The evening world. Newspaper, February 21, 1895, Page 1

THE WORLD IS THE GREATEST LABOR EX- CHANGE IN EXISTENCE. A 20-WORD SITUATION WANTED ADVERTISE- MENT COSTS BUT IOCTS, PRICE ONE CENT. GHT DITION ‘SOLVING THE LATE MYSTERY, ee ‘Arrest Made in Hoboken in the Knoop and Seims Case, } IS JOWN BORAMANN THE MAN? Property of the Asphyziated Youths Found in His Trunks IDENTIFIED BY A HOTEL MAN. The Chain of Evidence Considered to Be Unusually Strong by the Police. ‘The police of Hoboken think they have the man who knows something about or fe responsible for the death of Henry Knoop and John Seims in Miller's Hotel, Breadway, Williamsburg. JOHN SEIMS, | | | (“Circulation Books Open to All.” | SHOPPERS IN APANIC,[GRABBED DIAMONDS.|HOW THE BOND GEORGE wastinctoN PL Runaway Horse Takes to Side- w alk in Feurteenth&treet, ee ae Bold Robbery in Maiden Lane Early This Afternoon. NEW YORK. SALE PANS OUT Two Young Women Knocked Down| Thief Is heeeien ot tie Worth Uncle Sam Loses $8,418,757, and Badly Bruised. ople Trampled on Kach Other in the Effort to Get Out of the Way. Way horse created a panic among shoppers on Fourteenth street this afternoon, and before it was cap- tured it had knocked down and severely brulsed two youag women guests of the Hotel Normandie. ‘They are Miss F. B, Smith, twenty-seven years old, and Mi: A. E. Emery, twenty-five years old, both from Pittsburg. It was just after the noon hour, and the turong of shoppers was reinforced oy hundreds of clerks of both sexes guing to and from their luncheons. George Von Gelises, of the Willlams- burg Glass Company, way driving across Union Square in a light wagon, Just as he turned into Broadway a cable car swung around the curve on its way downtown, Mr, Von Gelises did not notice the car. There was a collision, and the wagon was smashed. The wreck- ed vehicle, with the horse plunging mad- ly to escape from the traces, was drag- ged a distance of thirty feet. Mr. Von Gelixes was thrown some distance, but escaped with a few bruises. Women who saw the accident screamed in sympathy for the driver, but their cries were quickly turned to shouts of alarm as the horse extricated Itself from the ruins and dashed madly along Four- teenth street, Up to University place he kept in the middle of the street, but at that point he ran to the sidewalk on the south side. The walk was crowded with people. Just where the horse reached the curb there was a nurse girl with @ child in & carriage, and two other children by her side. In her effort to get out of the way the carriage was turned over and the child was thrown out. It was roiled up in a whole lot of clothing and w: not hurt. $1,000 Are Recovered, Fox & Co., Lapiduries and Importers, the Victims. Policeman John Van Arsdale, of the Broadway Squad, while standing on the corner of Broadway and Maiden lane, At 1.80 o'clock this afternoon, saw an undersized well-dressed man dash by across Broadway. At the same time a clerk, employed In Fox's jewelry store, 1 Maiden lane, rushed from the store, shouting “Stop thief!” Van Arsdale gave chase and captured the man after a short run, and took him back to the store. The manager for Fox & Co, charged the privoner with having stolen a quan- tity of diamonds. The prisoner, though refusing to divulge his name, acknowl- edged his guilt, and Policeman Van Ars- dale took him to the Tombs Poll Court, where he was remanded to Police Headquarters until to-morrow When sbearched the prisoner had In Oia Possession fifteen diamonds, valued at $70 In the .caregate, and a bag of tur quoises, wor.) about 25 cents each, mak- Ing an aggregate of something over $1,000. in addition to the jewels he had two pocketbooks, a buneh'of keys, (wo silver DAI a dozen nv an-tlewets. for various articies of jewelry and a number jof business cards, 'T! re in scribed; ‘Joseph T. » dealer in diamonds precious ston 108 Fulton street.” ‘This he claims name and business address. Sergt. Killilea, who was in charge of the ective Bureau at Headquarters, at once recognized the prisoner as Jo- seph Keepers, an old-time di with a Icng record. He About ten years known as a very suc sful opel his Ine, and earned the reputation of being a most daring and skilful thief Keepers’s career was cut short about six years ago, when he was arrest sent to prison for a short term, n gaining his freedom he o called on Bupt. Byrnes at quarters wien the latter was In charge pers, J is Then @ regular panic cnsued. Many fell and were trampled on by the others. Mise Smith and Miss Hmery were in the throng in front of Baumann's furni- ture store. They joined the rush to get out of the way, but were late,~ ‘The horse struck Miss Smith first and she went down like a shot. Miss Emery, standing beside her, went down with her, The horse rushed over them as they lay and dashed into the hallway of 18 Kast Fourteenth street. A flower stand, owned by Nicholo, a Greek, was in its way. The stand went over like a bunch of straw and a shower ‘The prisoner under arrest desoribea| of violets was sent over the sldewalk, himself John Bohamann, thirty-four Nicholo's son Michael was standing by years of age, a bricklayer, of 387 Wash-| the stand and ran into the hallway. The ington atreet, that city. He answers the| horse followed him and squeezed him description of the man Mr. Archansen, of Washington street, caw with young | horse’ Knoop and Seims when the left on Sat- urday afternoon. He Is tall, stout, and has a dark mustache, the description being exactly that of the man seen with the two young men by the help around the hotel, HENRY KNOOP. Bohamann denied all knowledge of the two men; sald he did not know them, and had not been in Williamsburg lately, He was removed in a patrol wagon to Headquarters, ‘The Brooklyn authorities were notified @f the arrest, and wore told to send a detective with one of the help of Mil- er's Hotel to see if he could identify the man under arrest as the person who was with Knoop and Selms on Saturday Right, and who left early on Sunday, It is said about Hoboken Police Headquarters that the accused man's apartments were searched and his be- longings removed. On opening trunk, it {8 alleged, a small clock, that stood on the mantel in the room occu- pied by Knoop and Beims in Miller's Hotel in Williamsburg, was found. Other things which are known to have Lelonged to the dead boxs are also al- Jeged to have been found in the trunk ef Bohamann. ‘The identification of Bohamdnn w complete. Detectives Hayes und Camp- bell, of the Brooklyn police force, who went over to Hoboken, are sure they have the right man. Nearly all the money an dother articles belonging to the two murdered vouths were found in the possession of Bohamann, In his room under the carpet was found $200 of the $250 which hai been taken from Knoop and Seims after they had been asphyxiated by the gas In the room. Thre were pictures of the youths in hie trunk; pass No. 340 of the Hoboken Ferry Company, which was issued to Selms, was found In his pockets, also a photograph of Knoop's girl. ‘A way bil) of the D.,, L. & W. Rallroal, known to nave been In the possession of Beims, wa salso found among the effects trunk with all the other missnig ‘AS eon an these discoveries were fade the defendant was arraigned be- fere Recorder McDonough and confront- @4 with the evidence against him. He —_— against the wall. The boy fell at the feet, The horse then pushed its nose through @ plate-glass window in the hall- way. Tho window was worth $20, and Was owned by the National ‘Wire Mattress Company. The animal got its head caught fn the opening and was held there until Patrolmen King and Mitchell came along and caught him. In the mean time several men had car- ried Miss Smith and Miss Emery into Baumann's furniture store, and an am- bulance was called from New York Hospital. The ambulance surgeon found that Miss Smith's teeth were loosene. and that she had an ugly cut in the ak of her Rend. ing $16, 4 ler purse, containing $1¢, disappeared during’ the. excitement. ‘She docs not Know. whernee whe dropped it or had her pocket picked, Miss bmery's knee was badly scraped. Both the young women were suffering from many contusions and bruises, ang thelr dresi which were costly’ and stylish, were torn and daubed all over with mud and slush, They declined to go to the hospital, and were driven in @ cab to the Hotel Normandie. For th next half hour the storekeeper: th neighborhood were kept busy admini: tering restoratives to half-fainting and hysterical women and children, "The number of the car was the un- lucky thirteen, ——____ Rent houses, rooms and apar ments thro: Fo teen words 30 cents, and 2,000,000 people will see them. Watch The World's Wants! At the Press Club Poros DEPEW SPILLS WINE OM FATHER BOOKER saeco of the Detective Bureau and requested his Which the Syndicate and Its Friends Will Divide THE PUBLIG 1$ ALSO GULLED | It Pays $73,600,000 for Bonds of the Face Value of Only $62,815,000, WALL STREET GREEN WITH ENVY. On ‘Change To-Day the 4 Per Cents. Are Quoted at 119 Bid and 120 Asked. Wall street could talk of nothing else ‘his morning byt the consummation of the big vond deal of yesterday, the enormous profits which have reaped at the expense of the United Stat vernment by the clique of shrewd jinanciers who manipulated the transaction, | The more closely the situation ts ex- amined the more astounding and ineredi- ble It uppears that the officials of the Government shoul have failed to fore- see the outcome of their contract with jthe Rothschili-Morgan syndicate, and have permitted the Treasury to be prac- {cally buncoed out of a sum that Is qual to nearly 15 per cent. of the en- | tire Joan of $62,915,000, | Experts have been doing a Iittle fgur- jing on the various transactions which have taken place since the contract b tween the Government and the synilicate was signed on Feb, 8 an] with approx- imate uccuracy show just what the Uncle Sam Starts for Home. “He went back To the town of Hackensack, With a little bunch of whiskers on his chin.* most penitently that his photograph be taken from the Rogues’ Gallery Keepers said that he had determined to begin a new life, and in order to du wo would like to’ say to those who trusted ‘him that his picture was longer in the gallery at Volice Hi quarters. Byrnes refused to comply with kK era's request, but promised to as him in his desire to reforn Keepers was evidently in ¢ gained the confi | other downtown him to well goods however, it is said th ony badly with him, to hia old methods. Maiden b Nf business late, he re- has sorted Dinner Last Night. - axe Wall street speculator turn gre [public at that price, howeve: ernment has lost as a result of Its deal with these sharp financiers, and Just how much in the way of profits has gone tito the Jockets of the job- \ It Is a showing which makes the aver- a with envy, Such « rich ang juicy plum Was never before known to fall to the lot of uny party of Government loan manipulators, It simply smashes all previous records, rhis is the way the account stands The face of the loan is $42,315,000, for | whi h the syndicate paid 10449, thus bringing into the Treasury $65,112,983 in | gota, | The apparent profits of the syndicate [4pon the first sale of the bonds (o the publle at 12 1-4 amount to $4,835,044. How much of the loan will be secured by the is a prob- lem that has not yet been solved. The general opinion is that the bulk of it Went into the hands of inside jobbers by. @ prearranged deal, and that the public, who will eventually take the bonds fur investment, will have to pay at least as igh as Lis 'for their purchase, The pa Pays 873,500,006 This will give a profit to the insiders wie they may be, more hati 00, so that in the end the publi Will pay for the bonds a sum equal to wbout $73,600,000, which the United States nent might and should have t from the sale of its securit th tation, the in its deal While the friends will 8 profits, all m al of less’ than two { the slightest worry In fact, It was « perfectly shut game with them from ie 1s fa man who was the chief mo: mg Out this brilliant scheme and while Wall st vious of Success, It cannot admiring him for the cool and busin like manner in which he went abou It was he who enlisted the inte the great European banking houses Kothsehild and J. 8. Morgan & « formed the syndicate which was te Vnele Sim out of the financial muddle in which he found himself. He showed himself to be a very sim- (Continued on Second Page.) 100 ¢ German HURSDAY FEBRUARY 21, As Overwhelming Favorite, Wins the Third at Arlington Bolivar and Jolly Boy the First Two Winners. Rumor That Alexarder WIL Re- sume on March 1, (Spectal to Th RACE TRACK, 21.—The flelds to-day were utterly devoid of class, but, less, betting was quite brisk. State Attorney Duncan has been notl- fled by the State's Commissioners that the law has been violated at this place by the forelgn book allowed, and that he must punish the offenders If the book Is continued, ‘The heat race, which the feature of the progr has been declared off { and @ purse event subs McKenzie was suspen lefinitely for poor riding on Mickey Hin the third race. ARLID small neverthe yas to have me to-morrow, r leis of entries FIRST RACE. Five and « half furiongs Starters, 2 (Brewe 306 (Taylor) Jim Re," 195 4S May Ke, 100 (Hayes) King Bird, 109 (Bender)... Jim R. led for a quarte var passed him and was wards headed, winning easily lengths. Red’ Star was sec lengths before Jim Rk. ‘Time SECOND RACE when Holl Six furlongs starters Hoy. 100 (Hayes) Fiicarl » Pieearto and er eoatenders for half Jolly Boy’ jolned them. Peter at the turn into the sireteh Tead, and it looked as win, whea Jolly Boy and’ nipped him “arlo Was third. wher wou Mont a length away. ‘Time THIRD RACE rive furlones ' toy (Dwyer) woos ay, 100 (Mayen 12d «Panwy) fs (MeKensi Starters, Bordelaine £ Asiana Kel M Welxhitx 4 (andr ao TL nt won ‘a gelding Wis se filly was thir ‘Time—1 LONG SHOT AT NEW ORLEANS. + Captures TRACK, % Like out largest two weeks en here in ove FIRST RACE Mit. Fin, | i (Hardin) o ‘ 71K ‘ 7 » lead soon after the up all the way len wel + CON LUCEY AGAIN, 1ky: i] | position six lengths away, Time—1,08 1-2, } OND RACE, Selling: six: tur! Betting, Bt 108 Merger) Hit. Fin, man, has aw 88 isla | Avronaut, 10s tehnigne fitow wi 1M Seat) Luke Parks jumped away in front to a poor start, bur was sed by Joe Woolman, who led the rest of the Way and Won ‘clevery by a length from Springtime he latter was six lengths before Luke Park, whe died away in the stretch, ‘Time 1.24 34 THIRD RACE Notting aigatF Taylor ilasiten, Holly wood wou Dapinie was st Jack was third 1.07, WORK AT GRAVESEND. reds ing Inte F Thaw pat Tracks. J to The Eveuiug World.) SEND. Feb, 21 outlook for racing, us State, nus created the asm among racing men at this thust- usual in ery and Rel | dase rit ‘he | amended so that tts provisions will ben- away somewhat | ;, Several stab! horse the full mile Kall A bay horse rhdden by a colo was brought on the track at IH tine and Worked six. f Supposed Uhat the Houlevard from Brighton emerged from the. old are Low working their der the two-minute boy lock up t 1 kaon /olub gate and galoped towards Brighton who were present tees name ividual ELLIOTT WINS THE MATCH. tee Vea) The third Hillott, ef Kan ford, of Uttew L binds & <8 Into very forwary AL Meriva yunds to. ' outhwest ple Were Hf bind four ty-first rds ifty, mise twe ninth m | ow t us fest twentieth, hth, twent thirty-fourth birds The final score ing 1 was: Elliott, ; Ful- HARVARD-YALE BASEBALL. s | | If a Tle Results the | Decided # CAMBRIDGE, Mass. 21 }dates for tie Harvard-Yale baseball | wames have as follows June 2, at Cambridge; Jur at New | Haven. of > will be played June eb, le, a thind gar a0 New York ty-elwht em | gambling. ip in to-day’ uation wanted inement costs but 10 cents, hb The World's Wants! em WILL Be | The | ATT AND THE REFORM CHERRY TREE. He Has Not Done It Yet With His Little Hatchet. | The favorable | ‘TI String | are | boly of turfmen thie afternoon attended TWO MILLION PEOPLE EE THE “ BOARDERS WANTED” ADVERTISE- WORLD'S Circulation MENTS IN THE WORLD EVERY DAY. 14 WORDS 30 CENTS. PRIC 7 mois Van, Sag COMSTOCK’S TIRADE, Condemns Horse Racing Before the Assembly Committee. Allowed First Inning at the Gray Bill Hearing. August Belmont’s Speech Knocks Out His Main Argument. (Special to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Feb, 21—A distinguished a hearing on the Gray Racing biil before | the Assembly Committee on Codes, ‘The party includes August Belmont, John Sanford, Dr. Gideon Lee Knapp, James R, Keene, J. N, Galway, David Bonner, De Courcey Forbes, Jobn M, Bowers and A. L. Auerbach, who rep- resent the general racing interests of the Btate. Arguments in favor of the bill were made by Messrs, Auerbach and Bowers, bill was prepared by Assemblyman Mr Brackett of the Saratoga tation, which member of the American Turt Cong! ich Is not embraced in the scope of the bill, The Saratoga people want the bill appears int efit the Saratoga track. The Assembly library, where the hear- ng was held, Was crowded with persons interested in’ the “sport of kings” when Chairman Robbins called the meeting to anider. Anthony Comstock, with # ttle lees hair on his head than when his last pactograph Was taken, wax conspicuous in crowd, By general consent he he bill and made rtest aainat the Gray bill that racing for stakes x those the bill pro- tion of the spirit of revised Constitution and the Penal He quoted extensively from legal ~ eambling rations of the bills per- Ing. he sald, one hundred boss encouraged the downfall of who forged and robbed for with which to gamble on horse a Vigorous 1 wax in, viol money racing You are axked to perpetuate this sort of thing in the interest of a few poor millionaire race track owners, —In_ 188 we sted some of the boss gamblers of the Long Island tracks, and indictments against these people still hanging. Upon leaving the court-room they went back to the race wack The stuation of this shamele: 5 18 responsible for nundi of gulleless » suffering of thelr wives ix this sort of thing sonment of Weeks, nd the disgrace ir Innocent famifes, Yet you are to continue and even encourage the system by which such crimes against the against humanity are to be continued “Why, in Saratoga a few years ago arrested men who were gelling Fr pools who Were peace officers of that county It has been urged that the develop- ment of the breed of horses depended racing. What If the breed i" if poor million eed horses without the ne of gambling, you had rr sell all your horses and buy a ‘There ty no evasion possible in ing matter. The Constitution lottery. or, In fact, any kind of shall be permitted in this of Quix! e r bette mule ‘The man who drew this bill was more knave than fool. He was posted as to every inion relaung to horse racing. I es here and asks you to declare that a race is not a game of chance and Is not gambling, when every court in the State has decided that any chance is If a race is not gambling, according to the law, I'd like to know what gamb- All there is to ft is that thi lin 5 A nly horse-owners want to prot | ebeiy tere xamblers while. they: (Contipued on Sixth Page) EDITION MAY AFFECT 85,000 MEN. Strike of the Building Trades Will Force Non-Afiliated Men Out of Work, DELEGATES 10 DEIOETO-H Work Stopped on the American Surety Structure and St Luke's Hospital IN SUPPORT OF THE WIREMEN, Both Sides Confident of Winning, and a Projonged Struggle Is Predicted. Promptly at noon to-day every work man employed on the two big structures in course of erection—the American Surety Building, Broadway and Pine street, and the additions to St, Luke's Hospital, One Hundred and Sixteenth! street and Western Boulevard, threw down their tools and went out om strike, : All of the men are connectad with trades afMillated with the Board of, Walking Delegates, The two buildings, with the others closed down ; make over 3,000 men who are out.. On the two building named would have been called out et an houp, Wut the’ Walking Delegates, well as the electrical workers, over the strike was ordered, waited until last moment to hear from the tractors, Gigantic Strike May Result. ‘The Walking Delegates will hold @ clal meeting at ¢ o'clock this at their headquarters, 1 Kast ninth street, and on the result pend the question whether the strike evi ullding art e Jetset ded to the bi At the same hour the peer oft fit tent ter % hind Bureet Both 'wenty- Ty are fully determined and mean te 1 last. As one of the this m to doughnuts that the big will be on before morning. At present it’ Orr San oer Building and ‘ee ‘Lakers’, ad ali work will cease at do" i ternoon on the new so] i Building ‘on Cedar’ street. ! men are at work there. May Affect Nearly 100,000 Men, ‘The Board of Walking Delegates com trol 25,000 men, all of whom wil likely be dragged into the strike, he are) a 4 + ; i 1 least 00,000 other mec! ever, .1 10 Way connec! Board of Walking Delegates, also be dragged into it, for the that they cannot work be Impousible for them to do so lal and proper Now that the intention of the leaders is electrical contractors all Not only will strikes be ings where wires and elec: have already been put fi elty and Brooklyn for which any eae. the electrical conatractors have them “will couse. Contractors Are Furious. other contratoors, bullders meabenn others, are Curtou it the ti have taken. ‘Th ve Ro f whatever with their mea, but have all contracts to put Inge, of parts of them, witkinne. Ume ie liable to mean @ . also prevent them from entering inte It Is known that the etron, protests have been mad their men, and even thi te Mediation’ and ligation tractors, however, remain They aay they are in no condi ‘hey think they are in @ win, and they are willing Undecta There are only twi others outside th of the latter, it over the au tilinrow tue wets, whic) strikes have already been or be'o dered to-night If the present prov ne Tew. Five Points M a thot Tnouse at One Hundred and Fovieth street and) Amaterda and ‘Twelfth street: ing on Fourteenth street. between At William street and Malden lane; Drexel Building, ‘on Nassau. atreet avenve and Fift: ighth street; the new Presbyterian Home. in. Brooklya, fifth street and Fifth avent enty-second, street and t, treet American. ‘Tract Soele Howpital, American surety ing-House, are Woing s0, but every will be also affected, Work om Outside of the electrical feel the effects of it all the same, fled ‘time, and every day other contracts, cal manufacturers to restore harmony. rant the demand for eight lot to do so, tors in the Associatlo: take w hand In ti Following Is a lst of bulldings Sran.me is carried out: Trove Directory Buildin e and Sixth avenues; the Wolf Bui enhayne apartment - house, Apar.ment and office buildings at Church and Cedar ing ang the new C! Plekets 5: all of the above pulidings nave been siarioned by ¢ as various Con