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Evening Courier from Camden, New Jersey • 1

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LATION iBIJUY G0HKIER 'mm UtM JERSEY, -X COO'OVOO-I-O-IO-'-IO'KMO-j. tit and Wednesday; polder. ESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE TO CONGRESS WIFE FAINTED WHEN DENIED SALOONKEEPERS IN A DILEMMA MURDtRER BROWN FIGHTS Fell, from the Witness -Stand Into the Arms of a friend. Recent. Excise Decision Puts Burlington Board Oat of Business mm pnwc iaitlT am tti Instroctire Docnracnt, FIFTY-SEVENTH 0 in Scope and Genera! ILIUM I UuuL Willi I SICK AND iWSED BY HER HUSBAND CONGRESS TERM yfi i COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PRESENT LICENSES RE ALL VOID Holders Are Stills; Liquor Illegally Under Otter Supreme Conn Decisions Warnlig from Law and Order leafnt Interviews Witfl.AUarjity.01LJltiecttlar)LHanii.

1 ON DAY OF EXECUTION Headiug of President Roosevelt's Mcs sage' Listened to With Undivided He; an Infidel, Would Have No Marrliie Cere mony-Refused Medicine and a Pbyl ciu-Struck Her She Crawled on nDds and KflecA FoxJelp strMglr tfa Bnlldlnj Up the (iJ Snjfests General Field, Days Mint to Camden's Bosrd. A dramatic scene occurred In Police Court this morniriK when Brown Escapes from His C2II in tin Mt hen Preacher: Deissiilgcr Tho aalonnkeepers of Burlington, Kathyrene Fernunao, of 624 Birch street. fainiVoit tiu- wltnww' BtMHfc- alter having been denied that she was nkliloll of Army II la Dent If wasmngton, Dec. appear- of the Senate this morning was In, its simplicity and sombre- he in. j- weaker 1 found, a reflection In the greatly de- D.

C. Dec. "eased attendance, in the galleries. felt's A' st message to Con- 1' the drsk of jjsevei's Teller (Co Caiin (Minn und Mir i -gSi to.at noon JLlOregon) 6a'-eh7oSiv of wusual color to the scene. When Hie his wife by Samuel Fernanda her hus- wherein there are Excise Boards' ap- oano, who also denied ais ctiuaren.

Mrs. Fernanzo has been an Invalid Pointed by the county courts find them the past two months, but claims to-day without licenses and sub- that Arrives He Assaults Guard Wood-, ruff With a Bar of Iron, Secures an Axe and Takes. Refuge in an. Out- building; in the lail Yard Shoiitiii? her husband hrm l-efused her medicine or the attendance of a phyisc- Ject to. arrest for selling liquor without senate and House, oi icepre- gmt-i icii a majority of the Beats were atumv n-minimi rpi.

f-sc tT (jitit'r ui me oiiiui cnai)-. J.e mn. on Sunday when Dr. Kelchner called, her husband declined to let him this voar suiuam-e ior tne Consrew i-resiclent for whose official utterances license. This condition of affairs is brought about by the recent decision of the Su- enter the house and Mrs.

Fernanzo, afraid that she would die, if left alone, Jaduw oi KitttL as cmet executive the Senate was waif- haduw oi Kictti. as enter, executive th ue asKea that life, comfort and asked thai got out of bed and started to crawl Defiance Is Recaptured and Hanged at 10.10 A. M. he Divine spirit be ijip Jttb of September, President in- 'He -aa rimt by an anarchist the sruldance of th Tff bestowed -upon him (Medina the Kx- fltmi(1(1 fmn' 3 and that he he flu. across the room to a window on her preme Court in the case of Hann vg.

hands and knees, intending to call for heln. The husband heard her and I Bedell and others, the Camden excise lit riiPHfi nnrl nnrt rnen In hut oii JinJ Mn '4t- i rushing up stairs, grabbed her by the throat and choked her almost case, holding to be uncoflstltutional the act of 1S92 which was intended to be a Gil 'the fourteenth of that tnopth. The committee appointed to wait upon I seven electee. Presidents, the President to inform him -of the 1 hn been murdered orPanization of Congress and of its I third who has, been murdered, readiness t0 message he 5 i bare recital of this tact is might have to present, reported that ItJ Policeman ErAcison to tlscee atid -PPlement to the excise acts of 1884 and Fernanzo was placed under arrest, al- 18S6. This decision wlpet- ut the coin-though his wife was unable to appear mlssioners appointed by tne courts until to-day.

Even then nfdance wfh she was so weak that she could hardly 'der thls law and' ac stand up alone. Fernando denied that other decisions of the Supreme Court of she was his wife or that the six chil- New Jersey, all acts ofthe commis- dren were his. He said that she was Eloners are his housekeener and he had merely adopted the boys. The Recorder asked The Ne.w Jersey Law and Order Mrs. Fernando if she was the prisoner's League has vigorously taken hold of wift- "Hie situation and meana to rjose the "Yes, the "but he is -i to Justify grave alarm among naa ruiniied its mission and that the American citizens.

Moreover, Presldenf Had announced iat he would knees' of this, the third as- bepleasedt communicate with the on of an American President, Mr. Pruden, the President's secre- peculiarly sinister 'elgniiicanee. tary, was then received, and at 12.19 "resident Lincoln and President the reading of the first official utterance mied bv assassins of of President Roosevelt was begun. Sifcjvsatw'v, 'i. fv e' MURDERER CHARLES BROWN.

MUTtDERER JOHN YOUNG. fortunately not WriMwetweh eloseattention JSLn7 i inrnir, failing- a iHr-s. -een given to the reading of a message TTTOW1 K. Mt. Holly, N.

Dec. 3, (Special.) BiT-1fifldet- an4-doe not-believein. "-umpei it terrible aroused by uiii'-mr-ptr- the -tu war and Prpsirinnr of new chief executive. The tratt- 1 thirfl party," onersip gtr.out of ousi gi ve fate, and they should have died together. -AHbeymprtthy- enlisted -1 or-- tj ttr the revengeful vanity of a n-f-'te subject of President "Mc- Sheriff F.en ton, Prea her Deissin ger, the" death wa tch arid everybody con By a third party Mrs.

Fernanzo said fair war-nine. Secretarv Harm bad Law- ifTW'pstM'ker. PTesirleot neia me unai- he did not believe that a minister or John Young, has been misapplied, for l-tt kined by an utterly de- vkled attention of the Senators, a ma- I. .1 InritV fnllnwifirr thO Mud Hindi belonging jority following the reading line for line nected with the execution of -Murderer to that bcdy should live as man and- wife. Neither terday" served notice on the Mayor of n-in obiect to all govern- from the copies in their hands.

did he believe in a God 'and they Just Burlington and president of Burling i and bad alike, who are Mr. Hanna (Ohio), the close personal mv form oi popular nueriy: ir menu ui me ueceaseu rresioeni, gae faranteed by even the- most just evidence by his restlessness of the deep took each. other for Detter or worse. Two of the woman's children were called to the stand and Fernanzo, who is a Cuban, tried to say they were only nflfinlpfl hut the marks nf Snnln were ton's Excise Board, as follows: "My Dear Sir: "I beg leave to Inform you, by. instru' tion of Rev.

S. H. Hann, Secretary -ral laws, and who ore as nos-vSpiotion under wnicn ne was laboring. 1 lie upright exponent of a free tepresenratlve Taylor, of Ohio, occu- It was he who was directly responsible for their, being at least one mound in the cemetery at Colestown. Such sympathy belogf)' to the lonely and sorely tried widow living at Cambridge, who Is compelled to walk the path of life unsupported by a kind and devotetf husband with whofrT she, had lived for forty years.

)John Young, the tngrate, had worked there, and he took-hls gang of burglars to (he very home in which he had been befriended, to pillage and to murder. v- plainly visible on their face. One of the New Jersey Law and Order League sober will as to the tyrannical pymg the seat that for so many years! Charles Brown this morjilng were treated to an exciting episode that was not down on the program. This episode was the escape of Brown from his cell, a murderous assault, on his guard and his final defiartce of the Sheriff's posse to re-take him, armed with an axe and with an out-building as his fort. He was re-takon, however, was the hovs said he had seen his father that at the November-term of the bu rfswilslble despot.

-was so illustriously filled by Mr. Me- 1 strike his mother, scratch her on the preme Court the act of 1892, under arm and even suit tobacco in her face, which the Excise Commissioners-of you fenot toajnuch to say that at the Kinley, was one of many members, of i President McKinley's death he the House who heard the reading of the temost widely loved man in all first part of the message in the Senate, id States; "While we have never Not a member on the floor. -nor a sinie At this statement a murmur of indig city are holding office, and performing nation went up all over the court room the duties of saltt office, was declared 6HERIFF FENTON. and -in the midst of it Mrs. Fernanzo unconstitutional.

public man of his position who occupant of the.j?alleries stirred durins that were made to staggered back and fell "Unconscious in "By reason of that decision, I also be; m-n uw uuui te te ffleial references jirosities incident to public Ufa. the tragedy that so 1 meal opponents we-0. the lltgt WOrld into deep grief. m-tt wholly free irom the Wie the official references ui-iut-ui, ki uyui ins. the tragedy that so -recently threw, the i omniums iu iui ma imui ui juu.

cyn near. ur. nnian was summunea lioin grantea vDysrcr-vommis8ioners JS. nuw tne Hoard or tteaitn omce ana naa null ana void, ill juimaearLieri i iw gi-oer- The Senate adjourned at 2.23. 1 1 HOUSE.

t.tlie aod gentleness of 1 et so en i hi mia- the woman removed to reporters' keepers of inns and taverns, in the rooms, where was stretched out on city of Burlington selling under such fwo tables. The word go' around that licenses are selling liquor without. 11- she had dropped dead and a ruRh was cense- and sublect. to prosecution as Speaker-Henderson called the House- associates. Tu standard of to order at noon.

f'lgrit in public life h- united After "prayer by the. and the made for the room, but Dr. Flthian violators of the Stata liquor law." Should er affections aim homc virtues reading of the journal, Mr. Payne stated. That'll was an attack of heart my 'licensees continue to do business trouble.

im in tne- make. fRm- N. moved -that wheti -the under said llcenses.it is the Intention i M'niiii: charact A- House adjourned to-day ft adjourn unU Fernanzo Was committed in default of $800 ball. of the" said League to begin proseeu tlons under the statutes and. in-ac ti ft great war for the Uttiotii -Friday.

The motion carried. Speaker rjr as an example tj-trlfour cordance with decisions of the Supreme 2Sc for Good Coffee. Court. Henderson announced the Committee on Rules as follows: Henderson Dalzel! GjrosvdW Richardson (Dem because of his conduct sredand intimate ri home rela-There could be no sf him, fir he acted with ill ion fcr tlvj welfsie Special attention is directed to the line of coffees sold at the four stores of nrnncn Rnfna "R-iictlanlr An orrrn "And should the said Excise Commissioners attempt to continue to exercise the dtities of their said office, it is the intention of the said League to institute Underwood Underwood is the new member, taklrig the place of good coffee gt 25 cents a pouhd. legal proceedmgs-to-remove trfem from isaney, oi exas, wnu naa giauuateu iu the United States Senate.

uur. ei truly yours, CONRAD OTT, "Attorney for-Samuel H. Hann." one could to respect J'etaew him in puis or I'x defuiiders of those murder--i aiuals who scfk to excuse their hit! by asserting; that it is ex-t for 1 t.ollitcal enu-', inveigh (weatlth 'Siind irresponsible But for this assassination tVen apology cannot be urge.d. Will (Hike Things Disappear. The celebrated Henry Morphet, magic and oriental wonder worker, will appear at St.

Paul's Parish House on Wednesday night. This- will be a grand good evening's entertainment. The committee that waited upon the President to Inform him nf the openinpr of Congress reported. The President's message was delivered To the House by-Assistant Secretary Pruden at 12.14, and the clerk at once proceeded to read the document. Burlington's City Council can grant licenses now, as it formerly did, or it has two courses open under recent acts One is the power of the to ap lent 4ieh.itilev was a man of.

ta.wan. a man sloek During the reading of the message point three resident taxpayers as Excise Vtoodtnar Pills. The celebrated English ierbal remedy for all liver and stomach troubles. These pills are prely vegetable and from Ihe sturOy tillers of the one might- have almost heard the pro had himse.f hoinVicerT verbial pin drop. The members cease Cdmmissioners for three years, under the act of March 24.

1899; but this act tii workerr. wio lS et'rj the? their buzz of conversation, quit private soldier. Wealt" wns ming the lids of their desks. Begip-lukatwhen tho PreRidpnt wni ning as it did with a systematic de the test of fifty years' use proves them o- fn. tnrr.1,1 provides that the question of appoint 'l ilijNW "liver, biliousness', jaundice, sallow skin, I such a Board ma- be referred to the voters of- the city, and this "'may constipation, headache, vertigo, foul be" is construed by some authorities to rated, but the honest toil which scription of President McKinley's death with tr.o.l v.ii.

gains after a and characterand voicing as it did the tfunremittini; labor lately love of the country for the dead, one of the piiLiif. Still less was might have easily imagined that one Snick at the UiKt in a feaV church listening to a irresponsible or centerfd- in funeral oration. The read more of any one Indivindual. The distinctly and with more feeling than not nlniot i ivi.ut.i,i .11. Is the usual rule in hustling through I It was aw-iiij ac one of the Presidential messages and no sign of breath, sick stomach, dyspepslt, heart-burnLjflatUlence, sour stomach, piles, etc.

At all druggists. 10 cents. Trade supplied by Berihger, pharmacist, ederal and Fifth streets. Anti-Bacteria Is the perfect disinfectant. It has no a general disinfectant for sick rcims, -bath closets, etc.

It destroys the germs of disease and deodorizes thi atmosphere. At Beringer's Pharmacy, FeFderal and Fifth streets r-" MOUNT HOL.LY JAIL. Jf champions the wage-worker 1 weariness was given by the hearers. tad; at one of the most faijh-lThe reading of the message was con "NBlatives th HiideH at Mr. Payne, mean "must be," in the light of several Supreme Court decisions." The practicability of recourseTo the act of 1901, providing for the appointment of a Board by the Court of Common Pleas, is also questioned, on the ground that this act is similar to the act of ISS2, Which unconstitutional.

stated this morning that, regardless of what Council may now do, lW and trntreM-'ttiativn irnv- of New York, moved that such portion marched to the gallows and was hang ho has ever riseL to puMic of it as referred to the death of Presi President rtent AfcTCinlev be referred to the com ed jon schedule time, the drop falling i imitteo rif the wno nouse. aim -re at 10.10. race ior the entire pet, rkSHi10 -hit e-rn I printed. tiiiib ve B-or i veil ALA10.ar4,1,tere.wa3 'a-rry- aauiid- eacTi the saloonkeepers are to-day doing bus- I'Kious to rem-eaenr tim mlttisf.he one from -be appointed, anuointed. Acme Kidney Plaster.

Beringeri'aMine'ps itlig the jail comuor: "Here I'-W wishe3 of the his State, to join a similar committee from MURDER A YEAR AGO. jsince Mi 9. Sallie Hunter, who Is past three score and ten, passed through" scenes indis-cribablerand the request-'for-ber to-, sign a petition to save the life of the author-of-tHHleei-and--torribla tion" was an insult-whlch can hardly be effaced from membry. ,1 Washington Hunter was murdered on January 2ith last, within twelve months three of his slayers have been 'For Council to to secure comes Brown, look out." in every crisi? was to krp the Senate, to prepare appropriate -touch w'th the to lutions nthe death of the late Tresis Diatfibnds, Watches and Jewelry A few minutes before Rev. Mr.

Dcls- wey -dente ntii'FrT-'t Burnstfne; ive expression to their The-House adjourned at 2.30 ter havino- trt flov sihger had "entered his cell and Brown haJ.jajd,'!, want- to be Left alone for a Fine Furniture and Carpetihgs. Jasper Burnstine. 327 Kaighp mougnt aright. He had a new Board," said he "could not possibly validate the acts "of the defunct Board. Not can CouneH-by-any act -of its own make the licenses now held legal.

Some of the licenses do not expire until next July and the saloonkeepers must either quit business, stand prosecution or take out hew licenses now. Burtingtoh. will, gam fiBfiBcWlly." bpraus" tho Baioonkeepeg. H. Waltoo' New Office.

ye-eTected to the Presidency few minutes." niajoruy of our citizens. Schroeder Und't'k'r. 15 S. 4th, Phone 46i must pay again, tof his license trom now to July." "Are not, the acts of de facto officers legal and will net the acts of the present Excise Board, therefore, hold Twentieth Century Bakery SPECIAL THIS WEEK FRUIT CAKE (Ihe Bast in Town 270 lb. j- Rceular price.

COLUMBIA CAKE 12c Each. FOURTH AND FEDERAL STS. n' who have money they want to fWe, touch with him Thev S4 North Third street Any her branch Kpresented wU nd so of real estate business Mr. Walton gives J1 their idea, i and asnira- special' attention and-care to, as a large -y WishedehlmT0dcoantPinue Majority of years to represent can attests from deal ngs th h.m I i- fm Market street. I until a re mih a en Mr Walton conducted his 1 Wh-m, ft mi ne's from his residence offlce at snx.sts?' 'to hi i the hand, out- i s.

10 mm i Ym Stinnnlne is Un. good?" the attorney was asked. As to the first-part of your question. PROSECUTOR-S. A.

ATKINSON. I would answer yes, and as to the Tatter, no." Was "for this reason." FIFTH AND STATE. AND GRANT STS, Owing to the unavoidable delay in 1 getting materials the completion of these houses has been delayed two months or more, and for that reason i i I i mnni -f i. J. auu uruiiieriy rr He turnup .1 l- a.rn.icl turned thev will'be sold for less than their true mc mrujt; Bnu r'lir titmas lOPPlIlK 'O value, PROVIDED THEY ARE SOLI) lie went on; "the Burlington.

Commissioners are not and were not de facto officers. No' such, officers had existed in the city of Burlington until the act, which is now declared to have been-unconstitutional, was passed. This act created the office. The Supreme Court has said that this act was not law, hejic.e this offlce never existed. 'as has already been said by the Court in a case ln point, where there is no office there can be no officer de facto or de jure.

So, you see, these Commissioners "licenses are- nothing but so many pieces of paper. They have ab AT -ONCK. seme-win is. ROBERTS, at or his office. forward, but by this, time Brown had rushed down stairs and, passing through the kitchen, he entered the yard, grabbing an axe in his flight! seereted behind the var- ions outbuildings, threatening'- to Kill anyone who came near him.

A large number of men went into the jail yard revolvers to portal the prisoner. A peteseHMtH drawn revolvers closed in on htm and In an instant he I whr flpizpd hv a diien men nnrt spcnrplv is J-Wi. 6 of victim into juiilsefurnishing emporium n'm'mlreAtc. 13-17 Federal street." People Dasftdec" In aU the annals s.l 'eVery need in good assort- merit 7or holiday choosing and what is I a irrlef of the country, better at greatly" reduced -prices. If-, Yf 1 Third and Market The 'n i fo rS1nt genuine Haviland dinner sets are onei-ln llr and death.

At fr tn new import of 21 llfp and df-fh. I Wa solutely no force. The same is true-of kindly vflspa alld other bric-a-brac M. W. "'nun tvnn.

i their ordinances and all their acts' "Suppose the Commissioners conttw suggestions. People wno s.t the best attention and rnoice, doro JKhat then?" riandcuffid Title infuriated man was r. of HSony uttered no Lr friends, and of 4ZTin the will of the The proper legal steps will be taken ECKAB.PE.BCPE. -Imm ROOM DANCING CLASS MONDAY, TUESDAY WEDNESDAY tETPN-ESDAY MATINEE MR- GEORGE F. HALL IN he wi to effectually put Them out oT business; The' notice sent yesterday, I think, -de Counsel for Defense.

Counsel for Defense. of km. dea-th, crowning strongly guarded until hanged. Edmund Parvln-H. W.

Wakefield. tamden fines Secretary Hann position." hie, leaves us with. w'th such pride in In carrying on the fight against the 1 tu The American Camden Excise Board, then, you will 1 rot appeal this declslonr" vlcr, mat we led as as stmir-i. A. The drop fell at 10.10 MISPLACED SYMPATHY.

It would have been a double hanging had not the Court of Errors interfered in behalf of Young by grant Assuredly not. it suits as as it is captured and one hanged. Justice -in this case -has swift, and sure. Of the seventeen indictments for murder committed within the borders of "county during the past four- and we have another remedy ln Cam den which will be-made public shortly. ing, a writ in his case argued "next Monday." which will be teen-years, only three men -have suf-Shutters were "fered death "on the" scaffold.

My notion Is that the days of the Camden Board are numbered and the saloonkeepers may shortly fare the same situation that now confronts x.h-Hurlington stepped out of the cell and Brown, 'who had a bar of Iron secreted under his bed, grabbed the weapon, rushed- out the corridor, pushing aside the minister and made a futile effort to kill Jesse Weedruffj ene of his guards. Getting past George W. A. French, -another guard. Brown jumped down ihe steps, causing great commotion among the who.

were arriving. We'crni Pror George Crtef. 'nt who is dead; DancinK Morgan Hall. JBe-d We lifted up ers- class. Tuesday evenings pri-' rements 2f hls Iife vate lessons free.

Party each Saturday rt.iFm with which he K'ening. i'ull orsi 1 vX.QDVERNMENT'--j- Aik tof Ferat' i 'HV the man to the Crystal Peanut Taffy. 526 Federal St YjrstyL. ne ls 80 (treat as Wa.PPJehen',lon and about 14 J- i (Ti'sf8tnl most resolute Howard Hunt Pen. Seventh and State streets.

A Comedy Drama By H. Orattii Donnelly. A Story tf tvdy, Scenes ld in America and Abroad. THE AMERICAN Prince Roy and TVi lMS, The Little Lady Two Gleams of Siinjhlne. Direction of A.

y. Scammon. NEXT ATTRACTION MOBILE." Secretary Hann says the league means bowed in the Vicinity of'the jail, and a- number of people left town to ease their minds. A large crowd collected In-front of the grry walls of the prlsorj, but morbid curiosity could only be business and will go right on with itj work. -Said he: it due the saloonkeepers and the Commissioners Notwithstanding rumors to the contrary.

Young andBrown have been dreading their approaching doom. Young became repentant and embraced religion. was buoyed up with thft hope that the Board' of Pardon. would Interfere to the extent of saving his fiPORT" Br.a'in his efToH to forget i'm'. jjf the awful details of the crime, satisfied by seeing those entitled pass-through the rortal3 of the jail.

Ve teachings of atll Fefk'At Utte yemia some of them becoming realy -alarm- -1- f- But -Jobrt Yofs and to give them the warning we have. want to be entirely fair and if they rc-fuw-'-to onr -warning -and go on tlwy will havenone thank lut themselves." for. "tftiiibie that will surely rome upon The law Is clear'and we know we are tlie werefrj "have" sjtflfli-eil -I tn the publle-. tj-m ta-night and FlTHtAfT -Sf SIMMONSp- UNDEnTAKER. Tnrv" r.

iOS Market St Olxn iav and i teHt. the visitors rushed to the -main- their Eils-speTit liv es tin thfe-'altar' of a evil brisk to h.gU nnheterly winds. becomingoru office lo disorder the officers pressed wayward ambition, fully deserve their..

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