The evening world. Newspaper, September 6, 1900, Page 1

WRATHER—FAIR TO-NIOHT, EDITION — ‘PRICE ONK hdd “CROKER'S DAILY TALKS, TO-DAY ON HONESTY, He Reiterates His Stock Charges Against Comp- troller dhe Richard Croker qaid this morning “@o Coler says he is the only honest 1 want) man in the world, does he? fo show that he ain't as honest as people think he js, 1 want to make) ‘Ail Answer to Whal he said in (he papers | this morning “Comptroller Coler got 1,00 sharen of the City Trust Company at par and 100 per cent, was paid in as surplus within four montha after the opening of the company. "The stock sold for Mi per cent, which made a profit of $206,000, “He also got $20,000 worth of United | Biates Fidelity Guarantee Company at about 108 per cent, The stock went up! to 142 per cent., and he made a profit of $90,000, "That shows what man Coler tn." Mr. Croker had his statement written | out ona little plece of paper, He dir- played !t to some friends in the corri- dors of the Hoffman Houne. “UH show the public that this man Coler is not so honest ax he would have people belleve, ‘Talk about commercial: tam tn polities; he ts worse than any one kind of an honest elve, Look here!" At the pame time Mr. Croker drow from his pocket « manuscript, On the lop Was a letterhead of the Comptroller's Mice and back wt It was incorporation papers in bie printing, Shaking the papers on the table Mr. Croker sald “Talk about commerciaiiam in poilties, why there in a wi steal worse than anything he hy d. and he wal at the head of it at letter In one which he wrote asking me to return th papers, To am going to preserve this and will show that fellow up as he de- rerves, Talk about commercialiem In politier, “He's the worst commercialiat in| politic going, I’ here. how that honest man stands.’ Bot some other stuft! 1 just want to show the public NEW YORK, THURSDAY, 8! meagan " » ‘ at Circulation Books Open to All.’ | SEPTEMBER 4 1900, 142, 000 MINERS ~ IMESSAGE FROM CONGER > LIKELY TO | STRIKE,| TELLS OF ALLIES’ ACTIONS. Council Now Sitting ot at "ledanasell on Plan to Call Workmen Out in Coal Region. THE ANGEL OF THE MINES, CEDOODDODEOADIOOOGO AMY) me | ie 0} % = —— rexsrere" See | Mr. Croker fumbled in his pockets aud! ® pulled + Sena ‘ba lot of lett along and sald # all this? up that fe “I'm trying to show 7 Coler and his commercialism in polittos 1 won't stand for what that fellow is waying, “Doi sald Benator Murphy, with a Geprecating wave of the hund, ‘It will only f for Coler, What's the 4s dead a® a doornall any- way." “IT know he's as dead as a doornal), but I want to show what kind of an honest man he Is.” jae Btiner led Mr, Croker A MYSTERY OF THE BAY. —e Envelopes May Lead to Identification of Drowned Woman. Again has the river added to ite long death list, ‘This time a woman was cast upon the ourface of the bay at the Battery sea wall, She was found floating face down, with her brown hair loosened on the waves, When the body was discovered it had evidently been in the water four days, ‘Yet the features would be dificult to Weougnice. Aw nearly as ean be judged she was about forty-five years of age, b feet 10 inches in height, rather stout and Greased in a woollen skirt and silk obirtwaist, Her shoes were made in Chicago, In her pocket were found two envel- opes, ome adiressed to Miss. Minna) Bunto, 16 Fifty-fret street, Chica It had stamped on |t the port-office in- dex Anger in red ink, “return to send: | er,” This stamp was dated Nov, %, 1680. The other envelope was addressed to “Mra, Amands Bunte, Medford, Taylor County, Wis,” and aleo had on it the mark of the Park View Hotel, Forty- second street and Sixth avenue, On the back of the first envelope was the Inscription “From Willlam Hunte, Medford, Wis." ‘There were no inciowuris in either éh- A little chamois bag was also found in the woman's pocket. ‘The contents consisted of an oid bat. of & middle-aged mai); a thin gold au peerage locket, a German i Bolt on which was saniped 0, Uh | teiee deewee of sid, tn whieh was 0 plo | NOCD ¢ “Mother” Mary Jones is sixty years old, with snow white hair, and she is a leader in the qreat anthracite coal ftoike now threatened. She says the miners will certainly be ordered out on Saturday INDIANAPOLIB, Rept, 6—The Na-,all the union men will obey thin. | tionat Board of the United Mine Works ore met here to-day to take action in rewant to the threatened general strike Many will walt to see if the strike is (0 bee ome Kenera: hefore going out This feeling ts worrying the unton involving 142,000 anthracite coal miners | leaders, who are hard at work trying [in Pennsylvania. fo make the men more confident, A | FE the etriko te ordered by the | Mehl responre (o the atrike call and | holding back by the cautlous and dia- reaiful would konek the strike In the heal before it wax well started Huriners men here look for two very | trying months ‘They will be compelled to refuwe credit to the strikers, and the lack of business le expected to cause fome failures, Na 1 Moard approximately te 100,000 persona will be affected. | The board meeting wan called for 10 Jock, but wae delayed until noon on unt of the absence of Fred Dilcher, who hag been at work In the anthracite felds and i# familiar with the situation, Bhowld the strike be ontered, Haale ton, Pa, the central olty of the region, will be made the headquarters of the oMoera of the United Mine Workers, The operators have been granted until Saturday to meet the demands of the miners, The hoard members say all de- pends upon the decision of the operators. WILKEBBARRE, Pa, Sept. 6A gen- |KENTUCKY MINES HAVE SHUT DOWN, Union Orders MIDDLESBORO, Ky., Bept. @—All the eral strike throughout the anthracite | mifos in thin dintriet shut down to-day, region |» now unavoidable. the Miners’ Union haying ordered the The United Mine Workers have pledged | men out until the conference scheduled the union to order It out If the operators) for Sept. 10, when an agteemen: wiil refused to grant thetr demanda, and the|probaby be reached and a weale fixed for operator have refused and decisively, the coming year The men will some time before Satur | About 0) men are affected. Five com- day night receive orders to quit work on panies in the Coal Creek Jellies district , but it Is pot expéoted that] have alreaty signed the agreement, LAST DITCH. of gold-bowed eyogiuanen, | ‘There was nota mark of violence on Elliot Danforth Says the Comptroller Will Be Nom- elther bracelet of thin braided sir the letter * the body, The woman had evidently commit ed autoide, From ‘the Church street station the body was removed to the Morgue. The | poliee have begun on investigation, The Aight crews of the Staten Island and |Bouth Brooklyn ferries will be inverro- ated ri « Fad penrelns @ person of her de | inated at Saratoga, Aas known of a woman answer. | ik the son att Forty-second atreet, nor was there any! he similar to Bunte upon the regis Eliot Danforth thi ening t “You must not believe those stories about Coler's friends being discouraged, “We will put him in nomination at toga and stand by him until the diten, “The candidates of the other men may emo ‘bbb eleiebtnisiebelebebete eee bioh WEATHER FORECAST. ia Forecani fev the heures ending dny, Sept, T, for New York be confident, but they are no more con- fident than we are. “Coler will be the nominee of the Clty and vieinity; a@ueratty | Pemoe ys, rei fate to-night and #riday, fresh south to went winds, ona’ Werke aie tee Vote, Sh Ris ny ae WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—The Mate Department made the following, announcement to-day: "A telegram hae been received from Minleter Conger dated Peking, Gopt. 1, stating that a military parade passed through the Imperial Palace on that day and thet eunuchs and servants were the only occupants,” WEATHERS P ATE bUsRdoniE, —_——————. ——~-... BASEBA # RAC PRICE ONE CEN GAlorld, MILES © H POLE. Duke of Abruzzi Reaches Furthest Point North in’ Arctic—Party Had to Eat Their Dogs—T errible Suf- ferings of the Crew—T wo Explorers Perish, WITHIN 207 OF NOK CHRIGTIANIA, Sept 6—A telegram from Tromaoe, Norway, in reporting the return of the Stella Polare with the Duke of Abruaai's aretic expedition on board, says the Stella Polare reached @ | point in latitude M.% porth, thus pene= trating further north than Dr, Nansen's | record, The Stella the lee for eleven months Polare remained fast in The pret sure etove in her sides, making a hole a foot and in breadth, Her hinery was also damaged a qua M4 fn fae | Q | fi ? i} \j > 4 The members of the expedition gute bd ¥ P| C tered many hurdships and were come YH wiled eat thelr sledge deg A Note shud. y » expedition, periahed, 4, The news of the axsaseination of King BROOK] YN Ve PITTSB IR f 1V) Humbert of Htaly Cincle of the Duke of L ue © | J \u / Abrutal) wan commuteated to (he Duke } off Hammerfent, ‘The Stella Polare, " erefore. did not communicate Whb the PITTSBURG ' ) 0-9 but proceeded suuthward BROOKLYN 0 9 V ) Q—2 Dr Fridtjof Nansen, who returned F from his expedition to the arctic regtons , in Atimumt, 188, reported (hit tere Die vessel, the Fram, March 1, 1a, 1a ij M degrees north jatitude and traversed ; el r Sea to a polnt & degrees 1 ) ™ minutes nogh, situated worth of the few Stverian | Ww ‘This was a point four degrees further ore yy north than any previous explorer aad La? reached. According. to the reports the Duke Am) cu Kot wethon at mil i AT HARLEM. iy =n Lu a pi J PRISONED fF HEIRESS’S BROTHER R ACCUSED. Lawyer Digney Calls he tn Wendel “Unnatural” and Says He Has Ulterior Motives, Tf not, met the police, Don't Won't you help me to Bensational charges were made (his of here, Afternoon before Judge (ilersieeve in MeAve me here Part 1. of the 6 Court by Law. St evar” of the Bupi ourt Wi “TY Uniinis,"* id i cell yer Tobn @) Dignay, sald Juige Gilderaieeve, Founty Clerk Of ienge dtsinterested persons have nc Weatohenter, againet John G, Wendel, | sient to inter a a the brother of Mine Georgiana Wendel,| sepniy the wealthy young woman who \® de | Digney, tained In hor slator's home at Irvington) wor with her brother in her father’s will. on the round (hat s! Innane, Bhe In perfectly sane and T have the je offeot, @ charges of insanity are an pike a8 strange brother” for) made by her br © for ullertey mo- an “ulterior motive.” tivem, fhe Ie tn the custody of him He charged that Miss Wendel had been | win refuses io give her up. Twiee be- perntroniy pecially os beg a fore has that person hed her jnearcer yrother jee a La ated an@ twice have the courte liber ooeanion an accounting of the entate of! aed her, ae pital yg Wore covereoutore had been “They aay she becomer insane twice « y yeor, and twice a year John Wendel, her Mied Wrereetints ere. Svar? aeons co-exeoutor, Ia called upon for an avy John Wendel, four olen maters alee counting of her father's estate, He haw being a party to the application, to have M4 pl ogy ay i i @ commlasion of three appointed to em! oe mies will ‘the iy" hey ria. ibe amine into the santly of the Youns sists of maki Linh Poy woman, Georme Gordon Battle and Law- brs id Ae Bt will, Mleo. Wi ‘rer Morria B. Thompron appeared in ba-| 70 Ay Me amabulied her when she rey halt of the petiti while John @,| fused to wlgn that waiver and she eac> Disney onl ‘ial Fed the marks of the assault to Belle Lawyer Thompson demanded to know) ‘"* Hospital whom Mr, Digney represented, “Never “T appear for the alleged incompe-|te probate the anjuet wilt tet anawered the lawyer moth “Have vou been engaged by that per- fon?” asked the Judge | peesees, "NO," rempondgd the lawyer, ‘I have|#in@a Wemdel wae insae been engaged her moet tntimate friend, Mrs, Emilie Hepburn Mack, of | », Irvington.” “This person is not @ relative of the| ~*"* Rate Ste 6b i alleged —incompetent,”’ Lawyer| “We ask that this woman be taken Thompson, “and we submit that the! from the custody of thie strange brother brother and sisters of the woman are! ind given in the keeping of the Bloom: better able to act for her,” jogdale authorities until @ commisaton “T will explain,” eala Lawyer Dignoy,| os determined her soundness of mind.’ “Misa Wondel ia held a prisoner in her] Judge Glidersieeve sald he could not sister's house, Mhe is there under guard, | do thie, as Judgo Bischoff had already #0 thad escape hes been Impossible, Her] med her ester as a commissioner to friend, Mra, Mack, called and was de-| sare for her person, Tho Judge reid he wn admission, The alleged incompe-| would apoo'nt a comrmiasion of three to examine the " phe! ueler the pp, peated In story win: man's sanity, but fo, her; smorrow to give counsel opportunity called out ‘ter until 2 o'etook " ‘Please wot s later and got me ous ;, ple additional papers, ti Amie ee a ee hel woes and lett «am imanitine Stella the wl den with & mj anid providing, & incruding each “8 hho tier, aed formed in wueh & cami ete ) the arm oa mingle pers GIRL SWIMS |WOODFORD Saeaey avalliestolle THE BAY. Priscilla Higgins Crosses from | Fort Hamilton to St, George. TO MARRY. | Walinn! Nays Ex-Minister to Spain Chooses Secretary for Wile. id one Baquimaux f ine dows, of Toe latter were made of horse the expedition 0 Baquimaux wasn, and natiaments Another mermaid in the petson of] The ermagement of Gign Stewart T Mien Princilia Higgina, of the @hore| Woodford, exsMin ater To ath ant Re for fame by ewimining wero KEW | oon in deapatctios from Willlamstow York Hay from the Fort to 8t. George, | Staten Teland. Miss Henson is a handsome ‘The diatance te eight miles, Mine Hine | ‘ ain we fins covered thy noe in two houre Wo niford » private secret w and five minut Mien Wigwios te the youngest female wwimmere who have lately tween | making records that any man would be! of the{a ne larly Gen W Proud of. Bhe te only fourteen years oid | ame and In the daughter of George A. Hik- —— gins, ny than | HO O ] The nwimn acsoss he bay was made] a iy G T pr Jouterday by Mire Hipgine She started I, from Hegeman’s dock, A rowboat and SHOCK. | | tha Port Hamilton polite jaunch fol. lowed her es ‘The tide was favorable for the swim And helped the young pir) materially Stepped on “Trelley Wire HID CEMS IN and Threw Policeman | HIS SHOES, declared she can make im again in better time, even without helping lide Mies Higmine dressed at 8¢, George and Bhe wan at no time in distrems = 8 returned on the hauneh. She war born Rider. on the and sinew early chtidhood , s haw been a swimmer, Ka 1 of Of E et —- Mour " ion THE PABST COLONNADE. horse " Ae aman sense a | wire ‘ Bre arged wit pare \* “ Highways’ Commidiioner Keating said) vee x 1 mugging ‘ to-day that he could pot do anything ‘ ‘ He wos held Voted Btates Com about the removal of (he Pabar Hole!) ive snipe dala , nie er ul or Colonnade uAulf the matter waa parr! tka ‘aatwal anu # H his coat and the Cbubte, It was erected wilh sndacand lowe C i numerous pong? +} 4 , J 4 C fou Eleven out @ permit, anda potlce was served of upon the propreptor to trave It removed a ae et i acted a Jtamonds wer found In Bie vie taken to home and the) cings, scart pins and other pleces of . Was, shatocd toe had jowelry, The oelnedyntut was Valued at cannot emt track. on, ! iis, aca tvs bed ai the a eT i a