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Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-05
HAD SURPRISE
AT KEYP0RT
Benjamin Travers Greeted
by Party Of Friends.
special to the svHNrNa VIEWS.

Special TO the EVENING NEWS.
Keyport Jan. GA surprise par
ty was rendered BENJAMIN Travers
last Monday night at his home In
Fulton street by = number of his
friends. The evening was spent in
the playing OF cards and other games
followed by 4 luncheon served by
Mrs. Travers. The guests OF the
evening included Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard Chinery,. Mr.. and Mrs. Asher
Collins and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Claud Brown. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Brown. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Cow
ert and Mr.. and Mrs. Benjamin
Cartrtght.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-05
SEARCH IN VAIN FOR MAN.
Meredith Dryden Mystsriossiy 1isap,
psarsd From This City.

80 80 -
PlainieId, N. j.. Jan. GA search
Is still being made for Meredith Dry
den, who mysteriously disappeared
from this city two months aeo. The
following newspaper advertisement ap-
peared as q lure to him:
IN. %. Buckl.-Have good news.
call at office. jack
M. D. are the missing mans initials.
Buck" is the nickname given TO him
by close friends and members of the
Plaiufieid Lodge of Elks. of which he
was q member. who sent circulars
broadcast over the country asking for
Information Jack" is the nickname
Of his brotherin-law. =. p. Noting OF
this city,
MUsyUg nnvoru 4s,a suld
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-05
INSTALLATION
AT BELF0RD
Bayside Council Ir. 0. U. A
VI. Fill the Chairs.
special to tns EVENING NEWS.

Special 10 the EVENING NEWS.
Bedford. Jan. 5:-The installation
OF officers OF Rayside Council No.
lot, Jr. O. n. A. M. was held In
the lodge room last Tuesday as fol-
lows: Jr. past councillor, II. D. VIII
lett; councillor. William Maby: vice
councillor, George Acker; secretary,
Henry Clayton; treasurer, Clinton
Lohsen; financial secretary, Joseph
Hyers; warden, John Glass; inside
sentinel, M. r. Yard; outside senti-
mel, Harry Richmond.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-01-05
MONMOUTH COUNTY NEWS
CHARACTERS
ARRESTED AT kEfP0RT

Special TO the EVENING NEWS.
Keyports Jan. 5:-Joseph Rotskiki
and Thomas 0berleskee were arrest
ed Wednesday afternoon by Officers
Mount and Mccain for being intoxi-
Gated and disorderly. A fine of 81
and costs was imposed on each of
the offenders by Justice A. M. Wall
ling. The Anes were paid later in
the day and the men were dis
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-05
DEMOCRATIC WHISPERS
IN "A WOVEN WILSON CHAIN

SOUTH BEND, IND Special 1t
PreSident-elect Wilson has any regard
for a Democrat who has suffered from
an overflow of whiskers for sixteen
years because Of his faith in his party
he Will wear the watch chain of hu-
man hair, red in color. with which
Peter Kreczmer will present him.
When Grover Cleveland left the
White House back in 1896 Peter, who
was a consistent patriot and a stem
winding Democrat, declared that he
would wear n beard until another
Democratic President was elected, in
which event he would have II torn
from his face. AS the years passed
the whiskers began to lengthen. Peter
got worried. 1t is surprising how fast
whiskers can grow on a Democratic
face, and, naturally, in the many
years that have elapsed since Peter
took the solemn "whiskers' VOW. his
chin-plumes reached out and out and
down and down until they tickled his
waist band.
They were a source Of pride to
Peter. He fondled them. He nour-
ished them. He saw them grow into
the adult stage and their color-why
friends told him that it was akin to
fire In a thicket. Wilson won.
Peter was happy, yet sad. He hated
to part from his hirsute friend that
had been hanging TO him for years.
Summoning his courage, he went to
a barber shop.
Contract or piece work." asked
the barber.
The Harvester Trust lost one good
job and mattress maker would
have been benefited, but the hair is
now being woven into a chain and
IL Mr.. Wilson accepts it. Peter will
make the trip to Princeton and give
him the present.
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to find the cause.
AS he reached the third floor, he
recognized Mrs. Radt trying to climb
through the window. He reached out
and helped her through. She told
Boekell that she had been dreaming
that the hotel was on fire and ran
from her room. She ran to the stair
way and was about to make her way
down to the street when she felt the
window sill and the idea OF escaping
the flames through the window oc-
CURED to her.
She was assisted into the elevator
and taken TO her apartments. Her
husband. who occupied the same bed
room with her, had not awakened,
nor had her son, Hugo, who occupies
a room across the hall.
An ambulance was called from
the Polytechnic Hospital, and when DR..
Oler arrived he found that except for
the nervous shock and a few bruises
Mrs. Radt was uninjured. Unable to
believe that his wife was not serious
~ hurt, Mr.. Radt telephoned to Dr.
Moran. who has an office across the
street. but after a thorough exami-
nation he also was unable to find any
serious injuries.
Mrs. Radt was resting quietly in
charge of a nurse last night. She said
that Mrs. Radt had often been trou-
bled with somnambulism, but had not
had any recent attacks.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-05
AUTO IN RACE WITH
DEATH TO HOSPITAL,

NEW YORK. Special.-An automo-
bile containing three men on the rear
seats and the chauffeur raced across
greensboro Bridge at 8 o'clock Mon
DAY night, turned north on Avenue
Hospital.
Two of the men alighted and car
rled the third man into the waiting
room Of the hospital. There theV
said he had been accidentally shot
through the abdomen at Astoria. The
man was fast becoming unconscious
Inc bullet had entered the pit Of the
stomach and passed almost through
the body
Asked the name of the injured man.
the two other men said he was John
Secomo. They did not know his busi-
ness. his age. nor his home address.
and climbed into the automobile and
raced back across the bridge, while
the injured man was placed on the
operating table
Late last night it was learned the
injured man was John Sercombe. of
81 Newtown Avenue, Astoria, super
lntendent OF construction for the AS
toria Light, Heat and Power Com
pany, at Casino Beach, Astoria, and
that he was accidentally shot while
in Joseph OepzePs hotel, at 8 Woolsey
Avenue, Astoria Beach
Sercombe, with the proprietor,
GeOLSe V. yer Rault, VINO lives in the
hotel, and Andrew Bolster, of los
Woolsey Avenue, were in the cafe of
the house examining a new magazine
pistol owned by Sercombe. Yer Pault
had the weapon in his hand when
it was discharged.
On leaving the hospital they drove
to the Astoria police station and Yer
Pault gave himself up. There is
little hope for Sercombe's recovery.
He is forty-three years old.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-05
ROPE AROUND NECK OF
CONGRESSMAN IN COURT

AUGUSTA, ME- Special With a
cord moose drawn tight about his
neck. Congressman Daniel ArcGiln-
cuddy. OF counsel for the defense in
the Matte Hackett murder trial, yes
terday gave the jury demonstration
OF q strangers knot" The exhibit
ton came as a result Of the recent
Introduction by Governor Plaisted of
the crime of which Mrs. Elsie Hobbs
Raymond is accused.
1t is a peculiar coincidence that a
demonstration along similar lines, but
with revolver, resulted in the death
of x-Congressman Clement /. VAL
trial at Lebanon, o., June II, 1871, the
former congr essnan attempted to
show how the shooting had been done.
The revolver was accidentally dis
charged and he fell dead.
The defense called to the stand Mrs.
Ella =. Dolly, of Lincoln in an effort
to strengthen its contention that Miss
Hackett was murdered by tramps.
Mrs. Dolly's brother, William Hurd,
who committed suicide sometime ago
and who had been known as tramp,
is alleged TO have made, just previous
to his death. a statement that he was
in some manner connected with the
Hackett girls death
Mrs. Dolly testified that her brother
arrived home from New Jersey a day
VI (NO cllC4 lAiC dAQ
would have been possible for him
to have been in Readheld, the home
Of the Hackett family, on the day
of the crime. She said that her
brother frequently had shown her
how he could strangle the family cat,
and had made experiments with a.
cord around the neck OF her little
son until she had forced him to de-
sist.
Mrs. Raymond was on the stand in
her own behalf for over two hours.
She denied that she ever was jealous
of Matte Hackett, and denounced as
false the testimony of a witness for
the State that she had threatened to
kill Miss Hackett IF she ever crossed
her path"
She demonstrated to the jury that
she wears a No. A y shoe. The State
has contended that footprints of a
woman in a cornheld near the scene
of the murder were those of 5k
shoes. The respondent without the
aid of a shoe horn, slipped on a Az
shoe before the jury.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-05
TAFT PREPARES TO
lombard CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Special.
President Taft Friday began the
preparation of the second of his
weekly messages with which he
intends TO lombard Congress
during the first few months OF
the session.
Having completed his first
message. which will refer TO for
ei2n relations. the President in
tends 10 send another and longer
message to Congress dealing with
general subjects on or about De-
cember 10th. If he finds that
this message is too long to be
contained in one installment he
will divide IL, sending them TO
Congress a week apart. as he
believes that the people of the
United States will not read nor
digest any presidential message
exceeding 5000 words.
Following the message on gen.
eral topics. the President intends
eXhaustivelY TO discuss the ques-
ton of a budget system. and this
will be made the subject of an
other note TO Congress, which Will
probably be transmitted 10 Con-
gross Immediately after the holi-
days.
The President Will follow this
with other and shorter messages
concerning different phases OF the
government which he desires to
bring to the attention of Con-
greSS.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-05
AUTO PARTY RIDDIED
WITH SHOT BY HUNTER

ERIE.- Special.-William II. Fors-
ter, his wife and their chauffeur.
George Keller, were riddled with shot
late yesterday afternoon while en- route
TO the Forster summer home west of
the city.
The Forsters are in a critical con-
dition at hospital. Keller will re-
cover and their alleged assailant, Lloyd
Pastorious, is a prisoner at police
headquarters. Forster is a millionaire
and is president of the Hays Manufac-
turing Company and the Nortbwestern
Pipe and Supply Company.
With his wife he STARTED for the
summer home, fifteen miles west of
the city, at o'clock in the afternoon
At Walnut Creek bridge, near the sum-
mer home, the large touring car came
upon hunter said to have been Pas
torious. In the roadway, as thew
passed him, the hunters dog darted
In front of the machine and was
crushed.
The enraged hunter is alleged to
nave raised his twelve gauge shotgun
ana fired both barrels into the hack
of the auto. Mrs. Forster had inst
turned to look out the mica window
In the rear curtain and her head and
neck were riddled with small shot
Forster was almost as badly hurt.
The chauffeur, bleeding from MANY
wounds, jumped from the car ana
started for the hunter, who held him
OF with the gun and then ESCAPED to
the woods A posse was formed and
while they secured the scene of the
shooting Pastorious. who is a city milk
peddler, made his way to the civ and
gave himself up. Mrs. Forster csD 80
recover and Forster is in a dangerous
condition 9Si y 10
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-05
SAY AMERICANS
STOLE MONEY
McNIANIGALIs STORY HOLDS CON
SISTENT, DESPITE EFFORTS
TO BREAK WITNESS.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND Special
Ortie Mechanical is tripping glibly
through the maze of facts, dates and
details of his five years as a dyna-
inter on cross examination by Sena-
tor Kern.
Not only is the attorney for the
dynamite conspiracy defense unabls
to shake McManigal's story, which
took two weeks for him to tell, but
Mechanical offers extemporaneous
corrections of dates and events in the
notes of counsel for the defense.
McManigaPs memory has proved a
marvel. Through five years of travel
ing about the United States doing fobs
OF dynamiting, looking up jobs to be
dynamited and meeting hundreds of
people, McManigal seems to have for
gotten nothing.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-05
GUARD AGAINST
fever EPIDEMIC
HAMPTON SCHOOLS. MOTION PIC
TURE HOUSES, ETC, ARE Or
DERED CLOSED.

NEWPORT. NEWS. VA, Nov. 81
Wnle asserting that there is no oc-
CASTOR Tor alarm, the Board of Health
OF Elizabeth City county yesterday
crossed the public schools. moving pic
ture shows and other places Of public
gathering in the city OF Hampton and
ordered that no Sunday Schools are
opened next Sunday. The order. which
is to be effective until after December
4th' was brought about by the prevail
ence of diphtheria and scarlet fever.
FAILURE 70 obey quarantine regulations
caused the drastic action. The health
othcials traced the outbreak OF scarlet
IeVer TO family where the children
were suffering with the disease. and
no physician had ever been called to
treat them.
Children from this family were
gong TO the schools without having
taken any precautions against spread
ing the infection. The Hampton Nor
maj and Industrial School, the largest
negro educational institution in the
south, and Fortress Monroe are located
IN TINS county, and the Health Board
IS actlng with a view OF preventing 8.
general epidemic. Officials say ii is
we'll in hand.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-05

18th. was founded for the care and
maintenance OF the destitute wives,
widows. sisters and daughters OF Con-
tederate soldiers. and is the only
State, and there are few similar insti-
tutions in the South. This home has
sheltered and supported fifty-eight to
sixty women, who would otherwise
have been on the cold charity OF the
world; and OF this number one Is
from New York, one from California,
one from Kentucky. one from North
Carolina, and one from the District of
Columbia.
1T is the earnest hope OF its board
Of directors that this home shall be-
come the work and property OF the
United Daughters of the Confederacy,
sheltering the women from every sec
ton Of our country whose condition
merits such support.
we can quite understand that this
its successor, may find itself commit
ted TO the completion of the Airing
ton and Shiloh monuments. Yet it
would seem that much longer delay
would cause these very stones to cry
out at the injustice and misdirected
patriotism that permits their building
while the suffering Of our great dead
piteoOSly beg for bread, shelter and
the meager comforts of life.
AS people we have striven no.
bly, TO honor our heroic fathers, and
so intent have we been upon this sa-
cred errand that we have somewhat
forgotten the living and penniless Wo-
men Of the Confederacy. Even now
we hear Of a monument to the women
of the sixties. This may come in ap-
propriate time, but when bread is
asked shall we give a stone? Nav
we not press upon your hearts and
sober thoughts the idea of making
this home such n monument, a living
memorial to the tired and needy chill
dren of dead soldiers? viii not the
story of suffering, courage and glory
be better told by these living voices
than by the silent tongue OF bronze
and stone? VIII not the message of
history and faith and love run the
quicker and surer in the blood of these
living ones than in the pulseless veins
of inanimate marble? Should we not
now rather hear the message OF heart
than OF art? This practical monument
VIII receive the blessing of decrepit
womanhood throughout the coming
years, and their feeble, but grateful.
voices will better attest the virtues
we wish to perpetuate than all the
silent signs and symbols beneath and
above the earth. The blood of our
heroes will rise to curse us IL we thus
forget to care for those whom they
have so untimely left amongst us.
To this end / beg your favorable
consideration of this home, and the
appointment of a committee of this
convention to confer with the board
of directors or agent Of this home. in
relation to the ownership. control and
maintenance OF this Institution. by this
convention or by those within its
jurisdiction upon such conditions.
legal and equitable, as may be agreed
upon Surely no harm, If no good.
can result from such a conference"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-05
C. C. MEBRIMAN
SECURES BAIL
Father Accused of Numbering
His Day-Old Child Is Released
in Sum of $4,000.
RICHM ONp. VA So

RIG MON d, VA Special
Charles -. Merriman, under arrest for
the alleged murder of his day-old child,
was today in Hastings Court granted
bail in the sum OF $4,000 by Judge ID
G. Richardson. Il. w. Merriman,
brother, and j. Il. Drummond, father
in-law of the accused, acted as surety.
Application for bail was made by
Louis o. Wendenburg, Merrimans
Before granting Merriman bail, Judge
Richardson examined Coroner Taylor
and DIR. Nuckols, the physician who at
tended Mrs. Norman at the time her
rawlings aroused the suspicious OF the
physician and Virginia Hospital nurses
and caused the arrest of her husband.
DR.. Taylor declared that the result
of the autopsy was consistent with
both the statement OF the father-that
the child was smothered, and the decla-
ration OF the mother-that the infant
was poisoned by gas.
The coroner explained the paradox
by saying that, owing to the excessive
publication of the body, IL was not
posi- BILE TO refute Merriman's assertion,
and yet, on the other hand, the dis
coloration OF the flesh could have been
caused by gas poisoning. Still, Dr.
Taylor admitted, qualification, too,
would cause discoloration.
In Police Court today the prelimin-
airy hearing of Merriman was contin-
ued until December 21st, pending the
recovery OF Mrs. Merriman.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-05
ossINTNG. N. Y specia1.-owir

OSSINING, N. Y Special. Owing
to the fact that there are seventeen
prisoners in the Sing Sing prison
death house as a result of the arrival
Of the four Rosenthal gunner yester-
Day 1t was necessary for the authori-
ties to make a REIMBURSEMENT of the
prison routine today
During exercise hours, from II to 2
O'Clock, half an hour has previously
been allowed each condemned man
for exercise. but the fact that there
are seventeen inmates of the death
house TO-DAY compelled the warden to
cut this period in half
Good meals are afforded the doomed
gunner.
For breakfast today they got grape
fruit, shredded wheat. boiled eggs
batter cakes, rolls and coffee AS
,'Dago Frank" has a weak stomach
he doesn't dring coffee, so the warden
provided him with cocoa.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-05
TAFT WlLIEHELP
his DEAD PARTY
PRESIDENT, HOWEVER, DOES
NOT CARE 10 SBE CANDI-
DATE ANOTHER TINE.

WASHINGTON, D. g. Special
President Taft has intiIpated to his
friends that in the REORGANIZATION
work of the Republican, party he
should not be referred to 3s a posi-
bic candidate OF the party IN 1916.
According to his closest friends, the
President intends to do az in his
power to help rejuvenate the party
and may make many political fpeeches
before and after he re-enters\ private
life.
He does not wish to do this work
as a prospective standard nearer.
These facts have been developed here
during the last few days, In connec-
ton with discussion of a proposed
gathering OF Republican leaders, dur
ing the winter, either at New YorR or
Washington, to formulate plans Tor
bringing Republican factions together.
Within the past week nearly dozbn
national committeeman have called ait
the White House for brief conferencesS
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-05
IN RUSH TO WED, so THEY
WON'T BE LATE AT OFFICE
STAMFORD. cow

STANFORD, CONN., Special
Alighting from New York train
here about z o'clock Monday morn
ing, a man and woman asked the way
to the City Hall. Arriving there they
found Frank Ferris, the janitor. To
him the man said:
I'VE want to be married in a hurry.
Can you arrange it?"
The Janitor called UP William +.
Waterbury, town clerk, at his home.
I'm not dressed" said Mr.. Water
bury. IF they are in such a hurry
tell 'em to come to my house and I'll
fix EN- up with a license"
While the couple went for the
license Ferris aroused Justice Fran
els Upper, who dressed hastily and
went to City Hall. The couple re-
turned with the license and were mar
ried. The bridegroom said he was
William c. Mckenzie, thirty, a New
York draughtsman; the bride said
she was Lillian w. Woodruff, twenty
seven, a New York stenographer.
AS the couple rushed to catch the
o'clock train for New York, the
bride said: Now well get 10 the
office on time"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-05
GOOSE THE REAL
THANKSGIVING BIRD

WASHINGTON, d. c. Special
DR.. r. +. Doolittle, acting chief of
the Bureau OF Chemistry Of the De-
partment OF Agriculture, caused a
sensation here yesterday by advocat-
ing the use OF the goose instead Of the
turkey for Thanksgiving dinners.
THE turkey is immature before
Christmas" said DR.. DoOlittle, "and
has gone through a system of forcing
to get it to the proper weight and
fairness, and while its flesh is all right
so far as health goes, the proper flavor
is not there until Christmas, when It
is the only and proper roast for din
ner.
1.-The goose is my selection for
THANKSGIVING. and 1t should be young
and tender"
DR.. Doolittle said that lettuce salad
with an oil dressing goes well after
goose. Either cottonseed or olive oil
may be used.
one piece of good mince pie. not
too hot for the mouth. makes fine
dessert. he says. II Is not so much
what is eaten. but the quantity. that
makes the THANKSGIVING dinner harm
full. he added.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-12-05
fBML War
HAS nov STARTED


NEW YORK. Specially bitter
war scare that threatens TO split
the National League wide open
was threatened here today as a
result OF the trial of Horace EogeI,
f0rmer president OF the PhiIlies.
and before the hearing of the
anagnate's case was resumed eff
forts were made by those seeking
peace TO end the pickering.
Eogefs foes, howeyed. declared
that their only terms OF peace
would be the elimination of the
accused man and President
Charles w. Murphy, OF the Cubs,
from any leading position in the
league.
Fogel also was on the warpath.
Bitterly angry because the case
had not been dropped when he
presented his resignation as presi-
dent OF the PhtIlieS, he reiterated
his intention of getting the scalp
OF President Lynch, OF the league.
Oil was poured on the flames
also when FOgel intimated that he
would write on baseball for a we'll
known magazine, and expose the
Inner workings" OF the clique
which, he asserts, has been domi-
mating the National League. His
salary will be $4,000 a year, if
he accepts n contract that has
been rendered him.
The death of John II. Brush will
have a marked effect on the
leagues workings.
Brush had become a Staunch
supporter of Lynch, and the de-
feat of the league was declared
a certainty today by the latter's
opponents, III he persists in his
campaign against Fogel.
IL was freely predicted that
FOgel would be treated severely.
-lr>was pointed out that, while he
had resigned as president of the
Philadelphia club and hence could
not be nem0yed, it might be pos
sible for the league - keep him
from returning as a member, or
again be elected to the head of
the Philadelphia club.
Fogel declares that, while no
longer president, he owns more
than controlling interest in the
club, and that under no circum-
stances does he intend TO sell.