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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
TOWNSEND MAKES
CHARGE Of FRAUD
IN ESSEX COUNTY


posing me didn't tell their readers that
when I was asked Don't you think
that IL some of the larger hotels were
allowed to be open OF Sunday after
Moons to sell liquor that the people
would be satisf1ed?' 1 told the
commission no. I told them
that it was the mass of the people
who wanted the benefit of the law and
not a few that could afford to go to
hotels and pay high prices for their
beer or wine. I told them that I
wanted the same law applied to the
poor workingman as to the rich man.
that I wanted a law for all and not for
a few.
"I old them the present Newark
Excise Commission should be left alone,
or If they wanted to take it's appoint
ment from the mayor, to which I had
no objection, they should let the peo-
pie of the city choose their excise COM
mission and not have it picked out by
some mar from South Jersey or else
where, who didn't understand the peo-
pie"
Former Senator Smith was called on
to speak, and, after paying a tribute
to his old friends Of the Parker Asso-
c~iation. he Endorsed the speech made
by Mr.. Dunn. He warned the members
of the effort to defeat the will of the
people by the Republicans in the ma
tional contest. He said that no man
who knew the Mayor doubted his hon-
esty or integrity. He told of the need
to have a Democratic Board of Works
back of the Mayor and commended the
candidates for Congress, Mr.. Pratt and
MI. Townsend. He concluded by show
ing the necessity of work on election
day at the polls and not talk at a BAN
quet board to elect the candidates.
Harry ". Osborne, candidate for
State Senator, told how he had no idea
of being a candidate until a few days
before the primary, when his friend,
Wilson ]. Vance, urged him to stand.
William Harrigan, candidate for
sheriff, had to leave early, and Mr..
Crane presented his excuses
Mr.. Townsend spoke next and then
made the statement which caused his
hearers to sit up and take notice.
Other speakers were Congressman
Pratt, John ". Diefenthaler and Simon
Hahn, Timothy F. Foyle, Supervisor
John F. Otterbein, John J. IRne, Pat
rick ]. Dolan, George Hermann,
Franz J.. Sturn. John ]. Maloney and
Frank P. Shalvoy, all candidates for
Assembly.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
HISTORIANS
ELECT OFFICERS
IN THIS CITY
Sixty-third Annual Convention
in Newark to Honor Pres
ident Roberts.

Members of the New Jersey Histori-
cal Society from every county in the
State were at the sixty-third annual
meeting of the society in Its library
building in West Park street, today.
George K. Howell, n of the vice.
presidents, presided because the vener-
able president, Jonathan Roberts, of
Morris county, is in poor health. The
Rev. Joseph F. Folsom, of the Clinton
Avenue Presbyterian Church. was sec
rotary.
The following officers were elected:
President. Jonathan w. Roberts; first
vice-president, George R. Howe; Sec
ond vice-president, Judge Francis r.
Swayze; third vice-president, Charles
Lum; secretary, the Rev. r. Folsom;
corresponding secretary. William Mel
son, and treasurer, w. c. Morton. The
trustees elected to serve three years
are: AMI Dodd, j. Alderman Coles,
Wallace M. Scudder, William T. Hunt
and Charles M. Lum. Mr.. Hiram E.
beats was elected to serve an unex-
pired term of two years.
After the luncheon the Rev. Alexan-
der MacCall, of the South Street
Church, Morristown, delivered the an
nual address.
Miss Marie A. Quimby, president OF
the women's branch Of the society,
read an interesting report of the WORK
done by the women's auxiliary.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28

Brooklyn, where Whitmore and his
wife had $500 in joint account, testified
that on December 26 Whitmore
brought in the handbook burned.
"He wanted a new book because the
old one he said, a been burned in a
fire December IA. l told him he would
have to have his wife's signature, and
he went away"
tainted ut Sight of Body.
The condition of the body was de-
scribed by Mrs. Bessie Schmitter, of
New York, Mrs. Whitmore's sister, who
declared she tainted at the sight.
A letter written by Whitmore Jan
uary l to Mrs. Schmitter, in which he
deplored the way his wife was acting,
and intimated thai he would shortly
break up his home, was introduced.
"She is going to bring her brother
william down from Schenectady next
Sunday (January 81" wrote Whitmore.
Il will wait until then to see what she
does. She has taken all her clothes
and can take the rest of Il belongings
so far as l am concerned. l am all
broken up"
Matthew w. Jones, a telegraph OPP
orator, identified the original of the
Lena telegram, which had been left
by Elliott for transmission The mes
sage was: Bessie, take care of n
send Monday or Tuesday. Lena
Judy" the newsboy detective, whom
Whitmore paid fifty cents a day to spy
upon Mrs. Whitmore, told of seeing
Whitmore Christmas night. He re-
ported to his employer that he had seen
Mrs. Whitmore meet a short dark man
that morning.
On cross-examination, the sensational
fact was brought out that Whitmore
had been seen at 236 Adams street about
z O'Clock Christmas night. The State
promises to show that he left the house
with his wife 1t that hour.
Incidentally, it was brought out that
the short dark man correspondent to the
man seen with Mrs. Whitmore by Peter
Coogan, the night Waterman, at O'Clock
Christmas night or their way to the
swamp. 1t was also brought out that
Bartlett, upon whom the defense hopes
to fasten the crime, answered to the
decription.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
NATIONAL BANK
GRIEVANCE MADE
TO COMMISSION
Tax Plan Condemned by Gen.
eral Plume-Views on the
Buck Act.

With the object of obtaining data
on the present system of bank taxing,
the State commission appointed by
Governor Fort met in the Board of
Trade rooms today, four of the five
members answering the roll. Senator
Bloomfield Fl. Minch was absent.
John o. H. Pitney, chairman of the
commission, showed hat since the
passage of the Buck act In 1905 banks
are deducting from the value Of their
stock the value of their n~on-taxable Sc
curities. AS a result of the act, several
banks were able to escape being taxed
he said. (
General Joseph w. Plume, president
of the Manufacturers National Bank,
speaking for bankers, said 1t was un-
fair to tax national banks on a different
basis from other classes of capital. He
said there were three war taxes left
rum, tobacco and national banks, and
said the reason was because they were
easy to collect.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
UNREGISTERED
VOTERS TO Be
HEARD MONDAY

Judge Ten Eyck will sit in the Court
Of Common Pleas Monday, the day
before the election. for the purpose of
adding names to the registry list, and
on the day of election will sit as long
as the polls are open to settle disputes
that may arise in any of the Essex
districts. The hours for adding names
to the list will be from 5 a. m. to 5
p. m, but every would-be voter must
give a valid excuse for failure to reg
lister.
The County Board of Elections will
sit in the motion room on the third
floor of the Court House tomorrow and
Saturday, also from 8 a. m. to 5 p. M,
to add names to the list.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
MASONS ENTERTAIN LOO
AT NEW AUDITORIUM.
Vaudeville, Banquet and Dane
ing on Program Last Night.

The annual entertainment and dance
of Newark Lodge Nc. Z, F.. and A. M.
was held at the New Auditorium last
night. After a irst-class ~dev
program, consisting of eight numbers
of professional talent from New York
a banquet was served to 1900 guests
In the banquet hall. Following this the
reception was held. and dancing was
enjoyed up to an early hour this morn
ing, the music being furnished by II
F. Won der Heide's orchestra.
The hall was beautifully decorated
with palms. and at the top OF the stage
was a huge electric lighted sign, read
ing Newark No. u"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
JOHN D. NESLER'S
WILL IS FOUGHT
BY HIS NIECE
Caveat Filed for Miss Sarah
Remer, Relative of Late
Manufacturer.

That there will be a contest over the
will of the late John d. Nesler, a jew
elry manufacturer, who left an estate
valued at 100000 when he died, last
June, was indicated by the filing of II
caveat in the ~Surrogate's office today
by Frederick T.. Hey, on behalf If
Sarah Remer, a niece of the testator.
As a matter of fact, Nesler, who is
said to have been somewhat eccentric
during his last years, made two wills,
one dated October 81, 1901. and the
other January 25, 1888. In the first will
he left 8. cash bequest of $1,000 to the
niece, but in the second she received
nothing. Hence the legal attack. AM
pie provisions for the widow were made
in each will, but she has died sinceYthey
were probated, and so have several of
the legatees under the older document.
Among those remembered to the ex-
tent of 81, 900 each under the 1888 will
are these relatives: Frances ]. Bene-
dict, Cornelius, Kate and Charles d.
Vaudeville, Francis j. Halstead, Emma
j. Mills and Frederick Barrett.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
HIS SENTENCE DOUBLED
FOR THREATENING JUDGE

Shouting a threat against Judge
Oehring as he was led out of the Second
Precinct Court today, where a fine OF
$40 or thirty days had been imposed
Patrick w. Gallagher, of 1923 Morris
avenue, was ordered brought back and
his fine increased to double the amount,
with the alternative of serving sixty
days in Jail. Gallagher was accused OF
having created a disturbance in the
vicinity of his home las night. When
he was led away after his first sentence
he shouted "Ill make you sweat fol
this He denied being drunk, but adj
mitted that he had had a few drinks
of what he termed soda water with q
blackthorn In It."
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
MRS. WILSON IS
LAID AWAY TO
HER LAST REST
Wife of Well-KnOwn NeWarker
Died of PeritOnitis, Follow
ing a Short Illness.

The funeral services of Mrs. Dora
Wilson, wife If Garry Wilson, who
died Sunday at st. Barnabas's Hos
pital as a result of an operation for
p~eritonitis, took place this morning
from her home, SO Rose street, to the
Cherryville Baptist Church, Cherry
vile, this State, where the interment
took place.
Mrs. Wilson was 43 years old, and
had been a resident of this city for
over twenty years. Besides her hus-
band she leaves one son, Clarence W.
Wilson. She was Ill only a short time.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
BRYAN SAYS He
WILL CARRY OHIO
AND NEW YORK
The Entire Middle West Is for
Me, Declares Democratic
Candidate.

NEW YORK. Oct. 2S.-Mr. Bryan was
in excellent spirits when he started on
hts trip upstate. 1--WE had a delight
full and busy time during my stay in
New York" said he, land I nave
+ ned something. l have learned that
we waste a great deal of time in sleep.
Always before I had supposed that a
ran must have eight hours sleep a
night, but 1 find that you New Workers
thrive on FIVE hours"
DO you expect to carry New York
Slater" he was asked.
Il certainly do. And / expect to
carry the entire Middle West. We will
have enough and more. Nebraska is
sure, and So. l think, is Ohio"
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
RECORD TAX BILL
So FAR IS PAID
BY INSURANCE CO.

One of the first big property-owners
to pay the taxes for 1908 was the
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Com
pany, which yesterday sent a check
to Tax Receiver Robert L.. Ross for
1853, 907. II, the amount due on the asses
ment, minus the l per cent. discount
allowed by the city for prompt payment
within ten days of the date set for be-
ginning the receipt of taxes.
The total receipts yesterday amount
ed to 1892, 270.34, approximately the
same sum received for the correspond
ing day last year.
Saturday at noon the l per cent. dis
count period will end, and for twenty
days after one-half of l per cent. dis
count will be allowed to induce promp.
payment.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
POLITICAL MEETINGS TONIGHT

nue. and Bank street. Speakers, vari-
Gus candidates.
Electric Park. Speakers, various can
didates.
Irvington Masonic Hall. Speakers,
various candidates.
Polish Republican Club, Sokol Hall
at So Jones street. Speakers. various
candidates.
Smiths Hall. Park avenue and Stone
street. Speakers. various candidates.
Schwartz's Hall, at Bergen street
and Custer venue Speakers various
candidates.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
THIS IS TAFTS
GREAT DAY IN
NEW YORK CITY
Will Deliver Scores of Speeches
Up to Observation-Disclosures
with Him.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2S.-This is Taft's
big day in Greater New York. His
train reached New York half an hour
before noon, and from that time until
midnight or later almost every moment
of the candidates time had been as
signed for meetings in various parts OF
the city.
At noon he had an engagement to
speak before a big gathering at West
street Farm" and the day will close
With a monster m~ass-nieeting in Madi-
son Square Garden.
Governor Hughes will accompany Mr..
Taft on part of his flying trip today,
and will be one of the principal speak
ers at the Madison Square meeting.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
REPUBLICAN.

! First Ward Republican Club, at 1913
Orange street. Speakers, various can
didates.
Zbikowskich Hall, Myrtle avenue and
Chapel street. Speakers. various candi-
dates.
Republican headquarters, Bloomfield
and Midland avenues, Bloomfield.
Speakers, various candidates.
Grace M. e. Church, New York ave-
nue. and Ann street. Opening of fair.
Speakers, various candidates.
Open-air meeting at Littleton ave-
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
DEMOCRATIC

At William and Bridge streets, Belle
vile. Speakers, Hon Rowland b
Mahany, Frank O'Connor and others.
At Wallace and North Centre streets,
Orange. Speakers, various candidates
At Democratic headquarters, East
Orange. Speakers, various candidates.
AT Masonic Hall, Nutley. Speakers,
various candidates.
Thomas Craig Association, at Cen
trail avenue and Second street
Speakers, various candidates. Morning
Star watch presentation to Policeman
John j. Early.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
HARRIGAN LEADS GRAND
MARCH AT LEVEEN BALL.

The second annual reception and ball
of the Leveen Democratic Association
was held last night at Dodgers Hall in
Morris avenue. Many prominent Demo-
cratic candidates were present.
The most enthusiastic reception was
accorded Mayor Jacob Haussling and
William Harrigan. Democratic candi-
date for sheriff.
The grand march. the feature Of the
evening. was led by Mr.. Harrigan and
started at midnight, with the hall in
darkness, gradually lighting UP.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
YAoUIs SLAUGHTERED.

Ell PASO, Tex, Oct. 2S.-News
reached here today from various
sources that a battle between Papago
and Yaqui Indians has taken place
north Of Altar. Sonora, and that forty
Yaquis were killed. According to re-
portsl the Mexican government armed
the Hapagos, who led the Yaquis into
ambush and slaughtered them.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
COUNTESS GLADYS
IS NOW MOTHER
OF A DAUGHTER

BUDAPEST, Oct. 28.-Countess SEE
chenyi, who was Miss Gladys Wander
bilt, of New York, gave birth to n
daughter yesterday at the S~zechenyi
castle.f &
The Countess Szechenyi, who prior to
her marriage to the Hungarian noble
man was Miss Gladys Moore Wander
bilt, Is the youngest child of the late
Cornelius. Vanderbilt, and is a sister Of
Cornelius, Alfred G.. and Reginald G.
Vanderbilt and Mrs. Harry Payne
Whitney. The marriage of Miss Van
derbilt to Count Szechenyi on January
81 last was the social event of the year.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
BASKETBALL IN BELLEvILLE.

The junior basketball team of the
Belleville Catholic Club defeated the
Orange Separate Five last night in
Parochial Hall. Belleville. by the score
of SO to z. In the preliminary game the
third team defeated the Jefferson Five.
of Orange, by the score Of rs to II.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28
REAL DEMOCRACY.

Thomas and Goble streets. Speak
ers, Candidates Henry, Fettinger and
others.
Jefferson and East Kinney streets.
Speakers, candidates and others.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-28

~ o the school. children If today write Is well Is they did when the
81 fathers and mothers of today went TO school?
~ There is a diversity of opinion upon this question. Prominent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-31

misdeeds done in the present must be
permitted to shroud from our eyes the
glorious future of the nation; but be-
cause of this very fact it behooves US
never to swerve from our resolute
purpose to cut out wrongdoing and up
hold what is right.
Did Not Cause Depression.
II do not for a moment believe that
the actions of this administration have
brought on business distress; so far
as this is due to local and not world
wide causes, and TO the actions of any
particular individuals, it is due to the
speculative folly and fragrant dshon
! esty of a few men of great wealth
who seek to shield themselves from
the effects of their own wrongdoins
by ascribing its results to the action.
of those who have sought to put stoI
to the wrongdoing. But If it wer,
true that to cut out rottenness from
the body polite meant momentar!
check to an unhealthy seeming pros
perity, | should not for one momen
hesitate to put the knife to the COZ
Eruption"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-31
REVIVAL MEETING is
BEST OF The SERIES
Larke Weekday Congregation at First
Methodist Church Hears Inter-
estine Address.

The largest weekday congregation
of the present series of meetings was
at the First Methodist church last
evening to listen to an exceptionally
interesting program in charge of
Messrs. Smith and Roper An unusual
ly large proportion of the congreSa-
ton were young men and young
women. Mr.. Smith spoke on He Will
not Come unto Me That He Might
Have Life" and he emphasized the
responsibility that rests upon the in
dividual in making a decision whether
or not to embrace Christianity. Mr..
Roper sang two solos and joined with
Miss Ruby Williams in a duet Fol
/ lowing the main meeting there was a
! conservation meeting attended by
about 100, and after this there was a
meeting for men at which plans were
made for the Y. NJ CA. meeting Sun
: day to be addressed by Mr.. Smith.
1t was decided that the men will meet
at the church and proceed in a body
10 the Y. NJ. c. A. The subject of Mr.
Smith for tonight will be THE Cost
of Being a Christian" There were
half a hundred at the bible meeting
yesterday afternoon.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-31

and the result was that the wolf es-
capped,
Mrs. Bert Wells, who has been ill
with typhoid fever, is slowly improv-
ing.
The Rose Hill Gun club held a shoot
ing match last Saturday.
Miss Pearl )Mumma is sick with
chicken pox.
Sheldon Walkers little children are
sick with the grip.
Some of the young men enjoyed an
oyster supper at the home of David
Swank last Saturday evening
James Donahoo of Moline was 6
business caller in this vicinity last
| Monday.
| Frank Wainwright visited with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George Vain
| wright of Rock Island this week.
Miss Gertie Hart is i'll with the grip
! Mrs. Samuel Wainwright visited will
/ relatives in Moline last week.
| Word has been received here of tn,
serious illness of Justin Ingram O
Cleaveland, Henry county. Mr.. In
gram formerly was a resident here.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-31
WILL GIVE A PROGRAM
Mems Club to Be in Charge of Broad
way Church Services.

The Mems club will have charge of
the Sunday evening service at the
Broadway Presbyterian church next
Sunday and will conduct a Lincoln
memorial service. A very interesting
program has been arranged consisting
of Lincoln quotations by members of
the club, an address on Lincoln by
John w. Parker, music by the choir
and several violin SOLOS by Miss Ger
trude Housed, instructor in violin at
Augustana college. This promises to
be one of the best services the Mems
club has conducted and the public is
invited to be present
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1908-01-31
MOVEMENT Is REALLY
AN ETHICAL ONE NOT
ECONOMIC AS CLAIMED

| Iue OppOHenlS Oh the measures we
champion single out now one and
| now another measure for especial at
tack, and speak as if the movement
in which we are engaged was purely
| economic. 1t has a large economic
| side. but it is fundamentally an ethical
movement. 1t is not movement to
be completed in one year, or two or
three years; it is a movement which
must be persevered in until the spirit
which lies behind it sinks deep into
| the heart and the conscience of the
whole people. 1t is always important
| to choose the right means TO achieve
portant to keep this purpose clearly
before us; and this purpose is to Sc
cure national honesty in business and
in politics. We do not subscribe to
the cynical belief that dishonesty and
unfair dealing are essential to bust
ness success, and are to be condoned
when the success is moderate and APP
plauded when the success is great
| Hits Standards Method.
"The methods by which the Stand
ard Oil people and those engaged in
the other combinations of which
have spoken above have achieved
great fortunes can only be justified by
the advocacy of system of morality
which would also justify every form
of criminality on the part of labor
union, and every form of violence,
, corruption, and fraud, from murder to
bribery and ballot box stuffing in poll
tics. We are trying to secure equality
of opportunity for all; and the strug-
gle for honesty is the same whether
1t is made on behalf of one set of
men or of another.
THE laws must in the future be adj
ministered as they are now being adj
ministered, SO that the department of
justice may continue to be, what it
now is, in very fact the department
of justice, where so far as our ability
permits justice is melted out with an
even hand to great and small, rich
and poor weak and strong.
No Ground for Fear.
| We have just passed through two
months of acute financial stress. At
any such time it is a sad fact that en-
ltirely innocent people suffer from no
fault of their own; and everyone must
feel the keenest sympathy for the
| large body of honest business men
of honest investors, of honest wage.
workers, who suffer because involved
in crash for which they are in no
way responsible. At such time
there is a natural tendency on the
part of many men TO feel gloomy and
frightened at the outlook but there
is no justification for this feeling.
| There is no nation so absolutely sure
of ultimate success as ours. OF course
we shall succeed.
| Ours is a nation Of masterful ener-
gy, with continent for its domain.
and it feels within its veins the thrill
which comes to those who know that
they possess the future We are not
cast down by the fear of failure. We
are upheld by the confident hope of
ultimate triumph The wrongs that
exist are to be corrected: but they
in no way justify doubt as to the final
outcome, doubt as to the great material
prosperity of the future, or of the lofty
spiritual life which is to be built upon
that prosperity as e foundation. No