The evening world. Newspaper, October 29, 1901, Page 1

i “NIGHT EDITION. EVERY WEEK A GAIN, 580% columns of-advertising printed in The World last week. Gain, 6434 columns over same we@ekof last year. A steady upward growth. ———_— aGEBICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, ‘TUESDAY, -OcTU DBE! RK a 1901. 5 TTT last week. ~& GOOD AUTUMN GROWTH, Poa 19,976 ~ advertisements were’ printed in The Worl@ Gain, 1,664 over the same week of last ye _ PRICE ONE CENT. a] ASSASSIN’S BODY DESTROYED IN A LAKE OF LIQUID FIRE. ‘SOCIETY WOMAN'S PEARLS SEIZED. Customs authorities confirm the rey port that a necklace of rare pearls belonging to a patron of the Holland House {s now in thelr possession. The Teputed owner is Mrs. H. F. Black, whose husband Ja sald to be a wealthy | operator in this city. | The necklace was brought over last week from London, and tts value Is sald | to be £7,000. The customs officials de- | slare that the case Is not one of selzure, | | ‘but at the same time they Intimate that an effort was made to bring the neck- lace through without payment of duty. ‘Necklace of Wealthy Mrs. H. F. Black, Worth $36,000, Is Mysteriaously Re- tained at Custom. House. Collector Bidwell, when seen this af- ternoon, declined to state how the in- formation concerning, the bringing in of the necklace was brought to him, From [another source it was learned that the case was not in the hands of Special Agent Theobald. An appratsement of the necklace will probably be made to-morrow ,and it ts understood that full duty will be pald by the owner. There ts a Harry T. Black In the clty directory. He Ives at the Holland House and Is,the president of the George A. ‘Fuller Construction Company at No. 137 Broadwy, the frm which built the Syndicate Bullding and 1s now engaged lin erecting several enormous skyacrap- ers- MARK TWAIN AND SETH LOW TALK POLITICS TO ACORNS. America's “great — humor! Mark Twain. took a hand tn the serious busl- neas of campaigning at the meeting of the Order of Acorns at noon to-day. He presided and introduced the fusion can- didate for Mayor, Mr. Low. Before he had even opened his mouth he got a grand laugh and great applause. The crowd evidently expected an in- teresting noon hour, for the big hall at No, 380 Broadway was packed from Ben: son street to the Broadway doors hour, before any of the big guns ar- rived. ‘ During the wait, a baritone sang sad ballads in preparation for the coming of the fun maker from Missourl. He began by singing “When the Roses Bloom Again,” and the crowd Joined in the chorus. “When our acorss grow to tall oaks of the forest We shall ones our leaves ax ballote tn the fall, We ehall bury vice We shall do it e We are acorns all for one ant one for all. The crowd was Invited to join in, becmuse, as the Great Oak, Joseph Johnson, jr. vald, he wanted all the men to know it vo that they could greet Mr. Low with its sound when he should come. Every one went at the Job of learning the song and between lersons the plano played ragtime, while the gang out in front whiatled to the accompaniment. At first the two score dry goods mer- chants who were guests did not Join in the whistling or singing, but they looked interested and they soon kot worked up and yelled with the best of them. “Harrah for Mark Tw: Just at noon Mark Twain cami with Mr, Low. The Acorns’ chi was in full blast, but it died In tweriy seconds. Roars rent the air and music flew out the windows. “Hurrah for Mark Twain!” yelled the crowd. Humorit Tells Foneer: ing Crowd “Sick New York Needs Good Dr. Low to Cure It from IlIness Brought on by Eating Bad Tammany Bananas." «=~ Mark waved his hand and when quiet came at lust Chairman Joh over the gavel to him. He “I conceive that In this campaign we have nothing before us to decide ex- cept a very simple matter, that Is, whether to continue Croker and Tam- many or not. I suppose we've had enough of tt. We've had four years of American monarchy, with our monarch on English soll. We must stop that and do something better. “I suppose also that if we had ex- cellent men on the Tammany ticket with Croker banished, we would be satisfied, but we can't have that. We've got to take the Fuslon ticket, which is clean from top to bottom, Homorist Admits Illness. “I'm sick to-day, and my doctor told me I ought not to be here, but I sald if my that I could explain it {n confidence to this great audience, so that It wouldn't go any further, and I could send word, Id do tt. “But I could not send word that I had a nursery complaint. It was mere In- discretion. It was over eating, not over drinking. I ate a banana. I was trying to further the Interests of our Itallan citizens so that they vote the Fusion Ucket. “But I got hold of a Tammany ba- distemper were respectable so |!" nana. A Tammany banana Is casily discernible. It has one small, c! end —that's the Shepard end—the rest is rot- ten, Mr, Shepard thinks he can extend his wholesome influence to the rest of the banana, but he can't. The only thing to do Is to get rid of the whole banana, for it will all become rotten. Low a Good Doctor. ight hn fee & swallowed. ‘Teme jana for for! ' Thats what though | behind sont Felet a vole “He's a competent doctor, and 1 must introduce him to you—Dr. Seth sine Is going to ten tment. h me es that T’ can that issue out. He won't stay y Commissioner. Ifyou will elect 30 SE Jerome it will be dimeult to say ere he will stay.” (Cries of “Sing Bing and. great cheers) Referring to Mr, Shepard's refuge be- hing the Constitution. Mtr. Low wal “We don't hide benind the Conatlttte tion or the Governor. We stand on the broad. platform of home rule. say to the people, If you want a chang YOUE Police Department vote the ‘Hision outburst and ait Tggard to Mr. Devery al form about Popes at night. Mr, Low sald he ty a eorics about the remarl -both men obeying ‘and the other that he said; "if Mr. Bhep- int tet t ‘any rate," ints to come out him tell what jhe really thinks of er, Bai and Ung r led Sin the Trople of this elty Mindorse ne| Tammany ticket by ite election they wil tell the werld that they: like, Devery and Crokerism and do more to demora use He ou men of be counteracted in twenty years.” ir. Low fhe with TWO FALL FROM TUNNEL SCAFFOLD. WILLIAM JOHNSON AND COR- NELIUS HILLARY INJURED. @otten Plank Breaks and; They Plange Downward—Heavy Timbers Fall On Them, Willlgm Johnson, twenty-seven years old. of No. 331 East Eighty-first and Cornellus Hillary, thirty-seven yeara old, of No. 109 Third avenue, iron-workera, employed on the Rapld- ‘Transit tunnel at Seventeenth street and Fourth avenue, fell from a scaffold | this afternoon. They were badly in- dured and removed to Bellevue Hospital. Johnson may die, having fractured his aul Hillary's body and shoulders were’ Injured. © men had silpped from one plank te Hh pnp t) which appears to have been tn hate efforts to catch something in fall the two men knocked out certain supports and the) scaffolding came down on top of them: Foreenst for the thirty- 5 six hours ending § P, M Wednenduy for New York WEATHER FORECAST. {/? ‘Clty and vicinity: Fair and continued mild weat to-night and Wednendays Mahe to fresh northeast to ‘east winds, CHARGE FRAUD IN BRIDGE CONTRACT. JULIUS MEYER TO PREVENT CAREYING ON WORK. Says Specifications Were Fri So as to Favor Certain Bidders, Justtice Leventritt Is sitting this after- noon in Special Term, Part IV., of the Supreme Court, In the trial of a sult brought againnt the city to prevent thy «ranting of a contract for the steel work on the new East River bridge, which Is now very nearly, completed, ‘The suit was b: at by Julius Meyer, “a taxpayer." who La represented by Kellogg & Rose, the law firm which wot the members of the Municipal Coun- cil punished for contempt of. court. Meyer asks for an injunction forbia- ding the letting of the contract for the steel and the steel work on the ground that the plan and specifications, pub- Ushed July 9, 1900, and on walch seven bids wero opened Aug. 9, were so drawn that only concerns having a piant in also pro- vided that the prevailing Tate of way mupr, be paid and only, citizens of er York empioyed work, t Hours was to constitute n day's wor Corporation Counsel Whalen and As- sistant Hill declare that there was no fraud, and that notedy wan favored. The contract was awar to the Pennsylvania Steel Company at $2,411, the work is now nearly com. (SER LIST OF DEBTS ($ LARGE. THEATRICAL MANAGER BANK- RUPT—OWES 8119,770. Only Large Claime Not nd and §250 Per- 1 Property. Franklin Blen, attorney for George W. Lederer, the theatrical manager, filed to-day a ‘Rohedule of assets ar Mabiiitles in the pending bankruptey proceedings. The Mabliities aggregate which only $2,000 Is secured. Among the creditors named are Robert Gillen and the Gillen Printing $15,000 each; Daniel A. Sweeney, $10,251 Ludwig Englaender, $7,000; Bank of New Amsterdam, $5,000, ‘The assets consist of $5 worth of per- sonal property and unliquidated claims unting to $167,00. Among the claims is one against lara Lippman .® money advanced and breach of contract, $4,700 Columbia Music Hall, Loaton,."$0,00; Hf. B. Sire, $10,000, and A. H. Chamber- lyn, $20,800. NO ALARM BELL Be Rung Before Winter Ge i $119,770, of w re. It ts wise to be pi din the matter of clothing and oxy Piotand. the Mind at The Guarantee, town cor. 127th at, and of castimeres, cheviots, i gst your Toney q worth saa Thatter ou at The \- L 9 000 NECKLACE THEN CONFESSED TO HUSBAND, Harry F. Black, President of the George A. Fuller Construc- tion Company, when seen this afternoon by an Evening Woric reporter at the Holland House and asked concerning the seizure by:the customs officials of a $35,000 necklace belonging to his wife, said: Within a Few Hours After the Execution in Auburn Prison All Vestiges of the Murderer Had Been Obliterated. of The Ey n, © Stall Corrersondent World.) AUBURN, Oct. 29.—The oblitera- tion of the body of the assassin of President McKinley was accom- Plished at his grave with wholesale “We arrived here from Paris on the Teutonic Oot. 19. Tofdeliberation this afternoon. day my wife, conscience-stricken, revealed to me the fact.tha' she had bought the necklac | went. down to see Collector: Bidwell and paid'$24,000| city. which is 60 per cent. of the value of the necklace, and it wa released.” —_—_————_++ ~ {LATE RESULTS AT ST. LOUIS. Fourth Race—Patrocius 1, Albert F. Dewey 2 Winepres: Fifth Race—Ed L. 1, Nearest 2, Sard 3. ———— ——-e. AT-LAKESIDE. “a: Sie — Fifth’Race—Golden Glitter 1, Autumn Leaves 2, Hoodwin! rs sri or a irates Now I've been in the throey of that! ! paper in which the tenced to one year In He ‘applies fo: the Mpecial Semlons teney of the evidence, duatice McLean saya: syne ‘ont Agthon tn thal be réssing certs 31 aothern half-a-ce! Proof to Judge MacLean to-day granted a eert!. ficate of reasonable doum of the legal- ity, of the trial of; John Most for pub- Mshing an Anarcttistie editorial in his despots and tyrants was advocated. convicted in Bpeclal fi Judge Hinsdale reading the de in of the three Judges. a certificate of reason- able doubt, denying the furisdiction of t Most purloined an article see Sixth Race—Andes 1, Eva Rice 2, Free Pass 3, gee ee he ——_—____—_—+. ACCUSED OF ILLEGAL REGISTRATION. ae TRIED SUICIDE AT LIBERTY ISLAND. emp jumped in and rescued ‘her. use he expres asnnrsin of the P. urning a well-dressed aseasgination of Lisi left Coney pansenge: who was about forty Island with He was sen: the penitentiary. | procure of the amsassin on 1a Lota v in an vUutrage chaetiiel compe: murderer for simpy Inu second the ian ping upper cuts, short other kind of’ jolts landed by a half-dozen support the con- ury ago and pub- hed It as his own in a paper wien, presumably, copy bought y jus prosecution, 7.2 i Contant Get Endea Joseph Neal, thirty Four through « rubber tube. He was around the very -despondent because for a woman tre at ball fr ni has some clrelation, but ne of whick in shown except a single by a policeman for use In DIED FOR WOMAN’ S SAKE. Nall walter, was found dead tn bed at the a Avenue Hotel. and Fourth avenue this afternoon. had'committed sulctde by inhaling as that was sate to Klek nd for fterward Ate, two years old, a Mer, ntiments written acrei inatde,, there the man, Eleventh street He Suce tonight | Amato wld net of bis. ing $3 from a man on the street "x home was in Cincinnat!, AUBU Milen ‘Hopkins, D. Emeritus at euoure Theoloy 4 this morning in nary, dle ninth year. a Good, substantial homes are to be found by, bright see! ‘aay, ‘World’ ‘Wants. if Aguinatto, ton appoint 29,—-Samuel . Professor of 1 Semi- in elghty> der two Generate of Div ident ut § o'clock when t stout, Me had « morning paper with « Uimself Temporary ft ulde cans will, be treated immediately Those who surrender will be treated in the ran Frank Merkel, of No. 364.West Forty-third street,.was.to4-- day held in $1,000 bail for examination on. a charge of illegal réjisiration. The charge was preferre by Detective Dale. Mr. Merkel-asked for an examination, and it was set for to-morrow. loyed by th HERR MOST (MOB FRIEND WING PLEA) OF ASoASSIN. ‘Judge McLean Grants Old|/Crowd Violently Assails Man Anarchist a Certificate of Reasonable Doubt. Who Denounces the Auburn Execution: mpathy for the rly this in was mobbed and almost killed on an Ulmer Park car y Island. car a full load of among whom was the man, years old and the (runt page. mat eiectrozute jootng at was busy stop: arm and every that could be men 1 ped by pulled the offender from underneath the mob {nguatriously seeking new «I vid to run, . the mai meadows A and excep- yer on the to. identity | MALVAR, CAPTAIN-GENERAL. tot own ap indi the Six barrels of quicklime and a e in Paris and smuggled it into th earboy of vitriol was dumped into the Cyne box that contained the The bottom of the grave was made a lake of liquid fire. {nto the seeth- ing mass straw was dumped. The vitriol ignited it, smoke and the steam of the boiling chemicals arose in dense clouds from the grave while three convicts hurriedly filled in the earth. The body of the assassin left the prison at 1 o'clock. It had been piaced in a rough pine box six feet in length and three feet wide. This was placed in the prison wagon. ‘Three convicts and five prison guards accompanied it Near Resilence Section. At 2.30 o'clock the convicts’ bury- {ug lot was reached. This place is curiously situated near an aristo- cratic residence section. The plot is only 50 feet wide by 5 deep, and adjoining it on either side are cottages. Not a hundred feet away are the grounds of the home of D. M. Osborne. The grave had been dug during the morning. It was 7 1-2 feet long, 4 feet wide and 8 feet deep. The prison wagon drove up to the foot of the grave. A barrel of‘ lime was spread in the bottom of the grave. Then the body was lowered. ‘The ld was then Hfted from it and|_ Into the coffin barrel after barrel of lime was dumped. When three barrels had been packed down, the vitroll was poured in. Clouds of dense white vapor arose from the grave, and as two more barrels of lime were thrown¢in the mass seetued up to the very edge of; tne grave. Cheered by Dense Crowd. Then straw was put In and the convicts began to fill the grave. For a time the falling earth seemed to stir up the mass, but gradually the baking kiln was smothered. @ A dense crpwa was gathered and cheers went u2, when the convicts began to fill the grave. None were allowed in the lot, but when the grave was made and the prison guards withdrew, men, women and children broke into the enclosure. There was nothing for souvenir hunters to gather but the sod, and none seemed to touch that. Boys drove sticks into the ground and gradually the crowd melted away. No guards were left at the grave, DESCRIBED BY AN EYE-WITNESS. (By Dr. W. D. Wolff, of Roch. ester, N. Y., an Eye-Wit- ness of the Execution.) (Spectal to The Evening World.) AUBURN, N. Y., Oct. 29.—I am:op- posed to capital punishment, but I felt no sorrow for the wretch that died this morning. When he declared he was not sorry he had shot the President they could nut kill him quick enough to suit me. For an exccution that completes a (Continued on Second Page) SCHLEY NE VER SHIE LDED- HIMSELF BEHIND OTHERS. : WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Admiral 3> ‘A good-looking young Frenchwoman, who gave her name schiey was vigorous in speech in de- 4s Mary Louise Repart, of No. 128 West Twenty-ninth street, attempted suicide this afternoon by jumping-off the dock a piberty Island. A- number of soldiers and men-employed or the island rushed to the dock, and J. Reithal, Liberty Island Ferryl, fending his course In the Cuban cam- paign before the Naval Court of In- qury to-day. “IT would have knocked them out, he said when asked what he would have done had Cervera brought ‘1s ships out at night. “Thank God I did not!” “Woe would probably have been gobbled up.” was his comment in re- plying, that he had not accepted and facted on the Navy Depertment’s information, that Cubans and not Again he declared that he never permitted the possibility of censure to rest on anybody for his doings, | and, therefore, acted on his own re sponsibility when the situation war- the meeting with the Eagle after the Flying Bauadron left Key West. “You said you had a distinct recollec- tion that the Eagle passed within hall in the Yucatan channel and that she re- porte! no news?’ Spaniards were in Santiago Harbor. ; ranted It The first question the Judge-Advocate | asked was in connection with Admiral Schley's examination in chief regarding Admiral,ExplainingHis Doings at Santiago, Said He Always Act- ed on His Own Re- sponsibility When Facts .Warranted — Still Under Lemley’s Fire. “Not in the Yucatan channel. We passed the Eagle moon after teaving Key Wert." “She passed within hailt” at js my recollection. “And reported no news?" “Yer” Admiral Schley sald he kept a close wateh at ¢ nd at night while awake, j while off Clenfucgos. He sald he had no auxiliary cruiser of gunboat near ntrance to the harbor, as testified ' . the tu by Ideut, Grimn. Brooklyn's Log Read. In responne to a request from Capt. leamly, Admiral Schley read extracts: from the Brooklyn's log with the view of showing that the Admiral’s memory had been at fault when he had stated that the fleet was closer in at night The Admiral had set of the current vas toward the shore. The loy enw es that hint times the squadro steamed In as well as o1 “Had Cervera’s Meet appeared during the nights you were at Clenfuegos, either coming out or coming jn from seaward, what, under your Instructions, would your fleet have, done?" eked them out.” (A stir in the than) during, the day. at d th he Ey “What Te, follow the fag—instructions ‘ziven ere your Instructions?" amp Roads were your Instructions Phen re were none. I do not consider that the regulations or customs required written Instructia “Isn't the unwritten law at sea in the In squadron shall navy that vense follow the flag a YVeanel ae fee one of the enemy's ships drop out and follow to attack her. That mighi be one of the circumstances.’ aft the rule ts to follow the flag?” ort ts." In response to other questions Ad- miral Schley sald there were three. or four boats stretched across the harbor at Clonfuegos, Saw. aie + on the ony the Towa 3 ine uncertain of the ra f the batt ther.” Imply on acer ships?” W coaled one Despatch to Sampson. Referring to the blockade of Santiago Captain Lemly asked the witneas why sent a despatch to Admiral Sampson that “on account of short coal (Continued on Fourth Page.) COUNTESS CABLES FOR AN APOLOGY. DIVORCED WIFE OF EARL RUS- SELL AFTER SEC'Y TAYLOR. enaury Offigial Made menta Which She Claime Oot. 29, aylor, of the hax reoived a from Won signed Countess Russell. “Btatemen divorce gr fea le entirely untrue, No papers ¥ rervel ‘on me My firsi notice through London was by ootained Th lor deciines to in. he says. he never made rted tah He Cou from the newspa- of Libs [during the term from 1535 to Marrison, ,Governor of B. lls home here at soon towlay, an apoi- | . [file a supplemen: CAMPBELL WINS IN WIFE'S SUIT. JURY QUICKLY DECIDES IN FAVOR OF PHYSICIAN. tleipation in Conspiracy. Dr. Robert & a papbalta lived happlly tn Buffalo when Mrs, Camp: | went and brought the naming as co-rerpondent a ag , Cora Durham, of David City, the trial began, oa May 27 last, Durham appeared in court and ied that Dr, Campbell was inno ent and that an aimdavit, made by her Ja David City, In behalf of thewilfe, was npbell, a well-known} HIGH BIOS MADE FOR CITY BONDS, ADVANCE OF FOUR POINTS OVER THOSE LAST RECEIVED. ! \The Representative of Lewis & Ces Makes the Top Offer at 107. } day opened bids for The Comptroller te hysiclan of Hutfalo, N. Yo, wan to-day | 43.6, Zt, wee, sent corporata | formally exonerated by a jury in the] stock, of which Is for Tareial Courts Tro! Fs impr nd $1.090,00) "for a parle .| Supreme Court, Brooklyn, before Judge | TYP WNT Rr 600,000 (Ora Garretaon, of the charges made by his] Grmory. sites. Helen, in her application for di-| Sixteen bids were received. b ever obtained four celved, Rond and Trust) Comp the firm of Lewls & Co., e-high= est bid recelved, It was on wast and” points. higher the Bld of Former Offver of Sixtye! iment Dead in Bonto falve, Her appearance aud sensational testimony in court and the trial died at [formal and, the jury. wife to \¢- nied and to-day ppear to teatity. The proceadings were simply rought..in a 1 thet for the doctor without retiring. (Spectal to The Evening World.) BOSTON, Oct. 2, aged sixty-four, | ve war, und faid to have been auto the Aone nth Reguaane lead are MiNe Mongu fe al ied of a ft a