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The sun., 1907-08-19
GEO. q. TILYOU SCORCHED AGAIN.
Careless smoker starts $3.50 Fire On
steepicchsse Island. Near Bridgeport.

stespicchsse Island. Near Bridgeport.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Aug. ia match
used to light cigarette caused $4,000 fire
this afternoon at Steeplechase Island, an
amusement resort in the Sound of this
city controlled 10y George e. Tilyou Of
Coney Island. Tilyou sustained personal
loss OF $4,000.
The fire caused panic among 20.0OO
pleasure seekers but no one was seriously
injured.
At 3:45, when 5000 people were assembled
in the stadium. an endowed athletic field,
waiting fdr the opening Of an exhibition
baseball game between the Chicago Ma
tionals and the Bridgeports Of the Connecti-
cut League. a cigarette smoker in the
bleachers dropped a lighted match under
the benches. Dry grass caught fire and the
flames soon epveloped the bleechers. The
crowd rushed out and the flames ate their
way to the grand stand, then to the Sleeple
chase gravity race course. a cafe with
apartments above, owned by Robert Weber.
then to the Earthquake House and q build
ing used for storage.
The entire island was threatened and
there was rush for the two steamers
and the ferry, which were unable to accom-
motlate all who were anxious TO leave.
Capt. Paul Boynton~ OF Coney Island.
manager Of the park, used dynamite on
the Steeplechase and with the assistance
Of the island employees and the Bridgeport
fire department prevented the flames from
destroying the park
The sun., 1907-08-19
HOKE SMITH WORKS IN LOBBY
Georgias Governor Nearly Prectpitstes
Miat I'm the Legislature.

ATLANTA. Aug lS.-The General As
sembly Of Georgia adjourned ct o'clock
this morning almost in q riot after being in
continuous session nearly twenty hours.
The trouble was due to the hard hght Gov.
Hoke Smith made TO put through measures
which he had promised the people in his
campaign lsst year and 10 the presence
of the Governor in the lobby in che interest
of his measures.
The hardest fight was over the bill in
creasing the powers Of the Railroad Com
mission and giving the Governor the right
TO appoint two more commissioner thus
making it's membership Ave instead of
three. At present the commissiou is hostile
TO Gov. Smith. He has only one man on it,
but he will control II under the measure
which he forced through. This five mem
Der bill provoked the riot. The House
indorsed Il, but it was defeated in Senate
at 3 o'clock this morning. Friends Of the
bill moved reconsideration and Gov. Smith
got 80 busy with certain Senators that
reconsideration was ordered and the bill
was saved by a vote Of p TO Fl.
Then the storm broke and Senators began
to denounce the Governor for lobbying.
Attacking Gov. Smith, Senator Hayes said,
Il have seen members who are against
this increase buttonholed and toe trodden
around this building all night II is dis
grace 10 LOo
Senator Flynt said. IL railroads had done
what has been done on this floor within the
last few minutes a CRY would have gone up
which would have been undying. This
vote shows that Senators who ten minutes
ago voted against the increase have been
changed. | would resign my seat in the
Senate before ] would be whipped into line
by the lash of the Governor"
Senator Hayes was especially bitter
He said: -In the years have served the
State as a legislator have not seen the
agents Of railroad or any other corpora
ton act az l have seen the agents Of the
Governor act in this Capitol Tonight. and
l wish to say that were Governor OF Goor-
gia and had ! preached against lobbyists
on every hilltop in the State would not be
the first to deserve the name"
Gov. Smith secured the passage OF only
two of his reform measures. the disfran-
chisement bill and the bill strengthening
the Railroad Commission. The prohibition
bill which was passed WAS not one OF the
Governors measures. The Governor
failed to secure bills against lobbyists and
free passes. Anti-lobbying and anti-pass
bills passed both houses. but failed be-
cause the House and Senate could not agree.
The Governor also failed to get through
his bill putting an income tax OF per cent.
on the gross receipts OF railroads and other
public service corporations.
The sun., 1907-08-19
COMPLAINANT GOES rO oxxs.

boocbiack, Arrested by Mnn VINO Beaa Kim.
Finds Justice wstchfu m Court.
JosephJ. Quinn Of s7e East 3Sth stresS. VIM
arsaspec.s!p o...oss's badge. brousb,
an Italian bootblaok 30 ths might court isst
night and charged HIM with assault. When
Quinn left the court room he himself vas a
prisoner on tho Same charge, and the com.
plainant was ths bootblack, who had been
released.
Quinn. who h employed hy the New York
Contracting Company, told Magistrate Cor.
nell that while coming over to Manhattan
from Long Island City on q ferryboat he
called for q shine. Two Italians came
running with thsir boxes, and the bigger
one nailed the Job By puahlnR the other
away. The shine did noe proGress to sui!
Quinn, but when he proeested he said. IN.
man hit him with his dst. So Quinn sprant
his badge on the crowd that gathered and
brought the bootblack 70 court.
Magistrate Cornell bad heard this much
OF the story when Harold J. Friedman, u
s aTyer at 90 Broad street. stepped up on thc
I'm a lawyer. your Honor. but i've oome
here voluntarily TO say q word about this
case l was on the boat and saw il all
This officer was guilty OF brutal assault
He and the bootbleok got into an argument
lifted his foot and licked the Ita liam 10 the
jaw. Then he hit him with his fist
Two other passengers-a bank clerk ana
real estate dealer-corroborated Fried
mans account. So did the bootblack
Giuseppe Londini, Of 81 Crosby street. a
cripple. through an interpreter.
I'm satisfied" said the Magistrate to
Quinn. that you committed q brutal assault
I'm going 20 discharge this prisoner and
have him make a complaint against Won
Then I'm going to hold you Tor Special
Sessions in $500. After that shall sei,d tha
testimony Of these disinterested witpesses
altogether too many loafers wearing special
police officers shields"
The sun., 1907-08-19
MEDICAL STUDENT 4 SIICIDE.
shoots Himself I'm a Hotel - Was DespODdcut
Over His Lack az Money.


Robert J. White. 2l years old, a third
year student at Cornell Medical College,
committed suicide yesterday in the Hotel
Braddook, l2eth street and Eighth avenue,
by shooting himself through the right
temple He registered there at o'clock
in the morning under the name Of r. c.
Lewis and at O'Clock last night was found
dead in bed. A pearl handled revolver
was in his right hand.
Policeman Birmingham of the West l25th
street station was summoned to the hotel
He examined the young mans effects,
found that his name was White and thar
he lived at 357 West nth street, which ia
a boarding house. The landlady said that
White had been despondent for some time
over money matters.
She told the policeman that White had
repeatedly declared that his father and
grandfather had committed suicide with
revolver which he had suspended from
cord on the wall. The pistol found in the
hotel room tailed with the description Of
that which the boarding house mistress
described
Tie police said that Whites father died
eight months ago, leaving his son 81 200.
which he quickly went through, or late
he had been pretty hard up and only re-
Gently pawned the revolver for $40. He
redeemed il few days ago, He owed
several months board and was in debt to
several cole re mates White came from
Lockport. y Y.
The sun., 1907-08-19
ON SARATOGA TO BE SOLD.
she Was with Commodore Perrs's fleet In
.yapan-Stricken From Naval LAST.


WASHINGTON. Aug. iS.-The famous old
sloop Of war Saratoga was stricken yester-
day from the official list of naval vessels
and ordered to be sold. She was built at
the navy yard at kittery. Me-. in is42, was
ship rugged and carried twenty guns. She
il I47Is feet long. of 30 feet I inch beam
and has a displacement of i.02S tons.
The first duty of the new Saratoga in
is42 shortly after her launching. Was of
the African coast. where she was the flag
ship of a fleet of three ships under COM
mand of Capt Matthew Galbraith Perry.
which was engaged in supprcssing the
slave trade. In the MEXICAN war the Sara
toga served in the blockading fleet on the
eastern coast of Mexico.
She then was sent to the Orient, where
in 1853 she joined the feet Of Commodore
Perry and went TO Japan to deliver letter
from the President Of the United States
to the Emperor Of Japan. inviting that
country to enter into commerce and friendly
intercourse with the United States.
She again returned to Japan i'm 1854. when
the treaty of amity and commerce was
signed. In the civil war the Saratoga was
cruising of the African coast For many
wears she has been out OF commission az
Philadelphia.
The sun., 1907-08-19
TWO MEN sHOTWHILE BERRYING.
Ono MAY Die Police Let Their Companions
GO-Now They suspect Them.


David Roth, 40 yoars old. Of si Himrod
street, Brooklyn. y master builder, was
shot in the abdomen yesterday afternoon at
Rosedale. Queens borough An operation
was performed by DR.. Noble and DIR.
Kesselberry at the Jamaica Hospital, but
there IL little chance that Mr.. Roth will live.
Henry Brandt, rs years old, Of Ill Irving
avenue. Brooklyn. was shot az the same
time In the forehnger Of his left hand.
There was but one report and IL is thought
the same bullet injured both Tcl.
The police arrested an ITALIAN named
Domsnioo de Staffanno OF a., Carroll street,
Brooklyn, but az IL was evident to the
police that he did not shoot the men he was
held merely for carrying pistol. II shoots
small shot instead Of a bullet.
Roth and Brandt were members Of party
Of six men and q boy who had been ont
gathering elderberries. They had a horse
and wagon and we're near the Rosedale
school when the shooting occurred Henry
Haft OF 200 Hancock street. Brooklyn, a
member Of the party and son-in-law OF Mr..
Roth, says he heard a shot. but doesn't
know who fired it.
Mounted Sergeant Wicks was on the
Foster Meadow road within 800 feet Of the
spot where the men were. He reached there
just before Patrolman Fanater, who sp-
preached on foot from another direction,
did. Wicks from his elevation on his horse
saw a man running at q little distance and
gave chase. He covered fully half mile
before coming UP with the Italian. who had
run against a wire fence. cutting his neck
badly. He had the scatter shot revolver,
but no weapon OF 30 oalibre. That was
the size Of the bullet which was extracted
later from Mr.. Roth's body. DR.. Gardner
OF the Jamaica Hospital took the injured
man there in an ambulance.
Acting Captain Carnan OF the Seventy
eighth precinct after a personal investtga-
ton said he thought the shooting might
nave been done. accidentally probably,
by one Of Roth's party. a. he had learned
that one OF them had q revolver with him.
He sent men out TO find this man and others
The uninjured returned to Brooklyn when
the wounded were taken away, and the
police thinking they had the shooter In the
person Of the Italian. did not desain them.
The sun., 1907-08-19
kILLED WITH 4 BILLIARD CiE.
Tragedy n saloon kept bS a Woman whose
Husband Mas slain LAST winter.

Julian Schinansky of 7ol Ninth avenue,
in the Steinway section Of Queens borough,
was struck on the head and killed last
evening in the pool room connected with
the saloon run by Mrs. Michael Schmidt
at 7i9 Ninth avenue. Steinway, When the
police reached the place Schinansky was
unconscious lie died in St Johns Hos
ptal in Long Island City.
IL is said there had been an argument
and an exchange of blows and then one Of
the combatants struck Schinansky with q
cue, The police arrested Thomas kotchnie.
the bartender. and locked him up on "a
charge of violating the liquor law.
Michael schmidt, whose widow Keeps the
place where the tragedy occurred. kept
saloon in the laurel Hill section OF Queens
until he was shot and killed one night last
winter by policeman who had gone there
TO investigate a robbery Schmidt Hred at
the policeman first.
The sun., 1907-08-19
DIED..

pALE-Suddenly, a. hh home. Bonnie Bs'
Cold Spring on shs-Hudson. August ~, Cha
meu Dais. AgeA - years.
SERVICES - hss late home. s-so p. NJ MONDAY
Intermeot 81 Laurel Hin Cemetery, Pbi'sd'
phiA. Tvesds1.
DoNAHuE-Saeurday, August ~. william '
Donahue, ssn Of Msria r. and the late ANDRE
:. Donahue.
Funeral fron his late rsssdsnce. ms south -
st. Brookiys, Monday, Up. NJ.
pfNK1RTON. suddenly whfe 90 route to guro~
on hondsv. August 10. 1907, Robcr, Nan
Pinkerton N his seth year
Notaoe OF funeral hereafter.
SYPHER.-At East Orange. N. j., August ib lS 10
Obadiah Lum Syphor. IN HE 7ttn year.
Funeral services win be hold st his late resfcn'''
AZ East Park st.. East Orange, ". j.. 90 J ics'
day. August -. ~ p. NJ. interment'n Wv
burgh, N. ", Wednesday morning.
wHrrING.-M Hudson. N. Y. August H. ~
ccrnelia Whiting. In the Goth year Of her age
Funeral from the residence Of hsr scn.ln.Iaa
W. n scov'n. Tuesday. August n si
The sun., 1907-08-19

through the uproar like the shock Of felled
trees.
When Sarah Althea was NJ the height OF
her frenzy the Rev. Mr.. Bidweil suddenly
stopped and began to boom out the intro
duction Of an hour long sermon between
wheeaes. That was the signal for all the
faithful. well blown, 10 sit down again and
drink in the wisdom Of the Pentecostal
dispensation.
Ii was 7 O'Clock before the necessity arose
10 pray in supper for all the flock.
The sun., 1907-08-19
WOMAN ELOPER TAKES POISON.
Tries Suicide by Same Plan That Her Con-
paniOn Used Successfully.

CINCINNATI. Aug. ls.-Mrs Bonnie Tucker.
aged 35. wife Of Frank A. Tucker. a well
known Republican politician and former
superintendent Of the city infirmary. OF
which institution she was matron during
her husbands administration. attempted
suicide to-day at the Gibson House by swal-
lowing cyanide OF potassium.
Last Friday John +. Owens, a newspaper
man. committed suicide in her presence
by taking some Of the same poison from the
same package.
Owens and Mrs. Tucker eloped together
about SIX months ago 10 Mexico. he leaving
a life and child and she her husband. After
spending all his money Owens and the
woman quarrelled. but returned to this
city together. When she finally told him
she would no longer have anything to do
with him he took the poison and she ran
away and left him dying.
Frank Tucker. the husband, once took
her back after she had run away with a
business man. but this time he says he will
not forgive her
The sun., 1907-08-19
INsUETED WOMAN, THEN HIT HER
Mrs. Ermalinda Longo LIKELY to Die From
Assault by Two Young Men.


Assault by Two Young Men.
Mrs. Ermalinda Longo. wife Of Vincent
Longo. janitor OF the Scarboro apartment
house at l7e West Eighty sixth street. was
playing with kitten in front OF her homo
last night when Thomas Garfield. n years
old, butcher. Of all Amsterdam avenue
and John Holmes. 10 years old. q clerk, Of
$50 West 1l2th street. and another man
came along and insulted her. she says. Her
husband heard the talk and struck one Of
the three to drive them on.
Two Of the men, Longo says, fell upon
him and beat him UP some, while the third,
Garfield, he charges hit his wife with q
piece of conduit pipe. Mrs. Longo suf-
fered a cerebral hemorrhage and two Sc
we're scalp wounds. She was taken to
Roosevelt Hospital in a critical condition
and is not expected to live
The three men ran. Longo caught
Holmes at Eighty-seventh street and Co
lumbus avenue. and held on to Garfield
when he turned back to assist Holmes
unit! Policeman Seeley Of the West Sixty
eighth street station arrived 20 arrest them.
They we're charged with felonious ASSAULT.
The sun., 1907-08-19
TWO STILETTOS.
one Was sticking In Friches Heart ami the
other From His Hip Pocket.

ALBANY. Aug. 1s.--Dominick Eriche, aged
30. a railroad laborer. was found in the yard
Of an Italian boarding house this afternoon
another sticking out Of his own hip pocket.
Francisco Geraoci. one of the forty other
boarders. is missing and is suspected. A
game of cards was the cause, and the police
believe II a case Of who was the quicker IN
using the stiletto!
The sun., 1907-08-19
Nine Hur, In Trolley Collision.

YORK Pa.. Aug is,--Nine PERSONS we're
injured at noon to-day on the York and
Windsor Electric Railway when two cars
came together in headon collision. The
accident was caused by Motorman 8. ID.
Beck mieunderstand nding the signalAIl
The sun., 1907-08-19
SUES TO RECOVER BLACkMAFL.
PLAINTIFF Alleges That He was Held Up Tor
o. 400 by the Black Hand.

NEwcAsTLE. Pa. Aug. is.-Suit has been
commenced by Dominick Tuteno. an Italian.
against Fred Scarce, in which Tuteno seeks
70 recover 81 900 which he declares was ex-
torted from him by Scarce. who is alleged
to be Black Hand leader.
Some time ago Tuteno. who is wealthy
business man, received a letter In which
Il was declared that unless he gave Scarce
paid no attention at first. but when he re-
ceived other letters. more threatening than
the first, he finally sent the money TO Scarce.
A demand was then made for more, which
he refused, gid he finally placed the matter
in the hands OF his attorney. who brought
the suit
The sun., 1907-08-19
BETROTHED COUPLE DROWNED.
Both Might Have Been Saved Nut Tor the
Girls struggies.

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Aug. leroy Rad
cIiffe, q clerk In the Chicago Great West
ern officee here, and Minnie Howard, TO
both drowned by tho overturning Of a
canoe in the Des Moines River this after
noon.
Both bodies were recovered two hours
later. Both might have been saved hut for
the struggles OF the girl.
The sun., 1907-08-19
rO OPEN KENTUCKY CAMPAIGN.
Republican C,ndi dates 20 Hold Mig Meeting
M MaysviIIe To-day.

LEXINGTON, Ky, Aug. Is.-Augistus E.
Wilson Of Louisville, the Republican nomi-
nee for Governor Of Kentucky, will make
speech tomorrow afternoon at Maysviie,
his native town.
candidates, who will make short speeches.
II is to be the opening OF the campaign in
Kentucky.
wilson will not be at the Taft meeting hero.
4 being on the same date he is to appear ss
BindmAn.
The sun., 1907-08-19
Can Make Music With
The AUTO-PIANO
Very few mon can play the piano.

Very few men can play the piano
Most women give it up when they marry.
The consequence is that when the children
the music makers-go away from home the music
stops; and the piano is silent.
Why not have piano that every member OF
the tamily-whether musician not-can play
Have music when you want it-classica, popular
operatic for the dance-a whole repertoire, to suit
various tastes including many beautiful things that
probably no member of the family could ever play
by hand-and still have the piano always available
to play in the usual way.
The AUTO-PIANO answers all these require
ments perfectly.
1t is first of ALL splendidly built piano. with
sweet tone and excellent action, in q handsome
case Then it has lt-in-piano-player of high
merit that is brought into action without difficulty
in an instant
And it's price is astonishingly ittle-$560 No
PLAYER. piano for less than hundred dollars more
can equal it, Then we make it still easier to buy
by taking your present piano in exchange at fair
valuation and letting you pay the difference in
easy sums.
Come and listen to the AUTO-PIANO in our
Piano Salons and learn about the easy-payment
plan You'll never regret doing So
JOHN WANAMAKER
Formerly A. T. Stewart 8 Co.,
Broadway Fourth Avenue Eighth to Tsnsa ssssL
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-22
LEGAL NOON.
A Time That Seems to Vary In the
Different States.

A Time That Seems to Vary In the
Different States.
The courts Of several states have
dealt with an odd question, none of
them agreeing upon a similar answer.
When is 1t legally noon? Fire insur-
ance policies expire at noon, and the
word is admitted to mean exactly 12
O'Clock midday. But standard time
has not been adopted in all communi-
ties. Many small towns cling to sun
time, which may be from a few min
utes to nearly an hour earlier than
standard. In one state a fire occurred
nj two minutes past noon, sun time.
and the insurance company held that
the policy had expired before the fire.
Sun time is used in that town, but the
insured sued the company, holding that
local customs did not rule the policy
and that he was entitled to his insur-
ance. The state courts sustained him.
In another state similar contention
was taken to the courts and just the
opposite decision given. Several con-
fiicting precedents have been estab-
lished In state courts, and It is said
the question can only be decided for
good and all when case has been
carried into the United States courts
and passed upon by the supreme court.
New York Press.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-22
A WEAK HEART.
u Need Not by Any Means Point to
Short Life.

II Need Not by Any Means Point to
Short Life.
The heart is perhaps the organ OF the
body least known by members of the
medical profession, and many a man
who has been told he would die In q
given time has outlived the doctor who
pronounced his doom.
Heart disease Is coming to inspire
less and less terror In the average
man, and nine men In ten who are al
lotted ten years to live double that
time to die Of an entirely foreign COM
plant
Some years back" says DR.. Warren
Schoonover, Jr., in the Medical Rec
ord, heart diseases were a cause Of
great worry and fright to the laity %
well as to the profession, but now they
are handled so successfully by the ply
sician that the patients live on under
proper therapeutics until the end of the
term Of their natural Life without much
difficulty from the diseased organ. In
the practice Of one physician was q
case which was under the care of his
grandfather from 1880 to 1855, his
uncle from 1856 to 1882 and himself
from 1882 to 1893, when the patient
died at the age Of ninety-three, having
been under the care Of the first physi-
clan for twenty-six years. the second
for twenty-six years and the third for
eleven years, a total period Of sixty
three years.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-22
Osteopathy.

How many people date their III
health from a severe cold or la grippe
or from some accident or injury
Possibly slight at the occurrence, but
as time went on and the vitality and
vigor of the body begins to wane the
disease became more marked. These
cases most satisfactorily prove the
osteopathic theory of disease. Some
slip of slight bones, unnoticeable
other than a pain for a brief time oc-
ours. The nerves adjacent to 1t are
pressed upon. For a time the vigor
of the body enables 1t to Withstand
the injury. But as the vigor decreases
the effect becomes manifest and dis
ease is the result. This is a tale daily
told in the osteopath's office, and 1t
illustrates why the osteopath goes to
the bony frame work to find the cause
of disease.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1907-04-22

Open war on all interests which
oppose President Roosevelt and his
policies, is the latest and most startl-
ing cour to be made by the presi-
dent, according to Washington dis
patches. John F.. Lathrop, who is
Washington correspondent for a syn
dicate Of western papers, in a tele-
graphic correspondence to the Ore
gon Sunday Journal says:
Official. announcement from the
White House that the president will
use the federal appointive power to
control New York state against the
enemies Of his policies has stirred
Washington from center to circun-
ference.
Politicians see in the announce
ment a declaration of open war on
every senator and representative in
congress and ON every state which
does not fall In line with the presi-
dent and accept his plans fully.
Many republican senator's and
members Of the lower house, who, by
opposing Roosevelt on phases of his
railroad policy. as we'll as on his for
estry proposals, and their friends,
profess to see coercion in the atti-
tude of the chief executive, as now
indicated.
Bourne I'm the Saddle.
The new policy virtually amounts
to giving Senator Bourne first place
on all Oregon appointments. as the
White House regards Senator Fulton
as disposed to oppose him on para
mount Issues.
Close watchers observe Bourne,
who remains here still, cultivating
the president assiduously and leav-
ing no means unemployed to get into
his good groces.