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VOL XXI; NO. 205
WATERBUItY, CONN., SATUKDAY, OCTQUKIl 17, 1908.
PRICE TWO CENTD.
DEADLY TYPnCON
JUDGE COWElt SOOT
GUNBOAT HISSING
BALLOON FOUND
ON TDE GRIDIRON
TRAIN IN FIDE
ROOSEVELT
r ;.
b lite Presence ol Ussy People
Aoxiely Aeobj Olllcers of (be
dearly All Ibe Collese Teaiat
Survivor of the Belief Train
Dliastcr Tells Story ol Ibe
Alfalr.
Acerlcia fled ol Bitileshljs
Rib loto One ind Reacted
Occupants Kat Beard Um Yel
:Vad So Uiy Have Ea ;
Drowotd
He Nails That LeKer e! LIHti's
to l&e tfasl tzi iht Ut:
Is Sbowo Up
Be Pol Bullets Into Els Own
Heel Over Tardiness of Ibe
Cruiser Yaskton.
Bave Caoes on f or Ybls
AIleroooB.
1 .111 ill i om-v. a v - r; v vfi v a"v
ONE VESSEL MISSING
Toklo, Oct: 1 7. The arrival of the
American battleship fleet at Yoko
hama hai been delayed by a tremen
dous Horm off the north coast of the
' island of Luzon of the Philippine
group. . ' '.' " V
The storm began on the morning
of October 12 and continued until the
afternoon of October 18. One man
was-drowned and some damage re
sulted to the fleet. ' -
These details reached Toklo by
' wireless telegraphy' from the battle
ship Connecticut and were given out
by the special courtesy of the Japan
ese government.
The fleet will arrive at Yokohama
at 9 o'clock- on the moralng of Octo
ber 18. . :
,ln consequence of the day's delay
the dinner arranged by Commander-in-Chief
ljuln of the Japanese navy
for Saturday and the Fuji ball
- aboard the Mjkasa on the same even
ing will be postponed to Friday, Oc
tober 23. The dinner to be given by
Rear Admiral Sperry will take place
on the following day. The fleet Is
expected to depart on Sunday ; Octo
ber 25, instead of on the day preeecl-
' lug. . , .. ,:
The message from the Connecticut
was dated .6:10 &. m;, October ', 17,
and was sent by way of Shlmonosekl
wireless station to this place. It
stated merely that on the morning
of October 12 the fleet ran into a ter
rific gale, or typhoon, oft the north
ern coast of Luzon, and that some
slight damage was caused by the
. heavy seas, but that all was well with
the ships at that time, and that the
fleet would reach Yokohama on the
morning of the 18th.
Vice-Admiral Salto has received a
wireless message from Rear Admiral
Sperry thanking him, for the welcome
extended to the fleet by wireless tele4
graph. Admiral Saito's message to
Admiral Sperry follows:
" A hearty welcome to your fleets
' We eagerly await your arrlyal. ; .
. 8AITO,, Minister of the Navy. 4
To this Admiral Sperry replied:
Saito, Minister of Navy, Toklo: .,
We deeply regret that-we havo
been delayed- twenty-four hoirs. In
behalf of : the American btrttleshlp
fleet I wish to express sincere thanks
for your excellency's gracious- words
Of welcome. - . ' ; - SPERRY;
Will Control Freight Rateju
Washington, Oct. 17.- The rebate
or "conference line system" will- con
trol apparently more completely
than ' ever . before the freight' rates
.between the United States andBra-
Elllian points' during next year re
ports consul " general Anderson at
Rio de Janeiro. - He "quotes a notice
signed by a combination of shipping
lines which among other things
grants permission . to ' shippers . to
give some of their business to the
subsidized Brazilian and the Holland
Lloyd lines provided the business is
.handled precisely the same terms as
the lines which participated in the
conference which Issued the notice.
This sitaken as an Invitation to the
outside lines to join the combination
Disputed Boundary Question.
Washington. Oct. 17. Costa Rica
and Panama Have a disputed bound-,
ary Question on their- hands which
Luis Anderson, who was president of
the Washington Central Amerlckn
Peace conference and who is now in
this city will make an effort to have
. aet led as soon as possible. Rival
fruit companies operating between
the east coast of the United States
and Costa Rica also are anxious for
a settlement of the question because
large banana plantations are located
there. The controversy has been
pending for a long time and the state
rieiiartment as well as all others in
terested are' anxious to have "the
boundary line correctly delimitated.
A Xew Observatory. ; ; .
.Washington, Oct 17. A new ob
aervatlon lower for the division of
meteorology and'" river hydraulics is
being built at Ancon, isthmus of Pan
ama.' The site for the tower is Ideal,
the elevation of . the ground at the
base o fthe tower being 97 feet, and
the . platform which is to be 60 feet
above the ground, -win give an eieva
tion of 147, feet above mean sea level.
The Instruments, which will include
an anemometer add a sunshine and
cloud recorder, will be 18 feet above
'the platform, which will put them
well above the roofs of the surround
ing buildings., . t
Killed by Turkish Troops
- Berlin. October 17. Disnatchea
from Constantinople say that the
Armenians in Wiranscheklr have
hMn mfliiarr.H hv Turkish trnnim-
The women and children ahve been
subjected to ingnuui loriues. me
4 riMn. wr unt to nvprawa thn mil
tlnous town people and they at once
began to murder ana piunaer.
Xew Seal Rookery ,
.-VIMnH B ' C Oct 17. A new
seal" rookery located on an uninhab
ited island not. marked on charts or
maps has been discovered - by Rinta
Mldsumo Itfidzushima. a Japanese
sealer of Hakodate, according to ad
Tieee received by the steamer Kagra
which has arrived In port. The is
land rookery is said to be an exceed
ingly rich one and Is some miles
; north of the Russian port of Sabgak
ten . . ' - ' -
: WEAIHEl F0KICA8I.;-
Forecast far Connecticut: Fair to
night and Sunday; Hht touthwest
winds.-
Newark, Oct. 17. In the presence
of ope hundred persons Judge. David
Howell of the criminal court here,
twice shot himself at Branch Brook
park, Inflicting wounds, from which
he died two hours later tn the hos
pital. He was one ' of the most
widely known democrats of this city.
Sharp, personal criticism.; was 'made
of the judge, because of the fact that
he had been . divorced Gy his
Land -in a speech last night he re-
plledMO ,hls accusers and demanded
evJdeSfe' of their charges.- He has
taKey-an active, part in th,e present
campaign, ! although not a -'candidate
for; office. V . v" ' ' 1 "f i l
MARGARET ELLINGTON ILL.
Actress Breaks Down from Playing
Highly -Emotional Role. V
Boston, "Oct 17. Miss 'Margaret
Illington, the actress, is seriously ill
and will not be able to resume , her
role In "The Thief" for some months,
acocrdlng to an announcement made
yesterday by Daniel Frohman, her
husband, who Is with her at the
Hotel Touralne.i Miss Illington was
taken ill at the Wednesday matinee.
Mr Frohman said yesterday: . -'"Miss
Illington has. been playing
for a long. time, a highly emotional
role, which placed a great strain
upon her nervous system. She is
suffering from a nervous breakdown
fend requires complete rest and quiet
for a considerable time to restore her
to health." ? : - .
The Frphmans will return to New
York to-morrow and Miss Illington
Will then go to a place In the country
wheer she can have the complete
quiet which jer physicians demand
for her. , , : . , , '
ROOSEVELT TO VISIT ENGLAND.
London Times, Learns Se Will Lec-
' tnre at Oxford, in 1910,
Lonxion,,:0ct 17 The Times of this
morning is informed that .'President
wlli;visit England after his African
trip early in 1910. Also that he will
deliver the .Romanes lecture at Ox
ford and -on the occasion of the uni
versity commemmoratlon will receive
the honorary degree of D. CV L.,
which Oxford has already bestowed
upon Kmneror William.'
According to the Times President
ROosevelt also'wfli visit Parts and de
liver an,! address at the . Sorbonne.
Neither .the dates nor the subjects Of
the lectures are yet known
The Times further.
cording -to- the present -plans - Mrs
Roosevelt will join the president at
Khartoum on the journey, northward.
STRAUS IS RKADY.
Will Show, That Wall Street 1$
- ' Helping Republicans.
New York, Oct 17. "If Treasurer
Sheldon of the ' republican national
committee .'all appoint a committee
of "three or four respectable men.
who expect nothing from politics, I
will appear before' them and prove
that the committee is demanding
1600 a piece from Wall street men.
said Nathan Straus of the' Democratic
Business Men's league to-day, in
reply to Mr Sheldon's denial of the
charges made by Mr Straus yester
day. . ...j. ',. ; - ... -. .
NEGRO DREW DAGGER. Y ;
Officer Was Comnellfed to Club Him
' :!. "". Into Submission.
. New York, Oct 17. After a des
perate attempt to escape, in which
he knocked a man down and drew a
dagger on the policeman, who had
fired two shots at him, Winneld Gib
son, a negro, waa captured after be
ing clubed into submission by the
officer. He was ransacking the home
of Louis Levy, when discovered by
Levy and he promptly knocked him
down, maKing nis escape.
-.Hit Office Hours. . ",:
Pat, a , mluer, . after, itruggling for
years In a western mining district,
finally giving tip tn despair, was about
to turn bis face eastward when sud
denly he struck It rich. Soon after
ward . he - was . seen strutting along,
dressed In fine clothes. One day an
old friend stopped him. saying:
"And how are yoa, Pat? I'd like to
talk to you." ,
.Pat stretched himself proudly.
"If you want to talk to me I'll see
you In me office. I hev an office now.
and me hours Is. from a. m. In the
morn In' to p. m. In the afternoon."
Northwestern' Christian Advocate. .
.Crack er Break.
Edwin and bis mother went for a
well; Sunday afternoon. . Coming to a
tree 6t chwrles.'the .mtbiar ent; a,
Ww , limb so ' that the little fellow
coHld pick some. Seeing some One ones
higher up, be begged to be allowed -to-cllmb
the tree. "Oh, no.", said his
mother, "that would be breaking the
Sabbath." : , . . -
"And we are only cracking the Sab
bath now, are we, mamma V Inquired
Edwin. Delineator. - -
Military Academy Burned. .
" Ijneoln. Nebraska, October 17.
The Nebraska military academy was
burned to-day, eaaslng a toss of
$100,000. The .eixty-flve boy "eto
dents escaped. - -
-"- f' ; 1
Yost have apmethlng to aril, if
jam want a parehaaer the people
ninM know where, to 'find you. het
thrm know by placiag m want adv isi
the Democrat;. SS words S day for
25 eenta.
" Toklo,, October 17. The 1 Ameri
can ' gunboat, Yankton, had , been
neither sighted nor definitely located
ud to eight o'clock to-night. , There
is ; some , uneasiness concerning . her.
She has no wireless telegraphy, .on
board. ' .
' 1 Second Division Arrives . ' '
Honolulu, Oct. . 17. The ! second
division of the Pacific fleet arrived
off the harbor at 11:30 o'clock last
night. The division consists of the
cruisers Tennessee, Washington, and
California with, the torpedolboat des
troyers Truxton,; Hopkins and Whip-,
pie in to,w.' They sailed from Pago
Pago,-Samoa,' October 6, three day?
behind the first! division of the fleet
having been delayed by the arrival
of the colliers. "
FOR LOOKS ONLY.
One of Ganeral , Robert . Lta's War
4 V , ' ,time Dinners. ,
The great simplicity of the habits
of General Robert E. Lee was one rea
son '.for , his popularity with his sol
diers. , He, fared no better. than bis
troops." There' were times when ' for
weeks the southern army had' but
short rations, , often ' doing . entirely
without meat. In" "The' Old .South
and the New" Mr. Charles Morris tells.
an amusing story of one of these pe
riods of scarcity.
On a vefy stormy day several corps
and division generals arrived at head
quarters and were waiting for the
Tain to abate before riding to their
camps when General . Lee's cook an
nounced dinner. , The. general Invited
his visitors to dine with him. On re
pairing to the table a tray of hot corn
bread, a boiled .'head of cabbage sea
soned with a very small piece of ba
con and a bucket of water constituted
the repast , r -v -r -, --
The piece of meat was so small that
all 1 politely':' declined;, taking any, ex
pressing themselves 'as-, "very, fond of
boiled cabbage and.;cor bread," on
which they dined.' f, " : ,: --.i
Of course the general was too, polite
to eat meat In, the presence of. guests
who had declined It. But later In the
afternoon,, wben. they had all gone,
feeling very hungry, he .called his
servant and askej him to bring him a
piece of bread and meat',4,;; fr !
The darky, , looked perplexed and em
barrassed and aald in- a deprecating
tone: "WelL, Marse, Robert, dat meat
what I sot before, you , at dinner
wa'n't oors.- I ' Jest . borrowed dnt
piece of ' mlddlln' from one of . de
couriers to season de' cabbage in -de
pot,, and, seeln as you was gwlne to
have company, at dinner, 1 put It oa
de dish wld de cabbage for looks. But
when I seed yon an" none of de genel
men touched It 1 'eluded you all' know
ed It was borrowed, and so after din
ner I sent It back to da boy what it
belong to." "": '. 5
A SHREWD LAWYER.
The Way Jaramiah Masan Floorarf an
' Important Witness." .'
Jeremiah Mason, a celebrated' Ameri
can lawyer, possessed to a marked de
gree the instinct for finding the weak
point ' ' .: '. f '
He was once cross examining a wit
ness who had previously testified to
having beard Mason's client make a
certain statement; and so Important
was this statement' that the adversa
ry's case was based-on It alone.
Several questions were asked by Ma
son, all of which the witness answered
with more or less hesitation. ' Then he
was asked to repeat once more the
statement he had beard made. With
out hesitation be - gave It word for
word as he bad given It In the direct
examination. A third time Mason led
the witness ronnd to this statement
and again It was repented verbatim. .
Then, without warning, he walked to
the witness stand and, pointing straight
at the witness, said in a perfectly un
lmpasstoned voice, "Let's see that pa
per you have In your. waistcoat pocket"
Taken completely by surprise. " the
witness mechanically took a paper from
the pocket Indicated and banded It to
the" lawyer.
.There was profound silence In the
courtroom as the lawyer slowly read In
a cold, calm voice the exact words of
the witness In regard to the statement
and called attention to the fact that
they were In the handwriting of coun
sel on the other side. He then gathered
up bis papers with great deliberation.
remarked that there seemed to me no
further need for his services and de
parted from the courtroom. A
Mason was asked bow he knew that
the paper was In the witness' pocket"
Aell," explained Mason, ."it seemed
to me that he gave that part of Lis. tes
timony more as If be'd learned It than
as if he bad heard If Then. too. I'no
tlced that at each repetition of bis tes
timony he put his band to bis waist
coat pocket and then let It fall again
when he got through. Chicago Record-
Herald. - ----- - '
Typhoon Killed 500.
Amor. Oct H Native reports re
ceived here from Changchow are to
the effect that more than 300 Uvea
were lost in that' city as the result
of Thursday's typhoon." -
One Boy l Dead.
- New Haven. Oct 17. Edmund
Stanford,' one of the two lads wha
was hit by an automobile drWen by
Frank Leddr. yesterday, died In the
bospltay to-day. ;'
FOUND IN NORTH SEA
, Yarmouth, Kng, Oct 17.-r-Th Ger
man balloon Hergesell : has : been
picked up in the North sea. There
was no sign ef the occupants and
the two aeronauts are believed to
have perished. The balloon was
found floating', half, deflated by a
Norwegian steamer. ;- ;
,The balloon. Hergesell, -under com
mand of . Lieutenant Foertsche, Is
still missing,, biit a. message from bis
balloon, was picked up near Oster
Wanne. in Hanover province, which
it. Is believed was written on Tues-i
day. It was as follows:
Hergesell, 9 a. m.; height' 2, 100
meters. Direction and place uncer
tain, probably i near the coast.
' FOERTSCHE."
Meteorological observations show
that the wind at that time was;
Ing in. the dlrecijon of the sea and it
is certain that' the Hergesell was
driven to the northwest.,' the direc
tion taken by the majority of the
other contestants, and that If she is
found at all she will be found, like
several of the other balloons in the
two contests, in, the waters of .
North Sea.- X j. .
War vessels. are stfil searching the
waters and all outgoing ships n
been-notified at various points to be
on the lookout, and It is possible
that the two men' whoi ascended ,
the Hergesell may have been rescued
by some vessel.
HAINES' INDICTMENT
Grand Jory of locg Island City
Passed Up Papers to So
preme Court To-day. -
New-' York, October 17. Indict
ments charging Captain Peter C.
Haines and his brother T, J. Haines
with murder lh the first. degree, for
the killing, of. William E. Annlss.at
the Bayside yacht club last . August
were handed up to -. the supreme
court "to-day by -the grand jury" of
Long Island city;? 1 J ' . ' . ' '
:r the s&m. ; ;::
Chairman Mack Confident That Brv
an Will Be Elected. ,
Chicago, Ill, Oct 17. National
Chairman Mack, who has been in Chi
cago for nearly two weeks, directing
the fight In the west for the election,
of the democratic ticket, left last
night for the east. - After registering
in his. home In Buffalo, Mr Mack will
leave for New York to look-over the
situation In New York and the east.
Mr Mack said before his departure:
' "When I came west some two
weeks ago,. I realized that the tide
had turned , toward democracy and
every . indication pointed to victory
for the democracy in November. The
situation is far better now than then
and : I return east confident in the
election of Mr Bryan I have not re
ceived one discouraging report. Mr
Bryan will not only receive the ma
jority of the electral vote, but one
of -the greatest popular votes ever
given a candidate. .-- . --.
"The. fight - Is won but we must
keep everlastingly at It for the re
maining two weeks of the campaign.
It Is too early tp give out the figures
and I will not attempt to do so, but
I will say now that New York, Ohio
and Indiana are democratic this
year and my prediction does not take
Into consideration a number of other
states that will swing , from the re
publican to the democratic column
two weeks from. Tuesday.".--
TWO MERE KILLED
Small Engine Derailed and
Fey
v Twenty Feet to Rocks.
. Battleboro, Vermont, October 17.
Engineer Cutler and fireman Mar
tlndale were killed and two others
were injured to-day - when a small
traction engine, employed in; con
structing a dam on the Connecticut
river, was derailed and fell twenty
feet to the rocks below.
v .' Pacific Ocean Rate War.
San Francisco, Oct 17. A rate
war in the Pacific ocean with thu
Pacific Mall Steamship Co opposing
the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, a sub
sidized line of Japan, is expected. A
Japanese company Is reported ' to
have made a cut of 20 per cent in
freight rates and the Pacific Mail Is
reported to have instructed Its ori
ental agents to meet any reduction
made. .The Pacific Mail has the back
ing of-ttre .Harrlman system and Is
-.expected to; meet the opposition in an
effort to retain, its business.
" - Wed at Hospital
Butte, Mont.. Oct. .17. News has
been received that Captain Joseph' T.
Brown of'Birney, candidate for pres
idential elector on the democratic
ticket, died yesterday at 8t Luke's
hospital In St Louis. Captain Brown
was only recently elected as nomi
nee for -presidential elector to - fill
the place made vacant hy the resig
nation of W. G. Conrad, of Great
Falls. '
St, Louts Stg'deat Win.
New Raven. .Oct 17. The Hugh
Chamberlain Greek prise tor fresh
men at Yale has been awarded-to
Setdea Palmer Spencer, Jr, ot St
Iwin. with -special , mention to
George VanSantvoord of Troy, N. Y.
West Point, Oct 17. Yale and the
Armv in the first bi football games
of the year, made . West Point the
chief focus of amateur atnieue atten
tion to-day when the teams of young
giants from the great Connecticut
university and the United States mili
tary academy were to meet for their
annual football contest. Interest, al
ways keen, has been intensified this
fall by last year's nothing to nothing
tie and by the exceptional prepara
tions made by each eleven for the
game. ...... 1 -
Yale has almost as large an array
of "graduates" working over her men
this week as before the Harvard and
Princeton games. These former iooi
ball stars include Brink Thome, cap
tain nf thn 'h Pleven. Lvdi Hoyt, sec
retary to Ambassador Whltelaw Reld,
James McCrea, Jr, son or. me presi
dent of the Pennsylvania railroad,
James Hogan and others. Realizing
from this, the rigorous course m
coaching through which the civilian
visitors must have passed, the cadets
likewise have not been idle. Every
afternoon, canvas clad warriors have
been at work on the field here, prac
ticing outside kicks, passes and other
football taetlcs. as a result oi m
training the padet eleven has come
to the point where It Is pronounced
in unusually gooa conauion ror uu
early season game, whereas Yale is
helleved tn he sllehtlV "off form." In
fact, It is reported here that the New
Haven team is sun so uuaeveiupeu
that it will rely chiefly on old fash
ioned football. Coach Tipton on the
other hand has perfected a new for
ward pass, which if it should prove
as effective this afternoon as it has in
Dractice may bring a victory to me
soldiers' camp.
WOMAN SCARES BURGLAR.
Found Him in Her Sick Father's
Room, Going Through Clothes.
Stamford, Oct 17. Miss Sadie
Williams, the daughter of James B.
Williams, a New York business man,
surprised a barefoot negro burglar
In her sick father's room;abou0 2
o'clock yesterday: morning. - The
negro fled, fell down a flight of stairs,
leaped through an open parlor win
dow and got away. - ' " 1 ;
Mr Williams had a stroke of pa
ralysis In March and has been 111 ever
since. ' 1
awoke about J In the morning,"
said Miss Wmtaws, d went to see
gega,
my-iatners domes. uaugm uu
by both wrists and said: "What are
you doing here? I'll call the police.'
He dropped the trousers and ran."
Before going up stairs the burglar
made' a round of the lower part of
the house and collected some valu
ables. ' :
- , Turkey's Answer.
Paris, Oct 17. The French gov
ernment has Just received official con
flrmatlon of previous reports of the
mobilization by Turkey of the An
atolian army corps. s This is regard
ed In official circles as Turkey's an
swer to the Bulgarian refusal to ac
cord compensation, for-the. Oriental
railroad and is believed to make war
practically inevitable. It is expected
now the Bulgarian government will
begin to push troops across the Turk
ish frontier. ,'; -
Forest Fires Near Village.
TItusville, Pa, Oct 17. Lincoln
vllle, a village near here; is being
consumed by flames that started from
a forest fire. The blaze is beyond
control and help has been summoned
from nearby places.' Word was re
ceived here by telephone late last
night that several homes have al
ready been burned and there is little
hope of saving buildings still stand
Ing. -
The Business Meeting
Meriden, October 17. The annual
business meeting of the Connecticut
state teachers association was held
here to-day and several resolutions
were adopted. It was voted 'to sup
port the propoganda being conduct
ed by the association of school su
perintendents and teachers, to secure
better certification of teachers The
treasurer reported a balance of
1,492. SO in the treasury.
CITY NEWS.
"Warrior Stockings" strongest (
boys, 2 pairs for ioc. Upson, Sin
gleton fe Co.
At 2 o'clock this afternoon when
the board adjourned fifty-three new
voters had been made. The men to
be made did not come in so fast to
day as yesterday when S45 were
made. The vote makers got down
to business again at 3 o'clock this
afternoon. They will sit all next
week until Friday.
Joseph Matzkin was taken into cue
tody; to-day by Constable Lannen.
He was later released on a bond fur
nished by A. Santoro. Matzkin was
charged by Abraham Levlne with en
tering his place and destroying much
property' as well as taking away a
considerable quantity of stock, and
he. asks $100 damages. Attorney
Russell Is handling the case for the
plaintiff. t
Plans are under way for the reor
ganization of the Holy Name society
connected with the Sacred Heart
church. It Is the Intention to have
all the young men of the parish join
the society and In all probability the
Rev T. F. -Shelleyi pastor of the
church, will donate a building for
the use of the members. A meeting
of the commltiM wMkis supervis-
; Ing the matter i held each week.
Bay City, Mich, Oct 17. Wesley
Irwin, a Bay City traveling man, who
was one of the survivors of the Metz
relief train disaster, gave the thrill
ing account of the forest fire trag
edy. He said:
"The train left Metz about 6
o'clock Thursday evening and ran
into the fire three miles south of that
lace. A burning pile of cedar had
warped the rails and into the trao
the train leaped, tarrying Its human
urgo to destruction. The five box
carr Immediately took fire and it was
w;th difficulty that the 200 people in
tbtm escaped. In a deep bodied
steel coar ci.r vpre located the wom
en and children and as the heat In
creased they were unable to escape.
men were forced to seek places ot
safety, and could give no aid. ,lt was
erriDfe to witness and I hope I will
never be compelled to go through
such agony again. The women clung
to their little ones and begged for
aid.- Agonizing cries rent the air
aud c:iutd tto blood in one's body
to run cold.
A party of aeven of us took to the
woods mid were forced to jumn over
burning logs and run through fire In
making our escape. It was the only
chance to take ami we thought it
preferable to remaining with the
women and children and meeting the
same fate. For five miles we ran
through smoke and fire which seem
ed every minute to be taking our
strength away. When within half a
mile of Posen my eyesight gave out
and I could only depend upon the
railroad track to guide me throueh.
Only two of the original party reach
ed Posen that night. The others
straggled alon gone at a time."
Arthur White of Metz, another
survivor of the fire said:
"When the relief train reached a
point about a mile south of Metz, we
ran into a regular hell of flame and
smoke, which swept over the open
car, setting our clothes on fire and
singeing our hair. All of a sudden
the engine went off the track and we
stopped "right In the midst of a mass
of Sames -which surrounded us. My
brother and his little boy were next
to me. I lifted the lad over the side
of the car 1 and ' dronned him and
got out myself. I could not find my
brother, but I picked up the boy and
struggled through the flames " and
smoke to an open field."
PAST0B IN WRONG PEW.
Named Vice-President ot Bennblican
Eallv. Savi Tm a Democrat."
Montclalr, N. J.. Oct 17. The Rev
Henry E. , Jackson, pastor . of the
Christian Union Congregational
church here, , was named as . a vice
president - for the ; republican rally
which , Governor Fort addressed
Thursday night but did not attend.
Instead he issued a statement saying
that he had. been, placed in the wrong
pew.
"My name was used without au
thority," said the Rev Mr Jackson.
I am a democrat and I was some
what disturbed when informed that I
had been named as a ' vice-president
a a republican rally."
Mr Jackson said he would .vote for
E. W. Townsehd, the democratic nom
inee for congress, for Everett Colby,
the new idea republican, for state
senator, and for Bryan. ,
Senator Donovan In Runaway,
South Norwalk,. Oct 17. Senator
Jeremiah Donovan, who has recently
been renominated, figured this morn
ing in, an exciting runaway accident
The' senator's " stableman' failed to
harness the horses properly and while
driving down a steep hill,- the pole of
the carriage came -out of place and
snapped In two. The senator held to
the reins and after a desperate drive
succeeded in turning the horses onto
a lawn. The carriage was badly dam
aged, but the senator escaped any
serious injuries. ...
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election1; of : presidential candidates,
but 'reserving the right, to state any
facts as to his connection, "with an
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ouf at the white house to-day, after
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your career.", '.;..', ,
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. The Name Changed. ,
New Haven, Oct 17.J By order ov
the Yale corporation . the names of
East and West Divinity halls' havo
been changed to Edwards hall and
Taylor hall respectively, the 'former
in memory of Rev Jonathan Ed
wards, class of 1720, and afterwards
president of Princeton, and In mem
ory, of Rev Nathaniel W. .Taylor,
class Of '1S07, and long a professor
In the Divinity school.
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