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0< All The News From Surrounding Towns. >o ' - " t if SOUTH AMBOY || ‘ AN ODD MONUMENT. Tne daughters of the late Mrs. Mary Bunting have had a very odd and pretty monument placed at their mother’s grave. Resting on a pedes tal are several parts of a tree which has been sawed in a number of pieces resting on each other, the ends show ing the grain of the wood, so perfeot is the design, although carved out of stone. Resting against them is an open scroll on whioh is the inscrip tion. RESUMING THERE STUDIES. Miss Nellie Minnick and Miss Nellie Thomas have resumed their studies at the Trenton State Normal school. Some of the classes in the school are overcrowded with new scholars, con taining as many as sixty-nine and seventy soholars when forty-six is the number allotted to a class. Miss Etta Straub and Frank Scully have also taken up their studies again. [EXCURSIONISTS LAND HERE. A handsome steamboat, said to be from Irvington, on the Hudson, land ed a large crowd of people here Sun day, among them a baseball team who played one of the South Amboy teams. > They had a big time. When they went away in the evening it is said the steamboat made a splendid appear > a nee when lighted np. MR. REHFUSS BURIED. The body of Jaoob Rehfuss wak brought from the Deutoher Hospital, New York city, on the 5 p. m. Central train, Saturday. J. J. Soully, under taker, was at the station and conveyed the body to Mr. Rehfnss’ late home at Ernston. The funeral took place from the ohapel of tlio Good Shepherd at Ernston and was largely attended. DAMAGE aYACHT. William Stephenson’s sloop yaolit, which was upset during the storm, has been pulled out. They found that she was smashed in, in two places at the bottom, the bow sprit broken off, the rndder broken and the Bails dam aged. AN EVERY HOUR. The Sea Breeze boat ran every hour yesterday. The majority of the pass ongers went to Perth Amboy. FIGHT WITH POACHCR3. Pen ns 5’! vanla Came Warden E'J'joI* Violator of 11'.c I.;’, v. WILKHSBAURE. ra., Kept. 21. -E. W. Campbell, one of the game wardens of Luzerne county, litis shot and prol» ably fatiiily wounded ltoman Halos, aged thirty-five years, near Campbell’s lodge, two miles from I’ittston. Several foreigners have been violating the game laws, especially on Sunday. Campbell, with other officers, found five men prowling around the woods with guns. lie notified them to leave, which they refused to do. An nttempt was made to put Dales under arrest, when the latter raised his gun to shoot. As he did so Campbell seized the weap on. It was discharged in the scuffle, the contents entering Campbell’s cloth ing. Both men fell to the ground. Ha los made an attempt to recharge the r^iru, uu u ' utii)iui ii [iuiuai his revolver, nnd in a second struggle Dalos was shot, the ball striking him in the back. The other four hunters, nil foreign ers, are under arrest, A Montana Mun Hunt. CttllNOOK, Mont., Sept. 21.—Posses are scouring every section of the coun try in the vicinity of Hear Pgw moun tains after Ivld Curry, the leader of the gang which held up two Great Northern express trains on July 3, 11)01, and who escaped from Knox ville, Tenn., Jail while awaiting trans portation to the Ohio penitentiary to serve out n twenty years’ sentence for farming signatures to the stolen bauk Mils obtained in the robbery. Curry has many friends in the country through which he is passing, nnd they will aid him to reach the rendezvous of his gang, wliore he will lie safe in the fastnesses of the Bear Paw moun tains from pursuit of capture. When lust heard from on Saturday lie was only ten miles from his destination and well mounted. LonK Fust For Ilealtli'N Hake. NEW YOUK, Sept. 21. — News has reached Columbia university of the re k markable fast of Wellington Putnam, formerly Instructor in elocution in the department of English at the univer sity. Mr. Putnam succeeded in going without food for fj (days near Sliver City, N. M. Tin as not uttompt ■ ed as a mere er fnt or for notori ety, but was u: e to cure a kid ney affection ch the instruct or had been bo; r some time. k NEWS ITEMS. Miss Estella Force, of John street, is spending a week’s vacation with relatives at Philadelphia. Harvey Parisen, quartermaster of the Geatus, has returned to his home in,John street for the fall and winter seasons. Mrs. John Ott, of Ernston, was a New York visitor Saturday. * U. H. Smock ' and family have re turned home from Gamp Wanamassa, Deal Lake. Mrs. J. Rea, of Broadway, and Mrs. Tom Scully, of Augusta street, were Perth Amboy visitors Friday. Howard Littell has resumed his studies at the Trenton Model school. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hurtle, of Ernston, were South Amboy visitors Friday. Rev. and Mrs. D. W. O. Mclntire have been entertaining Miss L. M. Johnson, of Gloucester, at the par sonage. Fred Shulmeister and daughter Susie, of Oheesequake, were South Amboy visitors Friday. At the meeting of the Board of Education, on September 11th, it is said that no bids were received for supplying coal for the public schools. Fred Hochberger, of Ernston, was a borough visitor Friday. The Boys Club, of Christ church, has resumed their meetings on Satur day evenings. Mrs. Noah Furman, of John street^ is sojourning at Spring Lake^ Mr. and Mrs. William Walling, of David street, are entertaining Mr. and Mrs. Anderson and children, of Roanoke, Ya. Mrs. John King, of George street, was a Perth Amboy visitor Friday. There are some very dangerous places on John street between the railroad and Mrs. Charles Pearce’s property. Great holes where some one is liable to fall on these dark nights. They have probably been washed out by the rain and should be atteudcd to. Mr. and Mrs. Oharlos Stratton and daughter, Mrs. John Taylor, of Broad way, have returned home from their visit in New York and the damage to their house has been repaired. Mr. and Mrs. George Bennett, of New York, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hewlett, of Broadway. Mr. and Mrs. S. Hamilton and daughter, of Second street, are visit ing friends in Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Berrien spent several days with relatives in this borough. The banns have been called at St. Mary’s ohuroh for the marriage of Mr. John J. Sullivan and Anna Y. Keating, of this borough, to take place at St. Mary’s church, Wednes day morning, September 28. Mr. Lewis has had his house, on John street, newly painted. It looks fine. The heater purchased by the Baptists will be placed in the Baptist parson age. It was received by them Tues day. This is the second improvement made to the parsonage since Mr. Irwin has been pastor of the ohuroh. The now poroh was the first one. The ohuroh is prospering finely. WANT A CONSULATE? A Chance In Saw OlTered r.t Birnn [juiEIa, Colombia. TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 21. — There is opportunity now offered for some one to got a consulate, as G. W. Oolvig of Grant’s Pass, Ore., consul from the* Unite/1 States to Colombia, has re signed, ns he intimated to ids fiienus by letter some time ago be would do as soon as he readied home. Mr. Oolvig lias had the post at Ba ranquilla for two years and found them two of the longest and most un pleasant years of his life. For the sake of his ofiui i'jid Mrs. Oolvig’s health lie was obliged to i-osign. Then there were other had features, excess ive heat being one. The continual warfare that is on be tween the two civil factions keeps the country in a state of ebullition and dis ruption, so that the money of the coun try is worth but little more than the paper it is printed on. Consul Oolvig says the Inhabitants of the country are for tlio greater part a dirty, unintelli gent. shiftless lot. Mr. Colvlg will resume his old busi ness of practicing law in Grant’s Puss. Oravigro Comity I)orn MnNt He Nnicled MIDDLETOWN, N. Y.. Sept. 21.— Sheriff Herman of Orange county has been Instructed by State Commissioner of Agriculture Wleting flo at once use all means to compel obedience. to the previous order of the commissioner re quiring all residents of the town of Montgomery to coniine or muzzle all dogs owing to the prevalence of hydro ohobla among cattle. i TOTTENVILLE. | _ ~ - The Evening News is on sale at Ost bnrgs’ 44 Main street, and at John Boss' Hotel, formerly John Hall’s stand. Extra copies of the NewB and all New York papers can always be se cured. MRS. WARNER BURIED Mrs. Emma R. Warner, eighty-sis years old, who died at her home in Richmond Valley, was buried in Cypress Hill cemetery yesterday morn ing. The^funeral services were held from the home of her son. George Warner, of Richmond Valley, at 3 o’clock Saturday afternoon. The Rev J. C. Fair officiated. FORESTERS PICNIC. The members of Court Gififor , Foresters of America, held their picnic and outing at the Eltingvillc grove Saturday afternoon. All had a flue time. CLAM CHOWDER PARTY. The members of the Epworth League of Bethel M. E. church, will hold a clam chowder party September 35. PLANNING FOR FAIR The Daughters of Dorcas Society, of Mt. Zion ohurch, have decided to hold n fa 1 r frmn SonfotYihev QO t/% Hof/iLnn O The plans are now being made!1. No Clew Vet In Dexter Murrter. MALONE, N. Y., Sept. 21.—No clew hns yet been found to the murderer of Orlando P. Dexter, n millionaire land owner of Norwalk, Conn., who was ambushed and shot In n lonely high way half a mile from his summer cot tage on Dexter lake, In the town of Waverly, on Saturday. The scene Is in the wildest section of the Adirondack mountains. Dexter was a lawyer and made a specialty of real estate and large land transactions. He was well known In this city and was frequently here on business. Whether he had nu altercation with any one recent; is not known. Irlnh Want Independence. CHICAGO, Sept. 21.—At the Ai to rium last night a huge meeting under the auspices of the United Irish Socie ties of Chicago adopted resolutions de claring that no settlement of the Irish question short of national Independence will satisfy the aspirations of the Irish people. The occasion for the gathering was the one hundredth anniversary of .the execution of Robert Emmet. The speakers at the meeting Included Gen eral Nelgon A. Miles, Rabbi Illrsh, •Judge Marcus Kuvanagh and Hon. John F. Flnerty. Many DeNertlonM Reported. WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. - General MacArthur, commanding the depart ment of California, in Ills annual re port says: “One thousand three hun dred and forty-four men deserted dur ing the fiscal year covered by this re port. Of this number 014 were from the permanent garrisons in the depart ment and represent approximately 10.42 per cent of the main strength thereof •for the year. The remaining 430 were from recruits, casuals and regiments passing to nnd from the Philippines.” The Larxp Family of Jonrm. Slxty-two years ago a man named Jones moved from Kentucky to Dade county, Mo., taking with him his fam ily of ten children. At a reunion re cently held at Everton, 1,019 of his de cendants were present, and there are a few who were unable to attend. Al most all of his descendants have mar ried and settled In the same neighbor hood In southwest Missouri, and a3 they are clannish a stranger who goes In there and talks unfavorably about anybody he has met is very likely to find he is talkiRg to a relative of the person who has incurred his displeas ure, and that he has got himself into trouble. They are said to be the lar gest family living in a single neighbor hood in the United States. The Kindly Cnnnibnl. "My dear," said the kindly cannibal to his wife, “I wish you would realize that ray business affairs are not within your scope. I don’t like this habit of yours of always putting your fingers in my pie.” “I want you to understand,” retorted the wife, “that I am going to exercise every right I have. As your wife” “And I want you to understand,” in terrupted the canitibal husband with some heat, “that if you keep on put ting your finger in the pie the first thing you know all the rest of you will go into a potpie." Silenced, the woman returned to her household duties.—Judge. Same Shape. Mrs. Hauskeep—Vvhat na\e you to day in the shape of rhubarb? Greengrocer—Well, we’ve got some celery; that’s the nearest.—Stray Sto ries. ) Qualified. De Style—I don't think she’s cut out for a society woman. Guubufca—Oh, y eg. She s had appen "T FOOTBALL TEAM. The Tottenville A. C. have now organized a foot ball team and they arc ready for games with all first class teams from Staten Island or Perth Amboy, averaging 125 pounds. Ad dress Charles Foley, Broadway, Tottenville. NEWS ITEMS Edward Sealer has moved from Tottenville to the upper part of New York state. On Saturday evening the Richmond Council Knights of Columbus, put over 200 members through the third degree. Robert Knight, accompanied by his mother and sister, left Tottenville Saturday for South Carolina. PRESIDENT PALMA'S TOUR. Spof&kfnK !tear Famous Hattie Field, lie UrfreM Cuban** to Be Faithful. SANTIAGO, Cuba, Sept. 21.—Speaking it the village of El Caney, close to the scone of the battle between the Ameri cans and the Spaniards, President Pal ma urged tiie Cuban people to Jealous ly guard the ideals they hud obtained by means of intervention. The presidential party were enthusi astically received on their arrival at El Caney. The alcalde having re marked that the gathering was mostly composed of veterans. President Talma assured them he wanted to pay the army as badly ns anybody, because the payment was not only an act of Jus tiee, but was necessary to the recon struction of the country. Nobody loved Cuban Independence more than himself, continued the president. The only way to sacrifice tlie repub lic would be to bring about a civil war. lie believed there wua not one veteran in a thousand who would not prefer to maintain the honor of Cuba even to the extent of forfeiting his soldier’s pay. The Cubans, having accepted United States intervention as a means of ending their troubles, were under an obligation to follow those ideals and prove themselves a peaceable poo ple. Speaking of the appearance of the band of Insurrectionists near Santiago. President Palma condemned the bid den instigators of the uprising. The alcalde declared that no one within two leagues of El Caney had Joined the band. Porto Rico Toffee Men Organise. SAN JUAN. Porto Rico. Sept. 21.— The coffee men of Porto Rico met hero and organized themselves for trade purposes. The meeting, the first coffee convention in the history of the island, brought together 200 men interested in the industry, every bank being repre sented, who pledged themselves to aid the movement to bring about better conditions. Acting Governor Hartzell announced the receipt of a cablegram from Governor Hunt assuring an Im mediate discussion of the reciprocal commercial treaty with Spain which would open the Spanish market now dosed hy the tariff. The planters are encouraged by the plans under discus sion. which are directed to reaching the retail trade in the United States. Bnnt of Victoria Invdlod. LONDON, Sept 21.—At the parish church of Crntliie, three-quarters of a mile from Balmoral castle, whh-h was attended by Queen Victoria, King Ed ward, in the presence of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Prince and Princess Charles of Denmark, Promt r F.r.lfor.r. Lord Lansdowno. other ministers and a distinguished congregation yesterday morning unveiled a memorial bust of the late Queen Victoria, by the sculptor Emil Fuchs, and two mural tablets in memory of the late Duke of Edin burg and Empress Frederick of Ger many. The three memorials v. re erect ed at the expense of the king. Filipinos Not Allowed to Lnnil. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.—Thirty one Filipinos who arrived I lore last Thursday on the transport Sherman on tlieir way to St. Louis, where they wore to e employed ill the construc tion of the Philippine houses and other buildings at the exposition, are de tained On board the transport by the immigration authorities because they are apparently liable to become public charges. Although armed with letters of identification from Manila, the thir ty-one Filipinos are all in poor finan cial straits and appear poorly equipped to continue on their Journey to St. Louis. Herr Rebel i»« the Hrnd. rSRESDEN, Saxony, Sept. 21.—Herr Rebel has re-established Ills authority in the Socialist party by carrying his resolution against the Revisionists by several hundred votes against eleven dissentient voices and having elected an executive committee of his own choosing. It now looks as though the agitation against Herr Rebel before the convention met was encouraged by him | in order that his absolute leadership of tiie party should in1 demonstrated and the small faction opposed to him held up to the ridicule of the party. FOLEYS HONEY^TAR Ikrdioiw; au« So opIatM WOODBRIDCE TOWNSHIP.] W[L° Dbridge NEWS ITEMS Miss Morse, of Brooklyn, is visiting Miss Rntli E. Smith. Mr. ami Mrs. OBtermayor, of Brook lyn, are visiting their son, Mr. Oster mayor, of Rahway avenne. Mr. Alston Yoorhees has entered Stevens Preparatory school. Mr. Charles Craske, ot Edgar’s Hill, has returned to the University of Pennsylvania. He will enter the Sophomore class. Miss Jeanette Numbers spent last Sunday at Asbury Park. Mrs. E. W. Valentine and Miss Ada spent Thursday in New York. Miss Adele Jones, of Rahway, was in town on Thursday. Mrs. Fredericks, of New York, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Stuart, of Rahway avenue. Mrs. Christopher Craske, of Edgar’s Hill, has returned home after a -visit out of town. THE SULTAN SORRY. Expresses Reerret to Russian Amhus sador For Excesses of His Soldiers. CONSTANTINOPLE. Sept. 21. - In an audience with M. Zlnovleff, the Russian ambassador, Friday the sultan expressed his regret at the excesses committed by the Turkish troops in the vilayets of Monastir and Adrianopie. lie said that orders had been sent to the authorities concerned to prevent their repetition, nnd he gave the Rus sian embassador to understand that the guilty parties would be punished. The German ambassador, Baron Marachall von Bieberstein, also had an audience with the sultan, who showed himself most optimistic. The latter declared that the insurrection was drawing to a close, in fact it had already been suppressed in some districts, and the porte would there fore immediately issue pro< inanitions announcing the resumption of the ap plication of the reform scheme. A Wild Macedonian Humor. LONDON, Sept. 21.—The Daily Mail’s corresi^pndent at Sofia telegraphs: “One of the revolutionary chiefs lias in formed mo that they are massing thou sands of men at various points on the frontier, nnd their laboratories are working incessantly to replenish their stock of bombs and explosives. They do not count much on war between Turkey and Bulgaria, but od the day they hear that the meeting between the czar and Emperor Joseph has not had the desired result for Macedonia the world will witness the beginning of massacres, burning nnd destruction compared with which the Turkish atrocities will seem child's play. 'The banners of revolution,' my informant says, ‘will be unfurled in all the border districts.” Chekll) Bey Denle* Report*. WASHINGTON, Sept 21. - Chekib Bey. the Turkish minister, has received a dispatch from his government deny ing the reports which have been pub lished in certain European newspapers that the reserves in the garrisons at Pristina. Novi Bazar, Voulchctrin. Sonltehe nnd Metrovltza are engag 'd In aggressions against the Christian in habitants In those places nnd are com mitting acts of profanation in the churches. The President*. Qnlet Sunday. OYSTER BAY. N. Y„ Sept. 21—Pres ident Roosevelt passed yesterday quiet ly at Sagamore Iliil with his guest. President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia university. Mrs. Roosevelt nnd the young children attended serv ices in the morning at Christ Episcopal church, but the president and Dr. But received at Sagamore Hill during the day. Fntul Freight Wreck. BROWNSVILLE, l’a.. Sept. 21. Two men were instantly killed in a freight wreck on the Monongaheia railroad at Bridgeport. Both men. It is supposed, were asleep in the caboose while their engines were taking water, and the blame for the accident proba bly rests with them, as no flagman was out to warn other trains. Paris Singer Murdered. PARIS. Sept. 21.—Eugenie Fougere, a well known music hall singer, has been murdered In her villa at Aix-les Balns. A female servant was also mur dered and another was so maltreated that she has lost her reason. Robbery was the motive for the crime. Where Turks Drnur the Line. It may be true that the fanatical Turk • sh soldiers have no fear of death, says die Cleveland Plain Dealer, but there s little doubt that they lack the ex :reme degree of fanaticism that would mpel them to fight without pay. Marks. "They are a family of marked social llstlnction." "Why marked?” "So people will know it, I suppos^fc^ Detroit Free Press. m NO HOPE FOR TREATY Ratification For the Presont Abandoned at Bogota* SENATE OFFICIALS FAVOR REYES. ralV Sm-cfsn In Com 11 in 1 Content the pporterM ,uate i ^ »;»e. • BOGOTA fcia, .-"[it. 21.—All I lope of tl ai.ftn of the Panama canal tr *aJD’for the present bus been abandon d. The discusni te< is hope less, and congress proba' ly will ad journ on Oet. 20. i ii' wiiuu Li.ir* i tj in* iviiiuVu»8 officers, all of whom are supporters General Rafael Reyes in his candidacy for tl.e presid n<y of the republic: rrenid nt, J.'arrellna Arango; vice president, Enrique Navniz; electors for the uext presidential election, Guiller ino Torres and Vicente Omana. The first Sunday In December next has been deck] >d upon for the holding of the next presidential election in Co* lornbla. Each municipal d'strlct chooses by popular vote electors, who meet on Feb. 1. lfKM. In the capitals of the J provinces and departments and vote j for the president and vice president. Tlie results after being examined by n scrutinizing committee are sent to Bo gota, w lie re a central committee of electors composed of two members ap pointed by the senate, two appointed by the house of representatives and two by the state council declare the re sult of the election. NEW GOVERNOR FOR PANAMA. Otml<lla*8 \p(*OKni»n Part of Plan to Pans ( final Treaty. PANAMA. Sept. 21.—Senator Obaldin yesterday took over the functions of governor of Panama. The event was the occasion for great popular demon strations by all parties. It is thought that the appointment of Governor Obaldin may i>erhaps exert Influence against secessionist Ideas, not only be cause he is n native of Panama, wliwh In fact engages for him tlte sympathlW of all. but because his appointment np^. patently Is part of a general plan the^^ result of which will lx- the election of^^ General Reyes to the presidency and the approval of a canal treaty satis factory to the United States. Governor Obaldia in reply to Dr. Florentine Goenaga. president of the high court of Justice, said: “I maintain because they wore well meditated the sincere opinions I ex pressed Us a senator of ttic republic. I consider that the interests of the world urgently demand the construc tion of a canal, and they have a right to ask our co-operation. The confes sions. the object of which Is to serve these interests, though they may Imply a sacrifice of sovereignty, arc not against the national dignity. We can not deny civilization what it requires from us—to continue its victorious march.” All the speeches delivered at this function, not only by isthmians, but by natives of the rest of the republic, demonstrated that all the inhabitants of Panama are in favor of the treaty. Dr. HerranV McNNnfre Secret. WASHINGTON, Sept. ^1.—Interest in the Panama canal situation now centers in the communication which Dr. Herrnn. the Colombia!: charge, re cently submitted to the state depart mont frn»n Uia irAvnrnmnni Tnci what the nature of this is Dr. Herran anil the state department officials declined to say on the ground it is of confiden tial character, hut it is understood that it is in tlie nature of a proposition which will keep alive the canal negoti ations with the Colombian government nfter the expiration of Sept. 22. at which time the existing treaty expires hy limitation. THOMAS F. BURKE . Funeral Director.. This is th-- only np-to-riate Fvneeal establishment in Perth Amboy & vicinity Office Residence 363 State St. 27 Mechanic St. Telephone 45f Te'ephone 45m rERTtl AMBOY. X. J OTTO SPITZ, Sanitary Plumber. STOVES. RANGES, HEATERS. Rahway A" e. Shop near CR Depot, Carteret, JOHN THOMPSON Careen r and Builder Jobbing pron ptly attended to. Estimates giver PORT READING. N. J. Painter and Paperhanger Al orders by mail promptly attended o. . CARTERET N.J. w