The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1887, Page 1

LAST EDITION. ” PRICE ONE CENT. READING'S FORCED HOLIDA’ —_-—_. WHAT WILL TO-MORROW BRING FORTH IN THE GREAT STRIKE? New Hands To Run tho Traine If the Strikers 1 Not Return to Work—The Mon Say They Are Out For a Principle— Did the Company ce the Strike ¢— Probable Efivet in New York, Isprctat To THE WontD.| Pamanenputa, Dee, —Interest in the it strike on the Reading lines centres on the outcome of to-morrow’s proceedings, The company bas ordered the men back to work Tuesday morning, and if they are not at their posts their places will be filled by new hands. If there isto be any disturbance it will occur when the officials attempt to move trains with green men. There was almost a complete cessation of work on the entire system yesterday. Nota coal train ran, while on the previous Sunday more than half a hundred trains came to this city. The men spent the day strengthening their lines and looking out for non-union men. ‘They say the company forced tho strike for stock-jobbing purposes. Crews of coal-Inden vessels refused to take them out through sympathy with. the strikers. One of the trains sent ont from Thirteenth and Callow- hill streets Saturday night was side-tracked at Bridgeport. Thousands of coal cars were side-tracked at Palo Alto and Pottsville, and at these and other places throughout the coal rogion the men have received and are obe ing the order to quit work very genera Eyerybod, Ny in the company’s employ at Potts- ‘ille, including telegraph*operators, struck. The 2,000 shop men at Reading are undecided Whethier the order applies to them or not, ‘The Reading officials still declare their hope to get ‘the men back without, any seri- ous trouble. No freight except, of a perish- able nature was run. ‘The schedule passenger trains are running ‘as usual to-day. ‘The men say they are out for a principle and declare they will stay out until a satis- ductory adjustment is reached. ‘The financial condition of the Reading em- ployces! organization is amatter of impor- tance especially in case the strike should be continued any great length of time, On this point one of the chiefs of the con- vention said last night at Port Richmond: “We have just been figuring out how much cash wo cai get along the fine, and we find that incase the company puts 15,000 men on the road at #3 per day, we can pay them $3.50 for two weeks—50 cefts a day more, At the end of that time the road would be for sale.” At that rate it would require over half a million dollars to keep up such a campaign for two weeks only, But it is stated by other officers of the employees’ convention ‘that in the event of along strike the assem- blies are in good condition to maintain their members, Since the begiuning of the Lehigh jminers' strikethe Reading employees have ‘contributed to them out of their own earn- ings not less than #75,000, but notwithstand- ‘ing this the Reading men are said to be still financially strong. ‘There is no general treasury in the em- loyees’ convention, but the treasuries of the orly-seven local assemblies which compose it contain, it is said, in the aggregate several hundred thonsand dollars. lesies this, the Reading men have an intimate alliance with the Union Pacitic Railroad Employees’ Dis- trict Assembly, No, 82; the Pennsylvania Railroad Euuployees' District Assembly, No. 212, and with the assemblies composed of the Baltimore and Ohio, ad Central and Le- ‘high Valley Railroad loyeos, pede FEARS OF A COAL FAMINE, ‘The Effect of the Reading Strike May be Felt in Thin City, The great struggle between the Knights of Labor andthe Reading Railway Company has only just begun, and by to-morrow morn- ing fully 40,000 men, it is stated by the Knights, will be out. The Knights at all the supply depots of the company in this city and elsewhere will systain their brothers of the order by refusing to handle any freight or coal delivered by or consigned to the Reading Company. Coal handlers, freight handlers and even truck and cart men who move or carry coal and freight are expected to join in the gen- eral attack upon the railroad company. It is said that the obligations which Knights everywhere owe to each other make such a step necessary in the. event of the Reading men calling upon their brethren in this city und elsewhere to aid them. ; Is is believed by leading men in the order in this city that the General Exeoutive Board will soon take the matter directly in hand unless the company yields. ; Such a general strike as that outlined would, if it lasted perhaps even a week, cause a coal famine such as New York has never experienced, Of course the greatest sufferers would be poor people who are com- pelled to buy coal in small quantities, The poor families in the tens of thousands of tenements in this city who buy coal by the half or the quarter ton and by the bushel and pailf would suffer most froin a rise in price fad from a scarcity: f supply. Rich and well-to-do people would not be affected, hay- ing their coal supplies in for the winter. “That is one of the worst phases of a strike of this kind that we have to contend with,” a Knight said to a Wortp re- portér to-day. ‘We had it during the coal handlers? strike last winter. But what we do? Eyen our own brothers 1 they are willing to for the sake of aud to. sustain the organization. Ho reforms are effected without some sacri- COs, “If our men here handl coaland freight under existi they we i d the Reading circumstances ld be opposing the very principle h the men at Flizabethport and Port Richmond and on all the Reading lines arezcontending. Ourfgreat order would not be what it claims if its members failed to sustain others ina battle for existence. The Reading trouble concerns us all, and our hotto is: ‘ An injury toone is the concern of all.’ “Our brothers of the coal and freight- handlers’ local assemblies had a similar ex- perience last winter and made many sacri- fices; and they are poor, but they are just as ready to sustain the Reading men as they were when the en went out at all the coal Supply depots and the docks in New Jersey Jast winter,” A SMALL BTOOK ON HAND. A member of the Goal Exchan, the supp nal in tho yard in this city vere | YG .a8 thoy were at Phil. felps a ‘fho suall dealers in particular though they have not "been affected by the difficulty yet, are likely to take an early ad- van, go of the trouble and raise the price of 4 pel 25. canis a ton. € gentleman gaid that if the strike ‘continued for a week an adyance of 50 cents raid that 4 ton would result, and if it lasted longer cents and $1 would be added to presen rates, President, Corbin, of the Reading road, has heretofore been considerod by the Knights of the Reading Company as willing and agreeable to listen — to any reasonable demands or grievances, but Knights in this city say that he has already shown a desire to resist the order and its in- fluence cver the Reading men, and they think that he has thrown down the gauntlet and prepared for the fight. It is seldom that the General Executive Bonrd is called upon to direct or settle a big strike, but it seoms likely that it will take hold ofthe Reading strike because so much is at stake, DISCUSSED DY COAL-HANDLERS. Although there was little or no work going onalong the river front to-day coal-handlers, there many of th found during the latter part of the f floating along West street or gathered, small groups at the street corners discussing the big coal strike, The coal shovellers and handlers asa rulo expressed their opinions with the utmost freedour and occasionally with an emphasis that showed they were in earnest and meant eyery word they said. The first coal-handler who was met by the reporter was Mike Gallager, who drives a cart for the Steam Heating Company and was keting ‘8 load of coal from a canal-boat er 6. Fo on strike, is it?” he said, as if sur- R ised at the question. ‘Not if I know it. There is no sympathy here with the Pennsyl- vania strikers as far as I know, and after our experience in striking last winter, you'll find very few of us along shore now Who want to take another turn at it. We got enough of it then to last a long time. ‘Besides, there is nobody who can order us out, for the majority working along shore now are non-union men. Except in the case of the elevated roads and one or two of the steamship lines and in private concerns, the men are nearly all scabs, Tused to bea union man, but no more of it for me, “T don’t think they can win down in Phila delphia, because there are too many Italians that are ready to work at any wages. This striking business is a bad thing, and they are sure to get the worst of it.” Charles Farrelly, a shoyeller, who works for the Old Dominion Line, w only non. union men are employed, aid: “Whe coal strikers of the Reading road cannot win un- Jess they can get the workers in New York and Baltimore to go in and assist them. “The strike can affect but a few men in this city, and I don’t think there is any chance in bringing about a sympathetic strike here, because nearly all the men in the business now are scabs, I think the strikers are bound to lose.” Atthe coal dock of E. W. Youmans, just above Canal street, where only union men are employed, the reporter found James Ryan, a young’ man, who said he belonged to the Coal-Shovellers’ Union. He said that all the union men here were heartily in sym- pathy with, the Philadelphia strikers, ancl that he was looking for one of the biggest strikes that New York had ever scen. “There are twice as many union coal- handlers in this city,” he declared, " as there fre scabs, and the men are very determined, Thave heard it talked about in the union, and some branches haye already been told to prepare to go out at any moment and are only waiting for orders, I am told. ir. Youmans, the boss, who has about fifty men at work here, thinks that there is a fone to beastrike in New York and has foaded down all his boats in Hoboken so as to be ready for it. The organization is not only going to call out the coal-shovellers and drivers, but the freight-handlers all along the river front apd shut Zdown business every- where, They are determined to strike a blow ainst the companies whereyer they can." it was not possible to verify these state- ments,for Ryan was the only man found near the yard, and other union men whom the re- porter knew would not corroborate them, Andy McCorii another non-union man, who works in Greenwich street, said: ‘tT take no interest in this strike in Philadelphia, I had enough of it last year, and now I am going to look out for my own interests, Asfarasa strike in New York is concerned there may be one, but it will be confined to union men.” ‘“Are there more union than non-union men in the city?” he was asked, ‘Indeed there are not,” was the reply. “Most all the steamship and railroad com- anies now employ non-union men, and since [ast winter it doe#'a man no good ‘to belong toaunion, so far as getting work is con- cerned.”” MEN WHO DON’T WANT TO STRIKE. John Mack, who said he Palouged to the ‘Longshoreman's Union, but worked princi- pally at cool shoveling for the steamship companies, was quite Indignant when asked if there was any prospect of his striking in sympathy with the Reading hore thi ndeed there'll be no strikefhere this win- ter,” he said, ‘and you can be: noythin you want to on it. We didn't go out, lust winter for these Pennsylvania people and then et left in the end for nothing, and don’t you forget it. Why those rascals had the gall, after our going on strike to help them to come up here and take our places when the strike was over. No, you can say that our union will not go out, I don’t care who says it will. Patsy Brown, another union ‘longshore- man, also declared yery emphatically that there would be no strike in this y and that no power on earth could get him out again in the winter, and Pat Wheelan, his companion, was still tuore forcible in the ex- pression of his opinion when he said: “Po blazes with the Philudelphia strikers. They’re no good, and, besides that, tl set of traitors. After the way they served us last winter when we stood out seven weeks for them, and starved ourselves and our fam- ilies to help them along, and then going back onus, Idon’t think: it will be very casy for them to get us into such a hole again.” John Connolly, also a union man, declared that so long as hé could get employment at : ie would not go on stri phia crowd, and said he thonght the strike would fail because the ppople down in Pennsylvania had no organization Dennis Murphy, a coal-heaver for the Guion line, told the reporter that he intended to keep ont of any strike, “I got all T wanted of the business Inst year, and it made a good many a sight sicker than itdid me,” ——EE——E Philanthropist Corcoran Ninety Years Old. [SPECIAL TO THE WORLD.) WasnincTon, Dec, 2,—A sensational report was current here this morning to the effect that the venerable philanthropist, W, W. Corcoran, had suffered a severe relapse and Was not expected to He was suddenly seized while at church recover. Ly petaes ? terday and was carried into his carriage. eis physician, Dr, Garnet, has been with him almost constantly, but states that there 18 no occa~ jon for immediate alarm, Mr, Corcoran cele~ brates his nintieth birthday to-day. —_——————— Brooklyn News at a Glance. ‘Three unknown men were having @ good time Jast night in Sixth avenue, Brook): fimanagea to take all the beauty out of a large lik & store at the corner of Union w avenue. It will cost $185 to yepair the damage done. bpd James Welch, of Jersey City, was arrested early this morning by a member of the Bridye Police force on complaint Ci Pasconk a Martin, of 82 Bands street, Brooklyn. that the viatior from Jersey bad entered his saloon by forcing open she rear door, EVENING EDITION. NE NO LONGER A SEA MONSTER. —— THE BIG RAFT BROKEN UP BY THE WAVES AND HOPELESSLY LOST. ‘The Steamer Enterprisn Found It Scattered About the Ben, 135 Miles from Where the Miranda Lost It—In Capt, McC wy Opinion Tt Can Do No Har Ocean Steamers—. Leary to Sne for Damages. “* That big timber rnft has been scattered in 27,000 different directions, and she’s not worth a dollar to any one.” ‘This was said to a Wonnp reporter this morning by Capt. Bowman McCalla, of the United States man-of-war Enterprise. The steamer had just returned from her five days’ voyage in search of the mammoth bundle of timber, and lay snugly in her dock at the Brooklyn Navy-Yard, Her officers and mon, cheated by cruel fate out of the pleasure of spending Christmas Day with their wives and sweethearts in the city, came ashore at the earliest moment, bent upon making the most of the remaining period of festivity. ‘ Capt. McCalla, however, bad no immediate desire to leave the comfortable cabin, and the reporter chatted with him for half an hour about the situation and its possibilities, A big chart was spread out on the table, and the Captain traced with his finger the course taken by the Enterprise. . “ After crusing for eight or ten hours in the immediate neighborhood of the spot where the raft was abandoned,” ho said, ‘* we headed about east-southeast and kept a sharp Jookout during the following day and night, On Friday afternoon we changed our course to nearly due south and kept it up until about 10 o'clock Saturday morning, At that hour the lookout aloft sighted a number of white-pine logs, anda few hours afterwards we came upon the main body. ‘That was in latitude 39 deg. 38 min. north, longitude 68 deg. 10 min. west, about 135 miles from the place where the Miranda abandoned the raft. “From the time that we sighted the logs wo cruised about in a “igang econrse until we had inclosed an area of about a thousand square miles, ‘An impression seems to have got abroad that the logs were fonnd within # small area and yery close together, That is altogether erroneous. ‘The raft has gone literally to rieces, and no two were found together. The Tons aro of «ifferent sizes, and there are many kinds of wood, ‘*For the past week the weather has been unusually rough, and the currents in that neighborhood are very strong, consequently the logs have been scattered to the four quar- ters otha globe, and every moment increases the distance between them. “Tt is my firm conviction that not the slightest danger threatens any ocean steamer or merchant vessel from this floating timber. In tl rst place, it will not be found, ex- cept by a stray log at a time, in the usual paths taken by ocean yessols, ‘Even if it should it would not be. or- ous. The | have no momentum or im- pulse of their own, and they will be pushed aside by the advance wave made by an ap- proaching vessel. If the logs were in a narrow channel like the Sound or the Kast River they might get in the way of the scrows of Ke Te ut in the open sea that is an impos- sibility. **'Tho Enterprise steamed at the rate of twelve knotsan hour among them with per- fect aafety.” ** Would it not be a paying speculation for vessels to go in search of this valuable tim- ber?” Capt. McCalla was asked. **Notat all,” he returned, ‘I doubt if to-day any vessel, by keeping the keenest lookout, could find ascore of the logs in a week's cruise. Ifit did, it would bo imprac- ticable to send out boats and Ret them aboard, It would not pay for the labor even if a thousand of them were found. “Pwo weeks from now these logs will be found floating in the Bay of Biscay, the Ger- man Ocean and the Irish Sea, and course of time some of them may make their way to the Aretic Ocean. “It is a hopeless ease to recover any of the timber, and I think these clever gentlemen in Nova Scotia will have to give up the big raft idea, I’m sorry for Mr. Leary, but he ought to have known better than to try to make such a trip at this time of the year.” ‘Merchant seamen in general, and especially those in the timber carrying trade, express a grim satisfaction over the disaster, ' The uni- versal criticism is made that the course of the raft from the Bay of Fundy was most unwisely directed. Capt. J. B, Stark, of the schooner Evelind ‘The Miranda went altogether too far south. She exposed herself unnecessaril to rough weather and strong currents. any one will look at the map they will see that the yironer course would have been through aniyard Sound, where there is a deep channel five miles wide and where Capt. Leseman would have been able to anchor in perfect palety. until fair weather came, In- stead of that he came 200 miles further down, where he was quite unprotected from the gale.” ‘ Tho reporter placed this statement. before Capt. McCalla and Lieuts, Stuart and Berry- man, and they indorsed it in emphatic terms, Mr. James D. Leary, tho owner of the raft, is proceeding against the Mirandg for its loss, He will apply to the courts to-morrow for an attachment against the vessel, The Miranda's owners say that there was a clause in the con- tract providing against accidents of wind and weather, and that therefore they are not liable. ae PRISONERS FROM BATTLE ROW, “Tough Jack” in Jail tor Stoning a Pellee- man and “ Boll? O'Brien en the Inland, Phillip Strange, alias John Goff, alias “Tough Jack,” twenty-two years old, of 1212 Second avenue; George Loris, alias ** Bull” O'Brien, nineteen years old, of 098 First avenue, and Jeremiah Cornird, tweuty years old, of 416 East Sixty-fourth street, who were arrested last evening on a charge of assault. ing Policemen Sharkey and Haregan in Battle row, in East Bixty-third stroot, were arraigned at the Yorkville Police Court this morning. Tt was charged that Strange struck Police. man, Sharkey on the leg with a stono, that Lowis throw a large stone through the plate. ulus window of tilda Maple’s store at 416 Fast Bixty-fourth street, and that Cronin took a general part in the assault, Strange was bommitted to await the result of the injuries inflited, Levis was sent to the Island for six months, and Cronin, against whom there was no specific complaint, was discharged. Poli r scalp wound, is in Belley in Harrigan, who received a serious Hospital, but his injuries wre’ not considered serious, His assailant bas not yet been arrested, _ — a Henry Laux, a German baker, age fifty-two ears, Of 187 DeLancey street, died suddenly at the jouverneur Hospital last night, A post-tortem examination revealod the fact that apoplesy was the cause of death, VN MVRPADE A | ty eto W YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER H 26, 1887. 0 HOPE FOR ME BUT DEATH," Lucile A. Foster's Fi lew Lover Driver Her to MONTY. ISPROIAL TO THE WoRLD.] Wonersten, Dee, 20.—A striking caso of man's perfidy and woman's wrong was brought to the attention of the public by the arrest for forgery of Lucile A, Foster, twenty- years old, by Detective Colby last night, Tho arrest was quietly and socrotly effected, and only her intimate friends knew of the affair, ax the police afforded her every oppor- tunity to settle the case. The offense alloged is the forgery of the name of George Sessions, an undertaker, as an indorsement on the back of four notes. About five weeks ago Miss Foster went into he office of H, F. Arms, a money-lender, and wanted to negotiate a loan of $50, She wastold she could have the money if some responsible party would indorsejher note, and she named over several, among whom was George Sessions. Arms told her that his name would do if he would sign, and after making out » note she carried it away to get Mr. Sossions’s indorsement. She returned soon after with the note prop- erly indorsed, as Mr. Arms thought, and he paid her the money. The note was made out to run six months, at the usual brokers’ rate of interest. Miss Foster then went to A. B, I’, Kinney, another broker, and had no difficlty in get- ting him to accept another note for #50, to run for cone month, with Mr, Sessions’s in- dorseme np Real Estate Agent H. 8. Knight was next seen by the young lady, and he also counted out #500n her note for one month, and to complete her round she obtained #0 from. Goulding & Murphy, two of the sharpest and most experienced of the fraternity of money- lenders, Geor indo Session#'s namo was signed asan ent on every check, and, strange ay it may seem, resembled in no particular the venuine signature. ‘The first name, George, was written ont fn full instead of be breviated, as tha old gentleman invariably signs his autograph, DISCOVERY OF THE FORGERTIES. After receiving $230, Miss Foster was not seen by her eagy wictims until yesterda; when she called to see Mr. Arms again, and wanted to bg accommodated with $25 on the same terms. She had the usual check but since her last visit, Arms had discovered that George Sessions’s name on the check he held had been forged, He told her that she had deceived him and unless she made good the amount at once she should be arrested, She gave him her gold watch and chain and a note indorsed b, aman named Pellet, which he received and Jet her off. She also paid another visit to Kinney and was found here by the police, who had been nut on her track. She was not arrested, howeyer until late at night and was then found at the Parker House. AGAIN THE FAITHLESS LOVER. Tho story of the girl is a yery sad one, Bhe belongs in Lunenberg, in this State, and was educated for a teacher, but she disliked the business and her guardian—her parents being dead—refused to have anything more to do with her. She worked asa telegraph operator in Bos- ton and came to this city last spring and was employed in a family where she was ac- quainted. Later she went to Westboro and secured work in the straw shop there. She came back to this city last September, and lived at the Waldo House for three weeks, represent- ing that she was engaged at the Court.H At the end of that time she was obli; leave, and left her watch for security. then went to board at the Parker House She lived there off and on until December, and attracted considerable attention by her strange conduc Nc charge, however, was brought against her character and it was not known until her arrest that for several months she has been brooding over her condition, The name of her betrayer she refuses to disclose. On Dee, 12 she went to Boston placed her- self under medical treatment, and has just returned. ‘ It is surmised by the police that she forged these notes to pay the expenses of her visit to Boston, as her lover proved false and re- fused to give hor the least help, ‘The circumstances of her visit, as well as the name of the doctor who attended her and who received $75 for his services, are known to the police here and they intend to make a further investigation. Miss Foster ll soine, property Left to her by her parents, but it is still in litigation, and perhaps she failed to receive money enough from this source to take up the notes when they became due. She was in charge of the police matron last night and seemed to appreciate her position keenly, as she sobbed bitterly in her lonely quarters and sighed :** There’s no hope for me but death.” The unfortunate girl has attracted much sympathy among those to whom her story is known and an offort will be made to settle the case against her. — —————— GEORGE COFFIN DEAD, For Many Years the Faithful Janitor of Tammany Hall. George Coffin, the janitor of Tammany Hall, died Inst evening at his residence, 145 East Fourteenth street. He was seventy years of age, Mr. Coffin was well known to the politi- cians who haye belonged to the Wigwam during the past twenty years, He officiated as doorkeeper for the Committee 2n Organ. ization, and the Tammany Hall chiefs and braves had to be recognized by him befor: they were permitted to cuter the secret chamber, 4 He was an Fngliehman by birth, but had lived in this city for more than fifty years. Hoe was a strong parsisan and made it a point not to recognize o politician who seceded from the organization. r. Coftin was one of the greatest admirers of John Kelly, and when that teader died is grief was deep and sincere. He leaves amarried daughter, who has had some ex- perience as a comic’ opera singer. At a recent meeting ofthe Tammany Hall leaders $100 was voted the veteran janitor as ‘a Christmas present. He was appointed jan- itor of Tammany Hall through the influence of the late Augustus Schell, ee Did the Bey Nhoot His Mother? Newsund, Dec, % —Mrs, Uatharine Cassedy, wife of Thomas Caasedy, of this city, died yester- day and was buried early this morning. Rumors Of a shooting case reached the ears of the local re- porters, who investigated, ‘They learned that two weeks ir Mra, Cassedy was shot in the neck with 4 bullet from @ toy piitol In the hands of her ten~ year-old son. ‘The attending physiclan made no Toport of the case to the Coroner, and now there are confiicling xtories a to how the shooting oc curred. ‘The boy says if Way aceldental, while others way the boy slot bis mother while sie was punishing him, ‘The death certideate gives the oause of death eowmla Cf She TIRED OF BROOKLYN'S JAIL. JOHN KRAUSE LEAVES IT WITH THE HELP OF AOWEL ROPE, Net Willing to fr ‘Trial on a Charge of Boing Implicated With Greenwald in tho Marder of Lyman s. Weel ¢ Bends the Bar of Hin Cell Window and Makes Mis Eecape—The Charges Agatnat Ulm, John Krause, who was implicated in the murder of Lyman 8. Weeks last March, and who was a principal witness in the trial of Greenwald, who was convicted of the crime, escaped from the civil prison of Raymond Street Jail at a late hour Sunday night, He was held a witness by order of District- Attorney Ridgway. The civil prison is on the top floor of the jail. The Warden lives on the samo floor,on the other side of the hall, Between the civil prison and the hallway there is an iron door, which divides the Wardon’s apartments. Tho civil prison consists of a suit of rooms, Krause occupied the last room on the right- hand side of the prison. ‘There is & window in the room on the outside of which the centre bar runs, At the top of the bar isa small bolt and a nut which secures it. Krause made his escape by unfastening the nut, taking out the bolt, and bending the bar to a semicircle, which required much strength, Krause had carefully planned his escape, as the details show. He took three roller towels, cut them in two and fastened them to the first cross-bar from the cing! prison, imak- tage rope. ‘hen ho th ew a blanket out of the window on to the cobblestones in the yard. He then lowered the window from the top, pushed back the bolt and unfastened the nut, Then he lowered hinuself by means of the rope, the cross bars acting as agstepladder, When he reached the Inst window he dropped to the blanket beneath, thus making good his Lore The hospital wall was all that stood in the way of himscif and freedom, Krause quickly overcame this by taking the poly off one of the vans and placing it between the gate and the lowest portion of the wall, It is one of the best-planned of the escapes that have been de from this jail, Warden Burro seen by a Wortp reporter, said ; This isthe first time that the civil'prison has been beaten, It isa most remarkable escape, The idea was very clever on Krause’s part. I have notified every pre- cinct in Brooklyn,” ‘The prisoner who carries the food to the witnesses in the civil prison was the first to learn of the escape. Finding Krause gone he went to the window and was startled at seeing the bar bent, Looking into the mat- ter further he saw the rope made of towel- ling. Warden Burroughs was quickly notified and an investigation was immediately begun, which disclosed the circumstances of the I recalls tho crime for which Greenwald will in all probability hang. As is well known, it was the murder of Lyman 8. Weeks shortly after midnight on_ the morning of March 16, at his house, 1071 De Kalb avenue, Brooklyn, Mr. Weeks was a commercial fraveller who had saved a little money, A few weeks before his death ho purchased the house that he was mur. dered in, On the night in quostion he was about to 1etire when he heard a noise in the basement, He started downstairs in his stocking feet, lighting the gas in the hall on his way and closing the bathroom door with a bang. This noise startled the burglar or burglars, and when Mr. Woeks reached the dining: room, where the scuffle took place, his assail- ant was waiting for him. During the row that followed a shot was fired, Mr. Wooks heard the sonfile and the report of the postol, und running to one of the front windows, shouted for help. He saw a man run down'De Kalb avenue and dart into one of the side streets towards Broadway. Nei responded to the cries 8 found th nnd lying dead upon the floor, and im: ruggle were evident in the disord niture, Some of the silver- ware had | “ken from # sideboard, ‘The “om y murder aroused the police of both cities, and «a reward of 2,000 was offered by the city. Subsequently the amount was Y ihetptd (ded to. Inspector Byrnes's men first arrested Pete Togs, whom two New York policemen identi- fied asthe man who shot them in Harlem, Two Hroonlye policemen, who had been sim- ilarly treated for asking a man where he was going at 24. mM. two nights prior to-the mur. ler of Mr. Weeks, also identitied him. But he proved an alibi and escaped. A few weeks later Krause, ono of a “gang” of Bowery lodging-house thieves captured by Inspector Byrnes’s men for.com- plicity ina robbery on Jersey Oty. Heights, ‘old the Inspector that Greenwald, one of his partners in crime, had declined to go_to Brooklyn on a thieving expedition, saying that the police were after him because he had ‘*done a man up” over there, Greenwald and his chum, ‘ Butch” Miller, were arrested, and largely on the evi- dence of Krause and Jobh Baker, another member of the ** gang,” Greenwald was con- victed after a long trial. _ It has also been a question in the minds of the detectives whether Greenwald fired the shot, although they believe he was present at the murder, On last ‘Tuesd Greenwald ¢ ay tho appeal in the ewe of » before the Court of Appeals for argument. District-Attorney Kidg- way was present, but the counsel for the condemned = m failed to appear, and consequently, on motion of r. Itidewny, the Court dismissed the appeal and afilrmed the conviction of mur- der in the first ree, Lawyer Rinsley, counsel for the condemned man, is confident of reopening the case, as he says it was the fault of the District-Attorney why he was not present, Supt. Campbell has sent out a general alarm to the police in all the prineipal cities. Ata lute hour this afternoon Krause had not been captured. — Trailing Tholr Bro Murderer. Centhx, Ala, Dec, %—The trial of Carroll Molice, charged with the murder of young Hard- wick, committed here about twenty-turee years ago, ended yesterday in w verdict of not guilty, The dramatic story of the slouti-like trailing of thelr brother's murderer by the Hardwick bo; who for twenty-two years never relaxed thelr vig! lance, would fili a large yolume, ‘The brothers be- Moved McBve to be the slayer. and for all thoue long years they continued thelr search for him, ‘Time, mowey, hardanip and expense were not con. sideréd. At last they found Carroll McBee, who has been found ,** not gullty,”” and the Hardwick boys must begin anew their search for a brother's murderer. Di Euumn, —— Sa Followed from a Man’s Bite, ¥., Deo % ward Buckly John Holieran got into an altercation in » Canal street saloon on Nov, %. Holleran felled Buekly loge Moor and then bit bim over thoeyea The Tet treaties rata my fon has Sonn aft and held for the Jurye, He denies tho biting. UNCLE BAM'SC. HRISTMAS STOCKING, FOUGHT THE BURGLARS AWAY. A Plucky Chelsea Insurance Agent Fired at Throo Tim y a Robber, INPRCIAL TO THR WORLD.1 Boston, Dec. 26,—-Charlos Willis Gould, an insurance agent, had a desperate encounter with burglars at his residenco on Warren street, Chelsea, Saturday night. Mr, Gould and his family had been celebrating the fes- tive season with a Christmas tree and retired ute. Abont 3 ‘clock Mr. Gould was awakened, and on going to the first floor saw a large, powerful with adark lantern in his hand making for the girls’ room and a second man standing on the stairs, Without once thinking of the consequence orthe odds against him, Mr. Gould sprang on the man with the lantern and then com- menced a struggle for the mastery. Mr, Gould made several ineffectual at- heldg to throw the burglar off the banister, but he was no match for his antagonist, who reached into his hip pooket, secured his re- volver, and fired over his shoulder at 5 poaias the ball passing in close proximity to 8 ‘The burglar then fired a second shot, which passed ey ee index Sngee of Mr, tould’s right id and lodged in the ceiling. This hi the desired cffact, and rs Gould let go his hold of the ruffian, who, taking advantage of the respite, made for the stairs with Mr. Gould on his heels, When about half way down the burglars turned and fired a parting shot at Mr. Gould, but this also missed its mark, 'The two men Seca by the front door with about $50 worth of silverware, IT DOES NOT IMPROVE THEIR LOOKS, Girla Make a Sad Mistake When They Blacken Their Eyelld HEN ao man sees the the paraphernalia of a toilet table he begins to think that beauty in the gentler sex is quite anart. The really ar- tistic “maker up” looks at securing some- E thing like deception in her coloring. The lily- white, the rouges, the bistre, and the blue which traces a delicate little vein, to give the appearance of a thin, transparent skin, are laid on with a finesse that any other painter might Vd ehind the glare of the Sona uebts greater freedom in applying the colors is permitted, because they have to carry 4 greater distance, although even there the real artist refines a little in the * laying on.” ‘The effect of a slight line of bistre under the eye is too make it seem more brilliant and larger, But when it is laid on so that the eyelashes crop out from a sticky little ridge of black, the result is not an Oriental houri impression, but more as if the damsel had been “made up” by the cosmetic of a fist sent rather forcibly against her optic. The stick of darkening color can be ob- tained at any drug store, and the dear girls lay it on as if they were bootblacks, Ytis the fannieat thing in the world to bo passing down the Bowery and suddenly seo apair of theso blackened eyes a square off, peering from some young woman's face, A rascal of s newsboy, with both ¢ sym- metrically “ blacked” by an infant Bullivan of Paradise Park, would look like a blood. relation of one of these cosmetized Shes—a congested blood relation, Aud yet the dear things do it to make them. selyes pretty! Heaven save the mark! If they would only give their eyes a good wash ing with pure, clean water, and rab. their young cheeks with a crash towel, they would get a coloring from a brisk walk that would Deat anything that France ever turned out, Let nature use the " hare's foot” and put on the rouge of a keen winter's atmosphere, girls, and leaye the blacking out, Your eyes are bright enongh, — Condensed Local News. Fire cansed a loas of $5 to Leopold Lefkowith by destroying that much furniture at ds Second street to-day, Anuie Gaines, eleven months old, cied without a medical sttendant, at er parents’ home, 1589 ‘Third avenue, At 8 o'clock this morning Joseph Wilson, @ printer, fell downstairs from an upper landing and dislocaied his shoulder, He was removed to St, Vincent's Hospital, An unknown German, about thirty years of ago, made a Christmas present of his body to tha Morgue this moruing He died suddenly in a cheap lodging-house at 18 Pell street. During the year 1387 the Detective Bureau under the management of Iuxpector Byrnes recovered and restored to owners $500,000 worth of stolen property, the largest on record for & single year, Last eveulng Catherine Carroll, aged sixty-four Fears, housekeeper at Ono Hundred and Eighty {th street and Kingsbridge road, fell downstairs. Her skull was fractured, and she’ died almost in- stantly, A pan of grease cought fire while it was standing ma on the kitchen range of the Deef and Dui Ce lum at Hundred and Sixty-second street 4 diane ” PRICE NE CENT; NO STANDING AS A HUSBAND, YOUNG HIGGINS LOCKED UP INSTEAD-OF GETTING AN HEIRESS, Doctors to Decide Whether He is Sane— Father Sheedy Dontes That He Married Him to Mine Alexander, and Says He Ie ho Young Lady Safe From His ters for a Tinie at Lennt. Francis Higgins, the young Irishman whose present title to fame lies almost entirely im his claim that he is the proud husband of Miss Anna Alexander, of 84 Prospect place, Brook- lyn, a blooming young heiress, appeared be- fore Justice Kenna, in Brooklyn, this morn- ing to see what the Police Court thought of him as a husband. Corpulent Fenton Rockwell, the lawyer for the young man, was on hand with a large amount of conviction which he was ready to shed abroad that Miss Anna Alexander was Mrs. Francis Higgins. The Court, however, before considering Higgins’s standing as a husband, ordered an examination by competent authorities of the gray matter in Francis's cerebral region to wasn’t # little too dark for mental health, In the mean time, until the experts decide whether Higgins is qualified to say if he is a married man or not, he will languish in durance vile at the police station, 854 Gates avenue. i Higgins is a very neat young fellow, about twenty-four years old, quict-mannered, and * good enough looking not to make it a moral (asst) look upon him and not be moved to wrath, : Miss Alexander is about tho same age and possesses one charm which Mr, Hig) lacks , —a plenteons bank account, She claims that her pretending husband is unknown to her, ' except through the medium of his handwrit- | ing, which Higgins used to exercise for her: benefit in amorous epistles, in which she is addressed as his wife. Higgins has been a nurse for two or three eats in Flatbush Hospital. Mr. Alexander died last year after having been in St, "8 Hospital for some timo. It was shorily his death that his daughter began to receive Higgins's loving letters, She tried to escape from them by flying to | Europe. When she returned the letters begun, until she had Higgins arrested as a means of checking his unwelcome corre. : spondence. Higgins was for somo time sexton for Father Sheehy, the pastor of St. Ambrose’s Church, at the corner of De Kalb and Tompkins ave- | nues, A Woxtp reporter called on I Sheehy to see what he knew about the case, | Hi ad sued the priest for some pe due fim, ‘employing the legal services. of Worden'Gedney,, Ho got the money, Last! want plexi dino! Re he had been opie case: ‘Is there any Miss Alexan- rr?” 'The reporter assured him there was, ‘* Higgins worked here as sexton,” Father Sheehy mid ** The man is mad, Eomnetiongt he is sane enough, but at others his sree ' and he shows great nervous excitement t “* One he came to me and paid: _Father, I want you marry me to Miss Alex.! ander. ein “Tf you had wouldn't the marriage be ‘in the register of the church and would there not be witnesses?” asked the reporter. Yes. don't believe he ever saw Mins Alexander. I do not know the lady myself. She is not a Catholic.” ‘The father had nothing to against l=) ee Ee ae eat ia eee ereee writing etters of this kind was a weakness o' Y Hie gins’s, He admitted that Higgins had Hroaghsl suit for his money. | “Thad to pay him,” he said, with a laugh. a ee RACING AT GUTTENBURG. Decided Tos t Pregramme of the Events morrow. ‘The entries for the races to be run at the North Hudson Driving Park to-morrow (Tuesday) are as follows: PIRST RACE, Purse $200, of which $50 to the second, for horses that have run and not won at Guttenburg during the meeting; five furlongs, SECOND RACE, irae $200, of which $50 to the second, for all to carry 110 1b,; maidens allowed 10 1b, 5 three-quarters of a mile. Db. = 1 Trinidad roaster. hn Alexand THIRD RACE. Purse $20), of which $50 to the second, for fall ages; selling allowances; seven furlongs, voles & FOURTH RACE. Purse $200, of which $50 to the second; foryall ages; scliing allowauces; mile and a furlong, ui, 108| Dizzy Branette, 106 | Bradburn Lb, 11h Vindex 09 Tony F (08 Competitor FIFTH BACB, Bright Ronur: Ivanhoe Purse, $200, of which $80 to the second, for ages, (o carry 2 1b, above the scale, selling lowances; seven furlongs. Chance for Ulsters and Sealskins, Wasurreron, Deo, 26°