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i i \ ? ye --EXPLAN ERROR, Official Inquiry Into Death of Brooklyn Man Locked in a Cell. SKULL WAS FRACTURED: Ambulance Surgeon Declared He Was Dffink, Saying Wound on the Head Was Onty Superficial. Disease ofeisl’ tavestigstion ts to, fol- low in the case of the death of John Bchimpf, fr., of No, 910 President AQETOR MUST SPEEDWAY Hi hak Aaa ji ~ LITTLE NIAGARA Torrent of Water Falls Upon the Drive from Lofty Highbridge and Burrows a Big Hole. Volume of the Desgending that It Was Heard Through- out the Highbridge Section, ing from one of the great aqueduct mains on High Bridge came nearly ptrest, Brooklyn, and Dr. Reynolds, | washing away a section of the Speed- of Bt. Mary's Hospital, will be asked why he permitted Mr. Schimpf to be locked in a cell as a drunken man when he was suffering from a frac- tured skull and concussion of the brain, injugies which proved fatal after he had been in the cell twel¥e hours. A street car is supposed to have struck Mr. Schimpf, who was wealthy and a member of the firm of John Schimpf & Sons, plated ware mantfacturers, of Manhattan and Brooklyn. He was pica up by the police at Al- bany avenue and Fulton street, the police believing he had been injured. Dr. Reynolds answered a call in an ambu- Jance {from St. Mary's Hospital and after s quick examination said Schimpt was not injured, “only drunk,” and tho Police took him'to the Atlantic avenue Station, where he was placed in a cell. ‘As he was unable to give his name he registered as John Smith. ‘After the unconacious man had been e 4soner twelve hours it was time to him to court, but the police could not awake him. Frightened, they again called an ambulance from’ St. Mary's + Hospital. Dr. Flannery responded this time and he found that Mr. Schimpt had a bad fracture of the skull and was \\umeonscious because of concussion of \the brain. was hurried to the hospital and an ‘operation performed, but he died a cew minutes later. we could have operated on this man three before we could have hours ved life,” said one of the doctors. Pe jae! sald of Caen L here re smyptoms of con- cussion of the brain that I could see, ‘The laceration on the top of the head tended back about two inches behind Ba) right ear, but the wound se only superficial.” ‘ee Botiimes aid Ny die of @ fra | tured akull. Of that Iam positive, His dus to cerebral hemorrhage, en I saw him he was sitting on the fi erficial \ stone suffer: iz a scale Froun ete Hooked ike an ordinary cut. a. yoty thorough examina Hon, as T heard from people standing ~ - Sythe man had been struck by @ trolley ere was no evidence of his suffer- from anything but a superficial ration of the acalp. ‘here was of evidence that he was eran on breat! i . Schimpfia cerebral hemorrhage | AQ not develop until hours after I saw slaase Toetion ‘of the, brain It ‘tion of the area. was Jonwthe ert side of the head, while the + lacerated wound was on bhe Fight side.” ("7 shall welcome any investigation of is case.’ ‘At the Schimpf home it was said no aotion woukl be taken until after the \ funeral. 5 / At the officés of the Board of Health, “Dr, Joseph H. Raymond, Sanitary Super- jintendent, said the case of Mr. Schimpf fwaa one for the Coroner’ to. investigate H hand that {f the inquest developed any- { Shing wick showed he had been Improp- (Ss ing ted by Dr. Heynolds the Board of Health would take action Dr. Ray-| and © mond would not discuss Dr. Reynolds's > treatment of the case. , BELLEVUE NURSES TN A REBELLION, Girls Say Orders of New Wo- “man Superintendent Are Too Severe and Circulate a Pe- tition in Protest. ‘ "The eighty-four members in the junior cites of the Bellevue Training School for Female Nurses are circulating a petition which will complain against the ules of the institution as set down by Misa Delano, the superintendent. Mise eDiano was uatll recently con- nected with the institutions on Randall's . ‘Bhe became supeMitendent of the training sclrool upon the acecptanog pf the resignation of Miss Brennan, One way into the Harlem River early to- day. Three immense pipe lines were originally run across High Bridge to carry the Croton water to the city, but during the building of the Jerome Park reservoir the water was cut off from these mains and distributed through a new aqueduct. The weight of water accumulating in these immense pipes began to tell on the bridge structure. Chief Engineer A. Delonay made an inspection and deter- mined that the water should be fet out of gome of the pipes, Speedway Einders Escape. Before the building of the Speedway it was the custom to open the gates and allow the water to drop into the Harlem River, which was then directly beneath. ‘The speedway was buflt out Into the river and the flushing gates are now directly above the centre of the road. Chief Engineer Delonay sent men to make an inspection of the gates, and wile this was being done thg pressure of the accumulation of water was 0 great that it got the better of the man handling the flushing gate, and pushing the gate wide open, begen to pour down upon the speedway. The volume of water anf the heighth, ninety-five feet, wai great that an !mmense hole wag made in the hardly packed ground, twenty-five feet in diameter and fifteen feet deep. Water Leaks Backs ‘The water then worl its way out to the Harlem River, beneath the made ground, but when the tide rose again Cay the water leaked through the ‘opening and filled aga: Aforeman ‘Alohael Dalth, ofthe ‘Speed- way, put fifty men to work early to- day, and within a few hours more than finely pounded stone hud been dropped p pounded: stone mn dropped Faith says thet within a few hours he will have the Speedway in good shape in. ‘he Water Department engineers are peer their brains for some method y which the accumulation of water may be released from these disused pipes: ‘ly. ne water continued to run out of the {pes for four hours, and ite roar gould PePciainly heard throughout the la D eee ctcm, and there wes a @light scare In the effly morning. —$—$—$——$ $< WANT STREET KEPT OP®N. NEW BRUNSWICK, N.\J., Sept. 8.— Residents of Townsend étreet and vwieinity are greatly “concerned regard- ing the elevation of the tracks of the Pennsylvania, ‘The plans provide for ~ |JANE HOLLY WILL HUNT FOR DAIRY MAIDS IN ARCADY. ROAR AWAKES VICINITY.| Torrent Made Such a Din} Thousands of gallons of water fall-| young and pretty, and must look well in white cap and apron. They will be set at work making butter and cheese in a booth at Madison Sqimre Ga he Woman's Exhibition, performances of "He appears as @ s0- will, journey to 4 other rural places {n whloh young women of much The Professional Woman's League is on a still hunt for dairy maids for the Woman's Exhibition, an actress member of the Association, hae been appointed to find them. ‘The dairy maids required are not the| 4 gingham-gowned daughters of toll em- ployed Bround New York. These must be the ideal dairy maids familiar to readers of early verse, They must be EFELLER HAPPY OVER iBIG MEDICAL DISCOVERY. and Jane Holly, she hopes to find comeliness and a practical knowledge of churns. ROOK Moved by Death of Beloved Grandchild He Offered $200,000 for Research. John D. Rockefeller to-day wired; Between 300 and 400 children his congratulations to Dr. William H. Welch, of Baltimore, the patho- logical expert of the Johns Hopkins University, who, through the work of assistants, has succeeded in discover- ing and isolating the germ of ‘sum- mer complaint.” Dr. Welch is at the head of the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Re- search, which Mr. Rockefeller en- of Annapolls, degree at the Iniversity of Penneylva- next year. The other was Victor H. Bassett, of Aledo, Il, a student at the, Johns Hopkins the closing of that thoroughfare and the ie object to tt. Mayor Viehman has ‘been importuned to take 2B. the matter an effort is. bet: ade to have the railroad company erect a bridge instead of closing the rowdway. —— TOM KERRIGAN: AUCTIONEER, DYING. Priest Called for Political Con- fidant of Hugh McLaughlin and Owner of Famous Brooklyn Auction Rooms. Thomas A. Kerrigan, the well-known politician of Brooklyn, and proprietor of the famous Willoughby Street Wwuc- tion rooms, ae exRegister Hugh McLaughlin has made his headquarters for many years, is near death at his summer home in Northport, L, I. Mr, Kggrigan, who Was stricken with bladder trouble some time ago, has jf thé new rules ae set down by Miss [Délano, and bent fetal which the i ‘are objecting, provides that he; mare OM peak to the mate nurses 4 1 ¥ ans their hours of duty. \ Pathe Se Delano Is too te ‘They s ‘say they are liable ta be or evel 4 aS me untied. ous nurse, who carn. ‘allow her name to be used, ‘to-day that a few days ago she “called down" for speaking to an- boy Wan Crosing Bridge and Wae | “Caaght by Guat of Wind. ROCHESTER. N. Y., Sept. &—Jimmic is, aged six years, was drowned in ‘Bre Canal, near Spencerport, yes- a , ‘erday, About noon the boy, who Is ji Pery sight for his age, was sent across / the canal for a pall of water. ‘A heavy gust of wind struck the lad hile on/a bridge ver tho cand! and before ajd cousd reach him. nila WANK BOOK, WEN ANSIGN. Momuel 3. Austin and John Magill, of firm of Austin & Magill, mano- " Ks, at No, 20 ¥, gaalgned, Sher female purse through an open 1 Nee Pee , potitton, It Is zexpected,. will vel med by Nearly al of the female lirses i the school and will then be to the board of trustees, Miss no le on her vacation, it | \ | } BLOWN INTO CANAL, e Was diown ito ‘the water and} gradually grown worse, and to-day Rev. |Wather McCartney, of Northport, was | omtlea to adminjster the last sacraments | to nim. While the auctioneer has long been a factor in Brooklyn politica, he has not been Prominent in a public way, al- though his close acquaintancesh!p gn@ dally association with Hugh McLaugh: In, the leader of ings County, has madi [his power undoubted. His auction rooms were affected by McLaughlin when the latter began his Sway as leader and over since has been the rendezvous of the Democratic forces. importance put through within the dingy walls of the place, The main room is @ bare, gloomy apartment, about twenty-five or thirty feet, in the rear of which {s the private oMces of McLaughlin and Kerrigan. It js one floor above the sidewalk at No. 9 Willoughby street, and ts reached by a stone stoop, with old-fashioned {ron rall- ing. Mr. Kerrigan's city residence is at No. 165 Prospet place, Brooklyn, PUBLISHING FIRM PAILED. August B, Skoog and George A. Pat- terson, who did businesa under the name of the Evangelist Press, Printers and Publis! , at NO 166 Fifth ave- ir, ‘ dowed for the express purpose of lo- cating and counteracting the germ of summer complaint after his be- loved little grandso Cormick, had fallen a victim to the indispogition so fatal to infants. Less than a month after the death of the child, which affected Mr. Rocke- feller deeply, he announced a fund of $200,000 to be devoted to medical re- search and asked Dr. Welch, of Baltt- more, one. of the most noted pathologists , to take charge of it. Credit Due to St which has been as been con- Medienl School. Their discovery is an- | nounced as the first victory for the Rockefeller Institute of search. But Dr, Welch does not hesi- tate to give the young men full credit for the actual finding of the epecific or- ‘Mr. Bassett, who had devoted several py, has the honor of actually discovering the germ that Mr. Rockefeller seeks that he may destroy Mr. Duval i the credit due of years to misci any other food. took p Aregular diet of MattasVita he ‘poral wenn distyper wilt remove Ose cause of lasemala aad dyspepeta. crowned with suocess, hi roughout the summer he Thomes Wilson Sani- dren at Mount Wilson, ts, tute laboratory of tI rug or serum. the bacillus they tartum for Onil tn Baltimore County. CAPT. O'REILLY HOT EADS’ AMONG HIS MEN He Blames Them for Stories of Vice in Precinct and Says He Will Make Them Work, AFTER: ‘SORE H m he; fellows are up to. The stories come from policemen who are sore because they have beep mado do thelr duty. Capt. Miles O'Reilly was mad wae turned out the first platoon to-day In) the Oak strect station. He had read 11 |rnevit) feet worse before I get through at his men were | with them. over the atrict | and a furtper) a morning newspaper th ‘on thé point of revolt Aisqipline maintained, tement that vice cause the police account on pai “Tam against loafors. man dismissed from the force since I | came here and I had five of them up on charges Iqst ‘Thursday. more than five before the Commissioner next Thuraday, I'm thinking. “This story that there are four pool- rooms and fifteen policy shopa and a lot of disorderly houses running is a plain Me. I have two men on duty on every | block to watch suspicious places. “If it will Go these sorcheads any | good, you can tell them that they will have to do real police duty while they are in this precinct or got out of jt. It takes more than a uniform to con-| vince me ® man fy a policeman.” | T have had one ere held to such trol duty that they | 6 to secure evidence against jacel Thero will be “yim just putting en my coat to get out and sco that there fellows do police gala the Captain, gee that my men T am going to toe the line or know the in why. This is no lounging place ve who do not care to work. I won't have men loafing about and sleep- Ing in the station while there 1s police Every pow-wow of moment has been! held there, Slates have been made and_ unmade and deals of State and nattopal| 6 a thorough look {nto theve complaints and I know the game these GAS COMPANY IMPORTS COKE. five-masted schooner Nathaniel Palmer arrived In port to- day with a cargo of 3,400 tons of coke for the Copbolidated Gas Company. tt t this compaay pei tons of ‘coke trom VESUVIUS IN ERUPTION. from Orater of Famous LONDON, Sept. §—4 special despatch from Naples says argo volumes of-flame ate issuing from the crater of Mount TO CONSHOCRATS GUIDI. ROME, Sept. §.—Mgr. Guidi, recently pointed Apostolic Delagate BhihahsRiatace ss cating ent of Basees-Pyronces, A _ earthqu was felt here Are Wanted for Women’s Exhibition. | James©. Duane, Promi-| | nent Boston Business| | Man, Caused Death of} Wife’s Father. TRIED TO BREAK DOOR. | }Older Man Had: Called In Night and Was Shot Down! | While Attempting to Force Entrance. BOSTON, Sept. &—John C. Lehne- mann, who was shot in the abdomen during @ quarrel by his son-in-law, James C. Duane, a prominent business man of this clty and Brookline, died to-da, | ‘The shooting {s said to have been the | outcome of a series of family quarrels, From what can be learned Lehnemann went &) the Duane residence In Brook- jit t 9 o'clock Jast night in an intoxt- | cated condition and knocked at the door, |The only occupants of the house at the time were Mr. and Mrs, Duane aud thelr children No one responding to his knock im | mediately, Lehnemann attempted to| jbreak in the door, Whig Duane came | | downstairs and opened the door, Lehn jmann was in a towering rage and | hurled an epithet at his son-in-law and struck at him violently. Duane belleving that there must be trouble carried his revolver down from his bedchamber and upon his father-in- law making a rush at him he fired, striking Lehnemann tn the abdomen It je said by members of the Duro charge the firearm merely frighwod his father-in-law. - Lehnemann was fifty years of age. Duane, who ts twenty-six, is under at at. TRIES TO MURDER MOTHER WITH ANE Insane Youth Cleaves Aged Woman's Shoulder as She Dodges and Barely Escapes Being Brained. Joseph, Small, eighteen years old, a machinist, after ‘trying to brain his aged_mother with an axe, is ar. ving maniac In the Flatbush Insane jum, | He lived with his mother a 1% | Bnrtys avenu Brooklyn. While y! ra Small yas preparing a meal she Saw & shadow on the wall, her son creep into the room was an uplifted axe. She dodged the blow, alnied at, the back ot her head, but her shoulder was Iatd open. | “Hofore the madman could renew the attack she sprang from the room and barricaded herself in her bedroom are | @ a always to be found at this sanitarlum jy TE an ee eee URsuRhe during the summer months. Welch stationed two studen he has taken great interest by reason of theinr intelligent devotion to bacteriol- ogy and microscopy. One of them was Charles W. Duvall, | says her son had heen acting queerly. who will gain his|Her fear that he would do something | in to murder het, her screams brought nelghbors. Three policemen had their hands full subduing Small. He was taken to the tern District Hospita and put in a straltjacket. There he ferred to Flatbueh insane Asylum, Mrs. Small js not badly wounded. She violent made her watchful. Her cau- SON-IN-CAW'S KILLED TRYING family that Mr, Duane intended to din) | became so violent that he was trans-| tlon saved her life. | FOR Brain and Muscle Malta-Vita, the perfect food for old and young, sick or well. contains more nutrl- webullding quali tion, more ti chera announced thelr ‘ wh discovery Dr. Welch end Dr. James H. more nerve stimulant than is found im M. Knox, of Wilson Sani! claims of the stud of the to discover a di which ‘will ov ipcov: Eat MALTA-VITA ~ It gives health, strength, and happiness, Malta Vite Is no cooking. Iwaye ready to eat. @OLD BY OMOCERS Battle Creek, Mich. heated bowels, undie and produces irritat’ ng to relieve themselves acid Bowels, alta‘Dita (THe PERFECT FOOD” MALTA:-VITA PURE FOOD CO. | Toronto, Canada » | ON’T GET IN ASWEAT | Perspiration —" sweat” is what the Bible and we common ple call it—is a way nature has of driving out of the body refuse that has no business there. We sweat more in summer, because, in the over- ested food ferments more quickly than in winter acids and gases. The bowels, overworked, try y violent convulsions, causing terrible gripes and colics,and diarrhoeal discharges so the intestines weak and worn out. Na- All ruggleta, 306; ase, soe. Never gold {9 bulk. tal stan cb "Gustantecd to care or yen? Ln Diet ped Sample pnd Seeker free. Adérece, Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago w.New Vor, BBS TO SAVE WIFE. Husband Almost Be-; headed by Negro Ser-| vant Who Attacked) with a Razor. WOMAN BADLY WOUNDED Slayer Escaped and Lynching| Party Is Searching for Him| —Supposed ta Have Been Crazed by Cocaine, TERRP HAUTE, Ind., Sept. 6—| Thomas Burke ts dead at his home here | with his head almost completely sev-/ ered from his body, while his wife is in a dangerous condition from either kotfe | or razor wounds inflicted by Matthew Alexander, a colored man, who had been employed about tho house for five, years. Alexander entered the room in which Mre Burke was sleeping with her thir-) ten-year-old daugh midnight | while her husbanc asleep on a f the room was awakened by feeling J of a sharp instrument her cpeck, and screamed. her and. Burke rushed | the rescue of his wife, Dut he w only partially awake when Re wisi slashed nas the neck and face by the newro When Burke fell dying upon the floor | the man ran out of @ side door, but at-| tempted to re-enter the rooms after t door had been bolted by Mrs. Burke. Burke died almost instantly. No cause {8 known for the tragedy. as Wiexander had been well treated and trusted by the family. | He was sald to have been a slave to ine hablt r and he may have been under the Influence of the | drug. The negro has not been captured a searohing party Je looking for him and threatening to lynch him, BEGGING BOY'S HONESTY PROVEN. He Found a Pair of Valuable Opera Glasses in the Street and Gave Them to the Police. Patrolman Barber, of the West Thir- tleth street station, arrested a sharp- eyed German of seventeen years, named Otto Gries, the boy was begging. parents live in Hesse-Darmstadt, but that he left home to see the world, land- {ng first in London, then {n Ecuador and then in New York, ‘A man who recognized him knew him as a boy who had refused moncy a few nights ago because he wanted to go to the Newsboys’ Lodging-House and said | he did not care to beg, Sergt. Fuchs also recognized the lad as the boy who a month ago had found a pair of val- uable opera glasses and given them to a policeman | ‘The sergeant said he then told the boy | to come in and see him if he stood In| need, but the boy's first visit to the sta-| tlon-house afterward was when under arrest. | as to make you sore, and leaving ture assists body-cleaning by sending the filth out through the pores of the skin. Itig pot safe to stop perspiring alto- gether but most of the inpure matter should be sent ovt by the natural movements of the bowels, and the. offensive, ill- smelling, linen-staining sweat done away with. Keep your bowels strong all summer with the pleasant, candy cathartic CASCARETS, that clean the system and don't allow the ex- crement to be sweated out through the pores. Take a tablet every night, before go- ing to bed. They work while you sleep and make, you feel fine and cool all day. Comforters. Blankets. The first reminders of heavier bedding are here—cool mornings and early evenings. We meet your needs with values entirely out of the ordinary. These for example:— |OUR POPULAR COMFORTERS, covered on both ‘ | with the finest slik nlsted eilkolines filed wick: snow L985 white cotton, light and fluffy as a down quilt, A OUR POPULAR WHITE CALIFORNIA BLANKETS, full sise. 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