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18 POSING FOR PHOTO 73] PUPILS FALL WITH PLATFORM Structure in Poughkeepsie €chool Yard Collapses, in- juring 16 Girls and Boys. | POUGHKEEPSIE, N. ¥,, Sept. 1f.— A collapsible platform, sixteen feet above the ground, on which 7 pupils of the Pouglikeepsie High School were frouped for a photograph, gave way Shortly afier noon to-day. Titteen Puplia were injured; twelve of them were taken to the Vassar and General Hospitals, most of them suffering from fractured arms and legs. The platform on which they were @anding wax forty feet long and had een erected an hour previously along: ide the wall of the bullding. The cn- tire schoo! body had been grouped by Guperintendent of Schouls Shear and Schuyler Fox, Superintendent of the ‘High School, and were looking directiy at the camera when the crash came, persone. Fi neni ree oteetapher ne Standing Pesite| The building was thromged with The platform folded up like a jack-| Women, who brought bables of from Knife half clored, the middle portion sag-| fUr nonths to four years to be mea ing to the ground and the ends re Maining in their original position. Into the rude V thus formed the 791 children were hurled. Superintendents Shear and Fox, aided Dy the staff of teachers, directed the! ‘work of sescuc, Ap examination of the Platform *inywed that none of the time! ors had given way, but that the bolts weed to hold them in place, apparently too weak for the unusual strain, had Broker. Thore of the two hospitais are Anna Sullivan, Harold Hawkey, Robert Anderson, Gene¥ieve Crisnell, Edith Duncan, Joseph O'Rourke, ra Vandewater, rman Powers, Anna Len- Bahan, Elste Knauss, Karl Innekus and Willard Curdy. It was thought that gone of the Injured would die —.j+— ‘AMERICANS, SORRY THEY LEFT MEXICO, ARE GOING BACK Ranchers Acted on Wilson's Warning and Now Complain “Needless Alarm.” AN DIPGO, Cal., Sept. 17.—Declaring that they are sorry they ever left their fanchen in Mexico and expressing the belief that there was actually no Teagon why the Government should have RBavived thom to flee, 1399men, women and Oilidren arrived from Mexico to-day on the United states cruiser Buffalo. All @aid they came solely as the resutt of bo rewegh Wilson's recent warning, we that they intend to retum as fon &¥ possible, Blaming the Administration for needs Jesely hurrying them out of Mexico, the refugecs Rave the following state- ment to the United Pres “We, the residents of the Jey, desire to etate the following, facts F injured taken vegarding the exodus of Americans from Mexico “We Americans felt no uneasines tntil United States Consul Vail, @ eempanied by Lieut, Henley of the United States Marines, vinited our vul- Jey Sept. 6 and exnivited 4 t @igned by Secretary Bryan stating that dhe President had uraed ali Americans leave Mexico and that the crulner ffalo War waiting at Salinas to em- Derk the refugees, The Consul | in ie personal advice that every one ae- cept the warning “Relying on t veprenentat we abandoned ies and property. Our ranche: Withott malls ant consequently We could not ourselves Intelligently Judge the situation, Both rebels and Mederais had visited the Yaqui Valley, but neither had commit fed any act against foreigners nor had @ither disturved our homes or property. | “Ade from wandering Indians tein- Borarily getting thing Wan peaceful in Mexico had paralyzed business and created tempor y financkel embarrass: Ment, nowing had mo lives oF property, “We left Mex the American ( ced our of Jer the urging ment, feeling t SICK HEADACHE, COSTIVE, BILIOUS, H LIVER 1S TORPIO—DIME A BOX You men and women who can't get feeling right —who have headache,coated tongue, foul taste and foul breath, digzi- Bess, can't sleep, are nervous and upset, bothered with a sick, g ‘tomach, Are you keeping your bowels cle with Cascareta—or merely dosing your- self every few days with salts, pills, tor oil and other harsh irritants Cascarets immediately cleanse and CANDY WORK W [children had been passed upon before to the |e ram | | The Evening World’s and Welfare Association’s THE EVENING WORLD, Mothers Exhibiting Intense Interest In the Examination of Their Infants Parents Throng Little Italy House in Brooklyn Anxious to Learn the Status of Their Babes in the Contest—Many Chil- dren Measure Well Up to, the Standard Set by the; Charts. Fugenists, physicians, acientiste and other persons working for whe physical and mental improvement of mankind are taking a deep interest in the move- ment for better babies, but If the scene at the Little italy House, No. 14 Union et, Brooklyn, ts any indicaton of tt terest, the mothers of that vicinity are even more interented than are any other ured and examined in the Better Babies’ Contest being conducted under the aus- pices of The Evening World and the Babies’ Welfare Asnociation, when th doors were opened for the second day of examinations, and more than sixty the closing hour at 6 o'clock, bringing the total for the two days up to 110, MEASURING REMARKABLY NEAR THE STANDARD, The weight and height of the con- nta measured remarkably near the standards on the charts when It ts con- sidered that the majority were of Ital- acent and naturally somewhat less of stature than are Americans. Few defectives were found among those ex- amined. “The physicians of the city are enter- lendidly and rt of the success will be due to them,” sald Dr. Jane Robbins, who ia in charge of the contest at this cen- “They have aided us in every possible and expect to see them take an even greater interest as the work Progresses. Within a few years I be- Neve that every physician in the city will have entered heartily into the Movement, as each recognizes the good it te doing as soon as it is forcibly brought to his attention, “We expect to oarry along the work here unceasingly, and do not expect to Jet the mothers forget that their babies eto be Inapected periodically hi after. The mothers take great pride In seeing thelr little ones make good marks while in competition with other OP \Doctors and Nurses Measuring Chest Expansion of Philip Williams, Fight Months Old, an Entrant in the Contest at Little Italy House, 146 Union Street, Brooklyn children, and this competition, we pee |i eve, will do much to improve the gen- e average in this vicinity. ‘Already we are seeing an increase in the number who come to lectures and| visit the settlement nurse for instruc- tion, and we hope in future years to) have the mothers as well trained for thelr duties as are the nurses. “When one can show the mothers wherein their children are defoient it} WEDRESVAYT, the defects, and the remedy for one child soon Jealous for her own to make equal efforts to make it healthy and strong. We are delighted with the results and the interest shown.” every afternoon this week from 2 until |5 o'clock until all the children entered in the contest are examined: ported to be bringing in steel pointed awagger aticke as a corrective of street iefused admittance to the United States mashers. | Navy. | Foote, who otherwise had lifted, } RETURNED missionary from China, addressing Presbytery at Orange, re- declared to-day that he would have ‘he m o u is not hard to persuade them to remedy induces another mother who 1s, ‘The daily examinations will continue it had a complete knowledge of the situation and not desiring to embarrass our own Government. We hrysigc Lowi fered a loss and feel juatified in upon the Government to peng sper interesta in future.” Many of the refugees erere ranchers who owned their places, which are now unprotected, The statement was drawn up during the trip north, OCCASIONAL DRUNK NO BAR TO BUS! Supreme Court Judge Makes Ruling on Convivial Business Men’s Ability. Merely getting drunk on the Job once| SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17.—Saury 1. in @ while doesn't necessarily mean |Disxs, former State Architect of Call that # man can't attend to business. ‘fornia, was nentenced to-day by Judge This may eound ithe @ brewery adver | Van Fleet In the United States District Usement, but it Is a Judicial utterance cour, to serve two yearn in the State made in the Supreme Court to-day PY | penitentiary at San Quentin and to pay DIGGS GETS SENTENCE OF TWO YEARS IN JAIL; CAMINETTI 18 MONTHS Convicted as White Slavers, Both Californians Must Also Pay Fines. SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL LEAVES FIANCE NOTE AND DISAPPEARS John Roth Fears His Young Daughter Has Been Lured Away by Strange Man. After writing @ letter to her flance, Joseph Lambert, Minnie Stephanie Roth, seventeen-year-old daughter of John Roth of No, 1402 Stebbins street, the Bronx, left her home last night. Her father reported the matter to the police Justice Guy, and id it th pag) Hey avanti brea. ‘with |® fine of $3000 for violating the Mann White Slave TramMc act. ainiles. Thirteen-year-old. Margaret Mary| F. Drew Caminetti was rentenced to Kavanagh, through her attorneys and {eighteen months at San Quentin and to her guardian, asked for the appoint-|pay a fine of $1,600 for a similar offense. |Rouse wt" No. im We perty ath EUROPE CALLS BRYAN A CLOWN, SAYS GRIGGS \atreet, now managed by her uncle, who is Jerry, Mr, Wilbert Ward, the Former Governor J. W. Griggs of jew Jersey, and for a time Attorney- wirl's attorney, told Juatice Guy that he wanted her uncle removed as man- ager of the estate of her grandfather, the late Capt. Patrick Shaw, because, she charged, he was addicted to drink and had not been keeping careful track 0 CENT BOXES “ANY DRUG STORE * ALSO 25 & SO CENT BOX of the rents he collected and was aup- posed to turn over tu @ trust company. Uncle Jeremiah does get drunk fre- quently,” said Mr. Ward tmpreasively, “and « receiver tp really needed.” “That stat a uncalled fo shouted Joh Judge, attorney for the uncle. will show that Mr. Kavanagh, even though of @ conviv- ial nature, hes kept the tments well filled and has been an excollent landlord,” “Well, I declare,” said the Justice wurprise, ‘Does the mere fact that man gets intoxicated from time to time necessarily incapacitaie him from jattending to business properly? 1 | should may it didn't, and I see no reason for the appointment of @ receiver on urged here to-du; jen submitted briefs, and Jus- (Guy announced that he would re- his decision. eweeten can't get jaweeten the stomach, remove the sour undigested and fermenting food and foul gases; take the excess bile from the liver and ty off the constipated waste matter and poison from the bowels, A Cancaret to-night atraightens you out by morning—a 10-cent box keeps your head clear, stomach sweet, and Lowels regular and you feel bully for months. Don't forget the children. CATHARTIC General under Prosident McKinley, was one of the arrivals on the Cunard liner Caronia, which came in this morning from Liverpool. Accompanying Mr. Grigan was his wife and three pretty aughtera, the Misses Janette, Alice and Helen. “But! sald Mr. Grigga, and It was some “But.” “You should hear Europe laugh at our Secretary of State! Every- body who Is anybody considers that the actions of Mr. Bryan a the worst wallop that American diplomacy has ever received. They mention the names of Hay and Blaine with reverence and ithen snicker In thelr sleeves at the | mention of Bryan, They regard him as a clown. “Men of dignity and weight ask why, he doesn't give up tho Job, instead of clowning {t about the country for the dollars. When I was Attorney-General I found that the salary of $%,000 a year wasn't enough to pay my expens | Tealgned the porition, enema ame ‘Twe Men GARROTE GIRL; RIFLE TILL. jet Away With $16 From Grocery Store, Estelle Schoenfeld, twenty-one, was dressed young men entered, if the salary of the oMice tan't suMcient, j tending the grocery store of her brother: | Jin jaw, Morris Sand, at No. 107 Sec ‘ond | avenue at noon to-day when two roughly | One ot Stop washing hair! Try this! to-day, saying he was quite sure his daughter had been lured out of town by strangers. Mr. Roth said that his daughter re- turned from the Spooner Theatre Mon- day night and said she had hee. offered A fine position by a young man whose acquaintance she made through @ strange young woman sitting next to her at the theatre. She was scolded for talking to strangers and told that as she was to be married in the fall it was not necessary for her to go to work. Yesterday on going home for dinner the father found in his daughter's room this note addressed to Mr, Lam- bert “Il have left home forever, 1 took your suitcase. Please do not be angry with me. I am not good enough for you. Maybe some one else will do. I will not return any more and you will not know where | am You will love another better than I am." Mrs, Loulse Henderestcin, a neighbor, told Mr, Roth that she had seen his daughter on the platform of the New York Central station at Park avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-sixth | ‘GAGGED YOUNGSTER !with red trimmini SAYS MEN IN AUTO KIDNAPPED HIM Speaks of Boy Also Seized by His Abductors; None Found Missing, However. RIVERHEAD, L. 1., Sept. 17.—While Sheriff Brown and several deputies were searching everywhere for fuorteen-year- old Frank Haupt jr. of South Jamesport, a village a few miles from here, rail- road detectives encountered the youns- ster walking along the railroad tracks toward his villago yesterday. His hands were bound and he was gagged with « handkerchief. The boy was weak and dazed, and after he had beep liberated he had diMculty telling what had happened to him. Then he kidnapped at 6 o'clock ing as he was driving a cow to pas- ture. Two men in @ black automobile » he said, had halt~ ed him and aaked if his family were wealthy. Before he could ly or call for help they had grabbed him, thrown him in «i driven off rapidly, A bottle was laced to his nose and he lost con- aclousness. villas Just as he came to, he said, the car stopped and the two men threw a robe over the head of a small boy who was walking along the road and lifted him into the car also, While they were thus engaged Haupt said he managed to work his feet loose from the cords with which they had heen bound. He Jumped from the automobile and ran. Young Haupt's story has created ao sensation. So far Sheriff Brown has not learned of a small boy missed in street last night with a strange young man who was carrying & suitcase, The | Kirl is described to the police as 6 feet ‘8 inches in height, stout, dark of com: plexion and having heavy dark hair, Sho was dressed in a blue so sult and wore a locket around her neck on a gold chain, GIRLS! GLEAN AND NO DANDRUFF—25 CENT DANDERINE Besides Pry this!) Besides beautifying the hair, one ap- d this town or vicinity, Haupt sticks to his story, however. __o Col. R. T. Durrett Dead. LOUISVILLE, Sept. 17.—Col, Reuben Thomas Durrett, publicist and historian, is dead here, aged eighty-nine years, Col. Durrett was an authority on the early history of the Middle Went. BEAUTIFY HAIR them gave an order, and when th 1} 5 plication of Danderine jolves every A aatiee iat Ginteite eraaeac nae eal Makes it glossy, soft [particle of dandruff; invigorates the the throat and choked tr} ] and abundant. tealp, atopping itching and falling hair. ane nto Insenst | pe on { Danderine is to the hair ae fresh Benen thentatieeonind Surely trya™ Danderine HuirCleanse'|showers of rain and sunshine are to CHP SGU AULA Gh oacPoor wrecs wish to immediately double the| vegetation, It goes right to the roots, Pee ee Monat hoe le Seen ARES beauty of your Just moisten alinvigorates and strengthens them. Its they’ husled her on the floor, ‘They then cloth with Danderine and deaw it care-lexhitwrating, stimulating aad life-pro- opened the cash drawer, took $16 and fully through your hair, taking one|ducing properties cause the hair to jwent out. Two little wire coming In a, small Hiren atime, thi will cleanse|grow long, strong and beautiful, few minutes later were attracted to the the hair of dust, ditt or any excemivel” You con surely have pretty, sott, rear room by the sound of groaning. |oil—in a few minutes you will be|lustrous hair, and lots of i if you will There they found Miss Schoenteid.| amazed. Your holy will be wavg, et a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's When revived she w able to give only bundant and posses: @ Meagre description of her assailants, parable softness, lustre and ee fluffy ty jjust toilet counter and try it es SEPTEMBER 17, (the President's birthpla. porta encouraging growth of American ideals in the far East. Many Chinese, | ngure draped and make a new applica he says, now wearing American garters, though, with Orleniai perversity, they | to), wear ‘em, like their shirts, outside thelr trousers. revelation of an applt of Hitnote who ancers at $20,000 as measure of Governor's annual expense. navy in fulftment of challenge made twenty years ago won by captain. Time,| Ha veg! rvice 12 seconds. Age of contestants, forty-nine and forty-eight respectively, ris E la Se ” stands for all that is “Best BABY SHOW at Lima, O., postponed because of riot between mothers. None bees, which he had accidentally swallowed. Beef Trust. American consumer looks on compl: to one year and $500 fine, limit of law, whioh Judge pronounced inadequate. prising ‘de luxe” art dealer are now hanging on walls of Senator Clark in Fifth avenue Te) crew, AMERICANS PULL DOWN later wa rested on a warrant chars: lectin vl ing them w! malicious mischief. Two Arrested in Arizona Town After) “KrowNeVILLE, Tex. Sept. 1.— pic aan is They Escape Mob—Emblems | United states soldiers yesterdd} hauled vie Sate down several Mexican flags at a Mexi- err . ‘bears, * Lowered at Other Points. can Independence Day celebration {if ihe get ‘ot ie Ba about forty miles from here on the hy end zouthtul Reese, @ constable, of Pirtleville, Aris., then raised an Amerlean fi Te dangeroii. Grow and Young Davis were arrested to-day esidents of Pharr, Texas, also pulled and hoe act r ’. “ay 8 00 er :* in connection with a Mexican fiag in-|down Mexican flags until the Mexicans ai ih jee eM ta EEA ial ce, cident at Pirtleville yesterday when the| raised one American flag. the tonneau of the machine) He did not recover his) wits until the car wan approaching thia | 1 mir 17,—Because, uiting officers here thought @ reprd~, | “SEPTEMBER MORN’’ | KEEPS HIM OUT OF NEW. ORLEANS, Sept. MRE. BRYAN continu At Staunton, Va. knocked ‘em cold His end of the to “go great™ on the turkey circuit. ), last night he may be sald to hav vith his justly: celebrated monologue, “Signs of the Times.” ate ie estimated at 00 for each of two performances. r duction of “Septemoer Morn tattooed on his back vould be “demoraliaing to the navy N. L. Foote, twenty-four years olf, of Miltonvilie, Mise, wus WOMEN TOURISTS returning to the United States by way of Boston re+ CHICAGO welcomes the new feminist electorate to ite first campaign with rogrammes for women voters of “ward dances” and “precinct card parties.” SIDELIGHT thrown on high domestic life in two sovereign States by chance t for Job as butler in the household of the Governor Applt- | | ant says he got his ideas in the service of former Gov. Dix. WINSTED reports the experience of esteemed citizen painlessly delivered of needle at hia elbow after carrying it in his system for fifty years. 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CONNECTICUT bee termer dying from pernicious activity of one of his INCREASDD importation at this port of Argentine beef said to be Argen- ina‘a retort to proposed monopolizatio.. of British import market by American ntly. “COKE KING,” called ringleader of cocaine sellers in New York, sentenced LEADPR of Irish Unionists begins inspection of volunteer army in Ulster, aid to number 100,000 men, to oppose home rule. “@ few" women in that most women of the merely PRESIDENT of Chicago Dressmakers’ Club polis spend $75,000 a year for clothes, thougi ‘wealthy get along on 9,000 or even less. CHICAGO lawsuit discloses that fourteen examples of Hogarth sold by enter- NEW YORK MAN, owner of boat which failed to win race at Thousand nds, sues builder for 61,000, IMPPRATOR, due in this port this afternoon, carries 4,981 p: wite the record for gil time, ngers and near Hahne's, Kewarly DANGER OF PIMPLES should be, known, to. er Americans pulled down a Mexican In- dependence Day emblem and were threatened with mob violence, The men made their escape from two hun- dred and ffty infuriated Mexicans and FLAGS OF MEXICANS DOUGLAS, Arisz., Sept. 17.—Clarence rm, Cg es American side of the border, The Mexi- Tenis W. 41 Broad” Richard Fink ¢ Remember This! Chas. H. Fletcher KNOWS Every drop from Every Herb, KNOWS Every cog of every wheel that helps to make Genuine Castoria, and his signature is the guarantee that Castoria Does not Contain Opiates. | MOMs Genuine "leare the ‘aaniate of | eo Sold only in one size bottle, never in bulk, or otherwise; to protect the babies. 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