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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-06
TRAPPED IN TENEMENT FIRE
Flames and Smoke Do Swift Work
in Double House in New York.
Family of Five Die in Room-PoIice
Suspect Incendiary Work at
Blaze in Mulberry Street.

New York City. Nine persons
were burned to death and six others
were injured in a fire which started
in tenement house at No IL Null
berry street early in the morning.
One of the men who was injured in
the wild panic which followed the
discovery of the blaze will probably
die. A number of tenants in the
building were overcome by smoke in
the upper floors of the structure de,
stroyed.
Identified dead Dominic Barrotti,
twenty years DID, Pietro Fuccelli,
thirty years old; Marie Fuccelli,
twenty-seven years old; Fuc-
CELL, boy, seven years old; $500 Fuc-
CELL, girl, five years old; - Fuc-
celli, boy, three years old
Unidentified dead: Man, thirty-five
years old; man, twenty years old;
boy, fifteen years old
Firemen found the bodies of Mr..
and Mrs. Dominic Fuccelli and their
three children on the fourth floor Of
the building, and the bodies of three
unknown men were found in another
room on that floor.
Only one alarm was turned in fol-
the fire, and it was under control
after an hours work by the flremen
The cause of the blaze is unknown,
but the police and the fire marshal
suspect that it was of incendiary orr,
gin and are investigating.
Several women jumped from the
fire escapes without being hurt seris
OuSly as an imnrOyised life net had
been made of blanket. Several chill
dren were also dropped into it as by
ISLANDERS held it taut
The firemen found the fire escapes
of the burned building Uttered with
household materials, and in many in
stances the windows had been partly.
boarded up by the tenants to prevent
their small children from climbing
out on the fire escapes.
The Railways of the building were
in darkness, and several other viola
lions of the building laws made the
place fire trap.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-06

Washington, D. Accidents in
coal mines of the United States dur
ing the last calendar year resulted in
the death of 1925 men, and injury to
1915 more, according to statistics
just made public by the Geological
Survey. The death record among the
coal miners during the year was
greater by 1893 than in 1906, and is
said to have been the worst year in
the history of the coal mining indus
try. The figures do not represent the
full extent of the disasters, as re-
ports were not received from certain
States having no mine inspectors.
West Virginia reported the heaviest
death rate in 1907, 1895 per thou
sand employees, and this State also
showed the lowest production Cor
each life lost-65,969 tons. New
Mexico stood next on the list with a
death rate of 11.45 and production
of 1882 tons for each life lost. Ala
bama was third, with death rate of
To per thousand and a production of
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-06

Washington. D. Physicians and
the laity will be greatly interested in
the result of series of experiments
made by the navy surgeons recently,
through which they believe they have
demonstrated that mercury is a spe-
cific for tuberculosis. The Govern
ment Bureau of Medicine and Surg
cry has published the reports of Med
ical Director G. T. EIibbett and Sur
geon Barton Leigh Wright.
Surgeon Wright, who is the origin
ator of the treatment, says he discov-
cred the efficacy of the drug by acct
dent. He was treating a case which
required mercury. The patient was
tubercular as we'll. To the surgeons
establishment the tubercalar LESSONS
began to heal.
The mercury is administered by in
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-06
3125 COAL MINERS LOST LIVES.
Show 1907 Was the worst Year in history Of Industry

92,535 tons for each life lost. Mis-.
souri, had the lowest death rate, head
ing the roll of honor with .95 and
499,742 tons of coal mined for each
life lost.
Statistics do not bear out the pop
ular idea that most mine disasters
result from explosions. OF the total
number reported during the last year,
947 deaths and 343 injuries resulted
from gas and dust explosions, and 201
deaths and 416 injuries were caused
by powder explosions. The chief
cause of death among the miners, the
report explains, was due to the falling
of mine roofs and coal. Such disas-
tiers caused 1922 deaths and 2141
injuries.
e. w. Parker, chief statistician of
the survey, asserts that much benefit
will result from the action of Con-
gpess in appropriating 1000 to in
vestigate mine disasters and take
steps to decrease the number of ac-
-cidents each year.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-06

Boston has woman pickpocket
aged seventy-two.
Miss Palmer, daughter of General
w. j. Palmer, has adopted nursing as
a career in London.
The will of Jane Blauvelt, who left
money to the First Reformed Church
at Yonkers, N. Y, has been contested
by relatives ON the ground of undue
influence.
Attacked in her home by man
who tried to chloroform her, Mrs,
George Hudson, No. 315 East 20lst
street, New York City, repulsed him
with a broom.
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San Francisco, Cal.-Wrapped in
the tentacles of a giant devil fish.
Martin Lund, a diver employed by
the Coast Wrecking Company, fought
for his life in the hold of the wrecked
steamer Pomona, which lies in thirty
feet of water in Fort Ross Cove off
the Marin County coast.
The devil fish had evidently entered
the vessels hold during the night
Lund had been at work some time
before he was attacked A giant ten
tacle four inches in diameter first
gripped one leg. Before Lund real-
lied what was happening another en-
eircled his thigh.
The diver began to chop at the rub
ber-like bonds and at the same time
gave the hosting signal to the barge
above. Two more tentacles squirmed
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-06
Notes Of the Diamond.

Pitcher Quinn, of Richmond, and
outfielder Cree, of Williamsport,
Joined the Highlanders.
Bob Unglaub is hitting at 800
clip for Washington and playing a
very good game at third base.
Report is current now that when
the 1909 baseball season begins Hal
Chase viii don a Cleveland uniform.
The secretary OF the National Base
ball Commission was directed to re-
turn to player Isbell, Of the Chicago
Americans, the $500 collected from
him as tlne for not reporting at the
opening Of the season.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-06

lection into the muscular Tissue in
order to avoid digestive derargement
DR.. Wright says:
II am convinced" he adds, that
in mercury we have a specific for tu-
berculosis, and that the only question
remaining is how long a Time win be
required to effect cure We follow
the we'll established rules of treat
ment during the administration of
the dgug-open air, rest, proper food
in abundance, sanitation, personal hy-
giene and selection OF climate" Sur
geom-General Rixey declines to COM
ment on the tests.
OF course it is not claimed by Dr.
Wright that the new treatment Will
restore the lost lung tissue, but where
there is enough hung tissue to support
life he believes the victim can be saved.
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The WorId al Snort.

Sixty-four yachts started in the fall
regatta of the Larchmont Club.
The Dixie III. won the mile cham
pionship for motor boats, showing
great speed
J. Campbell Thompson's four-in-
hand trotte6 mile in $50 in a
coaching race at Syracuse.
Charles M. Daniels broke the Amer
lean record for swimming $50 and
440 yards across tidal water
Tom" Nicholson, Of st. Andrews,
won the national sod quoting cham-
pionship OF America at Van C0rtlaRdt
Park.
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LATEST NEWS
BY WIRE.
TO Prosecute After Twenty Years.

To Prosecute After Twenty Years.
Boston. Carrying with him the
necessary requisition papers and
copy of a dust covered indictment
twenty years old, Inspector Waite, of
the local police, left here for Column
bus, Ohio, to reclaim John H. Thorpe,
who is wanted here for a number of
elarcenies, alleged to have been COM
mitted in 1883, of property valued at
( several hundred dollars.
Thousand Shoe Operatives Strike.
Lynn, Mass.-Between one thou
sand and twelve hundred lasters in
local shoe factories struck because of
an alleged violation of a contract by
the Joseph Caunt Company in dis
charging fifteen union members. The
company officials assert that the in
stallation of machines made the en-
ployment of the fifteen men unneces-
sary.
Knapp Approve Bill of Lading.
Chicago.-The Traffic Bulletin ha
letter from Chairman Martin A.
Knapp of the Interstate Commerce
Commission to c. G. Mccain, chair
man Of the uniform bill of lading
committee, approving the draft of the
new uniform bill of lading, which is
to go into effect November !.
Raise Quarantine Against Cuba.
Austin, Texas The State Health
Department, through J. HI. Florence,
acting State health officer, raised the
yellow fever quarantine against Ha-
vana and other Cuban ports.
Auto Accident Kills Two.
Detroit, Mich Paul B. Feys, a
commission merchant who was in
jured in the automobile accident in
which Mrs Albert Bemer, of Kala-
mazoo, was killed, died in hospital.
Feys and Mrs. Bemer were driving
down Jefferson avenue in an auto
mobile with L. H. TurnDull and Mrs.
Emma Emeterio, of Kalamazoo, when
the machine came in collision with
street car. Turnbull and Mrs. Eme-
terio escaped with bruises.
Robbers Take Victims Hat
Pottsville, Pa-James Malloy OF
Blackwood, was held up in broad day
light by three foreigners wearing
masks at point between York Farm
and West Woods, en- route 20 Potts
vile, They relieved him Of SIS and
jewelry at the point of TolTer,
and even took his hat.
Roosevelt Removes Two.
Washington, D. CAS- the result
of a report made by the Civil Service
Commission, President Roosevelt re-
moved Lincoln Avery, Collector of the
Port of Port Huron, Mich, and also
directed the removal of Charles II.
Daley, Special Agent of the Treas
ury at that place, on charges of per
nicious activity in politics.
Admiral Evans Son Accused.
Washington, D. Lieutenant
Frank Taylor Evans, who, according
to a dispatch from Manila, is to be
ourt-martialed on various charges,
is the son of Admiral Robley Evans.
who took the battleship fleet from
Hampton Roads to the Pacific Coast
No report of the charges affecting
young Evans has reached the Navy
Department.
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TWO SUMMER HOTELS BURNED.

Cottages at Winthrop, Mass, Also
Burned--Loss, $15O,OOO.
Boston, Mass. -Crest Hall and the
Ocean View Hotel, two of the largest
summer hotels on the ocean boule-
ward at Winthrop, known as the
Crest, were burned, together with
several cottages. The loss on the
hotels and cottages burned up to 1
o'clock was estimated at $150,000.
Two women who were guests at
Crest Hall, Mrs. A. G. Dumont, of
Cincinnati, and Miss Martin, were
reported missing. All the other
guests at Crest Hall, numbering fifty,
and the thirty-five guests at the
Ocean View Hotel are accounted for.
Crest Hall was owned by Frederick
Hall, and was built seven years ago
at cost OF $4,000. The Ocean
View Hotel was owned by Mr.. and
Mrs. J. D. O'Brien, and was valued
at $4,000. 1t was but three years
old.
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Stub Ends OF News.

Fred D. Yuengling. son of brew,
err, died in the prison ward of Belle
nue., New York City.
The merger of the Andover Theo-
logical Seminary and the Harvard
Divinity School has been effected.
DR.. Robert Koch, Of Berlin, ar
rived in Washington, D. c., to attend
the international tuberculosis Con-
gress.
Mail advices from Berlin say that
Hhe dynasties of eleven German
States are threatened with extinction
and may soon pass into the hands Of
the Emperor
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-06
SHOOTS BROTHER AT PLAY.
New Jersey Boys Were Acting as Sol
diers-Thought Gun Empty.

New Jersey Boys We're Acting as Sol
diers-Thought Gun Empty.
Newton, N. while playing sol
diersp in the yard of their home at
Circleville, near this place, John
Rich, Jr., accidentally shot and killed
his brother, Edgar, sixteen years old,
with shotgun.
Before the brothers began to march
around the yard, John went into the
house and got an old gun, which had
been stored away, and which he be-
lieved was not loaded Returning to
the yard. he ordered Edgar to throw
up his hands. Edgar did not comply
with the order as soon as John de-
sired, and pointing the gun at him,
John pulled the trigger The shot
entered Edgar's left side and pene-
trated the lung. He dropped to the
ground and was carried into the
house by John. A physician was
summoned, but before he arrived Ed
gar died.
The authorities made no arrest.
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South's Gown and Hay.

lone of my best customers in Mis-,
sissippi offers to sell me 400 tons of
hay and $4,000 bushels of corn" said
Memphis grain jobber. Il have re-
ceived other offers of corn and feed
stuffs from the same State, so there
must have been exceedingly good
yields in those crops. The South is
learning to diversity it's farming more
and more, and this Year the corn and
hay crops are large"
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CONVICTED MEN CAN VOTE.
5000 Whose Sentences Were Susa
pended Affected in New York.

~@NiOOV w HUSH ECntCuCCS NGEc gOuS4
pended Affected in New York.
Albany, n. YIN decision hand
ed down by the Court of Appeals it is
held that person who has been con-
victed OF crime and upon whom sen.
tence had been suspended can vote
without first having been restored to
citizenship.
The question was raised by George
Fabian, of New York City, who was
arrested for illegal voting. on the
ground that he had not been restored
to citizenship, having two years be-
fore been found guilty of burglary,
when sentence was suspended. The
question passed upon was whether
the word convicted" means the YER
dict of jury or the solemn judgment
of the court.
u is understood the decision will
affect the right of about 10000 ia
vote in this State
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-06
Kansas Mastodon Tusk
CruInpled When Found.

Concordia, Kan. A large ivory
tusk, seven inches in diameter. was
found near here in bed of clay. The
find was made by Frederick Dutton,
who was canoeing in the river. The
tusk crumpIed into small pieces when
taken out, but parts of it were
brought here. and Mr.. Dutton will
make a further search for the skele-
ton of the mastodon. which is believed
to be buried in the bed of silt and
clay, Years ago the lower jaw of a
mastodon was found in this district.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-06
MAYOR SHOOTS AT STUDENT.
Champaign, Ill.,, Students Unruly
Since Longworth Approved Hazing.

Champaign, IT., Students Unruly
Since Longworth Approved Hazing.
Champaign, Ill.-Mayor Blaine
fired his revolver at University of
Illinois student with whom he had
been having a hand-to-hand combat.
His aim was poor and the student,
one of large party engaged in naz-
ing freshmen, escaped.
Congressman Nicholas Longworth.
addressing the students, put himself
on record as approving mild forms
of hazing He related incidents of
his college days at Harvard to the
admiring students. The university
authorities are inclined to regret that
the Presidents son-in-law expressed
himself in that vein.
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OAu VI WECSh WHICH hAttdSACus
out OF the darkness and one twined
about his neck AS the efforts of the
men on the surface to comply with
his signal threatened to pull his he'll
met off, Lund was forced to signal
them to stop.
With only his left arm free he
hacked at the tentacles until they
were partially crippled, but he was
being drawn toward the fish when he
saw the outline of the body. Plung-
ing toward it he drove his knife with
all his force into the head, repeating
the blow until he had slashed it into
sections. In it's death throes the oc-
topus frightened its tentacles until the
dive. was almost crushed in its en-
brace.
Lund finally cut himself free and
was brought to the surface fainting.
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American Attache Visitinc.

St. Petersburg. Captain S. L. n.
Slocum, the American Military At
tache at st. Petersburg, is on leave Of
absence. He will visit Germany and
then travel in Southeastern Europe.
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Apple Situation Favors Growers.

Apple buying in Western New
York is proceeding slowly. but with a
trend of prices in favor of the grow
ers. An increasing number of sales
is reported on the So basis, the price
of No. apples.
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IreIand Hnnnrs Nfr. n,Mnr,.

Dublin Joseph O'Mara, the irish
tenor, had triumphal tour of Ire
land preparatory to his departure
for the United States. The Lord
Mayor of Dublin gave reception in
his honor and he was presented with
the freedom of his native city, Linn
Arick
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-06
Rain Storm UncOveRs Rich
Placer Pockets of Gold.

San Bernardfno, Cal Jacob L.
Thomson, of San Bernardino, was
prospecting among the old Mexican
placers near Hesperia when he was
overtaken by furious storm, which
forced him to seek shelter. After a
quarter of an inch OF rain had fallen
in less than one hour, throwing the
canyons into roaring torrents, Thom-
ason returned to his work. When the
water subsidized he found scores of
rich placer pockets, and within few
hours PANIED out $4,000 in gold
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Two Cent letter. COMING.

The steamer Kaiserin Auguste
Victoria that sailed from Southamp-
ton for New York took the first let
tiers posted in England for transmits
sion to the United States under the
new two cent postal rate
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no Further Popular Education.

The second International Congress
for Popular Education, in session at
Paris, France. voted to establish per-
manent headquarters to facilitate the
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-06
Colby Wins BY About 1850.

State Senator Everett Colby, the
New Idea candidate for denomination
was successful at the primaries in Es-
SCI County, N. j., by about 1850.
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Captain Of Craft Condemned.

Kingston, Jamaica. The owner
and the captain Off small coaster
were heavily fined in the lower court
here for a breach of the Marine Board
law in having struggled nine Chinese
into Cuba recently.
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Lord Dudley Boycotted.

Sydney, N S. W.-The last levee
held by the Governor General, Lord
Dudley, was boycotted by all the for
eign Consuls. The reason for this
was the withdrawal of the right OF
private entree to such functions.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-06
Congo Exonerates leopold.

Brussels, Belgium The Congo
Independent State, in an official docu.
ment replying to the attacks upon
the administration of the State, says
that the charges that King Leopold
enriched himself in the Congo are
untrue, and deprecates and protests
against the @falsehoods and legends
circulated in England and the United
States with regard to cruelty and
abuse in the Congo.
Brazil Signs Treaty With Argentina.
Rio Janeiro. President Penna has
signed the general arbitration treaty
with the Argentine Republic.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-10-06
Hyderabad a Vast Graveyard.
FoR SALE

Bombay, India.-The corr -
.ent of a newspaper who reaclR0'
derabad, the .capitai of the is
district, describes that city ash
grave. The streets and bazaaA
been transformed into gr%
mass of stone and mud and Nty
posed flesh. Six hundred eUrpvas'
were taken out of the mud at one
spot. The funeral pyres burned day
and night The damage is estimated
at zoo, 900, 900 rubles.
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PIowed un .Grecian Coin.

Rome, Italy While blowing at
Monteleone, Calabria, a peasant found
recently Grecian gold coin weighing
two grammes. On one side of the
coin is female head. 1t is supposed
to be the rarest and best specimen
known.
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Consult Lackawanna agents or write4
d. p. A., 74e Broad St, Newark 4
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BY CABLE.

Plague Now in Morocco.
Paris. The Tangier correspondent
of the Matin telegraphs that an cpl
demic of what is supposed to be the
bubonic plague has broken out at
Rabat. Thirty deaths from the dis
ease were reported and large NUM-
Der were i'll.
Discharge Leper as Cured.
Wellington, New Zealand A great
degree of interest has been aroused
here by the discharge of a Maori
patient from the leper station with a
clean bill of health The man was
at the station for only eleven months
The chief health officer, DR.. Mason,
declares that the patient was cured
by injections of cultures of the lep-
rosy bacillus.
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An Pious Mem. Saws Shah.

London. The Foreign Office has
received the text of the rescript of
the Shah of Persia convoking Parlia-
ment. The date of convocation is
fixed for November IA. "The assem-
bly, shall be composed of pioNs A'''
right men," says the rescriHn
shall once for all remove all ses =
of the disorder produced by thAy 4
ical club" nor sml
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DIVER FIGHTS DEVIL FISH.

Thirty Feet Under water Hold Wreck When Attacked
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