The evening world. Newspaper, April 16, 1900, Page 1

Open to Al in tion Books PRICE £ ONE CENT, NEW YORK, M NDAY, “APRIL “It, “1900, [ “Gren PRICE ONE CENT. ~ STRIKERS MENACE TROOPS. | SHOTS PIRED ) eee SYNDICATE MILLER’S FATE WITH JURY! Motion to Acquit Him Denied and His Attor- neys Declined to Offer Evidence in His Behalf —Argument of Coun- sel. ‘The fate of William F. Miller, of 5% per cent. Franklin Syndicate fame, w turned over to the jury shortly after 3 | o'clock this afternoon. When Judge Hurd had finished nis| charge Juror Fales wanted to know) whether if the jury were convinced that | (he Franklin Syndicate was a swindling scheme they should apply it to the case of Mrs, Moeser's $1,000, Judge Hyrd said that they should. Court revonvened before Justice Hurd in Brooklyn this morning. Juror Holwedl whose fliness caused an adjournment of trial last week, had to be wheeled he court-house | erick Tl, House renewed the mo- wrgued last Wednesday. The first wan.for a dismissal of the indictment, and the aecona that the Court instruct the jury te acquit. Both motions were denied and then os the lawyers for Miller had decided not to Mer any evidence {n his behalf, ex- © vxtrict-Attorney James W. Ridgway, of Miller's counsel, addressed the jury, closing the case on he evidence adduced by District-Auorney John F. Clarke He urged, as Miller had always met every obligation, pald every customer, and had actually made out tae checks for the payment of outstanding debis, due at the close of the week in which the police shut up the Floyd street “bank, the prerumption is that ne in-| tended to pay and would have paid Mrs Moesér’s $1,00 when It became due. “Are you willing to sit here as jurors and make this court a collection for a jot of speculative lawyers manded jhe pleader “The argument of the prosecution is that Miller was about to steal ail the They arrest a man and charge’ ry has actually been committea, but they argue that the man Was about to commit the burglary and he ought to be convicted of | the burglary.” If you believe that Miller intended to pay Mra. Moeser her $1,000 when the Week Was up, that ends this case and you must acquit him and send him! de- My, Ridgway talked for nearly two hours. Assistant District-Attorney Littleton followed in reply. Salq Mr. LAttleton; “The one class of thieves most dificult to ruard against is that to which Miller belongs. He can always find victims among those people who are ignorant about the business he pretends he is about to engage in and they intrust be possavion but not the title of their money to him. “His circular says he is a banker, & dealer in stocks, bonds, and he will net you a! oe. on $10 If you Invest it. It fe all a He. “Meaiing the principal in the end is what happened Nov. 4% when he ran Qway leaving 811400 of deposits un- Bala. ‘Mr, Littleton talked ninety minutes, ain Sabet REFEREE ALMOST MOBBED. Over 1,000 Claimants Againet the Miller Syudicate Appeared in Coart—Hearing (djeu-ned. one Chinaman, about 1,099 women and many jawyers tried to ag into the United States Circuit Court in Brooklyn this morning, where Ref- etee Koehler had announced « hearing in connection with claims against the Miller le, defunct. Am of deputy marshals were b to court room to drive out port ne crowd n Morton motion was made to consider ea h | cfaim weparat’ | hy pest conhy jo-merres es a leis is Sao # i ; 4: 12 BIC MILLS WILLIAM FE MILLER — FROM AIS MOST RECENT PHOTOGRAPH: SHUT DOWN, American Steel and Wire Company Makes Sur- prising Announcement. ' The American Stee} and Wire Com- pany authorized the statement this af-| ternoon that twelve of its mills would | be closed down immediately "We Stee! Trust was recently formed and this # what Is belleved to be the first move in the plan to put up the prices of the material manufactured, fecret conferences of the members of the Executive Committee of the Trust have been held recently In the West. Little leaked out as to what the object of these conferences was, but J. W. M Gates, the Chairman, was sent Bast (wo dave ago to confer with the represen- tatives in this city Mr. Gates wa the office of the com. pany here this morning, and at noon! authorized the statement that the cam- pany would close down most of ity mille Thousands of men will be thrown oui | of work in ‘The action of the Trust nm ed the bust world. for it was understood that the steel in- dustry was on the Soom Wall street had the tip on the early this morning and the tumbled § points, clowning at U ews stock “CL” ENGINES SOON T0 C0, meted, Gy Co. Prepar- ing to Put In Elec- tricity. The engines on the Manhattan Ele- Vated Rallruad system will soon be sup planted by electricity, Work will be bewun immediately on a new power- house, \o be located between Seventy- fourth and Seventy-fifth streets, Avenue A and Eastern street Tt will cowt $7,000, ’ The plans for changing the motor power of the vast aystem are complete in every particular, “We shall get to work at once on the power-houre,”” sald Vice-President Al- fred 8kitt. “and jt will not take us very Joug until we have the third rall system tn operation instead of the present mo- tor power, which seems to be rather be- hind the ag rr WED ANEW YORK GIRL Phitadciphia’s Director ef Public Safety English Sarried Qotet- ly im Thies City. t8pe jal to The Bveming World » PHILADELPUIA Abraham 1. t potter > | adeministratiom, Yo and marr of that city, MILA LY GUA iv MILITIAMEN BRIDGE: TROUBLE FEARED 1 0-NIGHT, tired torday, hese were fre {the Monmt Ver- The guns ion were cleaning teem. om pan NEW EGE. QUEDUCT. NNESS FE DERBY. 3RAND JURY, { 140 Gatee the were woman forthe Wilson womag Rrooklys es — HAS APOLOGIEBD, GIRL SOCIALIST A SuIcID’,| Spanien Minister's Sharp Reply to| Dremts Cistiatle hete sa wane Beard- tavitation \ttemd Dewey eve Were Eating Dinner in Cotebration. an Adjoining Room. CHICAGO, Apri] 16—Mayor Harrison’ Bertha Massel, nineteen years old, who to-day received from the Duke d’Arcos, ueld pronounced Socialistic views and the Spanish Minister at Washington frequently dilated on thé unequal condi- the following reply to an invitation 10 tons of life, killed herself in her apart- her a in ‘the ‘house lived with ‘ery respectfully yours, Tapeos. | , and not ain Commitice teporied on Dr. The Cotten Marker. attend the Dewey celebration monte, at 610 Cherry street, at noon to- “Bir—1 return to you here inclosed an had for two board- favitation from the ality of Chicago for ¢ ie vernenults and soomen Levine, the celebration of the second anniver- and while the mem were eating went sary of the battle of Manila, which | Byer rae oo Some § take for granted has been sent to me by "Gnas barore the had. tried mistake; as it s! the first discourtesy | herself, but the acid 6 Steymoled to I have met with since 1 am in the tha — hand. United @tates. ver gince “It th impossible for me to believe that | Siee over Nor mother's Seath you have advisedly asked me, the rep- | f cs conurecee resentative of Spain, to go to your city! Bg omens o and rejoice with, you on the destruction we ners of Miss the if ships and on "fee death friots. have been simply an ine, Tanti sexe? DR, HILLIS ‘HILLS DROPPED. 'it cannot have been in your intention. | it marie oa I way, that all thir | ae ‘“ he honor (oreiat ” | CHICAGO, April &—The whole matter joy ve Sp llad of Presbyterian doctrine was taken up * | by the Chicago Presbytery to-day. pone peng: Written | committes's report admitted that te Phan Was ont ne ChrouETY the wrest, | ter I11., sections 3 and 4, of the Contes: | ignorance of a clerk, and extending *on of Faith were “sources of embar- essential. as ong ey that nh rath rte one diesent. unanimous reece’ by SHERIFF MOLLOY F FEARED MASSACRE OF DEPUTIES PDEA DDE DOD DODD PEG 64-04-8600 048 opp ANGELO ROTELLA. RIOT LEADER. ERS IRE | IN AETRENT Blow ins Phew | Three Mines in Front of Bul- ler’s Army. LADYSMITH, Natal Avril 6, 840 AM Native scouts have Just reported that the Boers in the Fiandslaagte district have retired beyond the Biggarsbers. Other Information tends to confirm the report that the Boers have suc- cemied in blowing up three important collieries pear Veasels Nek, com-| pe ye hey destroying the engine houses FIGHTING GBA. Bi GBR BRABANT. Beer Report Says De Wet Engaged BRANDFORT, Free Stat April 13 (via Lorenso Marque ing with Brabant'’s Horse at berg Drift continues, Commandant Petrus & Wet te reported to have en- yasee the troops sent from Hloem- fontein to Brabant's assistance. leo a brush with « British neing toward Halt Fontein without dev @ reewlt All the foreign attaches are now here. LT — — CYCLIST KILLED ON THE RAILROAD TRACK. BARATOGA. April 16 — Georg: of Baliston Spa, while bicycling Delaware and Hudson its besween Saratoga and that pla midnight, was stra k by an express train and instantly killed. King. on tack ——— | SOLDIBR L STOPPED PRIEST? De | tormane Ss Squad of ‘ona Sent Investigate Found No Trace ¢ Rioters—Troops Are’ Charge of Works. i Three shots were fired from at the Eleventh Separate Militis ¢ pany of Mount Vernon as the ed through Croton Valley te i distrlet at Croton Dam, thie: noon The volley came from Itillan jiptrenched on the hill overtestiag: road. : “Two” detachments of the »| Separate Company of Ye baggage train and hundreds ¢f tors had passed over the ros ot incident The strikers had fled from tt | ahd the hillsides when the first | ef soldiers hove inv sight, SHOTS FROM The Mount Vernon company, jp the rear, was fired on by in the hills | ‘The crack of Winchesters Wea | through the valley, It made the | diers nervous, They did net 7eturn nor break ranks, Capt. sent 4 detachment up the hill te @ ture the would-be assassins. rch was in vain. oriff Molloy heard the shots, he said. Paso a oF i Dive | fire Croton Dam strikers. 8 eran or rest ate e eRe heer ees OEFE EERE EE DEE SESE ER HEREC eee rere eer HEHE eHEEEE® ble's beginning early,” “TL expected this “That's why I called out the “I feared a massacre of my ' “Tt was onty @ question of 4 lithe strikers and my ‘@eputios | 1 wes not alarmed by the tall of jome up the dam | | “I was afraid of wholesale a the armed Italians turned Jooen « 8 mw men.” f | Sheriff Molloy wanted Magor't | in command of the ‘nfantry, ptanclbed ie by Our Troops i+ forsee eround the valley and Fifty-three of = | ‘revs Well go right through, Them Killed. bridge and up the Bowery,” said. Denthe. “If there's to be have it at the start.” MANILA, April 16, 8.55 Po M— ‘Tee soldiers didn’t pe Capt. Dodd, with a squadron of the} ns nder's eagerness, The Third Cavalry, recently surrounded &| shout the station treated them village in Benguet Province and | difference. j surprised 200 insurgents, living in ADVANCED ih barracks, apparently a recruiting The road Unveugh the valley centre for the province. hills above were lined with The enemy lost 53 men killed. Our! strikers when Major Denike troops also captured 44 men and| command to “Fall in¥ burned the village, With guns slung across their One American was wounded. the men stance i oe Onlookers saw the strikers from the roadway and ihe the troops advanced. rae sos The line of troops was two Majer Kaight’s ole valley when the shots were te Father Tiermey | Ten minutes later the soldiers a at Willet's Pot | the Bowery Bridge. The band WASHINGTON, April 14—The Secre- ere who had held the south of Wer ordered an investigation since Priday against the deputies: made today at New York City on the pered away when the soldiers charge that Major John D. G. Kalght, detachment of twelve men was ted corps of enginesss, commanding the ena engineer school at Willet’s Point, N. ¥.,|/ Approaching the Bowery, the nlertered with Father Tierney, et! shouldered arms. In froat bolle C h, in the per- duties at the Rotello’s saloon a group 6f larmy post greeted them with @ It ie alleged that the priest had been guitars and mandolins. stopped a the entrance to the post at treope a bayonet and that the When tne pot tary } hed the R jthe point of oter| Throne Soe via Peaneytjaotion of the seatry bed bean. sutwe. (vase of 0) GPE fe ake Shenango roonttay <email. S200, eonneeneainN a