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unier Defendant Hwears

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HI Aul grpb He Signed No Contracl-

TV flrt casein which the Commit or-

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trill inntrncl for The Messages and Taperof tin Presidents blamed from a resident 01-

jViv York nty by ont of llw members of thi-

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JluLlnpil District Court and the commlttey

lot cai v llie suit wnH brounht by John JConklln ii assignee against Vllllain II Dan

ter ofUI Went Fiftyeighth street and134 th priiiof und costs JusllcFinn without leaving the Inch and afle-

hirinc only lhe testimony of Mr Danversgave Judgment a alti t the committee und H-

Hawlsno Thero ar a irreat many other per

w ncalnst whom the Committee on Distribut-

ion hts clnlnun nd It WHS declared In

alter Jutice Kltin bad mod M

inanyof ihesi person would refuse to paycalled to the stand by Iho-

sttorneys for Ihn plaintiff und testified volunt-

arily not hnvlw been subponaed The at-

torney for th plaintiff exhibited In court n-

wntriit bearing name William 11 Dan

vpr which llie defendant was alleged to haveneiH The signature resembled Mr Dan

vnti closely but he testified that he hud neverpad the rontract He mild in nil 1U dealingswith hm ih Committee on Distribution hadpursued pocullnr method which seemed to himto be marKed by fraud and false pretence and In

hi answer he wit up fraudulent and fals pretflKt-

tMr Ianvers te tlled that In November he

received a letter on note paper head Com-

mittee on Distribution and bearing the namescongressman James 1 Richardson of

TennesN Editor nnd Alnsworth K-

Spolford Oineral Secretory The letterhad resembled that on Government eta

The letter Informed him thathe hid been HclecUu one to whuiu a Mtt-

if The MixiiKiHand Paper of the Presidentshad been tted ami I II Hlckard anumber of tin committee would call upon himto explain the whole matter Mr

ii few days later a man called onlinn n curd the name P 1 Hicknril on it and said tha h was ft member of tho-

imniitten on Distribution This man exMr DanveM that the book were a

eminent publication Me laid on Panviv a on was printed thn

word chancesWhat are theso charge Mr Danvenf-

inkid I were no chargeThn e are the express charges

HIM cciinmlttcetnnn-Is that the only charge there is Mr Dan

askedtho agent

Thereupon Mr slued the card urnscent Borne general rose

Hu walked to th and stopped Thenhe returned to Mr

ih by the way ho said our Mrlift gr crank on autographs IIx llkw all

Mirt oi autograph and we to get them forhUn giving yours to him

The iijunt drew a long narrow note book

number of sUnaluiei In tho book and MrUanvers signed It The agent went away

Mr Panvers wore that ho had nncontract produced in court and

nothing except on which he

album carried the He hadto hews to receive a set

of book gratuitously through Urn generosityor mid no Idea of pay-Ing for them hint entered head When pay-ment of ill wa demanded he refused onground that ho had never contracted thoHo left books in the hands of the

Charles J OConnell counsel for Mr Danveramoved that complaint In the case

and entered for Ih de-

fendant Mr OConnell said he tad hoped thatcomplainant would put on the

in orderIncluding the use of letterheads simulatingiovernment tnllon ry and all the method

which he had not contracted might have beengoon Into Justice Finn the com

efforts which Committee on Distri-bution in Its to force Mr Danvers to Involved an Immense amount ofcorrespondence constating of

to attack standing as anhtnorable citizen All of tho letters of the

committee were written on paper headedCommittee on Distribution

of the President D RichardsonEditor Alnsworth It General Secre-tary printed In Government blue Ink In typesimilar to used committees ofTh firtt letter was dated at Washington Dec17 In part It wan AS follows

Wt do not know lust what ronttructlon to placeson your action In not tTtng nltratloa touiit w-

tr account pnrtlo

and bating the abilityupon your obllrsuon to the

e ot said contrart Your non

oolu tm tos that yoU do not morally oruiallyoblKatrd tnluini the ttrmi of agreement

we known wee any uncertainty rontlnyou

v J we certainlyDOW not hue the books and II you tailed

v atlrlM ns and still refuse to give thisattention II Lt dear that youla the best at any raW It Is obtlnua-lh iu you do thu matter proper attentionlad auumr that you haTe sp r Iflc authority andCower to term nate your yourtion Uut we ate justified In taking such dies

to rompel and entorn tu complete and ipeeJDc performance of yourtimid Sow I went an you at-

one fiu you pay our Mr C B Palmer attorneyThis was signed by Rodmer

of the on Distributiontone did not Mr Panvers On Jan 4

wrote acaln saying that a payment of34 was dun On Feb 27 er

great length In this communication he

We ctn vll the wt of books providing tilewwtleh we have amounting to J

fall m TV bwVs however are not rreclrcd InIt udatloa o your Indebtedness UeASuren will beln tltuUii jr the expre i of reaching yourirrlnj1 It payment notMr Danrers wasnt frightened He didnt

roy On March 5 received n letter from thefirm of l t Donovan offering to takebooks back nnd It square for 10 Then

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hJMrnvrKv or irnsnirs ntv4neollemlt of Ordering to Line Duty So Many

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rv nf fi naval ships three attached to theAlaur rjiinn and two on the Pacific coast

w d bvihe ineftlclency of the warrant mahirist n Charge and want of proper supervision

bv nSri wr0 are now performing both lineirsirecr duty One of the vessels to break

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Womai Com Angrily Oat or lpho AfterElect Art

Sjipho at Wallacklast night a man and a woman cine

out of the theatre lobby to the street Theln evening drtwa and had a block mil

ache The woman wore no hat but wa-

dri ed In an evening gown and had a capeover her shoulders n numberrings liar none was In the air and the manWM talking to her In a very apologetic manner

Site to a hansom cab nnd got InThe to follow her and shepimhed him back He tried again mid got an-

other ptuhAll said and started to cross the

streetThe young woman jumped out of the cab

pursued him As he reached the car tracks Flucaught up and grave him a resounding boxtho ear with her open hand Then she doubleup her fist nod hit him In the nose ringon fingers cut his nose and theblood to run

Oh dont dont ejaculated the roan endthe woman ran and got Into the cab nutiln A-

Hhndld so nhd dropped her cnpo and a flflcent piece A newsboy handed her the monand Manager Burnham of the theatre handedberths cape Then the man who was holdinga handkerchief to his note whispered an addreita to the driver and the woman departedThe man pushed way through the crowdthat had gathered walking to Thirtyfirststreet turned toward Fifth avenue

SKXGT DOUGLAS rtxnAndrew Carneflc Adds IOOOHeneflt This

Week and x

Andrw Carnegie who sails today for Europeto spend most of the summer In Scotland sentto THE HITS yesterday a check for IIOuO wllhtItle note

To TKF EDITOR Wr Pleasereceive enclosed 11000 for the fund In aid of thewidow and family of thelate 8 rgt Doualasswho fought not for foreign conquest hut forpeace and order at home Very truly

ANDHFW

StN received yesterday also IS for theE 0 sent to

SCN to date amount to i3ie and havereceived from the following

t E GCo K7thRt 100 O llerrog 3

CoH7tBHgt 100 A II K I

Fellow Passengers 30 Old Veteran 1

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WO U 10 Cltlllaa I

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Then SA E L 8 Total JIS18

Nearly 12000 has been subscribed at Mountand tho fund will beuweied consider-

ably It Is hoped by the benefit performance onnight Mount

llouwe Julius Cahn manager for t-

Frohman will produce llecause She LovedHim So a comimny pay all ex

and make over the entireOn Wednesday evening May 8 members of

the A and Troop-C will give a benefit performance for theatstreet near Third avenue Military exhibitions-and music the members those three or-

ganizations form the Tickets areon sale at the armories and many box partieshavo already been arranged for18 Wet 103d street information toall

Still another branch of the fund Is endlesschain started Miss Imogen Hoyt the

almoct overwhelmed the letters she re-

ceived and each letter contains a dime

FTWARD O LXKCn DEAD

Was Second Tlc Preitd at f the flank ofComment ni Career

Edward 0 Leech Second VicePresident ofthe National Bank of Commerce died lastnIght at the Mount Sinai Hospital wherehe had been since April 12 Mr Leech went tothe hospital from his home at the San llemo

The operation was performed April tJ by Dr

hit physicians only Mrhim to withstand them an

long as he didMr was born In Washington In 1851

and was the son of a professor Severalof his ministerMr Unlverf atWashington and was a graduate of the lawschool of that Institution He began his buMnejs

In Department as clerk He-WM finally made an Mintsbrought him Into some prominence He gainedmore prominence later Harri-son ofllce made him Director ofthe Mint ThU he tilled until tho adventof the Cleveland Administration when he

of the Mint he appointedone of the delegates from this country toInternational Monetary Conference atBruvels In IMIJ effort was made torehabilitate silver As Director ofMr Leech rnado wveral reports which attractedattention In financial circle both here nndabroad He aLso contributed articles for maga-zines which to bo tin expert gov-ernment After nw asDirector of the Mint Mr Leech In tb03 became

Union flank After the consolidation of thatbank with the flank of Commerce ha accepted-the WACO of Second VIM President

n Mr Leech married Miss Cells Kent ofOne and two daughter sur

vive him Mr Leech was a member of theUnion league Club

JTPJMV hONES IN me STRKET

Flniteln Wai sure That lie Uad nilcovered Murder

Benjamin Flnsteln Ii years old of IMelancey street rushed Into the Fifth streetiollce station lat night and asked for Cnpt

Diamond He won holding at arms length adon up In newspaper Ho told the

It tilled with human bones he nslri andgurus I have discovered a murder

apt Diamond the and foundcontained a number of human hones

neatly painted with red and lines indlcat-ng muscle and veins crossed

when were covered with flesh It Islikely that they came from a museum

FIVES FOR ttVCKLKDKRRV ROAD

lasnt Run Cart All Night and MmtAndThere a lug Itlll to Pay

A Judgment of 100 obtained by the cityagainst the Union Railway Company M a pen

ilty for disregarding a corporation ordinanceabout running com on tie all night at leat

minutes been affirmedjy the Appellate term the Supreme Court Ini decision Justice It ap

that tho defendant hud not been runling cars nt all from 130 A M on

Westchestor avenue branch The ordinanceof lioo for each

only one WM embraced In the suit

WORW1FR SEAUVRtAl

LOW of the Alleihany Says It Wai aMatter of cet lty

Capt Low of the Atlas Line steamship Ails

hany from Kingston and other Wes Indiansaid yesterday that he was practically

forced to bury at A J Wormer who diedn the aKe-

Wo were bound to a port In a tropicalclimate said we

bourn out when Mr onnser diedVe had no embalming material or coffins If I

tent aboard without embalmingwould have l endeinln uaran

My authority In such a matter never has

Codified ritr OrdinanceAssistant Corporation Counsel Kollln M

to whom was avlgned the duty ofthe ordinances of tilt city when the

went Into effect hn1 finished hUand o soon as all of the ordinance have

odn will be pu-

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NORTH B JMV LIOVU CO ORDERsA MAMUOTIt SHIP

Planned to tie the Fattest of Ocean flrejr

hounds and Nearly Fifty VetThan Any Now AfloatSB Is Expected

to Make at U l 34 Knots an Iloar

The fourday U more thandream of the marine architect Her precursorwill soon b nn the stocks If she Is not therealready What her name may be and whatmay be the tremendous power In her giganticsteel hull to drive her 2Jfoot twin screws willnot be revealed until the summer comesshe ha been ordered from the Vulcan Snipbuilding Company of Htettln by the North

Lloyd Line and within two years the willbe on the route between Ureinen a nd Soulhampton and New York

The agents of the linn here know very littleabout her except that she will be 753 feet long

and that she It designed to bo faster thanDeulschlnnd of ihi HamburgAmerican Linetwentythree knottcr that will be teen for tinfirst time In monthland Is guaranteed by her builder the VulcatCompany to average at lea l twentythreiknots on the voyage front Southampton Cher-bourg or Plymouth Hook That meansthat she readily heat the record of theKaiser Wllhelm der rosw which Is tits daysseventeen hours ond twentyseven minutes

It has become utmost an ailom amongfolks that whenever one of the German

lines builds a recordbreaker the other line willmake n effort to better Thecompetition Is so between tho Teutonthat the Ilrlllsh lines have practically droppedout of the contest to hold the trident on cornmerclal seas

Only hint of what the new ship may be canbe gathered now tier horsepower will be40001or more She wilt develop at leastknots an hour and that means that wllcover the route from Queenstown to SandyHook about 270 knots In four days twentyhours anda fraction The ben voyage on thatroute mado by the Iucanla of the Cunnrd LineIi five days seven hours and twentythree intnutes Over the route of SOSO

arupton spaceannihilator going at the rate of twentyfoul

an hour would wake Oils port In flvedayseven hours

After the great ship Is In service we may ex-

pect to hear that the HamburgAmerican Linhas another colossus under way designed tomake maybe twentylive knots an hour Thiswill somewhat confuse the nautical prophetswho have been declaring for tin last peveralyears that the order of the future on commer-cial seas would be big ships of great urgerapacity and moderate speed The prophetwho nre not nautical say look out for the 1000

thirty knots

INSURGENTS AniWT COOV

Colombian Rebel Threatened the Town Whetthe Steamer Fulton Salted

SEW ORLANR May I The steamship Fillton Capt of the United Fruit Companys here this morning directfrom Colon and brought details ofof Bocas del Toro Colombia by InsurgentsThe Fulton left Bocaa just as the revolutionentered the town and bore despatches from theGovernment commander calling on the

Colon to send reinforcementsat Colon offered to send

on the Fulton but Cnpt Jarobson declined touse his vessel as a

When the Fulton reached Colon April 10

that town was still In the of lov-ernment forces but the situation was criticalSome 300 were quartered Inneighboring town of David sun were In themountains back of Colon and were expected

to attack tho place In spiteColombian Governor at sent a con idero-b part of hli garrison to liocas del Toro

rPT CHADWICK RCPRIXAXDKn

The Navy Departments on Ul Cultclam of Rear

WASHIXQTOS May i Secretary Iing haswritten a letter to Capt F E Ghadwlclt repri-manding him for his of Hear Admiralfichley After a careful study of navalregulations the Department officials were convinced that it was no offence a nln t naval dis-

cipline for an officer to criticise another officerIn a private conversation with a friend Thefact that the remarks of Cnpt Chndwlck werepublished however made It necessary for theDepartment to take sonic

letter of reprimand hasbeen written The lakes thiground that were extenuating circum-stance In case fortildthe of harsher measures He ac-knowledged having made In the re-marks to him in the published Inter-view but denied that were forpublication This explanation was accepted by

ofwill be taken In the case

rmiAnEirniA TIMES SOLD

U Will Support the Ilrpnbllran Party andMay Oppose Quay

IltlUUiKUMIM May I The Tina withwhich Col Alexander K McClure has been as-

sociated since Its establishment In IH75 hnsbeen sold So far as ran be ascertained CharlesF Kindred special agent of Philadelphiaand Heading Railroad Company Is at the headof a lot of State politicians wto have purchased the property Who those associatedwith Mm are Is not known

Mr Kindred lies had some trouble withState Insurance CommlsMnner Durham nod

local Quay lenders and It presumedthat the Intention Is to discipline In aneditorial to morrow the Tmta will say that Itwill the Republican

financial mention-of the McKinley Administration As to State

It says that power has been too tong Inof one man it fight to end

the property approximates 20ioon

STANDARD OIL RAISES WAttES

Ten noon Pay for flour Work Givento Employer In Writ Virginia

PARKKnsBurto W Va May 1 When themen employed by the Standard Oil CompanyWest Virginia went this morning theyfound themselves confronted with a notlcnwhich Informed them that beginning May tthey would receive an increase In wages The

will bn based on ten pay fornine hours work antI men oftwelve hours each will receive an tncreav of 0percent The Standard Oil

men than any other corporation doIngIn the Htato nnd the affect

several thousand men and boys

LET rRAXTIERRr V JYarning Sent Hay Out to San Francisco of

tthut I In Store for the Mew lerley Town

SAN KBAXCISCO May I The town ofN J evidently has a crank who will

watching A letter was received todayChief of Police Hulltvnn bearing at the headthe sheet a skull nnd crwubonm done In

wllh a paint brush The letter reeds asfollow

1 shall make matters exceedingly warm forhU town of Cranberry N

Witm D J U OnovRnC-nANBERRT NJ

Ton of Silver Dollar for ChinaEl PASO Tex May t The WellaFargo Exresu Company Is doing a big business In the

of Mexican sliver dollars thisOn avenlng the company

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Philadelphia Pollc Put Them U fUparatCells and Sorry for It

Piutnriniu May I The police of North-west Philadelphia station are sorry nowthey arrested two Italians end two tame bearshuts afternoon The Italians with anand the pair of bears came down theter pike and started to perform near the stationThere ordinance against organ grindershaving bears uomuiiled In thelimits and so half a dozen patrolmen wentand captured the quartette The men wereBnptlsta and John Boned the werstated an Frank and Jenniethe Italians saw that the bears were to beIn separate cells they Jabbered out abut they were roughly silenced The bears hibeen sleeping together for years mid had gottenInto the habit It was not long before Frankstarted to growl and Jennie growled In sym-

pathy This brought no relief and Frank losthis temper He grasped the bars In hits pawspushed twisted and shook them In stiltsof a stream of water that was playedhim nnd suddenly the front ofcell dropped out With a roar of triumphenraged animal started for the policemendrove them Into the sergeants room It clawedat the door of until It was spoiled and thenwalked back torn out two of the hare In frontof Jennies cell slipped In and peacefullydown beside her and went to sleep It willat least repair the damage

vctr SOURCE OF XRAVS

A DIscovEry Relieved to Be of the GreatestImportance to Surgeons

CAMBRIDGE Mass May ProfTrowbridgidirector of tho Jefferson Physical Laboratory

perfected a new method of obtainingxrays Heretofore the currents of electricityused In malting photographs have been

making the pictures uncertain valuesurgeons Prof Trowbrldge has succeededgetting a steady current and the pictures taken

his are remarkable for the cleardistinct outlines of the muscles and bones of

From all appearances this discoverwill be of the greatest u e to surgeons andthe study of anatomy

3EAXT TO DROWX iVO UjtOlfXED

Wouldnt Grab Life Preservers and Evadedlloathooks

A man with a dingy black coat dusty trousersand a shabby brown hat walked out to the cmof the pier nt the foot of Weft riflysecom-btreet last evening looked nt the river for a mo-

ruvnt or two and then out Intowater

men on the pier ran to the endPoliceman McCormlck joined them

The tugboats hobo and E L Austin ranfrom tho of the river They weretints to see the man rise to the surface for thethird time

The crews of the tugboats threw life preservets to hIm and yelled nt thlm toHe shook his head not so much as reactout his hands toward the life preservers Thetugs closed In on him and withboathookn He dodged the boathooks antI

waterPeter Moran of 152 Wrist Street

llthcd the out of the river near the pier nl-

tt oclock last night It was taken to WestFortyseventh street nolle station In one o

was found a card of this Vanderblltclinic bearing the name John Encson or Fricsorand the address almost appar-ently lexington avenue where the nunnot was about old

FAMlffE fV SfRAfVsB

The Dairymen Carry Oat Their Threat toBoycott the City

STIUCVSC May 1 The milk consumers olthe city are beginning to experience the hard-ships of the milk famine which began todayby the refusal of dairymen takeout licensesgranted only on conditions that their herds beRUblected to the tuberculin test Less thanlooo quarts of milk were delivered to consumerin the city today though Rome of the grocerieskept a stock on hand for sale over the counterNone of this few who havewith the ordinance was Interfered with thougheach one took the precaution to have nn exirman on the wagon in ctuu violence

Policerren were stationed on the principalstreet leading Into the city to prevententrance of ofthese however to come In Severaldrove to the city line And sold milk to such axcame after It At a meeting of the dairymenthis afternoon this cotirso was tomember of the association who were alsoforbidden to sell at their farms except to purchasing the hospitals or In

Asuclatlon toregion surrounding the and see that theboycott was lived to Grocers did a larc-hulness In sale of condensed milk otherpreparations of milk and Infant foods

show any Indication of givingin and according to the outlook thesituation to continue IndefinitelyThe health authorities are now talking aboutprosecuting the dairymen for conspiracy to

a butregard this as a Muff

VAIVABLK IIREAKS HER NECK

MlM Drown a Illue Ribbon WinnerFrom a Trestle at Meadow Brook

HCMPSTXAD L I May I The hunter MissBrown owned by Harry Hull broke her neckat the Meadow Brook Club today Last weekshe with other horses was turned out for theseason and put In a pasture adjoining theLong Island Hallroad track which at this point-Is on a high embankment The horses brokethrough the fence n rickety rail affair and gal-

loped up this embankment on the track Theythe track n short distance and the

other crowed over and went down the otherMiss Brown however kept on until she

reached a trestle SpOILS roadthe clubhouse to Several

times her online hut on and wasacross when she stumbled and went

headfirst to the road below Sho was killed In

This other horses galloped werecaughtnear Mr Hull will hold therailroad liable a the embankment Isnot In Miss was a gray rantsby Barrett and was 7 James L Her

bought her from Sam as a threeyearold and Mrs her to hunts

sea ons Ralph N Kills then boughther nnd last year her to Mr Bull for11000 In l s she won the blue ribbon In thegreen hunter In Madison Square Garden

Yfedt a Cousin of Cecil Rhodes

SAX FnANrisco May I It leaked out todaythat Dr J Radford Kenrn of Oakland Cal wassecretly married on Marcb 10 to MaryMlcklethwatte a young English womanhere She Is a cousin of Cecil RhodesA week after the marriage the bride left forEngland where the doctor expects to meet her

October Two years ago Fearn wasdivorced from his wife but this divorce would

English laws so the marriage wasarranged lucre

Aid for Ottawa and flailComptroller Coler Treasurer of

fund for the relief of the hoinvlnw persons ofOttawa antI Hull received the following con-

tribution yesterday P J Mothers JohnChandler A Combo IV II Kohn

Co IJV Alexander Stint Grin SWood 110 K T Mathews 125 B 11

II A Canadian Girl 12 James J Coogan sireThomas S 2S Total lo late

Stiles at Handy nookMajorGen Nelson A Mllei went to Sandy

look yesterday and witnessed some subcaliberr 10 and 12Inch guns The tests

were described as satisfactory He also Insome new gun and later weutWadiiworth here a trial ut was made

two electrical systems for moving guntests hen Miles

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More Than 110 Men Were at Work In the WinUr Uoarteri Coal Mine at Scofleld WhenExplosion Occurred Among Kegs oflog Powder Progren of the Re cn

SALT LAKK Utah May explosion oc

at 10 oclock this In the WinterQuarters coal mine at Scofleld a hundred miles

south of this city and probably one hundredand fifty miners were killed und many moreInjured Tho bodies of UJ miners have teenbrought out and this work of rescue Isgolng on

The mine Explosion Is believed tocaused by the blowing up of a number ol kegs

of blasting powder but the point at which tinInitial explosion took not yet known

The scene before the mouths of the tunnelspitiful as UAiial In mining disastersweeping women and children waiting toeach man brought out of the mine on

stretcher Th bodies of twenty miners were

brought out early In the day and placed upon

the ground awaiting IdentlllcatlonMore than ISO miners are known to have

gone to work tills morning There I

hardly a doubt but that every miner In Noshaft was killed for that particular shaft watilled with rmokc dust and debris Minersfront Clear Creek have been summoned andpossible assistance In rescue work U beinggiven

The loss to the Pleasant Valley Coal Companyls great but the extent will not be positivelyknown for some time The officials of thecompany ore doing their best to save anymay be alive In the mine

There Is much confusion at the mineall sorts of reports are coming In Scoheld Is on the Itlo Grande Western Railroadnear

known dead are Kocer DavisJack Wilson S T Evans Pete JohnAnderson James Wilson WillHoddow and son

A later report says that Thomas Hunterhis two sons are among the dead brought out

Tho explosion U now supposed to have oc-

curred In No 4 and extended by connection tcNo 1 Those In No 1 are choked those In No4 burned and scarred

The work of removing th dead and Injuredwas still going on late tonight The Injured-are few compared to the dead Two hundredcoffins have been ordered

ARREST AFTER MAX FIRES

Small Boy With Matches Said to Have BeeSeen at rive of Them

Six flies In Harlem last night called out detectlves as well as firemen At 830 oclockwas a lot of rubbish In the basement at 15

East I20th street At 655 oclock a faLse

alarm came and Third venueAt 780 rubbish in the basementthe flvectory brick tenement 255

125th street was afire When thishad been put out another WMIn tho house at 242 across the street

difficulty In extinguishing thisbut the damage won slight

An hour later an alarm called the departmentto 2386 Second avenue between 122d and 23

streets On the first floor Is the stove toreAdolph Fuchs The fire was In a lot of barrelsIn basement Detective Maher got tobuilding before the firemen did and saw twoboys come out of the basement One provedthat he lived In the house and let go The

a lot of stories and had a pocketfulof matches When the firemen CaptLawler of U Truck declared that he had seenthe same at fire that evening

The police put the under arrest and splithim to society for the night He saidthat he was 13 old of 201

11Mb street and that his father was a re-

tired contain of the FireAt 950oclock there was arn her lire In the

basement of the tenement at 2313 Second ayeflue of the tenant at 212 East lOOthstreet went to the police last night and askedthat Mrs Augusta 35 years old anothertenant be arrested They she had sether rooms on flue four In the afternoonMrs Rovell was locked up

Axn ALDERXAX SUOOT

Street Fight at Jacksonville Over a Contestfor a Franchise

JACKSONVILLE Fla May fight be-

tween the Plant system nnd the Atlantic Val-

dosta anti Western Hallway to obtain newfranchisee for street railways lucre resultedtoday In a shooting affray In the street be-

tween C W Stanzell Alderman from theSeventh Ward and A W Williamson publisher-

of the Florida Journal Slonzell was badlyIn the back while Williamson re-

ceived a hvero wound In the thighThis context for the franchise hits been

On Sunday Williamsons paper had an editorial

bribes stanzell was culled thief andbribe taker nnd the editorial wound up withtitle

If than charges were made against nn honU would mean a funeral

Williamson today rode up In ofPost Office on street on lila bicycleStanrell suddenly appeared knocked

shots at himWilliamson arose drawing his revolver ant

arrow the Street Williamson tiredand the hot struck Stnnzell In the hack

Stanzell Is said to be Inn critical conditionWilliamson wound while painful and severe-Is not dangerous

WAITS TO IfEO AT 74

Wealthy MlM Pierce Relatives Try to Preventtier Marriage to a Young Man

BOSTON May I Miss Louise Pierce of Newtonwho is 74 years old and wealthy and CharlesHall Barnes S2 years old a resident of Bostonapplied for n marriage license today At distantRegistrar Hideout did not grant the licensealthough ho d d not actually refuse to Issue one

Later In the day the couple again vUlted theold Court House building hut Mr Hideout hadIn the meantime communicated with tho New-

ton Chief of Police and also with a relative bymarriage of the wouldbe bride Both

to be very careful about granting

When Dr She of the Board of Health at-

tempted to oak Pierco a few uueniionshurriedly led her out to a cordage

and away To questionMr Pierce Icame here to meet Dr Barnes although thatperson was standing beside her

A ago Barnes secured a marriage li-

cense In West Newton but owing to tho factthat be gave his place of residence a Bostonanother license was necessary from this city

ceremony be legally per-

formed Friends of woman tried toprevent venture but withoutsuccess She has known Parties only a rhort

Is Kild to be worth nsoonu-

MOimS SEARCHEn FOR 1 URL

IYearOld Carrie WaUnn Last Seen a SheStarted to Drive Home

rRHanitirHU May I There Is a pirty of

farmers searching the woods In the vicinity-

of Bridgetun N J for th body of Carrie Wat

ton a seventeenyearold girl who disappeared-

on Monday afternoon and who It Is feared bos

murdered She livsd at JerichoDavid the house yester-

day In good to to the Poet Office atShe arrived titers got the mail anti

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Others In From Michigan Fort FirsDamage to Lumber

MARINKTTK WIs May I Six villagesnorthern Michigan just across the State linehave now been wiped out by forest tires whlliothers are In great danger Those destroysare Ames Nathan Tabor Gardner Swanzoiand Arnold all on the Wisconsin and MichiganRailroad The Inhabitants were all savedspecial trains being run to their aid

The tires are reported to be the fiercest northof Fishier Mich Railroad traffic northFisher Is entirely cut off and no news coniesfrom this fireswept district except such 04 Ibrought by burnedout farmers Scoreslumber have been destroyed and thelosses to Industries will b heavy-In addition thousands of acres of valuabletimber tract have been fireswept entnlllnigreat losses

A Moo passenger train which left here on Sun-

day evening had a remarkably close escapefrom being burned It got hemmed In betweentwo patches of burning forest and It requiredthis greatest efforts of the crew and passengerto get U out The train badly scorchedreached Foilhorn early this morning Menom-Inee Mien reports that a train came In fromthe north for the first In two days thismorning The were scorchedblistered fires fiftyup the road

Much alarm Is felt for many small townsQulnefeo the Kimberly and Clark paper miltare In great danger

flALLAST LIEVT JfARTlN-

He Hives Into the Sea at Sandy nook anSays a Little Girl

Lieut Edward H Martin of the Fifth UnitedStates Artillery while standing at the end oflong pier at Sandy Hook yesterday afternoonheaid a splash and saw Alma Simpsonthreeyearold daughter of William Simpsonlife saver of the Sandy Hook station strugglingIn the water had fallen In while lenalog over the string piece Lieutenantdived overboard after the camewith her He swam to the plot and clung topile ten minutes before John Rice andGloss old Sandy Hook procuredrope which they lowered tied llttliAlma to It and the men hoisted her up TinLieutenant was cheered by the crowd thatgathered to watch the rescue

flIRts BRIDE SPIRITED AWAY

Her JewIsh Father Sacs to Have HerMarrlagto a Chrlitlan Boy Annulled

Michael W Kewsel the nineteenyearoldof Adam Kewel a saloon keeper of 7 Debevolsstreet Wllliamsburg has been trying formonth to find hisixteenyearold bride LillianShe Is the daughter of Louts Levy a clothier aBroadway and Park avenue The Levy anHebrews and Kestel Is a Christian He Is employed In hU brothers printing office HeLillian about a year ago On the night oApril I they went to rectory of the Eplscopal Church of the Holy Comforter In Debevolsinear Humboldt street and were married theRev Samuel Kessel enjoined his brideand the witnesses to the secrecyuntil he had a home prepared for

so over her marriagethat h confided It to her mother on the

The father teamed ot Ii and then the girldisappeared

were on Kessol yesterday In i

wit brought by hit formerit of the marriage on the ground that thebride Is Kernel consulted LawyerSol Bachrach and wl I tight the suitalso begin suit against his fatherinlaw for thealienation of wifes affections LawyerBachrarh says that his tha

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Young Accused of Drugging IllsMother and Robbing Her of 7OOOO

CHICAnO May 1 The police are looking forThomas Neven a seventeenyearold boy whoI accused of having robbed hU widowedmother Mrs M J Neven of gold nuggetsdiamonds and valuable papers said to represent 70000 after attempting to poison her inher apartments at 290 Illinois street lost night

The boy Is believed to have eloped with awoman of J8 The woman Is missing and waslast seen with Neven at Grand Trunk sta-tion on M night when they purchasedtwo tickets for Montreal Mrs seven wa llllast night and to makesome tea for her She drank It and fell Into astupor from which she not recover till 4

this When she awoke shinmissed a valise which sheliable paper worth Moooii several pounds ofgold nuggets she up atNouns last and jewelry enough to swell thisvalue of bags contents to iToono She re-

traced this boy and woman to the railway sta-tion

OVR REQUEST DEFIED DV COREA

Reported Refusal to Grant Mining ConcessionJ Stoat FaMetts Trip

Sfudat Cable Dtiixtah la THB SureYOKOHAMA May 1 Advices from Seoul

Comm say that the Corean Government hiss re-

fused to accede to a request from the UnitedStates for mining concessions

J Shunt FasRelt arrived from Liverpoolaboard tho White Star liner Oceanic onII He Francisco sixteen months ago

look after interests In Corset Hepainted Corean kingdom In slowing colors

was a fineAmericans who were not afraid to

compete with hustling Germans and English

MAYOR aotxa ov iMcinovComptroller Suggests That Its a Wedding

Journey cad That Makes TroubleMayor Van Wyck said nt the meeting nf the

Board of Estimate yesterday that ho was goingout of town today to be gone some time Hedidnt tell where he was goingColer solemnly remarked that thin Mayor wasprobably going on his trip

a large number of reporters weresent out 10 get hue details and of thebride and on was sent to watch the Mayor andfollow him

LARilEST PERSONA ASSESSJtEXT

C Vanderbilt Estate I Down In the TaxHooks for MOOOOOO

asiewmont of personal propertyon the tax books this year i that of the paite-nf the late Cornelius Vanderbllt which Is

There Is no assesument ofaldorf Astor he having become a

British subject sinro last year when he was as-

sessed for 12000000 Air Astor Is now fightingassessment In the courts

ROIIKRTS 11RY DlMdREES

Out Nearly Twentyfour hours and NotDerlJr on the Polrpimliti Unlit

SALT LAKE Itnh May I The jury In theof Hrleham II Robert on trial for unlaw-

ful cohnbltnuon with Dr MnggleShlpp Itoberlswhile wife Sarah Louise Roberts H

living disagreed after being out nearly twentyfour hours and suns dlsohar So hIsbeen set for a retrial of the i ase Seven of Iho

were Mormons and an flcijnlitnlor disagreement was exiNitcd

lames Pal Dead Weighed 4OO Pounds

YnxKfKx N Y May 1 James Daly fa-

miliarly known a Fatty Daly n wellknownhorseman of this city died at his home on the

road last night after an Illnwi ofweeks tp 10 thus tints he was taken sick

Im welched over four hundredrecent three weeks Illniw reduced him veryreally ailment was organic heart trouble

and six children survive tutu

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JlltV OF OTHER ROADS JOIN TiltVeil VOIIJC CEXTRAL STRIKERS

Car Repairers of the l irkawann sad MckslPlate Shops jail WorkKrU and l hlgtMen Will Quit If Tudayn Conferenc-tFslh llrntherhoud of Trainmen Meet

Strikes In Many Parta of the Country

ntTrAtx May I No one In Buffalo expecta settlement of the Central strike to result fromthe conference with Hupt Walttnt Iroquoistomorrow The wtrlkers feel HO encouraged bfthe willingness of other employees to Join themthat they may not consider a compromlee Thtleaders believe the Central IH trying to galatime and This afternoon without consulting the officials of theirorder the car repairers at the Delaware Lacka-wanna and Western and Nickel Plate shops quitwork Tho news reached the men In the Erinand I hlgh shop and they sent a request toheadquarters to bo ordered out They weretold to stay at work until after the conferenceTho Laokawanna shops employ MO men HornNew York Central cars were sent to the shopthis afternoon and the repairers marched outThe same cause led to the strike of the ISO me-at the Nickel Plato shops The Erio and Lehlghofficials to answer the demands ottheir car repairers for the same scale of wagsna the Central urn ask so the men are eager tparticipate the strike and undoubtedly wUquit moment Wains conference fall

The strike wax the subject of a meeting ofBrotherhood of Trainmen this afttrnoon Atthe close of the cession It announced thatthe brotherhood would order strike Inevent of the roads the of thestrikers If the Central It mussmake an effort to do the work with nonunionmen and the brotherhood will to act orrecede from Its position Its strength Is said tbe considerable an It In bruIcemen switch-men and conductors The ab-sence of all these employees would make thihandling of freight

Little was handled hero todar exceptthat shipped through without

are clogged with the accumulatlog cars of local merchandise wasembarrassed today tha declaration of thtTeamsters that unloaded nonunion mon would not bo handled 1mthem

The strikers will repr enua at tomor-row s o nferenc by the full Executive Boardanti Samuel of the Federation ofLabor and President Butler of theUnited Trades and Labor Council

The Central strikers committee angered brthe failure of Walttorto here was on point of call

when a telegram carolfrom New York explaining the

Union No B2U American

1200 men anti all of those employedIn the transfer houses about 000 towork this morning The roads concerned In thestrike of the freight handlers are the New YorkCentral Erie Lake Shore Delaware iJicUa

Western WabasnVe tern New Yorkand Pennsylvania nnd lx hlgli Accord-Ing to Ihn statements of the strikers tranfor freight house In the city Is In the troubleThe result of the freight strikebe that Buffalo will the scarcity of food

frelcht every Thus strikersthey will not freight to moved

ears or from the freight houses If thojrcan prevent It

STRIKE IX nVItDIXa TRADES

Carpenters Painters and Detnrstori Drmaidan EightHour hay

UTICA N Y May 1 Three hundred andfifty union carpenter and ninetyfive unlotpainters ami deooratorHIn title city struck thltmorning for n reduction of the working dayfrom nine to eight hours

The carpenters at present receive 2S cents anhour n and they de-mand M cent un hour for eight nTim boss have oflcrtil 80 cents anhour for night hours a dot The

decorators a k to have working dayfrom to eight bourn at the Minn-

pny 250 day bosses lmv orlered SIcents nn hour or 1240 for n day of eight hfUrn10 ont les than the demand

The demands of the mnons bricklayersthe and

understood have been the boxesThe vnrlou other union In till Building TradeCouncil have aNo arrived at agreement withthe l04sf-

AlnANi May 1 Sixty union plumbersoo the

former for eleht hours andcarpenters for 35 rents an hour arid an eight

Tonight n number of boss carpen-ters signed ttienirreemcnt to complymens and sixty carpenters will returnto work tomorrow

nnFwnnr STRIKE ix IJOSTOX

Fear That 110O Stay Quit Work tothe Demand of Eighty Engineers

BOSTON May i The brewery engineerwere ordered to strike this afternoon by acommittee from the Central Labor UnionThis was done In the face of the tmanlmoulvote of thus Boston Brewers Association to sub-

mit tlx to the State Board of Arbitra-

tion for settlement At present only abouteighty men have quit work but It I fearedthat strike fever spread to other unionsamong this brewery employees and that bytomorrow ljno men Inof the demands of this engineers SecretaryHuiw of tho Brewers Association eve-ning that this strike an Injustice not onlylo the brewers limit then to the engineersbrewers saidwtre willing to submit to arbi-

tration and this engineers were satisfied withtheir wages nnd hours but tho local branchof this Union of Steam Engineersoutvoted the brewery engineers on the ques-tion of striking

MAY DAY FICIIT AT CLEVKLAX8

for Higher Wage

CirvELASD Ohio May I May Day here wasmarked by a tight between union nnd nonunion

the Hie Four railway bridge In courseof construction at Coluinbii and Leonardstreets The tight was enticed by thus refusal ofthis nonunion men to jult work No one was

small strikes oc-

curred three hundred tiollennakerB struckfor nn advance of 2S cent n day for nil men-

The iron moulders will outt work on Thursdayto decide whether or not to strikemian bakers struck todav for shorter hourand Increased wage Tho cutterseasily their demands for an eighthourwork day and a minimum wnce wale of t3day from their emplnyrs-

Eir STRIKES IX PHILADELPHIA

Demand of Workmen Generally Grantedb Their KmplojerP-

iilLAnKLPitlA May I There is little prosct that rinich tints will by workmen

jecau of strikes In this city About thusmen associated with the orgnnlrnI-

OIIH In the Allied Hulldinc Tradestonn agreement with their em

loyers and rfiid to worki were no disturbances though nod

rnployers nre rtemnndlHie men for irrren es of nnd shorter

Tb I that thus tintority of the ill beat work tornor

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imoni the men wnrlnKlucy have iho pay they demnnde-

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rsrkmen Slant Higher Iav Three Tbou andMen He limiUed-

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nen of the llnltliiinriand Ohio

nilroail tnick today and nre demanding IIWoII i A rebuilding

road lirtrim n good niiinv extra gangs haveieen nod ll i said thom

vciituftlv i Involved in tlie strike The menJiv hint the iimturof of wages

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