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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
American Tourists Lose
Thousands in Swindle

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2s.-Because
an increasing number of American
tourists are being victimized out of
thousands of dollars by confidence
game in London, the criminal in
vestigation department of New Scot
land Yard has issued a warning ex-
posing the scheme.
The game is worked by two con-
federates, one of whom explains that
his uncle, by the terms of an eccentric
will, gives him a fortune conditional
upon his distribution of $1,000 among
the poor of the American victims ma
tive state. But in order to establish
confidence, the American is requested
to draw f100 from his bank, which is
given to one of the confederates, who
disappears. Later, the other goes to
hunt for@his companion, and the VIC
tim never sees them again unless,
after lodging a complaint. he is called
to identify them at the police station,
Then the American must decide
whether he will stay TO prosecute and
thus lose his passage money or stand
his loss.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29

to oppose the adoption of a State
religion.
AS was contemplated when Yuan
Sht-Kai dissolved parliament. the ad-
ministrative council formed in its
place and consisting of two repre-
sentatives from each province, four
cabinet ministers, representative
from each ministry and eight men,
bers of the presidential secretarial
adopts all the measures proposed by
President Yuan Shi-Kai, who exer-
cises practically entire control.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.-As the
Chinese provisional constitution
which Yuan Shi-Kai has sworn to
uphold provides in section seven of
article six that citizens shall have
freedom of religion" officials here
were somewhat surprised at the ac-
ton of the Chinese administrative
council.
Religious freedom in China, how
ever, is guaranteed by at least a
dozen treaties with world powers.
The United States has three and
other nations have similar ones. In
cidentally, Yuan Shi- -Kai's constitu-
tional adviser is an American, Pro-
fessor Frank Johnson Goodnow, of
Columbia University.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
MRS. PITTS NOT
TO GET A DECREE
Errors Court Reverses Chan
Gerry in Favor of Plain
field Doctor.
fspeciaI to the Newark star.I

TRENTON. Jan 29-The decree of
the Court of Chancery separating
Mrs. Ida Caroline Pitts from the bed
and board of her husband. Dr. Albert
Pitts, physician in Plainfield. is re-
versed in a decision handed down to-
day by the Court of Errors and APP
peals Mrs. Pitts brought the suit
against her husband, charging him
with extreme cruelty, and the Court
of Chancerv held that the cruelty had
been proven and so allowed the decree
of separation.
1t was admitted in the case that
DR.. Pitts struck his wife twice. but
the opinion of Judge Vredenburgh. in
the Errors Court points out that these
blows occurred after Mrs. Pitts had
charged her husband with serious
offense. of which he was innocent.
The decision of the Court of Errors
is that there was not the extreme cru
city sufficient to warrant the decree of
separation.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
ROB HOUSE AT
POINT OF GUNS
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hofbauer
Awakened TO Face Armed
Burglars.

Two armed burglars robbed the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hof-
bauer, at Ia Nursery street, early
today by holding the victims at the
point of revolver. The man and
wife were threatened with death If
they made an outcry and before Hof-
bauer was able to give the alarm the
thieves escaped Some jewelry and
SS in cash were stolen.
About o'clock this morning Mrs.
Hofbauer was awakened by noise in
her room, and when she started to
rise to investigate received a COM
mand to keep quiet under the penalty
of death. The bedroom is located on
the second oor and the thieves gained
entrance through windok. Both of
the intruders wore red handkerchiefs
about their faces and their slouch
hats were pulled low over their eyes.
While one of the men held a gun
to Mrs. Hofbauer's head the other
unscrewed the valuable earrings she
wore. They then went to a bureau
and took a pocketbook. Eight dol
lars was found in the purse and they
also pocketed a pair of kid gloves, a
scarf pin, a pair of gold cuff buttons
and gold brooch.
With leveled revolvers the men en-
tered the room occupied by Hof-
bauer, who conducts a saloon be-
meath his living apartments. The
saloon-keeper was ordered to sit up
in bed and hold his hands above his
head. The pillow he used was lifted
and finding no money the gunmen
demanded the couple to tell where
they kept their money.
Hofbauer told the hold-up men that
his money was locked up in safe,
located in the saloon below. Mrs.
Hofbauer stood against the wall with
her hands raised above her head.
Don't you think you've gone far
enough2" pleaded the woman.
IF you say another word I'll shoot
your head off" snapped one of the
burglars.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
Book Wants Fund for Trolley
Rides of Postal Employees
IFrom a Stan Correspondent.I

WASHINGTON Jan. 29.-Appeals
have been received by Congressman
Mccoy and Kinkead for Postmaster
Frank ]. Book, of Newark, asking
for an appropriation for street car
rides for postoffice employees. The
Newark postmaster is not in favor of
the ticket system. as it was not sue
cessful when tried out before. He
prefers an appropriation to cover
trolley car expenses by the year The
representatives will put the matter
before the First Assistant Postmas-
ter-General
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
Sound Steamer
Is Hit by Liner

NEW LONDON. Conn, Jan. 2s.-
With her starboard guard rails on the
main and quarter decks smashed in,
the steamer New Hampshire, of the
New London line, with many passen-
gers aboard. docked here today, and
reported that she had been struck a
glancing blow by the French liner
La Savoie when leaving New York
city yesterday.
According to the story told by Off
GERS of the New Hampshire, the
French liner was headed directly for
the Sound steamer, and only prompt
and skilful maneuvering prevented a
collision. The La Savoie was not in
jured.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
THREE KILLED IN
WRECK ON PENNSY
Filler Hits caboose in Fog-Pas-
sengers Are Badly
Shaken Up.

PITTSBURGH, Jan. 29.-Pennsyl-
vania passenger train 10, New York
to Pittsburgh, was wrecked near
Conemaugh, Pa, today, when it ran
into an engine and caboose going
west. Three members of the crew
were killed and another injured.
The passenger train was running at
a high rate of speed when, as it
rounded a curve, the engineer saw
the lights of the freight train directly
in front He applied the emergency
brakes, but the heavy engine crashed
into the caboose, killing A. L. Ritchey,
conductor. of Youngwood, Pa; A.
Lechliter, brakeman. of Youngwood.
Pa, and H. C. Parnell. fiagman, AL
toona, Pa. and injuring H. w. Todd,
brakeman, Youngwood, Pa
The engine and the mail car on the
passenger train were derailed, block
ing three tracks. Passengers were
tossed about by the force of the col
lision, but none was seriously hurt.
A heavy fog hung over the valley.
and the engineer of the passenger
train was unable to see the signals of
the automatic block system, with
which the division is equipped.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
designations of New York
Police Deputies Accepted

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-Police Com
missioner Douglas /. Mckay to-
day announced that he had re-
ceived the resignation of his two
deputies, George s. Dougherty and
Harry w. Newburger. The resigna-
tions were accepted, and new deputies
will relieve them Monday
Commissioner Mckay said that he
expected TO announce at least one
new deputy today The commission
er made no further comment
1t will be recalled that Dougherty
and Newburger resigned to Mr.. Wall
do, and at the request of Mayor Kline
returned to the department in order
to assist the incoming administration.
At no time did Dougherty or New
burger have any idea that they were
to be retained.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
Three Attempts
to Wreck Trains

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29.-Two more
attempts were made here last night
to wreck trains on the Missouri
Pacific Railway. it was learned today.
At midnight private watchman
found stone wedged in a switch
from on the main line in the western
part of ST. Louis. He removed the
stone, but few hours later dis
covered a large piece of rock wedged
in the place.
All told three attempts have been
made this week to wreck Missouri
Pacific trains. On Tuesday morning
the southbound fast mail on the st.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
struck a pile of ties that had been
placed ON the track. The engineer
saw the ties in time to slow down
his train and thus avoid wreck.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
Drawn to Death
by Factory Belt
Especial to the Newark star.I

MORRISTOWN, Jan. 29.-John
Tfonsowky. a mill hand employed in
the McEwan Brothers Company dia-
mona paper mill at Malapardis, was
instantly killed today, when he was
caught in a belt and drawn around a
fast-revolving fiywheel. His body
was horribly mangled.
Tfonsowky, who was forty eight
years old, leaves a widow and three
children in Austria. Coroner Law
renee J. Welch granted a burial per-
NIT. An inquest is unnecessary. he
declared.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
Haviland & Co.
Sued by Govt

NEW YORK. Jan. 29.-The govern
ment brought suit here today against
Theodore Haviland & Co. Fifth ave.
nue. importers of china, to recover
81, 200. 900, alleged to be due on i'm
ports which were underyalued by
fraudulent invoices.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
Has Walters Searched When
PIethOric Wallet Vanishes

NEW YORK, Jan. 29.--An unusual
scene followed dinner party given
last night at the Hotel Plaza by J
II. Schermerhorn, of As Glenwood ave-
nue., Jersey City, when all the walters
who had attended his guests We're
taken to one side and questioned fol-
lowing the loss by Mr.. Shermerhorn
of a wallet containing s1SS in bills and
an 1S49 one dollar gold piece.
AS a result of the questioning Mario
I,appi. an Italian waiter. twenty
seven years old. Of liz East Forty
first street. was locked up in the East
Fifty-first street police station early
today on a charge Of grand larceny.
to which he has confessed himself
guilty. OF the s1ss Mr.. Schermerhorn
recovered s170-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
Cold Wave Will Strike
Here Tomorrow Night,
Declares Local Prophet

Professor Weiner said aoday that
there was a cold wave dae here to-
morrow night How seye3 II would
be the weather prophet 5could not
say, but he said it was heading out
OF khs Wsst at good speed,
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29
Kissing Baby, Pastor Is Slain
as Pistol Falls from Pocket

MACON, Ga, Jan. 29.-Rev. q. e.
Tidwell. pastor of a Baptist church.
was killed at his home in East Macon
today. when a pistol dropped from
his pocket and exploded as he was
leaning down to kiss his two year-old
baby good-by
Tho minister dNfried the pistol so
his young chlldfn might not play
with it, The buffet entered the brain
and Tidwell died in an hour.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-29

-Four Nights 10 cafIforni5
via Waehinyt ON Sunset Route. snu3et Lin
ffe8 daily ne extra fare New f'<4i1--<E
hutlrsf uuiciser tourist csr service -. z3G-
lIbs Broa0vay 2ef Firth asenas Ee~ xoEE
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-08-07
FOR PANAMA CANAL COINS.
Quarter Commemorating Peace Also
Urged In Senate Bill.

Washington. The senate banking
and currency committee had before it
the bill introduced by Senator Thomas
of Colorado, providing for the coinage
of quarter dollars to commemorate
completion of the Panama canal and
the bundredth anniversary of peace
between English speaking peoples. A
feature of the bill was the injection of
provision which would fix the ratio
Of gold and silver at % to /. The meas
ure also would provide that each quar-
ter must weigh 1875 grains. and that
any person offering 103. 125 ounces of
pure silver, plus $3.50 in lawful money,
could receive from the treasury 400
quarters, or $100
Accompanying the bill was a state
ment urging that the measure would
establish a fixed par exchange with
forty five countries which use the Brit
ish sovereign as a unit of exchange.
and an approximate parity with TWEEN
ty-one countries which use the French
franc as the exchange unit.
The bill was offered "by request"
but Senator Thomas did not disclose
the identity Of Its author.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-08-07
CONGRESS MAKES
RECORD FOR TALKING
More Speeches Than Ever Be.
fore Are Made.

Washington.-Ths Il the most talka-
tive congress yet. The fact is shown
by an examination of the statistics.
The Congressional Record now con
tains over $4,000 pages for the present
session. That many pages of the Rec
ord. In other words. have been filed
since the first Monday of last Decem
ber. In those pages may bc found dis
cussion of almost every subject under
the sun, from questions of Internatlon-
al polity TO garden seeds.
The largest record achieved In
single session. prior to this time, was
In the regular session of the Fifty first
congress. 1t met In December. 1889.
and continued to the first of the next
October. 304 days 1t filled record
of 10.SO0 pages
1t must be remembered. too, that the
present session of congress is not over.
1t will last five or six weeks longer.
perhaps more than that.
Something like 400 pages are filed
weekly. 1t is safe to predict that by
the time this session ends the Record
will contain well up toward 1900
pages When the Record Is bound In
its final form the number OF pages will
be to some extent fewer This is bc-
cause In making UP the permanent
Record some of the formal features of
the daily record are omitted and each
page is made up as compactly ms nos
sible.
Mhp- a-if hsIS v---------- -i..-.-..s.i..-.--
more taIkatfveI Various explanations
are made One might draw the con
clusion that the representatives OF the
people are getting more yOluble and
excitable, like the French, for instance
Leaving aside the question of any
change which may be coming over the
American character, number Of other
explanations can be made. For one
thing, il is to he remembered that the
size of the house was much increased
In the last reapportionment. Congress
Is entitled. therefore, TO do little
more talking.
Moreover. now that senators are
elected by direct vote. they feel Ii
necessary to do more talking for the
benefit of their constituents. and they
introduce more matter into the record
I'm way of letters. clippings, etc
Again. there used to be fine old
tradition that a new senator should
be seen but not heard. He was sup
posed to sit silent in his seat and Oh
serve the way of the elder statesmen
for year or So. Ii he yentured to
talk early In the game. as Albert
jeremiah Bevcridge Of Indiana did
when be made his advent. and as La
Toilette. Cummins. and some of the
progressive minded senators did, he
was regarded as rude. The elder states.
men haZed him by going 10 the cloak.
rooms and saying mean things about
him.
But that Is so no more The new
senator is allowed to talk eS freely as
the senior. This adds to the -ecord.
Additional reasons might be given.
One factor is that the government is
getting bigger, more great subjects of
legislation are pressing for attention.
and these subjects are productive of
debate.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-08-07
new OCEAN AIR
COURSE PLANNED
Route Would Provide Four
Stops For Gasoline.

New York.-A new course for the
proposed ocean flight of the aeropane
America. postponed until Oct l, has
been laid out by officials of the Aero
Club of America. The new course in
designed to overcome the difficulty of
carrying a sufficient supply of gaso-
line. Instead oc the long flight of 1.2OO
miles from st. Johns to the Azores. it
is proposed to establish an emergency
station at the Flemish cap. Il shoa off
the Newfoundland banks. 420 miles in
sOutheasterly direction from St
Johns. There are sixty fathOms of
water there The distance from there
to the Azores is in round numbers ST5
miles. Henry WOOdhouse member
of the transatlantic flight committee
of the club. suggested this. and it was
approved. He said of the proposal:
ITO lessen the dangers of the flight
Il may be possible to consider the
matter OF stopping at Flemish cap ON
the way TO the Azores, There addi-
tional fuel could be taken aboard.
though the stop should be discretional
ON the part Of the pilots. That would
cut the longest distance to be flown in
a single fight To S75 miles. the Flem-
ish cap being 400 miles from st. Johns.
This would divide the flight into
four legs as follows: From St Johns
to Flemish cap. 420 miles: TO the
Azores. S75 miles; from the Azores to
the Spanish coast. 6G0 miles. and from
Spain to Plymouth. $50 miles
THE entire distance can be covered
within forty hours easily leaving
thirty two hours for stops. If all de-
tails are attended to before the start
L will bc necessary at the stops merely
TO fill the tanks with gasoline. As the
first leg Of the flight will be attempted
ut night ii may be wise TO have fires
1T all the points mentioned. even If no
stop is made The reflection Of these
on the water should be seen from the
aeroplane for more than thirty miles.
which is more than the America would
drift under normal condition."
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-08-07
COINS TO AID SUFFRAGE.
Melting Pot For Cause to Turn Gold
and Silver into Money.

Washington. Arrangements for CO.
verting into coin the donations of gold
and silver that are being made to help
In the "votes for women" campaign
have been made with Director Roberts
of the mint by the National Woman
Suffrage association. Ii was annOunc-
ed from suffrage headquarters that the
director has promised that when the
precious metal is collected he will fur
nish the melting pot and deliver to Il
representative of the association value
received in gold and silver money fresh
from the dies.
On day yet to be named the metal
will be presented by committee rep
resenting the association to the super
lntendent OF the mint at Philadelphia,
who will determine its actual value for
coinage. He will then place that sum
to the credit of the association, leaving
1t to the officers to decide whether they
will receive it by check, gold. silver or
notes.
The fund realized by this melting
pot" plan is to be used in the suffrage
campaigns In Montana. Nevada. North
and South Dakota Nebraska. Missouri
and Ohio. The women hope to secure
$4,000 by the plan.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-08-07

Freeport, N. Y.-Several weeks have
passed since Mrs. Louise Duryea Bal
ley of Hampstead was shot to death
by some one who stood just outside
the window of DR.. Edwin Carman's
Office in this place.
Long ago the physicians jealous
Wife. Mrs. Florence Conklin Carman.
Went through the ordeal of arrest and
indictment. and is now under bail
bond, awaiting trial in the fall on a
manslaughter Indictment
But no end has come to the tremen-
dous interest that was awakened by
the tragedy. which is still an unsolved
mystery
The question of the wife's guilt or
innocence is still being debated vigOr-
Ously among not only her friends and
acquaintances. but among all sorts of
persons who never saw her and never
heard of her until the newspapers told
of the Staying of Mrs. Bailey.
District Attorney Lewis ]. Smith and
Sheriff Stephen +. Petit pointed out
early in the case that there were two
vital questions: Who had the motive
to kill? Who had the opportunity to
kiIlG
Mrs. Cnrman admittedly was jealous
of her husbands woman patients. She
confessed that she spied upon them
with a dictograph Undoubtedly she
could have listened to her husband and
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-08-07

Mrs. Bailey talking on the night of
June 30-the night of Mrs. Bailey's
murder Once previous to June 80
the presence of woman nurse in the
doctors consultation room provoked
her to burst In and slap the woman's
face.
The servant girls story and that of
tramp. Farrell. who said he saw a
woman of Mrs. Carman's build outside
the window at the instant of the shoot
ing, are convincing to the authorities
The only thing that Mrs. Carman's
friends have to say is:
But Florence couldn't possibly have
done such thing; she is not that sort
Of woman. Look at her clear, frank
eyes, even now, when she is under
suspicion. Listen to her soft, cultured
voice, ultra feminine and appealing"
And. indeed, 1t was hard to believe
when one first talked of the stately.
perfectly gowned society leader of the
Long Island town that she could blaze
up into such fury as to impel her to
shoot defenseless woman in the back.
Latterly, though-after her arrest and
indictment-she developed another side
She voiced openly her hatred of every
one and everything that had to do with
the accusation against her-the Off
cials. the grand jury the newspapers.
the detectives.
Her trial. scheduled for September or
October before Justice Kelby in the
Mineola courthouse, undoubtedly will
be the most celebrated ever held on
Long Island The verdict of the twelve
Nassau county citizens who will sit on
the jury will be awaited with the great
est interest by the whole country, for
no murder case since that of Stanford
White or that of Rosenthal has arous-
ed more widespread interest.
You couldn't convict that woman
with twenty eyewitnesses to the shoot
ing" said prominent Nassau man.
District Attorney Smith himself, who
knew more about the details of the
case than any one else and who will
conduct the prosecution, admitted with
an air Of dependency that he thought
about the same way.
1t was believed by every one that
sentiment already existed In her favor
that could not be overcome. First.
she was the wife Of the smiling. jovial
DOC. Carman. known to every ons
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-08-07
FOUND LITTLE TRACHOMA.
Federal Inquiry Shows Negroes to Be
Singulariy Free From the Disease.

Federal Inquiry Shows Negroes to Be
Singulariy Free From the Disease.
A report on trachoma In the noun
tain districts OF North and South Caro-
lima was given out by the public health
service.
The survey was under the direction
Of Past Assistant Surgeon A. ID. Fos
ter and shows the disease exists only
In Isolated localities. Conditions were
found to be better than In the noun
tain sections OF Kentucky. West vir
ginia aud Virginia. where the disease
also exists.
OF 16.S05 persons examined In the
two states only thirtyfour were found
to have the disease. Most Of these
cases were on the Cherokee Indian res
ervation In Swain county. N. c., TWEEN
ty cases being located In that county.
practically all of which were traced to
the reservation school
The survey disclosed that negroes
are singularly free from the disease.
Foreign immigration does not seem to
be responsible for the malady. ns i'm
migrants are free from II Practical
ly oil the sufferers We're native born
In the white and colored schools for
the blind n. Raleigh only one ease OF
trachoma was found tonspqnently
the disease il not regarded as being
widespread IN the stnte
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-08-07
Rucklen's Arntca salvs for Cuts. Burns,
Sores

Mr. f. S. Loper Marilla, N. Y, writes:
Il nave never had cut, burn, wound or
sore it would not heal" Get box or
Bucklen's Arnica Salve today. Keep
handy at all times for burns, sores, cuts,
wounds. Prevents Lockjaw. 25c at
your druggist.--Adv.