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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-19
CALL FOR REPUBLICAN
STATE CONVENTION
Following is the formal call for the

FOLLOWING Is UIl6 lOIlIldI Cdll lOl bilS
Republican State Convention:
The Republican voters of New Jersey aud all
whofayor the continuance of the policies which
have secured prosperity at home and honor
abroad under the wise and patriotic admins
trations of President Mckinley and President
Roosevelt, are requested to join in the election
of delegates to State Convention to be held
at the TAYLOR Opera House, in the City OF Iren-
ton, on Tuesday May 10, 1904, at IL O'Clock
noon, for the purpose of selecting four dele
gates-at-large and four alternate delegates TO
the Republican National Convention, which
will assemble at Chicago, June u, next Tor the
nomination of candidates for President and
Vice President, to be supported at the next
general election. :,
The basis of representation under this call
will he one delegate for each 40 Republican
votes cast at the last gubernatorial election,
and one delegate for each fraction thereof ex-
ceeding 100 votes. The said delegates from
each county will be apportoned among the
several subdivisions of the counties by the
respective county committees In counties
where the number of wards and townships ex-
'ceeds the allotted number OF delegates, 1t is
suggested that fractional representation be
given so that each ward and township may be
represented in the convention
Under the rules heretofore adopted, each
county delegation will be required to elect
at this convention one member of the Republl'
can state committee. to serve term OF four
years, excepting the counties of Essex and
Hudson, for each of which the county delega-
ton will elect two members
The number of delegates to which each
county ia entitled under this call is as follows
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16
MUNICIPAL MATTERS

City Council Room, Rock Island
July - I9Oi.-Thc council met ut p.
NJ. in adjourned regular session
Mayor MaConochie presiding and all
the aldermen present.
The clerk read a communication
from II. +. Krell, asking that $500 be
paid him on account of the Twentieth
street sidewalk grading. Referred to
the mayor and clerk by unanimous
vote.
Alderman Robbins moved that the
council take recess to inspect the
Twenty ninth street pavement. Car
ried.
On reassembling Alderman Robbins
moved that the pavement on Twenty
ninth street, from Seventh To Ninth
avenue. be accepted. the contractor to
repair any damage discovered within
80 days. Carried unanimously.
Alderman Robbins moved that the
mayor and clerk be authorized to set
tie with the Tri-City Construction com
pany for the paving of Twenty-ninth
street from Seventh to Ninth avenue.
Carried unanimously
Aid. Anderson moved that the mayor
be authorized to place the street inter
section AT Tenth avenue and Thirty
second street in passabIe condition.
Adjourned on motion of Aid. West
bay. II. c. SCHAFFER,
City Clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16
Brutality Tortured.

A case came to light that for per
sistCnt and unmCrCiful torture has
perhaps never been cqualcd. Joe Col
obick, of Colusa, Cal, writes: For Is
years | endured insurcrablc pain from
rheumatism and nothing relieved me.
though l tried everything known. |
came across Electric Bittcrs, and it's
the greatest medicine on earth for
that trouble. \ few bottles of it com
pIctcly relieved and cured me-" Just
as good for liver and kidney troubles
and general debility. Only 90 cents.
Satisfaction guaranteed by Hartz *
Ullemcycr, druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

dead man there is not one who is able
TO say.
The story: One day among the Wis
itOrs at the Dart store was man from
a village south Of the city, just where
". H. Dart says he does not know.
Neither can he recall the mans name.
He had been at the store before and
made small purchases, but as he never
bought for delivery no record was kept
of his name. He told Mr.. Dart that
there was a friend of his seriously
sick at the Moline city hospital and
that he had come to town TO pay him
visit. Two days after he returned
to- the store. He had two boxes, in
which he had packed the belongings
of his dead friend, and said it would
be an accommodation to him If he
would be allowed to store them until
he arranged for their shipment to the
relatives of the deceased. Mr.. Dart
was glad to be able to favor him, and
the boxes were carried from the rig
in which the vilIagcr had driven from
Moline into the Dart store. There
they have remained to this day. That
was just three years ago. No one has
called for them.
Mr.. Dart is in a quandary. In the
first place the boxes are in the way.
They are occupying room that could
he used to better advantage. Then
the thought of a grocery store serving
as a morgue is not very,pleasant. He
has communicated with the Moline
city hospital, and finds that a c. l..
Peterson died there on a date not far
distant from that on which the con
signment was left at the store by the
dead mans friend, but the hospital au-
thorities can throw no light on the two
mysterious boxes. The travelling rep
reScntatives for the Dart store in the
vicinity whence the dead mans friend
is thought TO have come have failed
in their cndcavors to locate him. \
lawyer has been consulted. The
states attorney has also. Finally the
county judge was appealed to. What
Mr.. Dart is trying to do is to rid him
self of the boxes. Probably his only
remedy lies in having an administra-
tor appointed here for the estate of
the dead man. But the question is,
whose estate would the administrator
be appointed to administer? But the
boxes are still at the grocery house.
Whether they contain dynamite. litera-
ture. clothing, jcwclry or sand no one
knows but the friend of the dead man
who delivered them three years ago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

the police the theft of $500 worth Of
diamonds from her apartments. She
is sadly in need of a press agent with
original ideas.
The Wizard of on" closed it's long
run of over two years consecutive per
formanccs last Saturday night in Chi
caGo. The piece was originally pro-
duccd June &c, 1902, and has been
played continuously ever since. The
Wizard" need not have closed last Sat
urday save for the fact that everybody
connected with the production stands
in need of a respite from work behind
the footlights Fred Stone, the tire
less "ScarecrOw." will spend the sum
mer in and about his old home in Den
YER where he will indulge in his IA
voritc pastimc Of clay pigeon shoot
ing. His partner. David Craig Mont
gomery, will 20 abroad, as Will also
Miss Anna LaUEhlin. who has played
Dorothy for two years without missing
4 dozen performance Arthur Hill,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16
Safeguard the Children.

Notwithstanding all that is done by
boards of health and charitably inclin-
ed persons. the death rate among
small children is very high during the
not weather of the summer months in
the large cities. There is not prob
ably one case of bowel complaint in a
hundred. however. that could not be
cured by the timely use of Chamber
lain's Collie. Cholera and Diarrhoca
Remedy. For sale by all leading drug
giSts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

ven. Schumann. Schubert and Brahms.
each of which will occupy an evening.
and for which dates are already book
ed in New York. Boston. Brooklyn.
Philadelphia. Washington. Chicago and
San Francisco. Mi Bispham's tour.
which Will commence in October and
include every important city III the
country. will extend 10 May. 1905.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

Milt Barlow. the noted old minstrel,
was taken to the New York hospital
recently, suffering from cancer of the
throat. An operation was performed
and it is hoped that Mr.. Barlow will
recover 1t is not likely, however,
that he will be able again to appear in
public.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

John c. Snow. Tvcrton-Wife was
lick for five years; nothing did her any
good. until I found HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea. Now she's strong and
healthy; so is baby 50 cents. tea or
tah1ets. T II. Thomas pharmacy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

buy you very fine solid oak quarter sawed China
Closet; double strength glass.
gets you a very fine Combination SidebOard and China
Cabinet Excellent quartered OAK.
for the best 42-inch square top oak Dining Table
pedestal base. See this bargain.
for a beautiful solid oak Dining Chair; handbufed
leather
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

An endless chain, ostensibly to as
sist members of the "Bluebeard'
chorus. burned out in the Iroquois fire,
is denounced by the Chicago police
chief. He says no chorus girls are in
need OF aid there.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

There is a merry war in New York
between the theatre managers and the
orchestra players. The latter ask
$3.50 to s. a night, and the managers
figure that about half those rates
would be right. The union refuses.
and the managers threaten non-union
OrcheStraS.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

Csc. for solid oak Dining Chair; has brace
and CHARTERED oah-
a quartered box leather Dining
Chair
buys you very fine Dining Chair with l2inch
pressed leather
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

Miss Ethel Barrymore, upon her re
turn from London. will leave at once
for San Francisco, where she is to
play a summer engagement.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

Before sailing for Europe Nat c.
Goodwin signed a contract to produce
new four-act comedy by |. n. Nor
riS, author of Jim BlusOe."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

David Bispham has again refused
all offers for operate engagements
for this year that he may devote the
coming season wholly 10 oratOriO, con
cert and recital under the direction
of Loudon G. Charlton. Mr.. Bispham
has arranged for this coming tour a
cycle of four song cycles by Bcetho-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

the English pantomimist, whose clever
representation of the COwardly Lion is
one OF the distinct individual features
OF the cxtravaganza, will spend his
holiday in England. No monetary Of
fer from London could induce Mr.. Hill
TO rcnorncC his allegiance to The
Wizard OF on" and he will return TO
this country in August to resume his
engagement with this production. All
of the other favoritcs, both principals
and chorus, have been rccngaged for
IncXt season There will be two wiz
ara of or" companies on tour, and
both will be equipped with entirely
new scenery and costumes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

There is an old adage that the one
presenting 10 the bride the garter first
10 be worn by the latter VIII be mar
riCd inside the year Recently there
was a marriage IN Rock Island of a
we'll known couple. both OF whom had
passed the period of eligibility by
some years. The bride was popular
in circle of young women. all of
whom remembered her with = wedding
present. As II happened. Is sent gar
tiers. The bride knew that each one
expected that her garter would be
the first worn. and in order that none
should be disappointed put on the l6
the night that she started from the
city on her wedding trip. II those 10
young women are not married within
the year il VIII not he the fault Of
their friend. the bride. for she per
formed her part with heroism that
only those who have been through a
similar trial can appreciate
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

Visitors to Coney Island this sum
mer have been astonisbed at many of
the electrical effects shown in the var
ious big entertainments. For many
of the best ones the Universal Elec-
trio Stage Lighting company, of which
Kliegl Bros. are the prOprietOrs, is
responsible. This company installed
all the effects at the Galveston flood.
including the very realistic rush of
water, which is really remarkable.
The equipment and effects at the Fall
of POmpeii, the eruption of the vol
cano, rain of ashes. water ripple, light
ing of houses and other things. and
the effects for Our Boys in Blue, -
both of which attractions are among
the big features in DrCamland, were
also installed by this company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

Weber's Music hall is to be the name
of the theatre that has been known as
Weber & Fields. 1t is to be opened
the latter part of September with a
stock company headed by Joseph
Weber and Anna Held under the man
agement of Joseph Weber and Flor
ence Ziegfeld, Jr., husband of Miss
Held. The same kind of shows will
be given at the music hall as in the
days of Weber & Fields partnership.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

The management of the ChamberIin-
kindt circuit of theatres is figuring
on adding the adding the Aurora thea
tire to its list and may purchase the
playhouse outright.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

Two boxes. each three feet long by
Is inches wide. containing the per
soual effects Of a dead man. for three
years have occupied a corner in the
stOrerOom OF the wholesale grocery
house OF Henry Darts Sons on Eigh-
teenth street. They have never been
opened. What the real contents are
no one knows. There may be money
and jewelry. and there may not. Dill
gent inquiry for the relatives or
friends of the deCcdent has proved I'M
availing- On each box there is writ
ten the name c. L Peterson. -
Whether that was the name of the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

Alma Youlin, a comic opera star
now singing in Chicago. reported to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

Frederick Wardo, who played JUL
us Caesar" in Rock Island last sea
son. will come here during the next
season in "SalambO" with Kathcryn
KiddCr.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

Anna Laughlin. the original Dorothy
Gale of THE Wizard of o." was mar
ried recently in New York to Van Mon
roe. young man with plenty of yellow
metal in his safety deposit vaults.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16
Stage Chat.
OOOGCCOO0OOOt

Mabel Rice, daughter of the late Dan
Rice. circus clown. will leave the
Yankee Consul company in a few
days to become the bride of Michael
Walsh. of the New York Herald staff.
The marriage will be performed Aug.
2. After her marriage she will retire
from the stage.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

$500 for solid top s24oo
fine pedestal
S1575
French
$3.50 a n and
d
85 solid oak eathe Dining Chairs bargain which
has
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

Mrs. Jack Haverly now sells make
up from stage door to stage door in
New York City. She is the widow of
Col. Jack Haverly. the minstrel king,
once manager of II theatres and 81
road companies, the man who en-
ploycd Charles FrOhman, Dan FrOh-
man. Al Hayman. Frank Mckee and
Ariel Barney, and who made and lost
$4,000 900.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-07-16

James K. Hackett will produce next
season a dramatization of the new
Winston Churchill romance. the scene
of which is laid in the Louisiana pur-
chase period. He is being urged to
make a revival of The Prisoner of
Zenda"
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-02-05
STAGE FOLK STRANDED
Greatest Distress among Actors IN
the History of the Country.
The ~Iroquois Theatre Fire Has Caused a
Loss of Millions to the The
ntrical World.

Chicago, 1ll.-Nearly 6000 stage folk
are stranded in Chicago, it is estimated
by agents. With the number being in.
creased daily through the closing of
theatres and attractions i'll heighboring
cities and States, Chicago, because of
the Iroquois fire and its results, is now
the centre of the greatest distress that
has overtaken the amusement business
in its history in this country.
Showing a serenity puzzling to the
public and even to those in close touch
with the theatrical profession, man
ayers, agents, actors, actresses, chorus
girls, stage mechanics, bill posters and
numbers of other crafts identified with
the mimic world are awaiting want.
Idle groups stand about in hotels and
besiege the agencies. Hunger shows
in the faces of some. They spurn Of
fers of engagements at panic SAL
aries" They murmur unpleasant criti-
cism about some of the alleged "bene-
fits planned in the name of the pro-
fessiOn.
ut is a case of the survival of the
fttest. and probably the starvation
of the rest" said one old-time man.
ager. Millions in amusement invest
ments have been and are being swept
away. The collapse following the Iro-
Quois Theatre disaster is not local in
scope. There are the same discourage
ments i'll varying degrees throughout
the country. and the stranded en-
ployes of attractions driven on the
rocks are seeking refuge in New York
and Chicago.
AS the greater number of companies
are disbanding throughout the Middle
West, Chicago is feeling the results
worse. OF the four big producing con-
Germs in Chicago in the field Of melo-
drama two have closed all their attrac-
tons and the others have called in
most of their shows.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-02-05

The editorial management OF Chari-
ties has succeeded in infusing an ele-
ment Of humor into the publication,
which will certainly help to attract
lay readers to the journal. The last
issue contains a pot pourri of excellent
jests, the best of which is the follow
ing, credited to Life:
Papa, what is charity"
"Charity, my son, is giving away
what you don't want"
"What is scientific charity?"
Scientific charity is giving away
what you don't want to someone else
who does not want it."
"What is organized charityg"
organized charity, my son, is Civ
ing away something that you don't
want to some society which will give
it away to someone who does not want
it."-Boston Transcript.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-02-05
College and Educational Notes

The Rev. w. C. Huntington, dean of
the Boston University Theological
School, has been elected President of
the university.
Property in the residence district of
New York City, owned by Columbia
University and valued at $10,000,0 900,
is to be sold.
Three new schools and at least TWEEN.
ty-two new buildings, of which the Of
fetal total estimated cost is So, ZOO. 900
or more, will be erected at the Univer.
sity of Chicago within the next ten
years.
DR.. Gustav L. Karsten, of the Uni
versity of Indiana. has been appointed
professor of German at Cornell.
Cornell University will receive more
than 100000 from the estate of the
late Frederick w. Guiteau. OF Irving,
ton-on-the-Hudson.
President Stone, of Purdue Univer.
sity. announced that a grant Of 5000
has been made by the trustees of the
Carnegie Institution to promote re-
| search in locomotive testing.
The win Of the late Washington Cor.
fington, OF Peoria, Ill, leaves the Ell
tire estate, valued at $4,000. for the
founding OF an educational institution
to be known as Corrington institute
and University
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-02-05
Rerlin,s waaItb.


The income tax statistics for 1903
show that the highest Berlin income
returned by a single individual amOun-
ted to over $4,000. The next highest
was over 1858, $50. The taxes paid on
these amounted, respectively, to $780,
100 and SIG Size. In Berlin the NUM-
cipal taxes, which throughout Prus-
STA are assessed in accordance with
local necessities on income, amounted
to exactly 100 per cent. Of the in
come tax. The two incomes mentioned
are the only ones quoted at over $780,
600 a year, but there are thirteen who
pay taxes on incomes between $780,
600 and $500,00O. There were thirty
three incomes of between $125,000 and
$250,OOO, and 621 between $25, 1000 and
$125,000. The number Of those taxed
IN incomes Of above $3.50 was $500,
while there were 378,484 who paid
taxes on incomes below $3.50.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-02-05
Worlds Fair Pointers.

Largest pipe organ yer built. 145
stops; pipes five feet in diameter.
The approximate cost of the entire
st. Louis Exposition will be $780, 900,
600.
A team of polo players from Ham
burg. Germany. will take part in the
Worlds Fair.
For the Atlanta building in the
Model City at the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition $4,000.
The Mines and Mining building at
the Worlds Fair will cover an area
of 525 by $50 feet.
A list of amateur and professional
cycle races will be one of the inter
esting events OF the Worlds Fair.
Two thousand automobile chairs
with seats for two persons. will be fol
hire, with or without chauffeur. in the
Worlds Fair grounds at st. Louis, Mo
Giocome Bonf, the famous archaeol'
ogist and director of the excavations
of the Roman Forum, has accepted ar
invitation to visi. the st. Louis Expo
siti0n.
Governor Taft and his colleagues on
the exposition board have designated
May ] as Philippine Dly at the st
Louis Exposition. ut is tbs annlver
sary OF the battl9 Of Manila BAY.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-02-05
TREASURY DEFICIT IN JANUARY,
Expenditures Exceeded the Receipts
by &c. 83, 1873.

Expenditures Exceeded the Receipts
by &c. S3, 1873.
Washington, d. C.-There was a
large deficit in the United States Treas
ury for the month of January, although
there is still a small surplus for the
fiscal year which began on July /,
1903. The expenditures of the Govern
ment exceeded the receipts in January
by Sc, 1888, 1873. There has been no jan
uary deficit in the Treasury since the
early part of the last decade. The
disbursements were larger in every
principal department of the Govern
ment last month than they were in the
anne month of last year, and there
was a decrease in receipts amounting
to more than $4,000, 600.
The receipts from all sources were
SAL S3, $40, as against $45, 996,337 in
January, 1903, and the aggregate ex-
penditures were $~48,372,553, as against
$40, 632, 243. The largest increase in
expenditures, as compared with Janu-
airy, 1908, was for civil and miscel'
laneous purposes, the increase being
nearly SIS, 100000.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-02-05
LIVE STOCK.
RECORD IN
This Country Had a Billion and {
Half Dollars Worth Last Year.

ms country HAD a Billion ana a
Half Dollars Worth Last Year.
Washington, D. C.-Nearly $780,
100000 worth of exports were con-
tributed to the markets of the world
by the United States in 1908, easily
surprising all earlier records. and the
closing month of the year established
a new maximum for monthly exports.
All figures of volume and value which
a few years ago stirred up foreign
agitation against the dreaded Yankee
invasion have been completely sur
passed by a growth which seems to be
steady and permanent. The calendar
years export figures, just completed
by the Department of Commerce and
Labor, aggregate 81 ,4S4, 66S, 127, and
those of the month of December, STA
734,368. The highest preceding record
for any calendar year was that of
1900, when the total exports were ST.
ATT ,946,113. and the highest preceding
record for a single month was that Of
October. 1900, when the total was
$163, $3.50, $3.50.
The Penn's Grove record., 1904-02-05
Travels of a Marked Lobster.

About three months ago a fisherman
caught a large seed lobster marked H.
A. K, which he put overheard in Sc
gum harbor. This was noted in the
Jonesport Enterprise, with the request
that any one catching this lobster
would in urn report. On December s
George Marshall caught the same
shellfsh near Mark Island, which, as
soon as punched by the inspector. will
be placed in Hatchet harbor. This is
interesting to those who are studying
the habits and vagaries of the escu-
lent crustacean, and guesses are in
order as to when this specimen viii
next show up.-Portland Times.