The evening world. Newspaper, January 3, 1901, Page 2

‘3 HOWARD IS OUT ON BAIL: DENIES HE’S A BIGAMIST. —— Father-In-Law of Ac- cused [Man Shakes Fis iy burned trying to \ hundred women and were siightly overcome by so narrowly did they escape the the ta George W. Tiow sr viser of the Giwa Elkins syndicate, charg i by Nis brother-in-law Jr., was iberatnl s i On . Adams Street Court : ybondsman furnish: eer mediiatoreey Mrs. Howard lx a bride of only tour jindlon) talluringjabio months, the daughter of « wealthy and erskwitz, the tir influential realdent of Brooklyn, She is only clghteen years old. The other woman who bears Howard's name lives tn Cambridge, Mass. She refuses to be- ° partition walls : plore: te ae ecpcered Any Broo ale ly throug) the lower floor ate back jer husband. big ait-xhatt in the rear walet His bride, whe «ma Mise Hien Pen- siecaraitlentktorthet oiniettenss rose Hawkes, dras visiting Albany anit only learned Of the arrest of her husband Thine | minannee Nomel Rew Akins to-day, She was prostrated by the news, 4 but soon rallied and started for this were drawn as through a blast, carrying ° J amoke a eity this afternoon. Mies Anna Hawkes, fir a aa n 3 her sister, who accompantod her on the fiose beh aeapntfon thrash Had al trip, was in ‘Troy when she was noti- fied. She swoonel When Howard left court with his dendsman, Mr. Price, he met his father: in-law, Mr. Hawkes, who shook hand: with him, saying: Kround-t! the fire ex- Most the tenants reached aifety by going to the roof and crossing a narrow plank to an adjoining house. Mra, Herskwitz was in the cellar, her “Why, George, I am awfully sorry shop being deserted when the fire eis nae happenod, and 1 hope you'll started. Mer daughter Ida was on a Cents ‘all right.’ sick bed tna r room and her son wo men talked together for some Charles was sleeping in an acgoining time, Mr, Hawiys assuring Howard thot EOOOOSLE | oom. - 2000000008-00.0150.95-8.0.3-5- 3 Flames Drove lack Herotc Brother The young m: only when the heat broke the plate-glass windows in the store. He groped his way into the hall, but remembering his sick slater he went back and tried to fight his way into her room until the flames drove him back. He staggyred into the street and fainted. He wns burned about the face and arms and removed to Bellevue Hospital. the flames drove every one from the windows and fireencapes there was a rush to the roof. ied by police and firemen, who hail penctrated the smoke- SSACHUSETTS WEDDING RECORD. 32-82. Bridegroom, Rride. Anna R. Kay. f residence, Cambridge. Age, twenty-six years, "i nirthplace. Red Beach. Me, flied halls Farher’a name, James W. The women and children were led Number of marriages, one. OMctating minister, Lambert. across to the root of 235, where a plank Rev, Josepl was placed across a three-foot alrshaft Date of marriage, Aug. 19, 1890, ant the quaking tenanta forced to cross. 4 Atteated Jan. 1, iy, bert £ ° ye peticreciae itl by Albert | Many were stayed from throwing them- selves the street, six stories below. bridge, trtie copy of original on file in his office. Many Heretic Deeds. Many herole rescues were accomplish- el by pollce and firemen ang onlookers. lena MvCusky, a servant returning fror . found the building in flames, She shrieked that her employer, Mrs, Goldstein, and four children were fa diamond ring and the detective tn- stinct of young Mr, Hawkes were the things that led to the disclosure of the remarkabl: uble Hite of George W. THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, J ONE DEAD AT FIRE; MANY BOLD RESCUES Hand and Is Assured ao lia Herskwits, five years old, was H vfburred to 4 crisp ja the destruction by Accusation Will Be |ftire at 10 ¢ k this morning of a tinder houne at . 2 Disproved. eine rles twenty-th +<-——__—— Deeds of Heroism on the East Side; Exciting | Fires in Other Quarters. the smoke was pouring and, ing down the door, crawled. to the and carried Mra, Winkler out. The fire Md only trifling umage and was extinguished by the flremen. with out the use of water, CHILDREN SAVED BY TWO GAS MEN. Bore Six Little Ones from Burning Allen Street Tenemeént. Six children were rescued at a fire in the six-story tenement 108 Allen rireet thts afternoon, The he is tenunted by over 1 perse fire star in the gro- very store of Max Myerson, in the b ment, and soon smoke filed ory apar! nts of many of the children Tie x at the time, and) when Mick Manning, of 520 East Eleventh street, and Frederick Kuhnle. of 13 East One Hundred and Eighteenth street, gas inspectors, entered the building they found six children un- foux, Each brought one to the + and notiti Myers and house mt Pollcemen Hagger- Zichle, who entered the the others, THEY RESCUED 20 CHILDREN. and sa Mothers Fled and Left Little Ones in a Burning House. BODES OG-0-0.0 OD oe robot. 299-9-0094-9506-6409005-0 4 as SATE-TRE ja 4 eee SaOES oe ; GA AFAR A Hy ies Tourist—And what GREAT BLUFF is that > Guide—That is the Tammany Vice Committee of Five. 899 2DF462OLOSOSTOO SOS FOES GREAT BLUFF. THE HIS SURPRISE In a panie that followed cries of fire and great puffs of black smoke, fifteen women ran from the big double tene- ment at 108 and 110 Allen street at noon to-day, and left a #core of emall children in thetr rooms The building {s a ramshackle brick af- rair, five stories high, and had four fam- {Wes on a floor, The fire started in a Paper stor: the basement kept by M. Meyereon, and had not the firemen re- sponded promptly the chilaren who were left In the house would undoubtedly have perished. While the Qremen worked to exzin- guish the flames in the basement neigh- bors, men and women, climbed up tire- escapes and rescued about twenty chil- dren who were frantically running about the house. About $10,000 damage was done tw the butiding, which 1s owned by G. Slor- vonskt. As the firemen were preparing to leave Allen street another fire broke out in the rear of the c@lldf atsl24, occupied ax Howard, who married tntu one of the Wealthtest and most influential families of Brooklyn Sept FIRST WIFE INCREDULOUS. Penned up on the third floor. She dash- ed tnto the burning bullding and re- turned with an unconscious baby on her arm, Firemen followed her and dragged Mrs, Goldstein and the other chilgren from the place, OLD WOMAN was BURNED TO DEATH Perished in Jersey City Blaze Cant Helleve Ma we ie (Special to The BOSTON, Jan. w. Howard, of Dana street, Cambridge, ta very well known In that city. Her hus- band war formerly an engineer at the GEORGE W. HOWaARD. 3—Mrs. George t ~ - he had complete confidence tn him and | batl—$2,000—be reduced to $1,000. Magia: Hrookline Blectrical Works. They were and Brave Policeman declaring that he had no part in the ,trate Brenner answered that he could| married cleven years ago at the home Will Die. Prosecution, Howard repeated that he Jo this unti! he had consulted} of her aunt on Auburn street, Cat 5 would entirely prove hs innocence. District-Attorney bridgeport, where her family reatdi An aged woman was burned to death ‘Then they cordially shook hands again] When the question of bail was again 2. Lambert. an Episcopal /and a younger woman driven from bed t, and parted. wyman of Boston and a friend of ner fixed it} Cherm brought 1p, Magistrate Bi while il! by fre which deatroyed a row Howard 1s now the Superintendent of | at $3.00. William A. Price, President | ‘Sine they have Hved in Cam.|0f three-story frame tenement houses the Lexington avenue branch of the! of the New York Coal an bridge, except for an interval when they| in Jersey Clty at 2.05 o'clock thia morn- Metropolitan Strect Rallway, at a sal-| tion Cempany,, 1 Broadw reaided In New York, after Mr. Howard] ( taken 4 position int : fot oe ary of $15,000, | was offered as bondsman, Tae eee ey a a ome] Twenty-eight families were driven Nearing Tuesaday Next ‘trate referred his standing as security| years old. Mrs. Howard was seen at her| from bed into the bitter cold night and, home by ‘The Evening World correspoad- ent “L have no knowledge of the matter," y 1. “Tdo not belleve it fs my hus made nomeless. Many were rescued! with the greatest dimeulty, | Policeman Benjamin O'Connor, whol who later ace He ts a handsome, well-dressed de- |) ‘He District Attorney bonair man of forty-three and, though | cepted him. @ he had exchanged his luxurious apart- Mr. Howard has only one legal wife, ments in the Hotel Amsterdam, thia| *t Lawser Bennett to an Evening That ty all t care to way about worked heroically, dragging women and e this) ; » was Hele ide “ borough, for a dingy police ceil, he) Worl! reporter, “and she was Helen}. ay w tity Is unknown | ny oye through the flume and amoke, was apparently cheerful, if not indif. | Penrose Hawkes, of Brooklyn called at the ty edny evening and | (13h cvercome and (8 1n’a'serloun condl- 5 =| asked for Mra '. Howard, “Are | to ferent. He listened to the brief pro-| Drother’s Detective Work. you his wife? Mrs, Mary Devine, sixty yeare old, Hv- that she was, ‘8 funny.” ald the man, “Ho's Kot another In, Brooklyn.” He hastily departed, while Mra, How- ard collapsed and had to be carted for. ceedings with a half bored expression. His examination was fixed for Tue: Howant No. @ay, Jan. 8, and his lawyer, John 8./ the many de Bennett, asked that the amount of his| his family. The 5.1. TILDEN CLUB TEN HELD FOR SPOFFORD CUT MAY GE GREAT. THEFT OF WIRE. OFF RELATIVES. ‘ Henry Hawkes, ing on the top floor of 129 Brunswick atreet, wits burned to death in her bed, Two doors away, Mns. Minnte Arnickle, twenty-seven years old. was in the hands “{# doctor and nurses when the flames reached the house, She wan Hfted from her bed, placed in an ambulance and hurried to the ¢ Second strect, where she gave birth to 4 child, Policeman O'Connor’a death was narrow, of employ » dinappearance eecape from Ne had carried more th dozen ting women and chil- dren (hrough the sumoke-tiiled ballways of the tenements, and had gone back Into the nome of Lawrence Purcell in search of a woman and ehild supposed to be ina third-stury rear room. Me did not return and three firemen dashed into the bullding to search for him. He was found unconscious on the second oor landing, The flames had crept to within a few feet of him. Me was hurried to the City Hospital, wher it was said he had inhaled the flames, Small hopes were entertained Will Says They Brought Lawsuits and Told Stories. Its Purpose Said to Be) Several Hundred Dollars’ Reorganization of the | Worth Stolenfrom Met- | Party. ropolitan Railways Bp day in the Surre The Samuel J. Tile Hundred ate ten Club, wan incorporated ¢ ft) ic responatbie | Gixinherits hit near relatives and leaves | tor Aix recovery, Tt ix the inte. nization Rein facveral hundred | Most of his very large estate to his] John Mankein, of 177, and Mrs, Salva: crats whos is sald aati f wire fr the car tore Areta, of 125, wero ¢aken to the nthe will cuts off a sister, Pearsall, and her children Pearsall, ber husband, and brother of the language of the honpital suffering from severe burns, ne house at 131 Brunawick avenue, In Niro started, together with ses at 127 and 129, were the house at 125 more ed. The damage as $0,000, half covered by insurance, ——_—_. WOMAN SAVED AT FIRE. ultimate reorganization of the State and natio. Among the in) 2 Hotehkiss, ex-Senntor J for, Witlam Arrowsmith *gewart, who defeated 1 iithe momorable etection ‘cht last “{nithe Nineteenth Assembly District : It fe wtidted th fie chibhon: be built In the aclehborhood of Be ens molitan, Street Ralls | tid) Portyesinth | Pauline i nan W. N. Spofford, because, the in th brought lawsults againat the whten they made malicious and faise anit rges, mt A codtell made in 1896 a [BST ford wax then about to most of hla ya that Spot. arry Ceelila money de- wil | Mawes, and “pleco! “J Broadwa nds to ber and bin two sons, Paul ‘Se areas one | © And Joseph 8. Spoftord. Policeman Irwin wied Through te Mr. Spofford died tn December, 1900 Yinoke to Make a Resone. ate Mrx, Sophia Winkler narrowly escaped A death from suffocation in a fire at 234 East Fifty-third street carly to-day She was rescued by Policeman Wash- ington Irwin, of the Fitty-first street station, and sent (o Bellevue Hospital. The fire occurred in a three brown-stone structure occupled by Mra. os yy { The will was made tn 1882 asl | DIED BEFORE HER SONS. MORE BRONX SMALL-POX. | wasune ‘ ers Ee atD ete el ner with Her Bo: wh fy Man, Woman and Child Puya| +; #1.0045, | t y} ‘9 maintain the judiciary of New, York for 191 will con «y woman and child the sum o ow Reser cine ycnralng 1 AM Vancetn by cuit Minnie Mena. a witow. atycore) Mary Duhrens. Mrs. Winkler was sleep- n Sepu i PirOnery Viola Huck, the saixteen-moaths-otd | peat gt tA nie ing In g bedroom on the first floor. A ra f Henry Buck, of 4 j “treet, Flachush, this noon from earbollc} verovene stove, which. had been left NOunE Uppropriated for the Judl- Os ates | acid potsoning, burning table, fell to thé floor and iy $3,701,832,18, and che population |s Drone WANS tosis to] Mrs Mehan was dining with her two | Durning on a tadle, fell to OOF a de pases Ronuiatton a Brower Ivand, suffering with | tien rand Frank, when sud. #et the carpet on fire, Tse room was valsed twine glass to her lina | 200 fied with amoke, wisich rendered ae aieines : & her HP® | sire. Winkler unconscious. ote wocentury!” weoicam She swaliowed the contents of the glasa ind immediately fel) to the floor and Hed five minutes later, re. Laat year it did not hi fa}}ing just 9 mills veluw nous fumigated radlus © of Vaccinated, re in front. ot ae tu rybody within a two blocks of the house or a af J ie are $2,524.95, and tales a storage place by George Kinsman, a klaseware deater, é Tt was quickly extinguished after do- ing $0 damnge. BLAMES CROKER FOR THIS BLAZE. Flushing Firemen Say Chief Wouldn’t Repair Their Alarm System. Because the city fire authorities have neglected the alarm system in Flushing, 1. 1, two houses were completely de- atroyed last night. The fire broke out in the residence of William Bishop, on Fifteenth stree: near Broadway, and before the firemen got there: the flames had spread to an ad- Joining house occupied by Peter Ritter. The fire alarm system would not ‘work because a battery in the tower. In frozen. Chief McCormick says he has notified Chief Croker about the defect, but that the latter has paid no atten: tlon to It cases of emergency Sharles Wilson, sexton of Bt. George's rch, used to ring the bell, but his Will has been held up by the ‘city he would not alaral the firemen night, and last —_—_—.—_ Orcheaten Played Panicm—Alarm an Acciden Several of the stage hande in Hyde nd Hehman‘a Theatre, Brooklyn, were skylarking on the stage Just before the curtain went up for the matinee this afternoon, when one of them accident- ally touched off un automatic fire alarm. In a few minutes there were fre engines in front of the theatre, One of the firemen ran in with a tire extinguisher but could find no blaze. Great excitement prevailed for a few minutes, Several persons in the back of the theatre heard the fire. engines but they took ft calmly. ‘The ban played the overture through the. excitement and thus stifled the noise of the engines. —.—__ LOST $39,000 BY FIRE. Broadway Biase Damaged stock of Cloak Manufacturers, Fire in the six-story bullding §% Broadway, occupled by various cloak and sult manufacturers, d!d $30,000 dam- age to the stock of Salomon & Klapper about 1.90 o'clock to~lay, Most of the loss was due to smoke and water, The firm Is insured. Chief Croker responded to the alarm, and the firemen, after gaining an en- trance to the ffth floor, soon had the Are nder contro e origin of the fire ts not ky; at I ig aupposed to" Rave ‘been due to spontaneous combustion, It" Ww Med to the fifth floor. iat A was Jet left burning all night in the tenement occupied by Mra, Anna Heagan at 306 Henry street set fire to a lace curtain this morning and cuused a fire that scared all the Inmates of the alx-story building. ‘The fire was extingulshed by the firemen after the {urntture was damaged to the extent of about, Pollceman Exonerated of Killing. Special Policeman Charles B, Fromme, on Dec. 17 shot Robert G. Herbert, burglar, was discharged ty=ta Inquest hele ibeto Coroner, Heh init levator at ie FOR CONGRESS Olmsted Asks Report on Abridgement of Vote in South. WASHINGTON, Jan, 3.—Both houses of Congress reassembled to-day. About | seventy-five members’ were present in the House at the opening, but more soon appeared. Immediately after the reading of the Journal Mr. Olmsted (Pa.) sprang a surprise in the House by offering a a matter of privilege a resolution re- citing the alleged abridxement of the right to vote In Toulsiana, Missiasipp Seuth Carolina and North Carolina, and instructing the Committee on Census inquire into the subject and report the facts to the Hous The reading of the resotution caused a flurry on the Democratic side. Mr. Richardson (Tenn.), the minority leader, Jumped to his feet and interrupted the required unanimous consent, ‘It does not,” replied the Speake! “It ts offered us a matter of privilex "IT make the point that the resolution does not constitute a matter of privi- lege."” said Mr. Richardson. Mr. Richardson took his seat, but be- fore the clerk could proceed, ‘Mr. Un derwood (Aln.) was on his feet. "1 make the polnt that there Is no quorum. present,” he said, The Speaker glanced about the House, Evidently there was go quorum present. “The Chair will count,” he sa ape ATM caTAN pitt nt the er annouc if a quorumeMr. Underwood, fmmediately moved an adjournment. ‘The yeas and hays were demanded and obta! a fing the roll call there were hur. uring the roll cal oA ey ried consultations on both sides of the cure. Many of the Republicans were taken as much by surprige us the Democrats. ‘The latter were greatly agitated and de- cided to flaibuster against: the resolution to the last dite! ‘The motion to adjourn was lost, yeas 68, Nays, 95, answering present but not | otal 179. ‘The voting 14; noted present Speak in ore jor ‘included himself 10 make up the quorum. The Speaker thereupon directed the Clerk lo proceed with tho reading of the resolut! When it was concluded Mr. Richardson again brought forward hie point of order that the resolution was rot privileged. Speaker Henderson held the Olmsted resolution — privileged. he minority. ral the question’ of consideration mt which forced another roll ‘The vote to consider the Olmated resolution was yeas, 81; nays. $3, and five present did no voting —ne ayorum— ard another roll call was ordered, A FARMER’S HEAD CUT OFF. r Nody of Bert Webber Found Ter- ribly Mutilated Near Lisbon, Me. Jan. 3.—A especial bon saves that the body of Bert (ebber was found by" his ‘hired. man this afternoon about one mile from that algembeweled and with the head SAY HE AIDED EMBEZZLER. Ex-Cashier Remme Arrested Inthe Newport, Ky. Bank Cane, NEWPORT, Ky., Jan. 3-E. C. Remme, formerly cashier of the Ger- man National Bank, was to-day arrested on an aMdavit of Bank Examiner Tuck- char, him with alding Assistant Brown in the embezzlement sev- eral months of a large sum. Remme w: eld in $20,000, M'CORMICK BABE’S FUNERA' The funeral of John Rockefeller Mc- Cormick, the eldest non of Mr. and Mrs, Harold. MeCormick, who died ‘at Pocan ico Hills yenterday of zcarlet fever, was hed this morning. nly members of the family were pres- ent. ‘The body will be placed in a re- caiy yt for the present. ing vault in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery West End Avenue Runaway, Chartes . Pask, 145. Bast Seventy- seventh sitect, was driving his buggy along Weat End avenue to-day when at enty-neventh street the horses bolted and. threw "Pask to the street, An Tmbulance suracon trom Htooncveli pspital, that Pask's jp Was badly Iabad tte was taken to: the hoepitat, The horse were caught. DIED. THOMPsON.—On Jéa. 2, PRANK THOSPION, 30. gy KRUGER IS IMPROVING. Passed a Bad Night, bot Was Mach WNL DELIVERY ss. Keeper in Queens County Discovered Plot in Time. Jon ir. Kruger ‘bronchitis, but he was ronchils is f tt uh i January Clearing Sale of Blankets, Commencing friday, January 4th, | White Blankets, now In th € and peshaps prisoners om the} vigilance « agslet a prisoner 1 ty deliv averted by Thomas Balla, a member of the Ma- ne Corps at the For aingle size bed reading to ask whether the resolution | | Ban office nad. aud when) ed. upon | re in the et his visitors greats Sra i Mt the Jal While the. Ur $2.50, 83.25, $5 per pair | daunting together Keeper 3 o Ife watched them through ¢ full sec beds, After a time he saw Co door, bracket saw from his t pull out’ a) new pocket. Just ‘ax he was the kee that. floor and Stiles ent i had 1 i $5, $7.50, $12 per pair. Lord & Taylor, ra $2.75, $3.50, 85, $0 per pa extra size beds, te Carroll none of ct saw Stiles approaching, and Halla threw them under the bench In the room, the Keeper niya. Sheriff De, Bragga was called, and were of Assistant ttorney Grely, where they were subjected to a rigid "examination ey Were after- ward locked up in the Sevonty-!{th Pre- inet Station. Balla said he oad been a Rr & 90th St momber of the Marine Crops only two weeks. GURES WEAK MEN FREE. Send Name and Address To-Day—You Can Have It Free and Be Strong and Vigorous for Life. 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