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

ee EE) oe cee PE SA REN, aeRS be e [ROOT RULES; ' Yorker Forcing Pro-Russian Pact Through. | ELIHU ROOT. | tefete Soha Fataaanbntntnteantnbtn'atetntetn of tet Nate? eae afeafartentatenteaten’ fates . ’ WRATHER—F Amn. EDITION PRICE ONE CENT. Jeffries Issues a Defi to Fitz for $20,000 a Side —Last Night's Battle. ‘ t James J. Jeffries to-day offered t to fight Fitzsimmons at either Car- son City or San Francisco ‘or $20,000 a side within four weeks, = 2 Corbett to-day announced that he would be ready within the next few months to take on either Jeffries Ps or Fitzsimmons. 4 The receipts of Jast night's fight were about $75,000. Sixty per cent, goes to the fighters, equally x divided, so Corbett and McCoy each get $22,500 for punching each 3 f other fourteen minutes and three } seeonds. No wonder they are sorry the i Horio law is repeaied. i The most broken-hearted man in New York last night was “Kid” t \cCoy. 4 The most broken-hearted woman was his wite. i A full half hour after the “Kid's” 3 ignominows deteat by Jim Corbett t at Madison Square Garden man and } wife were weeping bitterly in each other's arms im their home, 249 West Forty-fourth street Te suffer defeat was bad enough, | ' but to suffer it at the hands of an arch enemy like Corbett was more « than either could bear. That was why they wept. Friends who were present during the scene said it was pitiful. By superior cleverness James J. Cor dett spolled “Kid” MeCoy at ath f Madison Square Gar aspirations den imei night While the fight was a disappeintment ore of F to'the extent that the two m the fistic art did not exh! the 1.00 specta big garden extgemely well satisfied A CLEVER EXHIBITION. Last night's battle was conceded to te the greatest, the mest s¢ 4 prettiest five-round go seen in the arena in years. Such superb foot work. puch clever blocking and ducking and such a remarkable exhibition of rea! brain work have seldom before bren witnessed. And there, coming as they G4, after & surfeit of slam-bang siug- ging matches, were rot only gratifying Det a genuine revelation to thousands For nearly three rounds * raged wih cely a biow ‘The two men feinted #0 rapidly eye could scarcely follow (he swift mov~ ing gloves. A imp gt the face or body only met thin alr or porstbly a clevery placed arm. Both men were careful al- most to a fal. There came « swing and a duck, 2 jab an! a sidestep and then came bewildering feints and rushes, evege movement displaying the acme of ecientifie boxing. When the bel. announced the epee of furnish « fentiile « soped (Continued oF disth Page) See Page 4 for The Evening World's great pictorial story of inst night's Gabi by « corps of famous artists. ——— A Sight em the toad pre Pee ine ein cnnitincicits New Yorker now the ryling spirit in the McKinley Cab- Thdugh Secretary of War, he has taken up the reins ” diplomacy and, engineered the Russian alliance over China over Secretary of State Hay’s head, inet Sueriat to The Evenieg Wort) until all the allied army ¢ eo in WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Elihujeoncert or withdrawal is ha by a Root, of New York, Secretary of War feciaration of war from some source. = is the man who is -esponsible for the flop of the Administration to Russia | , and the jurning down of Seeretary| of State There is now no doubt that ous split has occurred in the € SECRETARY HAY NOT ILL. The New York Tribune sent a des b to Secretary May yesterday aa if there waa any truth in the re ye was ill, He replied am Hay over the China question, | » ing at seri- ‘abinet te that and that Secretary Hay opposed to, WRY. No HL. Aug oF the last the determination of Presi-) Te Tribune . Iam not been sertously dent McKinley to join hands with) y) | how such @ fe Russia. on No dental is made of this, but the! officials here are wondering how The; Evening World got its inside infor-| mation ax to the true state of affairs. ee HAY BRITISH AiTA AVTACK US. Lendon Papers Accase ts of Play- HAY WILL NOT SUBMIT. aan a Santuet Great fr ary Hoot t» given all the LONDON, Avg. ~The afternoon! beving steered favorapie * pipers to-day appear td be perplexed at) rocion on the proposition wubmitted ty ' Houta, but Me. May's frien? say he t* Americo-Russlan accord 1@ secure ; mm a ndeg the the prompt evacuattoy of Peking. They Point o@f how comp etely this upsets and preconceived notions of how the powers naliy 4 | fee Da ge would be grouped on the Chinese ques- If the Russian is carried ous Hon of ed the consen fom im that the prey wer May's opposition it te net ible that he may be forced to his place th the Cabinet WHERE SECRETARY HAY'« ’ STANDS. — - rin ae [ment is re-entabiin! “The long Cobinet meetirg of edocs. day, the longest of MeKiniey’s Adminis. | "'*Steedees of the prevent wprie- tration, Is said to have protonged be. | ina are pamtshed. cause the sentiments of Secretary Hay were known (0 his associates. The vi ee Sipe ame tg DHE Coy of Mr. Way was that the Government | *7™e9' oppose to the utvermost the should continue to await replies from | ides of evevuation of Peking, in which the Pty on the tiene concern-| course, the paper adds, it will be sup- ing acceptance o Hung Chang] port en tor betore tnitiating new ported by Empera Witttem of Ger The Gite seises the opporcumity to impos revign and n rah | “ Cirenlation Books Oyen to All.” | ~ HAY’S POLICY Serious Split in slit In Cabinet by New|== NEW York, FRIDAY, A . STRANGE MURDER I IN BROOKLYN. POLICE SEEK AXE Ps oa — VICTIM’S HUSBAND. 0c ( 3 |— 3 ) } vu ' ! FRANCE SE THE ONLY POWER > TO ACCEPT TERMS AS YET. } WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—The posal, came to-day from Frange. only reply received by the State De- The French Government it partment to the note sent to all the sald, acquiesces in the plans of Rua- powers, based on the Russian pro- sia and the United States. ‘SLEW 2,000 BOXERS INVITED TO A FEAST. besieging that town. The Viceroy reports that the Taotal of the city of Teangchow, on the An intercepted letter from the Viee- | rand Canal, Invited 2,000 Boxers to @ feast, and while the Boxers were Toy at Paotingfu, who coment |*, "e+ and their weapons were ed at Tientsin during the fight-| stacked the Imperial soldiers by his ing there, says the Boxers are figbt-| orders fell upon them and slaugh- ing the Imperial troops. They are | tered all of them. LEGATIONERS AND ARMY OF RELIEF QUARREL. oprright, 1990. by the Assortated Freee) they assert, TAKU, Aug. GB, via Shanchal Aug ® Iniiely, ‘There te much reerimination between, The hesteged accuse the Gen he foreigners besieged in Peking ang @ and of csageere he members of the relieving force.| Th Officers say that the besieged sent out | @iek © muck emaller army might alarmist reports and that the condjdon Beve made the ma of the foreigners was never one of them months sooner, such extrmiules a* the official dew | qne looting at Peking proceeds indus | patches represented, The foreigners,’ triously and openly 0 —_——_-. (Coprrtght, 1900. by (he Associated Frees) TAKU, Aug. 28, via Shanghai, Aug. 30. could pave resisted indef- in the meanwhile, the question of employing Li Hung Chang as an inter- mediary is meeting with more and more favor. There ts, however, no doubt in offictal circtes (hat it will be necessary for the Powers to maintain their hold of the! Taku forts and certain other fore ged | J UM satisfactory Jane ~4 toe ber Keele sce bao xo bonevicr. Petand Water Leads Al). Presminet by G00 phgriciane Diptomats More Faverable to Our Proposal bet Talk of Hold- ing Take Forts, LONDON, Aug. There is said to! be official authority fur announcing that the American-Russian proposal in faver of the withérawel of (he allied! ie i ee a ee > PRICE ONE CENT, ——————w Mrs. Reichte Pande Bs in Brooklyn with Her Head Terribly Hacked—Police Looking for Her Eccentric Husband: Mystery v ells @ tragedy in the At 5 o'clock this morning William East New York section of Brooklyn. | Rete. the woman's eldest son. who! inconsefous and dying. went to the how Coroner Delap t that howe tm ia a florist and lives next door to his| tending to wait and wenn The police puzzled over the strange) pitenis, wan awakened by criee for! Inspector Harte “y ne Py he circumstances of the case are seek-| hep once with Deter ing a clue that will lead them to Fi nd en from the Central Offee, the assassin who, early this morn-| ™ oun HER weten ia tine ot started ning to a low he ts | ing, armed with an axe, struck dOWD) morner iying in bor yard in a pk ot | Insp }atiri wa Mrs. Mary Reichte and left her dy- | diood. ing in the rear yard of ber home,| Raising an alarm Se ran to hts mot ver] land found her unconm A doctor VOR _ FANN ‘treet, as called and messengers sent for! The woman was found lying {n &) ie police and to summon an ambu |! : vor aet her ante mage: pool of blood with a great gash in lance In look ng for the burband the poli her head and her face and body} Hill street t# almost at the etty line earned that he had been ‘oma ts asia toc: aban a | of Brooklyn. in the Bast New York d or as the ltrtet, and it w= me time before bo sy me At har side was a blood-em red) pojioe and pital authorities re- wixty-fve years olf ot axe, dropped hastily by the assailant ponte h as Mra. Reichte eried out for help.| 18 the meantime a thorough sear bith Reena ee had been made for the woman's bus There were no signa of 8 StrugBle) pang, vut not a trace of him could pe tinh A and it is thought that the victim was | found mate Wino bat he had struck down unawares, Another) The surgeons t that Mre. Retcthte’s | he Tenched skull ba e ny a blow of the o » added. marm cTy theory is that she was attacked in| Jane and her face and body hacked IN| “Noiehtone sae aiher aid it the house afd ran to the yard and | dierent piaces Relcie “Panning egg was there felled Ly the blows that WOMAN WILL DIE. Cemetery. That was i) will in all probability ber | death, 1ow looking for Ri She was burriel to Bi. Mary» Hospital, |.) may hee Cee still ee fe, tie where at noon it wag sald {CITY IS LOSING $1,000 ADAY. | Buu cal Comptroller Coler will shortly issue a statement fr GYPSIES ; giving a list of the bond issues which the Municipal Clara Johnson poner Oo Assembly is holding up. + Most of the bond issues are for public improve- She Is Held Against Her Will. ments completed or under way, and for which the city has had to borrow money at 6 per cent. to pay. The city is now losing a thousand dollars a day in interest in this way. Clara Johnson, a colored girl, the treated drudge of the Harrison tribe of aypsles declares she ts held againet, her will and to-day @ constable nfeld. NJ, with a warrant for rest of Sarah Harrison, queen ef the) CHEF KLLED SHOUTED AS HE and Was constantly abused by the wash ous memoere of the wandering band. The day before the gypsies departed ied w Mee. oBneer for Seven of Her Children) Boy Eager to Please Took Died in Two Years and a Chance and Lost She Pined Away. His Life. penned | incre and told a thrilling story of £ was referred to the lees, . os the camp wae fast cy limite they hed me! n the case, The next dagr jeparted for Madison, are now ones by the girl prey passed along Ragerness to please his employer by], ington street too-day that his yeareold ne Connolly, forty years Wills ington street, had diet, boy worked for DW sorrow and every: commission merchants at | aused fifteen there was genera ody sald that she had died of a broken street eart Cook was on a freight Mire. Connolly wae the wife of Tim. thirt tow tohy Connolly, employed in a big flour thought he » the | estantinnment few 6 . | veare the . pein pret inde Peo dren, the last one, a youre git y i years old, Shela Conn Ay 4 1 Wrens tego Kat rack =H ON 4 AGAINST DUNLAP, vives, a de r Kate of her daughter #hela was continually grieve ue ker and © ead b | sician Was [finally & phyateem ginine, be nad, ara] Cook lived at 396 Madionn street, Ho joniy called twice. Yesterday we | Vobe Aten tap taal ad . the writ of ‘aughter ate wae going for same ine, but her mother told her to b la priest, an she felt that she was COMMISSIONER LEE OUT, rhe clergyman responded, and a! ing trial istered the last sacraments to the on ball ine woman. She died s Mort "I geno! Heard Member Appointed ice McAdam sayee vr ig the opinion of the entire neigh by ea-Ma rong Resigns pa the evidence borhood, that the women Greve! her-| His Omer the committing Magistrate, te dia ian a ee | James P. Lae. « member of the Mane full of the Giemeet hattan Sehoo! Board, sent his resigns . regard to Drank Acid and Died. ee to Acting Mayor ¢ hetmer to- Wence certainly Louie Weiss, forty-three years olf. | gay He gave hie reason that hel? cause for boiding the | was fowhd dead in bed at bis home, phon bite” Aimeif by "Sowing A a lacked the time necessary to the per formance of bis duties, Mr. Lee was appointed by ex-Mayor) ee Strong. ered iectare