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The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
SAYS SPOUSE TOOK
HIS EARNINGS.

Joseph Walters says that his wife
stole a march on him and took the
money he had been saving to buy
a home and used it for the purchase
of a separate piece of property at 229
ELISE street while he was sick in a
hospital Walters has begun suit for
a divorce from Catherine Walters and
asks that the realty she acquired be
adjudged the property of both of
them. He says that his wife has told
him that she is tired of him. and has
declared that she is in love with some
one else. He says he has been re-
fused admission to the Ellsie- street
home, which was bought with his
earnings.
Rose Marie Simmons has filed a
s-complaint in the divorce proceed
lngs brought by Samuel D. Simmons.
in which she denies that she was cruel
to her husband. In reply she charges
aim with being guilty of cruelty For
days, so her answer recites, Simmons
was in the habit of going without
speaking to her. He frequently would
remain away from home for long
periods and would vouchsafe no ex-
planation. When he did speak. it was
to abuse his wife. She further sets
forth that on one occasion he said: Il
hate the sight of you around the
house" Simmons is accused of using
vulgar language, and the wife asks
that the divorce be granted to her
Elsa I. Holland filed a divorce suit
yesterday against William D. Holland
She asks for the custody of their chill
dren, Sylvanus. aged years, and Ethel
M, aged years, together with SIS a
month alimony The husband is ac-
cused OF being addicted to drink, so
much so that he would frequently
strike his wife
other divorce suits were filed as fol-
lows: Dustan Dickman VS.. Mary NJ
Dickmap, desertion; Mary Anderson vs.
Fred NJ. Anderson, intemperance.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
DIES CLUTCHING THE BABY
SHOES HE HAD JUST BOUGHT
Conductors MaugIed Body Found in the
Wreck of His Caboose, His Child,s
Garments Ahouf Him

BUTTE. Mont. Aug 1s.-The north
bound flyer of the Oregon Short Line
dashed through an open switch at
Lima, Mont, about forty miles south of
this city, crashing into a freight on a
siding.
Conductor Ewalt was in the caboose
of the freight, examining some baby
shoes and wearing apparel ne had Sc
cured for his little one. The caboose
was smashed into kindling wood.
Ewalts body being found amid the
wreckage, frightfully mangled In the
hands of the corpse were clutched the
baby's shoes and a tiny skirt
John Fuce, engineer of the flyer was
also killed and his fireman, Philip Sap
pinton, seriously injured.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
RECKLESS AUToMoBILrsT
CAUSES FATAL RUNAWAY
Horse Becomes Frightened by Speeding
Machine and Throws Out Occu-
pants of Buggy.

pants of n Buggy.
SAN DIEGO. Aug. 1s.--In a runaway
accident late this evening w Erklins,
q contractor. was probably fatally in
jured. and Mrs. George Todd. wife of a
deputy collector Of customs, was Sc
verely injured. The runaway was
caused by a speed-mad automobile
driver who was speeding along Fourth
street like the wind and stopped not to
see the damage he had done nor to
leave his name or number.
Mr.. and Mrs. Todd and Mr.. Erklins
were driving in double rig when they
met the auto. The horse started to run
and Todd was thrown out and severely
bruised. Two blocks further on Erik
lins and Mrs. Todd were thrown from
the buggy. Erklins was run over and
so severely hurt that he is still uncon-
scious. 1t is feared that he sustained a
concussion to his brain that may result
fatally sIrs. lodd struck on the left
side of her head and shoulder. and her
left ear was almost torn off her head.
The police are looking for the auto
driver. but have not yet secured trace
of him. He was driving alone in
large machine. which had the appear
ance of having come many miles.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
A MYSTERIOUS ORGANIZATION.
American Athletic Union Giving Relief
Corporation Subject for In
Yestigation.

What is the American Athletic Union
Of New York? James D. Phelan, chair
man Of the executive committee of the
Relief Corporation, would like to know
Newspaper clippings from the East
show that the union is giving athletic
entertainments for the benefit of nom
sectarian orphan asylum for San Fran
cisco. Rudolph Spreckels says he
knows of no such asylum, and has no
knowledge of the athletic union other
than what has been gained from the
clippings.
The union may be all right" said
Mr.. Phelan, ''or il may not be. I would
like very much to know more about it,
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
ExPEDITEs THE BUILDING
OF NAPA-sT. HELENA ROAD
President Botsford OF the New Electric
Line Gives Orders for It's Inn
mediate sConsfru etfon.

ford of the -Inter-County Electric Rail-
road arrived in Napa today and. with
Manager /. j. Perry. went over the in
tended route from Napa to st. Helena
for the extension of the San Francisco,
Vallejo and Napa Valley Railroad
Upon their return to Napa Manager
Perry was authorized to advertise for
bids fer grading and materials for the
immediate construction of the road
Attorney York was instructed to use
every endeavor to have the ten right
of way suits begun by the company
settled by September 8. Chief Engineer
c. H. Wallace has. practically completed
the field work. The cars to be used
by the company will be OF a slightly
different type from those now used on
other electric railroads in this State
and will run faster.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
THIRTY SUITS ARE FILED.
PoIicy-HoIders Combine to Bring VIII
liamsburgh City Into Court.


Thirty policy holders, combined as
the United Policy holders Company.
brought suit in the Superior Court yes
terday against the Williamsburgh City
insurance Company for recovery on
their policies. The total amount sued
for aggregates s40.550. Peck & Boyn-
ton and Francis J. Heney are attorneys
for the plaintiffs.
The plaintiffs and the face value of
their policies are: l.. Lombardi. 40s
Union street. $1,000; Mrs NJ. Donovan.
81 Freelon street. $500 D. Davis. Is
Morris avenue. $500, Marie r. Her
mann. 946 Folsom street. $3.50; Mrs.
Kate Lynch, 724 Broadway. $500; Mrs
S. Whitman. 799 O'Farrell street, $1,000;
Berthold Michaelfs. 7S2 Lombard street.
$500. Mrs. NJ. Bird. zl07 Fourth street.
s200:- Il. L. Anderson, 1913 Market
street, $1,000 Henry Albers Company.
110 Market street. $4,000: David Man
DEL 20S Minna street. $500: Lewis An
derson. Ford s. Co, "a and 2s East
street. $4,000 I. A. Berliner. 400. Full
ton street. $1,000; H. Segelken, Howard
and Twelfth streets $3.50; r. T. Bray.
437 Franklin street, $500; Carmel Vine
yard Company, 1872 New. Montgomery
street, $1,000; Pacific Stamping and
Metal Works, s113 to 119 Davis street
$3.50; Henry Warfeld. as Rochdale
FL ectric. Company 12f Valencia street,
$1,000; H. D. Chase. 23 East street.
$1,000: Mrs. L. a.. Davis, 22s. Powell
street, $50e. Donnelly & Brennan. 1863
to s1071 Mission street $4,000; W. W.
Lowe, Rush and Taylor streets. 5000:
C. NJ. Maltbys $40 Mission street. $500:
Louis Isaac, Ill Pine street, 500; Dex-
ter Folder Company and w w. Ferrier,
sos Mission street, s1700;N Mrs. c.
Rigaud and P. Perriguey. 1885 Polk
street. $500; Pacific Meter Company.
go to 222 Beale street, $4,000: William
Schoening. So Broadway. 500; James
A.. Keller, S11B Turk street, s400;
James A. keller. same address $500
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
NEARLY so,OoO,O0O RECEIVED.
Record of Cash sent for Relief of SAN
Francisco.

The Relief Corporation has issued a
statement OF the amounts received for
the relief Of San francisco from the
various parts of the world. The total
receipts were $3.50. $500 OF this,
s4,913.Sz52S was subscribed by the peo-
pie of 1he United States, S2SL353.22
came from foreign lands and $4o4, ,267.52
from miscellaneous sources. The re-
port which includes all moneys re-
ceived up TO August II, is as follows
The amounts below embrace only
the actual cash subscriptions received
by the San Francisco Relief and Red
Cross Funds, a Corporation, succeeding
the finance committee of the relief and
Red Cross funds. They do not in
clude the sums expended in the various
States of the Union for relief supplies
that were sent on to San Francisco
nor do they include the sums that were
sent to New York, Boston and Wash
ington and other cities in care of the
American National Red Cross and not
yet turned over to the San Francisco
Relief and Red Cross Funds, Corpora
Iion.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
SEALED DIVORCE. COMPLAINTS
ARE NOT FOR PRYING EYES
Clerks Employed. by Uncle Sam Denied
Privilege of Perusing Histories
of Family Rows.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1S.-There was a
clash today between officials of the
State Supreme Court and William H. !.
Jarvis, who is in charge of corps of
young women sent here by the United
States Census Bureau to gather data
in divorce proceedings. The court of
fcials refused to allow Jarvis to open
sealed envelopes containing records Of
a divorce case, Of former Sheri Flack.
in which statutory offenses were al
legged and which have been closed
against inspection by order of the SUI
preme Court.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
BELL Fon CONGRESSMAN.

NAPA. Aug. 1s.-The, Democratic pri-
naries for the election Of delegates to
the county convention. to be held in
Napa on August IS. were held through
out Napa County today large vote
was cast. This convention will elect
eight deiegates to the State and Con-
gressional conventions, to be held at
Sacramento on September II. and will
also select a new county central COM
mittee.
Returns received this evening indi-
cate that Napa County delegates are
evenly divided between former SEN
ator Diggs of Sacramento and James D.
Phelan of San Francisco for Governor
of the State. ALI the delegat are In
favor. of Theodore A. Bell OF Napa for
Congressman from the Second District
1t is believed here that Bell will be the
Democratic nominee, as several. other
counties have Endorsed his candidacy
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
CALF FORN|AN LOSES
LIFE IN SURF.
Canoe III Which Fl. w.
BellWasP adding Cap
sizes at Lock Arbor
BODY RECOVERED
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

ASBURY PARK, N. j.. Aug. IS
Howard w Bell. a guest at the
Throckmorton and son OF a wealthy
Californian. lost his life in the surf
at Loeb Arbor this afternoon by the
overturning of a light canoe in which.
with Vincent ]. Thompson and his
sister Jennie Thompson, of New York.
he was. padding in the ocean just be-
yond the surf line. When the boat
upset Thompson and his sister clung
to the bottom. The canoe rolled over
like log, and Bell, releasing his hifd,
swan around it once or twice and then
disappeared from view
At the Deal Lake life saving station
the guards were. watching the two
with close attention and Captain Van
brunt. fearing the bathers were in des-
perate straits, ordered out the surf
boat. Mr.. and Miss Thompson were
nearly exhausted when help arrived,
and Bell was found ffoating face down
ward near the surf line He was
picked up and carried in the boat to
the beach. Four physicians summoned
to the scene worked alternately for an
hour over Bells body. but life was ex-
tinct. The body was removed to an
undertaking establishment in .Asbury
Park, where it will await the arrival of
Bells aunt, who is believed to be in
New York
Bell was a graduate of Oxford Uni
versity. Stamford College and the Uni
versity of California. He registered at
the Throckmorton,s Loeb Arbor, a week
ago. He was tan, handsome and of
captivating manner and popular
guest at the hotel. Little is known OF
his family other than that his father
anlassed a fortune in the mining busi-
ness in California. which the son, who
was also wealthy, was some day to in
herit.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
WORK FoR REFUGEES.
Number to Start for the HopncIds of
MendoclnO County.

On Tuesday next 200 hop pickers
will leave for the hopfields at Hopland
Mendocino County. OF these $50 are
refugees. The Relief Corporation will
furnish tents for them and their fares
will be paid by the Associated Chari-
ties.
The Relief Corporation has informa-
tion that 1900 pickers can find employ
ment there, but up to date compara-
lively few of the refugees have availed
themselves of the opportunity
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
Women Refugees Apply for Position
Sn Los Angeles.

N BUE 7luBrEcNs
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1S.-A large
r,rrns,er of refugees of the San Fran
cisco disaster, all women, are regis
tered at the head Office of the citizens
relief. committee. in the Chamber of
Commerce building. unable TO find work
or to help themselves in any way Cap
tain F. Edward Gray of the committee
today made an appeal to the public to
give them employment Most of them
are seamstresses. On account OF the
absence of SO many families from the
city during the summer season there
is little work to be had of the sort
the women are able to DO All Of the
number Captain Cray says. are COM
petent and entirely deserving.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
cnllsoraIans visiting Paris.

PARIS. Aug. 1S.-C. W. Mortimer.
Miss Florence Housel. A. NJ. Gates. Miss
Fannie E.. Duvall. Miss r. Il. Terrill
and Mr.. and Mrs. L. 3. Beggs. all of
Los Angeles, registered at The Call
Herald bureau today.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
Drowned at Long beach.

LONG BEACH, Aug. 1s-James Bren-
nan, aged "a, employed in Los Angeles
by the Jonathan Club, was drowned in
the surf here tonight in front of the
Hotel Bixby. Brennan. strong swim
r1er, entered the surf with two friends
He was caught by a tide rip and car
ried beyond assistance. The body was
recovered
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-19
s2s1.s53.22
SEEKING WORK IN SOUTH.

Grand total -......-...--.--...-- s.. .5ss. 1860
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-20
PLOT TO KILL PALMA.
Seven Liberals Arrested Charged
Conspiracy and Sedition.

HAVANA. Aug. z0.-Seven leaders Of
the Liberal party were taken into $
tody on the charge of conspiracy
against the government and plotting 10
assassinnte President Palma.
The men arrested are General Carlos
Garcia Nelez and his brother Fausto,
eX-Cuban consul at Bremen; ex-senator
Mo%nteagudo, Colonel Manuel Piedra.
chief Of police in the house of repre-
sentatives; General Enrique Loynaz del
Castillo, a former congressman from
Puerto Principe province; Juan Quail
berto Gomez and Demetrio Castillo.
General Enrique Loynaz del Castillo
managed to make his escape. After
his arrest he was placed in a carriage
in charge of a lieutenant of police. He
asked that his brother-in-law, Senior
Arana. be allowed to accompany him
to bring a change of clothing. This
request was granted.
While on the way to the police sta
ton Arana suddenly drew a revolver
AID threatened the lieutenant with in
stant death unless he allowed the pris-
oner TO escape. Both men then jumped
from the carriage and ran. They We're
not caught.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-20
Mr.. BOOTH BURIED.
Service Wash Held in st. Peters
Church This Morning.

The funeral Of Thomas Constan-
tine Booth, who died suddenly at his
home at "a High street Saturday
morning, was held at 1915 O'Clock
this morning at st. Peters Episco-
pal Church. 1t was largely attended
by relatives and friends.
Rev. James l.. Lancaster, rector
of the church, who has been absent
from the parish returned today to
officiate at the service.
The body was taken on 1915
O'Clock over the P. r. r. train to
Kensico Cemetery, Westehester coun-
ty, New York, where the interment
viii ltake place.
The services there will be conduct
ed by the Rev. G. A. T. Goebel of
the Reformed Church, Elmsford, N.
Y, who officiated at the marriage of
Mr.. Booth.
The pail bearers were Charles r.
Fletcher, w. Parker Runyon, G. d.
Snedeker, H. w. Jones, DR.. F. w.
Kitchel, Mr.. Waring and Mr.. An
drews.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-20
TRAIN KILLS
Y IN WRECK.
Fast Freight Crashes Into Work
Car at Sang Hollow, Pa o5 Z,
Rain Blinded Engineer.

YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, Aug. 20.-Plltng-
ing through a binding rainstorm at
the rate of forty-fiye miles an hour
d fast freight train on he PenllsNl-
vania railroad crashed into Il slowly
moving work train at Sang Hollow,
| killing seven and seriously injuring
seven others of the work train rev..
Three of the latter will probably die.
The work train had stopped at Il
! water plug near Sang Hollow to take
water. \ Fort Wayne freight was
following, and because of the driving
rain the engineer was unable to see
the work train until just before the
crash. The engineer of the freight
jumped and received injuries from
mained on the engine and was unin-
jured. When the freight engine
crashed into the work train it plowed
its way through the cars. All of the
laborers and others of the work crew
were asleep, and those that were kill
ed probably never knew they were
struck.
The cries of the wounded, the burn
ing cars, the overturned engines and
the sound of escaping steam combined
to make a most horrible sight. The
crew of the freight made an attempt
to rescue the men from the cabin car,
but owing to the fact that the doors
were battered i'll ON the wreck and the
tlmbers were crushed so that entrance
| was impossible it was some hours be-
fore it was found out how many were
dead. -Four men were dead when
taken nj The others died after be-
ing taken to a hospital.
1t is reported that four others are
in u dying condition. According to
reports, Engineer >. N. Woods of the
freight train had increased the speed
Of mis- train just before the crash that
he might take water from the water
pans along the track and in so doing
! is said to have exceeded his orders.
An investigation will be made, it is
said. When news of the wreck reach
ed this city two wrecks crews were
sent out. The conditions as described
by members of these crews upon their
, arrival were appalling. Dead and dy-
ing We're lying on the tracks, while
some of the injured were hanging out
of the windows of the cabin ear cry
ing for help and begging to be saved
from fire that had started in the wreck.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-20
MEN IN ORANGE
Leaguefs Plan Big Gathering to
Hear Record and Colleagues.

ORANGE, AIg. 2O.-Great prepa-
rations r being made by the Colby
workers and members of civic bodies
in the Oranges, for the big public
meeting on August ~ in Orange, at
which Corporation Counsel George
4. Record of Jersey City, reform can
didate for United States Senator, will
be the principal speaker. County
Register Edward S. Perry, president
Of the Mckinley and Roosevelt Club
or. Orange, viii preside. and there
will be addresses by Mayor Mark M.
Pagan of Jersey City, Senator Ever
EFT Colby and Assemblyman Austen
Colgate.
Orange reform workers express
more confidence regarding the out
come of Records Senatorial can
yass. 1t is said that Senator Wake
lee and his ~accomplices have done
the reform cause a service by the
methods they pursued.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-20
MORRISON DEAD.
Actor Made Famous by His Play
ling MephistO.

NEW YORK, aug. ZO,-Lcwis Morri-
son, the actor, whose work ms Mephisto
in Faust" gained him fame, died sud-
denly of shock in st. Johns hospital,
Yonkers, after undergoing an opera
ton for stomach trouble.
Few members of the theatrical pro-
fession were more widely known in
the United States than Mr.. Morrison.
He was born of English parentage in
Kingston, jamaica, in 1915. He anne
to this country Mt an early age and
enlisted on the Union side in the civil
war. He rose to the rank of lieuten-
ant, and on his honorable discharge
ut the close of the war he received the
rank of captain for distinguished serv-
ice. He won the personal friendship
and praise of General Grant during
the siege of Vicksburg, when he swan
the Mississippi under fire of the bat
teries with dispatches for the Federal
army.
After his discharge from the army
Mr.. Morrison entered the theatrical
profession as an actor in the old Va
rieties theater. New Orleans, making
his first appearance with Lawrence
Barrett in 1865. He was aftcrward
associated with Edwin Booth. Edwin
Forrest, Tomaso Salvini. Adelaide
Nelson, Charlotte Cushman. Janau-
schek, Rose Coglllan and Agnes Booth.
He was also associated for nine years
as leading man with the old Walnut
Street Stock company in Philadelphia.
He played next with the old California
Theater Stock company in San Francis
himself as Mephisto, and for fully
twenty years starred this country and
Canada with wonderful success and
popularity.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-20

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 20.-Not I'M
til he had been in Jail twenty-four
hours, serving n sentence passed up
on him by a judge, a 1t discovered
that Dewitt G. Clark was enrolled up
on the records of the Institution under
the name of his son BY a mistake of
the officer who had been given a war
rant for the son the father had been
arrested. In order to save his son
from punishment Clark had permitted
himself to be locked up, had waived ar
raignment and when brought up for
trial had entered II plea of guilty. The
father will be released and Il new war
rant issued for the son.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-08-20
AMBOY
YEARS AGO.
Paterson Paper Gives Picture Of
Condition of Things in
IS This City.

The following is taken from Editor
Vans stories in the Paterson Even
ing News:
In reading of the marriage of
Aaron Burr to the daughter of The
odosius Barlow, of Shrewsbury, N.
j., recalled a "reminiscences. When
from eight to ten years old, our home
was midway between the residence
of Mrs. Susan Parker, the aunt of the
venerable Cortlandt Parker, (the vet
eran lawyer of Newark), and the
house of a Mr.. Morris, who was own
er of a big hay press and wharves at
Perth Amboy, from which New York
received its pressed hay. We were
then a boy of about eight years and
from our windows could see a young
man with a couch close to the open
window of the Morris residence, al
most constantly famed during the
summer season, by the nurses in the
Morris home. We had seen him
come to Amboy for his health, but
he wasted away, despite all the care
possible, from his anxious relatives,
and was on his dying bed at last.
Mrs. Susan Parker had extensive
gardens, and was an angel to all in
distress, and she told us to call every
morning and take a bunch of flowers,
(for they were not then called bou-
quets), to the sick young man in the
house of Mr.. Morris. The little boy
was glad of the duty, and the choic-
est of the garden productions were
ready every day and went to the man
whose life was so rapidly wasting
away. He was the first dying person
We had seen, and his emaciated
frame and the painful smile with
which he received the daily tokens of
sympathy made a lasting impression
| upon the little messenger. But one
morning the lad went silently in as
usual and up to his roo with the
blooms for the bed of death. Start
led at the awful scene, l quickly laid
the flowers in their accustomed place,
but the eyes of T%heodosius Barlow
could see them no more. We have
no knowledge of what eventually be-
came of the Morris people, but after
my fathers peole moved upon the
old homestead at M%etuchen, the Nor
ris family, who had no children of
their own, sold the hay presses and
wharves and moved away. But, 1
was lately recalled to them by the
fact that Mrs. Provost's father was
Theodosius Barlow, of Shrewsbury,
N. j., and the same name suggests
an enquiry as to what relationship
If any existed between him and the
Theodosius Barlow whose deathbed
made such a lasting impression upon
the writer of this paragraph over
seventy years ago.