The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1900, Page 8

: 44 ¢ —— prSenaters’ Presitent| BECK-OLSEN, CONFIDENT OF VICTORY ‘Claims that the League ts Making a Big Mis- take in Dropping Wash. ——— » Dineen and Barry Sold to Boston _ chise, $45,000. to The Evening World) WASHINGTON, D. ©, Feb. 4—J Wagner arrived in Washington iy and confirmed the report that he pold Freeman, Dineen and Barry to “Boston club, receiving $7.90. | phatically denied that Mercer | Deen sold to the New Yorks or an of his reserved players, though he | ted negotiations were pending tor) of his stare Mr, Wagner said uniess something une foreseen comes to pase the Washington will mot be in the big | ‘@eapon, as the “big moguls” controlling H fhe ae Geatiny of the Kame had decided to DY ‘Of Washington and Baltimore in the ani Lovieville and Cleveland in West. His price for the Washington Club, as @iven to the League. was 51,0, "hel Permiasion io sell his players, oud the AMOUR thus realized was ty be deducted | oa Principal when the League sel A Wagner sald it would be the best @hing in every way if the Brooklyns Were transferred io this city, bur was of Opinion Hanlon would not do wo at i, thougn He imight before the 1 es ‘Wen over. , aamee is making a grave mis ing the National Ci tts a tar Beiter place for thy half of the (owns in Lie credit Mr. Wagner, “and you bey way bide my time, for leawy Come back and ask this ite ranks. i NOt back an association or join ogre team, ax | know the peo stand for it out for | if IT cannot have that 1) and hold my park. | of four years to} veul | ity to] ‘- = GANS AND ERNE. ‘The propored match between Joe Gans “i Frank Erne for the light-weight + pert of the world, which has hanging fire for a few days, will the decided at the meeting of the man- of both men this afternoon. Erne’s demands that they weigh In at pounds at the ringside, while Gans wants the weighing-in time ‘clock on the afternoon of the Hod at 3 0 dt ip Mkely, however, tha: be a compromise and that the jaBere wi in at 6 o'clock on th theo battle IARTLAND VS. MATTHEWS. a a eeTartians and Matty Mat- twenty-five-round bout, will at action at the prenewey or Club on Friday night. They md lost in the first round THE DIXON TESTIMONIAL. benefit, tendered wolent | my ‘ight, Who Wii box (our! th als brother | Jack, Tom | and Jack McCormick, Jim Cor-| be, seen with is Ruhlin “Doe : Jobn two-minute wind-up of the even. | twenty-round bout bet ween | den and “Spike” Sullivar pound: L. winds with DONNER 5: SALE 70 TO-MORROW. |: ‘The trotters of the string of the late Bonner were not sold the Tipton sale at Madison Square | {Garden to-day, According an: Mouncement of the auctioneers they will [@esitivety be placed under che hammer to-morroa. It was probably the anticipation that the Bonner horses would go to-day (ha! |* the large crowd ta the Ga: the announcement tha: the lot ‘Bet be reached until to-morrow came a+ @ disappointment. é consignments of Robert Steel, of séeiphia. and N. T. Kirby, of f Stock Farm, of Jackson: opened the sale this morning, ‘iehoush the bidding was lively, the | Prices obtained were as a rule low. Jargest three were paid for by| of Elmhurst, 1. 1. who Retginia, a trotting mare. bred med by N. T. Kirby, for $s Bowerman, of Lexington, Ky., Marry ©.. a pacer, con- for $7,500 — Price for) the Washington Fran-| days (Awnwal Assembly at 1 ‘This statement Evening World reporter & through his mansger, Jo! | Who acted ag an Snterp The Ap | grown to rei have of money-sun said of me in c ing match with Ernesr } world’s championship. 1 came here for honor your champion that stands between me nh: nd ft wan was dic to an {trick Olsen || wilt mi amainn my nine datiy Danish keoabie | rk con: i ne Comey wrestlers Who) ry Parkway After which | Ko and ‘ in F Schmid r visited the a horde hour pra with five-po im instructed int Roebe ; ut it isn true realize tha man m Roebe champ! Rowber tore 1] hounds th | | pa | ph | want to the champ) will furniah ] With a surprine | You may think and heavy the J will see that a ate 1educed I intend to ds iteen pounds weighing anoul 2 pounde {ain confident | wi. heat Roeder ave Ww 1 matehes and hav ver been defeated.” my Ke off sixteen American peu when | meet F because 1 am umey, bul y There i not tne | am not of wrestling that | don't knew and in the “ie coming This keeps ave been training for eleven daye wolgit. ten or nd will enter the ring | + DEATH KNELL OF THE HORTON BOXING LAW. The Lewis Repeal Boxing bill will come up before the Assembly to-day for # vote. It will undoubtedly be passed and rent to the Ben Mr, Lewis, the author of the bill, says “The bill only needed (he utterly wanton display of rowdyiam that oc- curred at the Broadway Club on Friday night to pass it right along, and here it \# right up to (he passing “I think the exhioition ef brutality at the Hercules Athletic Club tn Brooklyn last night is convincing of he necessity a reform in boxing ing athletics. ‘The very men who are engaged in attempting to justify boxing under the Horton law bave provided the best argument for the repeal of the law.” hhh hed dhe a FITS DEF WINNERS AT IS CALLED.) NEW ORLEANS. Sharkey Ready to Ar-|Weather Fine, but the range a Match with Track Suited the Lanky Bob. Mud Horses. Tom Sharkey simmons’s challenge has socepted Bob Fitz (Special to The Brening Worl!) RACK TRACK, NEW ORLEANS. Feb M4 —The weather here to-day was beau- tiful, being summer-tlike in every way so that the attendance was the largest in many days, The programme was not particularly attractive, for while the cha for a week. fret rank The track drying out that the sun shines on will agree to Tom © Rourke. arrived here from Philadelphia this af- manager of Sharkey ternoon, where he seconded the sailor in He told an Fvening World reporter that he open Fitzsimmons they were far from the show any signs of! the fact good and does not notwithstanding it would immediately a match with negotiations for and will latter's $5,000 within « | | ver the few | FIRST RACE We will insist on the condi shall Ko w nm that all the money winner eald O Ro he Was Inclined fo belteve that sincere in his desire to feht ‘the sailor, but now that and issued @ ” time in elir Sharkey Fits ntinue on his sug 160 a) all the running and from Swordeman, who Judge Magee. 4 \dirhmess made ported we will OND RACE ait & mile Metoyn © acoept Millers 48 vm fea meet him again * hie au Now i'a up L. A. W. MBETING, is claim . he We mean . ‘ " jane Wood went tothe fron: right after the start and led to the stretch. ld Pirate then took command and burl ness May Decide to Abando: trol of Racing. PHILADELPHIA W—-The Na- jtlonal Assemisly of the League of Amer can Wheelme | pronably be t |nemsion ever chief qui Ing, and those exercising wny fur Feb. o-day wha priant body. The jon deals with conmrol of rac spared oman mow y eld 18 «never headed. winning ridden hy two lengths. Princess Mat secured | the place by a nose from Ben Mi | Rho wag ihe fame dimance before Blink me Thind Race8ix furlongs —Won ty | er Crest. Dominis was second an: memer iailey third Fourth Race—Mile and seventy yards.— un vy Prospero, Cathedral Was second, nd Nilmat third a Ha) rack TRACK, NEW “ORT .EANB. o (he League! Feb The entries for to-meorrow's ontrol state that | TACs are as follows of horses wae better than any day | MLL aT. Prices Up and Down With Trading on Small Scale. ‘The opening figures on the Stock Bx- change to-day were unsettled and the volume of dealings was small. Barty fractional advances were followed by recessions. American Sugar opened 12, at 121-2, and reacted to i214 Federal Steel opened fat at 061-2, advanced to 5-6, and fell later below ihe opening. In the local traction stocks Manhattan up better than last advance night, but soon lost the HANGS IN and Brooklyn Rapid ‘Transit opened 1- 2| te OVER ROEBER, TELLS HOW HE TRAINS. Duluth, #8 & A Duluth 8 8 & AL Giucome Sugar Glucom Sugar pt | Ores Northern pt Hocking Coal Iilinole Central Inter, Paper lowa Central BATTLE OF OTEEL KINGS. | Frick-Carnegie Suit May Come to Trial in Summer. PITTSBURG, Feb, 14.—The announce- ment that the long-threatened clash of the steel kings had been finally precipi- tated by H.C. Frick filing a sult against Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie Strel Company, for an equitable accounting of the ex-Chairmen's stockholdings in the giant steel concern, created a sen- sation here, and was the chief topic in financial aad manufacturing circles to- y ‘The legal talent called into action by the sult is an a of giants of the wrofession in this State, with probable luminaries of naticnal repute yet to be included. On Mr. Frick's G, Johnson, of Philadelphia, who stands at the head of the equity lawyers of city; David T. Watson, of Pittebur and Willie F. McCook, for years the per~ sonal counsellor and intimate friend of Mr, Frick. Atrangely enough, Attorney Watson is the man who originally drew up the now famous “ironclad” agreement for An- drew Carnegie, and which he has now been retained to find a flaw in, and declared invalid. It ‘Maid that Mr, Watson spent the best part of three mouths in drafting |this inatrument, and when finished de- |olnred that It was the strongest paper of the kind he had ever formulated As yet little has come to light of the plans made by Andrew Carnegie to di fend his company's interests, although & Gordon have been at work for days in the Carnegie defense | Congressman John Dalzell, the senior member of this law firm, is not in Pitts. burg, and so far has attended none of @ conferences with Mr. Carnegie's ad- herents and representatives in the sicel company, Other lawyers of both thie city and New York are mentioned as having been retained by Mr. Carnegie, but Just who will really be opposed to the legal array on Mr, Frick's side cannot scertained ae yet. Attorney McCook said to-day that he confidently expected the sult to come to trial before midsummer, and probably Hg | mach earlier. Nerthera Pacific pt... XY Central, . EhY ry Quickmiver Mi Te Metropolitan was up 1-8 at 1816S, climbed to 181 3-4 and immediately fell to last night's clowe—1s1 1-2 was flat at the beginning and later Jumped 7-8, to 1067-5, subsequently re- Ceding to the opening, 106. Substantial gains were made in the! Railway list. The principal advances | were aa follows: Pennesytvania timore & Ohi Loulaville & N %8, New York Central, Northern Pacific and Missourl Pacific 1-4 each Coal & Iron made gaining about a point. pile lexues were irregular The general trading was A | the first half nour Weakness in Third Avenue developed before 11 o'clock and # 3-point decline followed on the reaction in the dividend | rate, The other local traction stocks in xyspathy. Tennessee Coal | and the general list a frac-| | Tennessee Kood JroRrERs The ¥ tive after The market grew dull and Jlower 1 ) ‘ommon lost 3. f best. Bonds were uulet ang irregular fhe Hubber stocks extended (heir de- elines and $84 respectively after the comanon stock ralli preferred & fraction, The ly became dull, tut pric at better inued dull and with weaknoss under bear ie Mail yielded 11-2. and | Federal Steel los Baltimore & Onio |fell below last night. Chicago @} | Kastern iinois advanced a point. De- mand from the shorts stiffened the mar- ket The closing was moder. hetive and firm “ai smell net oe for moat st total sales seals ee of spoke gens am ws) | Lew, Clow Ie « ws Amer Amer Atner Amer, Bj Amer. b Amer. Amer, Amer ty it 32°5 ‘Third Avenue! ¢ Kiroy, for $9, and|a proposition to divorce the League from who bought Amron, racing will prevail, On the other hand (ged by RG. Stover, of Paris. |the exponents of racim amsert that the } by W. F. Redmond, League will retain control of all meets Sites ging og ‘Thomas J. Keenan President of the re — ned, | League, presided at to-day's session Let unee| Whth Wen simon entirely devoted to ms were a discussion on “Gowd Roads +! The other questions will be taken up at (O-morrow's setsion when the elec- thon of officers will also be held. Con- | way Sams, of Baltimore, will soe be chosen President Cook, Rhode island, and it bee» av are candidater Hamper, or a for Hs dD. 4, 0 Brien ow Fit Rove—nelting: ots ts Care i 4 Firm Reco—Qelliag: ane, mile Hen Pros Wiicbet Liver Verageur Phidias . 52, ae | 22eee ain Lord Neville. Second Race—Melling Monday we 2 ype zecere 5. rece oa it Manes ‘Princess Mal . Hantivap: atx and g belt a) $4 _Coniane " ” Cotting: ” Seer Com » Neen: gS Fourth Kare 3859°*95 z. Fretinghureen Vorbesh pag%s3*3isszey**¥33 Bs3issa53¢* Es, guentzi fi pa pubite Steel pe. South Pacis South Railway ; ane m southern BL Hope & Twine Tea Coat & Tren te t U8 Leather pf % Ruler S Rubber plow. t t we LONDON STOCKS DULL Prices Irreguiar, with American Ienmes Aloe Qoiet and Irregular. The Landon security market, notwith janding (he expectation of a further reduction in the Bank of England's dis- count rate which will in all probability be made to-morrow, was dull apé ir- regular at the opening to-day, Consow were sieady. American securities, in common with the other departments, also regularity on a small Pennaylvania and New were the weakest features. a former, after r opening wihia a small fraction yous eeeey » close he: rely a pent bia) New Yi h Penasyivenia, reacted a 4 ral, in ail “!10 FUND 17,000,000 DEBT. Kohn, Loeb & Co, Will Tackle Big Third Avenue Job, and Keene the funding of the $17,000,689 floating debt jot the Third Avenue Railrosd. The notes by which the debt is to be taken ip are to bear 6 per cent. and will run three, sears. Ic is a@mitied that new inti have Be) oma Counse! the but it le the lie i i # 3S | Andrew | to sell Marae 96,000,000, and The financial war between Henry C. by Mr, Frick in a dill filed in the Court of Common Pleas, which asks for the nullifying of the transter| 27e** of him interests in the Carnegie Steet | Company. He also asks for an injunc- tion which shall prevent that company bg tare ns} Li participation of the bi Mr. Frick, in i) bill, ‘declares that to force b that this action wi mall a jovernber. Carnegie estimated that the net/ ee year 198 would amount (o ie now values the property 000, Riggest Freshet of the Hudson Simee 18BT—Watere Rise Over Kighteen Feet Reve: ALBANY, Feb, 14—Albany |s jencing the greatest flood since 1667, when the waters of the Hudson River [rose nineteen feet above the normal and did great damage here. Laat night the flood attained a height of eighteen feet two inches, which ts seventeen inches higher than any al- tained im the big freshet of 1998. Merchasts piece the damage done thus fer at half a miBien doliars. In the lumber district the damage was <i WEATHER FORECAST. " yorecast for the thirty-six hours end- ing & P. M Thursday, for New York City and vicinity: Fatr weather followed [by ratn or snow Thursday afternoon; fresh if tethers winds. ee ‘Treliev Car Wreeked. A trolley accident occurred to-day on the Montgomery street tine, Jersey City, which seriously injured « woman pas pai ft is almost certain that Dalgell, Srott | bey worth ot holding tod MDVCTED A DEAD MAK. | Deceased Was Ordered the Bar| for Trial Before the Fact Was Discavered. The Grand Jury to-day indicted a all Ht In the first degree, povered that the aaa was dead until Clerk Hall, in ties Newburrer’s court, called nis name this | afternoon for trial. ‘The intictment wa ver, who was urres assauliing Gy F. Mi avenue, at ‘oapect street. Hees fine Oe Ria arrest Ol time of jained to Magistrate Fiammer, that he Wi orrisanta Court, slek. “| want to go e a hospital,” told the Magistral That “night, Oliver dled In Bellevue Hospital from general 8 exhauation Inst Bert Oll- a week ago for . af 579 Union enue and One liver KILLED ( OVER VALENTINE. CHARLESTON, W. Va, Feb. 14.—C, R. Stewart, Brocer, died to-day from the effects of a shot fired by his son,| aged nineteen, in quarrel over a hh eid | assault yn her last night by th Mr, Stewart had received an valentine and had accused his having sent it. She denied the a tfon and he tried to assault her. when the son fired the shot and inflicted the fatal wound, TO CEDE 70 US ISLANDS. Neperted Ready ft he re Selling Phe | lien to Thie Country. | PARIS, Feb. 14—The correspondent of | the Temps at Copenhagen says it is re- ported there that a bill ceding the Dan- ih West Indies to the United States for twelve million kroner will be sub- mitted to the Chambers before the end io the present session. This is evidently untrue, at lesat for the moment. The Danish Government ir the past twenty-five yeers has irica's overtures, and It only during the last six months that ota negotiations have been en- te | Knews Only Wer Name ané SMrangers Trying te Find Her Home. The Finland Steam Navigation Osm- pany, of 16 Broadway, \s searching for friends or relatives of « Finnish woman Fhe sare ope to, Mrs. Johanna Anderson. She was found early this percise in Church street Detective ye she has lived in New Yark set Sears. but has forgotten her ad- “KIDS” FATHER ARRESTED Rev. Francis Selby Chabged br | Chereh Member with Aneaalt. INDIANAPOLAS, Feb. 14.—Austin L. Frick and Andrew Carnegie was begun | 1, First Born, had Leaeadl eae dilonizs father of “Kid” MoCoy, the arrested to- ory Rev. 4 is OW onal of the pe Churek of WENT 10 oi THE BLAZE, Man Who Made Threats Must Explain Flat Fire. Jacob Allen, twenty-four years eld, colored, residing at Bighty-eighth street and Columbus avenue, was arrested by detectives of the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street station to-day on * suspicion of having set fire to the five- story flat building at 2139 Seventh ave- nue early thie morning. The fire did little damage, but there 8 of excitement in the house, In- jon showed peculiar circum- :| stances connected with che blaze, colored servant om John C, Shid- Kilen Allen, a ployed by the janitor, More, was questioned. The woman sald that she was separe ated from her husband. He called on her last night and she dismissed him af-, ter hot words. He left uttering all kinds of threats, When the fire oceurred she | saw her husband standing in the crowd, He called to her saying: Ellen don't you know that the heuse is afte? I've come all the way from Kighty-eighth street to cell you abeut at ‘This statement led to Allen's arrest. a POUGHT 70 SAVE FATHER, Aaren Levy's Puny Arms Coola Not May Suleidel Parent—Jumped from a Windew. Delirious from fever, Aaron Levy, o cigar-maker, of 1063 Jefferson avente, Willlameburg, tried to bill himwelt tm # morning by jumping from a second-s‘ window at his home. He struck on bead and fractured his skull. The geons at St. Catherine's Hospital ti he will die. Levy's seven-year-old son, Aaron, alone with him, when he sick delirium grew worse. Mrs. Levy on the floor below preparing a q draught. Suddenly, with a wild cry, jumped from the bed and through the front room toward t windows. The boy wateher bra caught his father's night-clethes a: tried to hold him back, crying loudly hin mother to come. Lavy was very weak, but managed loge the bev aside ang jumped fro FINES BY INSTALMENT. Reed, a member of the Church of the|