The evening world. Newspaper, September 28, 1900, Page 1

WEATHER—FAIR AND COLDER, EDITION PRICE ONE CEN’, a GOLUMN. ; 4 To-Day He Devotes a Few i Minutes (othe "3 A ‘ Actors, ADDED EDOEE DDG DOOMED A. Hi. Chambertain tn 9 remarkable man, Ie generally manages to bob up with an angel tucked under one arm. I Understand his most recent angel, Mfr ny OME About $14,000 on the recent production of “he Cadet Gin” at the Herald Square Theatre, and was glad to #ell ont. oo. Otis Skinner's that his son ral on the stage clerical father demes away from home to #0 Otte worked In a dry woods store in Hartford, but was of no wae to hie employers, because he was generally to be found tn the attic de- claiming Shakespeare. From a dry food's clerk to a Broadway star ts quite @ Jump=a far longer one, in fact, than & leap over the hosiery counter, ee Louls De Lange ts writing ans opera for Lulu Glamer. De Lange once col- laborated with Frank Weadon in a play called “High Tide It was produced in Minneapolis, and the two authors were competicd to take @ freight train out of town that night to escape the anger of the sob, oe Some people of mendactous propensl. (les have been telling Ludwig Englander that his music in “The Monks of Malabar’ t# worthy of Balfe or Audran; consequently Englander has allowed his hair to grow two thehew longer In the past twenty-four hows, while he devotes his spare me to brushing his whiskers loto unkempt and gruesome shapes. oe These Casino perennial troubles are becoming very wearlsome, The ory of man runneth not to @ time when fomebody was not Aghting for posses | tlon of the (heatre and calling somebody a ilar and © thief, 8 It n't seem quite natural to see Harry Mann, the manager of the Knick- erbocker ‘Theatre, without those long, black jambrequins he weed to wear on his face, On breeay days the low, soft murmur of (home Jet whiskers could be heard above the rumble of the street cart, Sousa used to sit in his office iWo blocks away and gain fhuch inspira. Von for hie marches from their music. ee Now that Marguerite Cornitle has de- vine Bled all complicity with Corbett, 1 won- der what ja» become of that swarthy British doctor who accompanied her to thle untry on the occasion of her first visit, The doctor ured to follow her everywhere, and it was a br man thdeed who dared even glance at| her, The doctor was reputed to carry 4 pleoo of lead pipe, wrapped in red flannel, for any one who showed an inclination to pay attentions to "Ma Marguerite,’ a8 he used to call ee Th me the other day ftom Brooklyn following communication was sent A bets falawtio voloe, Which wins? that Andrew Mack has @ Ho bets hé hes not. GRACE ©, HY! My suggestion to A and B would be to divide the purse, ‘There isn't a man living who knows whether it im falsetto, Counter tenor or wren whistle, I think ft ts the jatter ee Lillian Russell asserts she finds faith eure much more eMfcacious ax a cure for headache in the morning than drugs, Many of Mire Russell's sisters in art say they prefer a Manhattan cocktall and @ Turkish jgarette, x Jullue Steger ts the happlest man in New York. The Casino |» again open, and Steger can now stand for tree Jong hours each night and look at the oll paintings of himself hanging on the wall of the ores ra floor, ’ want U.S. TR WIPE Fifty-three Sol Captured Filipi ——————— (Special to The Rvening World.) WASHINGTON, Sept, 28.--Capt. Devereaux Shields, fifty-one men of Company F, Twenty-ninth Regiment of Volunteers, one hospital corps man and the gunboat Villalobos have been captured by the Filipinos after a hard fight ’ Capt. Shields uimself was severely wounded and many of his men killed before the command succumbed to overwhelming numbers, ‘The scene of this latest reverse to American arms is Marundaque, a omall island lying due south of the pouth coast of Luzon and about 300 miles from Manila. The disaster is reported by Gen MacArthur in the following despatch to the War De- partment received to-day: WHOLE COMMAND LOST. Sept. 11, Capt. Devereaux Shields, fifty-one men Company F, ‘Twenty- ninth Regiment United States Volun- teer Infantry, one Hospital Corps} man, left Santa Cruz, Marinduque, by gunboat Villalobos, for Torrijos, Intending return overland Santa Crus, Have heard nothing since from Shields, Scarcely doubt entire party captured, with many killed wounded, Shields among latter, “Information sept by letter from commanding officer at Bouc, dated 20th, received Sept. 24, consisted of rumors throush natives, Yorktown and two gunboats, George 8, Ander- son (Colonel Thirty-eighth Volun- teer Infantry), two companies Thir- ty-elghth Volunteer Infantry, sent Marinduque immediately, “Anderson confirms first report as to capture, but unable Sept give dotaile present whereabouts 27 to} ;O0OPS > D OUT! Killed or the SS a diers by inos. Shields and party, names killed and This information proba- bly available soon, GUNBOAT CAPTURED. “Anderson has orders t com: mence operations (mmediately and move relentlessly until Shields and party rescued, All troops expected soon, Logan will be sent to Marin- duque If necessary to clear up ait uation.” The Twenty-ninth Volunteer Regl- ment was raised at Fort MoPheraon, Ga., and was, of course, composed chiefly of Southern men, Capt. Shields was Lieutenant-Col- onel of the Second Mississippi during the Spanish war, He wae made Cap- tain in the Twenty-ninth Infantry July 6, 1889, He was @ resident of Natehes, Misa, where his wife now re- aides, Marinduque {s about twenty-four “ooo miies (n diameter and was garrisoned by two small detachments of United) States troops, One of these was at Bone, on the west const of the island, and the other was at Santa Crus, the principal port, on the north side. GUNBOAT TAKEN? Capt. Shields appears to have start- ed from Santa Cruz on a gunboat for Torrijos, a small coast port, and it In inferred that the gunboat, as well as the body of troops under that officer, has been captured, for the despatch makes no reference to her return, The Villalobos ts a gunboat of 347 tons and was formerly Spanish, She wounded in & composite vessel carrying two 6- vounder guns and two machine guns, Her dimensions are: Length, 146 feet, j and beam 23 feet, Her crew would j brobably humber twenty men, SUICIDE MOTHER > TRIED TO POISON SON nd Mrs. Schaeffer Ende avored to Make Boy Swallow Part of Her Death Potion. Grieving over her little daughter, who fer, 0 her life died a year ago, Mra, Ida Beh Fourth avenue, Brooklyn, ende to-day by taking carbolie acld after she had attempted to make her five-year- old son awallow the polson, Her lament over her dead daughter Was constant and ie had frequently declared that she would ond her lite “But when | do go,” said she to Mrs, MoCutcheon, who lives In the same Tenants in the house this morning heard the boy erying as though in pain, The sound of groans came from the roome and when (ley were entered Mes, Schaeffer was found almost unconsctous, writhing In agony. | The boy's mouth and face were badly | burned by the actd Mre, Schaeffer was taken to Beney | Honplial, where whe died a short ttme after being admitted it was found that the boy had swal- After icing a lot of poor chorus house, "I will take my boy along with lowed @ very email portion of the acid. girls rehearsing for two montha with- out pay, the Six Little Sire Brothers have at last produced "A Million Dol- u %& play, not cash. ee ‘# he hates to pee Well, how can you Marry B, Smith his jokes in print, blame him? . It # rumored that Richard Mansfeld » to make his coming engagement jarden memorable by not abusing ntry in @ speech, ontirmed last att the playgoers of the ‘Thin rumor couid night. ee By & curious mischance the engage- ment of Miss Hthel Barrymore to some deserving y * man has not been an- nounced for nearly three weeks, one & growing fuapicion on at the famous nosegay of Ted D. Marks is made of papler-mache and nightly sprinkled with bay rum, re Bonnle Thornton is growing was a time when no Roentgen pecessary (a locate bullets inte. THE iaroaeun, purpose of getting me, Then we’ " all be out of It SISTERS SAY FOUL PLAY. oo They Are Preparing to Contest Millionaire Rice's Will, WORCESTER, Mare, Sept, 2—Mre Minerva Olds, of Palmer County, and Mra. Charlotte 8. McKee, of Springfield, sisters of Millionaire Rice, have re- tained counsel In New York to contest the will of the recluse They delleve he wae murdered for the possession wealth, Mrs. McKie is confident that poison was placed in his coffee, He will recover, “dor benevolent and other purposes. for New York to-day to look after hin mother's interests and to ald in the investigation ly under way, “Te exam, rewen tii the hears The late Wi ‘aitam st Tice told an Evening yn Teporter i late tow day that a part of the papers and se CUPi thes Moning to Mr, Bice had been turned over to by Ad ix.g Patrick, who has promise the checks for $260, | Were to form # trot hut Moun hee tos nigh ‘All | am now i | pagel ot th fr ee . exe) representat maid Me tha “and ft antletpate no di ulty in % doing. 1am named as th ft Fibs a will drawn &) ise { know of no acher weil. ave no reason to believe that death wan due to any but natural et IARC INNER are not As repres sence time has hot yet a ived to mal hi nis of the will, Lewnt Patrick ie Hot named in it as a benef of hiaPelary or executor, See aurea ho Ww Rent weil WHST 18TH 97, NEAR OTH Bran H, MoKle, her son left thie ety AEDT, oe An) YORK, ¥ RIDAY, BROOKLYN BOSTON 0 0 BROOKLYN 0 0 WHITN Fe CAPT.CLIFFORD PAID $5,000 FO 2x, 1000, SII j VS. BOSTON 0” 0 0 ) 0 3 ) RE i R COUNSEL. Fire Official on Trial and Says He Acted Only as a Citizen. | Refused to Tell why, | ‘The trial of Capt. James D. Clifford, of Hook and Ladder Company 18, Pres. Ident of the Piremen's Henevolent As. sociation, the rival of the Benevolent Assocation of the Fire Department of New York City, which has the sane. ton of the high oMfciale of the Fire Department, waa begun to-day beforp Commissioner Boannell at Fire Head: quarters. Deputy Comminsioner Tully, of Brook lyn; Chief Croker, Secretary Docharty, Assimant Corporation Counsel Blandy, for the Fire Department, and J. Van Vechten Olcott, the Captain's lawyer, were present Tre chai which were made by ntained three specifica which alieges dinobe- Oblet Croker, tons The firm, dienes to obey the provisions of section 18 of the rules and regulations of 188 In new lecting to sever his connection with an association intended to effect legislation for of on behalf of the Mire Departinent, ‘The wecond was that he continued as A member of @ poiltical organiantion and contributed money for tegimative purpones, and the third that he had spoken diareapecttully offloers, maying “Every member of the Fire Depart ment who |# not a member of the new benevoleny 0 mation Is persecuted and hounded.” Clifford pleaded not guilty, and an adjournment being refused him, he was placed on the atand, He denied that he had ever appeared before a lonisla:| tive committee aa a fireman. Ho had Appeared aa a citizen speaking In the Interests of members of the depart ment He did not consider the organization of which he waa a member nuch as came under the prohibitive clause, Con tributiona were made by ihe members Me had never given money to further po iltteal enda, Any questionable activity he had ever shown was always ae an individual and on an American citizen Asked about tripe bend mote to Aibany, $4,500,000 BOND BIDS. | Comptroller Coler Adver- tises for Sealed Pro- posa Comptroller Color to-day advertised for sealed proposals for $4,100,00 of cor- Porate atock bonds of the City of New York at 31-4 per cent. ‘These bonds érrelude 11,000,000 Cor eobdol” of orders, held that Clifford falled | of hin superior | the expenses of which were paid by the | firemen's orwanization, of which he was! & member, he held that they were ail) | One dated Jans | ree charges UATY, 1900, for $1.00, anotner February 1900, for $7,000, and the lant Mareh, {ov for 9.0%, which were entered In your | Account an the Asalets | ant Corporation Counsel asked Yeu, air | "And waa the $00 really paid tol counsel?” | It waa That was a pretty iarke fee, and| What were the grea services rendered | for ity" | I reluee to mive the Jawyer's name or toy, the services he rendered Iifford aaid that he favored legislation changing ah departinet with, (hem wey to tell bum | vave to Duy hie unte | | Clifford said he had heen transferred | Laren times and deimiled once in (wo | y TA you not take part in meetings which ware Insulting to your superiors joner and Chief?’ “But you were introduced at one the meetings In words: ‘Notwith. | ie ukase of the Caar of Lie ew ‘TL don't remember that introduction |, ,WaMt have you te complain of about | the uniforms of vepartment cloth? think there ou«ht to be pubile bid | ding for the and a thy me Allow: pet nla where he pi Did you m » imply that th | miswtoner wan inier in a. pe way in the buying of Ue clon? Did you not Know that there had been coms petition for the contract?” “Lid not. Hut T thought, there wae nomething pecullar about It Do you not know that standard sand anades of cloth are used in Pollee Department ai 4 the army and the navy, and these ‘ he made by a single ‘nanut turer #0 that ail thew old ayetam ati Intely eh in the Fire Depart Ment until this new rule Firemen from. the early history of the force up to last pA Were allowed to buy the cloth a they. plea feo qu lion were naked by misdoner Reannell Thin ented the direc Capt. Cilffort aaa wit eution The trial War Thursday ext ats xprmination of | for the prose Ajourned until houses and school an aed Bronx etien for and sites in lrook) 1” epartinent of Dov! 4 wid errieg, ya for the new aqueduc C y and Tt le atipuleted that the — pelneipal, which It fmyabe Nov. i, UM@ shall. be pald wold. In Ip also to be patd n old and peale munt he made at x » revived by the Comptroder at his office, 2) road way, Ul Pocock PM. Got. Ih Hankers consider the bonda an excel lent investment as all of che amount , needed might have been secured at per ce | It te expected that the bonds fetoh fully 96,000,00), a Te Cure » Cola ‘aie per Toko Laseiive Brome Pariser aa bt wil [Edison Company's Representative Held i Tl arioke |publis WRATHER-FAIR AND COLDER, # RAGING| PRICK ONE CON ad BASEBALL “ Circulation Books Open (o All,” HOODLUMS JEER | AS HANNA SPEAKS. +000-—-—-—_-—-- They Try to Make Discord at a Gathering in the Wholesale Dry-Goods Republican Club on Broadway. A party of hoodiums tried to oreate } discord this afternoon during Senator { Hanna's speech in the rooma of the | Whote Deygooda Republican Chub, ‘| A) Hroadway The big Republican | manager wan frequently tnterrapted, | bul Kept hia temper admirably, meminidle in the disturbers once that they were CRUSADE, =e The Senator sald he did not care te make & campaign speech, but merely » Ke ration, but he made m@ red+ Jol eaMpALED aPRUMeNt jumt Che same, He was frequently interrupted Hie arrival waa the signal for prt. Jonge) cheering, Cornelius N. Bilas age: sompanied Mr MeKinley's spanmor, The crowd sang «new campalen eon eniiiied: “Deer's Nothing tha Matter with Hanna,’ and at ite concluston: Mim Hanna shook hands with the two Wome en sololats CREATED CONFUSION. Court—Fifty Arrests to Be | Made on A PHOTOGRAPHIC ‘EDITORIAL. " nm 4 a. Ko! fu tha and rentle~ | m wien | aterrupted by | 4 arot the back part of the hall, ’ uen there win confuston, here were finally #tlenom® inued. He malas wh the street, to th'a grees) “Comins nuMlenert T rh on Inetription over @ * Ayeted Tammany Mall, 18 eo). ‘Melfeareservation Is the fret ew stor Tianna wee aentn Interrapted jot in a eareastte tone, You're tin Colorato. I want you to undepe Continuing he #atd have had the joet lesson given tous We know the difference In conditions tn this eoume try between free trade and free sliver, | "1 have giwaye anid, dnd 1 pelteve 18 lnow, (hat wien the American people ire fully arouxed to the sense of the condition of affairs, they never to the right (hing, 1 ann willing intelligence of not only to the working: thelr interests ave renched @ prow® one of the earth 1 give some standing there, UNSELFISH M'KINLEY, n't think It neeepe time or a moment moeriallem, nto thie party th Tt has been ree the magnifie ey in Ble There yore him but knewa ineeifieh devotion 1 viol an)! intisott coal , fvery a has coms ountry @ oritien fa to truat you to the pusiners men, but to which slide ” eam KH meet that we show! pl Hoe rin Ht See atts i se io ary (Oo Wapte any ue and wiped out by pation used, to call Eve The ning recor he the snioke ordinance un miting tor r the works jour thing rm at Cone ppone the Me Or the Wileome way no elated at the we the oi! that he, wht om Texas carried Wilson abows Foon the vidern you are right up againat @ we calied upon to deckte for this campaign De ange (hla man, who haw f welfare at heart, for @ antagoniet ory orinelplee thle in «whe ; dOnt Vest ‘hire (of hie country ? t AGAIN INTERRUPTED. r He Interrupted for @ {time a me one shouted thag Demoerat le here,” salt the Bene » talk to Democrats, know and know that there age t belleve in (he I know that there thousonds and hie fe of them who do pe@ hie prinetples and will show ) of November next didn't come here te ampalgn speech. | eama, to Inspiration re mad of Ree and poisoning the people j liffer throughout the Thursday N hed Hesult President jissued summonses for U ffendar lin court ® favor tt The Wve the sof Ack AmOkKe ‘ eached imax 6 severa a Bit Ne purta of the elt reaking ralgned on the law na wie elty. ordinanc Ma se Bh . mn for} the Mieturher was Promine ralgined tn morning wan Buperiniendent umong th teonern x Bal am glad he the Tom t “ ating any, of Kim streets Polleoman { . squad ee 1 of Shrady. Magis rats for examinat t FIFTY wore ARREST, ue Tawar M#aee ft MF INE) Presite Boa ' ’ me A Hea 1 to-dn 1 he expe hie H fs army sees the 1 knows to go backwan, ward and renty " jeu \ rat with The I Pow " € wl, } that you a ) have shown by your presence interested In these quiee~ woken to you of and thas is your birtaright and priviege=thag 4 pave as much yolue as Any ether (Continued on Secous Page) rl tyeele represenialive of the Edison Laght pant in Twelfth street, vetwoen| T ‘Third and Fourth avenues, Gen, 8. 1 ‘Bivaiton, of the Howard & Childe Drew