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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
GUNB0AT HELENA
IS REPORTED LOST.
Manila Dispatch Informs Washington
of Wreck of Vessel Off Chi
nese Coast.

Washington, Sept. "a. = A dispatch
from Manila says 1t is reported that
the United States gunboat Helena has
been lost off the Chinese coast. No
particulars have been received.
The Helena has been attached to the
naval station at Cavite for some time
She Is light draft gunboat of eight
guns, 1892 tons and 1000 horsepower.
She is credited with speed Of 1880
knots, is 250 feet long, forty foot beam
and nine foot mean draft.
According to the latest register of the
navy department, she is comms@ded by
Commander James G. Gilmore, and the
other officers are given as follows:
Lleutenants Herbert G. Sparrow and
Roe w. Vincent, Ensigns Myles Joyce
and Edwin o. Fitch, Jr; Assistant
Surgeon Lewis H. Wheeler, Assistant
Paymaster Emery D. Stanley and First
Lieutenant of Marines Richard B.
Creecy.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
TRAcY's WIN POPULAR.
Crowd at varSsrbiIt Auto Race Pleased
by Victory of American.


by Victory of American.
Mineola, N. Y, Sept. "a. - The vic
tory of Joseph Tracy, driving ninety
horsepower locomobile in the elimina-
tion trial, which determined the five
American representatives in the Van
derbilt cup race on Oct. 6, on the Van
derbilt cup course, was very popular
with the great crowd which gathered
to see the contest. They were pleased
and expressed their pleasure to see an
American car, driven by an American
expert, take the race from his nearest
competitor, LIE Blon, Belgian, in a
Thomas car
generally believed that on the result
of the race depended the winning by
Tracy of BRIDE
Third, and the only other car to
finish the contest, was the sixty horse
power Haynes, not real racer, but
only a stripped touring car model,
driven by Harding.
The winner negotiated the ten rounds
of the course at an average sIked of
5411a miles an hour.
William X. Vanderbilt, Jr., who act
ed as referee, called the race off, as
people were crowding on the course
at various points.
As only three cars had finished, and
as it was necessary to pick five cars to
represent America in the race, the Of
f1cials decided to allow the two cars
which were leading when the race
stopped to qualify. These were the
120 horsepower PopeToledo, driven by
Herbert Lytle and the fifty horse
power Christie touring car, built and
driven by Walter Christie.
Definite announcement was made of
the betrothal of Tracy. The bride elect
is Miss Fanny Collins of New York,
not a Kansas girl, as had been report
ed She was the most excited of all
the enthusiastic persons on the grand
stand who watched the whirlwind con-
test The announcement of the engage
ment is an immediate result of Tracy's
victory. Recently when asked when
the wedding was to take place, Tracy
smiled and said, '.That depends on the
result.of the elimination race"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
SENDS HIMSELF A BOMB.
Russian Governor Tries to Get Sympa-
thy With Harmless Petard.

Russian Governor Tries to Get Sympa-
thy With Harmless Petard.
ST. Petersburg, Sept. 24.-There are
strong suspicious here that the throw
ing of a bomb at General Sollogub,
governor general of the Baltic PROV
inces, at Riga was a stage affair ar
ranged to strengthen his position,
which is said to have been greatly
shaken owing to his inability to restore
order in the Baltic provinces and espe-
cially because of the representations
made by the German embassy on the
murder at Riga on Sept. 10 of Herr
Bush, leader of the German colony
there.
The bomb, which exploded without
inflicting even scratch, was a harm
less petard Its effect is contrasted
to that of a1bomb left in newspaper
Office here recently which, after it had
been immersed in water for fort
night. was detonated with terrific
force. Such measures to excite SYM
pathy are not without precedent in
Russia.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24

ernor should decline The names of
Lieutenant G yernor Linn M. Bruce,
Charles E. Hughes and Timothy L.
Woodruff are those most prominently
mentioned. While it is acknowledged
that Mr. Hughes would be strong
candidate, it is freely asserted that
the upstate politicians do not take
kindly to him.
Hughes Called odelI's Man.
Another statement is that the nomi.
nation of Hughes would be regarded
as practically vide6ry for Odell, as
Hughes was his candidate originally
In this connection it is said that Gov
ernor Higgins friends are not favora.
BILE to Hughes.
Republican leaders have started a
movement to nominate Elihu Root fol
governor If Governor Higgins refuses
a denomination.
AS to Mr.. Bruce, it is intimated that
he Is not favorite in New York coun-
ty, but that he has strong following
upstate. In the present condition OF
0nulES eVeIyDOuy ID iucllH0u 10 Speak
we'll of all the possibilities.
To Hold Odeil's Chair.
Along with other features of the com
ing convention which interest the pol
iticians is the selection of chairman
of the state committee to succeed Ex
Governor OdeH The names of former
Lieutenant Governor Woodruff and
William Barnes, Jr., are mentioned IL
this connection.
1t is generally supposed that Michae
e. Driscoll Of Syracuse will be tempo
rary chairman of the convention and
that the permanent chairman will be
State Senator w. w. Armstrong OF
Rochester, who was chairman Of tn,
legislative insurance committee.
The platform will, it is believed
heartily indorse the national and state
administrations and strongly commend
Republican legislation both in congress
and in the state legislature
Chairman Odell of the state commit
tee is here, but has nothing to say re
garding the situation. He has no figh'
to make or advice to give
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Bisons Won In the Eastern
Leagues Contestant End
of the Seasons War The
skeeters Took All the
Games or Series From the
Royals
BIRDS FINISHED THIRD
SAILORS UNABLE TO BREAK IN
TO FIRST DIvIsION-GAME
BRONCHOS HELD THEM BACK
TO THE LAsT-CHAMPIONs
FINISH IN SITH PLACE

Well, the agony is over, and though
Jersey City didn't win the Eastern Lea
que pennant she was very close second,
winding up "a with a brilliant capture of
all the games played with the Royals in
the last series. The Beasts got the PEN
nant but the Skeeters have no cause to
be ashamed of themselves. No team can
win, all the time. Luck plays part in base
ball as it does everywhere lese, and luck
has been with the Buffalos throughout
the season. The Beasts when beaten
somehow or other, would manage to pull
out at the eleventh hour. Napoleon once
said that ''God is on the side of thearmy
whit the most cannon" Mr.. Napoleon
was wrong unless we misinterpret Victor
Hugo's account of the battle of Water
loo. Jersey City has put up good ball
and no fault shout be found because its
players only got second place. The fact
of the matter is the Jersey team got sec
ond place by good all round playing and
not by luck. After defeating the Royals
on Saturday they knocked off a double
header with the same band of Canadians
yesterday.
The Clamdiggers, who won the Chan
pionship last year finished fifth in
race. The Sailors, who, though opposed
to the Skeeters, and jealous of their old
time Jersey rivals, always unintentional-
ly, came to their assistance in the fight
against the Beasts, were yesterday(
knocked out by this years National Lea
gue's coming champions by score of 6
to q
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
DRYDEA's REPLY TO TOILETTE

Senator LaFollette has completed a
weeks campaign in New Jersey in which
he has assumed the role of political
schoolmaster in instructing the Republic
cans of the State as to what they ought
to do in the management of their own
political family affairs. He has deemed
it necessary to explain his unusual
course in coming into the State to att
tack the United States Senators from
New Jersey of the same political par y
to which he processes to belong
One can learn that merely by looking
down upon the Senate floor from the gall
leries. The attempt that has been made
to show that LaFollette's visit here is
not different from that of Speaker Can
non, Secretary Taft, Senator Beveridge
and other distinguished Republicans in
Maine in her recent campaign fails.
great contending parties Heer it is a
matter solely between members of the
same party. 1t is my opinion that there
is not Senator on either side of the
house, except LaFollette. who could be
induced to go into another State than his
own and attack Senators of his own par
ty and mix up in its domestic affairs
In his speeches in our State LaFollette
has attacked the railway rate bill as
weak and ineffective. In so doing he
has also attacked President Roosevelt.
who approved and signed the bill, and he
has also attacked the Republican mem
bers of the Senate and of the House Of
Representatives who passed this great
measure.
There is one measure upon which La
Toilette assailed me- of which | wish
particularly to speak. He has accused
me of failing in the performance of my
duty to the people and of favoring inter-
ests of railway corporations, because /
voted against the amendment to the rail-
way rate bill which he proposed to the
Senate ON the 18th Of May. Let it be
clearly understood that this was not a
measure recommended by the President.
nor introduced nor recommended by the
committee of either House of Congress
having the railway bill in charge. 1t was
LaFollette's measure and his only. This
amendment proposed to confer upon the
Interstate Commerce Commission no.
htlcai commission. the Membership of
Whl n is liable to become political
Ioofball-the enormous power to fix the
value of interstate railway properties,
and then to establish rates of charges
which should yield "a fair return only
upon the values so fixed. What La
Toilette himself expected would be the
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24

II. s. Senator La Toilette spoke in Jer-
sew City Saturday night. As an actor
all Jersey City voted TO give him niche
in the Hall of Fame but as local paper
has already told him, that he had better
come here to learn something than to
teach New Jerseymen how to vote
What the local paper meant was that
the Wisconsin voters had discredited hlm
by fifty thousand votes after he had cleo
ted himself to the United States Senate
orship. The people of New Jersey have
not much nse for such men. That is ex-
actly what George L Record is trying to
do. in case Mayor Pagan carries the
primaries. George L. Record has used
Mr.. Pagan in his ambitions. The crowd
of voters are on. They don't like Mr..
Record
Elks' Hall was only comfortably filled
when the U. S. Senator from Wisconsin
who is dead ringer for the late Free
holder Frank MeNally, in appearance,
appeared on the platform. There We're
few ladies' present and the Senator who
is great gesticulator and warns up
to his subject like an old actor, apoe-
gized for his appearance and with both
arms gesticulating he took the place of
electro fans. He had diyested himself
of his coat and appeared on the stage
in his shirt sleeves. He was at his best
far better than at the New Brunswick
meeting, where he addressed a similar
crowd few nights before. MIR. La Fol-
ette is interesting, as National figure.
as the man who carried Wisconsin
against great odds to elect himslef to the
Gubernatorial chair and from there to a
seat in the United States Senate, he
draws crowd wherever he speaks, but
it was noted that not more than eight
out of ten drew forth their hands to ap-
puald the dramatic sentences of the dis
tinguished visitor. Mr. La. Folette was
applauded for his utterances against the
railroad trust in New Jersey. That's
nothing new. From the days of Leon
Albeit down the Democracy has been
fighting the same evil but the Republi-
cans of New Jersey always seemed to
have a monopoly of the railroad business
and that's what they are going to put
down its big foot at the coming session
session of the Legislature.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Standard Oil Men on Strike

Chicago, Sept. 24.-Warfare between
the Standard Oil company and the la
Dor unions of the country was begun
when the Whiting Und) employees
of the company quit work to enforce
their demands for an increase in wages
The strike, which already threatens tc
tie up the business of the big corpora
ton in the middle west, is likely to as
sumo gigantic proportions before it is
andn6
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Five Years For Bribe Takers.

Warsaw, N. Y, Sept 24.-Byron d
Gibson and William B. Jackson. for
mer supervisors of Erie county, wht
were convicted of having accepted &
bribe of 5000 in connection with ths
contract for removing the bodies from
old North Street cemetery. the site o!
the new Sixtyzf1fth regiment armory
were sentenced by Justice Lambert to
! five years in-Auburn prison. A stay
has been granted.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
French Railways 60 Keep Rest Law.

Paris, Sept. 24-Although the rail-
roads Of France are specifically ex-
empted from the operation of the Sun
day rest law. the chairmen of the lead
ing six railroad companies have in
formed the minister Of public works,
NJ Barthou, that they have arranged
to grant within eighteen months fifty
two holidays a year to their entire
stats, in all 2S0,000 men.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
crescent city honors RrYan.

New Orleans, Sept. 24.-William j.
Bryan will deliver two speeches here
on his arrival from Jackson, Miss.
After parade, in which he will be es-
corted over some of the principal
streets of the city, he will go to the st.
Charles hotel for reception, followed
by an afternoon banquet. The first
speech will be made at the banquet,
after which Mr.. Bryan will be hurried
by an automobile to the polo grounds
at City park. where arrangements have
been made for him to address an open
air gathering at o'clock. He will
leave for Memphis, Tenn, early in the
evening.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Girl Druoaed and Robbed.

Montclair, N. j., Sept. 24.-Investiga-
ton by the police of the mysterious
disappearance and return forty-eight
hours afterward in dazed condition
of Miss Eleanor Wood, twenty-five
years old, of 1876 Bellevue avenue, re
vealed that at least two men, posing
as New York brokers, have been en-
gagged in a daring swlndle Of young wo
men in this place and other towns in
this section of New Jersey. Miss Wood
was drugged and robbed by man
whose identity has not been learned.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Seventeen Divorced From EIGHTY.

Patchogue, N. Y, Sept. 24.-Justice
Jaycox has granted a divorce in the
case of Rosamund B. Downs against
Nathan A. Downs. The contrasting
ages of the couple make the case re-
markable The plaintiff claimed she
was under the legal age when she mar
ried the defendant, then widower OF
more than eighty years, living at Riv.
erhead. Mrs. Downs was seventeen
years old last August.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Now ouIden.uppe Case In Now York.

New ouIdensuppe caee In New York.
New York, Sept. 24-Beheaded and
dismembered, the body of man, still
warm, was found in pit at Eleventh
avenue and West Thirty street
The head and parts Of limbs were miss
Ing. The corpse bore many stab
wounds, and there was every indication
that the victim had been murdered
only few hours previously. Within
a short time the police resources of the
city were being strained to solve new
"headless" mystery that seemed even
more bafaing than the famous Gulden-
suppe case of nine years ago.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Woman's Body Found on Beacl

New Haven, Conn, Sept. 24-The
body of a well dressed woman, ap
parently about thirty years old, was
found on the beach at West Haven ano
now awaits Identification The only
clew so far discovered which may lead
to Identification is monogram ST" on
gold watch found on the woman
She appears to have been Of German
descent.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Battle Near In santo Domingo

Washington, Sept. PA report here
says that battle between the govern
ment troops and the rebel forces is i'm
minent at Santo Domingo, and the en-
gagement is expected to be decisive
one The contending forces are as
sembling in the vicinity of Monte
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Aid For TYphoon Sufferers,

Hongkong, Sept. 24.-Europeans and
Americans have contributed $4,000 and
the Chinese $4,000 to the relief fund
for the sufferers from the typhOon
The boisterous weather continues and
is hampering the work of the salyaging
of the harbor. The body Of Bishop
Hoare has not been recovered.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Gar to Ely From Russia2

Copenhagen, Sept. 24.-There are per-
sistent rumors here that the royal fam
lily of Russia is to seek refuge in the
Danish court The dowager empress
is already here, and it is even said that
the czarina and her children have also
arrived-of course in the strictest in
cOgnftO.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Suspect Nurse of Murder.

Brewster, N. Y, Sept. 24.-Guarded
constantly by deputy sheriff and a
Pinkerton detective, Jennie Birch,
fourteen years old, lies i'll from sup
posed strychnine poisoning in the home
of Herbert Winship, wealthy farmer
and cattle buyer Of Cowles Corner,
near here. The girl is suspected of
having poisoned Wilbur Washington
Winship, a two-year-old son of the cat
tleman. whose nurse she had been from
his birth.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Drought Closes Big plant.

Waterbury, Conn.,, Sept "a. Becaus
the scarcity of water in the Housatonie
river has rendered the million dollar
plant Of the Milford Power company
at Bulls Bridge incapable of supplying
light and power for several cities the
Connecticut Railway and Lighting
company finds itself forced to con
struct two new stations.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Buffalo Heads Eastern LEAGUE.

Montreal, Sept. "a The Eastern
league baseball season was brought to
close here with double header be-
tween the Jersey City and Montreal
teams, the visitors winning both games.
Buffalo captured the pennant, with
Jersey City good second. Last years
champions, the Providence Grays,
made poor showing, finishing sixth.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Senator Criticises President.

Norfolk, Va, Sept. PA Raleigh
special to the yirginian- Pilot says that
United States Senator Simmons, chair
man of the North Carolina Democratic
committee, said that interference in
politics in North Carolina by federal
officeholders "and their CHIEF had be-
come so bold of late that he intended
If necessary to ask congress to inves-
tigate.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24

result of such legislation he has stated
in his graphic phrase that it would
squeeze OUT seven thousand millions of
dollars in value The enormity of this
monstrous proposition staggers a human
mind.
Immediately after LaFollette offered
this amendment Senator Hale, one of the
ablest and most distinguished members
of the Senate, arose and moved that it
be tabled After brief debate vote
was taken upon Senator Hale's motion,
and it was pessed forty yeas and TWEEN
ty-seven nays. OF the forty Senators
who voted yea there was thirty-nine Re
publicans, including myself, and one
Democrat. Of the twenty Sena-
tors voting nay there was twenty-one
Democrats, five Republicans and one, al
legged epublican-LaFollette. If, then,
/ voted against the interests of the peo-
pie ia favor of railway corporations, so
did thirty-eight of my Republican col
leagues, involving many of the purest
and ablest members of that body. If
LaFollette voted for the interests of the
people and against the railway corpora
tions, then in doing so he found himself
allied with the Democrats and opposed
to the Republicans. For myself | cam
not make it too emphatic that / am a
Republican and that act upon all great
/ party measures with my Republican as
sociates. If that opens me to criticism,
| shall gladly accept it.
These thirteen billions of dollars rail-
way securities, as is known by every in
telligent man, have been sold at home
and abroad. There isn't financial mar
ket on earth where they may not be
found. They have been bought by in
yestors of all classes and in every con-
dition of life. They are the foundation
Of the happiness, comfort, and prosper
ity of countless numbers of people. To
destroy seven thousand millions of these
securities by legislative enactment would
constitute the most gigantic scheme of
public robbery ever conceived by the
mind of men. If it would stand the test
of the Supreme Court, it would consti-
tut confscation by act of the govern
| ment and enforce reputation by the rail-
ways themselves. Its consummation
would leave behind it path of ruin, the
width of which and the length of which
no man can prophesy.
I
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Child Convicted of Murder.

Abba, Ia, Sept. 24.-Oscar Napier,
aged eight years, was found guilty Of
the murder of playmate The Iowa
juvenile law does not cover murder
cases, and the boy will be sentenced
just the same as If he were of more
mature age. The murder occurred sew
eral months ago, when Napier in a fit
of passion took shotgun and delib-
erately shot boy with whom he was
playing.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Enters College at Eleven.

Medford, Mass, Sept 24.-Tufts col
lege has enrolled in the freshman class
this year a lad Of eleven years, Master
Norbert Weiner. The boys father Is
Leo Weiner, assistant professor of Sla-
vonic languages at Harvard
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
anorted Mexlcan Revolt Denied.

yity of Mexico, Sept. pam officer
of the. Mexican government in close
touch with the conditions In the south
ern part OF the republic. denied the re-
port in La Reforma, Mexican pa
per published in 81 Paso, Tex, that
an uprising against President Diaz had
occurred in various towns.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24

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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24

Paris, Sept. "a. A dispatch from
Constantinople says the latest consul
tations of medical advisers of the sui
tan of Turkey has established the fact
that Abdul Hamid is suffering from
cancer of the kidneys. This malady
does not permit of an operation and is
usually fatal within year.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
Bow 4wanted 10 Shoot Some one.r

Maysville, KY, Sept. "a. James
Chester Savage, aged thirteen years,
has confessed that he deliberately shot
and killed his cousin, William L. Saw
age. II loved my cousin, but Just
wanted to shoot somebody, SO shot
HIN, ha said.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-24
CAildren Teething

Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup should
always be uaed for children teefhing. Il
soothes the child. softens the gums, al
ays all pain; cures wind collie. and is the
best remed- r,r diarrhoea, Twenry- FIVE
eepte q l.os:M.