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New-York tribune., 1911-03-03
MN SET FIRE TO GIRL
Ablaze She Runs Through Street
Saws Negroes Seized Her.

Persons walking along South 10th
street. in Newark. were startled last
night by the sight Of young girl run
ming down the street with her garments
ablaze. Her screams soon attracted a
large crowd and an expressman passing
by on his wagon stopped and threw
blanket over her. putting out the flames.
The girl was then taken 10 the City
Hospital. where II was found that her
body and legs were badly burned
She gave her name az Cora Fisher, and
said she lived at No. 20 S,uyvesant ave-
nue., Newark. She told the police that as
she entered the hallway she was seized
by two negroes, who grasped her by the
tfroat. While one of them held her 10
the floor. she said. TIL other man poured
Kerosene oil over the lower part of her
body and then struck "A match and
ignited the oil soaked clothing.
The police reported that there was no
trace OF oil in the hallway. They also
said they could find no one who had
heard sounds of scuffie In the hallway.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-03
ADVOCATES A DOCTORS TRUST
Would Free Public from Quacks and
Charlatans, SAYS Prof. Henderson.

Chicago. March I'm an address before
the American Medical Association to-day
Professor Charles r. Henderson. OF the
University of Chicago. advocated the for
nation OF doctors trust" He said that
through such an agency the public would
be freed from quacks and charlatans."
Free competition H. each calling has
limits OF usefulness" said Professor Hen
derson. "A doctors trust Is desirable on
certain conditions: II must admit all who
are competent. IL must use fair tests In ex.
clude all others and lts charges must not
be prohibtive 10 the poor
New-York tribune., 1911-03-03
BARRY COURT MARTIAL?
Not to Escape with Retirement
from the Navy Is Report.
tRv Telszra IN 20 The Tribune.

San Francisco, March Rear Ad-
miral Barry, recently forced TO resign
from the navy after relnquishing COM
n1and ot a squadron Of the Pacific feet,
Is again under fire. 1t is learned that a
court martial to investigate the charges
made against him was called at Bremen
ton Monday and that mich testimony OF
deck officers of the flagship West Nir-
ginia was heard.
Subppnas were also sent to Mare ISL
and for several officers who were for
merry under Barry.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-03
MR. M'ooNALos CONDITION GRAVE

DR. j. Leroy Sstterlee, of No West
18th street. who is attending John h. Nc
Donald. the subway builder said late last
night his condition was extremely grave
and that he might die az any time. Mr..
Mcdonald, said Dr Satterlte. was suffer-
ing from a complication ot disorders. many
Of them old complaints 81 which kidney
trouble was the most serious
New-York tribune., 1911-03-03
2,Ccc,o0o Living on Rcc.s.

4 relief committee composed Of for
eigners at Shanghai is collecting money.
So far Japan and .-inerica are the only
1oreien countries that have contributed
10 aid the sufferers. bat even the extcn-
siye assistance that has come from the
United states is entirely inadequate.
IL Is estimated that two million people
are without food and are existing on
roots. grasses or anything that affords
the slightest possibility OF nourishment.
Those possessing grain sHard it night
and day.
The missionaries who arc distributing
relief tell OF many tragic occurrences-a
man on his way 10 meet them dying on
the road: another falling by the way
side as he was returning to his family
with packet Of rice.
They des ribe the people as horrible
skeletons. some of them with limbs
bideously swollen. From the famine the
death rate Is several thousand daily.
New-York tribune., 1911-03-03

GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER.
Its purity has made II famous. .--Advt
New-York tribune., 1911-03-03

Continued on second pHee
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04
ELOPING PAIR RETt RN.
They Arc Cant. Manton. Aged H, and
His Fourth wife.

On the steamship Verdi. in yesterday
from the Barbados and South American
ports, was Capt. Benjamin Manton Of
Colonia. Uruguay. who is on his way to
his old home in Providence, X. l.. to make
up with his folks. who fell out with him
when he ran away and got married in 1905
The captain was then SO years old. and it
was his fourth adventure in matrimony.
Capt. Manton brought with him his
wife. who was Miss Sarah Hartman OF
Philadelphia. She was ~ when she ran
awav with the captain. They slipped out
OF Providence. where folks were obJecting.
and motored up into Massachusetts,.
where an obliging parson was found ,
After that the captain and his bride went
to Colonia. where Capt. Manton owns
valuable concessions and whore he was
for many years United States Consul.
Capt Manton met his present wife
down there. She was travelling around
Central and South America getting ma
rerial for articles on the Latin republics
He said that after peace had been fully
established at Providence and he's had
time to iook about bit he was going
back to Colonia.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04
OUT or MS POWER TO WE'D HER
Because She Was Married Already. says
Breach OF Promise Defendant.

Supreme Court Justice Page reserved
decision yesterday on a motion by Henry
Whitney Merrill for judgment on the
pleadngs in a suit for $780, 600 damages
for breach of promise brought by Jane
Collard Mrs. Collard said that Merrill
promised last August to marry her in
June. but in February he said he wouldn't t
marry her because he wanted to marry
some one else.
Through his counsel. Almuth c. Van
diver. Mr.. Merrill said that the plaintiff
is still the wife of George A. Collard and
that he couldn't have married her in June.
He said that in November. 1909. Mrs.
Collard abandoned her husband and went
TO Los Angeles in February. where she
began suit for divorce, alleging that she
had been abandoned and that she had been
O recident OF the State for one year. She
got TN interlocutory decree ON June -,
but under the California law a decree il
not final until year later. The defendant
insists that the decree is invalid here
because Collard did not appear in the
action and that furthermore the court
was deceived by Mrs. Collard's statement
as to her residence.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04
LEFT BRAIN TO ALIENISTS.
suicide wrote That He Had Suffered All
His Life From Mental Disorders.

George Pounaras. As years old, a
native of Const antinople, who lived at
1861 Boston road, killed himself at the
Hotel St Denis Sunday night by inhaling
Illuminating gas. He went to the hotel
on Saturday night. Pounaras left letter
for William Schor of the Standard Rain
coat Company of IL East Sixteenth street.
1t was written in French and said that
the writer had suffered SO much he could
stand it no longer.
Imagine your brain divided into two
parts and then subdivided." Pounaras
wrote, the elements opposing each
other ana fighting one another at my
expense Much of my life and childhood
they have been finding defects or at
least trying to make me believe myself
the greatest criminal in the world. All
the voices heard suf,ocatcd my better
self, and youll admit this was inevitable.
They have been arguing as to whether
or not II is humane to ktll person Euf-
fering from an incuratle disease. My
last viii is that my heart be pierced If
the aiiensts wish to examine my brain
thev are at liberty to do so,
MIR Schor said that Pounaras. who
was o lingust of much ability. had been
out OF Wards Island Hospital only a short
time,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04
MANY HURT IN CAR CRASH.
When the Surface Car Left the Rails and
Bumped Another. -

i"en'y-''nro street car turning
north az Second avenue yesterday morn
ing climbed over the rails and bumped
into n car coming from the other way.
Ths c,r which was taLn, IN. ,,,-,,a
49,, -, -, -, ~. :.
""s eoi's a' so eoou pace 'hat 'he
smash threw the crews and most OF the
passengers out Of balance and hurt some
of them severely
rha r,,,,or,,o, 80 .hO ,-.;o,, ,,,,.o,,
~ ', l,,, ~ ~, -.
me roupie WAS 'haTies BECK on 800 "est
Thirty sixth street. Beck did all he
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04
POLICEMAN KILLS A MADMAN
SAYS LIE had TO SHOOT TO
SAVE MS Own LIFE.
stranger. Perhaps Craled BY the Heat.
Had Threatened Two Men with O
Knife Attacked Policeman when lie
showed Up Gave Him q Hard Fig ht.


man about Is years old, who gave
the name Of Eugene Cortwell but refused
to tell where he lived was shot through
the liver 10y Policeman John j. Donnelly
OF the Flushing avenue station in Brook
iyn early yesterday morning in a des-
perate struggle between them at Myrtle
avenue and Ryerson street. and he died
an hour later in the Cumberland Street
Hospital.
Cortwell. who may have been crazed
by the heat had suddenly confronted
Frank Grifyth and his son-in law. Frank
Yates, who were passing the Myrtle avenue
and Hyerson street corner on their way
to their home at ~ Hull street, and had
threatened hem with clasp knife. They
took 10 flight and Policeman Donnel!y,
who was on the opposite corner, crossed
the street and asked Cortwell what the
trouble was about.
None of your business" the
stranger responded. and quickly drawing
the open clasp knife from his pocket
made a llnge NJ the policcman'p stomach
Donnelly drew back just far enough
foE the blade went through the edge of
his blouse. although it did not reach his
body
Then followed Il struggle for the possess-
ION oi the knife. which lasted nearly five
minutes. Donnelly says he realized that
no had TO deal with IL powerful madman
and that unless he disa rmed his anita gonst
he would lose his own life. Both men
rolled in the street and across the car
tracks in the struggle until Donnelly,
feeling ln that hi. Sfrop IA
almost spent. managed to get out his re-
volver and fired one shot at the stranger.
bullet hit him in the abdomen and as
he rolled over in the street the knife
dropped from his hand.
Donneily raped with his club for help
and two other policemen responded
The injured man was hurried 10 the hos
pital in the ambulance as soon as Surgeon
Searles arrived. He was conscious and
gave the name of Eugene Cortwell but
would not tell where he lived or anything
about his family connections. He asked
for a priest and Father Sullivan of the
Church OF the Sacred Heart hurried to
the hospital and administered the last
rites few minutes before the mans
death.
In the lapel of the mans coat was a
Connecticut -Old Home" button He had
only 80 cents in his pockets. He was
about feet IL inches in height and
strongly built. with brown eyes. a brown
mustache and black hair streaked with
gray He wore gray suit. tan shoes
and a straw hat.
Capt. Wegand of the Flushing avenue
station put Donnelly under arrest and
Chief Magistrate Kempner paroled him
in the custody of the captain for exami-
nation on Thursday. Donnelly has been
only two years on the force and has
good record Il could not help it," he
said 1T was his life or mine and | only
shot in self-defence"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04
TOP NO7CX ~ NEW ARK.
Heat Record DrOhcn nj 3 In the After.
noon With IO3 Degrees.

Eight delths from the heat and more
than twice a. many prostrations were
reported in Newark yesterday The mer-
curry reached 1903 degrees at 9 O'Clock in
the afternoon and topped all records for
that city. Prof. Wiener OF the BarrinGcr
High School bureau said the highest pr =
vious figures were on July /, 1901, when
l02 degrees were recorded
The dead: Mrs. Phpbe J. Boyer. 70 wears
old, of 232 Plane street, Catherine Con-
nerty. months old of G3 Mott street;
Mary Dworzanin, II months old, of 81?
Market street; Emma Peterson, 20 years
old, of l0i Peabody place; Mrs Elizabeth
Reilly, 63 years old. of III Thomas street ;
Mary Reitsr months old, Of G2 Maine
street; Rose Smith, / month old Of 81
Spring street, and Gustav Tertal, . months
old, of 2jJ Ferry street.
Fourteen persons who Were overcorn"
are in hospitals, three of them i'll serious
condition.
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been in use by the city for seventy-two
years to-day was the hottest ever re-
corded by the instrument. The thermom-
eter started at " at 7o'clock and reached
io2 at p NJ Eight heat prostratione
have been reported. one Of which proved
fatal.
CINCINNATI. July g. The mercury this
afternoon touched 100 degrees. the hot
test day in ten years. On July -. 1901.
the mercury climbed TO los. Forecaster
Devoreauz predicted that tomorrow
would be IN hot Is to-day. About two
score cases of heat prostration and one
death were reported
At Dayton, Ohio. there ~ an Ice famine.
All Of the stored ice has been consumed
and the ice manufacturers are unable TO
meet the extraordinary demand. II is
said tonight that there would he no ice
remaining in Dayton on the Fourth.
ST. LorIs. July 3. THIS was the hot
test day of the year in this region. The
Thermometer registered 10 degrees IN the
weather bureau observatory. II was
very hot hero all day. beng officlall~
50 at 1 A. VI. and i0o officially in the Gov
eminent street kiosk. OHlv seven pros
trations were reported by hcpoicc. Two
proved fatal
The State weather director at Column
bia reports Il temperature oi lO3 prevalent
throu ghout central Missouri to-day. At
Appleton City, Mo, thr temperature to-
day was 100. at Monroe city III, and at
WASHINGTON. July 2. Washington
sWeltered to-day in a temperature that
continued high from early in the morning
until late to night The ma axitnum official
Temperature N the weather bureau was
% at O'Clock. \ weight Of humidity
accompanied the heat
While the weather bureau instruments
recorded only % a Thermometer in u bust
iOs at 8 O'Clock. At 3 A. NJ. the ther-
mometer registered 81. and it steadily
aecended until O'Clock.
There we're dozen prostrations from
the heat in the course Of the day. among
them John F Doran of fonkers. \. Y.
His condition is not serious.
PHILADELPHIA. July 3 Sixteen per-
sons died and scores Of others are in the
hospitals as the result of the hottest
weather Philadelphia has had in ten years.
At 1 o'clock this afternoon the mercury
dropped back to 81. To-day's 90 degree
mark is the highest since 1903 degrees was
registered in 1901.
PIrrsBURo, July 3.-The heat to-day
was responsible for twenty nine deaths
and $50 prostratiops in Pittsburg and ui-
cinity. 1t vas hottest day in 20 years.
the Thermometer registering over 100
degrees In Braddock it was IO5 in the
shade and III in tho sun.
Nine persons died in Pittsburg proper
and fifty or more we're prostrated. At
least twenty are dead and hundred pros
trated in towns adjacent to this city
Many lives were claimed by the rivers.
where people sought reliof from the heat.
Countless mill workers were stricken.
So humorous arc the heat victims that Or.
d. f. Sable, chief police surgeon. is in
structing tho police how to give first
relief
LoUrsvItLE. Ky. July 3.-The heat he-e
to-day caused the death Of two persons
and intense suffering to thousands. The
temperature hsre lofiicial 'ecordI was
104. though the Thermometer in the
Government kiosk reached III, which is
it's limit.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04
EXPENSES 90 WITH WtTRYvONy
Even TO Third VIE n Man May Have
10 pay t'imOny.

Gustave z. Fauscr. decorative artist
who has had three wives. was directed
yesterday by Supreme Court Justice Co
helIn to pay $50 week alimony to Mrs
Margaret +. Fauser, who has divorced
thrcc other husbands and beci divorces
by fourth. Mrs. Fauser is suing for a
separation on the ground of cruelty and
abandonment. and while Fanser admit,
ia" abandonment he says his wife is
insane.
JuSlic" CohllIn said that because of the
matrimonial record of tha parties the
case presents unusual features. but that
FauSer married his wife with know lodge
of her other matrimonial cxporencea
II Mrs. Fauscr is insane that is an tho
moro reason why he. husband should
protect her. Mrs Fauscr said tn II hor
husband has an income of $50, 900, but he
said it Is not ov er IS, 900.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04
Jersey CITY 10 Vote on Commission 60,
crni,,cnl July rs.

petition bearing l3,l4l names asking
City Clerk Michsel !. FaGcn Of Jersey
City to cali G special election on tn. qres-
ton of adopting tho commission form
of government Wa fled by Sheriff Jrm"s
j. Kelly o? Hudson county yHs'erdry v
afternoon. The CITY Clork will order the
special election for Tuesday, July is II
will te held according 10 IL" new district
hines, as provided for bv tho Geran act
but tho election officers VII TO nominated
by the chairnen o! the Republican and
Democratic county comw'ttce' and named
by the county board OF elections in tho
old way.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04
OReilIy sends for the Family

John J. OReilly OF Dallas. Tex,
whose wife. son and daughter wore left
behind at the White Star pier last satw.
day when O'Reilly sailed on the Baltic.
communicated with them by wireless
yesterday and directed the White Star
line TO forward them by the Celtic. which
sails next Saturday. Meanwhile they
were supplied with what money they
want. Mr.. O'Reilly having taken the family
pocketbooi with him when he sailed.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04
FELL on SlBUAl TRACKS,.
Woman Overcome by the Heat Is saved
by Policeman.

Mrs. Julia Rosenblatt. 6s years old,
q pedlar Of laces of l39 Forsythe street,
was standing at the edge CT the platform
in the subway station at l,eth street
yesterday when she was overcome by
the heat and toppled over onto the tracks.
Her head hit rail. stunning her. Lieut..
Timothy McAul.ffe of the Westchester
police station was en- the station plat
form. A train was coming up from the
Mott avenue station Just below and as
there is a grade the trains pull into this
station with grea; speed.
McAulife jumped down TO the tracks
and threw the old woman and her basket
up onto the platform and jumped up
himself just as Bronx Park express
ran into the station. Mrs. Rosenblatt
was taken to the Lebanon Hospital suf-
fering a confusion of the hip, cuts and
from the heat.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04
FUSE CO. WRECKFR Guilty..
Frank p. Jones Admits Forgery In
Crooked Check Transactions.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, July a,-Frank
P. Jones. president of the American Fuse
Company of Muskegon, the s7oo,OoO cor
poration which he wrecked in his meteoric
financial career. and who was arrested
on the IN lrge Of forgery made by H.
Old National Bank Of this city, pleaded
guilty in the Supsri curt today. He
Will be sentenced JulyG
Charles L. Johnson the treasurer of
the company, was arrested on m" charge
of fraud made by the s'mo bank last
week. johnson Yves srragrcd in police
court to -day end DEMANDED IN e,emna-
ton. His bril- was placed - siO,tGO
which he was unable to furnish.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04
Got TO IGc at Albany.

ALBANY. July ?. According TO some
thermometers, supported generously by
public opinion, Albany to-day had tho
hottest day on record
Just before o'clock tho official thcr-
mometer in the weather bureau rc.is-
tered ,o2. and this was admit ted To be the
highest point reached since the bureau
has been in existence
There were comparatively few heat
prost ratiOns.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04

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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04
SAVES ANOTHEE LIFE.
capt. May Gets a browning Man 10 Land
as lie Fms OFTEN Done Before.

Capt benjamin May Of the United
States Noit!hiccr Life Saving Corps at
Orchard Beach. near Pelham Bay Park
saw hand go up Yesterday way out
beyond the furthcst group Of swimmers.
He wen o', 10 whore the hand was coming
from ms; as its owner. Louis lsnardi, "a
years old, oI "3oS tambrclleng avenue,
The BroES, wcni down. Tho captain
grabbof him and began the long swim
bnck to shore with tho young man in
tow.
Wy the time tho beach was gained
Capt, May MAJ pretty Fear tucko-ei out,
bu' he hNlpai the women tenters to get tho
breath in and the water out OF Isnardi
Capt, May has thirty-six medals for life
saving,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04
lake George Is Hot.

LAKE GEORGE, \. Y. july 3. Lake
George is swcltcring. The ,,npcra. urc
has reached o. degrees in he shade.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04

The Wall Street edition of THE EyENTSo scS
contains al! the financial news and the stock sr'
bond quota tlous TO the close OF the lnarset i''
closing quotations, Including the bid and esSea
prices with additional news matter sTe eSA
tanned also In the night edition Of THB KyxSNs
Sun. tAdr.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04
UNIIERTAkENA.

FRANK CAMPBELL. .sl-3S3 v. 5sd ~
ChApels. AnhuISncc Service. TSl. ISsS SheIsr.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1911-07-04

internecine strife.
in the assertion Of that sort of guar
dianship We have to be very careful to
avoid the charge, which Ia always made
by the suspicious. that We are seeking our
own aggrandizement in our i,terferences
with the affairs OF other countries OF this
hemisphere II IL an unfounded charge,
for we envy no power it's territory. We
have enough But we have been able to
fend off war in five or more instances Of
recent date because of our attitude a. an
elder brother OF these smaller govern
inents"
Here the President detailed the work
OF this Government in preventing war in
Cuba after the Platt amendment in frus-
trating revolution in Santo Domingo by
taking over her customs collections, in
intervening for peaceful settlement of
the boundary dispute of HGyi and Santo
Domingo that would have resulted in war
and the influence lent for arbitration in the
boundary disputes between Peru and
Ecuador and between Peru and Bolivia
He continued:
Nov Honduras and Nicaragua ask us
to ASSIST them ia paying their debts by
agreeing in case Of default to accept
responsibility for the collection of the rev.
enues and to max" settlements in accord
pnce with the contracts Of indebtedness.
These two treaties are pending in the Sen
ate, sincerely hope that they may be
confirmed, because do not know any
other power that /. so powerful in the pre-
vcntion Of war "a that which enables the
United States Government to collect
revenues OF bankrupt and unstable gov
ernments and to apply them as law and
| the contracts made require. and then "a
put the governments on their feet firmly