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The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-07
CHAPTERS SENTENCED.
Men Who Got Positions for Others on
 New York Police Force.

aVtH kOHee FerCe.
 New York, May 6.-Patrolman Ru- doiph Beyers, who was convicted yes- terday of accepting money to secure public positions for various persons was to-day sentenced to six months in the city prison and to pay fine of $500. Emil A. sonner. who pleaded guilty to a like charge last Monday, was sen- fenced to three months in the city pris- on and to pay a fine of $500 Before Sonner was sentenced he said he had collected between $50,000 and s6O, ,oOo from aspirants for police positions dur ing the past six years. He had a regu lar scale, he said, $450 being charged for patrolman, $500 from a patroIman to roundsman, and $2,000 from a roundsman to a sergeant. He had se- cured many appointments for persons on the police force, he said, and if a man who was not appointed wanted his money back he got it.
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but Whit for Officials to RepIy--Ma-
 crease in Wages-Armed Truce Pre-
 yaiIs.
 Labor troubles between the Consoli- dated road and it's employees are still yelled in secrecy. It is we'll understood now that the railroad officials and the men have agreed to keep out of print, and this accounts for the extreme reti- cence met with on all sides. As mat ters are, the boiler makers are still out on strike, the car workers after rath- CT conciliatory meeting yesterday are waiting Cor a poll of the members of the union on the question of striking, and the machinists are apparently sat- is.ied with the concessions of the com pany. Regarding just what was grant, ed by the road to the machinists. noth- ing will be given out officially by either the road or the men, but dispatch from Norwood, Mass. states that infor- matipn received at that town Is to the effect that he company has graned an increase of 2-3 per cent. and that this has been accepted.
 Negotiations between the railroad company and the general grievance committee of the car workers were re- stunned yesterday afternoon. The men Thursday afternoon pre- scented an ultimatum to the company, adhering to their stand that IS per cent must be advanced in wages, owing to action taken at a conference with the comDany's officials, and at a protract- ed session of the delegates yesterday the time limit on the ultimatum, , o'clock yesterday afternoon, was indefi- nitely removed.
 The men still adhere to their demand of 15 per cent. increase. The company is still offering to advance the wages of the men to the standard paid by con- | meeting roads. In fact this offer has been made to all crafts.
 The committee will make it's report to all the car workers unions on the sys- tenn and the men will be asked to give their final instructions.
 The machinists of the local shops have accepted the company's proposi- ton. Reports from the other unions along the system are expected to be made known to-day. As it will re- quire a two-thirds vote to accept the proposition the reports of the out of town lodges are awaited with interest. The blacksmiths have as yet not fln- ished their negotiations with the com- pany.
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PORT ARTHUR QUICKLY
 ISOLATED BY JAPANESE
RUSSIAN GIBRALTAR NOW CUT
 OFF ON ALL SIDES.

dikado's Troops Cut tho Telegraph and
 Occupy the Railroad in the Rear Vice Admiral SkrydIOff, Who Was to Take Command of Naval Forces, Un- abIe to Reach His Destination-Alex- feff,s Narrow Escape-Arrives at I Muhden.
 St. Petersburg. May 6.-10:o5 p. m.- A dispatch received tonight says that bort Arthur is cut off from all commit Nication by land, the Japanese having Aisembarked in it's rear, occupied the ailroad and cut the telegraph. [ Vice Admiral Skrydloff, who is en |bute to Port Arthur to take over com hand of the naval forces in the Far hast. will be unable to reach his des- Anation.
 ~ The ministry of war has received the sbllowing telegram from Major Gen Aral Pflug, chief of the military staff:
 According to the information I have Aceived. seven of the eneny's trans prts and afterwards about forty, ap- barred opposite Pitsewo on the evening sf May 4.
 M "On the morning of May 5 the Jap 1snese began to land at Pitsewo and on he coast near Cape Terminal (about tteen miles southwest of Pitsewo) Zhder cover of an artillery fire.
 f"At this moment about sixty trans brts were observed bearing down upon Hbe whole front and our posts retired ton the shore.
 All papers in the postofice at Pitse- 10 were removed and the Russian in- abitants abandoned the town. According to Chinese reports, by the |gening of May about 10000 of the en- l sny's troops had landed and taken up uarters in the Chinese villages near
 ae points of debarkation.
 "The enemy sent two columns of
 bout one regiment each, one in a
 esterly direction and the other to the
 uthward
 ron May a passenger train from
 brt Arthur was fired upon mile and
 quarter outside Polandien (about for
 miles north of Port Arthur by a
 lndred Japanese infantry men occu-
 ring the heights east of the railway.
 he train carried many passengers, 200
 ek occupying an ambulance carriage
 Fing the Red Cross flag. Two of the NIX were wounded The train succeed & in reaching Polandien.
 Tranquility prevails in the maritime
 ovince and in Yinkow.''
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Chess Match.

Cambridge Springs. Pa.., May 6.-As the result of to-day's play of the eighth round of the international chess masters tournament, contested in this city, the American player. Marshall, is tied for first and second places with the points to his credit, the lost point being made up with two drawn games.
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Death of Professor sommerv,,,c.

Philadelphia, May GA cablegram from Paris to-day announced the death in that city last night of Professor Maxwell Sommerville, the distinguished gypologist of the University of Penn sylvania, at the age of seventy-five years. Death was due to heart disease.
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4 Threatening Fire.

Boston, May 1.-The most threatening blaze that has visited the waterfront in years broke out at midnight on the wharf property owned by the Central Wharf corporation and leased by the Boston and Philadelphia Steamship company. After an hours hard fight ing the fire was brought under control
 No definite idea of the loss was obtain able, but estimates placed it at s1o0,OOO
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Shipping News.

Butt of Lewis, May 6.--Passed: Steamer He1lig Olav, New York for Christiansand and Copenhagen.
 Plymouth, May 6.-Arrived: Steamer Butcher, New York for Cherbourg and Hamburg (and proceeded).
 Moville May 6.-Sailed: Steamer Fur nessia (from Glasgow), New York.
 Queenstown, May 6.--Sailed: Steamer aCymric (from Liverpool), Boston. Koenigin Luise, New York (and sailed
 New York, May 6.-Steamer La Lor- raine, from Havre for New York, is re- ported as having been in. communica- ton by wireless telegraphy with the Nantucket Lightsnip at S:20 p. m.
 Browhead, May ', 10 a. m-Passed, steamer Etruria, New York, for Queens- town and Liverpool.
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Fire at Thousand Islands.

Watertown, N. r., May GA special dispatch from Thousand Island Park, St. Lawrence River, says: A large fire has been raging at the Point since g o'clock this morning, resulting in the destruction of nine cottages and threat ening large hotel properties located here The loss is estimated at $3O,000, which is partly covered by insurance.
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TINED FOR RUNNING SUIT CLUB.
Derby, shelton and AnsonIa Business
 Men Get After Tailor.

Shelton. May 6-John sanzone, a tail or, was arrested to-day and fined in the Town court on the charge of violating the lottery law in running "suit club.' The arrest was at the instance of the Business Mems association of Derby, Shelton and. Ansonia, and it is under stood that other prosecutions may fol- low this one. By the 'suit club plan each member of the club pays stated amount each week until his name has been reached in the weekly drawings. Sanzone pleaded guilty and paid the fine of $50 and costs.
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Declares Port Arthur Open.

Paris, May 1.-The St. Petersburg correspondent of the Echo de Paris sends the following under date of May 6: ''The general staff believes that the Japanese landed at Pitsewo number not less than 10000. I am able positive ly to deny the statement that Port Ar thur is bottled up. The passage is still free"
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4 SERIOUS STING.

Shelton Woman May Lose Her Arm on
 Account of It.
 Shelton, May 6.--NLrs. Walter Main was stung on the hand by large in- sect while driving recently. Soon after her hand and arm began to swell, and it was found that she was suffering from blood poisoning. It is feared that amputation of the arm may be neces- sary.
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FIRED ON OWN TROOPS.
,sians Wound 100 and Kill Seventy
 of Their Own Forces,

'ashington, May 6.--The Japanese le- ion received the following cablegram ll Tokio. under date of to-day:
 General Kuroki, commandant of the army corps, reports that on May
 mounted scouts after a severe hand land fight near Feng Huang Cheng, Ee hack the Russians toward Feng ang Cheng. Chinese say that on y about 1000 infantry, posted on
 east of Feng Huang Cheng, fired
 h 300 comrades retreating from u. mistaking them for the enemy. |y wounded 100 and killed 70. The of the body fled in disorder, aban- ing commissary carts. A Russian Ter captured there states that the f bodies which retreated in order on \ 1 were five or six infantry battal- and two artillery companies. Two |dred more Russians killed and |nded were found in the field and krs are being discovered"
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British Praise Jap Strategy.

Pndon, May 1.-The British press is in it's expressions of admiration |the brilliant Japanese strategy in ling in rapid succession three great
 Fs-the battle of the Yalu, the seal- |of Port Arthur and the landing at
 |ewo-and the development of these
 hing moves is awaited with the [test interest. It is considered to
 l ot unlikely that the primary object be an assault upon Port Arthur an endeavor to capture the Rus
 fleet there.
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Harvard Wins Shoot.

Harvard won the annual spring shoot with the Yale Gun club yesterday by the score of 22O to 1S7. Following are the scores made: Harvard: Marshall 42, Remick AT, Marsellis A, Foster 4S, Bancroft A. Total, 220. Yale: Kineon 4S, sturges 36,- Hall 92, Thompson 40, Borden 30. Total, 1S1.
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Thrown finder Team.

Jewett City, May GA stranger while trying to jump a freight train passing through this place was thrown under the wheels and sustained injuries from which he cannot recover He was put aboard the next train and taken to the Norwich hospital.
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BISHOP MERRILL RESIGNS.
GENERAL M. E. CONFERENCE GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS.
Committees Hold Their First Meetings and the Resignation of the Senior Bishop of the Church is Referred Re-grouping of the Annual Confer ences in the Conference Districts Proposed.

Proposed.
 Los Angeles. Cal, May 6.-The com mittees of the Methodist general con ference to-day held their first meetings and made fair start. The resignation of Senior Bishop Stephen H. Merrill of Chicago was presented to the con- ference and referred to the committee on episcopacy with instructions to re- port to the general conference with ap- propriate resolutions commendatory of the great service Bishop Merrill has rendered to the church in his fifty-nine years in the ministry.
 The only other important subject con- sidered by the general conference to- day was the resolution offered yester- day by pr. J. F. Gouche as follows
 Resolved, That a committee of if teen be appointed to consist of one minister and one layman from each general conference district and one at- large, whose duties shall b etc ureport back to this general conference not lat CT than May IS a re-grouping of the annual conferences in the conference districts. so as to secure as nearly as may be, equal representation, having due regard, however, to proximity of territory and similarity of interest"
 After debate for more than an hour, someone discovered that there was a specific rule of the general conference which providd for it's reference to the committee on boundaries, and it was so ordered.
 A series Of lectures by visiting ichurch dignitaries are feature of the evening entertainments at tn pavilion and at Simpson auditorium. The committee on episcopacy will meet Monday afternoon when it is ex- pected the question of new and addi- tional bishops will be taken up. The general body, on motion of Dr. J. M. King, adopted to-day a resolution to the effect that minority reports of the committee when signed by five mem bers shall be entitled to publication in the Daily Christian Advocate, the off,
 
 ering of this motion precipitated spir- ited debate. Dr. Neely contended for the recognition of a minority report Ewhen signed by but one member, but the conference voted down his amend ment and adopted the original motion of Dr. King.
 Bishop Stephen M. Merrill of Chicago, senior member of the board of bishops, in his petition asking that he be re- tired from active services, stated that he was in the seventy-ninth years of his life and the fifty-ninth years of his ministry. The bishop said he had pondered the matter long and that he had concluded to request that super annuated relation be granted him to begin at the end of the session of the present genral confrence.
 After the discussion of re-districtine of conference boundaries, the confer ence adjourned.
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N. Y. c. TO REDUCE FORCES.
Orders Issued to All Division superin-
 tendents.

Buffalo May e.-The Express to-mor- row will say: The New York Central yesterday issued orders to division su- perintendents to reduce forces in all departments of the road when reduc- tion is possible. The cut will extend all along the line, and freight handlers, yardmen, clerks, employees of the train service and great many in the main tenance-of-way and engineering de- partments will be laid off indefinitely. The issuance of the order is due to the low ebb of business, this springs being the poorest in three years.
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TTBETANS AGAIN ROUTED.
RepuIsed With Heavy Loss by British
 Expedition.

London, May 1.-The Daily Mails simla correspondent says that 800 Thib- etans coming from the direction of Shi- gatse attacked the British mission at Gyongtse at dawn on April 5. The Thib- etans were repulsed with heavy loss and fled. The British had only two Sepoys wounded.
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Fire et Proctor's.

New York, May 6fl--A fire occurred here tonight in Proctor's 125th street theater, while performance was going on. There was much excitement, but the theater was emptied and it is re- ported that no one was hurt. The dam age, it is said, will be slight.
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Annual Punting Contest.

At the annual bunting contest at Yale field yesterday Lydig Hoyt 1906 won the first prize by scoring 2O4 points out of a possible 276. P. T. White 1906 was second with 1855, and E. Corning 1906 third with 181 points.
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NOT GUILTY OF 1NFANr1c1DE
Verdict for Minnie Kenanen and Thom-
 as BransfeId.

t.s BransneAu.
 Middletown, May 6.-The jury which listened to the evidence in the case of Minnie Kenanen and Thomas Brans- field, charged with the murder of their infant child. retired to-day at 1O:56, af- ter listening to the charge read by Judge shumway. This occupied about ffty-five minutes and treated of the difference in first and second degree murder.
 At S:SO the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The announcement was greeted with great applause from the people in the court room, and it was several minutes before order was re- stored. Both the defendants, Thomas Bransfield and Miss Minnie Kenanen, were released.
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Five Men Entombed.

Shamokin, Pa. May 6.-Five miners are entombed and believed to be dear as a result of a fierce fire which is burning in the Locust Gap colliery of the Phil adelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company.
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THREE POLICE RAIDS.
Houses on PrindIe Alley and Union
 Streets Visited.

Sergeant Hayes and squad of police raided three disorderly houses late last evening. At IA Prindle alley they arr rested Mary Moran as keeper and one woman as an inmate; at IS Prindle they arrested Nellie Clark and another in mate, and at 65 Union street they ar rested Agnes Scallard and two other women who resided in the house.
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Meriden 2, Bridgeport I.

Bridgeport, May 6.-Meriden won her first game of the season to-day by de-
 Heating Bridgeport by the score of 2 to 1. It was slow and uninteresting con-
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Summary: Two-base hit-Hayward. First base on errors-Hartford l. New Haven 3. Bases on balls--Off Thomas 1. Struck out-By Thomas 2, by Tuck ey 2. Sacrifice hits-Clark and Hay ward. Stolen bases--Thackera Doran, Tuckey and sJope. Left on bases-New Haven z, Hartford 3. Time of game One hour and forty-five minutes. Um- pire-Durnbaugh
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HEARST MEN CONTROL
Have Everything Their Way in Eigh-
 teenth Ohio District.

Canton. O., May 6.-Hearst men con- trolled the democratic convention of the Eighteenth congressional district to- day. w. J. Foley was nominated for congress. An outspoken Heart man and an anti-Parker man, were selected as delegates to the national convention, and an Hearst supporter was nominat- ed for elector
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DROWNED WHILE CANOEING.

the Farmington River.
 Windsor, May s.-Kenneth w. Hay den, the 16-year-old son of John M. Haydan. who is in the steam laundry business in Asylum street, Hartford, was drowned in the Harrington river at this place this afternoon while on a canoeing trip with his chum John A.. Adams, the son of the Rev. Dr. Cole man Adams also of Hartford.
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AlexieF nt Mnkden.

|lkden, May 6.-viceroy Alexieff has ked here.
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BLUES TRIM CApITOLIlES.
PITCHER TUCKEYALLoWSTHEM
 ONLY EYE HITS.
Fifth Victory for New Haven Out of Seven Games Away from Home MerIden, HoIyolse and Springfield tie Other winners-LocaI Grounds Will Not be Ready for Another Week.. Yale Loses to Andover.

Hartford, May e.-New Haven won from Hartford to-day, g to ?. This is her fifth victory out of seven games. This is the second time the New Ha- vens have won from Hartford by the same score. Pitcher Thomas was bat ted freely, while Tuckey allowed only five hits The game was featureless. Attendance 500. The score:
 New Haven.
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EMPLOYES ARE PEACEFUL
CAR WORKERS POSTPONE ULTI-
 NAHUM TO ROAD.

stin Adhere to Demand for Increase, but Wait for officials to RepIy-Ma- chinists Reported Satisfied With In- crease in waees-Armed Truce Pre- vails.
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Hartford.

New Haven...0 0 4 0 0 0 1 2 2-9
 Hartford .....2 0 0 0 0 0 O-2
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-07-02
What Do You Think or This?

We will place on sale here TIOn-
day morning one hundred dress pat
terms of fine qaulity batlste full regu-
lar width and over fifty different de-
signs to select from not over one pat
tern will be sold to one customer at
the price Tlonday and Tuesday only
the pattern of ten yards for 2SC.
Mems and Ladies black drop
stitch hose full regular made and ev-
cry pair perfect goods the grade that
alwas sell for 1212c here for Monaay
and Tuesdays selling in lot of six
pairs no more or no less to one Custo-
mer at the price rIonday and Tuesday
only at per pair 813c.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-07-02
LARGE INCREASE is EXPECTED
In Property Values in Sumter County
This Year.

In Property Values in Sumter County
This Year
While the total valuations of prop
erty returns for taxation has lot yet
been estimated, even, by Tax Receiver
Raiford, who only closed his books
yesterday, it is expected that Sumter
will show very substantial gain in
values this year oyer 1903.
Ofthis fact there can scarcely be any
doubt whatever.
Property of every kind in the county,
and more especially farm property, has
enhanced very greatly in value in re-
cent years, and especially is this true
as regards the past year.
In fact, lands throughout the entire
county might be averaged at 81 per
acre, while $50 would be quickly re.
fused today by owners of haif tie farm
ing lands in Sumter county. In fact,
$25 per acre would be refused for many
thousands of fertile acres here.
Not only lands, but city property and
that of every nature whatever is enc
HANGING in value.
1t will be remembered that the grand
jury at the November term of court
last year event behind the returns" as
it were. and proceeded to mark up val.
ues million dollars.
That body decided that values as
given IN were far too low; and demand
ed a substantial increase. IF their line
of policy has been adhered to this year
it is safe to guess that the increase in
values this year over last will crowd
the million mark, sure.
And if this increase is shown, or any
reasonable Increase, our present high
tax rate of $12 on each 1000 of prop
erty value in the county, can be re-
duced next fall
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-07-02
JOTS AND DOTS IN
NEWS OF A DAY.
Little Tales are Told Briefly
Here.
BOILED DOWN TO -FOUR LINES.
News Notes of Interest But Too Short
for Headlines 5unched Together
Short Tales of the Town Whacked
Shorter Still.

Framed Pictures and Hammocks at
Holidays Book Store will be sold this
week third off regular price for cash.
A marriage license was issued yes
terday to Mr.. Benjamin Boland and
Miss Ida Harris who, it is stated. will
marry tomorrow.
Col. Littleton reports a wonderful
regeneration in the blackberry fields
since it rained, and the unfed will pro-
ceed to take comfort.
Marshal Feagin is at the front of
the stage this morning with a bunch
of offerings in city real estate on &C
count of unpaid taxes.
Amertcus will be Mecca for many
today. Hundreds are coming to buy
and dollars will by even as the sands
of the sea in number.
Two new residences on Lee street, a
like number on College and others in
various localities will be a past of the
July building record.
The local market is now abundantIy
supplied with grapes, melons and other
fruits, while chickens and eggs are
given away as chromos.
Most of the cases tried in city court
yesterday resulted in the acquittel of
the defendants, and there were no re-
cruits for the changing.
Down at Ansley's Ice factory one can
always get frozen watermelon. Fresh
ones are kept on ice all the time, and
they are truly delicious
Americas streets were never go badly
torn up as at present. But it means
new buildings, new improvements, and
therefore one can stand it.
With yesterday the second half of
leap year was ushered in. The first
half made glorious record in Ameri-
Gus, and the end is not yet.
On Monday. July 4th. all local
freight trains on the Seaboard here
will be annulIed, it being o holiday
with the road, as elsewhere.
Several new business houses will be
opened here for the fall season. New
stores are being built, and these are
occupied as fast as finished.
The rustic brother in black is billed
for visit today, and the usual me-
LANCE of melon and mulIet will illu.
mine his soul like headlight.
Yesterday was payday in all the city
departments. This, with the psyir
off in various enterprises put consid-
cradle extra money IN circulation.