The evening world. Newspaper, May 5, 1902, Page 3

MAFIA SLAYS TS DICTATOR. DiconzaHad Awakened Enmity in Secret So- cieties and Vendetta) Was Revived to Kill. SHOT witiwrneburg Poiitical Lead- er’s Two Assassins Do Their Work Quietly and Readily Escaped. Franciaco Diconza, a political trader among the naturalized Itallans of the Willlamaburg district of Brooklyn and Prominent In the affairs of Italian se- cret socleties, was shot and killed from ambush near his home at No. 640 Driggs Avenue at midnight, Tho two assassins escaped. ‘The murder ts believed to have deen | the result of a plot to do away with | nim for secret reasons. tlon the Mafia, Other than that Diconga was possibly | tho victim of enomies the motive for the murder ts a mystery Diconza was so thoroughly Intereated In political affairs of the Italian se was not co come to provide @illdren In politics he was generally a Demo- erat, boing able to throw a large Italian t each election, ' In bia secret affaira he no know mpelled to work. well for his wife and three him best say. And gay that during the last year they haye been warned of the re- juyenation of the Matia, which had been dormaat for a long time. Tyt the im- portation of thousands of Itallans from Sicily and southern Italy, many of Whom had been prominent In the coun- cils of the original Mafla Society in an home, had revived It. ral of the Itallans who have landed at Willa urg in the last year are so prominent in that the Italian them, st_two or three months 1 many meetings of the Mafla, Which does not go nore, and in some # ‘lt 1s sald that and that dis- es years old, Metropolitan ave: ate this morning trying to escape (was made who had ed to kill Hicohenvanantiacine nea nave fight him yesterday HURLED INTO R. T. TUNNEL. Remtaurant lives at ee, was ar tm Newark as ty ima street ear Man Was Trying to Noard Car When Foot Caught. George Millen, fifty years old, a res xth avenue, attempted to hue car at 8! way this morning, when t 1 Hillen Foner tunnel exca of the FIRE ON MOHAWK: $/3,000 DAMAGE. Blaze on Big Freighter at Her Pier in New London Was Quickly Subdued by the Fire Department, -_ SHIPPING NEWs ee ed FROM AMBUSH. | The police men- | in the business socteties that he | His in- | those sources was sumMictent | was a dictator, so! land rear we Suffocation caused the death of a woman and a man in a fire in the factory of the Eureka Bedding Com- pany, at No. 304 Pearl street, this morning. Four other women were badly injured by jumping from an upper floor, and many others had narrow escapes. The Eureka Company's establishment 1s four stories high and was packed with inflammable material. Although there {a no certainty about the origin of the fire it 1s believed that it started ‘on the ground floor in a stock of stair pads, which are made of cotton and cheesecloth and are as susceptible to fire as gunpowder. There were twenty girls, five boys and three men employed in the building, Of these all but seven worked on the ground floor. There were four girls at work on the top floor and three girls and one man on the third floor. Their Excape Cut Of. No warning reached those on the upper floors until the flames had cut off escape by way of the staircases, Eugene Kassler, passing through the hall on the second floor, found fire swirling up the well formed by the He ran up and sounded the the upper floors were no. fire-escapes 0 uilding, but near windows in the f patent 4 h are supposed of the emple of these r fear p for none of the en tempt to use them THE AER. DEAD IDENTIFIED. Bodies of Woman and Two Men Who Met Death by Drowning Recognized at the Morgue. know? — VEIORAN BLUEODAT DEAL Vedionmen Piewing, #9 denne te " be 1 Webecsete @hewes mie ESCAPE CUT OFF, TWO DIE | OF SUFFOCATION AT FIRE. Man and Woman Lose Their Lives in Eureka Bedding Factory—Com- plaint Made About Appliances for Escape. extension and assisted women out of | had the fire come upon them that they FIGHTING FIRE AT EUREKA BEDDING FACTORY. was given of the fire, The first she and two other girls at work in a room knew floor got out through rear entrances, those on the upper floors jumped. There is a one-story extension in the rear of the factory building running back of No, 44 Water street, It waa to the roof of this ension that the fenr-stricken employees leaped. One of the first on the scene of the fire was Albert Rogers, foreman for the hallways were all on fir the third floor attempted te the elevator shaft, as escape up or down the stairs cut off, but the ele- vator man, wh at the ground oor, persuaded h an his car up Hinsdale & Rogers, at No. 22 Water] and took h floor, from street. He climbed to the roof of the] which he to the roof and thence to an adjoining bullding, Way of escape by the roof was open to all of the employees, but beyond these two none eeemed to think of It John Bokorney, of No, 966 Bust One Hundred and Stxty-firat street, foreman of the factory, sald that in his opinion the fire was caused by @ mateh on the floor. “T heard a snap," said Bokorney, “lke that of a parlor match. There was a spark on the floor near the foot of a boy who was pulling cotton, and the Inext thing I knew the whole place was asn't time for us to We had the windows on the second floor, where the fire was flercest. In doing this he was slightly burned. Pthel McGrath, of No, 41 East Seven- teenth street, was the first to jump from the top floor. She remained in the butiding until her clothes caught fire and were frightfully burned, She was taken to Hudson Street Hospital Two Women Saffocated. Emma Boltcker, of Winfleld, L. I, and John Lynch, of No. 14 Goerck street, were suffocated on the second floor, where their bodies were found after the flames were extinguished, So suddenly those above. had no time to make their way to the windows. Katie Wadsworth, of No. third floor, Jumped to the ro third floor, jgmped to the ro extension, failing In such a way injure herself seriously of No. 784 Fouth Ho Mantel, of F and May Howard, of No. 1 | butte Brooklyn, leaped from the top floor af-| th tor Ethel McGrath took her plunge. 1. but none serlously owntowa, intense of the smoklest fires in district onthe and exoiteme | From a dis cr three olty May The absence 1871 Atian- of the of the as to from the ecution of Martsi sald that “TELS OF STRANGE 0 IMPALED ou MIDSEA TRAGEDY. IRON PICKET FENCE Saw a Wave-|Ten-Year-Old Richard Well- man Likely to Die from In- juries Received While Play- roing The Pontiac Racked Blazing Schooner) Whose Fate Is Shrouded in Mystery. ing Tag at School, Hrinwing # tale of @ myster ous trae |W aa than hood saree Hirits 5 ‘ morning trom! y r 1 i ne thee ' morning of A 1 ‘ ‘ ' with a der , “ 1 8) Marve Ht n ——— ee —- ---- --- oo f . basw't seratche! yor! fs Bo u ov me Lime oo emer rt C4408 ON HoLines De ee eanator women, Wome CL, ee ‘ So New York Doctors Advise. ; Quaker ats Better ESPECIALLY FOR SUMMER. 1 Dr, Cyrus Edson say: of meat.’ Dr. George FP. Shrady s without it.” Dr. Wilde says: “Live on cereals and fruits, and learn how to live and enjoy lite.” Dr. Felix L. Oswald says: “‘The strongest men of the world do not eat meat.” Prof. H. W. Wiley, Chief Chemist of Department of | | Agriculture, Washington, says: ‘‘Men nourished on cereals | | are capable of the hardest and most enduring manual labor.” If you keep meat off your breakfast table you can | work better, play better, and sleep better. Quaker Oats is the logical substitute for meats— which has in one package, at a cost of 10 cents, more nutriment than a piece of meat that costs $1.00. Made only from the choicest grain, manufactured and packed with the greatest care—Nothing left un- done to insure its absolute purity. : “Other foods will take theiplace: says: ‘Man can readily live