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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-19
CITY OFFICIALS
IN CONFERENCE /.
ON LEGISLATION
Pass on Proposed Laws Regards
ing Many Municipal
Improvements.
CITY'S ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION PLANS
Nugent Resents Attacks on
City's Standing Coming from
Newspaper Enemies.

As a starter for the year, the legis-
latiNe conference Of Mayor Haussiing
and the representatives of the vari-
Gus municipal boards and commls-
sions to discuss legislative bills intro
duced or proposed that may affect
Newark was a decidedly interesting
event. They were present about fifty
city officials, taking in the Common
Council, Board of Education, Fire,
Police. Health, City Plan and other
commissions, the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners, Library Tras-
tees and. in fact, every city sub diy-
ision-
These gatherings are of weekly oc-
currenee during the life of the Legis-
lature.
All were in readiness for business
when Mayor Haussling fired the sig
nal gun and announced the purposes
of the conference.
City Counsel James r. Nugent. az
head of the citys law department. az
the outset asked that the conference
commission Joseph Crawford. Of the
Board of Works branch of the ser
vice. and Joseph Wright, of the
Municipal Insurance Bureau, to at
tend the sessions Of the Legislature
to look after measures that may have
bearing upon Newark's interests.
Crawford and Wright have figured in
this capacity for several years, with.
as Mr., Nugent expressed it, profit
10 the city. They were duly appoints
ed.
Measures to be introduced engaged
the major portion of attention today.
Other mat tters will be taken up later.
The first proposition to meet with
the Endorsement of the conference is
bill making all provisions for the
celebration of the 25qth anniversary
of the birth of \ ark This will
take place in 1915 proposed law
will vest Commd uncil with the
authority to plan ana carry out all
financial arrangements. and com
mirtee of citizens to be named by the
mayor to do the rest
In order to extend the high pressure
system of water service il has been
found that the act OF 1904 requires
more elasticity. In the face OF the
financial condition Of the country. and
the desire Of the moneyed institutions
10 strike the very best of bargains. the
per cent interest bends idea stipi1-
+ lated "A tii.- .e--s-uf-fSsf4 does not fiIf-
IRISH a tempting bait TO Investors
To extend the high pressure service
the money must be forthcoming
and to obtain it a law Is to be
enacted allowing the payment OF
interest on loans for this work up
to per cent. Morris r. Sherrcrtl.
general superintendent and chief en-
gineer of the Board of Works, declared
the extension work is necessity.
Regulation of signs is another de-
sideratum explained Mr. Nugent The
| Common Council and the Board Of
Works have struggled with the prob
lem, but are powerless to accomplish
much. A bill enabling the Common
| Council to pass an ordinance covering
| the situation will be presented 10 the
Legislature tonight.
The ordinance to follow the enact-
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SMILES AS He IS
SENTENCED T0DIE
Murderer Mack Will Be Electro
cuted During Week of
March IS.

Charles Mack, negro, convicted last
week of the murder of his wife, Lelah
Mack, in their home at 1886 Mulberry
street on July is last, was today sem
fenced TO die in the electric chair by
Judge William P. Martin.
Mack was smiling as he aseended
the steps of the bar of justice to re-
ceive sentence, and in response to
Judge Martins question as to
whether he had anything to say why
sentence should not be imposed
simply shook his head negatively and
replied mo, sir
Judge Martin then sentenced him to
die during the week beginning Sun
day. March Is. Mack nodded his
head as though in thanks. and, still
smiling, went back to the prison pen
Mack killed his wife by crushing in
her head with blunt axe, after find
ing out, so he testified at his trial,
that she had been untrue to him.
Oscar Bauer who was allowed last
week to plead guilty to manslaughter
was sentenced also today by Judge
Martin. He was sent to the Railway
Reformatory. In pronouncing SEN
tence on him Judge Martin said:
"You were indicted for murder and
after a careful investigation of the
facts In your case you were allowed
to plead guilty to manslaughter. The
provocation in your case was blow
and the trouble was you used more
force than necessary in defending
yourself. Another thing in your favor
is that the deceased was once dis
charged from the hospital as cured,
his death resulting later from pneu-
monia which it is claimed was super
induced by the bullet wound inflicted
by you"
Bauer got into an argument With
John j. Halligan at Central and Nor
ris avenues on March 80 last. After
Halligan had dealt Bauer a blow with
his fist, the latter pulled a revolver
and fired, the shot taking effect in
Halligans chest. He apparently re-
covered from the wound and Bauer
was released on bail on a charge of
assault and battery with intent to
kill.
On July 10 Halligan died from the
effects of pneumonia and Bauer was
again arrested and the charge
against him changed to murder.
Other sentences imposed by Judge
Martin today We're nine months in
the Essex county penitentiary on Jo-
seph Dixon. negro, for assault and
battery, and fifteen months for Eu-
gene Griffin for the same offense.
Beside Bauer, the following were
sent to the Railway Reformatory:
Irving Webster Crane assault and
battery; Joseph Celeuto, carrying
concealed weapon; Charles Albach,
assault and battery, and James
Bush, burglary
Probation sentences were given the
following: Hyman Feitel, receiving
stolen goods; John Praisitus lar.
ceny, Frank Everett and Walter
Cannon, larceny, and William George
Johnson and Matthew Atwater, lar
ceny,
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FALLING CLIFF
KILLS 800 MORE
FLEEING VOLCANO
Neighboring Village of KagO-
shima Is Scene of New
Disaster Today.
HORROR Is DESCRIBED
BY JERSEY MISSIONARY
Rev. John C. Dawson, of An
dover, NJ. j., Reports Ameri-
can Women Are Safe.

KAGOSHIMA, Japan. Jan. 19.-
We're buried under a falling cliff in a
neighboring village today. One hun
dred bodies have been recovered.
This new disaster is a result of the
volcanic eruptions and earthquakes
which for a week have devastated the
Island of Sakura and made wreck
of this city.
Fresh eruptions of the volcano OF
Sakura-Jima, which recently caused
such widespread devastati oc-
CURED today. They were accom-
panied by earthquakes and violent
subterranean noises.
The governor of Hokkaido today es-
Inmates that about 100000 people on
the Island of Kiushiu will need re-
lief, and that about s3,50O,0OO will be
required.
TOXIC, Jan. 19.-The existing ex-
periences of several American mis-
sionaries during the recent catastro-
phe at Kagoshima are fecounted in a
dispatch from Rev. John G. Dawson,
of Andover, N. j., belonging to the
Methodist Episcopal mission at Ku-
mamoto, north of Kagoshima.
Rev. Mr.. Dawson says that Miss
Alice Finlay, of Coshoeton, Ohio, who
is located at Kagoshima, and Miss
Caroline league, another American
are both safe.
Miss league" he says, was vis-
iting Miss Finlay at Kagoshima and
expected to return to Kumamoto on
Saturday, the 10th, but was persuaded
to stay over Sunday when the earth
began shaking. On Monday morning
the shocks became more severe and
Miss league decided to return to Ku-
mamoto, but Miss Finay said, my
place is to stay by my people,
Miss league en.rained for Ku-
mamoto, and the train was just ready
to start, when it was shaken by a
general explosion, which tore up the
rails Miss league groped her way
back to Miss Finlay's house, but
found everybody gone excer the
woman cook, with whom Miss league
followed the crowd, and at O'Clock
on Tuesday morning arrived at Injuin
fifteen miles by road She reached
Sendai next day, and from there Wen
overland to MisuIni and thence by
steamer and traiR 10 Kumanqoto.
American rs Eyewitness.
Miss league had heard nothing
more of Miss Finlay or of Miss Rem
nick, an American, who had recently
arrived at Kagoshima from Korea
but William l. Schwartz, an American
teacher at Kagoshima, has since re-
ported that bot'l women are safe in
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WOMAN THOUGHT
DEAD FROM GAS
GETTING BETTER
Mrs. Sophia Luehr Tries to
End Life Like Her
Sister.

Although she was left for dead in
a gas-fflled room at the Bethany
Home for the Aged, in Irvington,
Mrs. Sophia Luehr, sixty-three years
old. was restored to consciousness
anq today was pronounced out of
danger
She tried to kill herself with gas
yesterday afternoon A nurse looked
into her room at 1916 o'clock and saw
her stretched out apparently llfeless
on her bed. County Physician Me-
lxetizfe offiec was notified and un-
dertakers were sent to the home from
Holes morgue. They arrived at
O'Clock and found Mrs. Luehr where
the nurse had first seen her. The
room was full of gas and two jets
were still turned on But Mrs. Luehr
was not dead.
The undertakers turned off the gas,
opened the windows and called for a
physician. DR.. Arthur c. Wilkes, of
99l Clinton avenue, was the first to
arrive. He reached the home at
O'Clock and, after working over Mrs.
Luehr for some time, restored her to
consciousness.
Mrs. Luehr and her sister, Mrs. Ma
tllda Reglan, had planned to go to
Germany together. They were hap
PLY making their arrangements in
Mrs. Luehr's home in Main street,
East Orange, last summer, when the
news that the Roseville Trust Com
pany had failed reached them.
1t happened that Mrs. Reglan had
all her savings in the Roseville Trust
Company When she finally came to
beheve that she would not save
enough out of the wreckage to insure
her rounding out her life happily in
Germany, she went to the home of
d woman for whom she had formerly
done sewing and asked to be allowed
to spend the night there. She was
found dead the next mornir in a
room full of gas.
After her sisters supposed suicide,
Mrs Luehr went to the Bethany
Home as temporary boarder That
was three weeks ago. She had gone
on with closing up her business af-
fairs through her guardian, Judge
Cecil II. MacMahon preparatory to
going back alone to Germany.
Mrs. Anna lEgbert, the matron of
the home, who had been notified when
the nurse discovered Mrs Luehr ap-
parently dead, called up the county
physicians office. 1t was said at the
home today that all she had said was:
Something has happened at the
Bethany Home" According to the
report of the Irvington police, how
ever, the county physician was noti-
fed that Mrs. Luehr had committed
suicide
In Mrs. Luehr's room was found a
bottle labeled "trioloide." According
to the label it originally contained
twenty-five tablets, but only twenty
four We're found. Each tablet con-
tains a percentage of bicholoride of
mercury, according to DR.. Wilkes,
and Mrs. Luehr, it is thought, may
have swallowed one.
Mrs. Luehr was an inmate at the
overlook Hospital for a long time.
She was out on parole only a short
time when her sister committed sui
eide She will probably be. sent back
IN the aSymm.
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year but 1000 could find employment
there. The number of boats was re-
duced one-half and the number of
nets accordingly.
Price Jumps Fifty Per Cent.
In 1904 Delaware river shad retailed
for 25 cents for bucks and 35 for roe,
and in 1913 the price to the consumer
jumped so per cent. The increase
benefited the fishermen just 20 per
cent, which the consumer willingly
paid, but the other 80 per cent was
blood money. taken from them by the
fish trust which operated through its
Philadelphia branch.
In report to the Governor of New
Continued On Page o, Column 3D.
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Sentence Is Suspended on
Picket at Nankin Garden

Arraigned on a charge of interfer-
ing with an officer, Oscar Sauer.
thirty-one years old. was released
under suspended sentence by Judge
Hahn in the First Criminal Court to-
day. Sauer was arrested by Special
Policeman Templeton in front of the
Nanlkin. Restaurant, on Branford
place, Saturday night
1t is charged he resisted Templeton
when ordered to move along. Sauer
is a member of the Walters Union
and was doing picket duty.
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STRONG SENTIMENT IN CONGRESS

shad Industry Dwindiing.
One of the greatest assets of the
State of New Jersey is its fisheries.
Without paying the slightest atten-
ton to the Delaware river and bay
fisheries, New Jersey has permitted
the ruination of the shad fishing in
dustry, until year after year it grows
smaller and smaller, with a prospect
of entire annihilation in five years.
Not bright prospect to be sure, but
figures gathered by the Board of Fish
and Game Commissioners prove 1T.
In 1904, ten years ago, the New Jer-
sey fishermen caught 1,240,150 shad,
and in 1913 the catch dwindled to
754.770 In 1904 the industry along
the New Jersey shore of the Della
ware employed 1,945 men, and last
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BILL TO SAVE FOOD FISH FROM
TRUST WILL BE INTRODUCED
INTO THE. ASSEMBLY AT ONCE
Essex County Representative to Offer Resolution Tonight or
Tomorrow, Asking Federal Government to Take Action.

Federal
will
member of
suf
a necessity Federal
STRONG SENTIMENT IN CONGRESS
a
fisheries
attention the steady
remedy
the
the of ourw carelessness.
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Wilson Still Opposes
"Rider" in Postal Bill

WASHINGTON. Jan 19.-President
Wilson today reiterated to callers his
opposition to the rider" in the post
office appropriation bill. which would
exempt more than 1000 assistant
postmasters from civil service The
President did not indicate any plan
for having the provision eliminated,
but was emphatic in his opposition
TO it.
"OId Homestead Dance and Vaudeville
This Evening.
New Blessed Sacrament Auditorium,
Clinton avenue aud Van Ness place, 8
.. N. Admission % cents.--Adv.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
ANGLICAN CHURCH GRANTS
VOTE TO WOMEN MEMBERS
Militant Suffragettes Reply to Con-
cession by Trying to Break
Up Meeting.

LONDON, July 22-Women members Of
the Anglican Church have been given
the vote on equal terms with men in
church affairs and will also be admitted
as lay representatives on parochial
church councils, according to a decision
reached at the annual meeting of the
representative church council. The vote
was 1873 to 90. Those for the change were
p bishops. 90 clergy and 76 latty; those
against, 3 bishops, 15 clergy and Y laity
The militant suffragettes' reply to this
concession was an attempt to break up
the meeting and a demand that the coun-
Gil should drop all other business and de-
vote its attention to securing the release
of women who are undergoing imprison-
ment for burning churches and destroy
ing art treasures.
The Dean of Canterbury was the most
insistent opponent Of the enfranchisement
of women in church affairs. In the mat
ter of public affairs he was entirely of
the opinion Of Pericles, 1.-THE less women
said the better"
Another opening for women Is to be
discussed at the international peniten-
tiary congress to be held in London next
year. Leading authorities in the countries
which are to send representatives to the
congress have been asked to report on
the policy of the employment of women
in the services of the police and the in
fuence on crime of the publication of oh
iectionable matters by pictures or 9th
erwise.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
TWO CUP DEFENDERS OFF
FOR SECOND RUN OF CRUISE
Committee Hopes for Good, Strong
Breeze to Test Boats-Racing
Run So Miles.

PORT JEFFERSON, N. z, August L.
Placid weather still prevailed in Long
Island sound when the New York Yacht
Club fleet and the two cup defenders,
Resolute and Vanitie. made sail today for
the second run of the cruise to New Lon
don.
1t was generally admitted that except
as a still further demonstration Of the
superior drifting abilities of the Resolute,
the race yesterday for the cup yachts gave
the Americas cup committe very little ad-
ditional data as to the comparative merits
of the two yachts. The committee still
is anxious to see the boats in strong
weather, and it is hoped that by the time
Newport is reached something like a real
breeze will prevail.
The fleet was under way early, for the
racing run was f1fty-three miles from the
start under the Smithtown bluffs to the
finish at Sarahs Lodge buoy at the en-
trance of the Thames
The Resolute got away at :15 90; the
Vanitie at rs 80.
Evening star., 1914-08-01

and the beginning of hostilities
German reservfsts in Russia have not
been summoned, owing to the delay in
pdoclaiming German mobilization. 1t is
doubtful if they will now be able to join
the colors, because all railway COM
south and west of st. Peters,
burg has been suspended. The position
Of Germans in Russia, who number sew
eral millions, is believed to be extremely
serious. especially in view of the wide
sp<ead belief in the existence of far
xeaching system of German esDionage
A dispatch to the Times from Paris
reports that the Germans have seized
French locomotives at frontier points
and torn up the permanent railway line
at Pagny, in the department of Meurthe
ct Moselle, where machine guns have
been placed in position.
Situation Is "Modifed."
An extraordinary council of ministers
held at Peterhof, according to a St.
Petersburg dispatch to the Times, was
confronted last night with a modified
situation, resulting from assurances by
the German ambassador following mes
sages exchanged between the Russian
emperor, the German emperor and King
George
The impression among the ministers.
adds the dispatch, Is that Germany is
disposed to bring influence to bear upon
Austria to resume diplomatic CONVERSE
tions on grounds acceptable to the other
European powers, and there seems some
hope of compromise.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
DEMOCRATIC SKIES
BRIGHT IN MAINE
ASELEcT|0NN NEARS
CONTINUED from First Paze.)

wealthy man. and by Walter Emerson,
progressive. one Of the star orators Of
the state. They say here: "Hinds has
the friends. Scates has the scads and
Emerson the gift of gab." If Emerson
can, swing. 5000 progressive votes. the
democrat would win. but the most eau
tious politicians do not expect Kinds 10
be defeated.
In the second district McGiilicudy.
democrat is declared by democrats to be
absolutely sure Of reelection Harold M.
sewall. republican. and Alton Wheeler.
progressive, are opposing him. The
Lewiston journal, a newspaper owned
by the brother of former Representat1ve
Dingley, the father Of the Dingley tarin
law, is supporting the progressive can
didate and bitterly attacking the repup-
lean.
In the third district John c. Peters. re-
publican, who won at by-eiecaon ov
500 in 1913, Is up for re-eiection. he Is
opposed by William r. Pattingall, one OF
the most popular democrats In the state
and by e NJ Thompson, progressive.
The democrats are hopeful of capturing
tb;s district because of the support now
OF faction of democrats who it is said.
caused Mr.. Peters to receive MS 'M".
They are in line again and WORKING
might and main for Pattingall
Guernsey Sure of Reelection.
In the fourth district the democratic
enthusiasm halts and Mr. Guernsey. re-
publican, it is admitter will be returned
to Congress.
Col. Roosevelt's course will have vital
effect upon the election. which IN any
event promises to be exceedingly close.
IF the colonel finds it advisable to come
to Maine and make a record of standing
by his bull moosers, while he is known
to be putting the soft pedal on them m
Massachusetts and New York. democratlc
prospects will be materially enhanced II
is thought here that he may de thls. Il,
n, his attitude is defined the careful
prophets are not forecastins the outcome
in September.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
ARE RETURNING TO WORK.
Building Operations in London Now
Being Resumed.

LONDON. July 25.-The big lockout of
builders. which has held up building
operations in London for months, Is
slowly crumbling without any definite
settlement. and the army of. ironwork-
ars. masons, carpenters and other men
are returning to their work.
The lockout arose from a number of
sectional strikes. the men demanding
better wages and shorter hours. Nego-
tiations went on for week after week,
without any result, except for the men,
bers of the big and wealthy trades
unions, who secured better terms. and
have now returned to work, leaving the
smaller unions. which refused all terms
offered by the contractors, to shift for
themselves. AZ these smaller unions
are nearly bankrupt. the members are
expected to follow the example Of the
nore wealthy unions.
The story Of the struggle shows how
ne men are revolving against the old
eadership system. Three times the
nen refused terms agreed upon by
their leaders.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
Men and Issues in
Eur0pe;S War Crisis
King Carol of Roumania Is With Russia.

One Of the most notable successes or
Russian diplomacy in recent years was
the detachment Of Roumania from the
triple alliance and the alignment Of
King Carol with the combination known
as the triple entente, consisting OF Great
Britain. France and Russia. As between
Austria and Russia, King Carol and his
people had little to choose. Austria
Hungary holds Pennsylvania. which is
inhabited largely by q Roumanian people.
On the other hand. Russia, after the
war against Turkey in iS7I-7S, rewarded
its ally. Roumania, by taking away from
1t the rich province of Bessarabia and
giving to the Roumanians in exchange
the strip of swampy Bulgarian soil at
the mouth Of the Danube known IS the
Dobrudja-
King Carols Diplomacy.
Nevertheless. in the present interna-
tional struggle Roumania is ranged with
Russia against Austria. Behind this
alignment is an interesting story of King
Carols diplomacy in the second Balkan
war-a feat which placed Roumania In
the position of the dominant factor. Tor
the time being. among the Balkan states.
When the first Balkan war broke out.
and the allies BEGAN to push the Turks
out Of Europe, King Carol found himself
unable to participate in the prospective
distribution of Ottoman territory. because
his country at no point touched the
Turkish empire. In these circumstances
he devised the scheme Of demanding
compensation" from Bulgaria for its
neutrality in the struggle. This com
pensation'' was to be a strip OF Bull
garian territory contiguous to the Dob
rudjan boundary.
st. Petersburg's Ready Acceptance.
King Carols plan found ready accept
ance at ST. Petersburg. where 1t was
readily seen that the wrong Russia had
done to Roumania in 1878 could be partly
nghted at the expense Of Bulgaria in
1919. Consequently the Russian foreign
office informed Bulgaria that Roumania
must be Compensated by the cession OF
Bulgarian territory. This Bulgaria.
though at that time in life-and-death
grapple with it's old enemy. the Turk.
Evening star., 1914-08-01
sAMOANs HAVE WIRELESS.
Islands Now in Direct Communica.
o ton With Outside World.

Inhabitants of the Samoan Islands are
now in direct communication with the
outside world by means of the wireless
For years they had to be content with
the news brought them once a month by
one of the steamers plying between San
Francisco and Australia.
The Navy Department recently in
stalled at the naval station on the Island
of Tutuila a small radio set designed
primarily for communication with ships.
1t was of small transmitting range, but
reports to the department indicate that
the apparatus Is exceptionally efficient.
Messages have been sent 700 miles to the
British station in the Ffgi Islands. But
it is as a receiving station. however, that
its worth is appreciated by the Samoans,
the record being remarkable for such a
small station. At night messages have
been copied from the naval station at
North Head, Wash, about 1850 miles
away 1t Is from Honolulu. however.
that most of the news is received by the
Samoans and the press dispatches sent
out from there every night are published
the next day. .'