow morning the investigation of
the convict camp of Broach Brothers in OgIe-
thorpe County, where it is alleged that negroes
have been held in involuntary servitude and
subjected to inhuman crueIties. It is expected
that several. sensations will result from this in
vestigation. and several cases in the federal
courts may come of it. In speaking of the
practice of peonage = Georgia. a prominent
State official said to-day
There is no doubt in my mind that some negroes
who have completed chain gang sentences given
them by the courts have been held sometimes for
months, sometimes for years, on charges which
are got up for the purpose. l understand that
the plan is more frequently to hold them on war
rants, which are never prosecuted though the
negro may not know the difference, and is deluded
into the belief that he is serving another sentence.
! have been told Of negroes who have been de-
tained for years in this way and 1 have no doubt
that there is much truth in the charge that this
practice is carried to considerable extent.
The trouble, however. is to secure evidence in
such cases. Those who could tell the story if
they would, have their mouths shut through fear
or influence, so the only thing that reaches the
public ear is hearSay.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-14
n LYNCHER Il MURDERER.
Can Be Held for the Crime by Any
Court, SAYS Justice Brezeer.

Milwaukee July 13-"Every man who par
ticipates in the lynching or the burning of a
negro is a murderer pure and simple" This
opinion was given by Associate Justice David ].
Brewer. of the Supreme Court of the United
States. who is here private business.
"Of course" explained Judge Brewer. "7here
may be extenuatng circumstances. which might
vary the degree of the crime. but the principal
participants in the crime can be held by any
court in the land for murder in the same degree
as if the crime were committed by individ-
uaL There is going to be a reaction against the
atrocious crimes with which the papers have
been filled The fact that the people are now in
teresting themselves in the discussion of TINS
problem makes manifest the fact that there is a
tendency toward a change. l expect that 1t Will
come soon.
L cannot say what form 1t will take. but there
will be an uprising Of popular feeling against
lynchings that will result in legislation or a
remedy of some other form"
New-York tribune., 1903-07-14
B. T. WASHINGTON ASKS FOR HARMONY
He Says Georgia and Alabama Show South's
Good viii for the Negro
lay TELEGRAPH 10 THE TRIBUNE

Atlanta, Ga, July 13.-Booker T. Washington
spoke before a large audience composed of both
races tonight at the celebration of the thirty
sixth anniversary of the founding of the First
Congregational Church. colored. Governor Ter
rell and Mayor Howell were on the stage with
him. He made strong appeal for race har
mony. saying that whoever stirs up strife is an
enemy to both races. He declared the South to
be the best place for the negro, and referred
to recent developments in this State and Ala
bama as indicative of the good will borne the
negro. Georgia having refused to limit the ne
gros educational advantages and Ala baTna being
engaged in a campaign against peonage.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-14
THURSDAY. JULY 16.
SHIPPING NEWS.
Port of New-York, Monday, July 1s. 1908
ARRIVED


Steamer Ethiopia CBr) Inmsdane C,Iasro,v 1,1, . 49,,
Movtne B. to Henderson Brothers, with Is cabin ana I2S
eeaage passengers and mdse. Arrived at the Bar at
Steamer Uler Nov Larsen. Deuerara July ? to I, W
Arrived at the Bar at a m.
5itsd feamsF sf.Isl EeriS B Mcleod 81 to the
rived at the Bar at II 10 m.
Steamer Oscar II dam. Skj9dt Copenhagen July l.
WITH 4S cabin and 345 passengers ana Gndse
Steamer Rotterdam Dutch tanlo Peters Amsterdam,
gqy Sq Il 70 Philip Ruprecht, in ballast Southeast
Steam, Steamer Finland, AIbrecht Antwerp July T. to the
Mercantile Marine Company with l6s cabin
a sb r los Stserase passengers and mdse Arrived at
steamer Navigator CIor,. Jacobsen Maracaibo July g.
a. @ e o1alqe w & asphalt Paving company with asphaltum
steamer MaracaIbo PeTTy MaTScsb5 Gs ~ uv c.raco,
anu La GuayTa D. to Boultoa, Bliss Dallett with
passengers mails and mdse. Arrived at the Bar 25
steamer Trinidad CBr. Mckenzie Bermuda July H. to
mdse. Arrived at the Bar at $3.50 P m
Bay and Port Morant s 10 the HeTIsT F1u{ tom0nv
With WITH ? passengers and fruit Arrived the Bar at
Steamer Larlmer. johnson. Port Arthur Tex July
10 tae N ~ S'Gey Ii PetroieIn company with oil .
Steamer Comusa, Kemble. New-Orleans July $, to the
Steamer Mamma Hata. Charles Baltimore. H C
-eamer American. colcord, PhiadeIphia
steamer Golds5oro eoghesan Philadelphia, to Will
- Steamer City Of Rrmingham, Dreyer savannah July
10 10 the Ocean IS Co with passengers and mdse
Steamer Trinidad. from Bermuda OF Highlands 142
steamer Larimer. from Port Arthur. Tex OF High
steamer FIutera CNor,. sorrensen. Kingston July ?
r. Kerr X Co. with passengers and mdse. Arrived at
Sand HOOK \ j. July 1s. $50 m-wind west; light
breeze cloudy.
SAILED.
lS SecS' cy c h" sto T6 oaFEs ySs No g. PoT RE
Hamilton Norfolk and Newport News.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-14
BIG EARNINGS BY B. AND 0.
Those for Last Fiscal Year Largest in the
History of the Property.
[By TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE ]


Baltimore, July 13-The fiscal year of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad system ended June go and
the preliminary statement shows the earnings from
traffic TO be the largest in the history of the prop
erty. The June statement makes a high water
mark for monthly earnings the gross receipts being
So $50 S60 increase of S47564 and net $ 9 949
increase Of 1858 25 For the year the total revenue
from traffic was $63 A 633 an increase OF S. 60G22
and the S3 S78 6, increase of 81 OH These
figures include the earnings of the Baltimore and
Ohio main lines. the Baltimore and Ohio South
western, the old Pittsburg and Western. and all
subsidiary companies, excepting the Valley Rail-
road of Virginia, the Ohio and Little Kanawha
the Cleveland Terminal and Valley, the Cleveland
Lorain and Wheeling, the Ravenswood Spencer
and Glenville. and the Ripley and Mil Greek VAL
controlled and operated by the Baltimore and Ohio
the total earnings of the system, embracing 4,S40
miles track, aggregate $6 IFS SO increase of
s. 963 864 and net earnings of S244209 increase
of 81. 79S,321.
The bonds issued and assumed amount to S253.-
545 l30 There have been issued $l24 $50 060 in
mon and $59S74,2S9 81 in preferred stock The fixed
charges which include interest and rentals 49, 630
662; taxes, Sl269 726 and other charges. $500
gregate $11,S50SSS. The dividends the common
and preferred stock If declared the basis of
year. will amount to $7370.4S2 From bonds and
stocks held in the treasury and from other sources
there was an income of 81 800 600. making the total
net earnings $2537S, GA for the system.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-14
NEGRO SAVED FROM ATLANTA MOB

LBY TELEGRAPH TO TRIBUNE.I
Atlanta. Ga. July 13.-Mrs. Susie Wells was
attacked at her home in CentraI-st. this after
noon by Charles Lockett, negro Her screams
attracted the attention of her sons, who came
to her rescue. Lockett was overpowered by the
young men after a hard fight The affair soon
became known throughout the city, and by the
time the officers arrived large crowd had col
lected about the house There were many
threats of lynching. but the patrolmen got the
negro away by a back street and landed him
safely in the Tower. 1t is believed that Lockett
is partially insane.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-14
THE MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS.


Liverpool July 12-Arrved. steamers Hevelus CBeIs)
& 6yIne; Neyy-York for Manchester; July 13 CymFc
Do A,nslo1Afr.can 1t1 lBrI. Calvert NeT-YOrk.
Dutch. MarkschIaeger, Antwerp for New-York
inlstrahul July u Passed. steamer MOngolian (Br).
Starrott Glasgow for
Brow Head, July i3-Passed Kansas City CBr)
Lewis, New-York Bristol 80 ''
plymouth July 10 1885 m--Arrived, steamer Kron-
prlnz Wlheln OIer). Richter. New-York Cher
bourg and Bremen Cand prsceeded) sailed. $40 m.
for New-York -
Movte July 13Arrved. steamer FurnessIa C3r) Young
New-York for Glasgow tand proceeded).
Shields. July n-Saied. steamers Brentwood
te Urom London. New-York; July 10, Ras Elba
(Ir). for New-YOTk -
Sharpness. July l0Arrived. steamer Fenchurch tBr)
Pope. New-fork via ST John
Dunnct Head, July 12-Passsd
Lissner. New-York for Copenhagen '''
Bremen. July 13 a m-Arrtvcd- steamer Parbsr,sss
Ger, Mentz New-York via Plymouth and Cher
HaT16euTS July, 91Arrlyed steamers Graf waldersee
VGer), kopn. NeN-Eork via Plymouth and che
6ouTg; July TO- Deutschland Ger. Barepds New,
1ork via Plymouth
July l2ArTived. British
o Hagen. New-YOrk via Ciravesend '--''
rotterdam, July 9-Saied. Birch CFrl Nevr
York; July II. m-Saned. steamer ROTTERDAM,