The evening world. Newspaper, January 29, 1895, Page 6

ORE VIOLENCE. on from First Page.) ‘Workman McDonald, and the feel very bitter against him. RY bi le “FEAR MORE TROUBLE. su agie + paeeeeees and Lewis Think the Recall “ef Treeps Was 2 Mistake. | Presitent Norton, of the Atlantic Ave- ‘Railroad, said this morning that he the recall of the First Brig- lew York » very unwise and im- act. H -view of the unsettled state of af the hostility and violence exhibited pert of the strikers and their re to the new employees of Company, he was surprised that the should have beea disbanded. He ‘upon their withdrawal as an en- it to the mob to continue the ) @ommission of assaults on the men em- bythe companies and in the € the property of the rail- f the result of this ill-advised ac-| aiay be,” said Mr. Norton, “is more @an tell; but I believe that the “ef the militia will lead to a re- ef the disturbances boi wed ly brought to an end by ‘commen determination. t Lewss, of the Brooklyn Railroad Company, echoed the |; wiews of Mr. Norton. He said: moving cf the First Brizade Brovklyn was, in my opinion, a ‘Very serious mistake, and evidence that ‘fe true ‘s found in the number of ef. violence that occurred last shia morning after the soldiers fi COT LU cee Sor dF of the conductors and motor- night refused to take out cars feared they might not be i! E ei e not know what the plans of the people are in regard to the Bec- Brigade. 1 have anonymous in- however, that if the Second te relieved from duty that there be trouble in Brooklyn. over 400 cars yesterday, and nfig @ greater number to-day. fo run our cars until 1 to-night. The receipts yesterday Were sbout @ per cent. of the usual bh | il Lewis and Norton Hanged in EMzy at Hamburg 1g Avenuos. i : i pected that some very Important matter connected with the strike will be offered for consideration. The shooting and killing of ‘Thomas the young roofer, by a private hirteenth Regiment last week, 1s among the matters. It Wie stated thi only witness Jury with re, was an electri. stand some tl Mayor Schie. was before the Jury, but it wae stited that his business had nothing whatever to do with the strike. URES THE WAR IN THE COURTS. kers Hope to Break the A\ Avenue Company's Charte Lawyer Mirabeau L. Towns, who has been retained as counsel to the Lxecu- tive Commitiee of D. A. 7, K. of L., made the announcement this morning that Instead of the strike drawing to an end, as most people have been led to believe, it 1s only beginning. Every move in the contest, Mr. Towns said, ts to be fcught hereafter in the courts. “We never felt more confident of win- Colson, Hess, Walkley, Cary and Hau- 1 jals attended the meet- ing, so It wae adjourned. A second special ing will be held this evening at & o'clock, at which a number of business men and prominent citizens will give their views on the subject of compelling the trolley lines to run according to schedule. They will also ask that the Hcenses held by the compantes to run electric cars be for- felted, on the ground that by their ac- tion they have serfously injured the business of the community general that they have endangered the lives of the citizens by placing their cars in the hands of Inexpertenced motormen, and that they have run their cars at a Speed fur in excess of that permitted under the city ordinances, THIRD AVENUE. ind the Sol- 233 afternoon that the examined by the Grand ard to the trolley roads lan. who was kept on th \e. & preliminary proceeding, that the Attorney-Gener Geciée whether or not he will bring ial proceedings in the courts for | ture of our charter. I haven't ‘any Men that the proceedings will be suc- Cenetul, We will, however, be repre- eented by counsel.” ; WICKER REJECTS TERMS. je Will Take Men Back => ae Individuals Only. ‘Vies-President Wicker, of the Brook- tym; Kings County and Suburban Road, * has sent his answer to Master Workman Connelly regarding the offer of the men te ge back at the old scale. TROUBLE ON Strikers Stoned diers Have Plenty to Do. ‘There was fighting throughout morning along Third and Fifth aven the ‘Wicker says he has all the men he / Ming than we do to-day," sald Mr.Jand the cars were run very irregula | Reeds and will take back the old hands | Towns; “and the strikers never were in| pyery car was stoned and its windows aa individuals to fill vacancies. such @ condition to fight the compantes| broken. ‘There was a poll on Since the great tie-up of trolley roads # they are to-day.” A committee of dry-goods merchants waited upon Lawyer ‘Towns this morn: Ing to ask him to consider the advima- | billty of bringing suits uguinst all the railroad companies to recover damages for ine lose of bussiness which. they have sustained by the strike. A number of these sults, Mr. ‘Towns says, will be | begun at once. One firm clalins to have loge B1e0.60) by ihe strike ee Mr. Towns and his assistants were busy this morning preparing papers. in CHARGE ON A CROWD. legal proceedings to be brought. in. be- 2 - halt of the strikers, ‘The most import-| , ant of these are as follows: Company 6 ‘An application for 4 peremptory man- ‘ each, and on some were members of the ‘Twenty-third Regiment, who hid them- selves in r that they might not be seen by the strikers, so as. tc charge and arrests by springing up as Soon as they wore assautied. ‘al passengers were badly Inju ‘Three arrests were made on Third ave- ' GONNELLY STILL CONFIDENT ys There Are Not New Men +Heough to Run Two Lines. laster Workman Connelly, when son | by an “Evening World” reporter this afternoon, sald: “F still feel confident of winning. The statements of the railroad officials that they have all the men they need to run thelr cars is simply bluft. “j “As a matter of fact, all the com- * nus. of the ‘orty aperses a Few RI jeventh, Pantes together have not enough men/qamus to compel President Norton to “te properly operate two of the lines.” operate all the cars at once on the Al- ompany G, of the Forty snih: j He said there would be no meeting'of Venice ct ine BuBUS, eye Sons doing guard duty at the Fifth the Executive Committee to-day because! operated prior to the first day of the @Venue depot, was called upon this af- ofthe illness of Committeemen Giblin. | strike, The basie for thls wction will ternoon to quell w disturbance at ‘Twen- e the letter sent to President Norton cy-tirsi ee Kere‘a orowd of « 7. Best and Collins. by ‘Mester Workinan ‘Connelly. percors| O-fEst street, where a crowd of striker —>— day, offering to send the strikers back; Had held up a car and tried to persuade on the 18% agreement. & non-union motorman to desert ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTS. (One hundred sults ‘against President 8 were thrown, and Company G Norton for violation of the Ten-Hour 1 AIM ASd Mayonete and Aron aw. BAe nove Application for an injunction ag: the Police Department to prevent. c. tains from Interfering with ore meetings of the strikers. Besides these proceedings Mr. nob away "man MAJOR KIP DISABLED. nat Was arrested (3 ALBANY, Jan. 29.—Attorney-General €ecided to give a hearing ‘Towns ¥4 &t 10 o'clock to-morrow morning on the|!s to prefer charges against Capt. Kitzer, | FP appiization ut the people to annul tne) of he SUE Ate RAINY OL UEE pottce Demat 44 charter of the Brooklyn Heights Rall- Fellows Halt on Falnstts apreet apt. jure i Sitzer’s attitude towards the strikers 5 4 ali seed eatin Us one the| Fill be the basis for the application fur| Chief Clerk Kip, of the Police Depart- appl made re the! an injunction, ment, sent am to Headquarters this =| Attorney-General in New York last| State Rallroad Commissioners Beard Maine AAU han Ge ieee b-Priday, and he decided last night to|ley, Chapin and Rickard sat in Justice| Morming that he was temporarily dis 4 ~¢! Now's Court this afternoon to give a abled, and would therefore not report | -. Give a bearing. hearing to complaints against the trolley | for duty until next Monday, ‘The Attorney-General said that the| roads cla, w ete aret cane called was that of|. “aor Kip, who t» @ member of the Walter R. Hall, who made three plaints against the Brooklyn and sland Company. Seventh Regiment, was injured whtle on duty In Brooklyn having been struck in om: ney ; ané..Col Dennison, of New York, had Deem here last night asking for an earily| ‘The first charge wan that the Com-| {2° les with a brick, editing on behalf of. too pany had nullified its charter In charging | Continued service caused the leg to pee oe, aaah 9 te pean his mat-| {WO fares from the Fulton Ferry to/ swell and to-day he was unable to Z rg Oey: oes witb mat-|Coney Island, the second, inefficient Stand upon it. His physician says it ; fer myself,” said he “I simply give a| service; and third, that the line from St? s ig Bemring at the request of counsel, and | Ocean avenue to the Boulevard has not | may Me A Koel or more before he can 1 enough cars running for the accommo-| leave the house. E counsel for both parties are notified to | {PoUs! ofthe publics oo” te El asipeman % eppeer. Counsellor rani A. MeCloskey ap- x “It le merely an application on vebaif | peared for Mr Hall in place of con. | BEATEN BY GANGS. ; : am Sulzer, who : othe zone pe permanien Xe ere ef | Albany, and H.W, Slocum for the Com ‘Trolley Employees Suffer for Tr: ection char- | Dany z oe Try ter, Ihave po power of mrveif vo annul) Mr locum admitted that there could nw to Work, eny corpo! Paglon ath cirar an At 3 ofclock this morning #x_ track : Company was Temedying them, men were sent out in two trucks from The hearing wae adjourned until Feb. 1} the Bedford avenue depot of the Flush- | poutisti as Jing avenue line to shovel a snowdrif: zs au mesg wy MANDAMUS WRIT SERVED. jaway at Nostrand avenu Senet me ant one -—-- A gang of between seventy and one r segue pont nae The Breekiym Heights Company! nindret men armed with basebail bate BON yp BO Mast Amewer by Feb. 15. Hand clubs of all descriptions, attacked (2 70s Tesetsy morsing . “ : Juetice Hrowe, in the Supr hem near the Navy-Yard f¢ n v Mr. Lewis’ Will siae oh SOT, ET. Ereokiyn, thie morning signed six n from the trucks and beat a RoR came why ‘xa in janet eulde writ vnative mandomus|them unmercitully - ued festrainire = - araatas a Gaynor Saturday to| One of the men, Patrick Mulligan, fifty persons other ‘nas an = ba n hts ¢ n ye old, Was thrown to the round, B v0 woyae che Heights Company grour RY 8 Oe, Se a aeatenta ahh aa ind he says three men jumped on. his ad pany of ks ag-ote ‘ f tee writ wes served by Law. |Chest while another knocked him in the er a head é TO LOOK INTO THE STRIKE. so that in the| During the fight some one called out : bs ¢ Company to] “Police!” and the mob scattered, al Apcombty Committ a the Court six men drove back to the depot, aan” 7" [ an af Vive Samet oe viduals And from there were sent to the off fi by Speaker Fish. of the Brooklyn Heights Railroad Cc ad n@ Fors Fi j ALBANY, ¥., Jan. D~ipeaxer on a ere sent for to ‘Wish to-day appointed as a committee 1 s - wee ‘ win investigate the Brooklyn strice Asser c fort biymen Friday, Tutte, farze-, sexe... BOTH SIDES TO BE HEARD. ee A P All the ten say « c a The Committee will organize to-mor-| Commrn Counell to Hold m Special ROS Eihe'cld motorman” i Tow, and hold a session in Brookiyn on | Meeting To-Sight The six a wssaulted are F M Saturday to examine witnesses. ‘The Haired ¢ tee of Prook ina: oh em Toentvatxth s reet Mi eae tal| Donnelly, los Vek strikers named the | Dunbar as leaders of the mob. the cars on three | the! Thomas roley. forty years of at Byer. re On tnvee lines, the | on sireat, walle aprakling sand on he track at Halsey street and Broadwa. The Brooklyn Grand Jury met at 10|and_the Brooklyn, Queens County and! eariy this morning, was attacked by morning, District-attorney | Bubdrbal are not“Finning according ts | eank of men and tadiy beaten. He sui them directly a | sohedule. tained severe scalp wounds and bruises, a sent home, was bad It ts ex-) The Committee Al # Gcicck Michael Catton, twenty meeting atternoor | ratiroad presidente were pose thelr grievances and y usk, to recognized two Andy Rose and James = GRAND JURY IN SESSION. Many Strike Matters Are to Be Con- ex ae hn aaa. cight years old, of G8 Myrtle avenu a track fureman on the Brooklyn City line, while turning switch: fostrand id’ Flushing avenues, was set upon by a van {omen who beat him with a Baseball bat, He received a acaip wound, @ ut on the face and various other wounds, and waa taken home in an ane iinn of 2 Hicks street, Willlam Anderson, while golng to work this morning was ue by a couple held up on Nostrand ave of strikers, who mistook him for one of the new, motormen. He w knocked down and beaten, Patrick Cullen, of Bedford avenue and Degraw street, was arrested later suspicion of being one of his assailants, SAY 675 CARS ARE RUNNING. pad OMe pated by ‘The figures in the following table of cara running were furnished by officials of the various roads, The strikers say the number Is greatly exaggerated, and cite the Gates avenue line as an Ilus- tration, They say not more than thirty cars were run on that line yesterday, although the table gives fifty as the number. On some of the lines the heavy fall of snow interfered with the despatch- Ing of cars this morning, so that the fle- vo not show what the companies |were actually able to do if this ob- stacle nad been removed, BROOKLYN HBIGHTS aYSTRM. Carn care Orne day, narily Hushwiok avenue s.cecseee 6 Kaowery Day ‘ o Court treat Ey} calvary cemetery 4 rr) ° 0 0 ° Fort Ham! Fulton street Furnain atreet street “ Putnam av 4 Holy. Cro @ 3 Richmond Will siveee 5 Second avenue sts 20 Third avenue oo. “ Tompkins avenue 28 Union avenue ud TOM sisestiin vie 738 ATLANTIC AVEN! Rorgen street... Total ‘ os 207 | BROADWAY, QUEENS COUNTY AND SsUB- URBAN SYSTEM. Cypress Hilts. 7 Rriadway 9 1 9 26 | 10) 13 . 192 | nd totals oor ture Who was taken to Bellevue Hospital with Injurles about the body. Griptian Potts drove hig car against hn W. Miller at 12.20 o'clock this morn- lag, Knocking him down and inflicting supposed internal injuries, Mahoney ar- rested the gripman at once and caused @ blockade on the road. The Justice told the officer that he had no tight to bloekade the road, and order- ed him to produce Capt. Martens In court to-morruw. ‘The prisoners were paroled. James Tansey, twenty-seven years old, of Third avenue, driver of a_Sec- ond avenne car, ran over James Brad- ley, ‘of 313 East Twenty-aixth street, last evening as he got off the front platform near Sixty-third street |The ront. wheels passed. over him, causing Internal Injurles and a fracture of the lex. He was removed to the Presby- terlan Hospital, Justice Ryan held Tansey to awalt the result of the in- juries, HURT BY TROLLEY CARS. sions with Pain- ful Injuries an a Result. Car 1,565 of the Myrtle avenue line jumped a switch at Washington street this morning and blocked the track for ten mnutes. While the car was being backed {t ran against Daniel Dougherty, forty-eight years old, of 3 Prospect street, Knocking him down, He was diy bruised, Extward Schenck, fifty-three, of 1 Pine- apple street, was knocked down by a@ Court street trolley-car at Fulton ard Middagh streets (his morning and badly bruised. A Bushwick avenue car collided with a horse and sleigh driven by Edward Set- ter, fifty, of 816 1-2 Willoughby avenue, «1 Bushwick and Johnson avenues this norbing. Settler was thrown out and badly cut on the bead troiley car No. Lots, of the Greone and Gates avenue line, bound for Ridgewood, Jumped (he track’ last evening and was force! to the sidewalk and up. a a window of Miller's dry-goods store, at Gates avenue and Broadway There we © two colilsions on the Bush- Wicit avenue line to-day 1 having smashed into a uirewery wagon, and car 2.020 i coal cart The driver of the latter, Fred Frever, Injured and was taken to St. Catl er Hospital The new motorman tn charge of car 167, of the Butler street line, on the down trip to South Ferry lost control of his car at Court street and Atlantte Javenue and crashed into another Butler |street car preceding his, ‘The shock of [the collision smashed in the rear and | front ends of the two ca he motor box of the c r that caused the collision was torn away. In his ex- me the motorman set. his so hard t n the motor box was Immov- ound firmly to sary to cut away most of K before the car could be ken with the car crashed p. nearly an hour's Avenue Hnes run- ferry of the Myrtle avenue tine, of the Greene and Gates nilidat at Myrtle and Gates s afternoon. ‘The Myr frant platform was bad- a Broadway amet ave tflernoon, as allied a Rockaway ay this MAY PROSECUTE GIBLIN, Ottcialn Accuse Him of Swearing Two Ways in Testifying It was learned this afternoon that the officers of the Brooklyn Heights Rail- road Company intend to try to hay riminal Jing* oegun against Ex- tweman Giblin, becaus net that he hax sworn tn an an to the Attorney-General to fects which during his testimony the Arbitration Commission he he had no personal knowledge of, Just what the facts are the officials of the Company re: to state, but they Not to Be Discharged, Jan. %—Commodore Gicard, Commandant at ‘ne New York Navy-Yard, having Fevceaeated to the Secretary of the 7 Wek the State. THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, | regtation ing the Gischarge of any work- Sistah sues se cerns ok dally musters would inflict # great harden’ order in the Secretary ition of the regulation ALLEGED WIRE-CUTTERS. Batch of Men Taken Iato Cu by the Police. The following men were arrested during the night while caught cutting wires or on suspicion of having done so: Jouhua Cook, Halsey strest, near Saratoga nue, Willtam Dare 1499 Bergen street. James Malone, motorman, 1637 Broadway. Jobn Bverson, 38 K nue, Richard Driscoll, 38 Nineteenth street; sald to be one of the committee which called on Preal- dent Norton and asked to be taken back. Thomas Malone, 67% Manhattan avenue. John H. Farrell, 606 Manhattan avenue, Charles Edwards 629 Myrtle avenue, Daniel Leyven, 526 Sixth avenue, 7 1894, ‘DECISION AGAINST DEBS, important Evideace to Be Ad: a Trial on Co! racy Charges, CHICAGO, Jan. %.—The defense in the Debs conspiracy trial received a heavy blow to-day in the adverse ruling of Judge Groscup on the point raised Just before the adjournment yesterday, while Oliver L. Miron was on the stand. Counsel for the defendants objected to the adminsion of evidence as to overt acts unless it could be shown that they were done by the knowledge and under the direction of the accused officers and directors of the A. R. Judge Groscup held that evidence could be introduced tending to show that a conspiracy existed to vtop all trains, and that this would include necessarily a conspiracy to stop the United States mails. The decision is important as affecting the chances of the defendants for acquittal was recognised instantly and its influence on the defendants and itted Je-eniah Hurley, 66 Seventh avenue, Jonwph H. Miller, 320 Twenty-Arat street, James Flannigan, 204 Twenty-firm street. Dantel Smith, 2%2 Prospect place. Thomas Woode, 24 Twenty-first street, Fred Larry, 1912 Atlantio avenue, Richard Welles, 687 Fourth avenue, Josepn Price, Forty-second street and Fort Hamtiton, John H. Malsner, South Brooklyn. ‘Thomas F. Blake, South Brooklyn. Snym None of His Men Were Drank, The Captain of Company @, Seventy-fire Reg! ment, dented to-day the report that Private Pat- terson had become intoxicated while on duty and had been imprisoned in the guard-house. He sald there man as Patterson in his company, and. furthermore, there had been no ENGINEERS MAY STRIKE. Trouble icurenieiea on the Pacific Court Rallroads, OAKLAND, Cal., Jan. 2%.—Chief Ar- thur, of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, 1 on his way to the Pacific coast. Under hi instructions all the Brotherhoods are being polled on all the roads tn order to get @ vote on the question of ordering 1 general strike. According to the rules of the Brother- hood a general strike cannot be ordered without a consenting vote from two- thirds of the members of the organiza- tion, The local Brotherhoods have held meetings nearly every night for several weeks in West Oakland, and have had a number of conferences with Supt. illmore and other Southern Pacific om. clals, Delegations of engineers have been’ here from Arizona, Oregon and Nevada ‘Their sessions have all been executive and the engineers have re- fused to divulge any of their proceed- ings or plans. ‘The engincers on Wilder's division are in favor of striking. out are somewhat fearful lost their attitude towards the A. R. U. strike in July will react against them now. As soon as Eugene Debs ets througn with his legal trials in Shicago he will start for California, He has sent word to all the officers of the Unions not to antagonize the Brother- hood of Locomotive Engineers in the event of that organization going out on @ general strike. es CLOAKMAKERS SEEK WORK. The Long-' ke of Opera- tives Virtually Ended. ‘While many striking cleakmakers have refused to accept the advice of Joseph Barondens and the Executive Commit- tee, to officially declare the strike off, it is admitted that they will apply for work and accept it wherever they can get it, on the best possible terms. Many who were on strike have applied to man- ufacturera, and have been told to call as soon as work 1s ready to be given out. Manufacturers about this tlme of th year prepare to send out drummers for orders, :nd must know if they can_se- cure cuttera, tallors, operators, pressers and finishers. The strikers know this and are seeking ere is some feeling over a distribu- their counsel was marked for the time being. VETO ON MR. SHEEHAN. Kerw' Policemen. Police Commissioner Sheehan this afternoon renewed his motion before the Police Board to make a requisition for an eligible lst of 200 men for ap- Pointment to the police force. He sald there were 271 vacancies, 200 Meh on the sick Iist and 100 applica: tions for retirement. President Martin suggested that a requisition for only 147 men be made. This was lost, as was Commissioner Sheehan's motion, Kerwin and Murray voted against it, On account of the force not being complete. an unexpended balance of 350000, appropriated for salaries, has been turned over to the pension fund. The Board hi received many applica. Hons for appointment among whic fw H P. an one from two brothers, Fred Bcgtt Mills, of Lansing, ‘Mich. lice Commissioner Murray sald to a reporter that he and Commirsioner Ker- win opposed the making of a requisition on the present Civil Service Bourd, be- cause the Board has shown Itself to be incapable of making proper recommenda jon “here will not.” said Mr. Murray, ‘be any more appointments made from the present Civil Service Board's list.” OFF FOR WARMER CLIMES. Many Prominent Persons Sail for the Mediterranean. The Hamburg-American line steam- ship Fuers: Bismarck, which sailed this morning on a Winter excursion to the Mediterranean ports, carried 28 cabin passengers, Among them were: Willlam Buchanan, Mra, Buchanan, Dr. G. C. 8, Ohcate, Miss Mary K. Choate, Misa Caroline Choate, G. B. Caiman, Mra Calman, Thomas P, Fowler, Samuel R. Fisher, F. W. Gilley, Mra, ley, Tenac A. Landos, L. Bruce Moore, Mra. Moore, George March. J. L. Ogden, N. Poulson, Mre Poulson, OF. Swift, Mra Swift, R. F, Woemcutt, Mra Westcott, New York: Frank Bartholomae, Mra. Barthoiomae, J. Rrakine, J. F. Marri, A. ‘J. McDuffes, Mrs. MoDuffee, J. A. H. F. Bigelow, C. W. Bigelow, Hawes, Chie F. om Georgia; ‘Capt. Billups, Baltimor keen, M. 'P., Cape Breton, N. 8. Peek Detroit: Lieut. Hugh T. Reed, U. Mra. Reed and Erwin Wilikens, LL. 'D., of ia, ————<—s_—__ TO CARE FOR THE HOMELESS Station- House Lodgers to Go to Court for Disposition. Secretary Kellogg, of the Charity Or- ganization Society, has written a letter to Mayor Strong requesting the assist- ance of the clty government In having all persons, male and female, who ask for lodgings at the police stations, sent fo court the next morning, so they may be turned over to the Department of Charities and Correction and cared for. The object Is to have Mr. Blake send to the State asylum at Flatbush those ion of money in the hands of the Execu- lve Boan. SUING BOSS BAKERS. ‘To Have Contracts with Unions I terpreted by the Cow Suit has been brought in the City Court by Journeymen Bakers’ Union No. 165 to recover $50 penalty and costs each from Moses Werner, Henry Wolfgan ner, three members of the Boss Bakers’ Union, of the east side, It appears from the complaint that each member of the Boss Bakers’ Union signed an agreement with the Journey- nen Bakers’ Union to grant. certain demand# made upon them, such as not to employ non-union men, and to give certain hours a day for work and rest; not to use the Journeymen for any other ‘urpose than to bake; to have a union abel upon each loaf ‘of bread, and to bay certain rates of wages, For a failure they were to forfeit $50 as a pen- alt ‘The Journeymen's Union claims that the three mentioned boss bakers have led to stand by their contract Lawyer Louls Steckler, of Broad- way, who Is counsel for ‘the Hoss Bak- ers’'Union, Is defending the suits, He will claim that the contracts are tilegal and yold, and against public policy, — +. IN THE WORLD OF LABOR. FAwant 8 Jackson has bee! Secretary of Journeymen r and Ornai holds an Importaat special John Thorndale has been ¢! F Union No. 6.118, A. Fy elected Recording 6 Progressive Musical 1 No, 2 he for admission to tue Central Labor Federi applied tom of uaty, Union No. 487 has voted down a the United Conference. ¢ Urotherhond Carpental Unton No. Kooher Jing Seer 18 elevts G. Bercnert, Presi J. Molen ary ‘Correapon Seofelx, Financial Secretary; Ce Kalser, Trustee: ed by Bakers’ Union No Joaeph Lavow, Revo us nti J | The Saddie- Makers Benevolent and Protect who have not been In the city for more than sixty days. Really deserving home- persons will be sheltered at the rity Organization Society's Way- farers’ Lodge, In West Twenty-eighih street, and the Bellevue Hospital lodg- ing-rooms, — DECLARES HE IS A PROPHET. A Cyasy Colored Man Writes to the President and Others, Benjamin F. Hunter, a colored man, forty years old, employed as coachman for Elijah Clark, of &5 East One Hun- dred and Sixty-fifth street, principal of Grammar School No, 6, was committed to the care of the Commissioners of Charities and Correction to-day in the Harlem Police Court, for examination as to his sanity. Hunter is under the impression that he is a prophet, and says he has @ call an- thorizing him to notify all the rulers of the earth that the Um> of destruction had ¢ He sent a letter to President Cleveian: to the Governor of every State and ritory in tle Union, and to the Judges of the Supreme Court, to Congress and the United Stater Senate. A copy of the letter, together with a letter from Supt. of 'Pollce Moore, of Washington, was receivel by Supt. Byrnes. He told Capt. Creeden to ar- rest Hunter. OF INTEREST TO MILITIAMEN, to Rulld a Bridge Across the Creek Near the State Camp. PEEKSKILL, N. Y., Jan, 2.—A bill has been introduced in the Legislature providing for the granting to the Peek- skill State Camp ad Mohegan Rall- road Company the privilege to construct a drawbridge across Amsville Creek, from the Murdock property to the State Camp. Heretofore the militiamen have had to pay an exorbitant fare to be taken across this creek in small boats Death of J.D. Mn D Marnart, for over aixteen nara, in their fancy goods day morning at the Maynard bed no rola salesman for Tiffany & Co. sa Mr He Is father th Honpltas was tn the v served of Rosion in 1 til War After his inother di ‘ame on to New York. and of lace House. Puseral servican, we ot Myo Joseph” Harris, the May el at hold 202 East — rol Wagons Assigned. . desided Wes The Jiranwter te p Que Hundres tb West Yne Munir East Asseiation Ras elected tue following new of VVreterick Fobdes,. President: Fo Scholte. \ President; Bernard Wilkins Recording and Pl- a Shorotary. Buwa ninety, correspond [ing secretary, Alexa: Meck, Treasurer, 3. J. |Biacs, Sergeant-at-Arme, 1. eytuss, © Door | Sever Assembly 6.612, Kat In. elected Jann Stantord, M Workinan. TM” Walah, Worthy man Mulaueeney, Recording Sere f. Pinaacial Secretary: George T Sheehan w 1a Shelly 3 , tid sige M4 wirant: Wal ations fi ‘The cigaremakers employed in Seidenberg & Schefel's sop. Avenue A and Seventy eon strike for an. Increase per The bunchers demand 25 cente more per 0 Bri of the Board of left for Albany ‘this morning for the Purpose of attending to legislation im the interest of labor Mr. O'R will gt his attention to the Dill now pending for the repeal of the law requiring stone 9 be dressed withia the rving President William J. Delogaten Tain West Vrwont station he provided tar downtown p Mun Vhri furney mw lees: fare old, h sreet. fell thirt . np Wandred and F PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 2%.—Secretary Carlisle to-day ordered $2,500,000 gold shipped to Now York from the United States Mint in this city. It is said that there may be a further drain on hs Mint to-morro: pain SME wo et A diana aM. el AIM lls \ $3,562,000 GOLD SHIPPED. More to He Sent Abroad om Steam- ere Sailing To-Morrow. The steamship Lahn, which sailed for Europe this morning. carried $3,662,000 in gold, shipped as follows: By Heidel- bach, Ickelheimer & Co., $2,000,000; by Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., 1,062,000, and Lazard Freres, $500,000. Heldelbach, Ickelhei 2r & Co. will ship $750,000 gold on to-morrow’s European steamer, and other firms will probably forward considerable sums. It ts becoming more and more evident | that 4 considerable part of the gold | withdrawn from the Sub-Treasury 1s! for the purpose of hoarding by those | who wilt huve settlements to make abruae in the future and by others who are timid in consequence of the de-| lay on the part of Congress in acting | on the currency question. Furvher advices from Washington in d to the action of the committees | which are considering the President's recommendations are awaited with great interest. = It is reported that the United States Assay Office here has received instruc- tions from) Washington to exchange | gold bars for coln at one-tenth of 1| Per cel remium, of one-| eighth of 1 per cent. he withdrawals of gold from the Sub. | jury to-day so far ageregated | 000. Baring, Magoun & Co. have | Increased their proposed shipment by the Majestic to-morrow to $70 So far as known shipmetits to-morrow | by other firms than Heldelbach, Ickel- | helmer & Co. will be as follows: Baring. Magoun & Co. $20,000; Kidder, Pea- body & Co., $400,000; Von Hoffmann & | Co., $500,000, and’ Zimmermann & For- shay, $60,000. TO OUST A RECEIVER. jankers Loan and Investment As- socintion Claim to Be Solvent. Everett P. Wheeler appeared before | Judge Daly In the Court of Common! Pleas to-day in the case of the people | of the State of New York against the Bankers’ Loan and Investment Com- pany. Mr, Wheeler represents the stockholders of the Company and ts seeking to set aside an order appointing @ receiver, who took charge of the Com- ny’s affairs about six months ago. tT, Wheeler said that while the Bank cxaminer had found that the capital of the Company had been impaired, yet the Mabilities did not exceed $4.0), while the assets were in the neighbor- hood of $400,000, so that It was plain the Company was’ perfectly solvent. The capital stock of the concern was $5i0.- 000, and the Bank Examiner found that there w a deficiency of about $151,000 | in shares which had not been fully paid up and for that reison had the receiver appointed. he Company had been engaged in loaning money to shareholders on what ie known as the building and loan asso- . During the hard times of ar a tiumber of shareholders were unable to make regular payments, and the Company had been forced to ‘fore- @ many Mortgages. The result was that certain xhareholders, whose stock had been fully paid, did not receive the interest on their holdings, and the Su- perintendent of Banks intervened, and the Company's business was practically instead closed uF Mr. Wheeler said that it had been agreed by counsel to submit to the Court the question whether or} not the directors of the Company could make good the full book value of the stock, thereby restoring the Company's capital and obtaining the discharge of the receiver, MR. CRANE WILL NOT RESIGN. the | Never Thought of Leaving Shoe and Leather Bank. John M. Crane, President of the Shoe and Leather Bank, sald to-day regarding the article in a morning paper, that he intended to resign his position as Presi- dent of the bank, that he had no inten- tion of doing so, ‘and knew of no efforts on the part cf ‘the directors to induce him to resign. ranted and uncalled for. He declared the directors had not even discussed the | uestton of Mr, Crane retiring frou the residency, and that there was no pros. pect of Bank Examiner Kimball or any one else supplanting Mr, Crane. ee CEREALS OPEN WEAK. Cotton Also Depressed by the Fi-! nancial Outlook. ‘Wheat opened active and weak, break-| ing 4c, a 7-80 on further liquidation of long wheat and bearish interpretation of news fiom Washington, May touched | 573-4c. here and 525-8c. at Chicago, Corn| broke badly at the opening, dropping | 7-8e. both here and at Chicago, May selling at 63 3-4c. at New York nd 473-40, at the West. Oats followed the decline | in wheat and corn, breaking 1-2c. at} the opening. | Cotton opened quiet and steady, but turned weak on the financlal conditions at home, May felling down to 5.9, with | considerable loca: pounding. WAREHOUSE TRUST CHECKS. They Represent Rig Amounts and! a Clearing-House To-Day. | The Corn Exchange Bank was @ editor at the Clearing-House to-day | for over $7,000,0W and the National Union for $3,000,000, ‘This was due to transactions in con- nection with the Brooklyn warehouse deal. The Brooklyn Storage and Ware- house Company, as it Is called, 1s taking title to-day to the various properties has purchased, with a view of con: dating all of the docks and warehouses for a long distance along the Brooklyn water frort. Checks for the $17,500,000 of bonds issued by the Company to pay for the properties were given by various sub- seribers yesterday and passed through the Clearing-House to-day. aay Coal Ontpat Restricted. The sales agents of the anthracite coat trade At a meeting to-day, called to confer regarding tho policy to be pursued during February, de- cided to restrict the output during the month to # per cent, of the mining capacity, or about 8 were mot changed either | the tott should force, atrletiy to Which is: Troken chestnut, $3, Hess than these Jurisdiction for mittee $3.50; The atrial figures tr: eg, $3.60 The ng bad no n of a working basis The me Policemen to Pay Fave for a While A. etter from! ‘the Attorney-General, who had wen asked whether police could accept free tele- phone, telegraph and street rallwas privileges while on duty, was read at the meeting of th PM ay The Attorney-General. say a bit in the Legis Privileges nels be rlef Respite. whieh Arnold | 9 coltert {Roger Pri Two Esca ORWESO, pners Canght, Colby ond Smith two of the 1 re who broke fail Satur day ft, have been captured. Boas, the movt Sesperate one, 18 atill at Iberty. th a pk Emery for Vice-Chancello: * Chancellor MeGilt, of Hudson County, N. J., announced thie afternoon that he had offered the gzzetnrmont ‘Vice-Chancellor Joba BR. I ent lawyer of Newark. ‘The tone of the market ‘8 strong. American Tob . ‘American Sugar’ Ret... Amer. Sag Ref, pref... Amer, Amer. Cotton Ol pref. Ateh.” Top. Baltimore & Ohio. Bay State Gas, Canadian Pactti Canada Southern hes. & Ohio .... Chicago Gas Chie., Bur. & Quine; Chic & Northwest . 1 John N. Beach, a member of the frm | of Tefft, Weller & Co., and a director of | the bank, sald the article was unwar. | Ko. | Mo. | & | Steinway [PRICES MIGHER, TRADE DULL There Was o Rally in Stooks After a Weak Opening. Market at First Oppressed by the Financial Situation. Speculation on the Stock Exchange this morning was dominated by fears concerning che financial situation, ‘There was liquidation in certain points of the list, especially at the start, whet round amounts changed hands. ‘The sellin, was stimulated by a de cline in American securities at London. American Sugar fell 1-2 to 891-4; American Cotton Ol] 17-8, to 191-8; American Tobacco 3-4, to 921-4; Bay State Gas 11-4, to 193-4; Burlington & Quincy 1-2, to 70 Nortnwest 1-4, to 4 1-2; St. Paul 3-4, to 641-2; Rock 7-8, to 611-8; Chicago Gas 1-2, to 711-4; ueral Blectric 1, 4, to 231-2; Lake Louisville & Nash- pa rsey Central & Western preferred to 81-8; Omaha Distillers 7-8, to 8 ville 11-8," to 5 105 3-4; Lead 5 1, to 855-8; Norfolk 9; Reading 1, Pennessee Coal 11-2, 'to 131-4; United States Kupber 11-2, to 40; Union | Pacific 1-2, to 8 1- h preferred 7-8, to 121-2; Southern Railway _pre- ferred 1-2, to 301-2, and Western Union | o8, to 861-8, Money 11-2 22 per cent. on call. There was only a fair de the liquidation Of speculative accounts naturally reduc- ing the inquiry for fund Posted rates for exchange unchanged, nike 88 ere’ 60-day bills sell at 4.88 and sight drafts at 4491-4 1-2. bar allver, rose to 59 7-8, The stock market was less active afte midday, but 8 firmer tone prevailed an prices rallied all along the line. ‘There was very little busing for the ion count, however, the purchases being almost entirely to cover shorts. Specu- lation presented no special feature, and even dragged at intervals. Virginia deferred 6 trust receipts, stamped, dropped from 93-4 to 7 on large transactions. The decline was due to the refusal of the West Virginia Leg~ {slature to take up the question of the debt settlement at this session. The announcement. that Senator But- ler would report the Rallroad Pooling bill to-morrow, and that a proposition to substitute the word coin for gold in the bond paragraph, had been noted down in the Barking ‘and Currency Com pi rae canned, a better tone to specula- jon this afternoon. The advance was 21-8 in Lead, 17-8 in Manhattan, and 1-2 to 11-4 in the res mainder of the list. The market left off jee . ew se firm. ' were 176, rtment 24,( were The sales of listed stocl shares. In the unllsted depa shares of Sugar and 3) traded in, The Clo Quotations. Open. Hi 2% 98! r) rt 20% 63% 4 Lead Coton Olle....cs. & Santa Fe. thle. & Northwest pre M. & St. Paul. the, M. & St. Paul pts. : RL 1 & Pac. & St. Louis, |. & Hock. Valley. Del., Lack. & W.. Del.’ & Hudson Den. & Den, uts. N, a ‘Alb, & Chie. ‘pt. Man. ‘Consol ie, Kan. & Tex (Kan. @ Tex. pti... FT , Chat, & 8 Le. a“ - Lead Co. 2 % Net Lin. oi Central oo & N. Eng. 0 C. & St. Le Bd pe yy LB, & West... oe & West. pty N.Y., Susq. & West pf. Ey Norfolk & West....... fs folk & Weat. pt... pry thorn Pacific.....+ ft Northern Pacitlc pt. 16 North American... Fi Ouairio & Wesetrn.. 188 or Sb. & Utah North! Pacific Mall... eveseens ria. & Reading. ite CC. Rt :. Paul & Omaha. . Paul & Omal nutuenn Railway southern Rallway pf... L. Southwestern pt. Tena. Coal & Iron. Union Pacific sy Unioa Pac, Den. & G Cordage, UL 8. Cordage ei US Leather pf. United States Rubber. Moke BMige net aSalused. Vneeling & Lake THE STEINWAY TROUBLES. Henry Continues His Story of Al« leged Wro ayments. Hearing in the Steinway injunction suit,.by which Henry W. T. Steinway seeks to restrain the piano manufacture ing company, of Steinwi using funds for anythin inal plano manufacturing busin was continued this morning before Judge Beekman, in Special Term of the Su- preme Court. Henry W. T. Steinway re- sumed his testimony, being cross-exam- ined by Attorney Henry Hurt. Mr, Steinway testified that the car shops in the town of Steinway were built at a cost of $34,900, and could have been erected for $15,000. He claim that money had also been squander for the opening of streets that were not needed in the town the company was trying to build up. Attorney for the defense here claimed by question that when Cowehoven atreet was opened up, Mr. Steinway himself not only knew of it, but helped to over- sea the work. M InWay was asked if he attended a_meeting of the trustees on Dec. 26, 1889. He could not remember positively, ‘The building of some houses had authorized at that meeting, but "ie Steinway understood they were to be paid for by the men for whom they “Stinuten of ting held Minutes of a meeting held in 1891, real, where Henry WT. Steinway ‘was arged with destroying valuable papers. lating to the patents of the Company, and It wae charged thas on Feb. te tage « { Mr, Steinway bh admitted such | ~*~ struction. Mr, teinway replied |the meeting was un extremely untée hostile, partisan one, at which WOH instructed the stenograp?' hot to take down any of the witnend statements e charges were trump mand he had reruted thon. vue W.'T, Btolnwas's letter o Lion, dated Dec. St. 1801. wase eating a# one from the President offering. UY thin access to the books of th compa This, counsel for Mr. 8 way clalmed, was before a tefiwal te eae . the books was made, and so did not state existing tacts, of Mr. Stetme ‘The Cros-examination direct began and after recess the fee Col. Dui OWEGO. N. T., Jan. 2%.—At © special term of a supreme Court, held here to-day, Col. Duar was ted SDMosuemae pete te | 4