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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-20
OBITUARY..

Charles Parsons, veteran railroad organ-
izer and successfully president Of half dozen
railroads. died on Tuesday evening at his
home, 90 Park, Avenue. Mr.. Parsons was
s1T he Vent to New Orleans and en- ga sed in
the shipping trade, carrying the business
later to savannah Ca where the s. outbrs fstt
S Ges ssom nSI ss rade anu In
y %h f S o EzS hs s Charles In PAN
Midland Railway Of New, Jersey. q which
eeo Tss presdsat Rome n
and Oadensburg. then BANKRUPT, and brought
the property up SO that II was leased TO the
H 6asis. iG Mr. o1 Psrsons served one Year as
was receiver and then president Of the Oedens.
STrG aed Of the South caFona @
ga He WAS trustee OF the Con tinenal Com;
and Of the Nay dSTk IF sSs and
bank Of the Republic. His wife and six chill
dren survive him.
Col j. c. Fuller. one Of the best known
home at Pine Grove Cumberland county,
Pa. yesterday, aged u years. He was one
Of barking m Of Jay b eoSas G whsn
dent Of d" the he south MountaiH Mining and iron
S coTP stne h hsissRRs comp"py and Was
Interested in other industries. His remains
will be Inferred in Philadelphia.
Isaac Theodore Mungnr. who was Ion q
the superintendent OF the firm Of secor Bros.
Monitor in the civil war, died on Tuesday
ut his home, 500 Clinton street Brooklyn.
lie WAS n member OF the Volunteer. Firemen' 9
Associate OF New York. His wife, son and
daughter survive him.
OH.p. Archer, whose father OF the same
ma me was the well known Erie Railroad man,
died Yesterday OF consumption at l27 East
Hath street He was in his fifty seventh
wear. He leaves three married children
one Of his brothers Is Dr.. II. NJ. Archer OF
this city, and another is Judge George Archer
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PROPPED UP IN BED, DEAD.
Russian Painter Shot Himself Looking at
WOman's Picture.

The janitress Of the building at $40 First
avenue broke into the room on the top
floor occupied by John Hiss yesterday after
noon. She saw him sitting propped up
on his bed fully clothed with a photograph
Of q woman In his left hand and a revolver
In his right. He was dead with bullet
hole in his right temple.
The last time the janitress, Mrs. Ellen
McSherry, had seen Liss was on Sunday
night, when on going to his room he re-
marked that she need not mind about
Strengthening up his room Monday, as he
would attend to it himself. Yesterday
she became suspicious and investigated.
II is not known when Lss killed him
self He had been out Of work for some
time and was respondent. He left note
that in case anything happened to him
his mother, Mrs. Mary Liss, who works in
che Gridiron restaurant at $50 Broadway
should be notified Idss was Russian
3s years old and a painter by trade
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MARY ROE MADE FUR FLY.
,Hecht's "Figger" More FIT for the Coroner
Than the Bureau OF Encumbrances.

A young woman OF vigorous personality,
with the colorless title Of Mary Roe, was
summoned to jefferson Market police court
yesterday by Henry Hecht, manager Of q
fur shop at IL East Fourteenth street.
The woman represented an establishment
next door called The Esquimaux.
Hecht, as manager Of j. 8. Keliski's
shop, has been In the habit Of putting signs
and wax models in front Of the store win
dows. So close are the doors OF 10 and IL,
however, that the question arises from
time to time to whose shop the display
belongs
she smashed my fgger, accused Hecht,
when the case came before Magistrate
Mayo. "She tossed 1t right out in the street. y
They put their signs and their fggers
in front OF our place." accused Miss Roe,
and way out on the sidewalk. only
ssys sss ners hss Huns tod him sSat ss
called me very abusive language
The young woman hesitated and said
that she could not pollute her lips with the
language, but in the interest OF law and
order she would write 1t down.
spoke" she went on. "Tve had their signs
taken away three times, and the last time
/ went to the Commissioner he says to me,
Il can't keep man there all day So
have to watch EN- myself
The man from the bureau OF encum-
ORANGES and the policeman on post refused
in turn to run the risk OF contradicting Miss
Roe. When Hecht finally got an oppor-
tunity to ask the defendant II she did not
push the wax model over, she admitted
that detail. But she began Immediately
to explain how it was really the bureau Of
encumbrances that had something or other
to do with the affair.
Magistrate Mayo directed both parties
to bring witnesses next Wednesday. Mean
while the Coroner, or almost anybody else,
Ia at liberty to sit on the waxen corpse, so
far as Miss Roe Ia concerned.
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Dinner TO James Bryce.

The Rt Hon. James Bryce, M. p. was the
guest OF honor at dinner given by President
Nicholas Murray Butler Of Columbia Uni
versity at the Metropolitan Club last night.
After the dinner there was some informal
speech making. Among the forty guests
at the table were: Mayor Mcclellan, Sir
Percy Sanderson, President Finley Of the
College Of the City OF New York, Levi P.
D. Rockefeller, Jr.. Cornelius N. Bliss, Rev.
DR.. Thomas P. Slicer, DR.. Albert Shaw,
Jacob III. Schif and James Speyer.. Elihu
Root came after the meeting at Madison
Square Garden.
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Americans Killed in Mexico.

CHIHUAHUA, Mexico, Oct l9.-Davis Rich
ardson, president Of the Bufa Mining
and Milling Company Of La Bufa, Mexico,
has arrived here and reports that the ma
raAding bands Of Yaqui Indians have killed
five Americans near La Bufa within the
last three weeks. One OF the men killed
by them was j. r. Martin, Superintendent
OF the Barranca Coal Company. Mr..
Richardson says the hostile Indians have
the people Of that section terrorized.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-20
Yale Has 2,00S Students.

New HAVEN, Conn, Oct. 19.-Prelimi-
nary figures Of the registration Of students
in the various departments Of Yale Uni
versity were given out from the secretary's
office to-day. The total number OF stu
dents ia 2,o95, this being the largest num-
Der In the history OF the university. The
department which shows the largest in
crease Ia the Sheffield Scientific School,
which has about fifty more students tina
last wear.
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shot . Buck Deer That Came His way.

Utica, Oct. ie.-Cyrus Clark of Malone
went into a strip Of Adirondack forest
near his home yesterday in quest OF deer
As he hunted he wondered whether he
could hold a rife with the steady hand
and true aim that he had In bygone days.
He took aim at leaf on a distant bush.
Just at that moment there was a rustic in
the underbrush and a big buck deer sprang
into the clearing right in line with the rife,
and with upturned head stood and looked
at the hunter. The hammer OF the gun
was down, but Mr.. Clark cautiously raised
Il, fired and killed the deer.
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QUEER "BLACK HAND" LETTER.
Sleuth Thinks It's . Joke; Captain Says
He Never Got It.

Francis Upton, a plain clothes man in
the Tenth precinct, showed letter around
yesterday which he said Capt. Brennan
had received and which was signed Black
Hand" A few weeks ago Upton arrested
two Italian confidence men who had swim
died one Of their countrymen out Of $50.
One Of the men was held for trial. The
letter Is written in bad mixture Of Italian
and English and when translated reads:
Captain, Macdouoal Street, N. T.:
II you do not want the Irish cop who speaks
italian to be killed send him away. II you
BLACK HAND
CONFIDENCE DAN.
Upton speaks Italian. He regards the
letter as a joke. Capt. Brennan said last
night that he hadn't received any such
letter
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Nebraska's First snowstorm.

ALLIANCE, Neb., Oct. 19.-The first snow
storm Of the season is raging over western
Nebraska this morning. Railroad and
telegraphio communication Is seriously in
terfered with, but there is no suffering
among the cattle, which are In fret class
condition for the winter.
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Chess.

ST LOUIS, Mo, Oct 19.-The seventh round
of the seventh American Chess Congress
tournament blasted any hopes Max Judd
had for first place. Marshall's queens gam:
after seventeen moves. II Is arranged for
Judd and Marshall to play a match of 1--WE
up for a side bet, Marshall agreeing not to
move In any game. Uedeman beat Mot
kowsky, Ruy Lopez. twenty-four moves;
Kemeny won from DIT. Shrader. Scotch gam
queens pawn opening. forty-eiRht moves;
r, Schrader and Elsenberg drew. Sioilian
after about 100 moves The score OF the
leaders:
Marshall won 7, lost 2: Judd won 6. lost O.;
F. Schrader won 4. lost ., and two draws. Uede-
mau won I. lost 2, and no draw; Kemenp won 4,
lost 2, and two draws.
The two adjourned games from the sixth
round resulted as follows Judd beat
DR.. Schrader lost TO Marshall after forty
eight moves,
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Died After Several Days OF Hiccoughins

GREENWICH, Conn, Oct. 1s.-The Rev.
Galen C. Spencer, retired minister OF
tn Methodist Episcopal Church, died here
to-day Of strangulated hernia, which caused
hiccoughinR, lasting from last Thursday,
and for which he was operated upon Sun
day. He was born in New York city in
1910 and graduated in 1852 at the College Of
the City OF New York. In 1901 he retired
from the ministry and settled at Green
witch, since when he has lectured upon his
trip to the Holy Land
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-20

BOSTON, Oct. ia contract for the con-
struction Of a steel schooner yacht for b
prominent member OF the New York Yaeht
Club has been signed, the builders bong
George IAwley a Son Of South Boston. The
dimensions Of the yacht are 70. be rs feet
inches on deck. Sc feet 5 inches on load
water line, rs feet beam and 10 feet inches
draught. The designs are by Msssrs. Gary.
Smith 4 FERRIS Of New York. Work on the
new schooner will be begun at onoe and con-
tinued without interruption Until o9rnpletlsn.
the Intention being to have the yacht In cenAs
mission early In the season Of 1905. b.,
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Prize for the French Alliances Here.

The Federation of French Alliances in
the United States has received a grand
prize at the St. Louis worlds fair for it's
educational work In this country. The
for NJ Rene Millet, Ambassador at Tunis,
and M. Funck .Brentano, librarian at the
Arsenal who will lecture under the auspices
Of the Cercle Francois de rUniyersite
Harvard
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YOUNG GIR,S DESPOND.
stenoErapher without Steady work Takes
Carbolio Acid.

Lillian Watkins, o stenographer. COM
mitted suicide early yesterday morning
by drinking carbolic acid in her room at
$50 West Eighteenth street. She was 20
years old and pretty, and came here few
months ago from Barbados.
Recently she had grown respondent at
her inability to secure steady employ
ment, and this, her brother told the police.
was undoubtedly the cause Of her taking
her life.
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agas.4ssuaA ,Atzsst u,h etst4, Aurm.e. Nr,u Hnrt.

len Red him at the half, and Mr.. Jones with
Barron Gratten through the stretch, but the
Sidney Pointer PAGER had plenty OF spced
and won by half length In the fast time
Of 204X.
an unsuccessful attempt TO beat :SeH. paoeQ
by a runner. He covered the first two quar-
tiers In 80 seconds each. and TIE third IN 2sx
seconds, but slowed down IN the last Quarter.
finishing the mile in POI. Tho summarizes
The Dividend 2:2o class, trotting; q. 900 q In q:
BonneRuss Glib. g.. by Confer Hudson......i Z
brilliant Girl, b. m. Curry ;..............s~. z
Clarence c.. s. g. tSanderson) ........."...'".s =
John Caldwell, b. S. Thompson). ..............dh
Time-2I0I<, 2Ilh.
The Magnolia, 7l4 class. trotting: purse, 5000
Lisonjero, b. &. by Dexter Prince Howard. ! I
Angola b. m. Ames) ............"......."..9 =
Tuna, b. m '(Curry). .'...'''.''.'.S =
John Nc, b. 2. (Geers) ........................S =
Lady Patchie, b. m. tEckers). Z
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207 class pacing: purse 81 600 u in tunhnished):
King Direct, blk. S. tGeers).. ! 2
Sphinx S., oh. e. tSpear) ....................o 2 I
Belle Nc, b. m Laird ..............'...rI
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Court Of Appeals Calendar.

Albany. Oct. ip. -couIt Of Appeals calendar fol
tomorrow; Nos. 50, 80, $751; 20. a. 81. si( and 5s.
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-26
CHINESE STEAL
FROM VESSELS CARGO

Some of the officers of the steamship Vic
toria have photographs of Chinese coolies
in the stocks, where they were put for
stealing from the vessels cargo while she
was loading for the last trip. The coolies
who are employed in loading vessels are
the greatest thieves in the world and they
have been known to steal several thou
sand dollars worth of goods from ships
cargo while, loading. A law recently
passed provides that these cargo thieves
when caught, shall be put in the stocks
and left on exhibition for while in a
public place. and then banished.
1t SO happened that some of the indus
trious coolies were caught carrying away
some valuable stuff which should have
gone into the Victoria's hold. The law was
speedily put into effect and the man with
the camera took snapshot of the thieves
while they were on exhibition.
When the Victoria returns to the Orient
the thieving coolies will probably be out
Of the country and their places will be
filled by others just as bad or worse.
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this class of American shipping famous
throughout the world
He overlook prominent and somewhat
erratic position in sociological affairs. He
was arrested in Boston in 1862 for insist
ing upon replying to one of Chas. Sumner 8
abolition speeches. He was at the head CT
the French commune in Marseilles. He
was an independent candidate Tor presi-
dent of the United States in 1876.
He was born in Boston in 1929. In
1888 his father, mother and three sisters
all his family-died of yellow fever in new
Orleans. For the next ten years he lived
with his grandfather on a farm at Wal
than, Mass.
At IA he began his business carees as
clerk in a grocery store at Cambridgeport,
salary 81 a week.
At 20 he was admitted to partnership in
large shipping house at Boston, with
an income of $4,000 year.
At % he was drawing $4,000 yearly.
Two years later he started an indie
pendent shipping business in Australia and
his income was $4,000.
He had the magic of Midas and every
thing he touched turned to gold. He was
associated in business enterprises with
kings. queens and emperors and made for
tunes for them all as well as for himself.
At one time he lived at Newport at
the then phenomenal expense of $2,O0O
He built 100000 hotel on the present
site of Tacoma, Wash, and opened it
with a $4,000 breakfast, to which he had
invited all the leading financiers of the
country.
He then picked up his gripsaek and made
his flying trip around the world in sixty
DAYS, advertising Tacoma.
His decline as a great financial power
oana with the exDosllre of the Credit Mo-
bilier frauds in the construction of the
Union Pacific railway. He had organized
the Credit Mobiler winch was CON
tracing company for the building Of the
first railroad across the plans 70 the Pa
cifc with government money Many sen,
ators and congressman were compromised
in the disclosures of the methods used.
Train had put his whole fortune into
the enterprise and into land at Omaha;
When the bubble burst he was declared
insane by an Omaha court and bis prop
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-26
IN HONOR OF
ROBERT BURNS

Inc concert of Scottish song and story
gwen by the Caledonian and St Andrews
society last night at the Tacoma tbeater
was a most enjoyable affair. The program.
from start to finish. was one seldom
equaled in celebration of this sort.
4 me officers of the society appeared in
I9ll regaila of Scottish chiefs. and tartan
OF the different clans were everywhere IN
Hon; John Arthur of Seattle delivered
Burns as Man"
Miss Louise M. Dewey, charming girl
captlvated the audience with her sweet
SOPRANO voice in the song, "A Highland
Lad My Love Was Born" Mrs. Grace
davenport sang several selections with
great effect. Solos by Harry T. Hanlin
ROBERT Haddow and L. j. Griffths were
enthusiastically received. Mrs. ID. w.
bergey rendered two vocal selections in
a most creditable manner.
The pipers, William and Wallace Nc
Leod, rendered some stirring bagpipe melo.
dies. ....
Miss lsobel Keith danced in costume
the Highland Fling, to the great enjoy
ment OF the audience, and proved that she
was a most skillful dancer.
A roar of approval greeted the dance in
full costume of the Highland Reel Reel o.
Tulloch and Highland Fling, by Miss Het-
tic, tombstone Miss Maggie Rutherford
and Messrs. A. S. Drummond and Charles
Patterson. 1t is no more than fair to saw
that Presiding Officer Drummond. in this
dance, did a few fancy filings that would
have caused Loie Fuller to open her pro-
fessional eyes, had she been so fortunate
as to be present.
A large and representative audience was
IN attendance and the general verdict was
that the concert was far above the
average.
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Adams case disagreed, and while he was
out on bail he disappeared and had not
been heard of until his arrest in Chi.
eago.
Captain Handy was convicted and SEN
fenced to three years in the penitentiary.
While in the county Jail the captain
health had declined and Deputy Sheriff
Whitford, out of the goodness of his heart,
decided to bring him to Tacoma on httle
pleasure trip. While they were stopping
at hotel here, a lady friend of Captain
Handy's entertained the deputy sheriff and
he became so infatuated that he forgot
all about his prisoner. The result was
that Captain Handy walked away and was
never recaptured. 1t is reported that he
has visited friends here several times, but
the officers have never gotten on his
track.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-26
BUNCOMBE COUNTY
COMES TO THE FRONT
AGAIN IN CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 26-Bun-
combe county. N. c., is to the front
in congress again after lapse of many
years. There has been buncombe on fire.
quent occasions, but no notice of Bun
combe-co since, in the sixteenth congress.
it leaped into fame and the dictionary. In
that congress the county was represented
bv a member noted for long speeches that
had no particular bearing on anything.
One day he was particularly loquacious and
the members retreated to the cloakrooms.
congressman coming into the hall and
noting the empty seats and the vociferous
remarks of the North Carolinian. asked :
What is he talking for?'
For Buncombe," answered one of MS
colleagues.
Thereafter when a member made a
speech for local consumption it was said
that he was making a speech for Bun
combe The word came into such general
use that the dictionary men placed it
in their books. Now buncombe is defined
as 'speech-making for the qualification of
constituents"
A contest in the present congress for
the seat belonging to the Tenth North
Carolina district hinges on the vote of
Buncombe-co. Jas Madison Gudger, jr..
Democrat. holds the seat. He was elected
over j. M. Moody, since deceased, b. 200
votes. The Republicans of the district
want the seat declared vacant and special
election held to choose a successor to Gud-
ger. The contest is based chiefly on the
claim that more votes were cast in Bun
combe than there were citizens who, by
payment of the poll tax, had qualified for
voting. As there is no way of learning for
whom the illegal ballots were cast, con-
gress is asked to throw out the entire vote
of the county. If that should be done
Mr.. Gudger would be unseated.
JACOB WALDECK.
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"DR. ADAMS" CASE
is RECALLED

The arrest in Chicago yesterday of "Dr.
E. +. Adams" on the charge of being a
swindler. recalls some Of the operations
of that gentleman and an acc0lnpllce l
this vicinity few years ago, Many people
fell victims to the doctors smooth
schemes, but his biggest job was when
he and Captain" Handy swindled DIR. j.
Eugene Jordan of Seattle out Of flOOOO.
In 1899 when the Nome excitement was
at its height and steamers Of all kinds
were worth almost any price asked for
them. DR.. Adams, accompanied by Zap
tain F. N. Handy, approached Dr.. Jordan
with the intention of umbarking HIM IN
the steamship business. They told him
they were the sole owners of the palalla!
steamer Midnight Sun. then in the bay Of
San Francisco. sumptuously fitted up, and
ready to take the Nome run and net
the owners a small fortune on the frst
trip. Unfortunately, they said. they were
temporarily embarrassed for ready money,
and they would like to get loan, OF
$4,000 on the steamer. The vessel. they
said. was easily worth 100000, and IN
fact. man would need no other invest
ment to speedily make him ricn. once the
Midnight Sun was put on the Northern
run.
DR.. Jordan had his doubts at first, but
finally put up the money, only to ind tthat
the Midnight Sun was an old hulk, abso-
lutely worthless. ;.
DR.. Adams and Captain Handy. disap-
peared for a while. but were finally cap
tured and BROUGHT to trial. The jury IN
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-01-26
CHURCES TO HELP
CHAPLAIN STUBBS

G. w. Morrill, of the firm of Vaughan
q Morrill,, president of the Tacoma Sea
mems Friend society appeared before the
Ministerial alliancel yesterday and briefly
stated the wishes Of the society in regard
to the much-needed cooperation on the
part of the evangelical churches of this
city in the work of presenting the gospel
to the hundreds of seamen who visit this
port annually. The alliance responded
heartily and promised TO recommend to all
the ministers of the city that they invite
Chaplain Stubs. who has charge Of the
Seamen's bethel work along he water
front, to speak from their pulpits and pre-
sent the needs of the work to the congre-
cations.