The evening world. Newspaper, August 13, 1901, Page 8

BUOYANCY RULES ON EXCHANGE, United States Steel and Pacific Issues in Big Request. 6 OO! TRADERS BELIEVE STRIKE ON VERGE OF COLLAPSE. Bear Camwpainzn Against Sugar Wane Still Comtinned—Gas Alao Weak. Bull factions had a potent array of influences tn their favor at the opening on ‘Change to-day. In the first placo, tt was generally be- Meved that the steel strike was on the verge of collapse, owing to the def tion of the Western, Chicago ani Jo. mills, In which the strike leaders } placed implicit confidence. | Furthertnore, prices in the Landon | market were decidedly higher, denoting a cheerful tone at that centre Most | tneapectedly, the Granger ins. took of the predominating buillst and Improved sharply. This was My attributed to James J. Hill's d ration of yesterda, ch he de clated thé losses to crops, asserting that most of the grain had already been | ( harvented s United States Steel common opened up 3-5 rocent. on sales of h share’ and subsequently sagged 1-4 per cent Tho preferced was up 3-4 per cent, to 91-4, on fair support In the rallroad group the Pacifics were the chief beneficlarte: t gains o points. Union Pacific sold up to Missouri Pacific mounted to Wl 1- Bt. Paul rose 11-8 per cent. to 1591 The Atchlsons ac kains of 11-3 on the common and 3-8 per cent. on the Preferred stock. Bugar, on the other hand, wan stil! aubject ‘to bear p sinking to 129, a@s compared with ast night's final quotation, The local traction issues were com- paratively quiet. ‘A lull followed the early a prices reacted slixhtly: uying resulted in a rally directi, the market went above the early’ level. St. Paul touched Union Pacific % 34. Total sales to noon we: ‘The closing was very prices at the best fgun-s The total rales of stocks 402,000 shares. Ci The Closing Quotutions, Open. High, Law Amalgamated Copper 3% MEN 112% Pe & Foundry, Dy mh le 32% SE . Cotton Oi Uh Sait OM Smelt. & Ret tS Smelt. & Ket. pt. 1600 Bugar. Asaconaa Top A rated by H, Drookiyn Rapid Trans! . lan of the Canadian Pact crate Cruel Uncle Spoils Coe voune woman 1 hy tr hecabentee en ony . . wer, and the girth is sald ye Worth CRIES Great Western median Ralph Binge weeny mites wollare Runs Off with an ty. He ma a0 Heiress. «noth pament Ralph Bingham ing Sunny He ts dena elo comedian vt ooking for Mina [sr wd al tn his pr ella hotrean of m he attempt City last Sun pres year wit Atla al from mt TOBACCO TRUST NEVINS TURNS Naw Manhattan BIG CONCERNS TAKEN IN By | HIS STEAM LAUNCH FLORIDA CONSOLIDATED COMPANY. HOME AND ALL ENGULFED. | Oatarlo & Wes’ Paoite” Mat Penns) People’ Heating Mortage for 8150,000,000 Filed h Efe pot th Corporation Shows that Ut He Rep. Stee! Absorbed the Ame me Rep tinental and Other Companies: | Sout! Tay. | Ynearning the consol f the cou fation of Namination © hankrupt Was net for Sen niver, Levi W. Natier, ted the and ne was| Abilities are reported to he ase. | Sound the ass Mo Graft tur = 12 mount « Thoma urned over § mour mal some | Nevins, | Central pt FIRM TONE IN LONDON. Marked improveme activity wer Steck Excha decided upwe American railway snare Of this grou were most consplou evidence swell ta greta tivity. The common + MER n Wall ey | the eaqulvalent of 44 nn: A Nock lending mel $254, ax Ompared wit aero ores BS the closing figures in the sented a ye tors ————— cen eiWtertainet nt the fe market for Ame ers 5 fC Novind shares was fairly buovs UO Eo NU thes tlmecof therfirm'a common and pref grain markets opened active a beat " tanadlan Pa ae near SED ye Theme all were up a point orm i nee X 1 on-talr support. The Pacifics, too, were | Opsecapein ns Insist in.big demand, H rday. and as i The fortnighty settiemen: Kressed WAN DN CON tithe favorably, the ease in money being the nicihersiiel Shevlin, exe nator Mecarty Amportant favorable factor, W. Squires, Hoth Shelvin an led In court names signed are for- The Cotton Market, local cotton market opened easy nmith prices 7 to 8 points lower. indertone continued weak after Mon Mberal rains in the South- centred over Texas. Increasing re: new cotton also augmented th r that the monthly tember w tie wh. to 73 3-8; Decemb to 7% 3-8; May wheat, 7h 1 14, September corn, 59 3-4 to 3 1 December corn, 62 0 6 c tA to A 3-8. New i wheat, m sing prices: were: st Beptember w May @ 9 @ 10 ® ® roy BODO si21981 in ward to this city, Ulngham followed, and he Is now searching In the hotela for her ff he finds her again there will be an- other ement xt time the uncle will be notitled Keaph and the no- Uce will hot be sent unt, the marriage Knot ts securely t Miss Cnomera ts of She has enormous es Spanish descent. in Pasadena. chiefly consisting of orange Rroves and Oe Wands, She is OWly etgiteed Seurw old, and tp a striking beauty. Her inother Wasa pure blooded Yankee and her father Spantard who had settled nic nearly Uhirty years ago amassed the fortune ft to Her fourteen, . Mr, had charge o rand since the death of her Pies 808 will Inherit almost 39,000,600, WALL ST. LAMB SHVED FLEECE CHARGE OF LARCENY AGAINST DR. STRAUB FAILED. Guve Cheek Cor Margina, but When Urokers Out Me With watt in Was Pree ja, Court Justise O'Gorman, in the Supreme Court to-day heid that the delivery of A cheek on a hank does not conatit an assignment of t and th Nia funds by a o drawers funds in the hank. f withdrawing heck before the snot a frat natitute hi tase of Dr. decision was handed Adan) Ho Straub, Jown int who w sted for alleged grand larceny on mplaint of Schalk, Ward & Wagner, ef No 15 Broad mreet. He was aetd by Magtatrate Hoan to the Grand Jury, got a writ of habeas corpus and | was discharged by Justice O'Gorman. Dr. Straup was a t broker. rm. and in panic of May 9 Kave the firm a check for #10 on . Hrooklyn bank for more margin Later in the day, Mis brokers sold out his atock, he n Dr. Stra kK, he drew ad withdrew ted to his credit Ked, without notice ned of thi« in the nother check on the the moneyn deposi- thus stopping payment of hl for $5.49) to Sehalk, Ward & Wasn Dr. Straub subsequently brought an sctton for illegal conversion of his stock, ind claimed $20.09 damages He also brought two actions against Schalk nd Ward individually for slander in calling him a thief beoause he had payment of the check. ‘aub's lawyer anid to-day that he had commenced an action against the firm of brokers and {ta members for $8,0%) damages for false HOMESTAKE PAYS DIVIDENDS Regu i < Or on 5 M1 1- 06 to 72; | wheat, 79 a-h; Decemt May corn, 66 3-4; Septemb. Peger corn, 1-8; Dece Moathly Dee Extra, on Mining Stock. The Homestake Mining Compar rn mi 1-2. Chica closing prices were: August September wheat. 73 sar ce tober wheat, 74 3-8; May wheat, 79 5-8; ‘Aug i 3-4: September ‘corn, has of 2% cents and ext! divide Gagts, Roth payable aug. 26 ce Of 7 .Y., Aug. 13.—State Detec- éame through from Boston and went to Rich- lay to seo the suspected | Clair, who returned home after mid- declared the regular monthly dividend] Blondin arrested there. The resemblance | night. was remarkable, but the detective says shat the sunpect ie not the man wanted. deg, 6 — tn of Mamsachusetts, fleld Springs to- PBAOAVAA THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 13, 190k [ACTOR’S ELOPEMENT WITH | RICH GIRL IS FRUSTRATED. VERPLANK SHOT BY WOWAN? Mystery of County Shooting Still Deep. STORY OF WOMAN One Seen to Cron He the Ferry an © Before Shots Were Fired —Victime Oat of Dangr. ((Spectal to The Evening Wor'4.) NPWBURG. N.Y., Aug. 13.—A_ myster- fous woman now figures in the strange shooting from ambush of wealthy Sam- uel Verplank and Miss Laura Ranktn, which occurred yesterday on a lonely j road north of Fishkill Landing. while Mr. and Mrs. Verplank, Mixa Rankin, a | Kuest from Newburg, and the Rev. J Howard Buydam, pastor of the Re- formed Church, at Rhinebeck, N. Y., were out driving. The roport was circulated to-day and neems to be well authenticated, that a woman dressed in a sheeting comume and armed with a shotgun wan seen crossing the ferry from Newburg an hour before the shooting. The police are trying to trace the woman and ex- | pect to Wweate her before night. Was It a Jenious Womant The woman's motive, {f the theory t* correct, ix also shrouded in myster; Is suggested that the shots may have been intended for Mrs. Verplank, who [ts State Regent of the Daughters of the | | American Revolution. It is thought pos- i stble that Jealousy of her social prestige may have been the motive. Mrs. Verplank had a narrow escape. One bullet, probably the one which struck her husband, parsed through the {1 which encircled her hat. An inch the right or left and the ball would burled fteelf in Mrs. Verplank’s Dutchess WITH A SHOTGUN.| It} PR OPIOVENS ® 4 eres |e Miss nglish pany, Is In Bellevue Hospital and will recover. | statue: lorodora,”” at the | Lamb lived with his wite and two Dr. Love Will This c- 1 i almost since |children in Briges street, Willlama- her arrival, will undergo an ation | bridge, and was employed In the Hare Afternoon Perform tor appendicitis this afternoon. lem branch of tha gas company. In the : Dr, 1 N. Love, ner physiclan, decided /latter part of June he wax 1 and was Operation for AD nis morning that the surgteal treat- | Kiven a month's leave of absence to re- al A ment would be necessar: cuperate. His mind ts thought to have pendicitis on Drina ™ yet. Waters, with Clara Vital | become affected about that tlme, and be Waters, One of the rrived from England | imagined that he had been discharged English Members of ie a tely up arrival Miss! On ihe afternoon of June 24 he left the ‘‘Sextet. | Waters compinined aig i the ofe and stood for a moment on Later Dr. Lave was cailed in, and he! sng sidewalk, in deep meditation. Then determined upon the operation. T&.|he Grew a revolver from his pocket, Drina Waters, IS NEAR TO DEATH’S poor IH | MA 2 WS TRE) -TOENDLIE. He Has Lost an Eye and Almost Disloe cated His Neck. \ CURIOUS CROWD WATCHED HIM SHOOT HIMSELF. Last Effort Was to Slash His Wrist in Effort to Bleed to Death, » Usual, He Failed, With his neck nearly dislocated from trying to hang himself, his left eye sightless asa result of a shot fired at himself in a former attempt at sul- cide, and a deep razor wound In his lett wrist, from which he almost bled to death, Charles A, Lamb, formerly a » | collector for the Consolidated Gas Com- he went to lve by the gas company as a result of the persecutions of other employees. Love says that Miss Waters's condition y ts most serious, one importations for Placed the muzzle at pulled the trigger. his temple and The cartridge watled W Shotwan and Buckshot. | ‘The police are alao looking for a man| |who worked for the Verplanks until a! |week or two ago. They had some trou- ble with him, caused, it {s suid, by [his violent temper. Ho elther left in | anger or was discharged. He was sup-| posed to have gone to work In the brickyards, but was not there when the pollce went to look for him to-day. Tt 1s now certain that a ahotgun loaded with buckshot was the weapon used by the shooter. One of the buckshot was found embedded in the woodwork of the wagon. This fact makes It certain that the shooting waa not an accident. There Is no big game in that vicinity and buck- shot In never used by huntern there. otimg Occurred. ‘The Verplanks are among tho wealth- lent. and) most popular residents of} Dutchess Cou Mise Rankin {« Verplank’s cousin, and, with the Suy- | Jama, was visting fora few days at the Verplanks’ commodious home. In the afternoon the party of four drove ta Mr, Verplank's Stony Hill farm, and were returning when the mysterious event happened. Suddenly a shot rang out from a clump of bushes along the rdad opposite the Dubois Brinkerhoft tate. Mins Rankin felt a stinging mensation ; jow at the back of the neck and, feeling there, withdrew her hand cow blood. Before any one could say a word a” second shot rang out. Mr. Verplank dropped threw up his hande “Lam shot!* h back in the arms of Mr. One shot, Saye DD or. Said Dr. Williams to-day: ‘The party was struck by oae charge of buckshot which spre: One of the shots entered Mr, Verplank’s shoulder, while another rized the neck of Miss Rankin, 1 do not belleve that two shows were fired. “Mr. Verplank almost fainted from the shock. but his injury is not serious, I probed for the shot (hat entered hte shoulder, but could oot locate tt." “There are fifty or more Malian fami- Mes tn that neighborhood and nearly every one has a gun,” sald Chief Mara. Boa t there ia a good deal of recklean shooting among Chom in thelr hunt for squirrels and that the wife of « foreman In one of the brickyardy nar- escaped being shot a few days the reins and claimed, and fell Suydam ‘The shooting has caused a sensation because of the prominence of the Ver- planks. Mra, Verplank and her cousin are descendants of Roger Wolcott, of ne of the signers of Declaration of Independence. Mrs. Verplank In sate Regent of the Daugh- tera of the American Revolution. ——- SHE CHARMS THE “COPS.” Katie Corr Sald to Have Neon Wife of Three Policemen. ‘The Brooklyn police belleve that in the person of Sadie Loste they hav. hatie Corr, who In her comparatively three policemen. ‘The woman was arrested early this morning charged with stealing the watch of Thomas H. Coohran while he was asleep on 4 Myrtle avenue car. Cochran Is a brother-in-law of ex-ena- tor Reynolds and compelled the woman Ridgewood waa reached, where she war arrested and where her companion es. caped. The watch was not found. The privoner was held in the Bwen Street Court ——=>_ THIEVES AT COLLEGE POINT. Came Home—Got No Pland Comen Home—Got No Plunder. An unsuccessful attempt wa Innt night to nob tho realdence of Audl- tor F, R, Clair, on North Boulevard, College Point. The burglars were. evidently fright- ened away by MARRY THE GIRL Pinced the pistol at his temple again | and pulled the trigger a second time. oan AGAIN IN COURT !popy OF A YOUNG WOMAN | THs time tho cartridge exploded and ON ABDUCTION CHARGE. Mother duce Her and They Can Get) Married” — Dlermn Woald Palmer Would Produce He Emil Blermann, who 1s wocused of abd- | ducting daughter of member of the was rearraigned in the W pany, Court to-day, In alleged, rouse ty-fourth etr Mr: Mer on her arrival could get [on a found the house doors Shanon io rexpors her ring wt the front ed. She called Policeman © Sfee fre,| Where she livel with her mother. Iter- Li is a knife forced the | Cracken, who f 1 an entrance, and mann war arrested r during the Ing through the houte| found Lamb In his room, lying on the night, He donied that he knew an: Miss Derby, whe boarded floor tn & pool of blood with a cut In his iat Senatnatinteoure oh left wrist, a roby his side and thing about the giriian The pollve were notified, They could] proken rope Ranging from the transom, Jay was held for examinatton, find no evidence of sulclde and delle He had cut hin wrist and then tried to \. When the prisoner was urrasned to-| the young woman dled. from natural|hang himself. ‘The rope was not stron sex, She had been ill for some time | enough, and the wound tn his wrist was ‘ had an unfortunate love affatr. dressed before he had tost much blood, “Only let Blermann protu@ my | She was ttn in London and was twen-| Ie Js very Weak, bu: the physicians at daughter and he can marry . tyesix yea! old, the hospital «: he will recover, moaned Mrs. Paliner. Y oT would gladly marry her a wid only come forward and. be wilt: | # } sald the prisoner. “I don't. kn ; eo sho is. T love h and ways ed to marry her ever sitice 1 mee ner etter from the girl to MMegnans written sesterday was Interce ‘ othe girl sald that. she . r withed to have an. to lover, [twas T kweetheart, hut patti METS ie Will continue to offer their entire summer manna counsel, aaked to, have the case stock at the following exceptionally low prices: dismitsed bi ff cleney the amdavi mite by. Stra ; ane iSterses He Cotton Wash Waists, mann wi custody of hie counsel WORKMEN HURT Shirt Waist Suits, q IN BIC TUNNEL. STONE RIER. WHO MAY DIE. Mage Nonlder Left Where It Wi Atte! The eff in the undred Eleventh another a water-carricr so dndly that he wili dle. The short career has been the spouse of | learned, lived at One Hundfed and For- ty-nixth The explosion In March jast left a two- ton stone overhanging. At noon to-day ft crashed down the south heading to the foun Several under th and her escort to stay in the car untt| alarm. however, and the men acutterod in every direction. was not him to As he noarly # wi tence of the approach of Mr.| sentenced to one year in the Kings County ceny. y the girl's mother was in court. Rapid-Tranait struck him on the head and knocked also severely brulsed about the head and shoulders, LELAND CHUBB FREED. made! Reooklyn Mi Gov. Odell to-day commuted the sen- The Governor satd Chubb yield- The thieves did not secure any plun-| ed to temptation through the pressure te of necesalty-to srovide tor tie Samitr, ee — to exrlotle Me walked up the street 7 a short distance’ and sat down on a nib, where he busted himself for @ { few minutes scribbling a short note, The ever Increasing crowd watched him as he wrote and the street was alocked when he finished. The note stated that Lamb was being persecuted and would try to kill himeclf again, He left the note on the curb, got up, LOVE AFAR Lamb fell with blood flowing from what FOUND BY A CALLER. appea to be a mortal wound, | REESE He was taken to the Harlem Hospital, ¢ Mim Only Pro-) str Gictrated’ nis skulntice Saree aaa Lamb's hallucinations became more Pronounced, and his wife was compelled to go to her parents in the country, tak- Ing the children with her. Lamb went to board with Mrs. Mary Cooper, No. 91 East Seventeenth street, and secured employment as collector for n furniture houre. About 1 o'clock this morning he asked Mra. Cooper to get him a pint of brandy, saying that he felt il, She wet out to get the brandy and her retu Say: Chandler Went to Visit Her her and Found Her Woman Boarder Dend in the iath- room—Police ve No Evidence | of Suletde. Saya He De so tt Fate elt. ty Afteen-year-ol4 Edith Palmer, M Minnie Palmer, w York Theatre Com- st Side At the While calling on her mother. Mrs. Creech, of No, 511 Weat One Hundred and Twenty-ffth street, this aftergoon, ndler found the body uf pretty English woman, foor of the bathroom: a Mrs. Jennle Ch es Derby, n The girl disappea Sunday evening from AK Tyan thi 50, 75¢ and 95¢ comprising values from $2.00 to $20.09, $3.90, $5.90 and $7.90. Summer Neckwear, including Kromesh stocks and belts, lawn ties, etce 10¢, 25¢ and 35¢ BROADWAY AND 32TH ST. FELL ON WATER CAR- oan Explosion tn March —Man’s Leg ta Almont Sev- from Wody. *' fect of the dynamite explosion | <5MgiAUKARIRID MRIRINRTIM MURR RISNIAT MOM I IR RAINIIE'Y Tunnel at One} % and Elghty-firet street and | % Free avenue in March last caused aceldent to-day, which {njured man, whose name could not be streot and Amsterdam avenue. dation, a diatance of fifty feet. men were working directly o stone. A water-boy guve the Booklets, Circulars and All Necessary Information Re- garding Summer Hotels and Boarding-Houses. WHEN SUMMER LITERATURE 18 OR- DBAED BY MAIL STAMPS: MUST -BE-EN- CLOSED TO COVER FosTuce. The World's = Vacation Bureau, Broadway, corner 36th St, 3 New York. The injured man so fortunate. Part of the stono he ground, fell the stone fell on hls leg, evering It from his body, He Sentence Commut- ed by Gov. Odell, PHENO AD SOMONE EN SENE BESE SY STS SESETE TS Me EST f Leland Chubb, of Brooklyn, Penitentiary for attempted tar.