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Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
SIX DAY BICYCLE RACE.
Twenty Thousand Saw Start at the
Madison Square Garden.

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-Amid a roar
of applause from nearly 10000 specta-
tors in Madison Square Garden the
contestants in the twelfth i%nternation-
al six day bicycle race responded to
the crack of the starters pistol, fired
by Congressman Timothy ID. Sullivan
at exactly five minutes after midnight
this morning. The garden was throng-
ed for an hour or more before the
start, and when the champions lined
up every inch of room in the great
building was occupied. The cheers
that hailed the start continued until
several laps had been reeled off, the
hackers of the various contestlng teams
shouting themselves hoarse in encou
agement of their favorites.
Eighteen teams started from the
mark, the California team, consisting
of the Downing brothers, being broken
up, Carl Limberg of San Jose being
substituted for Burton Downing.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
VERY ANNOYING.
This hardly expresses what Perth
Amb0y people say of it.

Any itchiness of the skin is annoying.
Little danger in itching skin diseases,
But they make you miserable.
Doan's Ointment is a never-failing cure.
For Piles. Eczema, all itching troubles.
Perth Amboy citizens endorse it.
A. B. Woodruff, of Vailsburg, N. ].
says: "For the benefi. of those similarly
afflicted as / was with hemorrhoids or
piles / want every reader of this paper
to know, that | suffered with attacks of
this ~tormenting nuisance for over fifteen
years. During that time, l spent a lot
of money trying ''sure-cures' and ex-
hausted all my own knowledge about
salves and ointmentB and also the advice
of my friends. One day while reading
an advertisement about Doan's ONT
ment l concluded to make n more
effort and | commenced the treatment.
Greatly to my surprise the area of itching
gradually contracted until it completely
dried up. What is of considerable more
more Importance to me there is no in
dication of a recurrence.
Plenty of such emphatic endorsement
to be had right here in Perth Amboy.
Drop into G. w. Pariscn's drug store
and ask what his customers report.
For sale by all dealers. Price so cents.
Foster-Milburh Co.. Buffalo, N. ". sole
agents for the United States.
Remember the name-Doa sand
take no 6thers.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
I a ROxE s

FIRE ALARM ROXFs
20 Raritan Copper Works
rs High and Lewis
"a Madison ave and Patterson ~
28 Market and First SITS
vs. Smith and High 1T
81 State and Smith SITS
43 BuokipE CHAIN ave and Hartf
10 Commerce and Front ate
a High and Washington str
81 State st and Buckingham ave
Sc Hall ave and Cha rles st
81 Railroad ave and Wayne
CO Washington and First sts
63 Turnpike ana Elm st
81 Smith st and Watson ave
10 Commerce and State CO
n Front and Smith Rte
70 Water and Gordon SITS
"A Kearny ave and Gordon at
50 Smith and Herbert St
SO Woodbridge o a and Washington 81
81 Lehigh ave ? = Stanford st
To send In an alarm, open the door OF the boz
and pull down the lever and let go once only
Stay at box until f1remen arrive.
SPECIAL CALLS.
tap-I reak In circuit. 9 taps Drill and fire
.iArn Ces Hydrant at corner of Jefferson and
High stre. t always to be used for this trial. 8
APPS Fire , Mt. 5 taps-Police call. 12-Call for
jncoin H,te. 18-Call for Washington Hose
: fall fo' Mcclellan Hose 16-Cah for Pro-
s"t'on n nd L.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
Auto Dont Race Arranged.

PARIS, Dec. 5.-An auto boat race
across the Mediterranean from Algiels
to Toulon has been arranged. No linn
its are prescribed as regards form or
dimensions of the boats or type Of mo-
explosion with instantaneous. produc-
ton of steam or electricity. The mini
mum speed must be twelve kilometers
(seven and n half miles, an hour. No
fuel supply a be taken on at sea.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
Bowling

Tonight the Amarite bowling team
will roll up the scores on the Blood.
good alleys in a practice game. They
are getting in trim for the match
Wednesday night with thu second
team of the Aquahongas, of Totten
vile.
Manager Birden Golden, of the
Amarite bowling team. is trying hard
to make arrangements for another
match game with the Edward ]. Ozark
Association, Of Elizabeth. -
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05

ROCHESTER,, N. H., Dec. 5.-Rich-
ard Farrell, a musician of Lowell,
Mass, has been arrested here ON sus-
picion in connection with the death of
Herman C. Dyer of Milton, whose body
was found last night on the railroad
tracks near this station, where he was
first supposed to have been killed by
a train. Subsequent investigation de-
veloped that the body. which laid on
the back between the rails. bore but
n wound. a fracture at the base of
the skull.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
barred English Coal For Russia.

CARDIFF, Dec. 5.-It is stated that
the captain of the German collier Cap
tain w. Mcneil has been forbidden by
the government to ship another cargo
Of coal from here. The foreign office
took this action on proof that a former
cargo taken by the Captain w. Mcneil
had been discharged to sships of the
Russian second Pacific squadron off
Dakar.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
TOCO'S SILENT MOVE
Japanese Fleet Prepare Fol
Rojestvensky's Reception.
FIRST ARnISTICE At PORT ARTHUl
Besiegers and Besiegcd Halt Six
Hours to Bury Their. Dend-Bnt-
tie Developing south of
Mukdcn.

LONDON, Dec. 5.-Advices from To-
kyo say that the first armistice be-
tween the combatants at Port Arthur
has been declared for a period of six
hours for the purpose of burying the
dead.
1t is the general opinion there that
the Port Arthur fleet will attempt to
make a sortie when the harbor be-
comes untenable or when the Rus
slams plans for escape mature. 1t Is
evident that most of the ships are
badly damaged and unfit for service.
but some have fighting power. The
Russians continue mine clearing OPP
~erations, manifestly for the purpose of
preserving an avenue of escape.
For three weeks there has not been
a single Japanese battleship in the bay
of Korea.
When it became certain that the Bal
tic feet was really bound for the Vel
low sea Admiral Togo silently took his
battleships to'Sasebo. where they went
repairs.
1t is extremely probable that now
that Japan has been able to put four
battleships in new fighting order these
ships will take up a position outside
Port Arthur until the first class cruis-
ers are similarly rcfurnished and made
as good as they were before war be-
gan. 1t is evidently the purpose of
the Japanese admiral to meet the Bal
tic fleet where the, sea of Japan and
the Yellow sea meet.
A st. Petersburg report says that
firing is constantly increasing in the
country lying south Of Mukden. Evi-
IDENTIFY a general engagement Is devel-
oping. The Russians, having received
large re-enforcenents, feel quite con
fident.
Meanwhile the chunchuses have re-
doubled their activity in a provoking
manner, destroying the railroad.
A Hardin dispatch says that Gen
eral GripenberS has arrived there to
assume command of the second Man
churian army.
A large warehouse of the Red Cross
society at Hardin has been burned, en-
failing a great loss of supplies.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
Major Elliott For zeigIer.

SPRINGFIELD. ILL.,. Dec. 5.-NIajor
L. e. Elliott of Arcola of the First
battalion, Fourth infantry, left last
night for Zeiglcr to command
of the troops. Major Elliott was called
TO Springfield on Saturday by Adju-
tant General Scott and was ordered to
go at once to Zeigler. No official re-
port of firing last night has been re-
cpivpd.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
warships Cost Russia ss5 1000, 900.

ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. IA re-
port says that Charles II. Flint of New
York arrived at Moscow under the
name of Charles Ranlett. He proceed
ed on Wednesday by way of Warsaw
and Odessa for Constantinople. 1t is
reported that Mr.. Flint brought a let
ter of credit on the R~othschilds for
S35, O00, 1000, the amount payable for the
Argentine and Chilean warships, for
the purchase of which Russia is said to
be negotiating, and OH his visit to Con-
stantinople he will endeavor to ar
range that these vessels when pur-
chased should use the Turkish flag.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
A Roi d,Espagne Automobile.

MADRID, Dec. 5.-King Alfonso is
delighted with his new twenty-four
horsepower Panhard, which has just
arrived from Paris. The new machine
is intended for touring. With a body
of the new victoria pattern it has side
entrances ard is to be known hereafter
as the Roi d'Espagne type. The body
is of wood, painted gray with red lines
and fitted with all the latest niceties of
luxurious automobiles.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
cottonseed Plant DESTROYED.

SELMA, Ala, Dec. 5.-The Interna-
tional C~ottonseed Oil company's plant
was partly destroyed by fire yesterday.
The seed, hull and meal warehouses are
n total loss. Between 5000 and 1000
tons of seed were lost. The total loss
is estimated at 100000, partly cover
ed by insurance. Spontaneous COM
bustion in the seed warehouse is the
supposed origin of the fire.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
%In The Field Of sports%
BASKETBALL TEAM.
Local Admirers Of thesGams Have
Organized a Club Here.

A number of players of b~asketIall
in this city have s~organized a club.
1t is known as the Perth Amboy Bas-
ketball Club. They expect to play
tie EltingvIlle team in Gadek's Hall,
North Amboy, sometime soop.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
HIGH ROLLERS.

Saturday afternoon and night the
following high scores were rolled on
tine Bloodgood alleys: Fox, 213 227;
hibbett, 9O3, 201; Bioodgood, 2,8; E.
Golden, 232; L.. Larson, 20l, and
M. Balfour, 2O8 and 220.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
ceoree AIDE Taking water Cure.

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-George AIDE,
playwright and writer of funny sto'
ries, lay back on his bed in a room on
the ninth floor of the Holland House
wrapped in a bath robe, which he said
had Jacobs coat of many colors beat
en- before the start" and received
friends who, alarmed by published re.
ports of his illness, went there to learn
the facts and to offer sympathy. He
told all who inquired that he was moi
ill. I'm taking the water cure" he
announced. I'm on the water wagon
for a week and will take no food dur
ing that period"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
Connecticut Fencinr Tourney.

HARTFORD, Conn, Dec. 5. = The
first international fencing tournament
ever held in Connecticut vas won here
by Lieutenant j. NJ. De Zoldy of New
York. Among the others who Compel
ed for first honors were Signor Mi
chaelioni of Uruguay, the champion Of
South America; Baron Gustav Ris-
polli, the champion of Italy, and Major
Schavolr. the champion Of Connecticut.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
Editorial writer a Suicide.

NEW YORK, Dec. 5.-John Harrison
Wagner. an editorial writer of a New
York morning newspaper, was found
dead in his room at the Hotel Cadillac
here. Death had been caused by a
pistol wound in the head. Why Mr..
Wagner should have taken his life is
n mystery to his friends.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05

RIO GRANDE DO Sui. Brazil, Dec.
5.-The British bark Providencia, Cap
tain Symons. from Fernandlna. Fla.
Aug. IS, is ashore Oh the north bar of
this harbor. The crew was landed, but
two mates Of the ship are dead.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05

WANTED-Bright young man having
knowledge of bookkeeping and making
himself generally useful; chance for pro-
motion; reference required, p, A. Cigar
Co, 9173 1913 Il
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05

ssReal estate Real estatel Read
the bargains in special column on
pa e g..
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
HE'LL WANTED

neutrality-suspicious.. willing girl, not
too young, for upstairs work and take
care of children; good wages to right
person; reference wanted. Address Mrs.
X. Mathiasen, Keyport. 9l45 1872 3t
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05

WASHING wanted, 95 Fayette st. Mrs
Annie Evans.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05
LOST

ARE you looking for a home in North
AmboyP We have it, a two story and a
half slate roof house in good order. Lot
is worth $3.50, would cost to build $500,
will sell on easy terms for Si4OO. Judge
Il Kamm.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05

WHAT have you got to sell? We buy and
sell everything as bargains. 260 Smith
st., cor. Oak. 5000 1870 limo, m-wd-sat
Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-12-05

FOR SALE-Two parlor stoves, will sell
at a bargain. Enquire News office. tt
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-14
away on foreign tour to forget his

away on a foreign tour to forget his
folly.
Almost the first place at which the
Grand Duke stopped on this tour was
Wiesbaden, where he became involved
in another romantic love affair. He
was walking near Wiesbaden when
horse came rushing toward him bear
ing on its back a woman who had lost
all control over the animal and who
was in imminent danger of death. The
Grand Duke placed himself in front of
the runaway horse and at the risk of
his own life seized the reins and after
being dragged for a distance, succeed
ed in bringing it to standstill The
lady whom he thus rescued was the
young and beautiful daughter of
Countess Natalie Nuremberg, the
morganatic wife of Prince Nicolas of
Nassau, a brother of the reigning
Grand Duke of Luxembourg Within
a week or two the Grand Duke made
the young Countess Nuremberg his
wife.
The Czar ignored the fact that the
Countess father was a royal Prince
and remembered only that her mother
was the daughter of the Russian poet,
Pushkin, and the divorced wife of a
plain Russian citizen named Dubelt He
issued an imperial decree declaring the
marriage of the Grand Duke to be null
and void. but he was afterward in
duced to withdraw this decree by the
intervention of the Grand Duke Of
Luxembourg, an uncle Of the bride,
and of the Queen of Sweden, her aunt.
The Grand Duke Of Luxembourg con-
ferred on the bride the title of Coun-
tess Torby. Grand Duke Michael
Michaelovitch and his morganatic but
legitimate wife, Countess Torby, are
most popular members of fashionable
society in England and France. King
Edward is their close friend and has
often visited them at their beautiful
country estate in England. He has re-
peatedly endeavored to bring about a
reconciliation between the Czar and the
Grand Duke and he has been partially
successful, for Michael Michaelovitch
was recently reinstated in the military
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-14
TWO YOUNG GIRLS ASCEND
HIGHEST PEAKS OF ALPS
In Eight Days They Climb Total OF
125,OOO Feet. Including the
StceD MatterhOrn.

GENEVA, Aug. 13.-Misses Charlotte
and Rhoda Hindley of London have
just accomplished a remarkable feat OF
Alpine climbing.
Attended by the guide Christ Bur-
gener of Grindelwald, they crossed the
Alps from Chamonix to Courmayeur by
the Col Ferret to the Valais. and on the
following three days ascended the Col
de Gietroz. the Col de Maison Blanche,
the Col de Seilon and the Pas de
Crevres as far as AroHa.
Thence they made their way to Zinal
and mounted the Col de la Dent
Blanche and the Trifsjoch, ascending
the Saas Fee and Zermatt.
After one or two days rest they
climbed to the summit of Monte Rosa,
being the first persons to succeed in
making the ascent this season, and
two days later made in one day the
ascent of the Matterhorn. In their
eight days climbing they ascended al
together 125, 900 feet, or over eight times
the height of Mont Blanc
Owing to the frequency Of accidents
to climbers, Chamonix is to be placed
in communication with the summit of
Mont Blanc by wireless telegraphy
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-FOUR OF RUSSL4'S PERSoNFIED LUxURIES

wears and returned only when the
q widow.
Quite by chance she attracted the
attention of the Grand Duke Paul
when she was walking in the street
and his Imperial Highness made In
quiries regarding the identity of the
ed lady. He contrived to secure an
Introduction to her in none too con-
ventional way and soon the 42-year>
old widower was so desperately in
Madame Valerianovna his wife at all
costs. He communicated his inten>
ton TO the Car. who threatened him
with the usual list of dire penalties if
he persisted in his intention. Grand
Duke Paul left Russia and took Ma
dame Valerianovna to Livorno, in
Italy, where he was welded to her
according TO all the rites of the or
thodox Greek church by a priest
whom he brought with him to per-
form the marriage ceremony. The
Cars response was a decree expell-
ing his uncle from the Russian army,
in which he held the rank of a Iieu>
tenant general, confscating his Rus
sian estates and forbidding him ever
again 70 set foot on Russian territory.
Grand Duke Paul lives in Paris now,
and according to all reports he is so
happily married that his Punishment
and disgrace at court are matters of
indifference to him.
Grand Duke Michael Michaelovitch.
a cousin of the second degree to the
Czar. was 20 years of age when, early
in 1891, he asked permission of the late
Czar Alexander III to marry a girl
we'll known in good society in ST.
Petersburg. She was not of noble
BIRTH but her father was a state Off
cial and the famous dipIomatist, Ig-
natieff, was her uncle. Alexander III
had no sympathy with the Grand
Dukes romantic inclinations and
promptly prohibiting the match. his
Majesty sent Michael Michaelovitch
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Gives Rembrandt to Louvre.

PARIS, Aug. 13.-A fine Rembrandt
by KaemDfen. The picture was given
the latter's father by person he once
had assisted. When the son came into
its possession he recognized it to be a
Rembrandt and made a journey to
Switzerland to find the former owner.
All efforts, however. were unsuccessful,
and refusing to allow the family to
profit by the manifest ignorance of the
former owner of the picture Kaempfen
presented it to the Louvre
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-14

Duke Cyrirs matrimonial intentions
possess a special Importance, owing to
a possibility of succession to the
throne. At the present moment four
lives stand between him and the
crown-those of the Car, the newly
born Czarevitch Cheir apparently, the
Cars brother and Cyril's own father,
Grand Duke Vladimir
Now the Grand Duke is anxious to
marry the divorced Grand Duchess of
Hesse, who before her marriage was
Princess Melita of Saxe-Coburg- -Gotha,
niece Of King Edward of Great Britain.
Princess Melita was married to the
Grand Duke of Hesse when she was
only II years Of age, and the match
was a failure. The Hessian Grand
Duke is a cold serious man, who is as
high-principled and conscientious as he
is uninteresting. Melita is gay, uncon-
ventional and overflowing with life and
spirits. When the Grand Duke wanted
his wife, not yet out of her teens, to be
a mother to his people, to visit the sick
in the hospitals and to superintend the
soup kitchens for the destitute Melita
preferred hunting, riding and other
kinds of healthy amusement. Truth
makes It necessary to record the fact
that she preferred the company of
dashing young officers Of the Hessian
families Of nobility to the dry old fos-
sis of both sexes who were her hus-
bands courtiers. Trouble arose and in
creased from incompatibility of tenn
permanent After seven years of mar
riage a divorce was pronounced in De-
IL
agreed to pay his divorced wife an an
nual allowance Of 100000, and their
only daughter was to spend half the
year with each parent.
ALL SORTS OF OBSTACLES.
Grand Duke Cyril had made no secret
Of his admiration for the Grand Duchess
Melita before her divorce, and no soon
er had she left her husbands home and
gone back to live with her mother at
Coburg than Cyril made her formal
offer of marriage This was accepted
conditional on the Cars consent,
which, however, was emphatically re-
fused. Grand Duke Cyril was given TO
understand that he would be commit
ting an inexcusable folly If he married
the divorced Grand Duchess Of Hesse.
First Of all, she is his cousin of the
first degree his father and her mother
being brother and sister and marriage
between such near relatives is contrary
ia the laws of the orthodox state
church in Russia. The orthodox Greek
church, moreover, like the Roman
Catholic church, regards marriage as
indissoluble and prohibits the second
union of a divorced man or woman.
A Grand Duke who married in direct
opposition to fundamental principles OF
the orthodox state church would out
rage the feelings of the bigoted millions
Of Russia and would inevitably weaken
the authority Of the imperial house.
The committal of this error by a Grand
Duke who stands so near to the throne
would be suicidal from a dynastic view
point Grand Duke Cyril was therefore
informed that If he persisted in marry
ing Melita the Car would, first OF all
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-14

declare the marriage to be invalid in
Russia; secondly, degrade Cyril from
his rank as an officer: thirdly, confis-
cate all his estates; fourthly, Danish
him from Russia forever, and, filthy,
deprive him of his right of succession
to the Russian throne.
This formidable array of threats
appears 10 have alarmed Cyril and
Melita, for the idea of marriage was
dropped for a time. When the war
with Japan broke out, Cyril hastened
to the front to do his duty as a naval
officer and was aboard the Petropav-
lovsk when that battleship was tor
pedoed and sunk with nearly all
hands. Cyril returned to st. Peters,
burg with a halo of martial glory
round his grand ducal head and seiz,
ed the opportunity to renew his ap-
plication to marry Melita. The Car
appears to have conceded what he re-
fused before; at any rate, Cyril had
not been in St. Petersburg twenty
four hours before he rushed off to
see Melita at Coburg. 1t was then
announced that Melita had notified
her former husband that she will no
longer ACCEPT his annual allowance
Of 100000. 1t was further an
noanced that the marriage Of Cyril
and Melita viii take place before ths
end of this year.
1t remains TO be seen whether Cy,
ril has been obliged to renounce his
right of succession in order to marry
the woman of his choice If he doe,
not renounce his rights and brings
Melita TO st. Petersburg as the wife
Of the possible future Emperor
a piquant situation will be created.
The present Czarina is the sister OF
the Grand Duke of Hesse and she
would hardly welcome her former
sister-in-law as the wife of her hus-
bands possible future successor.
However, this may be, Cyrils pluck
and unconventionality and the deter
mination with which he is carrying
his romantic love affair make him the
most interesting and sympathetic fig
ure among the grand dukes of Rus
s.a.
Grand Duke Paul's Love Story.
One Of the Cars uncIes. Grand
Duke Paul Alexandrovitch has been
in exile two years because he con-
tracted marriage in opposition to
the imperial wishes. Grand Duke
Paul was widower and AZ years OF
age when he married second time.
in 1902. The lady of his choice was
81 years old and had had varied
career. Her maiden name was Kar-
novitch, and she was the daughter of
a prosperous lawyer in st. PETERSBURG.
She was a girl of striking heautv opd
manifold fascinations, and at the age
of 81 she became the wife of a mid
dle-aged engineer named Pistolkoys.
who was more than twenty years her
senior. This marriage was evidently
a failure, for after three years a di-
vorce was granted and Madame Pis-
tolkovs soon afterward became Ma
dame valerianovna. the wife of
landowner in the province of Volhy-
MIA She left st. Petersburg for some
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POVERTY RUSSIA PAYS SIXTEEN MILLIONS YEAR
PRIVILEGE OF MAINTAINING HEB GRAND DUKES AND PRINCES
They Own Much Land and
Many Palaces, but One
Man Controls All.

ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. IS.-Among
the knowledge Of the general public in
europe and America that the Car is
lot the only royal parsonage in Russia
u has revealed the existence of q
previously almost unknown to people
outside of Russia. The male relatives
~ The Car consist OF his infant son,
iorn yesterday; one brother, four un-
.lcs.. fO0r first cousins, ten cousins Of