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IN Egypt subsequently,, he accompanied
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sIyadlti on to San Domingo, ~ the many
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HE vaa-el Tpt into port. one ~ Napoleon'H
replies survives. IL which he Gays Die
young and I shall q conpoled for u, but
not " You live sixty years without glory,
without u~o TO your country, without
lea wing behind n trnce n your existence.
II would bs better not to have existed at
all b. n matter ~ TACT, Jerome showed
no zeal In the naval profession, hut in
July. iSos, hv which time he had risen to
n lieutennncy, resigned his command Of
the bris-of-war Eye. vier and thus escaped
capture by the British. Whatever excuse
he may have had for abandoning his ship
Napoleon. in the bitterest letter he ever
addressed to the scapegrace, denounced
him for deserving the sea and leaving his
Admiral without orders he certainly had
nore for spending a year and a half in the
United States after quitting Martinique;
unless, indeed, his infatuation for Miss
Patterson shall be accounted an excuse
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20
NANTUCKET HEARS THE NEWS
Earthquake Letters From Her Sons and
Daughters In Calf ornia.

Nantucket. with a population Of less than
1000, has so many Of her natives, mostly
Forty-niners, and the children Of natives
in California that the fire inc earthquake
letters sent to relatives at home were numer-
GUS enough to All q whole page Of the In
Guirer and Mirror, the ancient per
published on the island each week. In the
last Mirror there Is a list Of fifty Nantucket
ers in California who have been heard from
since the disaster. and there are flfty-two
under the heading 'Nantucketers
Unheard From"
The exodus Of 40 was one Of the things
that hurt Nantucket by taking away nearly
all Of her able bodied men. They sailed
around the Horn In their whaling vessels,
and on the Pa cifc Coast quit the sea for the
mines.
One Of them, Capt. Sylvester Hodges, an
old wha ling commander and shipbuilder,
made a record on the trip around the Horn
bv building a small steamboat with timbers
Of Nantucket oak OF the deck OF the sailing
vessel on which he made the voyage. 1t
W as ready for launching when the ship
reached the Golden Gate, and it was in the
freight and passenger service on San Fran
cisco Bay for many years.
This p son, ALBEIT Gouges, IN
one Of the writer's to the Mirror. He tells
about living in tent in his back yard with
many less fortunate refugees.
A letter from Alexander StarbucR's
sister included this:
aThe Methodist church is gone, with its
fine organ, which stood back Of the pulpit
In a large old fashioned choir gallery,
The organ was found badly twisted and
thrown into the middle of the church,
This will give some idea of the force OF
the earthquake
Mrs. Charles Ray Allen received this note
from her granddaughter:
Our pride, our beautiful city, simply
wiped Off the map. Oh, the terror Of il ,s
beyond human power to tell. II came AZ
SIP A. NJ. mot slight and then hard. hu'
full force at the very first and for IS SECONDS
the crashing, swapping of wood IN me
house, plastering tearing from the walls
and making it like dense smoke, all the gas
the floor and breaking into millions Of tiny
pieces, furniture as heavy as a bureau
wheeled right out into the middle Of my
room; every single picture, even the hug"
heavy ones, didn't only crash down, NY
flew across the rooms in all directions
and hit the walls on the opposite sides
AN this, with the huge brick chirnney,s
on the houses falling through the roots
into rooms, is what we all thousands Of ul
rushed through to get out into the streets
hoping for a little safety. We have n"t
been to bed since. and it was a week ago
to-day
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20

Tie doctrine Of spontaneous generation
was in the Middle Ages accepted IA a fact.
and those who affirm II now are not such
herctics M might Mt first sight bs imagined.
II was, indeed, an accepted theory In Europe
at an earlier period than the Middle Ages
in fact, for more than eighteen hundred
years. Not till the seventeenth century
does It seem to have been seriously ques-
toned. As Huxley has shown. it is just
237 years since Francesca Redi enunciated
the hypothesis now known as biogenesis:
that all living matter has sprung from pre-
existing living matter. subsequently
Father Needham, who like Button the
great French naturalist was a believer in
what at the present day would be called
abiogenesis, or the production Of living
matter from dead matter, produced ex-
periments which seemed to refute Redi's.
Thereupon the Able Spallanzani came for
ward in defence of Redi's hypothesis and
demonstrated that, IL the fusion used in
Needham' 3 experiments had been subjected
to the temperature of boiling water for
~three-uuarters of all hour n had the access
of air been prevented by Theoretically seal
ing the tube no sign of living forms or
animalcules would have appeared. Mr..
BURKE nOlQs tndt ny tncee anu Ldlef Ca
periments, including those OF Pasteur and
Tyndall, nothing was really proved;
because, when animalcules did appear,
the obvious explanation was that the sterili-
zation had been imperfect; while, when
they did not appear after heating, the still
more obvious retort was that the process
of sterilization had destroyed not merely
previously existing life, but also the con-
ditions under which life in ordinary cir
cumstances might have originated.
There is no doubt that throughout the
minute study Of living forms which has gone
on since the time Of Harvey It has been gen.
orally assumed that the barrier between
animate and inanimate nature is insur-
mountable, and toward he close OF the
nineteenth century it was taken for granted
that biology is marked of sharply from the
Astrological scien ces. The boundary be-
tween living and dead matter was sup
posed to be defnable. whereas scientists are
now inclined to think that it can no more be
laid down than can the boundary between
biology and psychology, or that between
biology and sociology. The boundary
between biology and physics now seems to
be indefnable.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-20

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The Origin of Life,

1t is a discussion of the most interesting
question ever propounded to science, name
ly, the physical basis and definition Of
organic. Is distinguished from inorganic.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-04
BOXING IN NEW YoRK.
Fighters Quietly Arrested So That nest
Case May be Made.

New York, May S.-FNor the first time
since the repeal Of the Horton law
governing boxing contests In this state.
two heavyweight pugilists Of prornin-
ence met here Tonight tn d four round
contest. The principals were Marvin
Hart Of louisville and Mike Schreck
of Chicago. and they appeared III the
bout which wound up the first series
Of exhibitions given in the Madison
Square Garden concert haN by the
newly revived Twentieth Century Ath-
letic club.
The men were slow in the opening
round but fought each other almost to
a standstill in the other three bouts.
Neither seemed to have trained for the
contest and they simply slugged wild
ly without any show of science or
judgment. Timothy Hurst was referee,
but his duties were confined to making
the men break from clinches, as no
decisions are rendered under the exist
Ing legal regulations. Only club nenl-
bers were admitted The membership
books were open until p. m. Two
local fighters in one of the preliminary
bouts were quietly arrested after leasv-
ing the ring in order that a test case
may be made as to the legality Of the
fights rs conducted Tonight. Other
wise there was no police interference.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-04
ELECTION LAW AMENDMENT
Governor Stokes Signs BiH Providing
Punishment for Certain OfYenses.

Governor Stokes Signs BilI Providing
Punishment for Certain OfRenses.
Trenton, N. j., May Ex-Governor
Stokes to-day signed a bill amending
the election laws which provides pens
atty of five years disfranchisement to
expend any money to improperly influ-
ence voters, or for employers to exer-
else any duress or threats to influence
the votes of their employees. For a
second offense an additional disfran-
chisement of five years and a fine of
81, 1000 is provided. 1t is provided that
no person may refuse to testify on the
ground of characterization but it is
further provided that testimony so Civ.
en- shall not be used against the person
testifying.
Another bill prohibits the expenditure
of money to influence the election or
nomination of any person for any of
the following purposes: The furnishing
of meat, drink OF entertainment; the
payment Of rent of club rooms or the
purchase of uniforms for organized
clubs. 1t is also provided that no mon-
ey can be expended for advertising to
influence voters, unless such advertise
ments contain the name of the adver-
tiser. Disfranchisement for two years
is provided as a penalty for violation
under this law.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-04
NIAGARA AGREEMENT SIGNED.

International Waterways Commission
Forward 1t to Governments.
Buffalo, May S-The agreement re-
ported by the International waterways
commission on the questions involved
in the taking of water from the Niagara
river by the power companies at Nj
agara Falls and the 500 was signed to-
day by the members and forwarded to
the secretary of war at Washington
and the minister Of public works at
ottawa. The commission then adjourn
ed, subject to the call of tie secretary.
The Chicago drainage canal was in
volved in the falls question as affecting
the water levels. AS it also involves
the levels Of the entire chain of lakes
1t was decided to treat 1t separately and
it forms no part of the present agree
ment. 1t and the question of the level
of Lake Erie will be taken up in the
near future.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-04
BOMB EXPLOSION MAY
Clear UP A MYSTERY
AFFAIR IN FOREST OF VINCENNES
LIKELY 10 UNEARTH
plot.

Students Carrying Deadly Missiles Into
Woods TO Hide Them When One Ex-
plOdes--One Of the Men Killed Out
right and the Other Dangerously
WOunded--Belief That Bombs Were
Intended for Shipment to Russia
Police Now Searching the Forest for
Depot.
Paris, May "A bomb explosion oc-
Cured in the Forest of Vincennes at 2
O'Clock this afternoon, killing a Rus
sian named Striga and dangerously
Wounding companion named Sokoloff.
The two men were proceeding through
the woods, each carrying a bomb, with
the evident purpose of hiding them for
future use. While so doing the bomb
which Striga carried exploded, killing
him instantly. Sokoloff was struck by
fragments of the bomb and frightfully
lacerated.
The explosion occurred in the out
skirts of the forest ON the road border
ing on the suburban town of Charenton.
Several passing people saw the explo-
sion. Striga's right hand was torn off,
his right leg broken and his abdomen
torn open.
The police found revolver in stri-
gas pocket.
Striga and sokoloff both were stu
dents at the school of mines and mem
bers of the Russian Students union.
They also belonged to the revolutionary
society. Neither of the men have figur-
ed in the police registers of suspected
foreigners.
The residents Of a number of Rus
sian revolutionists have been searched
leading to the discovery of alleged in
criminatory documents. Two cousins of
Sokoloff were arrJsted.
The authorities have been aware for
some weeks that secret meetings were
being held, and believed that to-day's $
occurrence will lead to the speedy
clearing UP of the mystery. A high
official of the prefecture of police re-
calls singular coincidence in 1890,
when a Russian student of the school
of mines lost his fingers by the acci-
dental explosion Of a bomb in the for
est OF Vincennes. The police shadowed
the man, who later was discovered hid
ing other bombs In the depths of the
woods, where depot containing fifty
bombs was found. Investigation re-
vealed the existence Of revolutionary
society comprising students of the
school of mines, who manufactured
bombs in their spare time, and hid them
In the forest Of Vincennes to await con-
signment to st. Petersburg, where fell
low conspirators were in readiness to
attempt the life Of the late Emperor
Alexander III All were captured. The
police are now engaged in a thorough
search of the forest of Vincennes, in
expectation of finding a similar depot.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-04
new INQUIRY into OIL
TRUST and RAILROADS
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE no
BEGIN THE WORK AT
ONCE.

Basis for the Investigation the Tngor.
nation Recently Submitted to the
President by Commissioner GarfieId
of the Bureau of Corporations--Wiu
Determine Whether Rebates Were
Given--If They Were the Matter wili
be Brought to Attention Of Grand
Jurios.
washington, May 3.-The statement
Is authoritatively made that the de-
partment of justice will Immediately
begin an investigation Of the so-ealed
oil trust and number Of railroads. with
a view of determining whether there
have been violations of the anti-rebate
law.
The basis for this investigation will
be the information recently submitted
ITO the president in a report Of Com
missioner Garfield Of the bureau OF
corporations, which is soon to be made
public. The report, it is learned, deals
only with the subject Of rebates, and
does not go into the questions Of viola
tions Of the anti-trust law
II 1t is found that rebates have been
given by the railroads and accepted by
the so-called oil trust, steps viii bit
once be taken, it is asserted to bring
the matter before the grand juries til
the localities where the alleged Viola
tions took place, with a view to prose-
cutions in the courts. 1t is not thought
that the department. of justice In con
ducting its inquiries will require the
services of any one outside of the de-
partment proper, and the United States
attorneys and other officers under its
immediate direction. 1t is stated that
Mr.. Garfield, in conducting his investi-
cation, travelled extensively and visit
ed all important sections covered by
the operation of the so-called oil trust,
from New England to California and
the south, and that the evidence OBJ
tained Is amply sufficient to warrant
the department of justice In taking the
course decided upon.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-04
MRS PUNDERFORD DEAD.
Wife of John c. Punderford Passed
Away Yesterday.


With deep sadness many will learn of
the death Of Mrs. Elizabeth Punderford,
wife of our esteemed townsman, John
c. Punderford, the well known real es-
tate dealer. She passed away at her
home, 131 Sherman avenue, yesterday
afternoon. Her health had been much
impaired for the last ten months, and
the utmost devoted care and best med
ical skill were unayailing. She was a
native of this city and was sixty-three
years Of age she was a member Of
Trinity P. r. church and valuable
worker in the church. and she had rem
dered great service to the New Haven
hospital as president for several terms
of the board of lady visitors of the hos
pital. She leaves two children, Miss
Annie C. Punderford and John K. Pun
derford, general manager of the trolley
lines of the Consolidated Railway COM
pany.
The funeral services will take place
Saturday afternoon at 2:SO o'clock.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-04
WANTS BIG GOLD RESERVE.
Secretary Shaw Asks Authority to
Hold sl0O, 1000. 900.

Washington, May 3.-secretary Shaw
to-day conferred with members of the
senate committee on finance concerning
a measure he desires congress to enact
at this session permitting the treasury
department to hold in reserve 100000
600 in gold bullion instead of $4,000, 900
as provided by the present law. The
purpose is one of convenience and to
give greater elasticity in the handling
Of the reserve fund. 1t is proposed
however, that a proviso be added that
the excess above $50,0O0,OOO be coined as
soon as possible. The committee in
structed the secretary to draft bill
and later bill prepared by Mr.. Shaw
was introduced by Senator Aldrich.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-04
DIED WATCHING THE BOARD.
Prominent st. Louis Capitalist stricken
at Exchange in That City.

st. Louis, May 3.--corwin H. spen
Ger, a leading grain trader, capitalist,
vice president of the worlds fair and
former president of the Merchants ex-
change collapsed this afternoon while
watching the stock quotation board at
the Planters hotel, and died soon aft
erWards.
Mr.. Spencer was sitting in chair
watching the board when he suddenly
lurched forward. His son, Harlow B.
Spencer, and his former partner, Thorn
as Akin, at the Merchants exchange,
a block distant, were summoned, and
upon their inquiry Mr.. Spencer replied
that he had eaten picked pigs feet for
lunch and was suffering with cramps.
He grew worse rapidly and was car
ried on a cot to a hotel. Mr.. Spencer s
wifeand daughters were called, and
wife and daughters were called, and
Death was dueto uraemic poisoning.
The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-04
LAST EIGHT-HoUR APPEAL.
GOmpers Speaks Earnestly Before
House Committee.

Washington, May 3.--President Com
pers of the American Federation of La-
Dor to-day made what is hoped would
be his last appeal for congressional ac-
tion on the eight-hour bill He talked
to the house committee on labor with
great frankness and earnestness. Year
after year, he said the arguments and
printed record had piled up. All that
could possibly be said against the ques-
tion had been said and repeated. The
present Gardner bill was practically the
same which passed the house two con-
gresses ago. The lalboring people Of
the country We're earnest in their de-
sire for the legislation; patience was
exhausted and it was earnestly hoped
that the present session of congress
would not adjourn without action.