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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
STRAW MAN SCARES 4 BURGLAR.
Man VINO Obbed Judge Endicott's Home
E%ncOunters Dummy and Flccs.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. July IA burglar
robbed the home OF Circuit Judge Altar
B. Endicott on States avenue last night.
taking, among other things. the Judges
railroad passes allowed him under the
State law for travelling on official business,
and the Judge had to pay his fare to Cam
den this morning.
The burglar pried open a basement
window Of the cottage and quietly entered
the house. The police record of his trail
inside shows that he first examined the
family silver in the dining room and then
went to the second floor and entered the
room where the Judge and Mrs. Endicott
slept. The Judge weighs about 200 pounds
and could handle two ordinary men with
ease. but he did not waken. The burglar
vent through his pockets, taking, about
SIS in loose change and bills and also the
book of rail road ~deadheads." He left
the Judges 5000 watch and other jewelry.
In an adjoining room slept Allan Il.
Endicott. Jr., the youngest SON., Paul. and
a Great Dane dog that is especially fierce
at night. The burglar did not enter.
Now, it happened that Miss Jean Enid
colt. the Judges daughter, had prepared
for a masquerade party about TO be given
by a friend by making a dummy OF straw
filed clothes belonging to her big brothers.
This dummy was standing in her room.
Mr.. Thief slyly opened the door. There.
apparently. was a big man staring directly
at him. He must have been scared. say
the detectives, for every door in his pas
sage was left open and footprints found
by the sleuths on the lawn were far enough
apart to signify that he left on the jump.
The police say that the thief was prob
ably a membe of a young gang OF second
story workers who has been worrying
hem lately. but Judge Endicott Is of the
opinion that the intruder was n finished
htrplar
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
LAWYER Runs A CIRCCS.
Hopes the Creditor VIII Soften To-day and
Take II or His Hands.

Former Assistant United States District
Attorney Clifford Tappan faced a per-
picking problem yesterday when he was
appointed ancillary receiver in this dis
trict by Judge Thomas T.. Chatield of the
United States District Court for the assets
of the John d'Alma circus which ia showing
at l4lst street and Robbins avenue, The
Bronx. This put the job of running the
show and feeding the animals up to Tappan
A petition in bankruptcy was filed against
D'Alma in the United States District Court
in Brooklyn by James f. Armstrong, the
boss truckman of the circus. Armstrong,
il seems has been furnishing the horses,
some fifteen in number for Transporting
the outfit from trains and on small distances
from town TO town. He says that he was
10 receive $40 a day for this, hut D'Alma
fell behind until there was, including interest,
81 1917 due him.
The show is a small one ring affair. and
owing TO the backward spring business
was not what IL should have been. How
ever, D'Alma says that Armstrong has
drawn all his back pay but 500. This was
the dispute that Tappan faced.
The first thing that the receiver did was
to order that the performances go on just
the same. Then'he took the various animal
men into his confidence and instructed
them not to let the livesassets suffer. How
ever, his ingenuity was exhausted when the
clowns old him hat part of his duty was
TO furnish them with new gags
"Her I'm getting over my head, Tappan
is reported as saying.
With that he got D'Alma and Armstrong
together for a heart to heart talk. IL was
pointed ou that business was good and
hat they could easily get out of their finan-
cial difficulty by a little amiability. One
of the things that D'Alma held against
Armstrong was that the latter walked off
with all the horses Of the show. which are
Armstrong; property. and left il stranded
at Hartford several weeks ago. IL was
only after desperate ~pleadings and keeping
the wire hot that D'Alma persuaded him
TO come back from New York and help the
circus out of the lurch.
Another meeting of the principals is
scheduled for to-day. when il is said the
matter will he settled amioahly. Tappan
was an interested spectator at yesterday
afternoons performance, but by night said
that he had a headache and turned the
management over to an assistant with the
promise that he would show up early to-day.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
TIES on 4 RAILROAD TRACK.
Pennsylvania Train Has q Narrow Escape
Near Monmouth Junction.

NEW BRUNSWICK. n. j., july IAN
attempt apparently was made to wreck
freight and passenger trains on the main
line Of the Pennsylvania Railroad about
a mile west Of Monmouth Junction this
morning. The engineer of extra freight
train No, 1868 discovered a tie which had
been placed on the rails just in time
TO prevent his train from being wrecked.
He slowed up and the train struck ths tie
and knocked il to one side. Other ties
were found along the tracks and at onoe
il was decided that some one had laid plans
TO wreck trains.
Detective Frawley Of Trenton imme-
diately began a search for the would-be
wreckcrs He caught a colored man named
Harris near the scene and brought him
to the Jail here. Harris denied that he
had anything 10 do with the tic business.
but gave Detective Frawley information
which may lead 20 the finding OF the gang.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
BOYLAN PUT UNDER ARREST.
Taken for Daughters Murder but Quickly
Discharged In Court.

Thomas Boylan. father Of Viola Boylan,
the eigbt-year-old girl whose body was
found in a coalbin last week at 2290 Second
avenue, where she lived with her parents.
was a rested yesterday on suspicion of
causing her death. When arraigned in
the Harlem court Magistrate Whitman
discharged him because there was no
evidence On which to hold him. Boylan in
ar epileptic and he and his wife have assured
the police that they will remain within
reach.
Boylan's arrest was brought about by
Capt. Walsh Of the East l2eth street station
and his local sleuths. The Central Once
men. headed by Lieuts. Joe Petrosino and
Carey. nave been securing the Italian tene-
ments for Tony Cassielli and Charlie Ruggio,
who lived next door TO the Boylan tene-
ment and who disappeared on the day
Viola was first missed. These men had been
seen by ViolaIs sister to follow the girl and
annoy her.
Mrs. Boylan and her daughter went to
Police Headquarters yesterday to complain
to Commissioner Bingham about the police
work in the case. Her grievance is that
they rave not yet found the murderer.
She didn't see the Commissioner and left
weeping.
The father was left alone in the apartment
and Capt. Walsh sent his plain clothes men,,
O'Connor and Somers, TO interrogate him.
The detectives had some difficulty in making
him answer their questions. They also
found some spots on the floor OF his bed
room and near the kitchen sink which to
them looked like blood. More was found
on the mattress Of the bed. They finally
made him strip and more spots were dis
covered on his clothes.
Boylan had little TO say except that he
was an epileptic and that the spots might
be blood for all he knew. hut he had not
killed his daughter. Assistant District
Attorney Manley and Deputy Assistant
Keogh recommended his discharge. This
leaves the case where il stood before
The police are still concentrating their
energies on a watch Of the Italian quarters
and all outgoing steamships.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
GOOD CROPS ~ NEBRASKA.
wheat VIII Reach HI Average and Corn
ana Oats VIII DO sim Better.

OMAHA. July Reports from all parts OF
Nebraska sent 10 the grain dealers Of Omaha
show Nebraska crops in splendid condition,
despite the former talk Of green bugs,
drought and cold.
Wheat is being harvested in the southern
tier of counties and is producing an average
crop both in quality and quantity. The
winter wheat crop Of the State will probably
run 81. 700, 600 bushels, an average crop.
Corn is back ward. but the stand is good
and the hot weather of the last week has
brought il out wonderfully. The corn is
getting better daily and will probably reach
better than an average crop
Oats, which were at first reported almost
a total failure. have reached a point where
grain and elevator men say the crop will he
actually above the average in both quality
and quantity.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
schooner Mist Back In Port.

The schooner yacht Mist that took part In
the recent race to Bermuda arrived here yes
terday in charge OF Capt. Durnell. Harold
Binney. the owner Of the yacht. returned on
the steamer Bermudian. The Mist was the
smallest vessel in the first class. She was
formerly the cutter Babboon. and measures
40 feet on the water line. She made a very
good trip In the race. hut coming back took
eight days. She had three days OF Gains. fol-
lowed by four days of gales. and last Friday
abe was hove TO for six hours and broke her
main gar. The Mist anchored In Gravesend
Raw.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
STING BY MS CONSCIENCE.
ScIf-Confessed FOrger says He Prefers
Prison to Mental suffering.

Vincent ]. VERBAL, a self-confessed forger
and embezzler, told Magistrate Moss in the
jefferson Market court yesterday that he
preferred prison TO the stings of conscience.
He walked into Police Headquarters on
Saturday afternoon and told Detective
William O'Brien TO place him under arrest.
as he was wanted in Boston for a forgery
of 500 and embezzling about s27o which
he had collected for n book concern,
I'm tired of life, said Verrall in court.
Il wandered all of Friday night through
myself. My conscience is making life a
hell for me. ! think prison is better than
suffering "a | do"
Verrall gave his address as 90 Olney
street, Providence. He refused to speak
Of his family: Magistrate Moss held him
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
PRISONER TOO BIG FOR CELL.
German In jail In Jersey city Measures
Feet = IL Inches.

The members Of the Hudson county
Board OF Freeholders went TO the county
Jail in Jersey City yesterday afternoon 20
investigate the report that there In no
prison bunk in the institution long enough
to accommodate Henry Meyer. a sixty day
prisoner from North Bergen. when he
stretches himself ont for a sleep.
They found in ward o a twenty-sevsn-
year-old German feet 2I inches tall, who
speaks with a decided Irish brogue. Meyer
came from Germany fifteen years e and
acquired the brogue 10y a continuous resi-
dence in an Irish colony. He wears his
hair a In pompadour.
He shook hands cordially with the Free
holders and said there was no necessity NJ
increasing the length of his cell as he man
aged TO sleep comfortably by doubling
himself up like a Jackknife.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
Only a Dozen Carpenters Have to strike.

The expected strike Of the carpenters for
an increase in wages from $3.50 TO IS a day,
which was to have gone into effect yester-
day, did not take place unless the appear
anoe If a dozen carpenters at the Labor
Temple in East Eighty-fourth street who
had not gained their demand might be
called a strike. The demand was made
on the independent employers, az the
Master Carpenters Association had signed
an agreement by which the IS rate was TO
have gone INTO effect yesterday, but 1000
were expected to strike against independent
employers. The business agents OF the
carpenters reported that all but the en-
ployers OF these dozen men had granted
the demand, some OF them at the last
moment.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
Proposed Bank Merger Dropped.

CHICAGO. July THE proposed con-
tolidation Of the Continental and the Com
mercial National banks IL definitely of.
An Official announcements to that effect
signcd by Franklin MrcN each, president
for the Commercial National, and George
NJ. Reynolds for the Continental was
isS lei this afternoon.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
FISHERMAN KILLED BY GAS.
spread Out His Tackle and TurT.ed One
stopcock on and Another On.

A manlwhose name the police think was
Zeiden Schiefer died yesterday in n fur
nished room house at 42i West F~orty-ninth
street OF accidental gas poisoning. He
was apparently a fisherman who had in
tended TO spend yesterday in fishing, He
came to the house on Sunday evening
and hired the room for one night from
Charles Kaiser. he ~janitor.
When Scheifer did not appeaT yesterday
Kaiser opened the room and found him
dead in bed with the room full Of gas. His
fishing tackle was spread ont on a table,
The gasiet in the room has a double burner
and in turning Of one cock the dead man
had apparently turned on the other,
There wss no means of Identifying the
man. He was about o. years old. Of dark
complexion and weighed 100 pounds.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
Dead Man Had CHIEF Engineers License.

A manywho. registered under the name Of
Robertson at Boehm's Hotel at I05 South
street was found dead in bed yesterday
afternoon with the two gas jets in the room
turned on. II il not known whether he CON-
mitted suicide or died by accident. On the
back Of his right hand was a tattooed heart.
He also had a chief engineers license for
steamships dated June -, 1907. and made
out in the name Of Benjamin Slickman.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
Big New England Ice House Burned

SoUTHwIcK, Mass, July THE largest
ice house in New England. containing
about rs, 900 tons Of ice. together with much
machinery and forty box cars, burned
to-day, causing u loss Of 5000. 900. The
ice house was known rs the Congamgon
House Of the Berkshire Ice Company, a
New York corporation The cause of the
fire il not known
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-02
AUTO FORCED SALE: BARGAIN

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
Distinguished Scotchman Of Letters Dies
Unexpectedly at Mt. Pleasant,
Iowa
ABSCEsS CAUSES BLOOD POISONING
Had Been Ill Two Weeks of Tonstis, Followed By Quiny
n - Was Thought to Be Improving

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of which Mr.. Carnegieis treasurer, ana
also for the International Cancellation
society.
Senior Mendoza is to visit among the
southern republics, get acquainted
with the principal men, and do what
he can to spread the ideas of the inter
parliamentary Union. To further this
work he has translated the publications
of the union into Spanish and Portu-
guese.
1t is not likely, however. that, Senor
Mendoza will call officially on Presi-
dent Castro of Venezuela, and 1t Is
definitely Certain he will not go to his
own country and endeavor to enroll
President Reyes as a member of Mr..
Carnegie's association of conciliation.
The reason for Senor tMendoza's
commission of Bogota from this timer
ary is one of self-preservation A year
ago, when he retired from the minis
tership at Washington, Senor Mendoza
had an UNPLEASANT exchange of corre-
sponaenee and made public, in several
letters written in. New York. some dis
paraging statements about President
Reyes.
The latter ordered Senor Mendoza to
return Immediately to Bogota and an
swer to the change of treason. But the.
capital Of Colombia is so difficult to
reach that the minister decided to re-
main here While waiting for the peace
congress to convene. he reiterated his
charges against President Reyes and
made public some new ones.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06

to the books Of the United Copper
company, which Hodgens charges was
allowed to overdraw it's accounts a
million and half. He claims that
large sums are due from Heinze, and
alleges that this suit, started also in
New York, is to intimidate him into
acceptance of settlement on Heinze's
terms. He asserts further. that the
loans enumerated in the complaint are
all absolutely good.
Against this the bank says that the
offer was made to turn the collateral
back to Hodgens upon his accounting
for the sums involved with interest,
but that he left the state with the
proposition unsettled.
Thomas NJ, Hodgens Wal; well known
In Iowa banking circles. especially IN
northern Iowa, in the '90's on account
of his connection with the First Ma
tional bank Of Fort Dodge. He went
to Fort Dodge in 1887 from Washing
ton, Pa, and secured a positionl with
the Merchants National, later becom-
ing assistant cashier. Later the Mr.,
chants National was absorbed by The
First National Of Fort lodge.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06

nunication was the formal reply OF the
president to the committee which re-
Gently called upon him and requested
him to set forth his attitude towards
the accused men. specifically why he
had referred to Meyer and Haywood as
undesirable citizens"
The president quotes at length from
a letter written by him more than
year ago, in which he says that our
duty is (if it should ever happen that
we had any power in the matter) to see
that exact justice is done these men,"
He adds There must be no con-
donation of lawlessness on our part,
even if the lawlessness takes the form
of an effort to avenge wrongs COM
mftted by the lawlessness of others.
The sole question as regards Haywood
and Moyer must be the question
whether they can be shown to be guilty
of this particular act, and their legal
rights must be as carefully safeguard
ed as those of any other men,"
In the discussion that followed mo-
tion to accept the committees report
delegate charged that the president
had evaded the issue. This called forth
response from Delegate Coallley He
said that the committee considered the
interview satisfactory and that, it was
mot up to the president to prove that
there had been a miscarriage of JUS
tice but TO those defending Meyer and
Haywood.S
After several delegates had been
heard, 1t was decided to forward copy
of the letter to counsel for the indicted
Idaho labor leaders
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
TURKISH TROOPS WHIPPED.
AnnihiIated by Rebels IL
Yemen Province, Turkish Arabia.

Practically AnnihiIated by Rebels in
Yemen Province, Turkish Arabia.
London, May cit was announced
this afternoon in a dispatch from Con-
stantinople, that seven battaiions Of
Turkish troops practically had been
annihiIated during the battle with reb-
els in the province of Yemen Turkish
Arabia. The copmander-in-c chief Of
the Turkish forces is urgently calling
for reinforcements.
The outbreak in Yemen began twelve
years ago, and may he said to have
been in progress ever since. The Turks
repeatedly announced the Arabs
crushed, but the revolt was always re-
Aewed. In December, 1904, Turkish
troops under Ria, Pasha, sustained a
serious defeat, four battalions being
routed. Later the Turkish garrison at
Sanaa surrendered, the rebels capturing
thirty guns, 10000 rifles, and much am
munition. Severe fighting took place
again last year, the Arabs apparently
always victorious. The full strength
of the Turkish battalions is 922 men,
of all ranks.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
wilson CONF[RS
WITH INSPECTORS
Secretary Of Agriculture Come
to Chicago to Talk Over
New Laws
REPORTS MADE OF WORK DOM
Privilege of inspection Withdrawll
4 From Establishments Where unsanII
itary Conditions Exist and Preasrvll
atives Are used-co.. q 'n.psesioI
Outlined by Bureaus Chief.

Chicago, May 6.-Secretary Of Asril
culture Wilson today met, in thisScltS
the chief meat inspectors of every lares
city in the country, for the purpose o
comforting on the application Of 1thI
new meat laws to practical industry
Yards and packing houses were nrsE
Inspected and an executive meetinl
was then held, at which the phases d
the law were discussed.
Dr. Melvin, chief OF the bureau of
animal industry, delivered an addresa
in the course Of which he declared
that July l, 1906, there we're engaged
in nleats inspection at 1873 establish
ments 764 employees. There are nov,
2,029 employees ,at 66s establishments}
There has been granted to retail dealf
ers or butchers, as provided for BY ~
law, 1908 certificates OF exemption.
Inspection has been Withdrawn ffNn3
forty-six official establishments, prind
cipally because Of failure to mainta aid
a proper standard Of sanitation, and iii
some cases because OF the use Of prp3
hibited preservatives
THE approximate cost" said Nall
vim, "of inspection as conducted at thl4
time, is, for cattle and calves, 8 cent?
per head; for swine, sheep and goatAf
8 cents per head, and for inspections
meats received at official establtf q
,,nanfc froyns. otho, off{cia1 oafa h1f6fS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
WILL RETURN TO IOWA
Dr.. Marvin to Move to Sioux City and
Bring Body of His Child There -
Authorities Still Trying to Probe
Mystery Of Boys Death.

Dover, Del, May 6.-The state au-
vim case and hope soon to be able to
Officially declare the cause of little
Horace Marvin, whose body was found
on the marshes near his home Satur-
day. Attorney General Richards was
in consultation early with his deputy
and the chemists who are examining
the organs of the child's body and have
about completed their work.
Nothing developed today to change
the prevailing opinion that the child
wandered off the fathers farm and met
accidental death on the frozen march.
DR.. Marvin, the childs father, came
to Dover today.
1T all now rests with the coroner's s
inquest, for the result Of which we
will stay here and wait" said Mar
win. IT is not for me to say whether
the child met with foul play or died
an accidental death"
AS soon as he can arrange affairs
Marvin will sell his Bay meadow farm
and return to his former home in Sioux
City. He will take the body Of his
child with him.
The boys body was inferred Sun
day at Bay Meadows lawn, with the
playmates, all DR.. Marvin's family, and
1000 neighbors and mourners present.
The Revs. Hugh b. Jolso and E. M.
Nelson read scriptures and made brief
prayers.
Thus far the principal development
in the Investigation Is that the boy
did not meet death by drowning, altho
the body was found in a pool of water
seventeen inches deep, but with no
connection with the bay. There are
no external marks Of violence. A
ridge across his back four inches wide
and depressed nearly two inches, was
by two physicians to have
been caused by the body swelling on
either side Of the waistband OF the
Buster Brown suit.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-06
SUIT AGAINST "AIR.LINEr
Company Promoting Chicago New
York Electric Road Under Search.

light.
Chicago, May 6.-A bill seeking to
test the validity of the contract entered
into between the Chicago-New York
Electric Air Line Railroad Company
and the Cooperative Construction
Company, and to compel certain per-
sons to return stock which the bill
claims they Illegally received from the
railroad company, was filed today in,
the circuit court by Theodore Nemoyer.
one of the stockholders of the railroad
company. In the bill the acts of the of
ficials of the railroad company are
questioned, and an accounting asked
from them. In the event an accurate
accounting cannot behhad, the court is
asked to appoint a receiver for the
company, which, according to the alle-
cations of the bill has Illegally au-
thorized a stock of $20O,OO0,OO0.
The plan of the railroad company Is
to build and operate between Chicago
and New York an overhead electric
system which will allow trains to
travel between the two points at a
continuous rate Of seventy-five miles
per hour.