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Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
SPEND THIRTY DAYS
ON A BURNING BARK
GuANo LADEN SHIP is FINALLY
SUBMERGED
Crew Battens Down Hatches and
Nearing Japan the Craft Encoun-
ters Bad Storm-Flames Quenched
Near Kobe
BY Associated Press.

SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. 2S.-Seven
members of the crew of the American
bark Alden Bessie. formerly owned in
San Francisco, arrived today on the
Great Northern steamship Dakota.
Their boat was abandoned to the
underwriters in Japan and the crew
was sent home.
The Alden Bessie. which was lodaed
with guano at Anacortes for Osaka,
Japan, in November. caught fire De-
cember 12. For thirty days the crew
struggled to smother the flames, bat
tening down the matches, covering the
decks with canvas and filling all cracks
with oakum. AS the boat neared the
Japanese coast storm that threatened
for several days to wreck the craft
overlook the bark.
The fire was quenched in Kobe by
submerging the vessel. She was sold
to Japanese syndicate and has been
refitted.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
STEEL TRUST ABSORBS
HILLS ORE LANDS
BIG DEAL IN SUPERIOR MINERAL
RANGE
Under FIFTY Years Lease Tonnage for
the Great Northern Is Provided
For-Lake Erie Ports Will Be
Benefited
By Associated Press.


CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 2S.-It is
stated that a deal involving iron ore
amounting 10 as great tonnage as all
the ore mined in the Lake Superior
ranges during the more than so years
of their operation, deal by which
the immensely valuable ore proper
ties of James j. Hill on the Mesaba
range are to pass into the control of
the United States Steel corporation for
a period of thirty years is about to
be consummated.
1t is estimated that the Hill in
terests have ore deposits amounting to
300,O00,000 tons, which delivered at Lake
Erie ports would be worth $1,125, ,000,-
900. The terms of the contract pro-
vide that the steel corporation shall
take lease on these properties for 30
years and shall pay for the first two
years 70 cents per ton for the ore
mined and so cents for the carrying
of the ore from the mines to Duluth
on Mr.. Hills Great Northern railway
1t is further provided that after two
years the price for ore In the ground
shall be increased several cents every
two years until at the end of twelve
years the price shall be 81 and stay at
that figure for the remaining eighteen
years of the period.
Another important provision is that
the Great Northern railroad shall be
guaranteed freight amounting to $10,-
100000 tons annually.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
ELECTRIC LIGHT ExPLoDEs
Four Persons Killed and Two Are
Missing In Santiago The.
ater Fire

NEW YORK, Feb. 2s.-A Valparaiso,
Chile, dispatch to the Herald says that
on Monday evening a fire started i'm
the San Martin vaudeville theater In
Santiago, when the hall was half
crowded.
A defective electric light exploded be-
hind the scenes, spreading fire to the
nearest curtains and a few moments
later the whole building was in flames.
-Four persons are dead and three
missing. Only five were injured but
many were half asphyxiated. The fire
brigade and score of citizens did fine
rescue work.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
TO MAKE WIRELESS TESTS
in Operating System In
DAYTIME

<hooONidtOo
NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-Wireless tel
egraph tests are to be made during
the next thirty days by the officers in
charge of the stations established by
the navy department, to determine,
If possible, the reason for the many
failures to receive and send messages
at sunrise and sunset. Messages can
be sent by the system at night go per
cent better than in the day time. es-
pecially when the sun is shining. There
is what is termed frictional dissipation
of energy in transmission by day
Naval officers familiar with electrical
subjects believe they soon will he able
to locate and remedy the alleged de-
feet at sunrise and sunset.
Commander Thomas w. Ryan and
Lieutenant Jackson. u. S. NJ. who are
in charge of the wireless equipment at
the Brooklyn navy yard, intend to
make tests at once.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
MAY SEIZE BRITISH VESSEL
Schooner ZeaIa May Likely TO Be
Taken Into Custody for
Illegal Sealing

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2S. - The
Evening Post says that when the Brit
ish schooner zeaa May of Victoria
puts into Monterey tomorrow to land
a sick sailor, she may find a revenue
cutter waiting to take the vessel and
her crew into custody. The schooner
has been sealing in the north and has
one seal on board. and as the laws pro-
hlblt British vessels bringing seals into
American waters, it is believed that
the cutter McCulloch will be sent out
for her. 1t also is possible that a cut
ter may be sent to capture the schooner
Cascade for similar reason.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
CARNEGIE GIVES ADVICE
Nephew-in-Law Follows 1t and Comes
Out Twenty-Five Thousand
Dollars Ahead
sneclal 10 The Herald.

Special to The Herald
NEW YORK, Feb. 2S = Andrew
Carnegie's nephew in-law, James
Hever, and his wife have sold the farm
Andrew Carnegie bought for them soon
after their marriage and made $4,000
on the deal
1--WE can make $4,000, uncle" said
Mrs. Nancy Hever. "Well," replied
Carnegie, "hold out for $25,000; you'll
get it,"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
FIND MAN WITH NECK BROKEN
Meets Singular Accidental
Death
BY Associated Press.

SAN JOSE, Feb. 2S-Donald j. Camp
bell. night watchman at Palo Alto, was
found dead this morning at the foot
of the stairs in the house of Frank
Warrell at 1854 Hamilton avenue of that
town, with his neck broken
An autopsy showed that he had rup-
tured a blood vessel near the heart,
and the physicians believe this oc-
Cured just as he reached the head of
the stairs, when he fell and rolled
down.
He was 80 years old and had an
honorable record in the Philippines dur
ing the Spanish-American war. He
had no family.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
M'cURDY STARTS FOR EUROPE
Former President of Mutual Life In-
surance Company Goes
Abroad in Style

SpeClal 10 Inc l1erdlu.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-Richard A.
McCurdy, former president Of the Mu-
tual Life Insurance company, with his
son-inlaw, Louis Thebaud, formerly
the recipient of a greater portion of
the profits of Charles Fl. Raymond
&c Co., the metropolitan agents
of the Mutual Life, is to start for
Europe tomorrow in the Hamburg
American line steamer Amerika, and
this in spite of the warning Justice
Rufus w. Peckham made to the Trues-
dale investigating committee that Nc
Curdy was "the chief delinquent" and
that ut would be an inexcusable mis-
take for the Mutual Life to allow him
to leave the country without the COM
of an action against him to
recover the money he may owe it."
McCurdy has not only engaged what
Is known as "the imperial suite" for
the trip in Amerila, but he also has
for a special dining table
during the voyage.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
VICTIMS'S PARTNER MISSING
Suspicious Circumstances Connected
With Fall of Lodi Man From
Freight Train
Ey Associated Press

Ey Associated Press
LODI, Feb. 2S.-Officers are search
ing for Fl. e. Armstrong, local black
smith, who they assert is wanted on a
charge of petty larceny. Armstrong
also is thought to know something
about the accident to Ralph Metler,
who fell from the top of swiftly
moving freight train near stockton
last Sunday. and who is lying in a
hospital at Stockton with his left leg
amputated.
Metler and Armstrong We're part
ners here in the blacksmithing business
and left together for Fresno.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
TWO KILLED AT A FUNERAL
Thomas Dettman Shoots His Brother
in-LaW and Then Takes His
Own Life
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S-Thomas Dett-
man today shot and killed his brother
in-law, Thomas Fennen, during quar-
rel over the death of Fennen's young
wife, Dettman's sister, whose body at
the time of the shooting lay awaiting
burial in the adjoining room in the
same house. Dettman then put a bull
let into his own head, dying instantly.
The tragedy occurred in Fennen's S
home in the Flatbush section of Brook
lyn. Dettman had come to attend the
funeral and quarreled with his broth
er-in-law over a surgical operation
which had resulted in Mrs. Fennens
death
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
SHIPWRECKED CREW SAVED
United States Army Transport Buford
Arrives in San Francisco
From Manila
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2s.-The
United States army transport Buford,
Captain Hall, arrived today from Ma
Mia. Nagasaki and Honolulu, with
eight troops of cavalry and many pas
sengers.
On the way from Nagasaki to Hon
olulu the Buford picked up a ship
wrecked Japanese crew, who We're
landed at Honolulu.
The Buford probably will remain in
port fully month before sailing again
for the Philippines.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
GENERAL PLAZA RECALLED
Recent Minister From Ecuador Now
in Panama--Not Favored
by Alfaro

BY Associated Press.
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Feb. 2S.-Gen-
eral Leonidas Plaza, who was minister
of Ecuador at Washington, but who
was recalled by former President Gar
cia to take command of the latters
troops here when the recent revolution
broke out, has been officially recalled
as minister by President Eloy Alfaro.
General Plaza arrived here January
Is, when the revolution was at its
height, but the citizens of Guayaquil
declared themselves in favor of Cen
eral Alfaro. General Plaza escaped
from Ecuador January II OH steamer
bound for Panama, intending to return
to the United States. He reached Pana-
ma January "a
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
TALK OF DowAeER's DEATH
Subprefect, Whose Stabbing Starts
Massacre, Reported Dying

Special to The Herald.
HONGKONG, Feb. 2S.-There was an
unsubstantiated rumor here today that
the empress dowager is dead.
kilograms received here from
Nanchang say that the sub prefect is
I'll precarious condition from the
wound received when he was stabbed
by a Chinese Roman Catholic convert
This stabbing is said to have been the
cause of the recent riot at Nanchang.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
WOOD ALCOHOL BLOWS UP
Errand Boys in San Francisco Drug
Store Are Badly
Injured
BY Associated Press.


SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2s. - Sam
Davis and Harold Cornier, errsnd boys
in the drug store of David M. Fletcher
at Van Ness and Geary streets. were
SO badly injured by an explosion in
the rear of the store today that they
may die.
1t is supposed that a barrel of wood
alcohol blew up causing the gas meter
to burst and partly wreck the store.
The property loss is about $4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
FISCAL DEBATE POSTPONED
English House of Commons viii
Take the Matter Up
Today
BY Associated Press

LONDON, Feb. 2S.-In consequence
of the illness of both Arthur ]. Bal
four and Joseph Chamberlain, the lat
ter being confined to lis bed by an at
tack of influenza, Chancellor of Ex
chequer Asquith agreed in the house
of commons this afternoon to an adj
journment Of the fiscal debate fixed for
tomorrow, III ,--
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
KILLED IN A DRUNKEN ROW
TWO Men Shot as Result of Attempt
to Eject Disturbers
From Depot
BY Assoclate1 Press.

MOUNT CARMEL, ILL.,. Feb. 2s.--As a
result of drunken riot here last night,
two men are dead and two others are
in Jail. C.. e. Dodd and j. W. Murphy,
while intoxicated, started the trouble
by annoying a crowd of passengers in
the depot They were elected, but re-
turned and began to shoot. Several
shots were fired. One man was shot
in the mouth and died instantly, while
another was shot in the head and died
within a few hours. The dead men
are strangers. Dodd and Murphy were
arrested.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
QUITS WORK WITH A MILLION
Manager of Waldorf Astoria Resigns
After AccumuIatina a
Fortune
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.--Thomas Fl.
Hilliard, manager of the Waldorf AS
toria, has made his million and stopped
work. He resigned today.
Many of the biggest financiers were
his friends and through their advice
he has invested his savings so that
his fortune is estimated at from $780,
900 to $1,O00,00o.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
DR.. OFT DENIES THE RUMoRs
Says King Edward Was Never in Bet
ter Health Than at
Present

wards Marlenbad physician, has taken
the occasion of his return from his
visit to England to publicly deny the
rumors of the kings illness.
These, DR.. OFT declares, are mali
cious inventions, possibly traceable to
political motives. He says King Ed
ward was never in better health than
at present.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
EoUITABLE'S ANNUAL REPORT
Life Insurance Company's Excess OF
Receipts over Disbursements
+. Was $24,343,567

NEW YORK, Feb. 2S.-The trustees
of the Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety today elected John M. Beach of
the Tefat-Weller Dry Goods corporation
a member of the board.
The annual statement of the society
presented to the trustees shows that
SO, 652.4 .467 was charged off during the
year for losses. The expenses incurred
in connection with the several exam
nations of the society in 1906, including
a reserve of $25, 900, amounted to $500, 152.
The total receipts for the year. in
Guiding $5425,03S for adjustment of
book values on stocks and bonds,
to $S9 9,1O5,319, and the total
and losses to $64,761, 1852,
an excess of receipts and profits over
and loss of S24,S49,567.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
ANTi.cATHoLlc UPRISING
In Honan Serious Riots Have Taken
Place

Special to The Herald
| PEKING, Feb. 2S.-Riots have taken
3place in the southern part of the prov
fnce of Honan. Several native Chris
kians have been killed, but no for
Ieigners have been injured.
The riots are the result of an anti
catholic uprising.
The massacre of Roman Catholic
priests at Nanchang was the result
of the priests action in issuing an APP
peal for subscription to their church
in the form and with the characters
used for official documents. The au-
thorities protested and the priests re-
fused to acknowledge they had done
anything wrong.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
IN AN ISLE OF PINES JAIL
American Taken Into Custody for Re-
fusine to Pay the Store-
keepers Tax

HAVANA, Feb 2S.--The American
imprisoned in the Isle of Pines is A. w.
Moerke of Columbia. He was taken
into custody because he refused to'pay
the storekeepers' tax on the ground
that the Isle of Pines is not under
Cuba's jurisdiction.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
HIS LAND is UNDER WATER
Chicago Capitalist Claims to Have
Been Victim of Real
Estate SWindIe

CHICAGO, Feb. 2S.-Asserting that he
had been imposed upon and that he
bought 5000 acres of lakes and ponds in
Minnesota which had been represented
to him as good farming land, George
w. Stewart, a wealthy real estate man,
appealed to the superior court today
for legal redress from Emmet e. Wor-
rail-, who is said to have engineered the
transaction.
Stewart claims that for the land
which he says consists mainly of water,
he transferred property in Chicago val
ued at more than $50,000
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
Wlh Not Fortify TsI.n r.n

BY Assoclated Press
.5,..,,'ait, 5,rl y rep' Se.-u,oeereary of the
1eu,,i,i 4.a,,,, @tSS az vvli - pl.n, session
tSat tSa +pa puusel ~ Sotnln,npttee, denied
China, was to be made fort,ass ~ ~
the first cAss. 'te's u
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
SURVIVORS GET
/ To KIUK|ANC
tHIRTY- THREE EVADE THE
/ NANCHANG MASSACRE
Fitish SIoop and Gun5oat Reach the
Scene, Others FolIowing-Sub-
prefect Is Dying From
Stab Wound
scial to The Herald.

! ,sHANGHAI, Feb. 2S.-Thirty-three
survivors Of the massacre at Nanchang
have arrived at Kiukiang.
The French cruiser Descartes and the
United States gunboat Quiros have
gone to Kiukiang, where the British
sioop Clio and the gunboat Teal have
already arrived
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
WELD TORCH
DESPITE GUNS
SPRINGFIELD NOT YET C0WED
BY 800 TROOPS
Fires Break Out In the Negro Quarter
of the Guarded ohio City and
the Fremen Have Their
Hands Full
BY Associated Press.


SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, Feb. 2S.-With
eight companies of the state troops on
guard in this city as a result of last
nights mob violence, in which six
houses were burned in the colored resi-
dence district, more incendiary fires
were started early again tonight in
various parts of the city.
In every instance the houses were
occupied by negroes or negroes and
whites.
A negro house at Harrison and York
streets was stoned by a large crowd,
but the occupants are believed to have
escaped.
The 'Flickers nest" which is inhab-
tied by negroes and which figured in
the Dixon mob and subsequent race
war two years ago. has been assaulted
tonight and several attempts made to
fire it, but as it is guarded by militia
men the effort has so far failed.
Several alarms have been turned in
as a result of fires, but no general
alarm up to this hour, as every avail
able fireman is at work on the fires
now under way.
Stone Preachers House
The house of Rev John c. Curry, a
negro preacher was stoned and the
family fled terror-stricken from it. The
mob then set fire to it, but the prompt
arrival of the military prevented it's
destruction The homes of Reuben
Campbell and Charles Fillmore on Cen
trail avenue were riddled with stones,
and at this point a boy, whose name
is not known, was shot in the leg.
The militia have devoted their atten-
tion to control of the larger crowds,
leaving the police to look after the
smaller end of the riot.
PromiScous and random shooting has
been a feature tonight and has added
to the general terror. Two negro wom-
en- who jumped from the second story
OF their home were aSSailed by the
mobs, were seriously hurt and were
taken to a hospital
The Mobs Work
Up to 1870 o'clock tonight the mob
had succeeded in burning two houses
and had stoned and partly demolished
a dozen others, all being inhabited by
negroes. The first place visited was
the home of George Miller at York and
Harrison streets. When the assault
began from the rear of his house Miller
ran in his bare feet and without coat
or hat and escaped from his pursuefs
by gong to the city hall, where he
found shelter with the troops. Coal
oil was applied to his house, which was
soon a mass of flames and was quickly
destroyed. From Millers the mob went
TO the homes of John Logan and Noah
double frame house on
York street and the torch was applied
after the escape of the occupants a few
minutes before. The house was prac-
tically destroyed.
The militia were in hot pursuit of
some of the rioters and at Central
avenue chased them al the point of
the bayonets. Even while this was
going on some of the members of the
mob who were at safe distance from
the soldiers stoned the houses of ne
groes, windows being riddled with
rocks as they ran.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
THE DAYS NEW
FORECAST

Southern California: Fair OF
Thursday; brisk southwest wind
Maximum temperature In Los AM
seIes yesterday, SO degrees; nnlpI
mum, 4s degrees.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
REToRT TO SHIP OWNERS
The Government Cannot Convey
Utilize Merchant Marine
Transport Purposes

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.
to the resolutions passed
Owners association of tn
which requested that
marine should ,be utilii
ernment in preference
conveying supplies an
shores, Quartermaste
Humphrey states tha
laws the plan would
One of the rea SOUS
81 . y
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
EAsU

Chicago lathers
strike.
Despite militia
buildings at
Senator Nj
we'll during
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-01
PART

EHht
1-Hail and snow falls in spots.
2-Foraker scores Hepburn bill.
3-Ward pleads accident.
4-Editorial.
5--city news.
6-7-Classlfied advertisements.
s-Are all actors superstItlousN
PART Il
1-Fixes rates on public utlllt
2-Southern California news
3-Markets.
4-School board makes q
4-5-PublIc advertising
6-Sports.
Chicago lathers
strike
ags R,, y
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-21
ToTTENVILLE.
TO PRESERVE LANDMARK.

Miss Charlotte b. Page, Miss Lau--
ia B. Yetnran, Mrs. N. J.Lowe, Frank
Joline, and G. S. Barnes hive been
appointed by the Philemon Literary
Society, as a special committee for
the purpose of assisting in the move
ment of having the citxoff New York
acquire and preserve hesold historic
landmark known as the Billopp
house. Miss Page is chairman of the
committee. She is a member of the
Daughters of the American Reyolu-
tion. and n of the teachers in the
public school, and is very enthusiastic
upon the subject of the preservation
of the old stone house.
Several bills have been introduced
from time to time in the legislature
at Albany to have the state buy it
and lay the grounds out around it
for a public park, but each time with
out success.
At present the place is ~unoccupied,
and fast going to ruin.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-09-21
LOCAL, ITEMS.

Frank Kirby, son of Captain NJ.
Kirby, moved yesterday out of the
fiat over Cheeseman's saloon on
Broadway to the house in David
street recently purchased by his
father. William Masterson, of New
Brunswick, with his big van, did the
work.
The restaurant on the depot is
closed for a few days on account of
the Jewish holiday.
Mrs. William Dayton, of Borden
town avenue, left town Yesterday on
a visit to her brother, DR.. VanDusen,
4of Brooklyn. and will visit Coney
ISLAND before she returns home.
I Mr.. John Sutliff is making extern
bive repairs to a house belonging to
u.im on Stevens avenue opposite his
place of business. When done it will
ale a great Improvement to the dwell
ling and win add to the appearance
of the community in which it is To-
Gated.
George Maghan has rented George
Gundrum's house, in Henry street.
now occupied by S. ]. Dillon. He will
move there as soon as Mr.. Dillon va
Gates the premises.
An error was mdue III tne personal
Wednesday of A. S. Schoen and wife
commencing their tour of Pennsyl-
vania on Thursday. September 20.
1t should have read Tuesday, Septem-
Der 25.
Benjamin Green, of Pine avenue,
was over to his daughters house at
Perth Amboy Tuesday to attend the
anniversary occasion of her marriage.
Many of her friends from South AM
boy were present.
The sashes were placed in the win
dows of the M. P. church yesterday.
They are of many colored stain glass
and present a beautiful appearance.