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The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
BRYAN|TES MAKE
DECLARATIONS Of
THEIR CANDIDACY
O'Rourke, O'Connor, Arniitage
and HaIpin Give Reasons for
FavOring Nebraskan.

Public announcement that they are
candidates for election as delegates TO
the Democratic national convention
was made today by William +.
O'Rourke, of this city, and Frank A.
O'Connor, of West Orange, to represent
the seventh Congressional district, and
by John L. Armitage and Commissioner
Thomas F. Halpin, of the Board of
Works, both of Newerk. from the
eighth district.
In their statement, which is signed
Jointly, they say: I'VE favor the
nomination of William Jennings Bryan,
believing him to be the man best quail
fed to undertake the responsibility OF
guiding the destiny of our country in
it's present great crisis
I'VE believe" they say also. much
of the opposition to be due to intel ec-
tual pride of those who. having hastily
and without full knowledge of the man,
opposed him in the past, are now re-
luctant to admit their error.
Every recent governmental policy
which has commended itself to the
great mass of the people and has been
opposed by the System was ad-
vanced and advocated by Mr.. Bryan
twelve years ago.
''It is because we believe him to be
the most available candidate from
the standpoint of party success, as wei
as the man best qualified for the high
office of President of the United States
that we confidently appeal to the
Democrats of Essex County to assisl
in placing New Jersey In line with the
other States In the Union which with
practical unanimity have declared for
Bryan as Democracy's standard bearer
in 1908"
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
j. S. SUPREME
COURT HEARS OLD
JERSEY CITY FIGHT
Central Railroad Opposes Tax
ing of Land Under the
Water.

WASHINGTON. D. G.. April i6--
ment on lands belonging to the Cen
trail Railroad of New Jersey lying
wholly under the waters of New York
Bay, below iow-water mark. was ar
gued in the United States Supreme
Court today.
William d. Edwards. of Jersey City,
and Frank Bergen, of Elizabeth, repre-
sented the railroad interests and Cor
poration Counsel Warren Dixon ap-
peared for Jersey City.
The assessment in question was
levied in 1899 on two blocks of land,
the amount on one being $1,60S,00 and
the other 771,000, and the contention
of the railroad is that the land in ques-
tion is not within the jurisdiction of
New Jersey, although within the geo.
graphical boundaries of the state.
The matter has been In litigation for
a long time, the New Jersey Supreme
Court upholding Jersey City In making
the assessments. and when the matter
was taken to the Court of Errors nd
Appeals the decision of the Supreme
Court was sustained
The railroad company hinges it's case
on the Interpretation of several sec
tions of the compact between New
Jersey and New York made in 1888. and
confirmed by the Legislatures of both
States and approved by Congress the
following year. The compact in ques
tion defines the water line between the
two States and it is over the stipula-
tions of articles 5 and of this agree
ment that the railroad will make the
fight TO escape the assessment in the
court of last resort
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
GOV. FORT HAS
STRENUOUS DAY IN
GRINDING OUT LAWS
Signs Three Measures Recon-
mended by Hahn Inyesti-
eating Committee.
EFrom a stan correspondent.1

TRENTON, April 16.--Governor Fort
reached the State House early today to
begin the hardest work since the Leg
islature adjourned. He declared in his
inaugural address that he wouldn't sign
any bills after the expiration of fve
days following adjournment.
He signed among the first batch: AS
semblyman Sulliyans bill. louise 144,
to prevent the East Jersey Water Com
pany from laying mains in the streets
of Jersey City without the consent of
the municipality. thus protecting the
municipal supply from outside compet-
itors.
The three bills of the five recon-
mended by the Hahn Investigating
Committee that were passed by the
Legislature We're signed early. They
are: House 43S, Mr.. Martin. which pro-
vides that the State Board of Health
shall take charge of the fight against
any epidemic in State institution, and
aimed to stamp out the typhoid cpl
demic in the Trenton Insane Asylum
House 439, Mr.. Martin, does away with
dungeons at the Rahwey Reformatory.
Forbids commitment of any person over
thirty to the reformatory in future and
provides for removal of some refornla-
tory inmates to State Prison. Corporal
is forbidden, except in the
presence of or on order of the superin-
tendent. House 442 Mr.. Martin, here
after deaths in State institutions must
he investigated nv county physicians of
the counties where located and death
certificates will not be accepted unless
signed by such county physicians.
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
HOUSE KILLS THE
PLAN FOR EIGHT
SUBMARINE BOATS
Congressman Hughes Loses
Fight for S-honr Applica-
tiOn to LabOrers.

WASHINGTON, April 16.-The House
today struck out of the naval bill the
provision for eight submarine torpedo
boats.
A proposed amendment to the naval
appropriation bill by Representative
William Hughes, of New Jersey, MAX
ing the eight-hour law applicable to
laborers of mechanics doing any part
of the work of new construction sau-
thorized by the bill, except in cases o.
national emergency, was lost on point
of order by Mr.. Foss. Mr. Hughes
appealed from the decision, but the
chair was sustained, lis to 90.
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
FIREMAN ON WATCH AT
SALVAGE BLAZE RESIGNS.
Underwriters Say Arbuckle Is
Dropped for Frequent ABB
SeuCes from Duty.

Fireman Robert Arbuckle. who was
on watch at the time of the disastrous
fire in the Salvage Corps building,
March Is, is no longer with the corps.
Els resignation has been accepted, not
because of any blame for negligence
attaching to him on this occasion, az
cording to the statement of fire under
writer's, but because of repeated fall
ures to request leave of absence be-
fore remaining away from duty. The
last violation of the rules, occurring
the morning after the fire, followed n
warning that he would be dismissed on
repetition of the offense.
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
BRANDS HIM UNWORTHY
OF GIRL HE BETRAYED,

Frank Roach, a young man with
peachy complexion, was arraigned be-
fore Justice Ten Eyck in the Court ol
Quarter Sessions today on charges pre-
ferred by Mary Flood, of 179 Newar j,
street, who had a pretty baby in her
arms.
The original complaint was made be
fore Justice of the Peace Bosset, and
the grand jury found an Indictment to
the effect that Roach should be held ;,r
support OF the young woman and the
baby.
A married sister of the girl, Mrs.
Sarah Miller, in testifying, said:
Frank was not worthy of Mary. be-
cause he spent much of his time in the
saloons
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
SUES TO FORCE COUPLE
TO SELL THEIR HOME,

Chancellor Stevens today heard
testimony in a suit brought by Charles
Bagnole, of % Clinton street, against
Francisco Vernieri and his wife Vito,
of 43 Adams street, to compel the de-
PENDANTS to live up to an alleged agree
ment to sell the house and lot at that
address to the complainant for $500.
Denial of the agreement on the part of
Mrs. Vernieri is made in the answer.
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
VETERANS MEETING ROOM (
BILL SIGNED BY GOVERNOR.
Law Provides for Quarters in
City Halls or Other Mu-
niCipaI Buildings.

TRENTON. April 16.-vAssemblyman
Rudolph A. Braun's bill, House $50, en-
powering aldermen in municipalities to
set aside rooms in city halls or other
municipal structures for meeting places
for veterans of the Civil War, wills
signed this afternoon by Governor Fort.
The bill was introduced at the re-
quest of a joint committee of the seven
posts of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie. of Newark. 1t is planned to give
the veterans there a room in the City
Hall or in the annex nearing compile
ton.
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
REFUSED A DRINK HE
TRIES TO WRECK SALOON.
John Murphy, Starting on War
path with Breadknife and
Razor, Lands in Jail.

street, entered a saloon at Summer and
Seventh avenues today, and because
he was refused drink without money
he started in to wreck the place.
When he was put out he became so
abusive that he was arrested. Whan
searched at the Second Precinct sta
tion a razor and a table knife were
found in his pockets. He was sent to
Jail in default of $1,000 for carrying
concealed weapons.
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
SLAYER OF ERIE
CHIEF CLERK TO
PRISON 80 YEARS
PetrOsino, Cripple, Who Killed
William ]. Murphy, Sem
fenced in Hudson.
Especial to the Evening star.l

JERSEY CITY, April 16.-Frank Pet
rosino, tho crippled Italian, who shot
and killed Chief Clerk William j. Muir
ply. near his Office at the Erie Railroad
station, on October 20 last, was today
sentenced to thirty years in State pri-
son by Judge Blair in the Hudson
County Court of Oyer and Terminer.
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
JURY REFUSES DAMAGES
TO HICKS FOR ARREST.

A jury in the Circuit Court today re-
turned a verdict in favor of the de-
fendant in the trial of John Hicks's
action for $4,000 damages against
David Thorworth, for alleged malicious
prosecution.
Hicks is plumber and Thorwortn
had him arrested on a charge of en-
bezzling $3.50. Nothing came of the
criminal charge, and Hicks instituted
the civil proceedings.
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
PETITION For VAN ScHAIcK.

WASHINGTON, April 16.-A commit
tee representing the New York Mari
time Exchange called upon the Presi-
dent today to urge pardon for Cap
tain w. S Van Schaick, who was
pilot of the ill-fated steamer General
Slocum
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
MRS. ANNIE HINKEL
DISAPPEARS FROM HOME.

Notice was received at police head
quarters today that Mrs. Annie Hinkel,
so years old, of 254 Washington street,
disappeared from her home on Tuesday
and has not been heard of since. She
was mentally unsound at one time, and
it is feared that her mind has again
given way. She left home to visit
friends at 26 Hamburg place, but never
arrived there.
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
GAMBLERS DENOUNCED
BY PRIEST AT FUNERAL,

PATERSON, April 16.--Dean William
McNulty, pastor of st. Johns Roman
Catholic Church, in his sermon at the
funeral of John Kelly once noted base
ball player, severely criticised gam
blers. He declared they had no reason
to expect the ministrations of the
church.
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
yEREIN PLANS OUTING.

Arrangements were concluded by the
Theuringer Geselligen Verein last night
for the annual outing to Woodside May
80. The committee in charge consists
of Fl Hoffman, M. Langraf. Fred Haas
and Hugo Eyrich.
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
BULLETINS

LENKORAN, Transcaucasia, Russia,
April 1e.-The inhabitants of Belesuvar,
frontier post, have telegraphed st.
Petersburg for immediate protection
from Persian brigands preparing to at
tack them.
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
RUSSIAN GENERALS RETIRED.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 16.-The re-
! tirement from the army of Generals
Fock Smirnoff and Reiss. blamed for
the Port Arthur capitulation, Is sazetted
today.
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
FLOOD LOSS MAY BE $1,000, 900.

HELENA, Mont, April 16.--It is be-
lieved today that the worst of the flood
is over at Great Falls. and that the big
Boston and Montana smelter is safe.
The loss from the food is estimated at
from 100000 to $1,000,000
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
GAYNoR ASSOCIATION MERIINd.

The. monthly meeting of the John ].
Gaynor Association will be held to-
night. The house committee will re-
port on the new clubhouse. already
established.
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
ALEX. sToLYpIN SENT TO PRISON.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 1s.-Alex-
ander Stolypin. publicist and brother
of the Russian premier. has been sem
fenced to one weeks Imprisonment and
to pay fine for libeling Bulatzei, Re-
dictionary leader.
The star and Newark advertiser., 1908-04-16
COUNTY COUNSEL CRANE BETTER.

County Counsel Elvin w. Crane. who
has been confined to his home with a
severe cold, will be able to be about in
a few days.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-13
CONDITIONS FINE
In Trucking Sections Around
Wilmington
LETTUCE ON THE MAKET
FIRST Shipments Have Already
Gone to Northern Cities

Each Day Will Witness Increased
Shipments-Status of the Other
Growing CrOps-Strawbarry Situa-
ton Is Most SatisfactOry-Prep
aratiOns Being Made TO Handle the
rop.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-13

The trucking conditions at the
present time in this entire section
are considered to be exceptionally
fine and growers are anticipating
most prosperous season.
Already a few baskets of lettuce
OF the new spring crop have been
shipped and the shipments will in
crease day by day and within about
ten days large shipments are expect
ed to be forwarded. In about three
weeks lettuce will begin to be sent
70 the northern markets by carload
lots. A local grower yesterday re-
cefved advices that fancy lettuce was
bringing $3.50 on the Philadelphia
market
-. All the growers around Whining
Ron nave fine prospects, except those
I'm the Castle Haynes road section,
many of these crops having been
olighted and otherwise injured which
makes the prospects for these grow
ers not nearly SO bright as those
which face other lettuce growers in
this section.
The cabbage, beet onion and rad
dish crops are all in f1ourishing con-
dition and the potato crop is just be-
ginning to come up. The shipments
OF radishes will start about the 25th
INST, and in April the other crops
Will be ready to go forward to the
northern markets. At the height of
the season all of these crops go for
ward in car load lots and they bring
IN hne revenue to the truck growers
-hereabOuts.
A number Of representatives of
northern commission houses have al
n hn al
are keeping in touch with the situa-
~tion so as to make the best possible
; trades on behalf of their respective
! houses
The strawberry growers are feel
ing especially elated over the pros
poets for fine crop and the view
is generally held that the present
season will be one of the best ever
experienced in this section.
The plants are said to be N fine
condition at the present time, with
prospects exceedingly bright in all
berry growing territory. Last year
at this date the fields were white with
blooms and large part of the crop
was killed by the cold weather that
came later. At the present time
there are only a few blooms in the
,felGs and the crop would not be ma
.terially hurt by cold spell. Even
with warm weather from this time
on, 1t would require between two and
three weeks time to put the plants
I'm full bloom.
The rain that came yesterday and
the colder weather have set back the
crops for a few days and these con-
ditiOns are the very things most de-
sired by growers.
u The first shipments of berries will
-not begin to go forward until dur
ting the month of April, but already
preparations have been started to
handle the big crop which it is ex-
pected will be produced. The railroad
company is already bringing refrig-
orator cars into the territory and
having them placed and the ice
houses at the various icing stations
are being packed so that there will
be no delay from any source when
- once the berry season opens.
The prospects generally are very
satisfactory and the truckers are
anticipating a profitable season for
all their crops.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-13

The steamship BritaunIc, Captain
Olsen, Awili clear today IOr Colon,
Panama, with a cargo Of 28 800 cypress
crossties, loaded and shipped by Mr.
l.. j. Merriman of this city.
The steamship Pydna, Captain Fancy
is also in port being loaded with a
cargo for shipment for Panama, this
cargo to consist Of piling and crossties
The Pydna will prObc6ly clear in
about two weeks.
Mr.. l.. J. Merriman, who has the con-
tract for loading both of these steam
ers, and who has already shipped sew
eral cargoes to the Isthmus, will leave
today on the Britannia for a trip to
Colon His visit will be a combined
one for business and pleasure. After
spending a few days on the Isthmus.
Mr.. Merriman will go to Cuba to spend
short while and then he will return
to the United States over the Florida
East Coast railroad, that modern tri-
umph of engineering skill built along
the Florida Keys by Mr.. H. M. Flag
ler Mr.. Merriman expects to be away
from the city for about four weeks.
During the past four months quite
an extensive business has been con-
Quoted by Mr. Merriman for the gov
ernment in furnishing railroad build
ing material for use on the Isthmus
and several steamers have left this
port direct for Colon loaded down with
material for the government.
Already four steamers have been
cleared from Wilmington, the cargoes
having been valuable ones, and in ad-
dition to these four there are the Bri-
tannic, which will sail today and the
Pydna which will probably clear in
about two weeks.
Several months ago Mr.. >Merrlman
was awarded the contract by the Unit
ed States government to furnish for
the Panama railroad. the material to
be delivered at Colon, 100000 crossties;
$4,000 switch ties, and 1000 piling, the
entire contract representing an out
lay Of about $165,00
The cargoes to be taken out on the
Britannia AMI the Pydna will wind
up the contract.
All of the material represented in
the big contract was sent from Will
mington with the exception of two
cargoes, one of which was shipped
from Savannah and the other from
Brunswick.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-13
FOR INLAND WATERWAY R9Uit |
Col. Skinner and Capt. Brown Con
fer as to Right Of May
From Beaufort to Neuse River.
Work Probably Will BE Started by
July 1st-Another Important Mat
ter, That of Distractions in the
River, Considered.

Acting under adyices from the wal
department. Col Harry Skinner, dis
| trict attorney for the circuit court OF
| the eastern district of North Carolina
arrived in the city yesterday to take
up with Capt. Earl L. Brown, chieg OF
United States Engineers at this port.
the question OF the distractions in the
Cape Fear river against which some
complaint has been made, and the dis
| trict attorney, it IS stated, is con-
sidering the bringing Of acton against
those who are said to be responsible
for the filing in and obstTGct;cn OF
the river.
1t is stated that the g.G test COM
DIafnt is against the Angola Lumber
Company and the city of Wilmington,
the complaint against the municipality
being as TO the emptying Of sewerage
mattelin TO the liver at certain points
along The water front,
The complaint against the lumber
company is said to be in regard to the
extent CT it's lumber pens in the river.
which are alleged TO interfere with
traffic and also as to the reported sink
ing of logs which might become dan
gerOUs to navigation.
The matter was considered at length
between Capt Brown and Col. Skinner
at conference yesterday morning
and the evidence in the matter was
turned over to the district attorney
who will later take whatever course
he thinks wise.
Another important matter consider
ed by Col Skinner and Captain Brown
at their conference yesterday was the
question as to right of way for the
inland waterway route from Beaufort
to the Neuse river. The right of way
over this course a distance Of about
Ii miles, has already been surveyed
and made ready for purchase, but the
title to the lands has to be examined
by the United States attorney before
final negotiations can be closed. Dis
trict Attorney Skinner will Immediate
ly take this work up and if the titles
are good there will be no delay in be-
ginnig work on the waterway. If any
of the land titles are not good con-
demnatiGn proceedings will have to be
resOrted to.
It is hoped by Captain Brown that
everything can be closed up and set
tied within the next few months and
that the actual work of digging can
be started hv July 1st, the money nee
essary for this work haCing already
been appropriated.
Several other matters were taken up
Nv Col. Skinner while in the city yes
terday and be returned on the evening
train to his home in Greenville.
The semi-weekly messenger., 1908-03-13
THE AMERICAN TOBACCo CO
Thos. F. RYAN Tsstifies in Behalf
of Alleged Trust
Testified as to Merger of Companies.
Matter Purely a Business Deal.
Case for Defense Closed After Tx
animation of Duke and Fuller.

Washington, March 11.-A vivid
description of atrocities alleged to
have been perpetrated upon slave
laborers on cocoa plantations on the
islands of Principe and Saint Thome,
Portuguese West Africa, was given in
an address on "Children's Lives in
Africa" by General Joubert Pienaer,
Of South Africa, at tonight's session
OF the international congress on the
welfare of the child under the aus
pices Of the national mothers con-
gress. The atrocities | have wit
messed in Portuguese West Africa
have taken such a hold upon me,
declared General Pienaer, that | cut
myself loose from all my business,
and leaving my family thousands Of
miles away, | have consecrated my
life to the freeing of the men and
women that are daily being done to
death and the little children that |
have seen beaten until the blood
flowed to the ground. The speaker
said that he had formed an associa-
ton with the intention of~petitioning
the Portuguese government and on
behalf of the slaves to establish mis-
sionary settlement to civilize and
Christianize them and to act as a
guard over the slave trade and to re-
port the atrocities to the association.
This seems to me, he said, the only
effective way Of putting stop to this
iniquity." He asked for the support
Of the mothers. congress in his mis-
sion of humanity.
After stating that "the cruelties
meted out to these degraded human
beings on the mainland were beyond
description. General Pienaer continu-
ed: THE children are torn away
from the breasts of their mothers
and sold as slaves. Slaves in the en-
ploy of their task masters are beaten
to death. men, women and children
are mutilated. Often after native
has been done to death he Is quarter
ed and the different portions OF his
body are hung on trees TO terrorize
the other natives"