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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-31
STATE NEWS

Run as an inn and tavern for nearly
100 years, Hulsizer's hotel, in East Mill
stone, will soon close.
For beating his wife Edward Shop
pard. of Pitman. is in Jail for thirty
days.
Simon Chaser, retired banker, of
New York. is dead at his summer home
in Long Branch.
Dispute over teachers appointments
may defer the reopening of Gloucester
public schools.
o. d. Reeve. who made a fortune in
the tailoring business and real estate,
is dead in Newton, aged so.
C. A. Wilson, of Phillipsburg, vice
president of the Order of Railroad
Trainmen, was at a secret labor meet
ing in Johnstown, Pa, yesterday.
The "Sunshiners,'' % Franklinville
girls, skldooed to Atlantic City for an
outing yesterday.
Kicked by a horse, Edward Harring-
ton, of North Haledon, is dead. Albert
Vanderburg, of Paterson, is in a
serious condition. He also was kicked
by a horse.
Nervousness, due to his expected ar
rest-he was arrested charged with
theft-caused Lone Bill'' John A.
Hickman, actor, to shoot off a finger OF
his wife's hand in their performance in
Mt. Holly.
Charged with conducting "beer
farms" in Hopewell township, c. w.
Garrison and Christian Heller, jr., are
under bail.
Famous as a boy vocalist years ago,
w. Leon Bennington, of Trenton, is a
benedict, his bride being Miss Olive
Smith, of South River.
Flung from her carriage when her
horse ran away, Professor James b
Lang's wife was killed in Bridgeton.
The "sour pear rain" Is the way F
B. Lee, New Jersey historian, desig-
mates last weeks storm. He avs the
term is a survival of Colonial days.
Women will vote for rival Republi-
car s~hrievalty aspirants in Gloucester
in a popularity contest at the Glass.
boro driving meet on Saturday.
Pushed off the Ninth street trestlt
by an engine, two freight cars on the
junction railroad, Jersey City, fell t
the street and were wrecked.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-31
TRENTON FEELS
COUNTRY WIDE
BUSINESS BOON
Mills Employ Thousands to Fill
Orders-PrOsperity in the
South and West.

TRENTON, Aug. 31.-The return of
Industrial good times is beginning to
make itself felt in this city. Announce
ment has been made by John S. Neary,
proprietor of the Princeton Worsted
Mills, that within the next few weeks
100 additional hands will be taken on
at his plant In order to keep the mills
up with the business that has been in
creasing rapidly in the past week. The
plant now employs 300 persons. Mr..
Neary has just bought a tract of land
adjoining his mills and will erect sew
eral new buildings as soon as contracts
a be awarded.
Night and day forces are employed in
some of the city's largest industries.
There are but few idle men In the
States capital and the surrounding
section.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has issued orders for the operation of
its car repair shop in this city five
days a week instead Of four, the pre-
vailing time for some months. The
shops have work on hand for many
months ahead. During the dull times
ho ilGiildS WCIG ldIu VII, put WI hiilS
time was cut down.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. S1.-Business is
humming in the South and West. Trade
has been as brisk this month as it was
one year g and indications point to a
business record in the South for the
last six months of '0S that will smash
ecords.
Business in the West is once more
normal. the National Prosperity Asso-
citation reports. A conscientious survey
of the situation. supported by inter
views with successful men of affairs,
discloses remarkable and gratifying
inauguration. The current of business
is not only moving with normal speed,
but it is expansive and even gives as
surance of enlarged proportions.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-31
PLATT'S RELATIVE DEAD,
LEAVING TEN MILLIONS.

+. OWEGO, Aug. 31.-Frederick c. Hew-
lit, a retired banker, SO years. old, is
dead here, following a stroke of apo
plexy. He was Oswego's richest resident
and had spent the last years of his life
collecting paintings of the Barbizon
school. He was a bachelor. graduated
from Yale in the class OF '5S. 1t is esti-
mated that he leaves an estate worth
$40, ooo, 900. He vas related to the Theo-
dore Frelinghuysen family and was a
cousin of Senator Thomas C. Platt.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-31
DESPERATE MUNROE
STILL ELUDES CAPTURE.

BRANCHvILLE, Aug. a.-Although
he has himself in letters announced
that he is dead. the hunt for the des-
perado, bill" Monroe, of New Paltz,
N. Y, was continued near here today.
Sheriff Gum and his deputies of Sus-
sex county believe that Monroe is In
this vicinity and that he is not so des-
perately wounded as was at first be-
lieved. Monroe has appeared In sew
eral places in Sussex county in the last
two days.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-31
SOCIETY WOMAN, ILL,
KILLS SELF WITH RAZOR,

TRENTON, Aug. 31.-Wearied of life
because she suffered continually from
an incurable disease. Miss May S. Bull
lock-, of Jobstown, Burlington county,
committed suicide by cutting her throat
from ear to ear with a razor in the
home of her brother, George T.. Bull
lock, at 915 Edgewood avenue. Miss
Bullock came here on a visit last Fri
day. She was AZ years old and socially
prominent.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-31
PAPER MILLS TO RESUME.

GLENS FALLS, N. Y, Aug. 81
Operations will be resumed this week
at the International Paper Company's
plant at Fort Edward, which has been
shut down for four weeks. About 400
men will return to work.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-31
STOLEN DUCK A BURGLAR ALARM.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 31.-Having
stolen a duck from a back yard to take
home to his wife and children. who
were nearing starvation, Arthur Shaw,
341s Crawford street, was sentenced to
serve ten days in jail.
Shaw would not have been detected
had not the bird uttered a shrill outcry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-30
GRIEvING FATHER IS SUICIDE
AUTO KILLED HIS FAVOR1TE
SON FEW DAYS BEFORE.
Parent Said He Would Take His
Own Life if the Boy Died
of Injuries.

PHILADELPHIA, December .3O.-Un-
his six-year-old son, who was struck
and killed by an automobile little more
than a week ago, Frederick Becker, aged
forty-two, of 1886 Market street, shot and
killed himself yesterday in his home.
His son, Robert, was run over Sunday
week ago by an automobile, in which
Miss Dorothy Vaughan Ritter was riding.
Becker's body was found by his daugh-
ter. Mrs. Ida Quirk, who heard the shots
and hurried to his bedroom. He was TAX
en- to the -Chirurgical Hospital. but
life was already extinct.
Dead Boy His Favorite.
Since the death of his son Becker fire.
quently threatened to end his life. While
the boy was lying at the point of death
in the Children's Hospital Becker re-
marked: III kill myself if Bobby dies"
Becker was the father of thirteen chill
dren. The dead boy had always been his
favorite, and since the accident the father
has been unable to control his grief He
refused the consolation of his wife and
children and declared that he would never
be the same again.
At o'clock yesterday he left the res
taurant on the first floor of his home.
When his son Fred asked where he was
going Becker answered, "Oh, just down
the street.
In few minutes he returned. APP
preaching customer. he said. GOOD
bye, old man. and hurried to his room
on the second floor.
Daughter Too Late to Stop Him.
In his hand Becker carried a small
package which excited the suspicion of
his daughter. Mrs. Quirk, who, fearing
that he had purchased a revolver to carry
out his threat, started up the stairs. Be-
fore she could reach the door of his room
she heard three shots. She found her
father lying on the floor with a still
smoking revolver clasped in mis- hand.
II felt all along that he would kill him
self said Mrs. Quirk. HE said just
the other day that he didn't see any use
of living. but ! thought that he would
have more courage than to end his life.
He always seemed to care for Robert
more than any of the children.
Robert had his own way in everything,
and papa let him do just as he wanted.
When he died l said to the boys that we
would have to watch papa, but he slipped
out and bought revolver before We
knew what he was doing
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-30
MAY SOB HERSELF TO DEATH
ELEVEN-YEAR-OL GIRLS DIS
EASE BATTLES DOCTORS.
Started With Tears in Childish Grief
and for Ten Days She Has
Not Stopped.

PHILADELPHIA December 3O.-Many
physicians have confessed themselves de-
feated in their efforts to relieve eleven
year-old MYRTLE Gold of 2O4O Catherine
street who since last Thursday has been
unable to stop sobbing.
The nervous disorder which is threat
ening the young girls life is in the ma
ture of hiccoughs. but the girl will not
respond to the usual remedies.
DR.. Alfred F. Altman of 1889 South
nd street is attending the girl, and he
has already consulted with several other
ply sicians in the hope of finding some
cure for the paroxysms. but SO far his
efforts have been unsuccessful.
Relief Only in Sleep.
All during the time she is awake Myrtle
sobs, and the only time that she gets
any relief Is when, exhausted from the
constant racking of her frame, she be-
comes exhausted and falls asleep.
AS soon as she gets awake they begin
again and continue part of the time with
almost every breath. then once every
four or five seconds, sometimes, they are
gone for few minutes.
In the past ten days of $40 hours, IA, 400
minutes, $4,000 seconds it is calculated
that the child has hccoughed at least
lN.UU times. Inc PHYSICIANS OldSloSe
the cause of the disease as nervous hys-
terics''
Myrtle came home from school Sob
bling as if her heart would break" said
the mother yesterday, land that was the
beginning of it, 1t settled down into
the sobs that seemed to promise an end
of the crying. but instead Of ending they
have gone on and on.
Cannot Stop Sobs.
1T seemed as though the tears had
stopped and the grief had ended, but
something keeps UP the hiccoughs. They
say though, that it is not the same as
a hiccough. 1t is never-ending Sob
With it is a pain in the throat that goes
with grief. How long she can possibly
stand it / do not know
The little girl was getting on happily
at the Sunday school of the Bethany
Presbyterian Church in her school work
She was apparently in good health in
every way until the happening Of a lit
tie unpleasantneSs with the school chill
dren, who started to tease her. They
kept it up all unconscious of the power
and effect of their concerted unkindness
against one.
Her school friends sent her a beautiful
doll as Christmas present with a card
saying: I'VE love you. Myrtle, and want
YOU to come back to play with u.s.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-30

The Black Book which was very large
ly devoted to the defense OF Masonry and
to attacks upon the Calvinistic denomina-
tons, which were then arraigned against
Masonry. which Mrs. Royal considered
to be the noblest institution on earth.
Although the Roman Catholic Church is
and always has been more determined in
its opposition 10 Freemasonry and all
other secret societies than the Protestant
sect, Mrs. Royal reserved her fury for
the latter. This singular Inconsistency
is attributed to the influence of Father
William Matthews. a Washington priest.
who was her closest friend during her
residence in this city, and the only human
being besides herself who knew the his
tory of her father. William Newport. In
his day Father Matthews kept many a
secret for the nobility of England and
the aristocrats OF Maryland
Publisher of Yellow Journal.
After settling down in Washington Mrs.
Royal published the first yellow jour-
nal'' ever known in the United States
the prototype of class of undertaking
publications and so-called society pa
pers" which now disgrace the profession
Of journalism. which deal exclusively
with the weaknesses and vices and the
mistakes of men and women and cater
to a vicious craving for scandal. But
Miss Porter insists that she vas not a
blackmailer: that she refused to invade
the homes and private lives of ordinary
citizens: that she refused to publish
scandals that she did not believe to be
true: that she confined her attacks to
persons in public life and to those who
were guilty of wrong and hypocrisy. She
was merciess in her attacks upon hum
bugs and hypocrites. particularly among
the clergy and men who made pretense
of piety that their conduct did not Justify
and were prominent in religious affairs.
From the first number of Paul Pry,"
her original paper to the last issue of
THE Huntress,' her second publication.
covering almost quarter Of a century.
there was not d political battle an
official scandal in which Anne Royal did
not have her say. And Miss Porter says:
She hit. too, with uncommon frequency.
and always near the bull's-eye. Her
pages contain much to offend critical
taste. Much that her admirers could
wish could never be printed. but, liked or
disliked her bitterest enemies must ad-
nit that her utterances never lacked
point. The local news in both
Paul Pry' and The Huntress' was con-
fined almost exclusively to the different
departments of the government She
made frequent tours through the depart
ments. sporting corrupt officials who i'm
her judgment ought to be removed for
the good Of the service. . Mrs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-30
Girl Burns to Death.

WEST MINISTER. Nd. December 20
Esther Byers. the six-year-old daughter
OF M. and Mrs. Harry Byers of Myers
district, Carroll county, was so seriously
burned by fire of unknown origin that
she died later. The mother and one
daughter We're away at the time and the
father was home with the other children.
He had some duties TO perform at tho
barn and left Esther in the house with
the smaller children. When he returned
he found the little girl in flames He
seized her and threw her in pump
trough to cXtinguish the flames which
he finally succeeded in doing but not
before she had sustained fatal burns.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-30
PENNSYl vANlA RAILROAD
4 New Five.Hour Train to New York

The passenger service of the Pennsylvania Railroad
is constantly improving 1t is the effort and aim OF the
management anticipate the requirements Of the travel
ing public and the addition from time time of trains
which fill in gaps in the train service brings quick and
appreciave response.
On January 4, Iooo another fast train to New York
will be introduced 1t will leave the Union Station every
day at and through New York in five hours.
1t will be made up of vestibue coaches, Pullman parlor
and dining all of the latest type. This will
afford convenient train for morning travel to New
York, and is fit counterpart of the famous Congress
sional Limited in the afternoon
The new pm train New York, recently naugu-
rated, is meeting with great popular favor.
Under the schedule of January the service to
New York will cover more than every hour in the day.
Trains will leave Union Station for New York and
Philadelphia 1910, 1890 8. am; 80, B. 4,
A. 80, $50 and pm. weekdays; I2Io, II 80. 9, II.
Philadelphia only, 7, 80. oIo, 11:55 SIS, $40.
535 and 1o:45 pm. weekdays 7, oo am, SIS, $40,
IS and As pm. Sundays.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-30
Killed While Duck Hunting.

CAMBRIDGE. Md. December 30
While John Christopher was out cunning
for ducks near Vienna. this county, in
company with his brother, William, their
dog started a rabbit. John Christopher
grabbed his gun to shoot the rabbit The
gun was discharged accidentally. the load
striking his body, killing him almost in
stantly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-30
RUFF GETS FOURTEEN YEARS
San Francisco CRATER Sentenced to
st. Quentin Prison.

San FRANCISCO, December 3O-Abra-
ham Ruef. formerly political boss OF San
francisco. was sentenced yesterday 10
fourteen years in the state penitentiary
at San Quentin.
Judge William p LAWYER who presided
over Ruefs trial on the charge of bribing
member of the Schmitz board of super-
visors in the award of an overhead trolley
franchise to the United Railroads. pro-
nounced sentence
The trial ended after many weeks in the
conviction OF Ruef December 10 The
most startling incident was the shooting
OF prosecuting Attorney Heney by Morris
Haas, who had been accepted as a Juror
ana was sworn by Heney to have been a
convict. Haas afrerWard commit Cd
suicide in Jail
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-30
UNCLE SAM INVITES CANADA.
Dominion to Be Represented at
Conservation Congress.

OTTAWA. Ont, December 3O.-Gifford
Pinchot. chief of the forestry service of
the United States government. reached
Ottawa yesterday with an invitation TO
Canada TO a convention which Is To be
held in the United States to consider the
conservation of the natural resources OF
the North American continent. He was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-30

met by representative Of Earl Grey and
driven to the government house. where he
VIII be the guest of the governor general
while he stays in Ottawa.
The Canadian government will accent
the invitation and will probably send
several representatives who are capable
or discussing questions related to for
estry. minerals fisheries water power
and other natural resources
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Miss Porter says that this is unjust and
believes that Mr.. Kendall was prejudiced,
because more than once in the newspa-
pers Mrs. Royal exposed plans of the
Jackson administration which he wished
to have kept secret. mo ferret was ever
keener after rats she says. than Mrs.
Royal on the scent of political plots"
Miss Porter has gathered a great deal
of interesting information concerning this
remarkable woman, of whom very little
was known before. She was born Anne
father was William Newport. over whose
life a mystery hangs and who was be-
lieved to have been an Legitimate son of
British sovereign. The child was
brought up in a frontier cabin among
wild flowers and wild beasts and wild
men, and when she was very young mar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-30

ried Capt. Royal. formerly of the United
States army, of Sweet Springs. Botetourt
county. Va. where she lived in happiness
for sixteen years and met some of the
first people of the country. They found
this backWoodS girl of brilliant mental
attainments, generous of disposition. joyous
of nature and careless of the world. Her
husband died in 1913 and left her all Of
his property, but a nephew disputed the
will. and after ten years Of litigation sue
ceeded in depriving her of the estate on
the ground that she and Capt Royal were
never legally married.
After her husbands death and while
the estate was in litigation Mrs. Royal
spent her time in travelling through the
country and writing her impressions of
the places she visited. Miss Porter says
she was an observant traveller. She Wis
tied every important town and city in the
United States and her impressions and
descriptions are published in ten volumes.
She was a pioneer woman journalfst-not
the first woman Journalist in the United
States. but the earliest in Washington.
During thirty years of her active career
as a writer there was not a famous man
OR woman in the country whom she did
not interview. She met and talked with
every man who became President of the
United States from George Washington
TO Abraham Lincoln inclusive. Miss
Porter gives a list of men that she in
terviewed She also gives a list of towns
and places she described. which covers
seven printed pages. and list of persons
she discussed in her books and in her
papers which covers forty-six pages be-
ginning with the adams family of Massa-
chusetts and ending with Mrs. David
Yulee. wife of a United States senator
from Florida. Included in this list is the
name of every person who was in any
way prominent socially. politically or
otherwise in the United States from 1923
to 1S41.
Aided by the Masons.
After the decision OF the court depriving
her of an income Mrs. Royal was finan-
cialy assisted by the Masons. This was
due to her active interest in the case of
William Morgan. who disappeared mys-
teriously from Genessee county. i'm New
York, i'm 1896. and whose disappearance
was attributed to the Masons. Anne
Royal was not person to remain neutral
in a great agitation like that which fol-
lowed the Morgan case. Her traditions
and convictions were all on the side of
Masonry and she plunged into the con-
troversy with intense zeal and energy.
Recognizing the force and usefulness OF
her pen the Masonic fraternity employed
her to travel throughout the country to
defend their threatened cause. and she
spent several years in that work Then
she came to Washington. and printed
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The Carriers Greeting.

Back in the old colonial DAYS,
Some courier brave like Paul Revere,
With tidings which must sure amaze,
On trembling steed drew swiftly near.
And men were fain to bid him name
What recompense he chose to claim.
Now unromantic, but sincere
The carrier boy, through storm and sun,
Brings you the tdngs of the year,
AS days keep passing, one by one.
\ messenger so stanch and true
Some gift may surely claim from you.
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Royals manner of presenting her argu-
ments was often abominally offensive.
Anything more disa greeable than por-
tons of The Black Book and some OF
the earlier numbers of Paul Pry' would
be hard to find in print Her pa
perS and books reached every town ard
village of the United States. They We're
read alike by friend and foe. They in
fluenced the most important class of any
age in any country. Patriotism
was the ruling passion of her life. The
preservation of the government was a
part of her very existence"
What Anne Royal Sought.
Miss Porter enumerates the main
causes for which Anne Royal fought, as
follows:
Entire separation of church and state,
in letter and spirit.
Exposure and punishment of corrupt
officials.
Public schools everywhere. wholly free
from religious bias Or control
FreemaSonry.
Justice to the Indians
Liberal immigration laws.
Sunday transportation OF mails.
Internal improvements.
Territorial expansion.
Liberal appropria tons for scientific in
veStigation.
just tariff laws
No nullif1cation
States rights in regard to the slavery
question.
The abolition of fogging in the navy.
Betterment of conditions of wage
earnerS.
Free thought. free speech and a free
press.
Good works instead of long prayers.
Miss PorterS researches for The Life
of Anne Royall'' began in 1904 and can
hardly be said to have ended, for she
hopes that the publication of her book
may bring out additional material now
hidden away. perhaps. in some farm
house attic or under dusty volumes of
somebody's grandfather's library
The Cairo bulletin., 1908-01-28
IN INTERESTS Of
HOME MISSIONS
MEETING WILL BE HELD AT
FIRST M. &. CHURCH BY
WORKERS IN THIS MISSION
AIRY FIELD.

Miss Carrie Barge and Miss Evans
of Delaware. home missionary work
ers will conduct services at the First
~ z. church this week IN the inter
ests of this branch of mission work
A parlor meeting viii be held al
the parsonage at 2:30 o'clock this
afternoon conducted by Miss Barge
and at 4 o'clock Miss Evans will al
dress the young people and lchildrep
in the League rooms. Thisf evening
there will be a general meeting in the
church 10 which the public IS invited
which will be addressed BY Miss
Barge. An Offering will be made at
this meeting for mission work. Mrs
w. T. Morris is president Of the home
missionary society OF the First H. f.
church under the auspices of which
these meetings viii be he'd.