The evening world. Newspaper, August 6, 1902, Page 5

DYING BOY SENT FOR MOTHER AND PRIEST His Leg Cut Off by Train He Showed Courage to the Last and Remembered Injunction of His Parent. ‘Caesar Perrier, eleven, of No, 237 East fwenty-sixth street, Manhattan, died in St. John’s Hospital, Yonkers, as a result of having his left leg cut off by the wheels of a freight train on which he was stealing a ride. The accident ocourred near the Ash- burton avenue crossing. When the boy reached the hospital the doctors covered his eyes so he could not “to his leg while it was but he took it was use gone. He gave bis name and asked that his mother be sent for. ne ‘if he met with an accident when a from home to send for a priest. cordingly, Father Brady came and mained with the boy to the end, Th lad's mother also arrived in time to s him before he died. ‘The boy sald he boarded the train to take a ride of a few blocks, but it did not stop and he was finally jolted off. GETS HER FORTUNE THROUGH 7 DEATHS Referee Awards Farmer’s Wife $200,000 Trust Fund Left by the Late Senator Mc- Pherson. . Through the death of seve more direct line to inherit fund created in 1896 by the late Senator McPherson, Mrs. Anna W. Low, thirty years old, who lives on a farm with her husband in ,Flowerville. Livingston County, this State, has become the sole heir to this fortune, according to the decision of Referee State Senator Henry Marshall. It appears that the late Senator was born on a farm in Livingston County, N. Y., and had three brothers and one sister. After the civil war he became @ resident of New Jersey. Two brothers and his sister died. In 1893 his brother, Daniel, died and his widow did not sur- vive him long. Mrs. Low was their child, The iricome of the trust fund left with the Union Trust Company, accord- ing to the original will, was to be paid to Senator McPherson's daughter, Mrs, Ella Muir, during her lifetime, and at her death’ to her issue, if any, If no issue it was to be paid to his gon, Greg-| ory, who died before bis father. Mrs. Muir died last year after vain efforts to break her father's will. Under the laws of New Jersey the fund goes to Mrs. Low es the only heir, THREE SHOT IN FIGHT FOR PEPPERS. Question as to Who Had a Right to Those in Rear of Italian Tenement Caused a Fusillade of Bullets, persons In trust There was something of a panic in the “Little Italy” of the Bronx last night when a number of tenants in a big five-story tenement-house at One Hundred and Highty-third street and Jerome avenue got into a quarrel as to who should and who should nor gather reen and red peppers from a garden in the rear of the flat-house. were drawn and a fusiliade of shots were fired. It all wound up by three persons going to the Fordham Hospital with bullet wounds, and two brothers ing locked up in the Yremont police big _flat-hous: Italian families. In thi house is a vacant lot in which 1s a sort of @ co-operative garden. Genaro Fonsa Mves on the second floor with hls fam- fy. On the floor wbove live Alexander, in and Louls Monce with a sister-In- ie Christina Asraie, trousekeeper, F eT A he "hada right te and green peppers In the rden in the rear, but the Monca Been told fo Keep Xt ot wo kardes, but n to p out of the but @id not heed the warnin ea Last evening he went out in the lot was lve twenty rear of the athering some vegetables jonoa brothers spied him. ordered him to leave, He refused 6o. Then one of them fired a phot He retaliated, and then there was a volley of revolver shots, eight being. fired in all. When {t was over Christing Agrella had a bad wound in the groin; John nca was shot the left leg end Genaro Fonsa wed a policeman where a bullet had ploughed Its way through his scalp. Ail three were taken to the hospital, axacKer end Louls Monca were to do at Ponsa, lex was | and address Revolvers | | own eyes. Shere Waises ne I5e Values up to $1.90. The prices are amazingly low. Gxtraordinary [4,750 Yhomen’s Shirt Maists at Less than Cost to Wanufacture. Absolutely the Most Important Waist Transaction It is not necessary to weary you with details. on sale to-morrow at prices certain to create a great sensation. Purchas of the Entire Year I thousands of Waists ers in the business. Shere Waises ae LAS Values up to $3.50. Shirt Waises we 1,25 Values up to $2.75. T is a Sale which com- prises thousands upon highest character from one of the foremost manufactur- ec and Sale. ze STORE ve of Shirt Wacses 1635 Values up to $4.50. It is just the sort of sale thousands of women hurry to and purchase with delighted eagerness. Not a Waist in this entire vast assembly has been in the store more than long enough to price and assort for this sale. ‘The far-seeing woman who wants a new supply of waists to replace those mussed or worn by vacation outings and hot, trying days in town, will find in this a supremely excellent opportunity to buy to better advantage than she ever did before. The quantity is so enormous that it is wholly impossible to give any specific description of the various fascinating 7 © groups other than to say that there are more than 60 different styles, revealing the most fashionable | and charming of effects and swagger novelties. | These also include Waists made with elbow sleeves and low necks in various filmy materials and embellished with Imported Swisses, Val. Laces, Hemstitching, Tucking, Insertion and practically every other imaginable form of ornamentation. Not a detail is lacking. Every Waist is of the best description. | fulness, beauty and unquestionable excellence of workmanship. It Is a Sale Which Offers You Waist Values Which Nay It is distinguish Yever Again Be Eguatted Anywhere. “FAKE” SUICIDE NEW WAY | TO GAIN STAGE CAREER. | Grace Raymond, Who Wanted to Be an Actress, Planned New Deception. { Grace Raymond, elocutionist, imagined that her only chance to get on the stage would be to break into print. Suicide occurred ‘to her as an open-sesame to newspaper noterfety, Not actual sul- cide, of course, but a carefully prepared story of suicide which would be accepted as gospel truth by the newsgatherers. Miss Raymond had no experience with reporters, thelr Sherlock Holmes in- etincts, thelr entire lack of confidence in the veracity of perfect strangers and thelr annoying habit of wanting to look the suicide over very carefully whether dead or alive. Thereby came Miss Raymond's undo- ing. But she worked up an Interesting tale of her attempt to shuffle off. she called in her friends to help her oyt with the details and there was a jolly little ante-moriem gathering at the flat of her aunt, Mrs, H. J. Harold, at No. 100 West One Hundred and First street, last night. Mrs. Harold is out of the city at present. Careful About Detatils. After the details had been agreed on and carefully rehearsed, the party dls- persed, and one of Miss Raymond's friends telephoned all the newspapers of the sulcide of a beautiful young woman at No, 109 West One Hundred and First street, When the reporters arrived a young woman who impersonated Mrs, Harold told them a harrowing tale of her sis- ters suicide. She said the girl drank morphine and sank unconscious among @ group of laughing friends, The re- ‘ porters asked to see the corpse. =| necessitated a change of story, and tho) alleged Mrs, Harold intimated that her sister was. not dead. In fact, she was well enough to go to the home of a ‘Mrs. Freeman, at No. 31 West Thirty- ninth street. ‘To remove any unfavor- | ‘able impression, Mrs, Harold told all | about the girl's infatuation for a young ; lawyer, whom she knew only es “Bob.” Vhrious scenes and attempts at euicide because of “Bob's” fickleneas were nar- rated. Wanted Secret Kept. A young Sherlock Holmes wanted to know {f an ambulance surgeon had been called. “Oh. no,” said the informant; “we did everything to keep the affair seoret." ‘The reporters fled. Sergt. Churchill, of the West One Hundredth street station, was asked to take hand in the investigation, Four of Me men went to the house, They were told that the girl had taken mor- phine and was attended Benja- min Ochs, of No. Silb Decmuidtn atrest. W olusctat aroused | Dr. Ochs from a sound sleep to ask why the attempted mu! man a messenger arrived wit which proved to be from the alleged suicide, She asked the dootor to her for giving him so much, trouble lous to go on the stage and She didn't know of any other way. ex: cept by “faking” suicide and getting her name in the pay . She wanted the doctor to stand for his end of the dece tlon, Dr, Ochs wa: e policemen were amu: re the reporters. BRON RESIDENTS FIGHT MOSQUITOES, Forced to Build ‘*Smudges"’ to Drive Off Big Swarms of the Poisonous Summer Pests. Residents of the Bronx are suffering m Plague of mosquitoes, The pests are of & Very poisonous variety and thoir bites raise painful welts on the skin. In Kingsbridge, Westchoster. Villago along the White Plains road the uitocs have been flying in such swarms that residents have resorted to butiding amall bonfires of “smudges” to. drive them away The police tried Unguish the fires, but wien they why they were built they let them burn: ue mosquitoes have gotten down into ‘lem, upper ald ngton He sights ‘Boe suffering thelr frat Visitation fram ‘tho Sumner pests. au ‘ol Heth H is ona tis the Bal “08, hdhchs DYNAMITE JOHNNY ARRESTED ASHORE, “1 Navigate the Sea,’ Said Notorious Filibuster in Court, but He Could Not Navigate Hoboken. —— ‘Dynamite Johnny O'Brien was ar rested by Pollcemag Whitlock at the Barclay street ferry for drunkpenness and arraigned before Acting Recorder Laverty this morning, Whiglock found the man, he says, In a drunken condi- tion at the ferry an@ took him to Polloe Headquarters, ‘The prisoner acknowledged that he was the famous “Dynamite Johnate”’ who gained notoriety by conducting fill- bustering expeditions to bod When Recorder Laverty asked O'Brien what on was the latter aneererede I DROWNED WOMAN AE. | AaEENaTON.. frie non) whieh ‘ACTOR EDESON TO MAKE eat be Handed | lon But! WITH $15,000. Body of Klondike ‘ Beck’’ Found in the Bay with Gold Drafts for that Amount on It. ‘TACOMA, Wash. Aug. 6—Gold drafte amounting to $15,000 were found on the body of @ woman picked up in the bay of St. Michael three weeks ago, The body was identified as that of a woman known as “Becky” in Lower Yukon, her s full name not being known. The body was buried at 6t. Michael, and an effort is being made to Mind the woman's heirs, @he was thirty years 014, and formerly had been & domestic at Beattie it et thought she hed rela- fives in New el al SE muer hin DRINKING, WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Commiasioner announces that bere- STAGE LOVE TO REAL WIFE, Mrs. Edeson, Who Is Known as Ellen Burg, Will Play Opposite Part Romantic Play. sede 2 If, when Robert EXdeson reappears io) and hie affection for his wife has be- “Goldters of Fortune’ at the Bavoy The-| come as well known as bis acting. The atre Bept. 1 the eotor makes love to the| adoration of matine js bas hed as Hope Langham of the plece with more | little effect on the ae water on 4 than usual fervor, the matines girl inay | duck’s back, and he has repeatedly satd like to know that the love ts just as for-| that all he wanted to make true realism Vent ar tt looks. Mr. Edeson vouches | possible was his wife for an opposite for the fuot that tt will be all woo! and | Part a yard wide, tor Hope Langham wil,| pave [devon under the stage name of tn hia narance, be Mra, Robert Edeson, | raotions, 1 bat ever in drama !wigh fer hun ons hope Me, Edeson, who le known as one of | {ye Ae ee as shunted by Han. the best love makers on the American lager "/iatris €0 take. the 10% of stage, has been married seven yours, | Lang! WHOLESALE HOUSE FIRE. | ground floor of bous No, 16 wad 18 War- reet|ten gtrect by water. hese ure. « copied by the Postless Rubber Company nd Neal @& Brinker, hardware mvur- chants, —————_— WYOMING FOREST FIRES, WASHINGTON, Aug, 6.~Despatohes recelved at the Land OMfce here an- ounce that 1 wt fires are raging manutecturers ot harness and leather goods, Bome damage was done on the Blas Warren Firemen a Hard Fight. A stubborn blaze in the five-story wione front manufacturing building at No. 18 Warren street at 11 o'clook Inst night took the Fire Department half aa hour to extinguteh and did $2,000 dum- age to household fixtures and leathor goods. The fire started on the third| near Land and in the flogr, which is ocoupied by Bliver & Co., ua pare ‘8 Of household inventions. It wpread to the two upper stories, eve weed by Ph, Bonner & Son, Agent hae been o1 posed ie enh Hh a "by. ‘erdgraphy te Although our Regular Waist Department is the largest in the United States, we have con- siderably enlarged it to more adequately display this imposing special collection. |ST. LOUIS SOCIETY GIRL TO SING WITH DUSS'S BAND. Bertha Winslow Fitch Will Be Sololst at Sunday Night Con- cert—First Appear- ance in New York. Duss’s soloist at the St. Nicholas band concert next Sunday evening will be IBertha Winslow-Fitch, a St, Louls so jelety girl This will be the first appearance of Miss Fitch in the metropolis, although she has frequently been heard in con certs in St. Louls and other cities in the West. Sho is suid to possess a fine so- prano volca and 1s regarded as one of the handsomest representatives “smart set of St. Louls, BIG BURLESQUE COMBINE. Managers and owners of burlesque the- atres and road compantes have formed a combination which inoludes thirty-six theatres and as many road companies The organization will be kr s the malgamated Burlesque Managers, Aa- ation. 1. Curti is lle PREC ME AT THE FOUNTAIN, of the The Waists are here in all their crisp beauteousness, and go | Many extra salespeople to wait on you quickly. Shire Waises we 1,85 Values up to $5.75. You will admit that in a second when you come here to-morrow and see these Waists with your Brief type descriptions can convey no sense of their fresh loveliness, nor of the greatness and importance of the occasion. ed for its | | SAYS LIFE GUARDS FLIRT 700 MUCH, Severe Oriticism by Coroner at Inquest Over Two Men Who Were Drowned at Brighton Beach. In addressing the Coroner's jury which was holding an inquest into the eath of two men who were drowned at Brighton Beach Coroner Flaherty, of Brooklyn, took occasion t severely oriti« cise the life-guards both at Brightom and Coney Island. He on ouiy ae the work of the guards SEGTIA WELT FITCH warm DOSE was and that instead of attend Dusiness out in tl generally to be n “hinting girls on’ the sai The Coroner said that he had personal invest: aon day, at all the bathin, where the Ii feo All the others were on the sand. It this condition of were to continue, he eaid, he would sre matter to the attention of the Grand ury. The men who were drowned were Henry Schoenbahn. of No. 408 Broad~ way, Brooklyn, who was drowned 99) July’ 17, and Gideon Ahmesond, of tian, 182 West Tenth street, Manhe was drowned July 2. NAS YOUN, OLOEST ACTRESS, DYING, Breaks Her Hip at Actors’ Fund Home and Cannot Recover. the oldest Itving new Mrs. Eliza Young, American actress, 1s dying at the Actors’ Fund Home, ox ‘Two weeks ago he fo) tone. Because of hi advanced age she is in her ninety-first year-the bone will not sot properly, The doctors say there is no possibility of her recovering. INNOCENT MAN MANACLED. adouffed Helper ‘ot Liberate Him, a helper on a Wells- von, arrived at the ffed ot a bag and The bag contained a Hope|Bapress Driver f and Could ‘Tombe to-day feeling foo! h. bunch of fifty pairs of handcuffs from the Himira Reformatory, sent for use when the next batch of boy prisoners fs forwarded to that institution. On the wagon the drived discovered that one cuff had worked out of the bag. He sivly slipped this cuff on his helper s wrist, And It was 4 good jok tl ft was disdovered that the cufl was locked ‘or keeps,” and as the other cuff, its could not be worked out of’ the Harris had to erry heavy {nto the To In Her Ninety-first Year, She, ‘ART MUSEUM GETS FINE GOLLECTION. Is Worth $500,000 and It Name of Donor Is Kept Secret as Is Nature of Gift. The Metropolitan Museum of Art te to receive in the early spring an art col- stion valued at $600,000, the gift of & e is being withheld by It 8 admitted, tion and that he ts now is It told yet of what the ooliection nists It ts» known that {t ts not 5, porcelains or china. The gift Placed in the north wing of the ng. although tt will not require whole wing, The cost of mounting i inetalling the oollection will amount to $60,000, 1t is safd, and will be paid by the donor addition to the museum's attrac- PATIENT PUZZLES HOSPITAL DOCTORS Unable to Tell What Ails Man Who Fell From a Car and Has Been Unconscious fer Hours. A man who les unconscious to the Seney Hospital, Brookiyn, is somewhat of a puzzlo for the dovtors, wao have worked over his case for hours, are Ur able to discover the extent or nature of his injuries, He was # passenger on an open car on the ith street ine, and toppled off the seat and fell out of the car when tt jolted suddenly et Ninth avenue and Fifteenth street, The patient 1s about thirty yeane old. | He waa well dreased in blue sere looked like & prosperous fe rg bi was nothing in his pockets’ by hig Identity could be, eatabliened, has dark eyes and h KILLED BY FALL. Little Girl Dropped ive Stertes | shown, probably The museum is now negotat two Italian collections, one of bronzes and the other of statuary. Both are sald lo be very valuab) — CORBA RETURNI WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—Senor Cor the Nicaraguan Miniter, will leave home to-night, He goes to make a re pei in person to President Zelaya om tie sathabian wana) situation, and Met Instant Death, Four-year-old Maggie Stack reel killed by falling from a window @f mother's apartments on the Ofth of No, 817 Hast One Hundred an@ street ‘The chiid climbed up on a ood neal the Window, an Li veyured, and