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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
TIGHT MONEY IN JAPAN.
Sumors of Panic Conditions-Effect
ON Europe.

Berlin.-The tightening of finan-
;ial conditions in Japan is regarded
~ banks here as likely to result in
he transfer from London to Toxic
If large portion of Japan's balances
md to disturb somewhat European
money markets, Japan's balances in
london are estimated as between
$50 100000 and SIS, 100000.
AT the Japanese Embassy here the
news of panicky conditions at Osaka.
Kioto and Kobe is discredited, but
private advices to German firms trad
ng in the Far East confirm the money
scarcity The recent stringency in
he United States is believed to be
Affecting Japan, especially as Jap
anese exports to the United States
have fallen off to a considerable ex-
:ent. The prolonged doubts concern
ing Japans intentions toward the
United States in the emigration dis
quite have tended to make European
bankers with Japanese connections
withdraw their loans and conduct
their business with unusual caution.
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weeks ceVerest crtoon W acuey IN tne VeW 1ork Wor
GAMBLER, breaches ON THE EVIL
Missouri Preacher First Repays His Flock Money He Lost
Himtle
Consumes Its Victims Speaking sm

Lees Summit, Mo.-Perhaps the
most astounding revelation ever made
in house of worship came from the
lips of the Rev. Charles S. S. Brown,
pastor of the Christian Church in this
town, in sermon on the evil results
of gambling, for the preacher spoke
from recent experience.
Brown told his congregation that
the passion for gaming utterly con-
sumed it's victims, making every man
of them forget friends, family, home
and God. He did not refer to himself
by name, but every one in the church
knew what he said was less a sermon
than confession, for he returned to
town with a draft for $500 and re-
paid to members of his congregation
that amount borrowed from several of
them. He lost in a poker game in
Kansas City few days ago the loans
he got from his flock.
1t was when he failed to repay the
lenders promptly that they started an
investigation resulting in the discov-
cry that the parson had frittered
away their money at the gambling
table. Brown did not deny the
charge. He contented himself with
promising to raise the money, asking
for few days of grace. Then he left
town and was absent until next morn
ing.
The clergyman, when the elders of
the church taxed him with his sin,
said he had succumbed to craze for
gambling to which he had been sub
ject years before. He thought he had
conquered the passion forever, he
said, but few days ago, lnding him
self in Kansas City and hearing men
in hotel remark that there was a
poker game in certain place, he was
seized with a desire to handle the
cards and chips once more.
Brown dressed himself in clothes
as unlike those of his calling as he
could get and went to the gambling
house. He was admitted readily, and
soon he was playing as if he had
never entered pulpit. He explained
to the elders that it was the first
time he had touched card since en-
tering the ministry. 1t was before he
became a clergyman that he Gid his
gambling of former years.
To his amazement, the gaming
fever was so strong in him that he
lost all the money he had in his
pocket. 1t amounted to $500, which
he had borrowed in various amounts
from members of his flock for a legit-
innate purpose.
Brown, when he returned with the
money necessary to reimburse his
friends, asked the leading men of the
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
sLooUNrs CAPTAIN IN SING SING.
Wife Who Nursed Van Schaick After
Disaster Takes Him to Prison.

Wife Who NurSed Van SchMck AFTER
Disaster Takes Him to Prison.
New York City.-Tottering as if he
was about to fall, Capt. Van Schaick,
who was in charge of the steamboat
General Slocum when she was burned
with the loss of over 1000 lives, STUN
bled into Sing Sing Prison. When he
had been assigned to cell he CROPPED
his way to the cot and, throwing him.
self upon it, sobbed aloud. The prison
keeper closed the cell door softly and
tiptoed away like trained nurse
leaving patient asleep.
The real trained nurse who had
figured in the Captains life, she who
had nursed him back to health and
married him after the weary days
which he spent in the Lebanon Hos
pital following the burning of the
General Slocum, stood weeping at
the prison door. In the hand satchel
she carried she had certificate of
honor for the good work she had
done after the Slocum disaster in
nursing those who had been burned.
Her husband was there in disgrace,
in the eyes of the law, but hero in
her eyes. The disaster which had
brought this couple together parted
them in sorrow.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
SLAIN PRIEST TORTURED SELF.
Father Leo Wore Hooks That Pierced
Flesh as Mode of Penance.

Denver, Col - That Father Leo
Heinrichs, who was murdered by Giu-
seppe Alto, an Italian Anarchist,
while giving communion in st. Eliza
beth's Church here last Sunday, led
life of severe austerity is evidenced
by discovery made in preparing the
body for burial. Next to the skin
Father Leo had wrapped about his
waist and upper arms heavy bands of
linked steel chains, and to each link
was hook sharpened to needles
point, attached in such fashion that
each movement of the priest caused
the hooks to pierce his flesh and to
remind him of the life and death of
Him in whose steps he struggled to
follow.
Father Leo never spoke to his fell
low clergy of his mode of penance,
and no one in the monastery sur
missed it. His body and upper arms
were calloused entirely, showing that
when the pain became deadened be-
,ause of the toughened skin he had
aiken the net work of claws and ad-
Iusted them so that the pain might
,ome again with renewed force.
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INDICTs THE THOMASES.
Charged With Manipulating Provi-
dent Life Funds in Stock Deals.

New York City. - Charged with
manipulating the funds of the Provi-
dent Savings Life Assurance Society
for their own benefit in violation of
the State insurance laws, Edward r.
and Orlando F. Thomas were indicted
by the special Grand Jury which two
days ago finished an investigation of
tle affairs of that society.
Accompanied by counsel, the Tho
masses were promptly arraigned.
pleaded mot guilty" and were re-
leased in $4,000 bail for each indict-
ment, which the Fidelity and Deposit
Company of Maryland furnished. The
indictments charge violation of Sec
ton SO of the insurance law, which is
e misdemeanor and punishable by a
fine of $500, Imprisonment for one
year or both.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
BOY COCAINE USERS ON THE INCREASE

Boston, Nassau anti-cocaine bill
prepared by DR.. Charles Harrington,
of the State Board of Health, has
been brought before the legislative
Committee on Public Health by that
official, who made strong appeal in
it's advocacy
He declared that hundreds upon
hundreds of Boston boys are slaves
to the cocaine habit, that the harmful
drug can be purchased in saloons,
from cheap drug stores and on the
street from Illegal agents as freely as
one can buy fruit from street hawk
ers, and that the juvenile courts are
filling up with youths who have adj
mitted that their downfall can be
traced to the vicious drug habit.
Said DR.. Harrington in part: From
judges, from lawyers, from probation
officers and others, | have received
hundreds of pitiful letters giving me
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
Mothers Death May Result in
Release of Her Young Heir.

Los Angeles. While serving SEN
tence of $50 days in the city Jail for
larceny, William Allen, aged twenty
eight, received word of his mothers
death in New York City and that he
had been bequeathed an estate val
ued at $4,000. After he had failed
to secure money from a broker on the
strength of his Inheritance telegram
was sent to the administrator of the
estate asking him to forward money
so that Allen could obtain his release
from prison.
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lists of names of Boston boys who
have become slaves to cocaine.
II have heard of saloons where
they keep catarrh powder filled with
cocaine or its by-products in the toilet
rooms for the useof customers. Cheap
west end drug stores sell scores of
boxes of cocaine day illegally. The
negro race is especially addicted to
the drug, and it can be purchased by
them in stores and on the streets.
"One of the agents of the Health
Board purchased some of this drug
at drug store in Boston, then stood
by and saw twenty sales of the same
within half hour, all the purchas-
ers being negroes.
DR.. Harrington said that children
were supplied with the drug by
agents who went about the streets
with their pockets stocked with the
powders.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
JEROME's REMOVAL
ASKED ON CHARGES
Stockholders Committee of Met
rOpoIitan Railway Files Petition.
HAS LOST PUBLIC CONFIDENCE

Called Advocate of Rich-Jury Scan
dals, Insurance, Failure to Pros
ccute ShipbuiIding Case, and
Other Matters Are Considered.
Albany, NJ Yin a petition con-
tanning the first formal charges pre-
ferred to Governor Hughes against
District Attorney William Travers
Jerome, the Chief Executive of the
State was asked to remove the pros
ecuting officer of New York City and
county on the ground of repeatedly
demonstrated unfitness for the duties
of his position.
The petition, backed by twenty
three specific allegations, was pre-
scented to the Governor by William
F. King in behalf of committee of
stockholders of the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company, of which he
is chairman.
The charges relate to unpublished
jury fixing by the Metropolitan; to
unprosecuted high finance" by the
combine which is alleged to have loot
ed the Metropolitan; to numerous il
legal acts of insurance officials as dis
closed by the Armstrong committed
to the Shipbuilding Trust fiasco, and
to other matters.
Mr.. King and his committee, sum
ming up their charges against Mr..
Jerome, say: by reason of these
facts, which have been brought into
marked prominence through the ex-
listing depressed condition of the
country, Mr. Jerome has lost COM
pletely we submit the confidence OF
the people. His habit of becoming
the advocate of the wealthy accused
in many of the cases detailed has
tended very materially to impair the
public confidence in him.
IA large proportion of the citizens
of New York County, however unjust
toward Mr.. Jerome their feelings may
be, have, nevertheless, been led by
these facts to believe that he is the
friend and protector of the wealthy
criminal and not the attorney and the
protector of the whole people. With
confidence in him thus impaired, his
great abilities make him all the more
distrusted.
with the loss of public confidence
he has seemed to lose ever interest in
the enforcement of the laws, and
those of his former close friends who
are insistent upon their enforcement
are regarded by him as his enemies.
Mr.. King was chairman of the
Nominators Committee which pro-
posed Jerome to the people in his last
campaign.
Governor Hughes, in receiving the
charges, said he would give them
thorough and speedy consideration
and would at once send copy of
them to Jerome.
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congregation to let him address the
men and women of the church once
again He said he had something to
sa. to them which might work meal
culable good.
The elders gave their consent, and
on Sunday night apparently every
member of the congregation was in
the church. Women gazed at their
pastor with shocked looks Men
watched him with queer expressions.
He seemed affected by the battery of
glances, but he did not finch from the
ordeal he had set for himself.
Instead, he walked with bowed
head and steady stride to the pulpit
and announced that he would preach
on the evils of gambling. A ripple
ran through the congregation, for all
knew of his recent experience, but
everybody became serious again at
sight of the. mans white face.
There is no other vice that gets
such hold on a man as does gam
bling" said the preacher, looking
straight into the faces of bis flock
at consumes him utterly. Gripped
in it's clutches, he forgets his friends.
his family, his home and his God.
Once he yields to it he cannot tell to
what lengths it may lead him.
Gambling has been responsible
for lying, theft, suicide and murder.
Its subjects are more abjeet slaves
than those of drink. There is only
one thing to 90 when the passion for
gaming seiZes one, and that is to fight
it off from the first with all the
strength at mans command. For
If the victim does not conquer early
in the struggle, he will find it next
to impossible to do so afterward.
Women sobbed loudlyas the clergy
man proceeded with his sermon. Men
who had gazed curiously at the par
son on his entrance looked at him
with sympathy. The officers of the
church appeared to be affected deeply
by the pastors words.
Not movement was made by the
big crowd, which filled the building
to the doors, while Brown, from the
pulpit, strove to save others from the
vice that had proved too strong for
him.
1t is believed the preacher fears his
weakness too much to follow his
calling further, but it is said the
church officers will urge him to keep
his pulpit, in the hope that one who
has suffered as he undoubtedly has
done will be the stronger for his
open confession and the better able to
restrain any tendency to gambling
that may exist among those in his
charge.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
The EieId of Snort.

Jockey Joe hotter is the premier
jockey of the winter racing season.
L. A. Cellas son of Cesarion-Ny-
dia--is the best two-year-old in train
ing.
The London Stadium, where the
1908 Olympic games will be held, has
been finished
Dartmouth defeated Princeton by
four to three in an intercollegiate
championship hockey match.
New rules of harness racing relat-
ing to the making of records promise
notable developments on the trotting
turf.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
The News at a Glance.

Ex-Governor Yates, of Illinois, an
nounced his candidacy for reelection
to that Office.
The present New York City season
of grand opera will be record break
er in the amount of money taken at
both houses.
Governor Hughes declared in a
speech in Chicago that gamblers
should not be allowed to hide in
masks of trade.
Theodore Chaliapine, Russian
basso, sailed. He declared the Amer
leans were children in art and busi-
ness and liked to be bluffed.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
MORE LIGHT ON SUBMARINES.
Resolution Calling Upon Navy De-
partment For Information.

Washington, D. C.-To broaden
the proposed investigation of the
Electric Boat Company, of New Jer-
sey, Representative Lilley, of Connec-
ticut, introduced another resolution.
This time Mr.. Lilley wants to know
what has happened to make subma-
rines cost $1386 a ton in 1908, where
as these boats in 1902 cost only
$745.45 per ton. He wishes to know
why nearly half as much as was paid
for the boats commissioned in 1908
has been since expended on them for
repairs and why it is that these boats,
for which additional repairs are said
to be necessary, are practically use
less. He wants to know why con-
tracts for everything pertaining to
submarines contain secret clauses
where as there is no secrecy about
the contract for other vessels in the
navy.
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three years, the farm horses alone in
use on January 1, 1908, numbering
no less than 19,992.000 in round
The department figures
that $4,000 horses in stock on farms
could have replaced the same number
that haveegiven way to the automo-
bile, whife it is calculated that the
100000 horses which electricity dis
placed in urban street car service,
could have been replaced by $4,000
horses in stock assuming its growth
to present promotions with horses.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
The Field of Labor.

Employees of all the railways in
Uruguay went on strike.
\ big campaign has been instituted
for the organization of boilermakers
and iron ship builders at Buffalo
N. Y.
San Francisco (Cal) Laundr.
workers Union has decided to begiI
an agitation against japanese ane
Chinese laundries.
on May 5, at Youngstown, Ohio
the Amalgamated Association of Iron
Steel and Tin Workers will hold in
annual convention.
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SCHOOL BARS MATURE JAPs.


San Francisco. - California took
another twist in the Japanese ques-
ton when trustees in Sausalito de-
termined that no children over school
age should have the privileges of the
Sausalito schools The trouble arose
over Japanese, twenty-one years
old. named Sung H. Cho, who was
engaged in the capacity of servant
and essayed TO pass his spare time by
attending the primary school. Max
ing his application for admission to
the principal, he was refused on the
ground that he was over school age.
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Prominent people.

Pilgrims of the United States gave
a banquet at Delmonico's for Ambas-
sador Whieelaw Reid.
Yale intends to confer the degree
of M. A. on Walter Camp, the uniyer-
sity's athletic adviser.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., de-
nounces the use Of fibs in business.
Tell the truth" he says, even if it's
not expedient"
Andre Tardieu delivered his eighth
and last lecture before the Cercle
Francois of Harvard University, at
Cambridge. His subject was France
and the United States.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
FARM HORSE GIVING WAY
TO ITS RIVAL. THE AUTO

Washington, D. According to
Investigations made by G. X. Holmes,
chief of the Division of Foreign Mar
kets of the Department of Agricul-
,ure, the automobile has been respon-
aible for the displacement of but Co.,
600 horses in this country up to the
present time, and farm horses have
never been in such great demand as
at the present moment. In fact, the
demand for horses for farm and other
business uses has become stronger
and stronger during the past two or
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03

The paramount issue in the COM
ing campaign is not the tariff, says
w. J. Bryan in The Commoner.
Ex-Governor F. S. Black, in an adj
dress at Boston, said that President
Roosevelt is doing a great deal to
ruin the country.
At Huron, S, D., the Democratic
State Central Committee notified
William j Bryan that it indorses his
candidacy for the Presidency.
! President Roosevelt believes New
3Yorks delegates to the Republican
National Convention should be
earnest Hughes supporters.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
CRIME FOR SALE, SAYS BINGHAM
Two Places Police Can't Touch Within
Half Mile of Waldorf, New York.

New York City.-Pollce Commits
sioner Bingham, in a speech before
500 members of the Lieutenants'
Benevolent Association at it's second
annual dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria
Hotel, declared he did not believe the
Board of Aldermen "dare give him
$25 900 for secret service" Further
more, the Commissioner asserted:
"There are two places within half
a mile of where we are now where
any crime from the lowest to the
greatest can be bought for money,
and l can't touch them under present
conditions"
Throughout his speech the Commits
sioner flung defiance at the politicians
and declared his intention of holding
on to his position,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
Why Paris Employs Imitators
of the Canine Voice.

Paris. = The revenue authorities,
with view to outwitting the dog
owners who persistently evade the
dog tax by denying possession of ami
mails, have engaged a number of men
who are accomplishel in initiating
the voice of dog. These artists
promenade at night and bark outside.
If dog is within it invariably re-
plies, thus betraying its owner. The
next day collector visits the owner
and gathers in the tax. The human
bankers receive $50 a month pay.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
stallion,s Get Bic WINNERS.

James r, Keene's great stallion
Commando, now dead, was represent
ed on the turf, last year by twelve
winners, Colin heading the list with
$131,007 in actual stakes and purses.
Peter Pan won $S6,790, while Super
man corralled $18,860. During the
entire season the set of Commando,
fifteen in all, cleaned up $240,472.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
RECEIVER FOR GOULD ROAD.

International and Great Northern
Finds a Refuge.
Dallas, Texas. - The International
and Great Northern Railroad system
in Texas was put into the hands of a
receiver by Judge Mccormick in the
United States Circuit Court at Fort
Worth.
t. j. Freeman, general attorney
for the Gould Southwestern system
was made receiver.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
qeyas oil comnany ousted.

The Texas Supreme Court con
firmed the decision of the lower
courts ousting the Waters-Plerce Oh
Company from the State and assess
ing damages of $1,600,000.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
To SUPPRESS Stock Gambling.

William Field gave notice in the
British House of Commons that he
will ask the Government if it will CO.
operate with the Government at
Washington, d. c. to stop stock gam
hing
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-03-03
Champion Skater.

Woodward Sutphen won two ice
skating races for the championship
Of the United States at Verona Lake.
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seaboard Against Cut.

The receivers for the Seaboard Air
Line Railway at Richmond, Va, have
decided that there shall be no reduc-
tion in the salaries of employees.
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Plumbing. Timing. Steam
and Gas Fitting

at their OFFICE, Al Mill street, tele-
phone 2S4-l, or at the store of William
81. Hibler, South street, city.
The Senior member of this partner
ship, JOHN J. CARROLL, has been
plumbing in this city for twenty-nine
years, and his reputation as plumber
is too well known for any further COM
ment. 253S.
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notice..

JOHN J. CARROLL. who for years,
has been in the firm of LooNEY s. CAR
ROLL, has formed partnership with
his son, WILLIAM ]. CARROLL, and
they are now ready to receive orders for
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