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New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
MUST PAY FOR. REPLYING.
!Supreme Court Rules against Street
Rdilscay Lines.

.Justioe oreenbau,n In the Supreme Court, d.
rected Judgment yesterday in favor OF the ci.y
AGAINST the New York City Railway Company 10.
ss roc r. the cost Of repaving the railway area,
the spsce between the tracks and two fees outs'oe
them. in west Broadway, between Canal ana "es'
4th streets.
The company asserted it was only hanie ior ','o
repavement between its tracks from Dey street "
Canal It also objected that the notice ohlS oe
manded that the railway area be put IN repa'''
while the city had put down wood pavement III
stead OF the granite pavement formerly 'heie
Justice Greenbaum holds that the notice ciearis
set forth that the street to be repaFeo an"
that under the charter the surface railway COM
panies were bound to hear the expense OF repa'lns
whether the space between the tracks ana III ''e
railway area" was in good repair or not
Justice Creenbaum also directed Judgments
against the Drydock, East Broadway Il battery
Railroad Company for s11 s65 r. against the Eienth
Avenue Railroad Company for sl5'Ssss 81 anu
against the Ninth Avenue Railroad Company lor
S. III ss for repaving railway area IN certain
nortions of West Broadway, Greenwich street.
Eighth avenue and other streets.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
FOUR HURT IN EXPLOSION.
Much Excitement FOHOUs at Penn
suluania Railroad ETcdUatiOn.

An explosion which occurred in the Pennsylva-
MIA excavation at 4ist street and Ninth avenue
Yesterday afternoon injured four men, two of
them seriously that they were taken to the
New York Hospital. 1t is believed that escaping
gas from broken mains under the street accumu-
lated and in way became iSnited Men OF
the Consolidated Gas Company had been sent TO
repair the mains and It was said. stuffed up the
leaking places with bags of cement
The injured are: Edward Turner, thirty-two
wears old of No 307 West 6Sth street lacerations
OF the face and head and bruises of the body
James Cappo. thirty years old. Of No 419 West
seth street cuts and bruises about the body Both
were taken the New York Hospital The two
others although badly bruised. did not go to the
hospital.
II was bv chance only that half-dozen men
escaped death when a large rock crashed down
from the top of the cut and heavy tmbers fell
about them.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
MORE RATIFIC4TIONS.
Republican County Committee WM
Shout for Ticket Tonight.

Represent stive Herbert Parsons, president of the
county committee: Representatives William D
Pennet and J. Soat Fassett and job F. Hedges
will he the sneakers at the meeting to be held by the
Republican county organization in the Murray Hill
and Sherman Governor Hughes was invited to
sreak at :he meeting. but he had an engagement 10
sneak at the commencement exercises at Colgate
University where he was n student before he went
TO Brown and will not be there.
At the meeting Of the committee Of the 2Sth
Assembly District on Friday night plans will be
talked over for a mass meeting to be held in Car
rocie Hall at an early date, TO which Secretary
Taft and Representative Sherman will be invited
The Republicans OF the 29th District will unfurl
banner at 18th street and Madison avenue next
Tuesday
The Manhattan Republican Club of the 25d AS
serulIv District of which Moses NJ. Mckee is
leader will rafy the nomination OF Taft and Sher-
man tonight at headquarters Seventh avenue and
7sith street. Ex-Attorney General julius NJ Mayer
and Assembly1nan Conkling will speak.
The Progress Republican Club of the lVth DIS
trict Of which Internal Revenue Collector Edman
is leader will ratify The nomination Of TAFT ana
sherman tomorrow night at the clubhouse, no 40
Second avenue
The Park Republican Club Of the Gath Assembly
District of which Thomas w Whitte, secretary OF
the county committee. is leader, will raufy the
nomination of Taft and Sherman on Saturday night
AT the clubhouse No. Ala fremont avenue. Mr.
White will tell of the work Of the national con-
yention and banner Will be raised
New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
BETTING CASE GOES OF ER.
Corporation Counsel Wants to 4rgue
Issue an Person.

Al the request Of the Corporation counsel JUS
fice Blanchard adjourned again yesterday the near
ing on the application of the Coney Island JOCKEY
club IL have rarte injunction against the
y,c,,re Commissioner made permanent until Mon
ds~ Assistant Corporation Counsel Hahlo sald
yesterday that Mr. Pendeton, the Corporation
Counsel desired 10 appear personally. No opposl-
ton was made the request by the lawyers foI
the club.
third case on which an appeal to the higher
courts may be taken begun yesterday, "heh
Justice Bischor issued a writ Of habeas corpus
directing Sheriff Hobley Of Kings 10 produce at
cnce Joseph Loevy. Loewy was held by Magistrate
Voorhees, in Brooklyn. IL is said. for making
verbal tet The case is said 10 differ in several
essentials frem that Of Melville Collins Argument
on the writ Of haheas corpus in the Collins case
will be heard by Justice BsSlof to-day.
Collins made a bet Of 3 and handed the money
c--e- 70 the book1naSer. Ioewy. according L the
attorneys for the Coney Island Jockey Club sim
ply made verbal bet.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
FIGHT OYER NOTE SALE.
d., T. & I. Protective COMMITTEE
Gets Restraining Order.

The fight to secure a majority of the $r5oooo
notes of the Detroit. Toledo & 1ronton RaIroad'
which carry control of the Ann Arbor Railroad
hogan in earnest Yesterday when Joseph Ramsey
ir chairman of the protective stockhoiders coii-
mittee Newman Erb and others secured tenn
pcrsry Injunction from Justice BischOn OF the ou
nreme Court preventing the sale yesterday OF
81 2os 900 of these notes which had been pleogeo
with the United States Mortgage and Trust COM
many bv Rudolph kIeyboIte & Co. as security tor
a loan of $4,000 AS already explained IN Inc
Tribune this loan taken over severai months
ago by H. e. Hollins & Co, which firm. IN oroer
TO obtain legal title to the collateral adVeftlseu
n of auction with the intention of bidding 1t in
The noteholders' committee and Newman hro'
who is soon to become a member or IT, are oe
sirous of separating the Ann Arbor from the De-
troit Toledo & trenton. which is in the hands Oh
a receiver. but in order to carry out ther inten
ton they must secure a majority of the Detroit
Toledo & Ironton notes, which were issued In pay
ment of the Ann Arbor and are secured oy q ma
jority of it's capital stock thus carrying cohtroi
of the road. II. b. Hollins & Co, on the other
hand have large interest in the Detroit, Toledo
& Ironton, are opposed to segregation OF the
properties and have been buying up the notes Win
the intention of preventing the noteholdefs COM
mittee from carrying out their plan 1t is under
stood that the block of notes the sale OF Whlcn
has been temporarily enjoned will give the ma
jority the side that secures them
In their application for injunction the COM
planants alleged that the United States Mortgage
and Trust Company had agreed to deposit the
notes in question with the protective committee.
and that they refused to carry out their agree
ment, on the ground that they had. subsequent
to their promise, sold transferred the notes to
Hollins & Co.
A representative of Hollins & Co. said yester-
day the firm had been informed by the trust
company that such agreement had been made.
and If it had been. he added, it would have
been invalid, for the reason that the trust conf
pany had owned the notes but merely held
IJa ,ia,a
little doubt that the temporary injunction would
be dismissed when the comes up for a hear
ing tomorrow and in that event the sale would
be held next Monday.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
IJfMIGRATION PLANKS.
Liberal League Wants Them In
serted in Denver Platform.

The National Liberal immigration League an
nounced yesterday that it had Instructed its rep
resentatves in Denver to submit to the committee
on resolutions OF the Democratic Natlonal ConVen-
ton the three Recommendations submitted to the
Republican National Convention, and to request
that they he inserted in the platform Of the party
The recommendations for the maintenance OF
the present immigration laws, for a law provld-
ing free transportation TO immigrants and others
esirous of leaving congested districts TO settle IN
the countr3's sparsely populated regions ana lof
a law providing for the deportation OF ailens con-
victed of felones.
IT was also decided by the league TO begin at
once an organized fight against House bill No So''
introduced by Mr.. Richardson and now IN the
hands of the Committee immigration and Na'u-
ralization raising the head tax on alien passen-
gers from s. to s2H and other measures now pend
ing designed TO restrict immigration. n. Behar'
managing director of the league, said last night:
Il have Just received adyices that the restricuon-
lists will make strong effort to have HOUSE pli
No 307 made law. / consider it dangerous meas
ure as il would debar army of Immigrants
YEARLY from landing who are needed here for the
hard unskired work of developing the resources of
the country.
.one of the most active of the restrictionists is
Congressman Augustus 2. Gardner, of Massachu-
setts son-in-law of Senator Lodge, who was the
author of the Gardner bill of 1905 raising the head
tax 10 $40 This bii was defeated largely through
the efforts of the league
He said the league had a hard fight before 1t
against the restrctonists but it had received en-
courasing letters from many influential men,
among them Congressman Bennet, Of the 1mmi-
grafton Commission of the House Of Representa-
tives who said that only for the efforts OF the
league there would be educational test upon the
statute books to-day which would have eXcluded
two hundred thousand deserving immigrants yearly
We are opposed 70 the exclusion of the Hitter
ate" he said but favor the ten-year probation test
New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
DOG SLAUGHTER HELD UP.

The order TO kill dogs found without leash or
r1uzzle was not enforced yesterday. Colonel Wag
sfar Of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
TO Animals appeared before the Board Of Health
and will meet DR. Darlington to-day tomorrow
10 discuss further the matter of disposal Of stray
dogs When asked about the apparent suspension
Of the ordinance. DR.. Darlington said: The order
has not been rescinded- II stands as formulated
last week Further than that I cannot say No
dogs VII be killed until after the conference
with Colonel wagstaff and then nothing may be
done. Colonel Wagstaf believes that the order for
the killing Of stray dogs will be modified. He is
willing TO increase the force OF his department TO
satisfy the Health Commissioner. The Society for
the Prevention OF Cruelty Animals loss in Ii
cense fees would be great the dog Staying ordi-
nance were rigidly enforced
New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
SPELLING STATISTICS.
eye chanel and at 5 O'CLOCK

exercises IN the college chapel. and at oei0'>
the ivy planted.
Statistics. usual. proved the most in'e., -
feature of the cIassday exercises and we're Eau :.
Miss Meta F1shofer. She made pubic ire 1act 80
nine of the graduates are engaged ana '"o... '"o -
ried They couldn't decide which vas tns pEe'~.S
but Miss Fishofer said that two thous1t - -
selves the prettfest. There was no douo' nv
ever as to who is the most popular meIO0i
the class. She is Miss NJriel Rochester lhe -. -
dent. The biggest biuffer ia Miss Ssrah IooDn0
and Miss Rose Levensohn and MISS Rose -
divide the honors as the biggest grinds ln0 '' O.
ffty-hve suffragists in the class twentJ-AiH
publicans and nineteen Democrats Inc ,~,, mos
dent OF the suffragsts Is Miss Ehzaoe'n oe" .
a most aniable and inOfensiTe looAlns -
woman. and twenty years from no" 'n ~
prophet Miss May Morris. expects 70 see NV
the White House after long ana oi''e4
paign against the tyrant man
The class history was given by MISS :,
Starkweather and the presentations we're 49,
Miss Marie Pequicn and Miss Madeline CiAN -,
The Ivy Grafton was delivered by Miss vera saw
witch.
The new president OF the college. 1eOe -.,,
Davis was a guest OF honor at the luncneor
Professors George ~ whicher. James ~
B B. Davis. Helen G. Gone and cara DSiN'
New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
MEETING OF CLUB WO-uEN'
Details of Second Days Session OIL
Boston Convention.

Boston. June 24-The representative cruz . ~.
OF The nation IN their capacity as deesaees :.
ninth biennial convention OF ths General F.,. eoe4
OF Women Clubs. to-day held the second -. -
OF the convention and began In earnest '"'
OF taking part in It's deliberations %
The meeting was opened with MIS- ' x-,-,
Decker presiding and greetings were ro ~
representatives OF foreign clubs MrS r.,.
Cooley. Of Iowa. vics-president Of the Sehe - ar
eration. spoke briefly OF the perfectioh VI ,.t,a
rangenents made by the Massachusetts ie
for the reception of the visiting club WoiheA ,.s
The many committees of the seneia 80. 80
perfected their annual reports during tHs ~ "A.
days and wers ready 10 present recoru - In
doIngs TO tho delegates az to-days .,...
addition TO the reports OF the general officers
consumed most OF the time at the forenoon ~ n,r
Tho report OF Mrs Decker as president ""'
those submitted during the morning ,.r,
The great number OF club women sa'ne ~ z,
for the convention made IL impossioie A0l a.. ,c
take part In the morning meeting. ana ih ~ ~ .r.
accommodate those left out meeting ,,..,.
ranged in the afternoon To go over III oNY -,,-
the business considered at the rcrri' ...ons
This plan has also been adopted for tn'
on Saturday Monday and Tue-day- .~,d
At the afternoons session u vas Vo.' ,o
telegram OF condolences to Mrs CieV0
Miss George A Bacon. Or NereesN -, al
chairman OF the local bisa1as1 nsss', 's.
port at fovdaafa gSknnInr
New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
A NEW SCHOOL POLITY
Education Board Urges Inquiry
sr;.h Tiescs to Establishing 1t.

The Beard Of Education passed yesterday
resolution FOR az investigation which has for It's
air. the complete reorganization Of the pubic
school system Of this city. The subject came up
when the rero-t on the establishment of three DIS
c,r,nsry schools was submitted for adoption. The
schools were TO be in Manhattan, The Bronx and
r7rook,rn The report not adopted. but the
following resolution submitted by Nathan 5 Jo-
mas wa. passed after warm opposition;
Resolved That the report on disciplinary schools
.ba, tho committee on elementary schools ana me
board OF superintenden,s jong ths he bTnader and
more important proposition of the inausllratonu e
e,ssees f,iSl time for ali pupils, for modified
course Of study. for more Fairgrounds icr 49,
seennen. ali Of which he accomplished on 5 ag-
proved educational lines and with oecreaseu ouN
get
r-.se-sc p e-oudert submitted a resolution for
.be establishment of two vocational schools. one
IN Manhattan and in Brooklyn to nave oas
and evening sessions. II was referred Inc poaIu
decided 10 raise salaries of the examiners from
* ooo 10 SIS 600 year or the three district super
tntendents who came UP for reelection John D"yer
xae elected and the action the others was post
poned.
Til. complaints against Miss Julia Richn1an. the
e,,re-inter6ent Of East Side district where the
school children who starving were aided were
dismissed as inadequate. Miss Richn1an started
-se work of aiding the children It was also de-
cided 10 discontinue the Investigation which Mr-
Higgins was conducting in Miss Richmans district
President Butler Of Columbia wrote to the Board
o< Education in reference 70 the European ulp
n, aftv New York teachers. suggesting that the
,..ra n. absence with nav be extended from six
70 eight weeks. The recommendation was ap-
proved
on the motion OF Or. II. J. Mcdonald il was
vofed 10 have the flags all schooi bulldlheS
President Cleveland. The order is to be in ehec'
thirty davs
New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
RULING ON COMMON LAW MARRIAGE.
Referee Decides Mans Verbal Promise Con-
stitutes Valid Contract

A decision uphoding common law marriages was
handed down yesterday by Edward F Whitaker.
referee in the special proceedings brought by
one Mabel Blackman to revoke letters of admins.
traton granted in 1905 to Mrs. Elizabeth Blackman
as the widow of Harry Blackman
The referee decided that the promise made by
Blackman fourteen years ago to take Elizabeth
Blackman as his wife made in the presence Of her
entire family. constituted valid contract of mar
riage. and therefore the widow entitled to ad-
minister the estate admnistratriX. He also de-
cided that Harry Blackman, jr, issue by the
first wife, was legitimate
New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
KILLED SHOWING FIRE ESCAPE.
IBy Telegraph to The Tribune ]

Springfield Mass. June A.-Frederick @. Enge
Of New York instantly killed this afternoon
by fall from the sixth story of the Court Square
Hotel. owing to the breaking of chain in fire
escape which he demonstrating before the
fire engineers. -Engel weighed 210 pounds. He was
The inventor of the device, which he had previ-
ously descended from an eighth story window in
safet- He had lately received foreign and Arneri
can pat4Tlts IN the invention. and had interested
the Springfield Board of Trade. Engel has two
brothers. it is said. who attorneys at No. sos
broadway New York.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
ONLY sIxTY.TwO MORE FOR HEARST.
Out of 1853 Brooklyn Boxes-lecount Near
ing COMPLETION.

William r. Hearst gained 62 votes yesterday
when the ballots contained in 165 boxes from
Brooklyn recounted in the Supreme Court
before Justice Lambert.
From the 1.sl5 boxes 80 far recounted Hearst has
made total gain of 703 votes. leaving Mayor Nc
Clellans plurality 3.13 instead OF ASA With only
a few boxes in Brooklyn to be counted. 1t
thought yesterday that the court would start in
counting the ballots in Richmond to-day
Mr.. Hearst poed bis vote in the Williamsburg
districts. The recount showed that Hearst poiied
200 TO McClellans 20 50 in of these dis
tricts Clarence j. Shearn, counsel for Mr.. Hearst
said yesterday that the recount would be carried
through, even If the gains to date for his client
have not been altogether encouraging.
AssEMBLYMAN NANCE SERIOUSLY I'LL.
Middletown, N Y, June AL-Charles Z. Nance
a Member OF the Assembly from the 2d District in
Orange County is seriously i'll at his home here
h bas bean n fSillQs health Ia. .aopoA 2AHAs Sax
New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
RIVERSIDE REPUBLICANS FOR TAFT.

The Riverside Republican Club met last night
and formally ratified the nomination of Taft and
Sherman William McAde presided. and addresses
were made hy Representative Bennet, Abe" Cru
Der and Senator SAKE There was a rlIrnor that
Mr. Sake might-take occasion to publicly urge
second term for Governor Hughes, but he did not
Toward the close of his speech he remarked dryly
that Abe GTuber had considered the situation in
the state The Riverside club has already put itself
on record in support of the candidacy of Repre-
sentative Bennett.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
Bulletin.
.eeuRY PARK SUMMER SCHEDULE.

The full summer schedule between New York and Long Branch
Asburv Park Spring Lake. and points on 'h view Uf ana Long
ber of fast trains be established, and the service viii
h roved bv the of pao cars to practically all
t;ns and narlor smoking the more important ones
There no the Atlantic Coast more than that
heteen ong Branch and Point Pleasant and ITS popularity
ttd every summer thousands of New Workers who make
. er residence there patronze its many excellent hotels
The Railroad offers schedule of fast and frequent
trains and from popular resorts thus secon and MAINTAINS
ssrvce that n,st commend itself to all travellers
New time tables may obtained of Ticket Agents and
after June 26
New-York tribune., 1908-06-25
Glass DAY 1T NORMAL.
Ihree Functions in One Enioued
by the Graduates

Tho graduating class Of Normal cou.x. crou,6.s
snree functions into one yesterday afternoon At
+. cioek there was the annual luncheon at the
sAnaAffaGa "A; NaAnoIe znsuoa she .o,.,.ds.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-19
HuEhe. sue. for Damages.

CoLFAS, Ia, Dee E-speciaLl-In the
da1Tict court al Newton. this county. yes
terdEy was begun the trial Of the big dam
age case OF Michael J Hughes CT West
Pom Neh-, against Tire Rock Island rail-
road me suit Is for S1.C08 and Is for in
5uries Hughes sustained some two years
ago while alighting from the defendant
conpary's train here Hughes was coming
here from Omaha on a night train and the
train stopped for water or for some other
reason before 81 reached the depot Hughes
AYERS that the porter told him they were
al the eePOt and let him get off, and while
getting off the train started and he was
thrown under in such a manner as 20 have
one leg crushed He claims IL was the
eompany's fault that The accident occurred.
he was taken % a local hospital and his
~ Was smpuststed at once
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-19

Christmas cards and red candles. About
twenty couples spent two hours A. the
tables enjoying the elaborate E-Te-course
diEEer.
PERU-It Is found On checking I'D the
registration q the normal for ire last few
years that the registration in the junior
ana senior classes is four times Whst il
was In EA II Is also found thai about
o~ne-tOurth q the normal graduates have
been graduated in the last biennium- This
shows = remarkable growth OF the school
OF the state for trained teachers
TECUMSEH-P u HOPKINS viii ere-t
a tEo-Etory buck bEsines building on one
q his lots on the north side OF the square
IN the proposed building 10 Oc-
cupy the site Just east OF HArdin's racket
store A tonce Of men Vii begin tearing
down the frame buildings that are nov
on the lot tomorrow morning Tha build
ing VII Be zx1ao feet II Is already rented.
both noorz e q TecumSsh Grm-
CENTRAL CTY-More than fifteen years
after the death Of John l. Martin his
heirs have started sgit for the partition OF
his estate, and a division either Of the
and or Of tins proceeds q TIE sale q the
these years the estate has been in tire
probate court and IL was not uztl lately
that . petition for a final setfiement vas
filed BY the widow. Emira Martha
PLATTSAOUTH-John Jones had walked
nearly across the Burlington bridge al
Orespolis when he met some men On a
FelocipedE He stepped 70 the wrong SIDE
and Eas Knocked from the track ard fen
about Twelve feet iEto the channel Of The
Platte river The force o. the fan took
him under The water. bit he soon arose and
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-19

BEATRICE Neb-. Dec. N-tspecial Tele-
gramGNrs- Euntcs H Wnber was granted
a temporary restraining order by Judge
haper this morning restraining Mayor Reed
Sne the city council from apprOpriating and
taking possession OF lot 4 block - for PARK
purposes The case vas set for hearing
January 4 This Is the second injunction
case brought by the plaintiff. the first one
being decided last week in favor OF the
city. Tn petition attacks the appointment
Of A l. Green. H Fshbach and c. c. Far
low as appraisers
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-19
TRAVELLING MAN FATALLY HURT
Fails from Bridge and Strikes His
He'd on the Ice.

WILCOX Neh-. Dec. lG-specizl TEE
Eram)-R B. Bishop. a travelling man for
tie Page Woven Wire Fence company. who
lives at Beatrice. was fatally hurt here late
today. he in company with several other
travelling men came In On a freight train.
TIE way car OF which was stopped a short
distance from the depot The men started
TO walk 10 the depot and Bishop fell of a
small bridge. striking his head on the Zee.
He died a half hour afterward.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-19

AINSWoRTH-WIntsr has arrived her.
with six inches Of snow The therm0meter
Is near zero
AINSWORTH-The school here vii close
THURSDAY night and stay closed until after
the hoHdAyA
PERU-Tbe eyangelstie Of KnoWlss and
Eacenour at the Christian church has
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-19

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Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-19

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