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THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, DECE MBER 19, 1904, PLAN TO CLEAR MORMONS CAN - GITYOFGROOKS WED THE DEAD KEEP THE WOMEN OUT OF BANKS AND PROTECT THE PRESIDENTS. By T. E. Powers, PORDYG IE) CODGHGE4145-064405464 0106-464 66-6-0660466944050014004 dd PORT ARTHUR ISN FLAMES Famous Fort on Golden Hill Is Shelled and Arsenal Is Set on Fire by the Relentless Japan- ese Bombardment. SO8L049448-4-046 $4 10006-06090:900004 14009 | “ \Breaks Down When Former Cook Testifies About Belonging to Mistress Having — Been Found in Hotel, , Magistrate Cornell Purposes to Smoot Inquiry Also Brings Out Personally Urge Passage of the Fact That Divorces Are Law to Rid Metropolis of Sus-/ Sometimes Granted from the picious Persons, CITES SENSIBLE LAW ‘ENDOWMENT HOUSE DOINGS IN FORCE IN AKRON, 0. TOLD BY CHURCH MEMBER. Recommends It to Perusai of Police Commissioner McAdoo} —"That Is the Law We} Want,” Says Judge. | Departed. | 'WOMAN SHRINKS FROM GAZE OF THE JURY. WIRELESS TELEGRAPH STATION IS DESTROYED, President Smith Quoted a8 "| ceems to Have Lost All Her. claring Polygamy Not a Sim Nerve After Testimony of but a System of Marriage) Yarious Servants in Hus. He Stands by His Wives. | hand's Suit for Divorce, The Japs Are Advancing Closer to the Town, and the Surren- der of the Fortress Is Believed to Be Question of Short Time. POSE OPCS SS SE SOSESO OS SSHSSE + FHTSOEOE TOKIO, Dec, 12—Port Arthur ts In| Magintrate Cornell, altting in the Jef! wasntnaTON, Dec. i—Hearings of flames trom the terrific bombardment | ferson Market Court to-day, said | ene protests ‘ageinet Reed pase | ‘The trial of the suit and coun from the forts already taken by the was going to urey the panenge of a law) junior Senator from Utah, retaining bis | for absolute divorce between Col. clear the city of crooks and all sus- i +4 A. Jewell, formerly a member of veecgge | 4 dectared furthar i| "eat Im the Lntted States Benare, were) yrs of United Statos Appraisers, and | " 1 | BlcdoNS garsoRA, SNe Sem remumed to-day pefore the Committee pane. f moe winelens. Selegraph station: \ | Was his intention to go to Albany when|Temumed '0-G4y Det ine onc room caroline Le Jewell, was resumed before been destroped, and fire started Inst ® | tho Legisiature opens If the matt ap-| Priviles tons. Juatice Leventritt and a jury in ¢he was crowded, women predominating | ..,, preme Court to-dey, with Julie Feat, among the spectators, as was che ca|* deep-hued young colored woman, who night {n the arsenal, while to-day flames | peeled to the District-Attorney and Po- being kindled in various sections of ity. The Japanese are advancing closer and closer to the town, The bombardment has already inflict ed great damage upon Golden Hill, the last #tronghold of the Russians, With that gone, the Port will fall. The fire of the Japanese is now directed toward this point, especially from the heavy naval guns placed on %}-Meter Hill The commander of the Japanese battery, reporting to-day, says: “Pour Russian battie-ships, two cruls ers, one gunboat and one torpedo store ehip lying in Port Arthur harb completely disabled. There is no f u force. ‘Are now engaged shelling the town of Port Arthur, which is being heavily damaged,” WASHINGTON, Dec. 12—The Japan- ene Legation has received the following telegram from Tokio: “The Port Arthur army reports that ite bombardmeat has inflict! consider- able damage upon Golden Hill and Set Port Arthur on fire.” ‘A despatch from Tokio this afternoon @ays the fire at Port Arthur is not widespread, but is centred about the arsenal, —=>_ BROOKLYN PILGRIMS RECEIVED BY THE POPE. ROME, Dec. 12—The American pil- grimage led by the Right Rev, Charles E, McDonnell, Bishop of Brooklyn, N. Y., was received this morning by the Pope ia the Clementine Hall of the fean, The pilgrims all wore badges of ‘re American and Papal colors, The Pontiff, who was dressed in white, waa accompanied by Mgrs. Misclatelli and Gabrinsxi, foilowea y his domygtiv relates and escorted by the Noble juard, while the Swiss Guard rendered ‘ed by Bishop MeDonnell to the , Who gave them tie hand to kiss while add ng to some of them a few kind words. Bishop McDonne!| presented the Pon- uf with $000, and olgr. John I. Bar. Fett, the Bisnop’s secretary, presented a with $2,000 of Peter's Pence in a 4 ful box as the offering of the of the Brooklyn diocese. ope thanked them warmly, sald he Was most grateful to the pilgrims for coming to Rome from such a great distance and blessed all of them and ir families, giving the priests pres. en mission to extend the papa! bene- @ictlon to thelr flocks. Bishop) MoDonnel| translated the words of the Pontiff, After the ceremony Bishop McDonnell 4 the Right Rey, Charles H. Colton, Bishop of Buffalo, N. Y., were received private audience. —————— SECOND POLICEMAN DIES. WVietim of Overtorned Patrol Wagon Follows Patrolman Hart with Him. Policeman Charles Matthews, of the Canarsie precinct, died in the Brad- ford street Hospital to-day from in« juries received on Nov. 5 by the over- ~ turning of @ patrol wagon In which several of the policemen of that pre- einot were injured. ‘The patrol wagon was going to a fire, and in getting out of the way of & trolley car made a short turn and was upset. Six of the policemen were injured. Matthews is the second of the men who were in the wagon to die, mom | | AUNT S244 OSSF2S8268 i$ \4 14 \* \o ‘ 4 ° > 4 ® > $ 4 & e be 8464466404 @ NOT SUSTAINED of Disloyalty or Wrongdoing| by Presbytery Committee Ap-, pointed to Investigate. | Rev. Dr, Samuel T, Carter, summoned | before the Presbytery to explain his | alleged disloyal vi considered detri- mental to the fundamental Presby- | terian doctrine, triumped to-day. | The dean of the Nassau Presbytery came off with flying colors, The com- | mittee appointed to con with him | to find “some plan to relieve the Pres- bytery of the diMoulty” consequent upon Dr. Carter's course absolved him quested that he continue his connection with the Presbyterian Church for their | mutual benefit a Recently a letter to each member of the Presbytery asking that he be retain: ed in the Presbytery while sti enter+ taining such views as “The whole scholaatle theology and the Calvanistle system that fs butlt upon ft 1s untrue from the base upwani. “The doctrine of the fal lof man in} Adam, upon which the whole scholastic theology depends, is a blunder fraught with most disastrous consequences,” Rev. Dr, Kneeland P. Ketcham, on behalf of a committee of eight, re- ported to-dmy to the effect that after considering Dr. Carter's letter and con- ferring with him, it was understood that he protested against certain dogmas re- pudiated by the evangelical church and ot the charge of disloyalty and re- 4,, 401)/11M0(1) Lee al 09909000090009 HERESY CHARGE MORE SNOW COMING: STORM SWEEPS COAST Dr. Samuel T. Carter Absolved Heavy Fallto Last Twenty-four Hours Anys)Flames Break Out in Water 884604004 | | | how, Says Weather Bureau—Cold Snap to Come with Clear Weather. This was the weathe In 4 this afternoon from Was! (Heavy snow indicated dart at twenty-four hours for ¢ ern New York, ceutral and sout ern New Kugland. “Northeast storm warnings are yed at 12.40 P, M, along the ke coast from the Delaware B water to New York, D rv Hatteras will move nort ar with high ensterly wi snow on the middle Atlante and New England const,” wi The snow beat the twelve hours at least to-day and began to whiten the streets and butldings of the city for the third time in a week. while the general public was preparing to get tho fair-weather promise digest- ed the “silent flakes began fo fall.” This storm, according to Forecaster Emery, will @ay with us all day and most of the night. Mr. Emery, who wants {t understood he does not make weather man | the weather, has every reason to be- Meve from the readings of his sctentifc bulletin « ddest_man in all the town, for he! ahead @ winter which ts likely to | force upon him the hiring of a great ermy of “Whits Wings.” In a short time the storm grew to the old-fash- joned affair which makes a tangle of| evrything that tries to move on New| York's streets—mran, woman, child or| animal, | As always happens when the snow plies up on the tracks or on the streets, | traMe congested, as if waiting for a chance to respond to the demands of | the weather. the weather. On Broadway the cars moved along with @ snail's apeed, and the horses stumbled on the fey sireets delaying and blocking travel But the cold brought a little gladness e with it to those who have been prom- ised early skating. Indian Lake, in ;Crotona Park, and the lake in Van | Cortlandt Park were officially an. nounced open for skating to-day by the! Bronx Park Department. There are | four Inches of ice on thegé lakes and the red ball Is flying The lakes in Central Park freeze more slowly, but It ts experted that the 16,000 | or inove children who are waiting for the red ball to go up will have their llongings satisfield by Wednesday, On ithe small ponds along Long Island and over tn Jersey the small boy ts alreay | Jout with his “rock and “hobblers’ and shinny atick. $490904008906 tS E EERE RDES SEES Seo Ee ee DESEO ERS CSE erSE ROSE SESE HE RHEE Oe EBERT LEE DEE E Ree REDE EHDA SOSOs24-¢ 99000000006) REMEN FIGHT AN UGLY BLAZE Fl Street Building Filled with Shellac and Dye Stuffs and Fumes Prove Disastrous. ———s Several firemen were overcome by emoke, tenants of near-by houses were riven in thetr night clothes to the cold streets and damage to the extent of $150,000 and over wax done by a fire that started In the five-story building at No. S71 Water street to-day, ‘The building is ocoupted by Hopple & Androvott!, Importers of shellac and dye stuffs. Owing to the material upon which the flames had to feed the amoks| | was the thickest aud most deadly the firemen have encountered in a long time, | It was shortly after 4 A. M, that Patrolman Roddy of the Oak sireet station, saw smoke rolling out from the Iron shutters on the ground floor and ran to. turn in an alarm, Because of| the character of the buildings In the neighborhood Colef Croker turned put at the firat alarm and woe on the spot before a line of hose was laid. Ho sent in a second and a third alarm at once. Fireman Fal The building extends through to Front street, und Chief Croker took chorge ot the Water street site, while Deputy Chief Croger took charge of the Front street end. Owing to the dense, poleon- ous amoke It was impossible to enter tne buliding, and the Chief ordered all the frou shatters torn off and the win- J others ee Commissioner MeAdoo sufficiently to have them present a Dill Itke that In successful operetion tn Boston and in Akron, 0 Magistrate Cornell made tha state ment from the bench when Detective Sergeants Oppenheim and Nugent ar- vaigned George Monroe and James Moyer, two well-known crooks, before him as suspletous persons. “This is in many respects a farce,” sild the Court, addressing Oppenheim. We ought to have a law, and | believe! we shall have one, that will rid the clty| of crooies, sumpicious persone and those who Hve solely upon the credulity of Sensible Law im Akron, 0. “This {s the usual case where you | know these men to be thieves, is it | not? This kind of thing Interests me just now more than all the other cases that came before me. In Boston and many other cities they have sensible Jawa that keep such men out and make such cities aafer and cleaner. ‘A few weeks ago, Mayor Charles W, Kempei, of Akron, O., sat on the bench with me and commented on the tn- completences of our laws which deal with erooks and suanicious persons. He told me they had a law in Akron thet rida the city of this class, and he vald aa he was also a police magistrate he had bean able to see excellent re- sult. 1 received a letter from Mayor Kempel this morning in which he in- cloted a section of the law relating to the disposilion of such cages, Wants McAdoo to Read It. “I want you to take ft to the Com- missioner and have him reed it. It is as follows “It any vagrant, any common atreet beggar, any common prostitute, any habitual disturber of the peace, known pickpocket, gambler, thief, any watch staffer, ball game pieyer, any pereon who practices any trick, game or device with the intent te swindle, any person who abupes his family, any suspicious person who can- nut give a reasonable account of him- self. shall be found In the clty, any Such person ot persona shall be sub- ject to prosecution and on conviction thereof shat be sined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisonment, or both, ac the discretion of the court. “Gurch imprisonment and hard labor shall not for the frat offence, exceed thirty days; for the second offence. ninery days; for the third offence, six month, and the fourth or any further Tepetition of the offence, one year Law Needed im This City, “That is the Magistrate Cornell continued, “we want for this city. That the law every public offictal should ‘Al to the lature to I tell Ui go to Mo Legisiature myself r appeals to District-Attor- and Pollee Commissioner McAdoo sufficlently to have them pre- sen. just suey a bill “Tell Inspector MeClusky what I say acd ark him to talk to Mr. MeAdoo also. J] want te see these men—wire tappers and the rest—put out of buai- ness. for | & business to them, and a business that is disgraceful and de- meralising. Things are too easy for th ows for when they get out on ball after thetr arreat th te enurt when they ge: I've fot to discharge these prisoners before me ie {t all the time and against tiny will.” TO HANDLE MEN To Do so Successfally One Must Acquire Self-Contro A foreman in a great locomotive works tells how he acquired self-con- trol after it had been lost through last session | preceded Delia Sheppard Jewell Senator Smoot arrived early, accom: bang on the proiry “oe panied by Waldemar Van Cott. © Salt! Her story was Like those of the tate Lake (Utah) attorney, who ls assisting ook and tho chambermald, Allee Fer A. 8. Worthington, of this etly, In thé) guson. They were all in the confidence — conduct of the defense, Judge Frank: | of their mistress, apparently, lin 8 Richards, of Galt Lake, adviser) Julia Fox was asked by exJustion to Mormon witnesses, and My, Worth: Cohen, appearing for Col. Jewell, ree ington also were present, Former Rep- | garding what Mra. Jewell had sald to resentative R, W. Tayler, of Ohto, acted! her about the kind of a husband the Again as the counsel for the protestants. | woione) was Married to the D But Louls J, Grant objected, George Reynolds, a Mormon, living | “We'll admit,” he sald, “that in Salt Lake, testified that he in the | @ certain time Col. Jewell was @ Firat Assistant Superintenden; of the | husband.” 1 Mormon Church Sunday-Sehoo! and | Judge Cohen didn't want secretary of the Missionary Commiitee |Alons, but Justice Leventritt would uf the Apoeties and formerly clerk or | low the question recorder of the Endowment House, This | Colored Cook Tella Seorete, retation was severed in about 271. The! 3 Did Mrs, Jewell ever tell you Row Endowment House was torn down I | she came to marty nt ae 1890, but the Temple is now used for the | Judge Cohen. fame purports. The cotored cook said she ai Mr. Reynolda told the committee that} was not permitted to tell anyt he has given certificates of marriage tit, She sald th since he ceased to be Recorder of the | M'™ Joncil told her a Endowment House in cases where ‘| asked her why she went widows sought to obtain pensions. men. 1 told her I never He made the certificates from records | tnq’g yang Hoo, RAs. fy 00 in hie possession, but these records, he) ane sald. . sald, had wince been removed to the) , “Another time che beg oa Temple and he has not accession to| ee we tig peers them now. | imperial feet i 5 ee In answer to questions by Senator Overman, Mr. Reynolds aid marriages | ,,,S0¢ had been telling me w performed with dead persons {n | the Endowment House. Mr, Tayler then asked if divorces were granted in the Endowment House, “The church grants divorces to those who have been married for time and eternity, but does not divorce legal marriages until the courts have acted,” oad Mr, Reynolds. “Plural marriages are not recognized by cours and there- fore the church does not consult the court In granting divorces in cases of suc, marriages.” Divorees from Dead, rings at the Imper know whether she left mantel or on the washe' Promised to Get “T got a gentleman oomth me 1 handed night before had not come on anything left in the was | to the office and |t wi be pu fe, He would get the yet Senator verahey pate if auch di. vorces are rom na. | “In a few Instances only, Phould as suffered the recitals of her servants, say,” eaid the witness. For something done after death or | {he recitals of ie hee nerve 0) the before?’ the Senator asked. “Tn lifetime.” “Ie the dead person given an oppor- ret into rt tuntty to be heard?” ths henaiay takes | silently, however, shrinking x “NO, aif, it 18 because such cases are | Me form of Louis J. Grant to held fo be unjust to the dead accused | the gaze of thé jurors, Pert that #0 few divorces of this kind are ar ted,” naid the witness, made to Utah In 190 a heard Senator Smoot gran “ls any one appoinied to defend the accused?" bg ly In that sectior “Never, but the complainant ts given ! to a meetii furntehed® to. the Churen *'™ene® | he attended, at which pat re eee Beith’ volce Senator Overman was attempting to| Me atumon: Mortage bring out what assurance a man ma yeam: have of mesting his several wives in| Sistem tmarrises heaven if divorces are his death. ot granted after! “President Smith was quoted witness as saying that he Rev, J. M. Buckley, editor of the | «ive uo any of his wives; that in Advoca of New York, | eternal damnation to give up ‘ ‘or cated as @ witn tod of @ visit he plicky of wives, t, £: a Men’s Holiday Slippers. — This is the time to make your selections. Our stock is the largest and most varied. apparatus dhat the clearing will take | cows opened to let the hose lines | ole TWO LOST IN SNOW the coffee habit: What can be more useful as disavowel by the General Assembly of pinch Snel Uwe. and for whieh the brlet statemend | plane late to-night and then will come | tiroreh. , PL dad wernt ebileed to write soe! ® Th t was eu stitut that year. t hi 6 t ool | . ad, | THE ORIENT ON BROADWAY. ie aomacent, inecnar aye ae ee fale weathe ot me he I ‘not re DIED FROM COLD, | ela eae ps) nb bys pg from | about Postum Coffee,” he premises. | fae ouats pe : alntain: , " | Vantine’s a Wonderland of Beauty|ed his arden: allegiance to the briet | ready to say. |the poisonous amoke by sponges and|.! have been a great tea and coffee e) pure! 4] drinker for over 40 years, and can say that {t made me almost a total NORFOLK, Va., Deo, 12.—Cella Pet- The storm shifted from the Missouri) thirty-five years old, and her step-| country to the Ohio Valley yeeterday) atement os the real and practical ores of the Presbyterian church, and lasting pleasure and comfort. in ince protectors, sawed and wrenoned at} for Christmas Shoppers, Just a step off of wintry Broadway at Eighteenth street, and you are in Une midat of the Orient. Vantine's—always alluring and at- tractive with the soft glow from Orl- @ntal hecups, the subtly fragrance of Oriental porfumes—is more atiractive Bow at holiday time than ever before. ‘Thia year the big store, which is one ef the sights of New York, is as In- teresting as museum of rare and beautiful treasures from Eastern land put there is more than the museuin ai 7 geations in istic exhibits draw holiday ‘ets froin all New York. a the first floor, with ite ntal settings, the Moor! in ourtously wrought bw ‘ul Japanese bronacs, od huge vases of qi workmanship, {ntermingled lellcate ivories and exquisite jew. ia the very atmosphere of it, In jewel craft Vant hi strikingly beautiful in Oriental designs of rare work- 19. In the basement, where the eal’ abdcund, are handsome egy- laing in sew and velties nd He orgeous and » the es are i riental belts derful kimonos would cause even tha most beauty-sated aesthete to rave! ental rugs from Persia, Turkey and dia ti the third, fourth and fifth deere, But it ja the lower floors that to the throngs of Christaas who see ight to the arti and kimonos ta everything | aos al ique Orient tne committee knew of no other test of a Presbyterian minister's regularity ASKS COURT TO SET MRS. NOBLE FREE. 1 Piles Brief Decla that Is Nu Evidence « Crime Was Committed, A brief in habeas corpus proceedings was hanced up to Supreme Court Judge Martin Keogh to-day by Mr, Shdbiey, representing Charles E. Le Barbier, counsel for Josephine Leighton Noble, in Jall on the charge of causing the death of her husband, Paton Noble. Mrs. Nobile was exonerated by a Coro- ner’s jury but was held after a nearing by Magistrate Healy, Mr. Shibley aske Mra. Noble's release on the ground chat no evidence haa been adduced to show that a crime was committed, Judge Keogh hia now a copy of the minutes! of the proceedings before Magiattata Healy. {le sald last week he could give no decision in the case until he had retd the minutes and learned on what grown Mrs. Noble hed been held. Mr. Shibley/| aald that would make anotier effort Cou Th wou gre seek for bundamen 1 panne Wa BL A NOVEL FOR ONE CENT, Every Saturday The Evening World New York County, and caused rain In the South Auan States and snow from Virginia north ward, It is not blissardy in disposition and will “peter out,” It is expected, atter @ three-quarter’s day of raving Commissioner Woodbury is perhaps aughter, elgit yoars old, @ lost in a} snowstorm near Trevillians Gaturday | night and were found unconsc!ous from ookd in a deep drift yestertay, The chil¢ died in a few hours and Mrs, Pei- tus died to-day. 3 DETECTIVES ARE PRISONERS Placed in Boyer’s Residence, Brooklyn, Pending Court's De- cision in Divorce Case, They Have to “Rustle” Food. Out of the marital differences of F Woodruff Boyer erage man, and his wife, Catherine Loulse, b three private 4 mansion, at No. Brooklyn. ter are also living in the house, and they threaten, If the detectives leave, to bar the doors and resist entrance by the millionaire light- grown the Imprisonment of ectives In the Boyer 2 Garfield place, gives Its readers a first-class novel In thon to ping oll jee, sees, Ni at hot Redstesat 7 es force, The only food the detectives t | Ret le holated by means of a hook and | outside world ls by telephone and the a from the street through a win- san sued for a separation Ta conseraion of sao my Mrs. Boyer and her daugh- | | attowea ta live In the house she agreed |to make no claim for alimony pending | the deolafon of the court | The daughter ts engaged to be mar. jrled, and Mr, Boyer clalme to have se- | cured Information that hie wife Intended to move out all the furniture and give | {t to the girl to set up housekeeping. He pit three detectives in the house) last Thursday, directing them to see! hat nothing was removed, Mra. Boyer went to the Myrtle Ave- nue Court and secured summonses for the three men, alleging that they were annoying her and had no right in the house. Magistrate Naumer, ater hear- | ling both aides, announced th he | would Shed decision at 2 o'clock to-day, | Anticlpating Loat perbaps Magistrate | Naumer would order the detectives out f the house, Mr. Boyer’s lawyers) went to Justice Maddox, In the Su-| preme Coun, ¢ and secured | injunction restraining the | from interfering in any way ir the! ease and restraining Mre Royer from | taking anything from the hous» but her wearing vocarel. Until there is a hear- ing on the imjunction the detectives cannot be ejectert, but they dare pot Ko out ir only \ t Magiatra communication with the) hok a | tending: them. ; out of the n the iron shutters until they were opened. Fireman J' byrne, of Hoon ani Ladder No, 1, was sent to the escape on the secor.d floor to open the shutter, When he did #0 a wave of dense, wi amoke rolled out and enveloped him. In gtag- wering back from it he lost bis balance and fell to the street, Chiet Feared Explosions, An ambulan:e was summoned and the fwreman Was attended by the surgeon, but refused to go home or lay off, his| injuries being slight. Several firemen were overcome by the smoke and the ambulance surgeon was kept busy wreck. Tama night foreman in the American Locomotive Co., and have to take my dinner with me, also a! bottle of ten or coffe In time {t got | to be so that there wns not a night! for over a year but that I would have! a headache or heartburn, or both. 1 went to the doctors almost every week to see if they could do some- thing for me. They said it was the tobacco habit that did the mischief, | “3o I gave up tobacco, but it did) not help me any. I got so nervous that the men under me did not like! to work for me, as I could not use| them as men onght to be nsod. 1 was! nervous, irritable and would find fault all the time. “Two months ago I took dinner with some friends, who gave me what I supposed was a cup of coffee. They explained that it was Postum Coffee, and my friend's wife said that she had used it about six months, and that doring that time had no! headache such as she was formerly | ibject to, and that she felt so well ] the time. That evening I took package of Postum home with me and began using it “The result proved that the doc- tors wore wrong--it was not tobacco but tea and coffee that upset 1% so. During the two months that I have used Postum I have had neither headache or heartburn, my nervous- ness has left me and I have gained 14 pounds {n weight. “Use this if you want to, as I have got 24 families to drinking Postum Instead of coffee, They saw what it had done for me.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, The Chief feared explosions and or- dered the police to get the occupante| aghboring houses. 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