The evening world. Newspaper, July 4, 1902, Page 3

‘ TRAIN WRECKED BY ROTTEN TIES. Three Gars Derailed on the Jersey Central and Seven Persons Injured. @preading rails on ties so rotten that the finger icould be stuck into some ‘of them caused! a wreck on the Long Branch Alvision of the Central Railroad of New Jersey near Tremley station this morn- ing. An engine with a train of three coaches wloughed up the right of way and pulverized tles for 200 feet, when one | of the cars toppled over. Seven persons | were injured, only one, Mary Garossa of No, 18 William street, Bayonne, se- rlously enough to be taken to the hos- pital in Elizaveth. The others were sent to Jersey City by the rallroad company and from there escorted to their homes, ‘That many persons were not killed Is almost minaculous. fortunately the trdin was not crowded and was not running at high speed. Had one of the heavily laden fast excursion trains that passed that point later in the day been faked to strike the rotten section of the roadbed In time to spread the rails the lose of life would hnve been frightful The train left Jersey City at 8.38 o'clock, drawn by a he locomotive of the mogul type. A moment before the accident the engineer got down from his @eat to get a drink of water from | the cooler on the tender. There was a straight two-mile stretoh running through a meadow ahead of him with not an obstruction In sight. “AN a * avid the engineer after the « 1 felt the engine wabble. 1 jumped to the throttle and shut off steam. 1 knew right away we were off the track, When 1 shut off steam 1 looked back out of the window and saw that all the coaches were trailing along en) ne, “We first ad just come to a stop when the coach toppled over. 1 thought ybody in the car was killed, When we jumped the track 1 should judge we were moving along about twenty miles an hour,” ‘The railroad officials who hurried to the acene of the wreck denied that there had been spreading of the rails. To prove it they adjusted a gauge at the point where the engine te said to have loft the track and the gauge registered re Nevertheless, a few feet b ments of rotten tles and pleces of twisted rails showed the scene of the rallment. As the engine and cars A along the roadbed the rails up Uke hoops, An end of one punctured the floor of the second car. ‘ond frag- GIRL COMMITS SUICIDE IN: BETH ISRAEL Annie Shapiro Cuts Her Throat—Mystery as, to How She Got Knife. Annie Shapira, nineteen yearns old, of No. 139 Essox street, a patjent in Beth| Israel Hospital, at Cherry and Jefferson | streets, commitited sulcide in that Inst!-/ tution bl cuttinig her throat from ear to} ear. | Where she got the knife is a mystery. | She did not have it whem she was ad-| mitted to the hospital and no knife like) it was ever usrd in the building. The girl was taken to the hospital from her homeon June 26 suffering from | gastritis, mental derangement and it had been decided to have wher committed to the insane pavilion at Bellevue. hSe was to have been removed in a few days. The noise of exploding firecrackers in the neighborhood appeared to excite the girl to-day, and when she applied for permission to go to the wash-room Annie Friemart, another patient, was’ |sent with her.” No sooner had they entered the room than the Shapiro girl produced the knife and killed herself. Annie Friemart fainted and was found Sha showed signs of slight} lying beside the corpse. THREE PRESIDENTS GROUPED IN BRONZE Lincoln, Garfield andl McKin- ley Shown in Bas-Relief on Y. M. C. A. Memorial Tab- let Unveiled’ To-Day. ‘A bronze tablet commemorating the three martyred Presldents—Lincoln, Garfield. and McKinfley—was unvelled to-day at the West Side {Branch of the Y. M.C. A. The tablet, with a marble slab that forms the base,sis about thre feet square and 1s placed upon the eas! wall of the reading-room on the main: floor, fronting on Fifty-seventh atreet. It is the work of a woman, who sign herself E. 6t. John Matthews, and is a gift to the ¥. M. G A. by Peter Win- chester Rou! ‘The tablet shows the heads of the three martyred Presidents in bas-relief. Below the group there fis a sentiment | expressed by Bishop {Potter, which reads: j “Serene, clear-eyed atid strong, the images of noble souls; in great place modest and unspoiled; in service loyai and unwearled; at home spotless, un- selfish and most. tender; men’s homage and thelr love shall never cease to fol- low them.” Gilbert Colgate presided over the cere- monies, which began at 10 o'clock with prayer by Rey. B. Q. Denham, pastor of the Church off the Disciples of Christ This was followed by the singing of “America,” after which an address was delivered by Marnay Williams, Mr. Williams aid that it was a start- ling thought that, while al the Presi- Gents during the frat three-quarters of the country's century had passed natur- ally to honored, graves, within the short period since then three of our Chief Magistrates should have died by the hand of assassins. ‘The assassination of the first two, sald Mr. Williams, could be more easily explained (aan the last. The passion of civil war would explain the shooting of Presidents Lincoln and Garfield, The circumstances attending the shooting of President McKinle; wever, he de- olared, indicated wrong somewhere, ‘the attention of patriotic men and women.” condiueion of Mr, Williams's rt the two American flags whic elled the tablet were drawn aside Hjmer Geary and the audience arose and joined in singing “The Star- Spangled Banner.” John Nicholson, Jr. one of the direc- tore of the association, made the speech of acceptance. ‘The penediction was pronounced by Rev, Wendell P. Keeler, of the Central Presbyterian Church ROBBER ‘TOOK HER WHEEL. Made Miss Matlin Di tat Pi tol Pout and Rode Away. WINSTED, Conn., July 4.—While rid- ing her bieycle home to Harwinton Tuesday night Miss Inez Catlin was held up at the point of @ revolver by a stranger, who demanded her wheel, The girl immediately dismounted and the man rode away, When Migs Catlin arrived at her home she Was too frightened to relate her ex- perience for some Aittle time. The police of the purrounding towns have failed to find etther man or wh ——$—. — JUDGE KEPT HIS PROMISE. When Justice of the Peace John. WwW. Donegan opened his office at No, 135 Pa- youla avenue, Jereey City, he announced he would give a handsome cs a nde parlor eult of ure twenty-first couple fi hon he, tied the martiage knote nine oR larly Bor tw 5H 'Y weddings he BUGLE CALL BEGAN AN ALL-DAY FTE Many Novel Features in the Fourth of July Celebration at the Bolingbroke Hotel, Bath Beach. nee An all-day fete, with many novel fea- tures, beginning with the sounding of the reveille by the Fort Hamilton bugle corps at 6 A. M., marked the celebration of the Fourth at the Bolingbroke Hotel, Bath Beach, In the morning there was a flag-raising, followed by a hotly contested tennis tournament. In the afternoon there were aquatic sports and ladies’ games. At luncheon all the patrons of the hotel received pretty souvenirs of the day from Mrs, Gesine Lemcke. For the evening a fireworks exhibition is planned, to be followed by a ball, the music for which will be provided by Oehl's orchestra Among those participating In the all- day fete are: Mr, and Mrs. A. H. Aikman, Mr. and Mm. H. Aikman, M. W. Alkman, Misses D. and M. Alkman, Master Edgerton, Mr. and Mrs, D. A. Lowber, Mr. and Mrs. O. (1H. Kean, Mr. and Mrs. Rich, Mr. and Mrs. Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. C. Lembcke, Misses F, and C, Mayer, Mr, and Mrs. Pope, Miss Pope, Bentley Pope, Btanley Pope, Mr, and Mrs. C, A. Thel- ler, Mr, and Mrs. F. Euler, Mr, C. B. Ludwig, Mr. and Mre. E. Block, Mr. and Mrs. Henri Jacquelin, Miss A. Jacquelin, Mr Warmock. Mr. Warwick, Dr. and Mrs. Rockwell. Mr. and Mrs, C. J. Sullivan, Miss Grace Rockwell, Misees E. and L. Rock- well, Mr. G. A. Lembeke, Mrs, Hamil- ton, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Undenhill, Mr. H. Underhill, Mr. and Mrs. Fogel, Miss Fogel, Mr. C. Beckman, Miss M. Kriets, Mr. and Mra. C. A, Burr, Mr, and Mrs. P. Kraus, Mr. Mercereau, Mr. and Mrs, Coleman, Mr. and Mrs, Dunileve, Mr. and Mrs. J. Kapp, Misses F. and C. Kapp, Mr. and Mrs, C, Barkhausen, the (Messrs, Kapp, Mr. and Mrs. Charlies L. Burr, Mr. and Mrs. William Thomson, Mr. and Mrs, Allen, Mr. and Mra, Theodore Taylor, Master Winthrop ‘Taylor, Mr. Ewing Speed and Mr. A. L. Wisner, behind, off the track further than the HOSPITAL. ‘ROBBERY STORY A DEE | That Some One Might Get Much Desi | lieved his cleints were the victims of a conspiracy; that through a desire to gain notoriety some one had caused \ them to be falsely accused. “ Mr. Rockmore added that he had evi- dence which would show that the Jewels were placed in Mrs. Richman’s trunk and that she was then accused of the theft, not particularly that there was any enmity to her, but that she was used as the means by which great publicity could be secured “Mr, and Mrs. Richman will see their children to-day, and start Rg evening for a trip West,” said Mr. jockmore. “They want to forget all about their distressing experience. Regarding what transpired at Watertown, I want to say Mr. and Mrs. Louis Richman, who were accweed by Dr. and Mrs. Walter Delaharre of stealing a $25,000 pearl nec’ jace and $437 at the Crossman House, Thousand Islands, und who are under 110,00 ball to answer the charge, re- turned to the city at 7.35 o'clock this |Lawyer Declares for Them that the Whole Affair Was a Plot Laid So| DISBROW CASE? SRP ISTE OE TE ING, TULY 4, 1 an CONSPIRACY. red Notoriety. Accused Man Is_ Ex- pected to Tell of Re- markable Death Agreement. REASONS FOR THEORY. Defense May Be that Prisoner, Clarence Foster and Miss Lawrence All Meant to Dic on Fatal Night. GOOD GROUND, L. 1, July 4 Will Louls Disbrow go on the wit-/ neas stand and tell of a triple suicide | pect entered into by himself, Clar-! ens? Foster and “Dimple” L*~ -xce?; His attorney practically admitted | to-day that sulclde would be the main point of his defense. “It is my the-/ '*he said, “that “+ | committed suicide out of remorse on account of their Teles ory “38 Lawrence | Uons.” | Mr. Miles would not outline his | plan of defense, but his statement | makes it very clear what line he is | \inclined to follow. A triple suicide | story could be easily built up on Miss, Pearsall's testimony. After the quar- [rel in Diabrow's room she hearé Fos- | ter say, “If I get a boat will you go/ with us Disbrow answered, “Yes. “And you will meet me at the) wharf?” sald Foster. Again D!strow replied affirmatively. Five minutes later “Dimple Law- rence's voice was heard down on the/ HOMEY 5 | the money is incorrect. Eight thousand | one hundred dollars cash was deposited in Watertown by telegraph by Mr, Richman‘’s friends here, and I supplied | the rest SUICIDE PACT IN Mutual Reserve life Insurance Conan 4 MUTUAL RESERVE BUILDING, CHARITABLE CHILDREN iFairs and Other Entertainments Held for NEW YORK CITY. FREDERICK A. BURNHAM, President. GEO. D. ELDRIDGE, Vice-Pres. and Actuary. State of New York INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. Albany, April i7th, 1902. T, FRANCIS HENDRICKS, Superintendent of Insurance, Do Hereby Certify, that the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Association, now Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company, of the City of New York, has complied with all the ree gu.renents of jaw to be observed by such corporation on reineorpcration, and that it is authorized to transact the bus ness of Life Insurance as specified in the First Sube Division of Section Seventy of Article II. of the Insurance Lawwithn this State,and that such business can properly be entrusted to it, In Witness Whereof, J have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused my Official Seal to be affixed [1.s.] in duplicate, at the City of Albany, on the day and year first above written, FRANCIS HENDRICKS, Superintendent of Insurance, Surp'us over all Liabilities, June 30, 1902, over $500,000 Gain in Paid Membership, First Six Months of 1902, 4,000 Gain in Paid Assurance, First Six Months of 1902, over $2,500,000 Gain in Surplus, First Six Months of 1902, over $50,000 Total Death Claims Paid Since Organization, over $50,000,000 4 S| 4 HELP THE SICK BABIES. The Evening World’s Fund. morning. They went from the station to the Grand Central Hotel for break- fast. F The Richmans refused to discuss thelr experience, but delegated their son-in- law, Dayid W. Rockmore, an attorney of this city, who had gone to Water- town, N. Y., to defend them, to present their side of the case. Lawyer Rockmore said that he be- first that I had Mr. and Mrs. Richman walve preliminary examinations because | This woman who says she was robbed the Magistrate before whom they were arraigned was a groceryman and held court in the back room of his grocery store. I didn't want anything with the kind of law he could hand out I made no objection to the amount of ball, and the story that I went around trying to pawn their Jewelry to raire|| to do| The Fourth of July began early to DEVERY'S PUMP CROWD. STARTS A $50,000 FIRE, Two Persons Are Rescued at Great Risk by Policemen and Gang Fights Firemen. covered it. He sent in an alarm, make {ts record good for fires, and by] Then he heard a shril cry for help daybreak the one hundred and twen-| coming from the building, and run- ty-sixth anniversary of the fire- cracker and the toy pistol bid fair to be a record-breaker. The first fire of the day caused three alarms and made charcoal of a planing mill at the corner of Eighth avenue and Twenty-eighth street. It also gave an opportunity for a typical exhibition of uneelfish bray- ery by firemen and police, and in- cidentally nearly caused a riot at “Devery's Pump. The blaze was one of the incidents of a celebration at the “Pump.” Last St. Patrick’s Day some one painted the water butt known as “Devery's Pump" a verdant green, with two golden harps emblazoned on it. Last night, in recognition of another American festival, the hydrant was painted 1:d, white and blue, and was festooned with garlands of smilax, roses and carnations, and the neigh- borhood had a rousing celebration around it. There were crackers and fireworks, and one of the skyrockets fell on the roof of John Crawford's carpenter shop and planing mill and set it on fire. The mill occupies the five-story building Nos, 266 and 268 West Twenty-eighth street and a three-story tenement-house, No, 257 West Twenty-seventh street, is in the rear. The fire had got a good start on the roof of this extension, hidden by the taller buildings, when Roundsman Martin Reagan, of the West Twentie.n street station, dis- ning into a narrow alley on the Twenty-seventh street side he traced the cry to the third floor, where Jo- seph Chaffee, a watchman, sixty-five years old, had been awakened by the suffocating smoke to find himself penned in by the fire and smoke. Reagan got to him by dropping from the roof of the next building, and by that tlme Chaffee had fallen uncon- scious by the window, He Is a little old man and Reagan gathered him up in his arms and clambering out on the fire-escape began to descend At the second floor he found no ladder, but nothing daunted he tightened his grasp on his burden, and working his way through the well in the fire-escape bal. coay until he was down to his shoulders freed , himself dropped to the ground. It proved to be only a five-foot drop, but the roundsman was ready to collapse from exhaustion and the fects of the smoke. by fellow-policemen, but it t minutes’ hard work to res to. consciousness, Meantime Patrolman Cornelius O'Don- nell was engaged in driving the tenants out of the Twenty-seventh street houses, and he came upon Mrs. Annie Simon, wixty-eight years old and help- leas from paralyais, sitting in a chalr hy a window on the second floor of No. Fri and walling and gasping for breath ‘The house was full of stitting amoke O'Donnell and Patrolman Brennan car- ried the helpless woman down to safety through the smoke. The first company to reach the scene was Engine No, 34. The patriots still surrounded the “pump,"’ and when “Dhirty-four" essayed to attach a hose to the hydrant the crowd remonstrated, and a free fight was only averted by the @ppearance of the police reserves. Bul when the pipe was attached elier# tried to rush the firemen remove the coupler, but the man the butt turned on the water and t erowd got a drenching and retired pre- cipitately. ‘The los was $50,000 e Chaffee the rev- and at DRUGGIST'S MONEY AND CLERK GONE. Henry Sheppe Returned to His Place to Find Store Full of Customers and Cash Drawer Empty. William Walsh, a soda-fountain clerk, is being sought by the police of the Weat Sixty-eighth street station, Henry Bheppe, a druggist at No, 107 West Sev- enty-fifth street, employed Walsh three weeks ago and put bim in charge of the soda fountain, Beppe tett Walsh tn charge of the store Wednesday after- noon and when he returned the clerk had gone and the store was filed with waiting for somebody to at , ane atiwetlon Abamed, that. the cash rawer Was sho! w ©} id in it, that several aciiare earth ry a eres SOUND STEAMER TOWED TO PORT. | Massachusetts with 650 Pas- ngers on Board Disabled While on Her Way Here from Providence. NEW LONDON, Conn., July 4—The big steamer Massachusetis, owned by the New York, New Haven and Hart ford Railroad, was dam, to he ex tent of several dollers to-day by the breaking of « waiking-beam strap off Bartlett's Island Reef. ‘The steamer was towed to this port ‘by the meamer Fall River, and her 690 Passengers sent by train to New York. ‘The Massachusetts was on ‘her way from Providence to New York pa ‘Business success depends upon en: erey, ability--and Sunday World Wants, THE YACHT LUCILE ASHORE IN BAY. Boat Built for G. W. Vander- bilt Runs on Reef Off Gov- ernor's Island—Seems Badly Damaged. ‘Dhe revenue cutter Manhattan report ed to-day that the steam yacht Lucile was ashore off Governor's Jalan man and woman, ap Yacht, were seen walking along the roa Wall towards the island, A nea wall ies about three a mile off the southeast sh island, and the space behind it Is bs filled with rock. There Is a reef 1 the outer wall, and just invide of it It is on this reef that the Lucile ran, Apparently, | She must have struck about high de and as the tide w Qut she wae left nearly out of | water Bhe appeared to be badly damaged According to the Yachting Regt the Lucile was built by the Herr At Bristol 1 1864, for George W. Vandel Wit. She ls a steam vessel, with an @uailiary achooner rig, Her grows ton- C. 5, FAIRCHILD PENNED IN A CAR. Brakeman Had to Cut Door of Stateroom of Ex-Secre- tary of Treasury After a Curious Accident. SYRACUSE, Y¥., July 4.—While sleeping cars of New York Central train No, 87, west-bound, were being pushed up grade from Albany this morning they \mounted a frog. The engineer on the forward locomotive put on the brakes. The engine in the rear continued at work, and as @ result the sleeping cars almost went over an embankment Former Secretary of the Treasury Charles 8. ‘Fairchild was in a astate- room of one of the sleepers and the door was so jammed that he wan released only by cutting down the door with an axé, No one Was seriously hurt to them the enormity of their offense? Did he indicate—even go so far ae to urge—sulcide as the only refuge from the consequences of their folly? Des- perately in love with the erring girl, heartbroken by her abandonment of him for his rival, did he agree to die with them? These are the plausible details of the triple suicide pact dwelt on to- day by those to whom Attorney Miles hes indicated that the suicide of the erring lovers will be his defensa to the charge that his client was guilty’ of their death. pi w to Ue o It Is no longer doubted here that Louis Disbrow will go on the witness stand and explain his connection with the death of his companions, §o0 strong ! the web of incriminating evidence wov- en about him by the State that only an explanation from his own Ups can stem the current of conviction of his gullt. ‘The diMculty of subrtantiating the eul- cide agreement will le in the necessity of Disbrow's explaining how he failed to carry out bis part of the pact, his contradictory stories after the drowning and his fight with Foster on the beach Hot weather has set in In earnest and has brought many cases of {iIneas to the children of the poor. The Evening World Sick Babies’ Fund doctors are kept busy day and night. ‘The work of tho fund ts generously | neiped on by boys and girls who devote | time and energy to raising money for this noble cause. Among these, six little ‘West New Brighton giris—Alice, Dalsy and Kittle Powers and Queenie, Aggie [and Edith McNichol—have sent in $15, the proceeds of a fair. Here {s a report from one of the fund's doctors which shows what good ts done and how much it is needed: | “On the top floor of a tenement in | Lewis street I found a middle-aged man | anxiously watching over a baby, which | seemed to be very ill. The baby had summer complaint, the man said, and had been {ll about two weeks, He had pent his last cent for medicine, but nothing seemed to do her any good. He added that as he himself could find no | work he had been staying at home and | taking care of wae baby in order to allow his wife te go out washing for neighbors. Otherwise the whole family Robbery a “Plant.” lawn. “What did Louis say? Is he| THE SUBSCRIPTIONS. would have been starving. Upon inquire “This whole robbery story is. ‘plant’ | coming? she asked. And when Dis-| a oweaged ing about the baby's illness I foundi + brow joined them the last words heard | palsy, Alice and Kittle Po 15.00 | that It was a case in which medicine had her picture sent down to the New| as the trio walked toward the water nie en eat jiarria, |, '3.03| Could do little good. They had been in York papers and 18 very pleased by the| were “You won't back out?" re the habit of feeding the baby every time’ notorteiy . ‘The excuse for Foster and the girl) AAS US {t orled, and thereby had aggravated @ “My theory is that the necklace was! wanting to kill themselves was given | can Deans ae + $48} trouble originally mild. I assured the! thrown into the Richmans’ room in the| by Will Walton, who repeated Dis-| Melville 1. Wolff, Flord Cornell. 2.) father that he could do the baby most darkness from the veranda while they | brow'a confession of the relations be- | Coseas wttley ene Lal Career 2.00 | Sood by feeding it less often, aot oftener Wan. HU dane Gininerroowa, ib 7/ tween the bayman and the young girl. | Jay Lindsey, Dorouny Stern, Ma Avy thea once in two hours. At the same toriety.”” : ¥ fond of No) rhis tact will be further confirmed | .00l7 woa’ eran Bernateln 36) At evo Bien # Supply of soothing when the proprietor of the Ternell | sammie Meadow 148 | the aid and comfort storied aint ay Oho i ina’ saney ‘ Blok Baby gmtort, afforded him by the House gives his testimony. Lisuiaa Klein, Dorothy Schoepe, Syivia jee apna ana eee Was {t Louis Disbrow who pointed out | “Hart ONE stamtern thee ther reaantlons should be addresced to Building, New York City. ba A Fifteen Dollar Fatr, Incloned ‘please find check for $15, t New Brighton, 8. 1, om 1 for the bet ick’ Babies’ Fund, dren (the eldest bel; following we toon years of age): Dalay Powers, See Niohol, Alice Powers, Queenie McNichol, Kittle Powers and ith McNiehol. Hoping at thle money will be of some assistance In your good work in bebalf of the little ones who may be. In need, aincerely yours, Daisy Powers, Queenie McNichol, Aggie McNichol, Kitty Powers, Alice Powers, Edith McNichol. Collected at = Stand. 4 for the beneft of Melville L. Wolt Floy4 Cornell, From Pa Incloved tnd 42, whieh was earned by Raving a talr, ‘This money ls for the Sick Bables Lalu Gardiner, Ret de Rourllle, Passaic, N. J. $1.25 from West 110th St. 2 Inclosed you will find $1.25, which we took in at our stand, corner Seventh avenue and One Hundred and Nineteenth street, on June 30, tor the sick babies Sidney Bernstein, aged olght years, Frank Bernsteinn, aged five year. No. 159 West 119th street. THREE DETECTIVES KILLED BY TRAIN, While Searching for Car-Rob- bers Rallroad Employees Are Ground to Pieces in| New Jersey Central Yard. | Three detectives of the Central Rallroad of New Jersey were ground| to pieces by a fast train early this morning just outside of Jersey City | while walking on the tracks search-| ing for car robbers. The men were Robert E. Smith, | twenty-five years old, of No. 175 Pine street; John Cosgrove, thirty-five years old, of No. 86 Philip street, and W. J. Hanson, twenty-seven years old, of No. 335 Whiton street, in the Lafayette section of J: rey City Many robberies have be reported re. cently wong tae Jersey Central lines between Jersey City and Claremont The three detectives were detalied to watcn and try to catch the thieves. The three were seon together at 2 oclock near Claremont A track walker podiew at found their the side of the track half way to Jer sey Clty just before & o'clock Beyent: fast freight and passenger trains had run in each direction between 2 and 4 o'clock, and it Is mupponed the men were surprised and run down in the darkness i The bodies were mangled almost b yond recognition, Hanson had been hurled from the tracks, and his head the neck In the sand ballast a \th's lege and arms and hy ed frum hile body, and Cosgro’ 0 feet 9 feet, her 9; length over all Wf feet; beam: a Adame street. OM | Chempeake 4 draught 2| 1 GAS EXPLOSION SHOCKS WORKMEN, Pieces in Midst of Gang—| “L" Road Structure Dam-, aged by Flying Iron. A crowd of workmen laying the con- dults for the electric power cables for the Eighth etreet crosstown railway at Highth rowly escaped serious Injury to-day by the blowing up of a manhole cover in the centre of the excavation Lenking gas gathered in one of the subways of the Edison Electrical Com- pany'’s mains and was fgnited by a spark The iron cover, two inches thick, was blown to pleces, and big chunks hurled | among the men. All felt the shock, it none was struck. At especially large piece blown straight up in the alr wrecked a four foot section of one of the road kirders supporting the north atatt ‘The explosion caused something of a panic ———— SHIPPING NEWS. ALMANAC FOR TO-DAY 4.33 Gun wets 754 Moon riage im TIDES B46 fun ri High Water AM PM Sandy Hook eu 64 Iaiand 66 Tn Ferry Aas 94 PORT OF NEW YORK, ARRIVED. ‘artar Prince ope Housatonic was recently bought by . — Franklin, Haines, who has oMces at No. OUTGOING STEAMSHIPS, I Broadway, Her gew. owner and | SAILBD TX):DAY Toembera of his family were taking thelr | cettie, Liverpoo! Ble Grade, Sratavien first kip on the yacht when she came | grengense, Pare. Jamestown, Norfolk to grle | = —————— Pie Karly Fires in Newark, | INCOMING STR MANIPS NEWARK, N. J. July &—Firee 4 i ers had caused $1,600 worth of da Binet reese me Leta. ogee! Ha Gna net fire to tWo houses in this city | Peatneviars Usbon Arapsboe, 3 before 11 o'clock to-day. ‘The Diakes| Alamo, Gelveeton, — Sadtiegs, 1 Vere at No. 877 Ogden atreet and No, 13! Ga ‘ul Kepernnsa, Havana Tedradevi, Glasgow. ROAD THUGS TAKEN AFTER HOT FIGHT. Had Been Holding Up Drivers Arrested. at Pistol Point—Brave Policemen. | | | speciat to The Broning Worle.) NEWARK, N. J., July 4,.—Two of the ly locked in the County Jat ‘The arrests afforded a fin bravery on the part of Polle Lovett and James Farrell | Precinct The officers went after the robbers, penetrating 4 dense wood on the Wav- ériey. road, and after a hot fight se | cured the: Three other arrests are reported from | Jersey City. and It is thougat the whole | kang has rounded up. Not satianed with (ne results of their of rdvy oy whica they got ; ee, the thugs resumed work last night Frank Drostal, of No. 4 Howard str and John Kiersted, of No 406 N Street, were driving in a buggy whe the two men fe roadslc and shouted tc woup their he men lashed 0 nplying horses and esa, ord sent to the Pre. vett and Farrel! to. ene. While searching Farrell sud: stumbled upon a man and had hi in the stranger's mouth before he make a mov dark that the podceman coult He overpowered his m doapera fight, while Lovett other to a standstill oners said they were Fi | Johneon, » eas. and Alex Z man. of No. 6 Bast One Hundred et, New York Johnson \s fact that a negro figured hold made th rely after @ fought the The pris the easy DIED AFTER A DUCKING. |¥ireman W ved from Drown iag-Eapired While Watkin Daniel Graham, a steamship firemac. fel! overboard at the foot of Bast One Hundred and Twenty-third street day and was rescued by two policemen of the Meamboat squad. Later Graham | THUGS DRAG THEIR three highwaymen who held high carni- | strect and Sixth avenue nar-| vai in Newark and the suburbs are safe-|h» was about to step aboard a Third identitestion | 1 VICTIM FROM CAR. | Manhole Cover Blown to!Two of Newark Gang Who! Uptown Man While Getting Aboard Is Pulled to Street | and Robbed—Policeman ls | Also Attacked. | Rudolph Lomberg, an upholsterer, of So. 1849 Lexington avenue, was brutally beaten and robbed of #0 early to-day as avenue surface car at Thirty-fourth street Just before he was attacked he had separated from several friends, with | whom he had attended a jollification of the Leran Singing Society, at No. @ Lexington avenue. | Lomberg had his foot on the runnings | board of t r, when four men stande ing on the curb made a dash at him, dragged him to the pavement and then pommetied and kicked him. The attack was #0 sudden that Lome rg had no chance to make an outcry, "thugs had got $0 from his pockgt and were running away, when Police- man Eoxler, of the East Thirty-ftch street station, who was wear by, mane aged to catch of the men. The prisoner knocked Eckler down and gos awa regained his feet, and again caught % encaped. the prisoner sald thirty-one yeare 0 ast Forty-ninth street. Lomberg was so badly injured that had to be taken to Bellevue Hospital, O'Neil, w is uumbered 5,57 in the was tld In $1,000 ball Struck Him on Rock in a F nn Montezerder, fourteen years @ld, {No 10) West Third street, in @ aght today with Herb Beleronl, twenty> two years old, of No. 189 Sullivan street, struck him on the head with # peck, went to lege Point, L. I, and was walkin, fe Firat street, when he was taken fi He died before the arrival of lap tracturing ie skull, Seleront was taken to @t Vincente Hosp!tal and Montenender was arrentedy,.