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The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
DIDN'T THINK 1T WAS
FRIDAY AND 23D, TOO.
Not Clear Why Prisoner on Suspicion
Asked Judge Date, but It's Trouble
Day for Donaldson.

According to James Donaldson, VINO
was arrested on suspicion by Bicycle
Policeman Rath, at Clinton avenue and
Clinton place., at 1880 this morning, to-
day is not the sixth day of the week.
To-day is Wednesday. isn't it, judge?"
asked Donaldson, when arraigned be-
fore Judge Herr an hour later.
yes, / guess 1t Is" replied the
court; ''at any rate, l will give you a
few days to decide whether 1t is or
not, and In the meantime the police
will have a chance to investigate"
Policeman Rath's principal duty is TO
protect houses reported vacant by peo-
pie spending the summer at resorts,
He was in the annexed district today
and had inspected a dwelling at 36
Nairn place, where the rear entrance is
boarded up, and he found everything in
order. Shortly after, while chatting
with a citizen a block and a half away,
he noticed that a man was lettering in
the rear yard of the Marin place house.
Rath mounted his wheel, and as he did
so the man hurried from the premises
and walked toward Clinton place. Rath
could not reach the yard through the
rear, a wire fence blocking his way.
When he rode around the block to the
front he saw the suspect hurrylng
along the avenue. Rath overlook Don
ALLISON and placed him under arrest.
Wnat were you DONG around that
house?' asked Rath.
why, 1 was looking for a job" he
replied.
We'll, come along with me and I
might be able to get you one"
Rath was in citizens clothes, and at
the time Donaldson was under the inn
preston that he had struck luck. His
opinion changed when Rath halted in
front of the nearest patrol box and
sent in a call for the patrol wagon.
What sort of work do you do?" was
Rath's next question.
Il am a lather."
How is it that you expected to find
work of that sort around that house?"
did not reply.
Rath told the judge today that Dom
aldson said he was looking for work.
and when Judge Herr inquired If it
was true Donaldson replied. well, no.
our honor; / was looking for some
thing to eat, but I was ashamed to adj
init 1t to this gentleman The prisoner
said hat he slept several nights In the
Salvation Army barracks and last night
in a park.
When searched a pawn ticket was
found in the band of the prisoners
hat. The police believe the capture a
good one. Donaldson will be taken to
headquarters and an Investigation will
be made.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
MOB THREATENED
HEMMED IN STORE KEEPER
AFTER ASSAULT
Aroused at weiss's Attack on Canning,
Who Had Done Favors for Him
May Lose an Eye.

David Weiss, who has a store at 113
West street, had a narrow escape from
being mobbed shortly after 10 o'clock last
night when he assaulted Frederick Gan
ming. aged IS years, of 100 West street.
with a glass. Canning, who was a patron
of Weiss's, stopped In front Of the store
and found Weiss in an angry mood. Fol
owing a custom he established some time
ago he started to draw a glass of soda,
when Weiss pushed him to one side.
''Wait a minute, Weiss; what's the mat
ter?" asked Canning.
Weiss did not reply, but seized a glass
from in front of the fountain and hurled
it at Canning. 1t struck him over the
right eye and inflicted a deep wound, which
bled considerably. Joseph McTague hap
pened to be passing, and from his medical
cabinet he took a wash and placed ten
yards Of bandage over the wound, which
bled continually.
McTague took the victim to st. Barna-
bass Hospital where the wound was prop
erly attended. BY this time the report OF
the assault spread and a crowd congre-
gated In front of the store. and many
threats were made. Policeman Nc
CURE, OF the Fourth Precinct Sta
ton, arrived on the scene In the
nick Of time. and with McTague searched
the premises aud caught Weiss as he was
lAOOuL W 1toaRRNaAA 111A ~ 1ohhth
and as the latter refused to make a COM
plant Weiss was not formally placed I'M
der arrest. Mcclure then dispersed the
crowd and thus prevented what looked
like an outbreak against Weiss. Later it
was reported that Weiss remarked that
he would move out of the vicinity in the
near future.
The people who formerly patronized
Weiss stated today that they would boycott
him in the future. "If he don't move he'll
starve to DEATH was the way one put It.
Canning has a great many friends in the
neighborhood. Some say they will acquaini
Acting Captain McGovern of the facts and
lodge a complaint against the ~storekeeper,
While G~anning's wound may not prove
serious, the physicians are not any too
hopeful. Today he suffered from violent
pains in the head, and some believ that
the loss of the injured eye may result.
Canning and Weiss were good friends and
often when Weiss would be busy Canning
would assist him.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
ACCUSES. RELENTS.
Pleaded for Brother-in-law in Larceny
Case, but Revolver Holds Prisoner.

After Harry Rich. of 70 Monmouth
street. refused to sign a complaint of lar
ceny gains his brother-in-law of the
same name. who lived with him until last
sunday morning. when, it is alleged, he
stole SIG. Acting Captain McGovern charged
the defendant with carrying a concealed
weapon. and as a result the prisoner was
held in default Of $500 bail for the Grand
Jury.
When Rich missed the money and when
his brother-in-llw failed to return home
as usual. he suspected him Of taking the
cash, and Special Policeman Cook, who
was told of the circumstances. last night
arrested the alleged thief at Washington
and Market streets. Cook then took Rich
TO the home of his brother-in-law. and the
latter stated that he would appear in court
today as the complainant. Cook discovered
that the prisoner had a revolver with four
loaded cartridges in his pocket. and he
called on Policeman Faraher to assist him
in taking the prisoner to the Fourth pre-
cinct station. Rich. the complainant, was
in court today and asked that his name
sake and brother-in-law be set free and
that he would send him to st. Louis.
Judge Herr was not much impressed
with the request, and when told that the
prisoner had a loaded revolver he sent
for Acting Captain McGovern TO make
the complaint.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
SAY SLAYER PAWNED
PIN IN THIS CITY.
Found in Local Pawnship by Sleuths.
Man Gave Name Meyer" and May
Be Murderer Sought.

Detective Sergeant Pagan. of this
city, and Detective Poppik, of the New
York city central Office, made a tour of
the ~pawnshops of this city yesterday
afternoon and found in one pawnshop
a pin which was pawned by a man
whom the New York police are hunt
Ing for the murder of a servant girl
in New York city. The name of the
victim the police refuse to divulge at
this time, but a close watch is being
kept on the pawnshops in the hope that
the man who pawned the pin may re-
turn.
The pin was a small diamond one,
which was tolen, the police think, when
the murderer set fire to a mouse and
stole most of the jewelry ~valuables.
The murder was a most particularly
brutal one. The murderer entered the
house saying he was a gas inspector.
Once in he killed the servant girl, who
was the only n in the house at the
time, strangling her to death. Her
dead body was found in the house when
the firemen came to put out the blaze
which the murderer had started.
The pin pawned here was put in
under the name of Myer.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
GUN PLAY
AT KENTUCKY FAIR.
Two Men Are Dead, One of Them Being
a Constable, Who Joined In
as Peacemaker.

LONDON. Ky, Aug. 23,-News has
just been received here of a free-for-all
gun fight neal the Knox County fair
grounds, at Barbourville, in which two
men were fatally shot and three other
persons, one a woman, badly wounded.
Constable l.. r. Campbell, who sought
TO quell the disturbance. was shot dead.
Edward Smith died of his wounds yes
terday. John Warren is seriously hurt
and may die. Ralph Tuggle, a police
man, is in a serious condition.
Warren's mother. with a babe at her
breast, was shot through n arm,
which had to be amputated.
The only arrest is that of John Bailey.
who is charged with having fred the
bullet that killed Constable Campbell.
Nearly all Of the fighters who escaped
unframed have fled into the country,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
MAY COMPROMISE
TELEGRAPHERS READY TO
MAKE CONCESSIONS.
Superintendent of Western Union in
New York Thinks Men Would Come
Back in Stampede, if Invited.

NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-The striking
te~legraphers have. through their ma
tional president, S. j. Small, appointed
a committee to come to New York and
try to compromise the trouble with the
telegraph companies. This was an
nounced in a communication from Pres
ident Small read in an open meeting
of the strikers at Everett Hall yester-
day. 1t is the first official intimation
from either side in the controversy that
a compromise would even be con-
sidered.
Heretofore the strikers have been en-
|phatic in their assertions hat the only
settlement which they would consider
was a complete surrender by the COM
panies. The companies, on the other
hand, still assert that there will be no
compromise with the operators.
Superintendent Belvidere Brooks said:
II am perfectly satisfied that If we sent
out a notice that we were ready to take
the strikers back on the conditions exist
ing before they struck there would be a
stampede back to work within twenty-four
hours. We are not going to do that"
Genera, Manager e. j. Mentally, of the
Postal Company. said: II can see no ex-
cuSe Tor the 6trlke against tue POSTAL
| company Last November when we had
conferences with the committee of the
telegraphers Daniel l.. Russell, the spokes-
man for the committee, said that the only
grievance was the question of money.
We then raised the wages of the operators.
and the operators were 80 pleased that
they gave a complimentary dinner to the
company. Yet when the strike took place
two-thirds of our operators went out
without warming"
The strikers assert that their treasury
is every day getting in better shape.
They give out the information that they
have received a contribution of $1,000 from
Tammany Leader Charles f. Murphy and
that the Order of Railroad Telesraphers
has assessed each of its members 81 to
aid the striking commercial operators.
Chief Strategist Daniel Russell expects
to have Fair Play. the paper which the
union will publish. on sale tomorrow.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
DANNEMORA IS QUIET
CRIMINAL INSANE IN THEIR
CELLS NOW.
Institution Heavily Guarded, However,
Against Repetition of Last Nights
Furious Outbreak.

PLATTSBURG, Y. Y, Aug. 2S.-The
guards in the State Hospital for the Crimi-
nal at Dannemora are heavily armed and
patrolling constantly today in an effort to
prevent a recurrence of the riotous. demon
STATIONS of last night, when 800 criminally
insane patients made a desperate endeavor
to escape, and only desisted when one of
their number, Israel Dubois, had been shot
and killed.
The two large dormitories in which the
prisoners made their fight are In a con-
dition of wreck. Windows are smashed,
iron gratings bent, and walls damaged
where the convicts made efforts to wrench
the iron bars from their stone settings.
The outbreak began at . o'clock. and all
the time the prisoners were hammering
the window gratings they kept up a con-
certed yelling that was terrifying In its
effects. All of the inmates had been
lined up preparatory to being locked In
their cells. for the night, when they made
a sudden rush into the dormitories. slam
ming the doors after them and barricading
them with beds and other articles. Them
with iron bed posts they began an attack
on the stone work in which the window
bars are set.
The guards were stationed at all the
windows and ordered to shoot, but not to
kill unless necessary. Heavy streams of
water were then turned from the fire hose
'Non the windows, but the convicts imme-
diately placed bedding in the windows,
which stopped the drenching. After two
hours of effort the wardens and guards
finally forced the doors of the dormitories
and overpowered the rioters.
The convicts had secured a chisel and a
sledge hammer In some mysterious man
ner. The only other outbreak in the his
tory of the hospital was in 1900. the year
in which 1t was opened.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
GIRL RESCUED FROM
GANG BY POLICEMAN.
Mary Mcconnell, of Staten Island, Lured
to Place Where Several Men
Attacked Her.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-John Nc
Cort, of 621 East Fifteenth street, was
arraigned in the Jefferson Market Po-
lice Court today, having been arrested
on suspicion of being one of several
men who attempted to attack Mary Nc
Cornell, of % Fourth street, New
Brighton, S. i.
Miss Mcconnell was rescued by po-
licemen from a band early today at the
foot of East Fourteenth street. she
said she is a dry goods saleswoman
and was looking for a room having de-
cided to live in Manhattan, when she
became confused and, deciding to re-
turn home, asked a young man to show
her the way to the Staten Island ferry.
He offered to conduct her there, but
took her to the place where ne and
several other men attempted to attack
her. The girls a~ssailants escaped and
she was unable to identify McCort as
one of them.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
FINE GOLF AT DEAL
TURNER LEADS FIELD AT
END OF DAYS PLAY.
Home Golfer Equals Amateur Record for
Course, 77-Wilcox, of Montclair,
Finishes Second.

DEAL. Aug. 2s.-At the completion Of
the qualifying round Of the annual invf-
tation tournament conducted by the Deal
Golf and Country Club yesterday. the field
was led by j. B. Turner, jr.. a home
champion. who made the eighteen holes in
z, e~qualing the amateur record for
the course. Harold Wilcox. of Montclatr.
finished second. with 81, and Walter J.
Travis, Gilman Tiffany. H. c.. Fownes and
Carl Martin were tied for third honors,
with 70. Travis suffered from the overtrod-
den green's. losing several strokes near
the holes. The contestants were out early
this morning to continue play.
The scores of the first three sIxteens:
EIR2T GIXTLnENr
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
BANK CLEARINGS ARE
STILL UP TO THE MARK.
Dun's Review Sums Up the Business
Situation and Finds 1t Entirely
Normal.

NEW. YORK. Aug. BRA G. Dun &
Co.'s weekly review of trade tomorrow
viii say:
..Bank cIearings maintain a steady vol
time. -denotipg normal settlements through
the banks. total exchanges this week at
all leading cities in the United States out
side New York being sS01, 337. 47S, an in
crease of 7.3 per cent. over last year and
22.1 per cent. over the corresponding week
of 1905. There is a large loss at New York
city. due entirely to the fact that unusual
speculative activity prevailed in the Wall
street markets a year ago, and the trifiing
loss at Boston and Philadelphia is also a
reflection of this. Otherwise there is en-
orally a considerable increase notably in
the West. The volume of business in
August is usually at the low water mark
for the year as will be seen in the figures
Of this year and 1905-speculative activity
a year ago reversed this ucondition-and
compared with 1905 the August statement
is quite as satisfactory as the preceding
months"
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
TWO ARRA1GNED BY S. P. c. A.

william Lyons, of 295 New street.
was arraigned before Judge Herr, in
the Second Precinct Court. his morn
ing, on a charge of cruelty to animals
and p~aroled until Monday morning.
The complainant in the case was Col
onel Edward S. Edwards. of the New
Jersey Society for Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals. Lyons pleaded not guilty
to driving a sore horse. Gaetano Pc
trillo, of 10 Lock street, was arraigned
on a like charge and also paroled un-
til Monday morning. The horse he had
been driving was hardly able to walk,
it Is said. Colonel Edwards had the
animal standing outside the court room.
The horse ran been ordered killed.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
CAPE COD FOREST FIRES
STILL ~UNEXTINGUISHED.
Italian Laborers Sent from Car Shops
to Fight Flames, But They Are Not
Expected to Do Much.

BUZZARDS BAY. Mass, Aug. 23.-Sen-
ator Eben s. S. Keith dispatched a force
of 100 italian laborers from his car shops
at Sycamore into the woods between
Bourne and Sandwich today to assist in
keeping the fire. which was still shoulder
ing this morning. under control. Very lit
tie hope is expressed OF e~xtlnguishing the
fire until a heavy rain does the work.
Every night for the past week, the fire
apparently has subsided. only to break out
again the next day when the wind springs
up.
At 8 o'clock this morning a Southwestern
had begun to blow and smoke was push
ing up from among the hills south Of
Bournedale and there was every indication
at that time of another day of f~ire-ighting.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
GUARDED ADMISSION.
I'm Slightly Guilty" Says Dittel, An
swering Policeman's Charge.

Tn slightly guilty, but not much
said Joseph Dittel, of 40 Magazine street.
when arraigned before Judge Howell in
the Third Precinct Police Court this morn
ing on a charge of assault and battery and
disorderly' conduct, preferred against him
by Patrolman Brex.
Joseph Hoffman, of 1O4 Van Buren, street,
who WAS arrested with Dittel, denied his
guilt and the court listened to the story
they told. Both men were patrons of a
dance held In Kanengiser's Hall, $50 Mar
ket street, last night. TIL policeman told
the court that this weekly affair has been
giving the police considerable trouble
lately.
Hoffman told the court that he was max
ing an effort to get out Of the building
when placed under arrest. Dittel was
found back of the bar washing blood from
the back of his head. and was likewise
placed under arrest. Dittel said that he
had been struck on the top OF the head
with a blackjack and gave the police the
name of the man who hit him. Dittel and
Hoffman were released on $40 cash deposit
for their appearance tomorrow morning as
witnesses against the wielder of the black
jack.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
WILDCAT SCALDED.
Afterwards Dogs Found It Easy to Kill
the Poor Thing.

PORT JERVIS. N. T.. Aug. 2S.-Mrs.
Robert Winters was busy making bread
yesterday at her home near Griebey, Pa,
when the dogs began barking savagely.
She was about to investigate the cause Of
their excitement when a wildcat bounded
into the kitchen door. followed by two
dogs.
The wildcat sprang al Mrs. Winters, bot
she lodged II. and grabbing a kettle Of lot
water from the stove dashed 1t over the
animal when it sprang at her a second
time.
Screaming with rage and pain the Wild
cat turned on the dogs and fought them
furiously, but, blinded as it was by the
scalding water and suffering agony. 1t was
no match for them and was soon killed.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
KNEW HOW TO GET HIS
HORSE MAKE FAST TIME.
Not Allowed to Use Whip, He Got an
Electric Battery, but Was
Arrested Nevertheless.

MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Aug. 23.-Be-
cause he used an electric battery on
his horse to make him go fast, Jacob
Rapp was fined 81 and costs, yesterday,
on complaint Of the Humane Society.
Rapp is a rural mail carrier and is
fond of going at a good clip. A year
ago superintendent Clayton, of the HUI
name Society, warned him never to use
his whip IN his horse.
Rapp then got a battery. attached it
to his horse. and whenever he thought
the steed needed a little ginger he
turned on the battery.
That was why Rapp could cover his
route faster than any n else in the
service.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
HAGUE PROPOSALS.
Horace Porter Announces His Instruc-
lions from Secretary Root.

THE HAGUE. Aug. 2S.-General Horace
Porter at today's session of the commit
tee charged with the examination OF the
obligatory arbitration proposals. announced
that Secretary Root had instructed the
American delegation not to vote on any
of the lists presented by various powers
giving the subjects they would agree in
variably to submit TO arbitration, but to
insist on the American proposition regard
ing general arbitration as more likely to
be accepted, and also to keep the PROPOSE
ton regarding contractuaa debts separate
from obligatory arbitration.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
KILLED BY JUL.
Farmer Was on His Horse When Attack
Was Made Unexpectedly.

PHILLIPSBURG. Aug. 2s.-John ".
Van Camp, a well-to-do farmer, living one
mile cast of Blairstown. rode one of his
horses to the field yesterday to bring his
cows from the pasture.
A bull which never before had shown
any signs 9f being mao attacked the
horse. throwing Van Camp to the ground
with such violence that he never regained
consciousness and died a few hours after
ward.
He was IS years old and left a widow
and several children.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
CONDUCTOR WAS GAME.
Man who Made Trouble on Car "Gets
His for Threat.

Joseph Walters. of rs Arlington street,
conductor on an Orange trolley, Inc
Joseph Noonan, of "a Second street.
quarreled last night over Noonan's alleged
pulling of the signal rope. One woman
was thrown 10 the ground when Noonan
suddenly signalled for the motorman to
start. Il is said.
Walters demonstrated with Noonan,
who, it is alleged, became abusive and
defied Walters to leave the car at Little
ton avenue and Warren street. on penalty
of a thrashing. Walters is said to have
stepped from the running board and to
have struck Noonan, rendering the latter
unconscious. Noonan revived at the City
Hospital. Walters was arrested. but the
case against him was dismissed this morn
ing in the Second Precinct Police Court.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
LOOKS LIKE MURDER.
Chicago Contractors Body Found OF
Stairway with Skull Fractured.

CHICAGO, Aug, 2S.-rhe body of Evan
der McIver, a well-to-do contractor resid-
ing at 3554 Prairie avenue, was found today
in a stairway leading to a basement at the
corner of Twenty-fifth and State streets.
There were marks of violence on the
body, and all of the money and valuables
had been taken, and it is the opinion OF
the police that the man was murdered and
thrown down the stairway.
Death had evidently been caused by a
blow on the head that fractured the skull.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.

Mrs. Emma Mack. a negress. who occu-
pies a fiat on the second floor of $50 Charl-
ton street. reported 70 the police last nigh
that her room was entered Wednesday
gaining an entrance by forcing a rear door
The articles stolen were four gold rings
one Of which contained seven pearls. two
Rnid watches. a pair Of gold-rimmed eye.
glasses, a toy bank and d shopping bag
Detective ~Sergeants Koerher and WALKER
are investigating. +.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-23
MEXICAN WAR VETERANS.
Hold Annual Reunion at the Jamestown
Exposition.

NORFOLK, Va. Aug. 23.-The annual re-
union of the National Association of Mexi-
can War Veterans opened at the ames-
town Exposition today. Welcoming ad-
dresses were made by exposition officials.
with responses by Colonel Louis e. Beeler.
of Baltimore, president, and Mrs. Moore
Mnrdock. of Dallas, Tex. secretary
A notable feature was the meeting be-
tween President Beeler and Colonel Jose
Manterola, who heads the jamestown Ma
tional Commission from the republic Of
Mexico.