The evening world. Newspaper, April 16, 1900, Page 2

THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1900, “TINE CONTRACTS Cz rnegie Company Will Furnish Steel and Sicil- ian Co. the Asphalt. n B. McDonald) Deg: wards, Se | Hue | Hand 1 Contractor Jo afternoon announced the ontractors for work the underé: fapld | al Third st 1 Tenth siree’ 8 centre One re Cue plus 100 feet eet to centre One (Lenox ave Hundret » Hundred « ' fon 7 it ‘ ! J Ten os were) Thir call for bide, erthina of | Parte | 4 for sixteen or more sections n, but only eight s- tions % Hundred OH feet to w k avenue, Jor One street plus « line) Br Centre an fifty bide were submitt: n tracts agreed upon ay Mt an outlay of more than 815 Most Important awards ° Asphalt Paving Company, ff to @o the entire aspirating of pel: the Carnesie Stee! Company, 40 furnish ali the strue- fron and atee! required in the of the road, and the United Bulld- Materia! Company for al! the Port- and Natural cement to be used in subway construction. MeDonald refveed to give out tne at which the contracts were ‘The bidding is understood to been brisk, and as it war fald were not considerel in the se- of the men to do the work, Ue i of the Rapid Transit tion Company were not back- ward in admitting that the prices were to the syndicate which has n the work. members of the syndicate met at @ffice of August Belmont, the of the comp at noon, 8 final decision wax soar ved. Then Bames Were submitted to he Rapid Commission anl speel'ly ap. Centre One Hundred and to» vide CQhuilding line) One HMundred Twenty-titts street, plus 10 feet, John Shields, Flem- ington, N. J, fection 1! nN 4 Thirty-third street Hundred and Bigh |feet; section 14, Jand Blighty. Hillalde avenue side One Hundred to centre 6 et, plus centre One Hundred nus 1 feet to Me LB, Mice of Degnan-McLean Com: been awarded the oo ‘ding Of the Powt-OMmn loop of | lous seetion in [the folowing Its afternown “It will be att before we are and it will be fore the wo! announcement. was, made *t two or three weeks to begin actual work | blast. Then “Owing to the char we have to dig through the work will be necessarily slow. It will require months ie ty prepare for the exca: Vating. “AL least W pe under | | must array T of the ground cent. of the work ts ide Water, which means that we fe for the drainage and a jablfuing of the present sewers, We have ‘Agured fully on the protection of the apere that stand In (he nelgh- are eight more awards | |, but Mr, McDonald said as tiere no special work about consileration the would id Material the award following is Mr. it of the awards: Por Siero the pr onet Paving Company For structural iron and steel, the Car- Steel Company, Limited - Portland and natural cement ‘Waited Building Material Company For construction of subway est-Oiice loop to centre « Gireet; section 2, centre Chamber: sa gentre of Great Jones street, FEVERS I = WALL STREET 4 ager, “to furnsh the matertal line ‘for the entire rystem. It in a leontract, but we do not care to state [the sum, because it would fix a standard that would oe unfatr in other contracts: we are bidding for We hi the | hen the material will be od. are prepared Bicilian As. 3) contract.” The Carnegie sic) Bician Asphalt to state the price of t ed them, Street mt Kan @ Tex 4 | Nettonal Natloual: Steet” Opening pa Is Fol- lowed by a Sharp Decline. a ‘a | Reading i» as Reading 24 pt 2 Opening prices on the Stock Exchange See te-day showed sothe sharp gaine over! Yast Thursday's close, but changes were ently confined to fractions. 5 ‘Missouri Pacific was the feature, 5,000 Tyree Joven Shares selling simultaneously at 1-2! Vaion Prot to ®, compared with 563-4 on Thursday. | {'*'s" ‘The stock afterward advanced quickly |v « on fe @ on large dealing. People's Gar || 4 Beveer Gnd Tobacco were up over a point. whet i National Steel broke 11-2 and a num. Wheel & ber sf other Specialties showed frac. “'* O° tonal declines. Stee! and Wire roe 3@ then quickly fell 2 points on heavy WHEAT RLLIED AFTER The preferred stock Of 2 points, pressure xe but the ra w vecame dull on active dealin Rep Peeel pe also relaxed. before | feeble and Bonds were w but M ko 612 the whole & ogee in accord. N Pres aie and other wahed the lowest a, wink bears continued to have ma much thetr own way in group ronnensce mal Wroke pared with enki ty hey of thir a houses were ¢ Sugar re 4, Seytember tere the 0 Hoosevelt Says Attention Coton Attack, April i! | Gow is he pervinte rt) tion jn Federal Stee! and ste! forced them fo a new ow exercised a depressing influ- ore ” | jesired 1 decline war si tec] and Wi jc Ruddenly dro} were # Ro. 1ocks = Closing wan active and very weak. | ler mtocks to-day ec! MA of bonds HITE par In other » anything Th late years in eens mace of | | | | ne art of plane construc. | aby nd Pimnor. They ibs of sweetness and beauty in [pearance In the and elegant sto “4 eRMblion at spond are you are tot disappointed athe taal tt the Waters f that de richness that tou *re not only ind satiefed. but Impressed gg tee. plane, mins the At months | He mull bave not More than 14400 on the | A WEAKER OPENING. | | be, Balti-) K all of his mental faculties keen); ailve DREAM SLAYER’S TRIAL FOR LIFE. Alfred Morrison, of Mount Vernon, Who Killed Wife, Faces His Fate at White Plains. ———__—e¢o—— Rarer rere eebeseee ALFRED MORRISON. THE ‘DREAM SLAYER” PerUurircl.. SC Oeeeelerr Peee rere ener r rr Toren. Alfred E. Morrison, of Mt. Vernon, in lie was structor in languages, who declares he! che hildren shot and killed hie wife while in a dream hmont on Dec 2 Inst, was placed on trial for murder to-day at White Plato ‘Th jury bom was Mled at Lt ternoon It te expected that iis defense wt insanity, He ¢ entered the County much thinner than when be told tie remark able story of the siooting for the frat ume. ‘There were dark clreles un! which shone with feveriay and his manne was nervous and fur | ¢ lve. Still he appeared to be u ; > : master of several languages teacher of MBenen ty the f the wetny residents of Lar and Pelnam Many’ EVIDENCE AGAINST HIM. ‘The prosecution will show thet if Mor- cleon rome up in his bed during « dream at burglars were In the room and tired at hs wife, who wae near the door, the bullet would not have inflicted the wound that caused her death, Premedtitation will be show: Morrison before dying raying (1 was an aceldent, ‘The prt cipal witness will de her sister-in-law, Mre. iN, ¥ who will swear thet her -— When he rested his chin in (ne palin} feared violence ~ ] nesses to prove that he has a: heredi- a4, | Wedded her Nov, 5, 1886, under the name | | yf *TANLOR ASE N ying | the power the | Kapress ‘sre hand: Attorney-General Maynard, of his right bend it was seen that the | Morrison, and Mu AO OW, who pos idee firet und second fingers were viained a| heard Morrison prompting the wounded) forms, and there wi Lorfurniah alt That te chestnut brown by hie exces required from us upon the signing of the | ing of cigarettes. sive amok | woman to tell the ac Morrison came into the cour: room ook and wee given counsel, ex-Judge Ap- © Mount Vers He cordiaily jawyer, and hie aunt, Mrs, Ahan, Aid gome thet frente he at once recognised ‘There Was considerable ve the victim [ting to the (rial on ac U While this names wae Morrigon ocvas onally spoke to hia lawyer and then to his aun! OR. MACDONALD WITNESS. Disteiet y Andrews hes « tn : nemmen PReReT lo tna alt of the State, Dr Carton Maes 1 will be one of the: refore a seat pell Breete He is confident that he wil! be a quitted, and hia lawyers will bring wit tary mental taint; that he has aiwayr been more or lems eccentric, of strange hallucinations and ireams. Morrison's record will weigh againat him and hie remarkable career will be laid bare, an absorbing story of a man's craft and the truatfuiress of women city from whem Re had not been di- voroed and whom he visited at reg. lar | tes pound amination and fully Hott "tarmer, Norta furor’ called, Many urt-room who knew chub man, North Casth ive hie of Fred Gordon. When the police began their invest gation they paid thete Was ground for the belief ¢hat he had figured in more than two marriage ceremonies to which he confesses, At any rate he had n rou afta re”” and exercised a power: | | fal influence over women. He wo thirty-nine years old. Hie fath- er was Bnglish, hie mother French. He! Df In a natural Knguist, a man of pro- ja Ny nounced intellectual ability, being the box | fir in ana wealthy a country je wae to “tecuaed Disrtet-Attorney oath: that it will take the rest and all of to-morrow io fll the LYNCHED ON A TRAIN Kenteckians Death 7 Pheot a Negro ‘Throw Rody a Care. HOPKINSVILLE, Ky doen White men shot Morgan Toone (colored) to death in an excursion train near Biaughteraville last night. Boone's body wag then ‘hrown from the rapldly moving train. Bo and his had | April 16—A UPREME COURT. Agreed Statement Filed Telling of Chaos in Kentucky. ne weCe Ar companions in been drink Maugite the brandinshing « rev A pant sued among the we n and ch! dren, ease sn | One of the male excursionists war a wae bout to rise from hie seat when he was felled with a coupling pin whitch Boone rong | aches en- WABHINGTON, Apri iT " entucky Govern ins n the United States Su ; A brief statement ta wheh ¢ » Taylor and Beckham joined was at the same time, asking for an hearing Kreed ‘uneel OF | rushed after the , whe took The amoker "Ihe fel) mortally at the fret be ea | AGTOR DBAD I BED m Smith, of the “Rig F: Killed by Ges in a Motel. William Smith, forty-five « old, for a rumber of years well known on the Vaudeville stage a8 @ member of the original “Big Four. bed at Meyer's Hotel, 18 rourth Avenue at 9 o'c.ock this morning T o'clock « pine o oe Be bay | wered, but as he did the Ba nd Pd sh Seal ree 1 #> the police mm: tb er “death, mas vr, eacapl fe or an ans not live wit! wife. him last peta Ss A, and rtayed a 6! woun Atement tt is set forth that both Taylor and Beckham «. bn Mare lL deuter n the Republican side, and Lhe 4# President ro tem of the Senste, and John H. Castleman « jutant-ieneral on the Deme 1 each aiming ¥ attempting t apective off laimed by them, thus producing fusion Kentucky Supreme Court advanced the case be heard on April 2 and gave enc ‘side four bours for er eee -BXPRESS COMPANIES WK (. %. Supreme Court Decides Abipper Must Pay Stamp Tas on Packages. WASHINGTON, April W—The fa- preme Court toxday decided the cases is he tamp tex as it applice & packages, the question in br whether he shipper or he pole ® Govern wi are # of rally ort while, Mayer (gainer fot telnenede Commicstes Power Yow Noid Wy Police. Mayor Van Wrek to-day vetoed the “ #¢ | Rlections bills, These provided for the de ig Big nanos et cep unene of Woetisne of Michi- Ty, The ease came to the ote from Mare of tae Americal _ SP PERS S22 Gers SOOCOOTE48 F804 G0 000 s+ 46-06 man with! Mrs, Myra Ibtenberger, of Mialetown, | ro revitie | | was found dead inj -|TROOPS ARRIVE TO QUELL RIOTS AT CROTON DAM. ‘ (Continued from Fi { Jeered at them. A CAVALRY CORDON. When the cavalry arrives the troogers will form @ cordon around the construc. jon work. The eontrectors will not sume until’ Masor-Gen, Rev decides the workmen will be sf | There are men in the town ready to} | #0 to work. The Italiane say they wii! at thelr throate when the soldiers are withdrawn. The soldier spliched thein tents on 4 Uittle bill overlooking the quarry works and commanding a good view of the settlement occupied by the atriters It ia regarded as a very favorable position in case of an outbreak by Tralla ns. Father J. J. Owens, the village priew Went amon gile strikers and cvinselied them to be moderate and cool and wot jto commit any act ageinst the taw, The pries: upon (the strikers the significance of calling ov! the State militia and of the foliy of attempting te antagenize the woldie:® Bherif Molloy told the strikers there woukl ve no Liood shed unless they 1 sorted If you insist on tence,” said the Aheriff, “you'll get all the fight 700 AD want." ! MARCH OF PTB INFANTRY, jMow the Westehester Poot Wilita Reech he Seeme of the Krike. | Company B. of Mount Vernon, |for the scene of the strike a } Dam at 9.9 o'cloek this morning. The troops numbered eighty-six men and were under command of Capt netder. ‘They were In heavy marci Ing order and carried rations for three | days. Among (he members of the oom: pany was Mayor Fiske, of Mount non, ‘The Mayor Is a candidate for re election, but he sbandoned hie canvass temporarily in order to do duty as 4 soldier. ‘The troops boarded five trolley cars, [whieh took them as far ap Yonkers |On arriving there they proceeded to {Croton on a epectal train on the New York Central Railroad. From the sta: | ton they ved the to violence. left) Cornell at Croton to 1 Dam: The troope wore th mar (ull service unt nothing of the Glitter of (he holiday parade about them. They looked ready for business, It ts expected that the mess outfit which the company takes with them with be in working order by nightfall, and after that regular camp life will be observed by the troops, | START OF COMPANY A. | Company A, First Revisional Regi: | |ment of Yonkers, formeriy the Fourth | [Reparate Company. left Yonkers this! morning for the scene of Che etrike | trouble at Croton on the i122 train in| charae ¢ Pruyn and | Arthur W. Nu | The full complement of men, numbers | ing eighty-one, were In line when th bugier sounded the muster cali at W{ @elock. The men fell in in campaign uniform. Campaign tats, coats, leagins and well stocked haversacks and warm blankets made up the wardrobe of eac man Hospital re chers were sare pled. At 10% Company RB. of Mount |¢ Vernon, arrived at the armory and tne} 4Wo companies formed into a battalion) and left the armory, Crowds lined the aidewatks and filled the windows all the! way from the armory on Waverly pire: to ihe depot. TROOP A IN Th THE SADDLE. New Vork's Crack ¢ ry Sqeade rom Advancing Toward Ardeley. Squadron A began Lis ma: Dem at 11.0 ock this mor! “Boots and raddles wes sounded 11.18 o'clock, The troape fell in, marc acroes Ninety-fifth etreet to Fifth avi nve north to One Hundred and Twen- jteth west to Beventh avenue. thence out on the old coach road to Ardrley Squadron A Was minus twenty-five mounts. The disappointed troopers wil! be mounted and jein their companions over night The cavalry men went to duty enthy tiastioalty, @ydney White, who served with the squadron through the Spanim- | Amertean war and now a firutes the Fourth Unlted States Cavalry, home on leave from the Philippines, wanted to go out with his olf company. Tre pleasure was denied him. TROOP C ON THE MARCH. Breekiyn Treepers ire Yow Spar- ving we to Gael! Croton Dem Riet. oop ( was the firet of the soldiers Of for Croton. The Breokiyn trooper | Sime began their merch shortly before > o'clock. ‘The mart was made in a quiet, busl- hese I'he manner from the armery on North Portland avenue, Breekiyn. There wees no attempt at display and no biare ‘of trumpets but a large ctowd gathered around the armory to eee Brookiya's crack caveiry organtestion cf. ~ OWLY FIVE mSSING. to Croton wireet missing from the renke Capt. De Bevotee and bis teutensate worked like Beavers ai! night getting the men out and geiting the comp equip- monte ready for the Geld. The reset thet at 6 the jer the - "aimee Bue — used every effort to impress; |norse and delighted at the pr jen wagon ; Wagons, with all the tents and THE STATE. CONVENTION. Reeuiheans Wi Will Elect Delegates-at-Large Toe Morrow Morning. Dod tilt | @ 1 me are t Nepub- itlon, h meets to- at the Grand Central ur delegates jon at Ph peaceful as a meeting Hope least, all differences veen healed, and ff the ‘aseur- of Mesers. Platt and Odell are to elleved, there Is no longer frietion , etiher Westchester Renseelaer © Conve ‘ow morning be a » Rand of nally, at or nity tls being so It ts though: to-mor- proceedings will be very brief, and that Thomas C. Platt, Chauncey M. Depew, ‘Theotore Roosevelt and Benja- min B. Odell, jr, will be unanimously elected delegates-at-large, and = fn- structed to vote for the renomination of % William McKinley, Most of (he delegates arrived in the “ity to-day and made their T! at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, There i+ | some talk that an effort would be made to have the convention pledge itrelf to the renomination of Gov. Roosevelt, But this Idea Is distasteful to Benator Platt, and {t {s sald, {f such an effort is made, the permanent Chairman, will Fule that a convention ca'led solely to ele t delegates to a nationd conven+ on has no right to Indorse candidates + State offices, © most significant political event the reault of the conference He will be killed before He |* tween Mr. Platt and Mr, Odell rae the works an hour.” ing the quarrel in the Third District, - RIOTERS HOLD A HOLD A DRILL. { Rensteaer County, between Pos master Legget!. of Troy, a Roosevel; uled the ng utensils and all | ce | man, and ex-Gov, Frank & Black @n@ Loulx F. Payn, Mr, Platt decided that | Mr. Loggett's quarrel was not a the camp equipments. |Lemders Instructed Strikers en's GuaLrel Was Hato Ba Outsife a crowd had Legun to gather] Military Tact Creten | amd were watching every movement of | Mille This H int Mesers. Black and Payn wil} jprobab y go to Philadelphia @s d@ele- the men in their bright uniforms a8) poriy this morning a striker armed they passed in and out of the Armory. twit) An anolent sabre put 30 men | gater. that the THE BUGLE CALL. | oroweee # Gis 1 Was also said yesterday friends of Liews-Gov. Woodruff t ave him ind ‘ with Winchesters, carbines a ae pe ret scl ‘™ the drfil the men held a meeting isle blew for arsembly and the ne" | incendiary speeches were made. thered in the squad room, The rel me e¢ for the VicesPresidency, but If such an fo ta Was at once called. Out of ninety-six WATCHING THE SHERIFFS. MAJOR-GEN. ROE. J tk 801019 owswe nosueconseaaenens places. in o'clock the necessary mounts wer: vided and everything was ready for | march to begin The men had cleane bel polished up ‘vekles apd bra fixings, go: carbines eabrex and revo! vere in shape and lau “horoughly over: | he wrt in 'made it will be suppressed men in the troop ninely-one answered their names. ‘Then the order to #adile horses was given. The men hurried downstairs to the ring, and in a few minutes the horses were ready for the road, The men mounted and the troop f rmed in | Tuesday & Wed'sday | April 17th & 18th. Ladtes Shoes. Ladies’ Kid, Patent Leath- ier Vamp, and Tan Oxford Ties, hand turned seles, $2.85, valne $4.00 & $4.50 Kid and Russia Leather Oxford Ties, welted soles, $2.85, value $4.00, Patent Leather Oxford y| Ties, welted soles, $3.65, value $5.00, Kid Button and Lace Boots, kid and patent leather tips, welted soles, $3.25, value $4.50 & $5.00. Patent Kid Button Boots, welted soles, $3.05, value $5.00. A large force of deputies all morning was In and around the company's offices on the porthern bank of = the/ river, where Bupt. Goldsborourh | sleeps and from which a footbridse swings over the valley to the works on he southern eide, Other deputies gath- ered around the quarries, No deputy went alone. Whenever they moved at all they moved in pairs. STRIKERS ARE ALERT. , Tee masority of the strikers stayed | Behind the Troop cam fe ammuni- (| P 1 night because many expected | two large furntiure "hat the Sheriff might attempt | ing @ fuse and try to get the troops to the scene under cover of darkness, Those The men were in heavy marching |W paced the hilltops had arms in order, with large campaign hats, and {helr parrot and afi’ a that had | bore a soldierly be busin tke alr. pt Consul arrived last Crowas jong the streets in evide: thr whith the they passed, but there) Bome aie demonstratio marched ime from Capt. De Bevoire. The armory doors swung backward ond the trocp marched through, with the captain ... the lead. In front, circling around the n's of active service, was the maac the Troop. He |» a ferce Wull-terrier bear. | ing the name of “Spider.” He wen: | through the campaign in Porto Rico and | Ig veloved by the en organization utenaiie and other camp equipment. me of the sheriff's Someries have ‘certalned approxim: ‘amou ‘hrough North arms (n possession he ot y that the workmen have seve » thirty-four car- | Th nearly a thousand revolver: to ‘Maiattan) e the, vrwentye swith plenty of ammunition. Th y, thence marched to| formidable armament in the han: Fifth avenue to | desperate men. ‘Park “4 pth avenue the NEGOTIATIONS FUTILE, aden: Toniewee by scores of bi Conferences te End the Great Cre- Alon toward noon the troop on its way to Ardsiey, where it will ton Dam Strike Proved tm Vath, p until wan by Squadron A. of cavalry from New yn to protect the city's water supply from the Croton strikers | followed the failure of negotiations to Word has reached the deputy sheriffs! end (he strike. that the svrikers are moulding bullets in! At the Grand Union collars of their houses. " ne bullete were for the he manufacture of bullets eased since the soldiers came. ‘arin PLT. Cheek the Advanciog ‘Treepers. A plot to blow up the Bowery Britge | was scented early thie morning by {6 Firth av Central Toope were cm BULLETS FOR S FOR TROOPS? Rioters Moalding Le Hotel Bund: Jeputies Ma ¥r ancts io “dot A Cowles, the Sheriff's attorney, and Con. | t James 8. Coeman conferréd for pours ry ale troupe, rr ARCH FOR WRS. CLARK, ' je Seeke to Enjoin the City from Breet Memorial om River- Drive. | The application of Mra. Elisabeth 8. Clark for an injunction restraining the city of New York and the Board of Com- missioners of the Scldiers and Gailors Memoria! arch from erecting the posed monument aL ana iversiin Drive w: ve E-tagerald in the depu-! rea ‘The court reserved decision. “Tne | c Pe Mponumen! would # the nga and prorpect nearby. All the night and eatiy moraing th me tirikers had marched fn gange through | the valley, swinging ther guns and! threatening # trouble, ! ‘The deputy sheriffs gave them a wide berth. ‘The watchers saw several gangs con- verge at the south entrance to the Bowery Rridge. ‘The deputies caught sight, they reported, of strats Iaying aynamive to dlow up tne ‘An alarin Was spread and fifty tee moved Gown on the strikers, eas ar ‘up of the Bower; ore ore, | the stiri be. tepred: be a blow a! to the uae whom the strikers aa conte @ Bay Ba Oe cone coal from Renn: ow and abus- ive to tee etriers, vone® “Your é—— Gngece are net worth @2 « Gay,” be cnld to one of the leaders. ‘Tre remart hes passed from lip to ‘ip. life would pot be worth « We like to dress =. Men all their lives. First, Reasonable pA sup- tare pose, then, we Sots take unusual pains with their firstknickers—with all clothes for Little Gentle