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| \ ; 1 / charged Scully with >igam: THE WORLD: TUESDAY E NING, DECEMBER 31, 1901. “MY IDEAL, YOU CANNOT ROB "ME OF MY LOVE. IT IS SACRED --One of Van Not Mrs. Sisson-Kitching’s Attorneys in Her Breach of Promise Suit Give Out Sam- ples of the Young Society-Man’s Vows. The-dreach-of-promise suit which Mrs. Gertrude Sisson-Kitohing has brought ‘egainst Stanley Van Note will have a j warm and fervid setting 1f all of the 275 letters which Van Note wrote to M ‘itching aro read during the sessic f Mrs. Kitching stould decide to pub- theee letters in bok form the sale no Goud< go up inte the thou- for every page would exhale the passion and poctry of love that trickled from Van Note’s pen when he sent these miasives to hin “sweetheart.” On the fiyleaf Mrs. Kitching might se the following, which Van Noto penned in the books he sent her: Love that ts true forerer, Net for @ day cr @ month or a year. To the end of the world I love you, Bra H Antidote to Coyness, Gome cf the letters are worth read- fing. At.the time ‘they were sent Mrs, ; Kitching must have been a bit cold, for ‘Van Note seems agonized for fear that he had angered her, The following letter was given out by {Mrs. Kitching’s attornoys to-day. It tears the stamp of the Hotel Lindell tn | ‘Bt. Louls and {ts dated Sept. 7, 19). It} “reads: “My sweetheart that was: Upon my ferxrival here last night I received from ‘you one of Gunter’s books, for which accept my thanks, Dut not one note or wire had I had since Thursday. 1 jean find no words to express my frel- ings. It was pain I suffered moro than ert was only what I could do to ¢ 11 exp e’s 275 Love Letters. She Has 278 Love-Letters in Breach-of-Promise Sult. ted no such reply aa I received. Deing hurt, my pride crushed, my heart |You. Nothing should keep you n|*Your letter of Friday an Insult!’ My Gnally broken for good. I went to my | sending mo & single Hine tn some way, |dariing, the words stood out like fire, even if you had been at ¢ door land I cursed myself for being alone. I room, to bed, but not to sleep. That I could not do. I thought over the whole ‘Year just passed and of my tender love for you and the things that I had 4: that you might not be disappointed. the pleasure it had given me to see you Diy ex ler As I sald before I can’t press myself. 1 am brok and mind, [ have no amb! object in life to work for. bottom of tt all T still love on left, no | ywn at the ou and aball nd of your head you were ill or angry, #0 wired tn. The result was worse than the first. Sweetheart, | wouldn't hurt a single hatr So every ne of this kind enjoying’ yourself, 1 tried hard to find| Wear your picture always. That you| makes mo think that you have found @ome excuse for you, but not one could | hall not have, 1 may lose you, but my you love better than myself. love cannot be taken from me rt, you will never find any’ one T allow. I realized that you dellt e- Jy ignored me. I was eo hurt that I could not give way to tears, but found myself in a temper, raging mad. How “The world sema so much darker this morning, Everything ts empty and dark, I shall never feel the same again a loves you one-half ay much as poor Why tortu with auch mes- As I said tn my wire, are you = You are the only one I have er ad- | {ior angry? Carel ia the Only on Greased as ‘nweetheart,’ Ukewise the | “I can't leave you for a moment. This “Heartless and crucl are mild terms. y ono I have ever written to ax) only, shows that I should be with you Thnee been, tnatead of a man, a thing | uch You cannot rob me of my love. | 5. 1 received no letter or wire to be playot with. And now, when I That 1 hold sacred. 1 don't know | Thursday, Friday or Saturday Must EScakyour help’ aid. sympathy, to be| What more to say to you, except xlve you up, my iove? You are the only Sheowa over in this fashion 1s more than | ¥°" have practically: Killed If that can command my love, and Tiean atand. You have not loved me at| #8 !f I had lost everything and eve A you throw me over God only all, All my llfo I have been moat carv- | POdy. 1 shall mourn forever, ws what wourd become of me. L ‘tat “Your broken tngly, your sweetheart, STANLEY ful not to allow any one to think ¢hat Toved or cared for them seriously unt! I met you, to whom I have alwayn been trde In spite of all temptation. Outside of my family I have never loved a living goul but you, and I now find that my Darling In Flery. Here ts another, sent from Cadiilac In this ety on Feb, year: Hotel fdeal, my life, my all, ts stolen, taken | “My Sweetheart: When I found that |). away from me. I was to get no letter to-day I felt very | thy “I don't believe you ever loved me. It frat wire. But’ str: SCULLY IN COURT. WEALTHY ‘YOUTH. (ACCUSED HIM OF BIGAMY AND] HALSEY CORWIN IS ACCUSED HE CONFESSED. OF ABDUCTION. ffeld for Trial in 82,000 Ball in|rather of Roberta Lengia Maken | If the West Side Complaint on Henring Daugh- Court. Confenston, Patrick Scully, twenty-three years ol, of No, 44 West Thirty-seventh str inwaa arrested by Policeman V ‘the West Side Court Squad, Inst § Gay, charged by his Cather! Beully, with disorderly conduct, W Bis pedigree was taken in the West side Court Sergt, Lane identified him as the Search ts being mado by day for twenty-two-yven of No. 1400 act seesor of h Asappea fasmo Patrick Scully for whom Mrs Elizabeth Scully, of V0 West Pitta: minth street, had sworn out a w H home on on a charge of non-support Two dnys later Scully was arratgned on the charge of stives tn the tat @Gisorderly conduct, and the case was known ta r that adjourned until this morning, = the other Mrs. Scully could come court. The two women this morninz ipida by side at the clerk's desk Mr stood beth Scully made the forms ‘that Patrick had unlawful ‘Katherine O'Connors, of f1 West ‘Thirty eighth atreet, on Sept. 10, 186, She sald g@he had married him on July Her maiden name as Dol game year, tard. The other wife made corro! ing aMdavit. ‘The declare! ¢ to Marle Court and cused man pleaded gut SENATOR PLATT Firat Husband § M rs. Kitehing’s first huaband fs at present In Sing Sing. He was rent there iasing Worthless © Mr, Van manag the Northwestern aw Works WILL NOT WED. DENIES REPORTED ENGAGE- MENT TO MRS. JANEWAY. My Wife Hade Deen Dend a Yenrs 1 Wonlin't Acaln," He Says. Marry fey om Washington to-day e was a sory in éireula- pateh that Senator Thomas C. Platt oto marry Mrs. Lilian ‘T. low of the late Dr. Willlam the well-known army au was seen by an Evening Rroadway or Pratt, despatch was Sena you are to be mar- t going nit ee what 1 should want parriad My wife hae been vay If she had been dead realy ory again,” are autor De- n not following anybody, Chaun- S marriage seems to have given the sips an appetite for marrying off — SAD WIDOW TRIES TO DIE. + was held in $2,000 bond for trial nad Bit rls Green, but evidently kad rourh usage r ou | Alleges! he wanted | her to” elope) with In Eapected ive, fis face was druised and swoll: He M Mary Wilkte, a widow, forty-five “told the Magistrate that he wus a stone- sof attempted sulelde by tak- ‘cutter. WANTS MARRIAGE ANNULLED. Ny Dire, Huott’s Other Wive: Mra Lena Knott, of Pat Vice-Chancellor Stev geey Clty, to-day to annul her tr ‘to her bigamous husband, John J. Knost, Husband Has ‘Two After their marriage two years ago, Knott eloped from Paterson with Tore ‘Bonnedruen and w to W . of Kings Ci ‘When arreste dithere he admitted he hon's cous 4 volt He will answer Mrs, Knott's petition find him, and secure ba m chancery, alleging that she knew of private ‘marriages and he ts Ui Mot bound to support thelr ebiidren FROM WINDOW. DIED FROM OVERWORK. 1 Jumen §. Ven Anowerp, Washinge In in the Hospital the Vic tr At 3. amen | Ward, thirty years old, fell from| Vi dino wnairiow ke tory window, of his home, | \i huis home in this city. Hie deuth w )Weat Sixteenth atreet, this morn: ta physteal and tervous h red: his xuperinduced by overwork. He was the | T to the New Xork Hos-' Washington representative of halt a} yy. shai dozen Western dalliva, ve rot, 6 home Pros- speth, house at % aint 0 and a physician, fs wald she br) Despandensy was the —_ DECORATE HIS COUSIN. pe WANA to Bestow an tet on Prince of Wal LONDON, Dec. 3L—According to the corres tly Mail ince of Wales haw accepted Willtamn's preasing Invitation. to to Herlin the middle of next with the Light from Decayed Meat, Wron the Springfeld Repub teht from decayed m whieh may agos, Prot aity, has x 4 in extracting Ain An ‘over-tipe porterhouse atoak Vc (lamination ty allow him to Krave of laboratory appara- Gorham 4 seeking to fn 1 light in whlo: Int ¢ nelentifNe of Brown 1 the element ix not contained. He believes: the road to yaluable results, . Gorham is connected with the Saget ca department of the uni- iInjured Doctor Showed Rare ATE HOUND -OAVED UNG None Abed in Convent of St. Ann When Fire Was Discovered, SWOON WHEN IN SAFETY. SET LEG WITH AN UMBRELLA Pluck and Presence of Mind in Operation on Himself. USED THE STEEL FRAME. Dr. Walter Lester Carr, Faint from the Pain of Fractured Member, Utilized Available Material. Several Large Buildings Destroyed and St. Joseph’s Church at Co- hoes Threatened by Flames. The old saying that a doctor never (Special to The Evening World.) takes his own medicine does not apply | pRoy, ¥., Dec. 3.—The Convent to Dr. Walter Lester Carr, of No. Jog st. Ann, attached to St, Joseph's v rs are er M eet Fifty-firat street, Dr. Carr a few) oh Catholle Church; the convent days ago performed an operation on | soot, the Sacred Heart College, taught himself which stands almost alone in|. wa is SA has blaeeatothaurkers by Christian Brothers, and the Gym- = asium Hall at e totally de- A man has often been known to stop | TON yn, the jetting apurt of a torn artery by é i making tourniquet ofa handkerchiet, || That "0 liven were fost Is che, re- markable c but history does not record the cane of | to a murgeon who deliberately mat down in] nc) pits Heat acfalleay tans mended a broken 168 | the liven nuns and girl stud with the ald of an umbrelia, tn the buildings, nobody having ret Vnis is what Dr. Carr did a few days! When the first alarm was given ail ago. Ife ts now in the New York Hos-|pseaned jn safety down the stairwaya, pital convalescing rapidly and com-fenouch several of the nuns + vooned pletely because of the prompt treatment he gave himaelt, Slipped in the Mud. ch vel Case: upon re the stre Mict a member of the pald Jepartment of Cohoes, was overcome by Dr, Carr was on his way to New Jer-| smoke while working In the basement of fey to attend a consultation. When near|the college bullding and narrowly the Pennsylvania ferry he jumped from| escaped being burned to death, a Twenty-third etreet car. He was in a Rescned by Fireman, ear AS catch a boat that watted in} 1 pois Hardin, of the Johnston Steamer ae ar, |Company, braved the dangers of the ‘The day wan wet and the streets were fre and dense smok however, and covered with slimy mud. Dr. Carr's foot slipped and went under him as he fell. He felt the snap of a bone and knew in Anally succeeded in ri bringing him out, 1 hing Casey a fn instant thet the Jersey trip was off. | onurch, ‘and. his heather, Tew, te Mf Several people rushed to his ald, and | ene a netar, wore unable te with thelr aasistance he hobbled to a ae ee nae te ihe mat. ite | tel! definitely: how the fire atarted. As s! near as can be learned, there was a thanked the people for their assistance, | stove tn the basement, part of which andithey cwent)thelriwey: is usel for a Kitchen for the brothers Dr, Carr reached in hin coat for his murgtcal cane. Taking a pair of sharp scissors, he dei aately cut his trousers from a point well above the knee to the hottom. Dellberately he turned the #ev- eral parts back and then treated his under-drawers in the same way. Stadies His Own Case. His bare leg was now exposed. The white skin showed new outiines not down tn the works of anatomy which the doctor had ntudied. “A fracture, sure enough,” mused the doctor, and then he fell to wondering what he should do. It was plain that it wan necessary to get the bones back into place and bandaged before swelling began A small crowd gathered, gaping at the aight of a man tn a hallway with his bare leg exposed to public view. The doctor ran his fingers along the lumps and ridges. ‘The pain was exquisite, yet he re- lentlessly dug his fingers Into the white flesh and felt the ragged edges of the bones grate against one another, He grew faint, but fought against the feel- ing and steeled himeclf to further tor- ture, He soon discovered that instead of a almple fracture it was compound. In other words, the bone was broken in two places. Utilines Available Material. “All the more need for haste,” mutter- ed the doctor to himself. His eyes fell upon his umbrella. In an instant he grabbed it up. The sharp scissors ripped the silk from its fastenings and of the Sacred Heart College. The blaze at first did not appear threatening, but the construction of the buildings was such as to make it easy food for the flames, The Sacred Heart lege bullding was a three-story and basement brick building. Flames Spread Quickly. At I o'clock the blaze had reached the convent school building, a three- story brick structure, and the main bullding, Gymnasium Hall, The upper part of this building was of wood, and burned Uke paper. Immediately after the fire communi- cated to the Convent of St. Ann, Just south of Gymnasium Hall, This bulld- ing was of brick, three stories tn helg! It was soon destroyed. It was feared that St, Joseph's Churen, the rear of which ls separated from the burned bulldinga only by a ffteen-foot salley, would be destroyed. At 12.10 Mer. Dugas called up Mayor Mitchell oh the telephone and {mplored him to send for assistance. The Mayor called upon Troy, and the flremen from taat clty materially axsisted In subduing: the flames, FIVE FIREMEN IN GRAVE PERIL Five firemen, perched on a fourth- story fire cape, around which the flames whirled, stayed at thelr post this morning until they conquered the fire in the bullding No, 91 Crosby street. then the doctor cut it into bandage | They turned their backs to the fire, but strips, continued to direct the streams of ‘All thin time the pain in the broken | Water, protecting thelr faces with their helmets. mb was growing more exquisite and the displaced muscles and blood veasels were throbbing Ike a — twin-screw steamer. To the crowd he antd: “L want the assistance of a good, strong man with plenty of nerve.” A volunteer at once stepped forward, “Pleage separate these ribs." sald the doctor, with a sinile, bending over the denuded umbrella, ‘The crowd gaped with wondering eyes. The volunteer son had a little heap of umbrella ribs lying alongalde the doctor. said the doctor, moving over he could brace hin good leg against the door jamb, “I want you to take hold of my ankle and do just as 1 pay.” Preased Into Service. ‘The volunteer nodded assent. “Pull steadily and dtrectly In a line,” said the doctor firmly. Hits face was white, but his volce showed no tremor and his hands were perfectly ateady. When the blaze was finally under con- trol and the men descended to the street thelr overcoats were found to be scorched to cinders and their other gar- ments were burned in places, But the men were uninjured. ‘The building Is a alx-story structure, the three upper Moors being occupied by A. Coh . shirt manufacturer, The low- er floors upled by Solomon Ur- bach & Co., paper and twine; J. Gold- farb, manufacturer of paper boxes, and B. Light & Co, fancy papers. The tlre started In the establishment of A. Cohen, and had been burning some time before Policeman Tralnor, of the Mul- berry street station, amelled the smoke and gave the alarm at Engine House No. %, In Marion street. Chief Croker responded to the first alarm, and !mmediately sent in two ad- ditional alarms, which brought five trucks, Mftecn engines and a water-tow- er. The building extends through to im street, where work on the Rapid Transit subway has closed tramic, no that ‘The volunteer pulled steadily and} \ huge pile of packing boxes, 125 feet strongly, There was a sight grating. | jong, twenty feet high and sixteen or rasping sound as {f some one was slow- | uignteen feet wide, delayed thes work ly breaking a stick. The crowd shud- dered. It was the broken bones slips ping back Into pl Rapidly the doctor's fingers ran over the broken places once again. The throbbing pain was still there, and each finger seemed to be endowed with knife blades, so tender had the fracture be- come, of the firemen for ten minutes. Capt. Walker, of Engine No, 33, and tour of hls men climbed to the Mre- escape at the fourth story, and trom that point vegan playing streams of water Into the bullding. Hardly had they begun work when flames burs from the windows of the four upper storles and the men were surrounded, ‘Their compantons started to their res cue, but Capt. Walker yelled that they were all right, and @ huge stream froma tower Was directed ood on the tron tir nly fought untl! the f Other firemen on the ground played stre: mm the plucky men, and th ‘as x0 waturated with water that they did not ¢ tire. | ‘The total loss will amount to about Keep Up the Tension!’ now," erted Dr. Carr, “Keep ension and don't let go unl f tell you."" ‘The volunteer, a bit chalky around the pa, nodded sturdily. ‘Then the doctor rapidly and wit practiced hands bound the leg with handkerchiefs. He had half a dozen. very doctor has, and these were very handy He tied these about the wounded leg iy $30,000, ‘The inflammable nature of the Contents of the building made the fire burn flercely, and for a tlme neighboring structures were in danger. The dutliiny has been on fire several tlmes in recent until he had a good foundation for his| years, and last winter was almost de- Improvised splint. itroyed. n he lald the umbrella ribs straight sarannuloa\ Giaie up and down the bound Hmb. pancho poesia See ean eiita ne | It ts a algn of the times to tind “Coro- being instituted t of London dis- nation clubs are CO Ge de throughout the bust Splint Works Perfectly, Irlety, The cue has been taken up by som t clot fs and e ‘apers 6 “AML right. Let go gently." The apling | rer Mines “Hye entering at one did ite work perfectly. The broken| punctually paying 6d. or av) per 5 bones were In conjunction and the Hmb| ¢ithe Tan ior, womar oan. snare now . atly. eine arments for weir on Uh tral day was perfectly dressed. At thls momen peg tore evertruy day the clanging gong of an ambulance was] one or two have a provisional rule to fieard and the crowd scattered. the effect shoul member desire to —<$———_—$ withdraw from club, they are at haye the privilege to the amount the; ecribed, but no cael Uberty to do 80, an of securing 00d: have already » will be returned, Succeso invariably follows in the track of the Sundey World Wants. | JUSTICE LAWRENCE ENDS OFFICIAL CAREER TO-DAY. —————_-e+ Retires Full ‘This is the last day of service of Justice Abraham RR, Law- , wao has served on the Supreme Court bench In this elty two full terms — twenty- elght years, and at the age of sixty-nine he retires full of hon- ore and with an un- blemished record, Justice Lawrence !s white of hair and his figure ts neither so fun nor so vigorous as It was, but his eye as bright and hts Hlect as keen as it And that Brent deal to ts In ever was, means lawyers and ltigants of long memories. Justice Lawrence would have been re- tired In another year by the constituttonar age limit, so he pusn- aside the unant- mous nomination and unanimous elect ion en y make way for a younger man.” In Judge's pri- umber, at the of the Court-House, the re- tiring veteran of tne of Honors After a Service of Twenty-eight Years—Two Full Terms. WOMEN HUT FLEEING FRE Aged Tenants Panic Stricken at Tenement-House Blaze. ONE VICTIM IS DYING. But Mrs. Meade Held to the Win- dow Sill Until Firemen Came and Caught Her. Two aged women, panic-stricken by @ raging on the floor below the rooms in which they dwelt in the rear tene- ment at No. 313 Baltic street, Brooklyn, this morning leaped from a two-story window. One of them wae badly bruised and fs Ina dying condition in the Long Island College Hospital. The other wax caught by the firemen and was not seriously hurt, though her injuries are painful, The fire started ut 1.99 o'clock 19 the apartments on first floor, fore merly accupled by Mary Quinn, Ss as been d weeks, but her furniture Mrs. Mary th Mrs, for seve {1 in th sixty y on Meade, tifty-elght » second floor, bene) surrounded mnengthey SealtheWoinecesddece they were driven back by the flames. tease aaa ahere i] Mrs. Murray Jump. to the pavement, were some molat eyes JUSTICE ABRAHAM R, LAWRENCE. _ | 52° fststained a compound fracture of e, right anm, her spine was injured and and husky volces among them as th spoke thelr farewells with the rot! Justice, ‘There are many thead for Justice an ne years of usefulness Lawrence, howev: regrets were mingled with congsatu- lutions, for Justice Lawrence has 4 pted a call to become counsel to th of whieh Jo Title Insurance Company D. Crimmins is President. Tho occasion of the farewell and con- gratulations was taken to let the puotte Into a secret. Last Saturday evening Justice Lawrence was the guest at din- ner of his twenty-seven fellow-Justices: of the First Department, including those sitting In the Appellate Division. TI dinner was celebrated at the Manhattan Club, with Presiding Justice Charles H. Van Brunt, of the Appellate Division, in the chalr, ‘There were many thoughtful speeches, and in behalf of his fellows Justice V: runt presented a large silver loving cup to the retiring Justice, who was pletely unmanned. The inseription on the loving cup was as follows: PRESENTED TO ADRAITAM R. LAWRENCE, For twenty-elght years a Justice of the Supreme Court, as a token of affection by his associate jus- tices of the Supreme Court fn the First District, this 28th day of December, 1901. ‘The Justices pre: Hatch, Edwant Patterson, Morgan J-] x * Was also hurt intern: ly. O'Brien, George L. Ingraham and Che Mrs, Meade crawied £ Mrs. 3 © crawied from the window, ter B. McLaughlin, of the Appellate D1-] but clung to the sill until the arrival of virion, and Justices Charles MH. Truax.|fremen, when her strength out and Charles MacLean, Leonard A. Glex rich, James A. O'Gorman, Henry Bisch- off, jr. John J. Friedman, Philip Henry she dropped. The firemen had no timo to arra a iife net, but they caught her in thelr arms and thus prevented her from peing dangerous.y hi Dugro, John Proctor Clarke, Henry A.| “Forty S ) 5 ‘orty or fifty © ties In Gildersieeve, Francis M. Scott, James |tenemania rushed to the strecte eled ie Fitzgerald, David Leventritt, Miles | “elr night garme The 1 tinguished after it had. Beach and James A. Blanchard, axso- dam: tex of Justice Lavrence tn the Spe- ial and Trial Terms of the Supreme Court. The only abeent Justices were George C. Barrett and George P. Andrews, who re seriously 11, and Justice Frank C Laughlin, who had been catled out of SUFFOCATED IN BARGE CABIN. pt. Teane Hart inyton, of the coal Truax Jo | Prevident of the » Chemung, and his helpers, Anto- tan Club, and by his order and|nio Alvone Stsho ure, Ww tan Club! an his order and | nio Aiton 1 Nicholas Bure, went to sicep last night In the cabin of the barge with the hatchee down tight and a big fire blazing In a coal stove. This morning boatmen on the Jersey n seeing no sign of publicity given to the affair. KEEPS ONE TAMMANY MAN. Low Retains Services of Commi the varge lifted the hatch stoner of Accounts Owen, and found Capt. Harrington dead amt Mayor-elect Low announced thle morn. | lf cTe® unconsctous. “Albone'and Bure ing that he would continue bs hurried tocthe City) sospitals? Jer tomm|ssto Clty, but they cannot 1 a CRANE ON CIGARETTES. of Accounts Owen In office “Mr, Owen entered the fn 1884," sald Mr. Lo and 1 take urse out of deference to the ‘a which he has given to the service of the’ city.” Snys Ita a Suicide and Crime to Mr. Low sald that he will announce new Board of Assessors to-morrow ervice of the joke Them, in a fit in the Ei nene McIntire fell SENATOR SEWELL BURIED AS SOLDIER aT FULL MILITARY HONORS FUNERAL IN CAMDEN. Business Suspended and the Nell Tolled—Noted Men Pall- feurers, CAMDEN, N. Je, Dec. 3.—The funeral, with military honors, of the late United States Senator Willlam Joyce Sewell took place at noon to-day from the Sewell mansion, No. 626 Cooper street. From 10 until 1 o'clock the public was permitted to view the body, and thousands of Camden's residents passed around the bler. ‘The services were conducted by Bishop John Scarborough, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New Jersey, as- sisted by Rov. R. A. Roderick, rector of St. Paul's P. E. Church, of this city. ‘At the conclusion of the services eleht sergeants from the Third Regiment and Battery B, National Guard of New Jer- y, carried ¢he casket to a caisson pro- vided by the War Department, and the 440 proceoted to Harleigh Cemetery, where the burial wae, ‘The pall-bearers were all noted men. Gen. Brooke, of the Army of the East, was in command of the Government troops, and Brig.-Gen. iam He Cooper, of the Second Brignde, was in command of the Btate troop : ‘At the grave @ salute of thirteen guns was fired by a battalion of the Third Regiment. After the reading of the committal services the body was low- ered Into the grave and another salute was fired, Finally the bugle corps of the Third Regiment sounded “Taps.” While the funeral was in progress the City Hall dell was tofled and business was largely suspended, = ———— WITH HIS ARM SHOT OFF. Pistol Orawn with Left Hand and Auenilant Killed. s the result IRONTON, O., Dec. 31 of 2 qvarrel to-day detween Frank ¥ son and his father-in-law, Frank Mon- ning, at the latter's home, three miles front here, Monning shot Wilson’s right arm off with a shotgun. Wilfon drew a er with his left hand and shot killing him instantly. It was several hours before Wilson sevured medie al attention and he will probably dle. ————{—> Omar Khayyam Club Dinner, ‘The annual dinner of the Omar Khay- yam Club, of Brooklyn, the first organi- zation of its kind in this country, will be given to-night at the Reform Cl Aarhatiao, ae ; ad afternoon, when he will also announce . the new chief of the Bureau of Li- | Prisoner's cage at Harlem Court to-day censes, and a physiclan called to attend him SS sald he suffered from over indulgence LOVING CUP FOR SOHMER Ainile A ie stand u are a clgarctte. 1 4 flend? “sald Magistrate Crane when he was arralgned. Employees of County Clerk's OMce that a erlme?” asked McIntire, Make Presentation, rane yee Mao Maken a dey said the Judg a word of it, ck. the prisoner. Well, take tw to think It aver, final comment. ———— STRIKE IN SHOE FACTORY. Ninety-one Men Go Ont at Thomas & Co" William Sohmer, the retiring County Clerk, received a silver loving cup elgh- teen Inches high from his subordinates In the office at noon, The presentation was In room No. 9, where as many of the 100 employees of the County Clerk's office as could crowd In took par.t George Dessoye, who has been a searcher In the record reom a quarter of a century, and through a dozen atd- anapped months on the island was the Magistrate's ministrations, made the presentation speech, Ninety-one of the G® employees of Deputy County Clerk George Fahr-| Thomas & Co., shoe manufacturers of bach, whose friendy were pleased to] Fifth and Hewes streets, Willamsburg, hear that his twenty years of service] kone on a strike. The men say beginning at the bottom, was not to end] they Were able five years ago to earn in dismissal by the new County Clerk, | 85 4 week, while now they can only ob- Thomas L. Hamilton also made a speech | tain a dotlar a day, Work is going om to his retiring at the factory as usual to-day, Opening of Cotton Wash Goods, Thursday, January 2nd, 1902, Exclusive novelties for the coming season, comprising a most complete assortment of new effects in the following fabrics : Embroidered Swiss, Cotton and Silk Grenadines, Swivel Silks, Plain and Embroidered Batiste, Scotch Zephyrs, Bird's-eye Madras, Satin ’A Jour, Swiss Plumetes, Irish Dimities, Mercerized Barége, Canvas and Crash Suitings, Oxford, Percales and Silk Shirtings and Waistings, We are showing inthis department designs, the exe clusiveness of which should appeal very strongly to early buyers of high class novelties. Lord & Taylor, Broadway and 2oth Street. ay