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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06
Corbett on Weight.

At New Orleans last week Jim Corbett expressed the belief that the classification, or rather the weights should be changed. 1t is out of req son to expect man weighing lSo pounds to beat clever man at 230. The heavyweights should be divided into three classes, All of those over POO should go alone, and those from 1So to 200 should make a second class, with men from 165 to 1S0 malS- ing up the third. This would divide the men into classes that would suit them, would give them all q chance, and would remove the great handicap of weight. The worlds champion should stand to meet anybody. The other classes he also thought should be changed. The middleweights should be made from 152 to 165, which would be fair to all Then the welterweights should run from 14O to 152 and the lghtweights from 133 to 14O. The featherweights would have a weight from 126 to 133 pounds. and the bantams should be divided into two classes. The heav- fest should be from 11s to 126, and the lighter ones under 11S pounds.
 Parson Davies explained that there was movement on foot to organize great boxing league. have all clubs which give boxing bouts members of the league, and any boxers blacklist cd to be ruled out of the entire cir cult, all other manageunents of the as- sociation to be mapped out and rules made general, with corps of official referees and the like. Corbett thought that the plan would be excellent. It would put an end to fake boxing and wrestling. raise the sport to al higher plane and would make it certain that
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06
Ton, Reilly Sells.

Bristol, Feb William J. Tracy of this place has just closed deal by which he assumes full control of the Hartford baseball team in the Connec- tic1t league. Thomas l.. Reilly, his partner of last season. having dis posed of his interest to MT Tracy. John E. Kennedy will be manager of the team this season. MT Tracy was manager of the Bristol team which won the state char npionship in 1901, and he had half interest in the Hartford franchise and teaca last sea son,
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06
Mccoy After All.

Kid Mccoy, who has not been act i've in ring: affairs in the last few months, intends to get busy soon and has issued a challenge to fight any body or in anywhere near his class. Mccoy offers to box Jack O'Brien, ot Philadelphia, Jock Munroe, Tommy Ryan or Bob Fitzsimmons. He is prepared to take them on in the order named, but will not tackle Lanky Bob until some time next fall. Mccoy is training daily, and in his bouts with a number of pupils he has shown q semblance of his old time form and hitting powers.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06
odd War on Mowauttoea.

The board of health of Monterey, Mexico, is distributing thousands of small earthenware bowls containing q mixture of sulphur and saltpeter and suspended by wires so as to be easily let down into well. Every house holder is cautioned to ignite the sul- phur and lower the bowl into the well by cord so that all portions may be cleansed of whatever mosquitoes may live there, says tho Chicago Record Herald. The expense of this Is borne by the health department to prevent ihs recurrence zof yellow fever thia xAax x
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06
To Re\Ymle Coach.

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Feb. 6.--An. nouncement has been made that Julian W. Curtiss, fcsmer Yaie oarsman
 who for many yesrs has been promi. nently identsAed with Yale athletics, will be advisory coach of the Yale uni. versity crew during the coming season
 c. E. Adams has been appointed un- dergraduate head coach. John Kenne- dy will continue to have active charge of the crews.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06
SOUEEZES WORKERS.
Tolman. Private Banker. De- clared. to Get Big Interest.
NET SPREAD FROM OCEAN TO OCEAN
Said to Have Drawn SS00,OO0 I'm -a- Year From Unfortunates who Borrow at Exorbitant ana
 illegal Rates.

NEW YORK, Feb 6.--With dousz ble eentered web spreading from New York and Chicago to f1fty-five other cities, reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the gulf of Mexs ico to Canada, D, HI. Tolman, said by, Assistant District Attorney Kressel to be the chief of money lenders exacting exorbitant rates of interest, is now In. receipt of an income exceeded by that of few of the captains of industry Of the United States.
 Chasing himself as private bank er," Holman saueeges from the wage earners of this city at least $5O0.O GOO each year. His business in Washing ton is said to be almost as great as that in New York, while Chicago for many years has been fat field for his operations.
 investigation made by detectives un- der the direction of the district attor- ney shows that the methods of the usurers of New York are of nature to make the original Shylock appear as Il genius of generosity. Once entan gled in the web spread by Tolman or any of his kind the ordinary person has about the same chance of escape that fly has to tear loose from the meshes of spiders net.
 Every possible advantage that can be taken is demanded by the money lender, though the same advantages are concealed by fine promises. Once his victim is we'll within his power the usurer Is never known to display mer- cy The success Of his business de& bends upon his holding on until every cent his bond calls for has been paid~s
 In the advertisements published dafs ly by Holman the announcement ts made: Money loaned salaried people. boarding house keepers, teamsters and retail merchautsv Holman further ada vertises that no security Is requireds He promises fair ueatment
 Don't place yourself under obiiga< ttens to your relatives or friends ha suggests. when you can get money from me. l will be glad to aavance, money when your life Insurance pay ment is due or when you need cash for unexpected purposes Nominal inter est charged. If you prove yourself honest, take the risk.''
 0Obesi OA utSs CuHkOA0WEB Wd1O RkVF8 themselves shrewd enough to pay him. his due at the earliest possible mo ment are made agents by Tolman when 1t is possible for him to do so. After the first loan has been closed Toin5xm writes polite and friendly note to hss customer" assuring him that bis cred 1t always will be good with him ana that he may have 8 loan whenever hB desires. Then he adds:
 z T believe that we can do business together that will be profitable to each of us. I want to do business with hon- est men. am willing to accommodates those of your friends whom you will recommend to me Any of your ac. quaintanees who come to me with q note of introduction from you will ss1 ceive the best of attention from ne. If make a loan as 8 result of vixxE from one of your friends, I will pay $1.50 to you for Sour services. In this manner you may be able to greatly inS crease your present Income"
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06
HanlOn's Trainer Dead.

Pittsburg, Pa, Feb. 6.--Mike Short, who brought out Eddie Hanlon, the California feather-weight, died at his home on Mount Washington yester- day morning. Hanlon started from CaIfarnia this week hoping to see Short before he died. Short went to California many years ago, and while there he picked up Hanlon and taught him boxing.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06
Gus Gardner Scores.

Saginaw, Mich, Feb. e.-Gus Gard ner, of Saginaw, easily defeated Otto Knopp, of Buffalo, in the fifth round of what was to have been 15 round fight last night. Referee Campbell gave the decision to Gardner with credit for knockout.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06
Little and Reinecke.

Charles Refnecke is anxious to wrestle John J. Little in Brockton. Little says he is thinking of break ing into the wrestling game again, but he won't meet Reinecke until the latter has taken on Jackson, of Cam |pel1o, and has shown what he can do by beating the Campelloite.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06
THE SPORTING NEWS.

when two men met they would box in earnest. with no prearrangement.
 The boxing game. he held, had been dragged down to almost the gutter by q class of pirates who lake, act like hoodlums and not only spoil the sport, but cast .disrepute upon every
 man in the boxing Understandable Times
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06
Skating Champao. Morals wooas,

PITTSBURG. Feb. 6--The opening night of the indoor skating champion ship contests resulted as follows: One mile championship Morris Woods Of New York won, c. Bellefeuille of Win nipeg second, William Merritt of vero-. na Lake Athletic club third; time, minutes 4S 2-5 seconds. Two mile cham pionship Harry Taylor of Brooklyn won. Bellefeui1ie came in second, but was disqualified for fouling Woods: Merritt second; Guy Lyman of New, York third; time, 5 minutes 47 4-5 sec onds. Woods took the second heat of the mile championship in 2 minutes Al 1-5 seconds, beating Johnny Nefls- sons record of minutes 42 seconds.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06
Racing at InRIeside. c.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6. Fine weather prevailed at Ingleside, but the track was very muddy There were & number of close finishes, two horses winning by a nose. A six and half furlongs handicap brought together some very clever sprinters. Kenil- worth was a heavily played favorite, with John A. Scott next in demand. Redfern, who came up from Los An geles to ride Eonic in the Burns hanii- cap, had the mount on Princess Tita- nia. John A. Scott set the pace, but stopped, and Princess Titania. beat him easily.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06

Courtney Heads Cornell Athletics.
 ITHACA, N. Y, Feb. 6.--The trouble in the Cornell crew room has at last been settled. At special meeting of the athletic eoancil everything that had led to the misunderstanding was officially undone, and by resolution confidence was expressed in Coach Charles B. Courtney, and the conces- sions for which he has been standing out were granted to him. Courtney is now again the real head of aquatics at Cornell. and, everything being ar- ranged to his satisfaction, crew work will a4-onces sbesxSEuaad
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06
co,pmps. raa. sr..t r,,.,,,

NEW YORK, Feb. G. Columbia e, feated Pennsylvania in the intercol4 legiate basket ball championsh1p gams here by the score of 1T to 15, Fasher throwing the winning goal in the last fifteen seconds of play.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06

Next to ammunition, good water is per- haps the most important essential of the army corps.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06
Canadaan Ann-.1 n.e.ast.,

CAhnd1an AnMW0t HeGA&t0. TORONTO. Feb. 6.--Tha annual rea gatta of the Canadian Association ox Amateur Oarsmen will be held at st- Catharinss this year.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-02-06
JADE GAMPFIREs IN ANT HILLS

Inrins the March to Picking Mil<a- do,s Soldiers Gathered Up Every Piece of Wood They Saw and Lived Almost wholly on Rice-Device For
 Their Morning Wash When Water
 .Nas Scarce.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-09
Not the Same.

MOT the same. -
Haven't seen you at this bar be-
fore?" said the judge, sternly, frownine
over his glasses.
Not at this bar, judge, said the pris1
oner, with smile peculiar to a BARI
tender.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-09

felt of Blarney Castle will be built if ever
the disputes with architect and work
men are over. MIR. Brokaw has beauti-
full estate which he is trying to fill out
into mile square OF land by buying up
all one side of village street and tear
ing down the houses. Vanderbilt did
this at Success Lake, which was pop
ular summer resort before the revolu-
ton. Payne Whitney is doing it at Man
hassett. Why not Brokaw?
You can shut your eyes and see the
kind of people Brokaw is driving out by
the list: Johnny Higgins blacksmith
shop; Jake Fuehrstein's house and lot;
Ed. Schecks two houses; and so on. Of
course, Jim and Jake and Ed get more
than good prices for their holdings
$4,000 for the blacksmith shop and an
acre, for instance. But it makes the town
authorities uneasy. When the houses
are destroyed at rich mans whim they
will have to tax the place on the land
only. And even a millionaire's great es-
tate pays less taxes than the same space
would if divided, as this would have been
in time and already in part, into several
hundreds of modest homes.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-09

o'o'S Soi'e'ou that II may seem
waste of words to say anything about 1t
again, but there are some features OF MS
extraordinary career which Will bear
REPETITION now in connection with his
latest assignment to duty. because they
bear especially on the question OF his
his qualification for the position. In the
first place Cortelyou is not novice in
politics nor inexperienced in the ways
of national committees. The secretary
% president must, as matter OF course.
come constantly in contact with every
political phase and become acquainted
with every man of political consequence
Cortelyou was with Mckinley for five
years. and he has been with Roosevelt
for nearly three, first as secretary, then
as a member of the cabinet. There is
no other man in the United States who,
from the nature of his experience, has so
wide an acquaintance among public
men, and nobody else who knows so we'll
as he the different subjects which each
is interested.
During the campaign of 1900 he was in
hourly communication with Chairman
Hanna and with the other officials of
the national committee, and there was
little about the machinery of the cam
paign with which he did not become ia
miliar. He will represent in the new
committee, if he becomes chairman, all
the latest sentiment for the martyred
president which is still so strong force
in the republican party. In addition he
will represent all the new sentiment
which may have come to the party dur
ing the incumbency of President Roose-
Welt
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-09

Delivered the Keys OF HIS most as his own
of1ee' child.
About six months ago a couple OF
employees who were about to be dis
charged thought to clear themselves by
bringing charges against the secretary
of irregularity in Office. An investiga-
ton was ordered. Moseley did not wait
to be asked to give up the keys to
his Office and his desks with all his pa
pers and on a moments notice turned
the entire establishment over to the
inyestieators"ii- gave thehi access not
only to the papers at the commission.
but to all his private papers, his safety
deposit boxes and his correspondence.
1t is doubtful whether the public and
private business of any man was ever
more closely scrutinized. The secret
service agents were put to work and
his life for 20 years was laid bare.
The result of the investigation was
made public day or two ago. 1t was
a complete exoneration. 1t could not
be found that thing was out of the
way in Moseley's conduct from begin
ming to end. The commission has
made a report to that effect and the
president, who carefully examined all
the papers himself, showed his appre-
citation of a faithful officer by himself
adding his approval and directing that
the vindication be given the fullest
publicity.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-09

til our tariff laws brought over some
younger Fabers to establish an Ameri-
can branch. They are very wealthy.
]. Eberhardt Faber, who had splen-
did estate on Staten Island and fam
lily of young unmothered children, went
into Riker's drug store to get his finger
nails polished a practice of growing
usualness with men in New York. Per-
haps the custom grows just as the flow
err buying habit does, and just as the
habit of accompanying "wifey" to GER
tain milliners' shops grows-because OF
the also increasing custom of employ
ing in these establishments only girls
of exceeding beauty. Upon my word, I
do not know where they all come from;
but if anyone gets from the stage the
idea that New York girls are plain he
can lose that impression in five minutes
by buying a bouquet looking at hat
for his wife and getting his nails pol
ished, all within ten blocks.
At any rate Mr.. Faber came, saw, was
beautified as to his shining finger tips
and promptly fell victim to Cupid's
darts. Mrs Faber's success in get
ting an excellent husband still young
enough for romance simply follows an
extraordinarily long list of such cases.
Telephone girls have been particularly
favored in this respect. recent case in
2oIshkc psie pointing the moral of a
pleasant voice. And the process isn't of
recent beginnings.>, The leader of New
York society not so very long ago was
welded from the humblest surroundings
and occupation. And Mrs. George Gould
Mrs. Paul Cravath and quite few of the
notable matrons of New York of to-day
came from the professional stage.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-09

Workers take it quite for granted, and 60
or stay away unmarveling.
After all, Coney is the biggest thing
of it's kind in the world. You can so
there for ten cents, or on bicycle. Lon
don is an hour by train from Brighton.
The late fashion of preparing great spec
tacles adds the last touch of splendor.
Where a hundred thousand people go
almost any day to be amused, and twice
or thrice as many on Sunday, it pays to
invest money.
Accordingly, you can see staff palaces
as pretty in their way as those at Chi
cago and very festive. You can see the
North Pole, or watch man try to break
his neck looping the loop. You can see
an elephant shoot the chutes. Another
elephant comes up behind the brute, as
it stands shivering on the brink, and
butts the huge beast. and away he goes
down the incline. splash" into the big
tank, with a Greek temple on one side
and a medieval village house in cor
ner and Venetian palace on the other
side and a Florentine campanile in the
middle.
All the devices at Coney, from the
chute-shooting elephant to the leap
frog trolley cars. either are or will be
shown in other places. Coney is where
they are all seen at once. and the good
old one-ring chestnuts as well, with the
breath of the immortal and unstainable
sea, and the picturesque merrymakers to
watch. The Chicago man was right.
OWEN LANGDON.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-09

went to white House as rapher to a place in
Stehographer' the cabinet, and no
man without force and tact could have
shown the organizing ability which Cor
telyou has shown both in the executive
merce and labor. When COrtelyou went
to the white house from the post Office
department in Cleveland's second ad-
ministration he was known to the presi-
dent only as a capable shorthand writer
and republican at that. He hadn't been
in his new place fortnight before he
began to systematic the white house
work and to organize the clerical force
Where before there had been haphazard
confusion, there appeared an orderly
method of doing business and the be-
ginning of a system which, elaborated
under Mckinley, has developed marvel
ously.
Nobody who frequented the white
house under the administrations preced-
ing Clevelands second term and who
had not since been in Washington would
recognize the executive offices. They
have become to all intents and pur-
poses a new and admirably conducted
department of the government; and the
work was practically begun and COM
pleted by Cortelyou.
He perfected also the system under
which president car transact the bust.
ness of his Office as quickly and satisfac-
torily 5000 miles away from Washing
ton as he can in the white house itself
The journeys of Mckinley and Roose-
welt would have been impossible had
it not been for Cortelyou's organizing
ability-an organizing ability that would
have been invaluable to~any business
concern.
But perhaps the greatest test of his
capacity was during the trying days
at Buffalo in 1901. when Mckinley lAy
for days battling with death. There was
situation which came with the flash of a
pistol, and Cortelyou met it on the sec
ond as calmly and as completely as
though he had been preparing for just
such an emergency for years.
He has shown the same qualities as
secretary of commerce and there is NO
reason to imagine that he will not show
equal capacity in the organization of the
multifarious details of a presidential
campaign.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-09
MINNESOTA NEWS.
May Move the Town.

Within short time the residents of
Sparta may have to move their village
as it is over one of the largest bodies Of
iron ore on the range. Underlying the
entire town rich deposits of mineral
have been discovered and it is simply a
question of short time when the site
of what is now Sparta will be large
mine
The United States Steel corporation
is said to have control of most of the
property in which ore has been found,
and, while it is not known how soon
operations will begin, it is understood
that other shafts will be sunk within a
short time. One drill is being sunk in
the middle of the street of the town
and about fifteen others at intervals of
about 100 feet are being operated. The
deposits shown by these means have
always been of the highest grade and
in almost unlimited quantities
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-09

Barton creation. She took hold OF 1t
% years ago, at the instigation of
President Garfield, who had been
watching for years her work among the
poor and suffering, and who knew of
her association with the International
Red Cross in the Franco-Prussian war.
When our civil war broke out Miss
Barton was in Washington, teaching
a colored Scholastic had been a school
teacher in Massachusetts-andw when
the Sixth Massachusetts arrived at the
station in Washington after the as
sault upon it in Baltimore, she ap-
peared at the station with her colored
pupils and refreshed the tired and
wounded soldiers with coffee and food.
That was the beginning of her work
among the soldiers. She went into the
army as nurse and she has devoted
her life ever since to the alienation of
suffering wherever found In all this
time she has never received a cent
of remuneration for her services, and
she is as poor to-day as she was 40
years ago.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1904-06-09
Fatally-Turned.

Writing in agony, Mrs c. c. San
ford, living at 100 Willow street, Min
neapolis, was carried to the city hospi-
tai fatally burned, her dressing sacque
having caught fire from the flames
of gasoline stove.
The woman's screams, when she saw
her danger, brought many neighbors
to the scene and although she was roll
ed in blankets and coats were thrown
about her, her entire body was badly
burned before the flames were extin :
guished. Physicians who attended her
declare that she has but slight chance
for recovery