a BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1902 8 MERGER OPPOSED Transfer of South Shore Road in Litigation Fight Over Absorption by Quebec Southern Suit of Owners of Meyer Syndicate Rights They Claim Legal Ownership of the South Shore Montreal. Sept. 2-The men who have acquired the rights of the Meyer syndicate have taken action to prevent the amalgamation of the South Shore Railway, which extends from Montreal to Sorel, and will eventually extend to Quebec, with Quebee Southern Railway Company, which has a line which extends to the Rutland and meets the South Shore line near St. Hyacinthe.
The plaintiffs in the action which was entered on Saturday are: Richard Sutro, banker: Charles E. Kimball, presldent of the Peoria St. Louts Railway Company, of New York: William F. Harrity, president of the Equitable Trust Company Philadelphia, Richard Bennett of New York. They bring an action against the South Shore Railway Comthe Quebee Southern Rallway Company, pany, the National Trust Company.
a Toronto corporation which has its chief place of business in this province in Montreal, and the following gentlemen who have been interested in the stock of the South Shore Railway Company, viz: Arthur I. Meyer, broker: Benjamin P. Moore, both of New York; Percival W. broker, Frank D. White, att-rney at law.
Clement. Hodge, rallway president, all and Hiram A. of Rutland, and F. X. Choquet, poilce magistrate, of this city.
declaration filed in the case recites The the formation of a syndicate In September, bonds and claims of 1901. to buy the the South Shore Railway. Arthur L. Meyer the purchasing agent for the is given as claim that he syndicate, but the plaintiffs authority to alienate the property had no They state that Meyer thus purchased. the stock to the amo" of $300.000, bought the amount of 8270.00 and other bonds to claims.
a total of $400.000. The bonds were secured by a deed of mortgage given to Charles C. DeLorimter, of this city Justice St. Arnaud of Sorel, as trustees and Mederic bondholders. The South Shore comfor the failed to register this deed pany, however, of trust hypothie, and registered few days ago.
stock, by the plaintiff a claims of the South Shore Railbonds bought by Meyer were transferred to way the plaintiffs on July 25, 1902. the script said stock remaining still representing the of Standard Trust ComIn the hands New York, for the benefit of the pany of owners. The Interest of the plaintiffs the stock is. however, an undivided interest, of twenty shares bewith the exception Richard Bennett, a member of longing to the original syndicate, who has never been shares registered, and able to get his twenty the Court to order the defendants to asks deliver him said shares. time Meyer bought the stocks, At the claims of the South Shore road bonds and he caused the stock to be insertbed or to inscribed, as the case might be, in remain the following names: Robert J.
Campbell, shares; Arthur L. Meyer, 20 shares; 2228 Edmund Guerin, barrister of this city. 20 shares: H. Beauchemin, former manager of the road, 20 shares; F. X.
Choquet, 20 shares: the Tourville estate 740 shares. Ten shares which had been bought by Meyer were adversely claimed by H. A. Hodge, of the Rutland Railroad Company, now president of the Quebec Southern. In October, 1901, Meyer, who declared that he was actIng for all the stockholders of the South Shore agreed to amalgamate that road with the Quebec Southern.
for which H. A. Hodge acted and in the name of all the stockholders. The agreement provided that the Quebec Southern should Increase its capital to $4000 of which 43 per cent was to go to the South Shore stockholders, leaving 57 per cent to the Quebec Southern. Bonds were to be issued on the road, on a basis of $12,000 a mile.
The first mortgage bonds, to the extent of $984.000 were to be given the South Shore stockholders and besides this they were recelve $656.000 income bonds, at 5 per cent to be paid from the earnings. The directors of the Quebec Southern were to control the road pending the carrying out of the agreement. A meeting of the South Shore Railway Company was called on Jan. 14. 1902.
and the following persons. to whom the stock had been transferred by Meyer, without legal authority according to the plaintiffs, appeared as owners of the stock: W. Seward Webb. :0 shares: A. L.
Meyer, 20 shares: Benjamin P. Moore 2130 shares: Percival W. Clement. 20 shares: Frank D. White.
20 shares: F. X. Choquet, three blocks of 20 shares, 490 and 250 shares, and Hiram A. Hodge. 30 shares.
These sharebolders, whom the plaintiffs declare to have had no real interest in the stock, approved the proposed amalgamation of the two companies, and appointed Messrs. H. A. Hodge and Frank D. White, president ani secretary of the South Shore Railway Company.
These two, acting for the South Shore Company, and Mr. Hodge. as president. and Mr. R.
T. Heneker, barrister of this city, acting as secretary for the Quebec Southern, signed deeds of agreement making over the property of the South Shore to the Quebec Southern. on the conditions set forth in the proposed agreement of Meyer and Hodge. Later the property of the amalgamated companies was handed over to the National Trust Company in trust for the proposed bond issue. The plaintiffs now step in and claim that the purchasing agent (Meyer) had no right to transfer the stock as he did; that the proposed amalgamation is inequitable and carried out solely in the Interest of the Quebec Southern and in fraud of the rights of the bondholders and creditors of the South Shore Railway.
They declare that' the carrying out of the agreement would leave $700.000 of the debts of the company unprovided for. and that Messrs. Hodge and White never were qualified to act as directors, and were elected as such by persons who had no real Interest in the stock. They ask the Court to enjoin these two gentlemen from acting as such directors: to enjoin the Quebec Southern from issuing the bonds proposed, and the National Trust Company from indorsing or certifying the bonds, and they ask that they themselves be declared the owners chem the said road. They set up several purely legal grounds against the validity of the several transfers, such as lack of power in the charter.
absence of the approval of the lleutenant governor in council. and false representations to the governor general in council. VALLEY IRON PLANS To Build a Large Furnace on Property Between Chattanooga and Birmingham Chattanooga, Sept. 2 (Special)stockholders of the Valley Iron Company, recently formed, have elected the following directors: Archer Brown of New York, chairman of the Empire Steeel Iron Company: H. A.
Marting of Ironton. 0.. of the Marting Steel Iron Company; J. G. Battelle of Columbus, 0..
vice president of the Columbus Iron Steel Company: J. A. Andrews of Newport. president of the Newport Rolling MIll Company: James Bowron of Birmingham, formerly treasurer of the Tennessee Coal. Iron Railroad Company: James L.
Gaines of Nashville. formerly assistant manager of the Tennessee Coal. Iron Railroad Company in Tennessee: G. B. McCormick.
vice president of the Woodward Iron Company: Erskine Ramsay of Birmingham-Ensley, proprietor of the Bank of Ensley; Charles A. Stillman of Birmingham. resident manager of Rogers, Brown Co. The following officers have been elected: J. G.
Battelle, president; Erskine Ramsay, vice president; J. F. Steins, Wheeling, W. secretarytreasurer; Charles E. Bowron, general superintendent.
The company has decided to erect a large modern furnace on their property on the Queen Crescent Railroad between Chattanooga and Birmingham. Coal mines will be opened and coke ovens erected. The company expects to be manufacturing iron by January, 1904. The Valley Iron Company is the Ensley Pipe Steel with its name changed. It was organized April 14, 1902, under charter granted by Alabama.
The original at proposition was to have a capital stock of $30,000, but at the April meeting this was increased to $1.000.000. Fifty thousand dollars were subscribed at this meeting and the directors authorized the sale of $430.000 more of the stock, making half a million in all. This has been subscribed. The company has acquired 13,700 acres of mineral land in DeKalb County. and Dade County.
Ga. It lles in a strip one and a half miles wide and ten miles long. paralleling the Alabama Great Southern Railway, making It all immediately accessible for development. NASHVILLE MISSISSIPPE ROAD Reorganization of the Company by Mobile Ohio Interests Memphis, Sept. 2 (Special)-Judge J.
W. Buchanan of this city has just returned Okolona, where he went to attend the meeting of the stockholders of the Nashville Mississippi Delta Railroad Company, which recently passed into the hands of the Southern system through the Mobile Ohio. Judge Buchanan, who was formerly president of the company, was succeeded by E. L. Russell, general counsel for the Mobile Ohio, and the company was completely reorganized through the election of directors in accord with the management of the road, Judge Bunew chanan alone of the old directorate being retained on the board.
The one important plece of business attended to by meeting was passage of a resolution which for' the issuance of $300.000 in provides bonds. These bonds are to be floated by the new management and the work of construction is to be pushed to completion with the proceeds thus raised. Regarding the status of the work, Judge Buchanan to the Transcript representative: "Surveying parties are now in the field, and before thirty days have elapsed contracts will have been let for the conof the line from Okolona to the struction Calhoun County line, a distance of thirty miles. Work will then be pushed as rapidly as men and money will admit." construction of this road from OkoThe lona westward to the county line proposed will open up a rich portion of Mississippi, a section so rich that nothing but adequate transportation facilities is needed to make garden spots of the State. It It one of the has wonderful forests white oak.
and has will high state of culsoil which tivation after shall have adelimber been cleared away. New Nashville-MeMinnville Road Chattanooga, Sept. 2 (Special)Work will soon begin on the construction of a new electric and steam railroad from Nashville to McMinnville and later on to reach Chattanooga. The new road, which will be owned and operated by Northern will be built at an expense of capitalists, and will open up a new lumber $750.000, and coal territory and carry on a pasand freight business between Nashsenger and McMinnville. The road will be ville miles long, and will run from seventy-three Nashville through Lascassas, Readyville, and other prominent towns in Woodbury, Rutherford and Warren Cannon, GRAND JURIES CONVENE Meetings in Suffolk and Norfolk CountiesBatch of Inquest Findings Suffolk grand jury convened today The to consider cases on September docket, and will submit its report next Saturday.
of inquest findings at A batch the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of the municipal and district by judges In the case of the automobile accicourts. Reading on June 7. as a result of dent at which E. P. Brooks and the two children, Charles R.
and Clarence Haag. lost their lives. Judge Forsalth Ands that no inquest owing to the fact that the was necessary, case was investigated the judge of the Fourth District Court for Eastern Middlesex. Judge Wentworth finds no evidnce to implicate anyone In the death the infant whose wounded body was found March 4 at 46 Emerald street. In the case of Ruth Sargent.
aged five, who was killed by an electric car on Feb. 7. on Boylston street. near Gloucester street, while in the care of her nurse, Judge Wentworth says it was clear that the child left the nurse and ran across the tracks, and either did not see the car or thought could cross before It reached her. He finds no negligence on the part of the motorman.
In passing upon the case of Mary Spillane, who was killed by a train on the New York. New Haven Hartford Railroad. near Locust street. May 8. while hurrying from the store to her home to get supper.
Judge Wentworth does not hold the railroad reponsible for her death. as she was a trespasser. He says that "it is a very dangerous proceeding to attempt to cross a wide network of tracks within the city limits and constant fatalities occur because people do it. He thinks the police officers should be more vigilant and should promptly arrest all persons trespassing upon the tracks of a railroad company. No bame is attached to anyone for the deaths of Charles Carlson.
age thirteen, killed May 24 by a train on the New York. Nwe Haven Hartford Railroad, near the Swett street bridge: Jacob W. Ames, killed Aug. 1. while lying under a car near the Sumner street crossing.
East Boston: Frank L. Flohill, employed by the Boston Maine, who was crushed Dec. 28. between an gine and a post: John Farrell, killed July 7 the New York. New Haven Hartford Railroad: John Hafhey, age five, killed by a freight train in East Boston.
Aug. Willam A. Coggins, crushed by a locomotive July 9. while coupling cars at Prison Point: unknown woman killed July 20 in the yard of the Boston Albany Railroad: Joseph Scannel. killed June 18, while attempting to board an electric car on Warren street; James Quinn, killed April 18, while attempting to board a car on Alford street: Vito Marchelll, killed Jan.
17. while unloading piles from a car for contractor Ross: Raymond 1 B. Kimball, age sixteen, killed July 12. while attempting to board a freight train on the Boston Maine. Judge Wentworth says no inquest was necessary in the case of the unknown intruder shot Aug.
7. by Superintendent George C. Smith at No. North Bennett street. In view of the fact that Smith was discharged after a hearing in the lower court.
At the hearing it appeared that the unknown man was attempting to burglarize the place and was discovered and shot by Mr. Smith, who acted in self-defence. No Inquest was necessary in the case of Joseph Caruso, shot July 10 by Corraco Sorrentino, as the latter has been held on the charge of mudrer. Norfolk Grand Jury Comes In The Norfolk one grand jury for September came in at Dedham this forenoon with Judge Braley on the bench. Rev.
Edward to be tried is a long one. a The jury is exW. Virgin offered prayer. The list of cases pected to report on Thursday afternoon or Friday morning. Webster Boathouses Burned Webster.
Sept. 2-Fire destroyed one of the boathouses at Beacen Park. Webster Lake, early this morning, entailing a loss of $12.00 Steamers Leslie, Empire. Beacon and Globe all burned and sank in 3 half-hour. The Empire recently arrived from Boston and was not insured.
The boat cost $2200. The other boats were partially insured. Beacon Park is controlled by the Beacon Park Company. of which Edgar S. Hill of Boston is prestisnt.
NO MONEY STRINGENCY Treasury Department Feels Encouraged There May Be No Call for Emergency Circulation Banks Help Themselves by Sound Methods Delay in Bank Note Issue May Permanently Vanish Special to the Transcript: Washington. Sept. 2-The condition of the money market and the anticipated needs during the crop-moving season, which resulted in Secretary Shaw's recently announced plan of having about $15,000,000 of additional bank note currency in preparation for an emergency, do not seem this morning seem pressing to Treasury Department officials. The interior banks, they learn, are pretty well supplied with currency, in all probability better than ever before for the season in which the greatest demand falls direct upon them. Moreover, the New York bank statement for the last last week shows trifling a drop in the reserve as to indieate that, the banks are lea conducting their business conservatively, and 50 are likely to help themselves by practical methods within easy reach.
orders for the preparation of this currency, it is still emphasized, are only contingent, and no has yet been recelved from the concernod for the notice, consummation of the transaction. It is beleved by many treasury officials that it would be wise to have such a plan perwanently in operation. that usual interval of thirty-five or forty days an order for currency and its issuance might be eliminated. thus securing slight degree of elasticity to our national banking system which the prompt filling of these orders would add. LINCOLN RECENT DEATHS Hon.
A. S. Hopkins of Barrillville, R. I. Hon.
Adison S. Hopkins, senator from Burrillville, R. died yesterday morning at his summer home in Edgewood. He was born in Aug. 3.
1844. He attended the public schools until he was fourteen years of age, and then entered the Nichols Academy at Dudley, Mass. There he spent a year preparatory work and in the fall of 1839 he entered the New Hampton Literary and Biblical Institute at New Hampton, N. where he graduated in 1963. After preparing for his college career he was inclined to business rather than professional or literary pursuits, and pursued a course in a business college, where he graduated in the following December.
He entered the office of A. Hopkins Company as bookkeeper. and held that ner in 1868, and eight years later assumed position for four years. He became a partthe general management of the concern. His father died in 1876, and the business was conducted by Mr.
Hopkins and James H. Potter until 1899, when Mr. Hopkins assumed entire control plant. He was a member the Burrillville of Town Council in 1885, and had also served as a member of the school committee in that town. He was elected as senator in 1886, in that capacity for four years During his two terms he andressed was an aid on flovernor Ladd's personal staff.
again elected senator in 1900, being the only Republican elected. He had since held the office, and each year had won out in spite of the solid Democratic vote polled in the town for other officers. Theodore F. Seward, Maste Teacher Mr. Theodore F.
Seward, who has died at the home of his daughter at Orange, N. at the age of sixty-seven, had for a dozen years a devoted his principal efforts to large the sympathies of his in 1891 he established the Brotherhood of Christian Unity, and since then the World's Neighbor Chain and the Don't Worry Clubs, which had vogue for a while. He was born at Florida, N. Jan. 25.
1835. He began life as a music teacher, studied with Lowell Mason and Thomas Hastings, and became an organist, serving as such in New London, Rochester and New York. He edited the Musical Pioneer and the New York Musical Gazette, and made a number of musie for choral use, and one of them, "The Temple Choir," attained a circulation of over 100.000 copies. As a teacher, he introduced the tonic sol-fa system of musical notation and instruction into the United States, prepared a series of textbooks and founded the American Tonic Solfa Association. But what he truly regarded as his most important service to music was the notation and preservation of the religious melodies of the Southern Negroes, their "spirituals," their slave-songs, of which "Swing Low.
Sweet Chariot." "Turn Back. Pharaoh's Army," "'Did n' My Lord Deliber Daniel," "Way Down in de Lonesome Valley," are specimens well known. These songs as he wrote them were the staple of the concerts of the Fisk University Jubilee Singers, who raised several hundred thousand dollars in America and Europe for their university at Nashville, Tenn. He at that time made the acquaintance of Gladstone, the late Duke of Argyll, Lord Shaftesbury, Miss Muloch, and other eminent English people, whose sympathies were strongly drawn to this company of ex-slaves who were singing the pathetic songs of the days of bondage for the education and elevation of their race. Francis S.
Gross of Lee Mr. Francis S. Gross, sixty-six, who died suddenly at Lee Saturday, had acquired a national fame as a quarryman of extensive operations and the proprietor of one of the finest white marble quarries in America. He was born at Frappe, but came to Lee in early life to live with his uncle, Charles Herber, whom he eventually succeeded in the marble business. From small proportions he built up the marble industry until it is one of the most valuable in the country today.
Mr. Gross first came prominently before the country by making a million-dollar contract to furnish material for the city hall at Philadelphia. He afterward furnished stone the Drexel Building, the Pennsyivania Mutual Life Insurance Build ing in Philadelphia. State House at Boston, Warren Chambers Building. Soldiers' Home in Washington, clearing house and many business buildings In New York city, and some of the finest structures 12 the United States.
He had made for the United States Government over 100,000 soldiers' headstones, and had just received a contract for 9000 more. He was for many years proprietor of the Morgan House at Lee, and a heavy property owner. He had represented his district in the General Court. He was also the proprietor of Marble Stock Farm, which in years gone by was famous for the trotting stock bred there. He had associated with him in his business ventures Charles Gross, his brother, the millionaire lawyer of Philadelphia, and his younger brother, William H.
Gross, at present operating the quarries at Alford. Dr. Noah Cressy Dr. Noah Cressy, editor of the Connecticut Farmer, and a well-known veterinary surdied suddenly Sunday night at his home in BE Hartford, Conn. He was born in Rowe, and was sixty-three years old.
He attended school at Shelburne Falls, and when a young man taught school at North Adams. He took a course in the scientific department at Harvard, and graduated as a physician at the Pittsfield Medical College. After graduation he went to Canaan, N. where he practised medicine for twelve years. Then he was called to Middletown.
and lectured at Wesleyan on bone diseases. He practised medicine in Middletown and did some veterinary work. He was later appointed State veterinary sur- geon, which office was afterward abolished. From Middletown Dr. Cressy went to the Amherst Agricultural College, where he had the chair of veterinary science.
He lived in Amherst about two years and a half. and then went to Montreal, where he finished his studies as a veterinary. He had lectured in nearly all the New England States, in veterinary sclence. On Oct. 12, 1882, he went to Hartford and opened a veterinary drug store.
He bought the Connecticut Farmer in 1897.. He was editor of the paper and president of the Farmer Publish- ing Printing Company. Miss E. Elizabeth Boles, Public School Teacher Miss E. Elizabeth Boies, who died at the Baptist Hospital on Parker Hill avenue last Saturday, after a prolonged illness, aged fifty-six years, was one of Boston's oldest publie school teachers.
She taught at a very early age in the Chelsea schools, and more than a quarter of a century ago she became connected with the Boston schools. eventually entering the Hyde Grammar School, Roxbury, where she continued until the the school year, last June. She had away from her duties only closeen about a week when was compelled, by reason of failing health, to hospital, where she expected to remain for only a short time, but she failed constantly; and was never able to leave it. While she kept house and her home for many years had been at Rockville Park, Roxbury, she had spent much time in companionship with friends. As one of her intimate friends said in speaking of her life: "Her own was a model and welcome home, and she made a home wherever she was for everyone she went among." She was a member of All Souls Unitarian Church, corner of Warren street and Elm Hill avenue, Roxbury, and she took a deep interest in church, Sunday school and charitable work.
She was a great favorite with young people, and was devoted to their intellectual and moral advancement. Services will be conducted over her remains by Rev. William H. Lyon in All Souls Church, of which he for years pastor, tomorrow at was twelve o'clock. A cablegram received from Mrs.
James H. Perkinsty London Saturday evening conveyed the sad news of the sudden death in that city of Mrs. Alice M. Perkins, wife of James H. Perkins of this city and Milton.
and chief clerk in the Boston office of Walter Baker Co. Mr. and Mrs. Perking had only sailed for Europe Aug. 23 from New York accompanied by their infant daughter.
The trip was to be a short one, taken largely for the ocean voyage. Immediately after arriving a cable to relatives this side announced that Mrs. Perkins on ill and that an operation was imthen followed quickly the anperative; nouncement of her death. Mrs. Perkins was her twenty- fourth and was the daughter of Mr.
and year, Mrs. Henry B. Stone Chicago, her father well-known business man of that being was married to Mr. Percity. in September, 1900.
and their home kins Milton, between which town and was in Mrs. Perkins's mother has divided Chicago time. Mrs. Perkins also is survived by her brothers and one sister, who at present tire at Marion, Mass. The body will be brought home for burial.
but arrangments for the funeral are not known as yet. Charles H. Senter Charles H. Senter of 312 Warren Mr. street, Roxbury, and formerly of Lynn, died Monday evening from a paralytic He was the chief engineer at the shock.
England Conservatory Music for New some years. He was born in Plymouth, N. March 20, 1833, and went to Lynn in 1848. With Nathaniel Rowell he was of the first police officers of Lynn, and one was connected with the Lynn fire department for years. mind He was captain Sagamore truck was a member the old "Fountain No.
5" hand tub. He of was a hoseman of steamer No. 5 for some Mr. Senter was a member of the years. Lynn City Guards from the time they were organized, and the first and only secretary of that body.
He was a sergeant in Nims's Battery and secretary of that association for seven years. He Joined Post 5, G. A. of Lynn shortly after it was organized, but was transferred to Post 200 of Boston on his removing to Roxbury eight years ago. Rev.
W. A. Power Rev. William A. Power died.
last evening in Blackstone. Rev. Mr. Power, who was sixty-seven years of age, had for thirty-two years been pastor of St. Paul's Church, Pascoag.
He was born in Charlestown. R. Oct. 12. 1833.
and received his early education from schools there, and later attended Holy Cross College at Worcester. He was ordained at Buffaio Seminary. He was a brother of the late Vicar General of the Springfield Diocese. John J. Power.
The funeral will take place Thursday at ten o'clock, at St. Paul's Church, Blackstone. C. H. Duprez.
Minstrel Mr. Charles H. Duprez, sixty-five, the veteran minstrel, died at the Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, Sunday. His name had always been associated with that of Lew Benedict in stage lore, a decade ago, Duprez Benedict's minstrels being among leading organizations of its kind. For the past ten years he had operated amusement features at the shore resorts near Providence.
Mr. Frank A. Goodell, one of Haverhill's prominent shoe manufacturers, died by suicide Sunday. Judge Samuel Treat, former United States Judge of the Eastern District of Missouri, died at residence of his daughter, in born in Portsmouth, in 1815, and Rochester, N. Sunday, night.
Fie was graduated at Harvard in 1837. He was on the bench for thirty-three years, retiring in 1887, and was one of the original founders of Washington University and a trustee of the Missouri Botanical Garden under Henry Shaw's will. He was A personal friend of General Grant, General Sherman and other leaders of the Civil War. Mr. David Gossard of Hagerstown, died on Sunday, aged seventy-five.
He was twice married and the father of twentyfour children, twenty of whom are living. He is also survived by eighty grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. Mr. William A. Cole, the proprietor of the Hampton Hotel at Northampton, died yesterday.
following a fall down an elevator Saturday night. He was forty-five years old and unmarried. In past years he had kept hotels in Fitchburg and Leominster. Mr. Lucius E.
Ellis, a travelling salesman for Chase Co. of Boston, died yesterday at the Sherman House, in Jamestown, N. Y. He was born in Keene. N.
fifty-! years ago. When about twenty years old he came to Boston. He had been in the employ of Chase manufacturing confectioners, for over twenty years, acting during late years as a travelling salesman as far West as Detroit. Colonel John Byers Post, a well-known resident of New Brighton, died on Saturday evening, aged seventy-six. He was born in Manhattan, and spent the early years of his married life in Boston, where he was in the dry gouds business.
At the beginning of the Civil War he was appointed colonel of the Sixty-Ninth New York Volunteers and served until peace was declared. He was also a member of the New England Guards. He later became a broker in Wall Street, but retired from active business ten years ago. Mrs. Jane Andrews (Dawson) Hubon of Salem, died yesterday.
She was born in Salem on May 28, 1815, and was twice marred. her first husband being William Goodrich, to whom she was married in 1812, and her second a Henry Hubon. She was a twin sister of Miss Abigail Webster Dawson, and before her sister died, last March, they were believed to be among the oldest twins in the country. War. and afterward wrote several books on the war.
He took a prominent part in the organization of the Greenback party and was a candidate for vice president at one election. ANXIOUS TO END THE STRIKE FURTHER MOVES AT THE SARANAC MILLS Waterford. R. Sept. 2-As a result of a meeting of the striking weavers at the Saranac Mills.
Sunday, the committee then appointed held a conference with Agent Merrill this forenoon, and action looking to an early settlement of the struggle which has progress for seven months was taken. The committee was informed that the forty looms now idle could be taken by the strikers, but that none of the imported help would be discharged to make room for the former union employees. The committee will report at a meeting to be held tomorrow. There is a strong feeling in favor of declaring the strike off. The struggle in the Saranac Mills was brought about of sympathy for the Olneyville weavers who took a stand for the abolition of the double-room system of weaving fancy worsteds.
Chicago Cement Finishers Strike Chicago, Sept. 2-Eight hundred cement finishers and helpers went on strike here today, stopping work on a number of big buildings. The cause of the trouble was of the workmen to sign an agreement to work exclusively for the bosses' association. Move for. Butchers' Strike Ended Chicago, Sept.
2-The possibility of an immediate strike of butchers employed in the stock yards has been ended by a tentative agreement between the heads of the packing houses and their men. KNOX NOT CONSIDERED ROOSEVELT SAYS SHIRAS HAS NOT RESIGNED East Northfield, Sept. 2-The attention of the President having been called to the published statement that Attorney General Knox's name was being considered with the view of appointing him to a justiceship on the Supreme Bench to succeed Justice George Shiras, it can be said on the authority of the President himself that not only does he not contemplate such a move, but Justice Shiras has not resigned. The President classed all such statements as without the least foundation, and that they only come into his mind when he sees them in print. The same published statement also credits him having reached the conclusion to place the construction of the Isthmian canal and of the jurisdiction of the army with General Leonard Wood as chairman of the Canal Commission.
The President is, likewise, authority for the statement that he has no intention whatsoever of changing the civil nature of the commission. Shiras Denies Resignation Pittsburz. Sept. 2- Justice Shiras Was asked yesterday about the report that he had sent his resignation from the Supreme bench to the President. "There is nothing in it," said the justice.
It is without foundation. As I have said before, the President will be the first notified of my resignation. He has statement from me on too the subject." THE FRAUDS IN NEW YORK REPORT OF AN ALLEGED LEGAL INVESTIGATION New York, Sept 2--John Carroll's spokesmen, in the contest for the Tammany leadership in the twenty-ninth assembly district gave out last night what purports to bra transfer the result of of voters a legal from the investigation district of the of Charles F. Murphy, the Tammany regent, to be used against Carroll at the approaching primaries. The Carroll spokesmen allege that of the 275 transfers into his district 235 come from Murphy's own districtthe eighteenth.
The number from the other districts in the county averages three. All of these transfers were made into six houses, and many of the names are those of former residents of Murphy's district, who have moved from New York, who are dead or as the Carroll people neatly put it, are "temporarily" in Sing Sing Prison, the Elmira Reformatory and "other public institutions." The Carroll men support their statements by affidavits and threaten the usual proceedings against the voters transferred and those a directly responsible for the transfers. What is more to the point, they threaten reprisals against Murphy in his own district which he has depleted of his supporters. The Herald asserts that if Fire Commissioner Sturgis brings formal charges against Chief Croker counter charges against the commissioner will be made by John J. Delaney, counsel for the chief, to Mayor Low.
The commissioner will be accused of leaving the department without a head Sunday and yesterday. and of destroying discipline among the uniformed force to further a private quarrel with Croker. Nearly all of the revenues for the current fiscal year under the new laws taxing trust and insurance companies and savings banks have been received by the State comptroller. It is estimated that the revenues from and from the tax on general corporations, transportation and transmission companies and foreign banks will this year aggregate over $6,000.000. State Comptroller Miller in making his estimates figured that the revenues from the tax laws above mentioned and from the organization tax would aggregate 000.
In fact, they will A amount to threequarters of a million dollars more. This means that the surplus in the State treasury on Oct. 1, 1903. will be at least 000. and it 1s more likely to approach 000.000.
Rev. R. L. Paddock said last night of Devery's attack on him in his speech at his barbecue: "Devery's direct statements are absurdly false. My residence on the East Side and my record are enough of an answer to the charge that I am not in sympathy with laboring men.
I am not an Englishman, as I was born in Brooklyn. I never said that a laboring man who went on strike should be put in jail. The statement that I spent six hours in a disorderly house is absolutely and wholly false." Frank J. Goodwin, the Tammany leader of the ninth district, said today: "Devery is beaten. His attack yesterday on Rev.
Mr. Paddock settled the matter. Dr. Pad. dock's view of Deveryism in his sermon last Sunday is indorsed by every decent citizen of this district.
and Devery's reply has excited such resentment that he will be overwhelmed at the primaries. There is no longer any doubt about the ninth. Devery's barbecue and his attack on Dr. Paddock destroyed his last chance to win." It is yet possible that Goodwin and Sheehan may unite their forces to defeat Devery. Worthington C.
Ford, the expert statis. tician and accountant. has begun h's work on the reorganization of the city's method of bookkeeping. Mr. Ford was appointed by the commissioner of under an agreement whereby the Merchants' Association is to pay him a salary variously reported as between $8000 and 810,000 a year.
Demand for Foreign Steel Continnes London, Sept. 2--Notwithstanding the large quantity of iron and steel already shipped from Great Britain and the Continent to the United States and Canada, the demand still continues. There are now cargoes offered from Middlesbrough to Pensacola, Philadelphia, Tampico and Mon. treal: from Glasgow to New York and Baltimore; from Liverpool to Philadelphia; from Barrow to Baltimore: from Antwerp to Jersey City and from Barrow and Maryport to Quebec and Montreal. The latest inquiry is for tonnage to convey 10,000 tons of rails from Rotterdam to St.
John. SHIPS "SUNK" BY MINES CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE at headquarters at 12.20 o'clock this morning, is as follows: to pass through the Race began at 10.20 P. M. Forts Michie, Wright and Terry engaged fifty minutes. Apparently the ships entering have been put out of action by points scored by the army guns.
The result, however, will be determined later by the board of a arbitration." A second demonstration was made off Newport just after midnight, when four vessels tried to storm Price's Neck Signal Station. Their gun fire against that point was met by ninety-six shots from Fort Adams at ranges varying from 8000 to 10,000 yards, and it is believed at the fort that two of the vessels were put out of action. The vessels retired toward the westward, and it believed they anchored off Block Island. The navy's night attack was not expected at the western end of the line quite so early. The theory was held all day, after it was known that Higginson had secured 3 base on the outlying islands.
that he would send his cruisers for reconnoissance against both ends of the line, and then swing his fleet into the centre or around Newport for a sharp attack there. quickly, and then sail to the westward and make his grand effort to force his way into Long Island Sound. The capture of Block Island was reported Monday noon by the following message, received by Colonel Reber, commanding at Point Judith from the signal office in charge of the captured station: "Have only two men left. Would suggest using wire in place of heliograph for present. Four men captured.
Have agreed with enemy to take no further part in the if enemy would retire. I am at telegraph office. Think there are many civilian spies about. Ten or more ships in sight from Beacon Hill. but in a position as at last reported, except collier, which is outside with others." Later this office established a concealed signal station, and got through several messages as to the fleet's force and dispositions.
OLYMPIA CUT THE CABLES Communication with Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Closed to Defence Woods Hole, Sept. 2-The cruiser Olympia dashed into port forenoon, landed a force, seized all telegraph, telephone and cable stations, and cut the cables, thereby cutting off all communication with Martha's Vineyard and Elizabeth Island. Of course. the seizure and the destruction of telegraphic and cable facilities were figurative: but the telegraph and telephone offices were entered by sufficient force to have destroyed the property, or, at least, the instruments. and at the same time a boat's crew had located the cables with grappling hooks, and held them a suficient period to have cut them.
It is figured that the move made by Admiral Higginson is one of considerable importance, because the only way of communicating with Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard, which are very important observation stations, was through this place, and while the cables are still in operation for commercial purposes, they have been declared cut by the war game umpire, Lieutenant-Commander Albert Mertz, is aboard the Olympia. The will Olympia steamed west at two o'clock terday afternoon. BLOCK ISLAND HAS FALLEN Enemy Establishes a Base Only Fitteen Miles from Newport and Twenty-Three from the Sound a Entrance Navy Headquarters, on Board the Kearsarge, off Block Isiand, Sept. 2 (Special)By the occupation of Block Island the fleet has gained a base of the a value in the operations against the defences of Narragansett Bay and the eastern entrance of Long Island Sound. The island is twenty-three miles from the Race, twenty-eight miles from New Bedford, and fifteen miles from Newport.
Its seizure has, therefore, given Admiral Higginson a central position from which he can operate. The ships are now coaling under the guns of the marines, and here vessels can make repairs in case of injury by the enemy's projectiles. Admiral Higginson left Menemsha Bight eleven o'clock Sunday night, with all at deck lights covered, battle hatches lowered, and the men at their stations. The vessels steamed in this formation: FIRST SQUADRON SECOND SQUADRON Scorpion Kearsarge Brooklyn Massachusetts Olympia (500 Yards) Alabama Montgomery Indiana Mayflower RESERVE SQUADRON Panther Puritan Supply Aileen Leyden These vessels, with the Gloucester atthe second squadron, and the coltached to lier Lebanon constituting an advance guard, formed a fleet of great power, armed with sixteen 13-inch, four 12-inch, twenty-four 6-inch, twenty-six 5- 8-inch. twenty-two inch and six 4-inch guns, and in a single able to discharge sixteen tons of round solid shot.
The Olympia, Captain Lyons, left her squadron on detached service and went toward Newport. Proceeding at first at six knots, the squadron ran along the coast far enough outside to escape the searchlights which were sweeping the waters near the shore. Rear Admiral Higginson continued steadily on his course. The night was free from haze, and the sea was comparitively smooth. When day came, the Kearsarge was in sight of Block Island.
She continued until opposite Salt Bay, at' the head of which is situated New Shoreham, and discovered the Gloucester lying inside the harbor and the Lebanon cruising outside. Signal was made to the Brooklyn to change position from the left to the right of the flagship and between her and the flagship passed the Alabama, Indiana and Massachusetts, which took position about a mile from. Salt Bay and in line with the army signal station a short distance inland on Beacon Hill. The effect of this disposition was to permit the shelling of the entire shore and at the same time confuse the defence as to point of landing. The positions of ships may thee thus be shown; Salt Shore Line Bay Shore Line 0-Alabama 0-Indiana 0-Massachusetts 0-Aileen 0-Kearsarge 0- 0-Montgomery 0-Supply 0-Panther 0-Puritan During the action the commander-in-chief shifted his flag to the Leyden.
Following an order from the commanderin-chief, the Brooklyn opened with her eight and five-inch guns. The Alabama, Indiana and Massachusetts also engaged. The Kearsarge and other ships did not take part in the action, though the ships had been cleared for battle and men were at the guns. At 6.25 o'clock the first boat load of marines from the flagship left the side. Two other boats immediately got away.
The marines of the Massachusetts were the first to reach the shore, and those of the other battleships soon followed, the entire battalion being under the command of Captain Magill. These were the marines landed at Manemsha Bight, and whom it had been originally suggested should remain in camp. They were brought because it was desirable to garrison Block Island and prevent the defence from attempting to regain possession of it. The marines intrenched to the left of Salt Bay, and the bluejackets, disembarking on the right shore, proceeded to Beacon Hill to destroy the signal station erected by the defence at that point. No resistance was offered, for Block Island was not defended since the fleet has command of the sea.
Seven signalmen found on the island were taken prisoners. While the action was In progress the Lebanon was ordered into Salt Bay, and from her some of the smaller ships began to coal. The value of the base was thus immediately shown. As the base seized is outside the line of defence, General Mac- Arthur will claim, and the fleet will concede, that the capture of Block Island cannot be considered as a defeat for the defenders. Nevertheless the Red Fleet has obtaind an advantage which will be of great morning, value in the impending operations.
began HUNTING FOR SIGNAL MEN Marines Searching Block Island for Two Who Escaped Capture and Have Been Sending News Block Island, R. Sept. 2-Marines are searching the island in an attempt to capture two signal men who escaped at the time Admiral Higginson's fleet captured Block Island. The men are in hiding, and it is believed that they are the means by which important information of the navy's plans and movements are being transmitted, somehow, to the main land. British Subject Flagship's Guest Washington, Sept.
2-Rear Admiral Higginson's action in receiving the Duchess of Marlborough, Colonel Sanger, assistant secretary of war, and a party of friends aboard the fleet it hovered off the Narragansett coast, prepared to strike at the shore defences, Saturday, is causing some surprise here. and may be seized upon by opponents of appropriations at the next session of Congress. Of course it rests within the discretion of Rear Admiral Higginson to receive any one on board he Port a suspension of the critical condition war. even though Saturday was within the period of preparation, does not seem harmonious with the spirit in which the were planned. Colonel Sanger is to all intents and purposes the secretary of war, Mr.
Root being absent in Europe. Even if war had not actually begun, the commander of a really hostile fleet off the coast would scarcely receive aboard the secretary of war of the United States. Although the Duchess of Marlborough probably had no object except satisfaction of her curiousity in visiting fleet. she is a British subject. Before the war game began strict rules were drafted by both army and navy, that foreign should be barred from the fortifications and fleet.
Connecticut's Offer Declined New London. Sept. 2-George M. Cole. adjutant general of Connecticut, telegraphed from Hartford to Major General MacArthur today as follows: "If necessary to repel invasion, Connecticut can furnish at twelve hours' notice, at any point of.
coast. 1500 infantry, one troop of cavalry, one battery of breech-loading guns and service ammunition." General MacArthur appreciated the offer, but ng to the army's success thus far in the game of war the proffered assistance was declined. PAYMASTER WILLIAMS DETACHED General Storekeeper at Charlestown Navy Yard Will Go to the Brooklyn-Paymaster Sullivan Reports Here Paymaster Charles S. Williams, U.S. head of the local department of supplies and accounts, or, as he is more commonly.
termed, the "general storekeeper." has been detached from his duties at the Charlestown Navy Yard and, after setting his accounts, will go on board the armored cruiser Brooklyn of the North Atlantic squadron on Oct. 1. He has been on duty here since April 11, 1899. Paymaster Harry R. Sullivan.
who has been on sick leave since July 7. is the new head of the local department, and he has reported to the commandant of the station. Pay Clerk Kimberly has been ordered to the Brooklyn as Mr. Williams's clerk. Pay Clerek Johnson, has been under Mr.
Williams here, will remain in his present, position. FOUR HERRING BOATS SEIZED Canadian Authorities Trying to Prevent Seining Eastport, Sept. 2-Four more herring fishing boats with their seines and outfits have been seized by Captain J. H. Pratt of the Canadian fishery protective cruiser Curlew, at St.
Andrew's Bay, for illegal fishing across the line, and the boats were towed into St. Andrew's, where they be held to await a hearing. Captain perilla has the names of thirty-nine Canadian boatmen who are wanted for illegal fishing with seines, and they are to be taken with their outfits when found. All cf the seized boats and seines are owned by Canadians, and no American boatmen have yet been taken by the cruiser. It is belleved by the fishermen that some informant has furnished the names for Captain Pratt, as he could not have asceratined them in so short a time, and it is believed the assistance was furnished by those who aid the selners in their nocturnal work against the laws of Canada.
It is evident by the way the Canadian offcers are making seizures that they intend to stop seining in the future. NO FAMINE AMONG NAVAJOS Reports of Suffering Declared to Be Baseless Albuquerque, N. Sept. 2-Major C. W.
Haslett, Indian agent for the Navajos at Fort Defiance, declares that the reports circulated regarding suffering and famine on the reservation are absolutely baseless. The Indians have secured all their crops and are unquestionably prosperous. Fined for Speeding Automobiles Newport, R. Sept. 2-Judge Baker yesterday fined for overspeeding their automobiles William K.
Vanderbilt, Robert J. Collier, W. Watts Sherman, brother-in-law of United States Senator George Peabody Wetmore; William Burden, son of Isaac Townsend Burden, and Robert Fulton Cutting. Jr. The warrants issued for Lloyd Warren, brother of Mrs.
Robert Goelet, and Robert Goelet, son of Mr. Ogden Goelet, will be served Wednesday, it not being convenient for them to call. All were fined $10 and costs, $12.00 in all. Cutting paid 85 extra. An Ideally Located Hostelry In visiting a strange city it is always for a traveller to get near the centre of his interest.
The business man finds a stopping place near the district of his trade, and the sightseers near the museums, churches, places of amusment and shopping centres. For the latter's purposes nothing could be more nearly the centre than F. S. Risteen Company's Copley Square Hotel. Its very name- the same A8 that of beautiful square where are located the Public Library, the Art Museum and Trinity, the Old South and the Second churches what the location means.
Street cars bring it near alike the Tremontstreet shops and the theatres, and historie Cambridge and the country spreading out behind it. Its situation in the midst of the fashionable Back Bay makes it also an ideal winter residence. Single rooms and suites with baths may be had by permanent and transient guests. New Priest for St. Stephen's Rev.
Glenn T. Morse, who for the past year has been curate of St. Anne's Episcopal Church of Lowell, has joined the clergy of St. Stephen's Church of Boston. His apecific work will be as rector of St.
James's Church, West Somerville, which is In charge of St. Stephen's parish. He will reside at the parish house. Mr. Morse is about thirty years of age, and was graduated from the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Cambridge.
There are now four resident priests at St. Stephen's House-Rev. Ellis Bishop, minis. ter In charge: Rev. Thacher R.
Kimball and Rev. Mr. Fitts, besides Rev. Mr. Morse.
Steps will be taken this fall to make St. James's an independent parish, rather than a mission church. For Distress After Eating Take Horsford's Acid Phosphate It relteves immediately, by stimulating the secretion of the digestive flulds. Makes the digestion natural and easy..