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PHILADELPHIA. THURSDAY MOBNIXG, OCTOBER 17. PAGES. OXE CENT ipiflwflfim THE Ml Gil UP II 11 IEI 1 II iK IIS 1M11 Bat the Scalp of Pennsylvania Dangles Not From Their Belts. fi IB'SJIII II Three Hundred Men Torture Jeff Ellis and String Up His Headless Body.

FAVOR ARCHBISHOPS Bat the Episcopalian Deputies Will Refer the Matter to the Sew Commission. MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 10. The House of Bishops to-day appointed a commission to prepare a version of the prayer book in German. The committee to confer with the English Church as to a board of reference on foreign missions of the Anglican communion apppointed in 18SO reported that the object for which it had been appointed had been accomplished and it was discharged.

The Revision Commission reported finally with Canon 35, on marriage and divorce. The canon as reported forbids any minister to solemnize the marriage of any person who has been divorced unless that person was the innocent party in a divorce granted by the court for adultery. If my minister knows or believes that any one has married otherwise than allowed by the discipline of the Church he may not administer baptism or communion to that person unless death be imminent and the person be penitent, without the consent of the bishop. Temple Not Large Enough to Hold the Enthusiastic Crowd. BUSY DAY FOR TIE CANDIDATE Me Made a Tour of the City and Addressed Two Meetings in the Evening.

CHEERED BY THE BREAB-WINKERS Shook Hands With Hundreds at the Camden Republican Club Reception. Camden Republicans were bubbling over with enthusiasm last night in according a welcome to Gubernatorial Candidate John W. Griggs. There was a gTeat outpouring of people to see and hear the candidate who has a better chance of winning than any Republican ever nominated fcr Governor in New Jersey. Mr.

Griggs spent the day in Camden, ard wherever he went he found enthusiastic Republicans waiting to greet him with promises of loyal support. There were Democrats, too, who told him they would vote for him, and he said he had found nowhere in the State stronger indications of victory than in Camden county. A Tour of the City. The gubernatorial candidate, accompanied by Senator Voorhees, came up to Camden from "Woodbury shortly after lO o'clock in the morning. A committee of prominent Republicans, composed of President of City Council Joseph Potter, State Committeeman David Baird, Manufacturers Howland Croft and John T.

Bottomley, and Tax Receiver William A. Husted, were at the depot to receive them. A visit was first paid to the office of United States Senator William J. Sewell. Then the party took carriages and started on a tour of the city.

After visiting the newspaper offices the candidate was whirled down towrn to the Linden Worsted Mills, wrhere Howland Croft introduced Mr. Griggs to his several hundred employes. There was handshaking and short talks for half an hour, and then the big worsted mill of A. Priestly Co. was visited and a similar scene was enacted.

A brief stop at No 3 Engine House on Broadway brought out the blue-shirted firemen, who gave three hearty cheers for "the next Governor." The brawny workmen at the Camden Iron "Works were taking their noon-day rest when the carriages were driven through the gates. Candidate Griggs was soon surrounded by a crowd of workmen, and he got a hearty "handshake from many a grimy fist. There are over a thousand employes at the works, and it was hard to get away, as every man wanted to shake hands with the candidate. The workmen gave three hearty cheers as the carriages rolled away. Republican Club Reception.

After an informal luncheon and a half-hour's rest ex-Senator Griggs was ready to undergo the fatigue of stand ing for two hours to shake hands with guests at the Camden Republican Club on Cooper street, above Third. The club house was tastefully decorated i with flags and greens and an orches tra discoursed music. Mr. Griggs was welcomed by Richard R. Miller, president of the club, and a reception com- Roberts' mouth for the purpose of passing the stomach tube.

The mouth was opened, but the tube was not passed, because a violent convulsion came on immediately. Artificial respiration and all other methods were resorted to, but the man died, asphyxiated in the convulsion. Death Comes Suddenly. According to the best estimate that Dr. Wood could make at the time, the patient ceased to breathe in less than eight minutes after his entrance to the clinic.

After the death, Dr. Wood explained to the class and others that he thought the case was one of strychnine poisoning, and told the resident to so notify the Coroner. The resident physician, he added, was present at the autopsy and reported to him certain changes in the brain membranes and fluids, which report was given to the medical class at the next clinic, with the statement on the part of Dr. Wood that these appearances and changes were, in his opinion, not the cause of the convulsions, but were produced by the convulsions, and that HE ACCEDES TO ALL DEMANDS OF THE POWERS ABOUT ARMENIA. The High Commisioner 'to Be a Christian and the Forced Conversion to Islam ism to Be Prohibited.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 16. Said Pasha has accepted the scheme for reform in Armenia, drawn up by Great Britain, France and Russia, and it now awaits the signature of the Sultan. The scheme is almost identical with the proposals of last May, which, in substance, were that the Governors and vlce-Governors of Van, Erzeroum, Sivas, Bitlis, Kharlut and Treblzonde, be Christian or Mussulman, according to the inclination of the population; but either the Governor or the vice-Governor is to be a Christian, and the appointments are to be confirmed by the powers. Local and not State officials are to collect the taxes and enough money is to be retained before it is forwarded to Constantinople to pay the expenses of local administration.

Complete changes will be made in the judicial system, torture will be abolished, the prisons will be under surveillance, the police will be composed of Christians and Turks equally, and the laws against compulsory conversions to Islamism will be strictly enforced. The Ambassadors of the powers expect that the whole question will.be finally settled during the course of the week by the promulgation of an imperial decree. Contrary to general expectation, the high commissioner, who will be charged with the execution of this scheme of reform, will be a Christian. This was the hardest pill for the Porte to swallow, and for a long time it threatened to bring about the most serious complications. A Russian wrarship has arrived here.

The situation at Ismid is critical. The Christians are apprehensive of a Turkish outbreak, but it is believed that the new arrangement will quiet the people. LONDON, Oct. 16. The British Foreign Office, in addition to a dispatch from Sir Philip Currie, the Ambassador of Great Britain at Constantinople, announcing that Said Pasha, the Turk ish Minister for Foreign Affairs, naa accepted the scheme for reform in Armenia, drawn up by Great Britain, France and Russia, is in receipt of an unofficial telegram announcing that the Armenian question is virtually The Constantinople correspondent cf the Times, Irt a dispatch to that paper this morning, dwells upon the vague rumors current there, and upon the feeling of unrest manifesting itself by a decline upon the Bourse, by long faces In the Bazaar and by mysterious whisperings of massacres in the provinces which are wholly unsubstantiated.

The Times' correspondent believes that the whole trouble Is that the re cent disturbances have accentuated the Mahometan discontent with the oppressive palace government. Ma- hometans declare that a storm is brewing which will sweep away the whole dynasty and liberate Islam from the thraldom of the hated Hamidian system, which cramps its energies and paralyzes all Its forces. The activity at the Dardenelles con- tinues, and 10,000 additional men are under orders to join the garrison New batteries are building at Dar damos, Namazieh and Madjidieh, armed with heavy guns. All the flannel in town has been bought up for cart ridge-making and all the whitesmiths are busy making: lanterns and can teens. Many Mahometans have been arrest ed in different parts of Stamboul for using seditious language.

HERE AND THERE. Officer "William Taylor, of the Twenty-first sub-station, while unloading hay yesterday i the sub-station, fell and was Injured abo the head and had one shoulder dislocated. He was taken to his home, 733 North street. Captain Walberg. of the Norwegian bark Louise, wnlcn arrived yesterday from iJa celona with a cargo of rags, reports having encountered a ternnc gaie in tne gun.

A gale every third day was the rather un usual experience of the British steamer Baron Cawder, which arrived yesterday, eighty days rrom Java, with a cargo sugar in baskets. 1 The third series of student services will begin on next Sunday night in the Walnut street Theatre and continue for six succes slve Sunday nights. The opening address will George Adee and Other Prominent Yale Alnmni Hope to Arrange a Gama TO ABE FLAYED IN THIS CITY Considered Probable That the Bine Will Send a Challenge to the Quakers. TALK OF HOLDING A CONFERENCE November 9 and 16 Are Looked TJpon as the Most Suitable Dates for the Big Match. If negotiations which are now pending are carried out successfully, there will a football game in this city on November 9 or 15 between Yale and the University of Pennsylvania.

For some time past those having inside information on the football situation at the big colleges have hinted that Yale's next move would be to challenge Pennsylvania. The failure of the blue to arrange a match Harvard this year has left Yale with only one game of any importance, that, with Princeton, in New York, on November 23. Naturally she is compelled to direct her attention to Philadelphia for a rival worthy of her steel, as Cornell has refused to compete with Yale in any form of athletic sports until she first consents to meet her crew on the water. Efforts to bring- about a game with Pennsylvania are being made by leading Yale alumni of this city and New York. George Adee, a prominent Yale alumnus and father of the famous quarter-back on last year's team, is said to be interested in the proposed same, and should Yale challenge and the match be arranged, it will be largely brought about throngh his efforts.

It was Adee who said while the negotiations for a Harvard game were hanging fire that if the matter were left to him he would send a challenge to Cambridge so hot that It would burn up the wire. What Chairman Bell Says. i When seen yesterday by a reporter ht The Inquirer John C. Bell, chairman the Football Committee of the University of Pennsylvania, said: "It is true that efforts are being made to briig Pennsylvania and Yale together, but whether they will amount to any- tning 1 can not as yet say. The prospects are not quite as bright as they were a few days ago.

The Yale alum ni, of Philadelphia, and many prom inent Yale men In New York are anxious to have a challenge sent to Penn sylvania and I am told that George Adee also favors a game. "It was proposed to hold a conference In New York between the heads of football affairs at the two colleges, but that plan seems to have fallen through. Yale men in this city have spoken to me about arranging a game, but not having received any official communication from Yale I have not given the proposition any particular attention, believing that overtures for a match should first come from Yale. "Personally, I should very much like to see a game between the colleges and I hope It can be arranged, but you can say for me that Pennsylvania will wait for Yale to make the ad vances and until we receive some offi cial communication from her we will keep hands off. It is well known that we have always been willing to play any worthy team and should Yale send a challenge I believe it will receive favorable consideration." To Play the First Game Here.

Asked where the match would be played if arranged, Mr. Bell said: "Pennsylvania would likely insist on having the game played in Philadelphia, but if any agreement were en. tered Into it would probably be for more than one year, so that next year we would play at New Haven. This would suit very nicely, as the Har vard game will be played in this city next fall." The dates suggested for the game are November 9 and 1G," both Saturdays. The 16th is an open date for both teams, but the objection to it is that it is within jweek.

of the Harvard-Pennsylvania and Yale- Princeton games. Yale is scheduled to play Brown, at Providence, on the 9th, but as she has no other games until she meets Princeton she could easily arrange another date for her match with Brown. Pennsylvania is scheduled to meet State College, at Franklin Field, on the 9th. When Manager Leaman was asked whether Pennsylvania would ask State College to accept another date in the event of a challenge being received from Yale, he replied that he could not say at present as It would be time enough to think about that when Yale challenge was received. The Last Match With Yale.

Yale and Pennsylvania have not met on the gridiron since November 11, 1893, when Knipe scored the first touchdown and Brooke kicked the first goal that had been made against the blue by any team in three years. The final score was Yale 14, Pennsylvania 6. Yale accused Pennsylvania of unnecessary roughness, and a war of words followed through the medium of the newspapers, which resulted in Yale refusing to schedule any more games with the red and blue. In the two years that have intervened this hard feeling has entirely died out and there seems to be no reason why the teams should not resume their contests on the gridiron. MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS Arrived.

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Louis New Tork for Southampton. Fuerst Bismarck New York for Naples. Fries land New York for Antwerp. All-r Southampton for New York. Majestic New York for Liverpool.

Rhynland Liverpool for Philadelphia. Teutonic Uverpooi lor new lore. Illinois for Antwerp FIRST HIS EARS WERE CUT OFF Then All the Fingers Were SeYered From the Poor Fellow's lands. HANGED TO A TELEGRAPH POLE He Was Then Lowered, the Head Cut Off and the Body Again Pulled. Up.

MEMPHIS, Oct. 10. Jeff El lis, colored, on the afternoon of Oc tober 5, criminally attacked Miss Bet- tie Prater in the presence of the lat- ter's two sisters. He escaped from a mob which had gathered to lynch him that night, but he was pursued unremittingly until he was captured Mon day near Mount Pleasant, Miss. He confessed to the assault upon Mis3 Prater, to the murder of a Mrs.

Wilcox, of the same neighborhood, two years ago, and to an attempted assault upon a little girl In Mississippi while he was trying to escape from the mob. Last night the detectives captured Ellis and turned him over to Constable Bradshaw. He was taken in charge by a mob of about 100 persons, who started with the fellow for the scene of the crime. The mob reached Bra-den about 1.30 o'clock this morning. It then numbered 300 men, who had gathered from Galloway, Braden, Mason, Summit and neighboring towns.

After Ellis had been identified by his victim the armed squad of men took, him from the constable and started with him for the pike, where the public road crosses the Louisville and Nashville. A big fire had been built at the place and around it the mob gathered in a circle. The handcuffed culprit was made to kneel before the fire. The leaders of the mob told Ellis to pray, but he only looked at them in a stupid manner. Being told that he was about to die he raised his voice in a hymn.

By, "the time he finished the fiercer element were in complete control of the mob. Cries of him" were heard on all sides. Even this fearful fate would probably have been mercy to the man, as subsequent events proved. Amid the shouts of the mob a man jumped to his side with a drawn, knife in his hand. "Cut off his ears!" they cried.

"Give me a finger!" shouted ona man. "I want a thumb!" cried another. The better element in the crowd drew off at this time and said they were not in favor of doing anything but hanging the negro. Their protests were not noticed. Being urged on by the fiercest in the crowd, the man with the knife cut off Ellis', right ear and held up the bleeding trophy in full view of the crowd.

Ellis' screamed, but his other ear was cut off a few moments later. The mob became madder at the sight of this work, and those who were mutilating the man found ample encouragement. They next cut off all his fingers and tearing away part of his clothing, they mutilated him in a horrible manner. The fellow was covered with blood and his head looked as if it had been scalped. The mob was not even then willing to end Ellis agony.

They made him stand up so all the crowd could see him. Finally, fully thirty-five minutes after the torture began, rope was put around his neck. A telegraph pole was seventy-five feet away. The rope was a very long one. The free end was taken by a man, who quickly climbed the pole and threw it over the cross-arm.

The crowd jerked the fellow to the foot of the pole, and while the mob shouted the bleeding and mutilated form was swung to tha cross-arm. He was then lowered to the ground and his head was cut from his body with pocket-knives. The noose was then put over the feet and the headless body again swung up. It was intended to send the head to the family of the little girl Ellis at tempted to attack in Mississippi. A placard was put the body bearing these words: "Death to the man who cuts him down before 6.30 this evening." Passengers on the Louisville and Nashville trains to-day could see the horrible sight.

The point where the lynching occurred is a cross-road call ed Clifton Summit. The mot) ais- persed after doing its frightful work. YOUR LAST CHANCE NEXT SUNDAY. OCT. 20.

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W6DKDED KNEE IS AYEKGED Peaceful Sons ef Good Old William Down the Warriors Just 36 to 0. CARLISLE BUS' GOOD PLAY The Red Men Fought Long and Well, Nearly Scored and Finally T-jaid Up Brooke. Let me tell you how some Indians, Sturdy sons from the Carlisle School, One day jumped the reservation, Toigo out and scalp the Quakers. But instead of fighting old style, These young- Indians went at football. Met the Sons of Peaceful William, Who made treaties under oak trees And who never heard of touchdowns, Met them on a field called Franklin.

Lining up against the Quakers Were some boys who know their business, Not a Thomashawk among them. But they all had on their war paint. Opposite "Billy" Bull, the centre. Was the ever-fearless Lone Wolf, Lone Wolf Tacklei Bull. While beside this gallant warrior Was "Young Man WTho Walks On Horseback," "Set 'Em Up" and brave "Metoxen," Man who eats pie with his hands tied, He who never tasted Spoopiu, Ready for the bloody battle.

Brave and fearless looked the redskins. Time was called, and then the Indians, Not like Corbett and Fitzsimmons, But like men who fight like blazes, Sailed right into Pennsy's rush line. i'Vhila the white men had the footbalK vs 5i Indians had the muscle, tnd they rushed In with a war whoop. When the Quakers made their first score It was after bloody fighting. "Wang! Do! Wah! Hoo!" jelled the red men.

As they took the ball a-kitin After Quaker Scalps. TJp the field, and- never waiting "Until they could scalp their victims. War waged fast, and war waged furious. Feathers flew and loud yells echoed, Men went down and still they' fought on, Till the hall was almost over. Where the Indians would have scored four.

"Oh, did I but have my long bow," Groaned the melancholy. Lone Wolf, "Then I'd do that sturdy man Bull, Do him up all right and proper As my fathers did up Custer." Glory for a time seemed hovering Mighty near the feathered red men, Then, just at the crucial moment. Back the football went a sailing. Right into the Indians' goal post. Then the red men held a pow wow And they listened to their big chief Who did speak to them in this wise: "Tackle low, you jibbering idiots, Tackle low and throw your man sure.

Throw him down and sit upon him, Put his scalp lock in your scalp belts. you play like wooden Indians That you see in the cigar stores." When the first half was concluded And the tally sheet was made up It was seen that the young Quakers Had twelve tallies to their credit While their copper-hued opponents Had a large, commodious goose egg. For a time the warriors rested. Counted up the killed and Showed their ngures to trie ladies. Who applauded from the grand stand, And laid plans for further carnage.

When the fight once more was started Williams, he of sturdy physique. Took the ball and went a-running Through the whole eleven Indians, And by aid of Interference He piled up another touchdown. Then the Indians seemed discouraged And the Quakers, witnout trouble, Ran the score up till the total Stood at thirty-six to zero. But the Indians took their vengeance From the hide of Brooke, the full-back. Whom they knocked down, jumped on.

Tossed about and sat all over, Til he had to hunt a doctor. After all the fight was over And the Indians had been routed. Sadly sighed the brave Metoxen: "Boys, we'll have to hit the peace pipe," Sadly sighed the gallant warrior, "Sometimes, boys, we may beat squaw men. Sometimes execute a war dance, And raise Cain among the settlers, But when it comes up to playing Children's games like unto football. We're not in it with the Quakers." And the Quakers simply answered By a "Rah! Rah! Pennsylvan-yah While the grand stand also echoed With the same time-honored war cry.

CLOSE CALL FPU PENN The Indians Come Near Scoring: on the Red and Bine. The game yesterday was by long odds the hardest Pennsylvania has had this season. The Indians showed Continued on Fifth Page. The deputies, alter a vigorous uis-cussion of the proposed system of pro. vinces under archbishops, which is intended to give the Church a judicial system, voted to refer it to the new Constitutional Commission.

Most of them were in favor of the innovation. Rev. W. P. Taylor, of Springfield, 111., described the attempt to erect a province of Illinois without the sanction of the convention and showed how it was handicapped by lack of authority.

Among the reports presented to the House of Deputies of the Episcopalian Convention to-day was one from the Committee on Nominations, naming as trustees of the general theological seminary all of the old board and propos-ing Henry Butt as the successor of Rev. Dr. Hall, deceased. Majority and minority reports on the proposition of the bishops to change the title page of the Book of Common Prayer precipitated it warm discussion. The hlshons desired to insert the words "according to the American use" rather than insert the whole name or the church.

This was interpreted by some as a move toward changing the name of the Church. It was also argued that the revision of the prayer book had been contemplated in 1802 and dropped and that it would be unwise to take it up again now. A vote being taken the deputies re fused to concur. In the revision. There was a lively debate over another mes.

saere from the bishops recommending the reference of the canons to the pres ent Revision Commission with instructions to report to the next convention. A large element wanted the canons to go to the new commission, to which the constitutional revision was referred yesterday, but this was overruled in the end and the action of the bishops concurred in FOREIGN MISSIONS The American Board loners Gets Down of Coramii-to Work. BROOKLYN, Oct. 16. At to-day's session of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions committees were elected on home department, foreign department, foreign missions, to select preachers and place of next meeting, nominations and treasurer's report, A resolution for the appointment of a conference committee was referred to the business committee.

E. Cobb, or Newtown, read the report of the co-operative committee. Several hours were occupied witn tne reaaing oi reports from southern and western States. A committee of nine was appointed to adopt some means for the relief of the financial condition of the board. After the Rev.

Br. Mlddlewith, who had been delegated to greet the conference by the Long Island Baptists Association, had made his address, the Rev. Judson D. Smith, D. reported on "The next step." Addresses were also deliverer! oy iev.

Dr. Arthur Little, Rev. Dr. J. R.

Thurs-to and the Rev. A. N. Hitchcock, Ph. D.

A TRAMP'S CLOSE CALL Sarrowly Escaped Lynching: for a Crime He ever Committed. GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. Oct. 16.

While out hunting near here, the 13- year-old son of Hamilton Johnson shot and fatally wounded his brother Allen, aged 15, and declared that a tramp had done the shooting. John Fitzgerald, a tramp, was arrested at Deer River as the man who had shot the boy and on his denying the charge young Johnson confessed that he had shot his brother accidentally. Had not the boy made the confession the tramp would probably have been lynched. TO Bt'ILD Camden and ILllzabeth, X. Coxae In for a Share of the "Work.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16. Secretary Herbert has taken under consideration the report of the Board of Naval Bureau chiefs on the proposals submitted for building six light draft gunboats. The board recommends the award of the two twin screw boats to the Detroit Dry Dock Company and of one single screw boat to the Union Iron Works, of San Francisco. The remaining single screw boats are to be awarded to the Bath Iron Works, of Maine; Lewis Nixon, of Elizabeth, N.

and John Dialogue, of Camden, providing they amend their plans to comply with the department's requirements. ST. LOUIS TOUCHED BOTTOM But the American Liner Remained Ag-ronnd Only Fifteen Mlnntes. NEW YORK, Oct. 16.

The American Line steamer St. Louis, which left her pier at 11 o'clock this morning for Southampton, touched botom near the point of Sandy Hook on her way out to sea. She remained there abcut fifteen minutes, but got off on the rising tide and proceeded on her voyage. To-day's Inquirer 'pattern is a dainty creation will be welcomed by every woman reader of The Inouire- SIX SEW GUNBOATS. 111 Wl the case was, in all probability, one of strychnine poisoning.

At the clinic one of the students handed to Dr. Wood a large powder which was marked "supposed to be the headache powder taken by Mr. Roberts." "This powder," said.Dr. Wood, "had all the physical appearances of strychnine, and on chemical examina tion by Professor Wormley proved to be such." Dr. Wood did not know the weight of the powder, hut said that there was enough in it to kill a num ber of men.

"I announced the -result of the analysis to the clinic to-day," he said in conclusion. Dr. Skillern's Statement. Dr. Skillern, the family physician.

was also seen last night at his residence in West Philadelphia. He said that the powder had been brought to him by a young man employed in the mill, who told him it had been found in the waste basket. It was torn In the centre, and only a fragment of the powder itself remained. There was enough, however, for an analysis, and he suspected that It was strychnine. "I carefully folded it and sent it to Dr.

Wood by my son," continued the Doctor. "Mr. Roberts had been taking some proprietary powders, which I did not prescribe, for headaches for a long time. His wife and others were aware that he carried a strychnine powder, with which to poison a pet dog in the event of its not being cured of spasms. When he took the powder at the mill and became ill someone, his wife says, suggested to him that he had taken the wrong one, and he replied 'No, that he had destroyed that powder, had torn it in two and thrown it-into the waste basket.

That powder was the one torn in two, and brought to me and subsequently analysed. "Mr. Roberts was the son of one of the first graduates of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Roberts. He was a young man, probably not more than 30 years of age, and he lived comfortably and happily with his wife at 3217 Wallace street.

He left home on the day of his death in the best of spirits. He was subject to the most painful headaches for years." Great Britain' Greatest Shin. The largest British ship afloat, the Liverpool, came up the river yesterday ana began unloading at 31, JNortn wharves, her cargo or salt ana son a ash. brought as ballast. The vessel will to-day begin loading a cargo equal to RROO tons or case on tor japan.

in Liverpool was thirty days on the voyage and encountered, mucn rougn weatner. being twice beset by heavy gales and compelled to lay to ror a time. THE WEATHER. Forecast from Washington: For East ern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Fair, slia-ntly colder, northwesterly winds.

For Western Pennsylvania, fair and cooler; northwesterly winds. Yesterday's Temperature. II 1 111! Charles P. Roberts Dies in the Presence of Hundreds of Students. HAD TRIED TO CURE HEADACHE One Paper Contained Strjchnine Enough to Kill a Number of Men REPORT MADE TO THE CLINIC Dr.

Horatio C. Wood Reviews the Case and Dr. Skillern, the Family Physician, Gives His Views. Some peculiar facts came to light yesterday in connection with the re- cent death of Charles P. Roberts, secretary and treasurer of the Tracy "Worsted Mills No.

2500 Spruce street. "While the autopsy held upon the body by the Coroner's physician and the verdict of the jury made the cause of death meninginal apoplexy, an analysis of the fragment of a powder which the deceased was supposed to have taken for headache made by Dr. "Wormley, professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, showed that it contained strychnine. The records of the case at the Coroner's office include the following notification from Dr. B.

Small, senior resident physician of the University Hospital: Received C. Roberts at 12.55 from Twenty-fifth street below Spruce, with a history of having taken a headache powder at 11.45 A. M. On admission to the hospital had a convulsion after which he was conscious. This was followed by another series of convulsions in the last of which the.

patient died. The patient was seen by Dr. Joseph, 334 South Sixteenth street, at 12.10. Found him in Uremic condition which ceased immediately after arrival. This was followed by a state of asphyxia, requiring artificial respiration which was followed by convulsions.

Respiration was good; pulse fair; congestion of membranes of hands and feet when taken by ambulance. This was on October 2. The next day or the day following the autopsy was held by the Coroners's physician, Dr. Mattern, while Drs. Small and Samuel R.

Skillern wera present. The inquest was held on October 4. with the result as already stated. Dr. Wood' Statement.

At the medical clinic of the University yesterday Dr. Horatio C. "Wood, professor of materia medica and therapeutics, made a statement of importance regarding the case. "When seen last night by a reporter of The In quirer at his residence, l)Za Chestnut street, and requested to give the facts connected with the death and subsequent developments. Dr.

Wood said that as it was a public matter which occurred in the public clinic-before dOO or 400 people he had no objection to making a statement about it. On the day in question, he said, he was interrupted toward the close of his regular clinic hour by a resident run ning in and saying that a case or poisoning "was coming in." A mo ment later the man was brought into the clinic room and the only informa tion given was that he had felt badly. had taken a headache powder and being ill the hospital resident had been summoned by telephone and found him in convulsions with loss of consciousness. "The powder was said to have been taken about twenty minutes before the resident got to him, which was about ten minutes before the man was gotten into the clinic room." Dr. "Wood said that when Mr.

Roberts first came into the room he seemed to be uncon scious; was not convulsive but in great excitement or his muscles. Directly after he entered the doctor started to open his shirt when the patient, without opening his eyes, said rather sharp. ly: "Don't you break those studs!" The pulse was good and on account of the apparent, but not real, unconsciousness and the method of speaking. Dr. "Wood told the clinic that he thought it was hysteria.

A moment after that a convulsion occurred. which, so soon as the doctor saw, he said to the clinic: "txentiemen, this is not hysteria but some poisoning; probably strychnine." He then ordered the resident to get chloral as soon as possible and to give an anaesthetic to the patient. He also said to the class that he would wash out the stomach, but as Dr. J. William White had just come in and could do it with less disturbance to the patient than he.

Dr. Wood, he aJKed Dr. White to dt it. The latter attempted to open- Mr. HE III 11 3 ill 18 A.M.H P.M.

Barometer 30.04 29.74 Temperature 44 58 Humidity 78 87 Velocity of wind 6 12 JOHN W. GRIGGS SPEAKS IN CAMDEN. Direction of wind E. at 8 A. M.

8. at 8 A. P. M. Condition of weather Clear at 8 cloudy at 8 P.

M. Maximum temperature, 2.30 P. Minimum temperature, 6 A Mean temperature Normal temperature Hours of Deficiency of temperature for this date. Accumulated deficiency of temperature since October 1 Accumulated deficiency of temperature 62 40 51 58 7.8 7 76 since January 1.. 143 Excess of rainfall since October 0.21 Deficiency of rainfall since January 1...

7.51 U. S. Weather Bnrean Balletln to Philadelphia Inomlrer. Philadelphia, Oct, 16, 1895, 8 P. M.

Wind and Weather. 0,0 mlttee composed of Harry M. Anderson, Lawyer H. H. Voorhees, F.

S. Simmons, Charles Watson and Irving L. Wilson. Hundreds of well-known Republicans and a sprinkling of Democrats were introduced to the Republican candidate. Senator "Voorhees and ex-Judge J.

Frank Fort, of Newark, were also warmly greeted. Aijleasing feature of the occasion was the presence of many ladies. The reception lasted from 3 o'clock until 5 and then ex-Senator Griggs was escorted to the residence of United States Senator Sewell, where he was entertained at dinner. A Trip to Had don field. Early in the evening the candidate made a flying trip to Haddonned, where the residents, especially the Republican club, gave him a rousing reception.

He arrived on the 6.30 train, accompanied by ex-Judge Fort, and was escorted to the club rooms, which were decorated with ferns and flags. George B. Glover, president of the club, introduced Mr. Griggs, and hurrahs for the next Governor could Continued on Second. 7ae 44 .00 52 .00 20 56 .00 58 .00 8 .62 .00 68 .00 68 .00 10 62 00 12 50 .00 20 50 40 .00 13 64 .00 54 .00 8 60 East port, 'Me.

S. Cloudy Boston S. E. P. Cloudy.

New York City S. Cloudy Atlantis City S. Clear Norfolk. Va. 8.

Clear Jacksonville S. E. Clear Atlanta N. Clear Cincinnati N. W.

Clear Detroit N. W. Clear Chicago N. Clear St. Vincent W.

Clear St. Louis N. W. Clear, Washlnrton S. Clear Pittsburg N.

W. Clear Light. be given xi. 1 jC Ik.