The evening world. Newspaper, November 24, 1902, Page 1

is GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 8. The Circulation Baqoks Open to All.”’ } PRICE ONE CENT, ~ WOMAN SUES C W. B. SMITH >. Strike Is Over, put He Is a Member of the Metropolitan Club and | The unexpected cold snap has had the Miss Langer Says Prom. | cftect of awakening patient, long-suffer- . | ing New York to the fact that although ised to Marry Her, | the anthracite strike has been settled f more than a month and coal has * WENT TO EUROPE TOGETHER a for | been coming to New York at the rate | of 30,000 tons a day the coal famine ontinues Anthracite in stove sizes sold to-day Promisea Her $300 a Month | throughou: the elty at from $7 to $7.90 for Life When He Refused! 22 msosanie buy cont at that price, te Wed Her, but Has NOW! “White ash coat," said the dealers to, ‘ > * pore anxious to buy, is $6.59 a ton— z Discontinued Payments, °°" avantcght Pree eo have red ash at $7.0 a ton,’ In the tenement districts the price of | ful Julia Langer, of the Moate-| coal continues at 13 cents a pall or 30 Apay nts, » $36 Seventh nts for a big containing 1% pounds. peared fn Part IV. City While the Indian summer weather was Gourt to-day berore Judge Samuel sen- {om thers email demand for coal WEP UIATK Gulkerorel : among the tenements, and the natural aid ov breach of contract | supposition was that the dealers were against Warren B Smith, a wealthy stocking up for the rush sure to result But when the tired busin from the tirst cold snap. man of Yonkers, mem- OAL MEN S HOLD UP PRICES. 00 Tons Have Reached New York Since for a Cold Snap and Higher Prices. qa Dealers Hold It ‘Back and s0 profitable is the business that the Jersey dealers have been compelled to refuse many who have gone Into it. | Up State and-in many nearby cities an- thracite in coal sizes is selling at from $5.80 to $6.40 a ton. But here the dealers |have the situation so well in hand that they sel to whom they please and at what prices they choose to ask, Following !s a list_of coal shipments! | to this port to-day, The coal people say| | that no large quantities will arrive any| day until after the close of navigation: D.. 1. & Ontario & Western. Central vivania sesees 48,000 900 tons will be transferred to barges and shipped to New England. Enough Coal Coming to Town. rk should get on well with a reasonable supply of coal for everybody under present circumstances with ship- | ments of 30,000 tons a day,’ said a rep: resentative of the operators to-day."If we sent mora here jmot handle tt.” Since the settlement of the coal strike about 910,000 tons of anthracite In coal sizes have been shipped to this city— that Js about 910.0% tons of stove alze anthracite have left the mines con- signed to New York. How much of it got here no man can tell. To hear the dealers talk about 99 per cent... or 72,000 tons, of it got lost on the way the dealers could ments in the Rutland wailing for a chance to buy § A. H. Hummel, of Howe & Hummel, | Money in Peddiing Coal, N appeared for the young plaintlf, and) pre pegdiors who sell from wagons at Carl R. Norwood for the middle-aged de-|gi0 a ton appear to have no diMeulty tn feuda |seting coal, ‘They buy it In Hoboken, | The young woman claina that Mr, | — ———— Smith took her abroad with him and! travelled “all over Europe," {ntroduc- | 7 ing her as lils wife, and with the dis- tinct undorstanding that thoy were to , U } be mareied thely return to this *counsey. When they got back to New York in | January lest, the plaintift doctares, Mr. | U Zmith refused to marry her and mac ———, a written contract to pay her $0 a » ith forthe Stlanve of her fe He H ‘ / Pa SLAM, she cose ant they, sopra English Barrister Morsehead the payment, This was two month Brings Suit to Recover That ago, The suit, which is a test e Is for the 3000, alleged to be due for the | last two months Plainum Appears, Miss Lange took a chair as room ae possible was fashionably gowned more attention than she upon. A heavy brown ecreened her face. Mr. Smith was also in court before the Judge arrived. He is a man of stately bearing, and an lron-gray military mus- tache added to his distinguished appear- ance. He chewed the end of this ner- vously in court and mopped the beads = of moisture from his forehead. The room Was not warm He denies the plointift's claims de- claring, first, that there was no contract Amount from the Estate of C. P. Huntington. early and! k of the , TELLS OF GREAT FRAUD. and ati had soun! veil partially What will probably be the biggest law- suit ever brought In the courts of the United States, from the standopint of the amount of money involved, has been begun in an action brought by Walter | Morsehead, representing the minority stockholders of the Central Pacific Rail- road, to recover more than $100,000.00) from the estate of Collis P. Huntington, which enormous sum the plaintiffs ae- and, second, that, {f there w the | i e Ce 1 Pa- clare the stockholders of the Central Pa- yOung woman broke her part. He also bees Rallroad were defrauded of by the sets forth that her name is not Julia | ee ene vere is. P. Huntington, Langer, but Julia Reel. Miss Langer took the stand and said abe was introduced to Mr. Smith in a restaurant, Shanley's or Rector's, ahe 4i@ not remember which. and on his In-| ‘vitation accompanied him abroad. She | testified at length concerning their European wanderings. How He Proposed. Q. How were you registered at the ‘Hote! Savoy in London? A, As Mr. and + Mra. Smith, maid and valet. Q. Where did you go from the Savoy? A. To Paris Q. Did he propose to you In the Savoy? A. Yes. He sald; “How'd you like to he my wife?” J said I was delighted to accept. He sald: “All right; we'll get married as soon as we get back to Americ: Q. How were you accosted In Paris and Monte Carlo? A. Always as his wife—as Mrs, Smith. Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and | Mark Hopkins, known In the gigantic |rattroad deal of years ago as the Ol four. Through their counsel, Robert Fulton secured from Justice Fitzgerald, in the Supreme Court, an order to show cause why the executors of the Huntington estate should not file an inventory of the estate so that they may know how many millions they may recover if the sult is successful, as the entire Hunt- ington estate would undoubtedly be | swallowed up. whereupon sults would be begun against the heirs of Leland Stanford, Charles Crocker and Mark Hopkins, How the Money Wan Tak According to the complaint in the sult, when Collis P, Huntington and the other members of “the Big Four,” all of whom are dead, were officers and directors of Q. When you sailed from Genoa on|the Central Pacific Railroad Company, the Fuerst Bismark, what did he ask|organized to build several thousand yout a. How {£ wanted to travel—un-| miles of lines, they gave the contracts der what name. I told him it | for the construction of the road to thelr en difference, but as he was ucing to marry | own companies, and In. that way put me I supposed as Mrs. Smith, So we 2 Were registered and known as “Mr. ang|!nto thelr own pockets more than Mrs, Smith. 100,000,000 (9: On yout return to, New York. where| ‘The complaint names the Pacific Im ald you go? A. To his apartment. in| ane Ci ther Cantraateand id and stayed a w !n | provement Company, fhe Rutangee my motner, “eT? | iinunce Compaay and the Weatern De- 9: What did you ask him then? A, I/ velopment Company as the favored cor- tran try | porations in the award of contracts for dhim when he was going to m aid he was not golng to . Rais Lasked him want Dhad done, | the construction and improvement of the ? He eald, “Nothing.” 1 sald, “Why do| Central Pacific, and states that there told him Tl compantes were owned and controlled you throw me overs’ ry a consult an attorne: e : Molaon't do. that. Tl give you sgiy | by Huntington and his assoclates. These month 1s long a8 you live 1f you don’t companies, it is alleged, were paid ex- rice: hey Perinan out inv evide {orbitant prices for the work that t cre deuaetfer recefved by the meintt® | did, namely, $163,000,000, when the actual at the Hote! Savoy the following day: | cost of the work was not more than ‘The Prominory, Note. 500,000,000. Nisw YORK, ‘Sunday afternoon, ‘The complaint in stating that’ $30,000,000 My Dear Little Julie; worth of bonds were {ssued by the Uni- tt oy eo et real the prom: | ted States Government for the purpose (rey that t’made to dine with you. this | of aiding in the construction of the Cen- evening. In the first place, I think It] tral Pacific sa: better that we should not be together) “In purusuwnce of these fraudulent this evening, and In the second place, T| arrangements the said Huntington and want to go to the country, TI think it} his associates from tume to ume de- would be wise for you to at once find] livered to. themselves through the In- strumentalities of the said sora fome pore economical, lace, to live In than the Savoy. I shail send you al the whole or greater part of the oheck for $40 on the Ist of February | 090 worth of the United States Govern- ‘and £10) on the Ist of each month after-| ment bonds given by the Government to wal aid the construction of the Central ‘While I wish I could afford to be|cifle and Mkewlse the whole or greate ro generous, it will at least keep you! part of the bonds and capital stock of ‘om, t, Knowing that you will be) the Central Pacific Railroad to the total ty at this note, I think it would| value, as the plaintift is informed and be better that we should not meet until | belleves, of upward of $16,000,000, which little time may soften down any un-| bonds and stock were obtained in pre- ind feelings you May harbor toward me. tended payment to the companies afore- said, and the plaintift 1s Informed and ‘When you are eettled I would esteem | belidves that the construction of the it a favor if you would let me know| roalroad and all its lines did. not ac= Your address, as I should be very un-| tually cost more than $60,000,000."" Mr. Cutting told an Evening World re- Cutting, the plaintiffs In this suit have | MADE CHIEF OF POLICE IN JIFFY Head of Hoboken Force Retired | Against His Will and a Patrol- | man Boosted to His Place in | Four Quick Jumps To-Day. { OVER OWN FATHER’S HEAD. Polise Chief Donovan, of Hoboken, who was at the head of the force in that clty for thirty-elx years, was re- ured on half pay this afternooa, against his will, under circumstances more or less sensational, He asserte that he will carry the case to the courts to secure relfistatement, as he is a veteran, and can prove that he is mentally and physically able to fulfll the duties of the postition, The enforced retirement ;Donovan by the Police Coinmissioners | was no less sensational tnan their method of appointing a successor. ‘They jFallroaded Patrolman Pairick ayes from a beat to the Chief's office in less | than fifteen minutes. Hayes Js thirty-two years of age, a son of Capt. Hayes, of Headquarters, nd has been on the force only eleven | ye Immediately after the retirement | of Chief Donovan the Commissioners promoted Hayes to the rank of rounds- man, Then they made him successively Sergeant, then Captain and finally Chief undoubtedly the swiftest pleve of pro- motion work on record. When Capt, Hayes heard that Chief Donovan had been retired and that his own son had been made Chief of Police | he, too, made application for retirement, | His request was granted, Capt. Donovan ix one of the best- known Chiefs of Police in the United States. He has figured in many. big cases, the most recent being the Anni | | Neison-Pulitzer murder Mystery, in| which he trailed down Willlam. Hooper Young. Inspector Byrnes, in his book, calls Chief Donovan one ‘of the ablest detective officers in the country. MORGAN CALLS FOR BONDS. New York Central First Mort, Exchangeable for New Ianue. J. P, Morgan & Co, announced to-day that they are prepared to recolve any of the New York Central first mortgage 7 per cent bonds maturing Jan. 1, next, and which are exchangeable for new 81-2 per cent, 10-year gold mortgage bonds of 1997. ‘The amount of 7 per cent, bonds ma- turing Jan. 1 1s $18,300,000, and there are $5,700,000 of 6 per cent. bonds which of Chiet o will mature at the same time, Both issues were floated in 1913. By their re- Urement the Central will dispose of practically all ity high interest Indebt- edness. J, P. Morgan & Co. who constitute the syndicate to pay off the issue, have the new bonda ready for transfer. NO ONE CLAIMS DIAMOND. Who Found it at Horse ow May Yet Own It, “Mrs. McCloskey, the woman who found Wom @ontinued on Second Page.) (Continued on Ninth Page.) self by next Friday the ring will ba| The poker games and theatres parties giver, Yo ‘tars. McCloskey. It is said to | dr! roe and suppers are eliminated yortsy Bec, Suen tne taking of testimony will begin i to-morrow. ‘e Cure o Cold im One Day. Broker Valentine, |Conlines Case to Evidence of | ty-third street, the New York Life Building, answering through David May, his attorney, says that he to other women by his wife as an off- set to the attentions she recelved from other men. often men and castons left with Dr. Austin been entertained by suppers and other amusements, and on | one occasion, at Huber's road house in| Jerome avenue,” behavior on says that his re! en were as Innocent as hers with other | Produce Exchange, the Court. that the person to whom her was Grace Stowell, Valentine night Mrs, Valentine mentions to meet a friend named Williams. she and Sister Ida and the two detec- tives found Mr, Valentine in her raom Miss clinging silk night robe.’ the lato Dr. have one child, take the child on Sunday eaoh week, on his promise not to overfeed with candy, ‘Wyatt, who was the son of Sir Richard Wyatt. They all No. 127 West Ninety-third street, Mr, Valentine complains that they fre- quently had poker parties there, a qua ter ante and a dollar limit, and they insisted on having many men ac- quaintances in the game, and he, Val entine, playin, peace,’ couldn’ Under the rule of the Court che ques- © Glemond ring at the Horee Show while | gna whic, the jury are to decide are cleaning a box supposed to have been|!pia Gharves Carleton Valontine give cocupted by members of the Vanderbilt /his wife legal cause for dtvorey at tne |p family, was paroled on her own recogni-| house of Annie Neyer, alias ; xance by Magistrate Fiammer in Jetfer.| No. 29 West Forty-elghth son Market Court to-day, Oct. % 1901, OF on either of fy | No one has claimed the ring, and if| occasions?” Grace St | the owner does not declare him or her |respondent named in each question NEW YORK, MONDAY. AVS HIG WIFE. PLAYS POKER, Whose Wife Played Detective, | Declares She Indulged a} Dollar-Limit Game. | COURT RULED STORY OUT. What Mrs, Valentine Al >ves She Saw When She Wa H int- ing Evidence Against |i m.: In anawer to hig wife's sult for vorce Broker Charles Carleton Va tine complained that she played dr poker with a quarter ante and a dollar limit at their home, No. 127 West Nin The sult came up for trial to-day in Part II, of the Supreme Court. It at- tracted a big crowd. The plaintiff, Mr Grace I, Valentine, was expected to te! what she saw in a hou in West For- ty-eighth street, which she visited with her sister and two detectives In a hunt for evidence against the broker. It was believed als o that Dr. Austin Flint Edward F. Butler, of the Produce Ex change, and other well-known men, would testify in opposition to the tn- sinuations contained in the affidavits filed by the husband. But the curlous were doomed to dls- appointment so far as seeing well known citizens on. the witness rack for Justice Clarke soundly denounced the husband for the Introduction of the | names of these men into the case, In| which he made no direct charge and | whose names were mentioned with no Kood purpose, Justice O'Gorman or- dered that the case be tried on the specific charges made by the wife. It # the sult of Mrs. Grace I. Valen- tine against Charles Carleton Valentine, who has an income of $10,000 a year from the firm of Valentine & Flagler. brokers, at No. M6 Broadway. Jones & McCormick are her attorneys. How She Got Evidence, Mrs, Valentine 18 a small person, with | dark halr and small, dark eyes. She | alleges that she and her sister, Mrs Ida 8. Wyatt, accompanied by two de-/ tectives, followed her husband one night a year ago and surprised him in a house in West Forty-elghth street. She says/ he tried to escape through the bathroom | when she and her escort broke into the house, . All Understood, He Saya. Mr. Valentine, whose offices are in | ' was permitted to be attentive | In particular he specifies that she | went to the theatre with other “on no less than twenty oc Flint and with dinners. him The husband makes no charge of mis- the part of his wife, but tione with other wom- men. He says George W ook her out entworth of| Edward F. Butler, of the is also named as ne of Mrs. Valentine's friends, Tt Js the insinuations contained in these aMdavits that are ruled out by amMdavit husband | @pnoyingly attentive was Miss a comely & person of twenty-four, who lived at the board nghouse, in West Forty-cighth sireet Miss Stowell says in an afMdavit that had merely called on the Mrs. Valentine says In her But Mrs. Valentine declares that when Stovill “had on a diaphanous, Wife Hus Custody of Child. The Valentines were marriei at the “Idttle Church Around the Corner" by Houghton, in 1893. They llttle Harold Le Roy edains bre ' ; Valentine, “now five years old. srw. (2S cainst the three platoon systems. Valentine was given the custody of the child pending the suit, but when ‘ the father got a writ of habeas corpus.) The comparison was reached by the known results on Jan, Justice Truax granted him leave to him Mrs, Wyatt ‘s the widow of Harry F. lived elegantly at but that in the afford ame to keep the 1 losses. —————— “Black & White” Scotch Whisky went for Your taste—beat for your health. *%0! welt 2, [=the tank Grand Central P: 27 last. wher men resp curred in the subway at Forty-second street, as against 328 officers and men wiio r o’cicck this afternoon raided an alleged women’s pool-room at No. 238 West Thirty-seventh street. Fifteen women were ar- 92 Liberty sircel, fell through the elevator shafi at No. 529 Broadway t we Fay F Din PT@\N eee mm Te NW \ NOVEMBER 24. 1902. MRS. CHA { FORTUNATUS WINS TWO MEN KILLED AT ODDS OF 30TO 1 eee spas Collegian, at 9 to 5, Takes the Long Race Over Hurdies at Bennings Track. THE WINNERS. RST RACE—Collegian 1, Black- smith 2, Ragged Cavaller here this afternoon but the untay »ndition lid not deter several thou ple from coming out to the course. There were no stakes on the ecard, but the events had well matched tlelds and Hood sort was promised he (rack was in excellent condition SECOND RACE—Glennev White Ghost 2, Harkelmore 1 Mile and th 1 THIRD Ragictn 2, RAC Retire Jocks Monohan. 138 ? rs | Riackemi [the Raeged Chevalier | He Gratl 3, }ies Heroles, 158, § Broke down Start good, Won Ragged maker, but alan RACK—Ray 1, FOURTH Rockey 3. ily Cavalier w the end ® the there, winning easily from Blacksmith, wh» | Ragged Cavaller thirty lengths for the FIFTH RACE Valley Forge Metatersinger ¢ 1, Hime April Shower ¢ j place SNINGS RACH TRACK, Nov ne ‘acs track this afters the statement mane by Harr father ty the effect that Moflen put Cochran on |! he knew they were unfit | Mt chance win. tye fay can prove alll? to the Jockey ance to do so. Mr. day the! he in thy stewards the reason rnard and ¢ germitied on the se.[ head to the stret he was not permitted | White pert ‘ the would slipw his by a ening World. Nettine ne Wond 12, tte G helm 1 x Nar Hornard, Recklens noon war re. 2. Joh ans iw 10 a Ma *n ie head and Fuegs and r Mat Whit K s 9 1 ih W Ws Time in rac with In the lead 1 20, 1 ny ‘ 00d. Won that ou i frow t took winning tr he rt he ride. weather The riw and blustering antinued on Kighth Page.) POLICE MOBILIZED TO SHOW MERITS OF TWO PLATOONS. “ Circulation Books Open to All.”’ RLES Cc. VALENTINE AND HER HUSBAND, | ¢ a AGAINST WHOM SHE ACTED AS A DETECTIVE. ALO) FLOWS ER Nd Mh PRICE ONE Ci IN FIGHT WITH HAVANA (HOB, Four Policemen Wounded, Two Strikers Kilied and Many Wounded in Street Fighting Near the Palace AMERICANS THREATENED, | Believed That Anti-Annexation- ists Have Been Secretly at Work to Stir Up Feeling Against This Countryin Cuba, (Copy rigas, 1902, by the Presa Publishing Company, HAVANA, Nov. %.—The strike situa= mn here Is very day, ‘There several clasies between the police, n Y Police Capt, Mar in] three policemen were wounds | ed and three strikers were killed. Many ythers were wounded, several of whom will dle All the police in the city and the rural” guards, as well as the military forces, confront the strikers. Machine guns are trained on the prime clpal streets, and if the trouble is ree newed there will be dreadful loss of fe | All the clgar factories where the, strikes have beon in progress are under guard. Business 1s at a standsitil in clty. Every branch of labor in the city is on strike, The poor cannot get bread or meat owing to famine prices, and the antl-annexationists are said to be @tif™ = | Frave and the s BY ELEVATOR, It Was Being Tested, When a | Slight Check Slackened the Rope and Caused the Car to Fall. ONE INSIDE. ONE BELOW. ring up the excited populace In order te “4 *| provoke feeling against the | — States. a); | Two men were killed in a strange] During the day an attempt was made elevator a in Hearn’s elght-story| to run the street cars, but a howling, WACORGUARL at 24 West Thirteenth| mob filled the streets and refused to lepi street thia afternoon. They were em- 4 we ployed by McAdams & Cartwright} them Proceed. Company, which had placed an eleva-} In many Instances passengers were tor in the building, and met their death | Hterally dragged from the platforms while engaged a test under the di-| and were roughly handled by the rection of the foi n, John Watson. strikers. Watson had charge of the machinery.| At one time it was delfeved that 16 dd Dedendorf, expert vator] would be necessary ¢o call upon the constructor, was looking after the ca-| United States Cavalry to ald in putting — Wes at the m of the shaft and| down the rioters. Willlam Horris was running the ele-} Col. Bliss, who is here as the special — representative of President Roosevelt, with Minister Squires, will report to Washington that the better class of The minary and Harris ran pre Ss were suc- root wit the intention rwly to the m citizens and the property owners are w the car was descending, Fore- | openly clamoring for the return of the man Watron says, some workenan In| American flag and troops. the building oj a door in the shaft | The city ts being strongly guarded te atthe ftth unt placed a. plank | Prevent incendiariem. cresa, None of the elevator employ The Mayor is censured for eympathis- saw the plank. When the elovator ing with the rioters and not taking struck it there was cientary pause} PPQPEr steps to prevent the outbreak. Late in the afternoon the strikers is sucd a manifesto asking the rioters te eserve order and the street cars were to resume traffic. ur have been sent-by President alma for the Rural Guard to concen= trate in this city, and it is possible that may supplant the police tem- arily unless the latter can keep order, Tats would amount to martial law, Gen. Gomez called a meeting of vet-’ erans to-day to consider the proposition o! proffering their services to the Gov. ~ ernment KRUPP LEFT $150,000,000, plank wed the slack un out, As Tit fell rapidly unt the the holst r wis 1 of shi rs ype the yoand lied later Watson Jefterson the was rea en tae ew aft. Killin madly dngi art i tor ny Harris od and sunt. He navoldable was, Marke dent wa DIED AS HE BOUGHT taken to says that Commissioner Partridge said late this afternoon that the purpose in mobilizing the police from many precincts at the 0 w the efficiency of the two , under the three-platoon system: 191 officers and dvd { yey call when the explosion oc- Merge ponded to the call to- FIFTEEN WOMEN CAUGHT IN POOL-ROOM RAio. J The police of the West Thirty-sevenih street station at 4 ested. OKER HOLBROOK FALLS DOWN ELEVATOR SHAFT. William R. Ho'brook, a broker, seventy-nine years old. of 3 afternoon, He feceived a scalp wound and was therwise injured and was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital, RAIL ie Will Be Burled from Bia ' Father's Old Home, thet | BERLIN, Nov. %4—The funeral ¢f Herr Krupp will take place from tha. little old house where his father ive orly while striving to cast the fire: gun. The will of the decease: unmaker, according to a semi-authori- ive statement provides that the work; ot be turned into a Joint stoe. der twenty-five years, vevebues of ine who, the widow and after C. Edgar Williams, About to Start with Wife for Florida Expired in Newark Station. ve N XN: J.. Nov, 4.-C. tot t daughter, Tague sty Avmmotd, a) Wiillanie value of th icy estimated be” 4 Pt eat aa ieee ers WHO Wee & teu with Here Sompany bi} Lispenitrd stre Ikropp is $73,009 90. does not i New York who l'ves in Verona. drop ‘ securities 9 the decease. laead ‘in os ticket. udice| outside. of hia. rm swing piante, eel Which may possibly amcunt to as mugs at Market and 0G o'clock this a Mr. Willams Was accompanied by Mt “Give me a ticket for m ne denied. tied for Montle Fin, pt \e made wy staan the tek r, As he turned to Cet Mr. Willams fell on the ridge most ‘nmedia ‘« id Meis not fulnted A great orth he oor in full view from ta in t he aah Aas TAME lan to nel aie Aeonge yutl{ WEATHER FORECAST, re vid ‘eonst for the mere | re ending at 8 0 3 JUDGE EARLE IS STRICKEN. Re vert ao _ — i Vecasional rains vu N mt ken in su at his apartments Paimer House in Herkimer Saturday ening, is now tn a eritieal eondic Little hove is entertained of his re avery.