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Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06
IN A SHOWER
OF METEORS.
Steamer ST. Andrew in Dire Peril
at Sea--Huge Masses Of Metal
Rain Down.

NEW YORK. Nov. G.-When the Phe
] nix line steamship st. Andrew arrived
F.. from Antwerp Captain Fitzgerald re
| ported that the steamer had passed
through a meteoric shower at 4:3C
o'clock on Tuesday about 600 miles
! northeast of Cape Race. The largest
meteor observed fell into the sea less
than a mile away. Had it struck the
st. Andrew all hands would have per
ished.
ION Tuesday afternoon" said Chief
officer V. Il. Spencer. who was on the
bridge when the meteors appeared,
| the weather was clear and bright, al
though there was little sunshine. Just
after one bell, 4:30 o'clock, saw three
| meteors fall into the water dead ahead
| of the ship one after another at a dis
| lance of about five miles. Although 1t
| was daylight, they left a red streak in
| the air from zenith to the horizon.
simultaneously the third engineer
shouted to me. ] then saw Il huge me-
teor OIL the port beam falling in a zig
gag manner less than a mile away to
the southwark.
I'VE could distinctly hear the kissing
of the water as it touched. 1t fell with
n rocking motion, leaving a broad red
streak in its wake. The meteor must
have weighed several tons and appear
ed to be from ten to fifteen feet in
diameter. 1t was saucer shaped, which
probably accounted for the peculiar
rocking motion.
"When the mass of metal struck the
water the spray and steam rose TO a
height of at least forty feet and for a
few moments looked like the mouth of
a crater. If it had been night the
meteor would have Illuminated the sea
for fifty or sixty miles. The kissing
sound, like escaping steam. when it
struck the water was SO loud that the
chief engineer turned out of his berth
and came on deck, thinking the sound
came from the engine room. / have
seen meteors all over the world, but
never such a large one as this"
Asked what would have happened If
the meteor tumbled on the st. Andrew,
Mr.. Spencer said:
1.-The ship would have been burned
out Immediately and every soul OF
board destroyed. l have no doubt that
many of the vessels which have been
lost at sea in apparently fine weather
have been destroyed by falling me
teors."
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06
ATLANTIC ITYACCIDENT
Jury Investigating the Case Give a
Verdict Wednesday.

ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 6:-After
listening to testimony all day and up
to 10 O'Clock last night, the coroner's
jury investigating the cause of the
third rail accident at the Thorough
fare drawbridge last Sunday week
adjourned to Wednesday morning,
when the last two witnesses will be
heard.
In spite of all the expert testimony
that has been brought forward by
the railroad company, there does not
seem to be anything that will contro-
vert the first impression that the ac-
cident was caused by the sticking W
of the inferred running rail, which
caught in the pilot, threw 1t against
the truck of the forward car, and
caused that car to rise and leave the
rails and plunge over into the Thor'
oughfare, carrying the passengers to
death.
The jury will render their verdict
on Wednesday.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06
OLD DEAD.

PATERSON, Nov. 6:-Charles
Frasier, for nearly fifty years an en-
gineer on the Erie railroad, died at
his home, No. 8 Twelfth avenue, Sum
day night. He was born in Red
Bank, i'll 1884, and entered the en-
ploy of the old Paterson and Ramapo
railroad in 1850.
During the many years that he
drove a locomotive Mr.. Frasier had
only one serious accident. On May
g., 1853, the express train that he
was driving crashed into a train filled
with immigrants. Frasier stuck to
his post and escaped injury, but two
members of his crew were fatally
hurt.
Frasier leaves one daughter by his
first wife. His second wife survives
him.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06
DEMOCRATS HOT AFTER
THE BRIDE CIVERS.
Continued from Page ~


asked Brown a number of questions.
Chief Callahan arrived shortly after
ward and an argument in which AS
semblyman Crowther and the chief
were the participants took place.
Brown was finally allowed to vote.
Caucused Last Night.
The leaders of both parties in this
city after caucuses last night ex-
pressed confidence that their entire
tickets would be elected. The repub-
licans did not say whether they eX-
pected to see the maiorities of two
years past duplicated or not.
George ]. Haney's Office on High
street. was a rendezvous for %republi-
can workers and some Of the candi-
dates from early until late in the
evening. A conference was held by
the democrats in Chairman Stricker's
office.
Good Weather Favorable.
The day dawned bright and fair,
republican weather they call it, be-
cause in country districts the farmers
cannot get out to the polls if the
weather is unpleasant.
The reports which came in from
time to time telling of the vigilance
of the democrats and their hired spe-
cial detectives and of the arrests in
New Brunswick betokened that the
anti-bribery efforts of the democrats
were being pushed to the limit and
that they were striving to keep the
election as free from corruption as
possible.
Because of the warm contests for
the state senatorship in this county
and the mayoralty in this city, effort
were made to get out a full pa. y yo.-
on both sides.
Much cutting is being done in this
city and reports from Woodbridge
tend to indicate a desertion from
Jackson by republicans in that town
ship.
NEWS at Daylight Tomorrow.
The morning edition of the EVEN
ING NEWS at daylight tomorrow
morning will contain the complete
results of the elections.
Policemen on Duty.
All the night policemen went on
duty at noon to preserve order and
at each of the polls an officer is sta
toned to maintain peace. The police
have new helmets today, which were
secured by the policemen in response
to an order to that effect from Chief
Burke. For the past few days the
police have been hard at work cleo
t%ioneering for their cause, and most
of them today feel confident that they
will win.
Carriages and automobiles have
been in use since the polls opened and
the party workers in every ward are
marshalling a full vote.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06
CRY BRIEFS
cOOOOOO
The British steamer Tabor lef

The British steamer Tabor left
oday for Norfolk, Va.
rhe Beth Mordecai Bible class
sot meet tonight.
Ihe Washington Literary Club
held a regular meeting last night in
Washington hall.
The Machinists' Union met last
night in union hall.
TKish's Columbia hall was pack
ed to the doors last night at the
dance of the st. Joseph's Hungarian
Society.
The Electrical Workers Union
held their semi-monthly meeting last
night in union hall.
DR.. M. S. Meinzer finished in
speeding public school No. Z. Tomor-
row he will inspect schools 2, a and
g..
The directors of the trade school
held a meeting in the class room at
l57 Smith street, last night.
The Boys Brigade, of the Bap-
tist church, meets tonight at Z o'clock
in the chapel.
Two live lions are part of the
w~ell-known play Her First False
Step" which will be presented in
Wilder hall Thursday night.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06
TELL-TALE LETTER
POstmark Told ReformatOry 0fiC-
iaIs Where to Look for Inmate.

NEW BRUNSWICK, Nov. 6:-The
officers of the Railway Reformatory
hare trying to run down Raymond
lake, who has broken his parole and
who is now in Anderson, Ind. The
youth was sent to the reformatory
from this city in 1902 for stealing
brass ratings from a cemetery. He
got out later for good behavior, but
has ceased to make reports to the re-
formatory and has been in other
trouble.
A local newspaper Yesterday re-
ceived a letter from him in which he
boosted of the way he has kept out OF
the reach of the officers and declaring
that they could not get him. The
post mark on the envelope gave away
his present whereabouts and the ofic-
ials lost no time in sending word
after him. They expect &c get him.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06
JUDGE BOORAEM'S
MOTHER Is DEAD

NEW BRUNSWICK, Nov. g.
Mrs. Anna H. Booraem, mother of
Judge Theodore B.. Booraem, of the
Middlesex county court, died yester-
day morning. She had suffered with
cancer. She was the widow of a we'll
known lawyer, Theodore B. Booraem,
who was once county solicitor OF Mid
dlesex county. She leaves three chill
dren, Judge Booraem, Mrs. Harriet
B. Richardson, both of this city, and
Mrs. Henry ]. Scudder, who has been
with her husband as a missionary in
India, but who returned to this city
to be at her mothers deathbed.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06
SANITARY BODY
32ND SESSION
Education of Health Officers
Among Other Topics SChed-
uIed for Annual Meeting.

TRENTON, Nov. 6:-Matters o
vital Importance to the public health
will be discussed at the thirty-second
annual meeting of the New Jersey
Sanitary Association, at Lakewood
which will open November 16 and
continue the following day.
The program includes the discus
sion of numerous topics pertaining
to the contraction, control and pre-
v~ention of diseases and questions on
matters of sanitation.
The afternoon of the first days SEES
sion will be given up to the reports
of the various committees, while dur
ing the evening DR.. Joseph Tomlin-
son, of Bridgeton, will discourse upon
the medical inspection of schools.
Other subjects TO be taken up will
be the Education and Training of
Health Oficers," by DR.. John L. Leal;
The Organization of Anti-Tubercu-
losis Societies in New Jersey" by DR..
Thomas w. Harvey, of Orange; ''The
Transmission of Disease by Flies by
DR.. Gordon X. Dickinson, of Jersey
City.
Under the head of smoke, noise
and stencil nuisances, papers will I've
read by DR.. B. d. Evans, who will tell
how and why these things are bad
for the public; DR.. Thomas Darling.
ton, who will explain what steps New
York city has taken for their abate-
ment, and S. A. Patterson, whose sub
iect will be on the methods to be pur.
sued in getting rid of these evils.
DR.. Henry Mitchell, secretary of
the State Board of Health, Will speak
On some subject to be decided later.
Foreign municipal ownership Of
abattoirs, and the necessity for prop
er meat inspection" will be discussed
by w. NJ. Gill, V. s., of New York city.
Henry Hewat, Paterson, will pre-
sent for discussion the present status
of sewage disposal in the United
States and Great Britain, which will
be taken by George c. Whipple and
Rudolph Herring, both civil engineers,
and the session will be closed with a
general discussion of secret most
runs and proprietary medicines.
The following day, Morris r. Sher-
rerd, city engineer of Newark, will
take for his subject, Flood Control
and Conservation of Water, Applied
to the Passaic River" James Owen,
county engineer of Essex county, will
also speak on this question.
The Progress of Sewage Disposal
in New Jersey" will be discussed by
Secretary Boyd Mclean, of the state
sewage commission.
David S. South, of this city and
secretary of the bureau of vital statis-
tics, state board of health, will Of
fer suggestions for obtaining a more
complete return of births, after which
officers for the coming year will be
elected.
The New Jersey Sanitary Associa-
ton is composed of professors and
teachers in colleges and schools, mu-
nicipal officers, health officers, law
yers, physicians, veterinarians, cler-
gymen, civil engineers, sanitary en-
gineers, architects, plumbers and
other citizens of the state, interested
in sanitation as related to homes,
schools and municipalities.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06
HEBREW POLITICAL LEAGUE
TO MEET MONTHLY.

The Hebrew Political League held
a well-attended meeting in the Office
of Hyman Shragovitz last night. A
number of the members made speech
es, and it was decided to make the
league as large as possible in the
future. All the members were urged
to attend all the meetings and to re-
quest any of the other Hebrews to
join. From now on meetings will be
held once every month.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06

SOMERVlLLE, Nov. 6:-Found
with a dead squirrel in his possession
during the closed season for bagging
such game, Vito Pierro, Of Raritan,
was Sunday arrested by Game War
den George H. Miller, who ~arraigned
his prisoner before Justice William
r. Sutphen, in this city, Pierro pro-
tested that he had not shared the
squirrel, but stated that friend had
done so and gave it to him. This
would not go with the warden and
court. Pierro was not released until
he had paid a fine and costs amount
ing to $3.50.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06
Princess Visits Jersey City Home.

BURLINGTON, Nov. 6:-The
Princess de Camporeale, of Italy,
with her son Lieutenant, Albert B.
Kingsland. and her daughter, Lady
Anna de Camporeale, are visiting the
princess parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam G. Binney, at their home, in this
city. This is her first visit home for
a long period. She was first married
to former Mayor K~ingsland, OF New
York, but secured a divorce from
him a few years ago and later mar
ried the Prince de Camporeale. q
The NEWS gives the news when 1t
is news.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06
SAYS TRENTON GETS BAD MEAT.
Health Board Takes Up Complaint
of AbattOir Man.

TRENTON, Nov. Cat a meeting
last night the Trenton Board OF
Health considered the complaint
made by Peter Schlicher, of the Tren-
ton Abattoir Company, that to his
certain knowledge diseased meats are
bought and sold here.
Schlicher declared that some of
this diseased meat came from Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, and that the
farmers were aware of the condition
of the cattle before bringing the meat
to this city. The board will further
consider the matter before taking
action.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06
both SIDES CONFIDENT
State Chairman Briggs and Gourley
Give Out Estimate.

TRENTON, Nov. Crank o
Briggs, chairman of the Republican
State Committee, said yesterday.
There is absolutely no doubt of a
great republican victory at the polls
H~unterdon, Warren and Sussex, and
they will likely get a democratic as
sembly delegation in Hudson, with
the exception of Assemblyman Scott,
who, / believe, will be reelected.
There is a hard fight in Cape May,
but from the last reports | have | be-
lieve Hand, the republican senatorial
candidate, will pull through.
We shall carry Essex by a reduced
but safe, majority. Our republican
assembly ticket there will be elected
without a doubt.
Internal discord among the demo-
Gratis of Passaic will give us that
county, with Wood McKeen, republi-
can, republican. as the next senator,
and a complete republican assembly
ticket. There is no doubt of the
other counties. Robbins, republican,
will have no difficulty in landing the
senatorship in Burlington. and jack
son is II sure winner in MiddleseX.
The democrats will have a few
more votes in the legislature this
winter, enough to make a respectable
minority party, but we shall be large
ly in the majority and assuredly safe
On joint ballot. With the republic
ans of the state doing their duty at
the polls tomorrow success will
be overwhelming.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06

Special services are being held
nightly this week in the Danish M. e,
church. Tonight and tomorrow night
Rev. A. M. Trelstad will be present
and speak. The latter part of this
week Rev. e, B. Carlson, of New
York, viii preside at two meetings
The meetings will continue every
night this week except Saturday
night
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06

Everybody advertises in the EVE
MING NEWS because everybody
reads the NEWS, and everybody
reads the NEWS because they can
read everybody's adv. besides get the
news conct ming everybody.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06

The next issue of this paper should
tell about tiff you have a house to
rent OF a job to find or a job to offer.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06

PATERSON, Nov. Civilian J.
Gourley, chairman of the Democratic
State Committee, claims the legisla-
ture on joint ballot. He .claims
twelve assemblymen from Hudson,
which has a democratic senator; elev-
en- assemblymen from Essex, five as
semblymen and the senator from
Passaic, the asesmblyman and sena-
tor from Cape May, the three assem-
blymen from Monmouth and an even
break in Union, besides e1ecting all in
the sure democratic counties.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine
Tablets. Druggists refund money if
1t fails to cnre. e. w. GROVES sig
nature is on each box. 25c.
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Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-06

Largest circulation-enough said.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-15
PANAMA CANAL BUILDING.
How the Work Is Being Pushed In
All Departments.

How the Work Is Being Pushed In
All Departments.
Members of the Panama canal COM
mission remaining OH the isthmus are
In daily session or are going over the
line of the canal, says a Panama cor
respondent of the New York Herald
Heads of departments are being called
on for reports. New assignments Of
duty are being made. Men are being
shifted, some promoted and others
dropped, and the actual work of the
canal can now be considered under
way.
Chairman Shonts is living in Culebra
with Chief Engineer Stevens, and work
starts at 7:30 O'Clock each morning and
continues into the night Dinners and
entertainments are eschewed and down
right hard work Is the order in every
branch of the department of engineer
ing and construction.
A site for the new town of Gatun
has been surveyed, and the rough es-
innate of the cost of the mammoth
dam-the greatest on earth-to be CON
structed at that point has been put
miles from Colon. and the latter town
will profit by. the big labor eNpendi
ture to be made at the dam site.
Pedro Miguel will be the boom town
on the Pacific end of the zone. Here
will be laid out new machine shops,
hotels and residences. Pedro Miguel
will profit by the erection of the big
dam and locks in AIirafores. Great
railroad yards are now about completed,
and dirt and stone from Culebra cut
will be taken by the Panama railroad
engines at Pedro Miguel to be dumped
at the Mirafiores dam.
From Pedro Miguel the new line of
the Panama railroad Will be run high
up on the east slope Of Culebra cut,
thence along the high ground clear
above the waters of the great lake that
will be backed up by the Gatun dam.
The high trestles and steep hill slopes
of the new railroad line will serve as
an admirable dumping ground for the
immense amount of extra dirt that will
be taken out Of the canal proper. With
the da ms in Mirafores and Gatun there
will be about twelve miles of sea level
and thirty-five miles of lock canal.
The greater part of the thirty five miles
will be an immense lake.
All along the line of the Panama rail
road there is an immense amount of
equipment-cars, locomotives, steam
shoyels, coal chutes, dirt spreaders, car
unloaders and minor material. Double
tracking the Panama railroad and pro-
viding dumping grounds are the imme-
diately pressing necessities, and many
hundreds of men are engaged in pro-
viding them. The almost incessant
rains, the sliding of hillsides and rail
road dumps and big increase in ma
larial diseases are some of the diff
culties under which the work is being
done, but now that the type of canal
has been determined there has been
n noticeable change of spirit, and every
man in charge of a department, big or
little, is imparting the energy Of ac-
to those under him. The
whole movement looks like "sure
enough" canal building.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-15

from the city $4,000 and interest
amounting to about 5000. This was for
work done in roofing the library build
ing, part of which was done before and
part after the American Building COM
pany failed 1t was claimed that the
city did wrong in paying the full con-
tract price to the contractors without
reserving 10 per cent for the payment
of any claims of sub-contractors. At
torneys Sharon & Donegan and NJ. J..
Wade appeared for the plaintiff and
Henry Thuenen for the city.
o.
Husbands Made Threats.-That Lars
c. Nelson, her husband, at one time
threatened to make sausage meat of
her is the charge made by Hannah Mel
son in a petition for divorce by At
torneys Finger & Let's. Mrs. Nelson
says that she and her husband were
married at Princeton, ILL.,, on Sept. II,
1892. and lived together until July %,
1906. She says that during that time
her husband has become guilty of ha-
bitual drunkenness, cruel and inhlI'
man treatment, and non-support. She
asks a divorce, 500 temporary ali
mony. 1000 permanent alimony, 800
attorneys fees, the custody of the min
or child. Clara, and writ of injunc-
ton restraining her husband from in
terfering with her. That he would give
her ride in wagon that would call
for her but once is the threat made by
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-15
CHANGING SENTIMENT.
oliver c9Idsmith's Deserted Village"

Oliver c,oIdsmith's Deserted Village"
Goldsmith in his Deserted Village"
spoke of certain chapel where those
who went to scoff, remained to pray"
So in life one often laughs at what he
does not understand and later, when he
does understand, his laugh turns to
praise There were some who doubted
the merits of Newbro's Herpicide, the
scalp germicide and hair dressing; but
since they have tried it, they are now
among its best friends and strongest
endorsers Herpicide kills the germ
that cats the hair off at the root, and
the hair grows again. AS a hair dress
ing it is incompatible. try il. Sold by
leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps
for sample to The Herpicde Co, De
troit. Mich. T. II. Thomas, special
agent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-15
Stomach Troubles and Constipation.

No one can reasonably hope for good
digestion when the bowels are consti-
pated. Charles Baldwin of Edwards
vile, ILL.,. says: Il suffered from chron-
ic constipation and stomach troubles
for several years. but thanks to Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets,
am almost cured" Why not get a
package of these tablets and get well
and stay we'll? Price, % cents. For
sale by all leading druggists.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-08-15
MOLINE MENTION.

Plan New BuiIding-The Tri-City
IConstruction company of Davenport
has been awarded the contract for the
erection of the new foundry for Will
lliams, White & Co. in Moline 1t will
be an addition to the present facilities
of the company and will go up just east
4 of its big machine shop. The contract
calls for a reinforced steel concrete
structure. TO be finished before Dec. /
! Ii is the plan to construct the super
structure of steel and fill in with con
crete. providing the most durable ma
terials used for this kind of structures
The building, though irregular in shape
will be about 100 feet by 125 feet and
will be used to relieve the crowded con-
dition of the old foundry which for
some time has been too small to turn
out the required amount of work.
Strike is Settled After several
weeks of celebrating the strike at
Root & Wander WORT Automobile
works has been declared off. An I'M
derstanding between the strikers and
officials was reached Saturday night,
and gradually the men are returning to
their work. The first men went to
work yesterday morning and few
others followed at noon. and it is eX-
pected that by the end of the week the
majority will be at their stations. The
trouble arose some time ago over the
putting of handy man on piece work.
Thirty-one men in the auto factory OBJ
jected and a strike was declared and
that number walked out. Since the
strike has been on a Mr.. Johnson of
Dubuque. Iowa, visited the city, and
representing the strikers. was instru-
mental in settling the difficulty be-
tween the employees and employers at
a meeting Saturday night. 1t was I'M
derstood that all of the strikers will
not be reemployed, and of course the
entire number will not go back TO work.
Some have secured employment at 9TH
er places, but at least Is of those who
walked out will be taken back as soon
as possible. In speaking of the affair,
Mr. Wander WORT said that the shop
would continue to do piece work with
the handy men, but that no journey
men would be put on piece work The
men who are returning to work are
signing individual contracts.
Laborers Narrowly Escaped.-Eight
or nine men employed in excavating