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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-21
(Ex-Governor of wiscon.in,

Constantinople. Turkey.-My Dear Old 'Shriner'-We got out of Russia just in time to keep from being ar rested or blown up with a bomb. Dad wanted to go to Moscow, because he saw picture once of Moscow being destroyed by fire by Napoleon, or some body, and he wanted to see if they had ever built the town up again, but felt as though something serious was going to happen in that country if we didn't look out. and so I persuaded dad to go to Turkey, and the day we start ed for Constantinople we got the news that the Nihilists had thrown a bomb under the carriage of the Grand Duke Sergius. and blew him and the carriage nnto small pieces not bigger than a slice of summer sausage, and they had to sweep his remains up in a dustpan and bury them in a two-quart fruit jar. Wouldn't that jar you?
 When dad heard about that you couldn't have kept him in Russia on a bet. and so we le- '''e authorities have
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-21

Gl the money we had, giving some to each man who held us up, until we got out of the country, and then we took the first long breath we had taken since we struck the God-forsaken coun- try of the czar. If the bombs hold out I do not think there will be a quorum left in Russia in a year. either czars, dukes or anything except peasants on the verge of starvation and workingmen who have not the heart to work. I wouldn't take the whole of Russia as a gift. and have to dodge bombs night and day.
 Say, old man, you never dreamed that knew all about you and dad joining the Masons that time, but I watched you and dad giving each other signs and grips. and whispering passwords into each others ears, in the grocery. nights, after you had locked up.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-21
Directing Immigration.

LesIie's Weekly.
 The steamship Vancouver has been ctavtered by the Salvation Army of Great Britain to carry 1000 emigrants of good character to Canada. Some of these emigrants have as much as $5.000 each. and one family brings s20.- 900. Tn 1904 the Army sent out 1,200 are earning several times what they earned in England. Could not the American Army take hand in the bet-| ter distribution of our population? It Italians southward. It could turn peo- pie from our slum populations vest ward, when the government has de- cided to reclaim Nevada, help to build up that state.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-21

like small arc lights, that were to show him where to cut dad, and dad began to turn pale, and looked scared,
 Give him the grand haling sign of distress" said as dad leaned against barrel of dried prunes. Dad said he had forgotten the sign. and then told him the only way out of it. alive. would be to buy something, so dad picked up a little jim-crack. worth about ten cents, and gave the Turk a five-dollar gold piece, and while the Turk went in behind the curtain to get the change told dad now was the time to skip and you ought to have seen dad make a sprint out the door and around a cor ner. and up another stret, while I fol- lowed him, and we got away from the danger of being stabbed, but dad got his foot into it again before We had gone a block.
 Nobody in Constantinople ever hur- ries. or goes off a walk. so when the people saw an old man. with a fez on his head, running amuck, as they say here followed by a beautiful boy, they
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-21

Davis--$5. 900 medicine factory. Huntington--$250,00 ,000 construction company.
 Winfield -s25. .oOo telephone company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09

Horse LoJing Woman asserts Com
norton DISCHARGED Cruel Drivers.

Mrs. Annie 6. Allis. OF Far Rockaway. who has
caused the arrest Of many drivers for i'll treatment
their horses says that she is consulting counsel
with a view proceeding against Magistrate Luke
!. Connorton. Magistrate ConnortOn has discharged
most of the men whom she has caused to be ar
rested for cruelty and Mrs. AIs is angry.
There are many hsckmen about the Far Rock
away station and Mrs AIs says that their treat
ment Of thcir horses is often inhuman. She has
had many of them arrested. She says that Mag
istrate HeaIy, when in Far Rockaway has al
ways shown her much consideration but when the
cases have been postponed until Magistrate Con-
nortons arrival the have always escaped
punishment.
August Filter. who owns several hacks got a
summons for Mrs. AIs. Mrs. Allis says that when
she appeared in court. counsel for Mr. Filter de-
terfering with the business of these men" The
hearing adjourned until September l. but Mrs
AliS has refused 70 court. and says she dares
the magistrate TO arrest her
Mrs. Als has not caused the arrest OF hack driv-
alone, but of other drivers in Far RoCkaway.
pie of wealth. she says, that many of those
whom have compelled TO take horses out of har-
ness, because of their unfitness for driving pur-
poses have acquired the grudge against
entertained by most Of the hackmen of RoCkaWay.
Some tine ago l had occasion to the
rest Of one of the drivers working for Remington
VeTnan who is known the Father Of ArVcrne.'
Mr.. Nernam admitted that the horses were unfit
to be driven, said he had not known ii, but that
that was no excuse and that he would gladly pay
any fine imposed by the court. He paid high
tribute 10 the work il which am engaged"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
THREE DEAD IN WRECK
CARLOAD Of Horses Killed md IN
jwed IN Erie Collision

Millersburg. Penn. oct S.-Three men were
Killed. one man was injured and carload OF
race horses were either killed or so badly hurt
that they had to be shot the result Of col
lision at the junction of the Lykens Valley
branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. a quarter
of mile south of this place to-day The dead
ere all railroad men,
The collision was between the fast No. : Erie
mail train. westbound, and a cabOose and box
car containing a load OF racehorses. The mail
train was bound from Harrisburg to Erie 1t
was preceded out of Harrisburg by fast freight
train, which. owing to heavy fog, lost some
time. The caboose and boXcar accidentally IN
coupled at the junction and the mail train over
took them. Berry and HenderShott were IN the
caboose when the crash came and were killed IN
stantly. Scott, fireman Of the mail train. was
hurled into The midst of the wreck and also
killed The engineer of the mail train was
thrown under his engine The wreckage took
fire and the bodies Of Berry and Hendershott
were burned.
There were two hundred passengers on the eX-
press but none were seriously hurt. number
thrown into a panic, until the full extent OIL
the accident known.
The horses were bound for the Bloomsbury
PENN Fair and belonged to several Eastern
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
THE TENDERLOIN WET.
PatroImen on Strike against DooIey
Negroes Scared A7coy.

There was an apparent abandonment last
evening OF Captain DOoley's attempt to keep sa-
looms in the Tenderloin closed Sundays. Not a
single excise arrest was made by Dooley's men,
but there We're plenty Of saloons open in the pre-
cinct and the business they were doing was
shown by the arrest of eight men for intoXica-
ton in the streets of the precinct.
In explanation of the police inactivity it was
said that the patrolmen We're on strike against
Captain Dooley's order that they should enforce
the Sunday law in uniform. He had told them.
fl said. that he would hold them response
BILE for open saloons on their posts.
THAT is asking more than the captain can ex-
pect from us said defiant patrolman Of
the precinct last night. He ought to know that
a man in uniform can't get evidence in an excise
case without breaking the rules of the depart
ment'
incidentally, il was said in the precinct last
night that most Of the negroes who were TO he
witnesses to-day al Police Headquarters in the
hearing of the complaint against Inspector
Schmittberger and Captain Dooley because of
the violence used at the recent raid at the Bon
Ton Club. had been scared away. Other negroes,
IT said, had told them that if they Went 10
Headquarters TO testify against Schmitt berger
and Dooley they would be dubbed TO death later.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
PLAN CHURCH UNION.
Episcopal Clergy of Nesc-Hampshre
Would affiliate 7Cith Russian.

Concord y FL. Oct S.-A number OF the Episcopal
clergy of the Diocese OF New-Hampshire have made
preliminary arrangements for the formation of an
association which will have for its ultimate object
the union Of the Anglican Church with the Orthodox
Church Of Russia and other ancient churches OF
the East. The organization is the outgrowth of
the thanksgiving services at Christ Church. Ports
mouth which followed the signing OF the treaty of
peace between Russia and Japan. at which priests
Of the Episcopal and Russian churches oficiated.
The new organization will follow the lines of the
Eastern Church Association of the Church OF Eng
land and will have branches in all doceSes of the
Episcopal Church in this country If the plans of
the promoters are successful
1t Is said that within the last half dozen years
the relations between the Russian and Episcopal
churches have been growing closer, but until the
Thanksgiving evensong held at Portsmouth there
had been no general sharing in one service by both
Russian and Episcopal priests, although occasion
ally individual cergymen from either body had
attended services of the other.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
RECORD TO SAFE SUICIDE.
Hospital Ambulance Couers Fire
Miles an Eighteen Minutes.

The rapidIty with which an ambulance from
Washington Heights Hospital was raced to the
scene Of a shooting and back to the hospital lass
night may result in the saving life of Chris
topher Mester. who attempted suicide
Meister is siXty-seven AMI is a jantor No 1.7S9
Amsterdam-ave. His wife died eight months ago.
He has been limiting at suicide for several weeks
Last Sunday he talking that subject again
when Patrolman kUue of the West 152d-st station
old friend of Mester. bet the latter that Meister
would be dead and buried within a week.
Last night Mester stood at 2l3th-st and Broad
way. He drew a revolver ard shot himself in the
head, Patrolman Wright in hurry call to
Washington Heights Hospital at l7Sth-st. and
Broadway, nearly two and half miles away.
There no time lost at the hospital. In half
minute Major, the fastest horse in the stable
in the shafts. John Myers had the refns and
DR.. Block WAS in the rear seat. Up Broadway
went Major at pace that broke all records for an
ambulance In eight minutes DR.. Block was at
the side of the unconscious man. In another min
ute the ambulance the way back. Meyers
knew that unless he the man To the opera ting
table within few minutes there would be hope
Just eighteen minutes from the time left the
hosl tai the ambulance back. having covered
ABOUT five miles Late last night it said al the
hospital that Meister had fair chance for
coVcry.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
MU .lRREST' FRESHMEN.
YaIc Students MaLte Prolonged Dis
tHrbaRce arruntS ont.

New-iIavcu. Conn. oct Several freshmen Of
Yale University viii he arrested tomorrow. it IS
said. on TIE charges OF breach Of the peace and
disorderly conduct the result of wild p:anks
which they carried ont tonight Pierson Hall.
the freshman stronghold or tie college settlement
They Jumped on and ran trolley cars drove a
policemen f:oiu the heat arid frightened several
women almos, into mysteries. Blank cartridges were
shot off md buckets OF water and bundles Of paper
on fire were thrown from rooms in the third and
fourth floors of Person Hall the heads of
pedestrians. For nearly TWO hours they Blocked
NorS-st. and allowed nothing but trolley cars to
60 through it, and these on an irregular schedule.
Complaint made tonight and warrants have
cen drawn The arrest several OF the alleged
lc.!9ers of the disturbance. A squad OF fifteen
policemen inally quellcd the hoiSterous outbreak
but made no arrests. -Four policemen smashed the
uunrs of PIcrsou FIall and compelled to grope
through the dormitory I'm darkness and failed 10
lay hands q student
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
HELD FOR UIFE MURDER
Hopkins Tells of Long Continued
Trouble 5Cith UOmdH.

After being committed to the Raymond-st
Jail without bail on a charge Of homicide Denton
H HOPKINS who shot and killed Jessie Hopkins,
his wife, at No. rs Johnson-st. Brooklyn, on Sat
urday told the story of his marital troubles to the
newspaper yesterday. 1t was far from q
pleasant recital, and much of what he said could
be printed.
When Hopkins arraIgned before Magistrate
Tighe he clearly showed the effects of his confne-
ment in a cell all night He seemed nervous. Mrs
Jennie Bruyn, his sister, of walden. y. Y. who
the only witness Of the tragedy was held III
$500 bail a witness. No one coming forward
with the bail. she. too. sent to jail. WheE
Hopkins reached there the wound in his hand
which. he declares. inflicted by his wife. was
dressed. He had a long talk with his counsel and
another lawyer, and then insisted upon seeing the
reporters. although his lawyer opposed it.
self and his wife began when they We're married
thirty years and had been continued at in
tervals since. Soon after the wedding, he de-
cared. he discovered certain things which induced
him to compel Mrs. Hopkins to bring a civil suit
against William +. Green. of New-YOrk City. her
father. The lawyer who began the suit died, and
il was continued by another. but not brought
trial, and finally dropped
Quarrels between Hopkins and his wife were of
frequent occurrence, he says, and twelve years
they separated and lived apart for some time.
Then an understanding was reached and they lived
together again Mrs. Hopkins. he declared. soon
began to treat him Sha5biiy. and after he had
would be well for them to separate for good. This
they did last August. But he h1d decided some OF
get back. This pickering over the property Wor-
Tied both of them considerably. Finally last week
Hopkins sent the following note to her:
Please stop this fight. If YOU don T. INC
la y-vers viii get all money. | will agree to
ANYTHING ana go t. any lawyer you say.
Hopkins declared that his wifes reply to this
was a threat shoot him. For that reason. he
says, he armed himself when he found il necessary
10 cali his wife Dusress on Saturday
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
CELEBRATE DISCOVERY DAY.
knights of Columbus Meet-Priest Calls
Public School Education Manned.

The councils II the knights Of Columbus cele-
brated Discovery Day. commemorative of the dis
covery OF America, in Carnegie Hall last night
John T. OBr-H, president of the New York chan
ter presided at The meeting and delivered the ad-
dress Of welcome. Fifty-onc councils were repre-
scented in the gathering, which numbered eighteen
hundred persons.
Thc Rev. Henry Van Rensselaer, OF 81 Francis
Xavier Church. gave address the subject Of
l. said
We are not willing 10 give children ii manned
education. We train them morally well II men
tally and phy Sically.
Others who spoke DENNIS Is I.ueey. STATE
DEPUTY; ". A. pend-rgast ana John j. Dvian, .
Corporation Counsel VINO had Tor his subject our
city"
it,ti vocal aud Instrumental
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
CAR HTS AMBULANCE.
Tsco Men Nearly Killed because
Prisoner Had q Pam.

Because a sergeant AT the Coney Island ponce
station got frightened when a drunk III d 'en
oke up with pain in MS stomach At an
early hour yesterday morning Ambulance "uisto"
Thomas Parker. of the Kings County ii'Sl"
and Matthew Stapleton his driver cah'e Wi'"''
an ace of meeting a violent death
The Emergency Hospital at ConeS isiah' -
closed for the season aud ali calls for ambuIaaceS
from there have TO be responded to by INC NIiis9
County Hospital which is five miles away " "e
pr. Parker was reused out OF bel at . clo'h
Yesterday morning and told that he was "d;'seu at
the Coney Island station horse he gaiAed 'ls 'H'-
PRECISION that it serious case. ana IIls''
the driver Il. set the pace accordingly. Tho amoo-
lance was travelling through 1Sth-ayc At a fast
clip when Dr. Parker noticed car running down
Ccnev Island-aVe on its way the island
He told The driver 20 exercise pre- auti"uS and 70
ring tie heu This was lone. The m0torman o.
the car which was of the Smith-st. lire OF me
Coney Island and Brooklyn Railroad appeared 10
nut on speed when he sax The ambrl lnce az
preaching He was not ringing his o'iI ~
When il became apparent that 1io1 was in
evtahle StalletGn turned his horse Sharply d" III
left and the struck he animal ana sic ~
StanIeton were hurled from their seats u? @gainst
the car and down the ground. They ny th@Io
stunned for a moment. The car pr ceeded Jul ite'
The horse was instantly killed and The ambulance
wrecked. When Dr.. Parker ma oee'9cu va,
reither he nor Stapleton were injured beyond \
shock and bruises he jumped on the trolley cd'
and tolG the motorman to get 10 Coney lslahd rs
of the man he supposed was dying AZ the slatloiil
house. and when he coun a jag with 4 stomach
ache his thoughts were such that he coud not mo
words strong enough utter them.
when | set another call like thai, he sald last
night Il intend ring up on the telephone ana
make few Inquiries first before making long
lISpIp
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
DEAD IN CLUE BATTLE
Fire Hurt IN Siour City When
Police Meet Ruf50ns.
.By Telegraph to The Tribune.l

Sioux City. Iowa, oct. S.-One man was killed
two were seriously and three slightly injured in
battle between three policemen and drunken
rowdies i'm the Eau Clair Clubrooms in 4th-st., It
early hour this morning. John Carmody was
killed by Patrolman Robert Carraher Patrick
Carmody badly dubbed and Patrolman G.
W. Overmiere sustained injuries that will keep
him in q hospital for some time. Patrolmen
Sawyer and Carraher were painfully hurt, as
was also James Game prizefghter.
general drunken fight was in progress when
the officers rushed to the scene. A simultaneous
attack was made on the police by the entire
gang, probably more than a score. Caraher's
club taken from him. Overmiere was
knocked down and brutaIy beaten. ana Sawyer
was lighting with half dozen at once when
Carraher shot CarmOdy. The last named was
attacking CaTraher with his club the
time, and Game was beating him with cuspidOT
Carmody fell mortaIly wounded at the first shot,
stricken
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
OBSERTE YOM KIPPUR.
Je5cs Fast and Pray, Celebrating
Dau of .4tOnement.

Yom Kippur the Jewish Day of AtOnement be-
gan at sunset yesterday. From that hour until
shutdown today orthodox Jews will preserve a
strict fast, not allowing even drop OF water to
pass their lips. The reformed Jews do not OBJ
serve the day in that strict fashion
Yom KiDpur is the most solemn festival in the
Jewish calendar 1t Is the day according to the
old traditions, which each persons destiny for
the coming year is settled. Families so in a body
blowing Of the ShOfar, rams horn. which
Is part Of the New Years celebration, is repeated
lOm kippUr
All the synagogues on the East Side are crowded
to-day with the orthodox Jews, VINO follow exactly
the old traditions Of the faith The heads of fam
Hes wear 10 their prayers the shrouds in which
they expect to be buried a custom dating from
The days of the Jewish prosecutions In the old
countries. They beat their breasts aud cry We
have Slnned; have sinned.' Whole families
pray for forgiveness hardly leaving the syna-
gogUCs until the close Of the days ceremonies
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
AGAINST OPEN EXAMINATIONS
Stationary Engineers and Firemen to Pro-
test to Commissioner McAdoo

Stationary engineers and fremen have great
objection TO the form OF the examinations which
Police COMMISSIONS McACoo is going to use in OK
aiming engineers and 7reulen for certificates in
the police bureau for the inspection of stationary
steam boilers. it was declared Yesterday Those
examinations. it is said. to be open ones con-
Quoted Under the personal supervision OF the Com
missioner. He was quo1ed last week as saving that
lie would investigate charges of graft in the de-
partment
At yesterdays meeting of the Central Federated
Union the delegates OF the unions of statona ~
engineers and nremen declared that the omen ex-
animation would give opportunities for graft At
their request II was decided TO send a protest to
Commissioner McAdoo against the open examina-
seek a conference with him on the subject
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
TRIED TO WRECK FLYER.
Bon Wanted to See Real Smash-"p
and Wedged S5citch
gB, Telegraph to The Tribune J

indianapolis. oct. S.-Two minu-es before 'iie
Winona Flyer. one of the iaS'es' p"sSelIsV'
-, The michigan Division of the Big Four
r,ailroaa reached the crossing of the Chicago
Indiana and Eastern Illinois last night, the
tov-ern,an tried to throw the derailins switch at
the crossing and discovered that it could not ne
moved Jumping railroad bicycle. he hur-
red to the crossing and found three powders
50 tightly wedged into the opening that II was
with difficulty that he removed them. Fortu-
nately. the train was one minute late and tins
enabled him to get back to the tower and throw
the switch and thus give the flyer, which was
running AT fifty miles an houI. clear uaSk :
To-d9v irwin Hobson confessed that he had
placed the rocks in the opening and that he dl"
50 because he wished to see n real wreck Hob-
son is boy sixteen years old
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
FOUND MANY JAPANESE BODIES.
Schooner Captain Thinks They Were Sealers
Killed by the Russians

San Francisco. oct. S--The schooner City of Pa
peet, arriving yesterday from the Of Siberia
tells oe having picked up off the kamchatltn
coast the dead bodies Of numerous japanese VINO
had been killed by the Russians. Captain stems
land reports that the City Of Papeete. which
engaged In codfshing in the Okhotsk Sea in Au-
gust, brought the surface in of her nets the
bodies of six Japanese who had been killed, eNi-
IDENTIFY by the Russians. The bodies were immedi-
ately consigned to the sea by the Papeete's crew.
Before the Papeete left the kamchatkan coast
eight other dead bodies of japanese were seen by
the crew on the beach. and another dead Japanese
floating off shore The japanese ar" be
lievcd have been members of party OF scalers
vino had cruised along the Siberian Goa st. had
been surprised by Russians who were on the look
for +hem
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
EX-SENATOR PLUNklTT ILL.

Ex-senator George ". Pnnkitt. who was defeated
for reelection to the Senate last fan, and who
was recently defeated for the Tammany leadership
Of his district hv "The" McManus. is seriously i'll
AT hjs home. PluHkit has oirrhosiS Of the liver.
An operation was performed Ncstcrdty u was
said last utgrt that tho operation had not hoon
wholly successful, and that the Senator vas in
serious condition
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-09
ANGERED BEAR ASsAILS KEEPERS
Tormented Animal Rips Clothing from Man
Escaping from Her Cage.

Two keepers at the New-York Geological Park
had q narrow escape from serious injury from the
Russian brown bear Bella, VINO had been torment
"a nv q CROWD Of rufbaus yesterday. The gang
ranging in age from sixteen twenty years leased
fhe animal Nv throwing peanuts and small stones.
until the bear stuck Raw our between the bars or
her cage The boys kept dancing Just Out 81
reach until the bear had thrust her pa" through
he bars her shoulder. and could not eAtfatT H.
Her plight discovered by MuillhuH al"
S.-Ioster keepers After much hard work thrN
got her paw clear Without any warning 81.
Turned on the Iner and chased them around th'
der They held her at hay with their long poles
for a white, the bear being between them ana ihe
door Finally they worked their way around her
ard dashed through the door. MuIlihuu was last,
and lust as ne dfyed out % the cage Rellas claws
..siIghf MS coat The collar Ngllihull escaped.
hlit ieft most 9f his clothes behind.