The evening world. Newspaper, August 26, 1902, Page 10

163" Sonar woes U: THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26, 1902. THEN CAPTAIN, Two Silent Tragedies Mark| the Disastrous Voyage of the Steamship Advance from | Colon. | NO ONE HEARD A CRY., Capt, Phillips Dropped Into! Sea on the Homeward Trip —Cook Bristol Fell Over on Outward Run from This Port A strange story: of mysterious disap- pesrances at sea Was brought to port to- day by the officers of the steamship Ad- vance, of the Panama Rajllroad and Steamship Company, from Co'on. On the trip out Harry Bristol, the cook, went | overboard in the night and no one saw him go. On the return trip, at a point | near where the cook disappeared, Capt. | ©. W. Phillips went overboard tn the early evening while all hands were at Supper and no one saw him gv. When tho Advance came up the this morning in command of First ¥ E. Hammond she flew fings at haif Mast fore and aft and carried sixteen Bhivery passengers, who got ashore as quickly as they could. ‘The First Tragedy. Capt. Phillips, who was sixty-two years old, had been {ll at his home Brooklyn for six months preceding the deginning of his last yoyage. When he deft New York he was in good spirits | and apparently in fair health until! three days out, when the first of the! strange happenings on board occurred, | Bristol, the cook, a fat, jolly English- man, returned at night to his room al- Joining the galley. When it came 6 o'clock the next morning the officer on watch noticed that no smoke was curl- ing from the galley smokestack and gent a seaman to arouse Bristol. But Bristol could not be found. There Was No Cry. Here was a man in perfect health, | apparently care free, with a joke on | his lips all the time, ‘disappearing from. his ship In the night without a. sign The Idea of suicide was not considered by officers and men, but If he had one overboard accidentally he wii) have made an outers | Tt was a mystery that bothered the old | captain | The Voyage to Colon was made with- | @ut further cident, another cook was and the return trip was begin the passengers Knew anytning | about the mysterious disappearance of | , at that time, | 4 Phillips went to his cabin, for ward on the main deck, at 6 o'clock In the evening of Aug he wea Was m and there was no wind. He left rd that he would he down to supper fn a few minutes. c The Second Tragedy. c When half an_ he ad passed one sent a doy to the cabin to call him for supper. empty. The ship was the captain could not be found. As tain had gone overboard. The man at the wheel had not seen him, the officer on watch had not seen him Mate Hammond took charge of the ship. He reported that the captain had been selged with vertigo while standing near the rail, and had fallen into the sen. This was the way the news was| broken to the widow and two sone when the Advance arrived to-day CROSS SAILS FOR EUROPE. and the Continent, Police Inspector Adam A. Cross sailed for Europe to-day on the Kronprinz Wil- helm. He was accompanied by Mra. Cross and will make a tour of England and the Continent Other passengers on were: Dr. Paul Dumbrowski, Col. EB. E Britton, U. 8. A.. Col, Willfam Lamb German Consul-General at Norfolk, Wa., and Dr. Charles B, Schildecker, of ‘Pittsburg. WORLD WANTS The Path to Success. | Wants tn the thirteen BUT Al0 Pils! papers combined, American Steamsht AGENTS .o..-4 14 JEWELLERS 5| BARTENDERS 6) KITCHENWORK ... 15 BLACKSMITHS .... 8) LAUNDRESSES .... 4| BONNAZ 15 | MACHINISTS 4|t BOOKBINDERS .... 12] ME w BOOKKEEPERS ... 10) MILLINERS ,....... 15 Bors ... BB NECKWEAR 4.0.4... 10 BRAIDERS ) NUKBBS 8 BUSHELMEN PERATORS “1 BUTCHERS Kens 6 BUTTONHOLE-MAK- | PAINTERS 19 RRS 3| PAPER-HANGERS.. 6 BT-MAKERS. 4|PAPER NOX MAK CARPENTERS ......13) ERS cners 3) PHOTOGRAPHERS (CARRIAGE WANDS, 5. PIANO HANDS CASILL ++ 4 POCKETBOOK MAK. CHAMBERMAIDS .. 14) ERS 3 KANDY-MAKERS., 3 POLISHERS ....... 8 COLLECTORS ...... § TORTERS 9 SOMPORITORS .... $/ PRESSERS 10 BALESLAD!| SALESMEN BEAMSTH ‘ SHIPPING CLERKS, 3 SHOEMAKERS 5 SILI WINDERS 4 | SPINNERS sn 6 1 4 ooKs ren CORSET HANDS... CROCHETERS .... STENOGRAPHERS | ralLoRs 4 | PiNsMITHS ‘ TYPEWRITERS ..,, 3 UPHOLATERE 5 UsEFU 6 VARNISHERS Py WAIST HANDS ...., 5 WAITKKSS EB WAITERS 4 Py | been Mr, Funk's typewriter, bookkeeper, | cashter and Intended wife, even Mag! |a pretty girl as Miss Richards would | ployed In the office of Mr, Funk, who deals in slot machines. salary, but tired of the work of making jently as the cook the cap- | Mr. Funk says. to-day she looked mu also of the | more Indleni Aug, 9 Miss Richards had borrowed his Police Inspector to Tour England | diamond pin to wear over Sunday, and that she did not return to work on Mon- day, and that he had a warrant jasued for her arrest Centre street, appeared for Miss Rich- ards and evinced a outset to know exactly Miss Richards's status in the opinion of Mr. Punk. Magistrate Flammer’s Tribute Harriet Richards, Accused of Theft by Fiance. Pretty, demure, Harrlet Richards, No, lil West Forty-fitth street, pretty nearly everything to broker Will jam N, Funk, of No, 7 Warren street, until three weeks ago, but to-day he had her arraigned in Centre Street Court on a charge of larceny. After hearing how Miss Richards had trate Plammer sald he did not believe any jury could be convinced that such ETHEL PETERSON: 1a diamond pin from her fMance- amployer. Vatil Aug. 9 Miss Richards was em- She mado a good Mit invelces for penny-In-the-stot_ma- hines and joined the ranks of the New. York Theatre chorus. Then, according to her story, her trou- bles began, She did not even return to her former office, but disappeared, #0 To Court tn Te: When Miss Richards came into court her eyes were full of tears and h agrieved. She was ac- Miss Ethel Patterson, y York Theatre, who was pretty as Miss Richards, only much at Mr. Funk told the Magistrate that on mpanted by Lawyer Thomas J. Bullivan, of No. 118 disposition at the “Didn't you give Miss Richards a dia- HARRIET RICHARDS. Girl Whose Beauty Won Courts’ Praise and Her F:iend. | mond stud to be converted Into a ring?” | sked the lawyer. was th, engay Sullivan. | xenerally did not know it as admitted Mr Funk sald Miss Rie is employ about six weeks and that | ep wak inuah impressed by her ability. | . You buy Miss Richards | ed tho lawyer | Mr. Funk, “Now sh of the And di didn't es and stockings nent GIRL TOO PRETTY; NO JURY WILL CONVICT, SAYS COURT) ++ to Beauty of © reply ring?” Funk t you pay $14 for a picture hat for Miss Richards?’ “1 don’ that" replied Mr Took Her on Excursions, Mr, Punk said that Miss Richards, as his flancee, had frequently visited’ his apartment ‘at N West One Hu 4 and unaccom- ned. stiong from and. Magistrate F ing taken her to Brighton, Coney Jal and to other! "t thin Manhattan, Kit Funk. Beach amusement. resorts. “L think In view of all this you would | ity in convincing any | EFFORTS TO BLOCK have qreat dim jury that not gift room unk nd the until the ph declared the Magi br he and other st Miss an get amixed yolock and custody of s * declared Miss F terson as they swept out of the courte | ards had been was as much Richards T'll intll 2 o'clock #0 to produce wit- Magistrate adjourned tho | suggested things: wi that you here,” aroled Miss er counsi the Arrest of Her Husband Rival, but the Court Dis- charges Them. James Tuthill, of No. 220 Montgomery street, Jersey City, a timekeeper for the Line, and his wife were discharged by Judge Murphy In Oakland Avenue Poltee x after a divorced wife had tried mort cause the Imprisonment of Tuthtl! The complaint was made by Mra, Em- ma Tuthill, of No. 40 Rast Sixtieth at this city, Bhe claimed to be the mer wife « it Bhe eatd Wa arried to Tuthill in this clty tn btained a divorce After two ye: and in 1891 she Tacoma 1881 from hin ra aration they became reco' ‘8 and lived together he Sho naid asked Tuthill to have a second performed, but he told her J he deserted b a year ted him in Jersey several days ago Mrs. Tuthill at th street address, She then 6 rept When the case waa calied this morn- ing the second Mra. ‘Tuthill was in court. She told Judge Murpay ( fried to Tuthill in held @ two-year-o). ng with Montgomery aused his ar in ber anne. After Judge Murphy had heard bor 8 of the case ho decided to d re the second Mrs Tuthill and h r ithill is said to be @ member of « highly rexpected family tn Larchmont, NY. He has a nineteen-vear daughter by the firet wife, but she not present in court to-day ———— HELD FOR CORONER, Petro Columbo Agoused of Causing Witels Dei Magistrate Brann, in the Besex Market Court, to-day, held Petro Columbo, who was arrested on suspicion of having a dt ia lio | i Sy | Story About W | WIFE NO. 1 FAILS RAGTIME NOW, NOT TOLOUST WIFE NO, 2 GRAND SWEET SONG Alleging that her husband, a hypocrite Woods, iy, hos In her varns § when the pres kind alone In overbeni from wh Mr. Wo endon H weet Bor a rag “nt ht, and that to get her away from her assoctates he wanted to move from the nelghi Bhe refus nd he moved any’ eaving h They John 1. absurd of ex Ing th his at Baby! an Fe nae reat ana which there 1s a fight against ex-Sherift | 1 week t visiting with her or in] & 1 anc at he is in brought | Court this Cochrane, In the Supreme Court, for a divorce da tyrant, ». 1M Lincoln place, Brook- before sult the Pulton She © of friends be ts the shana home with her he ts crue but tha! 1 altogether public Herbert, 1s Mrs. Lulu | shares of Chicago, Milwaukee and St. | jstolen money left. }iagh and David N |The First Mrs. Tuthill Causes Herbert Woods Replies to! Wife’s Application for Di- vorce on Grounds of Cruelty by Saying She Has Changed. Jeonferences with Co | tere he invariably go WIFE DEFENDS BROKER IN JAIL. Hedges Accused of; Stock Theft Excused as Irresponsible from Trouble. ANOTHER WOMAN IN CASE. | Prisoner Charged with Ap-| propriating Securities Worth | $18,000 After He Failed in| Business. Although Allen F, Hedges, who dis- | appeared last spring with $18,0% belong- | ing to his employers, was arrested tn | the company of another woman, his wife has determined to stand by him Sha has retained a lawyer to defend him, and excuses his theft and his sub- nequent actions on the ground that lusiness reverses have affected his brain Allen F. Hedges was a prominent ntock broker previous to the death of Gov. Flower. That Ineident caused the bottom to drop out of what were known as the Flower stocks, In which Hedges was heavily interested. He lost his fortune and went to work as a bookkeeper for the firm of Ames, Swan & Co. at No. 2% Broad stree Home Broken Up. Hin handsome home in President street, on the Park Slope, Brooklyn, was | broken up and he went to live with his| wife and son at No. 719 Prospect place. Tho Joss of his fortune engendered in| him habits of recklessness. | April 16 last he disappeared with 100 | Paul stock valued at $18,000. This stock he deposited with another broker, borrowing $%,000 on {t and open- ing an account. When his theft w: discovered he had dropped out of sight. | Detectives found him at No 17 Pros- pect place, ving with a woman whose | name Is concealed by the police because, they assert, she had no knowledge of his crime and his desertion of his family. The house tn which he Hved ts only twelve blocks from the home of his wife, with whom he had not communicated since his disappearance, ‘Hedges was arraigned before Judge Foster, In Part I. of the Court of Gen- eral Beasions, this morning. An adjourn. | ment was taken to allow him time to get) @ lawyer, He sald he had none ef the Wife Defends Him. Mrs. Hedges was seen at her home to- ‘lay by an Evening World reporter. She had ujst heard of the arrest of her hu band and had set about to engage a law yer for his defense. | “I have not heard from my husband since the time he disappeared,” said Mrs. Hedges. “He did not even send me word that he had been arrest Whatever he has done T will stand him, and Iam confident that he will get out of this trouble. “He was always a good and generous husband until business reverses over- took him. His troubles made a changed man of him. If he really did steal this money and conduct himself as the po- Mee say he has he was not in his right mind. “I think the loss of his foreune turned his brain.” PRIMARY FRAUDS, Superintendent of Elections John McCullagh Getting! Ready to Fully Expose Great Colonization Schemes. of Elections MeCul Carvalho, handwrit- ing expert, continue to talk of the gh gantle election frauds which are being organtzed throughout the districts. in| which there are contests for the leader- | ship. Carvalho has been a datly visitor to Pollce Headquarters, where he has had missioner Part- lice Headquar- to the oMce of Superintendent ridge, After leaving F Justice | Market and] larea that} kindest | t whe the opposite rods is now living at the Clars el marr Me, but par: the habit on, Ly 2 NOT TO REDUCE SPEED. She says. th ted life that roc ty He were married in November, 1892, ne, White Star line, the story emanating from the other wide of the Atlantic, that @ saving nses would be effected by reduc- ‘apoed of the fast steamships be- ew te Star ed, York a to-day ch D longing to steamanip lines he V may be bullt, but You may be quite sure «will be no reduction tn. aj t eo now engaged in the must be short of re traMe between ¢ HIGH HOPE FOR MILFORD, LANDON, Aug. pitt of the hiford irme* val was ony roti 1t has been | Yanios all of his| who now hold the leadership and who Wife's allegations, and saya that she has of staying out late at —fpenkii nine | grand) hat for Line Ships | went of the racterised news over Tt may be slower ships Surope. he ts| | off all fraudulent names. When this is done warpants will be tasued for thos: Supt. McCullagh, where he has another | conference, Mr. Carvalho was at Police Head- He said that In Diatrict, in quarters again to-day the Twenty-sixth Assembly Tom Dunn, the present Tammany lead- he had found Sl fraudulent trans- 8, and that in the First Assembly trict, where ex-Pollce Commisstoner Michael C. Murphy 1s having the fight of his life to retain his leadership, he had found 819 fraudulent transfers, The work of examining the transfers in being done at the instigation of those | have hard fights on their hands Carvalho said to-day that in many stances he found the names of al transfers were mythical beings. He Js going to investigate the ste in each district and when the work ie com- pleted will appeal to the courts to strike Mr. ins aed responsible for the illegal transfers. Superintendent of Elections MoCullagh said to-day that captains of election dis- tricts had been ordered by their various leaders to colonise from thirty-five to forty men In each district. His office will remain open until mid- night each day from now unull Bept. 16, He expects to issue subpoenas for per- sons who he believes can tell of fraud- | thing over two hundred misstyes, and! some of them are ardent enough to move almost any bachelor heart. But [Mr 1. ldition he has vowed never to marry and —_-.— Peter Lynch, Jr., of Montclair, Deluged with Proposals, Shows How He Values Them. Peter Lynch, jr., of Montclair, N. J., has started to paper the walls of his home with letters from women who want | to marry him. The letters gre penned | on delicate paper of many shades and the effect 1s unique, Up to date, Peter has received some- {t's different with Mr. Lynch. With many of the letters are photo- | RTaphs of the writers, and these pictures nch proposes to arrange In the, form of a heart over the open fire-pis Peter Lynch js thirty-five years od and handsome. He te a member of the | Bachelor Club and has signed his name | on the charter in blood—‘tis said. In ad to discourage a! others from taking that step. ‘Three of Mr. Lynch's fellow-members broke ‘their vow a short time ago and, became benedicts, Lynch was disgusted. | He insisted that each pay the heavy monev indemnity demanded by the club's conWitution, ‘They pald, but vowed vengeance ¢) Peter, Soon 1M- ters proposing marriage came to Peter in every mail, and the end Ix not in sight “I think It's 21 endless chain," sad Mr. Lyneh to-day, “but T can stand ‘| as long as they can, I rather enjoy It In fact DANCED THEIR WAY TO PRISON CELLS, Edward Burnes and His Wife Aroused Magistrate Zeller’s Ire by Doing Heel and Toe Work in Court. Whenever Edward Burnes and his wife, Margery, are really happy It finds expression in dancing. They dance be- cause they can't help it, and because of this pecullarity they danced them-|{ selves Into bad favor with Magistrate Zeller In the Harlem Court and ulti- mately into cells and @ fine of & each. | The dancing couple attended court to Bee what would become of one John Doe, who had been arrested for intoxi- | ration. Doe was taxed § for over- indulgence, and the Burneses got happy. leaping to his feet, Burnes began a jig and breakdown which would have put to shame any of the champions of the plers, while Mrs, Burnes did some t winging and warbled alrlly a song some shines and back to to the mines” velled Mra. , . and her husband did some heel- work of a high-class order. danced their way out into the and Magistrate Zeller, who had absoltely speechiess with amaze- ‘dered Court OMcer Whalen to hallway. been m back "x the matter with asked the Magistrate. No one could answer, and when nd womes were ‘ned up those peo- re’ rail Burnes did a few ste In soft shoe work and Mrs, Burnes con- tinued the, “back, K variates, Magistrate Zeller looked annoyed and in rapping for order knocked over his tp stand WINDOWS OPEN. /BACHELOR PAPERS HIS HOME WITH MANY LETTERS OF LOVE OARSMAN TRIED TO SELLA RAGE Gus Buchlein to Be Expelled from the Rosedale Club, of Hoboken. $3,000 WAGER AT STAKE. Buchlein Admitted Having Offered a Member of the Crew $100 If He Would Aid in Throwing Race. As a result of an attempt to sell out |the four-oared crew of the Rosedale | Rowing Club, of Hoboken, of which he lis a member, Gus Buchlein, a well- | known Hoboken amateur oarsman, will be expelled from the club, The entry of the crew in the Middle States regatta on the Harlem River Labor Day has been withdrawn. The four-oared crew of the Rosedales is considered one of the best in these parts, In the regatta of the Hoboken Amateur Rowing Aasociation last month thousands of dollara were bet on the Rosedales to win the four-oared avent. The Valencia crew, also of Ho- boken, won by about a foot. In th regatta Gus Buchlein, No. 2 of the R |aale four-oared crew, won the diamond sculls in the single scull event The men who i money on the Rose ¢ales.in the Valencia race wanted io get it back. They approached Buchiein and learned from him that the Roze- dales had what he considered a cer- tainty to win the event in which they were entered in the Harlem regatla against crews from the Valencia, Hud- son, Atlantic and Harlem clubs. He sald he would consider a proposition to throw the race, Buchlein went to George La Point, No. William Sheehan, a Young); or the crew, last Sunday and asked Canadian Here in Search of| him if he wanted to make some mo A 1a Point said he was not averse to pick- Work, Found in Room—} ing up wealth. Buchlein then said that he had friends whe ‘vere willing to bet ihweletatunnediOn: | $3,000 against the chance of the Rose- crew in the Labor Da regatta, offered 1 Potnt $100 assist in With att the windows of his r: man William £h nOtario, bed from his friend, chan, a young a, was found sphyxiation at th Charles Bock, Mr. of > ma tr dead home Bock ing the La Point le matter to st no time in reporting the pt. Adam Hagermeyer, who sent for Buonleln. Lanswer to a point lank question Buehlein admitted that he had tried to get his fellow oarsman to throw: the He was suspoaded Felix strect, Brookly on the at the meeting of the Heves that hia guest committed sulelde, Cut ne ay evening he. will be = both the gas jets were found to be expelled, In view of the circumstances SS Porn ie eas see ir Was dvemied best to withdraw the en- turned on. try of the four-oured crew of the club Sheehan arrived at his friend's home Canada from Saturday, He Invi better openin in York of charge until he secured work. The young man wa with New York, Monday morning started work. pocket Sg! He went to a boot manufactory In Brooklyn, but found the | he strike 1 Sheehan nos to and he left Brook mon had decla pickets persuad: da strike work in that f lyn veral and applied : York. After an unsuceessful day | back to his friend's bh prised to find that t tly Impressed | and bright and early out He put $0 of bis savings in his shoe and he started | 01 and was sur hich been Rock belleved there were . nd Brook from the Harlem Klver regatta a VALUES FACE AT $50,000. ae eee en neng| Mins Elate Creacy Sues a Publisher arrived he had $89, which was to keap Using Her Portrait. him until be found work, Mr. Book was PorsUaing er Par to give him his room and board free hicago, Aug She shall dwell ta lortly houses, with ga ts to attend her when she goes tn and out. Sho" have inuste for the hearing and pictures for the eye, ite and costly thinj And an each rense to Howitt fe Crescy wins her suit in which the Howltt quate ars at the head of one of the leading chapters. W. F. Donohue, of the firm of M. A. Donohue & Co. publishers, looked up from a pleture of “Tracy the Bandit” Ihe cover of his very latest | uhrilier, when told that sult for $50,000 Jamages had been brougnt agi his And axqu grat That The ci in “You're yelled the Magistrate Ntd In his pooket had disappeared. He] firm for using upon the cover of a nov to the B 8. Buch actions AS was quite despondent tnd ato) carded Daueht these are an Insult to this court. think he had suffered a great loss, | EOROPED,, palin, bang went the shoes of Me After supper he went tis room| A tirnes When the Magistrate announced and that Was thi heard of hin ul a8 that th e fned § [until his body was A today. ‘The with politica ne ROL A, Your Honor,” de- three windows ti his room have #eresns, | french, chant team In chorus, vhile these were down the windows Y tne nich 0) “the mines it vou | And, while these were down the window any atten to the goods,” yelled a yoic pate eT ie seem appropriate to wherevand it was not Mag- | aQit, Hoek ls greatly distressed nt the | tithe or to the contents of the book ers. 4 FE RO ee ee ree eae aes | sntended, A atheliivedvat! No, ast Gustomed to the use oF gum, and be-| We did not know it was Miss Crescy’s Wighty-seccad street and Mis 18 fang ‘eles He Nee turned on his) picture,” sald the publisher, said she Ilved at No. Seven committed suicide | ‘ aighth street. MRS, LATIMER ILL, GOES TO FRIENDS. Widow of Brooklyn Man Shot by Burglars Has Not Re-| covered from Shock—Rela-| tives Alarmed About Her. | | | 1 | INDIAN LAKE, N. ¥., Aug. 26—Mra Albert C. Latimer, whose husband was shot In his home tn Brooklyn, has ar- rived here to recuperate, She has not recovered from the shock sie experl- enced and is in quite a state of collapse, Mra, Latimer is the guest of her sis- ter-in-law, Mrs, Max 8. Bevins, the wife lawyer of Hamilton ot a prominent County, and her/stay will be indefinite. Herghildren, Marlon and Edmund, ace mpany her, Relatives of Mra. Latimer are alarmed over her condition, as she is constantly depressed and worrles over her son and daughter, She avers that the money Albert Latimer left is af- not enough to declares that as soon as she is able she will begin some work for their beneft. —__— O’CONNELL’S AHOY! Citisens ‘The annual outing of the John H O’Connel) Association of the Twenty: third Assembly District to-morrow give! promise of being the largest non-politi- r of the kind ever arranged in m. A great crowd of business men the district will go to Donnelly’s of ulent transfers and illegal voting meth- ode, and if any fail to obey them he will have thom arrested for a misdemeanor. According to @upt. MoCullagh, the Breatess trouble ta in the fyrnished-room at aw 1 Da, i Sore ‘ae fe aervica, houses. oald ShAt the election dis. trict captains go to the keepers of thi raf ite ace trays four t and drink and all sorte be played. re of the association will be plenty to A oe ime meet On t the club-house, Bie hind req land Mi wentyaixth street, and march to the toot ity-ninth because of the ss of his $4 FELL 10 DEATH FROM ASTOR HOTEL John Schaffer Lost His Life, but There Is a Mystery as Aaya, to What Causcd the Ac-|°" cident. | Considerable mystery nds the’, A FINAL CLEAN-UP death of John Schaffer, ars old, | — an tronworker. He fell from the tenth) to the fourth floor of the new Astor He at Fifty-fifth street and Fifth ave- nue and was killed. The Thompson & Starett, say the his balance, while of the Bast Fifty-first of 4 floor. fell from t lose his balance. when ploked up by foreman of the sto! Urkivite. Charie When Policeman Rodgers was oxplain- ing how the accident happened and said dt had been caused by a@ plece of tron falling from the fourteenth floor, Desk to Eajoy an Outing To-Morrow | gergt, Bingham, of the Enst Fifty-first street station, cautioned him about mak- Ing euch @ report, “If you say that out and Investigate Man; have of this @ atone we treet masons, contractors, man lost Policeman Rodgers station, asserts that he was told by the contrac- tors and by other witnesses that Schaf- fer was atruck on the head by a plece n which fell from the fourteenth All the witnesses agree that the man e tenth to the fourth fuor, toner education for them and | but they differ as to what caused him to ford ® propel Schaffer was dying Dordge, and you will have to go warned the Ser- accidents of a similar nature ned during the construction ding, Hwa or threo” month moahe wellitt of tho. mlliionaise t wl ther A | throu the dwelling o é millionaire POE oo a tere aaere miu | brewer Bverhart, und almost killed. his wife, who was sitting in her parlor. ———_—— No. $2 West) WILSON OFF FOR VERMONT, WASHINGTON, Aug, %.—Becretary BISHOP POTTER ILL. Confined ¢ the Clark Mansion by Aug. the Clark of malaria ma Althous! with Mrs, Clark hi eling rather weak, and as he n church he leaned heavily upon his cane. Dr, Janvrin, Mrs, rk’s physician, who was calléd, pronounced the case to be of no serious nature and sald tho ishop would be able tw be out in a few offering of the season. Waists Reduced From Gus 200 Shirt Waist Suits of Linen, Pique, White Lawn and French Batiste. Values—$ 5.00) At 7.50 | "$199. mon SS 15.00 $5 80 of Agriculture Wilson, in compliance Preuident's deal fami oan hi hat ell ve ps ft ri NIECE SUES FOR CAMBLER’S CASH EdnaMarks WantstoBe Includedas Oneofthe Heirs to Her Uncle's $750,000 Estate. HER FATHER AIDED HIM. When Edward N. Marks Started on His Career of Chance Edna's Father Ad- vanced Him $8,000, ‘The beneficlaries under the will of the late Edward N. Marks, who died three months ago, leaving an estate valued at $750,000, received a surprise to-day, The will was submitted for probate in the Surrogate’ Court, and A. H. Hum- mel, counsel for Edna Marks, the four- teen-year-old niece of the testator, who was not mentioned in the will, gave no- tlce that the probate would be contest- ed on the ground that Marks was men- tally unsound when he executed the will and that undue influence had been exe ercised over him in the execution of the instrument. Lawyer Hummel subsequently went bee fore Surrogate Fitzgerald and asked'that a guardian ad litem be appointed to look a r the interests of Miss Marks. Pend- ing the contest Probate Clerk Washburn adjourned the probate of tie will until Sept. 6. Marks was for many years prior to his death the proprietor of a gambling house at Long Branch, and was a big bookmaker on the Jockey Club tracks. The Fortunate Heirs. By his will he left to his widow his residence at No, M45 West Seventieth street, with all Its contents and $100,000 in cash, in lieu of dower. His nephew, Bernard E, Kuhn, received $19,007 and all his jewelry, Including a jewelled knife and a pencil case. The residue of the estate Marks directed to be l- vided into six equal parts, of which one lorte Kuhn, Marks, and on nevhew win B, r, the Lown, ne} . a wife of Aaron Mayer, Ul, a sister. and Mark , of Shawneetown, mi. } The will and was executed on April 3, the widow and William H. vflowell Were appointed executor and executrix. Paul M. Herzog, as counsel |for Mrs. Marks, asked for the probaie }of the will, and was joined in his a0- plication by Morris J. Hirsch, of No. 68 William street, who represents the other beneficiaries Her Father Helped Him, Lawyer Hummel said that Edna Mark: is the daughter brother of the who died’ in Philadelphia about thirteen years ago, Mrs. Abraham Marks subsequently mar- ried Caarles McLellan, a prominent busl- ness man of Bath, and cousin. te George B. McLellan, who was in part nership with George W. Lederer, and {4 & brother of Hugh McLellan, the play. wrignt, known In stage ercles as Hugh Edward N, Morton ceording to Mr. Hummel, Marks, the testator. was some fourteer Years ago in financial dificulties. while his brother Abraham was well off. Ed- ward told Abraham there was a pro: pect of his maxing money in the gam: bling business, und succeeded in getting from him an advance of $8,000 on the promise that, in consideration of the loan, he would leave his. baby niece, na, a large share of his. property, ssful in lis venture, Out of the $800) advanced by Abraham he realized a fortune of $750,000, but In hig will he did not carry out the promise mide by h should he be suce MISS HUNT'S NECKLACE. Story of Seizure Unjust, Says Rich Woman, The published report that D, Hunt and her niec Vanderveer, both of brought from Europe ond neckace claring It, ‘Treasury Miss Ellen Miss Ella Hunt had New York, aw and 20,000 without de- at It was seized by ‘Theobal!, las causod and much dlscussion tn Freehold, N. J. where Miss Hunt has been since her re turn from 4 a. Her New York ros- 2 Kast Viftleth street, althy Tam not going into detall.” Hence cald Mins Hunt, "bi wo It Was agreed between me and Mr, Theobold that neitner of us should allow ton to be. dis- yened befo He. All T can say is that the report ad made public is an juntruth; that the facts concerning the Hineident’ have been distorted and” tht [all this publicity Is most unjust to me. Women’s Dept. Clean-Up Sale of Waists. of Summer Shirt Waists. Hot weather must have been waiting for this sale. The best $1.90 to 38 cts, $1.25, $1.50 & $2.90, to 50 cts, $1.75, $2.09 & $2.25 to 75 cts. $2,50, $2.75 & $3.09 to 95cts, $2.75, $3.00 & $3.50, to $1.25 $3.75, $4.00, $4,50, & $5.00, to $1.50 70 Silke Shirt Waist Suits, $20, $25, $30, $32.50 values at $8,” Brilliantine Suits, Eton a>4 Blouse effects, a lustre Sicilian—suitable for travelling, $25 an | many made of high 430 values Sat $10.59 260 Walking & Dress Skirts made of Piquer Linen, Duck and Mercerized Cotton Fabrice Values—$ 2.50 ) At 18 | 0 Bele | $1.55 7.50 $2.75 New Model Walking $k'r‘s, plain Melton, manish mixtures and fine stripes— $5. $6.75 and $7.59 Also abour 50 to close at $1.95 and $3,75 which were $5.09 a4 $7.50, Cloth and Etamine Suits, many sill lined, reduced from $18, $25, $32, $45 to $7.50, $12.50 and $15, | | |