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LMV ON FAITH HEALING]'
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Piercon's Guilt Affirmed by. the Court
of Appeals. r
ACTION WAS CRIMINAL NEGLECT
I'pholdB Conviction of TVIiitw 1'laiiin Alan p
Who Failed to Give III* Sick Child ti
Medical Aid?.Bender Stetson and the t1
Oulmby Family, Christian Scientists, (j
Also Indicted, May Now Be Tried. P
Albany, N. Y.?A decision was bund- ^
od down by the Court of Appeals in a
thi>t case of People vs. Pierson, declaring
dependence upon faith-healing in J
case of sickness to be criminal riegli- j-j
gence. a
J. Luther Pierson lives at White 11
Flams, ana eariy in iyui was ?eutenced
to $300 fine or 500 days' impris- 0
onmont for criminal neglect in failing a
to provide a licensed physician to at- a
tend his sixteen-months' old adopted a
daughter in a case of pneumonia, p
which afterward proved fatal. The a
conviction was secured under the Pe- a
nal Code, which holds that "a pe?son a
who omits without lawful excuse to j?
perforin a duty by law imposed upon
him. to furnish food, clothing, shelter a
or medical attendance to a minor, is jj
guilty." etc. a
Justice Bartlett, in the prevailing
opinion in the Appellate Division, held gi
that the "medical attendance'' referred r
to in the statute does not mean exclu- ^
sively the attendance of a medical n
]>ractitioner in the general sense of ?
the term. The Appellate Division re- 0
.versed the conviction. 9
In its opinion, written by Judge jj
Haight, the Court of Appeals says: "It u
would seem that the legislative intent
is reasonably clear, although possibly t<
more precise language could have been 0
employed. The section of the cade
under which the indictment was found
contemplates that there are persons q
1 upon whom the law casts a duty of n
caring for minors. 0]
"We are aware that there are people a
who believe that divine power may be
invoked to heal the sick, and that 0
faith is all that is required. There arc g;
others who believe that the Creator j
has supplied the earth, nature's storehouse.
with everything that man may g
want for his support and maintenance, q
Juc-ludhig the restoration and preser- n
vation of his health, and that he is left S(
to work out his own salvation under y
tixed natural laws. '
"There are still others who believe 5
that Christianity and science go hand oj
in hand, both proceeding from the fl
Creator; tnat science is out xne ageni ^
of the Almighty, through which He ac- tl
eomplishes results, and that both ^
science and divine power may be In-' ^
voked together to restore diseased and o;
suffering humanity.
' "But, sitting as a court of law for y
the purpose of construing and deter- y
mining the meaning of statutes, we 0
have nothing to do with variances in ^
religious belief, and have no power to
determine which Is correct. We place p
, no limitations upon the power of the f,
mind over the body, the power of faith 5
to dispel disease, or the power of the ^
Supseme Being to heal the sick. We 'ei
merely declare the law as given by the ^
Legislature. We find no error on the
part of the trial court that called for a ^
reversal." s
The Pierson case was regarded as in C]
a measure a test case. Rome time af- j{
xer xup riersou case uame hjj we tare ^
f 4he Quimby family, several mem- jj
hers of which were allowed to die g
without medical attendance, was
reached in the same court. With the S]
Quimbys, who were Christian Scien- a
tists. John Lathrop, a reader connect- g
.ed with the First Church of Christ, j,
Scientist, was indicted. They may
noy be tried.
FOUR FORCED PARDONS. E
Military Prisoners at Alcatraz Released
by Crime. ^
San Francisco.?James II. Darling. t<
Joseph Whije, Cornelius Cokes and b
John L. Moore, military prisoners of c
Alcatraz, have been released on par- I
don papers which it is now discovered o
were forged. These fraudulent pardons
were sent through the ordinary r<
i-'ourse. bearing the regular seals and t(
stamps,- and approved by the Presi- a
dent, but by whom and by whose as- b
sistauce the forgeries were perpetratod
are questions not yet solved. ! ti
The four prisoners were sentenced h
to five years' imprisonment, and had ti
more than two vears to serve. They n
were set at liberty October 7. t
The official stamps of tlie Department
of California headquarters and
i?f the Judge Advocate's office appear. _
The letterhead on which the pardon is
typewritten seems genuine.
TO WATCH FOR CRANKS. ?
XI
Giant Detective Hiyl Tile Policeman Now d
on D\ity at White House. B
Washington, D. C.?Besides the two CI
or three Secret Service men, uniformed c
policemen and civilian guards always 21
on duty in the executive offices, a de- 0
tectlve in plain clothes has been assigned
to the waiting room. He is a n
giant, and is expected to make short n
work of cranks, for whom it is: his 5
particular duty to watch.
A six-foot policeman in unnorm now
stays very close to the north door of N
the White House, where most of the "
cranks call. ,
Armrchlsts In Porto Klco. ,
Socialists and Anarchists attacked tl
the police in Sa'i Juan, Porto Rico. r<
Forty arrests were made and several c\
of the rioters were sentenced to terms ^
of imprisonment. ;* a
Oppose Sympathetic Strikes.
. Samuel Gompers, President of the
American Federation of Labor, Jssued a
a statement opposing sjunpathetic 0
strikes and urging members of the ^
building trades to accept the employere'
arbitration plan and go to work. ^
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Boston Americans the Champions.
The Boston Club, of the American
League, won the deciding giune with
the Pittsburg Nationals for the profes- v
ftrtnol Kn cottii 11 /din ^ 4* f o a
CMTSIIUI uaocuuli U1 i;.C A
United States. ?
Archbishop Kain Dead.
Archbishop John J. Knin. of St.
Louis, passed away peacefully in Mt.
St. Agnes' Hospital. Baltimore. Md.. 3
without apparent suffering. He was o
, born in Martinsburg, West Va.. in
May. 1SJ.1. He was educated for the ji
priesthood in St. Charles' Seminary, t
Baltimore, and ordained by Archbishop ^
Spalding July 25, 1SGC. r
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Insular Question Reopened. J
Suits pending in the United State? ^
Supreme Court, Washington, for recov*
ery of duties paid on goods imported
fron^ Porto Bico and the Philippines
'refioefiitJia-Insular auestion. u - ;
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5CT0BER CROP REPORT '
I j
here Are Better Indications For
Corn and Spring Wheat.
otal Yield of These Grains Computed o*>.
the Basis of Oct. 1 Conditions?Flggures
on Eye and Other Crops.
Washington. D. C?The monthly roort
of the chief of the Bureau of Staistics
of the Department of Agriculure
shows the condition of corn on
ctober 1 to have been SO.S. as comared
with 80.1 one month ago, 70.0 on
ictober 1, 1902, 52.1 at the correspondlg
date in 1901, and a ten-year averge
of 77.7.
The preliminary estimate of the avrage
yield per acre of spring wheat is
4.4 bushels, subject to revision when
ae final wheat estimate is made. The
verage quality of spring w^ieat is 83.5,
s compared witn ?<.< one year ago.
The preliminary returns indicate an
ats crop of about 787,000,000 bushels,,
r an average of 28.4 bushels per acre,
s compared with 34.5 bushels on-? year
go, 25.1 In 1901 and a ten-year averge
of 27.S.
The preliminary estimate of the yield
er acre of barley is 26.4 bushels,
gainst 29.0 one year ago, 24.7 in 1901
nd a ten-year average of 23.8. The
veraje for quality is 85.4, against 87.3
ist year and 89.2 in 1901.
The preliminary estimate of yield per
ere of rye is 15.4 bushels, against 17
ist year. 15.1 in 1901, and a ten-year
verage of 14.8. The average for qual:y
is 8S.4. against 91.8 last year and
E).4 in 1901. The average condition of
ye on October 1 was 90.0, as compared
rith 93.6 one month ago and 92 on Auust
1, 1903.
The average condition of buckwheat
n October 1 was 83, as compared with
1 one month ago. 80.5 on October 1.
502, 90.0 on the corresponding date in
501, and a ten-year average of 79.7.
The average condition of flax on Oc)ber
1 was 74, as compared with 80.5
ne month ago and S0.3 on August 1,
503.
The average condition of potatoes on
'ctober 1 was 74.G, against 84.3 one
lonth ago, 82.5 on October 1, 1902, 54
_ *K? 10H1 onrl I
U IUC LUllCOpUllUIU^ uaiu lii J.WA,
ten-year average of 73.1.
The average condition of tobacco on
'ctober 1 was S2.3, as compared with
3.4 one month ago and 82.9 on August
, 1903.
On the basis of the condition of corn
iven by this report, and using the
gures last furnished by the Departlent
of Agriculture as to the area
jwn, S9,S00.000 acres, the indicated
leld of corn is 2,307,800,000 bushels,
his compares with an indicated yield
y the Government report of 2,289.900.30
bushels, and an indicated yield by
le August 1 report of 2,245,000,000
ushels. It also compares with an acaal
corn crop last year of 2,523.048,000
ushels, and actual.yield in 190],
'hen there was a partial crop failure,
f 1,522,519,891 bushels.
On the basis of the spring wheat
ield per acre?14.4 bushels?reported
? the department the indicated crop
f spring wheat is 248,501,000 bushels,
rhich compares with a yield indicated
y the crop report of August 1, the last
revlous Government crop report to re?r
to spring wheat, of 239,872,000
Thn a/>fiial vtold nf cnrlntf
UOUCIO. XUC UWUUI J 4\,*U. VI.
rheat last year was 258,274,342 bushla.
while in 1901 it was 2S9,625,717
ushels.
No report is made by the Department
lis month as to winter wheat, but, asuming
the August 1 indication as unhanged,
the total indicated wheat crop
i 659,028.000 bushels, which compares
rith 669,841,000 bushels, the total crop
idicated by the Government return of
eptember 1, when the combined
rheat condition and yield per acre?
pring and winter?was reported. The
ctual total wheat crop last year was
70.063.000 bushels, and the actual crop
i 1901 was 748,460,218 bushels.
BROUGHT IN CAPTOR DEAD.
oy Prisoner Thought That Deputy SherlQ
Htvd Merely Fainted.
Athol, Mass.?While driving from Pe2rsham
to Athol, Mass., with a four?en-year-old
prisoner. Carroll Arcbiald,
of Petersham, charged with lareny
of two cabbages. Deputy Sheriff
toswell P. Doane, of Athol, toppled
ver dead from heart disease.
The young prisoner picked up the
eins and drove three and a half miles
) a livery stable in Athol. where he
sked assistance to revive Doane, who
e thought had fainted. Chief
of Police Jacques, of Athol. af?r
hearing the boy's story, ordered
im removed from the lock-up to a ho?1,
where the lad, who was much unerved,
was given comfortable quarts.
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_ TROLLEY MACNATE OUT.
tock Market Crash Causes '\Y. B. Given*!
Loss of Fort^pc and Traction Leadership.
Lancaster, Pa.?William B. Given,
Resident of the Lancaster County
lailway and Light Company, has tenered
hie resignation as President, and
rith this comes the charge that disrepancies
amounting to $100,000 or
lore have been discovered in his acjunts,
which are now in'the hands
f experts.
Mr. Given has been regarded as a
ian of large wealth, and has been
oted as an operator on a very cxtenive
scale in the stock market. .
The recent slump in the market, %
5 said, caused him such heavey losias
lat he was unable to meet demands
3r margins.
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Municipal Ownership Defeated. V
At a special election the proposal
5 issue $710,000 municipal bonds tor
lie purchase of the Geary Street R^jtl3ad,
to enable the city of San FranIsco,
Cal., to operate the road, was
efeated by 14,481 yeas to 10,745 nays.
? two-thirds vote was required. <(.
Homestead Mills Clo*e Down.
Notices were posted in the thirty-five
nd forty-inch mills at the Homestead
Pa.) Steel Works announcing a shutown
of both these mills for an inefinite
period. They employ over 2000
len. It is believed that several of the
itrnaces will have to close unless these
lills reopen within a couple of weeks.
Nominated In Rhode Inland.
Rhode Island's Republican State Conention
indorsed Roosevelt for Presient
in 1904 and nominated Colonel
lainuel T. Colt for Governor.
Sows of tho Tollers.
In the great steum flour mill ot
flnnftonfilio cfiulnnfe fnrtl* fhn n1ili>AC
UlUliVU[/Vllk) OIUUVIUCJ IVWtt IUV< ^4M\.VW
f striking employes.
Tbe employes of tbe trolley lines in
^ew Jersey Lave rejected a proposition
o strike by an overwhelming majorty.
The conference between employes
nd officials of tbe Baltimore & Ohio
tailroad Company ended in an arnicaile
settlement.
International Typographical Union
rill make a determined effort for a
;eneral eight-hour day. Commencing
anuary L 1905.
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lH CLOUD IN THE ?A8T
Russia Prepares For Crisis With the
Japanese.
IA/ARQHIPS RIISHFn Tfi KfiRFA
linilUIIII v IIUVIIUU I V ItUMUM
England Fear# Boinjy Drawn Into Manchnrlan
War-Germany's Possible Support
of Russia is a Mcnacc?Japan
Plans Warily?Believing; Conflict is Inevitable,
She Seeks Alliance With China
Londou, England.?Though no overt
act of war has been reported from St.
Petersburg or the Far East, the unmistakable
manner in which Japan and
Russia are preparing for military and
naval action loaves no doubt that the
beginning of the contest is at hand.
The gravity, of the situation is not
underestimated by the members of the
British Cabinet and the representatives
of the Powers who are now in
London. On every side fears are expressed
that, owing to the peculiar attitude
assumed by Germany with respect
to the coming contest for supremacy
in the Far East, England may
be drawn into the strife.
More Russian warships have been
dispatched from Port Arthur to MaSan-Pho,
and the principal military
und naval commanders of Japan and
Russia no longer pretend to conceal
the fact that they are preparing to
take the field. The war spirit is running
high in both countries, and the
leaders of conservative opinion appear
to have abandoned all hope of averting
a war that now seems to be inevitable.
A report from Cheefoo says that the
Japanese have occupied Ma-San-Pho,
Korea, and the officers of the Japanese
and Russian fleets that are now lying
in Ma-San-Pho harbor were hourly expecting
that war would be declared.
It is reported from Port Arthur that
the Toklo correspondent of the Novui
Krai, the leading Russian newspaper
in that town, has sent to his paper a
dispatch which indicates that Japan
is prepared to begin the conflict without
further delay. He says that the
Japanese press is pointing out that if
Japan engages In war with Russia it
will not be on account of the Russian
occupation of Manchuria, but because
Japan i9 determined to establish her
position among the Powers.
BEAT YOUNC_BOY_ TO DEATH.
DeRenorat? German Gets Light Sentene*
and Angry Crowd In Conrt Kooni Riot*.
Bayreuth, Germany. ? Andreas Dlppold,
a teachcr, was found guilty here
of manslaughter In having caused the
death by ill-treatment of a boy who
had been intrusted to his care. Robert
Koch, 'President of the Deutsche
Bank, placed his two sons, fourteen
and twelve years old, in care of Dippold
during the summer, while Herr
Koch and his wife were in Paris.
Dippold treated the boys with the
greatest brutality, tying them by their
hands and feet to the bed at night and
otherwise maltreating them. The elder
boy ultimately died from dlsusage.
The prisoner was sentenced to eight
years' penal servitude and ten years'
deprivation of his civil rights.
Medical experts who examined him
testified that he was sane, but was a
moral degenerate. They said that he
trn? nffllpfod trlth n mnnln fnr hlrtnri
which could only be satisfied by Inflicting
torture.
The mildness of the sentence, which
was apparently the heaviest that could
be demanded, excited the spectators to
fury< Men and women rose from their
seats and cursed and threatened the
prisoner.
The little boy, Joachin. said Dippold
had told them that their parents believed
they should be thrashed. The
tragic picture of the boys, believing
themselves abandoned by their parents
to the fiendish malignities of Dippold,
moved almost everybody to tears. The
parents, who were present, covered
their faces and sobbed.
.
BKNELT BY ROADSIDE AND DIED.
Woman Exhausted Within 100 Yards of
Cer Home.
Norristown, Pa.?Kneeling as in
prayer, Mary, wife of James Young,
of Bridgeport, was found with her face
buried in a bank of soft earth, by an
early morning milkman. She? was
dead. On one of her rigid arms there
was a basket filled with provisions
for the next day's dinner. Less than
100 yards away, at her cheerful home
on Prosnpotlvp nvpnrtA wore hop hnc.
band and children, asleep and unaware
that the wife and mother was dying
of exposure In the street.
Mrs. Young went to the store during'
the evening and the members of her
family, supposing she was asleep in
the room, retired. Her deatn was due
to heart disease and exposure.
RACE WAR IN LABOR UNIONS.
White Hod-Carriers Set Oat to Down Colored
Element.
Chicago, 111.?White hod-carriers,
numbering 9000 and including all nationalities,
are determined to crush
the negro union with its 300 members.
The war has been going on for two
years and has reached the Courts.
The white union is enjoined from interfering
with the negro union, but
there is no protection from the "educational
committees," who argue with
sandbags and brickbats, and the asBarlts
have become so frequent and
the feeling so bitter that union labor
leaders have decided the negro union
mus-!: disband and the members seek
nthr>r dmnlnvmont
Prince Cupid Coming:.
Prince Cupid Kalanianaola, the new
Congressional delegate to the United
State3 Congress at Hawaii, and his
wife, left Honolulu on their way to
the United States on the steamship
Siberia.
Missionary Slain In China.
Thfe Rev. C. W. Kennedy, who graduated
from Ohio Wesleyan University
last June, has been killed by boxers in
China, whither he went some months
ago as a missionary.
Newiy Brevities.
The Klondike gold output is $1,000,000
short.
The total Government receipts for
September were .$-14.009,SIS and the expenditures
$38,430,903, a surplus for
the mouth of $0,040,000.
Mount St. Helena was in eruption on
September 15, the date on which the
pnrthouake shock was felt over the Pa
ciflc Northwest country.
The Supreme Court of California has
sustained the divorce law of the State,
which provides that a year shall elapse
before the separation is made absolute.
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KILL AMERICAN RENEGADE
Desperate Fig-hi in Small Boat With ^
Filipinos.
&itir*i f >'ogri?* Vanquish American
Cuccanepr* in a Terriflc 1'atllc, Lieutenant
Johnson Meeting; His Death.
Manila. Philippine Island.".?Inspertor
Hermann and Supply Officer Johnson,
of the Philippine Constabulary,
who embezzled funds of the Mindanao
Government and started to be pirates,
were attacked one night last week
by six Filipinos, the crew of a native
boat of which the pirates had taken
forcible possession. The encounter
took place off the west coast of Negros.
Johnson was killed at once. Hermann
was stabbed in the neck and a
native deserter of the name of Fuentes
was aJso stabbed.
Hermann fought ferociously and
killed four of the attacking party at
the closest range.
The struggle took place "in a narrow
boat, and the remaining two of the attacking
party, who were covered with
blood, jumped overboard. It is not
known whether they escaped or were
drowned.
In the meantime Hermann bandaged
his wound and navigated the boat to
the shore. There he abandoned the
craft and oscaped to the mountains
from a point near the former landing
place of the pirates at Bayauan. From
there he sent his carbine to the presidente
by a friendly native and then
disappeared. He was last seen last
Saturday, when he was suffering severely
from his wounds.
The constabulary recovered the boat,
a rifle, two revolvers and a portion of
the stolen money. They also found
Johnson's body in the heap of dead
sailors. The deserter Fuentes, who had
been stabbed, was still alive when the
constabulary arrived on the scene. The
body of Johnson was buried on October
7 by the villagers of Nabalao.
Johnson and Hermann were Pennsylvanians
and enlisted in the United
States Army in Philadelphia. They
had good records while in the regular
service.
MONTANA LYNCHING.
Convicted Murderer Taken From Cell and
Hanged.
Hamilton, Montana.?Walter Jackson,
the convicted murderer of Fonnie
Buck, a six-year-old boy, was taken
from the county jail here late at night
by a mob and lynched.
Shortly before midnight aeventy-flve
men, armed with rifles or shot guns,
forced their way through the rear of
the jail and overpowered Jailor Stephens,
who was able to offer but slight
resistance. Jackson was found cringing
in the darkest corner of his cell.
Tfcr prisoner pleaded piteously for
mercy, but was rushed into the street,
where the mob had already provided a
rope. This'was quickly thrown over
an electric light pole, and the noose
placed about Jackson's neck. He was
asked if he had anything to say, but
only pleaded for mercy.
TTie mob pulled the man into the air
and left his body hanging. They
quietly dispersed. Not a shot was
fired.
The murder of Fonnie Buck caused
intense excitement. The boy's body
was found horribly mutilated.
ROB BANK AT LEISURE.
four Men Hold Citizen* of Berwielc, 111.,
at Bay and Secure 828,000.
Peoria, 111.?Four men drove into the
little town of Berwick, eight miles west
of Abingdon, and picking the lock off
the front door of the Farmers' State
Bank, drilled the door of the vault and
forced the combination, securing $28,000.
A number of residents, awakened
by the explosion, appeared on the
scene, but were held at bay. The robbers
loaded their booty in their rig and
escaped.
Pitcher Doheny Wildly Insane.
After felling his nurse with a terrific
blow over the head with a stove poker,
at Andover, Mass., Edward Doheny,
the Pittsburg National League baseball
pitcher, for more than an hour
held a score of neighbors and several
policemen at bay. Finally he was- overpowered,
and. after an examination
by two physicians, was adjudged in-'
sane, and committed to the asylum
at Danvers.
Indianapolis Democratic.
Unofficial returns in the Indianapolis
city election give Holtzman, Democratic
candidate for Mayor, 20,594;
Bookwalter, Republican, 19,650; Hitz,
Prohibition and Independent, 5470;
Holtzman's plurality, 038. Edward W.
Little, Democrat, is electcd Judge of
the Supreme Court over Thomas C.
Whallou, Republican, by a plurality of
from GOO to SOO.
Banquet in a Big Drain Pipe.
In a huge drain pipe, made brilliant
with long strings of electric lights anfl
banks of flowers, delegates "to the annual
meeting of the Iowa League of
Municipalities, at Waterloo, Iowa,
were entertained at a banquet. The
"Sewer Banquet," as It was called, was
the special feature of this year's convention
of the league.
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Noted Rabbi Dead,
The Rev, Marcus Jastrow. Rabbi
Emeritus of the Synagogue of Rodef
Shalom, Philadelphia, Pa., died, aged
seventy-three. He was one of the oldest
prominent rabbis in America.
Schwab Accused.
At the Shipbuilding Trust hearing in
New York City Daniel Le Roy Dresser
declared that Charles M. Schwab
wrecked the concern.
Mob Wrecks Newspaper Office.
A mob entered the office of the Journal
at Kensal, North Dakota, spilled
several cases of type in the street and
wrecked the interior of the office. The
editor. C. L. Allen, i:i his paper, bas
been fighting a lawless element, and it
is believed that the members of that
gang committed the outrage.
Business Section of Town Burned.
The business section of Shaw. Miss.,
the principal town in Sunflower Coun- |
ty. was burned. The loss is nearly
: oO.OOO, with little insurance.
Life Tenn For a Boy.
Earl Ellsworth, the boy who confessed
to having murdered his father
and mother and a boarder at his home,
in Woodstock. 111., has been sentenced j
to a life term in the penitentiary. When I
the boy was arrested he tried to show
that his father had killed his wife and
the boarder and had then committed
suicide.
Fifteen Yeni-a For Stenllng Forty Cent*.
Fifteen years at hard labor in th
Penitentiary for stealing forty cents
was the sentence fixed for Albert Turner,
twenty-eight, colored, in Judge
Littleford's Court. Ciuetonati, Ohio.
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"HAVOCWRDUBHTBYFLOBDS
Entire Atlantic Seaboard Damaged
by Rain's Aftermath.
PATERSON IN GREAT DISTRESS
Carlnc For the Sufferers by the Fourth
Great Calamity That Has Befallen the
City?Losses Estimated at 82,000,000?
Railroads Blbcked,Factories Compelled
to Shut Down and Many Homeless.
New York City,?As the details of
the record-breaking storm are learned
the extent of the damage wrought is
shown to be appalling. Over an area
bounded by Portland, Me.; Nantucket,
Atlantic City and Oswego, N. Y., the
xorrentiai rams nave fallen in vaster
volumes than,ever in the history of the
Weather Bureau. Accounts of damage
sustained reach into the millions and
lives have been lost in many places.
High winds prevailed over almost all
this region.
Following the accounts of flood and
hurricane winds come warnings of
other ills. Several communities have
had their water supply cut off by
bursting dams and broken flumes.
Scarcity of food exists in Paterson and
some of the villages nearby. New York
suffered a curtailment of its milk supply.
Fever and privation are threatened
in the wake of the receding
waters. N
Thousands of persons are homeless,
and in a dozen communities the storm
fufferers are being housed in public
ulldings until better provision may
be made for them.
raterson, in. j., suffered enormous
damage. Several millions will be
needed to rehabilitate this sorely
stricken city. Thirteen of the twentyone
bridges that spanned the Passaic
River have been swept away. Food
supplies are dangerously low and the
city was isolated. The gas houses are
surrounded by water. Dynamite was
placed in position to blow up the restraining
wall if the \flume that supplies
the city with water should give
way. This was to be done to save the
big factory buildings.
Between two and three thousand perBons
are homeless and whole sections
of the city, like Riverside, are converted
into islands. The flood rose two
feet higher than the flood of March,
1902.
The devastation and destruction
wr,ought in Paterson by the flood are
terriDic ana mcaicuinoie. estimates or
the property loss are frequently put
nt over $2,000,000, but figures will be
lacking until the waters have subsided.
A number of buildings on the
banks of the river have been destroyed.
Immense washouts on the streets and
railroads have stopped all travel on
trains and trolley cars. Great damage
has been done to factories and their
machinery along the river.
The flood had reached Fair street
early in the day and threatened to
wipe out the business portion ?f the
city. The city almshouse was completely
cut off. The whole of the Firet
Ward, comprising Totowax and Halden,
is completely isolated and surrounded
by water.
The first death reported was that of
Morris Riley, a lineman employed by
the gas and electric light company.
Riley was on the top of a pole fixing
some wires, when the flood undermined
the pole and it fell with a crash in the
ba?in of the falls, sixty feet below,
hurlinc Riley to instant death. He
auk underneath the raging water and
never came to the surface.
The body of Nellie Hartley, who was
swept from a bridge ever the Oldham
Brook at Haledon, was found tangled
In a wire fence on the meadows off
Monroe street.
The Straight street bridge, the largest
and most substantial in the city,
collapsed early. It had withstood the
storms of twenty-five years, and was
thought to be as strong, if not stronger,
than the more recently built structures.
The Hillman street bridge was carried
away shortly after 9 o'clock. The
wreckage of the. town was carried
against the Mofflt - and Wagarom
bridges, carrying them away. A little
later the Hudson River Trolley Company's
bridge collapsed.
On the railroads the case is hardly
less serious than in Paterson Itself.
The Erie system is completely tied up,
and but a partial service is Installed
on the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western road. The Susquehanna road
has suspended its service, and railrdad
men, like city officials and merchants,
wait upon the mercies of the ever-rising
river.
The work of relief was pushed during
the day as rapidly as possible, and
some scores of persons of the contingent
whose dwellings had been washed
away were temporarily provided for
at Apollo Hall, where a subscription
started in the morning nours reacnea
several thousand dollars by nightfall.
Paterson, fire swept, tornado swept
and now for the second time, flood
swept, has had plenty of experience In
caring for the victims of its disasters,
and is taking the present situation philosophically.
There is no bustle or
confusion in organizing relief committees.
They seem to be standing bodies.
However, the city is sheltering
and feeding 1500 homeless persons. It
is estimated that 5000 persons have
been made temporarily homeless, but
more than two-thirds of them are beingcared
for by their friends.
While the most spectacular damage
was done at Paterson there was great
loss by floods at other points. A higher
tide in the Delaware than has been
recorded for thirty years flooded the
Philadelphia and Camden river fronts.
Interrupting ferry traffic and submerg
ing piers and business places on j^eist-1
Indict Twenty-two For Lynching of NegTo*
The Grand Jury of Moore County,
Tennessee, has returned a joint indictment
against twenty-two members of
a mob charged with lynching the negro.
Allen Small, on the njght of September
24,
His Shortage 8S000.
A shortage of $8000 in the accounts
of Jules Stein, Treasurer of the National
Casket Company, of Rochester,
N. Y? has been uncovered by export
accountants.
No Saloons in Raleigh.
Raleigh, N. C? by a majority of
194, voted against the saloons, and in
favor of the dispensary. The law goes
into effect on January 1, aud twentythree
saloons will then be closed.
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Japan uoesn t tiiicti ?? ?..
It was stated at Yokohama that an
amicable settlement of Japan's dispute
with Russia was expected, despite the
popular agitation.
Chamberlain Opens Campaign,
' Joseph Chamberlain opened his campaign
against free trade for England
in a speech at Glasgow.
[ ware a /enue from Vine to Dock streets.
Owing to tko flooding of the tracks
of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Trenton,
just north of the new Delaware
River bridge, traffic on that line between
Philadelphia and New York vras
wholly suspended for twelve hours.
A severe northeast storm raged on
the Atlantic coast all day, and at Atlantic
City about $75,000 damage was
done by wind and waves. Shipping
and other property all along the coast
from Norfolk northward also suffered.
From the Schuylkill, upper Delaware
and Susquehanna valleys reports come
of high water and resulting damage.
vviw&n were repurieu irum euttsf
wise cities from Rhode Island to Virginia.
The wind was sixty miles an
hour at Block Island. At Woods Holl
three men in a catboat were blown out
to sea. The revenue cutter Gresham
went after them, but had to return to
port for repairs.
At Atlantic City the board walk was
torn and washed nway, including 500
feet of Young's pier. At Townsend's
Inlet the big hotel was undermined.
The Delaware and Schuylkill rivers
overflowed their banks and Fairmount
Park, in Philadelphia, was seriously'
damaged, particularly along the river
driveway.
Several tugs and coasters were reported
as missing, at Norfolk and the
life savers reported vessels ashore near
Cape Henry.
Passaic, N. J., suffered grievously.
Walllngton, Duttonville and Garfield
in the suburbs were submerged, houses
floating In the flood and dozens of persons
being cared for In engine houses,
town halls and other public buildings.
The loss sustained In Passaic and environs
is expected to exceed $1,000,000.
Along the Passaic and Ramapo valleys.
Rutherford. Athenia. Rldeewood
and Lyndhurst are practically submerged.
The Athenia mills, under
construction, were demolished. At
Rutherford the dam restraining the
water supply of the McKenzie bleachery,
burst and inundated the tracks of
the Erie Railroad. Nothing but' the
roofs of the houses is visible in Lyndhurst
At New Brunswick the temporary
bridge erected by the Pennsylvania
bridge contractors was torn to pieces.
All the factories along the river front
are flooded.
Thrse men lost their lives in the flood
at Port Jervis, N. Y., when the Barrett
suspension bridge was swept away.
One of those drowned was Father Anfonin,
a Franciscan monk from Callicoon
Depot. N. Y., who was on his
way to take a train for his home. Another
who was hurled into the water
was a cripple. He had an exciting
struggle, but managed to grasp a piece
of the bridge timbers and was floated
inshore when he struck an eddy.
The Erie was unable to run trains
from its Jersey City terminus more
than twenty miles in any direction.
The Lackawanna was as badly crippled,
and abandoned Its Sussex branch
entirely. The Pennsylvania system
was tied up from midnight Friday till
noon Sunday, as was the Philadelphia
and Reading- ,
Beside the widespread destruction In
Prospect Park and throughout those
residence sections of Brooklyn where
t#? ground is low, there was great anxiety
expressed at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard for the battleship Massachusetts.
She is lying in dry dock No. 3, and the
sides of the enclosure showed signs of
saving in. Heavy timbers were used
to shore up the weak places, and an
extra guard was kept at the critical
tmntn
Hobart.N. 1.?Several Iron bridges
on the Ulster and Delaware Railroad
between East Meredith and Phoenicia
were carried away by the storm. Several
trains were held up in the gorges
of the Catskills. and the passengers
completed their journeys or stopped at
farmhouses. Morgan Olmsted, a Grand
Hotel employe fell Into "Birch Creek at
Pine Hill and was drowned. One of
two men who tried to save some property
from a floating barn near Delhi
was drowned. The other spent the
night in a tree. The loss to farmers,
who are unable to ship milk to New
York, will amount to thousands of dol
lars.
Kingston, N. Y.?Great damage from
floods is reported from all sections of
this country. The Ontario and Western
Railroad has lost 900 feet of track between
Kerhonkson and Port Hlckson
on the Ellenville-Kingston Branch,
which will be closed for several days.
Rondout Creek, which empties into the
Hudson River here, is higher than it
has been in years. Wharves have
been under water all day. The railroad
shops and the electric power plant
were compelled to suspend on account
of high water in the streets along the
water front. While gathering driftwood
at her doorstep at Ellenville a
young woman named Rosekranz
slipped and was drowned.
Schenectady. N. Y.?The works of the
General Electric Company and the
American Locomotive Company, which
together employ 18,000 hands, were
obliged to shut down on account of
the floods. Both plants were subnc
Tror/j tho Woctfn frhniUP A <?
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ricultural Works and the Alpha Knitting
Mills. The entire western end of
the town along the river front is under
water, which rose twenty feet The
losses are conservatively estimated at
from $150,OpO to $200,000.
Geneva, N. Y.?The rainfall of the
past three days and the wind which
preceded it have resulted In no small
damage to late poach and apple crops
in the Seneca Lake region. Fruit
grown In this section is in demarfi at
all times, and the storm will cause a
rise in the prices. A large quantity
of peaches and apples has been blown
from the trees, and the heavy rains
have made it impossible tr> harvest it
so that no small quantity will rot. The
drop in temperature has also damaged
the jrrape crop.
Utica. N. Y.?Rain fell continuously
for sixty hours in this vicinity, the
.greatest rainfall in fifty years. The
lower business sections pf the city
have been under water, and much damage
has resulted.
Plot to Free Convicts.
During an investigation into counterfeiting
in tbe Eastern Penitentiary,
of Philadelphia, it was discovered that
a plot existed to free the thousand convicts
within its wails.
Extra Scsalon Program.
It was finally determined that the
extraordinary session of Congress next
month would be devoted exclusively
to legislation making effective the Cuban
reciprocity treaty.
The Sporting World.
Official National League baseball av.
erages show Bresnahan to be New
York's best batter.
Buck Freeman, Boston, leads the
American League in long hits with
fourteen hom<-1 runs.
Big Ned Bruce, the best centre Columbia
ever had, has definitely decided
to play tootoaii again.
Brill, the star tackle from Exeter,
had failed to pass his entrance examinations,
and consequentiy will not be
able to play on the Crimson eleven f
this fall. - '*
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WASHINGTON ITEMS.
Judge Stoddard, Secretary of Art- m
zona, is in Washington to face serious ^,-M
charges. < President
Roosevelt ordered the in- jfl
vestigatlon of the postal scandal tymfl
continue until everj division In whidb^BH
there is a chance of wrongdoing hagflH
been covered. HD
Colorado's answer In the soitVH
brought by Kansas to prevent diver*
sion of the waters of the Ar&insas I
River was filed in the United States. j
Supreme Court. J
Word has been received at
White House from Governor Taft that
he will be here, ready to assume hiv'SB
new duties as Secretary of War, some
time in January. bHE
The Superintendent of the Washing :j|cB
ton police reports that of 560 bicyciea ?<?
stolen in that city in 1901-1902 more
than sixty-five per cent, were recov wj
A board of army officers has been se* 'jfl
Iected to visit Hawaii to study plans
for fortifying the island. JB
Circuit Attorney Polk visited -.th<^H|
President and enlisted his aid-to extrf > -sM
dlte St. Louis boodlers from foreign... -fjB
countries.
; The resignations of Captain-Henry |
:A. Castle, auditor for the Postofflce ? 1
Department, and George A. C. Chris- |
tiancy. assistant attorney to thf-same'^ j
department, wete accepted. . "
OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. \ % 1
Porto Rico has 120,000- schoolless'
children. /M
Lieutenant Velasquez and thirty of
the constabulary, attacked by SW
head hunters of Nueva Viscaya, Phil- -;i|
ippine Islands, lost two menv aft6l v|S
killing fifty-three and wounding s
lororo Vinmhor nf tho -HtrrrforW'' 'Ml
Eight la drones, convicted of 'high<;;M n
way robbery, have been sentenced to vf*
be hanged at Manila. Two other*, on^i
account of their extreme youth, wero^^B
sentenced to twenty-five years'
prisonment. jB
The new railroad from Ponce#
'Aguadllla, Porto Elco, was opened. ;; B
Banquets in celebration of the evc&f'IS ,1
were given in Ponce and Mayaguefc^fl e
Speeches were made by Governor.^ J
Hunt and other Federal and InsclSp^jH
In Porto Rico 70,000 are ,1a atteia^WBfiH
ance at 1125 schools. In December,
1S97, there were only 22,000 children ;1| g
attending school. .
A commission is reducing the. num*
ber of municipalities in the different fl
provinces of the Philippine Islands. Jfl
This will greatly reduce the erpejose, IB
of the Government ^
General J. P. Sanger, In charge of
the census work in the Philippines* 'jdfl
says the census was completed. In tii LjHj
weeks by 7000 enumerators. The Civi!?HH
lzed portion of the native populatfcrirJHR
Is 7,000,000 and the uncivilized popnUt-' ^B
tion is about 600,000. m
DOMESTIC. * fl
Members of the Mosely Educational
Committee have arrived from Bng-'^M
The transport Sheridan reached Saa. jHj
Francisco, Gal., with 800 dlschargeffiyflul
soldiers from the Philippines. M
Benjamin G. Hudnut, of Terra
Haute, Ind., sold his Vincenne* Street <w
Railway .to the E. 3f. Dean syudfeato .:? ?
of Grand Rapids, Mich., for $100,000. fl
Mrs. A. J: Smetena, wife of the nlgltt igjjfl
janitor lh police headquarters, Cedar^Bfl
Rapids, Iowa, hanged her orie-year-oM
aaugnter ana men. nangea nerBeu.jf?Mj
Insanity, caused.by 111 health, was the'^H
cause.
Miss Lucille, once known as the
; beauty of Sharpsville, Ohio, has sued fl
the Younstown and Sharon Railfoad ; N
for $10,000 damages, alleging that as j?
the result of a shock sustained in a: ' JB
wreck on the road she became cross-.. Wk
Elmer Heath, who killed Miss Katie
Atkins at Salisbury,. M<L, was sent to V*
prison instead of the gallows on the to- fl
tercesslon of his victim's parents.
The Interurban Street Railway Com- /nfl
pany, New York City, which leases and
i operates all the lines in Manhattan and ^
the Bronx, issued its first annual re- A
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purl, buuwinj-, a uui ucuui ui
136.71. MaJfo
Jndge Grosscup in a speech at^BHEH
cago advocated placing all corpora^^^^^H
under national supervision.
The prices of memberships i^^HH
New YoiTi Stock Exchange have^H^H99
died from $82,000 to $52,500.
The Executive Board, of the
Workers of America has given
sanction to a strike of the mlneSHHj
the States of Colorado, New MexAHHK
and Utah. The number of mlner^^HHw
fected is about 25,000. BMH
Rumors are rife in Chicago of
combination to compete with the ^EmBM
lag House Trust.
Wall Street continued to shoflHBH^H
pressing evidence of the result ofrHMH|
disclosures in the shipbuilding scand^B^B9
Sir Thomas Lipton called for En^^^H
| land on the Cedric.
I The TH-county Fair, MarysvilieiUS
; unio, enaea in a nor. a moo or iuw
demolished all gambling deuces and
stoned and clubbed the gamblers. Sev- M
oral were wounded, one fatally. IH
FORKIGX.
Bulgaria called out^cwpe reserves
guard the frontier, and made further, V
| representations to Turkey regarding W
the aggressions of the Ottoman troops. >.?
| Relief work continues In Jairiaica, > fl
but there is still much suffering in the flj
Island. Kg
Advices from Sofia said the entire
Razlog district was in possession of Hj
the Turks.
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The homeward rush of Americans mSM
from London Is now over. BH
Brazil has awarded a contract involving
$25,000,000 for harbor lmprovements
at Rio Janeiro.
The practical conclusion of a treaty
of arbitration between France and t- -C9
Great Britain is welcomed in Paris.
It"was reported that American firms
had arranged to take 200,000,000 ru> fl
bles of loans to be issued at Russian
cities.
Venezuela has been condemned to^HH
pay $510,000 to satisfy the claim ofln
Mexican capitalists. VH
Russia has failed to fulfil her promise
to evacuate Maneliuria.
A seat on the Montreal Stock Exchange
has just been sold for $15,500,
a drop of $12,000 from the high record
of nine months ago. sSq
Great Britain and France have Afl
agreed to use all possible pressure on
Russia and Japan to avert war. * *^H|
The Brazilian Chamber of Deputies
has passed the biil providing for an international
steerable balloon competi- ^H|
tion at Rio Janeiro in 1004, for a prize
or $100,000. i
A special dispatch from Che-Foo says ^H[
the Russian fleet has sailed from Por^^^B
Arthur wiih sealed orders, and its dnB|H|
tluation Is supposed to be Korea, wfcece '~B|
-Tniini: i? s;iid to bp landing men. H
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