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THE GAZ JL JL JLYJL JJ-J kJ Laying Corner Stone for Machsikei Hadas Synagogue CHOLERA SCOURGE Safe Crackers Rob In Wilkinsburg And Auionio COAL OPERATOR COLLAPSES ON TRAIN Francis M. Osborne, Leader in Industry, Dies in Hospital at Toledo, O. -m k-Jli VV. II .5111 ftea-vx r' THREATENS Gov. Dix May Be Called to Take Charge of Quarantine.

HOSPITAL CASES Dr. Doty, Health Officer, Says Every Port' in Country Faces Serious Task. ANSWERS SERIOUS CHARGES Bt Associated Press to Gazette Times. NEW YORK, July 16. Although the situation at quarantine is regarded by Dr.

Alvah H. Doty, health officer of the port of New York, as being well in hand tonight, Dr. Doty does not conceal his apprehension that New York is "in the very midst of a threatened invasion of cholera." Further, Dr. Doty declared, "the quarantine department of every port in this country is facing a H'ery serious and onerous task during the coming sum mer," and it is not improbable that many vessels arriving from Italy within the next few weeks will bring one or more cases of the disease. Today's official report of the situation shows that there are 15 cases of the scourge at bwinburne is.

and Hospital and four cases symtomatic of the disease. Within the last 21 hours one more victim has died. The steamer Perugia still is detained and the medical staff is preparing to make bacteriological examinations in the case of each of the 218 persons from the steamer Moltke who are under observation. Doty Replies to Charges. It is possible that Gov.

Dix will be called upon to take charge at quarantine. Charles Dushkind, attorney for the immigrants whose charges against Dr. Doty are being investigated by a commission, made public tonight a letter he wrote to Judge Bulger of the commission, suggesting that Judge Bulger call upon Gov. Dix to take charge of the health officer's department. In a statement Issued tonight in reply to an interview attributed by a morning newspaper to Judge Bulger, Dr.

Doty reviews the situation and points to the element of danger. The statements attributed to Judge Bulger, Dr. Doty says, "are so calculated to alarm the public in the very midst of a threatened invasion of cholera that I feel justified In making a reply. 'What can Dr. Doty, health officer of the port, mean when he allows five men who have been in dally contact with persons suffering from Asiatic trholera to come to this city in the same clothes they wore when among the cholera victims and touch elbows with everybody they Is the question propounded by Judge Bulger In the interview." Dr.

Doty's statement continues: Serious Outbreak in Italy. "The facts are these: The five men referred to were called as witnesses by the people in charge of the investigation and were permitted by me to be absent from duty at Hoffman Island for this purpose. Cholera is not transmitted by clothing or by the air. but by actual contact through the mouth with discharges from the intestinal tract of the cholera victim. There Is therefore no danger whatever from contact with a person who has been in the presence of the disease.

"At the present time we are dealing with a very serious outbreak of cholera In Italy and other sections of the Mediterranean, which has increased since last year. A majority of the vessels which recently have come from Italy either have brought actual cases of this disease or furnished evidence of its hav ing occurred in transit. It is with great difficulty that the latter condition is established and it is only through the most exhaustive bacteriological examination that I am able to see the facts. "It is in the presence of these conditions when the confidence of the public in this department should not be un justly disturbed nor its facilities for pro tecting the public health diminished that the man appointed to investigate this department makes the amazing declaration which Commissioner Bulger makes this morning In the midst of the hearing with no testimony in reply yet offered. Crisis Puts Doty on Mettte.

"The quarantine department of every port in this country is facing a very Continued on Serond Page. 1 I si 1 5tL Half Gallon. Of Blood Fails To Save a Life M. Wallace Dies of Anaemia, Three Weeks After the Transfusion Operation, A transfusion of blood from a healthy man failed to save M. Wallace, a Mill-vale machinist.

He died yesterday in St. Francis Hospital, three weeks after the operation. Mr. Wallace had anaemia and a month ago was slowly wasting away. He was sent to the hospital, where the physicians said a transfusion of blood might help him.

Mr. Wallace's daughter's girls, in their teens, caused an advertisement to be inserted in the papers. A man who was willing to give two quarts of blood for the consideration offered, $50, was se cured. The operation was seemingly successful, Mr. Wallace rallying and improving for a week.

A few days ago he began to sink. The man who consented to the transfusion operation went to the hospital two or three times to have the Incision dressed and then was discharged, none the worse for his experience. Mr. Wallace, who was a widower, aged 53, lived at 415 North avenue, Millvale. CANOEISTS SAVE GIRLS Three Lives Are Endangered When Craft Upsets in River.

Gertrude Evans of Pittsburgh and Alice Martin of Wilkinsburg were Faved from drowning in the Allegheny river yesterday afternoon when their canoe upset. The two girls were rowing near Hulton with William Davis of Pittsburgh when a movement by one overturned the frail craft. Neither girl could swim well. Davis supported one, and while he struggled to get the other to support herself by resting on his shoulder, a member of the Bachelors' Canoe Club, nearby, shouted to him to go ashefre. The canoeist then hurried to the scene and helped Davis, all finally reaching shore in safety.

OHIO'S HEAVY MAN DEAD William McCarthy, Who Weighed 495 Pounds Passes Away. CANAL DOVER, 6., July 16. (Special.) William McCarthy, aged 42, believed to be the biggest man in Ohio, died at his home here. He weighed pounds. During the past year he gained in flesh at the rate of five pounds a month and no treatment he tried kept him from getting heavier.

iie was troubled with heart disease and became ill during the hot weather last week. He was proprietor of a confectionery store here. Flee In EPIOEiC BAFFLES DOCTORS Mysterious Disease Kills Victims; One Doctor Succumbs. ASHEVILLE, N. C.

July 16. A fatal epidemic prevails in Mitchell county, which, it is said, has heretofore been unknown to medical science and is baffling skilled physicians. The malady manifests itself by small blood spot stains on the tips of the fingers, passing through the arm into the body and resulting iu death within a few days. The plague has claimed a number of victims In Mitchell county, pne of whom was Dr. F.

P. Slagle. Dr. Charles Buchanana, a prominent physician, became affected a few days ago, and was sent to a Johnson City (Tenn.) hospital, where his condition is said to be critical. WSISTER DETECTS THIEVES North Washington Divine Summons Citizens, hut Robbers Escape.

BUTLER, July 16. (Special.) Awakened by a noise early this morning tho Pbv H. ATcShorrv. at North Washington. 16 milps from here, saw two I men breaking a window and entering the general store of Plummer T.

Mifflin, across the street. Mr. McSherry called a dozen citizens by telephones there are no police in the little town and asked their help to capture the burglars. But the crowd gathered too late, for the robbers had escaped with much loot. NO MONEY jOBJiCLE SAM Not a Penny Deposited in Massillon, 0., Postal Bank.

MASSILLON, July 16. (Special.) People here are showing little appreciation of the establishment, by the government, of a postal savings bank. The bank has been opened four days -and not a cent has been deposited. Italian Suspect Is Identified by Fellow Countryman "Who Was Threatened. LARGE SUM DEMANDED Believed to be the man who for the last several months has been terrorizing Ital- ians of the Hazelwood district, and perhaps other vicinities, Frank Lucchino, aged 26 vears, of SSI Flemington avenue, Hazelwood, was arrested late Saturday evening and is now in the county jail without bail and awaiting a hearing.

He was identified yesterday afternoon by Dominic Sciulli of 41 Boundary street, as the man who last Saturday morning held him up under the Wilmot street bridge, near Schenley park, and demanded 2,000 or a definite iiromise of it. Two lists of names in books in the pockets of Lucchino are written in the same hand as that which appears in three blackmailing letters received by Sciullo and four received by Bugenni Ruperto of 225 Forward avenue. The letters to Ruperto demand $1,000. Detective Gabriele DeFiore and Special Officer Lorenzo Ber- ardelli castured Lucchino and are cred ited with making one of the most important arrests in this city in years. Sciullo received the first letter June 21, demanding $1,000 or his family and he would be murdered.

He received another July 4. The last letter sent July 13 raised the amount to $2,000. All the letters, as received, ere turned over to postal authorities and city detectives were notified. Halted on Il'ny to Work. Sciullo is a foreman of the white wings lu the Hazelwood district, a political worker among the foreigners, and owns Continued on Second Page.

colleges of the world In this direction. Under the provisions of the last gift to the schools by Mr. Carnegie, extensive alterations were provided for so as to make a place for this new feature. The best trainers will be employed to direct the sports and all attending the classes will be given plenty of time for attention to this feature. When the Carnegie Technical Schools were started there was no provision for a gymnasium or athletic field.

The founder was opposed to the merging of sports with study. He was interested, however, when, out of their meager equipment, the students fitted up quarters for themselves. Later the steelmaster became a warm advocate of athletics. ALLEGED BLACK HAND MAN 15 IN JAIL bil Second Notable Appearance of Professionals AYithin a Short Time. SOUND IS MUFFLED No Attention Is Paid to the Burglars as They Calmly Ride Away in Motor Car.

OLD COINS ARE AMONG BOOTY With the kill of professional safe crackers, thrc men blew open the strong box in the iffice Of the Wilkinsburg Milling Company, at Penn and Mill streets, Wilkinsburg, early yesterday morning and then calmly rode way In an automobile. So well did the burglars do their work that one woman hearing the muffled explosion across the street from her home thought It was so slight that it was a policeman shooting a dog. She heard them cranking their automo- bile, a man saw the automobile rass. but the safe-crackers displayed no con-f usioh and did not arouse unusual attention. This is the second appearance within a few months of the mysterious and daring automobile riding safe-blowers.

A few months ago there was a desperate battle about the postoffice In McKeesnort In which the robbers fought their way from the building to their machine waiting in the street and escaped amid a shower of bullets. 1Varning hy MeQuaUle. Superintendent of Police Thomas McQuaide last night issued orders to all the police to keep a sharp lookout for the up-to-date safe-blowers. It is believed that there is a well-organized gang of safe-blowers operating In the Pittsburgh district, it being only within the past month or so that two safes were blown even in downtown business houses. D.

M. Russell, an employe of the company, discovered the robbery when he entered the store at 7:30 o'clock yesterday morning. Fragments of the safe were lying about the room. The inner compartments of the safe had been rifled and valuable bonds were strewn over tha room. The booty secured by the robbers is said by the county detectives who are working on the ease to amount to about S500.

LIST OF THE LOOT. One-half dozen gold nuggets. One-half dozen English coins. In change. One SSO gold piece.

One pearl necklace consisting -if seven; pearls and one opal. Columbian 50-ccnt piece valued at $5. Traces of their work left by the bur-glars indicated how they had opened Yhe strong box. Nitro-glycerin had beSn poured into the cracks and held in place by soap. Wet burlap was packed around the safe to deaden the noise.

A long wire was connected with the safe and tnen attached to an electric battery. From a safe distance the burglars ex- ploded the nitro-glycerin by electricity. Rear Window Jimmied. Entrance to the office had been gained by jimmying a rear window in the mill. Once in the building, the safe-crackers had opened the front door, and the police think, had stationed their- automobile in front of the office, ready for flight If they should be discovered.

It is evident that the burglars knew that considerable money was taken In by the company on Saturday, but they apparently did not Investigate closely or they would have learned that the cash was transferred to a bank before the office was closed. The thieves paid no attention to the bonds in the safe. They made no search for money, for on the top of the safe lay a cash box containing $22. It was not disturbed. The bolts of the outer door of th safe, were blown from their fastenings.

The inner doors were not locked and the men needed but little time to complete their work. The daring of the robbery is evident from the fact that there are seven families living within 30 feet of the store. Mrs. G. A.

Bibby, who lives across the street from the place, heard the explosion at 3:30 o'clock Sunday morning, but it was so faint that she was not alarmed. Witness Sees Burglars. H. H. Lovett of 728 Penn avenue saw the automobile pass his residence a few minutes after.

3:30 o'clock. It was going away from the store and was occupied by three men, but as there was nothing unusual in the actions of the motorists Mr. Lovett paid no attention to them and he could not identify either the men or the automobile. C. T.

Montgomery, proprietor of the store, is with his family in Ridgewood Park, N. for the summer, and the establishment had. been left in charge of Russell. Montgomery has been notified of the robbery and he will return to Wilkinsburg today. The jewelry which was stolen was the property of Mr.

Montgomery's brother, and its value Is not known. Late last night it was stated that County Detectives Jerry Lutz, Harry Cochran and J. T. Burke were working on a clue that might lead to the arrest of the three men who have been dubbed as the "auto-burglars." Fifty Foot Fall Is Fatal. PHILADELPHIA, July W.

W. Woodhull, a retired pay director o( the I'nlted States navy, who had seen service in all parts of the world, fell 50 feet down an airshaft in an apartment house in West Philadelphia today and was instantly killed. END COMES SUDDENLY Former President of Pittsburgh Coal Company and Director in Many Corporations. FREQUENT VISITOR TO CITY SrSCIAL TlSLEGSAM TO GAZETTE TIMES. CLEVELAND, July 16.

Francis M. Osborne, millionaire coal operator, died at 6 o'clock yesterday morning in St. Vincent's Hospital, Toledo, after he had collapsed on a Lake Shore train. Osborne dropped unconscious in a Full- man drawing room at 11:30 o'clock Satur day night, three-quarters of an hour after he had left Cleveland with his wife. He did not recover consciousness and a phy sician and ambulance met the train at Toledo.

He was hurried to the hospital from the train. His death was caused by a cerebral hemorrhage. Saturday afternoon, while Osborne was lunching at the Hollenden, he met Andrew Squire and told him he felt better than he had for months. Osborne had been suffering with hardening of the arteries, although he was only 56 years old. Mrs.

Osborne was on her way west to visit her sister, Mrs. R. G. Miller, whose home is at 1910 East Eighty-second street. Colorado Springs, and her husband was to have taken her as far as Chicago.

After he collapsed his wife called aid and accompanied him to the hospital, where she remained until he died. Mrs. Osborne communicated with her daughter, Mrs. Walter L. Eobison, 2033 East Seventy-seventh street, and Mrs.

Kobison and her husband went to Toledo yesterday morning, returning at 6 o'clock last night with Mrs, Osborne and the body of her husband. Funeral Tomorrow. The funeral will be held at the Robison home, since the Osborne home, at 7349 Euclid avenue. Is closed for the The time of the funeral Is 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Mrs.

Osborne, who bore her grief bravely, although she was weakened by loss of sleep, spent last night at Wil-loughby, at her summer home, with her younger children. Two other daughters, Miss Dorothy Osborne and Miss Mildred Osborne, are In France with a party of Ogontz school girls that sailed June 10. Osborne's death will affect a wide range Continued on Third Page. NEWS SUMMARY Conversational Subject. VOMESTIC.

Steel business booming with mills going Stock market resists attacks, as crop scare no longer disturbs sentiment Page 1L Postmaster General Hitchcock has designated the main postoffices in New York, Chicago, Boston and St. Louis as postal savings depositories. Page S. Society belles saw lightning bolt kill J. B.

Johnson, new navy solicitor. Page 2. Francis M. Osborne, leading Ohio and Pennsylvania coal operator, and interested in many other corporations, collapsed on a train and died in a hospital at Toledo, O. Page 1.

Cholera scourge threatens to Invade New York City, and Gov. Dix may be called to take charge of quarantine. Page 1. J. J- Wharton, former mayor and postmaster of Morgantown, W.

died yesterday. Page 8. Sham battle will be fought bv rival fleets off New York two days this week Page 3. STATE. Seven persons were injured, one a Mc-Keesport man, when a Buffalo, Rochester Pittsburgh passenger train jumped the track near Farmersville, N.

Y. Page 8. Twenty-one miners were killed by an tne Cascade coal mine at Sykesville Saturday night. Page 8. Charles Hickman, who is to be haneed In the jail at Beaver Tuesday for the murder of his wife, attempted suicide by gas.

Page 8. The Radebaugh tunnel on the Pennsylvania railroad Just west of Greensburg has caved In and may be abandoned. Tage 8. LOCAL. Delegates from 18 states and from Canada opened the first annual convention of the Jewish National Alliance in Pittsburgh yesterday.

Page 10. Pittsburgh Plan New Charter Committee spent more than 16,300 in campaign to secure charge of city government. Page 6. Safe-crackers looted Wilkinsburg store and escaped in automobile. Page 1.

Privilege of laying corner stone of new Hebrew synagogue was auctioned off for Page 1- Child poetess and playwright, only 8 years old, is now living in Pittsburgh. Page 6. Lltt'e negro boy. taken from his mother, who is dying, tried to end his life in matron's department of police station because of grief. Page 5.

One of the larsret gymnasiums and athletic fields in the world will be built for Carnegie Technical Schools. Page 1. Oakland Italian held by the police in connection with sending letters to countrymen demanding large sums of money. Pat'e 1- SPORT I G. The clubs being in the east there were no National League games yesterday.

Page 7. The American League result-; yesterday were: S. St. Louis Detroit 6, Boston 1: Cleveland 6. New York Chicago 6, Washington 5.

Page 7. Top picture Crowd listening to address by City Treasurer Adolph Fdlis. Picture in circle, that of Rubbl M. 8. Sivltz.

Second picture Attorney A. C. Mein delivering address. Lower pir-ture The corner stones and the men who had the honor of laying them. Right To Corner Stone Is Auctioned Scores Bid for Privileges at Site of New Synagogue and $300 Is Paid for Honor.

POOL BUILT In a blazing sun 300 members of the Machsikei Hadas Orthodox Hebrew congregation bid yesterday for the privilege of laying the corner stone of their new synagogue at yhe avenue and Granville street until an ofTer of tU00 for the honor, made by E. Mallmger, vice president of the congregation, was accepted The auction sale of honors continued. J. A. Kellerman, a member of the congregation, paid J125 for the privilege of laying the secondary corner stone beside the main one.

Other members paid from $1 to 810 for laying the first bricks around the comer stone. A feature of the new synagogue will be the bathing pool in the basement, where, according to ancient Hebraic custom, the worshipers will lave themselves before entering the part of the building devoted to worship. A crowd of 500 persons patiently waited in the hot sun from 2 o'clock, the hour scheduled for the ceremony to begin, until 3 o'clock when the program was started. Speakers were late in appearing. When Attorney A.

C. Stein, master of ceremonies, opened the exercises with a brief speech and announced that he would auction the privilege of laying the corner stone; $25 was immediately bid. In less than 10 minutes the bid was raised at the rate of 15 a bid to $250. Then Mr. Mallinger stopped his competitors by a bid of $300.

Rabbi M. S. Sivitz was introduced by Mr. Stein. He delivered his address in Yiddish.

In behalf of Mayor William A. who was unable to attend, Adolph Edlis delivered a lengthy address in English. He dwelt upon the fact that under the protection of the American flag Hebrews could worship without being persecuted, as they were in European countries. The new synagogue will be three stories high and will be built of brick, with stone and terra cotta trimmings. It will cost about $15,000.

The first floor will be taken up by the vestry and school rooms and in the second floor will be the worshiping auditorium. The swimming pool will be in the basement and it is to be fitted up with a view to observing the ancient rites of the Hebrews. Officers of the congregation are: President, L. E. Engeiberg; vice president, E.

Mallinger: treasurer, Joseph Rich-man; secretary, Benjamin Fassberg. The building committee consists of E. Stein-bach, chairman; Marcus Schwartz, M. Mint'z. Simon Fassberg, A.

D. Engeiberg and L. Meidez. FUMES ME HOME Spark from locomotive Causes Serious Sunday Fire. McDONALD.

July IS. (Special.) Two palatial homes and valuable oil property were saved with difficulty this afternoon when fire, started by a spark from a passing Panhandle railroad locomotive, swept 150 acres of fields and woodland at Primrose station, one mile from here. A brief breeze blew the flames directly toward the handsome residences of Kay and James McDonald, among the wealthiest residents of this oil field. Word was telegraphed to McDonald and Midway and in a short time hundreds of persons were fighting the fire. The McDonald houses were saved by hard work.

The blaze several times readied oil rriek and boiler houses of the Forest Oil Company, but in every ease the property was saved. Lay IN EDIFICE Alarm Clocks Offered Sleepy Church Members Jeweler Would End Church Bell Nuisance for Good of Night Workers. Special Telegbam to Gazette Ttmes WAUKEGAN, July 16. Robert M. Ingalls, a prominent jeweler, believes he has solved the problem of getting a good long Sunday morning snooze in a com- 'munity where church bells ring loud and I persistent.

Today he made public an offer of a re I liable alarm clock to any member of the congregations of churches where bells are rung for early services. Mr. Ingalls has been disturbed espe cially by the ringing of bells in the tower of Christ Church, within tew doors of his home. "Men who work late Saturday night should have a chance to sleep Sunday morning," said Mr. Ingalls.

"When the bells start ringing the whole neighborhood Is awakened. And it I can get the vestry of Christ Church to shut them oE by furnishing a'arm clocks to the members I will be glad to do so. That goes, also, for any other church in Waukegan." 'MEN ECLIPSE CORONATION' Suffragettes' Parade Arouses More Enthusiasm, Says Dr. Shaw. NEW YORK, July (Special.) The Rev.

Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the Woman's Suffrage League in America, returned today on board the steamship New York from attending the international meeting of the- Woman's Suffrage League at Stockholm. Tr. Shaw said that there were about 1,000 delegates representing 2S different countries at the international meeting. "I am told," Ir.

Shaw said today, "that the great suffrage parade on June 17, when 40,000 women marched through London, there was more enthusiasm shown than at the coronation." BOTH DOEUSTSJEET DEATH Policeman Kills Escaped Convict Who Wounds Officer Fatally. MINNEAPOLIS, July a deperate encounter early today Jerry McCarthy, a convict who scaled the walls of the Minnesota penitentiary last March, was shot four times and killed by Policeman Ollinger, who died later from four bullet wounds inflicted by McCarthy. Ollinger saw McCarthy go to th6 rear entrance of a drug store. Ho went in the front door himself and told the proprietor that a burglar was trying to enter the rear door. Ollinger went out the rear door, and eight shots rang out in quick succession.

TECHNICAL SCHOOLS 1 TO LEAD IN SPORTS Founder of Institution Converted to Physical Culture Colleges As Result, Work Will Start This Year on Mammoth Gymnasium and Athletic Field. The Carnegie Technical Schools will be equipped with one of the largest and best-equipped gymnasiums and athletic fields in the world. At first an opponent of physical culture in the schools, Andrew Carnegie has now developed into an enthusiast. As a result of his change of opinion physical development of the students will now be made one of the most important aims of the institution, he providing the funds. Architects are preparing plans for the new gynmas' Schenley Park site.

Work iiiilding may be started thi' plans for the ath letic depi -unced yesterday, indicate npt will be made to put foremost among.