The evening world. Newspaper, September 29, 1900, Page 2

a AEN TABS ee ANGEL OF MINERS” SAVED MANY LIVES. 2S Good Deeds of Ope by Evening World Woman. - i DADRA AAP PAE OEE Rie RRMA NO. XIll. OF THE SERIES. BY OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR, ORODE 4G DODOD HERE rr tee Se ee ae MRS. COXE, ‘THE MINERS’ ANGEI,” | (Apeclal to ‘The Evening World.) DRIFTON, Pa,, Sept, 29.—S0 heavy a pall of misery and desolation hangs over these little villages in which the strikers live that it is immoasurably gratifying to find an instance where the misery has been relieved. 1 found one such in Drifton, where the women's faces grow really reverent as they tell you of Mrs. Coxe, the "miners’ angel.” | Mrs, ©. 3. Coxe is the widow of one of the firm of Coxe Brothers, who own the Drifton collieries, She is old, childless and wealthy, and, the Villagers say, gentle and kindhearted, It te doubtless infinitely distressing for this sympathetic woman to watch the whole year through, and right at her very door, the poverty, debt, sickness and wretchedness which the low wages paid to the Coxe employees make necessary, and which she, powerless, apparently, to strike At the root of the matter, is obliged to remedy as best she can in Individual EXPIATED BY A GENTLE WOMAN, Tt almost seems as if thin gentle lady's charitable work, broad and effectual as it is, wore in a way an explation of the wrongs Infileted by the Coxes, common with all the other companies. Since some weeks previous to the opening of the atrike Mra, Coxe has been away from her beautiful home in Drifton and has not yet returned, Her agents, however, act for her in her absence. Bach case of sickness is reported and each fresh instance of destitution promptly made known at the Coxe home, That the charity comes from practically the same source as the Injustice that has driven the men to revolt makes the situation an oxtraordinary ‘one and places Mrs. Coxe in a position that must perplox her sadly “We should all be dead here together if it wasn't for Mra, Coxe," rates ful Mrs, John O'Donnell exclaimed to me to-day, "She saved the lives of the whole seven of us last Winter, In the first place she sent Nellie— haven't you heard of Nellie; she's the trained nurse that Mra, Coxe employs And #ends round from ono house to another all (he time—because 1 was Ill, “You soe the doctor tells hor ax soon as there is a case of sickness. Then when Nellie told her how sick | was and what a state the whole of us ‘Wore In, she sent a woman to do all the housework till | got well, “She sent us a quart of milk bealdes every day and sho senda it to us| ~ yet, and she pays for all my medicines, It’s no wonder that we all think she's a paint when we shouldn't be living except for her, ‘You seo, we got into a bad way because my man could not make! @nowgh money to buy us food, He worked for the Coxes and inaide the | Mines, too, but he couldn't get but $2.60 at the end of two weeks to food And clothe the whole of us, Aw often as the two weeks were up he'd come home and say to mo: A’ L DRIFTON-LOVES HER, “SWell, Nell, here's $2.60, 1 had to spend $9 for powder,’ “ane there's five children, So we got so far into debt that 1 worrled mya Into the sickness I spoke of," 1 .okea Mra. O'Donnell if Mrs, Coxe realised the cause of the poverty | she 1 generously relleved pila #0," whe sald, The women that she sent here knew," ‘orywhere in Drifto ‘ athe nT heard the echo of this story with countless “Thore \an't © family here that Mrs, Coxe hasn't helped and that she doonn't visit herself," one enthusiastic woman told me, “She's eo good that | that-—she couldn't be any better.” The resulta of Mrs, Coxe's work are appree fp les sordid, the Little homes in better rep: Geapairing, iable In Drifton. ‘The poverty | air, the women's attitude less rator’s Widow Described, |F INDING CLUES TO PECK MURDER. nS (Continued from Firat V¥o00 SHED, WHERE CLIMMAD TO 00K THe FENCE this there ina pump and directly beside it @ low ehed. On the left side of the door tn the rear of the saloon bullding Is a galvanized Iron water pipe in a wooden casing. The box extends about five feet trom the aldewalk, Near the top and on the front #ide is the Imprint hand, BLOODY FINGER PRINTS. The marks of the first three fingers are gr distinct, To the let) and a little below thie are Ave other Imprints of bloody Ainge Two feet from the level In it a bloody omely of the street A great blotch of blood over two Inchon in length, The entire jength of the box ls beepattored with blood, The Fvening World men counted fourteen | spots of blood. ‘The door leading into the hallway Ie painted white, Very distinctly on the lit sho Is unfortunately a solitary instance, OLIVIA HOWARD DUNBAR, COAL DOWN $1 A TON TO-DAY. Se The Reduction Indicates that the Big Strike Will Soon Be at an End. he Anthracite coal wi offered to-day of those of ihe Lehigh, deny that they On the retail market at Hoa ton below] had seen Mr Markle | the prices of two days amo, ‘Thin in the] Tle men will be free to pass on the Brent Indication that the operators ree [om meion® to-niKn’ in metingn of thelr : ‘inion, but they will be amked to return | Ward the conferences now going on to fo work Monday and to continue in the arrange a bawia of settloment for the mines whil ¥ \e ines tlle His Of Aifferens @irike ae certain to result in pro ma adjusted by hie tions that will moot with immed vor | ton, Bi ikl copance by the minc 1 is coneeded that (he miners will t OMotale of tho big handiing roads | asked (0 place their cane in th " Who have been tn conteren Hore are} of Cardinal Gite Who h atrenny | Unweually reticent o* to the nacre ' homed on the malt ee | { on thelr behalf to the the concessions that w fers men, Their outapok A f ie Ast nattione ave different _ Horing th union hos ler andaned'| PNG there. will bese Certeee tn eaen for political reaony 1 mated | WIireae i} * auvante hie f that the concessions will be quietly put Huei wven TO and parcel WI | before the men today vy foremen | of, 0 ndtanice to heer ree | Of the different voliicrion and they will | Nill it im sald, he men tn earn | pending the wettioment by arciw | Bay differences that may rema — Wrought, tix vdmitted, by pressure | brought to bear on the oMoiats coal-carrying rouda, who wre in ny commonly known me tie at | RAWLINS IN, These weven roade either produce or} —_—. handle 12 nt, of the output of the iar ue or |From Cuba with Soldiers te region. He syndicate is controjled from the | of the | ap fftioes in this clty of J. Merpm Mor| 89d Shipwrecked Tt was through him that Senators Mian, Platt and Quay exerted the German Crew, pressure that ended in the movement to! aaa end the strike Mr, Morgan sent word to ihe operators TM United States transport Rowling throughout the district wet and {fived this morning fr om 84n Juan and SETEE ON & Hadis Of Rettlome th thelr | Bantingo with H cabin amd 9F other pas Gmployers, This was followed by con- | yenterday at Wilkesbarre and res Among the former were Major A dasia for settlement based | ANY And Leute, H.W, Cooper, Le a. we in Wages and a reduction | Mennett and Kromer the price of powder wos reached The deck passengere He reports of the proceedings | men, 11 dischar hg if are a enileted) fo New York by special mes. “athed solilers, 33 ctvillans and 15 shipwrecked »: These wore eliher ay here to-day and retur men of the Ger. George, which etranded hi man steamer # official of tho Lehigh Valley road OF the comet of Cuba near r of Cuba near Dp. Wledged to-day that ihe erms of Sept, 8 an it had been thoroughly diss The captain and ohtet en, iRineer ni and the papers returned to the OY the vense oe etloved The steamer can be saved. The crew wens sent here en route to Germany, The Rawlins brought two captured Spanish cannon from Santiago, which the Markie collerios, n,| Will be went to Governor's Inland, ‘The an Interview wit realy | Hawlins will be released from Quaran- , Of tho Lehigh Valley, and| \ine at noon ing a statement for publica ee “Markle, it was asserted, had PLEASE BE BARLY %, Dat this te not regarvied ag with want adverti iy the officials of the big, {0-morrow's He Geclined to say whether n of the men were fully isa admitted that John Mar- with the exception lower portion, about two feet from the bottom, are two ble blood ofots, Tho olde of the house between the box of the drain spout and the door te lao bempattered with blood, Strangely there is no tracing of blood In the narrow little hallway nor in the yard, But the efd of the tragedy |» told by the bloody finger marks on the Httle shed, showing where the derors had stepped on the pump and lifted themeelves to the roof, vo that they could spy over the fence to wateh &n opportunity to throw the body of thetr viotim into the street MORE BLOODSTAINS. Orher stains, which were undoubtedly blood, were found on the oaming of the | from the rear of the into the hallway, ‘There were mann marks on the casing of whieh te in the mur: | door loading totlet room door, paloon. r wainacoting and casing ¢ # telltale ataina were found on the the hallway eading to the upper part of the house, showing that the aang may have meat ered aftor the orime and one or more of toem had gone ups aire The door leading from the barroom to (he Fear opens into a narrow passme on one wide of which te (he tollet-room, on the other a “wine’ room, It tn sus: | pected that the old man mag have been) answulted here, L The body was lying In the deep phadow of the box entrance on the wide of the Hight on the corner, which makes the shadow of the entrance sharp and black. Ap object lying within it could easily the view of & person passing at orner The stains were not paint, for when | rubbed off on a handkerchief they were poluble in water ley reiterated this afternoon that his place was cloned at the timesthe munier i* fixed by the police, but there are many witnesses to toatify that It Was mot, the latest of which \s @ mother living near by who walted up until & o'clock for tl home-coming of her son who had gone to a bail SAW THE BODY AT 4,52, The story of Policeman Kehoe that he saw no body when he passed the cor. ner at 6.16 o'clock, ts Matty contradicted by a reputable witness, George James, of 5 Jane street, day bartender at John Curley's saloon, Seventeenth street and ‘Tenth avenue, Jarnos telle this story: "I open up at 6 o'clock every morning, but Thursday I was a little late. 1 passed the corner of Ninth avenue and West Seventeenth loon, There ts an @lectric iv SvPPOsAD MVANBARR street at eight minutes before 6 o'clock, L am positive about (he time, Peck's body was then on the sidewalk, thought he was some drunken bum, ‘elit and a9 1 wan in a great hurry I jet him alone. “The body thon lay in @ difterent yor tealoon are in mortal dread of '% oven ‘ SPOTS ON DOOK JAMBS UR ST. ‘AIRS, HLUOD-STAINED RAIN PIPE, sitton from that deseribed in the papers, Pock’s feet were only two feet away from the two little steps leading up to the side door in the rear of the saloon His body lay at an angle a the sidewalk, wiih MMe head toward Tenth avenue, I remember that he lay on his left cheek, #0 that [ could not wee his fave. “When the police came and turned him over to look at him, they rolled hie feet away from that door and destroyed the best alue they had. To me the man looked as if he had been thrown into the siveet from (he wide door, “To contirm tis, hat wae off and lay about four feet away from hia head, If the police say that the man's clothes were not wet when they found him, they are either not telling the pruth or r ws THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1900. ICLUBMAN The police of the Womt Thirtieth street station are Investigating the death of elubman Charles 8, Crane, found dead in jhis handwome apartments at 11) Broads way late last olght The pomttion of the body when found and certain marks and brultes about the face joad to the bellef that there was & desperate struggle. He had been dead twenty-four hours when found, Mr. Crane was lumber inspector of the New York tral Railroad and Finan: etal Secretary of the National Protective League of Balt Water Plahermen, Me Was a momber of a number of clubs Mir brother, Arthur Crane, is one of the executors of the Paran Stevens et tate and lives at 1% Bast One Hundred and Fortieth street, The building be> longs to the ertate and ts ocoupled by wealthy bachelor It w belleved that Mr. Grane cas jto his death Thuraday night, He was |laet sean at his office Wednesday, and left, saying he was going fishing on the following day. Although he was missed about the building for several days no one ap: D d to thimk that strange, Edward 1, (he Janitor, says he entered Mr. Crane's sitting room Thursday night and deported some laundry there, He did hot look In the bedroom, A friend of “Mr, Crane with whom he had an engagement called at the house last night at 10 o'clock, The janitor cold the pollee he did not ask the nate of the #tranger, He appeared somewhat worrled and when the janitor remarked that hls tenant had not been een for day advised that his apartments be jooked into, “Something may have Happened to him,” The body was found undressed, lying partly on the bed. The right foot was he in the tron work at the foot of a trons, and do not cate to commit /neins solves by admitting that it te an alls night resort, John Curley, who os a wealthy man, and conducts a hotel in conneetion with his cafe for reapes'able patrons, say@ that to his certain Knowl. txe Reilley’s place ta open at all hours, vl le the resort of (he worst element st Infeste the nelghborhood, Mr, irley ways that the neighborhood, vile quite enough by day, ls vised night by characters of the worst de> iption and that holdane and robe rien are of frequent ogeurrence. What prompted Kvening World re. riers to search for murder clues at Jley's saloon was a statement made the pollee by aman who mays he saw © pough-looking men scuffing with an 4 man of Peck’s ¢ iptie only an sur before Peck's body wan found, «story fe that tn Joon at 490 A. M. on Thureday moras he saw five young toughs struggling the sidewalk with an old man, tidewalk fights in front of the saloon re nothing unusual to him, He passed to his home, thinking nothing of the until he read of (he Peok Then he told hie story to the urre ander, Nee MeClueky says the man @ in ‘apt ory way worshy of confidence, He oe on Seventeenth street west of inth avenue and works as a night wokkeeper on Broadway. He te oe upled from 6 P.M. unt SAM. He rides south on (he Bixth avenue tine to Heventeenth street, eats a lish) lune, and then walks weat to his home, ‘This statement that there wae @ etrugele on the @dewalk in front of Reilley's saloon at 4.9 o'clock |# core roborated by the ateries told The Evens ing World by Mra, Christine Herbe, live ing over the saloon, who declares (hat when aw to close her shutters and heard sounds of an argument and a strugste on (he aidew| HEARD THE STRUGGLE, Mre, Me nd Mra, Thompson, of Went Beventeenth street, also declare that when awakened at 4,90 o'clock they heard sounds of a struggle in the @ireet, A point for the police to determine bs what was done with Peck be ween the tine of his wtroxgle and the ime hie body waa found on the sidewalk an hour Jater by Policeman Kehoe, Bverything now Indicates that the real-ortaie man met his death wound at the hands of the mang of toughs a 40 oeloek. That he was not eft Gor dead on the sidewall te equally a a a a fpolienamae AEN Lerve, wen down thto the street at 6 3 nackte id SU iatat”” Groget Alt a 0, of # Ninth ie, and the milk drly Me 1) o'clookh every morning, say waa no dead body In the street at t hour. MYSTER The 1 eo Welleve Child's Body Wan Dissected by Medl- eal Mudenin, vory Uttle hope of ry of the three por- he body of an infant (hat were | Hen abating tn the Rorwn ti %, 3 Seventy-ninth street on Thursday, They are inclined to belleve that medical atu. oe Y .UUNSOLVED, ‘The pollee hay solving the Mm ed the b and threw It | Sway i ter it had “Hea! of natural canes. — ALAN DALE’S LOSS. wite eo Dramatic Cetite Died ‘To-Day After ® Lingering Titnews. Mra, Alfred J, Cohen, wife of “alan Dale,” the dramatic critto, dled at her one, the Westminster iments, the man mut have been uragred ins.se sgain, Tt started to rain about ten minutes aft i The mont significant point in Jamen’s statement ls the fact that the body jay with the left cheek on the iround, The police have laid great stress on (he pos aibiiity of bia death having resulea from a fall, If this were ile came, the wound, according to Jamey’ descrip. tlon, should have been on vhe left attr Of Peck's head. It le on the rignt sede, But the theory of acvdental deaih to flatiy dtepoxed of by Coroner's Physteian Weston, who ineiete that the death wound could only have been inflicted by & powerful blow, ALL-NIGHT SALOON, Restfents in the vicinity of ja She avenue and red ‘ani Atth street, at noon to-day, att ier a lingering ilinens. was formerly Miss Carrle ty ot this city, She leaves two ttle daughters, eR ‘The initial production of Joseph Arthur's "Lost River,’ scheduled for next Monday night at the Fourteenth Street Theatre, has been postponed up- ti) Wednesday evening owing to the tome of some sconety In New Haven, a DEATH OF A COMEDIAN, WASHINGTON, Bept. ‘Tovher, leading eta DEAD INA passing Hellley's ‘akened by the storm he wot Up | 2.—Thomas FOUND Evidently Was Not Murdered and Probably Died of Epilepsy. | CHARLES SEYMOUR CRANE. the bed and the head lay over the edge | nearly toucht ¢ oor, On the fase wore dark marks, which might be | bruises, but decomposition was go far | advanced ft will require an autopsy to determine definitely, The body war |twiated jn euch q Way as to Indicate that there wan either a struggle or eine Mr, Crane had caught his foot just as the death atroke came, and in the final paroxysme he had twisted so that hie back wae almoat broken Arthur Crane told the potice to-day that his brother was subject to epileptic fits from. ebiidhaod. Mr. Crane believed the had died in one of the pkroxyame, SILENCED > BY DEATH > Woman Found Mysteri- ously Hurt Dies Without Revealing Identity. The falr-hatred, well-dressed woman who war found with her skull fractured early Wednesiay morning at Knicker> bocker avenue and Stanhope atfeet Willlamaburg, died tn St. Catherine’ Hospital (his morning without revealing her Identity, Realizing that she could not live much |ionger, Dr, Keller, the house surgeon. tried every method to bring her to cons aclousnens, He wae only partially avo: cosetul, Bhe opened her eyes, and raise ing her ti hand eald, weakly; “Lat! Let She then lapsed into coma again, from whieh #he never rallied, ‘The surawon Ix undecitod whether the one word meant (hat wanted to, be lot alone, or that It was an abbreviation of her fire, name or some part or gi of the surngme, Bhe was about & feet 6 tnehes in height and weighed 1 pounds, Her hair was light and abundant, her eyes @ Braylen bie, (ne left puptl being per ceptibly emalier than the other. Hér hands were omall, soft and shapely. Her clothing consisted of a dana phiet of good make, a Light silk sate, ao Diack mraw tat trimined with Mowore, dark stockings and vutton tioee Mer | underwear waa of Mine material In company with two man pho eny tered the salvon of I'iche ve Knives, at Knlokerbocker avenue yrd Blanh pe street, at 6 o'clook ‘aeedsy afternoon, She seemed tO have quite a sum of (money, She left che place with ine men. the pi | nen jetore vere cloali Pp they found her za Une nay Mia at U foot of the staira eAdiia from the side~ mH k tothe celar, She had evs i} a en VOR TROOPS MAY QUIT THE STRIKE REGION, (Continued from First Page.) of the operators of the mines than he Md yeaterday. Mr. Mitehell, however, intimated that something might turn up during the courses of the day, He is not ae active na he wae in ihe early days of the virtke, remaining In hie headquarters almost constantly, ——— MINERS IN A RIOT. N Pittetom-One Man 1» Mabbed, (Specie) to The Evening Worts) PITTSTON, Pa, Sept. A small sited riot occurred today near the Lay IMah Valley coal mines, in which one Man wan fatally etabbed and several Others clubbed, The trouble occurred on tho main highway approaching the mines, about three miles enat of this city, Bleve Pure leh, awed thirty years, was fatally Union and Now.Uniom Men Clash LEAF RAEN CNPP PRY ANAT > Me “ye HER BABY DEAD, SHE ROOM. ' TOOK HER OWN LIFE a ce 7 ey Identity of the Young Woman Revealed—She Was Too Trusting CORRES PEERED Red EMMA Retrayed by 4 falthlean sweetheart Kmma Loach, a pretty girl of twenty vears, i@ dead in the Kinge County Hospital from carbollc actd which she Awallowed on the street, Her home was at 109 Varick street, th’ borough, bul ehe had not dared return to hem parents, fearing she would be cast off entirely, Her father: feos baby died and she was heart: broken, The girl was found uneommelous on a Jonely street in Flatbush late last night Wim, Murphy, of 409 Clarkson street, | Platburh, was walking along that street shortly before 9 o'clock last mMeht when eaciing a dark and lone} Ot Hot Har from the county institutions hin at. tention was altracted by low moans. He Vatened and found they came from a point ahead of him not far from the almahouse. BODY'IN THE ROAD, He hurried up ad almost stumbled over a young @irl lying on the sidewalk, She wan feehly moaning, Murphy spoke to her, and getting no reply stooped down and raw she was unconscious, As he leaned over hor the amell of carbollo acid came from ber lips. f Murphy went on a run to the alma house, and from there kage Was went lo the King’s County Hospital Dr, Smith reaponded, and, seeing that the girl was in a critical condition, ap piled drastic remedies and hurried her to the hospital, All efforts to save her or even revive hor were fruitiee, and whe died within an hour, HAD TAKEN ACID. A two-ounce bottle that had contained carbolle mold was found on the aldewalk where the gir! had lain, It waa empty, ‘The polon had deen purchased in the drug store of John B, Winter, #6 Now: trand avenue, This is near Halsey atreet and in an excellent neighborhood, There was nothl bout the dead irl to Identify her and she lay unreco: nized until this afternoon, when Mra, Campbell, of 1 Hancock street, Brook: lyn, called at the hospital morgue and told who the eulolde wi ‘The girl's sad miory was then pleced towether by the surgeons in the Flat bueh Hospital Dr, Bacon recognined her aa & WomAN who Went to that how pital about two montha ago, “fhe came Here,” satd he, fertile To Catarrh Suffer ery pervon pulteriog from catarrh in its many forme knows that the common jotions, salves and douches do not cure, 1) lie needless to argue this polmt of to cite cases of failure, because every vietlm of catarrhal trouble knows tt for himeett if he bas tried them, ‘A Vocal application)’ dena parting at all, afmply gives 5; 8 was! Jotton, salve or capot reach the oat of the distase, which 19 the blood, SPPGIGEEOEDIDODDOE DE EOE O44 ° and Was Betrayed. rrreeroeooesseenooononp | LPL EERE EEE REDE ROR RDD LESCH, eal condition, After staying awhile she wave birth to a child, which was ree |moved to the Kingston Avenue How pital, because aMicted with a contage fous “The woman gave her name as Emma Laarohe and her address as Wimlsor |‘Terrace, Flatbush, Bhe left in a few woeks, ser she returned, She sail she was poor and asked for work about the hosplial for her board. She A short ime and then divappeared,” GIRL HEART-BROKEN, The baby Dr. Bacon spoke of died tn Kingston Avenue Howpiiat from moasies a few days after ‘te admission Tho mother was almost distracted at the Nite one's deqth, Her whole heart, at. fendants at the Flatbush institution sey, was given to tho tittle one, the sole tle binding her to Ue man who wrecked her life, Mise Loweh mourned for the dead baba and was heard several times to say that whe wished sie might Join the child Jin death. | She left the Mlatbush Hospital yes! day and wandered out near the © inaiiutions in Piatbuah, She was seen | ary he afternoon near the Kings County Hospital, batless and mutiering to hereeit The polloe who worked on the case be- Heve (hel (he girl's faithless sweetheart can be found near where she took the poison and think she went there to try a) me | Special To-Night | IN OUR BASEMENT, Men's Black, | Double and Sin. gle Sole Lace Shoes, Latest Up-to-date toes, iF 75 ° Boys’ Black Double Sole Lace 1 2 | Shoes, sizes 2% to $14 ‘Youths’ Black Double Sole Lace ) Shoes, sizes 11 to 2 1, | STOAE OPEN UNTIL 10 0'CLO |éth AVE, COR, 20th S ‘The mourus membrane segks to relieve JANDA ban m, ond by ery) ROBERT {HEDFOR Lost, Found and Rewards, TART Weduewtiy morning, near corner en Salfable reward it returees plod th wt, fur coe uy # i HI ze I i ? 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