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New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
FooTPADs SECURE SIX CENTS
They Overlook a Roll Of Bills in Another
Pocket-Three Arrests Made.

Joseph Goodstein OF No. 4S1 Seventh-ave. Brook.
iyn while on his way home at an early hour vas,
terday morning was held up by two footpads =
Sixteenth-st between Sixth and Seventh ava.
that borough. Although he resisted pIuckiy ara
cried for help they had succeeded in enptyinz ~.
pocket containing six cents. before Patrolrnar
Mcclure came up. In another pocket was larxa
roll of bills.
man who gave the name OF Thomas Mczarry a
No COS Sixth-ave. He resisted arrest and vhiia
the two were struggling a man came out ef ths
darkness and began to assault the policeman Ne
C,uire was having lively time OF IT, when Detec-
tive DUFFY arrived and took OF the extra man
Az the station the latter gave the name OF Georza
Monies. OF No. 453 Seventh-ave A ehargs ot ss-
eaulfIna an officer was made against him.
Three hours later Robert O'COnnor OF Fourth
St and Seventh-ave., was arrested BY DeteosiFs
DUFFY on suspicion that he also implicated II
the holdup of Goodstetn-
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
LAYS BLAME ON WHITE RACE.
Colored Minister Declares Negroes Turn to
Crime Because They Cannot Get Work.

The Rev Horace Miller. a colcred Methodist min
tster preached a sermon in the Mount Tabor Meth
odist Episcopal Church Mission, at No. 81 West
dred-and thirty -fourth-st. last night in
which he put all the blame for the criminaty and
degraded condition Of the colored the white
people The title of the sermon was. Critical
Phases of Coored Life
From the time the colored race received their
liberty" said the clergymen. 'the white people
started to defame the name Of the colored man and
woman. As soon the negro became free the
whites began to fasten on him a reputation not
his own and called him a bestial criminal l have
devoted years of study TO the question, and l hnd
that the negro is not a whit more rapist than the
white man. Not 10 per cent Of the crimes charged
up against the colored man due to him alone,
NO race needs higher education than the negro.
so that he may become independent man and
think himself. The negro has all rights to an
education. but these rights are being called into
question by the whites The negro is becoming
more criminal than ever because he cannot get any
work If he does get work the pay is such that it
given the negro an honest dollar for an honest
days work or even an honest nest n, nat oolar 40 a the
criminal If the Southern farmer had not paid the
negro helper in molasses and brown sugar the
negro would have been contented 10 remain ana
he to-day would gladly go back TO the South II ne
could get paid an honest days wages.
The quickest way to solve the negro problem is
10 employ the negro. Ninety-f1ve per cent OF the
criminals among them would then disappear.
know colored mana good penman and fine
IlookkeepeI-who answered a number of applica-
ing him 20 call. He did So but in nearly every
case, as soon ne was seen to be negro, he was
negroes seek work. cannot get il and turn crimi-
mails from self-preservation. They are criminals
sponsible because they hold the positions the ne
groes could fill, and they will not give them up
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
BOY SAVES COMPANION.
Pulls Friend from IN Front of Fast
Train.

Quick action on the part of a boy saved his
companion from being killed by a Long Island
Railroad train yesterday afternoon Two boys
about eight years old were running across the rail-
road tracks at Woodhaven Junction wnen
through Long Beach train came laundering along.
Both boys, in a playful mood ran directly in
front of the train frightcn the engineer. He
Immediately put the brakes and blew his warn
ing signal The boys started to away, when
suddenly one of them slipped and fell directly in
front of the engine which only few yards
away The other boy, seeing his companions dan
ger without a moments hesitation back,
seized his friends and pulled him off the
track Just as the train swept by.
The engineer Immediately stopped the train
thinking he had hit the little fellow. but before
he had time to leave his post the boy had re-
covered from his shock, and both started off on
run down the road. The engineer and conductor,
seeing that everything all right, started off
again
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
MASONS TO Lay STONE
of Nero s65O,000 Courthoucs at E1,
abeth.

Elizabeth, July 10 (SpeciaD.-At a u,oas,-~
yesterday by the special committee OF the r-1 I'D
County Board OF FreehOlders which ha, on
OF the erection of the new $4,000 coursho,,- g
Union County. and which IL now in coursA - IoT
struction here. all the arrangements vara -. -.
for the laying OF the cornerstone which ugl, o -
place Thursday. July 80, with Masorg, -
monies. The Grand Lodge CT the State - -
Jersey will assemble here to take part IN ~. -
ercises. The programme for the affair viii ,r.,s~
an address OF welcome by Captain J. Franz -
bard director OF the Board OF Freeholders -
Ing OF cornerstone by ". Holt Apgar. OF Trs,s-.
Master OF the Grand Lodge. and an oration -
Ex-Governor Foster NJ voorhees,. - *
The Grand Lodge will meet at Masonic Nan .
Broad-st. at 1890 a. m on July 30 and al 4. u =
new courthouse. where the exercises viii sac Sss
A dinner win follow at Jacobs's Theatre =.
given by the Board OF Freeholders on bsnslg - 81
the county. United States Senator John Kea- %
been selected TO act toastmaster. "1s
and will make the opening address. There rsr -
snort speeches BY Grand Master Apgar .oe
Hubbard County Collector Edward NJ WcsgT
Councillor Frank Bergen and others. o~
The venerable director OF the Board oS Frass-,.
ers Captain Hubbard. OF Plainfed. "a nov 49,.
seventy-fve years old. ard has been nenbs-o y
the board for thrty-siX years. He Il veters- -
the civil War and before he raised counpa1v, -
went 20 the front in defence OF the Union - S
a Freeholder from Plainfeld. He has been dirseto.
OF the board for about twenty years
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
ARRIVALS oE BUYERS.

oPs F. E ~ Asees be & Co MIwaukee; F E Abeles piece
Abrahamson Brothers' Oakland Cal; ]. Abrahamson.
drygoods notions and furnishing goods No "a Franklin
Ausr6ach Bro. salt Lake City; NJ J. Friedman.
eloaks suits. furs and shawls, No Mercer-s Herald
William Barr DrygoQds Company, St Louis; L cady.
boys and chldrep's clothing. No 621 Broadway: Hot,
DAWSON -Paxson-stok Company Atlanta; F. ]. Paxon
G william fIS Br1aawI5S; 8ons5Ss;o1 Ssey y ~ Mtnnsano,.
Innings. and W Myine drapeTes , WaSer-st: .iSs Na
Emerson ndSs Blake Adams COMPANY Bangor; C c
Day, Herald Square ' an a
noo6 Ey aBG BOaT fafnshhs HSgI09 so0 Foley
oraen G4 FG an novelties T Sa o FRY " SehradeE
Hargadine- -McIlittrck Dry Company St louis.
No: e leonard Herald square anu blankets
goods Hfz%a4 lBer Co. Oshkosh WIS., s Heyman piece
G. s Cart~right drygoods notions and furnishing goods
six e SnqasGh aonan ribbons
zukosh. broad silks and laces No s21 Broadway; I'm.
Lewis -zukoski Mercantile Company. St. Louis. W
zukoskis general buyer Imperial.
hosiery and underwear. No So worth-s Navarro ''e''
drygoods notions and furnishing goods 25s Church,
,P P' faln.SIS P{s92 sse P6s, 4F9alanaR9:
gg P9TeSgs S Mitchell Norwich john PortsOus. dry
,niv RSa S as 5T9s so.SSv S Aana Rs4a Rich
Rider, Wallace Company. Dubuque Iowa. 8 p Rider
cotton piece goods No 81 Leonard st. Albert.
millinery. etc. No 82S Broadway Cadillac se'nah'
SchiPPer & Block, Peoria; r. F. Farrell coaks ana
fUrs, No. S9S broadway, Albert -
George SchwarzenbaCh. Cumberland
Schwarzenbach. furnishing goods, Imperial "
ScTuggs, Nandervoort & Barney
Louis A j. Mollenkon, domestics blankets No 81
Broadway Hoffman. w. 60
s Shapinsky & Co. Louisville: Julius ShapinsLv ubfta
goods, linens. notions and furnishing goods Albert ~
Smith q Murray. Springfield Alexander Ieith cloaks
and suits No. 55 White st. ' NS
s2iom9n a Co; Pittsbgrg Jacob BIbOo. cloaks and
starr Drygoods Company. Lousville Charles Starr
coakS waists hosiery and gloves; Loab representa-
stein-Bloeh Company. Rochester; n. Stein. woolien
piece goods. Holland. ~
H. P wasson & Co. Indianapolis; r. C. Hanes car
tai
Watt Shand Lancaster: Miss Knowles. millinery No
80 White st. Navarro. "
ing goods. Imperial
r Vel sBokane Wash \: Wen. drygoods and no.
tors; No 80 Broadway. Hoffman
X L. Whiehnrst Norfolk; r. L whtehurst dry
Woolfe winnIg Leavenworth KAN Ed winniz
Wyman. Partridge & Co Minneapolis; d c. Warden
hosiery. underwear and gloves No 43 Leonardst Man
haitian.
JEwELRY TRADE.
D @ PettiE Company, Indianapolis: George Io,,Aow
tewery. No 2 Walker-st.. Cadillac.
HATS. CAPS. BOOTS AND SHOES
Byrider Bros. Co., Akron: c. I. Byrider hats In
~ 49,
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
TO BE FORMED BY ALLIED SCHOOLS.
University of North America Project Not
in Shape for Statement

as one of the corporators OF the University Of
North America, incorporated in Washington on
Saturday had little to say about the project when
seen by Tribune reporter last night. He said
that the enterprise still in such shape that
he could say nothing about it for the present 1t
is understood that the university Will be composed
OF a number OF allied schools in various parts OF
the country. mostly professional schools. Accord
ing the articles OF Incorporation it Is organized
for the promotion and advancement of learning
In the ancient and modern languages, journalism.
law and for hther purposes
The headquarters OF the university Will be in
Washington The officers have not been chosen,
nor has there been a meeting of the board OF
directors Of the Brooklyn men among the cor
porators, DR.. Hefiey is the proprietor of the
Heffey schools. and Edward H. NJ. Roehr is
awyer and the son OF the late proprietor OF the
'Freie Presse" a Brooklyn German daily news
paper. H. /. MacMahon and II. Deimar French
are connected WITH q BROOKLYN newspspeE.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
THE THIRTEENTH HOME.
GRardSmcn Much Pleased 5eith Trfp
to Plum Island.

Tanned a deep brown by their week of camp
life at Fort Terry Plum Island, the nine hundred
and odd Of the 18th Regiment, Heavy Artillery.
y. G. y. Y, marched back to their armory at
Jefferson and Sumner avcs, Brooklyn, yesterday
afternoon at 8 o'clock. and were royalty greeted
by more than two thousand Of their friends par
ents. wives and sweethearts. The men
tl,usastic over their experience at the army post
and stamp it as the pleasantest and most
profitable camp tour the regiment ever had.
The regiment struck camp on Plum Island at
1880 a. m. and marched TO the south pier where
Tho steamer Grcenport waiting for the men
and their baggage. The boat was loaded in less
than an hour and AZ 1870 o'clock reached Grez---
port. Long Island There two special trains of the
Long Island Railroad were waiting. and the men
say they broke the record In loading each train IN
from FIVE to seven minutes. After uneventful
"Trip trains reached the Bedfordave station, IN
Brooklyn 4:30 o'clock. From there the regiment
marched TO the armory Colonel David E. Austen
and all of his officers returned with the regiment
Every in good health. and there was
little sickness il the course of the entire week.
1t had been intended TO establish permanent
camp Plum Island. where such officers and men
who desired could remain TO which they could
return later in the summer. This idea was given
up however. account of the poor facilities for
going TO and from the island.
Captain Stewart. Of Battery A, speaking of tie
week Of camp life at the army reservation. said:
we all enjoyed Il first You couldn't find
a healthier place The air is good and the water
Sc good. and when some more improvements are
made the island it will make an ideal place for
under the direction OF Major Hamilton, command
ant Of Ecrt Terry, and the other army ofcers was
men: y mad de- during the week We fred twice as
many shots as We did two years ago at Fort Wright,
ard we die it in three-quarters of the time 49,.
Somo Of the priyates were complaining that they
didn't get enough to eat in camp. Not many OF
them. however. would admit IT, although they all all
said they were ravenously hungry and intended
&C hurry home to get a good square meal
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
HORSES HOOP BLOWN rs YARDS.
Animal Stepped on Dynamite Cartridge
Near Trenton.
rBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TR1BUNE.l

proprietor of local hotel, lost valuable road
horse to-day by accident. He driving with
his son-in-law in the country when one Of his
team stepped on and exploded dynamite cart
ridge. The animals hoof was hurled seventy
five yards into a field.
The force of the explosion threw the wagon
against an embankment. wrecking it badly, and
at the same time freeing the horses. who
Jumped fence and ran for some distance, till
the one with the shattered hoof fell and dragged
the other down with it. Later the injured
horse was shot The cartridge was supposed to
have been left by men who had been blasting
for the construction of a trolley line.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
KNEE BREECHES MAKERS OUT.
Twenty-Five Hundred Go on Strike for
Higher Pay.

A general strike of knee breeches makers, ordered
by the Knee Breeches Makers Union, for the re-
newal of the agreement of last year with the con-
tractors into effect yesterday. Sunday is the
beginning of the working week on the East Side
but not machine was moving in any of the con-
tractors shops far the making of knee
breeches concerned
In ALL about twenty-five hundred knee breeches
makers quit work. They employed by eighty
contractors in Manhattan twenty-five in Brooklyn
and sixteen in Brownsville. The strikers made
their headquarters in hall at No. 73 Ludlow-st
where L. Wesefeld the strike leader, and others
made speeches in Yiddish the gist of which was
that the strikers We're the worst paid and most
looked cheerful, applauded vigorously.
The demands of the strikers expected to be
granted
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
MOTHER" JONES ARRIVES.
Leaves Army IN Paterson-Here to
Make ARRANGEMENTS.

Paterson, N. j., July 19.-Mother Joness army
spent quiet day here. the members of 1t wan
dering about they pleased and being enter
tanned by various groups into which they fell.
Mrs Jones this morning addressed the United
SILK Weavers of America at Hevetia Hall and
urged that body to join the American Fedora
tion of Labor. The weavers later decided to
remain outside of the Federation. This after
noon Mrs. Jones went to New-York to arrange
for the passage OF her army through that city.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
HoRsEcAR KILLS CHILD.

While playing in the street yesterday Annie Par
rella three and onehaf years old. of No 2l5 Mott
St. was run over and killed by an eastbound
Spring-st horsecar at Spring and Mott SITS The
street was crowded with Italians and hundreds Of
persons the accident
The baby had been playing with several COM
panions and ran underneath the horses The driver
Matthew Lennon, of No. 5SS Grand-st. applied the
brake and did all he could to prevent the wheels
from passing over the child's body but the mo-
mentum OF the car was too great. A crowd gath
cred around the car but there no demonstra-
ton against the driver He was locked up on a
technical charge OF homicide.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
p. M. ARrHuR,s BODY AT CLEVELAND.

Cleveland July 19-The body of Peter NJ. Arthur
grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Lo-
comotve Engineers, who died suddenly in Winni-
peg Man. last Thursday night, reached this city
tonight over the Lake Shore Railroad. 1t was
accompanied by four members of the brotherhood
from Winnipeg, from Rat Portage. Ont, and
another from Moosejaw. n. w. T. There was no
representation of engineers to the body on it's
arrival this being in accordance with the wish Of
the Arthur family. The funeral tomorrow will
be conducted as privately possible in view of
the wide acquaintance and the position held by
Mr.. Arthur. -
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
WENT FISHING WITHOUT BAIT.
Boy Dropped Line and Hook Into Store
Cellar Through Grating

Lewis Dimond, fourteen years old, OF No. IA
Hester-st., went fishing yesterday but he did not
60 near any body of water. He carried a pole
lire and hook. but no bait. Neither was he par
tcular about what he caught.
He hshed from the sidewalk and his line and hook
dropped through i space between two bars of the
grating that covered an opening in the cellar of s.
Hudess BARRIERS supplies store, at No. 153 TO ISL
Canal-st. Lewis was angling industriously and
displaying symptoms that he had felt a nibble.
when Policeman Stevenson caught sight of him.
The policeman took him to the Elizabeth-st. sta
ton. and thence he forwarded to the Chill
dren's Society rooms.
Lewis if his life Is spared is likely to wear dia-
r1O5CS
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
MULE sPiNNERs' STRIKE ENDED.

PaVtucket. r. l.. July BY a close vote this
afternoon the Rhode leland Mule Spnners Associ-
alton ndprsed the action taken by the striking
mule spinners OF the Manville company. who on
Friday voted 20 return 70 work A vote of censure
vas also passed against officers Of the United Tex
tie Workers Of America. who arranged the con-
ference with the officials Of the Manve company
when the strike was practically settled. Henry s.
ldpptt. manager OF the Manville company has
agreed 70 take back many Of the strikers as
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
BROKER IN BELLEVUE WARD.
Apparently Insane-said to Have Struck
Wife an Actress

Charles f. Bacon. a broker of No. 465 West One
hundred d-fifty- -irst-st taken to the Belle
vue Hospital psychopathic ward yesterday, aP-
parently insane. He went home Saturday night,
and, because dinner was not ready, struck his wife
in the face The police say she complained TO them.
It Is said that Bacon is CONNECTED in some ca
pacity with one of the trusts. His wife is said to
have been a member of Mrs. Fiskes theatrical
company last season
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
70 RETURN TO THE PHiLlPPINEs.

81 Johnsbury VI. July l9-Judge Henry c. Ide.
Of the Philippine Commission. who has been spend
ing the last month his home here. has engaged
passage 10 Manila the Coptic, sailing from San
Francisco on August IS His six months leave of
absence expires in September and he returns 10 the
philippines in excellent health.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
SAID HE LIVED AT REFORM CLUB
Unknown There-Gave Name of Reginald
Stuyvesant-In Alcoholic Ward

A man who described himself Reginald Stuy-
vesant, a broker, living at the Reform Club No.
239 Fifth-ave., taken to Bellevue Hospital in
a coach last night by DR.. Walter Peet, of Ham
monton, n. j. He placed in the alcoholic
ward. It said at the Reform Club that Regi-
nald Stuyvesant was not known there.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
MRS. J. HAmPoEN Roee DEAD.

Mrs. J. HamLden Robb died her home No %
Park-ave., yesterday. She had been suffering from
Ill health foE some tr1e. Mrs. Robb was in the
hfty-fourth year of her age. Before her marriage
she Miss Cornelia Van Rensselaer, Thaver
and was the eldest daughter of the late Nathaniel
Thayer, of Boston The funeral will take place
at her horne at 10 o'clock Wednesday.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
ILLNESS OF 2. ). kIMRALL.

Philadelphia. July I9 fspeciaD.-F. J. KimbalI
president Of the Norfolk and Western Railroad. is
seriously III at his home. Ithan Bryn Mawr
suffering from nervous pTostrat tion. Mr.. KimbaH
has been confined 10 his home for several days. IL
was said to-day that while his condition grave
there was hope for his recovery.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
SAY HE HAD EIGHT HUNDRED CIGARS
Customs Inspectors Arrest Kaiser Wilhelm
II Passenger on Smuggling Charge.

Customs inspectors last night arrested a man.
who said he Robert Nukh, of Jersey City, for
alleged smuggling He was leaving the steamship
Kaiser Wilhelm H. at Hoboken, and the officers
say he had eight hundred smuggled cigars
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
MOTHER JONES IN wEsTCHEsTER

Mother Jones left her army resting In Paterson,
N. j. yesterday. while she journeyed TO Sulzer's
westchester County Park to address meeting OF
the Socialist Democrats 1t is expected that the
army will be here on Thursday.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
BRooKLyNIrE SUICIDE AT LYNBRooK
He Had Been Out of Work and Drank Car
bolic Acid.

Lynbrook. Long Island. July 1e.-The body of a
man, believed to have been Charles Lorsch of No
S5l Eighteenth-st.. Brooklyn, was found in the
woods near this place to-day. bottle which con-
tained some whisky and a vial which had contained
carbolic acid found beside the body The
suicide is supposed to have been out of work and
failing 10 obtain employment, on a spree
which lasted about twenty-four hours and ended
in self-destruction.
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20

Lorsch had been employed a matchmaker for
Fisher G. Sons monument makers Nineteentb-st
between Third and Fourth aves.. Brooklyn
New-York tribune., 1903-07-20
Dinner Cloths

An odd lot of the finest Moravian double
damask Dinner Cloths; only two OF three of
size or of pattern. Marked just two thirds
of former prices, starting from a X 21a-yard
cloth at 50, from $3.50, and running through
21a yards, at $50, from SLIPS; up 70 a
21a 5-yard cloth at Sl2, from S2250.
Remember the new location-T HIR
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-06
Committee at Millers' Convention
State Export Flour Trade Will
Continue to Decline.
NEXT MEETING AT ST. LOUIS.
Discrimination by Railroads
Against the Products of Cere-
ais Declared to Be the
Paramount Issue.

Detroit. June Sat the final session of
the convention of the MilIers' National
Federation today the Committee on r splu-
tons reported on the question of rate dis
elimination against flour in favor of
wheat. which. they declared. was the para
mount issue before the millers of the coun-
try to-day.
The memorial Of the British Flour and
Corn Association on this subject. which was
presented 10 the convention "Wednesday
was referred TO the Resolutions Commit
tee 1t t!:a time
To-day the committee rcported that the
memorial truthfully set forth present con-
dftions IN the export -four trade and said
we believe that the export flour trade will
continue to decline until wheat and flour are
put on parity as regards rates of trans
rCrtation.
y resolution was adopted nv the conven-
ton and copies of it were ordered sent TO
the traffic manager of every railroad in the
country.
y resolution declaring that wheat should
NOT be classed as coarse grain in making
!feSht rates. hut with its products should
constitute a separate class. was adopted
The delegates recommended tina; the next
convention be held at S.. Louis during the
Exposition