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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17
DIRE sHIp SPRINGS E A

SUPERIOR, wis. Sept. 1.-THE steamer
City of Glasgow sprung a leak last night
while loading ore at the Great Northern
docks. She was lowed to a slip but the
water came in so fast It was found neces-
sary to ground the ship to save her. A
steam pump has been. installed and an
examination is being made TO determine
whether the boat can carry her cargo
down without frst being repaired.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17
PEOPLES B. AND L. ELECTION.

The annual election of officers of the
Peoples Building and Loan Association Of
Harrison at Riordan's Hall, Harrison,
last night resulted in the reelection CT
the following officers: President. George
w Smith; vice-president, John Mccarthy;
board of auditors, John J. S%cannell; board
of directors, Thomas r. Gleason, James
O'Neill. Michael Murphy and John Cam
pion. The annual report of the condition
of the association. which will be presented
to the members tonight, shows: Assets.
81, 159, 549. 81; liabilities, $40, 0SS.64 The pres
ent worth of the association is 81, Lie 6l.03.
The number of members is 2.194.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17
BRIDGE CRUSH" WORSE.
Coney Island "Mardi Gras'' Adds to
Dangers That Are Always Great.

NEW YORK. Sept. 1.-THE Brooklyn
bridge crush.' serious enough ON ordi-
nary occasions. has been rendered much
more SC by the Mardi Gras festivities at
Coney Island. job C. Fallon. of Brook
lyn, an old man, and Sergeant Michael
Fitzgerald. of the Bridge squad of police.
are suffering from its effects.
In a frantic rush for car seats Fallon
was damned between a car and a bridge
post and hurt so badly he will probably
die. : Fitzgerald was swept off his feet
by the crowd and trampIed on. He vas
badly bruised
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17
FEDERAL GRAND JURY.
Sworn In by Judge Lanning at Trenton.
Toffey, of Jersey City, Foreman.
Especial to the Evening star.


TRENTON, Sept. 1.-THE United
States Grand Jury was sworn in today
by Judge Lanning. John ]. Toffey, of
Jersey City, is the foreman. The mem
bers of the Grand Jury are: oliver
Brown, Spring Lake; John ]. Toffey,
Jersey city; 81. Bayard kirkpatrick,
Newark; Charles A. Allen, Cassville;
Andrew A. Slingerman, Pompton Plains;
Henry c. Kafer, Trenton; ]. Ewing
Willis, Cape May Court House; Edward
Mount. Asbury Park; Daniel Johnson,
Point Pleasant; John L. Suydam,
Edward Ross, Cape May
Court House; Samuel limerick, jr.,
Jersey City: George II. Van Note, Bar
negat; Charles N. Codding, Westfeld:
Clarence Birdsall. TomS River; Lewis
T. Stevens, Cape May City; II. f. Stat
son, Gloucester; Clifford Mills, Norris
town; William w. Trfmpi. East Orange;
Charles p. Van Naman, Dias Creek, and
John j.. Cleary.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17
IMpROvERs WILL E E

The Clinton Hill improvement Associa-
ton will hold a meeting tomorrow night
in the Presbyterian Church, Sixteenth
street and Clinton avenue. Matters of
importance win come up for consideration.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17
Not n Bargain.

ssGracious!' exclaimed Miss Passay, 7
know I must look a perfect fright. l can't
do anything with my hair at all"
NO" replied Miss Peppery, Surely you
can AXE 1t back and get It exchanged,
can't you?'-Philadelphia Press.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17

THANK heaven says the pious editor
of the Adams Enterprise, "a thunder
storm struck US yesterday and killed our
COW two hours before the sheriff arrived
to levy on her!'-Atlanta Constitutions.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-17
They Always Do.
- .u ere rf0hf'

'First be sure you are right
"Yes?"
Journal.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
:. News Of Virginia =.
COMMISSION FOR UYNCHBURG.
Committee of Council Recommends
Washington Plan.

Lynchburg Especially. A special
committee appointed last spring by
the City Council to consider the ques-
ton of having the affairs of the city
administered under a board, after
months of study and consideration
has unanimously decided to recon-
mend to the City Council that all of
the boards, excepting the School,
Board, be abolished and that a COM
mission of three, with the Mayor as
Its ex-officio head, be provided for
by legislative amendment to the
City Charter.
1t is proposed to model the COM
mission largely after the Commits
sioners of the District of Columbia
and all of the administrative func-
tions of the municipal government
are to be left to 1t.
The committee will also recon-
mend that the work of the Police
Court be separated from the duties
of the Mayor IN order that he may
give his full time to other duties of
his office. There Is hardly a doubt
but the recommendation of the COM
mittee will prevail in both branches
of the Council. The commission can
not be provided for until the General
Assembly will amend the City Char
ter next winter.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
ODDS AND ENDS.

Goats milk Is now regarded as
superior to that of the COW for chill
dren.
The Emperor of Japan has no few
er than 80 residences, each a model
of comfort.
Needle makers and file cutters
seem the occupations most suscepti-
bic to the ravages of consumption.
The work of erecting the super
structure of the Manhattan Bridge
across the East River has been be-
gun.
The ranks of the miners and char
coal burners are less affected by con-
sumption than any other occupation
Canada's new meat-inspection sys-
tenn, patterned after that of the Unit
ed States, went into effect Septem-
ber 1.
Near Walcott, N. Y, lightning
struck house and killed a cat. A
child playing with the cat was not
injured.
DR.. Manville Phillips, a physician,
was struck over the heart while play
ing baseball at Erie, Pa, and in
stantly killed.
In Preston, England, the power
generated by the burning of the city's
waste suffices to operate the electric
railways.
The Empress of China, King Meme
lik of Abyssinia, the Ameer of Az
ghanistan, the Sultans of Morocco
and Zanzibar and the Khedive of
Egypt all maintain official astrolo-
gers.
When the chimney on the old iris
tram Goldthwaite house in Fort HILL
Me-, was torn down recently 10000
bricks were taken out, or enough to
build four ordinary chimneys. This
one was built 1876 years ago.
Wesleys Chapel, London, has turn
ed over 100000 during the year to
its children's home and orphanage,
in which are 1,729 little inmates,
ono day having been received dur
ing the year.
The Englishman eass more butter
than any other nationality. His year.
ly average is Is pounds.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
CHANGE INCOME TAX LAW.
That Now In FOrce Not Producing
Results.

Richmond Especially When the
General Assembly meets in January
It will be called upon to increase the
amount of salary or income which is
exempt from taxation. The law re-
Quires that all who receive more
than 5000 a year shall pay an income
tax of l per cent. The law is not
observed with any degrees of uni
fOrmity, there being many who evade
the law by declining to answer or
forgetting to see that section of the
tax list. Grand juries have been
considering such cases in many sec
tions of the State, the result being
surprising, the taxpayers in many in
stances having come forward with
the request that they be allowed to
amend their returns. The new law
will place the sum to be exempt from
zoe to $1,000
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
CONFEssEs TO MURDER.
Accessory Accuses Father-in-Iaw OF
The Crime.

Culpepper Is p CT a II William
Seal was locked up in jail here af-
ter the coroner's jury had returned
verdict. finding that he had lured
mis- son-in-law, Joseph Smith, to the
door Sunday night and shot him to
death. In a nearby cell is Fred
jenkins, another son-in-law of Seal.
charged with being accessory to the
murder.
The two men are kept in separate
cells, for Jenkins confessed that Seal
mad killed Smith. after having tried
In vain to induce Jenkins to fire the
first shot. The father-in-law does
not know that Jenkins has charged
him with the murder. and Common
wealth Attorney Waite does not pro-
pose to allow him to become ac-
quainted with the fact at present.
Jenkins protested his innocence at
the inquest, declaring he could prove
an alibi. Later, however, he weak
ened after the bIoodhounds had
picked up the trail of Smiths sIayers
and tracked them to Jenkins house.
Sharp questioning brought confes-
sion
Seal In his testimony said:
Smith and 1 had not been on
friendly terms since he married nv
daughter. We have not spoken or
had anything to do with each other.
told Smith at the Orange colt show
last year 1 would kill him II he didn't
keep away from me. hit him. too. -
Seal is about fifty years old. He
has a wife and seventeen children.
He swore lie was at his home at
the hour when Smith was shot down.
Il amt got but one gum" he said.
That is the one my father carried
in the war.
Smith tried to persuade Fred's
wife to leave him. Fred's wife told
her husband about II three weeks
ago. he said.
Persistent questioning did not
bring out further details OF the at
tempts of the one son-in-law to alien
ate the affections OF the wife Of the
other. Jenkins said when put on
the stand that he paid no attention
TO what his wife had told him about
Smiths trying to induce her to go
away.
In his confession Jenkins said Seal
tried to get him TO shoot Smith and
offered to give him a farm If he
committed the deed. Jenkins refus-
ed but agreed TO accompany Seal.
and borrowed the gun with which
the murder was done. after Seal had
threatened to kill jenkins If he re-
fused to aid him. He said they then
went TO Smiths house. where Seal
called him out and shot him.
The bloodhounds' trail corrobor-
ated many parts of Jenkins story.
The jury held Seal on the charge of
murder and Jenkins as accessory.
The prisoners were taken to the Jail
here, but it is possible they may be
transferred to Alexandria for safer
keeping
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
GUILD PRAISES vIRGINIANs.
massachusetts Veterans Decorate
Shaft To Confederate Dead.

Winchester Especially A monu
ment to the soldiers of the State Of
Massachusetts who lost their lives dur
ing the Civil War, and who are bur-
led in the National Cemetery at Win
chester, was dedicated here. The
principal address was delivered by
Governor Curtis Guild, Jr.. of Massa-
cnusettS. Governor Guild was intro
duced by Harry II. Baker. mayor of
winchester, following short speeches
Dy Rev. DR.. John p. Hyde, the chap
lain of the Confederate Camp of
winchester, and by r. Gray Williams.
OF this city. George W. Corey. Of
Boston, the chairman of the commit
tee appointed by the Massachusetts
legislature, also made an address.
Governor Guild paid an eloquent
tribute to the Massachusetts dead, and
also to the women and men of Vir-
ginia.
The invocation was delivered by
the Rev. William r. Stocking. chap
lain of the Thirty-fourth Massachu-
sets Infantry
A notable feature of the day was
the decoration of the monument to a
thousand unknown Confederate dead
IN. the Confederate Cemetery by the
Massachusetts soldiers. Governor
Guild took part in the decoration and
made a short address. He was lusti-
~ cheered by the Confederate veter.
ans, many of whom were present.
Governor Guild and his official
party were entertained at the home
or Mayor Baker during their stay
here.
w. Nj. Olin,. secretary of state,
and State Senators ID. L. Denny and
j. +. Shaw were in the party.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26

Richmond Banker Accused OF Tear
ing Down Banner At Jamestown.


Richmond (Specia) "A published
story to the effect that a Richmond
banker, an officer Of the Association
for the Preservation of Virginia An
Equities, had torn down and inshlt-
ed a United States flag at jamestown
Island was Indignantly denied by the
gentleman in question. 1t was said
that he had been ordered to Wash
lngtOn to explain his action. He
stated that he had gone there to make
a request OF the government that a
large United States flag be sent to
jamestown Island to be used togeth-
br with the flag of the A. p. W A.
The United States flag reached
Richmond and will be at once sent
to jamestown Island.
About month ago someone slip
ped into the association grounds at
jamestown Island, at night after the
gates had been closed, hauled down
the association flag to half-staff, and
raised above it a small and made
Quate United States flag. In the
morning an employe undertook to
remove the small flag. but found it
30 securely attached to the halyards
that he had to cut it in order to
release 1t. This started the unfound-
cd story of an insult to the flag.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
How Boston is Peculiar.

Among our big cities, Boston is pe-
culiar in not thrusting its bigness up
on us. Its outward demeanor is de-
mure. At its portals Liberty Enlight-
ening the World would look out of
place; we should rather expect the
Puritan maiden Priscilla to stand as
doorkeeper. The evidences of CON-
mercial prosperity are present; but
they do not stare us out of counten-
ance. They are not concentrated in
any one spot, but are "a good diff
fused" Here and there an incipient
skyscraper attempts to lift its head,
only to be severely snubbed. Sky
scraping is considered architectural
lese-majeste in the presence of the
gilded dome of the State House. Old
Boston, with it's narrow, winding
streets, has many curious survivals
of the past, but the Greater Boston
has advanced further than any of our
communities toward the city of the
future, which is to be not a city at
all, but thfckiy settled country
From Samuel M. sC,rothers' Outdoor
Boston" in the Century.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
SECOND FOR WASHINGTON.
bees, Captures Prize At James,
town.

Norfolk (SpeciaD Mount Yer
non Hive, No. 2, Lady Maccabees of
the World, of Washington, command
ed by Miss Edith Vanneff, captured
the second prize of SITS in COM
petitive drill at the Jamestown Ex-
position. Richmond Hive, No. 2,
captained by Mrs. Mary E. Robinson,
got away with the first prize of 5000.
To the oniooker the Washington
hive appeared to equally as good ad-
vantage as did the Richmond, but
the judges declared that Richmond
won on the more perfect movement.
Third in the contest was hive from
Chickasaw, Ind. T.
The judges were Lieuts. A. w
Copp, p. II. Bagby, and e. G. Wad-
dill, U. S. A.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
Embczzlement Charged.

Richmond (SpeciaD Frank p.
Burke, superintendent of postal sub
station B, who was arrested, charged
with taking money from the mails,
will have to face the additional
charge of embezzling $3.50 from the
postoffice. At present Burke Is out
on a $1,000 bail bond, charged with
the abstraction of a small sum of
money from a decoy letter. He was
caught with the marked money on
his nerson IL is alleged
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
VIRGINIA OBITUARY.

Stauton.-Charles I. Neff, twenty
five years of age, died of typhoid
fever. He is survived by his parents,
two sisters, and four brothers
Winchester.-Wil p. Gore
chief engineer OF the Winchester and
Washington Electric Railway Com
pany, is dead at his home, at Mill
vile, Jefferson County, aged twenty
five years. His death was due to ty-
phOid fever. He is survived by his
father, James Gore, and four sisters
Suffolk-Miss Melissa Pritchard,
aged fifty-four years, died here
Two sisters survive her.
Mrs. Elizabeth Duck, widow of
Timothy Duck, died Sunday at her
home in Isle of Wight County, aged
ninety-two years. Up to the time of
her death the family included living
five generations. there being one
great-great-grandch
Harrisonburg.--M Lewis Kagey
died at her home in this place at
noon after an Illness of three weeks OF
blood poisoning. She was the daugh-
ter of Jacob Raish. and is survived
by her, husband and a son one month
old. She was twenty-five years of
age(
'uray.-Mrs. Lee Long, wife OF
wealthy farmer of Page County
died in a hospital In Richmond. Mrs
Long was on a visit to the James
town Exposition when she became
suddenly i'll and Vas taken to Rich
(m0pd for treatmeht.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
WILL COST 500, 900. 900.
South And Western Will BE Read,
For Equipment In July, 1908.

FOR equipment In July, 1908.
Bristol (SpeciaD The approx
mate cost of the South and Western
Railway, the new line that is be-
ing built from Eastern Kentucky to
the South Atlantic seaboard by the
George l.. Carter syndicate, is $780,
100000. This Is the first reliable
report as To the amount that would
be expended in the construction of
the new trunk line that has ever been
given out.
Carter Is backed in the building
of the road by Thomas +. Ry an. Of
New York, and the Seaboard inter
ests. The road is now rs per cent
completed. and has so far cost, ap-
proximately. 100000 a mile. and
the total contemplated length is
about $50 miles. Nearly $3S,0OO,-
600 has already been spent All the
work has been let to contract, and 1t
Is expected that the road will be
completed and ready for - pment
with rolling stock by July, 1908.
More than $5.OOO,OOO of the
amount representing the cost of the
road is being spent in tunnels. A
tunnel almost a mile long is being
driven through the Clinch Mountain.
at Clinchport; another three miles
long. near Dante. Va, and another
tive-eighths of a mile long. at Marion.
=. c. In addition to these there are
twenty-odd smaller tunnels. This is
accounted for by the fact that the
road penetrates the toughest noun
tain sections of Kentucky, Virginia,
Tennessee, North and South Carolina.
In Western North Carolina, in a dis
tance of eighteen miles, there are
sixteen tunnels.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
Mrs. Thaw On Auto Tour.

Winchester Especially Mrs. Will
liam Thaw. of Pittsburg, the mother
of Harry Kendall Thaw. who is in
the Tombs awaiting trial for the
murder of Stanford White, the archi-
tect, is touring Virginia IL big auto
mobile. Mrs. Thaw recently spent a
night at a Winchestel hotel, but she
did not register. Her presence here
was kept a secret. With aor are
Miss Dohrman. f. A. Dohrman, and
w. Mcknight. The party went from
here to Lexington, Va, and then to
Natural Bridge.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26

1t is proposed by a German engi-
neer to use lalloons for railway pur-
poses. A stationary balloon is fixed
to a slide running along a single
steel rail. This rail is carried up the
side of a steep mountain. The ball
loon is moorec by steel cable TO the
rail, at height of about thirty-fve
'eet above the ground. The conduct
Or can cause the balloon to ascend
or descend at will. The lifting power
is furnished by hydrogen gas. and
the descent is caused by water pres
sure poured into a large tank at the
upper end of the road.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
Cure For Opium Habit.

- Reports Of the American Consul
General at Singapore confirm the
story OF discovery of a cure for the
opium habit In the leaf of a certain
plant which is boiled in water and
the sresldium drunk. So great ia the
demand for the cure from the drug
Deset masses that depots for its dis
trioution have been opened in every
rye town or village. 1t seems to be
harmless as it is elective.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
BLACKNIAIL AT BRISTOL.
POstOfiice Detectives To Investigate
Threats Made In Letters,


Bristol (SpeciaD United States
Secret Service men will soon be sent
to Bristol to investigate several at
tempts at blackmail. A Bristol at
torney has taken the matter up with
the officials of the Post Office De
partment.
number of prominent and
wealthy citizens of Bristol recently
have been receiving anonymous let
tiers, in which they were threatened
if they would not submit to certain
proposals. The exact nature of the
threats is not made public, but it is
stated by the attorney that the Of
fense of sending such matter through
the United States mails is a very
serious one.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
Given Five Years For Burglary.

Roanoke (SpeciaD Walter Moses,
q young man of Roanoke County.
and of good family, was sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary by
the Corporation Court for breaking
into bar room for the purpose of
robbery. He was also identified as
the man seen in the store that was
robbed
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26

BY Ju4ian Hawthorne.


the
4 II a OF squatiDg
4 smoking yarnng
o
in
feel pride in their friendly rivalry with
the Paladns Medieval
S
OF the
or
What
In
andfb
and
ten
go
seer
You get from them the robustness hardness
slide beneath their
of
there
o
lumbermen
cannot
of
and
to do ten cords more
in is to be
a
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
BerryviIIe Votes Out Saloons.

Berryville (SpeciaD The "drys''
won in the local option election held
here by majority of sixty-two votes.
Two hundred and eighty-two votes
were cast Berryville has been a
wet" town for twenty-four years.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
1he Modern Diviners
Of DreamC
By Dc. FredericlS Pattersorn.

n - 1OW the modern dvnes
Il nj prophets but ttherear
4
ploy neither the
1EE uon but method
the
eho dream comes infinitely
OF
revelation Wishes
broken
the
of the
ne must follow
par @ true OF children whose
ana munger wealth
the chdless of children Of
discovery the desire
a
enjoy solving When
fundamental
he is
that
oneredth
Is Common a wish s.
Dreams is
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26
Let College Men Be
Active In POlitiC r
BY Superior Court Justice William J.
GaynOr of New York.

AXE live interest in government and politics We shoul
hand government the corrupt bosse
politicians They have done their will with cities and
y looted them almost to the time only becaus
educate and intelligent people took little interest II
COVER, uent DO 6e a partisan. alrs
in Of
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-09-26


Sc1undre or tolerate him in any in politics Now do not say tha
and intelligent and in that au property YOU can BE assured thS
is only goen wealth that is under the OF the splendid int
of
the greatest economic reform this
understand railroads
this, for will take
public utilities law which aaz f.
is falsely said. but viii Improve them
=
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1907-10-24
INSTALLATION OF PASTOR.
The Rev. q. W. e. Hil, Formerly nj:
Proctor. at II. John>bury.

st. Johnshury. oct g9-The Rov. Georgia
w. G. Hil. formerly pastor Of the Union
Church at Proctor. was installed as pas
tor OF the North Congreg ttional church
this evening. At the council in the af-
ternoon. the Rev. W. VI. clark of I.yn-
don was chosen moderator and the Rev.
Hollis Campbell OF East Hardwick
scribe Twelve Of tho Conversational
Churches in tho county were represent
ed and the Proctor Church
The church was we'll filled at the in
stallation service and music was furnish
ed by a double quartette. The Invocation
was given by the Rev. +. f.. Grant of
East St Johnsbury. The responsive SER
vice was lead by the Rev. Emily G.
Woodruff of ST. Johnsbury Centre and
the Rev. .. r. Kamheur Of Waterford
read tho scriptures. The Rev. Z. G.
French Of Lyndonvll'o gave tie right
hand of fellowship, THO Rev. Or $ q.
Barnes Of the South CONGREGATIONAL
church. s. Johnsbury the installing
prayer and the Rev. Geo. : Mills Of the
Second ConVr' gational Church Of Ben
nington preached a strong sermon on
The Message and Ministry Of the
Christian Minister"