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~ TWO WOMEN SHY -—_—_———_¢e__—___—- MRS. EDITH WILSON She Claims She Was the Victim of a He oo Ouleawe Two married women, who elim wen @re respovtabie, t for a shy Jast night, wore arrested by « Capt. Thomas's detective Gerioin ami drageet to (ho « > they were held on an odious barge Sa waved The doiectives thomscives adtinitied |oj 6. i We that they did not know anything of the prioners’ character ail that their faces ; ‘were wholly untamijiar BU these women were subjected tol, : the indignity of arrest, while the , were alive with others whoxe familiar to the police night in and night eut for the whole round of (he year (We. Wace One of the victims has ciirged that |. Fag ‘one of Capt. Thomas's inen was brutally | | re ea ‘The women, who were fore Magistrate Mott |v P ket Court this morning, are) Mra. Hdtith 4 Wilson, of 57 West Thirty-fourth street d Ord Mrs, Ernest Koss, of Gl West One) oh Hundred and Thirteenth street N % Mra. Wilson ts the wife of Willlam W 4 Wilson, an operator in the exnploy of the | ¥: Associated Press. | Detectives Glennon the arrests. “We were out clearing the dis trtet of dinorderiy Glennon, “when we A walk trom = froadway od Thirty-Ofth street to We follow them They We walk We treet to Broadway and went to Bev go arou they! we went out for a | inkding | tion, where | I said ad jart two 1 asconted te hey Were drunk and cot Th followed ua olzed tome again, 1 gues 1 will turned when vie man potnting |me by the arm and treat you 1 Mre How | have ‘The | much, ok that he) walk straight women sollel could scar arraigned bee | yy fferson Mar ing?” waked Molt of the detectives jook me in the face «doing any sueh thing! Wileon, her cheeks aflame: men looked u You Kes polloeman of being drunk Kistrate to Mrs. Wilson “tponing your antil your husband to The other woman I'll 1 Mr {ther emainat sald ket at “ and Barry mad: women,” thes ud was fixed at father, Wo J. Cal. wi n Uakon op tid a th iT een and war Ne, we Seve ‘ Churet, ladebe been them before.”’ Mar + Rey J HL MeMitan Wilson questioned his sire Aes |SAHA. Rowe hone MichanG Mee ih Vee Gared rhe didn't know the charac i ursed her for the street or of the 7 ead | 4 tiem frie eee Ho intention of enerins the place. NOT |iween the vw Bed she ever vieited |: Mie “My friend Mrs me Jast night,” 0 dressing the Magietrate Went to work ne 10), ——— velernie: started « the women ¢ Hundred and HUNTING FOR VICE. ay STRUCK MESSENGER aly. Ml afie rst Grond Jory Will Take Up the Crasade \eninat the Menday. Lefore Secced “ Avenue Raitre 1 Pistol! Se asaly Dis- sie: charged by Manager— Lad Able to Waik. | rw rounds for the men whe wre: ne ra ad t indioations are that special rand will onfer a By a narrow m x boy. exe by @ bullet from a i} Jury m “hing mn exploded by John Brennan.! of a ringle polloe of the Postal Telegraph Sta-! presentment them, at © West Fifty-rlghth street and the Dist . Boyle's neck was wlerced by the bul-! boy walked io Roosevelt Hospital | GIRLS Lure 10 A DIVE. ‘ wound was four, to be slight, and Went bow, afier the injury was |" ai Jury t he ortuption musiness. cut her officials office with The Mea Whe Were we " ‘Them Inte the Ne- torioas Haymarket, " | Two young « sort dresser were Hay- \ standing in fron Contracted Dering Tanned) market, at Thir t and Sixth Ceremonies Patni ie Bx. | svonur. tate lart lpht, talking to twe men. Ther were not of the of that neighborhood The men were t Ing to perruade them to go into the dance hall Policeman Bhibies questioned them © of the four gave satisfactory an "| swere, and he arrested them all In the West Thirtieth street potice dation the girls gave thelr names as Margaret we Donald, seventeen years old, of 455 West Twenty-seventh street, and Eihe Bu Arrested in Tenderloin, | They Claim Detective Was" Drunk. " |and that he __THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 31, 1900) TST VOTE Trial to New Ballot- Casting Contrivance. ry + Log inaebine , y pape ed this morning by t New York Shite Commission on V Machines, whieh has been asked t favorably upon the re pany sanding the mac construction, The machine is abut 6 feet long and 3 fee! wide, supported on standards that raise t clear of the ground Mintering through the gateway al the rupht the voter Is confronted by the face of the machine, upon whicn the names of candidates are arraigned in party By rows, extending from right to left inserting aod turning a key a straight vote may becast. To cas Ht ot ket the key many be tneetied and turned in orifices provided opposite the name of each candidate My the machine a candidate who t running on twe or more separate ticke’ may be voted for and the record will show for which party the vote was east, All of the votes am recorded on dials at the hack of the machine. The vo fs automati¢ally totalled, and the result of the poll may be ascertained within a few seconds after the close of the polls ‘The Commiasion reserved tts decision The Commission's report on the | Will be made to the Attorne | within a few day POLIGE SWWED FROM INDICTMENT, machine nued from Firet Page.) | wo man ever admitted under oath to the |wrcrets of the Grand Jury | Her father admitted to a reporter of The Evening World this morning that | his daughter had alded tim in his work a member of the inqulsttorial body her to reveal nothiag that she learn of the pre tnee | Young Mise Putnam herself blushingly [told the reporter that ahe attended to) |her father’s correspondence in relation |to the Grand Jury's proceedings. doing fall hie typewrtting work “| War aWern (Co secrecy sald Mise Putnam = “Was 1 the twenty-fourth member of the jury? Oh, no; of coures not Tt simply wrote the letters for ray father, Porem than explained the inc ent later to the reporter. He sald | As foreman of the Grand Jury 1 was obliged to write many letters to the Dis <Attorney’s office seeking informa tio, to witnesses und others relative to | matters under consideration } “lcould not atte | ence tn the Jury re | have caused great « J to this correspond m, ICL did it would jay In the proceed » [Ings So at home nights Thad my daugh- | ter write the letters for me on a type | write | “Partly in joke und partly to make it legal I made my vughter affirm to 4 vulge nothing hat she jearned writing the letters It ts abeolutely false that 1 took documents belonging (the ¢ Jury | lo my house They were locke: every nigdt inn strong box and in the Criminal Court Bullding Speaking of the document bearing on Thor Mr i Joenment wax fost the Grand ot responsible, We have no ree t having been Uarned over | ws claim District-Attor ney’s offlve Is responsible for tt De you think that the document was | PurNOKely lo oct wit Anewer that question. ‘The kave us the document.” _, BRAND RY LEAK. A aims he has Investigation, ed there was Whenever the District. ated bee , proveedings leaked out ant interfered wi th our estigation When we fe advisable to « snd that If was ne longer Mt the Di Atior- hey tm regard to matters we went to | Hecorder Goff, Where else cauld we turn? We could not bring in another awyer and we could not have the Dis- The Recorder told us we did right and that we acted within our legal righss. The Recorder gave us what legal in- Tmation we ‘red from time to time, and two or three times 1 visited his house on niteons connected with our investigation ‘Is it true that trere was a division | ret-Attorney. tn the Grand Jury over the present: ment, with eleven members dissenting? Thsi if absolutely false. T will not tell you the vote, but J will say t we had a sudetantial majority.” ROOSEVELT SILENT. ALBANY, Mareh 31-Gov. Roosevelt 1 to-day that he had received no tele. gram from District-Attorney Gardiner asking for an investigation of his rela- tlons with the March Grand Jury There ts absolutely nothing to say @ thie end of the line, continued the Gov: ernor, <<, {TWO BRITISH CRUISERS ARRIVE AT TAKU, BY MACHINE i State Commission Gives A now device SMALL BOYS ARE GLAD; THE CIRCUS IS IN TOWN une at elections within the Stage WITH THE FORCES IN ‘THY FIELD, | Clonal surrender Wednesday night and] Later (delayed in tranamtssion)—8couts cmulinod, Maroh $1.—Barly reports from emall boy/for sixteen @ays therearter, ee tue nave peneiruted Arthur FF Bardwell, of Springfield. |geouts slong the North itiver front} Relnforcememte are coming up every | port besiewers busy Mass, Ie the loventar of (he MACHO Tehow that the Adam Forepatgh and) bour Some of the soldiers courageously ed | whfoh te called the Bard @ell Votometer. api, Aros, clreus arrived from the West are they whl not ihe the epot until | Pref. ober Ho Thurston, of Cornell ee nleht and ts now encamped ip great |) omy Rae forced them to Othe! Univerrity: Ho de B. Parsons and Philip|direneth on the ki Lafayette and declare they ame never going home any T. Dede compose the Commission, All] Van Horne atrects, Jersey City more OWF @FMy reate comfortunly on | Hf ally came for: were present at the test to-day, Tt is Known now they will advance of bulkheads amd = stringpleces wutching | (Bey after age! lr ACquAin- ‘The test woe veld at @ Broadway This clty tomorrow at suntine wid take every move, The Itallan Society of |tancemhlp with the prisoners, offered s Tike service” ‘This #6 touched Tey machanieal section of the Machinel wp w posttiee th Madiege Bau st Alda to ‘he Hungry has supplied |the'Neart of the keneral In command fe dirtet, ne springs be ured tw l'*!) where they expect full and some of them with rationt, ithat he refused the sacrifice. “HOT FOR ME,” ‘“! WON'T LET KRUGER SAYS ROOSEVELT) SILL ME”--ViICTORIA “I May Die,’ Says the Queen, “but It Will Be from Some Other Cause” —Her Irish Visit. He Doesn't Want the Vice - Presidential Nomination. (pesiel tebe Brening World) ALBANY, March 31—An effort to met] (copsrieat, UMM. by the Anoclaiel Prema) uninteresting hag been the progress of from Gov. Roosevelt to-d LONDON, March S--Although Queen | peace in the Orange Free Btate com- sion of his opinion ‘Victoria Is reported to be fuil of excite-| pares with the stirring accounts of bat- in regard to her she is not tles which the Bettiah people h: accustomed to read dally The Queen is sald to be in excellent heuith and wel! able to bear the strain ment and enthusiastic |appronching vinit to treland, forgetful of South Africa A story ts golng the rounds that the grown Cleveland's announcement erning the Nlcaraguon Canal was unproductive. ‘The Governor only smiled broadly and sald: “L have no views to express in that | Queen remarked that she was awarelof the trip to Ireland. She commences onmection except that | thoroughly | many j ned her anxiety about [her journey April 2 and sleeps on board the Royal yacht Victoria and Aiber, tanding at Kingston April 4 In an. tleipation wf Her Majesty's progress through the clty the streets of Dublin are already cay with flags and notte tons. A curious feature of the preparations at the Viceregal Lodge, where the Queen will stay, are the pots and pans already referred to. Her Majesty |» tre- men@ously particular about her kitchen arrangements, and those at Viccregal below the the war would cause her death “0 may die? antd Mer Maj: “bat if will be from some 1 de not mean to let Mr, me. Life Guards, couriers, carriages, and pang and other royal parapher- naila have already gone to the Emeraid Isle, which eagerly waits for Gueen V torta to follow, How Mer Majesty will ve received and the prospects of her doings {n Dubitn agrec Win Mr ‘Cleveland in hts Vene- cusdan meena ge.’ Gov Roosevelt was asked to-day ement regarding (he story 1) be urged by the Republican leaders to accept the Vie a! nomination | “As regards’ that matter.” he replied, ‘h have nothing to add to my former | saboment,” The Governor's statement, tt will be remembered, war that he woull mt ac for that ther a the Satan n fc Vice-President have qifite overshadowed all other top- | The Governor sald he déalred'to serve] e¥em dm & week which has bee Consequently no leas than 390 copper fricandeau pans, 4 sauce pans, 50 cop- per stoek pets and geod other varieties marked by the annual |nter-'varaity boat nrim as Governor of the tute of | MALKed BY Ut ad the Duke of Nor- | another New York “And iff wt returned ext t h ‘ u ‘i « Postmaster-« ral, the atic bog Rye 5 ul vee sent to of Je : Ne precluded, auedtnaty.| ement of (ne Delagoa Bay Railroad | Dublin books to write.” award, and the rumors of possible war}, tie Hy of Meee | in the Far East and lord a — Great Britdin'’s own war in South fei rmerly an de tne | CLEVELAND TALKS Africa has almost been forgotten, so Ito to the Loed-Pleutenan. i a | _ free trade are in prin. I belleve at this time, » First Page.) on the «ide of Mr Hay, ft that th nly de! WKINLEY'S VIEW, THIS? seema table questions are the detati« retating to the consum the which I belleve onght to to-day in oven more mation of the canal, management and the ge the nations | “Ze me it subsequent 1 policy of 4 moet agreeable and at- t sweeten with the wafte enrried tractive nt that the United | Mtates should occupy the unique post aveartest, |‘*10,000,000 of Savages j ton among the nations of the earth We | anes, Rie jaltrulatic: and unselle) |yaye enovgh in the ways of bene- in the Philippine brother of all countries 8 ewpesiatly i he. Lik » fitting, (n view of the Ideals upon which {Ate €@ we aronad the Blebe . Isles. our gover was founded, that the |the Ave loaves and two =e whole position of the Administration arentest tench convineed the nation that ce. beardis whe Should be that the canal isin the nature ta gift to the world and a contribu. | ton to advancing civilization NOT A LAND-GRABBER. | “Our nation land-«r Fon mouey-grabber, |Our (deal must be to bring abo higher development of race, The ST RAUL, Maren 31—Speaker Hen- thte Migent al. Towa constituent ecoring the Senate and the opponents of the Porto Rican tariff » ne — y of aaa eae ne yc. [aith a second communication on the ured by graceful, the flamboya ethods of the war party of any nation, the namby-pamby dwarft who are afrald to face the Hen of war when that war ty just HOF course. not to be etther a per Minn opening of the 1 fo all mations could wot help [bat diftuse a spirit of anxelfishm: |abeond over the world, atone with the commerct pansion resett-|" ing, A beaut [traiam would be diffused from th |urent country as the Tight (rom « nin its celestial system. 1 wish to emphasize this point inderstand the May-Pauncefote treaty be medetted In accordance with tne dea of absolute and unalters neutraltzation, which ls beyond all que tion esvential to the consummation of * great project and that concomitant f clviligation. The United States must natet on @ polley of disarmament, ‘There must be no fortifieations. Every. thing must be along the lines of unt- versal peace, BETTER POLITICAL LIFE. “Our pation must bet it» po- Unless that com. which is rampant ie American politics at this hour to savages in the Philippines,” and makes plainly the assertion that the main thing the tari? men are fighting for ts to as- tablah the power of Congress to rule the so-called colonies outside of stitution, He writes: “It is very Important to have estab- shed the doctrine that we can treat our Bew possessions in such cases as may seem best to the Government, oon- sulting ite interests and the interests of the possessions that we are bound to take care of, “The Gghting against the Ferte the righteous ©: imperitied and thelr @anmered by the unju “| CANADIAN TROOPS RIOT, Queber Wen Fight, pertal Guard te Colles Ont. (soevial to the Meeaias Wert) HALIFAX, Mitrch $1 at Wellington Barracks | hundred seliters struck Wecaure of In- sufficient food Ontario men assaulted the Quebec men, and the guard from Im- pertal troops was called out. RAMAPO CHARTER’S DOOM. ference Had with the Comp- trolter—A Sew Mii te Be Withdraws. ‘There was a conference in the Comp- trotler's office to-day ever the Murga: bill. which bs supposed to be @ restriction on the privileges of the Ramapo Wa! Company ‘Those who attended the conference were Comptroller Coler, ex-Judge John Dillon, Jobn M, Morgan, the author of berty is genera A ander foot, the future will wrap the colle of darkers: around our cherished life, amd we will settle down to the same dwarfed ra common ameng the imperial tions of the past before abso- late dleintegration oreurred. FEARS SPIRIT OF PLUNDER, eo at this moment te the pee seasion of new lands but the grasp. | g: ' the curse of every mation whieh bas gene down to the yawniag Sapo of oblivien! Therefore, tam im taver of the ratification of the Nay-Pauncetete treaty, the con- etemetion of the comal and ito i at H E 58 fs belng arranged for in Brooklyn. derson has followed up his letter to an|tne ih, Thomag Jefferson's birthday, country will be present. that they are men whose arithmetic same subject, this time to a friend in doer not Include any 16 to 1 examples. Among those who have been invited are land on Irish soil. |MAFEKING SAVED! NEWS HELD BACK Relief to Be Annnounced When the Queen Lands on Irish Soil. LONDON, March 31.—It is currently reported in the military clubs to-day that the Paardeberg redy/battle on Majuba Day was such a success that the news of the relief of Mateking is being reserved “wifor this day next week, upon which the Queen may BOERS ARE IN RETREAT, LORD ROBERTS REPORTS. LONDON, March M1, 114 A. M.—The War Office has posted the following de- spateh from Lami Roberts, dated at Bloemfontein, March ™, evening: “Reperts point to the enemy leaving Brandfort and proceeding in a northerly direction. The casuaities in yesterday's engagemea! were more numerous than at first ted. Officers killed, two; wounded eight; rank and file killed, ten (query nineteen); wounded, 159; missing, three." BLOEMFONTE, March 31.—The at- tack upon the Boers holding the kopjex fear the Kares Siding station, north of re and a few miles south of Braud- fort, was made by Tucker's Seventh With the co-operation of French's cavalry, The attacking troops included a large force of Australians Co). Knight, with four hundred " South Wales Mounted Infaniry, inclu in Legaillais'’s Brigade, attacked right flank. Altogether there were about £,000 cav- nlry and 3,0 Infantry, and the losses on British side, as reported to Lord Roberts, were one officer killed and seven wounded, and one hundred men wounded. The attack was made to pre- vent the Boers harassing submitting Free State burghers, A long chain of kopjes was held by the Boers, and there was severe firing all along the line of attack. The ap- the | proach was very steep, like a fortress, and the troops were uvable to make headway until the infantry made an at- tack upon the front. The cavalry went around the right flank of the Boers and used their Vickers-Mazim freely. An army hospital was established in @ cottage under the shelter of a large == an AT 10 BE A GUEST. No Silver Talk at Demo- cratic Dinner in Brooklyn. A blg Democratic dinner, to William J. Bryan will not be savlieny in to be held efther on April 12 or ‘i falling on Good Friday. Big Democrats from all parts of the It is thought The Speaker alludes to “the 10,00,00 | ex-Gov. Campbell, of Ohio; Gen. Patrick | omes kopje. The Boer shells came right over the kopjes and landed near the howe pital, which is was found necessary te evactate. The Boers slowly Brandfort, taking their dead and wounded with them. Meanwhile the alry, including the Australian Horse and the Sydney Lancers, under Cape, retreated upon |} Cox, brigaded with Porter's brigade. The Carbineers, Seote Grays and the Inniaklilings recetved « severe shell Are. ‘The Hoers had evidently marked the range, as when the troops advanced the enemy's fire less accurate, The Colonials displayed great coolness tinder fire, Many horses were killed in the cavalry's finak attack, ‘The Hoers fled and all our troops push. ed forward and now hold an excellen@ Position upon the large kopjen recently helt by the Boers. The farmers are in the laager fighting, leaving the women and children upon the farms, which they are confident the Snglish will not touch, Many of these farmers would surrender their arma but for the fear that the Johannesburg pollee would attack their farms in re- Venge for their so doing, ‘The Boers are known to hold Brandfore in some strength—probably five thou- sand. Reinforcement are afraid to mave direct to their support, and are conteng with holding their position, which ts threatened by the cavalry advance, The whole action was rather tnsige nificant. Many regiments received their besten of fire and showed splendid coolness, We have now secured a fine natural posttion facing the huge “olake betore Brandfort, Mr. Rudyard Kipling was present due ing the fight. Collins, of Massachusetts; Willett, of Alabama, Stone, of Missourt, velt of this city has sent an enthu Siastic indorsement of the scheme, The Commercial Travellers’ and Hote Mena League is said to be taking am active part in the dinner movement and the significant golitical move bebind it. VICE FLOCKS 10 CHICAGO New York Crusade Drives Tenées= Join Cearacters te Windy City Ten Heavily Fined. CHICAGO, March %1.—The eruaée which jagatnet vice In New York t9 filling Chicago with women from the Tandere loin, Since Inst Baturday forty of | women have arrived and they are by every train. n of Sion ere fos fa} Fy Justice Prinv: Lg a were n that they leave if | The Fasso Corset | To meet the present style of gowns, the new importations particularly include straight. | front models in the MARIE THERESE, | MIARIB ANTIONETTE, CARMEN and ROXANE, IMPORTED SOLELY BY B. Altman & Co. anticipates every change of fashion.