The evening world. Newspaper, May 31, 1900, Page 1

VW EAT THA SDE RASTORNS TO-NIGHT, NIGHT EDITION __ PRICE ONE CENT. RESULTS OF © THE RACES, MEYER’ s ASSAILANTS HELD. EDNA BENN SAYS MISS EDNA BENN. She Horsewhipped Augustus (. Meyer in His Own Apartments. Jefferson Market Court.) & ! APARTMENTS <e ELEVA pean cma Sa PART OF WHIP ANG CANE USED. winpew Bana Benn, a dionde beauty, twenty- REAR OF House. three years old, of 4 Fifth avenue Marry Brooks, a newspaper circulator, Sketched at the apartments of Augustes Meyer. and his wife Maud, of i West Fit - ia eighth str been arreste! for ter ing Augustus Mey-| 445, @f, & wealthy bacaeior, shortly afte midnight in his apartments at 4 Fifth avenue. ! The trio were each held under $M in Jefferson Market Court thi @fternoon to answer charges felonious assault They were fire he ar-auit, re traced to faeederouiy From the hospital) bead and dence. Before the trio were taken to Jeffer- rt for arraignment they Meyor at the New HE BIT HER THUMB. son Market Co re taken defo! rk Hospital for » the marks of Meyer's arraigned on charges The pain of it was so Of biack nese Were Withdrawn, jt6 hy ven to Hellewue after leaving Alt re locked Ho COU) ant Ha m, and thus ihe police go: Driso’ He a hurriedly called lawyer! po atiem: ‘ hat led 40 her arrest. Was scurrying to find bondemen for! Th» he iret time off _ “When he wouldn't let go,” she re them. Brooks's mand on him for) “med. “I sere ww ig? to Hr. Bootie fe None of the three would make any | sio.a0 | help f cranbad rgtd by the throat @xvlanation to Magistrate y . and choked him unt! Pleading oo.” guilty “1 MISSBENN’S STORY. | til Meyer ts able to appear againg the cord el dle ile Hise Benn and Mrs Brooks were! oroke my whip over Meyer and fol- the nt aone . tt BLACKMAIL CHARGED, = hb him Wt PRONT oP House . HE SLANDERED HER AUGUSTUS C. MEYER. Re ; we grappled. Me got my left the Brooks resi-} thumb in his mouth and held on flerce- Here Miss Benn exhibited the thumb with teeth. The nail had been bitten almost completely j oft nd the flesh was blue and swollen. intense she had #9 | lowed it by a good hiding with his own “ Circulation Books Open to Al .”? | He got his cuts} — ¥ « window and thrasting i¢h to make an “AGUINMLOO I AILLED 1% m 1 war qui . sad " " at 8 wont + thee ape y call the police ated of ie com ww Und coed 1 bad no pistol | made no attempt “ mai ng of my character, | 0m his life. £ asked for no money fous on © M began fgme. While ¥ went to Nis room with « 7 mot to tl w as Whip, and protected by my two fr rents ’ ™. rt for to make him set riaht the wrong he ’ ty ond SP | made + hed done me and admit | was not mr Mrs Hrooks, « tv h horsewhip him and make him retract. he had called me. whip Meyer ¢ ‘ seandalous te Mr. and Mn "are my dear ‘ leaving Bellevze gery =| ‘ates he nad m rut evarac: | friends and w f letting went to Mra Urooks’s home ter me wo to his re insisted | have given myself up to the police pred After the avrault the police wer: Plete.y mystiie . When Meyer consciousness he sald Edna Ber om acconipanyt | wer too HORSEWHIPPED HIM. "wa the: lastiga f the axenuit, but dial] “When he came into the room I said: | due to the demoralization of other ien-| 4. Rot know ber Down on your knees and retract before | amis in the building, the janitor and the} Ne sal@ nothing jackal: my friends the shameful things wre | ease tor bey. Per hours the p rhed in the about me. eee. See 0 of trem illevee ket excited,’ he said. "sam | Nespital, where the trio had gone af-|1 h one you an Injuation,” 5 wm icentinued of Berond Page.) . A... ——“=|the whip from under my jacket and as|3ew ast Kaprees to Cinetunatl vie Awnings and Slip Covers 1 did he struck me acroms the left arm Penasptvenia Ralireed. Haass ca meeaaarcey i and nervous to leave the That Meyer's assalants escaped was The house in which “Bose Tweed Unconfirmed santinahdiaiies Manila that Insurgent K Ni Kine V Hi SAN f D. Roweris, Pr tut ¢ the corpora tio od Ly w kens Leader Is Dead. {Pat the company dom F carmis| Seg: Joon Wigloe Priva LONDON, May 211.26 P. MA, cornered them and barred aif nted rece.ver for) Met ourt an Green killed ; ¥ re prin not allowed to ‘quedty = George Kinger # s hig Al otlenecial despateh from Germiston, GERMISTON, Suburbs of A © een: ate dip tate thal ——_ ite apeny 1, Thirty-Arth = Regie abate of sburg, eccupied by aesburg, Transvaal, Weds Y report eity t O'Netlt’e Great Sale Jalted Btatey Volunteers auuw i } of of Mate, a Lord Roberis, says several hundred 30, 3.25 P, M—J afternoon from Manila that Aguinaido, the PUipine insurgent leader, bad been | Sem of cert. No boner Milles by the Amarionn trove NEW _NEW YORK, | “THURSDAY, MAY 31, YORK: V11o90-4 ED PROM PACE & Late advices from Manila showed that Aguinaido was being closely purened I MEW ROCHTER A BIVER APPOINTED 0} Justice Andrews, in the Supreme Court today ointed Mortgage and Trust Company receiver for the Brooklyn Wharf ant Warehouse Company. The appeintment was made on the application of Bowers and fants tn proceedings for the voluntary disso- ‘Ther’ cesing out women's Grom shapes re Mew Tore 4 the United States | BASEBALL. GER TAKEN | No confirmation of the report could) be made throwgh any of the news chan-| | | | te How Lees Than 2 Hours to 4. Leute | Boers have potions refuge in a minw tieally in Bree | a Ok ieeed tah OR ore, Som we] vie Poemsrinig Limi Lame Mew Yeh] whery the British grepadiers havo PRICE | ONE CENT. = ile PRISONER! “See ua TOPS TO PEIN. LONDON, May 31—9.08 P. M.—Lord Roberts with Othor|fePports that Johannesburg was occupied to-day by the British troops, The despatch from Lord Roberts is as follows: * JOHANNESBURG, May 31—2 P. M.—Her THR TORN, Chine, x Majesty's forces are now in possession of Johan- win cris ant are expec! NeSburg and the British flag floats over the Governe mee me ment buildings. t neers Qienncemeninceats | Roberts’ ) “hh oy Weak Gold City--Boer President Reported: Captured Near Pretoria. Americans, Foreigners, Start for Chinese Capital. May 1 —The Rue As the Russians were nearing forts yesterday in oats scr REPORT OF “OOM” PAUL’S “| LONDON, May 31-645 P. M—The Wests men British—Three officers and seve ~!quarter likely to be well informed that President si jana Taree officers and aviynne/ AUGer had been captured by the British six miles Itahans men beyond Pretoria. “—e - President Kruger has a farm at Waterval, about Rewien-Poer 3 a “/seven mies outside of Pretoria. ce eee The Evening News of this city has received a The foreign contingent also took with them five quisk-fring une despatch from Pretoria to the effect that Johannes Its rumorwt here that foreign troop | burg has been handed over to the British. will be opposed at the first gate of the | .* enpates 4 Kroger s coptare, Dar cot Deen confirmed by the War fe the wall. amt The frecing Worle + 0) peeerration. The Wemtminister Gesette, Rewere, (© # paper andr padi & Masten renee Chinese capital, ADMIRAL KEMPHF CABLES. — iS OF SURRENDER OFFERED BY ROBERTS. CAPE TOWN. May 21—Lord Rob-, Private property, it is added, will erts is about to issue a proclamation | be respected providing British prep a Says He Landed 100 Men, of Whom WASHINGTON, May 1. A cableeram was received at the Navy Deparcment to-day from Atmira: Kempf, “aied 8° Jenouning the “malicious fables” re erty ts not damaged. If British prep ra eeine ae nee necdat and sens | karding the intentions of the British erty is wantonly destroyed, not eal, to TrenTain yestertay Fifty of these and announcing the terms of sur-| will the actual » perpetrators be go to Pekin thls day Other n landed men.’ onder, which are the guaranteeing of severely punished in person and Sane ae munity to all non-combatants, and! property, but the authorities permite GEN. CORINO GAUGAT, xt a1 Bureners, excepting hose! ting the damage will be ‘eld re * eho are actively connected with the sponsible, All the inhabitants are =e ‘i urged to prevent wanton damage, The principal employees of the big mining and commercial concerns at { the war, directing its Rich Friend of Aguinalde ( : ns, commandeerring, looting iviliged war, wi ntrary to WASHIN M «.| be allowed to returp to thejr farms, J paneeirs ot ee oe ng deopateh war receive ariand remain unmolested on proving o, bot the poe oe Poe. Department to-day from Gen MacAF\che aurrender of thetr arms and on| stricting the retura of the rice anee | king an oath not to sight again | public. F surre en me tive Ge friend of Amu day near kK While # <1 “ HUNDREDS OF BOERS Pooh: CORNERED IN MINE! jayume «4 (Continued on Be i ™ aaaehbeer mare CAPTURE NEAR PRETORIA, — “minster Gazette says it is rumored to-night in @ ©