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Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-08-01
FORMER DIRECTOR
ENTERTAINED BOARD

Another meeting of the Old Board
of Freeholders Social Club took
place yesterday afternoon at Seid-
lers, near Morgan. About sixty
were present, including nearly all of
the members of the eli board ard
many of their Lends.
IRE dinner was given by Ashury
Fo untain. fotmer director of the
board, and everyone, as the saying
goes, chad a bang up good time. !"
The party was entertained several
times during the afternoon watching
the fishermen haul their nets. AT
one haul, it is said, several bushels
of bluefish were caught.
All the freeholders seemed to be
willing to indorse Soldiers as the
place for quiet outing and an up-to-
date good dinner.
r. l.. LARKINS, 357 STATE St.,
will do plumbing, steam, hot water
and hot air heating on monthly pay
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-08-01
VICTIM OF MISTAKE
DIED IN HOSPITAL.
spceial 10 thc KYENIN0 NEWs !:

NEW BRUNSWICK, Aug. II.
John Gregory, the colored man, who
was lifted off FAST line trolley car
when stricken with paralysis, the
crew mistaking his condition for in
toxication, died at the hospital wher8
he was taken by Willard Totten,
farmer, who found him on the road
way, and was buried yesterday.
Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-08-01

Want adys. for the EVENING
NEWS received at #. Killenberger's
want advertising.
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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
A NARROW ESCAPE.
Fire in Basement of Lincoln Theate,
During Performances of p
- ben Hur."

Lincoln. Neb., Jan. 1S.-Fire broke
out In the basement of the Oliver the
alter last night during the rendition OF
Ben Hur." 1t required several min
utes of hard work on the part of the
fire department. which arrived prompt-
ly, to control the flames. Il greater part
of the audience, however, being I'M
aware of the danger. The fire started
under a room occupied by a drug tor
adjoining the theater lobby. a man
with Il seat year the door smelled the
smoke and heard the engines on the
street. He left his seat hurriedly and
started for the doorway with Il cry that
the building was on fire, but so indis-
tinctly did he shout that not over a
dozen heard him. Before he could re-
peat the cry q policeman grabbed him
by the throat n dragged him into
the lobby. a woman who followed
tainted as she reached the door and
vas carried out. Not yer half Il dozen
other left the tllcnter, Il thrilling scene
OH the stage approximately occupying
the attention of the crowded house. The
fire WAS confined to one room M the
damage was small.
There were signs of pai.ic after the
tirsi con1lno.ion had been quoted when
slrokA began entering the first floor.
There was alolher cry of fire and peo-
pie were rising from their seats when
Manager Zelrung hurried to the stage,
assured the crowd The fire was out and
offered to suinnio the fire chief to back
up his statement. He told those who
wished to go cut quietly and return at
their leisure and spoke SO rcassuringly
that the scare WAS o o over.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
STOCK YARDS sWINDLE
Kansas City Men Are Indicted for
Carrying on Big
Fraud

Kansas City, Jar. 20.-IIvidence of the
existence ut the stock yards of this city
Of an organization Of men to defraud
shippers by a system of overweights
and. underweights was disclosed ut the
trial here of Jay j. Miller. il trader,
charged with perjury.
:. Miller's trial is the first in the case
of eleven ~weighInasters and others IN
dicted last year. Miller testified before
the. grand jury that indicted the men
that he knew nothing of the existence
of alleged cr~ookedness. and the prose-
cution is trying to prove he did.
A. j. Judy, present chairman Of the
finance committee of the Traders ex-
change admitted candidly IN the stand
that he knew about the combine and
that he proflted by the thefts and was a
party to them.
a. weighmaster and one of the men un-
der Indictment, had asked him to en-
ter the combine and he had done so.
How SwindIe Was Worked.
He told me-" testified. Judy. "all
about the organization and he said
there was already a number Of men at
the yards who were at it and that
When they bought cattle the latter were
u~nderweighed, and they sold them over
weighed. He offered to put ME on the
list, / to give him 40 per cent. of what
we made and retain 60 per cent.
He was to take the o and d.
vide it with the men who weighed the
cattle. at the yards. He said there were
already in h combination Henry
Nichols, Jay j. Miller, Ray Bowen, c. v.
Van, George Wright and some of the
Wilfhites. Charley Virgins and Bruce
Wrackeldorfer were w~eighmasters who
gave false Weights"
Judy testified to having paid money
to Virgins and to Wrackeldorfer for
- f-n1~0~nr xy0tOhfC UVHD0tnn
who is under Indictment, is living or
a farm somewhere in Iowa.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
JOE CHAMBERLAIN
RETAINS HIS SEAT
British Statesman Victorious
Defeated the Sanguine
Liberals.
HIS WIFE ELEcTloNEERING
She Drives with Him Through Hi
Constituency-if He Wins It May
Be Attributed to His Strong
Personality.

London. Jan. 1S.-The most promi-
nent feature of yesterdays election re-
turns is the wholly unexpected stand
made by Birmingham. Not only were
all of Joseph Chamberlain's sever can
didates returned. but Mr.. Chamberlain
himself u q majority OF 5000.
while the majority Of others averaged
5000.
!. Ever allowing that the liberal can
didates were not very strong, as the
seats We're practically uncontested at
the last general election, and though
good as in other parts Of the country,
the results at Birmingham are of the
highest Importance. They prove the
groundlessness OF the liberal conten-
ton that his general election has
killed The fiscal agitation for u genera
ton to come. Besides showing the
undated confidence of Birmingham in
MI. Chamberlain. the results there go
also to conform with what already has
been noticed in isolated contests, h a
the candidates who openly pressed pro-
and in some cases were victorious.
II Was a Close Fight.
Birmingham. England, Jan. 17.-For
the first time since 1885 all seven par
~liamentary divisions of this city are
ing torrent of liberal successes through
out the country the fight is evoking ex-
traordinary interest.
So keen is the battle that at the ur-
gent request of his supporters. Mr..
Chamberlain, accompanied by his wife.
even took h must course of drlv-
ing through his constituency. which he
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
PROTECTS COMPLIANT
'oultney Biselow Refuses to Say
Where Information Game from

Used in Canal Criticism.
Washington, Jse: -.-Poultney Bige-
low, the magazine writer who was de-
nounced by Secretary Taft for his crit
iciSGn of the management of canal at
fairs, declined to disclose to the senate
canal commission the source of his in
formation. Upon being instructed to
answer he declared:
1.-The committee can put me on bread
and water, or even condemn me to Co.
Ion, but it cannot compel me to divulsI
that which was given to me in conf
dcnce."
The committee went into executive
session to determine what course
should be taken.
Bigelow was the first witness at the
public hearing i'll the investigation of
the questions relating to the Panama
canal. His articles published in the
Independent, which attacked the ad-
ministration of affairs of the canal
zone, were denounced by Secretary
Taft. Bigelow being n Quaker. he was
permitted to affirm" rather than
Swear when the oath was presented
to him.
Not Looking for Advertising.
At the outset Bigelow denied he was
attempting to get advertising in order
to sell his books. and refuted the charge
that he is a scandal monger. He said
1AS 81 III lAAN wv nays hlsS
spent most of the time investigating
sanitary conditions. He stated laborers
were landed in all oozy swamp OF pes
tilential character, and asserted the
sanitation was of the worst sort. He
thought he had been in grave danger
there because OF the fact thai Secre-
tary Taft and Governor Magoon had
not been through these swamps and
there must AVE been some good rea-
son for their avoidance of these places.
He said that to use the names of per-
sons who helped him get the Informal
ton would subject them to embarrass-
ment and make their names worth
nothing by the time official replies were
concluded"
The executive session continued for
an hour, when ar adjournment was
taken until afternoon. No decision was
reached as to what action shall be
aiken concerning Bigelow's contumacy
Demanded Facts, Get None.
Describing conditions, Bigelow de-
clared there were no sanitary deposits.
His testimony was general. and on mo-
ton of Knox, witness was instructed to
confine it to stating facts On which he
based his article on Acknowledgement OF
canal Affairs.
Bigelow replied his article was based
on his personal visit to 100 different
shacks which Taft. Stevens and Shonts
had pronounced to be in good. health
full condition, and which he found tc
he without water or sanitation. He was
interrupted again n told impressions
We're valueless and asked to give facts
well, here is a fact" said the wit
ness. MANY engineers of tote de-
clined to accept government employ
ment in clearing up these unsanitary
conditions"
Name Them" demanded Knox.
BigeloW gave the name of John f
Freeman of Boston and said there were
NthorS
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
LEADS THE WORLD.
United States Has Greatest Number o,
Miles of Railway and Valued at
Most Money. .

Washington, Jan. 2O.-The United
States Leads the world both in present
mileage and recent growth Of its rail-
ways.
This is shown in a report OH Trans
portation Routes and Systems OF the
World" issued by the bureau OF sta.
t~istics, department OF n
labor.
1t points out that of a total railway
mileage of he world, aggregating in
1904 $4,000 miles, there We're 211.O74
miles in the United States. 1929 miles
in European Russia, 32,967 miles in
Germany. 2S.102 miles in France. $3.50
III India, 24,12O in Austria-Hungary,
%, 1874 in the United Kingdom, 1851 in
Canada, 1850 in Africa, 14,113 in Aus
tralia, 1889 in Argentina. 1886 in
Mexico, 1861 in Italy, 1865 III Brazil,
1857 in Sweden, 1882 in Siberia, Man.
churia and other former Asiatic pos
sessions of Russia, 4,495 in Japan and
1,176 in China.
The growth of railways In the United
States has been very rapid. Beginning
in 1885 with n thousand miles the num-
Der steadily grew and in the decade of
1S65-1875 it was doubled. tnen rapidly
came up to the present number. which
represents an outlay OF eleven and two
thirds billions of dollars out OF an ag-
gregate cost of s37,o oO, 900 for the entire
world.
The total tonnage OF vessels flying
the American flag increased from 5.2l2,-
0O5 tons in 1855 to 6,456 SAB tons in 1905.
The increase is due to increase in the
tonnage of vessels engaged in coastwise
trade. The tonnage of vessels engaged
in foreign trade fell from 2,34S, 1858 in
1855 to 943 $50 tons in 1905.
Freight rates on both land and sea
M va 1ac,,an cod HH.H-. ".
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
HILL DEMANDS 1T.
United States Senator from
flew York Wants $4,000 Retainer
Fee Matter Fully Made Public.

Albany. N. Y. Jan. l9.-At the nnnua
meeting of the State Bar association
here today. former United States SEN
ator David E. Hill demanded an .inves-
tigntion by The association of the cir
cumStnnces connected with the annual
retainer of $4,000 paid him by the
Equitable Life Assurance society as
brought out in h investigation by the
legislative insurance investigating COM
mittee.
give him a hearing on the subject. but
illness, and the committee adjourned
without hearing hin. Hill made an ex-
tended speech in which he explained
the nature of the services which he
had rendered to the Equitable in re-
turn for his retainer. He asserted his
appointment as counsel for the Equit-
able was welcome, though unsolicited
and that he earned every dollar re-
ceived. During his thirty years Of po-
litical life Hill declared that he had
never mixed politics and business and
left the office of governor poorer than
when he entered 1t.
Hill remarked upon the fact that
while Elihu Root also received re-
tanners ron the Equitable he was new
er called upon to explain. He pointed
out that all but two of the legislative
investigators, including their counsel,
were of the political faith opposite to
his, but disclaimed any intention OF
imputing political motives.
The resolution was adopted directing
the committee on grievances to make
an investigation as requested by Hill.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
BREAKS WITH CASTRO
France Sewers Diplomatic Relation.
and Former Charge Affairs
Tajouy Is Expeljed.

W%illernstad, Island of Curacao. Jan.
l9.-France on January 10 broke OFF
diplomatic relations with Venezuela
through the American minister at
charge of French interests.
NJ. Taigny, the retiring French
charge. arrived here today. He is wait
ing for a French cruiser to convey him
20 Martinique. Chiefs OF the French
cable Offices at Caracas and LaGuira
have been expelled from Venezuela and
are expected here by the first steamer
Gable communication with Venezuela
continues to be interrupted.
Caracas. Venezuela, Jan. 19.-Former
French Charge d'Affaires Taigny nav
ing one on board the French steamer
Martinique at LaGuira Sunday without
the permission: Venezuelan. au-
again in Venezuela. He must go te
Colon.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
COUNTESS is. DEAD.
Anita de 3. Murrow, Of Philadelphia
Thought to Have Been
Murdered.

Philadelphia. Pa, Jan. l9.-1'he death,
presumably by violence, yesterday of
Mrs. Anita de b. McMurrow. Of this
city. ends Il most spectacular career.
Her son John has been arrested, pend
ing the c%oroner's inquest.
Once enjoying the widest affiuence by
posing as the daughter of u Spanish
grandee, with Il fortune Of So, 900, 900 in
her own right. Anita lie b. McMurrow,
B@attencourt." recently found herself SC
impoverished as to be unable or UNI
willing TO settle Il physicians account
of II. paltry SOFAS The doctor for
whose professional services the quon-
dam countess" failed to pay in full is
Furman r, Shute. On behalf of DR..
Shut suit was lately entered against
court. No. 3.
Fol fifteen years the countess" was
all but famous in Philadelphia. She
entertained an emperor and, it Is said, u
president Of the United states in her
luxurious home, II ambassadors and
government officials We're her friends
and frequent guests. She had an audi
|ience with the pope and king and queen
of Spain.
Yet all the while, it is alleged, this
remarkable and daring woman vas
carrying on a prodigious scheme by
which 1t was said, she swindled many
Philadelphians and New Workers out OF
sums aggregating millions of dollars
under the guise OF borrowing the money
to prosecute her claims to large estates
in Cuba. The Spanish minister was
at hat time NictimiZed. and when he
was unable to get back some of the
embassy's n which he had loaned
his supposed cOuntrywoman. he took
his own life o than answer tic
his government.
Late Monday night %neighbors heard
screams in her home and cries of "mur-
der!" No one interfered. Later a SER
want summoned DR.. H. M. Hinkley. the
woman's family physician, who found
her dead. An examination showed
marks on her body and Il bruise or
her forehead. An assistant deputy
coroner started an investigation and
tonight admitted that he had found
evidences that the son had struck his
mother, md on the strength of this the
son has been arrested.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
MURDERED BY INDIANS
Or. Emil II. kueber, Formerly a Resi-.
dent Of Iowa, Meets a Horrible
Death

ST. Louis. Jan. 19.-An account of the
murder of DR.. Emil H. Klueber, formerly a
prominent German physician of st. Louis,
by Indians near his home at Tapalobampo,
Mexico, Is contained in a letter written by
Klueber's son-in-law to st. Louis friends.
The letter states that on December q
Klueber was called to the bed side of a
sick Indian, and the next day his dead
body, horribly mutilated, was found lying
Oh a cot in a hut in the Indian village.
Klueber was born in Germany. He came
to st. Louis shortly before the civil war
and served during the four years 1t lasted,
as regimental surgeon OF an Illinois regi-
ment. Later Klueber went to Iowa and
rom there to Mexico about 20 years ago.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
GAMBLING PROTECTED
Mayor Dunno Make. This Charge 40
sardins Chicago and Asks for
Investigation

Chicago. Jan. i7.-Mayor Dune has
made a formal request of States Attor-
ney John j. Healy for u grand jury inves-
tlgation of the charge that gambling IL.
protected in Chicago and that one7third Of
the proceeds 81 being collected for dtstribu-i
ton among the police.
This action was after Chief Collins. Icr-i
sonally accused by some OF the gamblers
of protecting the gambling trust, said to
be headed by Tom McGinnts and Mont
Tennes. has denied Indignantly to the
mayor the charge that there was any
grating in the police department.. Mayer
Dunno said he believed Chief Collins.
States Attorney Healy said he would.
call a special grand jury, If necessary, to
Investigate the charge. h result, 1t Is
predicted, will be such an exposure of the
business and political methods of gam
blers as Chicago has not seen for years.
Mayor Dunno wrote a letter to States
Attorney Healy after he had personally
seen those responsible for the graft
charges and had held several long con.
fercnces with Chief Collins.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
EIGHTEEN MINERS
KILLED IN EXPLOSION
n Frighttul Disaster In a Yves
Virginia Coal Mine /,
Shaft.
OTHERS ARE ENToMBEC
There Is Absolutely No Hope for An
Others in the Mine 70 Live-Laree
Part Of Force Was Out Of
Mine at Lunch.

Charleston, w. Va, Jan. 2~0.-Eighteen
men are believed &c nave beer killed in
a terrific explosion late yesterday in
one of h mines of the Detroit and
Kanawha Goa company at Detroit, on
Paint creek, this county, twenty-five
miles from here. The men who were il,
the mine at the time of the explosion
and who are believed to have persisted
are:
lCAAC PANCAKE.
A. j. SNYDER.
CHARLES SNYDER.
ISAAC SNYDER. d
A. N. SOVINE.
JAMES N. McCARDLE.
PATRICK McCARDLE.
STEPHEN McCARDLE.
c. p. NEAL.
PETER BRIDGEMAN.
EDWARD BRIDGlLMAN.
PHILIP BRIDGEMAN.
MELVILLE BRIDGEMAN.
JOHN NICKEL.
EDWARD NICKEL.
CLAUDE SAUNDERS.
PATRICK M'LAUGHLIN.
JOHN M'LAUGHLIN.
The four Bridgemans were brothers,
as were the three SnyderS, the three
McCardleS and the two MiclkelS. The
M~cLaughlips were father and sol
That more men We're not in the mine
at the time of the accident was due to
the fact that limos all of the day men,
consisting of miners, leaders n driv-
erS, were eating their dinners on the
outside, and thus escaped the fate of
their comrades. The force of the ex-
plosion was so great that o of
wreckage and debris We're hurled from
the mouth OF the mine, blocking he
entrance and making the work of res
cue difficult.
News Of the disaster quickly spread
to nearby mines and hundreds of men
We're soon at the scene, eager to join in
the effort to rescue the entombed
miners if alive or recover their bodies
if dead.
The ventilation fan was blown out
of position by the explosion and 1t was
not until 4 o'clock in the afternoon that
it had been repaired and put back in
it's place. AS soon as 1T was set in mo-
ton q fairly good current of air vas
sent circulating through the entrance.
The first body reached by rescuers
was that of G. p. Neal. which we dis
covered $50 yards from the entrance.
The mine superintendent says that the
other men were working much further
back thar Neal and he has no hope of
reaching them until tomorrow morn
ing. Even. though the men survived the
explosion it is almost certain that they
Will succumb to the deadly afterdamp.
Mothers, wives and children OF the
cntonhed miners crowd about the
mouth of the pit and declare they will
not leave until they know the fate of
their loved ones.
The cause Of the explosion is no yet
fully determined. but it is believed that
Il blast ignited the dust which accuniu
lates in the mines.
The Detroit and kanawha Coal COM
pany sold it's holdings ii few days ago
to a syndicate consisting of the, Muck
low Brothers. of this city, w. D. Boyer,
of Scranton, Pa, and other Pennsyl-
vania capitalists. h purchased ter
mines in Paint Greek and incorporated
the Paint Creek Golfers company to
operate them. The transfer Of the
property was made last Monday. y few
days before the transfer the mine was
examined by the mine inspectors. who
reported Ia it was in good condition.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
NO.. 3 GOES TOO.
a. N. Graves, of Mason City, Has Hao
a Trio Of Wives, but Has
None Now. ..,-

Mason City, Ia. Jan. l9.-Mrs. A. NJ
Graves of this city has left her husband.
Graves has been in the lime light many
times on account of domestic troubles. A
year. g he went to Chicago and adver-
tised for a wife. after securing a divorce
from No. 2. Number 3 has deserted him.
having moved away. They were married
a year ago at Ames, La.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
NO INVESTIGATION.
riiIman Fails to Get Resolution Passe
Asking for inquiry Into Mrs.
Morris Eiectment.

Washington, Jan. 20.%--Evidently in
anticipation OF a renewai of yesterdays
discussion the galleries We're crowded
when the senate assembled today.
After some routine business Tillman
offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That the president Of the
senate be authorized to appoint n COM
mittee of five senators to investigate
the recent unfortunate incident at The
White House, resulting in the expulsion
from the executive offices of Mrs. Miner
Morris, n report to the senate"
On the motion OF Daniel, of West Vir-
ginia, to place the resolution on the
table the vote was: Yeas, "a; nays, 8.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
When First Is Considered, Second I,
Loudly Shouted.

Washington. Jan. 2O.-There was an
other stormy meeting of the house
committee or territories today. Chair
man Hamilton and Representative
Lloyd had an angry exchange Of words
over Hamilton's former position on
statehood.
Former Governor Murphy. of Arizona,
declared it was useless to appear be-
fore the committee as the verdict was
signed and sealed against them. He de-
nounces as false the charge of corrup-
ton made against Arizona men, who
opposed joint statehood.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
ESTATE LIFE INSURANCE
Or. Harper Left but Little Worldly
. Maalth

Chicago. Jan. fit is that
the estate left by the late President Har-
per of Chicago university. is small n
consists almost entirely OF life insurance
policies. It is estimated that DR.. Harper
during his life gave between 8 5000 and
so, 900 t the American Institute OF Sacred
Literature. a publishing concern In the
work of which he was greatly interested.
He also gave much one to needy stu
dents, but the amount Of this will never
be known 1t is said that the entire estate
IL given to the widow without reserve.