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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-07-02

Como. Music and all kinds of dane.
ing, including the real old country in.
nocent amuscments, will be carried
out ut the clubs first field day.
Pat Gallagher is in New York.
Miss X. Melady, the well-known
tlioress of Shcrbourne avenue and
one of the charter members of the
Daughters of Erin of st. Paul. has
been very i'll of late, but is recovering
fast again.
Dan eastman, the Bradley street
business man. has just returned from
the Worlds Fair at st. Louis and SAWS
it is surely one of the seven wonders.
Pat Maloney, the well-known Hi
bcrlian and railroad man. is contem-
plating Il trip to his native home in
Clare. Ireland.
Captain Thos. Carey. in his leisure
moments. has painted fine likness of
Pope Leo NH as lie appeared in the
vatican gardens Il few days before his
death.
l.. j. Maloncy, of Division No. l, \.
q. H.. is now foreman of the Griffin
Wheel Works in East st. Paul, end
we arc glad to write all such news.
Mrs. Catherine Hogan and Edward
Quinlivan were married at the cathe-
dral on Wednesday morning of last
week, and so quiet was the ceremony
kept that none but the priest and
bridesmaid and groomsmun knew of
its happening, though the happy
couple are amongst the very best
known people of st. Paul Mrs. Hogan
is Il charming woman and we'll off in
this worlds goods, whilst MIR. Quin-
Ivan would do to run for MAYOR of
st. Paul. having the ability and above
all, and what's most needed. the vast
acquaintance and extreme popularity.
We wish the bride and groom all kinds
of joy, health and prosperity.
Mrs. Clarke. of Division No. !, l.. A.,
a. o. H., has been very ill for the
past week and is now getting well
again.
The Ladies Auxiliary to the A. O.
III. met ut Central Annex hall on last
Sunday afternoon and elected Miss
Mary l.. \. Smith. their county presi-
dent, to represent them at the national
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-07-02

convention at st. Louis next month.
Patrick Glennon. who has been Wis
iting in ST. Paul. departs for Montana
in Il few days.
Michael Harrington, well known
among the Irish people of st. Paul,
| has. i'll company With NIessrs Burns
and OConnor, organized themselves
into Il tirst-claSs local fuel firm. They
will give all their time and attention
to the retail trade in coal and wood.
j. j. Woulfe. the wooden goods
broker with headquarters in the Ger
mhn--American Bank building. st.
Paul. is back from the west after q
two months tour among business men
and reports sales very good.
Division No. o. y. O. H.. gave a
Grand social hop ana entertainment to
its members on last Thursday night at
Central hall
MIR. and Mrs. Thos. j. Magec. for
mcrly we'll known in St Paul and
later of Dubuque. Iowa, have moved
with their shoe factory to Omaha.
Nebraska. which will be their future
home.
Mrs. Annie Leonard gave IL lawn
social and Ice cream festival to a
party of st. Paul friends at her cozy
home in Merriam park on last Sunday
evening.
Miss Carter. of Dyer n Bros music
house. has been visiting her uncle,
Monsgnor Nuient, of Liverpool, Eng
land for the past month and is now
making a tour of Ireland, from whence
the good stock originally sprung.
William Delaney is back at last
from the Duluth convention and is now
getting ready for the ST. Louis A. o.
ii. meeting. after which he will be in
order for the Saltwater gathering of
tn" Clans.' Bill is a great Democrat
~ we'll as Il true Irishman and good
ctiZcn and is emphatic in saying open
and above board that there is only one
dick O'Connor and just one Chris"
O'l'rien in st. Paul. after all.
Martin Million is back from Kalispcl,
Mont. where lie has been visiting his
daughter. On the way he stopped at
the hot springs for his rheumatism
and now seems as we'll as ever.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-07-02
FOR TOTAL ABSTINENCE.
c. T. A. U. of Archdiocese in Annual
Convention at Minneapolis.

The thirty-third annual convention
of the Catholic Total Abstinence
union, archdiocese of st. Paul, opened
Tuesday morning in st. Anthony Of
Padua hall, Second street and Eighth
avenue nortllest, with about fifty dele
gates present.
\ high mass was offered by Father
O'Reilly in st. Anthony of Padua
church at a. M, followed by the call
ing of the meeting to order at 10
O'Clock.
Various committees were appointed
and the morning session devoted to
routine business.
According to the presidents report
the organization consists of over ] 800
members and is increasing rapidly.
Greater interest than ever before is
being taken in the cause of temper
ance. the report went on to say. and it
is confidently expected that n large
number Of ney members will be added
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-07-02
q JUNE WEDDINGS.

At ST. Boniface's church, Seventh
avenue and Main street NE, Wednes-
day morning at 9 O'clock mass, two
popular young persons of the parish
were united in marriage when William
J. Kohl and Annie Litfin began life's
journey together in the presence of
many friends. Phil Kohl was best
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-07-02
FROM THE CAPITAL

The Emmett Social club has Just
been organized in st. Paul and will
give n grand day Of athletic sports to
all its members and friends on July
24th at Swartz's grove, near Lake
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-29

So Steamboat Inspectors Request OF
Ferry Lines.

Alarmed by the accident to the ferryboat America
through the death Of her engineer. passengers OH
the boats are demanding a second engineer. Let
ters have been received by The Tribune poinIns
out the dangers to which passengers are eAPoseu
by the lack of man in such emergency as that
Of last Tuesday Not only are the people becoming
aroused to the danger from ferryboats running
amuck, laden as they most of the tune Win
hundreds of passengers, but feeling Is deVeioplns
that such extra men also necessary on the
hundreds Of tugs plying in the harbor ana on the
river steamers, with their hundreds OF passengers
Il being pointed out yesterday by man IannIiiaL
with harbor conditions that 4 towboat running wiz
was as serious a menace to the lives Of ferry pas
sengers as an accident like that OF the America
In the absenca Of q specific statute deanng WIN
the need of an engineer the local steannpoat
inspectors James A. Dumont and Thomas II. bar
rett sent a request yesterday 10 the olHereht
ferry lines that an oiler fireman he stationed
near the engineer at all times. Tho request mas
really all the virtues OF command, since me IN
spectors may suspend the running of boat II theV
think that ii is in any way imperhns puOllc Sdiety
The managers and officials OF the ferry lines ply
ing between Manhattan and points on the East anu
North rivers do not consider the presence OF an
extra engineer necessary An official SAID yeslef-
DAY:
OF course shall comply with the reqaestt :. %
the local inspectors for the simple reason mat II Is
what we have been doing right along. Inore 1 dS
always oiler or fireman near me ric Is not
likely TO happen once in thousand years
Superintendent Ambrose Of the Thirty -ninth-se'
Ferry said:
We shall comply with the request Of the In
specors. II very little change IN our present
every precaution is being taken for their SAFETY;
The presence of an extra engineer Is iIt a. o a..
are ali competent take care Of the engines In an
emergency, although they are not HcerSeu 0"e'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-29
DIR. FIELD NOT AFTER REWARD.
Says the Typhoid Germ Has Been Traced
to Oysters Fed on Bad Sewage.

Tomorrow closes the oyster season. and the last
favored month with the r. passes amid storm
OF protest from the oystermen aroused by Dr..
Cyrus w. Fields report typhoid bacilll among
the oysters fattened IN contaminated streams.
They want to know why Or. Field doesn't claim
the reward Of $4,000 offered by the Oystermen S
Protective Association for the discovery OF any
typhoid germs I'm oysters.
II not going to claim the reward because
I have not found the germ in the oysters, and
haven't made that claim" DIR. Field said last night.
II have been misquoted there. L did say that in
experiments where L knew the bacilli had been
introduced In the drinking beds I really found
traces OF them I'm the oysters afterward. That
they do exist I'm oysters result of contain
mated beds has been proven in many instances.
"A notable case Of this was that of typhoid
epidemic at Middletown, Conn, in 1895. This was
traced to oysters taken from bed that received
the contents of a drain direct from house where
there fever patient Oysters from that bed
traced about the country, and everywhere
they the fever broke out. So much attention
has this subject called forth that the English For
eign Office recently sent commissioner over here
confer with government on the conditions
surrounding the cultivation of the oysters sent
abroad from this country.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-29
sCHMITTBERGER ANSWERS THEM.
Tries to Catch Citizens Making Telephone
Reports for Policemen

Acting on a suggestion given on Wednesday by
Commissioner NcAdOo. who said he understood
citizens were making reports for policemen from
the police telephone boxes. Inspector Schmitt-
berger. accompanied by Sergeant Krause. his chief
% stan, made tour Of his precincts on the lower
East Side last night, and answered a number Of
reports himself Commissioner McAdoo had point
ed out that IN citizen were caught making a
report for policeman. not only would the police
man be dismissed from the force. but he would ask
the District Attorney to deal with the citizen.
About o'clock the inspector entered the Oal-st
station. lie went TO the desk where the telephone
reports are received, and relieved the man at the
switchboard Win the first call came IN he picked
up the receiver and asked the name OF the patrol-
man, the number of the box from which he was
calling and the number Of his shield After re-
ceiving about ten Of these reports the Inspector
went 20 the Old Slip station. There he answered
more calls. he says that two men were either
giving in fadse reports else didn't have time TO
give their shield numbers.
Commissioner McAdoo had heard that in Brook
and the connections. that they would not have
10 make their hourly reports. He had Investigate
this report. and did rot believe il true He was
convinced, however that in Manhattan some uolice-
men had had citizens give in their reports.
Inspector Schml1tbeTgerS object last night was 70
catch citizen ringing Up or one policeman ringing
up Tor another. il the man at the other end Of
the telephone did not know his shield number then
the inspector thought investigation was needed
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-29
KICKS n DRUNKEN. NAN.
Large Cro1cd Sees Policeman As
SnuIt Prisoner IN Street.

In the presence OF a large crowd. VINO strongly
protested, a policeman brutally beat a drunken man
at Houston-st. and the Bowery yesterday morning
The man had TO be sent to St. Vincents Hospital
He is August Kuchman, bartender OF NO. z9I
Eighth-ave The patrolman is Hersey Jerron. OF
the Mulberry-st station. who is powerfully built
and nearly six feet tall. Kuchman is five feee Two
Kuchman entered The Capitol" a saloon at the
Bowery and Houston-st. and demanded drink
He had had so much liquor that the bartender re-
fused to give him any more and Kuchman insist
ing told Billy the porter to put him out OF IN"
place. The bartender telephoned TO Police Head
quarters when Kuchmnn got violent. He drove
bis fist through the plate glass in the side door OF
the saloon cutting his hand severely.
Then Jerroll appeared. He grabbed Kuchman by
the collar and started to drag him from the saloon
The drunken man resisted. and the policeman
struck him on the head with his nightstick Telling
him to the floor. Then he dragged him. struck him
hold him down, while he opened signal box and
summoned a patrol wagon. Kuchman struggled to
rise and Jerroll kicked him in the ribs.
Il can't lay here. I'm bleeding. pleaded the prfs-
oner who with a desperate effort managed 10 r1se
to his knee. .
The policeman. according to eyewitnesses. kicked
him in the stomach. An extremely large crowd
had assembled. and many protested JerroH paid
no attention to the protests You're dirty brute
and a cCwardr' shouted a number Of men IN the
crowd.
who said that7" demanded the policeman. he
swung his club in a menacing manner and advanced
toward the spectators. No one replied.
Finally the policeman got ambulance. Later
in court. Kuchman was held in 5000 ball for ma
ncious mischief. Commissioner McAdoo during the
day asked for a report on the affair.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-29
w. B. HORNBLOWER ATTACKS IT.
Municipal Judiciary Bill Unconstitutional,
He Says-Lauterbach Favors 1t.

The bill to rearrarge the Municipal Court districts
OF this city adding number OF justices and in
creasng their salaries from 5000 TO $780, received
a public hearing before the Mayor yesterday. 1t
was denounced as unconstitutional. inmical to nome
rule and unjust in its reapporonment OF territory
by William D. Hornblower. counsel for the JUS
tees Re said il proposed 10 legisate the present
justices out Of Office and elect successors in even
numbered years. This. he said was in direct con-
tradIction TO the provision Of the constitution
which expressly forbade the election Of Justices on
even numbered years except In case OF vacancies
lie denounced several provisions OF the bill as
ridiculous. one district had a population OF 3'"o
and another had 2oO.O00 he asserted.
Julius Henry Cohen, representing the Citizens
Union. referring 10 ths arguments Of Mr. Horn
blower said IF this bill Is open great constitu
tonal objections then there will be serious and IN
terminabe litigation the validity Of the Judg-
ments and decisions Of the justices. Why did
Democratic Senators and Assemblymen vote Tor
this bill when II will practically reduce the number
OF Democratic justices in the city? | am innocent
enough TO believe there must he qutd pro quo Tor
this concession, and If there Is, II means that the
judiciary of city Ia to be linked with The
fortunes OF political dckerers and dealers"
Edward Lauterbach spoke in favor Of the bill and
said he had two briefs from Independent sources
earily 80 TO the Mayor for action. lie declared that
the constitution expressly provided that the legts-
lature might determine what a vacancy was and
that Il did not provide that inferior officers should
be elected In odd numbered years but that their
terms Of Office should end in odd numbered years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-29
MANY TEACHERS TO WE'D.
Change IN Ani-Marr1age Byta50 a
Boon to SchOOlmGrmS.

Run7ors have reached the Board Of Education
since action was taken on Wednesday afternoon
making Il inonensive for women teachers 20 marry
that many hundred attractive young schooihaIi rs
are about 20 take immediate advantage ol M 15
now privilege or the 1900 women employed IN lHe
school system about 1900 5000 have been gradu-
ated from the training schools only three OF Iour
years These and many more are not yet past tAe
age Of twenty-five years and some OF theIh d
even Younger Combined with their youth. thelr a
Effectiveness is enhanced by their nnancisl posi-
biliues
Hundreds OF young fellows, It is well understood
have been awaiting the happy day when theiI
salary equaled that OF some fair teachers 10 pop
the question. Hundreds Of the schoolmarms nave
long been engaged to marry when georges OF
Charles nav had reached the possible mark 1t Is
said with no uncertain voice. that the money 0ueS-
ton viii be very shortly settled now one lnpor-
tsnt woman official of the Board OF Educauon yes
terdsy ventured so far to assert that aII the
women IN the employ OF the department "oulu AO"
be getting married,
The anti-marriage bylaw of the board suil re-
tans its former character, but the sting has neeh
taken out Of its tail. It st prohibits the marriage
OF women teachers but it no longer proFloes 'ha'
charges may be preferred against those VINO trans
press the prohibition The committee on ele-
rnentary schools recommended the amenomeht oL
the bylaw under virtual cOmpulston-
7 mink that the public viii soon be sorry that
we have taken this STEP said Commissioner NJ
Dwight Collier a member OF me committees
public has long been in favor Of the retention OF
married teachers and now II has got what IL vans
Twenty wears ago such retention proved highly uhI
satisfactory and resulted ia many scandals ana 1
believe that our present action VIII have The same
effect
The board has taken A decided position regard
ing the closing Of the Brooklyn schools during the
Anniversary Day celebration. The Brooklyn sun
day School Union some tire ago voted tn5tl Iieg
could hold their parade on Saturday, making IN
necessary the loss of time 10 the chllQren IN me
schools. The Sunday Schools associations OF me
Eastern District and tsreenpont chose June ana :.
respectively, for their parades. These are ,bot3
school days The officials Of the board eNpoStGlatea
and requested that he parades be held on SaIur-
day The associations refused The board has now
determined refuse TO close any schools during the
Anniversary Day parade where the occasion is cele-
brated school days.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-29
SUICIDE BLAMES BANKER
TAKES ACID At VENDOME.
Dead UOman the Sister of an Er-
Congressman.

Leaving a letter in which she accused ". NJ
Shaw retired banker of this city. of running her.
Mrs. s. J. Keim. thirty-twO years old. drank car
boc acid in the Hotel Vendome on "Wednesday
night, and found dead yesterday. Mr.. Shaw
later told Coroner Scholer he was innocent OF
wrongdoing. He is hfty-hve years old
Mrs. Keim first appeared at the hotel about six
months ago. She paid her bills. the management
said. She always looked we'll A number Of men
and women called her. though she had few ac-
quaintances in the hotel.
On a slip OF paper in the woman's room was
written Notify f. o. Shafner, No. 81 Broad-st.
Harrisburg, Penn" The letter containing the ac-
cusation read in part:
To the Coroner: At last I am driven 10 commit
this act have foqght against Il for long tirGi
to. I have had hard struggle and don't want to
live any more. This act may Kill my dear od
mother, but had my choice Of the streets OF death
The man who is responsible for my trouble fs "
NJ. Shaw. of No 16 West A t me
to help me rise to position where could support
myself honorably, but my appeals were IN VAN
but te now I'll" that am without money have none
God pity the woman who becomes 99e R bs Is not
the only one womSn who vas
/ hope she will never surfer rs have suffeEed G
Notify my brothers FI2fk 10 be buried there
TO Mary, my maid give my brown dress wish
the whole world to knew the circumstances thereof
There were seven pennies in the room. but nothing
else Of value Coroner seholer sent for detectiVeS
and had them bring Mr. Shaw TO the MOTEL He
went into the room where the woman lay AS soon
az he saw the face he stepped back quickly and
put his hand to his head. He asked nervousIy'
What's this? What's this7
Coroner Scholer took him aside and the two men
whispered for some time. Then the coroner iet
him 20. He told the coroner he had known her
husband who died couple Of years ago, ana ne
had aided her financially after that she was
historical the coroner said Mr.. Shaw told him. and
somewhat OF her mind. Mr.. Shaw said later
that he had known Mrs Keim for ten years Her
husband had left her small sum. from a life IN
surance policy. which had run out, and ne had
helped her afterward. Last night, at the Twenty
ffth-st address. which is boarding house. II was
said Mr. Shaw had gone to the country for a week.
taking luggage with him. -,
The rnanag of the Vendome received a tete--
gram late last night from Z. o. Shafner. OF
Harrisburg, Penn, stating that the sender would
arrive in New-York to-day to claim the body;
a dispatch from Oberlin, Penn. received last
night, said the the sister or > D
Page a former member of the Pennsylvania Legs,
lature J. Frank Page. another brother, telegraphed
from Oberin that ne would be here this morning.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-29
FORGER BAND, THEY SAY.
Third arrest = Of Nan Charged
sCifh Getting $T8,8OO.

Word Of the arrest in Alpena- Mich Of z. NJ
wisherout. an alleged forger and swindler, who
Is under an indictment by the Kings County
GRIND Jury charging him With larceny in the
fret degree in obtaining S1S.SO0 on raised bank
drafts from the Brooklyn branch Of the Nassau
Trust Company. OF this city, was received yes
serday by the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
whose agents made the capture ct the request
OF Captain Formosa, Of the Brooklyn detective
forcs.
MItherouts alleged transactions occurred in
December 1908. and In January OF this year
It Is the belief OF the PiEkerton agency which
Lad been seeking Witherout at the request Of
she American Bankers Association that these
raised drafts were made by one r. J. Knox
said 20 be a clever professional and = member
OF the Knox-V hite1nan band Of forgers, orig
inaIly consisting Of Alonzo J. whiteman, Robert
J. knox. William J. Hartley and Charles Stew
art.
According TO the Pinkortons Wltherout ap-
peared IN Brooklyn and said he was former
Rrooklynite now wealthy, who wished to buy
q good house. Under the guidance Of a clerk
for a Brooklyn real estate dealer, @. p. Truslow,
he examined several houses. but found trihing
faults in each one he saw. lie ~Has introduced
BY letter 20 the Nassau Trust Company. Brook
lyn branch, at Broadway and Bedford-ave., and
opened an account there. At this bank he de-
posted the drafts in question IL is alleged. and
later drew out In currency and drafts all but
500.
r. J. Knox was arrested recently in Columbus.
Ohio and ia hls satchel. according TO the Pinker-
ton men, were found n check perforator. bottles
81 ink er8ctcator. erasers, bicarbonare or SODA,
"a magnifying glass. and other implements Tor
committing fOrgery. Knox IS now awaiuhs
trial at Portland. Ind an alleged associate OF
Knox, also arrested and awaiting trial. is h 3
Gordon. He had presented I'm Portland, Inc, a
draft for 81 800 which had originally been Is
sued. say the PinkertOns. for So.
Andrew T. sullivan. president Il the Nassau
Trust Company. said last evening that the CON-
psny lost nothing through Witherout.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-04-29
SLABS NAN ON ELETATED.
4sSaiIaut Caught after Erecting
Chase Through Street.

A young man who had stabbed a fellow passen-
ger on an elevated train WAS chased b. an eX-
cited crowd in Myrue-ave, Brooklyn. yesterday
morning. lie ran several blocks, and then boarded
a Myrtle-ave. car going downtown one OF his pur-
suers, James Dazego Of No. 50 Skillnan-st. Brook
Ign VINO had seen the stab3lrg. followed the man
on the car. and when he saw a policeman had
the man arrested.
The victim of the stabbing was Henry Boeckman.
of no 3H Centrsl-ave. lie had been riding in an
elevated train Oh Myrtle-ave., with his brother IN
quarrel between the brothers and a third man
one Of the BOeckmans struck the latter, and John
Rogers, seventeen years old, OF No. 4s floyd-st-'
went up TO the man who struck the blow and de-
suanded why he had done 80. Rogers declared the
other brother attacked him, and he stabbed nm
with his pOcketknife in self-defence-
Boeckman fell on the floor OF the car, ana as tle
train then reached Aanderblt-aEe. Rogers ieaKed
10 the platform and ran 10 the street
Rogers gave bail in $3.50 Tor examination on May
B. BOeckman. who stabbed in the ungh, was
removed 70 the Cumberland Street Hospital lie
was doing well last evening.