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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
WOMAN UPSET COURT
AS HAIR-PULLlNG
MATCH THREATENS.
Abrupt Ending to Hearing in Case in
Which Alleged Effort to Put Com
plainant in Asylum Figures.

Wrought up over the allegations
made against her daughter, Christina,
Mrs. Henry Hofacker was stricken
with a fit in the Third Pre-
cinet Police Court his morning. n it
required the combined efforts of four
policemen to restrain her and carry
her from the room. She was brought
around after a time and was able to
go home in company with her two
daughters
Miss Christina Hofacker also caused
some excitement in the court room by
the n in which she refuted al
legations made against her by Miss
Lena Blunderhaus, of High street, a
sister to Mrs. Mada1ine Hofacker, the
complainant, who was unable to APP
pear in court because, it vas alleged,
of the treatment she had received at
the hands of the defendant, and the
case was adjourned until such time as
the complainant can appear in court.
There was no need of the mother APP
pearing in court, and the daughter
was severely censured for permitting
her to accompany her.
Miss Blunderhaus told Judge Howell
iAeAA ~ 9inAtAH Nv Il AAA1 ~ u NAA1
defendants brother. had been abused
in numerous ways. and that she had
been assaulted aud an effort had been
made to have her declared insane. She
said that a physician had been sent
to h house at night, and an effort
had been made to take an infant away.
"Oh. that's a lie, judge" exclaimed
the accused: Il never did anything like
that. Why, if l wanted to, judge, l
could make two charges against her,
but for her sake and my brothers sake
I did not want to do it; but l told
my mother that if she insisted in max
ing a charge against me, l would make
two charges against her. Why, all this
is a pack of lies. l swear | never did
anything like that" she said in con-
c%lusion, holding her right hand high
above her head.
Then Miss Blunderhaus started to
say something. and the defendants
sister prompted the defendant to in
form the court that the complainant
was not i'll, as was stated, and given
as her reason for not appearing in
court. The mother can speak no Eng.
lish, and she began talking in German
as the young women were flinging va
rious accusations at each other and
attempting to explain to the court.
They talked back and forth, and for a
time it looked as if they would attack
each other. when the mother of the
principals suddenly fell to the floor.
"Oh, my mother! my mother!'
screamed the defendant. and then turn
ing to Miss Blunderhaus. she exclaimed,
IF anything happens to my mother,
remember you are responsible"
When the woman was removed from
the court room the case was adjourned
until such time as she shall be able
to ppear in court.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
POLICEMEN TO
BE SEVERELY
DEALT WITH
Determination Made
Evident COmplaintOrder.
ed Against Special Cop.

The members of the Police Board viii
not show any further leniency toward
policemen VINO are brought up on
charges of neglect, and yesterday they
handed out some stiff sentences. and
came within an ace of dropping two
policemen who We're thought TO have
oversteped the bounds. However, no
n was broke but the case against
Policeman Flaherty, who was up IN
charge of having been in an engine
room for over an hour, was laid over
for further consideration.
Some of the board, it is said, were
in favor of dropping the policeman,
while others stood out for him. His
case will be finally disposed Of at the
next meeting of the board.
Policeman Peter Mcguire. of the
First Precinct station, was brought
in by Sergeant Bohle on a charge OF
missing his last duty call and being
an hour late in reporting In the norm
ing. Mcguire told a straightforward
story, and it seemed to make such an
impression that it was thought that
his statement of having fallen asleep
would have let him down easy. Ma
guire was fined five days pay. This
was considered a stiff sentence, con-
sidering the ease with which previous
offenders were allowed to go with a
reprimand. s.
Five of the seven brought before the
board for neglect came from the Fourth
Precinct station. R~oundsman Seipel
brought down William Ricart, Roger
Mcguire, John H. Drew and August
Messner for being late en- pulls. They
were each fined two days pay. The
charge brought against Policeman Nee-
fus, Of the Fourth Precinct, charging
him with being ~forty-seven minute late
Lon a pull, was dismissed 81
Acting Chief Ubhaus was ordered to
bring charges against Special Police-
man Breher, charging him with unlaw-
fully arresting Leo Singer, of 237 Lit
Teton avenue, and Samuel Jaceby, Of
60 Mercer street. These men appeared
before the board and asked that the
badge of the special policeman he taken
away from him. IS
After receiving an appropriation OF
$1,000 for a new signal desk for the
new First Precinct station tho board
discovered that the signal desk would
cost $4,000.
1t was decided in executive session
to give the case of Policeman O'Loulh-
lin. formerly of the Third Precinct, q
hearing at next Mondays conference.
The board viii decide then whether
or not O'Loughlin is entitled to nay.
Mrs. O'Loughlin contends that her hus-
band was injured while on duty, and,
that he developed insanity after the
injury. He is now in an insane asylum
and is suspended. Mrs. O~Loughlin'
wants her husband placed on the pen
sion list or his salary turned over to
her
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
IN
THE HIGH SCHOOL

The students Aled into the auditorium
early Monday morning TO be classified for
the September terms work.
BY 1890 o'clock those with regular pro-
grams had made out the schedule of per-
for the day.
The pupils with irregularities in their
courses of study, however. needed the In
it was not until yesterday that the school
was running with something like its accus-
toned smoothness.
Even yet there are a few changes to be
made. Heretofore the number of students
taking solid geometry has been so small
as to only warrant forming a class every
other year., no one thought that there
would be a class Of forty-seven in that
subject this term. AS twenty-five students
constitute as large a class as can be prop
erly taught. a division will be necessary.
Miss Nellie Hill will teach one section Of
the class and William A. Johnson the
other.
AS the number of students to be accom-
modated exceeded the seating capacity of
the recitation rooms formerly used, it was
necessary to press into service the room
used for singing periods last term. Here
after Professor Charles Stafford will con-
duct the music recitatlons in the audito-
rum.
There will be no singing periods until
Miss Elizabeth Harding returns from her
trip abroad, as Professor Stafford, the mu-
steal director, is now In charge of Miss
Harding's English class.
Nj students studying either college prep
aratory or general English this term will
recite those subjects five periods a week.
Last year English was a f~our-period-a-
week subject.
Since the additional period has been
added one recitation is devoted to questions
not needing outside preparation.
Several changes have occurred In the
High School faculty since the close of las;
vacation.
Mr.. Clint, a teacher of physics, resigned
from his place to accept the position of lab
oratory ASSISTANT in Yale College.
Max Hertzberg, the exceptional scholar
who received a gold medal for graduating
from Columbia College in three years, has
been added 10 the faculty and is now teach
ing in room q.
Paul Fassett has also joined the staff
of teachers. His work will come In tn
| department of mathematics.
Several of the organized classes consid
cred holding class meetings last Wednes
day, but as the work of organizing thu
school had not been completed, the meet
ings were deferred until Wednesday next
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
~SALVATlONISTS BID
FAREWELL TO BOOTH.
Veteran Commander Sails for Quebec
to Begin Campaign in Canada
and United States.

LONDON, Sept. 13.-Men and women 9
wearing uniforms of the Salvation Army
filed Euston Railroad station here this
morning, a large party having assembled
to bid farewell to General Booth, who left
London for Liverpool, where he will emf
bark ON the Allan line steamer Virginian
for Quebec, in which city the veteran COM
mander will begin a campaign which Is to
extend over Canada and the United States. !
The "7s-years-young' general, as he de-
scribes himself, appeared to be as hearty
as possible, considering his age From the
railroad car he handed the reporters a
message. as follows: &
lone more good-by, dear old England.
leave your shores on what l believe is the
Masters business, As l contemplate the
future ! rely more than ever on the old
panacea for lessening the ruins, inequali-
ties and t~yrannles of the world. namely,
the regeneration of the individual Wy the
power of God" 14i
Before entering his car General Booth
presided at a prayer meeting in the wait
ing-room of the station, which was at
tended by the prominent officers of the
Salvation Army. 5r
Commissioner Nicol, Colonel Lawley and
Brigadier Cox accompany General Booth
10 Canada.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
A SCHOOL TEACHING
RADICALLY REFORMED.
Recommend Promotion by Subjects and
Not by Grade, as at Present.
Endorsed in All States.

NEW YORK. Sept. l3.-An lnvestisa-
ton conducted by a committee of Tire
Brooklyn Teachers Association, a re-
port OF which has just been pnblished,
shows that educators throughout tbs
United states favor a system of pros
by subjects. instead Of by
grades. in the secondary schools and
believe that a liberal education course
should be devised to take fifteen years.
in it's completion instead of sixteen
years, as at present
II is likely that ala effort viii be made
to place the matter before the National
Education Association at early meeting
and have hat body take official action
The reforms suggested would mean a
revolution Of the school system here.
In the investigation questions We're
sent to educators throughout the coun-
try and answers were received from
$50. Every state and Territory is rep
resented in the answers, and also can-
ada, Mexico. England Scotland, Russia,
Turkey, China ard Japan,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
UNLUCKY is THE BARBER.
Lost in the Political Game and Also in
Court of Love

ATLANTIC CITY, Sept. 1S.-Frank
d'Amato. a Fourth Ward barber, has de-
cided that politics is too desperate a game
for his further amusement After con-
tributing literally TO the support Of his
faction, he failed to get the Republican
nomination for constable. The ~strenuosity
of the fight in some manner robbed him Of
the affections Of Miss Marie Santario. lie
was not aware of this. and, coming up be-
hind her while she was in conversation
with another woman. he gave her a hearty
PAT on the back Of the neck.
Miss Santario's black eyes snapped fire.
and she followed the glare with a half
dozen eggs, hastily snatched from =
grocer's tray. Her aim was good. and poor
d'Amato looked like a spoiled omelet.
The grocer protested, and the rejected
lover CALAMITY paid for the eggs. Miss
Santario was not satisfied. however. and
hailed d'Amate into court, and Magistrates
Donnelly held him under $500 bah TO keep
the peace.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
coURTsHlP BY PHONE.
Bashful Man Fell in Love with Hello
Girls Sweet Voice.

PITTSBURG, Sept. 13.-Rcbert J.
Doyle, assistant trainmaster on the
Monongahela division of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, was yesterday married
to Agnes NJ. Nolin, who for some
months has been night telephone girl
In the railroad office.
The courtship was one of the most
unique on record. Doyle fell in love
with the girls voice and courted her
for weeks over the phone before he
ever saw her. Miss Nolin is said by
wen her fellow telephone girls to have
the sweetest voice on any switchboard
in Pittsburg Doyle, who has been
with h railroad for eighteen years, is
said to be the most bashful of men,
and the now Mrs. Doyle's close friends
are whispering that he proposed to
Agnes over the telephone and was ac-
cepted by the same route.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
IF PAID CLAIMS
WOULD TOTAL
$4,000
ia Want Trolley Co. TO
Pay Damages--4OO Cases
for Criminal Court.

There will be plenty of grist for the
judicial mill that begins to grind for
the September term next Tuesday,
both of the criminal and civil variety.
The calendar. is one of the heaviest
that has ever been prepared, and al
though four courts will be busy, there
is no likelihood that in any one of them
there will be a clean slate when the
term is brought to a close.
In the civil cases the North Jersey
Street Railway Company figures as the
defendant in no less than ia actions
for damages brought by persons who
claim to have been injured by the
negligence of its employees. OF these
1856 are listed in the Circuit Court and
10 in the Supreme Court.
AS the average suit is for 5000 h total
claims amount to the enormous figure of
$50, 900. Many of these claims, however,
are "hold-overs'' from other terms, some
Of them covenng accidents two or three
years old, and a fairly large. percentage
Of them will never be brought to trial, as
they will be settled long before they are
called. Others of these claims will only
reach the stage Of non-suit while still
lbIiitib VIII 6O pftt
reason or another.
All tald there Are 45O cases listed in the
circuit Court and 1876 in the Supreme Court
The other actions in tort against trans
portation corporatiocs, besides the NOrth
Jersey Street Railway Company in the Cir
cult Court list, are distributed as follows.
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Rail,
road. 5; Erie Railroad, 4. Central Railroad
Of New Jersey, 3, and Lehigh Valley Rail-
road, 2. The Supreme Court actions of this
class are divided like this; Central Rail-
road of New Jersey, s.; Pennsylvania Rail
road, 4; Delaware. Lnckawanna and West
ern Railroad, 3; Jersey City. Hoboken and
Paterson Street Railway. 8; Erie Railroad
2, and Lehigh Valley Railroad, L.
AS to the criminal branch of the mill
the Grand Jury will be asked to consider
no less than four hundred cases, ranging
from ordinary assault and battery to muir.
der, the result of midsummer madness, .
much of it superinduced by overindulgenct
in liquor.
In this four hundred there are two com-
plants of murder, on which the Grand
Jury will be asked to indict. and nine
cases of manslaughter. including the acct
dental killing by trolley, auto md othel
vehicles using the common highway.
The murder cases cover Charles Smith,
ucdlis August L. ldSlt when ne was NIL
on the head with a stone by Luther
Barnes in the rear Of 63 Orange street,
and tho killing of Mrs. Lorenzo Maglia,
June %. last, in 25 Drift street, by her
husband
Besides these fresh cases there are q
large lumber of important ones in which
Indictments have been already found, such
as those covering alleged graft in thu
police department, for which no date has
been set, that will keep many a petit jury
busy.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
ST. MARY'S CATHOLIC CLUB
PLANS SERIES OF DANCES.

The members OF 81. Mary's Young Mems
Catholic Club, connected with sSt. Mary's
Catholic Church, are arranging a series
of monthly dances, the first Of which will
be held next Monday evening, September
16. in Casino Hall, lat William street.
Elaborate preparations are being made
for the affair, and it is the aim Of tho
committee to bring about even a greater
success han the previous triumphs of the
club.
The hall will be decorated with flags and
streamers, and the trophies won by the
club members in athletic events. and the
spacious lawn adjoining, where a dancing
pavilion will be erected, will be Illuminated
with colored electric lights in Japanese
effect. The committee in charge Of the
arrangements is Albert Jacob, chairman;
James r. Caffrey, secretary and treas
urer; Joseph F. PapscQS, Thomas Rock,
Frank Seelman and Charles Saal.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13

citation Of the Elliott Street School viii be
held In the school building Wednesday
evening. October 2. when Hamilton T. Dis
brow. the new president, will give a talk.
The orchestra Of the Elliot Street School
Is once mere in training. and IN addition
to this Principal Charles G. schafer is
organizing a choral club which will con-
tain about 200 children, who will make a
special study of choruses.
All of the parents" associations in the
city will begin meetings next month.
PRINCIPAL w Spader Willis. of the Nor
NAL School. reports se%venty-one new names
on the school register. This, he declares.
is the biggest entrance list the school ever
had. Forty-one Of the girls are from the
High School.
The regular grade meetings will begin
Superintendent David b. Corson. They
will be held in the Normal and Training
School assembly room and in the Free
Public Library
Among the pupils in the Bergen Street
School is al Indian boy named Arbishier
Behran. the son of a wealthy merchant of
Bombay. who desires that he shall have
an American public school education. The
boy was born in Persia. but his father
moved to India when he was very small.
He is in Newark under the charge of
Harper Harris. Of this city, who brought
him from India.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
FARMER FIRES PISTOL
AT AUTOMOBILE PARTY.
One of Those in Machine Was the Wife
of Governor of Kentucky and
Arrest Follows.

OWENSBORO, KY, Sept. 13.-Joe
Ruxer, a farmer, has been indicted on the
charge of having discharged a pistol at an
automobile containing Mrs. ]. c. w.
Beckham, wife of the Governor of the
State, and a party of friends.
Mrs, Beckham, who was an Owensooro
girl, was here visiting friends. The farm
ers in this vicinity nave been complaining
of the speed of machines on the highways,
and when he motor containing Mrs. Beck
ham reached a bridge or a much-travelcl
thou oughfare a m"h on horseback ae-
randed that The cha'Ired- stop.
The horse nan flourish ed a pistol over
his head and forced the driver of the au-
tol. obile to wait several minutes while he
denounced ~ant)mobi.ists in bitter terms.
When the Machine started he fired sew
era shots, and Ms. Feel ham and the
other women dropped to the bottom CT
tho car.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
FINDS HER MISSING
HUSBAND IN MORGUE
Jacob stieger, Silk Weaver, Was Man
Found Crushed on Tracks-May Have
Jumped from Moving Train.

The body of the mar found Wednes-
day night on the tracks of the Penn
sylvania Railroad, near the Walnut
street bridge, was identified last night
at Holes morgue by Mrs. Jacob Site
ger, of AGA South Seventh street, as the
body of her husband. Mrs. Stieger
read about the finding of the body, and
when her husband failed to return to
his home she feared from the descrip-
ton of the dead man that it was her
husband. She went to the morgue,
and when shown the body she became
historical as she identified the corpse.
Stieger was a silk a 1t is sup
posed that he was returning from New
York by train and fell asleep, and when
he found he had passed his station,
attempted to jump off the moving train,
thereby meeting his death.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
BAD MAN IS KILLED.
He Had shot a Boy Just Before He Got
Bullet Himself.

COKEVILLE. Wyo., Sept. 13.-Joe Bates.
a sheep herder. was shot and instantly
killed by J. S. Branson. a rancher, living
thirty miles north of this place. after hc
and his brother Sam had shot a 17-year-
old boy. whom they had held up and rob
bed, and terrorized the people along the
road whieh they Travelled for several hours.
The Bates brothers, after drinking to eA-
cess, started out to hold up everybody they
met. and eventually ran into Branson, who
resisted them. snatching Sam Bates's re-
volver from its holster and killing Joe
Bates. as the latter was attempting to
draw his gun.
The shooting of the boy was deliberate
and caused great indignation. Sam Bates
was placed under arrest and the youthful
victim Of their outlawry, whose name was
not learned. was taken in charge by neigh
bors and driven to town on his way to
Salt Lake for treatment IN the hope Of
his life. A lynching is Threatened il
the boy dies.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
CUBAN DAMAGE CLAIMS.
Railroads Ask $1,000 oo from the
Claims Commission.
[speelal to tho EvenIne star.l

HAVANA, Sept. 1S.-Grant Duff, tho
British Minister, will soon make repre-
sentations TO Governor Magoon in behalf
OF English interests in several railways
that have claims against the government
for damages to their property during tho
revolution last fall.
The claims amount approximately to
$500, 900. Provision was made for their adj
justment last fail, when the claims COM
mission WIS appointed, but that body has
a great quantity OF work before it. and.
under the present program, cannot reach
the railway claims for several months.
This is not satisfactory to the railways.
which are anxious for an immediate settle
ment. The British Minister will suggest
the appointments of special investigating
agents to expedite the settlement of Eng
fish claims. Until very recently the claims
commission has been engaged in settling
claims for horses seized during the revo-
luton. These claims number 1900.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
IN SlGEL'S HONOR.
Governor Hughes to Make Address at
Unwilling of Statue of General.

NEW YORK, Sept. 1s.-Governor Hughes
has accepted an invitation to deliver the
principal address at the unwilling Of the
bronze eouestrian statue Of General Franz
Sigel. on Saturday afternoon. October 10.
at Riverside Drive and 1Q6th street. Gov
ernor Hughes VIII be followed by General
Stewart l.. Woodford, a wartime comrade
of General Sigel. and by Herman Rider.
whose address will be in German.
In honor Of the occasion, 1t is expected
that the local a1d near by Grand Army
posts will be represented In force. and that
more than 10000 members of the various
German societies will Join the veterans in
the procession.
A chorus Of four or five thousand voices
from the German singing societies will
also participate in the exercises.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
CHECK WAS BOGUS.
Signed by the A. White Realty Co. and
Presented by a Printer.

JERSEY CITY, Sept. 1s.-James Van
Beuren. % years old, OF PA Plainfeld ave-
hue. was arrested Yesterday by Captain
Robinson, Of the detective bureau, charged
with passing a worthless check. Emil
vockroth. a Newark avenue druggist. was
the complainant. The check was for $40. and
-gas drawn on the New Jersey Title Guar
gntee and Trust Company. 1t was signed
a. White Realty Company" the concern
that is suing the De Forrest Wireless Tele-
graph Company.
Van Beuren who is a printer. told Cap
tain Robinson that he has done some work
for the "A. White Company" and had re
ceived the check in payment for his serv-
ices. At the Title. Guarantee and Trust
Company 1t was found the "a. White COM
pany'' had no account there.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-13
MRS. MINOR MORRIS IN
ST. LOUIS HOSPITAL.
Woman Whose Election from White
House Attracted National Attention
TO Be Examined as to Her Sanity.

ST. LOUIS. Sept. 19.-Claiming to be
the victim of a plot in which she inn
p~licates high government officials and
relatives. Mrs. Minor Morris, whose
election from the White House nearly
two years ago attracted natinoal atten-
ton. was taken to the city hospital yes
terday by relatives.
She is confined in the observation
ward pending an investigation into her
sanity. Mrs. Morris. protesting that she
is not and was never insane, was taken
to the hospital Immediately after her
arrival in st. Louis from Minneapolis.