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Domestic
Major J. H. H. Peshire, United
States Army, who was a passenger
on the steamer Adriatic, which ar
rived in New York from Europe, was
taken ill during the voyage.
Mrs. J. W. A. Brammer adminis
tered carbolic acid to her infant
child and swallowed a dose herself at
her home, in Rhome, Tex. Both died
almost instantly.
Orlando-G. Smith, president of the
Western Shoe Jobbers’ Association
and vice * president of the Rational
Shoe Jobbers’ Association, died in
Chicago. v, ~
The Prohibition executive-commit
tee of New York State met and se
lected Syracuse as the place for the
1908 state convention on September
1 and 2. . _ .
The mobilization of the largest
fleet of torpedoboats, torpedoboat de
stroyers and submarines in the his
tory of the American Navy will take
place in Narragansett Bay next
spring.
Wealthy New Englanders plan to.
have the Supreme Court of the Unit
ed States rule on President Roose
velt’s action in discharging negro
troops after the Brownsville raid.
Ernest Gordon Stedman, an author
ity on international law and a
wealthy man, was killed by a New
York subway train, under which he
dived or fell.
The body of an unknown but re-
Sned woman, who had been strangled
and stripped of her clothing, was
found in the Hackensack Meadows,
N. J.
Francis J. Heney, prosecutor of
municipal grafters in San Francisco,
gives suggestions for ridding large
American cities of municipal graft.
Charles Schroff, Jr., 24, shot and
Instantly killed his father, Charles
Schroff, Sr., 44, proprietor of the
International Hotel in Buffalo.
Eighty per cent, of the cotton man
ufacturers of New England have
agreed to a 25 per cent, reduction
in output. . .
Three persons were injured and
several others burned In a fire in a
Six-story tenement building in New
York. J ,
While Miss Elizabeth Hatfield, of
Washington, Pa., knelt at her bed
side in prayer, upon arising her night
dress ignited at a gas stove and she
sustained burns from which she died.
The Supreme Court of the United
States denied Benjamin D. Greene
and John F. Gaynor a review of the
judgment of'the lower court. This
ends the noted case.
The November statement shows
that 117,476 aliens come to this
country during that month, an in
crease of 24 per cent, over the same
month last year.
Formal announcement of the time
and place for the Democratic National
Convntion was made by Chairman
Taggart, of the national committee.
The Law and Order League issued
general orders to the police, com
manding them to enforce the state
law against the Sunday saloon in Chi
cago.
Application was made at the State
Department for the extradition from
Mexico of W. F. Walker, cashier of
the New Britain (Ct.) Savings Bank.
Rev. Dr. H. C. Jennings, in a dis
cussion in Cincinnati, declared the
greatest tyranny on earth is that of
an unsanctifled labor union.
A passenger train on the South
ern Pacific Railroad was wrecked at
Rye Patch, the locomotive and 10
cars leaving the track.
A portion of a trolley roadbed
in Pittsburg slid down an embank
ment, leaving a car and track sus
pended in midair.
James McCormick, 43 years old,
chauffeur for R. L. Ireland, was
killed in Cleveland, 0., by a Lake
Shore train which struck the auto
mobile he was driving at a crossing.
An Arkansas mob spent Christ
mas hunting Jim Hall, accused of
murdering Mrs. Emma Hearness and
son because water was thrown on
his dog.
Jackson Stilley, of West Elizabeth,
Pa., while acting as Santa Claus for
his family, fell down stairs and broke
his neck.
George Robbins, colored, arrested
in Detroit, Mich., is wanted in
Knoxville, Tenn., for the murder of
a white man.
Twenty-four firms were made
homeless in Chicago by a Christmas
fire which broke out in the Burton
Block.
Two persons wore burned to death
and a third fatally injured in a fire
in North Dover, O.
Foreign
The Transatlantic Fire Insurance
Company of Hamburg, Germany, has
voted to liquidate on account of the
fact that more than half of its capi
tal was lost by the San Francisco fire
and earthquake.
Mgr. Thomas F. Kennedy, rector
of the American College, Rome, was
consecrated as titular Bishop of Ad
, rianapolis. He received many val
uable presents from friends in the
United States.
The opening of the grave of Thom
as Charles Druce in High Gate Ceme
tery, London, to determine whether
the coffin contains the body of a man
or a roll of lead, has been begun.
The battiest ip fleet sailed from
Port of Spain for Rio Janeiro on the
Becond longest stage of the voyage to
San Francisco. Arrival at Rio is
scheduled for January 11.
A number cf prominent Americans
—Mayor Busse, of Chicago; Mark
Twain and ex-Mayor Low, of New
York—have petitioned Premier Stoly
pin of Russia for leniency in the
cases of Nicholas Tchaikovsky and
Mme. Catherine Breshkovskaya, ar
rested for alleged complicity in the
revolutionary movement.
The Chinese government is taking
steps to check the conflict of Chinese
and British interests.
Governor Jackson, of Trinidad, en
tertained at dinner the rear admirals
and other officers of the battleship
fleet.
THE THUN DEFENSE
TO BE THE SAME
Insanity Plea Based on His Wfi’s
Story.
SECOND TRIAL OF WHITE’S SLAYER.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw Will Retell Her
Story to Jury in an Effort to Free
Husband-Claim W'i.l Be Made That
Thaw la Not Now Insane, but Was
Temporarily So at Time of Shooting.
New York (Special) .-—Harry K.
Thaw will be called a second time
before a jury, January 6, to make
his defense to the charge of having
murdered Stanford White, There
have been several postponements of
the date of the second hearing of
this noted case, but it is said now
there will be no further delay.
It is announced that Mrs. Tnaw,
mother of the defendant, is expected
in the city by Saturday. Mrs. Thaw
has been in poor health, it is said, but
believes she will be able to come o,n
to be with her son during the open
_ lng hours of his second fight for life
and freedom. Other members of the
family circle, including Mrs George
Carnegie, Harry Thaw’s sister, and
Josiah and Edward Thaw, his broth
ers, are also expected to reach the
city during the week and will remain
throughout the trial. The Countess
of Yarmouth, the defendant’s sister,
is at present In England and is not
expected to attend the second trial.
Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, who has
been a daily visitor at the ever
since the first Thaw jury disagreed,
will, of course, be one of the first ar
rivals in the courtroom on Monday
next.
There have been many rumors as
to the plans of the defense for the
second hearing of the case, and it
has been predicted that an entirely
new line of action might be followed.
It can be authoritatively stated, how
ever, that the defense will again be
the same, that Evlyn Nesbit Thaw
will again relate her story to the
Jury and that an imposing array of
expert alienists will again undertake
to establish the theory that Thaw was
insane at the time he killed Stanford
White in the Madison Square Roof
Garden, but has so far recovered his
mental balance since that time as
to be no longer a menace to the
community, and, therefore, is entitled
to freedom.
This theory was expounded at
length during the first trial, but after
the taking of much expert testimony,
and after a lunacy commission had
declared Thaw sane at the present
time, the plea of temporary insan
ity was practically abandoned In the
summing up speech of Delphin M.
Delmas, the California attorney, who
made an almost direct appeal to the
so-called “unwritten law.”
In the coming trial, it is declared,
there will be no mention made of a
higher or unwritten law, but the de
fense will adhere strictly to a plea
of legal insanity at the time the act
was committed. There were mistakes
made at the first trial which it will
be the attempt of Thaw’s attorneys
studiously to avoid during his second
hearing.
Girls Fatally Burned.
Winamac, Ind. (Special).—The Ro
man Catholic School at Monterey
caught fire during the rehearsal of a
play by the children. A gasoline
lamp exploded, fatally burning Clara
Kammes and Margaret Fox, aged 15
years, and both pupils of the school.
They lived by a few minutes. The
sisters and several of the other chil
dren were burned while assisting in
putting out the flames.
Change Of Naval Attaches.
Berlin (By Cable). —The Emperor
gave a farewell audience to Lieuten
ant Commander William L. Howard,
former naval attache at the American
Embassy here. Lieutenant Comman
der Howard presented Lieutenant
Commander Reginald R. Belknap, his
successor, to the Emperor. Lieuten
ant Commander Howard and Mrs.
Howard sail for New York on Jan
uary 7.
Despondent Hero Ends Life.
Akron, Ohio (special). Anton
Garsch, honorably discharged from
the Fifty-fifth United States artillery
at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, a
month ago, committed suicide here
by drinking carbolic acid. He was
out of work and despondent. A year
ago near Fort Hancock, Garsch was
stabbed while capturing an Italian
murderer of a policeman. For thi3
act he received a reward.
Hanged Princess Unawares.
St. Petersburg (By Cable). —News-
papers report that the unknown
woman who was hanged at Moscow,
a few days ago, for throwing a bomb
at Gov. Herschelman on December
14, was Princess Meschtsherski. She
was wife of an impoverished scion
of an ancient noble house, whom she
deserted because the marriage was
unhappy.
Was Eight Feet High.
Gladstone, Mich. (Special).—lsaac
Haring, who served throughout the
Civil War and who was a conspicuous
mark for the bullets of sharpshoot
ers because of his great height, died
here. He was eight feet high—the
tallest man in the Upper Peninsula
of Michigan.
Steamer Stopped For Operation.
New York (Special). When
Christmas Eve festivities wjere at
their height on board the steamer
Pannonia, In today from Mediterran
ean ports, the Cunard liner was
brought to stop, in order that the
ship’s surgeon might have the most
favorable conditions under which to
perform an operation for appendi
citis. The steamer lay-to for one
hour, while the delicate cutting and
stitching was done. The patient, a
man passenger, is recovering.
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Iffl FOB EX- PHESiNTS
Grover Cleveland Says Country
Shouid Penstai Them.*
New York (Special).—Referring
to the poverty of Jefferson after he
left the Presidency as a blow to na
tional pride, Grover Cleveland, writ
. ing in the Youth’s Companion of
January 2 under the title “Our Peo
-1 pie and Their Ex-Presidents,” de
clares definite and generous provis
i ion should be made for the main
tenance of Chief Magistrates at the
expiration of their terms. He deals
, with the subject at length and ex
plains that he feels he can do so
without his sincerity being question
-1 ed, since he is beyond the need of aid
: from the public treasury,
i “The condition is by no means
: met,” . Mr. Cleveland writes, “by the
meager and spasmodic relief occa
sionally furnished under the guise
of a military pension or some other
pretext, nor would it be best met by
making compensation dependent up
on the discharge of Senatorial or
other official duty. Our people ought
to make a definite and generous pro
vision for all cases alike, based on
motives of justice and fairness and
adequate to the situation.”
Mr. Cleveland describes the limi
tations that his former high office
place on a retired President, in his
choice of occupation and means of
livelihood and how popular concep
tion of him as a repository of nation
al dignity enforces a scale of living
that may not be within his private
means.
“There is a sort of vague, but none
the less imperative, feeling abroad
in the land,” says Mr. Cleveland,
“that one, who has occupied the
great office of President holds in
trust for his fellow-citizens a certain
dignity, which in his conduct and
manner of life he is bound to pro
tect against loss or deterioration.
Obedience to this obligation pre
scribes "for him only such work as
in popular judgment is not undigni
fied. This suggets without argument
a reciprocal connection between the
curtailment of opportunities and a
reasonable obligation of indemnifica
tion on the other.”
“It is most gratifying to note how
the live 3 of our ex-Presidents are
made grateful and bright by the gen
erous attachment and' spontaneous
kindness manifested toward them by
their fellow-countrymen.”
PARROT GIVES FIRE ALARM.
Seeing Woman's Apron Ablaze It
Screams A Warning.
York (Special).—Warned by cries
of fire uttered by a big parrot, a pet
for a number of years, Miss Sallie
Fickle, of this city, was able to save
her* property and probably her life.
The bird seemed to possess almost
human intelligence and while Miss
Fickle was preparing breakfast it
noticed that her apron had caught
fire and that a tablecloth which she
had brushed against was also ignited.
By uttering screams of “fire, fire,”
the bird attracted Miss Fickle’s at
tention and she was able to extin
guish the flames before they gained
much headway.
THRILLING RESCUES.
Blind Man And Aged Invalid Saved
From Burning Apartment.
Chicago (Special).—The rescue of
a blind man by Captain Peter J. Vis
ser, formerly of tfi# Boer army, and
another thrilling rescue —that of a
70-year-old invalid by Policeman
Michael McGrath —were witnessed in
an apartment building at 3607 Indi
ana Avenue. They had been left be
hind in the rush from the buil3ing
when the fire was discovered.
Visser and McGrath were both
singed in making their way through
the flames. The property loss is
$20,000.
JEWELS CAST INTO FURNACE.
Woman Hid $2,000 In Old Corset,
Which Was Thrown Away.
St. Louis (Special).—Mrs. Edith
Kendricks, living at the Buckingham
Club, asked the police to aid her in
recovering $2,000 worth of diamonds
which she said were thrown into the
furnace of the hotel in a discard
ed corset. Mrs. Kendricks said she
carried the jewelry in a chamois
bag and secreted it in her corset.
Saturday she threw the corset away
and forgot to remove the jewelry.
Douma Lader Coming Here.
St. Petersburg (By Cable). —Prof.
Paul M. Milukoff, leader of the con
stitutional democrats in the Douma,
left here for the United States. He
plans to take the steamer Carmania
from Liverpool. While in America
he will speak on political matters.
| WASHINGTON \
The Portuguese Legation, replying
to charges of cruelty made by Jou
bert Peinaar, late of the Boer Army,
accuses Pienaar of conspiring to get
up a Boer republic in Portuguese ter
ritory.
Ambassador Oaki, whose recall to
Japan was recently announced, will
probably leave Washington this week,
and it is understood Baron Takahira
will be his successor.
Congressman Hobson will intro
duce a bill for the publication by the
government of an official journal.
Miss Letitia Tyler, granddaughter
of President Tyler, was attacked and
robbed by a footpad.
Mrs. P. M. Becker was burned to
death in a fire that destroyed her
home.
Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, pro
posed as a remedy for the financial
stringency, that the Treaasury issue
notes against acceptable bonds up to
90 per cent, of their present value.
Jubal A. Early, son of the Con
federate cavalry leader of that name,
has passed his examination as a sec
ond lieutenant in the army. - \
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THREE IRE KILLED
UNO MANY INJURED
Fatal Collision 01 Pernsylvania
Elevated.
THE WRECKAGE IS SET ON FIRE*
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Prompt Action of the Camden Fire
Department in Extinguishing the
Flames and Sp'endid Rescue Work of
the Uninjured Passengers Prevents
Farther Casualties.
Camden, N. J. (Special).—Three
persons were killed and 18 Injured
in a collision on the elevated tracks
of the Pennsylvania Railroad just
outside the station here, when a
Pemberton accommodation train ran
into the rear of an Atlantic City ex
press.
All those killed or injured were
passengers in the first ear of the
Pamberton accommodation. - Roth
trains were due in Camden Station
at 8.31, the Atlantic City Express
having precedence. The fog was so
thick that the engineers of the two
trains were running cautiously, and
just outside the station the Atlantic
City train was signaled to stop.
The engineer of the Pemberton
train failed to see the Atlantic City
train in time to avoid a collision, but
he instantly jammed his brakes down
hard when it loomed up through the
fog. The sudden jolt forced the ten
der of the Pemberton train into the
first car, wrecking it bhdly and either
killing or injuring everybody in the
coach.
The train, however, did not come
to a full stop, but slid into the rear
of the Atlantic City Express, causing
the tender to still further telescope
the first car. The force of the. col
lision was slight, and no one was ln
jufed on the forward train.
Hot coals from the wrecked loco
motive of the Pemberton train set
the wreckage on fire, and it was at
first feared that many of the Injured
passengers who were pinioned under
the heavy twisted iron and wood
would be burned to death, but the
prompt action of the Camden fire de
partment In extinguishing the flames
and the efficient rescue work of the
uninjured passengers undoubtedly
saved many lives. Several of the
Injured may die.
DIED TO JOIN SWEETHEART.
Unable To Be At Dying Man's Bed
side Girl Takes Her Life.
Pittsburg (Special).—Because of
her disappointment in not being able
to Join her dying sweetheart, Miss
Gistella Schwartz, aged 18j commit
ted suicide in McKeesport. She was
stopping at the home of a friend
and for several days was overcome
by grief. She ended it all by drain
ing a vial of phenol.
The man for whom she gave her
life is in Berlin and reports from his
bedside stated that be had but a
short time to live. Hourly expect
ing a cable announcing his death,
she could stand the suspense no
longer.
SAVED FROM GALLOWS.
Thaxton’s Sentence Suspended As He
Was About To Be Hanged.
Birmingham, Ala. (Special).—Just
as the black cap was about to be
placed over the head of Henry Thax
ton, a negro, convicted of the killing
of 8. T. Hunstucker, white, a tele
gram from the Governor, ordering a
suspension of the execution for 16
days, was delievered to the sheriff.
The negro had made a statement
from the gallows, and In a minute
more the trap would have been
sprung. At this point & boy rushed
up to the gate and handed a tele
gram to Chief Deputy Brown. Then
the sheriff mounted .the steps of the
gallows and read the message aloud.
TRAIN CRASH KILLS FIREMAN.
Lake Shore Passenger Rons Into
Freight Engine.
Ashtabula, Ohio (Special). Pas
senger train No. 225, on the Jeffer
son and Franklin branch of the Lake
Shore Railroad, collided with a light
freight engine two miles north of
Franklin, Pa. The passenger train
left the track and the engines were
demolished. William J. Daly, of Ash
tabula, fireman on the passenger en
gine, was killed. Conductor Miles,
of OH City, and Engineers H. C.
Tombes and T. E. Evans, of Ashta
bula, were injured. Many passengers
were slightly hurt.
Killed Child For Burglar.
San Jose, Cal. (Special).—Bertram
Somers shot and killed his 5-year-old
boy, having mistaken him for a burg
lar. The child, It Is believed, was
walking, in his sleep. The parents
were awakened by a noise In the
room and seeing the outline of a
figure near the window, they con
cluded it was that of a burglar. Mr.
Somers reached for his pistol and
fired, killing the child instantly.
Shah Gives Assurances.
Teheran (By Cable). —The Shah
gave an audience to the British and
Russian Ministers. He solemnly as
sured them that he did not intend
to abolish the constitutional regime,
but would strive to work in coopera
tion with the Parliament.
Killed By Her Lover.
Chicago, 111. (Special).—Miss The
resa Zolinski was shot and instantly
killed and Miss Victoria Stoch was
shot in the hand by Frank Kozelski,
who was engaged to njarry the Zo
llnskl woman. He was arrested. Ko
zelski had been In Michigan, and re
cently was notified that unless he
came back another would marry his
sweetheart. He came back and the
shooting followed, after Kozelski and ,
his sweetheart had apparently been
reconciled.
DR. RIXEY TKKES A FIRM STAND
Medical Officers For Command of
Hospital Strips.
Washington, D. C. (Special).—The
resignation of Rear Admiral Willard
H. Brownson from the office of chief
, of the Naval Bureau of Navigation
because President Roosevelt over
ruled his objection to placing a naval
surgeon in command of a hospital.
ship, is not likely to end the contro
versy between the line and the staff
of the naval service Involved in this
incident. Admiral Brownson’s pro
test was the breath applied to a
smouldering flame, and those who
nave known of all the trouble that
has been brewing for a long time
realize that the matter cannot be ad
justed without much discussion and
the distribution of some hard knocks.
Coming right on' top of the publi
cation of Henry Reuterdahl's attack
on the bureau system of the Navy
Department, the controversy between
Admrial Brownson and Surgeon Gen
eral Rixey assumes a very important
and far-reaching aspect. It has
served to call attention to the differ
ences that exist between the bureaus
of the Navy Department and to dem
onstrate the need of a more harmo
nious administration. Nothing more
will be needed to attract the atten
tion of Congress to Mr. Reuterdahl’s
strictures, and when the Senate and
the House reassemble after the holi
days there is bound to be a thorough
airing of the causes which have
operated to bring about conditions
which naval officers themselves are
anxious to remedy.
Surgeon General Presley M. Rixey
issued a statement in which he
touches upon the circumstances
leading up to the probable selection
by the President of a medical officer
to command the hospital ship Relief
over the protest of Rear Admiral
Brownson. While disclaiming exact
knowledge as to the cause of Admiral
Brownson’s resignation, the Surgeon
General’s statement leaves little room
for doubt that the controversy he
reviews was a potent" factor.
Surgeon General Rixey maintains
that hospital ships, as* a rule, always
have been commanded by medical
officers, with a sailing master and
civilian crew for purposes of naviga
tion. This particular vessel, he says,
formerly belonged to the Army and
always was commanded by a medical
officer when used as a hospital ship.
In attempting to unify the medical
services of the Army and the Navy
he says that a joint army and navy
board of medical officers, which was
convened by "executive order more
than a year ago, recommended that
hospital ships should be commanded
by medical officers, and that that
recommendation was approved by
both the Secretary of War and the
Secretary of the Navy in general or
ders.
Since the Civil War, he says, all
hospital ships and medical transports
of the Army had been placed under
the Surgeon General of the Army,
He says further that Japanese naval
hospital ships were commanded by
medical officers after having tried
line officers. These ships, he says,
are simply floating hospitals, prop
erly under the control of the medical
department, and should be conducted
in peace exactly as in time of war.
This Is especially so, he adds, because
during war time lipe officers cannot
be spared and do not, and should not,
desire the command of these ships.
He maintains that it always has
been a doubtful question if the Gene
va and The Hague agreements could
guarantee the neutrality of these
ships if combatant (line) officers and
crews were aboard, and It was this
doubt which prevented the Japanese
during the recent war with Russia
from using line officers on hospital
ships.
BARS SECRET WEDDINGS.
Couples In New York Must New Get
A License.
New York (Special).—Hitherto it
has not been necessary for couples
to secure a marriage license in order
to be married in this state. Begin
ning with the New Year the new law
suggested and approved by Governor
Hughes will go into effect.
The new bureau for the issuance of
licenses to persons to be married was
opened at the city clerk’s office, In
the city hall. The new law provides
that the Intending bride and bride
groom shall appear at the bureau
and apply for the license, or “affidavit
to marry,” as it is called. No mat
ter who the parties may be, rich or
poor, official or layman, they must
answer the questions put to them In
order to obtain the license. Then
they may go where they please to be
married.
The corporation counsel delivered
an opinion that the city clerk might
Issue licenses before the year 1908
began, when the law goes into effect,
so that those Intending to be wed on j
New Year’s Day might get their II- I
censes ahead cf time.
Raleigh Goes “Dry.”
Raleigh, N. C. (Special).—By a
majority of 645 Raleigh voted out
Its liquor dispensary and becomes a
prohibition city. In the city there
were 928 .votes for prohibition, 381
for dispensary and 2 for saloons. The
dispensary has been In operation here
for four years. The sales have
amounted to about $250,000 a year, j
with about $75,000 profit, this be- ,
Ing placed to the credit of the school
and road funds.
I FINANCIAL I
America’s crop exports this year
will exceed the value of Imports
$440,000,000.
Steel rail orders for 1908 do not
exceed 800,000 tons, compared with
2,300,000 tons of unfilled orders at
this time last year. I
Tonopah continues the most active
stock in Philadelphia, but tfcat doesn’t
mean that it leads the list In con
fidence.
A REFINED WOMAN
SLAIN IN A SWIM
Well Dressed Man Seen Fleeing Fn
the Scene. B
YACHT FIGURES IN THE MYSTERY.I
Node Corpse of Unknown Comely Wo-J
man of 30 Years, of Scrupulous®
Toilet and Fine Raiment, Found®
Frozen in Pond in Hackensack Mea- H
dows Near Newark, N. J. M
Newark, N. J. (Special!.—A mut-R
ier, combining the elements of mys-™
tery and deliberate cruelty, was com
mitted on the Hackensack meadows
In the town of Harrison, and
nude body of the victim, a come]'®
woman of perhaps 30 years, wa®
found nearly submerged in the J®
waters of a little pond. Only ®
Teet projected when a chance
by broke the ice in which the exfl
portions were Incrustod and dr.-®
the body ashore. ■
The dead woman was finely®
tured; her hair and nails
dence of a recent and scrupulous
let, and such of her clothing as was
subsequently found suggested in tex
ture and style an owner of refine
ment, rather than one whose habits
might lead her to frequent the vicini
ty of the crime. The pond in which
the body was thrown is made by th<t
overflow from the Prassic River and
is directly across the river from this
city.
The body has not been identified,
and it is pretty well established thal
it is not that of a resident of thii
city or Harrison. Its description does
not correspond with that of anj
woman reported to the police as miss
ing. Two men, who occupied a yachi
moored near where the body was
found, are detained by the police
but the most important clue obtained
was furnished by Peter Coogan, a
watchman employed by the Marine
Engine Company, who recognized the
body as that of a woman whom he 1
had seen crossing the ’meadows in I
company with a man. Later he saw
the man alone. He then carried a I
bundle in his arms. The man wao 1
short and stout. Coogan, whose du- I
ties keep him in the neighborhood of 1
the murder, told the police:
“While outdoors at 2 o’clock A. M. fl
I saw this woman in company with fl
a man cross the meadows, going in A
the direction of the pond. They 1
passed so near me that I wa3 able I
to recognize the woman’s features. 1
later, perhaps an hour, the I
man returned and again passed me, I
this time going in the direction from M
which the two had come when I
saw them. This _time the man was®
alone. In his arms ho carried a bun-®
die which he did not carry when first ■
seen. In build he was short and thick H
set.” Coogan could not ■
ter description of the man. 1
Two girls returning to
in Harrison long after mldin|H
a woman’s cries floating a®
marsh land. They seemed ■
from the direction of the pc®
to the startled girls soum®
“Spare me!'’ and "Help!”®
home the girls were approac®
well-dressed stranger, who a
and followed them until a pH
was met with, when he tut®
fled. The girls had a good®
the man under an electric li®
while he was well and neatly®
his hands showed either tha®
accustomed to manual labo®
recently been engaged in v.®
soiled his fingers.
Life had been extinct, the®
said, about 12 hours when ®
was found. A mark on the
dicated that strangulation ®
manner of death.
leg and trunk and pieces n®
forced into the flesh showed ®
body had been dragged alon®
der path which skirts tin®
Along the path the police pi®
a white silk waist, sashed®
back, a skirt and ufl|ir ®
garters. Following r hßHih ®
ice came upon the
which was tied up at a poifl®
Passaic about 300 feet frontal
the body was found. On
the police say that they fou®
sealskin muff and a fur neck p®
The occupants of the yacht ■
Albert Thompson, 4 1 years o®
Elizabeth, a boatman, and Fre®
ICirkman, 38 years old. Both
employed on the boat.
Bald that he found the fur piece nHBF
the cinder path. The police found
on the boat dishes enough for three
dinners. There were three plates,
three saucers, and so on. The men,
1 however, said that they had no visi
tor on the Idle Hour. Both were
arrested as suspicious characters.
Defended His Mother.
Buffalo, N. Y. (Special).—Charles
Schroff, aged 44 years, proprietor of
Internationa] Hall, 236 East Genesee
Street, a saloon and bowling alley.
I was shot and instantly killed by his
son, Charles, aged 24 years. Schroff,
Sr., had been drinking heavily of late
and quarreled with his wife, and it
Is said struck her when she called
upon her son to protect her. He
came into the room and shot at his
father, the first shot taking effect.
Plan To End Dictatorship.
Lisbon (Special).—Following the
promises of the Government to ter
minate the dictatorship and hold the
elections for the Chamber of Depu
! ties at an early date if the calm in
i the political atmosphere was raain
, tained, a decree was issued Thursday
fixing the elections for April 5.
Premier In Duel.
Budapest (By Cable).—Dr. Wek
erle, the Hungarian Premier, and
former Minister of Justice Polonyi
fought a duel with swords as a re
sult of an allegation of political dis
honesty made against the Premier
by the ex-Minlster at a sitting of
Parliament a few days ago. The
meeting took place at noon and was
a bloodless one. Neither man was
injured and the two became recon-i
died.