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Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-04
ARCHIBALD IGNORES
ORDER TO TESTIFY
specia, 1y United Press Wire.

Special BY United Press Wire.
New York, Oct. 4:-John D. Arch
bald, head OF the Standard Oil Com
pany, disregarded today a subpoena
served on him fc testify before Spec
ial Master Jacobs in the suit Of the
Waters-Pierce Company against the
Standard. He was served yesterday
with a subpoena to testify today,
but not only did he not show up In
person, but failed to send an expla-
nation. The special master ordered
him entered as In default and said
that he would be called on for an
exclamation
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-04
WOMAN FINED
FOR ASSAULT
Julia Mama Locked Up Being
Unable to Pay.
Special to the EVENING NEWS.

Special to the EVENING NEWS.
New Brunswick, Oct. 4:-Cases of
two Perth Amboy women accused of
crime came before Judge Daily here
this morning. Julia Mama was fined
500 for attacking another woman
She was locked up in default of pay
ment Of the fine. The case in which
Mrs. Mary Pfeiffer-King is accused Of
forging orders on the Perth Amboy
Savings Institution, was adjourned
for the last time. Judge Daily con-
sented to let it go over until Mon
day.
The Maina woman said she had
acted in self defense in the attack
she was accused of. She told the
court she had attempted to act as
peacemaker. Her alleged victim
sustained broken wrist and severe
bruises.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-04
MEN ON DESTROYER
HAD NARROW ESCAPE
Special by Untted Press Wire.

SpecidI bV United Press WIRE.
Philadelphia. Oct. 4.-Eighty men
under the command. of Lieutenant
Harker, narrowly escaped death to-
day when the torpedo boat destroyer
Beale crashed into a Delaware river
dredge at New Castle, Del. The
Beale began sinking at once, but af-
ter settling a few inches steadied and
remained afoat being held up by in
ner compartments. She is now in the
navy yards for repairs
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-04

Look at the ''prices of things" as
advertised In today's paper. If you
know values, and have a care for
your purse. these prices will interest
YOU
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-04

D1ete-~~~...- ~ Aueus Dut
contains no sa j:ss:ss ellel p! .
the commission for oiI17L1anment.
which was adopted from the consti-
tuition of the Raritan Roosevelt Club.
of Metuchen and Raritan township.
or course, the constitution provides
for the initiative referendum and
recall" The constitution was sub
mitted by special committee Of
which Judge Lyon was chairman.
Mass Meeting Next Week.
1t was decided to hold mass
meeting next Tuesday night, with
prominent national speakers. The
Board of Governors was instructed
to complete the arrangements. There
were tbity-two members present at
last nights session. The Ernst
brothers, the well known tennis
players, have Joined the club.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-04

The EVENING NEWS has the
largest circulation in the county.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-04

of Acting Mayor Ferd Garretson,
who aspires to the mayoralty on tho
Republican ticket. He was urged
to aspire for the higher Office by the
Progressive and Republican leaders,
alike, and, as he pointed out yester-
day to NEWS reporter, would not
have entered the race if he had not
been assured of united support.
No Discussion On Report
No discussion was held on the re-
port of the committee of five, which
was made after the club had re-or-
ganized under the commission form
of government. Mr.. Sell made his
report, which was accepted on mo-
ton of Mr.. Newman, and former
Judge Adrian Lyon, acting as chair
man at the time, turned to the mem
bers for discussion on the subject at
hand or other new business. J.
Clark, a member of the committee,
moved that the newly created Board
of Governors be empowered to pre-
pare a statement for publication of
the clubs standing during the pre-
sent campaign. 1t was adopted, and
the board was requested to make it's
report at the clubs next meeting on
Tuesday night, October s.
Elect Governing Board.
Under the commission form of
government which provides that the
club shall be conducted by Board
of Governors, consisting of nine
members, #. w. Pugsley was elected
last night to the Craftsmanship of the
Roosevelt Club. The Board of Gov
ernors were elected, after a revised
constitution had been adopted, as
follows: r. L. Whitehead, F. w.
Pugsley, E. L. Gridley, Harvey Sell,
j. Clark, w. H. Griswold, Herbert
Gillis, Adrian Lyon and Joseph
Crowell. The board adjourned to an
other room and elected the follow
ing officers: Chairman, F. w.
Pugsley; vice-chairman, r. L. White
head; secretary, ]. Clark; treasurer,
E. l.. Gridley. Mr.. Gridley is the
only hold-over officer Chairman
Pugsley succeeds James E. Griswold,
|actically organized the club.
s.t'tutinn is more COM
: Ill I~~-k
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-04

Ab
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WOODROW WILSON IS DEMOCRATIC NOMINEE

they would concede Wilson about $40
votes, that would be the limit of his
vote and that he would not be nomi-
mated. They claimed to have 1863 last
ditch Clark votes on whom they could
rely to hold out against Wilson all
summer if necessary. To this the Will
son men replied that if the New Jersey
governor received anything like $40
votes, no power on earth could keep
the anti-Wilson delegates from climb
ing into the bandwagon. Totals forty
third ballot: Clark, 1929; Wilson, 6O2;
Underwood, 981a; Harmon, %; Kern,
/; Foss, 81; Bryan, L; absent, IL.
The forty-fourth ballot was ordered
at 1:O1 p. m. On this ballot Colorado,
one of the rock-ribbed conservative
delegates, broke nine votes to Wilson.
The Indiana delegation voted solidly
for Wilson,
On the forty-fourth vote Colorado
gave Wilson ten votes as against one
heretofore cast for him. Just at this
shift came Charles F. Murphy, who
came down to the Missouri delegation
and engaged In earnest conversation
with David R. Francis, and Francis
was assuring the Tammany chieftain
that he would be able to hold his
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forces intact from now on. Indiana
came solidly into the Wilson camp on
this ballot.
From this time on it was a series of
breaks to the Wilson column. Every
new ballot swelled the total until the
necessary number for a nomination
was annexed by New Jerseys COVER
nor.
DR.. Woodrow Wilson was born at
Staunton, Va, on Dec. %, 1856. When
Woodrow was 2 years old his father
took pastorate in Augusta, Ca, and
soon became one of the most noted
ministers of the South. Tommy
Wilson, the Augusta schoolboy, is de-
scribed by Prof. John T. Derby, one
of his teachers, as quiet and exception
ally studious. The most important in
structor of young Wilson, however,
was his father.
The Wilson's moved from Augusta
to Columbia, S. c., in 1870, DR.. Wilson
resigning his pastorate to take the
chair of pastoral and evangelistic the
ology in the Southern Presbyterian
Theological seminary. At Columbia
Tommy attended Charles Parnwell's
private school, At the age of IL he
entered Davidson college at Davidson,
N. C..
He did not finish the year at David
son, for he fell i'll before examina-
tons came on and was taken to his
home, now at Wilmington, N. c.,
where his father had taken a pastor
ate. Here Wilson took things COM
paratively easy for a year. Except for
tutoring in Greek and a few other
studies that he thought might be nee
essary for entrance to Princeton he
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-07-05
Fragments of Man on Train.

Winona. Most of the skin
and portion of the chest of an un.
known mans body about So years old,
was brought into Winona by the north
bound fast mail train on the Milwau-
kee road and subsequent search show
ed fragments of the body dropped be-
side the track from River Junction to
Winona. Fragments brought here were
hanging on bolt of the truck of
the car. One slip Of paper found in
the vest read, Meal to Mr.. Foster"
other gave the address of DR.. Hurd
of Minneapolis.
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British Up to Old Tricks.

Stockholm.-America Olympic ath-
letes are in a turmoil over the discov-
cry made by Chairman Sullivan that
the Britons have been training secret
ly in the stadium The Americans and
others have been forced to train in
haphazard fashion at out-of-the-way
places, and it was supposed that no
one should use the stadium until the
games open. Sullivan, looking into
the stadium, was astonished to find
members of the British team at work.
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Caught In MiIlrace.

Minneapolis. Carried more
than one thousand feet through the
tunnel Of the main millrace at ST. An.
thony falls, Alec Larson, workman
employed to keep logs and drift out OF
the race, was drowned. Three other
workmen who were precipitated into
the swiftly running canal with Larson
when the scaffold on which they were
working collapsed were rescued after
being shot more than sixty feet In
the current through the race tupns
under a building.
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2 q n
WOODROW
WILSON

closing of his undergraduate days at
Princeton by breaking into the Inter
national Review, in it's issue of Au-
gust, 1879, with an article entitled
Cabinet Government in the United
| States" The article contrasted Brit
ish and American systems of govern
ment, pointing out advantages in the
British.
In the fall of 1878 Wilson took up
tie law course at the University of
Virginia, where he INDUCED in long,
dropping moustache and in member
ship in the glee club. she Sleeps, My
Lady Sleeps" is shown by old pro-
grams of university concerts to have
been one of Wilson's tenor solos.
In May, 1882, he carried his law di-
ploma and an oratorical prize to At
lanta, Ca, where he opened an Office
for the practice of law. The office,
however, did not prosper, and after IS
leisurely months he gave up. The At
lanta experiment, however, was far
from eventless. Although litigants
gave him nothing to do, he was not
idle He improved his time by secur-
ing the promise of Miss Ellen Louise
Arson to be his wife. The Axons were
prominent Georgia lowlands family.
The young couple were married in
1875.
In the fall of 1885 Mr.. Wilson began
teaching political economy to the girls
of Bryn Mawr. From this institution
he went to Wesleyan university, where
he remained until called to Princeton
in 1890 to occupy the chair of jurispru-
dence and politics. In 1902 he was
elected president of Princeton.
N May, 1910, the graduate college
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-07-05
Break Begins on Forty
Third Ballot.
INDIANA GOVERNOR SELECTED
UNANIMOUSLY WHEN BURKE
OR N. D. WITHDRAWS.

busted himself with reading, looking
up the historic points of the city and
with the social life of the city.
Woodrow Wilson attained promi-
nence among his mates in the 'fa-
nous class of 70" of Princeton. No less
than AZ of the 122 graduates of '79
were honor men," having an average
of 80 per cent or better for the four
years course. Wilson barely got in
among them; he ranked forty-first.
Besides being a good student at
Princeton, Wilson became managing
editor of the college paper and was
prominent in undergraduate activi-
ties.
At the age of % he signalized the
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-07-05
Plenty of Potatoes.

Duluth. Northeastern Min
nesota will have the biggest yield
of potatoes in years, according to SUI
perintendent A ]. MCGUIRE of the
Northeast experimental farm at Grand
Rapids. 1t will average about 275
bushels per acre. Wheat and oats will
go 80 to 55 bushels respectively, while
corn is rather backward, owing to the
lack of real warm weather. Another
factor that is retarding corn is the
lack of rain but farmers are of the
opinion that if rain falls this week, the
yield will be as large as usual.
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WAGES RAISED A TENTH.
Street Railway Employees of Duluth
Also to Have New Clubhouse.

Duluth.-Duluth street railway en-
ployees have been granted raise in
pay of 10 per cent. Several weeks
ago the men threatened to strike be-
cause of alleged poor pay and poor
quarters at the car barns. The COM
pany first announced it would build
clubhouse for the men, and announced
to the committee raise in wages of
10 per cent.
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IMPORTANT NEWS
NOTES OF A WEEK
LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD
OVER TOLD IN ITEMlZED
FORM.
EVENTS HERE AND THERE
Condensed Into a Few Lines for the
Perusal of the Busy Man.
Latest Personal In
formation.
Politics

William J. Bryan threw the Demo
cratic national convention into a dis
orderly uproar when he announced
that he would not vote for Clark
again while New York was included in
the Clark column. He changed his
vote to Woodrow Wilson, but defiant
ly declared he would change again If
Mr.. Murphy and 1.-The Ryan-Belmont-
Morgan crowd" should vote for Will
son.
After Senator-elect Ollie James OF
Kentucky was elected permanent
chairman of the Democratic national
convention he made an address in
which he paid close attention to the
tariff. He also laid special stress on
the discord in the ranks of the Repub-
lican party and praised the work OF
the present congress under Demo
cratic control.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-07-05
Grain Shippers Benefit.

Washington, d. c. - The interstate
commerce commission extended the
territory in which allowances may be
paid by railroads to shippers for ele-
walton of grain so as to include not
only the Missouri river cities, but
grain markets on the Ohio and Miss
issippi rivers on the Great lakes and
at Chicago. One-fourth cent a bu-
shell was held to be a fair compensa-
ton and for both transportation ele-
walton and commercial elevation the
compensation should be three-fourths
of cent.
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man who should direct the workers
from now until election day.
Mr.. McCombs went to New York
and began the practice of law. He
had great admiration for Woodrow
Wilson. When Wilson was nominated
for Governor of New Jersey, McCombs
sent him a telegram congratulating
him on his nomination and said: You
will be elected and you will be the next
president of the United States"
George Foster Peabody, former
treasurer of the Democratic national
committee, strongly Endorsed Mr.. Nc
Combs for vice president in state
ment.
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Of Princeton university became the
legatee of a 100000 estate, which
could not be accepted without sacri-
ficing Wilson's policies. The money
was accepted. The presidents resig-
nation did not come, however, until
after the New Jersey state Democratic
convention on Sept. Is, 1912, had NOM
mated him for the governorship. In
the following November New Jersey
went Democratic for the first time
since 1892 and elected Wilson by a
large majority.
President Wilson made it clear at
the start that conditions at the univer-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-07-05
Hard to Find Names.

Minneapolis, Naming towns
that spring up on the trail of a newly
built railroad seems to be as difficult
a proposition as naming the babies
when they come in bunch or making
a final choice at a national conven-
ton when there are several candidates.
At least this is the experience Of of.
ficials of the 500 line who have had
to find names for Is baby cities
that have sprung into existence along
the 500 new branch line from Drake
to Fordville, n. ID.
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M. & ST. L. Directors Meet.

New York.-A meeting of the direc-
tors of the Minneapolis & st. Louis
Railroad company was held here. 1t
had been rumored that the new man
Erb would resign as president, but
stated that there was no truth In it.
1t was announced that only routine
business was transacted. Mr.. Erb
says right-of-way has been secured for
extensions to the Canadian border and
part of from ss.O0e, 900 to $4,000, 900
necessary for this work has been
pledged.
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Topmost Girder Placed.

New York.-The last steel girder
in the mammoth 55-story Woolworth
building, the tallest building in the
world, has been riveted, and an Amer
lean flag was hoisted above the top
of the building. This tremendous
"Old Glory" is "a feet long and IL
feet wide When completed, New
York's newest skyscraper will have
cost approximately s13,500. 000-for
land $4,500,000; for foundation dig
ging. $1.000,0 900. and for construction.
$1,000 goo.
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WINNIPEG COUPLE DIE.
Charles Patterson and Miss Carrie
Riley Lost When Canoe Upsets.

Winnipeg.-Two society people of
this city were drowned at Winnipeg
Beach when Charles Patterson, a
brokers, and Miss Carrie Riley, niece
of r. T. Riley, millionaire, were
thrown into the water by the upset
ting of a canoe. Both the bodies were
recovered.
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Personal

A grand festival concert participant
ed in by the thousands of members of
societies constituting the Northeast
ern Saengerbund, with President and
Mrs. Taft as the guests of honor,
was the browning event of the TWEEN
ty-third saengerfest at Philadelphia.
Thomas F. Coleman, sixty-five years
old, a retired capitalist and relative of
the Du Points, the powder magnates
of Delaware, was struck and killed by
an automobile near Louisville. Ky.
Ethelbert Stewart Of Decatur, H.,
for many years connected with the
federal bureau of labor and lately
with the tariff board, has been APP
pointed by Secretary Nagel as chief
statistician of the new children's bu-
reau.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-07-05

SOHO deserted Harmon and he drop
ped out.
**Ohio returned to Harmon.
Absent one-half vote.
mot voting one-half vote.
goth ballot-James votes
22nd ballot-Gaynor 1 vote.
23rd ballot-Gaynor votes.
25th ballot-James votes.
*On "a, 35, SO, 81, SO, 80 and 40 bal
lots, one-half vote absent.
**Gaynor, 1 vote.
...J. Hamilton Lewis, 1; James, 1;
absent, ".
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Baltimore, Md William F. Nc.
Combs of New York, SO years old, a
lawyer and graduate of Princeton and
Harvard, will in all probability be
chosen as chairman of the Democratic
national committee or as chairman of
the campaign committee of Woodrow
Wilson.
Mr.. McCombs, who managed the pre-
nomination campaign for Governor
Wilson, has been in Baltimore since
the convention began and learned Kat
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The Louisiana legislature has gone
on record as approving the income
tax amendment to the Constitution Of
the United States.
L. H. Scheurman, said to be a
wealthy furniture manufacturer of
Carrollton. KY, shot and fatally
wounded Miss Elizabeth Moore, twen-
ty-eight years old, daughter Of the
postmaster at Lyons. Mich, in a
closed taxicab in Grand Rapids. Mich.
and when pursued by the police he
turned the gun on himself, inflicting
fatal wounds
James Darby. a well-known golfer,
lost his life in going to the rescue Of
a nine-year-old caddy who had fallen
into deep water trying to retrieve a
golf ball from pond on the links at
Glen Cove, N. Y. The drowning boy
was saved by Darby, who was seized
with cramps and sunk suddenly.
Drury B. Badgeley, a farmer at
Pleasant Hill, w. va, was attacked
by swarm of bees, which settled in
his hair and beard and stung him to
death.
The appellate division OF the SUI
preme court of New York state has
held in decision just rendered in New
York that the presence of bedbugs Is
justification for the breaking OF .
lease by a tenant
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1912-07-05
Veteran Indian Fighter Passes.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Joseph
McSeathon, war scout and veteran In
dian fighter, died here, aged 20 years.
McSeathon was with General Custer
and General Sheridan in many battles.
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Washington

In answer to attacks upon Speaker
Clark in the Baltimore convention, the
house of representatives at Washing
ton adopted a resolution announcing
its entire faith in its presiding off,
Ger. The resolution was offered by a
Republican, Representative Austin OF
Tennessee.
The thanks of congress are con-
veyed to Capt. Arthur H. Rostron and
the officers and crew Of the liner Car
pathia for their rescue of 704 sur
vivors of the Titanic in a senate bill
passed by the house. The bill pro
vides for 1000 gold medal for Cap
tain Rostron.
Opponents of Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood met defeat in their plan to leg
islate him out of Office when Chair
man Hay of the house military affairs
committee reintroduced the army ap-
priations bill without the clause re
stricting those officers who may serve
as 'chief-of-staff.
William Marshall Bullitt of Ken
lucky was nominated by President
Taft to be solicitor general to succeed
Frederick W. Lehman, who resigned
recently. The president also nomin-
ated Lyle A. Dickey of Hawaii to be
judge of the circuit court, Fifth cir
cult, Hawaii; Homer N. Boardman,
Oklahoma, to be United States attor-
ney for the western district of Okla
homa; Marcus S. Baker, to be post
master at Savannah, Ga, and Joseph
w. Morrow at Charlestown, Ind.
The federal government closed the
fiscal year with surplus of $4,000
600, according to estimates based upon
incomplete returns from the various
sources OF revenue the country over.
This amount far exceeded the most
sanguine expectations OF Secretary
MacVeagh, who months ago estimated
that the surplus would be $10,250,00O.
Samuel Gompers and Frank Nor
rison Of the American Federation of
Labor, recently sentenced to one year
and nine months in Jail, respectively,
for contempt of court. have filed an
appeal from Justice Wright's decision
and given bail.
President Taft sent to congress a
report of his economy and efficiency
commission with the recommendation
that the reforms suggested be adopt
ed. In his message accompanying the
report, the president declares con-
gress has held 100 congressional in
vestigations in matters relating to the
executive departments and on subjects
that should have been laid before
congress as an open book"
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trains. Practically all will have left
town within few hours.
Prominently mentioned for the vice
presidency were: Governor Marshall,
of Indinana; Governor Burke of North
Dakota, Representative Henry of
Texas, and Senator Kern of Indiana.
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Foreign

The death list as a result of the
cyclone that struck Regina, Sask., will
probably not exceed fifty. Thirty-six
bodies have been recovered from the
ruins The militia has been recalled
from its annual encampment and is in
charge of the city.
The military team representing the
United States at Stockholm won the
international army rifle. shooting team
competition at the Olympic games.
with grand aggregate score of 1.6SS.
II IN learned from an authoritative
source that the health of the empress
of Germany is causing anxiety to her
physicians. The empress returned re-
Gently from Bad Nauheim, where she
had been taking the cure. in such con-
dition that the attending physicians
advised complete withdrawal from all
representative functions.
Caleb ]. Milne OF Germantown, Pa,
died at the Charing Cross hospital in
London as the result of injuries re-
ceigsd when he was run down by q
taxicab in Coxspur street.