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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-04
PINCH OF POVERTY
What Life Among the Poor of
the Slums Really Is

Mary Field in the American Maya
zine: "You know, --one time things
got 30 worse that it seemed like !
cenlaG., stand 'em no longer. So one
night / put all the children to bed and
my mar hadn't come home yet. Then
/ wrote a note and put it by his plate,
tellin' him as how i couldn't stand it
no longer. / turned the lamp down,
locked the door. and went down Indiana
g to the lake. There was such a
big grain house there, and a door was
open, and ! went I'm to pray; to tell
God how things was, and another
baby comm. i thought If that he
could forgive a dyin' thief. maybe he
could forgive me dyin' who wasn't
no thief. Then l got up and walked
out on a kind of sidewalk wei the
water, and just as ] go to jump, hon
est, this is as true as the word OF
God, something grabbed my legs
round my knees, and a voice plain
as mine now speakin' said, oh. ma,
ma, come homel' Now. / amt one to
have her head go queer, but twas
Jim's voice, the baby then. | couldn't
move. his arms was round my knees
SO strong. Suddenly | seen how per-
haps my man had come home, drunk,
and perhaps was takin' il out on the
chiidrens. l turned and ran run like
the lake might rise and take me over
like il done to the egyptians.
Eat last got home. There was the
kitchen. just as quiet as the lake.
listened At FIRST / thought / was
hearin' the water you know, so even
like and like cryin', but twas the
b,eathin' Of the children. And ms
man hadn't come yet after all. Say, ]
Just dropped on my knees. in this here
kitchen, right where that there tut
Is %settin', and thanked God for sapin'
my lifel Now | say, God bends your
back, but he don't break it. / took
some more boarders."
And do you ever have any fun
Ever go anywhere
"Oh, yes, / have time to play with
the baby; and last year / went to a pic
mic with the Salvation Army. l go,
the paper napkin yet"
4 suppose you can't save a cent
What would yon do il your man fell
sick, OF the children"
I'D have to chase the boarders
back"
"And If your man was to earn more
money. say $l5 q week, what would
you dof"
She besitated ! moment. ~nervously
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-04
ARSON TRUST is ALLEGED
Wisconsin Fire Marshall Has Warrants
for Many.

Madison, Wis, Dec. 4.-With the ar
rest OF Fred w. Cowie Of Waukesha
and the swearing out Of warrants for
six or seven other men, the state fire
department, through Fire Marshal T.
M. Purtell, made public startling evil
depce of an arson trust that has
been operating In Wisconsin and 9TH
er states for several years.
Mr.. Purtell declares the larson
trust" was organized at the time of
the worlds fair fires In Chicago and
that since then it has been operating
all over the country. Since the burn.
Ing OF a hotel at Waukesha, Wis, two
years ago the state fire marshal has
been on the trail of the gang.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-04
TRUST RULING
Final Action Taken In a South
Dakota Case

Washington, Dec. 4.-The supreme
court today in an opinion by Associate
Justice Holmes upheld the validity of q
statute of South Dakota which makes
IL unlawful for any person, corporation
or other dealer in a commodity in gen
eral use to sell such commodity at a
lower price in one locality. making
due allowance for difference in cost of
transportation and distribution, than
in another locality.
The case was brought to the supreme
court by the Central Lumb Der company,
a corporation which was proceeded
against in one of the local courts of
South Dakota for violating the statue G.
The lumber company demurred to tie
complaint brought against it on the
ground that the law violated the feuer-
al constitution. The case was carried
to the supreme court of South Dakota,
which upheld the validity of the law,
aud the lumber company appealed to
the supreme court of the United
States.
Today's decision was forecast in
the Washington dispatches several
days ago.
The case has attracted wide atten-
tion because it settles a question thai
has been raised as to the validity of
such legislation. which practically
prescribes uniform prices for commo
dities. Such legislation has been
proposed in both houses of congress as
a means OF getting at the trasts.
The evidence in the tobacco and
Standard Oil cases showed that a
favorite method employed by these cor
porations in suppressing competition
was to undelsell at a loss until com
petition was destroyed in a locality,
while maintaining prices in localities
where there was no competition so high
that the offenders were able to make up
their losses by destroying competitors
in business. Following these dis
closures bills were proposed in congress
requiring uniform prices, but immedi.
ately the cry was raised by tine trust
defenders that such legislation would
be unconstitutional.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-04
TO STOP BLOCKING RIVALS
Works Measure Makes II Felony to
Shut of Money Supply.

Washington, Dec. 4.-Senator Works
has prepared for introduction in the
senate a bill making 1t a felony for
any person or corporation to interfere
with another person or corporation Oh
tanning financial aid in the organiza-
ton or carrying on of any interstate
business. The bill is based on COM
plants of the interference of railroads
with prospective rivals by impairing
their credit.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-04
State of Ohio, City of Toledo,
Lucas County So.

Frank j. Cheney makes oath that he
is senior partner OF the firm OF +. j.
Cheney Il Co., doing business in the
City of Toledo, County and State afore-
said, and lhot said firm will pay the sum
OZONE HUNDRED DOLLAkS for each
and every case OF Catarrh that cannot
be cured by the use Of Halls Catarrh
Cure. FRANK j. CHENEY,
Sworn to before me and subscribed in
my presence this 9Th day of December,
A. ID. 1886. A. w. GLEASON.
LsEAL] Notary Public
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internal
ly and acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces OF the system. Send
for testimonials free.
Frank j. Cheney & Go, Toledo. ADV,
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-04

laoing and unlacing her skinny fingers.
I'D buy a lot of my W in the
cemetery for the babies, and then right
away I'd move out of this basement tc
where there was sun.
Aud will things always be like this
with you -
"Oh, nor Her voice seemed to leap.
You see, my husbands awful ignor'
ant. They don't learn 'em in the old
country. But the boys will learn q
trade, and then things will be differ.
emit with more wages"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-04

VIM. L. Cook, Merchant of Neihart,
Montana, writes: 81 recommend Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar Compound to all,
because it never disappoints and is a
safe medicine. Foley's Honey q Tar
Compound for coughs and colds gives
the best results of anything l know
For sale by all dealers. ADV.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-04
MONTANA HARRY" Is DEAD
Was q Scout Under Custer at Little
Bio Horn.

Worcester, Mass, Dec. 4-Harold
Willis Powell, or Montana Harry" as
he was better known throughout the
country, believed to be the last sur
viving scout who was with Custer at
the battle of the Little Big Horn, fell
dead in a hotel here.
Powell, who was sixty-four years
old. was the holder of several gold
medals of honor from the government
bestowed for bravery in the field. On
his breast was found a gold medal
awarded for bravery at Pine Ridge
Jan. l, 1891.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-04
NARROWED FOR THREE HOURS
Eight Newspaper Men and Their Wives
ShipWrecked.

Hamilton, Bermuda, Dec. 4.-Eight
newspaper men and their wives, who
came to Bermuda with President Elect
Wilson, were wrecked on a coral reef
while returning from st. Georges in a
sailboat.
The boat ran on a reef about a mile
off Hamilton and the party was ma
rooned for about three hours. They
were finally located by the searchlight
Of the British cruiser Cornwall, which
sent out a launch and took them off.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-04
ODDITIES IN The NEWS

Mrs. Samantha Wilkins of Column
bus, o., age6 seventy-nine, is glad that
a street CT knocked her down and
badly bruised her. When she came to
she found she could hear again after
ten years deafness.
II Il IL
According TO his wife Joseph Dutch
or of Chicago begged his employers
to pay him smaller wages so he could
not be compelled to pay his wife S25
a month alimony.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-04
French Dodge Military Service.

Paris, Dec. 4.-The danger to the
defense Of the country caused by the
activity of the anti militarist propa-
ganda was the subject Of a lively de-
bate In the chamber OF deputies. Nj.
Bonnefous, referring to the fact that
more than 10000 citizens had either
eluded military service or deserted,
proposed a bill whereby all deserters
or persons who mutilated themselves
to avoid service should be deprived of
their elesAaS~' rights.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-04
Flagged Train With Shirt,

Tearing his shirt from his back an
Ohio man tagged a train and saved II
from a wreck. hut III. T. Aston, Ra
leigh, N. c., once prevented a wercl
with Electric Bitters. II was in a ter.
rible plight when / began to use
Them, he writes. "ny stomach. head
back and kidneys were all badly affect
ed and my liver was in bad condition,
hut four bottles Of Electric Bittert
made me feel like q new man." A
trial will convince you of their
matchless merit for any stomach. liver
or kidney trouble. Price so cents al
all druggists. --AdE
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-12-04
Greece Objects to Terms.

Paris, Dec. 3.-Greece will not ac-
cept the terms of the armistice pro-
posed by Turkey, according to Athos
Romanos, the Greek minister to
France, in an interview appearing in
the Temps.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09
COP NADS BURGLAR
AT POINT OF GUN
Thrilling Capture Made in
House While Family
Is Away.

Policeman Kelly. of the First pre-
cinct. made a thrilling capture u a
man early today in the residence of
Arthur Merit, 5 Orchard street.
The Mertz family was away from
home.at the time and the family re-
siding next door heard noises in n
house and notified police headqrer-
tiers, and L~ieutenants Tuite and
Maier were FASTENED to the scene.
The Firset precinct was also notified
and Sergeant Luddeke. Policemen
Brown. Kelly and Dipoid were put on
the job.
The house was surrounded. and Of
hcer Kelly noticing an open window
on the second floor. climbed a fence,
and as he pulled himself up to the
window saw a negro rush for the
stairway.
Following him to the first floor ne
discovered the man crouching in the
corner of a bedroom. At the point
of his revolver the policeman or
dered him TO throw up his hands.
At his juncture Sergeant Luddeke
broke open a side door and placed the
man under arrest. He was aiken to
headquarters where he gave the name
of George Baldwins. of S21 Market
street.
He was locked up on the charge OF
breaking and entering and will be ar
raigned in the First Criminal Court
tomorrow morning.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09
Newarker Killed
by Train on Erie


Failure to heed a warning today
cost the life of Joseph Capitone, "a
years old, of Verona avenue, this
city. Capitone, n of the members
of a section gang at work along the
tracks of the Greenwood Lake orancn
of the Erie railroad, east of Schuyler
avenue, Arlington, d~isregarded the
warning shout of the section boss,
John Mulligan.
He was struck by an east-bound
passenger train. Fellow laborers who
rushed to his side found him dead
The body was placed on a west
bound train and removed to the Ar
lington station. 1t was later sent 10
the Harrison morgue. Deputy County
Physician Henry Alters, of Harrison,
was notified.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09
STARVING WITH EIGHT
AFTER TRAIN
KILLS HER HUSBAND
Family Found in Pitiful Condition as Result Of Tragedy-De-
pendent Entirely on Charity Of Neighbors for Food-Eve-
ming Star Starts Subscript ion Fund to Aid Poor People.

Having existed since the tragic
death Of her husband on Monday
purely on the charity of her neigh
bors. Mrs. Beast Sevallo, with her
eight small children. who range in
age from three weeks to twelve years,
now faces starvation.
The Evening Star today starts a
subscription to aid this widow with
donation Of $40. and will take charge
of a fund in her behalf. Donations.
no matter how small. will be received
at the Star Office and turned over
to Mrs. Sevallo SO that the little FAM
lily might be kept together for a
while longer.
Scene Is Pathetic.
The scene at the squalid fouf~room
fiat at 500 North Sixth street is
pathetie. With not a morsel of food
in the .~heuseeA194 Sevallo is at a loss
to know where the next meal is COM
ing from. I
Besides her eight fatherless chill
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09
MYSTERY FIGURES
IN DEATH OF MAN
Victim Found in Orange Street
May Have Been Pushed
from Car.

Tony Ruggiero, found at Main and
Day streets, Orange, in a semi-con-
scious condition early today, died at
the Orange Memorial Hospital at
12:15 o'clock this afternoon.
When the man was picked up he
was bruised and cut. and examina-
ton at the hospital showed that he
was suffering from several internal
injuries.
Two negroes, who were riding on a
trolley car from which the nan is be-
lieved to have been pushed, carried
his body to the .curbstone and laid It
there.
Who found the body is not known.
A telephone call summoned the Rec
ord ambulance just after daylight
and the man was taken to the hos
pital. He never regained conscious-'
ness.
The police are at a loss to Know
how the man met with his injuries.
Whether the negro passengers who
carried Ruggiero from the tracks to
the sidewalk pushed him from the
car has not been learned. A search
is being made for the crew of the
car which allowed the mar to be
left in the street, injured and alone.
The policeman who was patrolling
the beat on which the man was found
did not see the body. although, from
what can be learned, it was probably
in the gutter for at least two hours.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09
TO REPLACE
WHITING AS STATE
PARTY CHAIRMAN
Latter Announces His
Inability to
Continue.

About a dozen Bull Moose dele
| gates, most of them from South Ter
sey and Bergen countk, arrived ct
| the Pennsylvania station. Jersey CitEs
shortly after 6 o'clock this morning.
The Progressive State Committee
will meet at Trenton next Tuesday
afternoon at 2 O'Clock. As Borden ID.
Whiting has announced that he viii
be unable to continue to serve as
chairman. it is probable that his sue
cessor viii be chosen. Former Gov
ernor Fort, it is expected. will be
made chairman. Mr.. Whiting is in
Maine.
Mr.. Fort was elected vice-chairman
of the new national committee at a
meeting held in Chicago on Wednes-
day night. .
1t was announced today by Edmund
B. Osborne, president OF the Pro-
gressive Republican League of Es-
sex County, that he would issue a
call shortly for a meeting to be held
to decide formally If the league should
go over bodily to the Progressive
movement.
Everett Colby, who declared him
self through with the New Jersey
delegates on Wednesday and brand
ed them as dishonest because former
Governor j. Franklin Fort was chos-
en- member of the national committee
instead of Borden D. Whiting, was
not on the train.
No Significance. Says Record
This. according to George L. Rec
ord, the Jersey City Progressive. who
was himself a passenger, has no sig
~niicance; at least. It cannot be taken
to mean that Mr.. Colby intends bolt
ing the third party, as he did the
regular Republicans last month, Tor
the delegates. Mr.. Record said, are
slipping home on almost any train
they find convenient. and are not
bothering to reserve a solid delega-
ton in travelling.
Mr.. Colby in reality went to tins
/ home of Theodore Douglass Robinson
IT.. of Herkimer, N. Y, instead o.
coming to New Jersey. He will spenc
a few days there.
In saving he was through" aftei
the tilt in Chicago, Mr.. Colby did mo-
4 mean lie was LHiOdSh ~ ~H
Progressive party, as he has since
made clear. His anger is vented en-
tirely upon the leaders. whom ths
claims were unfair in preventing the
/ election of Mr. Whiting.
Former Governor Fort arrived at
the Market street station at 9 a. m,
on an e~ighteen-hour flier. At his Of
I 6ea n WAS said that he a imme-
diately made his way to his summer
home in Spring Lake.
Declares Story Magnihed-
Mr.. Record declared the tilt between
Colby and the rest of the delegation
over the Fort incident had been mag
/ nifed greatly in transportation from
+ Chicago to the East. 1t was really
a trivial matter, Mr.. Record said, and
would have no effect on the future OF
the New Jersey branch of the Roose-
welt party.
Il was tied UP with the committee
on resolutions at the time Mr.. Colby
accused us of bad faith" Mr.. Record
said, so / really should make ne
statement regarding the incident"
Further than to say that the con-
vention had been most satisfactory
and that the third party would be
very much in the running in the com
ing campaign Mr.. Record declined &c
comment on the convention.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09

dren. Mrs. Sevallo also has the care
of the 7S-year-old mother of her hus-
band, a cripple who is able to hob
BILE about only by the aid of crutches:
When an Evening Star reporter
called at the house today Mrs. Sc
vallo, with her three-weeks'-old son
in her arms. was huddled in a cor
ner of the kitchen. She had not
eaten since yesterday that her chill
dren might not want for food. Her
story of her struggle against starva-
ton since her husbands death was
pitiful and vas interrupted every few
minutes by fits of weeping and hys-
terra. Her thought though was not
of herself but OF her children and
aged mother-in-law who has not an
other relative in the world.
Daughter Comforts Hey.
Around the widow, as she told hei
story, wtre gathered sever If thx
CONTINUED on Second Page.)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09
Sweet Warbling
Cant Free Him

The Bloomfield police were treated
to renderings of practically all h
best-known selections from the 1tal-
ian operas last night when Joseph
Catania, of SO Belmont avenue, Belle
vile, arrested for carrying concealed
weapons, whiled away the weary
u before dawn by exercising a
very flexible voice.
Catania baked at nothing, giving
solos and chorus numbers with equal
facility. The police say he managed
to initiate the six voices that ring
out in the closing bars of the sex
tette from Lucia" simultaneously.
Recorder Cadmus held the singer
for the Grand Jury today. He was
by Chanceman Charles. who
alleged he saw the prisoner take a
razor blade from his sleeve and
threaten a girl with whom he was
walking.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09
~oUADRUPLETs BORN

BOSTON, Aug. 9.-While four tiny
mites of humanity are fighting for
their existence in incubators at the
Cottage Hospital the
mother. Mrs. F. H. Seely. is slowly
recovering her strength. ignorant of
the fact that she has more than two
The physicians have thought
1t better not to excite the mother by
her that she had quadruplets.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09
Engine Hits Jack
and Jumps Track

A Lackawanna engine proceeding
slowly with a few freight cars at
Orange street and Clifton avenue
jumped the track at 1870 o'clock this
afternoon when it struck a jack left
on the track by a workman.
The tracks at this point. which are
below the street level and walled in
with concrete, have beer undergoing
repairs for several days.
Little damage was done the engine
and the cars II was pulling remained
on the track. Neither were the tracks
harmed. The workmen who have
been employed there were pressed
into service to assist the emergency
crew summoned from the repair shops
10 place the locomotive back on the
tracks.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09
BATTLESH|P RUNS
ON HIDDEN SH0AL
Nebraska. Badly Damaged
Near Newport, Ordered Into
Boston Dry Dock.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-The bat
tleship Nebraska ran on an uncharted
shoal near Newport. r. l.. late yes
terday and was so seriously dam
aged that she has been ordered to
dry dock at Boston Navy Yard.
The flagship Connecticut about the
same time broke her starboard crank
shaft and has been ordered to Phila-
delphia for repairs.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09
Three Die 26O
Feet Under Park

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.-Three work
men were mangled to death and foul
others seriously injured at the bot
tom OF a 260-foot shaft leading out
of the new aqueduet at 1o6th street
and Central Park west early today,
when a big steel drill struck an old
charge of powder.
The explosion dislodged a boulder
from above, which crushed the three
men to death and pinned eight 9TH
ers in a orn Rescuing parties
were lowered into the shaft and the
surviving workmen finally were freed.
one Of them unconscious.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09
SWALLOWS $50 IN BILLS

PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 9.-Robert
,Arney. a member of the United
States Marine Corps. stationed at
Fort Mifiin, has four 500 bills some
place 10 his system. but he is unable
to get them. Arney saved the $50
from a holdup man by swallowing
the bills. The footpad was captured
later ana held in bail for court.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09
WOMAN DIES ABROAD

LUCERNE. Aug. 9.-Mrs. Elizabeth.
B. Brandt, of Grand Rapids, died
here yesterday of apoplexy at the
g of sixty-six. The body was sent
to America via Bremen. Mr.. julius
Hartman, the American consular
agent. made the necessary arrange
ments as there are no relatives Of
Mrs. Brandt here.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09
Department Stirred by Charges,
Which Are Said to Have Been
flushed Up Until Citizen Made
Complaint to Board.
INVESTIGATION Is PUT OVER

q HE Newark Police Department is shaken to its very ou,d.tfor. :.
py grave scosur OF Or utalty and drunkenness
Two policemen entered a citizens home n nigh Imtr ,orth
and, it is charged in the presence of his wife. bea him unconscious Thsv
him lying where he fell accord ng to testimony gfven before ~ b.
Board, while his frantic wife i'm plored neighbors t. gel a doctor or
the injured man. The case "a sua NICELY hushed u Id and becam mo Lna-s
only when the citizen laid charges before h police Commissioner
Another policeman. attached to another precinct. vas fornd rI. =
toxcated n the gutter. -
These startling revelations were moi controversies ar the pduo. -
meeting although the commissions rs displayed a endencv 70 nsnGst.
them. y tanAdts
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09
TIMES EDITOR RETlREs

LONDON, Aus. &c. E. Buckle.
who has beer editor of The Times
twenty-eight and a half years, is re-
firing. His successor. 1t is announced.
is Godfrey Robinson. formerly pri-
waite secretary to Lord Miner. Mr..
Robinson is only thirty-seven years
old.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-09
Workman Near
Death in Cellar

Digging a pocket beneath the cellar
of the new Cleveland School, at Ber-
gen street and Seventeenth avenue,
John Menzie, % years old. of AZ Bur
net street. a laborer, vas nearly suf-
located today. He exhausted the
air with his breathing as he worked
and then collapsed.
He was picked up unconscious and
taken to the City Hospital, where his
condition, 1t is said, Is not serious.