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For Eastern Eep York, rotr today. ooAer In
east porfi0a: brtsk norfh pinds on The coas; fafr
and tpa,nsr io-wor0r.
For western New York. cloudy TO- day: rain In
east portion: fair md warmer tomorrow: fresh
north 10 northeast winds.
For New England rain to. day; fresh 10 bnsk
por,heas, to north winds: fair TO morrow.
For the District OF Columbia and Maryland
rain this morning. followed by fair; fair and warmer
10 morrow: fresh 10 bnsk north winds.
fair 70 snorrpW
For New Jersey. rain to DAY. cooler In north
and west portions; brisk north WINDS fsir ts-mor.
row.
For Eastern Pennsyfvaaaa. ma - -day. fous~SA
BIZ fair and cooler In sSutheast p0ftSsn: ffesA -
snsn aorta wmdlt ,sHr and warmer ,s-.sre..
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BISHOP AT A DEDICATION.
A New Academy and Music Hall At brent'
wood. l.. l.


BRENTWOOD, L. l., June 1.-THE new
academy and music hall of tho Sisters OF
st. Joseph in the Pines were dedicated
to day, and in conjunction with the dedi-
cation exercises was held the celebration
OF the silver jubilee Of Bishop Mcdonnell
The buildings were blessed last night by
tho Bishop. The exercises to-day were
opened with the celebration OF mass by
Bishop McDonnell. The students Of the
academy. who number about $50; the
superiors Of the mission houses and the
sisters OF the Fluahing and brentwood
oonveuts were present. A luncheon was
served and afterward The vieitors were
conducted through the new buildings, and
then al assembled IN the new music hall.
There . play. The Silver jubilee was
performed By hfty students OF the academy:
sOur Bishop's Little Pets was rendered
by twenty-five children.
A handsome ever and basin, for use at
bshop Mcdonnell by Mrs. Joseph F. Carey:
prest3sot OF St. Joeeph's Alumne, In behAlf
Of her asaociates. The Bishop expressed
his thanks for the gift and for the many
received. He looked confidently forward
to . bright future for st. Joseph In the
Pines.
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MRS. M'KNIGHTS POISON WORK.
Belief Now That She Has Murdered Eleven
PerDoN1 All Told.

KALKAsKA. Mich. June ll.-Mfs. Mary
Mcknight, who confessed yesterday to
having poisoned her brother, his wife and
their baby, u now suspected Of having pol
soned eight other persons within the last
fifteen years. All Of the eight were either
relatives or intimate friends. who died
while living with Mrs. Mcknight. or while
she vas at their house. All are said to
have shown symptoms that are now be-
leved to indicate stryohnine poisoning.
They are James Ambrose. Mrs..
Meningitis nrst husband. who died at Al
pena in INF: Mrs. Mcknight. the first wife
James e. Mcknight. who died in July. 1887.
at Alpena, Baby Teeple. Mn. Mcknight
niece, who died two days later In the same
place. apparently Of COMMISSIONS. like most
Of the other victims; Eliza Chalker. Mrs.
Meningitis niece, who died in May, lSe7;
sarah Murphy. Mrs. McKnight's sister.
WIZ, died In February. 1888; Ernest
Mcknight. Mr.. Mcknight e second husband,
in 1893, while Mrs. Mcknight was at her
mother's house: and Dorothy Jepson, a
child. who died in Grayling on Good Friday.
1909. while under Mrs. McKnights care.
Ive,tiestion Of these death T. shows
were taken suddenly Ill. and show what
are now regarded as unmistakable symptoms
Of strychnine poisoning. The physician
who ,attended Ernest Mcknight says that
he Is now confident that Mcknight died
from stryohnine. Eliza Chalker and Sarah
Murphy were stricken at the table while
Mrs, Mcknight was present Both died
in convulsions in few hours.
Mrs. Meningitis confession and the
manner In which she made IL indicate
insanity. There was no suspicion against
Mrs. Mcknight in connection with the
death OF the Murphys until she filed mort
gage on her brothers property after hb
death. on which the figures had. it 10 a.
legged. been raised from 500 to 500. An
Investigation was then begun. The body
Of John Murphy was exhumed and strych.
was then placed under asrest and confessed.
No motive for the crimes can be found.
In the confession, which was made to Prose.
c,itor E. G. Smith. Mrs. Mcknight told Of
giving strychnine and water to the baby
and capsules containing strychnine and
quinine to Murphy and his wife. They all
died in convulsions soon after.
Mr.. Mcknight said in her confession
that she didn't mean any HARM
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PUTTY BULLETS IN THE PISTOL.
Jehn Gill Laughs At the Way He Made His
Brother sign . Check for o. 600.

SYHAcrsE, June 1.-THE revolver with
which John Gill held up his brother. At
torney Francis r. Gill, yesterday. making
him Sign a check for 81 900. was loaded
with putty bullets carefully made to iEni-
tate lead. Undertaken John Mccarthy
to-day became interested in the case and
had conference with John Gill. He went
to the police station and aaked TO Sc tbs
gun, saying that II was harmless Tho
lieutenant wanted to bet his month 8 wages
that he could put hole through the vail:
Mccarthy With his knife cut the supposed
lead and II proved to Be- only putty The
formed With . piscs Of match running
through the centre, then the putty was
blackened.
1t makes mo laugh said John OH.
HE begged me not to kin him and said
va had slept together till We were a. years
Old. am enjoying the joke, even II am
confined in this cage and called in2ane.
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mo loeS N 1SO0 A0 compared WIN lSOi
is officially explained In the Treasury De-
partment's report as follows:
The foreign commerce Of the United States
In the fiscal year 1907 was larger than In any
year Of Its history exec pit 1901 Compared
with 1901 there was q reduction Of &iOe. o4s, $40
In exports and an increase Of So its .7s3 In i'm
ports. The reduction in exports was chiefly
due to the sh orta9e In the corn crop Of 1901.
the reduction in the price Of cotton. and an
unusual home demand for iron and steel
manufactures. The shortage OF the corn
crop Of 1901. due to drousht. reduced the corn
expectation in the fiscal year 1902, Isl ISL. AIS
bushels below those Of 1901 and caused 70
duction OF S6S.3A2. $40 In the value Of corn
expectation.
New York's commerce lie crowding it's
dock and wharf facilities. Since Mayor
Low took Office the amount OF available
dockage has increased twelve per cent,
and still there is not room for all who want
to come in. New York's commerce shows
Much OF this export trade is Of class far
more valuable to New York than the ex-
port grain trade, which is the bulk Of the
canals through freight It may not be
traffic that pays toll to the Buffalo elevator
pool or the New York transfer comra MES.
as the grain does, and therefore it ia not as
welcome to the Canal Association hackers
as the business that comes by canal.
II you are to vote this faD on the spending
OF Si0i 600 900. which class Of inforrna ton
do you prefer to take for your guidance.
Do you want the unsupported declarations
Of a committee of New York and Buffalo
men whose business interests may be bet
tered by larger canal? Or will you take
the figures Of the United States Treasury
Department?
In it's last previous piece Of literature the
Canal Association jumped it's figures S70,-
900 900 more than the official records to
help along a lame argument.
Do you want facts, or do you want
Gin, .Nsrn7
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The Weather.

The low pressure area which had occupied the
country east Of the Mississippi for the pass four
Ave days Was being forced OF the cosst yesterday
by IN exteHsve area of fair cooler weather. which
moved down from the Northwest and covered al
the country west Of the Allegheny Mountains.
Cloudy wes.her and scattered showers pre-
vailed In all the States bordering the Atlantic
Ocean.
Las, night the Weather Bureau found . storm
centre OF the North Carolina coast but the wind
here remained southeastehy.
The temperature was lower yesterday 10 all dis
tricts. In this city the day generally cloudy
With rain at night: average humidity 81 per cent:
barometer corrected TO read 70 sea level at AN.
1881. p. H.. 2S.ao.
The temperature yesterday. Is recorded by the
ofI,cal Thermometer, u shown In the annexed table
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Drowned In View or q Crowd.

>AT1.AxrIc CITY, n. j.. June ii.-several
hundred persons saw Frank Grundrech,
20 years old, chef in one Of the big hotels,
drown in the surf this afternoon. He was
a good swimmer and was bathing near
the steel pier. Former Life Guards Hills
Penny and Parker were watching him
swim and thought he was going out too
far. Suddenly he threw up his hands
The guards got life line and started out
to his rescue. but before they could reach
him he sank. An hour later the body was
washed ashore. It u thought ne was
attacked with heart disease or cramps.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-12
Retired Army Chaplain Turns CatholI

NEW HAVEN. June lit was given
out here tonight that John 8. seibold.
a retired Chaplain Of the United States
Army. formerly an Episcopal clergyman
and a close friend Of Grover Cleveland,
had joined St. Mary's Catholic Church
in Buffalo, n. Y. After his confirmation
by Archbishop Quigiey, Mr.. Siebold
removed to this city. His son Is a physician
here. He was in the army for over twenty
years, retiring upon reaching the age limit
He Is now es. He was an Episcopal minister
for over thirty years.
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Seba n. Bsgert's VIII.

The will Of Seba NJ. Bogert was filed for
probate in the ONCE Of the Surrogate in
brooklyn yesterday. Mr.. Bogert at ono
time was the Treasurer Of Hoboken. He
died on Saturday at his home. rs Carroll
street The teetator leaves 81 900 each to
his son, John ". Bogert and his daughter,
Mary E. Ford. The residuary estate h to
be divided in two equal parts. the income
daughter. At their deaths IL is to 20 to
their children. The estate Is said to be
large
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ONLY rs, BUT HAD 3 HUSBANDS.
Left One in Italy and Picked Up nj Least
Two More Here.

Anita de Lorenzo, an eighteen-year-old
Italian girl, was sentenced by Judge Blair.
in Jersey City yesterday TO eighteen months
imprisonment in the penitentiary for bigamy
She pleaded guilty Of deserting her husband
in Italy, having eloped with a married
man, whom she married. and subsequently
left for a third husband who turned out to
be a professional thief.
The Prosecutor had information that she
went through the marriage ceremony with
several other men.
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Nina Danfsrth, the Dwarf. rardened

BoSroN, Mass. June ii.-Nina panforth.
the dwarf girl who has been serving
sentence in jail for manslaughter, was
pareioned to-day by Gov. Bates and left the
jail at East Cambridge free woman. She
has been in jail . little over year having
been sentenced to twenty-one months
for killing Andrew j. Emery In Framing
ham on May II. 1902. The girl had the
sympathy Of the public.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-12
Maurice Small Dies Suddenly

Maurice Small. rs years old, Of Henson
4 Small, selling agents for the Patchogue
Manufacturing Company. with Offices At
4t3 Broadway, was seized with 4 hemor-
image in the Office OF Einstein. WoiH 4 Co.,
and died before medical aid could be
rendered. He had been staying at the
Plaza Hog,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-12
Moro water Mains for BrsokIyn.

The Water Department authorities in
Brooklyn arc planning for tho construction
OF some additional trunk limo mains which
win cost in the neighborhood Of t7S 900.
Next week bids for the contract viii be
invited. Tho plans include 4S-inch main
running from the Ridgewood reservoir
through Cypress Hills road and Myrtle
avenue to Myrtle avenue and Broadway.
and an additional force main from the Ridge
wood pumping station to the Mount Pros
pect reservoir.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-12
Largest Mirror Ever Made.

INDIANAPOLIS, June 1.-THE Empire
Mirror and Bevelling Works of Alexandria
has just completed the largest mirror ever
made in the United States, and it viii be
shipped in a few days to the Farmers
National Bank Of Pittshurg. Pa. The glass
long, and without a fisw. It will cost
a nm
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Actor Ihaw Must Pay the AIlmony Set.

Charles H. Thaw, cousin OF the Countess
OF Yarmouth, must continue to pay his
wife. Euphemia Jeanette Thaw. $50 week
ahmony pending the trial Of his suit for a
divorce. The order to thst effect was made
year ago by Supreme Court Justice
Blanchard, and Thaw recently applied TO
have 1t modified. saying that ne has an in
come OF only So a week his salary as an
actor Thaw lives In the Dakota apart
ments, and his wife gays that be is wealthy.
Justice blanchard declined yesterday to
modify his former order.
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sHxssa oDrinss
SHARON SPRINGS, n. Y.

m Dsasn BADEN Of America. Best White sulphur.
Nagnesis. ChA1ybsAte Springs In the world. Picture
eoaus and Ideal SPOT for Asslah and fecreatioa:
free from malaria aad nosquitoes For par.
tscuian and bsoklas. apply isss nsoeAvay. n. ].
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LEMoNADEs FOR CUPID. ", .
eatrice Fairfax Answers the Pleas of the
Heartsick.

Beatrice Fairfax:-Perrnit me to tell you the
T. woes of Hear:sick -.
Friend. who, through love unrequited, has
= reached state sad and Respondent,
He a. young man Of say 20. whose culture has
= been quite neglected, g. n ~
Lacking collegiate, training and wanting in So
: clal acQuirelnents; - E.*e !
Yet Of rare gifts intellectual and fraught with
= :. a sense of perspective.
He on the Sth of September met most beauti-
full maiden,
Who with graceful abandon gave him the
s. throw-down emphatic,
Caring no whit for his pleading, handed him
ssHtisont the cross section; r It'll g.,
Wearing the face Of Carara, she gave him the
s. Zip TO the ceiling, ~ ~ H.
He was heart-breken--in fact, II hear, that he
lost his ambition -cs =
Also button or two, I'll not mention broken
5 susperder,
Wished to 60 west to Nebraska and work on
the ranch Of his uncle. -. =
After much fearful persuasion and Deep, earnest
thought, he consented So
Not to do anything foolish until I had written
Miss Fairfax. s r''.',
What, I now ask, would you counsel?
Ever your friend, Robert Johnson
Then from her place in her bood-wah, her Eloyed
hand welding the stylus,
Miss Fairfax, gentlest of women, answered the
Plea Of the Hearfsick. - =: Z ia =:
II would advise him to stay and Danish the
: thought Of the fair one.
Let him attend the gymnasium and take mild
tonic or, bitters 1900 -H -
He'll soon forget the false fair one, and be
chasing round after others"
Thus wrote the charming Miss Fairfax answer,
ing the Pleas Of the Heartsick.
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vote the Bryan ticket in 1896 and 1900.
whether he favored free silver or not.
They think, or many Of the mdo. that
Judge Parker Of New York, who Is a gold
democrat and yet voted the Bryan ticket
may do, but they think the nomination
of Cleveland would anger the west and
south so, that the democrats there would
organize separately under Bryan. -:
There is no probability that Cleveland
will be nominated in. 1904. He has had
so much Of the presidential business that
he probably would refuse the nomination,
If, rendered. ssG H. .. III !.,s.sz
Whatever may be the weight Of Bryan
influence, it will be used against Cleve-
land. The colonel is still a devotee Of
silver and has recently been trying to In
duce the Mexican government. to give up
all idea of adopting the gold standard;
but he was too late. Mexico will take
her stand on the gold standard and leave
China, to be the only important country
in the world wrestling with depreciating
silver currency. < IS" 'Sa.'
The democrats are just now protesting
to be sure the tariff Is their winning issue,
but they are not talking free trade; as
much as formerly. The southern demo-
Gratis are especially neglectful of the Old
free trade fad. The growth Of manufae~
turing Industries in that region: has
change dtheir views. The party is at sea
now as to issues, practically. The leaders
ought to be able to announce a definite
policy: however, on Thursday "between
the sherry and the champagne"
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Their Red Letter Day.

On this, the anniversary OF the battle
of New Orleans, and Jackson's Day,
we may look for various and sundry ex-
pressions Of democratic sentiment and the
leaders will give much counsel to the
party.
At Omaha the jackson club has ar
ranged for banquet, at which Colonel
Bryan. Tom Johnson, Bird Coler and other
notable leaders will be present. It seems
that the Omaha democracy invited Rich
ard Olney to the feast, but he declined,
probably recalling how Bryan and Altgeld
abused him for the part he took with
Cleveland in 1894, putting down the Debs
riot in Chicago, when it interfered with
. the passage Of United States mails.
olney is said to be favored as presi-
Dental candidate by some democrats and
!. even Cleveland is reported to be the sub.
4 iect OF q movement in the east, but the
south and west are persistently unfavora-
3 BILE to the man whom they nominated and
. elected twice to the presidency. These
not support any democrat who did not
democrats have been saying that they viii
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more even than the minister and editor
--he should feel his public and watch his
every word. testing carefully his every
utterance, weighing with the most relent-
less precision his every statement; in a
word, possess a sense of his responsible
ity.''
In the course of the article Mr.. Norris
fortif1es his position impregnably, scour-
ging the venal novehsts who are ready to
ride roughshod over the laws Of decency
Tor the sake of money
n Mr.. Norris view of the novelist's re-
sponsibility will be condemned by GER
tain element as too conscientious by far.
There are fashionable, popular novels read
to-day which contain passage after pass
age which cannot but leave a stain upon
the young mind which reads them. The
novelist is surely responsible for the effect
Of his work, whether good or bad, and he
or she cannot evade the responsibility.
Strange It is that, under this responsible
ity, a large percentage Of the novels which
| have the most pernicious influence upon
readers are written by women. The thing
seems incongruous, yet 1t is deplorable
fact. - : sag,s. sg s<-,sy.[
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It is saying that II the women desire the
they them from desiring
1t Association (of wonen) Opposed to the
Extension o. the Suffrage In the seventh
report committee Of this association
it Is written as.*
extension of the suffrage but IN
reviewing years of its ea1istence
ourselves that the arguments
upon succeeded in bringing the whole
question of woman suffrage intelligent dis
cusslon qualification of knowing that be-
ginning comprehend the true issues realize that 1t
would unjust to the obligation OF the fran
upon who do not want It, In order TO- please
the few who do And, where Indifferent it is
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-01-08
The Army Staff Bill.

The passage by the house. OF the bill
creating a general staff for the army by a
vote Of 163 to 81, was not expected so
soon. This measure embodies the reform
proposed by the staff consolidation meas
ure which failed of passage in the, senate
at the last session Of congress. It pro-
vides for the organization. Of general
staff which will prepare all measures for
the national defense, and the mobilization
of the army when war is on, and look
sedulously and intelligently after all the
details of. the service in order to-: in
crease its efficiency and make impossible
such bungling work as characterized the
topsy-turvy mobilization and Transports
tion Of our troops to Cuba in the spring OF
1895. -: =: :s.... .-..> :: ...",<2.e
A well organized general staff means in
.telligent direction Of army affairs and
army operations by the chief Of staff and
| his aids, under the direction Of the presi-
dent. Last year General Miles appeared
before the senate committee, on military
affairs and voluntarily: poured out his
bitter hostility to the staff consolidation
plan. although he knew the measure was
proposed by the secretary Of war and in
dorsed by the president. The presidents
discrimination to retire General Miles is
known to have been formed some time
before this committee incident. but the
friends of: Miles have since. insisted that
the purpose to retire the general was
scheme Of presidential vengeance:
The army staff bill has been opposed BY
persons who profess to- be very much
afraid OF "mi1itarisnn" and "Caesarisn''
They apparently would prefer to have the
sarmy Of the United States lacking II
Proficiency and proper discipline; 3 rather
than be organized to the highest effici
ency. Most DIRECTORS to a general. stat
denounce 1t because the French and Ger
man armies have. general STATS, and they
conclude that ,nilitarism and general staff
are. inseparable., The general staff or
ganization means, however, only orgariza
ton for, the, largest efficiency Of our com
paratively small army. ~. = i: ::
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Copyright, 1908. by T. c. Mcclure.

When the smoke cleared away in the
barroom there was another job for the
young frontier parson. Charley Mozart
ney had killed the tenderfoot.
Charley explained grirnly that he needed
killing: he cheated in poker. The rest of
them took his word for it and turned the
case over to the parson.
1t was only when the parson went
through the tenderfoot's pockets that he
found anything different in this case from
various others that had come under his
notice.
He found Letter there He found va
rious other things. There was money and
some pictures. The parson burned the
pictures. They were not nice pictures.
He figured 1t out that the tenderfoot came
west because they could spare him from
his home circle.
But the parson saved the letter; it was
a pitiful thing.
Somebody's mother had written to the
tenderfoot as he was leaving for the west.
She wanted him to hunt for her boy.
"Tell him to come back to me- the let
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An aionefW menT sopposdt o nj

absurd to that the body polite improved
dragging them to the polls.
The committee gives further insight into It's
for opposing the granting Of the franchise
saying: s5ss EsI sarss5ssS 555s ss f4s
And what Of the future Of this
who carefully study the phases OF suffrage that
the in states where futile
and that the educational work Of the
suffrage has checked the result might have
through nans mistaken chivalry,
derstandtng Of rights with
believed that will not be Induced suffrage
to oEe tive and body
themselves do not the
burden TO this end them and n secure
the legislators and voters this position
insistent protest must be maintained = s.