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Evening journal., 1909-08-28
CIRCULARS LEAD
TO COURT FINE

1t being charged that his employees had
violated the Street and Sewer irectors
regulation prohibiting the distribution Of
circulars in the streets. John c. Ere ,hofer
the baker, was fined s. and costs by City
Court Deputy Judge Joslyn this morn
ing. Sergeant Lyons testified that circu-
lars were distributed on Market street
yesterday from an automobile Mr.. Fr O.
hOfer declared that the distr button had
been made by employees without his know
ledge.
Charged with trespass. Francis Speak
man, William Speakman and WI am
Wright. boys. were dism ssed, with warn
ing. They were after peaches in a ne gh-
boris yard. il was charged. Charged W In
trespassing. Bernard Williams, coiored.
was fined s. and costs. Owing to lack OF
evidence, the charge OF disorderly con-
duct against Thomas Sadler. coiored. was
dismissed. as was that stephen smith,
charged with pointing a pistol On the
charge Of cruelty to him minor child, Ad-
am Pesta was fined s. and costs and
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
DELAWARE R. R.
TRAIN CHANGES

Important changes in the schedule Of
the Delaware Railroad will go into ef-
feet on Monday.
Train No. Sl8 between Clayton and
Smyrna will, under the new orders, leave
Clayton at A03 o'clock p. m, arriving at
Smyrna at 4.07. There will be added the
additional trains Nos. 3l4 and 315 be-
tween Clayton and Smyrna. No. 3l4 will
leave Smyrna at 415 p. m. No. 80 will
leave Clayton at 4.2i arriving at Smyr-
nat at 4.2S.
Passenger trains Nos. 63i and GO will
be added to the run between Georgetown
and Rehoboth. No. 6i1 win leave George
town AT t.5l p. m, arriving az Reho-
both at S3i No 632 will leave Rehoboth
at l.3O o'clock ,. m, arriving at George
town at 2.10
Passenger trains Nos. 532, 545 $50 and
$50 between Harrington and Rehoboth
will he withdrawn, as will the second
class passenger train No.5T between Har-
rington and Georgetown.
Train No. 81 viii leave Wilmington at
2.53 p. m, instead of 23S stopping at
Wyoming. This train will also be an
"F' stop at FELTON,.
on the 3.A train there viii be a Pun.
man ear through 70 Pocomoke City
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
UNCONSCIOUS IN
BLAZING ROOM
Police Saved Tony LaVinSki
From Being Cremated
Alive

Nearly burned to death by thecareless-
ness of his wife, who had upset an oil
lamp while indicated at their home, car
iy this morning. Tony Lavinsk is thank
ful to the police today that he is stin
among the living.
Mrs. Lavinsk was a prisoner I'm the city
Court today charged with drunkenness
and pleaded guilty. A fine Of $40 and costs
was imposed.
The couple live at No. 100 West Front
street. Patrolmen King and Fox walk
ing by the house shortly before o'clock
this morning saw smoke coming from the
windows and promptly broke down the
door. They found the room on fire and
Lavinski lying unconscious on the floor
from the effects Of smoke. Mrs. Lavinskl
was also in the room and a broken lamp
told the tale. A still alorm was sent to
the Fame Fire Company and the fire was
extinguished. Later the patrol wagon
tookMrs. Lavinslci and her husband. the
later as a patient TO the police station
where the man was soon revived.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
NEGRO DEAD AS
RESULT OF ASSAULT
Benton LOIIey Fatally Beaten
And Police Are Sea Cl-
ing for Alleged Assaiiant

As result of an attack made upon
him frob behind at the plant OF the j.
+. Rhoades and Sons, at Eleventh ssiid
Union streets, by fellow workman.
Benton Loley, colored. died az the Deia-
ware Hospital last T'iTht at 7.f5 o'clock
The AFFAIR occurrs on Saturday. Au-
gust - and immed Slely after the at
tack. Matthew Bon0- also colored. who
the police accure ofr Ing tho assailant
disappeared and. hir whereabouts are
still unknown.
Both men wor employed as laborers
and Il Is said that Bond attacked Lolley
to satisfy n grudge he had against tho
man. lie struck the man a vicious blow
on the head from behind with a block
OF wood, knocking him unconscious into
q vat.
Lolley was taken TO the hospital whero
II was found that his skull was frac-
tured.
The body was removed 70 the morgue
by Deputy Coroner James T. Chandler.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
KILLED In AN
AUTO ACCIDENT
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NEW YORK. Aug. 2S-Florence
Burns, who, eight years ago. was held
for a short time for the alleged muir
der of Walter Brooks, in the Glen
Island Hotel, met death to-day at
Pine Beach, Va. The accident oc-
CURED during an early morning ride
when an utomobile running at high
speed from Pine Beach to Norfolk.
hit a ditch and turned over. the
young woman's neck being broken.
Florence Burns was 10 when Walter
Brooks was shot 20 death. She was
rrested but released fter a sensational
trial. She had been Brooks sweet
heart.
Less than a year later she married
Charles w. Wildrick, but sued for
divorce in April, 1908. She went on the
stage a short time after her marriage
TO Wildrick and he acted as her man
ager. Her stage experience was
short, as she failed to make a sue
cess.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
WIRELESS HERO
DIED AT POST
Water Closed Over Him as
he Was Sending Message
Of Wreck
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KETCHIKAN, Alaska. Aug 2S.-'
names OF George c. Eccies OF Winnipeg
wireless operator on the steamer Ohio.
which sank yesterday Off steep Point,
and e. j. Stephens of Seattle. purser
of tho vessel. are today included in the
list OF heroes OF the sea who willingly
sacrificed themselves to save the lives
of those entrusted 20 their keeping
Eccles was in the middle OF a wire
less message when the Ohio went down
and stephens had just assisted the
last Of the 12S passengers over the
side of the toat into one OF the life
boats as the waters closed over the
doomed steamer and carried him to
his death.
Three other heroes there are, whose
names have not yet been learned. They
were the quartermaster and two sea-
men, who with Eccles and stephens
went down with the ship
Passengers all Off and adrift in
small boats. Captain and crew going
off In last boat waiting for me now.
Good bye, rm"-
This was the interrupted message re-
ceived by Wireless Operator Booth Of
the Ketchikan station from Eccles.
Already there is movement on
foot among the survivors OF the wreck
to httingly memorialize the heroism
of Eccles and the purser. Il Is prob
able that money will be raised and
monuments erected 10 the men not
only I'm their home towns but also at
the point on the coast nearest to tho
place where the Ohio sank.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
SEAL ON LIPS OF
ALL NEAR HARTMAN

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TURNER. Orange county, n. Y.
Aug. 2S-Meagre information on Tower
Hill conveys TO the outside world the
fact that Il. H. Hartman is to-day
undergoing a rigid physical examina-
ton 70 determine the advisability OF
an immediate operation and that one
Of tho most noted surgeons in tho
world is already IN the house with
operating table and oxygen tanks.
ready 20 cut the minute the other
specialists declare the operation inn
perative.
Four miles of the most impossible
mountain road, guarded by armed
men, separates the weakened railrod
king from tho nearest place in touch
with the world. Every attempt To
elicit direct information from the
Hartman household has been
frustrated. The army Of newspaper
men here have TO rely for their in
formation upon the retainors. and even
these have been ordered not TO talk
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
TOLD SISTER TO
SHOOT AND SHE DID
Nellie Wright as a COnSe-
quenCe Has a Painfully
Wounded Arm

Il am 'Stonewan Jackson shoot me
If you can" said fourteen-year-o -old
Nellie Wright 10 her sister, Elsie, aged
"A years, in the rear yard OF their
home No. 300 East Fourth street yes
terday afternoon.
Elsie had a magazine air rifle in
her hand at the time and pointing 1t at
her sister the weapon went off. Three
Of the shot struck her little sister
innicting painful wounds. The shots
took effect in each arm and also IN th'
left hand. II. G. Buckmaster dressed
the wounds.
a reporter for the THE EVENING
JOURNAL learned today that the two
sisters were cutting up" when the
affair occurred. The oldest one said
she did not think the shot would reach
where her sister was standing. When
her sister said she was "Stonewall
Jackson" and told her to shoot, she did
so
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
DEATH THREAT
AFTER EVICTION

PITTsRURG Aug. 2S.-"within
forty-eight hours you will be a dead
man. This message, with the sign
of tes Black Hand and a skull and
crossbones, was received in a letter
by Samuel Welch. superintendent Of
the land company which controls the
company houses of the Pressed Steel
Car Company at Preston and Schoen-
vile.
This Is the first time Black Hand
letters have chopped out Of the strike,
and the terseness of the threat to
Welch caused the officials of the COM
pany to urge him to extreme caution.
Welch is blamed for the eviction of
the foreigners from the company
houses at Schoenville. Thursday and
Friday many families were evicted and
put out in the rain. Household goods
parents and children were sheltered by
friends temporarily.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
WAGON LOADS OF
PEACHES STOLEN
Orchards Faded About Mid
dletOWn in the Night
Time
Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.

Special 20 THE EVENING JOURNAL.
MlDDLETOWN. Del, Aug 2S.-Soverai
farmers heroabouts have hau their peach
orchards stripped by thieves OF wagon
loads Of peaches the past week. and in
dignation Is high. Among the farmers
robbed are James Carpenter, living Just
west OF town; John Price, tenant on J.
y. Messick's farm; II. G. whittock ana
J. S. Mccoy, OF near Odessa. all or
whom have had their trees stripped he
tween sundown and sunrise durDng the
pas few days of their finest Alburta
peaches. Il Is supposed the act was the
work of traders who drive 20 Whining
ton during the night and dispose OF their
freight IN the market there There IS no
clue as TO the perpetrators and no arrests
have been made as yet
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
ANTI-JEWISH
RIOT IN BUCHAREST

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BUCHAREST. Aug. 2s.-Troops are pa
trolling the city today TO prevent a repe-
tition Of last evenings attack on the
Jewish quarter Of the city when several
hundred persons were injured. some OF
them fatally
'The jew batting resulted from the
agitation Of the anti-semitic press. A
large mob formed and rsided the Jewish
section. Knives and clubs were the chief
weapons of attack and only the fact that
the mob lacked leadership ~revented the
raid from having terrible consequences.
Police ard troops fought with the riot
crs throughout the night and after hard
work succeeded I'm restoring order. The
city is inhamed over the outrage and an
other outbreak is threatened.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
PROBING STEEL
CAR STRIKE
Expected That Prosecutions
Will Follow The Govern.
ment'S Investigations
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BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
PITTsBURG. Pa. Aug. 2S.--Attorneys
and investigators into the conditions at
the Pressed steel Car Companys works
are satisfied that enough evidence was
brought out at last nights session Of the
government investigation board to guar
antee prosecutions. All witnesses were
given wide latitude an evidence was in
troduced that win make prosecutions by
the county possible even though It may
he useless to the government in prosecut-
ing on charges of peonage. Additional
evidence will be taken today which is eN-
pected TO prove valuable.
Stories OF the horrible food that was
given the men at the plant; Of being beat
en- with black Jacks and clubs i'm the
hands of deputies and guards were fire.
ouent at last nights hearing, while all Of
the men stated that their wages were
held ND and as they had no means they
were prevented from leaving the shops.
IL was also testified that sick and dis
contented workmen were secreted in fil-
thy drill press pits when the government
ofic ais inspected the plant, and the fore
man Samuel Cohen and chief of the com
pany police, Farrell were the chief fig
tires in the intimidation and abuse of the
worllmen.
Mute evidence Of the food supply was
furnished when John Morris, one Of the
strikers, tainted when placed upon the wit
ness stand. lie was attended by physi-
clan who declared he was suffering from
ptamaine poisoning.
st ono time, a witness testified, the
strike breakers planned 10 start a riot
and fight their way TO liberty. The plan
was discovered by the guards and the
me nwere lined up. guns leveled at then
and tho whole squad threatened with
death.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
WATER
BY JANUARY |
Contractors Hurry Work That
Contract May be Finished
on Time

Engineers in charge Of the weldln farm
filter plant announce that the city will
be using filtered water from the new
plant on January /. That the plant may
be finished by December 1, tho dato fiN-
ed in the contract. worlSmen In the em-
ploy OF Coleman Brothers tho contrac-
tors. are working at night, and from
present indications the work will be fn-
ished on that date Finishing touches
arc now being put on the hiter But
three more filter beds are 10 be finished
and IL is expected that this work will
be completed in two weeks. Then tho
work of cleaning out the hlter basin will
be started. when this work is done wa
ter will be run into the beds and the
city supply sent out.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
AINSCOW'S BOAT
BEATEN BY T.Z.R.
Richardson Boys Motor Yacht
Runs Away From the
Alfred II
speeIal 70 NE EvENING JouRNAL.

DOVER, Aug. 2s.-Commodore A. L..
Ainscow Of the oyster navy had a
gloomy day yesterday. The Whining
ton Assemblyman came here TO get his
speedy yacht. the Alfred II. and when
he took her out I'm Delaware Bay and
river she cleaned up everything in
sight
Then he, proud OF his victories, chal-
lenged anything that cut Delaware
water and the Richardson brothers
of Dover ran out their racer, the r.
H. r.
She is a 2O-lSnot motor racer and
after proving a "teaser" for Commo-
dore Ainscow for a few minutes. she
went on high gear and left the Com
modore behind, struggling to make
some speed and waving an American
flag, in the hazy distance.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
GETTING BETTER
AT REHOBOTH

Dr. A. e. Frantz, secretary of the
State Board of Health today said the
scarlet fever situation at Rehoboth is
much improved and by the end Of next
week he thinks, from the present out
look that there will be but three or
four cases remaining there
All the patients are recovering, DR..
Frantz says, and there have been no
deaths. on many houses the quaran-
tine will be lifted next week.
Through Kent and Sussex counties
there are many cases of typhoid fever
at present. and It is attributed TO some
sanitary condition that has not been
definitely decided upon by the physi-
clans. Bad drinking water is suppos-
ed to be responsible FOR some of the
cases.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
WEATHER COOLER,
ICE PRICE FALLS

a general reduction in the price Of ice
will be made in Wilmington on Wednes-
day. The reduction will be about 20 per
cent, according to an official Of the
Charles Warner Company. owing to the
scarcity of ice last spring the price Of
ice was advanced to about 90 per cent.
early in the summer. The increase natur-
ally curtained consumption, and a seri-
Gus scarcity was thus prevented.
According to the Warner Company, the
reduction I'm price will be made possible
by the lower average temperature OF
nearly ten degrees below normal Ice
dealers are satisfied that the stock on
hand will be sufficient for normal con-
sumption during the rest Of the season.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
No Cross Complaints.

Cross complaints will not be toler-
ated in City Court. on request of As
sistant City Solicitor Chaytor this
morning. Deputy Judge Joslyn dis
missed, without hearing. the charge of
disorderly conduct against Theresa
Matteo The complaint was brought
against Theresa by a defendant pro-
secuted by Theresa at a previous hear
ing. Mr. Chaytor so informed Judge
Joslyn and requested that Theresa be
dismissed.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
LICENSES MUST BE
PAID ON MONDAY

Clerks in the Office Of Clerk of the Peace
Harry A. Brown were busy this morning
receiving mercantile licences due on June
and payable on OF before August 30.
Several hundred dollars were rece vei dur
ing the morning Mr.. Brown and Harry
W. Chairs. the latter State Revenue Col
lector, des re to correct the inn. .ession
that the licenses may be pa d on the a /
day OF the month. Under the law the IL
censes must be pa before August 30
All such licenses not paid on that date
viii be increased % per cent, the extra
money going into the State treasury.
Last year Mr.. Chairs received si47,5io5s
IN licenses from New Castle County busi-
ness men. The amount TO be collected
this year is expected to be larger than
that received last year.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
TROLLEY VICTIM
LEAVES HOSPITAL

Daniel Leary. Of Chester who was in
iured I'm the Hill Crest trolley accident
nine weeks ago. has been removed from
the Delaware Hospital 20 him home. He
is getting along as well as can be expect
ed.
There are now but two of the vict ms
Of the accident in the Delaware Hospital
John Mahla, of Marcus Hook. and Gil
bert Bardsley. of Chester, are now the on
~ ones in the institution and in all prob
ability they viii be sent 20 the r homes
next week. although neither Of them will
be able to be about for some time. In
tho case Of Mahla, it has been but cou-
pie OF days since stray pieces of bone
were taken from one OF his legs.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
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BRIGHTON BEACH, Motordrome.
Aug. 2S-One man is dead. one dying
and six others are seriously injured
as the result of 10 hours dare devil
driving in the 24-hour automobile race
now on. The latest accident occurred
this morning when Patrick Corrigan,
n iPnkerton man, had his leg and
knee broken. A racing car skidded
and its lamp broke Off, flew through
the air and struck Corrigan. The fatal
accident occurred just before mid
night Directly in front of the grand
stand the Acme and Stearns car
swerved together. The Stearns car
was wrecked and Leonard Cole, the
mechanic killed. while Laurent Gros-
Sc. the driver. was fatally hurt.
Patschke and his mechanic we're both
injured, but Patschke was able to con-
tinue in the race.
Hughes was hurt when his machine
blew out a. tire. and swerved.
De Palme. in a Fiat struck him.
De Palme escaped injury, but his car
was wrecked. Both Hughes and his
mechanic were burned. De Palme's car
was thrown out Of the race. Heina
and Biblin. his mechanic. were injured
when their car skidded and turned
over on them. Neither is fatally in
Njurcd.
The 10 O'Clock score was;
lPcrauit, Basle. 56s miles.
Acme (No. ID, van Tyne. 5i2 miles
Rainier. Disbrow. 47s miles.
Acme mo. y, Patschke, 442 miles.
Palmer singer. Lescault, 42f miles
Allen Kingston, Hughes, S79 miles
Record for - hours is 612 miles
made last October by Robertson.
Basle, driving a Renault car. still
maintained his lead at 10 o'clock this
morning His distance for the first
u hours is 56s miles. or a miles be-
hind the record established last Oc-
tober by Robertson. With half OF
the race completed, the cars are now
stringing out
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
LIVE WIRE KNOCKS
MAN FROM LADDER

While at work in the Brandywine
power house OF the Wilmington City
Railway Company last night. Leonard
Reynolds. head fireman at the plant,
came in contact with a live wire.
The shock caused Mr.. Reynolds 70 fall
from ladder. and striking on his
back. injured himself severely. Mr.
Reynolds lives at No. 1918 East Twen-
ty-second street. He is under the care
of Dr. Fl. NJ. First.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
SWEDISH STRIKE
KEEPS TOLSTOL AWAY

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STOCKHOLM, Aug. 2S-As result
Of the Swedish strike the people OF
Sweden will not have the opportunity OF
seeing and hearing Count Leo Tolstoi,
the great Russian apostle OF liberty. this
summer. rolsto had made arrangements
TO attend the International Peace Con-
gress, which was TO have met here short
". but which has been postponed until
next year on account Of the strike.
Tolstoi has almost completely recovered
from the sickness Of a few months
ago.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
ADVOCATING
A new MILTON
Newspaper Wants Brick or
Concrete Buildings, Wide
Streets

In advocating the immediate re-
building Of the part OF Milton. Sussex
county. that was destroyed by fire
the Milton Times today says the fol-
lowing editorially;
Cheer up.
Clean up.
Build up.
Build of bricR.
or concrete. or cement.
Widen the streets and sidewalks.
We are not thinking Of denying the
privilege of free speech but we can
have our option as to the listening.
There is not a person who. in ad-
vancing ideas for the betterment of
Milton, has any disposition TO be ar
bitrary, as some would be led TO be-
lieve.
Fire-proof buildings and sixty foot
streets between building lines will ef.
feet "a saving in insurance Of approx
/ imately two thousand dollars per an
mum, and perhaps more.
1t was gratifying to note that IN
farmers and townspeople as we
fNulhlN rohbnA oNA .AlN nNW eAtAAo
the merchants and other business pee
lple who lost by the fire and dealt wit
them. Keep IL up; there IS no in
spiration so great as substantial proc
Of friendship in times like this.
One-fourth of the amount whlc
went up in smoke would have provid
ed first-class system OF waterworlr
in Milton and pure artesian waite
would serve largely TO eliminate thl
probabilities of another typhoid cpl
demic. but then perhaps you were mo-
burned out and perhaps your child die
not catch the contagion.
Four large canning houses, the larg.
est brick works in the state, one OF
the largest shirt and overall factories
on the Peninsula. all running with al
the labor available, besides numerou.
other industries in Milton and hal
dozen factories in close proXimit!
totaling employees by the thousand an,
ldisbursing thousands of dollars ever,
week and Milton going to the bow
vows by reason Of fire? Not at thi
writing.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
DEATHS LOWER,
BUT MORE BIRTHS

a big falling off in the death rate. great
increase In the number of births and the
large number OF marriages was tho rec
ord at the Health office this week. COM
pared with tho same period last year.
With these figures Wilmington need not
fear any race suicide.
Secretary Wiggiesowrth OF the Board Of
Health. reports "a deaths. 72 births and a
marriages for tho week just ended. For
the corresponding period OF last year,
there were 25 deaths, Al births and is mar
riages recorded.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
ESCAPED CONVICT KILLED
IN A RUNNING FIGHT
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HARRISBURG. Pa. Ag. &.-A run
ming fight between several policemen and
George Graham who escaped from the
Jail at Carlisle late yesterday resulted
in the death Of Graham early today.
The police learned that Graham was
here and cornered him in a vacant house.
AS a squad Of officers began surround
ing the escaped mans hiding place he
jumped from rear window. Police
man Scott fired several shots. one hitting
Graham in the abdomen. He died an
hour later
Graham har served time IN the Hunt
ington Reformatory and Eastern Peni-
tentiary.
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug. 28.-Ths
weather is somewhat cooler in the
North Atlantic States. The Indications
are that the weather will be unsettled
with showers tonight or Sunday in the
North Atlantic States. A general
chanae to cooler weesher will over
spread the lake region, the Ohio valley
and the interior Of the eastern states
during the next SO hours.
storm warnings are displayed at
Jupiter and Miami.
Forecast till 8 p. m. Sunday.
DeIavare-Partly cloudy tonishs
and Sunday; probably followed BY
showers and cooler Sunday atternoo"
or niaht; moderate variable w'nas'
Evening journal., 1909-08-28
o,Neal Sale a Success.

O'Neal Brothers Farmers day sale
at Centreville. was a success and So
cows and bulls We're sold in one hour
and forty minutes. Five Holstein
bulls sold from $40 TO S25; COWS.
choice. from $50 to 500. and common
cows from $40 TO sS5. Mr.. O'Neal will
sell 100 head i'm two weeks.