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The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
S1O,OOO FUR SHOCK
Milford Claims That Amount from New Milford Power
 Company.
JUDGE SHUMWAY's CASES
Baldwin Support Case--D oings in the City Court--Banlzrupcty
 Proceedings.

Montgomery D. Jones, a carpenter, was the plaintiff in a case against the New Milford Power company heard before Judge Edwin B. Gager in the superior court yesterday. The case was not concluded. It will be called again this morning. Attorney Hamilton ap- jpeared for MT. Jones and Watrous & Day were the counsel for the power company.
 The case is one in which claim for damages amounting to $10O00 was made, MT. Jones was put on the wit ness stand yesterday afternoon and testified that while erecting a lightning arrestor at the cornpanys plant at Bulls Bridge he came in contact with an uncovered cable carrying 53,0Q0 volts of electricity As at the time Ae had hold of the lightning arrestor he received shocks which burned and in- jured him severely. He alleges the company was negligent in leaving such heavily charged wire exposed.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
PoL1s.
"Jack the Giant Killer" Captures All
 Hearts This Week.


 Hearts This Week.
 Jack the Giant Killer at Polls thea ter this week captures the hearts of all, both the children and the grown ups, Designed primarily for children, founded on the story which President Hadley says is his fayorite classic fairy tale, the parts are taken by an all star caste. Ernest Romnel is Jack and is less than three feet high, In his various disguises he is a mar vel Even the time that Sergeant Don nehy changed his shoestrings and re- turned to capture the criminal in the guise of farmland, a greater suc- cess was not recorded.
 Jack is dressed as a chef at first and has caps galore His final clothing is that of a knight and his duel with Captain George Augur, the giant who is eight feet high, but who looks high CT, is one of the best scenes put on at the theater this week.
 Two vaudeville pieces are brought in in the Giant Killer sketch, both ot which are remarkable, One Is q clav- CT dance by Jack and his three feet high partner and the other is a spec iality separate from the rest of the piece.
 The other attractions at the theater are enthusiastically applauded.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
Judge Motbewson Receiver.

Judge Shumway appointed, Judge A. McC. Mathewson as receiver of the Enterprise Speciality company on the application of Attorney Samuel Hoyt, The company is located on State street near Coart street The concern deals in trading stamps which are given as premiums with purchases. It is all leged to have outstanding debts amounting to about $2,000. Its assets are said to be much more than this amount and only the pressing of the creditors for ready money sent it into the receivership. IA hearing will be held on January on the subject of making the recetvership permanent. In the meantime an effort will be made to adjust fhe situation. The concern came here from Bridgeport.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
Common Pleas Court.

Judge Bennett will hear the case of Abraham Giickstein vs, Philip Silver. glide, ct ux., to-day.
 Yesterday morning in the court of common pleas Judge Isaac Wolfe de- cided in favor of the plaintiff to re- cover $2O0 substantial damages, in the case of H. Christian J, Wuff against the Connecticut R. and l.. Co. The ac- ton was damages to property for change of trolley tracks, Judge Ul- man tried the case shortly before he died and had not decided it. The damages claim was set at $500,
 The case had bene continued from the day before,
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
NEWS OF THE LOCAL THEATERS.
BIJoU
Another of the Popular Souvenir
 Matinees Tomorrow.


 Matinees Tomorrow.
 Tomorrow afternoon at the Bijou theater there will be another of the popular souvenir matinee perform anees, The picture to be distributed is that of Mr, Began Houston, the new leading man of the Bijou Theater Stock company This is the second picture in the series of the company and will be much in demand.
 Turned Up,' this weeks play, is the all absorbing topic of conversation among the patrons of the Bijou. It Is absolutely the funniest play ever seen in New Haven and the offering of the piece at popular prices establishes a new triumph for the management of this theater
 Next week will be a notable one at the Bijou. The offering of the week is to be grand scenic revival of that famous play, Blue Jeans" Not only Is this announcement noteworthy in it. self, but in addition comes the an nouncement of Santa Claus matinee for the children on Tuesday afternoon and grand special Christmas matinee on Chrlstmas day This will be the first Wednesday matinee. under the new company. Seats are now selling for all of next week.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
TO REMOVE BOSTON COLLEGE.
Planned to Make Country's Most
 Beautiful College at Chestnut Hill.

Boston, Dec. lS.-The announcement was made to-day that Boston college, which has occupied buildings In the south end in this city for many years, will remove to New.on, where tract of thirty acres has been secured in the Chestnut Hill district.
 The new location for the college IS on the nigh land sloping down to the 46ge Of the Chestnut Hill reservoir, rha upper end of the land fronts on .ae Newton boulevard, It is planned to erect buildings which eventually will make this one of the most beautiful colleges in the country, from the poins of view of both archi ecture and landscape. Thera will also be ample room for athletic fields.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
TECHNICAL EDUCATION FUTILE.
Chicago Manufacturer Considers It
 Waste of Time and Money.

Waste Of Time and Money.
 Chicago, Dec. 1s.-Richard T. Crane. ST. wealthy manufacturer who has founded several courses in manual training in the grade schools of chica go takes advanced ground on the fu- tility of all special education for men about to enter the industrial field. MT, Crane wrote a paper on the subject of technical education, which was read at the meeting of the Western Railway club last night Graduates of tech nical schools had wasted their time, he said The great positions in the world of mechanics are filled from the clerk and mechanic ranks. All that is need ed is the proper foundation in the grade schools and then the shop course.
 MT. Crane asked Why do men like Carnegie and Armour put their money into the technical schools when their money was made by men who had no such education?" Continuing, he said:
 I oppose the technical education be- Cduee HdNS seen 10 praGllCdl results from it, These schools are built and managed by impraetitcable people It Is a drawback in nearly every mech anical line. The best education is long experience and observation in an up to-date factory. It Is rare to find in stances where the technical man has assisted materially in the building up of great enterprises, Four years in the shop is the training to get.
 All. an apprentice needs is to under stand English, be able to write and do plain arithmetic, and draw He can get this at the night school or at home. No problem of the factory can not be solved with good common edu- cation and ordinary intelligence.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
Meriden Bankrupt.

An application in bankruptcy was filed with Referee Newton yesterday by Samuel Forer of Meriden. The pa pers showed that Forer owes New Ha- ven men $1,097, as follows: Joseph Weissman, $2S; Steinberg, $171; N. Hershowitz, $21; Kaufman & Green berg, S23, M. Setlow X Bro, $57; A.. Goldbaum, $29, and J. H. Ullman, $7S. They show that he owes S3,S05 and has nominal assets of $l,]s5.7O. He was a clothing dealers and seeks bankruptcy relief because of attach ments by creditors.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
NO CONTRACT GIVEN.
Bids for AIdermen's Journal High
 This Year.

Bids for printing the journal of the board of aldermen were opened in City Clerk Streets office yesterday. There were three bidders: Van Dyke &s Go, (formerly the Kiernan Printing Co) of 964 Grand avenue, Sl a page; s, z. Field of 199 State street, 95 cents a page, and A. ID. Steinbach of 273 State street. 94 1-2 cents page
 The journel contains about 500 pages and as the price this year is some what above that of last year it will be necessary to cut down a few pages and have the printing done with el se' spacing. Last year the lowes. b.ddsr put his price at So cents a page.
 The contract was not awarded, hu. will probably go before the board of aldermen
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
 TAFT TALKS ON FLEET.
Wireless Report from Ship Due Fridas
 Gives War Departments Opinion.

On Board Steamer President Grant, By Wireless via Halifax, N. S., Dec 1S,-secretary of War Taft, who is fin- gshng the last stage of his journey around the world on the President Grant, probably will reach New York about noon next Friday. Tn comment ing to-day on the departure of the big American fleet of warships for the Pacific, the secretary said he viewed the undertaking with real satisfaction, He regards the cruise as necessary practice, he said, and valuable as plac- ing the men and ships unaer conditions approximating a war footing. By this cruise they will gan experience which would not be obtainable in any other way" said the secretary. Tt would be useless to spend millions of dollars in building up a navy and then withhold ing opportuni @ies for practice.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19

his case continued until the same date.
 For drunkenness Margaret Kelly and George Wilson were each fined s7 and costs; Julia Steekles was fined 8; Me ta Bellman had judgment suspended, and Abraham Ullman had his case con- tinued until December 26.
 Edward A. Judd was charged with drunkenness and breach of the peace He was accused of going 10 his home, 323 State street, in an intoxicated con dition, yesterday, and with causing a disturbance. His wife is i'll at home. Judgment was suspended on the drunk enness charge and a sentence of thir- .ty days in jail was inflicted for the breach of the peace, Execution was. however, suspended until June 18th, nisi, the judge deciding to give the accused another chance.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
sORY TO oUTr.

Hartford, Dec. 1S--Charles Soby, who for years has conducted one of the best known retail cigar stores in New England has decided to retire from the retail business on April l, He will continue cigar manufacturing, being the second largest maker in the state. r. D. Grave of New Haven is the largest manufacturer.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
|, JUDGE NoYEs COMING.
New United States Circuit Court Judge
 Here Monday.

The first case of the newly appoint ed Judge Moves of the United States circuit court in New Haven will be heard here Monday, It is civil ac- tion. Judge Moves was apointed last summer to take the bench in the place of the late Judge Townsend.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
RYAN IS INNOCENT.
Grand Jury Has Not Yet Found Any
 thing Against Trust Magnatc.

New York. Dec 1S.-District Attor- ney Jerome's motion to compel Paul D. Cravath to answer the grand jury's questions about the Wall and Cort- landt Streets Ferry Railway deal, or to punish him for contempt of court, was argued to-day before Judge Otto Rosalsky in the Court of General ses- sions.
 In the course of tho prosecutors s speech came the assertion that no evil dence of crime on the part of Thomas F. Ryan had been adduced as yet in the jury's investigation.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
Minor Cases.

A charge of breach of the peace against Herman Kantrovich and AL fonzo Riano was continued until De- cen1ber 21. Antonio Perin of 157 Wal lace street, charged with a breach of the peace on Giavanni Monaco, had
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
TWO CENTS A MILE,
Michigan Electric Lines Say They
 Cannot Carry Passengers for Less.

Lansing, Mich, Dec. 1S.-Every inter- urban electric railway in the state, and nearly all the city lines, were repre- sented at a conference held here yes terday With the new railroad commis- sion.
 The electric managers declared that 1t costs more to haul freight by cleo tricity than by steam. It was agreed by nearly all the managers present that passenger rates on interurban lines cannot DC profitable at less than two cents per mile.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
MAMMOTH CHRISTMAS MAIL.
4tf9 Sacks Carried Abroad bS
 Oceanic.

New York, Dec. 1S.-- The White Star steamship oceanic, which sailed for Europe yesterday, carried a rec ord shipment of 4,119 sacks of east bound Christmas mail. The 4,0SS sacks taken fr m New York by the Celtic last yeal epresented the previous AiG last ye represented the previous high r
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19

In the civil side of the town court before Judge Tyner, the case of zthe Star Bottling Works vs. the Connecti- cut Bottling association, was tried. It is d replevin suit to recover $25O worth of bottles. The claim Is that the defendants collected bottles belonging to the plaintiffs. Decision was reserv- GU.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
CIRCUS HEAD DEAD.
Gus Rpgling of Big Combine Passes
 Away.

New orleans, Dec. 18,-Gus Ringing. head of the circus combination which controls the shows of Ringing Broth CTS, Barnum & Bailey and Forepaw- Sells, died here to-day of complication. of diseases.
 He came here about TWO weeks ago with the hope ahat the southern eli. mate would benefit hirS.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-19
nate set.

Judge Shunway set the case of Hen " c. Bretzfelder vs. Beers to be heard on equity issues for Tuesday,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-04
FROM LIVING SHEEP
TO MANS LEG BONES

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-Because he
still has the use of his right leg Paul
Monk owes thanks to a healthy sheep,
which gave up it's life for him. Monk
is now recovering from one of the most
remarkable operations ever performed
in this city.
After his case had puzzled physicians
for months it was discovered that the
marrow of the bone of his right leg
from the hip to the knee had entirely
disappeared. Monk was injured while
in bathing. DR.. A. A. Berg decided to
perform the only operation which
would save the bone. Infusion of the
marrow of a living animal into human
bone has been done only a few times.
1t has never been attempted on so
large a scale.
Five weeks ago the operation was
performed. An incision nine inches
long was made in the leg, barring the
bone. The sheep was brought alive
into the operating room and while it
was still living, marrow was extracted
from its bone and skillfully inserted
into the hollow bone of the patient.
Monk is now walking about his room.
Physicians are confident he will have
no more trouble.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-04
GIRL AND BEAR GAVE
EACH OTHER A FRIGH7 I
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
CROSS FORK, Jan. 3.-Sent in the
afternoon to bring home a herd of
eight cows from a natural pasture in
sugar maple grove nearly a mile
from home. Sadie McMaclkin, the To-
year-old daughter of a farmer In the
New Bergen district, found herself
face to face with a black bear.
The bear, himself affrightened by the
sudden appearance of the girl, raised
on his launches and began >chattering
his teeth-a defiant attitude assumed
by the animals when cornered.
Miss McMackin believed the bear
was about to attack her and turned
to run. She was within sight of dug
out shanty used for the storing of the
camp kettle and other sugar-making
accoutrements, having upon it heavy
door fastened on the outside by a large
wooden latch. The girl ran for refuge
to the cave-like apartment and slam
med the door behind her
The bear by this time, doubtless, was
scamping away, for when the girl
peered out through a knot-hole in the
door Bruin was nowhere to be seen.
She then made the discovery that she
was a prisoner in the stuffy little cave,
for the heavy wooden latch on the out
side had fallen into place and held the
door firm.
There was no way of reaching the
latch from the inside. 1t was as dal d;
as a dungeon and her stirring about
had disturbed Il colony of bats, whose
ugly FORMS in their short -circut flight,
bumped against her head and hands
Nand face. She shouted; but her voice
could not penetrate the heavy door of
the cave. and for nearly four hours she
was prisoner in the cave.
At the end of that time a seorching
party came close enough to the cave
for Sadie to make herself heard, and
she was released. The girl, however,
was in a state bordering on hysteria,
owing to the flight of the bats and fear
of reptiles in the cave.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-04
Pacific Coast Trade
by Associated Press.
SAN ERANCISCO. Inn Pink

Bv Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. Pink beans,
81 ,>502 15 lima, $l50u4,40; small white,
a. .Aom2 2.So large white, SOFA 90; Oregon
Bubanks, 81 .u002.0 90, Salinas Burbauks,
81 .9O02 "a river reds, ~ .OUGil .l5; Mcrccd
sweets, 81 ,0G6t2. %; new potatoes, &c; fancy
onions, soc; common soc; green peas, 81
7c; string beans, Hllc; egg plant, 81 00u
$50; green peppers, SulOc; tomatoes, SOC
Gt$l %; summer squash. Sl.I56t2. 90; garlic,
2l.dt3C: CuCum DerS, 81 co.
Fom-.Family- extras, $,SO45;10;, bakers
extras, &4O6l475; Oregon and Washing
ton, $35Ou4OO; shipping wheat, $l,25Q1, 30;
milling, sl.$5a1 40, feed barley H..74g@
red oats, 81 .25q1, 10; white, Sl.5O@l go;
black, $l75q2 20; middlings, $27 Oo@So, OOi
$28 .5O6t25.o0 oatmeal $i5O@4 70; oat
groats, $40; rolled oats s7.C0qs 90; wheat
hay, Sl9. vJQ22 90; wheat and oat, $l5 OOci
10 90; wild oat, $l0,0Oq13. 90; tame oat
tl5 OOGlS,OO; alfalfa, $l0.OOQ13,O0; straw, GC
dS0c.
Receipts-Flour, 9OiO; wheat, 5S9S; bar
ley, 5S.6i5; oats, -l7i6 potatoes, 3S25; on
ions, 375; bran, 54O middllngs, 1876; hay
432; hides, 1877; wine, $4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-04
HYGIENIC POND FOR
SKATING IS Invented
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
BILLINGS, Mont, Jan. 3.-With the
arrival of winter, DR.. jeremiah Wight's
hygienic skating pond has been opened
and it is expected to prove popular
DR.. Wight has for years contended
that skating in it's present form is more
fatal than football, and his aim has
been to eliminate the Objectionable ele-
ments.
First of all he has so arranged that
the ice, while it has a smooth surface,
is not frozen so hard and persons fall
ing are not injured. This appeals
strongly to novices.
Then the willy doctor has placed all
his danger signs at points where the ice
is thicker in order that inquisitive per-
sons and incredulous folks can glide
over the spots with safety.
But the greatest stroke of genius 10
his hotwater system circulating be-
meath the ice sheet. Should 1t so hap
pen that a skater breaks through he
will find himself i'm warm water and all
danger of pneumonia is eliminated.
His final invention is a skate that
generates current of electricity as 1t
slides over the ice. Wires convey this
current to foot warmers in the shoes,
and girls can skate for hours without
having their toes frostbtten.
Should the doctors ideas work out,
they will be applied to roof garden
skating ponds in eastern cities.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-04
SNEEzE EPIDEMIC UPSETS CAR
Meek Chinaman with Bag Said Moth
ing, but Escaped with the
Goods

NEW YORK, Jan. Scar No. 1851
Of the Bronx Park Subway express was
full of "sneeze powder when it pulled
out of the Brooklyn bridge station at 5
o'clock last night Everybody sneezed
except a Chinaman, who sat tight and
looked solemn and everybody roared
with laughter as the epidemic spread
until it brought watery eyes and sore
noses.
1t got to be so bad that several
passengers appealed to the conductor.
He got one Whit of t e "sneeze pow
der and went off like a Calling gun.
He couldn't locate The powder, except
in the air The protesting passengers.
between sneezes, caught sight of the
solemn monaghan. Not a sneeze had
ruffled the even temper of the celestial.
Put him OFF," yelled some passen-
gers. Others thought they ought to
capture the bag first. The Chinaman
sat on it. The attacking party FELL
back with a Volley Of sneezes.
Put him Off" yelled the crowd. the
conductor and { rec men led the IN
offending Chinaman and his bag to the
platform and the train started ahead,
the mongolion wondering what he had
done to cause such o rumpus. The
sneezes still Vibrated when the train
pulled out of Seyenty-second street.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-04
WANT TO PLAY SANTA CLAUS
Many Ask Postoffice for ChiIdren's
Letters, but the Law
Says No
Special to The Herald.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-The post
office department does rot believe in
San. Claus. Officially, the dispenser
of Christmas cheer for little folks is a
myth. The department has formally
ruled that no such person xists, and,
therefore. the addressee being non
existent, all the hundreds and thou
sands of letters from rusting children
that every year find their way into the
postoffice boxes at this season are
gathered unsympathetically together
and forwarded to the dead letter office.
The Christmas season has no charm
for the prosaic I'M >loyes of the dead
letter Office. 1t means only lot of
extra work and bother for them, be-
cause it falls to their lot to open and
examine all these communications to
Santa, so that if money is by any
chance contained in them it may be re-
turned to the sender, if the address can
be determined. After that they are all
destroyed.
Every year there come with these
letters to Santa Claus other addressed
to the postotfice OF. cicls by sympathe-
tic men and women who have the
money and the inclination to crafty
all the childrens requests. But, bless
you, that could never be thought of by
the red-tape- bound oficialdom. How
could letters addressed to a person and
place that don't exist be delivered to
real persons with II abiding places?
There is no imagination in the post
office department that can cover that
stretch. II would be against the law"
to deliver letters to other than the ad-
drcssee, and the time-honored c rist-
mas celebration might better De aban-
doned than have the law violated in
such fashion.
SO the letters remain undelivered and
the requests unresponded to. and Saint
Nick overlooks thous. .nds of children
Just because lie has not received their
petitions. But the postoffice keeps the
law
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-04
CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET
Bears Pounded Wheat Prices on APP
Pearance of Federal Report. Il
Provisions Firm
BY Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Jan. 3.-The report OF the
interstate commerce commission regard
ing the car shortage in the northwest,
Wuich contained the assertion tnat only
3 per cent of last year crop OF spring
wheat had been marketed was the club
used by the bears in pounding down the
prices in the wheat pit. Larger and
cheaper offerings of Argentine wheat at
Liverpool made another factor for lower
prices, Throughout the day offerings
we're heavy, many local and outside lines
being active on the selling side Nnmer-
Gus stop loss orders came ont as prices
declined. The grain shipment came from
the ports, The market closed decidedly
weak with prices close to the lower point
Of the day. May opened lsc to lsml4c
lower at 7Glac to 76la6i163sc sold at ,63sc,
ana then declined to 75@sa75%c Final
quotations ON May were i53ic, loss Of
5l0lc.
Trading in corn was quiet and prices
easy. May closed steady May opened
a shade lower at 4S1ac, sold between 4S4sc
and 43&043asc, and closed lsc lower, at
oats were easier and the volume Of
trading small. May opened unchanged
a; 36Ac sold off to 36c and closed a shade
lower at 3Gls@36Ac.
Provisions were firm. At the close MAY
pork was up SC; lard up 21ac, and ribs nc
higher.