The evening world. Newspaper, March 1, 1900, Page 3

7 f. DR. M’KIM’S REMEDY IS [SHOT DAUGHTER KILL! KILL] For 4 surcar Both Were in the Parlor and Three Bullets Were Fired. qf f New York Physician Tells How He Reached Conclusions in His Remarkable Book. { nd oe the universal bet- Dr. W. Duncan McKim, the author of] ure, bat fn a plan ” terment of mankind the wishes of the in- “Heredity and Human Progress.” who | Giviqual would have to tgnored. In fn this able sociological study advocates | course of time old arg on the Stale the killing of ertminals and degenerates, | W>' i die and it would tably follow as told in The Ev-ning World yesterday, | (hat b>, begtnstng, a8 f have sala. with told an Evening ‘orld reporter how he & came to advocate the startling propo-| There are (continued the Doctor, tn ' : ‘0 & question, ol sition. THe was seen at bis home, | doing ‘away vin’ oman 1 Which East Fifty-third street, to-day, [Would | etgseri as (ie one to ie eii- “My book,” said he, “was the result | ployed in my system? The old methods ef years of study on soctological prob- | Are out of the wane lems. I do not believe the idea of elimt- | horrence. Elec! ight be em nating the lame, halt and blind from |ployed, but 4 more simple and quite as direct a mode would be In carbonic acid the world {s a new one. but It ts perfect- ly feasible, and it Is plain that, once done, a great incubus would be removed from humanity “How this idea came to me ts a long story, but when I saw what benefits would accrue to mankind if it could be carried out, rmined to push my investigations to an end. b to say, I have not tried any experiments on human beings, but it is a matter of common knowledge how easily a n breathing carbonic gas passes from sleep to death. CITY DEATH HOUSES. For the administering of It lic officials could be inted and a pubile bullding in each city used for the pur- PRACTICABLE IN FUTURE. |20%,, The maintenance of the system would cost something, but in compari- “Now, the results 1 anticipated, #0/ son with the present outlay 6 ee 4 S othing, wou e a long time to far am practicability goes, convince M° ligure out the number, of “J a born that at no greatly distant future We] ints the world rendered unfit to support ‘all have institutions under the State's |themsclyes through no fault of their own, Those not in throng on the streets cripples, as ona “Moreover, death by gas w be easy; would entail no suffering. The © would breathe it £ naturally as oxygen and go to sleep for all time, in- lead of for a night. prefer- je such an end woul ©) cvellinnce 10 dispose of those persons of the rte pse physical and mental incapacity beggars A debility make them a burden to s0- pty. beth financtally and otherwise. “Think of the enormous numbers of {sane in our public hospitals; the deaf, umb, blind and aged in our asylums nd ‘homes,’ and you will be able to draw conclusions as to the appalling ‘@ums spent each year to support im- cites and degenerates “Ot course,” said the Doctor, settling into an easy-chalr, “the wiimination of sand Imbectles would be confronted 4 serious problem at the outset. Bhall we remove men and women who have been allowed to grow up burdens on our hands? That {s the question which speech or motion! young children the treatment would be humane, Th mm ww the yy would samp “Otten men steal for their families. Would such cases come under an unap- pealable jurisdiction? No, | think not bed a oye} as f by putiined i> it apply incorrigible char- acter atts Me would be included. arises. And In this connection the be-| What te moi Bens a ginning of the system would necessarily | Aare} pe Fal ee rouse antagonism among many accompanying details pertinent to the accused's previous record and © q i THER SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST. |S "ts tuburaeat otter’: Rave ‘apoken MOTHER AND if, on the Installation of the system | Would be called tg judge, Noo sy 94 a doom as t French Revolutionists went to the gull- otine. “Though Nature ts the source of life, he does not hesitate destroy what she has made when it suite her purpose. Tn following her example future genera tions would sim tain, by ellminat ing all that was useless, the ent de- mores mnt Ql bry e ton ef my system woul ‘8 compulsory work: ing out of the Malthusian dochine, benefictal Femult of the survival of the en of survival of the fittest, young children were examined physically and mentally by competent physicians and the diag- noses of thelr cases submitted to an im- partial tribunal, it could soon be de- termined whether there was just and sufficient cause for removing them from | the world. “It is true that parents love their children and would oppose such @ meas- wonder fs that many more did not lose their lives, ‘This fire, the fire at 1888 Second ave- nue, and the little blase at 1766 Third all started at the bottom of dumb-waiter shafts, where a good fue was furnished and where the mounting flames were almost certain to gut the upper floors, The police are going to round up the tenaats of the burned buildings and have their faces scanned by the agents who let these and other tenements vis- a | SHENDURY TORCH ILS Ritie Shot Her De + Hont This Morning. MRS. EUGENIA RIFFLE. sf Mrs, Eugenia Rite, the widow of a ted by fire since Jan, 1 to see if any of) 0% . {nutes before a policeman pul In » Three Freidner Children) them can de recognized. If they ta iveien of large practios ae on } Are B ‘at the police believe that they will have] aut Means, accldenially, shot her cig: re Burned to Cae eset will nepult in rane] teen-vear-ol! dvuehter Helen this mor) — SHOT, DIDN'T KNOW IT. h peta A abi y ing while ha with fright over the Death. Bi Nog Ay year the firemen have] Supposed presence of burglars in the) “Having alarmed neighborhood n two or more fires start-| houre retty effectuaily 1 and my daughters $ Ing almost at the mame time On Sah | "tee wound t almost exactly like that| grarted oack coward the talons rye 5 there were three in the same district. tPhree of the six tenement-house fires| OP Jan. 14 there were two. which led to the death of President|ing to get some wraps. At the door ah y Actct On Jan. 2 there were two. On Jan.|Garfeld, and like that from whleb/ Helen paused Which turned Yorkville upside down|q there were two, and within two h ‘ j Hel a Between 1140 and 1 A. M. to-day have|on the night of Feb. 3 there were two je fumed counsel of| ‘Mamma,’ she sald, ‘I believe | have » quickly been shot in the back, Will you look, Been found to be incendiary. In one of sthem three children of Adolph and jena | Freidner jost their lives. % The Friedners had two other chil- fires in cne block in Bast hty-ninth pearing the same family re- ‘ol ing is a list of the suspicious fires in this section since the jnping of the year, Four lives were lost in of forty-five or ls refined and Her hus street ck of Hethole. In her mck | found a silght grazing She sensit!ve—a bundle of rerves band died twelve years ago, leaving her forty-eight years. “ren burned to death in their former 4 ihicrne in Widridge street, and usd moved mmaring in addition to the three thi# |pole guardian of two duugiviers and @| wound mee aise Mas Yd " . rt id no, bw «had «a numb feelin t \@ Third avenue in order tc get| Jan. & 6A. M.—No, 9 East .|eon. For several years they lived In the | Sald no, ; Hise aatek sania, Ponder 1s Be |ainth strect BENT | Cha home in Hast Kighty-xixth street I told Oscar to dress himself and to ) The pollce have at last awakened to] nue #0 P. M.—No. 1 First ave-] Last May they movet to 110 Park | fo for Mrs. Dr. Le M ben tt, wm Wine tact that something must be done.| Jan. 611 P. M.—No, 172 Rast Wighty- /PAc® Brooklyn, and Icased ihe bane. Hee ‘Mp: che: rast ‘al’ Me, Kem SWither a pyromaniac of wondrous ninth street. ment and pa floor of the handsome jcame and attended to my daughter, The es 6 1115 P. M.—No. 198 Second | brown-stone two-family house there. wound tf of slight consequence. Dr, Barnett's description of the wound was different. It was more serious than described by the mother, THOUGHT BURGLAR SHOT HER. “We all supposed at the time,” con- \Jahrewdness and great industry Is at work, or alse a firebugs, willing to snerifice life mall gains, has |thir * moved Its headquarters into the doomed istrict. The fires this morning came in a bunch. The engines which respond to three alarms were all engaged © when the one at 1601 Third avenue was dis covered. The building was doomed be- fore the firemen got to work, and the 1210 A. M.~No. 386 Hast Ninety. ree 12, 1.4 A, M.—No. 17% Becond r A. M.-No, 2 Fast Eignty- ‘0. 1729 Becond avenue. P, M—No. 168 Third 2, 10.55 P. M.—No, 714 Third ave- 20, 6.15 P, M.—No. 333 Bast Bighty- ‘®, 9.20 P. M.—No, 168 Second avenue, . 1, BL—No. Third avenue. eb. I dab ti No. bs ast Kinety- vecond street. Feb. , 11.15 P, M,—No. 290 Bast Bighty- $A. M—No, 233 Bast Kighty- RICH PART OF TOWN. The neighborhood is a fashtonable one Across the way |s the home of Park Comminsioner George V. Brower and many well-known Brooklynites lve a the neighborhood. Many of the houses 34 supplied with burgiar alarms, There|(inued Mrs, Rifle, “that my daughter fs one in Mrs, Rime’s had been shot by the burgler, I had ‘Mra, Rie and her two daughters oc-|no distinct impression where the bullet cupied the bedroom at the back of the] went when 1 heerd the pistol go house. The daughters were Helen, eigh- | off, but suppored that it went Into the taen years old, and Edith, sixteen.|/floor. Of course, that was the shat Oscar, the fifteen-year-old son, slept 1B | which hit che poor girl ‘a middle room. These four are the O°] “When the police cupants of the house. the doors and windo' Living alone in this way in # house/ find any attempt to tamper with them. handsomely furnished, with sliverware) They thought that the burglar alarm ‘and jewels of value and other property | had probably been set going by the | which would make a good haul fOr | crossing of the wires with those of an- burglars, Mra. Rifle was in much dread | ovher alarm leading to @ stable some his | of them, little distance away. “] bought a revolver some time a#0,"| “After they had gone, however, | per- she seid to an Evening World reporter, | sonally examined the windows, the re- “and I learned to use it, too. 1 Used) sult being that I found that an attempt to practice in the backyard, and | am &/ had been made to open one of the back pretty good shot. on windows. The noise of the “My jpastol ts a gelf-cocker, Tam btieas frightened off the that the very particular also to see to Mre. Rime’ PAID HELP WANTS IN TO-DAY’S WORLD. » at, active in the wi remnant of ine "ala morning: Paid Help W: " papera combined, on foot to Pee ie de- to investigate with 365 Taare te at Pire|Durslar alarms are in gost condition ne een tie morning, Headquarters,” Col, maid, | and ready for business. Mre Barrett, the woman physician, “I “there were fire found the girl suffering from paralysis of a bullet entering ¢ between bo’ Sipes Inst evening and & o'clockt this ni ° “Thi te aac Mogg If there ROUSED FROM SLEEP. “We were all asicep this morning when , /) from the # the alarm went off. “Burgiare!" cried my daughters, ar all sprang out of bed together. nal column. She re 1 fixed her ray. and left her to recover | LIKE GARFIELD’S WOUND. “The bullet, 1 found af “| was terribly frightened, but I ran) entered the back about by bd ait to the mantle and took down the pistol. | inches from ¢ bad We heard no sound, and my daughters| Pierced the lower -|ran toward the front parlor and looked! + Gg body and out of the window. | followed. such a wound a that I stumbled over 1 remem- » : ber hearing pistol ge SW. We were/bullet. In Labori’s they all screaming at the top of our voices. | And that In what done. “Phen Oscar came running tn, He|! young and healthy. and her chances y {took the pistol out of my hand, threw he Sy eutet fer ihe up the window and fired two shots Into! presery, instructed her 1! yelled for help as) other not to let her see any callers Bho is unable to Ne, down. owing te a t in of t w , it “Im @ little while the sons of Com- in’around favaaeeae Oe SP Wy. ONS neighbors express much ay: ony 7 ‘that abe Ria tot ae there. It was field received, and fet it alone rt Be aowwecee Suwon vuua 13 Sy. YY ——. ih iaS REATEST SAVING "ON SPRING SUITS EK Sale of China and Glassware. Business goes on » Would be strange approached otherwise. Our are not The biggest bargains are here. | Do you desire to spend $ $7 2 |Do en cece onl ‘ a Set that represents. tf Tks doberior Potiesitade Mat 4 = Decorated English Dinner Set of 5 wrdnnr gly season— must go at once to make! one hundred pieces ? acme of richness and elegance ” ore epee 1s a good value at its former price, and this is by far] Makes no difference to which counter your taste and i greatest clothing come lead you, there is certainty in ée statement that money than any other store on this side of the Atlantl MEN'S SACK SUITS, MEN'S SACK SUITS, Ditto Glassware. Groceries. $9.75, $7.50, Good | WERE $18 TO $15, WERE $14 TO $10. The links uniting thrifty buyers to our Grocery Deg CHILDREN'S CHILDREN'S orn TWO.GARMENT SUS, | 1WOGARMENT AND VEST SUITS, Low Prices. | Pure Qualities. $3.50, $5, ag a safer ” stron re Of « WERE $6, $5 AND $4.50. not. The phrases are not merely figurative. are BOYS* Sack SUITS, parte are and decisively representative of our unyielding policy. $6.75, $9.75, Working along this line galvanizes . trade—holds tomers, wins new ones and keeps the business going WERE $10, WERE $15, $14 AND $12. Early June Peas, extra quality, case can, : Molineux. Produce testimony to show | who possessed sufficient motive to con- celve and execute such @ plot against Molineux, had access to Molineus's let- tera on file, malled that polson pa 5 carried same to the Adams flat ai ministered the fatal dose, would certain sized bottle-holder for @ drenser and bad a chemist as friend. WM. B. FLBCK, 98 Kast Nineteenth street, N. ¥. City, ly and constantly. Yes, the Grocery interest grows Sale begins Friday morning at 8 o'clock growth of the stove, IN OU “Red Star’ Coffee—Most of know it, Finest R TWO BROOKLYN STORES ONLY. Poke, lava ah gly Ma Broadway, Corner Bedford Ave, and Fulton St,, Corner Flatbush Ave, Roasted and ground daily, pulverized or OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS, BROOKLYN. the bean; price, per pound, 29¢. Ponies A firm, almost | y, vored, ap MANY WRITE TO SAVE 74c.; quart bottles, 24c.; pint $c. Bartlett Pears, grown in this State, whole fruit, heavy j quart jars, value 40c.; during this sale, 24c, . Lemon Cling Peaches, large luscious 4 @ California truit, per can., of two dozen, $2.49 ifted E: What Clever Persons Would Have Done|=** i un tus ts P Homestead Peas, as fla in Defending Him. tran cae of tro doven, te; can, 14 |Bamela Sedines, packed tn Snow-white California Asparagus, quility ; Sve-cent eee case of two dosen, $4.34 con 19c Sit make tour pints of ete low you have set about s@v-) Put Mr. amd Mrs. Wolineas om th fng Molineux had you been his counsel? rs e Wine. and arate nos || MOR eat a s en: ind B. ol Bi fore gird beat words, | 78® Jury demantat’ (nt, "Teastee| Whenever you need Wines and Liquors—for sc Bi for the fourth beet 10 vores: aven:| ere Innocent of the suosieg nants) medicinal use—come to yo 8S Our stock is al [tne World, P.O. Box i New Yor seninat them-criminal and semi-crimt plete—ALWAYS. The quality of every drop ards wit! bo announced in The | ste Cie, Dome, Ten, Could Savel strictly reliable—you know exactly what you buy Evening World Saturday, March & gered Bd 2 ey thelr accusers. here. And prices ?—of course. the | show o Piet Againes on the stant ie, sohandwriting expert! That goes without saying—but we say it f HOULD have beeen given as to handwriting; 1 woula| emphasis, admit the possibility of a person ad Dra, Scheele and Allen McLane other than Molineux Raving writ- th aca on the stand to contradict Ten the poison address with the ald of |e calexperts, 181IDOR WEL, certain of Molineux's letters to certain Ml Ridge street, city. Foe nee aera daar on| 4 Doubt the Thing Neegea, 1 | SHOULD have controled my temper! Finch's Golden Wedding Whiskey, eight years old, aged in wood, neue testy fhould have hed Moll and mellow, usually sold at 99c. per bottle, our price during this sale, | ave had Carvalho and other handwrit-|Qne Star Rye Whis-;Old Crow \hihey, | ener . Apt gdh ag ag ped key; gallon $3.98; bot- five years old; gallon key, : pink lhers ic yall dacs edit vaedlsgtond | Ty $3.24; bottle 78. $548; ron ied fawians Wiens Wee tan town sats Pale Ale, Robin Hood Brand, never sold at wholesale in 400 di heux several years to testify to his pre- lots for less than $1.20 per dozen; every bottle vious good character, Should have re- and in perfect condition; our price per dozen, 94c. ‘oe Bordeaux Wines, Boshamer, Leon & Co, jQuested presiding Magistrate to charge the jury i accordence with a decision R. WEEKS should have, in belect-/ of the Court of Appeals of this State, ing the jury, got young men near (hat "previous character of a M: Mfoltneux's age and standing if) son charged with crime ie sufholen posaiite, Mr, Weeks should have made) “Teste ® fi# ote Sree ory the momt effective defense possibl . . ¥. having Molineux and hie near relatives i. to do the same, besides having an ex- wares Things to De, pert forger to have forged Molineux's OLINEUX'S Jawyers should have handwriting, MARY BEECHAM! (1) formulated well-defined tine of @ West Trenty-second street, city, action; (3) adhered to it: (% fearleesly accepted first twelve men in Jury box (there was too much similarity 00 Bae ree oy Mttle bs me, Stare ot rareay m >: (given i rom ] ence convicted Molineux, “Twas| creeeevaminution to wecciee ence la| Claret, case quarts, $2.86; gallon, leap in the dark, unjustified H 8c. | Burgundy, case quarts, $4.18) aye unjustified un} dwelt upon weak points oniy: (®) as- hes vgpi4 eile te a Raion, gertverea leet ee metals direnener Zinfandel, case quarts, $3.46; gallon, $1.19, |Sauternes, case quarts, $4.99, throughout ; anewe: for blow, charged the enemy's e4- gy fod’ caey bene, Mi "3 Shirt tat ao Aah toe lite. Wee Tan] Comet Ganettaths “enn, TanenY: fense’” ion't legal evidence of gullt, it ; ; vee, of ri-arescemt paper by its manu-| Men's Unlaundered Shirts, bodies made of Utica Nom weersabsute ai tina of naling jostegs|or New York Mills muslin, three-ply 1900 count linen: Red Star Brand, guaranteed absol selected old” wine, the product of the choicest — pn ion der fe bl def placed ibis cudgel in the prosecution's hand: “If eee fee ees, | af don't he declare it on « 3 a . ‘That settles the Jury. re nie m witness stand:” (itt made|in bosoms, hand-worked button in TESSIE BUTLER STEVENS, $3 Jay otrest, Broskiyn. lack of mot! ne dF. YOUNG," | forced front and back, full-felled seams om Rest Fourteenth street, city. ltinugus facings, collar button protector on back of BOY BURNED 10 DRATH. | SAYS CROCKER 8 OUT, band, open back and closed bagom, sizes up to 18 inches, , 75c, values; our price, 48c. e Men's Laundered Colored Shirts, made in our own factory of fine per- Played with Paper at WRC? john W. Mackay to Sueceea cales, in a large variety of striped designs, all improvements, hand-wort- Saal cid ial a viesdrnsanne o aa ed button toe open tach a Prot two pairs detached cuffs, $1.50 jaca toa Oe Pare Oh we _ ore Paride Rativend. value; OUF PTiC€......cceecevereesserssscee seneeeee sere rene OMB wean ca te death to-tay ax bie home| "AN FRANCIACO, March 1 —The x-| Men's Laundered Dress Shirts, made in our own factory of Utica reine Ricardo fats, First street, Pas-| "miner My that Gecrge Crocker has re. | pareil muslin, three-ply solid linen bosoms. linen neck and sate Manes Os Tivener sot Gieend Vile back and open back and fronts, all Sizes... sees cess seve His mother left him alone for o few President of the Southern Pacifie Com- y 's Flannelette Ni Shirts, cut full and , carefully : siiatens We way. are Wb babar [oe 7 “ee 80 & Stveter and Prenisent een ree light pg | long - % poking |t into the stove, Hie cloth assortment striped designs, oe of the Southern Paeifie of California on bade Pond goign 06 SOUNDED THE ALARA [POLICE WANT HORE cosh Mr. Crocker, who is now in 3 phe York, has sent a telegram to this city DOG ——>— But Help Came to Mre. Falver- macher Tee Late, fer She POLICE RAND ILLICIT STIL, |: ap the positions mentioned. Georgy Crocker's successor as South- j Mrs. Ceeella Pulvermacher, forty- eight years, of 181-2 Rergen strest, him he w em Pacific @irector ts to be John W. Mackay. Blaberate Fittings, Valued at 95,000, Conferated and One Mae Arrested. An titlelt tii! at 61 Jefferson street was rated the morning by the police the Madison etreet station. The place was fully equipped with capper worms. boilers, still and manh tube The fitings, valued at 0500, were setned, together with a quantity of spirits. Philip Alper, thirty years 0:4, of 30} frame stable at M Clermont avenve, Madison street, who was in the ‘They were owned by Heary a eves Pore Se Pees Sener ‘Turner, Ten horses were reseusd from