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Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-05-31
MONMOUTH COUNTY NEWS

tain Fisher spent Tuesday in New
York.
Miss Jean Smith returned on
Tuesday to New York after spending
several days at her home here.
Miss Louise Burlew was a Perth
Amboy visitor Tuesday.
Friends of Miss Nina Preston gave
her a surprise shower Monday even
ing at the home of Mrs. Edwin Lup-
ton in Broad street. Miss Preston's
engagement to Mr.. Frank Valentine,
Of Newark, was recently announced.
Dainty refreshments were served
and a most delightful evening was
enjoyed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robin Sealy and
daughter, of Brooklyn, are visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Bushnell.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-05-31
MATAWAN

Misses Georgiana L~inzmayer.
Florence Thompson and Helen Radl
were Keansburg visitors Thursday.
Miss Nina Dominick was a Perth
Amboy visitor Wednesday.
8. E. Eggleston was a New York
visitor Wednesday.
Mr.. Stephen Thompson was a New
York visitor Wednesday,.
Captain Thompson, Mrs. Thomp-
son and Miss Myrtle Thompson were
monday visitors al Keansburg.
Mr.. Eric Olholm, of New York
city, is visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Nathan
Weed at Mrs. NJ. A. Whites.
Charles Stryker and Merritt Mil
lar were Keyport visitors Thursday.
A new concrete walk is being laid
In front of George Linzmayer's store
in Lower Main street.
Mrs. George Allen, of Red Bank,
spent Wednesday and Thursday here
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. l..
M. Dominiok.
Charles Wardell was a New York
visitor Wednesday.
Arthur White, of Brooklyn, spent
part of Tuesday In town.
Dr.. William Knecht and Mrs.
Knecht, Of New York city, accom-
panied by their two children, spent
Decoration Day with DR.. and Mrs.
Cyrus Kneeht.
Misses Naomi Bedle, Marguerite
Close and Myrtle Van Pelt were
Keyport visitors Thursday.
Miss Lillian Bolte a a keyport
visitor Wednesday.
ROLAND Lupton, of Newark, but
who is we'll known here, is suffering
from typhoid fever. Mr.. Lupton is
in a Newark hospital and Is reported
as getting along nicely.
Mrs. M. E. l.. Bergen and son
Lewis were Decoration Day visitors
of Mr.. and Mrs. T. E. Shepherd, at
Keansburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones and son, of
Schenectady, are visiting the l~atter's
mother, Mrs. Pearsall, OF Fountain
avenue.
The Five Hundred Club has had
the tennis court in Church street
pat in repair and anticipate much
pleasure from it this summer.
Frank Valentine, OF Newark,
spent Thursday in town.
Mrs. Nathan Weed spent Tuesday
and Wednesday in New York.
Dr.. 0. Van Wlckle is having a
cement walk made In front of his
dental office in Broad street.
Miss Helen Terhune spent Tues
day in New York.
Miss Jean Smith was q Freehold
visitor Tuesday.
Miss Eva Stilwagon was a New
ark visitor Tuesday.
Miss Helen Cart. Il was a New
York visitor Tuesday.
Miss Lucille Stilwell and Sidney
Parsons were New York visitors on
Tuesday, going by way of the Key
port boat.
Miss ]. Mabel Brown attended a
house party at Williamstown, Mass,
on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Captain Watson Fisher is enjoy
ing a vacation this week from his
ship, the City of St. Louis. Cap
Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-05-31
FRENEAU

Mrs. William Lisk and Miss Pun
derford spent Monday In New York
shopping. After lunching at the
Waldorf-Astoria the afternoon was
enjoyed at the theatre.
Mrs. Lyle was a Keyport visitor
Monday.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
WASHINGTON.

The Forestry Bureau is preparing to
announce a general reduction of the
rates charged for cattle and sheep
grazing In the National forests.
The monetary commissions plan for
national reserve association when it
goes to Congress. will provide for an
organization so constituted that the
financial institutions of New York will
control less than 10 per cent OF the
total representation in the central as
sociation. although they possess fully
80 per cent of the banking capital.
Enlarged application of the leasing
principle as applied to the public do
main. especially liberal leasing law
for the development of the mineral re-
sources of Alaska, particularly its coal
lands, and immediate consideration by
Congress of the whole subject of wa
ter power development and control,
are the most important recommends
tions contained in the annual report
of Secretary of the Interior Fisher
Though the Postoffice Department
handled an unprecedented amount of
holiday mail this year, thousands of
cards were thrown away because bear
ing mica or tinsel ornaments. They
were mailed in unsealed envelopes
with penny stamps
Members OF the Interstate and For
eign Commerce Commission of the
House who have returned to Washing
ton from trip to the Panama canal,
expressed themselves as favoring toll
rates for passage through the canal
varying from so cents to 81 ton.
The national monetary commission
virtually agreed upon a provision
which. 1t is believed. will have the Of.
feet of preventing the exercise of un-
due influence upon the affairs of the
proposed national reserve association
by any individual, corporation or sec
ton of the country. This practical
ly completed the work of that body.
The great fear from the beginning of
the commissions labors has been that
the $300.000,000 reserve which 1t is
proposed to establish would be con-
trolled by some financial center.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
mcmanlsal sefor. Grand Jury.

: indianapolis. Ind.-Whateyer Ortie
q. McManigal the confessed dynamit-
er. knows about the completely of 9TH
ers besides the McNamara brothers
in the blowing up of more than 100
"open shop" structures in various sec
uons of the country in the last five
or six years, is believed 10 have been
related by him in his preliminary story
before the federal grand jury. Taken
from his cell In the federal building.
where he had ben lodged before day
light after his secret trip in the Gus
tody of government officials from Los
Angeles, McManigal went before the
Jurors after his written confession had
been presented in detail.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
SPORT.

Bombardier Wells. holder Of the
British heavyweight pugilist champion
ship. will sail for the United States
in January.
Fought in ten fast rounds. the bout
at Louisville, KY. between Ray Bron-
son of Indianapolis and Tommy Devlin
of Philadelphia ended in draw.
Tommy Dixon of Kansas City and
Johnny Roche of San Francisco, feath-
erweights, fought ten rounds to I
draw in Kansas City. Dixon was the
aggressor from the start, but the coast
boy took his punishment gamely and
finished strong.
After eighteen months of idleness
Jack Johnson, champion heavyweight
pugilist of the world, has signed arti-
cles to fight a finish battle with Jim
Flynn. the Pueblo fireman, generally
regarded as one of the best white
hopes" The fight will take place
somewhere in Nevada, next July. As
a tentative date, July 22nd was Sc
lected, but this may be changed at
any time The fight will be staged
at Windward or Metropolis. For his
services Johnson is to receive $31, 100
and one-third of the receipts from the
sale of the moving picture rights
Flynn's share of the purse was not an.
nounced. He will be paid by his
manager. Jack Carley. who repres mt.
ed the promoters. Their identity is a
secret.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
srieand Also a Patriot.

Gravely. solemnly, with enthusiasm
and large mixture of national pride.
the Turkish newspapers publish the
following remarkable piece Of news
(says the London Globe). A brigand
chief, one Salin, who has been carry
ing on operations for some time in
the mountains of Gambiek. in Bithy-
mia, not great distance from Con-
stantinople, and for whom the Turkish
gendarmerie have for long sought in
vain. alive or dead. has placed his
talents and services at the disposition
OF the Turkish authorities. The brig
and's letter is a curious document.
He says 1t is against the wishes of his
heart to give up his calling. but the
audacity of these Italian brigands"-
an expression which frequently occurs
in the letter-in waging war upon the
Ottoman empire and brutally selling
an Islamic province. impel him to offer
his services, with those OF his band.
consisting of hundred men. to
avenge the national honor and to
chastise these infidel brigands.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
WESTERN.

Five inches is the average depth OIL
snowfall over northern Idaho. In the
southern part of the state the fall Wa:
less.
The intense cold and deep snow
have brought severe suffering among
nomesteaders in the Black Hills in
south Dakota.
Marooned for more than week in
a way car attached to an Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe freight train,
stuck fast in the snow near Laird In
western Kansas, two brakemen lived
on jackrabbits.
The new county grand jury at Los
Angeles has determined to renew the
dynamite investigation, and subpoe-
naed five persons formerly connected
with the McNamara defense. The
principal charge Is that of jury brib-
cry.
Carcasses of twenty bison of a herd
of 12O in the Yellowstone national
park, were burned. Twenty-Five ami
mails died, the victims of black leg.
Government experts who have been
working with the epidemic believe
they have it stamped out.
Montana is covered with snow, the
fall having been the heaviest for sew
eral years. Zero weather, with some
reporting even lower temperatures, Is
general throughout the state. High
winds have drifted the snow in many
sections and country roads are i'm
passable.
A suit against the Independence Gas
Company, the Consolidated Gas Com
pany and the Kansas Natural Gas
Company, charging conspiracy to
raise prices and to prevent competi-
ton, has been filed by Attorney Gen
eral Dawson in District Court at In
dependence. Kan.
Most short railroad lines in the
Black Hills of South Dakota are
blocked with snow and the cold, and
the Burlington & Northwestern, while
they keep trains moving. are expert
encing much difficulty and all the
traffic is considerably behind schedule
The temperature is SO degrees below
Unable to see the station lights in
the binding snowstorm which swept
over western Kansas Engineer C. C.
Demlng of the Santa Fe passenger
train No. ran past the station at
Wright, Kan. Before he could back
his train into the siding after he had
discovered his mistake, his train was
hit by the Newton-DoGge City local
westbound. Deming was fatally
scalded. Engineer ]. w. Chalfant OF
the local was killed and twelve pas.
sengers were hurt.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
FOREIGN.

Harbin advices say that all the high
er Chinese officials have already been
expelled from Urga, the capital Of
Mongolia.
The influences being brought to
bear in order to induce Italy to renew
or not to renew the triple alliance
with Germany and Austria-Hungary
are becoming daily more pressing.
Unless Yuan Shi Kai yields to sua-
sion and the armistice is extended,
fighting will be resumed in China. The
republican troops will commence the
march on Peking. The carefully
guarded movements of the troops, cou-
pied with the deficiency of communi-
cation. makes 1t almost impossible to
estimate correctly the strength of the
revolutionists, but it is certain that it
approximates 10000 men.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
Minor Mention.

The Windsor creamery will be In
operation in thirty days.
The Antonito postoffice will soon be
admitted into the third class.
The total valuation of property n
Ell Paso county is $22 2,209, ,220.
A factory to make stock food VIII
soon be established at Greeley.
w. H. Gleason, county treasurer o.
Clear Creek county, has resigned
John Miller, recently convicted of
insanity at Pueblo. has been re-
leased
The city authorities of Rocky Ford
have abolished the office of heal.n
officer.
Station A postoffice at Pueblo was
recently robbed of $500 in stamps and
money.
Twenty miners of the Alpha coal
mines at Fort Lupton went out on
strike recently.
At Williamsburg 125 men employed
out on a strike.
Grand Junction will make a strong
fight for the Republican state conven-
ton next summer.
Armed guards are patroling the Al
pha mine near Fort Lupton, where riot;
ing has occurred.
Joseph H. Harrison, former senator.
it is reported, will be the next post
master of Denver.
A total of 1.224 civil cases and s21
criminal cases were filed in Colorado
Springs last year.
A modern sanitarium for tubercu-
losis will be established in the near
future at Greeley.
The government is now ready to be-
gin the construction of the Grand Val
ley irrigation project
James Gruis of Sterling is reported
dying as the result of terrific en-
counter with skunks.
George Johnstone, a pioneer and
veteran of the civil war, died at La
Sale, aged IL years.
John r. Hogan, employed at the
Smuggler-Union mine at Telluride,
died suddenly recently.
Reports from Hugo state that while
stock is suffering from the cold; the
loss will not be great.
The Olathe Produce Association has
been incorporated. The association is
capitalized at $4,000.
Chief of Police Hutchinson of Grand
Junction has ordered that all slot ma
chimes and gambling be stopped.
Cattle are reported to be dying by
the hundreds in southern and eastern
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
Weeks News from All Over Colorado

Colorado as a result of the severe cold
and snow.
An interesting program has been
arranged for the Farmers Institute.
which is to be held in Longmont Jan.
%, 26 and 27.
The State Board of Health has in
structed the Denver City Tramway
Company to pay more attention to the
heating OF their cars.
The contract for the construction
of the West canal. the last important
work in the ditch system of the Un-
compahgre project. will be let during
the month of January.
A huge mountain lion. which had
been killing deer, cattle and dogs in
the Glenwood Springs community. was
recently killed. 1t weighed 252 pounds
and was nine feet long.
Farmers in the Romeo vicinity are
making extensive preparations for tbs
organization of an irrigation district to
build the Magote reservoir. This dis
trict will include 10000 acres.
The body of an unidentified man
was taken to Trinidad by Sheriff Pot
ter of Otero county. The body was
found near Ayers. 1t is believed the
man was killed by a Santa Fe train.
]. P. Sweeney, justice of the peace
at Grand Junction, has announced that
he will marry free the first leap year
bride; that is, the first bride of the
oh
posed
The United Hydro Electric Company
has brought into service the new and
splendidly constructed power line
down Clera Creek valley from the gen.
Grating plant at Georgetown to Idaho
Springs.
Frank Murata, the Japanese tried
and convicted at Greeley of murder in
the second degree for shooting l. IBID
suki at Ptaltteville July Z, 1907, was
sentenced to fourteen to twenty years
in the penitentiary.
To end the constant annoyance Of
public officials who have recently been
flooded with letters from people who
are looking for western wives or hus-
bands, a matrimonial bureau Will be
established in Grand Junction.
William Stanly of Greeley, Bruce
G. Eaton of Eaton, John e. Law OF
Windsor, A. L. Hoel of Sterling, ara
the six men chosen from northern Col
orado to appear before the House COM
mittee in Washington investigating the
sugar business for the purpose o.
correcting statements made by James
Bodkin of Need.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
Good Roads Association.

Pueblo.-Northern Colorado is to be
well represented at the Colorado State
Good Roads Association conference in
Pueblo. More than 220 accredited rep
iesentatives of commercial and civic
organizations, counties, municipalities.
clubs, newspapers and good road socie-
ties of the northern section of the
state. each entitled to vote in the
convention, will attend the meeting
to look out for the interests of north
ern Colorado in the matter of this
states portion of the transcontinental
highway.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
Pueblo In the Fiqht.

Pueblo.-Pueblo entered the contro-
versy in connection with the proposed
transfer of the Western League bali
club, when prominent man in this
city telegraphed to Frank Isbell, owner
asking him to name a price on the
team and franchise. Isbell stated that
his price is $4,000 and that no one
has an option on the club at the pres
ent time. Baseball fans in this city
are in earnest and do not propose to
be the victims of any treacherous
move that may be made to the disad-
vantage OF this city.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
News Summary Of the Past Week

In full view of passing crowds and
in the principal business street of
Newark, Ohio. burglars looted jew
elry store of 100000.
Theodore L. Weed, chief clerk of
the postoffice at Washington, has
been appointed director of the postal
savings system at $4,000 year.
The present value of the annual ex-
port and import commerce of the
United States with Latin America is
approximately s640,O00.OOO.
Wabash passenger train No. 1 from
st. Louis to Kansas City left the track
at the station at st. Peters, Mo-, and
from ten to fourteen persons were in
jured.
Comptroller Of the Currency Murray
has instituted a sort of scientific
shop management" of his own to dis
cover the reason for laxity on the part
of certain bank examiners.
The special grand jury investigat-
ing the jury-bribery phase of the Nc
Namara dynamiting case in Los An
geles, will make an effort to connect
other men with the supposed consrir-
acy.
A robber attempted to seize the
handbag of Miss May O'Rourke, nine
teen years old, near her home in Chi
cago. When he escaped from her he
was minus his hat, coat, neck scarf
shirt and one shoe.
Some Moros were killed and one
American officer and one FiIinino
scout were injured in the recent trou-
Bile on the Island of Jolo when the
American forces under General Persh-
Ing succeeded in forcing the disarm-
ament Of the Moros.
Four persons were fatally injured
while another was seriously hurt at Gin.
cinnati when a street car Jumped from
q bridge which connects this city with
Newport, KY, The car turned a somer-
sault in its drop of fifty-five feet to
the pavement below.
The entire family OF James Cool
edge is dangerously ill In their home
at Deerhead. Essex county, N. Y, from
drinking water contaminated by pois-
oned meat put out to kill foxes. The
water was taken from a mountain
brook from which the family was in
the habit of drawing the household
supply.
Fire which broke out in the pack
ing house buildings of Swift & Co
in the heart of the Union Stock yards
In Chicago. and adjoining the scene
Of the disastrous stock yards fire Of a
year ago. threatened the whole Swift
plant and many adjoining structures,
but was controlled after doing dam
age of $450,000.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
To Pension Indian War Veterans.

Denver.-Henry Hegwer, secretary
of the United Indian War Veterans,
with headquarters in Denver. has is
sued circular asking for the names
of all soldiers who served on the west
ern frontier ninety days or more. from
1865 to 1890. House Bill No. 779.
which was introduced in Congress by
Mr.. Rucker of Colorado. and provides
for pensions for the old Indian fight
ers, is expected to be acted upon IA
vorably.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
Cattle Are sufferinn

Las Animas.-Cattle have been suf-
fering in this county. but the prompt
action of the owners and the State
Board of Stockmen has probably pre-
vented any great loss. Owners state
that there has been no loss worthy of
notice up to this time. One herd OF
200 head is being fed about ten
miles out from this city. The big com
panies are gathering their cattle and
feeding them.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
Miners Cause Riot.

Greeley.-Declaring that they would
prevent non-union miners from taking
their places in the Alpha coal mine,
one and a half miles northwest of Fort
Lupton, threatening farmers IL thev
purchased coal at the mine and put
ting up signs bearing the words: "Be-
ware. Scabs." twenty-five strikers
caused riot at Tracyvilie and five OF
them were arrested and brought to
Greeley.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
Conductor Is cremated.

Conductor w. l.. Miller was
instantly killed and his body cremated
and Engineer jackson and his fireman
were seriously injured in rear-end
collision on the Santa Fe near Anna
rillo. While at high speed train
OF deadhead equipment returning to
Amarillo from Clovis crashed into the
caboose of freight train ahead.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
Land owners Give RIsht-of.way.

Grand Junction.-The last obstacle
to construction of the Grand Valley
project for irrigating $4,000 acres was
removed when log land owners of
Palisade voted unanimously to give
right of way to the canal on the route
favored by the government. These
land owners have been demanding
that their land be not touched, as 1t
would involve heavy loss to their
orchards.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
Thaw to Regain Liberty.

Matteawan. N. Y.-That Harry K.
Thaw woull make his last, and what
is believed here. successful attempt to
regain his liberty on habeas corpus
proceedings within the next few days,
and that he would be free in thirty
days has been most positively an
nounced by persons thoroughly con.
versant with the Thaw situation.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
Miner Decapitated by Cable.

Telluride.-Tom Williams, trammer
at the Smuggler-Union mine, was in
stantly killed when struck by the in
clin tram cable when a loaded ore
car broke loose from the cable. A
loop formed by the recoil of the heavy
steel wire caught Williams with such
terrific force as to completely sever
his head and one arm.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12

Arthur Lewis, accused of numbering
his stepniece, Helen Rumball, by
breaking her neck. at Oroville. Cal.
was sentenced to ten years imprison-
ment in San Quentin penitentiary. A
jury found him guilty of manslaughter.
Radical reduction of freight. rates
on livestock have been prescribed by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
on western railroads.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
HostiiItIes Resumed In China.

Peking.-Two important develop
ments have intensified the interest in
the situation in China. These were
a renewal of hostilities and the de-
mand of the Russian government that
China recognize the independence of
outer Mongolia. Shen Chow has been
captured.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
Cold Kills Birds and Rabbits.

Lamar.-Quail and rabbits are dy-
ing in this vicinity from cold and hun
ger in large numbers. The mercury
has registered from six to sixteen be-
low zero every night for two weeks.The
state game warden has arranged Iof
the feeding of the quail within ra-
,'ius cf Twelve miles by local spe-
cial warden.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
More Indictments Expected.

Los Angcles.-United States District
Attorney Mccormick says that just as
soon as the new federal grand Jury
was Impaneiled Jan. 23. the dynamite
conspiracy investigation would be re-
sumed. He added that more indict-
ments might be expected.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
Pueblo Freight Rate Campaign.

Pueblo.-A systematic campaign for
lower freight rates to and from Colo
rado common points and general r.
form in classification is to be started
by Pueblo shippers through the trans
portation bureau Of the Commerce
Club.
The Elbert County tribune., 1912-01-12
Aitered the Case.

Mrs. de Mover-"Good gracious!
This is the noisiest neighborhood |
ever got into. Just hear those children
screech!" Maid-"They're your own
childers. num-" Mrs. de Mover-"Are
they? How the little darling are en-
joying themselves,