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The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-14

| a large dock was built. Then all US traffic on the Pacific side had to be han
 died by means of lighters. Tn these floats the road invested considerable sums of money. all of which is now idle; for the new terminals at La Boca, of which
 have already written, make lightering un- necessary, room being afforded at the new steel pier at La Boca for handling as many as three ships at time. This improvement, only recently completed, is characteristic of the general state of the road, which won for it from The Ameri- can Canal Commission valuation of T,- GOO OOo, and warmest praise for its su- perb physical condition. That the road is actually worth $7O00.O0O today is doubt full. It is a diminutive affair. and with modern facilities 1t could be constructed for A smaller sum. There is, however, to be borne in mind these facts: The road is actually here. in perfect operating con dition and ready to be employed on short est notice for furthering active canal work. This makes the property invalu- able to the United Staes. and gives to this route. over the Nicaraeuan route for canal an advantage difficult to esti- mate. Here the railroad touches every point of the proposed canal Tn Nicara- qua the work of building railroad would have to precede the work of cutting canal a simple fact which means that much trouble cmfwyp ETAOIN bgkqjk much time can be saved by the selection of this route.
 Aside from this advantage. there is the fact that the moment the so 900 shall
 be paid to the New Panama Canal Com pany, the United States will enter into
 possession of the railroad. Under the concession granted to Aspinwall. Stephens and Chauncsy. the road proposed by them
 was given a monopoly over transisthmiaD
 traffic. The concession granted the Pan anna Canal Compeny required that insti- tuition. should it's interests ever clash with those of the railroad. to make terms with | the latter. The interests of the two con- 1 cerns did clash and M. Ferdinand de
 Lesseps settled with the railroad com
 pany by executing the purchase of ma
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-14
ALABAMA WINE.

WINE CO. Fruithurst. Ala
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
No Trouble Expected in Boston.

Boston, May 24.-It is confidently stated that the local houses of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road company will not be affected by the order for general strike of the company's freight handlers, issued to- day by President Curran of the Inter- national Freight Handlers union. The men employed by the company in this city are not affiliated with the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, but are mem bers of the Knights of Labor and do not recognize the authority of the for mer organization.
 Officials of the local union declared tonight that they had no intention of going out. Officers of the company also express confidence that their employees in this city would not be involved in the trouble.
 Regarding a statement given out in Fall River to-day by Secretary Dwyer, of the New York Freight Handlers union to the effect that the brakemen on trains running out of Boston and Fall River would be called out at an early date, 1t is said that as the affiliation of the brakemen is with the Federation of Labor, the effort to bring about strike among them would be more likely to prove successful than with the freight handlers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
KUR0PATKIN REPORTS.
A Movement of Japanese From Feng
 Wang Cheng Observed.

St. Petersburg. May 24.-The follow ing dispatch from General Kuropatkin to the emperor dated May 23, was re- ceived to-day:
 Our cavalry outposts on May 22 and May 23 observed a movement of por- tion of the Japanese forces westwardly along the Hai Cheng road near the vil- lage of Dailandeputz, six miles from Feng Wang Cheng.
 Ion May Fl a Japanese detachment consisting of six companies of infantry and three squadrons of cavalry attack ed some sotnias of Cossacks on the heights on the right bank of the Sedzi river near the village of Poouteikha. When the engagement began the Jap anese cavalry remained under cover and the infantry, which declined to cross the valley. maintained distant and almost harmless fire without spar ing ammunition. A small party un- supported tried to cross the river for the purpose of turning our left flank but was driven back by the charge of half a cotnia of Cossacks and the fire of the sotnia occupying the height. To- ward evening the Japanese retired Our losses were ten Cossacks wounded.
 Details of the engagement May 20 and q at Sitkhoutchindza have not yet been ascertained.''
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
SUIT OYER oHrLD's BURIAL.
AnsonIa Father Says It Was Buried in
 Wrong Part of Jewish Cemetery.

Ansonia. May 24-Because his child was not buried in certain part of the Jewish cemetery in this cityA lderman Charles Leetjesky has instituted a pc culiar suit against Frank Yudkin, chairman of the funeral committee of the Connecticut Hebrew association, of which both parties to the suit are mem bers. Alderman Leetjesky claims dam ages of s20O and all attempts to settle the trouble out of court have thus far proven futile. The child. ten months old girl, died early last month and ac- cording to one of the stipulations in the associations book of rules, any member of the organization or of his family, in the case of death. is buried in a certain portion of the association burying ground at the expense of the organiza- tion. This rule was evidently trans- gressed in the burial of the Leetjesky child. and as the Mosaic law prohibits the reinterment of a body, the father has brought suit to recover damages. He was not present himself at his child's interment.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
GENERAL IT F. CONFERENCE.
The Places for Episcopal Residence Are
 Selected.

Los Angeles. Cal, May 24.-The Meth odist general conference held two long sessions to-day. The greater part of the day was taken up in speech mak- ing incidental to fixing the places of episcopal residences At the morning session editors for ten church publica- tions were elected. the Epworth Herald being omitted from the list. It will come up for special action after the re- port Of the Epworth league committee shall have been presented to the con- ference. |
 There was a warm and prolonged de- bate against fixing Philadelphia as the place of residence of a member of the episcopal board, as was also the case in regard to Cincinnati. Tn the end the report of the episcopacy committee was adopted without change. The places selected are New York, Boston, Phila- delphia, Nashville, Buffalo Cincinnati, Chattanooga, St. Louis, Chicago, Min neapolis. Denver, Portland, Ore, San Francisco, Zurich. Switzerland, Buenos Ayres and Shanghai
 The judiciary. committee made a spec ial report late to-day.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
DEATH OF MRS. WILLIAMS.
Sudden Demise of We'll Known Church
 Worker.

Mrs. Laura A. Williams, wife of Frank D. Williams, died suddenly at her home. 215 Orchard street, late last levening. after a three days illness. Mrs. Williams came originally from Burlington, Vt, and she Was the last of her family. being a daughter of Henry H. Bostwick. When young girl she came with her parents to Bridgeport to reside. While there she married Frank E. Williams, of that city, and became very prominent in church work, attending the South Con- gregational church.
 Eleven years ago she came to this |city with her husband. and since that she had taken an active part in the work at Dwight Place church, which she attended.
 The funeral services win be conduct ed by Rev. Dr. Leete of that church, and will be held at her late residence tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock. The interment will be in the family lot in Bridgeport, the body to be taken there for burial Friday morning.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
HEARST NOT IN CONTROL
TWo TO ONE AGAINST HIM IN
 OHIO CONVENTION.

lives Carry Thirteen of the Twenty
 one Districts for Members of the
 New State Central Committee.
 Columbus, Ohio. May 24.-The pre- lininary meeting to-day of the demo- cratic state convention which will con- vene tomorrow demonstrated that the conservatives were in control, two to one, in opposition to Hearst. but divid- ed among themselves on presidential preferences for James Kilbourn of Co., lumbus and Judge Harmon of Cincin- nati. These preliminary skirmishes also demonstrated that neither the old guard,' known as conservatives, nor the t-Bryan-Johnson" men, known as the radicals, had a leader. Mayor Johnson of Cleveland, who has been the recognized leader in his party in Ohio for the past two years, was to- day unable to control the votes of the two state committeeman from his own city. While there was no leader on the grounds, there was much comment tonight that the old following of John R. Mclean was again in control. MT. Mclean had previously declined to al- low his name used for either district delegate or legate-at-large, and he was said to be out of politics, but now he is expected to succeed himself as the Ohio member of the democratic na- tional committee, and be factor at the St. Louis convention. The old state central committee was in session all afternoon passing on contests by coun- ties. The settlement of Mayor John sons case from Cleveland was second on the call, and the Johnson delegates were seated unanimously. The first contest was that of Clermont county, where the vote of 13 to 8 against the Hearst delegation was considered a test vote of the state central commit tee in the contest between the con- and the radicals. There was great excitment after the third vote of the state committee which seated the radical delegation of Franklin county, by vote os 15 to and not voting. Franklin constitutes the Twelfth con- gressional district. and is the home of Col. James Kilbourne, who has been boomed as the Ohio favorite against Hearst
 If the 78 votes of Cuyahoga county, headed by Mayor Johnson, cooperate with the radicals, it will make three districts that the radicals secured in the temporary contests, while the con servatives secured six.
 The conservatives carried 13 of the 21 districts for members of the new state central committee. The radicals have reports on these com mittees from only six districts, the two Cleveland districts being classed as doubtful.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
NEw FORK pooLRooM CASES.
Prisoners Discharged Because of the
 Lack of Evidence.

New York, May 24-All the prisoners
 arrested in last nights raids on down. town poolrooms were discharged when they were arraigned in court to-day, Assistant District Attorney Lord say ing in each case that there was not sufficient evidence against them. Later Police Commissioner M'Adoo land Inspector Schmittberger were serv- led with summonses in suits for $500 leach, brought in the City court by Daniel O'Reilly. counsel for Joseph Sell, Ian employe of the New York and New Jersey Distilling and Circulating com pany, who was arrested in recent raid on the company's offices.
 O'Reilly will go before Supreme court justice for a decision as to the legality of raids made under the di- rection of Police Commissioner M'Adoo, and is preparing the cases in which an order of arrest will be asked for the police commissioner and Inspector conducted in secret.
 Justice Wyatt this afternoon con- ducted John Doe" proceedings in the investigation into the conduct of pool rooms in this city.
 Among those subpoenaed to appear were W. J. Dealey and David H. Mitchell, of the Western Union Tele- graph company, and several men who were arrested on a raid on an alleged pool room.
 The examinaton of the witnesses was conducted secret.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
CONTINUAL sKIRMIsHIsG.
Japanese and Russian Cavalry in Con- stant Touch.

St1ht AOhaCtis Liao Yang, May 24.-There is contin- lual skirmishing between the Russian cavalry and the Japanese. Cossacks are harassing the Japanese in the hills and by roads, generally driving them back.
 The general plan of the Japanese has not been divulged. They are apparent ly marking time, awaiting the arrival of reserves from Korea, who have been delayed owing to the impassibility of the roads.
 The Japanese are sending all invalids in the direction of the Yalu to central hospital.
 The Chinese report the destruction of another battleship off Port Arthur, but the report is unconfirmed and is not credited.
 Several Japanese who landed from junks near Port Arthur and started to- wards the town with the intention of dynamiting the docks were captured and shot.
 The Russian wounded are recovering. rapidly. Several wounded soldiers de- serted from the hospital and stole back to the front. typhoon is raging off the coast
 Liao Yang. May 24.-It is reported from Chinese source that the Jap .anese have evacuated Feng Wang Cheng and are occupying villages in the surrounding territory. There is no explanation of this move, but it is thought that it may be connected with the prevailing cholera epidemic.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
LISTEN TO THE EVIDENCE
POLICE COMMISSIONERS HOLD
 LARGE MEETING.
In AIder,nanic Chambers in City HalI-- Listen to Statements, About Existing Conditions, from Large Number of Prominent Citizens--session strictly Executive-No Facts Given Out Yale Professors Present.

A special meeting of the police com
 missioners was held last evening for
 the purpose of considering the existing
 condition of affairs in this city at the
 present time. The meeting was called for 8 o'clock, but long before that time there was such large attendance of
 interested spectators that the commis-
 sioners decided to hold the meeting in
 the aldermanic chamber in city hall, land this programme was carried out, Ithe meeting lasting until nearly mid might. The reporters were not allowed to be present during the hearing, and Ithe doors were all locked so as to keep Iall disinterested people out. It was stated after the hearing that this was done because a number of the witnesses objected to speaking if they were going ito be quoted in the papers afterwards.
 There had been no intimation given out prior to the meeting that citizens were to be given 8 chance to be heard, and lconsequently the large attendance was considerable of a surprise
 The gathering was most represent lative one, including number of the most prominent men in the city Among
 a few of those present were Theodore
 Macdonald, Judge Dow, General E. E. Bradley, Alderman Minor, Judge Lynde Harrison, Frank c. Bushnell, Professor Henderson, Professor Kent, Colonel s. U. Fox, Charles Atwood and many oth- Ierc.
 Mayor Studley was present and pre- sided at the meeting. Those present were all given a chance to speak, but what they said could not be learned. At the conclusion of the meeting number of those present were asked what was done, but all but one refused ito say anything about it. This gentle man stated that the time during the meeting had been spent by the speak lers in making suggestions to the police and stating grievances.
 Mayor Studley and the commission ers were asked at. the finish of the meeting to make statements, but said that they had nothing to say. Mayor Studley afterwards said that the meet ing was held to give the commissioners a chance to learn what they could con- corning matters. The Commissioners, in reply to question as to why the re- porters were not admitted to the hear ing. stated that number of those present had refused to saying anything if it was to be written up in the pa pers
 At the close of the hearing it was stated that there had been. no action taken, and that the commissioners had simply listened to what those present had to say.
 Chief Wrinn and Clerk Southworth were excluded from the meeting.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
Three Men Held.

Three men are being held by the po- lice on the charge of idleness. but the officials state that the charge will prob
 ably be changed to a more serious one
 in the near future. The accused are Martin J. Danburg, sixteen years old, who has a long police record; William O'Connell and Allison E. Danks. Danks
 was arrested by Policeman Cannon and
 Detective Ward last Sunday; the other two were arrested yesterday by Police man Cannon, assisted by Detectives
 Ward and Daley.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
TRoLLEF MATTERS.
Hearing on the Placing of Poles on the
 Winchester Avenue Line.


 Hartford, May 24-At meeting of the railroad commissioners held here to-day an order was issued to the effect that the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company must
 maintain gates between the hours of 6
 a. m. and 10 P. m. on the east and west sides of the Stonington station. The matter of the Winchester Avenue Irailroad of New Haven was brought
 before the commissioners. This action is an appeal from former action of the board which ordered short poles to
 be used by the road in the hanging of wires Warden J. Fl. Peck, of the bor- Iough of West Haven, appeared before
 the board and alleged that the compa-
 ny disregarded the order regarding the setting of poles. The commissioners decided to give the road permission to substitute pine poles all the way from Savin Rock to the end of Winchester avenue, except on Elm street, and this even is left in abeyance for a time.
 The commissioners have approved of the extension of the tracks of the Con- necticut Railway and Lighting compa- ny which will run from Windsor Locks
 to Suffield. This will make a continii- ous route from Hartford to Springfield. It was expected that the cars would be running over this extension by the first of July, but owing to dispute over the price of some land through which the. tracks will run the work will be con- siderably delayed. At conference be- tween counsel for both sides nothing definite was decided upon, and it is possible that the land will have to be condemned before the company can continue it's work.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
Shipping News.

New York, May 24--Arrived: Steam CTS Victorian, Liverpool; Kronprinz Wilhelm, Bremen; Noordam, Rotter- dam.
 Sailed: Steamers, Ryndam, Rotter- dam, via Boulogne; Kaiser Wilhelm Cherbourg; Citta di Napoli, Naples and Genoa; Ultonia, Trieste, Fiums, etc.
 Bremen, May 24.--Arrived: Steamer Kaiser Wilhelm IT., New York via Ply mouth and Cherbourg.
 Sailed May 24: Steamer Princess Alice, New York, via Cherbourg
 Antwerp May 24.-Steamer Kroon- land, New York. London, May 24.--Arrived: Steamer Minnehaha, New York,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
Memory Completely Gone.

Louisville, Ky, May 24.-Jockey Min der, who was thrown and injured in a race at Churchill Downs May 10, has recovered so far as his bodily injuries are concerned, but his memory is com- pletely gone. His mental faculties are now those of a child; he is kept quiet by the use of playthings and has to be bribed with five cent pieces in or der to be given medicine. He will be taken to his home in Brooklyn to-mor- row.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
Lynch Elected.

Indianapolis, Ind, May 24.-It was announced from the headquarters of the International Typographical union to-day that the returns from the vote by unions already received insures the election of President Lynch over MT. Hawkes. by 1000. Secretary Branlwood is elected over MT. Graham by from 22,000 to 23,000. Five hundred and six ty unions casting S2,0OO votes have been heard from. The total vote will be about 34,000.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
A Nem Jersey Bank Closed.

Washington, May 24.-The comptroller of the currency has received advices from National Bank Examiner Francis N. Buck that the First National bank os Cape May, N. ., closed it's doors to- day by direction of it's president. The comptroller has appointed National Bank Examiner William M. Hardt re- ce!ver. The bank has loans and dis counts of s60,234, capital $25,O0O, and in dividual deposits of $50,094.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
Bodies of Prominent Men Recovered.

St. John, N. B., May 24.-A message was received this afternoon from Opo- mocto river announcing that the bodies of John H. Thomson, wealthy ship owner. and R. P. Foster of the Royal Bank O. Canada of this city, had been recovered. The men were drowned on Sunday while fishing.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
The Vatican Controversy.

Paris, May 24.-The government has decided to present fully the vatican controversy, eliminating in the recall of M. Nisard, to the Chamber of Depu- ties Friday. A violent debate is ex- pected and the government is prepar- ing itself for more radical action than that heretofore taken, as 1t is antici- pated that effort will be made to abol- ish the French embassy to the Holy See.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
4 TEW WoRDsAr WiLL1MAN1Io
Speaks on American Spirit While Train
 Takes Water.

Hartford, May 24 Willimantic, where tlle presidents train stopped few minutes to take water, MT. Roose- Welt was prevailed upon by the assem- bled crowd to make q brief speech. The theme of his talk was American spirit. He said that in all his experience in addressing American audiences from the Atlantic to the Pacific he never had seen a single one in which a good American could not feel at home. He urged upon his auditors the desirability of elevating the moral excellence of America by setting up for themselves high standards of morality and decency and citizenship as individual Arlleri- cans.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
Two Young Women Drowned.

Southbridge, Mass, May 24-Florida and Marion Conceal, aged sixteen and twenty years. respectively, were drown ed in the mill pond of Globe village at 9:SO tonight by boat overturning. AL bert Proul, aged twenty-one years; Isaac Mathieu, jr., aged fifteen years, and Mrs. Blanche Conceal, eighteen, were rescued.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
FIREMEN DESERT PURITAN.
Strike in Sympathy With the Freigh,
 Handlers.

Fall River, May 24.-The strike of the freight handlers on the Fall River line of the New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad took new turn to- night, when eight firemen on board the steamer Puritan deserted their posts, acting on orders, they said, issued from New York
 The men who remained in the fire- room said that they would strike when the boat. reached New York tomorrow morning.
 The Puritan took on board eighteen carloads of freight here.
 This is the first trip of the Puritan, she having replaced the Plymouth which has been sent to Newport for re- pairs. The Puritan has enough coal in her bunkers for round trip.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
sully .S Co. File Schedules.

New York, May 24.-The schedules filed by Sully & Co. in the United States district court this afternoon show firm liabilities of $S,56S, ,936 and assets of $4.- 119,627. Of the indebtedness $1369, ,462 are unsecured. The schedules mention $5O,OO0 of indebtedness which, 1t is said, should be paid by parties.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
Dropped Dead i'm Cafe.

New York, May 24-Myer S. Isaacs, president of the Baron de Hirsch fund and prominently identified with many other local and national organizations, dropped dead in a Broadway cafe this afternoon. He was sixty-three years of age.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-25
Boston Painters to Strike.

Boston, May 25.-At a conference which continued until 2 o'clock this morning 1,6OO painters and decorators employed in this city, voted to go out on strike to-day. The men had de- manded an increase in wages of twenty cents a day, which was refused.