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I WILL ASK FOR SUBPEENAS, Capt. Reilly Determined to Press the Charge Against Policeman Hurley. WITNESSES WON'T TESTIFY. Mra, Schulteis, Whose Daughter Was Attacked, Refuses to Prosecute the Offender, FEELS SORRY FOR HIS FAMILY. Block, Who Rescued the Girl, Says the Officer Moved as if to Draw His Revolver. Capt. Thomas Reilly, of the East Fifty-first street station, made another ineffectual attempt to-day to prevail PATROLMAN JOHN H. HURLEY. (Attached to the Fifty-Firat Street Station.) pon Mrs. Charles Schultels and her neighbor, Jacob Block, the beer bot- er, to appear before the Police Board and make a formal complaint against Policeman John H. Hurley, who is al- Jeged to have committed a brutal assault upon Annie Schultels on Sunday night. They have both positively refused to make any charges against Hurley, giy- ing as their reason that they feel pity for the poiiceman's wife and three small children, and that for their sake they will not prosecute him, Capt. Reilly had another conference with Inspector Willams this morning, and reported the failure of his last at- tempt to secure the witnesses against Hurley, and it was decided, as they re- fused to appear voluntarily, to try the efficacy of subpoenas, which will prob- ably be requested from the Commis- sloners to-day. Cannot Force Them Chars: Even then, Inspector Williams says, if they refuse to appear there is no way of compelling them to press the charges against. Hurley. without invoking. the uid of the courts. "If the officer 1s guilty Of the misconduct alleged, his superiors Delleve “that he ‘should’ receive. the severest punishment, and in any case, the story” originally told ‘by ‘Mr Schultels, her daughter and Mr. Block at the police station on Sunday night, calls for a careful and thorough exam: dnaton, Hurle: action “hi is ctill on patrol duty, and no as been taken against him be: ave been pre- ferred, He was said to be ned to a post on ‘Fifth avenue from. Fitty-fourth, to Fifty-ninth street this morning, and a reporter of “The Evening World” spent an hour in trying to find him, but with: vut success. “An officer on the adjoining Post, above Fitty-ninth street, waid that e had not seen’ Hurley since he left th Station early this morning. ‘The Girl Has Almont Recovered. Mrs, Schulteie, who was seen at her little ‘grocery store, at 344 East Fifty- third street, this morning sald that her daughter had almost recovered from the jock of her terribie experience on Sun- day night, but was not yet able to leave the house. The doctor had ordered that she shouid be kept very quiet, and must be allowed to see no one. as any excite- ment mignt bring on her epileptic at- tacks again. “Two officers came from Capt. Reilly to ‘see me last, evening,” she sald to the reporter, “and tried to persuade me to make ‘charges against the police- man who assaulted my daughter, but I refused. si have given my word to that man's poor wife and children, that I. will do nothing more to injure him, and I mean to keep It. Neither she nor her hus- band has been to see me again, but my, Promise \s food, “J have no pity for him, for he is a brute, and if he were a single man I should not hesitate to prosecute him. But when I think of the wife and chil- dren, and how they would suffer if he Were sent to prison, I cannot do it. Will S:am No Comp! “If Hurley should come here again, 1 Would order Alin out of my store, But cause no formal charges nothing can m me sikn a complaint against atm. e Captain and Inspec tor can do what they like, but T shal mot ald i: sending film to prison, al- though he richly dexerves It, Some of my frionds tell me Iam wrong, but I believe Tam in the right.” ‘Mrs, Schulteis’s view of the case ts #hared dy Jacob Block, her neighbor, who bas also been visited both oy Hur! ley and his wife and child ‘phe man is a scoundry Rlock very emphaticall “and ovght to be railr his wife and childr kreat deal of pleasure in helping to give fim what he deserves. They came and hegged and cried and west down on thelr knees to Me aeking me to save the man, and afier talking It over with Mrs Rohulties. { decided not to push’ the matter. But it makes my biood boll to think of {t. Tf I could have got at that man on Sunday night I was mad enough to have killed him “But Mrs. Schultels and her sons and EE sald Mr, y. this morning, ded. and but for n I would take a HTS Quickly Easily A trolley car of the Brooklyn Cross-| town line yesterday afternoon at the corner of Broadway and Myrtle avenue ran into a hearse containing the body of Mamie Keohane, the two-year-old daugh- ter of Corneilus Kevhane, of 73 New my wife patted me me back and locked the | door, and the officer hatl gone away when I went out. They were afraid he Was going to shoot me, for he made a motion with his hand towards his hip- pocket as I threw him out of the door, and I put my hand down to catch his 1 Was dragged back. Mr. Block stated that if Hurley sail was only joking in a friendly way With Annie 'Schultels tn the hallway he ied. Recognized the Uniform. coming home from visitin, me friends that evening,’ he sal a just as I got to the door, which was o) I saw some scuffing going on_ ins! tty I thought the people were strangers at first, but as soon as I came fear enough I récognized the po:tceman by, his uniform, ‘ind de “I aigo recogn the daughter of Mra. Schuitels. She was crouched upon the floor and was struggling with the officer, who held her by the arms, and peered. to be pushing her down on the “The first thing I did was to grab the man by the shoulders and push him away, at the same ume asking him what he meant by such conduct. “I used some pretty strong language, too, and he turned upon me and asked: hat business is it of yours, you loafer?" “That made me mad and I went for him, but the noise brought down the whole family from upstairs, and the next thing I knew the door was shut and lock and the policeman was out- le and I was inside.” Did he attempt to draw his pistol! “I didn't see his pistol, & move with his hand towards his hip tas the door was slammed by “And yet you refuse to make a com- plaint against him?" “Yes; because I promised hia wife I would not. I would have done any- thing that night, but after thinking it over, I have concluded to let up on It was stated this inorning by Sergt. Kane, who was on duty at the station When’ Mrs, Schulteis, her daughter and Mr. Slgek enpeared there Sunday nignt, t fit at that time did not ap near a ve been the victim of any violence, and that she showed no signs of any hervousness or fright. have seen her many times, and she did not look any differently then. Mrs. Schultels told me that her daughter was | th occurrences of Sunday night. He says he saw the girl trying to open the door and he went to her asristance. He had gone in to open the Inner door, taking he key from her, when she fell down In the hallway. He was only trying to raise her to her feet, when Mr. Block made his appearance ‘and attacked him. Mrs, Hurley is a little woman, with a fhin, pale face and dari halr and eyes “Evening World” re- dat her home at 400 of “This story about my husband Is all untrue. It {s terribly exaggerated. He never meant to do any harm to that poor girl, Tam sure. If he stopped and spoke to her, or put his hands upon her, it was with no wrong intentior He has alwaya been a good husband and father, and ed never been in any trouble be- fore, and has @ good record as a police ofc SNELLGROVE S SUES HIS WIFE. She Is Allowed Alimony and Coun- sel Fee to Defend the Action, Edmund P, Bnellgrove, of 264 West of #2, it his wife Margaret for an absolute divorce in the Supreme Court, chester County, Mra, Van Had Lots of Trou Mra Hattle Van, of 50 East Seventy street, yesterday, against a nephew of elvitle, for larce boarding-house kee} le. seventh Swore out @ warrant at Yorkville Court B. Broker J. who ts borrowed $25 of Melvi® no William E. Chand‘er, recently e‘ected to This ts a fa Estimate of the vote tn Moniter ef Jenuary 75 Vote In caucus, evening of January 10, Chambers. street, was smashed and the coffin thrown tn the str Some men picked it up and replace William Cruse, was badly motorman Salvation Army perm! any time the; the army special permit for each se} moving crot the Mayor, All Sure They into the stage entrance at ‘Theatre untl Thursday. number of girls and allow each a cl to pose. She Though saulted by seven years old, third street Street-Cleaning Depa hostelry at 63 Dooley and Lizzte hac ifn a saloon adjoining her residence. West | und brutsed’ her nose. | her about Patrick Guinee, 1890, Hampshire, has been so overwhelmed with congraculations th card with @ tabulated vote to send to correspondents THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, TROLLEY CAR RUNS DOWN A HEARSE AND THROWS OUT A COFFIN. A LOVING WIDOW, SHE, this city. 1 it. The dri er of the hea’ injured, was arres' Michael Case; Stat Capt. Vickery Wing, Mayor Strong the other day gave the trowh! to STAFF CAPTAIN VICKERY, fo it Was ensy to mi ile paca NEARLY 200 TRILBYS. ike Pose je In answer to Manager Ed Rice's adver- | tisement in this morning's papers, call- ing for women who think they are physi- | cally fitted to pose as Tritby in the |{) One Western correspondent. t | Kilany! Living Pictures, nearly two hun-|sent $100 additional to be expende dred members of the fair sex crowded | the babe'a benefit, Mrs, Minnle has to-day. They represented 89 sure of this. evidently an amati was built just right, nd when Mr. ly, Was not she sceptical shi and addre but will not make a ch several, He intends — So PUNCHED HIS BEST | GIRL. More of Another ™ the Cause. A rivalry for the affection of Lizale Cronin, a pretty girl of nineteen years, 29 Avenue B, led to her being Thomas Dooley, of 305 East Dooley ina ent captain rt BCOW Michael East Sixte His rival. several dri is sald, told him it was none of Twenty-third street, New York, is suing business if she cared for Kruise, dragged her tc the street, punched blackened the face, he body. Pay Vheir Board whose wife died leaving a fortune provision whatever for the husb: Was sentenced to a three months’ t HOW SENATOR W. E. CHANDLER RETURNS THANKS. the United 8: a ate from t he prepare: at-and unique td -simile of the card with its expressive figures The hearse The sion to parade at wish to, without putting of getting @ arate ocea- Look, Walk and Can the Garden Rice ame indignant, to selec twenty- ‘Twenty: ulse, Keeps @ nth etreet. She, Doth her eyes He also kicked to be divided among her three chiliren and making At Least That Ruse Brought Shekels to Minnie Nichols Hailed from Long Island and Tried Bogus Advertisements. Now the Gay Woman Is in the Hands of Uncle Sam. No, ATH. York. Young men, old bachelors,” young widowers, are all Invited to Write to @ young widfw of twenty-two, height 4 feet 10, weight 120 To know me ix to Tove me, and love me bit forever. For matur mate mo what T am, and ne'er made auch a A want @ 1 am lonely, ‘oh, 0 lonely, ‘The insertion of this love-lorn appeal in a Chicago matrimonial gazette by Mra Minnie B, Nichols, of Centre Mor- iches, L. I, caused her to be arrested by a Brooklyn Deputy United States Marshal, under instructions of Post-Of- fice Inspectors Jacobs and Morris, who swore out a complaint in the Brooklyn United States Court. They charged her with using the malls for a scheme which Intended fraud, In violation of section 5,49 of the United States Stat- utes. The Deputy Marshal found Minnie, who represented herself as a widow, keeping house with her husband at Centre Moriches, and brought her before United States Commissioner Morle, tn Brooklyn, She waived examination and was held in $1,500 bail for the action of the Federal Grand Jury. Mrs, Nichols's father, Hallock Raynor, an Eastport, L, I., farmer, gave bail for her release, Mra, Nichols ts about twenty-six years old, and pain in appearance. Bhe 1s not what might be etyled passably good looking. “Sloppy” most accurately de- scribes her appearance. These draw backs to a young woman who declares that to “know her i to love her forever, and that nature never made another like her," however, are offeet by an ability to write gushing letters. She wrote letters of 20 degrees Fah- renhelt temperature to some forty or fifty men, They cannot be given until laid before the Grand Jury. The corre- spondence was on a “love” basis. When a few red hot epistles have passed, Min- nie discovered that each correspondent was the one man in the wide, wide world rae, ted, the on your” sion, Miss Vickery, a staff captain,| who could console her for the alleged Pistol-Drawing Movement. called and got the Mayor's consent. She | toga of her dear departed Nichols. She Dut he made Preaches on the street and ts used to| was poor, she freely acknowledged, but | she was proud. Having found her affin- ity she was wing to accept a small loan to purchase a few necessary gar. ments, and to pay railroad fare to reach the “only man she could tove.”* “Then they would get married,” she wrote, “and be so happy—oh, so happy!" This t« where Mrs. Minnie got into trouble with the Post-Office Department. After her male cor! the money her letters of her unknown almirers Minnie deciat she had one little child, cherub, eighteen months old. ved cherub” fletion appeale ove child, One thing the tricky widow, however, all | insisted on, Her admirers must not come ‘accustomed to go out alone in the night |stages and conditions of life, not a few | to sce her. frequently, and that she never kept her |peing society girls. ‘There was not one| She wrote: at home when she wanted to go out. r owas capable {0% My Tuby-hearted sweet, T pray you on my ‘see she has since made a different | WHO Was not sure that she was capable | xneeg do not come to me here. Til come to ptt een ee se i Site at that {Of impersonating the heroine in Du] ym" should the cruel despots, iny darling dead time that Hurley had violently assaulted | Mauriers much-talked-of work, Husband's parents, with woo 1) am drudging her, and if her story is true he ought to| sph ir an existence, find out t there was one rarely, When Manager Rice appeared he was! fond, loving heart beating in esmpathy with ERs Pecuceane acrerey 88) SRS. IBY besieged in a manner that was calett- | ming and coming to ree me. they'd chain me. aN to drive a man erag: tn the back yard you true, 10 MGsiey ia New) Versio am ‘sure, said hale his red 0 honeat man.” may faring wi According to the Sergeant, Hurley | them once, “that I look just lke | You send me a amell au to eneaDe froin H has since given a new version of the Trilby despots to your fond arma? Pleaso sent Mr. Rice, although he ald not say so | reeisiered jopen | young woman, inalsted had Trilby’s eyes, looked, Mr. Rice took the name this to a Buffalo corre- eur, |spondent who felt eure he had been and | blessed at last. Mrs. Minnie's sugges- tion to “send It registered” proved her jruin, as the Post-OMice officials have a see | stack of registered letter receipts for One| Minnie wrote ‘o.ce | which Minnie +4 ta only, began to al- vertise her loneliness and capability for love in December, it Is believed she has received not less than $3,800 from correspondents, This amount at least 1s known to date. ‘There arc several counties yet to be heard from. INSANE BRIDEGROOM SUES. Wan Although Mi ian to Get Hid of His Bride of Bevember. (Special to ‘The Evening World.) NEWBURG, N. Y., Feb. 6—Williar A. Coutant, jr, who was privately mar ried to Miss Minnie E, Vaughan, of Cobbleskill, in Poughkeepsie, on Dec. 12, and subsequently became violently insane while on his wedding tour, has brought suit In the Supreme Court to annul the marriage. Howard Thornton has been appointed referee to take evi- as- of No. Ics his He her ‘This morning Justice Cullen, Inthe | hee eee eee ee tren es malt ane: wife will not content, as Supreme Court, Brooklyn, allowed Mra. | Jocked’ up. she evidently tx satistied to be tree Snellgrove $3 a week alimony and —--— from Bing, he ja on wb har sister, counsel fee, to defend the suit. - 5 be Py 0 “othe Bi eligroves Were. married sn Jan. GUINEE SENT UP. gauntey, Py Raving. OF Mia Btsarney, (0 1, ssc. ‘The co-respondent is one John - Had not Coutant: started proceedings, J as ieee Ris Children Rich and He Won't|!t 18 understood Mrs. Coutant would have done 80, alleging deception as 1 his financial standing Coutant claimed to be am Ilionaire, He was really worth nothing. GEN. SICKLES A LITIGANT. and, erm in December, for which she was to pay #11 in {U,,,{Ne penitentiary yesterday for and He Wants His Father's Valuable fereat, caturmine the sum, #4 tn weekly tne | Francis, “They will, it is, mai Estate Divided. Monday of iast week, Melville's ney my $49,000 when they are of axe, Gen, Daniel Sickles has brought suit to her house with an expressman, and carried NOW In the Catholic Protectory Sway a load of furniture bourht on the inca. . Guinee testified he Is a carpenter, and | for division of his father's property, at ment plan, Mrs, Van complained, and the in- being out of work, cannot pay the $18 &/New Rochelle. It amounts to about stalment company carried gray the furniture month bs ari for the children demanded | $5) 99, jelville’s nephew left bebin: py the Protectory, ra st Gen, Sickles was the only child by his father's first marriage. After the death 's mother, his father, les, lived with his house Bach of these daughters afterwards | eloped. One went off with a butcher boy | and another with a bartender, —— Zella Nicolaus Gone Again, Zella Nicolaus, whose connection with the un explained $40,000 Gould cherk will be reme ed, Was erigaged, according to the of an uptown music hall, to play in @ bu in which tights and a Kilt were to be worn, salary of 9300 8 week. On Jan, 2%, the day of the last rehearsal, rhe was met at the entrar ¢ to tho hall by an unknown man. and Ue tw drove away together in a cab, her elie wor her uusband can be found. a Odd Le About a Dying Man, Mra. Joba Hocking, wife of John Hocking, DON'T RUN THE RISK of spoiling goed butter, eggs and flour by using some cheap leaven. It takes so little of Cleveland's baking powder to do the work that the cost of one baking is but a trifle anyway. Bealdos, with Cleveland's baking powder | your baking {s sure to come out all right, and food will be light, sweet and whole- some. Remember, only rounded spoonful in required of Cleveland's baking powder, not a heaping spoonful, $20,000,000 DISPOSED OF. WHI of the Late John Hoboken, Filed. |_ The will of the late John Stevens, of Hoboken, was filed in the Hu County Surrogate’s office to-day, estate amounts to $20,000,000, Among the bequests ts $20,000 to evens, of the Trinity Church, in Hoboken, to wipe out a debt of $14,000 on the churoh and leave a fund of $600, A some minor be- quests the remainder of the estate Is equally divided be:ween the widow, Mrs, Mary M. Stevens, and the son,’ John Stevens: Among the small bequests are $5,000 ela B. Smith, of Gerryville, Va., and each to! Burrell McGutre, a t vy. and Mrs, Mamle ‘Me- Huire, a sister-in-law, The widow tx named as executrix, and Col. B.A. Stevens, a brother, and’ Pal- mer Campbell are’ the executors, The will (s dated Jan, 31, 1893, Trouble in aCharttable Soctety Over a Shirt and Studs Trouble arose a short time ago at a private meeting of the Young Ladies’ Charitable Boctety over an apparent de- ficlt in che funds collected at the so- clety's entertainment in the Lexington Avenue Opera House, The misunder- standing Was satisfactorily settled, but broken out in a new form. Ins Hannah Rogers accused Miss ina Newman, President of the so- ty, of stealing @ shirt front and three rhinestone studs, It was decked t unless Mian Rogers apolowizl the should be trled by a jury of five girls from the noclety and a {uige. The date of the trial is fixed for Bun- day, Feb. 17, Myer J. Siein, Chatrman of the society's executive ‘committ may act an Julme, Tf so, he will be the only Man connected with the case, -—— “JACK” DONOVAN AGAIN. He Insults a G ia Sanity Quentio “Jack” Donovan, a sport, was ar- raigned in Jefferson Market Police Court this morning, charged with annoying Miss Lola Sanders, a music teacher, of 18 King street. According to Miss Sanders's story, the was going home through South Fifth avenue last night at 19.8), when Dono- | Van spoke to her, She started to walk on, but he followed her. On her re- fusal to talk to him, he spat in hes ace, Miss Sanders called Policeman Hag- gerty, Who arrested Donova |, Detovan, was arraigned tn ‘the Tombs in Juli for attempting suleide, and Is said fee aT ve once been in an asyl Justice Taintor this morning committed him for examination, DIVORCES NOT SO EASY. Judge Pryor made a ruling to-day that will cause a departure from the usual proof of tnfidelity In hotels in cases of divorce, Ella Hahn sought an absolute divorce from Charles FP. Hahn, whom she married Oct, 9 1X1. Hahn is tn business at 19 Crosby str shown he had entered the F with another woman a menth ago. ‘There was no proof of where they went except that the hotel register wae pull in evidence showing that the defendant “and wife’ was on register. ‘The Judge says this evide is not sufficient, as he cannot infer they red.a room. The Judge adds Evidence suggesting at most a veh ment suspicion, Is ineffectual to a disso- lution of the marriage relation, QUARRELLED OVER A WOMAN. The Mem Were in Sleighs and Came t. Blows, A sleigh driven by Arthur W. ruthers, and a woman said to be Miss Beverly, of Cincinnati, came in collision with Bookmaker Maurice Vernon's sleigh at the Park entrance yesterday after- noon. the name of the Miss Beverly was thrown out, and in- stead of helping her back into the sleigh Carruthers simply laugh: Vernon, remarking that “Carruthers waa no gentleman, hebped Miss Beverly into his own sleigh Carruthers then became angry 1 ck at Vernon, knocking off his hat en were ‘separated, and, after her attempt to fight, parted, ag ing to meet again and ‘discuss the af fair, HE LOST 28 POUNDS. ‘Thomas Powers, who for several years was employed as cashier by Delmonico, left Bellevue Hospital last evening, his obesity reduced twenty-eight pounds, Mr. Powers entered the hospital Jan, 7, weighing 32 pounds. His constant) ihereasing fat was a source of mu discomfort, interfering with the di charge of his duties. Upon the solicitation of friends he be- came a patient at the hospital with a happy result — - fem the Sheriff, $250 Horse W atioe Eh motion of Abr peremptarily o an order today ff Tamyen to turn w | aWwyer, 4s a common-law wite for many years, and finally married 1a |her publicly. "Their three daughters | ea. ted as bridesmaids at the ceremuny ta he had bought. Groner au innocent hol — ymouth, Ind,, Building Burn PLYMOUTH, tnt, Fob. Fire early this royed [Mo Weton @ AN OPEN LETTER To the 53d Congress. | See Here, Boy I'm ashamed of letter while husband was dying trom Me». | you, ou can get all the money you Long Comfortably fir Auk yours, Hey he, Om’, Svlnng hee tee" | want from our own folks on a popular Short Carefully .. ics of temperancee stra “itsting ‘burger |. |loan— just as easy as you Wide and ~~ Sua herdes tal ena can eure the worst sort ot - a i a Cough or with a Go-cen aves $285,000 to His Daughter. | botle of Narrow Courteously eT cman . Lesvos Deen) (0's ar [Pont J 17 Ry mn street eT 20, Aiet rot With Bon Marche Gloves Ingen gsm omen mes m gen a. na et 204] BAKER'S EXPECTORANT 7 ™ Seneenyene uriprewaventr™©e weet sc-v one) 9TT: Vr GUIs Ot HONE TTT ET SnTTEETEE TS” ttt nro ne eesAanEeiiiomeeena te —_ 1804, We're not doing business for profit now—simply preparing for neat year. Two-Thirds of the | Overcoats from our Bos- ton Store, recently closed have been reduced to Ourbusiness is to sell clothes, not to keep them, That's why we sacri fice the prices }on these Bos- ton goods. We don't believe it pays to keep them till next season, even if we loose a part of what it cost to make them by selling now. That’s the reason—not the excuse—tor this Where? movement. Lama Thibet Overcoats, cassimore tin ik Melton Overcoats, worth § fu t bng. Melton Overcoats, were $y #10, ade Ker Overcoats, worth $25— 319.50. A grades Kersey Overcoats, worth $jo—-$1§ ¢ Irish Friese Cisters, worth $25—$15, ed Overcoats, were $125,860, $8. Genw Fur Li E. O. THompson Taitor, Clothier and Importer, 245 Broadway, Bet. Park Place and Murray 8¢ HER HOUSE BLEW UP, Mrs. Homans Roused by an Early Morning Explosion. The Boiler Collapsed and the Gas Pipes Burst. Neiwhbors Thought at First There Was an Earthquake. The new, three-story brownstone front residence of Mrs, E. C. Homans, wife of the broker, at 305 West 75th street, was al- most wrecked by an explosion this morn- ing. It was the boiler in the cellar of the house, which supplies the heat, that exploded. It has not been ascertained exuctly what caused It, Of such terrific force was the explo- sion that the firemen believe that had It not been that the houve is comparativery new and strongly built it would be in ruina, The explosion forced through the various through the house, and register heads In every room were blown completely out. The water pipes burst, flooded the rooms and gas pipes also. burst in several places, filing the house with the oor, ‘The meter was destroyed, and. shortly after the explosion the ping | kas at the meter caught fir the kitchen and burned so flercely that some | of the neighbors who had heard the explosion rushed to the place and sent | Inu tire alarm, Mrs, Homans the mean time rushed lightly clad, and stood in the freeging coll “for several minutes before they availed themmcives of the hospitality of a@ neighbor. ‘The voller was In charge of a man em- ployed by Mra, Homans. fie was supposed to be on duty all night. When the ex- piosion occurred he vushed from the house rubbing his eyes, as if he had n asleep. He seemed to be complete- dazed e shock, and could give the heat up pipes leading threo sons in| Into. the etreet and ly no explanation ag to what caused tt, he sound of the plosion was heard for two blocks, and created eomething of a panic in adjacent houses. Neigh- bors feared it was an earthquake, as their houses trembled under the concus- tion, When the firemen arrived they made an investigation, which s:owed that only the gas escaping from the mete) was burning. | This they extinguish re turning off the gas in the stree 6 fire had made no headway and did not extend above the cellar, The living portion of the house, how- ever, Was wrecked by the flyiug regis- ter heads, and numerous pictures and much juable bric-a-brac were de- stroyed. It was some time after the explosion Mr. Homans and his family re- 1 to the house, and when they did to, it was to find the place flooded with water and all the furniture more less damaged, suse the water Was cut off from the boiler, EXPLOSION OF A RANGE. A Newark Woman Seriously tn- ured by Pleces of Metal, NEWARK, N. J., Feb. 6—Mrs, Jacob | Fearing, of Garside street, was probably fatally injured this morning by the explosion a both attached to the range. The for 0! caused tne coal in the range to fly o} the room, f the red-hot coals tenited Mrs. | ing’s dress, [t wax put out quickly Pleces of the botler struck Mrs, FP Jing. It Is thought she will not recover. — Woman Fi GRACE, Ma. F ug fire Mra James Tot, Wane Killed, | A team of horses attached to a wagon of t nm Brew ampany, One Hundred and B.goth 4 Oue red ant Ninth streets ant S Pi rack by @ southoound N at One Mundred and T kK this morning, Crushed to Death by a Track, An winknown young man, nineteen years of age, ed to death by a truck at 9.30 this was leaving the ferry-boat ¢ Liberty street The truck Took a $10,000 Dite, Mw. Church 8 Tr Augun Bleventh @ kley says the horse #houl ales. or The Fire Department and the police | Unable to determine what caused Xplosion, It is thought by some It WATERS PIANOS Elegant new style 74 octave, 3-| stringed WATE RU pright Pianos, | | with full iron frame, pedals, ivory keys, and repeating action, | *” $225, Send for Catalogue, with prices and terms on our new THREE-YEAR SYSTEM. The loweat prices and easiest terms ever ofiered on strictly. first- cla-s pianos. HORACE WATERS& CO. 134 Fifth Ave., near 18th St, Amusements. METROE GRAND OPE HENRY E apni Toonixht, Cavalloria 1 ot. Fri eve, Feb. 8, fiewt time Santon and Dailia, Ke Romeo et Jullette, Feb. 9, at popular prt Manor Bv'g Ret 10. tase (butt one) Sun, eon Feb. TL fast time. Carmen Evening, Feb. 12, extra performan: ‘aus Purim “Assnctatte thet ew Charities tnd Hine, 1 Attleaine French. Cooks’ Ball. GHAND EXHIBITION OF CULINARY ART FROM 2 TON ANE TO. Va NSar ani FEB. 6, 1895. STAR THEATRE, Mat. 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TONY PASTOR'S “fest "| DORA SEATENEL RDN. NIBLO'S. piss qaRNA TU rimiene nae /SEVEN VICTIMS TO FLAMES. Whole Family Perishes at a Fire at Omer, Mich i Hot Stove Pipe Believed to Have | Caused the Disaster, DETROIT, Mich. Feb, 6—A spectal vo |The News from Standish, Mich, says that the cntire famiy of John Bock, con sisting of himself, wife and four children, b at Omer. It is @upposed that a which passed through the [the fire. The bodies were yond recognition. w NEWBURY, Mass, At 5 o'clock this morning, when mercury registered 15 degrees 0 zero, flames broke out in the two- frame house on Newton st by the families of Mrs and Mosses Stunw so rapidly that the urned to death this morning hot floor, caused churred t stover Feb, 6. t oc Th occupants had barely spread fire time to escape In their uight-clothes and | seek shelter a neighboring house. They were ba bitten. — Mrs, Carr, who is oy years of age, fs thought to have been fatally frozen The house was completely destroyed, Special Notices. HEALTH Is ECONOMY, nan do as much work ax two men under the weather.'’ wud do It bette Wot RIPANS TABULES iu the office will jerk-bire, 884.00 for thin Pastor Suit, covered with SILK BROGM> TELLES, all colors five pleces, WORTH DOUBLE THE PRICE, CASH OR CREDIT amine our stock of Parlor and Bed Great bargains in CARPETS, SOL. HEYMAN & CO., O93, 195 THIRD AVENUB, BETWEEN SOTIL AND GUTH STS, Nefore furnivhing we invite you to call and room Peek: ture, Amusements. HUBER'S $+" MUSEO ONLY Mees a Sum INT Laugh and Grow al QUT NOT UNTIL YOU HAVE SEEN THE PAT LaRY SPRINTERS. BEY'S THEATRE. ad awe are BEERBONM TREE. Compaay, And his. 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