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The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
PLATT FAMILY TROUBLE?
Senator and Wife Said to Be Prepar.
ing Suits For Divorce.

Senator and Wife Said to Be Prepar-
ing Suits For Divorce.
New York, Oct 1.-The World in
leading article covering the greater
part of a page says in part as follows:
Mrs Thomas Collier Platt, Sthe
young and handsome wife of New
York's aged senator, is at her hus.
bands country seat, Tioga Lodge,
Highland Mills, N. Y, preparing to
meet threatened legal proceedings that
embody embarrassments from which
the average woman would shrink.
"Her preparations have indeed reach.
ed the point where she may strike the
first blow. While the senator has hes.
itated to act, it has been known foI
weeks that Mrs Platt has been seeking
the advice of counsel regarding a pro
posed action for divorce. Rumor has
been persistent even that suit had al
ready been brought.
I'm the case, if brought, would be a
well known actress, favorite in vau-
deville, who sprang into fame by vir.
tue of conspicuously beautiful figure
in the days of living pictures.
This actress has, Mrs. Platt alleges
been a frequent visitor at the sena
tors office"
The World declares further that
there are in the Platt family closet
other skeletons which will be disclosed
if the suits are brought
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
Political Pot BoiIino.

New York, Oct. 1.-Politics will alb
sorb much interest during the present
week in New York. The campaign for
governor and other state offices will be
begun in earnest. Charles E. Hughes
will be officially notified of his selec-
ton as the head of the Republican
ticket, and William r. Hearst, the can
didate of the Democratic party and the
independence league, will make sew
eral speeches throughout the state Mr.
Hughes will address three meetings in
New York city this week. The Demo
cratic state committee will meet in
New York city for permanent organiza-
ton. 1t is expected that a new state
chairman will be elected
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
LEAVE LEAGUES TICKET.
Three independence Men Resign ard
Are Replaced by Democrats.


New York, Oct lat a meeting here
of the executive committee of the In
dependence league it was resolved to
accept the resignation of John Ford
DR.. G. Fl. w Auel and Frank L. Get
man from the leagues state ticket and
proceed to nominate by petition Will
liam Randolph Hearst for governor
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler for lieuten-
ant governor, John S. Whalen for sec
retary of state, Martin H. Glynn for
comptroller, Julius Hauser for treasur-
er, Frank w. Skene for engineer and
surveyor and William S. Jackson for
attorney general as the candidates of
the independence league. This makes
the league ticket Identical with that
nominated by the Democratic conven-
tion at Buffalo.
The necessary steps will be taken
this week to place legally in nominal
ton by petition the full state ticket of
the Independence league.
In reply tc an interview Charles f.
Murphy on his return from Buffalo
said: There is absolutely no truth in
the report that have made deal
with the Independence league to divide
the supreme court nominations. have
made no promises or pledges of any
character to the independence league y
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
Hudson Representatives Of
Organized Labor Unions
Obey Call of President
Gompers of A. F. of I.
ITO Get Into Politics
NOMINATED STRAIGHT TICKET
EJEcETED FROM THE coNvEN-
TIoN HALL THOSE WHO TRIED.
TO SECURE ENDORSEMENT OF
CANDIDATES OF THE TWO
REGULAR PARTIES WILL NOT
BE USED

In response to the call of President
Samuel Gompers of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor to organized working
men TO get into politics convention
was yesterday held at Groeschefs AS
sembly Rooms Oakland and Beacon
avenues ana a LABOR ticket nominated.
Delegates from the Building Trades
Council and Central Labor Union partici-
pated ust what effect the nominationJ
Of This ticket viii have on the results of
the coming election is an interesting
problem for study. Certainly the work
ingmen who participated in yesterdays
convention We're sincere. When any at
tempt was made to get the delegates to
endorse this or that candidate of either
of the two regular parties he was ejec-
ted from the hall and a resolution de-
claring that no candidate should be endor-
sed who was not workingman carrying
union card in the pockets of his cloth
ing was passed unanimously. The seo
sion lasted FIVE hours. 1t was stormy,
but full Of good fellowship. Forty~seyen
locals were represented. The full ticket
Mas uOl SOiupiCtCu, Dut SciiAiAtttS u.
vacancies to fill the ticket out was ap-
pointed. The nominations for two
Street and Water Commissioners will be
held at a City convention yet to be held
and the date for which has not yet been
fixed The candidates for Surrogate and
Coroners were left TO the Committee TO
fill vacancies The ticket as far as nom
mated last night reads like this
For Congress from the Ninth Con-
gressional District Kenneth NJ. Forbes;
for Congress from the Tenth Congress-
ional District, Joseph L. O'Lone.
For the Assembly WilliamBrambley
Oh North Hudson; .4mil Hahermaln. Oh
West Hoboken; John J. Callaghan, W.
A. Weber, james Muldoon, Z. J. An
thony, James d .Sasse, of Jersey City;
Albert Walters of Hoboken; Edward
Mason, of Bayonne.
For County Supervisor--William D.
Shindle.
NJ. Drscoll, William Kayanagh, Gustav
Rohde, Fred Seidel, William II. Baiper,
Theodore Hand, Henry Schrading, Fred
erick La Chappele, Frederick Lamb, of
Jersey City; first and fourth wards to be
filed out b. committee; NJ. J. CDonnell
and Louis Keller of Hoboken; Albert
Meckhach, of West New York; Gustav
Deckelheimer and Henry Schlatter, OF
Union Hill George Hauerstein, of North
Bergen.
The Committee on vacancies will fill
in the candidates to be voted for from
Bayonne, Gutenberg, Weehawken and
West Hoboken.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
A QUICK WITTED WOMAN

An intreseitng incident recently occur
red in a New eJrsey village in connection
with what might have been tragedy
4 lady with two small children was driv-
ing a spirited pony before village cart
when the little animal took fright and
boited. with the bit in his teeth he was
soon beyond control and the occupants
of the vehicle could only cling TO its
swaying sides and hope for help. A
woman in nearby house seeing the diff
fieulty rushed to her telephone and called
up house little further down the road
where there was some good, sturdy men
At work. and begged them to- stop the
runaway. = This they did and the danger
was averted all because Of the quick wit
Of woman added by q telephone
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
Directors Of the Free Public
Library Have Arranged
for An intellectual Treat
for the Mon;h Of October
November and December
THE BEST or TALENT SECURED
RENOWNED TRAVELLERS. STU
DENTS AND MEN OF EXPERT
ENcE WILL GIVE JERSEY CITY
AUDIENCES THE RESULTS OF
THEIR STUDY AND oBsERyA-
TION FREE OF CHARGE

For the lecture season of October, No
vember and December, of 1906, the esIu-
mittee in charge of the Free Public Lii
brary has arranged a most interesting
schedule of lectures. No tickets will be
required and children will not be admit
ted. The lectures will begin promptly at
p NJ, and the doors will be closed
during the lectures. Most of the lectures
will be illustrated by stereopsican views.
a splendid intellectual treat is in store
for everyone anxious to learn what is and
what has been going on on this mundane
sphere
On Tuesday, October 2, Mr.. C. f.
Walker will talk Interestingly on the
subject of the Petroleum Fields of the.
United States" subject that has arous
ed the people of the nation as to how one
man got control of them all and became
the richest man in the world
On Tuesday, October 8, Mr.. G. c.
Adams will talk on the subject of
Earthquakes" and will eloquently dis
cuss the recent shocks in San Francisco
and Chill.
On Tuesday, October 16, DR.. Willis
Boughton will give most entertaining
talk ON "Oliver Goldsmith, the author of
works wesall loved to read and in whose
novels coming generations will revel
On Tuesday. October %. Mr. A. X
Peck will talk on New England Alps
(the White Mountains.) There are many
Jersey City people who spent part of
their summer and autumn vacations
among the White Mountains. They will
be especially pleased to hear an eloquent
lecturer discuss the beauties of the White
Mountains
On Tuesday, October 80, DR. Henry r.
Rose win talk on the subject With
Longfellow in Evangeline Land
On Tuesday, November 6, Prof. T. H.
Roberts will review the most important
points of the Civil War under the cap
ton Sumter to Appomatox." This
promises to be very interesting lecture.
On Tuesday, November 13, DIR. J.
Alex. Brown will deliver lecture on the
subject Archaeological and Historical
Ireland
On Tuesday, November 20, Miss Mary
v. Worstell will talk on the subject of
Nathaniel Greene" and recite many in
teresting events in connection with the
American Revolution.
Prof. Henry Zick will have the centre
of the lecture platform ON Tuesday even
ing, November 27, when he will discuss
The Franco-Prussian War; the Making
of a New Empire. =
On Tuesday evening, December 4, Miss
Mary Proctor will tell an interesting
Story Of the Stars
On Tuesday evining, December Ii. Mr..
X. A. Purdy viii give a lecture on
"0thello," and will illustrate his lecture
by recitations from the play.
This series of the lectures will close
with that of the Rev. J. J. Lewis on the
subject History and Beauty of OLD New
England"
The lectures will be continued Tues
days during January, February and
March, 1907, bulletins for which will be
issued next December
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
NEW FERRY OPENED

The new ferry station of the Lacka-
wanna Railroad at 23rd street, New
York City, to take the place Of the one
destroyed by fire last December, was
opened to the public today. Concrete
and iron have been substituted in places
where wood was used in the station that
burned, but the new structure has the
same architectural design as the former
building.
Preliminary to the formal opening, the
company Saturday gave an opportunity
for private inspection to about two hum
dred and fifty representatives of various
railroads.
Luncheon was served on the new fer
~ boat Ithaca, which was given its trial
trip.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01

lChief of the general staff.
commission, had two amicable confer
ences with Generals Pine Guerra and
Del Castillo and arranged programme
perfectly satisfactory to all concerned.
The disarmament commission has de-
cided that the rebels shall not receive
payment for their arms, but each man
will be given transportation and sub
sistence until he reaches home The
programme of disarmament is simply
that one member of the cos mission,
accompanied by one or more represent
atives of the revolutionists, will visit
each commander
Rebels to Retain Horses.
The arms will be deposited with the
battalion commander, who will turn
them over to the commission. The
rebels will take their horses home, the
animals which have been taken from
their owners to be returned later on
proper identification.
There are as yet no signs of Secre-
tary Taft's actual occupancy of the
palace, which was the scene of a num-
Der of farewells to ex-President Palma
and his family.
Senior Palma received all his visitors
with quiet dignity and seemed entirely
reconciled to going, although he still
appears detected at the outcome of the
revolution and the action of the Ameri-
can commissioners in taking over the
government of Cuba when the two con-
tending parties, the Moderates and the
Liberals, failed to agree in the session
of congress called by him.
Taft Courteous to Palma.
Secretary Taft sent letter to Senor
Palma saying he desired to escort him
to the railroad station and show him
every courtesy due his exalted position.
Senior Palma thanked Secretary Taft
cordially, but said he wished to leave
quietly and without public ceremony
1t is reported that he will go to Ma
tanzas.
The battleship Kentucky arrived
here, bringing 500 more marines.
Governor Taft has informed all the
members of the Palma cabinet that he
would appoint ministers in about ten
days. In the meanwhile the subsecre-
taries are acting. 1t is believed that
some of the ex-members of the cabinet
will be reinstated, notably Fonts y
Sterling, secretary of the treasury
Elk Secretary of the Interior Montalvo
Is now acting as warden of the peni-
tentiary, the post he held before he
was appointed to the ministry.
Governor Taft has sent a cablegram
to Senior Quesada, the Cuban minister
at Washington, requesting him not to
press his resignation
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
Honqkonq Stricken Again.

London, Oct. LA dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Hongkong, dated Sept
20, says: .The observatory signals
gave warning of an approaching ty,
phoon Friday afternoon, and by mid
night terrific storm was raging. The
violent gale was accompanied by a
phenomenal rainfall and was still
blowing Saturday afternoon. The dew
astation of the typhoon of the 18th
has been complete. The repairs effect
ed on wharfs and storehouses has been
undone. The entire water front is
again heaped with wreckage'
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
ROOT AT THE HELM AGAIN.
State Secretary Reaches Washington
on Return From Southern Trip.


on Return From Southern Trip.
Washington, Oct. 1.-The cruiser Co
lumbia, with Secretary Root and par
ty on board, passed in the Virginia
capes from Colon The cruiser instead
of coming into Hampton Roads, as it
was thought she would, steamed up to
Piney point, at the mouth of the Po-
tomac river, and dropped anchor
The presidents yacht Sylph, which
had been in the roads for two days
awaiting the arrival of the Columbia,
was advised by wireless of the ap-
proach of the Columbia. The Syiph
steamed up to Old Point Comfort, got
the mail for Secretary Root and went
to meet the cruiser.
Secretary Root was met at the navy
yard wharf upon the arrival there of
the Sylph by Assistant Secretaries
Adee and Wilson, Mr.. DENLY, chief
clerk, and Mr. Babcock, his private
secretary. Mr.. Root and bis family
drove Immediately to their home on
Sixteenth street, where Mr. Adee call
ed later. He advised Mr.. Root of the
status of some of the more important
matters pending. Mr.. Root declined to
make any statement about his South
American trip or on any other subject.
He has already resumed his duties at
the state department and has assumed
active charge.
Secretary Root, while not comment
ing for publication, showed to those
who met him after his return here that
he was gratified with the results of his
trip. He did say, however, that moth
Ing was left undone by the people
where he visited in doing honor to this
counfrv
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
BLAMES CRAZE FOR SPEED.
Engineer % Wrecked Train Gives Ex-
PLANTATION of Accident.

PfTHGNloH oI SACCluSnls
Jersey City, N. j., Oct. IA pathetic
echo of the tragedy at Eddington. Pa.
when the fastest train running be-
tween New York and Philadelphia
crashed into another train on the
Pennsylvania road, killing three wom-
en- and injuring many passengers,
came in the story of George Van Ars-
dale, the engineer of the flier.
His narrative of what happened and
the emotions he felt is intensely dra-
matfc-fraught with the sorrow a man
must feel when, after forty three years
of work at the throttle and at the age
OF sixty-nine, he meets his first acct
dent. The accident was caused by the
failure of the air brakes on his train to
work properly.
So great was the grief of the aged
man, who for more than twoscore years
had whirled millions Of people hun
dreds of miles in safety, that after the
crash he begged some one to shoot him.
ITS the craze for speed, the mania
for whizzing along like the wind. that
is responsible for that wreck the en-
gineer said. "Since 1868 my hand has
been clutching a throttle, and since
1868 have been watching the gradual
speeding up in railroad life and in gen
eral commerce. The train l had yes
terday could speed along the steel rib
bons at sixty, seventy, eighty miles an
hour. But the cost sometimes is great.
In great train there are small con-
trivances, the Importance of which
none knows but the engineer. Let one
of these apparently insignificant pieces
Of machinery go wrong and-well, you
know what happened
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Oct. 1.-The pres
ident and Mrs. Roosevelt with Ethel,
Archie and Quentin, their children, left
Sycamore Hill for Washington Pres
ident Roosevelt returned to Oyster Bay
on the Mayfower after being afioat
forty eight hours and witnessing the
target practice of the north Atlantic
feet off Cape Cod 1t is understood
that the Cuban situation has infiuenc-
ed the president to hasten his return
to the capital.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
Fought With Grant and Sheridan.

Parkersburg, w Va, Oct / Gener-
al Thomas Maley Harris, aged ninety
three, brigadier general in the Union
army during the rebellion and brevet
major general, died at his home at
Harrisville after a months illness. He
served with General Franz Seigel, sub
sequently as a division commander I'M
der Sheridan and finally was trans
ferred with his division to Grants
army in front of Richmond.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01

Fort Collins, Colo, Oct. Ito save
the lives of his father and mother Sher-
man Williams, aged fifteen years, shot
and Instantly killed Joel Clark near
Wellington. So justifiable did the kill
ing appear to Sheriff McCreary that
he refused to arrest the boy.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01

DO THE RIGHT THING if You
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Balm al once. Don't touch catarrh pow
ders anil snuffs, for they contain cocaine.
Efy's Cream Balm releases the secre-
tons that inflame the nasal passages and
the throat, whereas common remedies
made with mercury merely drive then.
out and leave You ne better than you
We're In word Ely's Cream Balm
Is real cure, not delusion. All drug
gists, soc. or mailed by Ely Bros, 56
Warren street, New York.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
First Electric Train.

New York, Oct. 1.-The first railroad
train drawn by an electric motor over
standard gauge tracks, with New York
as the terminal, pulled into the Grand
Central station. It was the initial ex.
pertinent in the transformation of the
system which eventually is to extend
over the New York CentraPs lines. dsa1m
every way 1t was a successful der
stration of the use Of electrical enc
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
lrishmen Greet MTay Pay, J,

New York, Oct. 1.-Sturdy patriots
whose hearts are bent on setting Ire
land free gathered at the Hoffman.
House to attend the reception given
by the municipal council, United Irish
League of America, to 7. r. O'Connor,
M. r., who came from Ireland to at
tendNthe leagues national convention
at Philadelphia.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
Muiiks to Get .Eands Cheap.

st. Petersburg, Oct. 1.-The step to
set in action the machinery of the gov
ernments plan for the distribution of
land to the peasantry was taken by. the
publication of voluminous regulations
to the local agrarian commissions, un-
der which the sale of 100000 decia-
tines of land in European Russia will
begin Immediately.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01

cautionary measure. So far as officials
Of the government here are advised no
trouble OF a serious kind is anticipated,
but in accordance with instructions
from President Roosevelt hurried p,,ep-
arations are being made for the send
ing Of an expeditionary force of the
army to Cuba
The first American troops will be
landed at Havana on Saturday. Mean
time the marines and bluejackets from
the American fleet in Cuban waters
will protect American interests and
support Secretary Taft, the provision
al governor of Cuba, in the preserva-
ton of order and the protection of life
and property.
Arrangements have been concluded
not only for the first expeditionary
force to Cuba of about 5000 men, but
for second force of equal numbers
No orders for the mobilization of the
second force, of course, have been Is
sued, but if the men are needed all ar
rangements have been completed for
hurrying the men to Cuba at the earli
est possible moment.
1t is certain that a sufficient forcesof
American troops will be maintained in
Cuba to support the provisional gov
ernment and to insure security to life
and property pending the establishment
Of stable government by the Cubans.
Operations in all departments Of the
military establishment of the govern
ment are on war basis. The acting
secretaries and chiefs of all bureaus
are at their desks, and every Office is
humming with activity.
General Ainsworth military secreta-
ry, and General Bell, chief of staff of
the army, are busy concluding arrange
ments for the departure of the first
expeditionary force to Cuba.
The first detail of troops, 900 in num-
ber, will leave New York on Wednes-
day aboard the army transport Sumner.
They will arrive at Havana on Satnr-
day afternoon. 1t probably will be
several days later before other troops
of the first expeditionary force of the
army will be able to reach Cuba.
Where they will be landed is yet unde-
General Humphrey, quartermaster
general, practically closed arrange
ments for the transports which are to
convey the expedition to Cuba. The
war department apprehends some diff
Guilty on account of the quarantine
laws of the southern states. A trans
port returning to a southern state from
Cuba will have to remain in quarantine
five days before it can take on a cargo
or troops for Cuba. The war depart
ment has taken up this matter with
the authorities Of the southern states
in the hope of arranging for waiver
Of the regulation.
Secretary Taft, as head of the presi-
dents special mission to Cuba, has
available nearly 5000 marines and
bluejackets who could be landed on
Cuban soil in a few hours in case of
emergency. Other marines are en-
route to Cuba and will be available for
emergency service in two or three days.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
MOUNT HOLLY FAIR
Reduced RAtssvia Pennsylvania
Railroad

For this event. excursion tickets, in
Guiding admission to the Fair Grounds,
win be sold October 2, 3, and 8, the
dates of the Fair, good to return until
October g, at reduced rates from stations
al the United Railroads Of New Jersey
Division 10 the State of New Jersey, and
the West Jersey and Seashore Railroad
north of Millyille and Hammonton.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01

New York, Oct Mrs. William AS
tor arrived in this city from Newport
and was driven at once to her home,
S42 Fifth avenue. The departure from
Newport was decided upon suddenly
owing, it is said, to change for the
worse in Mrs. .Astor's condition. Her
son, John Jacob Astor, deemed it best
that she should be in New York
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
BASEBALL.
country.

Results of Games Played In the Ameri
can League.
At Chicago--W Washington, 5; Chicago, s.
Kitson, Goodwin, Warner; Walsh, Owen,
Sullivan.
Second game Washington, 8; Chicago, o.
Patten, Warner; Smith, Walsh. Sullivan.
At st. Louis-Boston, /; st. Louis, Z
Harris Carrigan; Howell, Spencer.
Second game Boston, 2; ST. Louis, O.
Grow, Armbruster; jacobson, O'Connor.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
No Report of Marines Killed.

Washington, Oct. General Elliott,
commandant of the marine corps, said
that he had not received any informa-
tion from Cuba Indicating that any
marines had been killed by insurgents,
as asserted in a published report.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01
Asks Mercy For Husbands Slayer.

st. Petersburg, Oct l. The appeal
for mitigation of the death sentence
passed upon the assassin Of General
Kozlov, who was killed in Petershof
park, has been joined by the generals
widow. Nine. Kozlov has telegraphed
the empress asking that no further
blood be spilled upon the tomb Of her
husband.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01

Patient Why are you going to OPP
crate on me7 Young Doctor Because
I need the money. Patient Well,
that's aH right. didn't know but you
was going to operate on me because
you needed the experience Judge.
The Jersey City news., 1906-10-01

Detroit, Mich, Get. 1. Bishs
Charles D. Williams Of the Eaiscop
diocese of Michigan, in an address to-
Y. NJ. G. A. members here on sThe BIZ,
BILE and the Word of God" declared
that the Bible is not the word Of God
and that teachings that it Is the word
of God are the most prolific source OF
unbelief the church has to contend
with.