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The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
REPUTATION SAVED HIM
Judge Imposes Light Fine Upon Juror
 Talking Outside the Court.

Danbury, Dec. 24--A fine of $100 and costs were imposed by Judge c. w. Wheeler upon Charles Johnson in the superior court to-day for contempt the case growing out of the mistrial in the alienation of affection, suit of Isabel M. Starr against Mrs. Mary D. Hausman, the allegation being that Johnson, as a juror, talked about the ease. The suit was for $25,O00 alleged damages. It was brought out during the hearing that Johnson went into a saloon in Danbury and spoke about the case to the effect that he liked the attorneys for the defendant better | than he did those for the plaintiff, and it was further claimed that he also remarked that he did not think
 the plaintiff would get much.
 The court said the case was an in-
 portant one, but taking into consider
 ation the fact that Johnson stood well in hls community, and was well spok- en of he would only infict fine and not jail sentence. This was i'm
 posed, while the case of Richard How.
 ell of Bridgeport, newspaper man upon the same charge, went over unti Thursday of next week
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
LOST CERTIFICATE
Wedding Document for Young Couple Picked Up by Man
 in Orange Street.
ISSUED MONDAY IN ORANGE
Brought Into Police Headquarters and Wlll be Returned to the
 Lawful Owners.

Here, Sergeant said citizen as he stepped Into police Headquarters last night, "Cupids dropping his little marriage certificates all oyer this town. Here's a marriage license that I found in Orange street, and as I have no use for it myself, and as know the couple who are named on 1t have a special reason for possessing it at this time, now take pleasure in restoring it to them through you-for you will restore it to them, won't you, Sergeant"
 T shall take great deal of pleasure in doing so," said Sergeant Gibson. There was a little girl who came in awhile ago and said that she had lost one of her Christmas presents. 1 told her would try and find it for her, but | that looks rather doubtful, I must con- fess. But as to this, think we can fix things all right Cupid should be helped at ali costs"
 The marriage license belongs to Jo seph P. Fagan of 237 Howard avenue and he will be welded to Miss Mary E. Garvie of Brooklyn, as soon as he | fec0NerS the certlHcale.
 The license was issued Monday by Registrar George A Thomas of the town of Orange, and so Sergeant Gib- son called him up on the telephone ant told him to have the groom -elect noti. fled as to where he could recover it.
 The groom is a stenographer, and ii the son of John Fagon of NorwaIk The certificate further sets out that ht is 2 and his prospective bride 21
 Miss Garvie is the daughter of lame J. Garvie of Brooklyn.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
STATE RESTS CASE.
Pettibone Conviction Depends on Proof of Criminal
 Conspiracy.
DEFENSE MOVES TO ACoUlT
Then Switches to Technicality Attack ing Law Under Which Petit
 bone is Tried

Boise, Idaho, Dec. 24.-The state rested to-day in the trial of George A. Pettibone, for cornplicity in the murder of ex-Governor Steunenberg, after examination of w. H Gabbert, justice of the supreme court of Col orado. He testified that on going from his residence to the capitol at Denver he originally crossed vacant lot, but that on the morning that Wal ley was killed he took 2 different route. He said he heard an explosion an hour after he reached his office; that at noon on that day he examined the place where Valley met his death. Judge Gabbert also testified that he participated in rendering the Mover decision and the decision holding that the eight hour law was unconstitu- tional. The latter decision was intro duced in evidence. Senator Borah an- nounced that the state rested, and John r. Neugent, for the defense, filed motion asking that the jury be ad- vised to acquit the defendant The jury was excused and Judge Wood an- nounced that he was ready to an- nounce his conclusions on the question of corroborative evidence on which authorities were submitted early in the trial. The conclusions were as l follows:
 Evidence of corroboration as to the killing of Steunenberg as a separate transaction is not sufficient to warrant a conviction. Conspiracy to commit 8 number of crimes which includes, as an incident or otherwise, the killing involved, cannot be established by un. corroborative evidence of an accom- I plice. Is there in this case any evi. dence of a conspiracy to commit crime asl a result of which conspiracy thu crime charged was committed, and, i so. is there corroborative evidenc, enough to convict the defender thereon?
 Attorney Neugent argued the mo ton to advise verdict of acquitta
 only briefly and then took up tn Idaho statutes providing for the pros
 ecution of non-residents charged witt
 crime under which Pettibone is beinI
 tried, arguing that 1t is unconstitu
 tional.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
IS BADLY SCALDED
Three Year Old Boy Falls Into Boiler of Hot Water in
 Tenement.
LITTLE HOPE OF RECOVERY
Flesh Comes of With Clothes When Child is Pulled Out of
 the Water.

Sol simon, aged three, tumbled into a boiler of hot water in the apart ments of MT. and Mrs. Leon Schwartz, p Davenport avenue, last night, and was so badly scalded that the flesh peeled from his quivering body in big patches. He is now at the New Ha- ven hospital
 The boy is the son of MT and Mrs. Israel Simon, who live above the ten ement of the Schwartzes, and had gone down there with his seven-year- old sister Silvia to play.
 Mrs. Schwartz had heated boiler of water preparatory to taking a bath. She had placed 1t upon the floor, Her husband sat near by reading Sol and Silvia played, jumping on and off a chair The boiler was near the chair, The last jump Sol made he lost his balance and fell backward into the boiler, which was nearly full of water. The torso was completely immersed His screams filled the house. Schwartz threw down his paper. Silvia added her piteous cries to that of the baby Schwartz lifted the child from the boiler and began to tear the clothes from the body. Then Mrs. Schwartz who was in another room, came run. ming, and what clothes her husband | had not succeeded in tearing from the child the mother ripped off. The flesf came with them The back and lower extremities were terribly scalded.
 pr. Gerson Strauss was called ant ordered the little one taken to tn, New Haven hospital, The hospita authorities said that there was littl, hope for the child's recovery.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
MANY FOR COURT
Drunkenness and Breach of the Peace
 Cases Up To-day.

Twenty or thirty intoxicated persons began roistering on the streets and were conducted to the lookup last night Those who were arrested for the first time will be released when they have sufficiently sobered.
 This morning the city court will have the usual Christmas session, and the room will be fairly well crowded with violators of the law appertaining to drunkenness, breach of the peace and other things banned by the city
 Thomas F. Murley and his wife Della, who have been in jail many times, according to the police, were arrested for drunkenness last night. They reside in Liberty street, between Congress and Washington avenues. After the drink they began to quarrel and then to fight, The police were called in just as hostilities had closed, Policemen John Smith, w. c. Allen and Patrick Cassidy said they were everlastingly shocked when they heard MT. and Mrs. Murley were threshing it out on Christmas eve, and, there fore, they arrested them. Murley at- tackled Policeman Smith. He is a man of prodigious strength and had aimed a vicious blow on the intercostal part of the officers anatomy when the lat ter neatly turned him down. Man and wife were then taken to police head quarters and locked up for the night
 Each is charged with breach of the peace and drunkenness. The husband ! is also accused of resisting an officer
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
NEWS SUMMARY.
GENERAL.

 State Rests in Pettibone case. india Suffers q Drought. pn;so Gr1Ishfng Chinese National Ff4ae. Hit at the Hughes Mem Fnioins Freedom of Press. Railroad Bridge Dynamited.. Prownson Out Of Bureau NaVlsdlleH' Hallway Directors Must Appear
 STATE. Reputation Saved Him. Orders on Militia Transfers. Court Sustains Demurrer. z, Ganehester No-Lieense in Force. Governor Hears Espesite Case.
 CITY. sunslliners Give Cheer to Many. Blks Make Children Happy. Child Terribly Burned by Hot Water Motorman Ia Exonerated. Christmas at Public Institutions. Christmas Shoppers Well Tired Out Wedding License Found on Street. New Haven Girl Marries College Head. Two Little Lads Held for Theft Cigarette Afire in Drawer. Broke Glass and Cut Wrist. Westville Has Shooting Affray.
 SPORTS. Rone's Five Play All Around Hartford. Columbia Victor at Chess. Yale Again Loses in Basketball. New Haven Gun Club Shoot. Ansonia Quintet at Armory To-day. Another Six Day Race. Seven Teams in 24-Hour Race Bridgeport and Providence Victors. Six Out of Eleven Horses Finish. Waterbury Here This Afternoon.
 EVENTS TO-DAY. Mrs, Fiske at the Hyperion. Attractive Vaudeville at Polis. Happy Hooligan" at the New Haven Blue Jeans" at the Bijou.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
MILITIA TRANSFERS
Machine Gun Men Receive New Assignments Under Reor-
 ganization Plan.
MAJORITY TO cos. D AND E
Promotions and Appointments fin Gov ernors Foot Guard Are
 Approved.

Hartford, Dec. 24-In the general work of recognizing the military of the state the adjutant general to-day issued the special orders transferring enlisted men of the Second Platoon Machine Gun battery as follows;
 Hospital Corps (assigned to Second Infantry W. Banta. jr., George W. Lamb.
 First Company Signal Corps (New Haven detachmenD Thomas F. Stam- mers, jr.
 Troop A, Cavalry--Frank P. King
 Second Infantry, Co. D-Henry J. St Jacques, Valentine c. Smith, Arnold M Gilbert Clarence H, Keigwin, Ed ward c. Bamberg, Albert E. Krahl, Grovner w Foote, Burton J. LePlace
 Co. E-Harold J. Kelsey. Quincy c Grandy, Harry s, Munsors Carl 4 { Johnson, George J. Dubord, Howard J Welch, Paul C. Grieger
 Promotions and appointments in th' Second Company, Governors Foot Guard, are made as follows
 Captain and First Lieutenant Fred. erick w. Brown, to be major; vict Weed, retired.
 Second Lieutenant George T. Hew lett. to be captain and first lieutenant lvice Brown, promoted Third Lieutenant James c. Twining to be second lieutenant; vice Hewlett promoted.
 Fourth Lieutenant James H Parish to be third lieutenant; vice Twining promoted.
 Ensign Albert w. Mattoon. to b Lfourth lieutenant; vice Parish, pro 1moted.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
LABOR PEACE POSSIBLE
American Federation and Western
 Miners Display Friendliness.

Denver, Dec. 24.--Overtures for peace between the American Federation of Labor and the Western Federation of Miners were made to-day when Max Morris, vice. president of the Ameri- can Federation, accompanied by George Hally, president of the state federation, called upon the Western Federation's officers in this city and presented to them a formal letter of invitation from President Gompers to become affiliated with the American Federation No definite action could be taken at this time, but the meeting was marked by display of friendly feeling on both sides.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
Ornhans, Stockings Filled.

The stockings of 116 little ones at the New Haven orphan asylum were filled to repletion last night, and at 5 o'clock this morning a special orches- tra composed of the larger boys at the institution wlllsrender a musical pro- gram The children's eyes will fiutter- ingly open to the strains of popular melody, and then each one will make a dash for his or her stocking, pluck therefrom small sized music piecs and infate their lungsN Their contri- buttons will be an augmentation of the .orchestration designed with a special view to making the little one feel that Santa has truly arrived.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
BROKE GLASS WITH FIST
As a Result Hilliard is Now In the
 Hospital.

Michael Hilliard, a young man of lS6 Franklin street, was taken to the New Haven hospital about midnight last night in the police ambulance with a badly cut wrist. It seems that the young man broke a pane of glass in the front door of a house with his fist for some reason or other and in doing so he cut his wrist It was stated that the cut was a bad one and the victim lost considerable blood but it is not believed that the result will be serious, though the wound may take some time in healing. He is g years of age and is married. He works for the Win chester Repeating Arms company.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
ssnringsifIe Has 447.

Superintendent John B. Rattlesdorfer of the department of charities and cor rections has provided a substantial dinner for the AT inmates of the Springside home. It will consist Of, chicken, cranberries. mashed potat iSs turnips, oranges and soSons 1ss, - y
 Twenty-thrce children were given presents there last night.
 Each of the women will De given a box of candy and two oranges this morning. The men will receive three cigars each,
 At 9 o'clock this forenoon a high mass will be sung by a clergyman of st. Mary's church, at which a choir of A young women parishioners of the church will furnish music,
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
Plans for Feast Day at Many Institutions of Charity and Aid About
 the City.
sPRINGsIDE DIMES AT
Many Stockings Filled for Children as the Orphan Asylum Last Night, 4, While Turkey Comes
 To-day.

The charitable institutions of New Haven, chief among which are thel City Mission, the Organized Charities, and the Salvation Army, will hospital bly entertain those who cannot afford to entertain themselves with Christi mas feasts to-day.
 The New Haven lodge of Elks will also make Christmas q day to be re- nembered by all who receive it's bouil- ty- This lodge began with a distribu- ton of presents last night, The Saiva- tion Army had another distribution in it's barracks in Chapel street This af- ternoon 1t will serve dinner for the poor
 The Organized Charities and City Mission have sought out the needy ones, and havs sent baskets of edibles to their homes and otherwise remena- bered them on this day.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25

wood street. There the father of the family had died g months ago. When the ladies called the mother was out looking for work, having taken her youngest baby with her, There were. besides this child. two boys and two girls. Something was left for each one of them
 As has already been noted in this paper. the Coreopsis branch of the Sunshine society win do its part of the Santa Claus letter work by giving an entertainment to the children at the city mission hall at 2:SO Thursday af- ternoon. The entertainment will be in charge of Miss Eleanor Booth of 22O Orchard street.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
Al nrranized Charities.

Superintendent S. 0. Preston of the Organized Charities was not very much surprised last night when IS men who had been out of employment and who were faring forth without particular objective in search of it, applied at the office of the Organized Charities last night for shelter for the night. Thesa men come under the classification of tramps. Down on their luck, they are In a school of peripatetics that gives them little in the way of money.
 But they stretched In recumbent pos sitions in nice white beds last night and waited for the breaking of Christ- mas.
 If the rules Of the Organized Chari- ties are followed in their cases they will be required to- chop a twentieth of cord of wood this forenoon in ex- |change for 8 breakfast.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
SUNDAY SCHEDULE
Cars on Street Lines to, be Run on
 That Service.

Service for Christmas Day on the street car lines will be practically that of sunday. Church cars wil be run in the morning as usual Two noteworthy changes will be half-hour service from wallingford after Il o'clock and half hour service from Bridgeport after 10 o'clock
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
PLUNGES OUT CAR WINDOW
B. & o. Train Passenger, Suddenly De-
 ranged, is Ground Under Wheels.

Cumberland, Mds Dec. 24-While Baltimore & Ohio train No. was pass ing a point about ten miles from this city to-day an unidentified man, thought to be deranged, suddenly left his seat, jumped across the aisle and plunged out of the window of the car. The body was ground to pieces and lat est reports are that the head has not been found. The man was apparently a foreigner and about 45 years old. His ticket was for a trip from Chicago to Philadelphia. He was well dressed but there was nothing by which he could be identified.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
woMAN RErURNs HoME.

Mrs. Ellen Shea, 549 East street. wandered away from her home, Mon day, while temporarily abberated. the police say. and applied for hospitality at the Organized Charities in Orange street. The Organized Charities sent word to the Grand avenue police pre- cinct and Capt. James F. Brewer as eertained her address and she was sent horne in time for Christmas.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
OLD SAINT NICK.
(written for the Journal Courier)

Did you ever see Saint Nick? No matter--youve ve heard them tell How he comes with his toys To bless the boys, And the little girls as well; No matter how high the snow is piled, Nor h3w cold it s without, He will harness his reindeer fleet and wild And urge them on with a shout The snow will fly from their tiny hoofs Their bells ring out on the air As over the citys icy roofs They hy this beautifal pair. It is true, every word You have ever heard
 Of this dear old northern elf; I know 1t is so, for a little bird Came and told 1t to me himself, And saw him once in the loveHest dream had long winters ago,
 When l was young as my dear little boys And as wild over skates and snow. So if other ones tell you that Nick isn't real Don't believe them, but come right to me, And I'll tell what he said
 As he stood by my bed
 When I was baby--maybe.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
New Haven Hospital.

The New Haven hospital will have a dinner that will contain all of the necessary viands This will be succeed ed by an entertainment In the evening at which will figure two Christmas trees, one for the adults and the other for young persons. There are twenty five children at the institution, and the children's tree will, of course, or
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
FIRE IN A DRAWER
Bell Alarm for Little Cigarette
 Blaze.


 Fire in the bureau drawer of Tony Stinno who lives in Michael O'Con- nelrs two-story frame house at S6z 8latchley avenue, last night excited the neighborhood and was the excuse for an alarm of fire which made the laddies of engine company No. 10 hur- " to the scene expecting to subdue a tree blaze. Some of Tony's children had projected a lighted match into the bureau drawer. The damage was nom- inal
 lA lighted cigarette caused fire at the residence of silveo Migenoe at 176 Chestnut street about the same time. The lounge and the feelings of the oct cupants of the tenements were the only things that suffered.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
1Np1cT FOR ORANGE MURDER.

Orange N. J., Dec. 24,-The grand jury at Newark to-day returned an in- dictment against George Wilson, alias Williams, for the killing of Frederick R. Romer at the Park Hotel here on the morning of December 1S.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
cHRIsrIAN nNDEAvoRnR DEAD.

Boston. Dec. 24.-Rev Franklin s. Hatch. general secretary of the Chris tan Endeavor movement in India, Bur mah and Ceylon for several years. died of pneumonia at his home in Brookline tonight, aged sixty years.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
RUSSIAN GOVERNOR oPPREssEs.

Warsaw, Dec. 24.-Genera1 skallon, governor general of Warsaw, who re- gently closed 1900 Polish schools and disbanded a number of labor unions. has ordered all the Jewish clubs in Poland to close
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
BEsr sERvIcE To oALTFoRNIA

via Washington-Sunset route. Person
 ally conducted tourist cars without change from Washington. Berth $S.50. Offices 170, 22S Washington St. Boston.
The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-25
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WEATHER RECORD.

New England; Partly cloudy wednes- day; Thursday snow or rain. fresh west winds.
 Eastern New York: Partly cloudy Wednesday; probably snow in north portion; Thursday, snow; fresh west winds.
 Observations at, United States wealth CT bureau stations, taken at p. m. yes- terday, seventy-hfth meridian time
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-25
COIORED MAN KILLED.

John Buckner, colored, fell from one
of W. A. SmoOt 4 Oompany's carts at
The in,ersection Of Uuion and 0rOnOcO
streets late yesterday afternoon and was
almost instantly killed, one of the
wheels passing over his head. The cart
was loaded With sand, and the mans
head was crushed by the weight. No
one seems to have witnessed the accident,
but the body was found within a few
moments after its occurrence. DR.. s.
b. Moore, coroner, viewed the remains
and issued certificate OF accidental
death. Buckner was between fifty and
sixty years old, and lived at 3l2 Wolfe
street. 1t is understood that his wife
aud seven children live nesr Bailey's
cross roads.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-25
ST. MARy,s CHURCH NOTES.

It can be sisted upon undoubted au-
thoriiy that the Rev. Henry j. Cutler,
rector Of st. Mary's Church, who has,
for a long time, been greatly sffiicted,
has gone to the excellent refuge for sick
priests at the convent of st. Agnes, near
Baltimore, for rest and proper medical at
tention, retaining, of course, the position
as rector be has so long and so well filled,
expecting to return soon and resume his
duties. 10 his absence, the Rev. Leon
ard l.. Kelly, bis assistant, will be in
charge, but as be has long been suffering
from hay fever and unable to get away,
it is understood that he will go to the
mountains every week until relieved,
returning on Saturdays to participate In
the services. Meanwhile, the Rev. Au-
gust HalbIeib, a native of Richmond,
who was ordained priest at the Cathedral
ia Baltimore little less than year ago,
will fill his place. He is very able,
sclive ADD worthy young priest to whom
The congregation has already become at
tached. and will be assisted, when neces-
ssry. by the Rev. Richard l.. Oarne,
who oficiates daily at st. Mary's Acade-
my, at very early hour, and is guiding
him In his work by accompanying him
to the places to which he is called. He
has known him since his youth 10 Rich
mond and has very high esteem for
him.
1t is understood that there will be two
sermons, one at each mass, every Sun
day, while the present conditions last,
one by Father Kelly, the other by Father
Hslbleib.
The schools connected with st. Mary's
Church, both at the Academy and the
parish hall, are fOurishing, the former
having two hundred pupils, many from
abroad, and the latter one hundred and
fifty from the congregation alone.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1907-09-25
CRY DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.

The members of the city democratic
committee elected at The recent primary
election met last night at the Opera
House cafe and recognized with the
election Of Mr.. Charles Bendheim IS chsir-
man and Mr.. r. Theodore Cook as secre-
tarY. Both of these gentlemen have
held the position of chairman and secre-
tsry for several years, and were chosen
10 succeed themselves. With the
exception of Commonwealth Attorney
Samuel G. Brent, all the members Of
the body we're present.
The committee it.ermined upon active
measures for b q" lag out large vote
for each of the democratic nominees
at the Congressional and State election
in November.
Other meetings of the committee will
be held between now and the date OF
the election to perfect a system iGr
recording the entire available democratic
strength.