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MISS sPOONER PINKs ACTOR.
Inbuttoned Foils in "My Lady Peggy"
Six Very Palpable Hits.

Cecil Spooner and Walter Hale. the top
liners Of when My Lady Peggy Goes
TO Town. had fencing match in the first
act OF that play at Days last night that
wasn't exactly on the programme. The
fencing is part of the show, but hereto
fore the thrusting has been done in the
buttoned foils
Last evening the actors took the buttons
OF 80 as to make the contest more realistic.
Miss Spooner began tho scene by clipping
Mr. Hale on the forehead near his eye 80
that the blood ;rckled out.
That made her nervous and she managed
to slash her antagonist four more times
on the face. drawing blood plainly each
time. Mr. Hale capped the climax by
scratching Miss Spooner's hand.
When the act was over a doctor
pastored up the wounds of the pair, The
press agent happened to be. away at the
time and will never get over it..
The last act was enlivened by another
accident. Miss Spooner comes on riding
a horse and when she dsmo,nts boy
leads the horse, mp an incline back Of the
stage in view Of the audience.
The horse fell last night taking boy, run
way and scenery with him. The boy and
horse dropped about twelve feet. Moro
court plaster was sent for.
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NAVAL RECRUITS I'LL.
Out break Of CercbrO-Spinal Meningitis
at the League Island Yard.

PHILADELPHIA, May little Government
officials al the League Island Navy Yard are
fighting all outbreak of cerehro spinal
meningitis, or spotted fever among the
men being trained on the receiving ships
Minneapolis and Puritan. Three recruits
have died, and the cases have numbered
nine in all The overcrowded conditions Of
the ships is believed to have caused TIE out-
break of the disease, Every preCaution
is being taken to prevent the men from
being huddled together in the future.
The number of recruits at League Island
Navy Yard ranges from 1000 To l,t00 men.
Orders were given out to-day for the cree
ton of temporary camp for $50 men he
hind the barracks. and the marines will be
installed there until all danger is over.
All clothing and furnishings of the GUAR
tiers will be fumig gated during the week.
The transport Yankee. commissioned as
one of the Governments four training
ships and taking the place Of the Lancaster.
Is also to receive some of the recruits, and
when she sails for Hampton Roads, within
a few days. will have 425 men aboard. BY
these means it is believed the crowded
condition of the Minneapolis and Puritan
will! be relieved and all the recruits will
have abundant fresh air and exercise. The
officials are considering closing the yard to
visitors until all danger is over.
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land Office Of the company. could easily
tejl by the date on the batteries just where
they we're shipped. To get this information
Inspector Mctlusky has sent Detective
Hughes to Cleveland.
ALL WELL ON THE uMBRIA.
The Cunarder lvernia, in yesterday
from Liverpool and Queenstown, spoke
the Umbria by wireless off Nantucket on
Sunday morning The tmbria said :,
snake especial mention that alls well.
The Ivernia's Officers wondered what
this message meant unit the pilot came
aboard of the Hook and told ABOUT me
infernal machine found on the Cunard
pier
WEST HoBoHEN THREATENING CLUES.
A secondhand shop kept by A, Nasher
at the corner of Spring ana Paterson streets,
West Hoboken, threatened for tima
Yesterday to furnish clues. Detective Ser
1ennt Vetter of the West Hoboken police
Was told that three Italians. accompanied
by woman, had entered tho secondhand
shop, a week ago Saturday, and asked to
look at a dry battery displayed IN the
window. The Italians examined he bat
asked Nasller if he had any others. de
told them he hadn't, and they departed
Nasher was fruitful in suggestions. HI,
hadn't sold the batteries used in the internal
machine, bu, he was sure the brass naval
or Yachting button that formed part OF
the catch that held the handle of the cleo
trio cigar lighter in place was one OF
number he had recently disposed Of. Netter
made tracks for telephone and informed
Inspector McCluskE. The inspector sent
two of his detectives to West Hobo ken with
the button in tho afternoon. Naaner SAID
he thought tho buttons he had sold were
much larger, "
Vetter wds told by a man ma mod Swalski,
WHO has secondhand shop at Spring ard
Angeliaue streets, West Hobok"n, that two
Italians went there on Monday week and
asked the proprietor If he had any clock
works for sale Swaski, according to
yetter, said he hadn't but offered to sell
the men n couple of big clocks, which he
still has for sala. II markably cheap.
TPA,ING SALE OF DRY PATrEEY
CLEVELAND. May li.-All day to-day an
employee Of the National Carbon Company
was busy dolving into the sales record to
find out the jobbcr who received the
Standby" dry cell batteries found inside the
Internal machine and which bore the date
of Jan. 2, 1903. The company sent out
80 COO of the cells on that date and the names
of the iiobbers to whom the goods we're
shipped on Jan. were not discovered
to-day. y. e. Cotabish general sales
agent OF the company, said Tonight
"The date found on the bottom OF the
cells in the Internal machine was the day
on which the coils were packed for ship
ment. We shall keep at work and hope
to discover something Tomorrow morning
The task will not be completed even after
the jobbers who received the goods are
found, for if tho cells We're sold some time
ago il will be hard for the jolbers to re-
member to whom the sales were made
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TO PAY THiYERS INSJ RANCE.
ECirs OF the Young Man Who Carried SAOS,.
600 to Get the Money.

BosToS, May 1.-THE life Insurance. COM
panies in which Edwin NJ. Thayer. the
heavily insured young man, who died sud-
denly in a Boston hotel after his arrest for
forgery and who held policies for sio5 900,
have decided to pay the claims as soon AZ
the necessary formali,ies are complied
with The agent of one company says
that while the suspicious circumstances
remain. pointing to every motive for suicide.
the inquiries his company has set afoot
confirm that death was due To natural
causes beyond any shadow of dispute The
medical men, including DR. Draper, Medi-
cal Examiner for the county. who conducted
he autopsy in the City Hospital. declared
that death was due to acute Bright,s dis
ease. All the physicians agreed that i;
was not a case of suicide.
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Fits About bloomfield and Peeps In at q
Young WOman's Window.

BLOOMFIELD, n, j., May l1.There are
three persons in Bloomfield who think
they have seen ghost Samuel Shorcross,
who works for the electric light company
is one: his daughter and Simon Stein, the
butcher are the Others.
Many other folks in the neighbor-
hood of Lake and Crown streets live in
nightly dread that they will see it. Some
of these people go armed.
The spectre usually appears shortly after
10 O'Clock, and hovers about until just'before
midnight, when il vanishes near the old
Watsessing Lake.
Some persons believe the figure to be a
somnambulist, while others think it is
the ghost Of Bill Smith of Green Pond.
Samuel Shorcross. the electric light man,
has to bc ont of doors the greater part of
the night. He says he has seen the spectre
on moro than one occasion. His daughter
declares that she saw it peep in at her
window.
There are people who believe that some
young man is playing FRANKS on his
neiphbOrs
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something of the archaic flavor Of the per-
would ha lost

something of the archaic flavor Of the per-
formances would be lost.
1t is not possible to indulge in more than
moaeFssS praise q onshWs ske %ere
interpreted very inperfectly; The work
itself is most naive and captivating: piece
Of religious mysticism with duet OF most
human style voioing the love Of the Saviour
and his bride the Church,
This same duet has an exquisite violin
obligato in Bachs finest manner, which
was done TO an untimely death by the
soloist. No doubt his playing had a sad
dening effect upon the two singers. MISS
Stewart and Mr.. Witherspoon. for they de,
perfect love were closely allied to the sleep
that knows no waking: They however,
were not alone in difficulties, for in several
places the chorus had bad moments. once
the tenors made false entrance and gen
orally attacks were uncertain and unanlm-
ity far distant. 1t seemed as II every one
were suffering from nervousness, the
conductor most OF all.
1t was no wonder. for musicians Of promi-
nence, like Sam Frankie, Fritz Scheel,
and Glover, chorusmaster OF the Cincinnati
festival chorus, were there holding their
scores on the performance in full view
Of the performers. But that is the penalty
of the widespread public interest In this
festival, and the singers here will have to
learn literally to face the music.
Tomorrow night, when the chorus ls on
more familiar ground. things will no doubt
go better AS for the soloists they must
find means of grace and interpret the
poignant measures of Bach in less phleg-
matte manner Only once tonight was
there wide departure from this: and that
was too far in another direction. MIR.
Young sang his rectative. He comes
in "Sleepers Wake" entirely too dramati-
cally, as if it were passage In Mendels-
sohn's Elijah
Bach's great modification Of Italian reel.
tative when it was introduced into sacred
music was the substitution for it's declama-
tory character of purely melodious style.
With all it's imperfections, however, this
initial concert fairly maintained the singular
excellence Of the Bethlehem festivals. 1t
gave an opportunity to hear works. of
wonderful beauty which are SO seldom
attempted as TO be practically unknown
TO the musical elect in this land Certainly
it was worth the longest journey made by
any visitor to hear the "Misericordia' in
the Magnificent
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THREW MONEY INTO THE SEWER.
Syracuse Woman Thus DlspOses Of Several
Hundred Dollars Rather Than Give II Up

SYRACUSE, May ll.-Mrs. Bridget Hayes,
rather than give up several hundred dol
lars that was entrusted to her keeping,
threw the money into a closet and flushed
it into the sewer. The money was tho
boarding of Mrs. Patrick Doyle, who re-
Gently died at the hospital. 1t was known
that she had money, but II could not be
found until little son told that she had
given IL to Mrs Hayes to Keep "hlie she
was sick. The police sent a detective TO
get the money from Mrs Hayes. She said
she would go to police headquarters if she
was allowed to change her skirt. young
girl was sent to watch her. She went into
the closet and threw roll of bill Is down
torn I'D, but could not recover the bills.
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Mon DESTROYS A DAM.
Third Attack by Farmers on Bayou La.
mOuric, La, Successful.

NEW ORLEANS, May 1.-THE dam over
Bayou Lamourie, La, was destroyed BY n
mob last night. This is the third attack
on the dam by the farmers living above it
on Bayou Lamourie. Their lands are
flooded because of tho dam. which was
erected by the Bayou BGuf Levee Board.
The first time the dam was attacked
with gunpowder. the second with dynamite
Both failed to destroy fl,
A guard was appointed by the Levee
Board t, protect the dam. Last night a
mob captured the guards and, going to
work with spades and shovels, soon destroye
destroyed it. Gov. Heard telegraphed to
Sheriff Stafford to summon posse and pro-
tect the DAM but the posse arrived too
late
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SHOT HIMSELF IN PARK.
Respondent Cabinetnakrr Fails In HI
Attempt al Suicide.

Frederick Boehler, is years old, cabinet
maker, of 4S4 Seventh avenue, Brooklyn,
attempted suicide yesterday morning by
shooting himself in the head while seated
on bench in Prospect Park. A number Of
women and children saw the act.
The bullet did not penetrate the brain
and the would-be suicide was removed to
the Sanay Hospital. where he soon became
violent and had to be put into strait
jacket.
He has been out Of work for four months
He has a wife and four children, He vii!
rocoy1r
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O,Br,cn Makes a Policy Raid.

Alexander johnson, William Munsey and
John Meehan were arrested 10y Police
Captain OBrien of the Flushing avenue
station, Brooklyn, Yesterday. for selling
policy slips al 80 Flushing avenue. They
win be arraigned in the Myrtle avenue
police court TODAY.
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s3.OOO for Breach OF Promise.

RALIsroN. n. Y. May Because James
p. Tittemore courted Frances Pettitt for
fourteen years and then would not marry
her, jury in the Suprrm" Court here to-
day gave Miss Pc;titt verdict Of $4,000
for her wounded feelings. She brought
an action for breach of promise. Tiitemorc
is the village blacksmith of his home town,
Galway, and is reputed to lie well Off.
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Burned by Live Electric Light Wire.

Charles Redenger of DIN and Elliot
streets, Williamsbridge, was badly burned
rclny by picking up a live electric
light wire. The wire, from which the in
s,ilation had worn of, dropped from n pole
across tho trolley tracks in Willamsbridge.
Riedenger tried 10 wind the wire around
the pole. His hands and scalp were burned
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HANDLER BEATEN on POINTS.
Dixon Wins in smuggling Bout at National
Sporting Club.
Special Cable Despatch to THE ST!

Special Cable Despatch to THE Sun.
LONDON, May l1-At the National Sport
ing Club tonight Dixon of London defeated
Handler OH points in an eight-round go.
The fight was at catch weights: 1t was
disappointing as a display of skill.
Dixon was over-fat and sluggish but
the American, to everybodvs surprise.
proved equally slow and awkward, and the
contest throughout was a series Of smuggling
hits, regardless of defence,
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WOMAN INJURED on 4 SHIP.
Kate Byron. a Widow. Got a Fractured
Skull on the PrOteus.

Kate Byron, a widow, of 2O4 East Fifty
second street, was taken from the steam
ship Proteus of the Morgan Line YESTERDAY
and removed to st. Vincent 5 Hospital
with fractured skull.
The Proteus arrived from New Orleans
Yesterday, and it was said on the ship that
Mrs. Byron had been injured by a steel
door, which had been blown open by the
wind striking her,
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Robert u. Treat Assigns.

PROVIDENCE. May II. Robert 3. Treat.
who inherited large part Of the great
wealth Of Enos Lapham the well-known
cotton manufacturer, made an assign
mcnt to-day. The liabilities are estimated
AZ s25O, 900 and the apparent assets at about
$500 900. Mr.. Treat attributes his trouble
to the poor condition of the cot'on-cloth
market
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splnks Again Falls to Break In.

TRENTON. n. J., May ll.-Judge Kirk
patrick refused to-day the fourth applca-
ton Of Henry c. Spinks of Newport, Ky,
TO be admitted ms a party defendant to the
Of the affairs OF the National Asphalt Com
pany. Spinks sought to enjoin the pro-
posed sale of the asphalt company's secun-
tics.
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Contra, Freight Train Jumps the Track.

R0CIE>iEE, May II. - westhound
freight, running extra on the New York
Central railroad jumped the track between
Byron and batavia at $3.50 o'clock this
afternoon, and several cars were ditched
The wreck stopped traffic on all four tracks
for part Of the afternoon. Nobody was
hurt
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Schooner Mary r. Godfrey Sunk

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May 1.-The
schooner Mary F. Godfrey. Capt Weeks,
bound from Jacksonville to Philadelphia.
lumber laden, was lost on the jacksonville
bar last night. The vessel was washed to
PIECES Tie capt ain and crow were saved.
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Planter Assass,nnted From Ambush.

DALLAS. Tex. May lib. r. Henry. one
OF the most extensive cotton planters of
tho Rr2zos Valley was fatally shot from
AMBUSH last night posse is securing the
river bottoms FOR the murderer.
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Dean Kirchwey Made Kent Professor

Dean George W. Nrchwey of the COL
umbia University school of law has been
promoted to III the Kent professorship
Of law, made vacant by the resignation of
Prof. Keener, The Nash proiessorShip.
formerly held by Prof. Kirchwey has for
the time being becn lief, vacant.
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32.WO Cases OF I.lneapples.

The steamship Esperanza, in last night
from Havana. has 3? 900 cases Of pine
apples aboard the largest cargo of fruit
ever brought from Havana
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Senator Hanna Coming Here.

CLEVELAND. May Senator Hanna
will leave tomorrow afternoon for Now
York TO attend meeting of the National
Civic Federation.
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BUSINESS NOTICES.

Mrs. Windows Soothing Syrup for children
teething. softcns the gums reduces imam m alton
allAys pain. cures wind collie darrhpa Csc. bottle.
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The OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY wishes
to dispose Of It's lease for the entire nine
teenth floor and additional space In the
Empire Building, and announces It's inten-
ton to move about June st to the White
hall Building, facing Battery Park.
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health OF New Orleans, DR.. Quitman Kohnke
president of the City Board Of Health, said:
New Orleans has suffered for many
years under conditions peculiar to no other
city In the world A recital Of the vicissi-
tudes through which New Orleans has
passed and through which il has blossorred
into a thoroughly modern city. would be
long chapter OF history. To-day, although
the city has not yet completed it's whole
intention sanitarily, there is no city in the
South where life for the white man OF
morality and intelligence is safer. longer or
happier than in New Orleans.
Its rate Of mortality. once the greatest
among American cities, has been reduced
to figures comparing favorably with any
OF the larger cities Of the country, and
this has been accomplished too. under cir
cumstances most unfavorable for success.
New Orleans is the dest ination Of the sick
and destitute OF larger area Of country
than surrounds any other American city.
and New Orleans cares for many sick peo-
pie who come here for medical and surgical
treatment.
Not withstanding these obstacles to a
lessening mortality. the records show a
steadily decreasing death rate. indicating
steadily improving conditions, promising
steadily improving longevity.
1T would I've difficult properly to credit
the various causes that have contributed
10 make New Orleans a healthy city. The
paving Of streets. changing mudholes into
modern thoroughfares; the laying out Of
parks. 40 aptly and properly called the
lungs Of city; the increa sed attention paid
TO domestic hygiene and sanitation gen
erally-sll OF these. and many other causes
possibly operating unknown and unob-
served. have contributed their share.
And when the city fully socomplishes
that browning achievement Of municipal
government drainage, sewerage and an
abundant supply Of wholesome water
the death rate will be reducs'd still further
furnishing additional evidence that boards
of health are right in constantly and per
sis,en,ly urging the great Importance Of
municipal sanitation, a city's best invest =
rn.nt, giving quickest. largest and surest
returns for III. least outlay ~ money
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NO.. RaM~

Ifyou have any business with Mr..
William G. Bolton, President OF the
Bolton Drug Co., Brooklyn, y. y,
you must elbow your way through
a crowd Of customers, and you will
find him working at q modest little
desk in the rear OF the long counters
A man who has Ave large stores
70 look after must learn to do at
least two things at once, and Mr.
Bolton, whom a reporter found at
the store, 9G4 Futon Street, con-
tinued 10 work as he talked.
~ have been in this business long
enough TO see many proprietary
articles rise and fall he said. II
have never stopped to analyze the
reasons for the failures. As for the
Successes, merit and good manage
ment account for them merit chiefly.
Take Cuticura Soap, Ointment
and Resolvent, for example. In our
stores we have handled them for
years. and the sales have gone on
Increasing right along despite lively
and persistent competition.
There are thousands, yes, tens OF
thousands Of people in this good
borough Of Brooklyn, who consider
them standard household articles,
IS thoroughly to be depended on Ms
to-morrow's sunrise.
lin my judgment, the hold Of
CuticurA Remedies upon the public
confidence is explainabie upon one
ground only; that they really do all
they are said to do.
III they failed to cure eczemas,
rashes and other torturing. disfgur-
ing skin, scalp and blood humors,
or IL the Soap and Ointment did not
possess delicate emolient properties
especially fitting them for toilet
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rHK row 1 u0RTGAGE LITTER.
Modest Fortunes Made 10, N~bsssks Farm
ere Oui sf Dair, Pvoduets.

LINCOLN. Neb. Feb % The Nebraska
COW has joinsd the winter wheat crop as a
mort gage litter.
Ascending 10 III. fepor ~ ths secretary
II the state DsiryInsn's Association, J,lsl
published. the pr oduction ~ butter Ia
Nalnaska last year wss ons-thisd greater
than ~ the prev ious year Two thing,
hav. 60 I'D thu g~s, increase, the hand
SEPARATION And the culture ~ alfalfa Both
~ thess sf- nee in tl,e West
The hand separator IL . m-ohaninsi do
vlns thai lac permanently 10, yls rod the
DID and the uss fashioned churn altks aud
T.nds.raJ butter making o fun"t ION puI 90,
II lipr creamery instead ~ The farmer >
Sf. II wac lnipsiuoad into A.bfaska
tao years sSo. and i.ss noIiipls.,siy p+yolu
tlhIss,i tia dAlfy industry. net only d0u.
Dhhg "a volume, b1 Increasing ts
nuissg making psysef
faInsis nO lonTr' haul iI,slf milk "a ,Ls
81 iinn,lns siAtiasS 90 tao lis of-sin.fi.s
lg Do ths ssisafsiins .; b"Gs aud naffy
ully the uiseiN 10 iiasT aans f.ls bee,
tho skim uiik "a 10 uuiliss-d ~ hois. O.
10 q gsDo1 $50 that ds-~-hl lay 10 ofssn
alone sa1i yeas fof hsf original s--i
N -is~i fortunes are t-siils made 10 tLs
od.f 80 lssI parts ~ the stat. by "a. inAin
tsh.Sas - lAfss l.fei< Of dairy oOss shsss
inils 10 sDld ~ ti,- 81 tnifiiiias stsil0bs 4
herd - hh y eJ~s, slth tils nat ural ibrf.as.
~ .als.s AMI the sale ~ ulilk aud cream
MIKE u Isss~iids fof . fsunsf 90 olaAlh q
y.sft, innoiis" fran tho ssuTe- .io,- 90
ls'f" - thA, VI ln~si ovvi.ify profcsssol4
~ 10
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purposes, for preserving, purifying
and identifying the skin, scalp, hair
and hands, the facts would have
been known long ago, and Cuticura
would have gone to the grave-yards
Of medicinal failures.
AS a matter Of fact, Cuticurs
remedies are very much alive. OF
course our salesmen do not ask ques-
tions of people who come TO buy
them, but from the ever growing de-
mand | assume that the good work
OF Cuticura has been spread through
the community by word Of mouth,
and with all due respect to the news
papers, that is the best advertising
In the world.
"Time and competition are the
hardest tests, and Cuticura has with
stood them both. Mothers use tho
Soap and Ointment to relieve their
tormented babies, whose tender
skins itch aud burn with eruptions
as unsightly as they are aRonizing,
because it is not only effective in
the highest degree, but 1t is pure,
sweet and wholesome.
"Grown up people who buy the
remedies for their personal use,
swear by them, i know. Cuticura
Soap is the most popular OF skin
soaps, and its sale probably exceeds
that of all other skin soaps combined.
1--WE have sold ut retail over
5000 worth OF Cuticura Soap, Oint-
ment and Resolvent this year, and
have as vet not heard one word Of
complaint.
~ have no more interest in Cuti.
cura than in other things we sell,
but since you ask my opinion, l
give IL as freely on this subject as