Perth Amboy evening news. [volume], June 05, 1903, SECOND EDITION, Page 4, Image 4

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FOUNDED 1879 AS THE PERTH AMBOY REPUBLICAN.
An Independent Newspaper published every afternoon, except Sundays,
by the Perth Amboy Evening News Company, at
5 King Street, Peith Amboy, N. J.
J. LOGAN CLEVENGER, Editor
D. P. OLMSTEAD, Business Manager
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FRIDAY, JUNE 5. i9?3
It was to be expected that some city,
offering a higher salary, would sooner
or later recognize the great work
Snoerintendent Shull has done, and
is doing in Perth Amboy, and attempt
to draw him away. Mr. Shull did
what everyone^else wonld have done
tinder similar circumstances, endeavor
to seonre his release that he might
accept. The Board of Education has
refused to grant him his release >nd,
as Mr. Shall is quoted as saying he is
willing to remain, it wonld seem that
an increase in salary is dne him. His
place could not be filled for {1,800.
It is bad enough to have a cloudy
day without rain, but when there are
no clouds at all and still not be able
to see the sun is enough to give any
one the blues. For two days the skv
has been overcast with smoke making
the day dismal and the air disagree
able. Most of the smoke here yester
day was oarried by an east wind from
Long Island. Some of it, however,
seemed to come across [the bay from
the sooth shore and evidently origin
ated in the pines of Ocean and Atlan
tic counties.
According to an article in the New
ark Evening News Governor Murphy
| has the United States Senatorial bee
buzzing in his bonnet and would suc
j ceed Senator Kean. It would appear
that the Republican party is mixing
' itself tip in proper shape for a great
, defeat.
The investigation has been started
at (he State hospital. The State and
country are full of investigations thesb
davs. It makeB little difference which
political party is in power, investiga
tions are always in order. There is
little encouragement in this for those
who advocate municipal and govern
ment ownership for all public utilities.
The mayor's proclamation concern
ing dogs has been widely soattered
and is to be seen in numerous places.
Not so with dead dogs. The streets |
are still filled with the tramp canines,
Delonging to no one, but a nuisance
to all. The proclamation might as
well not have been issued.
The Fire Commissioners in Eliza
beth report the fire houses there in
good condition. That is more than
any official body in Perth Amboy can
do.
CharaJRnln't Trale Scheme.
June 5.? sfr William Ver
non Harcourt, Lord Spencer, Lord
Ripon, Lord Tweedmouth and other
Liberal leaders all vigorously denounce
Mr. Chamberlain's imperial zollverein
proposals as merely veiled protection.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt and Lord
Ripon contend that they would be a
fruitful cause of disputes between the
mother country and the colonies and of
conflict with foreign countries. Lord
Spencer says the country ought to
press the government to get the na
tion's opinion without delay on the de
tails of the scheme. ?
Tline Dead In Santa Fe Wreck.
KANSAS CITY, Mo., June 5.? Nine
people were killed and seven injured
In a collision between two Santa Fe
trains at Stilwell, Ivan. The wreck
was caused by a collision between a
Misaouri Pacific and Sunta Fe passen
ger train, which met head on. The
trains were running over the Missouri
Pacific tracks owing to the flooded con
dition of the Santa Fe tracks. Both
trains were in charge of pilots, ynd it
is said that one of the pilots i. thread
iiis orders, causing the accident.
Martinique Survivor Huns Amack.
ALBANY, N. Y., June 5.? Ludgar
Sylbaris, a negro advertised by a circus
performing here as the sole survivor
of the destruction of St. Pierre, Marti
nique, by Mont Peiee, ran amuck with
a knife in the circus tent and cut Da
vid A. Cole of Baltimore in the knee
He was finally lassoed with a rope
and taken to the police station, wound
about from shoulders to feet' witli
many feet of line. The circus people
accuse Sylbaris of frequently getting
drunk and say that he has been vio
lent before.
Kaiv Falling? at Toiteltn.
TOPEKA, Kan., June 5.? The fail of
the Kaw river through the night aver
aged an inch an hour. The river is
now five feet below the highest record
ed point, but the water in the flooded
districts still averages about six feet,
and a very swift current is running.
The north approach to the Melan
bridge is being covered by a pontoon,
which will make possible communica
tion between the two parts of the city
without the use of boats. The condi
tion of the homeless is satisfactory,
and no acute suffering is reported.
THE FOREST FIRES.
Adirondack Woods Seem Be
yond Control.
SMOKY AIR OBSCURES THE SUN.
Ashes Fall In Place* Many Miles
Distant From the Flames, Which
Are the Fiercest Ever
Known.
GLENS FALLS, N. Y., June 5.? In
ipite of the efforts of hundreds of men
throughout the #'irondacks the forest
tires are spreading. The most serious
tires are now reported to be in the vi
cinity of Long lake east toward New
comb lake and Mount Marcy. Far
ther south tires are raging along the
Cedar river and at Indian lalce.
Every available man is being press
ed into service. It is reported that
Robert Pruyn of Albany, whose, pre
serve lies in toward Newcomb "lake,
has a large force of men, sent in from
Albany to North creek by special train,
working to protect his property, which
lies directly in the path of the Are. The
woods are so dry and vegetation so
backward that ordinary methods of
stopping forest fires are futile.
The Adirondack club has over 50,000
acres of heavily timbered land. Rob
ert Pruyn's holdings are about 11,000
acres.
Although these fires are fully forty
miles from Glens Falls, a heavy cloud
of smoke has hung over the town, and
there has been a constant shower of
tine ashes, while a smell of burning
wood was plainly discernible.
At Weavertown, in the northwest
part of Warren county, the smoke was
so thick all day that objects a hundred
yards distant could not be seen.
At Lake George the ashes fell like
a heavy snowfall. A dense smoke has
settled over the lake, obscuring the
view. The boats on the lake are run
ning slowly to avoid accidents. Cars
of the Hudson Valley railroad on the
Warrensburg branch are also operated
at slow speed.
Fires are reported at Silver Bay, at
Hague and also in the. mountains on
the east side of the lake toward Lake
Champlain.
A telegram from Lake Placid says
that several lumber camps at South
Meadows, near Cascade lake; a big
boarding house in Rogers Bros,' log
ging camp, about five miles from Lake
Placid, and the barns of the Cascade
Lake House were burned. All the
guests have left the Cascade Lake
House and gone to Westport and Lake
Placid.
One hundred men, armed with shov
els, rakes and axes, have left for Loon
lake, where forest fires have started in
the heavily timbered tracts owned by
the International Paper company.
The Stony Wold Sanitarium For Con
sumptives at Lake Kushaque is threat
ened with destruction.
President David Wilcox and Third
Vice President Abel I. Culver of the
Delaware and Hudson railroad, who
made a trip of inspection over the Cha
teaugay division, are doing all in their
power to aid in checking the flames.
The moon was almost wholly ob
scured at Saratoga, N. Y., by tlia.
smoke and ashes driven by the wind
from the innumerable Adirondack for
est tires, which are raging with una
bated fury. Hundreds of men have
been sent to the front to fight the fires,
but they are almost powerless, as the
tires appear to have got far beyond
control.
The heaviest fires are reported near
Indian lake. North creek. Blue Moun
tain lake, Catlin lake, Cedar river, Glen
lake, Long lake and other sections in
that region. Several fires are in prog
ress on the Greenfield mountains.
The General Grant cottage on the
summit of Mount McGregor was re
ported In danger.
A smoky condition of the atmosphere
at Mlddletown, N. Y? and the sur
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pounding country lias obscured the
nun, alarming many in the farming
I sections.
j Dense clouds of smoke from forest
fires now raging near Tannersville and
Haines' Falls in the Catskill moun
j tains have tilled the streets of King
j ston, N. Y., all day, completely hiding
; the mountains and foothills from view.
! At times it was difficult to see four
blocks away. Reports are that the
fires are the fiercest ever known.
Many rumors of the destruction of
summer homes of wealthy New York
ers at Elka Park, Tannersville and
Haines* Falls cannot be verified.
A dense smoke filled the air at Glov
ersville, N. Y., completely obscuring
the sun. Forest tires which have been
smoldering north of this city for two
weeks have broken out afresh, and at*
there is no water at hand there is no
way of fighting the flames, which are
doing much damage to timber land.
Ashes fell all day at Hoosick Falls,
N. Y., and the smoke from the forest
fires is so dense that the western por
tion of the town is obscured. Flames
have broken out afresh on Grafton
mountain, where they have raged for
the last few days, after having been
extinguished last week. All the moun
tainous districts in nearly every direc
tion have fires of more or less severity.
Owing to the drought in this section
all timber lands are very dry and burn
like tinder. The flames roll with alarm
ing rapidity from one point to another
and send up huge clouds of smoke and
fine ashes, which fcould be seen whirl
ing through the air at any hour yestef^
day. The property loss is confined to
the burned timber.
All day heavy smoke caused by for
est fires in the Catskills, sixty miles
away, filled the atmosphere at Fishkill
Landing and for many miles in the
Hudson River valley. On the streets
of Newburg, N. Y., people choked, and
on the river navigation was hindered.
Advices received from all vparts of
Vermont show thqt the territory suf
fering from forest fires is even larger
than before reported. The largest fire
reported is one in Danby, where it is
said that 2,000 acres of timber land
owned by S. L. Griffith, Vermont's
lumber king, has been burned over and
is sweeping over still larger tracts.
Reports of large fires in Essex county,
in the extreme northeast corner of the
state, are received: Miles of territory
have been burned over, and fires are
reported on all sides of Island Pond,
the largest village in the county.
There is no sign of rain, and the
ground is the driest ever known. Many
farmers have been forced to turn their
dairy stock into their meadows, and
not over half a hay crop seems possi
ble at present. Farmers are selling
3ff their live stock, as there is little
promise of sufficient feed to winter
uear the usual amount of stock. Crops
that had come up have been nearly de
stroyed by frost. The price of milk
has advanced in some places. In Bur
lington hay is selling for $20 a ton.
On Long Island the fire in the vicin
ity of Brentwood spread east and
3wept the west side of Lake Ronkon
toma. Two buildings were destroyed.
To the westward the flames consumed
(in unoccupied factory. Many other
auildings in danger were saved.
FORESTS ABLAZE IN CANADA.
Canadian and Nova Scotlan Wood*
Are Fall of Fire.
ST. JOHN, N. B., June 5.? Reports
from all the province indicate that
brush and forest fires are rushing
through the woods and that whole vil
lages and communities are in the path
af the general conflagration. At Pic
cadilly, in Kings county, two elderly
women, Mrs. John Linden and Miss
Susan Teakles, were burned to death
by the onrush ing fire as they were en
deavoring to liberate cattle in a field.
Extensive forest fires are burning in
all parts of Nova Scotia, and hundreds
of thousands of dollars' worth of- tim
ber is being destroyed. The rainfall
during last month was the lightest for
May ever known.
Forest fire has cut of! the road be
tween Hubbard's Cove and Chester
and burned the railway contractor's
camp at East river, forcing the Italian
workmen to flee to Hubbard's Cove.
The little seacoast village of Mus
quash, about thirty miles west of St.
John, N. B., was swept by forest fires
last night and early this morning, leav
ing only three or four buildings stand
ing. There are 200 people homeless and
destitute, and the chief industries of
the place, Dunn Bros.' pork packing
factories and Knight's sawmill, are in
ashes. The financial loss is more than
$100,000.
OHIO REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
Nominate M. T. Herriclc For Govern
or and Indorse Rooaevelt.
COLUMBUS, O., June 5.-The Re
publican state convention closed with
much alliteration in its battle cries.
In the convention while Senator For
aker was presiding the delegates add
ed to the "H's" the cry of "Hanna,
Herrick, Harding and Harmony."
While all conceded that it was "Han
na's year," the senator would not use
his influence except In naming for the
head of the ticket his neighbor, Myron
T. Herrick, for governor. The senator's
friend, George B. Cox of Cincinnati,
named Warren G. Harding for lieuten
ant governor and Wade Hampton El
lis for attorney general, besides being
a potential factor in nominating Judge
Summers.
While Senator Foraker expressed his
gratification with the ticket and the re
sults generally, he was especially grat
ified over" the unanimous adoption of
the resolution which indorsed Presi
dent Roosevelt for nomination next
year. The platform was stated in part
as follows: We favor liberality in pen
sions, the improvement of our relations
with the Philippines, a protective tar
iff policy and opposition to all unlaws
ful trusts.
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Lac* Smngglera Held at Boston.
BOSTON, June 5.? The recent arrest
of Geno Bianco and the holding of
Michael Freda as a witness In the
alleged smuggling cases hete are prov
ing to be even of more importance than
it was at first thought to be. Bianco
was interpreter on the Dominion liner
Vancouver and is said to have been
caught leaving the shop last Saturday
with laces valued at more than $2,500.
Special Treasury Officer O'Neil investi
gated the case and found that the par
cel was to be delivered to Michael Fre
da, a banker in North Square, this
city. Freda was called before United
States Commissioner Fiske and formal
ly arrested on a charge of smuggling.
The officials say that smuggling valua
ble laces has been going on at this port
from steamers coming here from Na
ples for a long time.
Lady Strathmore at Fair Grounds.
ST. LOUIS, June 5.? The June handi
cap was the feature at the fair
grounds. Lady Strathmore, T. P.
Hayes' five-year-old mare, won the
stake for Pourquoi Pas, with Privateer
third. Jack Young, the favorite, got
away in front, but gave way to Pour
quoi Pas at the quarter, who led to the
lead into the stretch, with Lady Strath
more second, coming from fifth place.
Near the middle of the stretch she
overtook Pourquoi Pas and beat her to
the wire by about half a length.
long IiOHt Lonic Found.
DERBY, Conn., June 5.? H. A. Long
of this city received word from the po
lice of Providence, R. I., that his son,
George Long, sixteen years, who disap
peared eleven months ago from his
home here, had given himself up. Since
Long left home nothing had been
heard from him until now, although
his father has spent much time and
money, aided by the police of various
cities, in a search for him. Shortly
after his disappearance the boy fell
heir to the property of his grandfa
ther, amounting to about $15,000.
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to insure continued trade. Ten per
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one hundred per cent, on an unsat
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