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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
TRICKS or APPORTIONMENT.
Scheme to Move Parsons Into the 2Jth and
Make Pages District Democratic.

A committee Of the Republican district
leaders who are fighting the plan suggested
by Herbert Parsons, chairman OF the Repub-
lican county committee, for the reappor-
tionment of the county met yesterday at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel TO begin drawing
up an alternative scheme.
Billy Halpin presided. At the close Of
the meeting 1t was stated that the COM
mittee had agreed Upon nothing definite,
but would get together again next week
to decide upon a boundary map to be pre-
: sented to the Legislature. 1t Is under
stood that an effort will be made by the
faction working against Mr.. Parsons to
have the map sent to Albany as the official
recommendation Of the county committee.
When the plan has been decided upon a
special meeting Of the executive committee
will be allied to put it through.
The committee that met Yesterday in
tends TO tamper with Mr.. Parsons's own
district, and IL the plot is carried out Mr..
Parsons will nave to fight for the leadership
of the new Twenty-seventh district with
William c. Wilson, whom he appointed
chairman of his reapportionment oom-
mittee. Mr., Parsons lives at l12 East
Thirty-ffth street, which is at the north
east corner Of the Twenty-ffth district.
The district is bounded by Thirty sixth
street on the north and Lexington avenue
on the east. Adding the two blocks down
to Thirty-fourth street to the present
Twenty-seventh district would leave Mr..
Parsons and Mr.. Wilson both living in the
Twenty-seventh.
1t was stated also that the committee
is planning to eliminate Senator Alfred
II. Page by including in his district Man
h~attanville, with its large Democratic ma
jority. The choice of Page as first vice.
president Of the county committee was
bitterly fought by the Odell contingent
even after they had submitted to the cleo
ton of Mr.. Parsons as president.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
NAY KAY WAS MRS. KEETER.
Inauest Over Her and Mrs. Dennis TO BE
Held the Same Day.

Held the same Day.
Coroner Shrady will hold an inquest
at the came time this week into the deaths
Of Mrs. May Kay and Mrs. Blanche Turner
Dennis. Mrs. Kay shot herself at the
Hotel Alabama a few hours after she heard
that her friend, Mrs. Dennis, had died of
blood poisoning at the Hotel Marseilles.
Il will summon to my office every person
who knew anything about the death Of
either,of these women, aid the Coroner.
NEW ORLEANS, March 3l.-Mrs. May Kay,
az sha called herself in New York, was
Mrs. William c. Keever, formerly Miss
Alma Philsen. The Philsens came to New
Orleans from Memphis, and lived in a small
cottage on Canal street. The girl married
Willie Keever, son of Lafayette c, keever,
a respected banker and broker of this city.
The boy, who was wild, married Miss Phil
sen secretly. When, however, the elder
Keever died Willie got his full share Of
the fortune. He went to Cincinnati and
lived there a few years. Returning to
New Orleans he went through life at a fast
rate, dying in 1890 of consumption. and
leaving his widow more than 500 900, much
Of it in Cincinnati real estate. Mrs. Keever
got through the money as fast as did her hus-
band. She lost SIS 900 in a business venture
fortunate in nearly all of her financial vent
ures. In addition she spent a large sum
on her personal wants and in travelling,
so that the entire fortune is believed to
have d~issipated before her suicide,
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TO SEIZE WAR SUPPLIES.
Navy Ordered to Look Out for Bark Bound
for santo Domingo With Ammunition.

WASHINGTON, March 9l.-At the request
Of Senior Joubert, the Dominican Minister,
instructions have been sent to the American
naval forces in Santo Domingo to watch
for the bark Lagonia, which sailed from
Philadelphia two weeks ago for Santo
Domingo with a cargo of coal. Word has
reached the Minister that there is a large
quantity Of ammunition on board the La
gonia, which will be used in a revolutionary
movement against the present Government
Of Santo Domingo. The Lagonia is be-
lieved to be about due at Santo Domingo
City now.
Some months ago President Roosevelt
issued a proclamation prohibiting the
shipment Of arms or ammunition from
ports Of the United States or Porto Rico to
Santo Domingo, and it is on this proclama-
ton that the Navy Department is proceed
ing, 1t is said at the Navy Department
that such incidents have occurred fire.
mlently
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no PROSECUTE RAILROADS.
Commission COntemplates Criminal Fro
ceedinEs In Gases OF Undertaking..

WASHINGTON, March 3l.-The statement
was made here to-day, although unoficially,
that the Interstate Commerce Commission
intends to certify to the Department of
Justice, with a view to criminal proceedings,
the cases of alleged undertaking. and mis-
description of goods originating in New
York, complaints to that effect having been
made against certain shippers in that city.
This action, however. will not be taken
for the present. The commission desires
first to make inquiries into similar COM
plants coming from other cities. notably at
Buffalo and Philadelphia, where it is under
stood frauds OF equal magnitude with those
alleged to have been committed at New
York have been perpetrated. The COM
mission intends, II possible, to break up
the practice of undertaking and misrepre-
sentation of freight.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
EUSTIS-HOFMANN CASE ENDED.
Trouble About the Children Is settled Cut
Of Court.

Supreme Court Justice Sutherland in
Brooklyn yesterday signed an order dis
missing the suit of Marie Clarioe Eustis-
Holman to have her former husband,
George Peabody Eriztis, punished for con
tempt of court in taking their ten-year-old
child from the care of the mother. While
living in Paris, Mrs. Eustis was married
to Joseph Hoffman,, the pianist. BY the
decree Of divorce granted the plaintiff,
the husband Eustis, was TO have the custody
Of the child from Friday to Monday, each
week. He took the child to Genoa and
then to New York.
Upon his arrival here he was arrested
and the child placed in the custody of lawyer
Joseph Larocque, Mrs, Eustis-Hofmann
subsequently arrived in this country and
began the contempt proceedings. When
the case was called yesterday the announce
ment was made that the matter had been
settled out of court.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
CARS COLLIDE ON BROADWAY.
Blunder as to Right Of Way Causes Injury
Of Several Persons.

Through a misunderstanding as to right
Of way a s%outhbound Broadway car and a
w%estbound Grand street one oollided a little
after 0 o'clock last evening, Both cars
were crowded.
The Grand street car hit the other a blow
just back Of the front platform that threw
the passengers in both about and tossed
some Of them TO the floor. The women in
the cars screamed and several men struck
blows in the endeavor to escape.
The Grand street car had the front dash
board smashed and the Broadway car had
q big dent put in its side. Windows were
broken in each car.
These persons were attended by an ambu-
lance surgeon: Jacob Eidelstein OF 81 Grand
street, hand cut; Nathan Manus, 20 Market
street, bruised from being stepped on in
the rush; Robert Dickson, 202 Washington
place, Passain. N. j.. general ooItusions.
ali Of whom were in the Grand street car;
and Henry Braun, 10 Rutgers street, head
bumped in the Broadway car.
Traffic on 10th streets was blocked for
about twenty minutes
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
ARRESTED BY Young WOMAN
Man Who Says He's a City Employee 40.
cuscd OF Stealing q Coat.

The jaded Tenderloin police sergeant
sat up and took notice last night when a
young woman marched a man into the
station house and announced that she ha d
arrested him for stealing a coat. The
young woman introduced herself as Miss
Gertrude Thompson, a detective employed
in a Broadway department store.
The prisoner said he was F., T. Ealand.
He ave his address as New Brighton and
saidthat he workedin the Dock Department,
He was accused Of taking an overcoat
valued at S35, Miss Thompson said she
saw him walk on. without paying, and
followed him to the sidewalk. where she
made the arrest.
The accused man said that it was all a
mistake. When no was searched two gold
watches and SIS were found in his clothes.
He was locked up.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
HAVANA RAILWAY STRIKE.
Morormen and Conductors Demand More
Pay.

Special Gable Despatch TO THE Sun.
HAVANA, March 31.-The motormen and
conductors of the Havana Electric Railway
have decided TO strike tomorrow. The
company says IT will be able to keep the
service going, as the authorities have prom
ised to protect the new hands.
The trouble has been caused over the
rise in the value Of Spanish silver, in which
the men have been paid heretofore. Now
the company insists on paying the men
the same amounts in currency at the rate
of 10 cents on the dollar.
A very large proportion of the company's
receipts ar now in currency, whereas
formerly they were in silver, the fares
being 5 cents American or 7 cents Spanish,
at the option Of the passenger 1t is said
the conductors collect the silver and turn
in currency, thus making a profit on the
exchange.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
LAYS HER BONES on THE BEACH.
Bark With an Osseous Cargo Goes Ashore
on Cape Henry.

NoRFoLK, Va, March 3i.-The Italian
bark Antonio, Capt. Marcello Longbardo,
bound from P~aysanda, Uruguay, for Alex
andria, Va, with a cargo Of bones, went
ashore on Cape Henry tonight.
At $50 o'clock the observer at the Cape
reported that a fog was gathering and
was then nearly dense. Three -quarters
OF an hour later a square rigger doomed up
through the haze and struck on the shoal
a half mile south of Cape Henry life saving
station, about 1000 yards off shore. The
life saving crew put of in their surfboat
and took of the master and the ten men of
his crew.
The rescued men are being cared for at
the station. There is a gale from the north
west blowing at the Cape, increasing in
velocity and threatening 70 raise a heavy
sea in the night. This bodies Ill for the
bark and explains her abandonment by
the crew. The wind at 8 o'clock is from
the northwest, 50 miles an hour. The Mer-
rift tug Rescue reached the Antonio shortly
after 0 o'clock. Nine tugs ~northbound
with lows passed out Cape Henry this after
noon before the gale arose.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
SHOPPERS GET A SCARE.
section OF Old broadway Tabernacle Wall
Falls and Hurts Three WOrkmen.

A part of the wall of the old Broadway
Tabernacle, at Thirty-fourth street, fell
without warning at 5 o'clock yesterday
afternoon and caused some excitement in
the neigbborhood. The old church is being
torn down and a high board fence sur
rounds it. The rumble of the falling wall
and the cloud of dust raised gave the i'm
preston to shoppers that something serious
had happened.
Three workmen were injured by flying
bricks. Sam Maxim got a fracture OF the
upper jaw and was unable to give his ad-
dress Jos French of 046 East Eleventh
street had Commissions on his body. Both
were taken to the New York Hospital.
Basil Ball of $40 East Third street was cut
on the left hand and bruised on his left side
and went home.
Joe Goldstein, the foreman, was arrested.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
THIEvEST4P POST OFFICE TWICE
And Use Horse and Buggy Of Postmaster
at Uridgewater, Conn. In Getting Away.

DANBURY, Conn, March 3l.-Two cracks
men who blew open the safe of the post
office in the hamlet Of ~Bridgewater, twelve
miles from this city, with nitroglycerine
early this morning, for the second time
within a month, got 5000 worth of stamps,
besides Cd all and registered letters.
The post office is in the general store of
Postmaster Charles n. Hatch, and a supply
OF stamps sufficient to stock n city Office
is usually kept in tho safe because the viii
lage is the headquarters OF a mail order
concern. The BURGERS evidently knew this.
After the roh,'ry the thieves drove
toward this city "il Postm .ster Hatcl's
best horsA and buggy, Tno c%i Iosion
arouse the villag' ana Il pursuing POSSE
robbers lbandomn. trc rig aud Jumped
aboard . passing trlin going toward Bridge
port. They arc believed TO nave gone to
New York.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
T.. e. SWIFT I'LL IN BOSTON.
Chicago Packer Stricken With Pneumonia
but IL Doing Nicely.

BosToN, March 9l.-E. C. Swift, one Of
the members of Swift d Co., Chicago
packers, is i'll Of pneumonia at the Quincy
House. He is said TO be doing as well as
could be expected.
Mr., Swift was taken i'll last Tuesday.
His own physician, DIR. johnson, and some
nurses were summoned from Chicago.
The crisis was passed Thursday and since
that time Mr.. Swift has been more COM
Portable, and 1t is expected that With rest
and quiet he will recover.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
FAST SOUTHERN TRAIN WRECKED
Florida Special Derailed Near Macon. Ga.
Pullman Porter KILLED.

MACON, Ga. March s1.-Passenger train
No. 6, the Chica 60 and Florida special over
the Southern Railway. was wrecked
eight miles north Of this city at ? o'clock
this afternoon on a light curve. Porter
William Smith, colorcd, of Atlanta, vas
killed Baggage Master E. G. Phillips Of
Atlanta was badly hurt,
A Pullman club and smoker car was torn
to splinters and three other cars were de-
rallied. The train was thrown from the
ira ks by some mishap to the tender.
Traffic was tied up for nine hours.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
Hamilton Fish Defeated in Putnam County.

CARMEL, N. Y, March Sl.-In a bitter
fight for the control of the Republican
party Assemblyman John R, Yale sue
oeeded in signally defeating the Hon. Ham
ilton Fish, representing the State and ma
tioualadminist r%ptiors. Mr., Yale will be re-
nominated nj the county convention to be
held At Carmel on April IA.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
CROKER NOT COMING BACK.
Former Boss OF Tammany Denies That He
VIII Sail on May 20.

Special cable Despatch TO THE Sun.
LONDON, March 31.-In reply to a query
from THE sun correspondent as to whether
it was true that he intended to start for
New York on May 20, Mr.. Richard Croker
telegraphs that he has no such intention.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-04-01
Gov. .IcG Davis a senator sure.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March 3l.-Returns
received to-day from the Senatorial con-
test tend to increase Gov. jeff Davis's
majority to the extent Of from 5000 to s 200.
The Governors election to succeed Senator
Berry is now generally conceded.
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Continued on Fourth Pdoo,

The Brooklyn Daily Eagles daily cable service,
By exclusive arrangement with London STANDARD,
: the only similar service supplied TO any New
fors Afternoon newspaper.-Adt.
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Brooklyn Eagles financial cable from; London
Standard is a daily feature OF two strong Wall
street pAges,-Adt.
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DEwEY'S SAUTERNE n MOsELLE.
White Dinner Wines of Superior Quality.
u. I. Dewey d Sons Co.. 1888 Fulton St, New York
ADJ.
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The southwestern Limited
Is a luxurious train TO 81, Louis and Cincinnati by
the New YORK Central Lines, Leaves New York
every day AZ 2:0t =. A.-Aab,
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Latest Marine intelligence.

where to Live"
Illustrated Booklet Free. Apply at 500, 1850
Broadway. n. Y" or SSs Fulton ST.. Brooklyn.
Ads,
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05

Did you ever see bluefish charge a
school of menhaden at sea? That fs
something worth seeing. The bluensh
throw their lines forward until they al
most surround the menhaden, and they
attack them flank and rear. The men
baden fairly make the water boil in
their efforts to escape, while all around
the enemy is at them tearing relent-
lessly. Into all this commotion comes
a great shark. It's a picnic for the
shark, q school of menhaden all herded
up for Its benefit. 1t swims leisurely
into the midst Of them, opens its mouth
and takes in half a dozen menhaden at
gulp. 1t swims around and bites out
half dozen more from the school. 1t
gorges itself without effort But the
menhaden are not nearly as much dis
turbed by the presence Of the monster
swimming about among them as they
are by the charging bluefish. The shark
takes half dozen fish or more at q
bite, while the bluefish only bites a
piece out of single fish, but there Is
only one shark, while there may be
thousands Of bluefish plunging and
tearing necessarily and killing and
manning at every stroke. The sharks
brute, but under such circumstances
the menhaden have less of fear than
they have of contempt for him.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
A Photographic Warming.

The following story of young lady
living in the country who came to
London to be photographed is told by
NJ. A. P. and vouched for by a well
known London photographer. After
some days the lady, Miss B., was
Informed the photograph was not a
success, and another sitting was sug-
gested. This she agreed to, but again
was informed that the photograph was
a failure. There was a third sitting.
In two days time she received an
urgent letter from the photographer
asking her to come up to his studio
and to bring a friend with her. Miss
B. went, accompanied by her mother,
and was shown the amazing results of
the three sittings. The pictures of the
girl herself were quite good, but in
each plate there was to be seen stand
ing behind her the figure of a man
holding dagger in his uplifted hand.
The features, though faint, were clear
ly discernible, and Miss B. recognized
them as those of her fiancee, an officer
in the Indian army. The effect of this
experience was so great that after a
few days she wrote out to India, break
ing off the engagement.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
To conciliate the Gods.

Just at night, if. you happen to be
within the gates of Canton, you will
witness one of the little performances
that are supposed to deceive the prowl-
ing spirits of the night bent upon evil
intent, the while conciliating them
should they penetrate the deception.
Each little and big shop possesses a
miniature fireplace built into the side
of the entrance. Prayers printed on
rice paper form the fuel with which
to offer up incense to the "bogy man."
who is supposed to make the nocturnal
visits. Beholding the smoke, he is sup
posed to assume that no one lives with
in, and therefore passes by; but should
he catch on and stop to investigate he
finds that the prayer papers on the al
tar bear inscriptions attributing TO him
such virtues and magnanimity that his
wrath is appeased and he turns from
his evil intent. - Edwin Wildman in
Chautauquan.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
A Straight Tip,

At Buffalo, N. Y, recently, Dis
trict Attorney Jerome said-and W.
j. Bryan has not matched it for COM
mon sense:" Real leadership is no.
where in sight. What passes for lead
eIship seems to consist of demagogIc
denunciation of existing conditions
and the advocating of vague schemes
of socialism and paternalism which
are essentially revolutionary in char
-acter.
"We are not on the threshold of
the greatest political awakening this
nation has ever known, making the
beginning of new age, but we are.
believe, about to return to our senses,
and then we shall earnestly address
ourselves to the solution of the diff
cult problems confronting US by the
methods which the past has shown to
be entirely adequate to meet the
greatest emergencies. The so-called
muck raker' has had great vogue,
and, on the whole has done good
work. But in mere exposure and de-
nunciation English-speaking people
cannot rest. The trust buster Is
vociferous and much in evidence, but
he offers no issue upon which polit-
ical parties can divide. Our cleo
tions, where national political par
ties are involved, have become little
more than an ignoble scramble for
office in which each candidate de-
clares how good he Will be if elected
to office and vies with his opponent
in claiming trust-busting and anti
corporation virtues, not forgetting
to emphasize how warmly his heart
beats for organized labor"
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
Republicans and Democrat..

The old Republican party, founded
BY Thomas Jefferson, had its most
vigorous life during the twenty-four
years while Jefferson, Madison and
Monroe were in the White House. Dur
ing these years it completely annihi-
lated its opponent, the old Federalist
party, which was the predecessor Of
the present Republican party. John
Quincy Adams, the sixth president of
the United States, who had a leaning
to Federalism, was elected by the
house of representatives None of the
candidates having a majority of the
electoral vote as a national Republi-
can, and when Jackson came in four
years later it was as a Democratic
Republican. 1t was during his time
that the latter half of the name was
dropped, and the party of Jefferson
took the name of the Democratic party.
1t was not until 1854 that the present
Republican party assumed the name
which the party of Jefferson and Jack
son had dropped a quarter of a cen
fury before.-St. Louis Republican.
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
Doee-one Dimefu1.

How big a dose do 1 need?" asked
the customer of the old fashioned drug
gist
"Oh, 1 guess a heaping dimeful will
be about right" was the reply.
"a dimeful?" echoed the customer
you mean 4 dimes WORTH don't your"
mo, 1 don't" said the druggist. "a
dimes worth would be two ounces,
and you'd never survive such a guam
tity as that. j mean for you to take u
dime and pile on it as much Of this
powder as will stick. Then you have
the proper dose. Measuring medicine
on a dime is a method as old as United
States currency and almost as reliable.
There are certain powders that can be
measured more accurately that way
than any other, and among us old
timers who have been used to meeting
emergencies a dimefuP is common
direction"
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05
Louis Napoleon Answered.

Lady Blessington did not always
meet with gratitude from some whose
position at last enabled them to serve
her. She sheltered In her London home
Louis Napoleon after he had escaped
from his prison in Ham. After Louis
Napoleon became president of the
French republic he seems to have
turned the cold shoulder on Lady
Blessington and Count D'Orsay when
they approached him in Paris. There
was story going at the time, for the
accuracy Of which we certainly will
not vouch, but which appeared in sew
eral of the London papers. Shortly be-
fore Lady Blessington's death she met,
so the story goes, the president driving
in the Champs Elysees. He stopped
his carriage, she stopped hers, and they
conversed for a few minutes. His
manner seemed to her determinedly
chilly. do you stay long in PARISH
he asked as he was about to drive on.
mo-" she answered. "And youT'-
London Spectator
Amador ledger., 1906-10-05

The learned ladies in olden times took
great comfort and pride in their skill
In medicine. With true professional
scorn they looked down upon the regu-
lar doctors as upon quacks For Gods
sake beware what medicines We take
of any fyssissyans of London. shall
never trust to them because of your
father and my uncle, whose souls God
assoil." So wrote lady in conscious
pride. She knew she could have saved
the lives of her unfortunate relatives
II she had only had chance to dose
them with some of her wonderful con-
coctions or to have put upon them
some such plasters as those for which
Dame Margery Pastor was famous.
Her husband sent for one of her plas-
tiers for the kings attorney, James Ho-
barst, who was suffering with an ache
in his knee, and to whom Sir John Pas
ton felt himself sentimentally indebted.
HE is the man who brought you and
me together" he wrote to Margery,
"and 1 had leaver than f40 that We
could with your plaster part him and
his pain"