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I V SOUTH AMBOY ? ' 1 " ' r ir-m -rTTiii*Jh? (SOUTH AMBOY MAN SUES FOR $1 0,4)00. George Spires Wants Damages From New Jersey Central Traction Company. New Brunswick, April 14: ? The suit for $10,000 damages brought by George Snires against the New Jersey Trac tion Company was started in New Brunswick yesterday. ' Mr. Spires on May 81, 1902, was re turning from South Amboy at night to his home near that borough, accom panied by another man, his wife and boy, when the horse suddenly fell to the ground. He got out te learn the cause and was knocked senseless himself. The horse was dead from shock and it was thought Mr. Spires was. His family sent William Maurer for Coroner Al bright and Undertaker Soully, and were preparing for the funeral when Mr. Spires came to. The officials were en route to the house by trolley when notified that Mr. Spires had come to life. Spires was terribly burned in two places on his heart by the wire and was under the care (ft Dr. Kneoht, of Matawan, for two months. The com pany paid for the doctor's services and for the horse, but refused to pay Swires for his injuries. Spires on the stand today testified that he did not know anything about electricity and live wires before'the nocident. He is 45 years old and has resided in this country for fourteen years. He testi fied as if his mind was not clear. EXCITEMENT ON BROADWAY. Meinzer's Horse Became Frightened And Dashed Off. Mr. Mort Meinzer returned home from a drive Sunday about 8 p. m. and drove his horse, attached to a sulky, into the barnyard preparatory to unhitching it, but left it for a few minutes, when he was surprised to , see the horse wheel around and go tearing out of the the barnyard gates, which were open. The horse ran down to the oorner where it fell down, but he was up and off in a second and galloped down Broadway as if wild. Shutters flew open, people shouted and ran after the animal, creating the greatest excitement. At one time it appeared as if he would rush upon the sidewalk and go through Hunts store window, oorner of David street and Broadway, but he changed his mind and started ahead until he) reached the next oorner, where he ran against a pole. He con tinued his mad flight and it is said did some damage as he went until he reached Second street where the wagon collided with another pole ^ whioh broke the axel and shafts. The horse was caught finally near Henry Wolff's store on Bergen Hill. He re ceived a cut on one of his legs. , STRANGER WANTED POISON. Told South Amboy Druggist That He Want ed It For Himself And Wife. About ten o'clock Sunday morning nonstable Roberts saw a man walking down Broadway acting strangely and talking to himself, at the same time he was throwing his hands up in the air. The officer followed the man and saw him enter Parisen's [drug store where he remained a short time and then came out and walked np Broad way again. Roberts went in and asked Mr. Pari s sen what the man wanted, explaining (why he asked, and telling him of his strange ac ns on the street. Mr. Parisen said the stranger had asked for a dose of poison for himself and wife and that he refused to give it to him. Oonstable Roberts then hurried out, caught up to the man and arrest L ed him, thinking he would be safer in W the lockup than on the street. He turned him over to Marshal Minnick, who, after questioning him, put him aboard of a train and sent him out of town. , Fourth Lecture. The fourth leoture of the series of leotuies given in the John street M. ~H. PARISEN fl David St. So. Amboy, N. J. 'IAN OS and ORGANS ADBURY, WEBSTER and HENNIN6 PIANOS Organs from $10 op. Square Pianos from Stjjyiv Cash or laitaUneats. E. Church was given on Friday even ing, April 10, by the pastor of the church, Rev. Mr. Molntire. The subject was "The Island Saint, "a de voted Christian residing on one of the Islands in the Ohesapea'ie Bay. The lecture was quaint, instructive and enjoyable and those who had the pleasure of hearing it and the music rendered bv the Choral Society were delighted with the instructive and amusing features of the entertain ment. EASTER. Mrs. Douglas Hunt had an elegant display of flowers at her store for Easter and they were in great demand. It was almost impossible to pass by the store without entering, the fioweis were so tempting. Mrs. Hunt sent a lot of plants, Easter lilies and gerani ums, over to the Baptist ohurch for Easter Sunday evening. The florist also did a fine business. It is said more flowers were sold in this bor oigh than was ever known before at this season. NEWS ITEMS. Mr. August Behne is going to put in adjustable fixtures in his store. They are on the way from Piqua, Ohio. The new car float being built in the P. R. R. Co's* shipyard, will be ready for launching this week and for immediate building. The men were put on nine hours work per day and a half hoilday Saturdays. Just as the men were feeling elated over the 10 per cent rise in their wages the word came Thursday of the cut-down in time. Mrs. Arthur Bogart was in town making arrangements for the burial of her l?usband, the late Arthur Bog art. Mir. J. J. Scully went up to Jersey City to attend to the body and will have charge of the funeral. The body will be brought to this place for burial Monday, April 13th, on the 9.27 train. He will be buried in St. Mary'B cemetery. Miss Lillian Behne, of Stevens ave nue, spent Easter with her friend, Miss Bertha Anderson of High street, Perth Amboy. They are busv filling in the hollows on Bordentown avenue, a very much needed improvement. It would be well if property owners on different streets would follow suit and fill in their sidewalks instead of leaving dangerous and unsightly hollows and roots of trees showing. Mrs. Bastedo, of George street, attended ttie funeral of a dear t friend of the family, ^the Rev. Alden Well ing, of Calvery Memorial Church, at West Philadelphia, which was held at that place on Monday. Mrs. Walter Mundy, of Broadway, was seized with lumbago while visit ing her mother at Browntown and has been ill for several days at that place, her former home. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dixon visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs/McCartney, of Second street, Sunday. The Misses Mav Conners, Anna Lenahan, Julia Connell and Kittie Lenahan were Perth Amboy visitors Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Furman, of Bath Beach, spent Easter with rela tives in town. 2 The bakeries did a rushing business Easter Eve. There were a great many strangers in town for Easter. Miss Francis Lucitt, of Broadway, was anticipating an enjoyable visit with friends at Long Branch, Easter Sunday. Miss Mamie Kelly has resigned her position at Kelly's confectionery store. Miss Eliza Ronan, of St. Joseph's Academy, is spending Easter week with her parents on Augusta street. Mr. and Mrs. Levee from the South, spent Saturday with Mrs. Gus Bucka lew, of Getrge street. Mrs. Tobias Grace, of Bound Brook, has been visiting relatives and friends in town. Miss Sullivan, of Oak Shades, was entertained by Miss Kittie Lenahan, of George street, Sunday. Mr. Harry Seigfried, of Jersey City, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Dan Coyne, of George street. The lumber for the new bulkhead at the foot of John and George streets, has arrived. There was a meeting of the W. K. U. V. Society at Ernston, Sunday afternoon and quite a number attend ed it from this borough. Miss Julia Dolan has resigned her position at J. Sullivan 's Confectionery store. The store and ice oream parlor look flfie since they have been newly paint<?cl. Mrs. JosephjgVancleaf, of South Guh Buckalew, of evening. Mr. John Martin, of (Philadelphia, j spent Easter with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Steven Martin, of Borden - town avenue. Mr. Chris Rehfnss, of Broadway, j was an Ernston visitor Sunday. Miss Grace McCartney, of Second street, has resigned her position at MoNay's Confectionery store and has accepted a fine position at Plainfleld, N. J. Lizzie and Tressa Kutcher, of Ern-| ston, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Emil| Linke, of David street. The report that Mr. August Behne | has sold out his business is untrue. It appears to have been circulated so freely that numerous people have been asking them concerning it. The order of Ladv Foresters initiat ed six new members last Thursday evening. They report the usual en joyable time after the rontine busi ness If yon are looking for real estate investment read the column on page 2. [ SCHOOL AND CHURCH. Cornell has 26 fraternities. . The Koman Catholic nuns' in the world are alleged by a statistician to number 45S.00U. The Vale university Glee club pa;-s its way and something more, it seems, l^ast year the total gross re ceipts were $15,099, a surplus of $3,383 being shown. The club has given $900 for a scholarship fund and $1,211 for support of the university crew. Some missionaries lately returned from Japan say there is a great de mand for American teachers there. Salaries ranging from $73 to $135 a month are offered them, and houses are provided in addition. The gov ernment is devoting great attention to the development of educational in stitutions. There are now a number of American teachers in the big schools. In the report of the treasurer of Yale university the general funds of all the departments is represented ap $6,806,752 assets of the whole/ univer sity. The income and expense ac count of the university shows that the expenses were $796,883 and the income $778,892, the income falling behind the expense $17,991. Tt is shown ?in tBe report that under the elective system the expensa for sjal aries is much larger. Cornell professors will be pensioned after reaching the agejof 70 years. One hundred and flfiy Thousand dol lars will be set aside for the pur pose by the university board and it will be placed at compound interest until 1914, when it will equal $250,000. Each professor retired will receive a pension of $1,500, three-fourths of which will be paid from the pension fund and one-fourth of which will be contributed by the professors. Tt is expected, however, that professors who reach the age of 70 h?fore 1914 will also be given a pension. Some curious facts in the matter of large gifts for charity during last year are given in Applet.on's Annual. Of the immense amount given for ed ucational purposes, five-sixths were contributed by persons still living, while six-sevenths of the total for foreign missionary work came through bequests. The gifts and be quests, allowance being made for the breaking of some wills, aggregate $68,346,789. divided as follows: Edu cational institutions. $20,127,525; church and Young Men"s Christiar association work. $7,588,820: foreign missionary work. $263,500: benevolent societies, $4,364,724; hospitals and asylums. $26,480,958; museums and art institutions. $6,372,422: libraries. $2,157,000: Cooper Union. $942,440; New York Historical society. $50,000. THE MIGRATION OF BIRDS. Many of Them Joorn?y by \lttht and Spend tihe Day In Feeding and Rntlnit. Tbe birds which travel by night in clude by far the greatest number of migrants. Among- them will l>e found the thrushes, with the exception of the robin and the bluebird, which migrate by day; the nut-hatches and titmice, creepers, thrashers and wrens, war blers, tanagers, vireos, most of the sparrows and finches, orioles, meadow larks. fly-catchers, with the exception of the king-bird, the cuckoos and the woodpeckers. You will observe that most of these birds have neither very strong nor very rapid'flight. and conse quently require the shelter of darkness to protect them from their enemies. Moreover, most, of them take their food in small quantities, and require some* time to make a full meal. If they at tempted to divide up the day between eatin'gand migrating they would travel but slowly. So they journey by night, and spend the day in feeding and rest ing. says Woman's Home Companion. The d?y migrants, on the other hand, are for the most part birds strong enough to resist atack or swift enough to avoid it. They include the horned larks, tit-larks, robins, bluebirds, cedar-birds. swallows. blackbirds, grackles, jays, crows, night-hawks, chimney-swifts, humming-birds, hawks and doves. Some of these ? the night hawks and chimney-swifts, for exam ple ? do not require to stop for food, but feed- on the wing as they travel; the rest, although they have to stop for refreshments now and then, are so swift of wing that they can eas ily make up for lost time. Of course, there are times when some of these migrants are obliged to cross consid erable bodies of water, and in such cases it sometimes happens that they have to travel during a part or the whole of a night. 'FOILS CHINESE PLOT Oosqtaander Drake's Prompt 4ct Averts a Slaughter. NIGHT ATTACK OS CANTON PLANNED American Officer, Aaaiated by En| Hah. Gerniaa and French, Land ?d an Armed Force, and Many Arreata Were Made. WASHINGTON. April 14,-Quiok ac tion and common sense treatment of a critical situation by an American naval officer in China recently saved the for eign residents in the province of K won ting, along the east bank of the Can ton river, from falling victims to a plot which, while directed primarily against the Manchurlan dynasty, inev itably would have culminated in an at tack on the foreign population. While tills attack was averted by the precautionary measures taken by Com mander F. J. Drake, commanding the United States steamer Monterey, with the assistance of the English gunboats Sandpiper and Britomart, the French gunboat Avalanche and the German tug Shameen, the coalition known to have fomented the trouble extends to several provinces, and official advices received both at the state and navy de partments show that reactionary meas -J ures on a scale far larger than is ad \ mltted either by foreign representa-' tives or the Chinese government have been planned by the rebels. Hearing that a force of rebels with Hung Chun Fuk, a native of Wai chow, had planned an attack on the viceroy and Chinese officials of Canton during the celebrations of the Chinese new year during the night of Jan. 28-29. Commander Drake prepared to defend the foreign residents. An armed force of 3,000 men had entered Canton surreptitiously several days before he learned the news and were hiding with sympathizers. As most of the foreigners and official representatives of the various nations resided in Shameen. Commander Drake first completed his plan of defense for this section, and then to allay the ex citement which prevailed he officially Informed the consulates and Chinese officials of his preparations. Instead of visiting the Holy temple in the inner city at midnight to offer incense, the viceroy and officials, con trary to long custom, remained in their respective yamens securely guarded. Around the viceroy's yamen alone were assembled 4,000 armed troops. By 7 o'clock the gates to the inner city were closed and the streets cleared. Many arrests were made that night, in whleh some compradores were im plicated. and large amounts of stores were seined in houses and shops. Harrleane In Alabama. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 14.? A hurrieane in the vicinity of Blocton wrecked a number of houses and did considerable damage to farming prop erty. The total damage is about $1S, 000. Coleanor and Garnsey suffered houses being partially wrecked, many trees prostrated and wires blown down. In Birmingham a small wind atorm wrecked many chimneys near Thirteenth street and Avenue One, and a young woman named Miss Jernin gan was Injured by a falling chimney. No fatalities are reported. Congressman Tar lor Dead. WASHINGTON. April 14,-Former Congressman Abner Taylor of Chi cago is dead here, aged seventy-four years. He had been ill for several weeks -frith a complication of diseases. Mr. Taylor was a native of Maine. Pre vious to his election to congress he had been in active business all his life as contractor, builder and merchant. He served several terms in congress from the First district of Illinois. Mr. Tay lor served in the Fifty-first and Fifty second congresses. Trolley Car Passenger* Injured* PITTSBURG, April 14.? A trolley car of the Pittsburg Railway company was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio freight train at the Fleet street grade crossing in Rankin borough, and the sixteen passengers aboard the car Were all more or less injured. Two of /the pas sengers, Mrs. Catharine Powers of Tur tle Creek and Mrs. Jane Morton, were serioualy hurt. The car wa$ dragged thirty yards and completely wrecked. Fire In Wilmington, Mau. WILMINGTON, Mass., April 14. Four structures in the business part of this town were burned, entailing a loss of $20,000. The quick response of fire apparatus from the neighboring city of Woburn prevented a conflagration which to all appearances would have carried away buildings over a large area. Gtfta to Two Colleges. MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 14.-Dr. D. K. Pearsons, a Chicago philanthro pist, is spending his eighty-third birth day quietly at a Montgomery hotel. Dr. Pearsons announced anniversary gifts to two colleges. He will give to Kaw llng? college, Winter Park, Flu.. $50, 000 and the Kingfisher college, Okla homa, |25,000. Sell Qivea Himself Up. MANCHESTER, N. H.. April 14. Charles W. Sell, who last Friday night attempted to kill his sweetheart. Miss Mabel !J. French, and two male com panions by shooting, walked into the police station last night, handing his revolver to Captain Steele in the pres ence of Chief of Police Healey.^^ MADRID1, April 14.? Dispatch Melilla, Morocco, announce thjf ?urgent Moors have captured/ of Fair ud the world s medicine. ?'all b* FOR ALL BILIOUS and NERVOUS DISORDERS, Sick Headache, Constipation, Wind, Weak Stomach, Impaired Digestion, Disordered Liver & Ferw?u T>? ~m A^tbJProp ..j me Proprietor, Thomas Street, New " " everywhere w Female Ailments. r?- " - iall^l Cheapest Power Known for Driving All Kinds of Machinery. Send for particulars to BACKUS WATER MOTOR CO. NEWARK, N. J,. U. 8. ' Elizabeth Hardware Co. Builders' Hardware and Tools Mill and Contractors Supplies Wrought Iron Pipe and Fittings - ^ am!NyuJg|gp^^j Leather Belting Waste Y Bar Iron . 158 SMITH STREET. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Charged with beggings- -a' Halifax man advanced the excuse that he was "lame through yaecination." Several agents have been sent to South America by the Hungarian government to study the commercial situation. / Using, pepper to deaden the pain of toothache has caused the death of a man at Middlesbrough through blood-poisoning. Windmills are returning to use in lyligland. To discover one suitable for pulping- purposes the Koyal Agri cultural society offeis prizes of $250 and $S0. Boiled eggs that adhere to the shell are fresh. A good egg will sink in water. Stale eggs are glossy and smooth of shell. A fresh egg has a limelike appearance on the surface of the shell. The new Pennsylvania state house at llarrisburg will cost $4 000,000. It will stand on an eminence. At the center of the entrance to the capitol will be a fountain 78 feet wide. On each side of the fountain will rise a granite stairway 4.S feet wide, broad ening at the top into an esplanade. At the spring elections in Pennsyl vania there were some curious re sults. At Chambers burg the success ful democrat was chosen burgess by two votes. At lanuujua the social ists of the Fourth ward of Summit Hill elected a judge of election who had died two days befrjre. At Pittsville the socialists carried six election dis tricts of Schuylkill county. In Shef field borough the complete prohibi tion ticket was elected. Henry Moore, of Sioux City, be lieves that it is possible to inter breed the arctic musk ox with cattle of the temperate zone, and that the stock so produced would be able to withstand the severe winters of the United States. He has been in com munication on the subject with Peary, the arctic explorer, who is fa vorably impressed with the idea. "The vast loss of the present season among herds on the western said Mr. Moore, "emphasizes cessity of trying to infuse ; blood into American cattle." ranges, the hardie i ne-J die J At Home' AI1 Day. "Why weepest thou, woman ! "My lord will be buried this^ "My wi^ was buried yesteii rowAM fret meanothc Please call in and see . . . 3. Sossin's Display of OIL STOVES, GAS STOVES AND PIPES. It will pay you. J. SOSSIN, Agents wanted for Dr. Drummond's Lightning Remedies for Rheumatism; restore stift joints, drawn cords and hardened muscles. De scribe your case, take the agency and secure treatment FREE. Drummond Medicine Co., New York. Read the real estate advert) column on pace 2, today. Do You Know^J