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New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
POLICE CONCEAL THEFT.
Week old Robbery Not announced
Family ChIor0formed.

Not content with their shiftess methods OF at
tending TO duty. the Harlem police have attempted
to conceal daring robbery that occurred in Har-
lem early Saturday morning
After receiving the fluctuations OF their friends
on the elimination of thirty-two years of welded
life Mr.. and Mrs. William Fl. MacFaddden OF No.
2 East one-hundTed- d-and-twelfth-st.. were chloro-
formed and their nome ransacked by thieves. who
presents from their friends. given in honor OF the
occasion. The anniversary occurred last Friday,
September is.
Mr.. MacFaddea reported the matter TO the police
Immediately. but thus FAR has heard nothing.
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
YOUTH OF IS ACCUSED OF ROssERY

Philadelphia, Sept civilian Ford eighteen
Of age who is accused Of robbing his uncle, George
Ford OF 81 S5a. has been located in New-York and
will probably be arrested there to-day The molsJ
representing the savings OF lifetime, was siolel
from a trunk and IS believed 10 have been S4lanl-
cred bv yOund Ford and several OF his comlallolS
Three youths who are said to have pro1ted uy
the robbery in custody here
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
NEW-HAVEN ROAD BUYS RAILWAY.
Gets Possession of Third Piece of Property
of Kind in Worcester.

Worcester. Mass. Sept. 22.-The Worcester and
Blackstone Valley Street Railway was to-day sold
10 the New-YOrk. New-Haven ana Hartford Rail-
road Company. The sale made and the pur-
chase price paid the Offices Of the Blackstone
Valley Company. in Worcester. The price is not
given out. The officers of the company resigned
ami officers were chosen.
IL J. Whttsl and Alfred Thomas. Of Worcester
were the principal owners OF the road, whose capt.
tai $4,000 but its assets are $4,000. The
road Is operated between Worcester and WhtinS-
Vile distance Of nearly seventeen miles and
makes the third street railway entering Worcester
to be bought by the New-HaVen road. The Worces-
ter and Webster and the Worcester and South
bridge both New Haven properties.
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
ANOTHER SUBWAY OPENING DATE

According to the latest unofficial announcements
the subway will not be thrown open TO the public
before October 10. but the formal opening win take
place between that date and November l. IL as
rumored yesterday. the aldermen's committee
which Will have charge OF the opening ceremonies
Is to have thirty days notice of the opening the
Rapid Transit Commission has no official cogni
zance Of the fact II is considered possible how
ever, that there may have been some verbal under
standing between the commission and the alder
mems committee that the aldermen's COMMITTEES
should possible. receive due notice OF the date set
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
FIRE AT BROADWAY AND WAIl.sT

Fire started just before midnight last night IN
the dental Offices of NJ. A. and Julia Carman. ON
the eighth floor OF the United Bank Building AZ
Broadway and Wall-st-. the first floor, basement
ana attic OF which are occupied by the First
national Bank In the attic above the rooms IN
which the nre was valuable records and hoots
are stored. None OF these were harmed rrba
1lsze sze was sneuldsring FOR some hours before n
vas discovered. the police declared II ro,s ns ~
22lt 22lt easily Lne damage was estimated al 50 ~,
1pa dental Offices we're practically ruined
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
LORD CLAUDE HAMILTON AT BOSTON

Boston. Sept 22--AmOng the passengers who ar
rived here to-day on the Cunard Line steamer h-'
MIA from Liverpool were Lord Claude HaHlllea
brother-in-law OF Lord LansdOWne. and SIR WIZ
lam r. ForwOOd. of London. who are on their way
to the St. Louis Exposition: President Pritcasn
% the Massachusetts, Institute Of Technology and
the Rev. ". Walsh, Of London. q delegate % Nv
International Peace congress.
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
HOT WIRE CUTS OFF soYs FOOT.

Arlington. N J.. Sept. 2 C5peciaD-Danisi Gar
lagher. thirteen years old. and Of Patrick Sal
Iagher. OF No. 5s7 Middlesex-st-. Harrison. ana
employed in the wire mill OF the crufiols st'S
works Of Harrison. had his foot and ankle taSsn
on this afternoon by a red hot wire that ne eas
looping and returning 70 p0nderOus roller As'
accident was caused by his losing his balanes Aa-
endeavOrinG to save himself. his foot eausAs ~
The police ambulance carried him to ST. Jan'''
Hospital. Newark
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
A SUCCESSFUL WHALING VOYAGE

New Bedford. Mass, Sept 22--Advices from Msne
Jeichells Island. state that the whaling bark 70
sephne Captain Smith. has taken $50 barrels OF
sperm oil since she lefr NIauritius, June 1 lae
bark sailed from New-SedfOTd on Septembsr ~
1873 ard N less than year has obtained l,lO pax
rels Of sperm oil and 500 barrels OF whale olA =
cargo said q, be one 0f the richest reported DS
Whaling vessel IN many years
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
NAVY YARD woRKMEN INDIGNANT.
Family Tickets for Launching Of Connecticut
Not Given Them.

The workmen at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, most
OF whom have had some part in the construction
OF the batteshIp Connecticut, are indignant because
they have not received tickets for themselves and
families for the launching OF the warshiD. The
general public will be admitted 70 rear part OF
the Cob Dock through the CltntOn-ave. gate. and
the woTkmeu have been given 70 understand tnaJ
their only opportunity OF viewing the launching
will be on the restricted part OF the Cob Dock
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
ONE HORSE CAUSED TEN DREAMS.
Lieutenant Can't Get Over Finding Animal
When He Woke, and Fears Evil.

Lieutenant George e. Kent. Of Company E. sth
Regiment N. G. n. j.. has been disturbed by the
same dream for ten consecutive nights. and fears
that IL Is premoniton OF evil While engaged
in the mimic battle at Bull Run he was called
from sleep early one morning into action and
was surprised on arising TO and his horse which
had been tethered short distance from him, was
at his side. He could not account for the horse
being there and every night since has dreamed
OF the Incident.
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
GOVERNOR PEAao1Vs RICH ore EINI

IRY TEr.Es5FAPH TO THE TRIRUNE.l
Denver Sept. 2e--By the opening OF a large oozy
OF rich ore in the Raymond mine. IN Gunnlson
County. yesterday Governor Peabody. its DrincssA-
owner Is likely to become a millionaire. Mucn
good ore had already been found in the mine. 1gt
fhiS strike insUreS a fortune The Governor >
wealth has heretofore been estimated az Ss4~-
New-York tribune., 1904-09-23
HER HUSBAND FEARS FOUL PLAY

Roehster. Sept 22--Mrs- Catherine j. Friedrichs
thlrty-three years old, wife OF Henry T. Frie5rIcb
contractor Of West Webster. has been missing.
since early on Tuesday morning. Threats have
been made against the womans $ life. and her has-
hAno leafs taAt sac may havs nat too1 play.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-05-12

pulled out for Washington and ran
the distance without stop. No one
would take any of Bakers money and
he could not get of because the train
did not stop at any station. After the
trip was over, Baker denounced the
trick as infamous.
$ScSc&
Sully of the cotton corner has sued
his two partners and the evidence
shows how much honor" there is in
Wall street even between partners,
not to speak of matters where Wall
street is on one side and the people
on the other. While Sully in accord
ance with an agreement with his part
ners, was buying cotton to hold up
his corner. these same partners were
selling cotton by the hundred bales to
ruin Sully and get out themselves.
There is honor among all sorts Of
thieves except Wall street thieves.
SSS$$$S
The great truths contained In the
Omaha platform and others based
upon 1t, are constantly forcing them
cSlttr iuoiS anu ui1A& hP0h WAi
Ing men. The foreign ownership OF
land Is one of the curses OF this ma
ton. especially In the eastern states.
All the land In Manhattan island, with
a population of more than 100000, Is
owned by 10000 persons and very
large proportion of these owners are
foreigners and those who spend their
lives In foreign countries, the chief
among them being Astor. The millions
ground out OF the inhabitants OF New
York and sent To Europe. come from
the privation and toll Of the poorest.
The rent bin Ia the largest one item
In the cost of living OF both the we'll
to-do AMI the very poor. Land is
almost completely monopolizcd on
Manhattan Island ana against that the
Omaha platform protosted In the
strongest terms.
SSS>$><SS
There arc III. 100000 people In Rus
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-05-12
Lincoln,
Neb.
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rate Lincoln during the Republican cordially invited make
md
galore
The STYLE
quality opportunity
@ our partmenta tme
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-05-12

law or some other law The debts
that the republicans contracted must
be paid. To do 1t you must pay more
taxes. That's all there is to It.
$<$S&SS%
All over the state OF Nebraska the
farmers are beginning to see that they
made mistake in permitting the
republican redemption" in 1900. They
see that even with Just assessment
Of railroads this year (Which is quite
unlikely, they must pay the major
part OF that million dollars Of extraya.
gance INDUCED in by the railroads
ridden legislature OF 1903. Hence.
they are coming to see that the ENROLL
ment of The Old Guard and The van
guard OF Populism, as far as concerns
Nebraska, is really the same as q Me-
braska League for Just State Taxes.
With little effort this enrollment
might be made ten thousand IN
short time. Send for blanks Address.
c. @. DeFrance. Lincoln, Neb.
Frank Emerson. Oak Center. Wis.
says he Is out OF touch with matters
populistic In his state and desires 10
know II there Is a state paper In Wis
consin Of the populIst faith. Says he
formerly took Robert Schilling's MIL
waukee Sentinel. but about two years
ago II quit coming and he wonders II
II still In published. The independent
Ia Of the opinion that Mr.. Schilling attn
publishes a paper AZ Milwaukee,. hut
has never been able 10 secure an o.
change with him. Sir. Schilling II 4
member Of the executive and national
committees. Butler wing OF the peoples
party. has stumped Nebraska several
times. doing excellent work and get.
TING good money for Il: but during the
past two years The independent hnn
failed utterly TO get an answer frous
him 10 any IT It's communications. and
Ii obliged Ia depend upon hearsav q
10 whether m attn lives and publlahGn
. populisl pas'er.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-05-12
Welcome to Lincoln's Largest Store

1t Is also said that only ten men out
of hundred can read. In modern
warfare where much depends upon
the individual initiative Of the COM
mon soldier, an uneducated popula-
ton Is at great disadvantage. War
shows the folly of the position of old
world aristocracy concerning the edu-
cation Of the comm people. 1t Is
claimed by them that the common peo-
pie should not be educated because
1t raises them above the station in
which 1t has pleased God to place
them, and fills them with ambitions
that can never be satisfied.
The independents old-time contrib
utor, Ralph Rockwell, Reddington.
Arizona, writes that he and his CO.
laborers have been offered $4,000 for.
part of their mining interests and
that II they decide to sell. they may
take a notion to start paper" of
their own. The Independents best
wishes so with Mr.. Rockwell.
SS$S$$$&
The slaughter Of the unarmed ma
tions still goes on. The British are
shooting down the Thebitans. the
Germans are fighting with blacks in
western Africa. the Dutch are carry
Ing on their chronic war In Java. the
French and the English are penetrat-
Ing farther and farther into north
ern Africa and tho natives who OPP
pose 20 down In death. The quick
firing gun and the modern rifles makes
the nations possessing them invinci-
BILE when they attack those people that
have old-fashioned arms.
c<c>S>>
The populists are not making q
special hght against the new revenue
law. That In not the question. The
republicans increased the appropria-
tIona nearly million and q half, Tho
consequence Ia that taxation must be-
Increased 10 pay for that sort Of an
travasAncc, II had 10 be done BY this
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-05-12

At S20-A beautiful model suit
of champagne tone Sicilian
cloth, and made with extreme
fullness in blouse, and a full
faring skirt.
AT $20-A suit Of handsome
mannish mixture fabric. Walk.
ing skirt is trimmed with
braid and is cut wide and far.
ing at the bottom. Jacket has
a fly front, half loose fitting,
and tight fitting back, coat
fitting sleeves, tailoring is the
best. Low priced at $40.
At $2S-Tailor Made Suits that are exqui-
site in style and making These are of
heavy silk, in oil coloxs, braid trimmed,
made with extreme fulness in blouse
back and front, yoke and sleeves are
shirred. Skirt is cut in 1880 style with
yoke and stirring at the hip, braid trim
med.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-05-12

There arc III. 900. 900 people In Rus
ala and only ninety-dve daily pApcrs
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-05-12
Suitable Travelling Garments.

when will be
to
visiting the gathered stunning
that adapted for travelling There
style erybe material indeed
sure o show
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-05-12

law or some other law. The debts
that the republicans contracted must
be paid. To do 1t you must pay more
taxes. That's all there is to It.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-05-12

The railroad magnates were bound
that Congressman BAKER should ride
free ON some OF the Inca The other
day Baker was In baltimore and tho
superintendent Of tina road invited him
10 . conference In private car. Bak-
Or went aboard tho car and tho train
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1904-07-25
New Use for phone.

To apply for a position when you
are eat of work by telephone is one
Of the latest manifestations OF the
universal convenience OF long-distance
talking. No need now to advise the
lmpecunious young man 10 borrow $25
of somebody else--for a new suit
hat and gloves in order that he may
give out the impression of not being
poor. The man at the phone will
listen only to the quality of his ut
Ierancc. and will not be affected by
the color OF the tie the youth has on
The net saving, therefore, of getting
a job over the wire, supposing that
the young man has 10 call up fifty
different business men. is s2O-a tidy
little sum toward STAYING off the as
'siSnm e:t of-wases man. Great is
modern economy.---Bostuu TRANSCRIPT.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1904-07-25
IN NO Hurry FOR the DOCTOR.

almost always when my patients
send for me- said the physician,
they instruct the messenger to tell
me to come al once. In fact. this Gus
tom Of trying to hurry the doctor to
the bedside of the patient is general,
and all physicians expect it, and it IS
such an old story TO Office attendants
that they do not as rule bother to
remember it. But the other night |
had a surprise
1T was about : O'Clock and a gen
tleman had called an hour before to
request me to see his wife. What was
remarkable vas the fact that he had
told my Office boy to inform me not to
call until the next morning if did not
find il convenient to visit his Wife that
night before O'Clock. which ne said
was the usua, hour at which they re-
tired.
Tell the DOCTOR he said it is
nothing very important, My wife has
only somet ching the matter with her
mouth that prevents her FROM talking,
1t will be all right II he cannot find
time TO call before the morning
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1904-07-25
THE ANTIQUITY OF CHESS.
50 Game Played for More Than Five
Thousand Years.

Chess, now being played between
ocean steamers by means of wireless
tclegraphy. is the Oldest Of games, and
it is striking contrast that it offers
itself for easy operation to the latest
triumph OF modern science. 1t was
generally assumed antil now that the
ancient Indians had invented chess,
that it vas Introduced from India to
Persia in the sixth century by the Ar
abs, and thaj III consequence OF the
crusaGes it spread from East TO West.
1t is true Ia" Chinese- invented
many things in time long gone, but
which had TO be re-inVeHted in ELL
rope-assert that they can trace chess
in their own country 10 about two
hundred years before oul. era. Now
there can GER Ainly be 40 doubt in the
character of the figures at present
used. and In some of the words con-
nected with the game, an Indian, Per
sian and Arabic influence Is trace
able. Excavations on the pyramid
field of Sakkara some time ago
brought to light Il wall painting. on
which high official is represented as
playing chess with partner, at the
tine Of tie government of King Teta,
who belonged to the sixth dynasty.
Prof. Lepsius formerly assigned the
reign Of thal monarch to about the
year 200 3. G. Prof. Brugsch, cor
rectins this chronology. puts it back
to still greater anticniiv. to the year
$500 B. c., so that chess would have
been known in the once mysterious
land Of Mizraim something like $500
years ago.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1904-07-25
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PRICES WILL GO Up
Confined on page ~

n an average Of thirty minutes from
the time the men We're ordered to
work and before it was possible for
any considerable number 10 have been
placed. without making the slightest
effort to verify such reports or to have
them remedied, if found to exist. We
have a definite agreement with our
employees. the same having been sign
ed by their representatives and repre-
ocntatives ot all the mechanical trades
and we stand ready on our part to
see that it is carried out. Yours truly
Armour and company,
Swift and company,
Nelson Morris and company,
National Packing company,
Libby, Mcneil and Libby,
"Cudahy Packing company.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1904-07-25

Hose and Gloves From Germany.
One German city, Chemnitz, sold In
he United States last Year $4.S19,0l
worth of stockings and $2,33o.000 of
gloves.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1904-07-25
Bicoest Crowd Of Men Ever at Re
lieious Gathering in City At
tended .. m. Services
tCOntributed(

The biggest day of the meeting TOOK
place yesterday. From the first TO the
last il was a great day. and Evangelist
Allen Wilson did splendid work His
preaching was of the very highest or
der The morning sermon on An Old
Love Story" bringing out Gods love
for man. was well told. But at four
O'Clock TO 400 men, The largest body
of men was gotten together III a relle-
ioHs service, for men only, in Pine
Bluff. Evangelist Wilson surpassed
his morning sermon. Without a doubt
his lecture on "A Living Dog ought
to be preached in every home to every
man. woman and child in this dear old
country of ours, for then there would
be such arousing of moral standards
that crime and vice would receive
setback that would last until the angel
Gabriel blows his horn on the JudS-
ment morn. Man after man was
heard to make the statement, We'll,
that's the best yet. He is the first
preacher I have heard talk along that
line who was not sensational. In
stead he tells the truth in such a way
that it sticks. and that's what
counts
At eight o'clock the tabernacle was
half full, and long before Dr. Wilson
began preaching 900 people were there
to hear him discourse on "Seriptural
Baptism" His mastery handling
and arraying of facts, his pleasing way
of putting things. coupled with MS
eloquence. held that big crowd for an
hour and ten minutes. And when he
made the statement of being in the
great congressional library at Wash
ington, d. c., and having brought 10
him the famous NJ S. S. in the original
and there seeing the truth, wave OF
conviction swept over the great it'iii-
ence. Tonight Elder Wilson Will
speak on Joy Bells of Heaven. Se'-
vices begin at sharp. Note. Az
Engagements have boon made whereby
cars can be caueh+ before and after
1.tetine, and her@a - yaa rect Ut
walk home. Til? meeting is 'wo
weeks OLD with tllirty.twa additions.
aud it is just Beginning. Ge1 Your hi
bIes. 60 TO work, If ,on sin2. cui'sH
ard GET into the big chorus tonight.
If you are Christian, hrins somebody
to Jesus Special announcements VIII
be made tonight Use the question
box. ii is for all who went To know
the truth Write your H,t-'sfions I'la'n-
lv, and if there is an answer to il, it
will be answered. Some 4l2stlnns
swered tonight.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1904-07-25
Tin Soldiers.

The products of Nuremberg are
principally of metal--tin soldiers,
swords, railway trains, fleets, models
Of machinery and other toys intended
for boys--while Sonneberg uses al
most exclusively wood, porcelain,
glass and paper in the production Of
toys best suited to girls.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1904-07-25
Puzzle the Germans.

A query frequently raised by the
German press is how American manu-
tac,urers paying wages at least twice
as high as are pa ID in Germany, are
able in many eases to produce their
wares cheaper vhan they can be pro-
ducCd there.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1904-07-25
OLD CORNER STONES
BAR6ARJUS CUSTOM THAT ONCE
PREVAILED.
Living Human Beings Walled into
Masonry by Builders Of OId-Time
CastIes-HoW inhuman Mother Sac.
rificed Child for Gold.

Very terrible III it's sinister signi
iicance is the custom of putting coins
under the foundation stone OF build
ing about to be erected.
For these pieces of gold and silver
and bronze are the latter day euuiva-
tents of the human beings that would
once have been inundated there and
there immured. They constitute the
ransom for blood that by rights
should be shed. but is not.
This latter terrible use was at one
time well-nigh universal, and traces
OF 1t survive almost every where. In
many parts OF Europe, for instance
when the hole is dug to receive this
same foundation stone the masons viii
entice to the spot some stranger. Then
while one engages him IN converse lion
another will creep behind and meas
ure his shadow, t measure stick be-
ing afterward buried and mortar
stamped down on top of it. Or the
prepare tiny coffin. inside which is
doll. for use in the same way, or
rude images of babies in swaddlins
And IN not few out-of-the-way
parts Of the world, whose inhabitants
stand psychicaily about where we did
twenty centuries ago, the original Gus
tom still prevails in all its primitive
hideOusness. Only last year at Mosi!ok
II tho Caucasus. three builders were
arrested for kidnapping and numbering
1oG !,
into the foundations OF over they
were erecting.
In 1865 two children. a boy and a
girl. were similarly consigned to Il lv-
n" grave by some la borers working
on blockhouse at Duga IN Asiatic
Turkey
A house that was being built at
Scutari became shaky. A wise man"
whose advice was sought decreed that
The defect would Increase unless a M
man victim We're walled into the
foundations. So the three brothers
who were wording at il agreed among
themselves to immediate and immune
the first OF their wives who came to
the place to bring them food.
SImllar instances might be multi
piled indefinitely. In 1885, when Hols
worthy church in DeNoushire Eng
land. was being restored a skeleton
with mass OF mortar plastered over
the mouth was found imbedded in an
angle of the building.
That the castle Of i-iebenstoin might
stand impregnable child was bought
for hard cash 4 its peasant mothe.
and walled into the donjon tower.
A roll was given the little one 10
eat while the masons were at work
and the unnatural parent stood by to
quiet II in ease it cried out. Mother,
| can see YOU. laughed the child when
the wall was breast high. Mother, |
see a little Of you still. Then. vail
ingly: Mother. see nothing of YOU
now.
In the museum at stleiers is q plas-
ter cast Of the mold left by the body
of one Geronimo. Who WAS built into
a Block OF concrete in the angle of the
fort in the sixteenth century-St.
Louis GlCbc-iAemocrat.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1904-07-25
Water Power LiQhts City.

The city of Grenohle, France, in
stalled its new system of electric
lighting from water power source
twenty-seven miles distant, in the val
ley Of the Romanche.