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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04
BURGLARS CHOKE WOMAN.
After Robbing a Home They Cow
Pursuers and Escape,

NEW ROCHELLE. N. Y. January A.
Two burglars were surprised by Mrs.
Lyons while they were at work last night
in the home of DR.. George A. Lyons, at 4s
Bank street. One of them pointed a revolt
yer at her head and threatened to blow
her. brains out II she made an outcry and
then choked her until she was uncon-
scious. Both then escaped with suit case
full of jewelry and silverware valued at
several thousand dollars
Neighbors who saw the men running
from the Lyons home gave chase When
closely pursued the burglars turned on
the crowd and holding them at bay with
their guns told them they would be killed
If they didn't let them go without trouble.
Being unarmed the crowd gave up the
chase
Chief of Police Timmins, who got a good
description of the burglars. has sent out
an alarm to the police of New York and
Westminster county.
DIR. Lyons Is one of the oldest and best
known physicians in Westchester and has
a large practice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04
ARTIST SHOT HIMSELF.
Died Surrounded by His Art Treas
ures in New York.

NEW YORK, January 4.-Surrounded
by the paintings which he loved. but
which he knew were to be soon nothing
but memories because of his fast-failing
eyesight, Marquis Cossitt Gaspar. a
wealthy retired tea merchant and octoge-
marian. shot himself Thursday in the sit
ting room of hie house, at 30 West SD
street, dying instantly. He was found
some time later by his wife, who thought
him asleep at first.
Mr.. Gaspar, whose age Coroner Har-
burger got as eighty-f1ve. was once a
me nsber of the firm of Rowland & Aspin-
wall whose Offices were at "a South
street. They owned many fast clipper
ships. and did a large business in bring
ing tea from China. Twenty years ago
Mr.. Gaspar retired with fortune. Since
then he had lived a life of ease, devoting
himself to his hobbies. which were driv-
ing and painting water colors. He was a
member of the National Arts Club, and
took the keenest delight in everything
full OF them. He owned several horses.
and until his eyesight began to fail was
accustomed to go for a spin behind them
almost everx day in the park
Recently his eyesight began to fail very
fas;, and about two weeks ago his physi-
clan. DR.. Waiter Hester Carr of 81 West
5lst street, told him that he had cataracts.
In addition to this the circulation in his
eyeballs was defective. Apparently, Mr..
Gaspar' realized that there was no hope
for his eyesight and, according to the
family, had become Respondent. A few
days before his death he remarked to his
physician that the end seemed pretty near
when a man lost his eyesight. Not only
was 1t impossible for him to read. but the
pleasure that he once had of retouching
some of his water colors was also lost to
him.
M. Gaspar had breakfast with his wife
about 8 O'Clock Thursday morning in the
dining room. Although Mrs. Casper had all
the electric lights turned on in the dining
room, her husband complained that 1t was
very dark to him and that he could
scarcely see. He was in his dressing
gown. and after breakfast went upstairs
to sit for a while before dressing. as was
his custom. Mrs. Gaspar left him sitting
in his easy chair, with his feet on the
foot rest.
One of the last inquiries he made of her
was as to what kind of a day it was. for.
although the sun was shining brightly he
could not detect it.
Mrs. Gaspar passed the door one and
looked in. but seeing her husband still
reclining in the chair. she supposed him
asleep. A short time afterward she took
in a canary to hang in the room. because
she thought the singing of the bird Would
cheer him UP. Passing around to the
other side of his chair she saw bullet
hole in his right temple, from which the
blood was trickling, and realized what
had happened. She called one Of the sery-
ants and sent her for DR.. Carr. The lat
ter said that Mr.. Caspar had died in
stantly.
The. revolver had fallen between Mr..
Caspar's legs, where his bathrobe con-
cealed 1t, and it was some time Before IL
WIS found.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04
OFFEREU MILLION FOR a LIFE.
Pittsburg Man Sought to Save Dy-
ing Friend.

PITTSBURG, Pa, January ALEX
Peacock. one OF Pittsburg's young steel
kings. offered s1.000.OoO to any physician
who would save the life of his friend,
Frank Ridgeway. superintendent of the
department of public safety, who died at
the West Pennsylvania Hospital a few
nights ago Of typhoid pneumonia This
came out during the funeral of Mr.
Ridgeway.
1t appears that for twenty-four hours
previous to the dissolution the physicians
attending Mr.. Ridgeway had no hope.
This came to the ears of Peacock, who
at once appealed to Mayor Guthrie to
allow him to bring physicians from any
where on earth to help save the life of
Ridgeway
Mayor Guthrie gave assent, and Pea
cock forthwith made feverish efforts to
get physicians to come and make the at
lemDt.
1t is understood that he called several
In New York. who. on learning how far
gone was the patient. refused to take the
chance. though told to name their own
price.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04
WILL DISCUSS MINING HERE.
West Virginia Coal Operators to
Meet in This City.

CHARLESTON, w. Va. January A.
Coal operators from every coal field in
West Virginia will meet in Washington
January S. with representatives of the
United States geological survey, to dis
cuss the mining conditions throughout the
state and legislation looking to the pre-
vention of a recurrence of the explosions
which have been responsible for the
death of thousand miners in the coun-
try during the past few weeks. The idea
for the meeting originated with Maj. w.
N. Page, president of the Virginian rail-
way. and Neil Robinson, a ccal expert
of Charleston.
The following committee has been APP
pointed in the different coal fields to
induce all the operators in the state to
be present:
Kafiawaha district-M. r Davis. J. r.
Thomas and Enoch Carver New River
Districts Dixon. G. II. Capsrton and
ThCs. Nichol. Fairmont district-Ex-G Gov.
A. B. Fleming. G. w. Watson and l..
l.. Malone Western Maryland field
Senator Elkins. ii. G.. Davis and B. f.
Bush. Norfolk and Western district
Isaac 7. Mann. John ]. Tierney, Justus
Collins and T. h. Houston. Kanawaha
and Michigan district--E. w. knight, f.
d. Schoenbaum and N Monsarret.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04
Jersey Police Shaken Up.

NEW YORK, January 4.-Shakeup No. l
of the Jersey City police department for
1908 was ordered by the new democratic
police board last night. Thirty men, in
Guiding five sergeants and six rounds men.
were transferred. All bat one of the SUI
perior officers were Pagan men
David Noble and Daniel Lee who were
reduced by the Pagan police board from
detective sergeants to patrolmen after trial
on charges of failing to detect and sup
press gambling. were detailed to duty 10
police headquarters as acting detective
sergeants.
The commissioners dismissed Mrs Rose
Ripple. a well-known Pagan politician and
erstwhile vote getter She was assistant
matuon of the womans prison.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04
Bryan Harmony Assured.

CHICAGO. January 4.-That the Bryan
banquet to he given by the Jefferson Club
next Wednesday will fulfill all w. ].
Bryans hopes for harmony is proved
by list of prominent guests made pub
lie.
Roger Sullivan will be among the Chi
cago guests, and State Chairman Charles
Boeschstein. l.. w. Stringer. former cam
didate for governor; Judge Owen Thomp-
son and Willard +. Dunlap of Jackson
vile will sit at the same table.
Senator jeff Davis of Arkansas. Sena-
tor w. ]. Stone o. Missouri, w. J. Wade
of Iowa City. national committeeman for
Iowa, and former Vice President Adlai< f..
Stevenson of Bloomington will attend.
The appearance of Sullivan and his
erstwhile opponents at a Bryan banquet
will the final sealing of the peace
pledge made by Mr.. Bryan at the Iroquois
Clubs luncheon December q.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04
STATIONERY FOR SENATORS
REGULATION JUST ADOPTED BY
SECRETARY BENNETT.
Proposed to Correct an Abuse That
Has Created a Great Deal of
Newspaper Criticism.

Charles G. Bennett secretary of the
Senate. has issued a memorandum to
senators and committee clerks to the
effect that hereafter no orders for sta
tionery will be received in the Senate sta
tionery room unless signed by a senator
in person. '.In other words" says Mr.
Bennett, mo charges will be made against
a senator's stationery and newspaper ac-
count without his personal consent"
1t is also ordered that all stationery for
committees must be obtained upon an
order signed by the senator who is chair
man. No leather goods are to be sold in
the stationery room hereafter, excepting
portfolios. card cases and pocketbooks
and the stationer. will no longer be per-
mitted to buy articles which are not car
ried as regular stock No articles will
be kept or sold in the stationery room eX-
cepting stationery for the personal use of
senators, committees and officers.
The object is to prevent further criti-
cism when the secretarys annual report is
issued says Mr. Bennett.
There is understood to have been con-
siderable newspaper criticism of the part
of Mr.. Benefits report dealing with the
expenditures for stationery" Senators
were in the habit of ordering from the
Stationer such articles as brass or other
kept in stock. Everything Is sold at cost.
Under the present order senators will
still be permitted to draw on their com
pensation and mileage account through
the financial clerk, and pay thereby for
any articles they may wish to purchase.
The money will have to be turned over to
the statfoner. who will have to go outside
and buy the individual article desired
This will keep the transactions out of
Secretary Benefits report and will pre-
vent clocks. silver goods, etc. from being
called stationery by stretch of the imagi-
nation. 1t will not prevent senators from
buying any articles. heretofore carried in
stock, at the lowest price at which they
can be obtained by the stationer, which
has been at cost.
In closing Mr. Bennett says:
Senators are allowed 1925 per annum
for stationery and newspaper account, but
articles supplied to the stationery room
are purchased in the first instance with
treasury funds and must be itemized In
the annual report of the Secretary. even
though they are purchased for sale and
are sold for cash or charged to the per-
sonal account of senator's and this order
is intended to prevent the false impress
sion generally conveyed by misrepresenta-
ton of the facts contained in the annual
report
The memorandum gives January 1. 1908.
as the date when the new method goes
into effect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04
WRECK OF THE WATER WAGON
CRANKY CRAFT CoLLIDES WITH
CURB AND CAPsIzES.
Crews Heroism Powerless to Avert
Disaster-Vessel Total
Loss.

Twas Wednesday morn when they set
sail on the Waterwagon craft-a good ship.
too both stanch and true. and dry both
fore and aft. A lot of 'em was aboard
that voyage. much-adventured crew;
and there wasn't n thing they hadn't done,
or thing they wouldn't do.
There: was Swizzle-eyed Bill, the walk
ing still. with a throat like a copper pipe;
and Mickey the Soak, rowdy old bloke,
for any old mischief ripe; and the Angel
face. who went a pace that nobody else
could go, and Double-up Dan. an actor
man, who never could stick with show,
land hundred MORE says a sailor
cove, who cast in their lots with us to
take the ship to the end of the trip with
cut no kick or fuss. We steered our
course down the avenue, with danger on
every side. inviting the folks that stared
at us to get on and have ride; but loud
were the ribald jeers we heard from the
lips of the scoff1ng throng, though we paid
no heed to word or deed. but just kept
pegging along. till all at once. without
saying a word, we lost old Mickey the
Soak, who fell ere we got to, 18th street.
Then swizzle-eyed Bill upspoke: Man
overheard! Avast! Delay, Would you
see him perish here? If he doesn't get
help in a brace of shakes he'll drown in
a key of beer. He'll drown in the egg
30 SO"i' III SoiN, AIM We hS Si ohoil oSO
him more. If you're all afraid I'll go
alone and he vanished behind door.
Along, along, the long day dragged,
and drier and drier 1t grew. The Water
wagons seams were cracked. and so were
some of the crew. There was mutiny
brewing the only brew allowed aboard
that ship, for on that craft twas only
the dog that could take a little nip.
ITO. starboard and port our lookout
gazed to see If the coast was clear, but
on every side he saw only the signs of
whisky and wine and beer. Well never
win through. or, II we do. twill be by the
sheerest luck he cried in despair and
tore his hair-but we felt we had the
pluck. But then the lookout shouted
loud. Bout ship! There's a bar ahead
And a thirsty haze obscured our gaze
as the good ship onward sped.
Then Angel-face, with a seraph's
smile. says: This is too fierce for me-
Might as well be dead as be this way
and he showed the helm a-lee. A SILVER,
shock-the good ship struck and shat
tered against a bar, destroying both main
and poker decks. and scattering chips
afar. Double-up Dan was the first ashore,
and he got the first drink, too. but the
rest OF us were not far behind, as into
the bar we blew. oh. give it a name?
The same The samer And each one
moistened his neck, while the Waterway
on lay out in the street, terrible total
wreck"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04
Dead, Heir Gets $4,000.

LANCASTER. Pa. January Al
though officially declared dead. several
years ago, and for many years believed
so by his wife and friends. George M.
Gable appeared in the local court Thurs
day TO claim an inheritance of $4,000
from the estate of his uncle, Jacob Gable.
Seventeen years ago Gable disappeared.
leaving his wife and several small chill
dren without support. All efforts to To-
cate or find any trace of his whereabouts
failed. Years passed and his wife, believ-
ing him dead. remarked
When Jacob Gable died in 1904 George
NJ Gable. one of the heirs, was declared
dead by the court. The executors refused
to pay over the inheritance to his widow
and instituted IA search. which finally re-
suited in locating the long-missing man
in Sacramento. Cal Gable came east and
was identified by his wife lie had deserted
seventeen years ago as the rightful heir.
The woman's second husband has begun
proceedings for a divorce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04
BROOKLYN SUBWAY TO OPEN.
Public to Use East River Tunnel
Next Week.

NEW YORK, January 4.-The tunnel
to Brooklyn will be opened for traffic
next week. General Manager Hedley of
the Interborough Company made this
promise yesterday He was unable to
say just what day the tunnel would be
opened for public travel, but was sure
II would be before the end of next week
M Hedley said further that Monday
and Tuesday next a regular system of
train service would be put into operation
to Brooklyn for the purpose of breaking
in the motormen, conductors and guards
AS the tunnel is ready in all respects for
the running of passenger trains the likeli-
hood is the regular service from Manhat-
tan to the Borough Hall in BROOKLYN will
be started either Wednesday or Thurs
day next.
Then the through service to BROOKLYN
goes into effect the West Farms express
and local trains will be sent ac-oss IN
Brooklyn and the Broadway express and
local trains will turn the loop at the Bat
terry. In order to carry out this arrange
ment the 1nterborough Company has ap-
piled to the public service commission for
permission to close the City Hall station
In the hours in which express trains are
operated. and ii Is understood that this
request will be granted. This Will mean
that the City Hall station will only be
used between the hours of | am. and q
am
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04
THEATER MANAGERS UNION.
Permanent Organization to Repre-
sent All Glasses.

NEW YORK, January 4.-The National
Association of Theatrical Producing Man
ayers voted itself into permanent exist
ence yesterday at meeting in the Hud-
-soSSrAeater.
These Sfficers were elected: President.
HentSIF. Sava BE; vice president, Charles
+. Blahey: TREASURER. Samuel Scribner;
secptart. Hollis f. Cooley. The board of
di<stsfs) incl ndes the four executive
officers, ex officio. and also the following
eleven men: Fl. B. Harris. Jules Murry.
Gus Hill. George Tyler. Harry Martell,
N}enjamip r. Roeder, Al III. Woods. J. w.
JacobA~N. F. Conner. Charles Yale and
n A. Brady. Application for a charter
Under the laws of the state of New York
WI be made Immediately. The officers
wete carefullyaspicked with a view to
having every phase of the theatrical bust
neS4 represented.
The new organization sets out to do
many things. 1t expects to suppress pi-
racy. to prevent contract jumping. to
deal with labor unions unitedly. to get
b&tter rates of transportation from the
railroads To take up complaints of ex-
tortiop, date canceling and unfair deal
ing e@uerslly by house managers in the
PROVING and to settle the difficulties
among themselves by arbitration.
Meetings will be held every second Tues
day in June somewhere in New York.
Those who signed the constitution and
bylaws yesterday include. besides the
officers. Charles b. Dillingham; Henry
Miller. the Shuberts. Joseph r. Grismer,
Marc Elaw, John Cort. Joseph Brooks.
William Harris. William T. Keogh. Fred
erick Thompson. r. II. Burnside. Hurtig
d Seamon. Mittenthal Bros. WagenhaIs
& kemper. Il. c. Whitney. T. w. Miner,
Maurice Jacobs. John A. Himmelein. j.
II. Curtin. NJ. NJ. THESE. C. A. Burt and
Charles Marks. Two of the signers own
eighty shows and several others own from
six TO twenty-five. Altogether at least
two hundred shows were represented.
Olga Nethersole telegraphed her earnest
cooperation and was enrolled as a pro-
ducing manager.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04
Kills Himself in His Orchard.

LEESBURG, Va. January 4.--william
Williams of near Mount Gilead. Loudoun
county. committed suicide yesterday De-
spondency is believed to have been the
cause for the act. Williams borrowed a
gun from a neighbor. saying he intended
hunting game. but instead went into his
orchard and fixed the gun between the
branches of a small peach tree. having
first cooked it. Standing in front of both
barrels, he touched the trigger with the
ramrod and discharged it The entire
load of shot entered his head and throat,
killing him instantly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04
Rockefeller Sells His Deer.

GREENWICH. Conn.,. January All
of the private deer in William G. Rookie
fellers deer park at Rockbrdge were
gathered together yesterday and shipped
in crates to Pennsylvania, where they
have been bought by wealthy man.
There were thirtytwo in all.
There was considerable difficulty i'm
catching the deer. A large corps of boys
from the Boys Club was employed in
running them down. Three of the animals
injured themselves in trying to get away
and died.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04
Austria Helps Our Miners.

.DESMOINES, Iowa. January 4.-Presi-
ment is made that $4,000 has been added
to the relief fund for the sufferers of the
Naomi, Monongah and Jacobs Creek mine
disaster by the Austria Hungary gov
eminent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04

AS he was ente ring his office Thursday
W. r. Baaumier, editor of the
Hallettsville tKyD Herald was shot and
killed by his wife. She was arrested and
placed under 5000 bond. Domestic
troubles are blamed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04

John Walker, engineer. of st. Thomas.
and Brakeman McQuaig of New Windsor
were fatally injured in a head-on col
lson between two freight trains on the
Wabash railroad at Tilsonburg, Ont,
Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-04

Harry st. George Tucker has made for
NAL announcement of his candidacy for
the governorship of Virginia.
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-06-17

doctored there four months, the baby
never getting any better. His hand
and legs then had big sores on them
and as for his sleeping, we could not
think of it, the poor little fellow SUI
fered so terribly. First ] tied his hands
to the crib to keep him from scratching,
but when it got 50 bad tied nm IN
shawl or he would scratch himself al
bloody. When he was seven months OLD
we tried a set of the Cuticura Remedies.
The first application OF Cutlcura let
him sleep and rest well, in one week
the sores were gone but it stayed red
and sometimes it would itch SO We
used Cutcura for two months, then ne
had a clear and white face. NOV, ne lS
two wears and seven months old ana
has never had eczema again. nope
this letter will help some who are suffer-
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F.D.3, San Antonio, Tex, Apr. 10, 'O7."
A single set Of Cuticura Remedies, is
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hllmors, eczemas, rashes, and irrltatlons,
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Complete External and Internal Treatment for
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Mass
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Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-06-17

Already the price Of lands 10 Miss |
issippi hrve increased teu-told and
they are doing 50 every day. They
are even higher than one, two Or
three years ago; the tendency is CON
stantly toward higher levels. There
are reasons for this, very good ones;
in fact. the best there are These
lands are higher in price because they
are the more widely known; because
Their capabilities are the better UNDER
stood; because they are in greater de-
MAJ d; because they will grow wider
range Of crops and more Of them than
those IN any other section; and, finally
because they are making more money
10 the acre than lands anywhere else
in the world. And strange to say:
! Lands today in Mississippi, especially
northeast Mississippi, are lower IN
price than in any other farming section
4 Of America. Taking everything into
consideration, there are no tarm prop
cries in the United States which are
as low in price or which combine the
oI.ont.,ane that lands in this section
possess. AS the Southern Field,
which is issued by the Industrial de-
parhnent Of the Southern Railway
Southern farmers are prosperous
Though nanny channels; they grow
cotton corn, wheat, oats, tobacco, hay
raise cattle, horses, hogs, mules, sheep
have orchards Of apples, peaches
pears, pnms; produce astonishing
crops Of truck Of high value; Ind pro
6t is the dairy, the vineyard, the cane
field; and ard TO their bank accounts
!. through every crop which can b.
}, grown in the North, East or West, on'
] the number which eau only be pro
! duced in the South. For information
relative to this section Of MISSISSIPPI
!, and for special tracts Of land and Gil
t property write
Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1908-06-17

Several years since my lungs We're
% badly affected that | had many.
hemorrhages,' 7 writes A. IA. Ake.soE
Wood, Ind. took treatmentwith sev-
eral physicians without any benett-
| then started Is take Foley's Honey
and Tar, and my lungs are now M
sound as 4 bullet. | recommend i
II advanced stages of lung trouble
FoIey's Honey and Tar stops the
cough ana heals the lungs. and pre-
vents serious results from cold. Re-
fuse substitutes. For sale byall Drual
aists. J.