ASBURY PARK BAGH OWNERSHIP. CONTEST FOUNDER’S TITLE. City Council Claim That Property Valued at Over $1,000,000 Is Public Domain, Founder Bradley will have to de- fend his title to the Asbury Park, New Jersey. beach front and board- wall: and the public parks and lakes. The city council thinks it has discov- ered that all these holdings are pub- lic property and is going after them. The city council has passed unani- mously a resolution that a special beach and park committee appointed to investigate the question of the city ownership make formal demand on Mr. Bradley for possession of all prop- erties that appear on the original maps of Asbury Park as having been dedicated to the people. The resotu- tion is the outcome of a diseovery made by Dr. Bruce S. Keator, council- man-at-large, who is one of the larg- est property ownqars in the city. Dr. Keator’s attention was called, a short time ago, te the Spring Lake suit brought to declare the lake at that resort to be the property of the bor- ough. He thought that the principles aid down by the court in that case, which was decided in favor of the borough, would apply to the Asbury Park beach front. Lawyers were con- sulted and the original maps of As- bury Park on file at Freehold were clescly examined. The maps showed that the beach front, including the strip over which the boardwalk was laid, had been dedicated to the public and that the city line ran out to the ocean. Many of the parks now claim- ed by Mr. Bradley were also marked “public square” or “park,” and under the ruling of the courts, it is con- tended, dedicated to the public. Many old sdaitlers who had bought property from Mr. Bradley in the early 70s were interviewed, and they all said that the beach front, parks and lakes were represented to them, at the time of their purchases, as public prop- erty. R. V. Lindabury, of Elizabeth, to whem the case was submitted, ren- dered an opinion in which he declared that the beach and other property de- scribed belonged to the people, and that Mr. Bradley was an usurper on the public domain. City Solicitor John F. Hawkins and Counselor Frank Durand, of Asbury Park, con- curred in this opinion. For ten years the city has souzht to obtain control of the boardwalk. Four years ago Mr. Bradley offered to sell his beaca domain to the people for $150,000. Enabling bills were passed by the leg islature, and all the preluntnaricn seemed satisfactorily adjusted. Then | the scheme collapsed. "Mr. Bradley | wouldn’t sell. The Asbury Park beach | front is valued at from $500,000 to $1.-| 000,000. The disputed parks are | worth at least $500,000. Mr. Bradley is mayor of the city and can veto the acts of the council. This fact, how- ever, is regarded as of no advantage. The council is unanimous on the ques- tion and can overrule him. The de- mand to hand over the beach parks and lakes will be made at once, and the case advanced, if possible, so that the issue may be tried in January at” Freehold. Submarine Boat a Success. The Holland submarine boat Gram- pus had her first surface trial trip at San Francisco, Cal, and proved a suc- cess. She made nine knots, a knot more than the speed contract calls for, and the steering gear and diving machinery gave every satisfaction. AT THE NATIONAL CAPITOL. Richard H. Townsend, the million- aire clubman and society leader, was thrown from his horse while riding in the country and seriously, if not fatally injured. Adjutant General Corbin’s report favors restoration of the canteen, standard weapons for National Guard and regimental songs, and opposes early marriages of officers. “Commander Robert E. Peary, the ‘Arctic explorer, who has for five years been on leave of absence, will resume his duties as an officer of the navy the 25th of this month. He wiil be as- signed to duty in the bureau of yards and docks. General leonard Wood, who went over with Generals Young and Cor- bin to represent this country at the German war maneuvers, has arrived in this country on the steamship St. Louis, : Miss Alice Roosevelt is in spirit with the renovations going on at the ‘White House, and will do her part by furnishing a new pet. She has a coon cat from Maine to 2d to the collec- tion. The annual report of Binger Her- mann, general land commissioner, shows that the government sold 19,- 488,533 acres of land during the year, an increase of 3,925,733 over the pre- vious year. Colonel Wright and General Wil- son, members of the anthracite coal strike commission, had a brief inter- view with the President. They re- ported that the individual operators in the anthracite region had agreed to abide by the findings of the com- gnission. Secretary Root has cut down the estimates of the engineers for the continuing contradt work of rivers and harbors nearly $2,000,000, leaving the total amount $16,570,000. The appropriations will depend on the probable amount of work the contrac- tors can do in the next fiscal year. Senators Boveridge, of Indiana, Neilson, of Minnesota; Dillingham, of Vermont; Bate of Tennessee, and Heitfeld, of Idaho, have left for Okla- homa, New Mexico and Arizona to in- vestigate those territories’ claims to statehood. The five senators are the members of the senatorial sub-com- mittee on territories. The conferences botween Secretary Hay and Colombian Minister Concha on the Panama canal treaty continue. | WHITE HOUSE ANNEX. For the First Time President Roose- velt Uses the New Executive Office Building. President Roosevelt Thursday, No- vember 6, for the first time trans- acted busincss in the new executive office builidng just west of the White House and opposite the navy depart: ment. ‘The first cabinet meeting held since July was held there on Friday. The building is designed as a temppo- rary structure, but probably will house the labors of the President for a half decade at least. It was planned when President Roosevelt found both his family and his office force cramp- ed in the White House. It was decid: ed that the executive force should be removed from the White House, and that the historic building should be a dwelling place: only. 'T'he cost of the office building, which in architec- tural design harmonizes with the White House, is a little more than $50,000. It is one story in height, On the first floor the most prominent apartments are the office of the Presi- dent and the cabinet room, which onen into each other. They are large, well lighted and airy. The walls are covered with olive-colored tapestry, and curtains of the same tone drape the windows. The furniture is of mahoganly and the cabinet table a massive affair. Around it are placed ten chairs, one for the President, oue for each of the eight members of the cabinet, and a ninth, which, it is ex- pected, will become the position of the secretary of the department of commerce, which it is the desire of the Presidemt that Congress shall create. Secretary Cortelyou’s office adjoins that of the President. HARNESSING GLACIAL WATERS. Ice Crest of a Mountain to Furnish Electric Power. Engineers are being sent from Bos- ton to Tacoma and Seattle to begin work on harnessing the waters of the Payallup glacier on Mt. Tacoma, State of Washington, for commercial purposes. It is claimed that if suc- cessful this will be the first instance where glacial waters have been used directly to provide power. The pian is to construct from the glacier a flume 14 miles long, through which a head of water will flow sufficient to generate 50,000 horse-power. The water in running through the flume will drop 600 feet and through pen- stocks will be diverted into turbines connected with electric generators. A three-phase alternating current will jhe transmitted at high voltage to Ta- coma and Seattle. tei ern de i CORNER IN NICKEL. United States Steel Corporation Sc. cure Control of World's Supply. It is said in New York that the ste:l trust has got control of the world’s supply of nickel by securing a major- ity of the shares of the nickel cor- poration of London through the Intier- national Nickel Company, a $30,000,- 000 New Jersey concern. eignt months’ old. The completion of the deal means thgt the United States Steel Corporation and the Roths- childs, owning the Nickel Company of Paris, control all the important nickel deposits of the world. Among the men who are the largest stock- holders in the International Nickel Company are Charles M. Schwab, E. C. Converse, Max Pam, counsel {or the steel trust, and J. R. De Lamar and Millard Hunsiker, of London. GOLD FROM ALASKA. Output for Last Ten Months Exceeds $18,000,000. The gold output of Alaska for the last ten months, based on the receipts at San Francisco, Seattle and the Selby refinery, shows a total of $i8.- 870,075, as follows: Klondike (Can- adian), $13,861,095; Nome, $5,008,980. This total is something over $4,300.- 000 in excess of the Alaska output for the entire calendar year of 1901, the figures for that year being $14,675,675, In the output for the last ten months is included $250,000 expected to ar rive from the Klondike before Janu- ary 1, and $1,350,000 expected from Nome. ARBITRATORS FAVOR LABOR. Street Railway Men in Chicago Get Increasa of Wages. Twenty-five hundred trainmen in Chicago in the employ of the Union traction and Consolidated street rail- way lines are to receive an increase in wages of more than 10 ver cent, dating from September 15, according to the findings of a board of arbitra- tion, which has made its report, after having had the demands of the street car men under consideration for near: ly two months. The increase will af fect cable men, electric men, trip- pers, and night men. The new scale is to be in force until May 31, 19v4. The disposition of the cases of the dis- chargdd men is te be ¢ a nnounced later. ALL CASES CONTINUED. Alleged Councilmanic Bribe Get More Time in Jail. The cases against Otto Schumach- er, Louis Decker, John Helms, W. M. Tamblyn, H. A. Faulkner, Edmund Bersch, John H. Schnettler and J. J. Hannigan, former and present mem- bers of the house of delegates of St. Louis, accused of bribery, has been continued to November 19, Takers Indiana Postoffice Looted. Burglars dynamifed the postoflices at Culver and Cloverland, Indiana. At the former place they got $1,000 in stamps and at Cloverdale several hundred dollars in stamps and cash. Free Ride on Stolen Engine. A man supposed to be a tramp, stole a locomotive from the Rock Island yard at Albert Lea, Minn., and went north at a flyin rate. A pursu- ing party went after the fugitive and five miles out found the-engine. .drew from .Teques, THE REVOLUTION AS COLLAPSED. CASTRO IS IN LUCK. Ammunition Gives Out and Rebel Leaders Part in Quarrel—Reb- eis Flee in Disorder. News has been received at La Vic- toria, Venezuela, of the retreat of the revolutionary forces. On the night of November 1 the revolutionists with- their positions naar La Victoria and San Matec because they were without ammunition. The fact that the rebels lacked cartridges caused a disagreement between Gen- eral Matos and (eneral Rolando, which was followed by hot words. General Rolando declared that the shortage of ammunition was the fault of General Matos, and that if the suec- cass of the revolution was endanger- ed by this condition General Matos alone was responsible. He said all was, lost, and, with ‘his followers, about 3, 200 men, he withdrew from the main body of the rebels in the direction of Alta Gracia. It is re- ported that General Relando pro- claimed “El Mocho” Hernadez as the leader of the revolution. President Castro, since he discovered that the revolutionists retreated only because of their lack of ammunition, has caused them tc be pursued day and night by government soldiers. The latest report issued by the govern- ment says Generals Matos, Mendoza and Riora and their commands are fleeing in disorder in an effort to reach the mountainous districts. Guerrillas in the service of the gov- ernment have captured and brought to President Castro certain records and dccuments belonging to members of General Matos’ personal staff, as well as the general's personal cor- respondence. The contents of these papers give evidence of the critical situation of the leaders of the revolu- tion. It is difficult to understand the apparcnt, sudden and complete col- lapse of the revolutionary movement. But a few days ago the rebels seemed to be upon the eve of victory, while to-day their cause seems absolutely lost. President Castro, having sent his men in all directions to cut of: the retreat of the enemy, left for Caracas. The government soldiers who are following up the rebels scored their first success hy the cape ture of General Ramon Luizi, who was making his way in the direction of Alta Gracia with 300,000 rounds of ammunition and 4,060 men to rein- force ithe revolutionists. From La Victoria President Castro goes to Los which point was abandoned by the rebels. From Los leques the president will go by rail to Caracas, and will then resume his place at the hcad of the governmeni. ELEVEN KILLED. Aerial Bomb Ignited by Explosion of Fireworks. ; By the premature explosion of four boxes containing aerial bombs and other fireworks, in New York city, eleven persons were killed and twenty badly injured. The names of the dead are: Policeman Dennis Shea, William G. Finney, Geo. Ritz, Harold Robley, five unknown men, unknown colored man, unknown colored boy, Frank Marill, Will G. Feeney, two unknown colored Dboys, two unknown white boys, George Ritz. Under the auspices of the New York American fireworks were being exploded in celebration of the victory of William R. Hearst, who was elected representative in congress. The dis- play centered south of the Madison Square garden, at the intersection of Madison avenue and Twenty-fourth street. At that point a small space had been kept clear by the police with difficulty. Sparks from Roman candles, which were being discharged, fell into the open boxes, which were closely packed with large aerial bombs. At the same moment one of the bombs, which had just been touch- ed off, exploded permaturely, hurl- ing sparks and fire in every direction. Twelve men who were in charge of the fireworks display were arrested soon after the explosion and taken to police headquarters. THEOSOPHISTS BALKED. They Will Not Get Possession of the Cuban Children. The immigration board of special inquiry at New York decided to ex- clude the 11 children brought from Santiago, Cuba, for the Theosophist Buddhist colony at Point Loma, Cal. Commissioner Williams is. holding them at’ Ellis Island, but has placed them in his own private rooms. The treasury department has directed that the children be detained at the island until the character and responsibility of the Buddhist school, which is con- ducted by the Universal Brotherhood, can be ascertained. MIDDIES’ TIME SHORTER. Need for Naval Otoers Reduces the Course at Annapolis. Orders were issued at the Naval Academy at Annapolis reducing the course of midshipmen to three years instead of four. The change in the curriculum is made necessary by the pressing need of naval officers. The present first class, which would have been graduated in June, 1903, will be graduated in February of that year, and the class of 1904 will be graduat- ed in February instead of June, 1904. The present third class, 1305, will be graduated in June, 1904. Official Charged With Theft. Alfred McDougall, until recently solicitor to the Provincial Treasury Department, of Ontario, Canada, was arrested and locked up without bail on two specific charges of theft of $6,- 500 from the Ontar!o government, though it is stated that his accounts are short $35,000. The alleged defal- cations cover a number of years. LATEST NEWS NOTES. Senator Quay and party left Phila- delphia for Florida. Embsalmers and funemal directors at Chicago,-1ll., have formed a union. Chop Yong Sin has been appointed foreign minister of Korea. Is a pro- Russian. The projected combination of West- ern pulp and paper mills has been ahandoned. Railroads are facing the greatest car and power shortage in the his- tory of the world. The bodies of a man and woman strapped together were found in the Oswego canal near Syracuse, N. Y. Captain Williard H. Brownson was officially installed superintendent of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md. _ The Indian government refused the Standard Oil Con:pany permission to prospect in the oil fields of Burmah. A Dill is to be introduced in the next Massachusetts Legislature look- ing to the incorporation of labor unions. William P. Cornell, a well-known Chicago newspaper man, dropped dead just after casting his vote in Lakeview. C. J. Robbins, postoffice clerk at Dayton, O., is under arrest for steal- ing between $2560 and $3,000 from the mjails. The town marshal and a prisoner, under arrest at Independence, Kan., fought a double duel; both were mor- tally wounded. : Chinese girls are being employed in San Francisco as telephone oper- ators, for the accommodation of Chi- nese merchants. The eight companies controlled by the Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company will be in the future under one management. Owing to the drought the wheat harviest in New South Wales is very poor. The shortage is estimated at 11,000,000 bushels. What Uncle Sam has done for tele- graphy in Alaska, (Cuba, and the Philippines, is told by General Greely, chief of the signal service. Robbers blew open the safe of the Tampa State bank at Heerington, Kan., and took about $2,800 in cur- rency, escaping on a ‘han.d-car. John Mitchell's friends are urging him fo become a candidate against Samuel Gompers for president of the American Federation of Labor, Upon the raising of $1.000,000 the University of Chicago agreed to re- ceive the Rush Medical school as an organic part of the university, Three small boys named Borcher, near Humphrey, Neb., plotted against their stepfather, killed him and tried to burn his body in a straw stack. W. D. Drake, a bookkeeper, died from injuries received in the fire- works explesion in Madison Square, New York, making the thirteenth fa- tality. Bandmaster Innes closed his sea- son at Raleigh, N. C., canceling ail other engagements and left New York to be operated upon for ap- pendicitis. August Rapps and L. Bennock were killed and Patrick Doyle, Harry Cron- in and William Sanders injured by the premature explosion of a blast at St. Louis, Mo. Rev. W. C. Rabe, pastor of the Ger- man Baptist church at Omaha, and his assistant, Augusta Busch, were found dead in the pastors’ study, due to asphyxiation. New York is on the verge of the worst coal famine ever known. The retailers say they have no coal and accuse the anthmacite railroads of withholding their product. A meeting of silver workers, rep- resenting the 3,000 of the craft em- ployed in New York city, Brooklyn and Newark, decided to go on strike unless granted a nine-hour working day. After being in jail four days Laura Biggar, charged with conspiracy in connection with an alleged attempt to gain possessions of the millions of the late Henry M. Bennett, was released in $5,000 bail. The cholera continues to be inter- mittent in different parts of the Philippine islands. The recorded total’ of cases is 105,000 and of deaths 67,000. It is believed that the actual number of cases exceeds the recorded number by 20 per cent. Letson Balliett, the mining king, was fined $1,000 and sentenced to one year’s imprisonment at Des Moines, Ia., for fraudulent use of the mails in selling $180,000 worth of stock in an abandoned mine. It is reported at Costa Rica that the Colombian revolutionary general, Uribe-Uribe, who surrendered to forces of the Colombian government under General Marjarres at Rio Frio has been sentenced to death. Owing to the congested condition of the dried fish market in Eurupe and Brazil, the price of dried codfish has dropped from 15 to 25 per cent at St. Johns, N. F., and some grades of codfish are virtually unsalable. The battleships Alabama, Captain C. H. Davis, and Massachusetts, Cap- tain H. N. Manney, have sailed from New York for Culebra island, in the Caribkean .sea, where they will par- ticipate in the winter maneuvers. Eight men were drowned, three vesels driven ashore and every lighter on the Nome, Alaska, beach wrecked by a storm on October 1. The known dead are George Flaurth, Samuel Josephnson, Frank Kelly and George Robertson, Dora Morrison, an experienced aeronaut of Galesburg, fell from a bal- loon at Anna, Ill, and was instantly killed. She ascended 2,000 feet, hang- ing by her arms as she started, being unable to draw. herself up to the trapeze bar. James H. Boyd, local superintend- ent of public works, at Honolulu, has been suspended from office by Gov- ernor Dole, and arrested on a war- rant, charged with the embezzlement of $1,600 of public funds. The re- moving of Boyd makes vacant a third important territorial office, [TOUR OF STRIKE REGION IS ENDED. ARBITRATORS’ DAMP RIDE. The Commission Complete Their In- spection of Collieries and Adjourn Until November 14. The anthracite strike commission ended its tour of observation of the coal fields in the Panther Creek val- ley Wednesday, and the members of the party have returned te their homes, ‘but will meet again at Scran- ton on November 14 to take the testi- mony of the miners. The comission- ers made a complete inspection of two. large collieries and a tour of the region between Mount Carmel and Mahanoy City. The commissioners first visited the Potts colliery in Co- lumbia county, owned by the Phila- delphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. The breaker of this col- liery is different from those seen by the commissioners at other places. From there the train proceeded through to Ashland. Girardville and Gilberton to the Maple Hill colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading Com- pany in the Mahanoy valley, a few miles from Shenandoah. This is one of the best mines in the field, and is equipped with all modern appliances. The bottom of the shaft is 730 feet below the surface, apd during their two hours’ stay in the working the commissioners went about a mile and a bhfalf from the shaft. ‘The whistle blew the noon hour just as the party came to the surface. From the Mapie Hill colliery the commissioners’ train was run down through Mahanoy City and Tamaqua to the Panther Creck valley. Then the arbitrators visited the No. 8 colliery of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company of Coaldale. The entrance to the mines was through a drift. About 100 feet in- side the entrance fhe party was low- ered by means of a shaft to the bot tom, 850 feet down. This proved to he quite wet and every one in the party got a wetting. As the members of the commission passed along the gangway on the mine cars drawn by mules they went under worked-out chutes, from which water flowed in streams. While going under one chute thie mules stopped and the water fell into one of the cars, thor- oughly soaking all its occupants. The commisioners in the other cars took it as a joke on their colleagues, who were directly under the chute. To get into the chute the commissicners had to climb a ladder and crawl over broken coal through a small opening. Their hands and faces were smeared with coal dust when they came out. After leaving the mine ia numbers of idle mine workers crowded around Chairman Gray, of the commission, and told him that they had been dis- criminated against hy the company in the matter of getting their old places hack. They said Superintend- ent Behner would not take them back for some reason unknown to them, and that other men had been given their positions. On the other hand, the company officials claimed that they have not enough work gait this time for wali the men, on account of repair work now being done in the mings. Judge Gray made no com:- ment. PRAISE FOR THE ARMY. Gen. Miles Declares It Was Never in Better Condition. The annual report of Lieutenant General ‘Miles reiterates what he said in 1896, that ‘‘the personnel of the army was never in better condition.” He adds: “This was proven to be true by the fortitude, skill and heroism displayed in every ‘serious campaign on every field of mortal combat wher: ever the army has been engaged in any part of the world during the last four years. During that time many changes have occurred and the army has been very largely increased. The long and varied service of the senior officers, their experience in organiz- ing, disciplining, instructing and lead- ing their commands, as well as the excellent discipline, instruction and exemplary conduct of the soldiers of the army of ’98, have been the leaven of the army of the present time. Evils may creep into any system or great organization. Such as have affected our army have been or will be eradi- cated.” ANTI-TRUST, LAW UPHELD. Nebraska Statute Does Not Conflict With the Constitution. The Nebraska supreme court ren- dered a decision sustaining the con- stitutionality of the state anti-trust law, which had been attacked by the Nebraska Retail Lumber Dealers’ As- sociation as defendant in a suit for damages for forcing a retail dealer out of business. The court holds tae ‘association to be unlawful, but dis- .misses the suit as to the association, because it is not incorporated. The members of the association are held has brought suit in the United States circuit court at Trenton, N. J., against | the American Car and Foundry Com ‘party, alleging ents on metallic cars. Ordered 300 Coal Hoppers. The Western Maryland has given a contract to the Cambria Steel Company for 300 additonal steel infringement on pat-| ‘liable for damages resulting ‘from their acts. Sues Its Big Rival. The Pressed Steel Car Company | | i i { | | | { i railroad ! | | | coal hoppers, each to have a capacity | of 50 tons. The cars will be for usa on the West Virginia Central an: Pittsburg division of the Wabash system, Partners Both Sentenced. Thomas K. Armstrong, junior part- ner in the commission firm of Blew & | Armstrong, at Minneapolis, Minn., was sentenced to four years in the State | the | | penitentiary for conniving at the for- gery of bills of lading by his partner, E. T. Blaw. The latter got seven and a half years. © $40,000,000. DOUKHOBOR PILGRIMS. Entralning Fanatics at Minnedosa Was Exciting Trial for Police. Phalanx Opposed Them. Another chapter in the history of the Doukhobors’ pilgrimage in Can- ada to convert the world has closed, but with +the ending, “tc be con- tinued.” The Doukhobors were taken charge of by the civil authorities and taken by special train from Minne- sota to Yorkton, where they were kept in the cars, closely guarded by Northwest mounted police. Although victorious at Minnedosa, it is a ques- tion yet to be decided if the govern- ment will not be defeated in the final effort to get the Doukhobors back to their villages. If the fight to move them 100 yards is any example of what the government has to contend with, it will take a much larger force to move the Doukhobors the 100 miles to their villages, which are that dis- tance from. Yorkton. Minnedosa dis- patches report sormy scenes during the entraining of the pilgrims there. After repeated interviews with Seik- roff, the leader of the fanatics, Ajzent Spears decided to use fore, grabbing the leader by the shoulders, pushed him out of the building in which the Doukhohors had spent the night, at the same time calling upon the policemen to bring the rest. As they came out the fanatics locked themselves together, each man cling- ing to his neighbor, thus making a solid body. Then the excitement commencad. The citizens turned out to help the police, but it was hard work to pry the fanatics apart, four or five men being needed to pull one Doukhobor from the interlocked mass. The majority fought every inch of the ground. The scene was one never equaled in Canada, a sul- len, stubborn mob of people, fighting fiercely with police and citizens, not in the mode of warfare, but wanting only to be leit alone and allowed to go on their way. A few went to tne coaches alone, but the majority were carried bodily, dragged, pushed along, or loaded into the wagons of farm- ers who had gathered to see the fight. The Dcukhobors are a set of people with a strange religion, nearly ap- proaching fanatacism. The leader claims to have a revelation that “Christ Jesus” has assumed the form of man and is on earth wandering in the Canadian wilds. An entire vil- lage, numbering some ‘hundreds, un- der the guidance of Seikhoff, the leader, started on a pilgrimage through the forest in search of the “Savior.” They subsist on roots and fruits, and neither eat of the meat of any animal. Neither will they use the skin or anything that comes from an animal for clothing. The