The evening world. Newspaper, December 2, 1902, Page 4

ve Sweetheart Jilted Him. %, t i James McClelland, a deat mute, was SOrraigned in the Long Island City | Police Court this morning and com- sifted as a vagrant for six months. It qwas virtually at his own request. Onve Fmell-to-do and now homeless, he will at S¥east ‘have a place to sleep und food | @uring the winter. Henry Schieth, now a deputy sheriff, ‘who had known McClelland as a boy, |“ Send later when he had grown up and } had money, met tho unfortunate man « }few days ago. He learned that he had been disappointed in love and taken to drink. Ho saw, too, tyat his friend was help- ‘tess, without money or friends. and } persuaded him to go to the police court ‘andhave himself committed to the work. house, so that at leas he would be _ comfortable, MoClelland's sweetheart, whose name } he will not disclose, jilted him and mar- wied another. He brooded over the sad game life had Played with him and after exhausting what he believed to be every other ‘Means to forget his troubles became a | @runkard. That was the downfall of (Tames McClelland, Because of failure to win the girl of his heart he made himself an exile from soctety; but some “money that he Inherited stood him tn ead, for his mind became such a Wreck he could not attend to business. After taking his first drink his fortune | began to slowly diminish, Deputy Sheriff Schieth was touched by the story his old friend told him. “Come to the court with me and T “will bave you committed for the win- /ter. We will take good care of you * the officer told him . Hand was prepared for almost ‘any fate when he faced Magistrate /Connorton. | “I am friendiess, penniless and heagt- Sbroken,” he told the Magistrate. And then the kind-hearted Judge listened, The girl that he loved was the daugh- ter of a wealthy resident of Brooklyn. )They had a “lovers’ quarrel,” but tt turned out more serious than many disputes of that character. In their J several yea: acquaintance she had to love him and he loved h eClelland. bitterly tried to Samends for the part he had pla the gbarrel, but she turned a deat is appeals. Then {t was she nother, It was too late for lcClelland. He tried to forget it he could not. MoCleliand Je well connected. He has @ sister living in Astoria, who {Is worth fortune and a brother living in Brook- ‘iyn who is wealthy. Pride rostratns 2 from seoking ald from them. ANISER READY TO -STRINE AT CASTAD ‘Berlin Declares that the Posi- .. tlon of Germans in Venezuela _ Has Become Untenable. ear to >) WPRLIN, Dec. 2—While Germany's ‘ginims against Venezuela amount to but 82,000,000, President Castro has repre- spented to Germany that Venezuela has Mittle credit abroad; that the country Is Gust emerging from a elyil war, during which planting and Industry were par- tially ruined, and that, therefore, no matter how much Ven@euela may desire to satisfy immediately the claims against her. it is obviously impoestple, Hence an agreement on the subject Must provide for deferred -pryments. The seizure of the Custom-Houses, by ‘depriving the Government of an im- “portant means to administer the coun- ‘try, would add to the internal distress “@nd disorder. > While President Castro's proporal “Pot disclosed there is reason to bell jthat they include the emission of bonds at a moderately high rate of interest, | with some sort of a guarantee that if the interest or the instalments of the Principal are defaulted certain Venezue- jlan Custom-Houses may be taken over ey Germany. FASHIONABLES SAN WAN RN, LEED _ | Would-Be Suicide, After Stash- y His, Throat, Dashed Along ‘owded Avenue in Lakewood. (Gdediat to The Bening World) KEWOOD, WN. J., De “i'm ured Hying and guess I'll go out in the and commit suicide,” said John pAifred Martin, a painter thirty-four oi, to a ealesman in J. Booper’s market to-ady. HINO meed to go to the barn; do it y? the clerk jokingly suggested. G 1 will,” answered Martin, getove anybody in the place could terfiere he seized a knife trom a meat iy ounds. Once Well-To-Do Deaf Mute _» , Committed to Workhouse at} Down and Tell About It, but His Own Request, After His} the Concoction Made a Ten- BROODED OVER TROUBLES. A SAD AFFAIR ‘It's Painful to Have to Sit Strike with the Gallery Gods. —————— HAS DEATH-HOUSE SCENE.) “The Great Polson Mystery," produced | in Blaney'’s Theatre, In Nework, lost |night, was exploded in the first act [That ts, the fuse burned up to the empty }bomb, but the gallery gods ging on {by thelr eyellds never saw the deadly THE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER ®, 1902. SOME THINGS IN THE MOLINEUX PLAY, AS SEEN BY ARTIST POW | mi bit Into the i irons loft to the last ax. | Chief Inciilents of the read the programme, pineux Trial, but ye gods! Robert Milando, the hero | of the “awful mystery,” let us analyze | him, Robert shed his pec on the first act In the cafe of the Metro- politan Sporting Giub, but he was pre- ceded by the villain, Harrison Cornwall (Chief Instructor, Athletic Department, Metropolitan Sporting Club). Harrison staggered in under his makeup, and after a few spasms he was it. That ts, he was IT. Whatever you had about you or could gather up in the immediate neighborhood was his, Whether he col- lected it in the few nooks and corners of his front face or profile, the gallery —that exponent of human sympathy or hate—certainly made their best effort to Nar effulgence than human, wished you had an axe. The Limit as a Hero. Aw a hero Robert was the limit. He those voices that you wonder how tt was made, But you don’t wonder long You realize that the man himseit at some strenuous moment tn his life had trled to swellow the hub of a beer wagon and It had split in his throat Such was Robert as to his vocal ex hibit. Sartorially he was far beyond power of expression, In the first place, his face didn't fit It was nefther that of “hero,” criminal nor Jobster. It had about the sume ex- pression as one of those putty faces that the professor slams up against the blackboard and then spends the rest of his act in trying to apologize for. Then he could not fit his clothes, nor could they fit him. He had on a bur- tesque make-up that his fervid lines only emphasized—that 1s, when he remem- bered them—for his lines, even handed out from the wings, slipped through his fingers to the stage, and when they bounded back he caught them “any old way.” The first sensation was the delivery of the poison package. Robert had pre- tried to tell you so, but after you had opiate and you had swallowed It all. Then through your cjouded vision you Httle brother's best clothes on. Blanche on the Scene. ‘Then Blanche came on, and you hope- lewaly dest ancestral Death tHouse, The Death House was an impro barn> with room erough for the “atn- lete” to-do a mile in ten laps, There Was a door thay opened and ehut with the facade of the Park Row Building, And these bari his four-acre cell anc Gescribe the intl but we caught: “My God, think that am to dle this ‘shamoless’ deat -well, we tion or the int 10 die in a few hour: and If I cannot dle here a free man dis- honored, 1 will dle without these grim wails, a dishonored man free This is enough for the visitor, who, grinding his his electrical doom. Au Infant Jury. Then comes th the Judge, the Ju on the top row. If McCullagh had them over to the Gerry. Society, Of the six on the row below, the chil- Juror’s nose the box, but n there for a pu omed al one kn} strong man of Ne the court room After tho # Was arrest as he W right, Victor ( ng a of counsel address to tho jury he drifted on to on his make-up ring his p he ate up the make-up, but nobody e Prosecutor O: stage without his o on wan or monke: hard and say a few words, speech and Wound up at both ends He wound up with, “he prisoner n ducked an onlon and sid out, The Burning Bridge Scene, drew th blade across his twice. Then he ran out into the swith blood spurting in « stream he Grand Stre¢ Ferry, and the villain comes tn and steps from the fe slip up to enue waa crowded witli fash- | bridge—that part of the structure enowts at the time and many”| (he, tople were made faint at the vedi Ne suet Pry ciel of Rois across t i rink, The r e collects ar he clother-Mnes and a brick 1# dro the, wings. Thissmakes o splas rotten canvas and the villain ts jm- ed Dintrict-Attorney Ongood Gov. Osborne) pleading to the Jary. atone In the background, JUMPED OVERBOARD, MURDERED WOMAN make him IT, and you, being no more tried to proclaim himself such, but his volce wouldn't let him. It was one of pared a headache powder, at least he stened to his cornugated volce for a few minutes you wished it had been an waw that he was the big brother with 43 to change places with our historic exhibit and ex- change the most subtle of poisons for a blunt and spike-edged club. Not that Bianiche did not cuddle to Robert nor Robert didn't cuddle to Blanche, but how?) Morget {t, and let us pass on to t sed | the draft and bars toa widow, BAKS to & prison window—it might have been incased in steel, and ing the sibtie action of the file.’ ed back and forth with the npter’s voice, and maybe he. didu't work overtime, The first. thing you Kaew Robert was looping the loop In m - an't ation, My God, to Before he can do any more injury ta himself the Keeper Jets in a condemned a this condemned one Is ing of fire and his 1s off of myriads of sparke, he can get no more from the “hero” than “I am innocent, eth, goes out to awalt ourt scene. There 1s y, the Prisoner and his Counsel. There are tye of the jury caught them voting he'd have turned drea let their whiske:s slip. The twellth e the rall of v if he were pose or not, for when y Went out to deliberate on Rob- the ju ert's fate he got lost in a crack and the ele Rave freedom to the prisoner without Consulting him, It was learned later tn the night that he was the ark and supported ry. thé foreman of the | ox-prine fighter, e prisoner. During his the wings every few minutes to gluc and consequently was hissed. He had clothes the padrone had loaned him. and his Instruotions were to scow! He began in the middle of his sot be guilty If I know It." Then he The last act was the burning Bast River Bridge scene, when Harrison Cornwall escapes the ever-pursuing. s of Nelly Fly, whom he had jothes ines are with barrel- wings—and out the st door Would-Be Suicide Changed His Mind After His Plunge. Patrick Callahan, twenty-six, of No. 76 Pavonia avenue, Jersey City, tried to drown himself by Jumping from the ferry-boat Sterlington, of the Erle Rall- road Company, this morning. The coid water had the effect of changing Calla- han‘« intention of committing sulclde and he began to str#e out and call for help, Callahan boarded the Sterlington at foot of Chambers street at about 6 and very cold on the outside deck and Callaban was the only passenger stand- Suddenly the passengers in the main cabins heard @ shout and a splash and thrown to Callahan, who was seen to hold the ropes which fell all aroynd him. down, and, grasping Callahan by the Har, Hfted him on deck. Ly wouldn't say why he tged to dle. Cgllahan was placed under arrest when the foat reached New York And taken to the Hudson Street Hospital suffering ce mersion, Wife of Man Beaten, Silent! Now, Will Wait Before Telling What She Knows. Frank Shannon, of No. 786 avenue, is dead in the New ¥. pital, while the police are searching for the three men who attacked and beat him into Insenslbility just outside a |saloon at Seventh avenue and Twenty- sixth street. James ¥ of No. 144 West Twenty- sixth street, was arrested early to-day on suspicion. ‘Two women were also ar- rested, ona claiming to be the wife of the victim When taken to the police station the latter refused totalk about the affair, but promised ‘to “open up" in case her husband dled. She said she had been in} Edwards's saloon with her husband and | that he had left her there,, A few minutes after he went out she followed him and found him unconscious one the sidewalk, He had been badly beaten on the head and fa Edward Cohen, of No. 24 Seventh avenue, told the police he saw three men attack Shannon outside the saloon, | saying something about a stolen over-/| coat, One of the trio ts sald to be an| Shannon and his wife are well-known charact In the nelghborhood, being ! known Frank and Nan in the sa- loons, ‘he second woman, who was with Mra, Shannon, refused to give the Hee her name or addr DO IT YOURSELF. It ts enpy to tell whether: your Kidneys are diseased. 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PITTSBURG, Dee. this clty are hunting for the young ped- dicr named Harry Singer, alias Aaron- who !s alleged to have murdered “Mra, Lizzie Wilson” in a resort near his home tn this city. Jealousy Is the only motive announced to account for the murder. asserted, went to his brother's house, in Allegheny, after changing his and obtaining $250 from a reiatt yclock this morning. It was pitch dark} then escaped from that elty. ‘The murdered Woman waa the wife of Bdward B. Cuthbert, a stock broke grain trader'in New York, who falled ing there. tive years ago. ‘A ‘native of South Carolina and @ Reandeon of the millionaire furrier, F, fom whom he inherk ert organizi Dene ‘wanized —The police of son, seen In this section. the ery Man overboard!" was raised. | comfortable cortune, eed | The ferry-voat was stopped and ropea|the firm of E. commission house, at 3 atraet, made a : struggling in the water. He kept shout-| Cees of the business for three weer ns ing to the deckhands to save him, but rete branch offices at did not seem to have strength enough |Aipy Rale Washington and Troy. bron rst downward tendency in nis | alg rtunes ocourred in 1896, when W! A rono ladder was lowered down the | jictig Young, one of the the starboard aide, and Decktiands John’ firm, was fodnd guilt oi Hulse and James B, White, climbed ducting a spurious transaction and was expelled from the New York Stock Ex- |robbery occurred in September, soon , after a new safe had been installed, and artners in the fraud in con- ange. ‘A year later the firm fatled for $300,000, FOUND DEAD IN HOME. from shock, caused by his sudden im-| Staten Inland Woman Is Fatally Stricken at Household Duties, Matilda Pettions, ——_—_. years old, was found dead at her home |‘ in Rosavitle, $. 1., to-day. [pared breakiast tor her husbai {then lain down, having complained of Soon afterward she was eollng ll need to have been SAFE-BLOWERS Metuchen Telephone Operator Fires on Them in Act of Rob- bing Post-Office and Causes Them to Flee. ROBBERS’ THIRD ATTEMPT. (Special to The Evening World.) METUCHEN, N. J, Dec ¥ third time fn six months up the sufe in the post-oMe mornin 4 would have made their third ful haul had jt not been for the bravery of James Grimstead, the night telephone operator for the New York and New Jersey Telephone Company. The post-office here seems to have been made the especial mark by a band of expertences safe-blowers. a new safe, the third they have ruined in this post-office. Grimstead heard @ loud explosion in the Post-Office at 4 o'clock this morn- ing. The Post-Office {s in the same bullding with the telephone exchange. He ran to the door opening into the Post-OMce from the hall, and, falling to get In there, he ran around to the front door. His efforts to get in the side door frightened the robbers, and they abandoned thelr work just as they were about to apply another charge of nitro-glycerine to the heavy door of the safe, The televhone overator met them just as they were running out the front door. There were two of them and he fired his revolver five times at them as they ran down the road. It Is not belleved that he struck elther, as both of them got away with- out any difficulty. The explosion of the safe and the pistol shots aroused the town, and {memdlately the Metuchen Vigilance Sovlety formed a posse of twenty-seven armed men, and, mounted on horseback, they stagted in pursult of the outlaws. ‘The whole country hereabouts ts be- ing scoured, and, as indfgnation runs high, violence may result if elther of the men {s captured, When Postmaster Edward Burroughs closed the safe last right there was In it $1,000 In stamps and about $400 In cash It is not believed the contents of the safe are Injured, but the door is so completely wrecked that it will be sev- eral days before it can be opened. The robbers made such a quick exit that they left their tuols behind them, It Is considered one of the most com- plete sets of safe-blowers’ tools ever The first assault on the Post Office safe was made last June, when robbers blew off the door and secured $700 in cash and $700 in stamps, The second then the robbers secured about $300 in cash and $500 in stamps. The door of that fe was blown off. MAYOR HEARS FROM CRITICS Gets Civil Service Reform Letter and Refers It to Commission. Mayor Low, after reading the letter from the Clyll Service Reform Assocla- tion to-day, In which the work of the Civil Service Commission {s severely geexted, issued etter from the Civil Service Reform Association to the Munlelpal Civil Service Commission for reply. Until I receive the reply I shal! hold ‘my own judgment in suspense, as I think the public should do. When 'the Jommiasion haz been heard from I shall ider what action, if any, ought to en.’ For Wednesday, Dec. 3. Women’s Waists--2 Specials By Far the Greatest Values Offered this Season $3.50 Flannel Waists for $1.98. 1 rade Botany Mills Cloth Finished Flannels, tailored with flat double silk stitched tucks, silk trimmed collars, one of the greatest waist values we have seen this season—colors light blue, old blue, royal, also white and black, value $3.50; $1 08 Special vatiiwsmeccccadesancsechaerceees aires $7.50 Silk Waists for $4.98. Elegant Peau de Soie Silk Waists, perfectly tailored, some fagot trimmed, others are tailored with tucks—all of them waists and made of an unusually colors light blue, pink, royal, also cream and black, value $7.50, at... $4.98 American Cut Glass. We are showing a magnificent collection of American Cut Glass—unique and beautiful examples in rich and elab- orate patterns, as well as the simpler styles of cutting for every day use. You can make selections now for presents leasantly and profitably, by reason of some very Special Prices Which We Quote for To-Morrow: Claret Jugs from... Handled Olives from.. Vinegar Bottles fro: Oil Bottles from... Made of the highest are beautifully fittin, handsome quality sil! or otherwise, both complete stocks, ani Sugars & Creams from $3.98 to $10.00 Water Bottles from. . . .$1.98 to $12.00 Wine Decanters from $3.75 to $12.00 Tumblers,per doz.,from $3.50 to $30.00 Celery Trays fro 3.98 to $15. Mayonnaise Bow! abi Plate, per sct, from. . $5.98 to $10.00 Water Jugs from.. ae poe pbs jpoon Trays from. Salad Bowls from. Fruit Bowls from......$9.00 to $15.00 ves BRAVE MAN FOILS)" “Doctor,” said our clerk, as a customer went out, “that wo- 80 Guenje and 125 Guenje and 125 Mixed Qualities Bn ie ee ee man would be a beauty if she were not so horribly thin.” “Yes,” said the doctor, “ she is really ifl; most thin women are ill.’ G Unusual thinness may mean worry, extra work, care of the sick, nervousness, dyspepsia, bowel troubles, or the first sign of a serious disease like consumption. The best thing we have found for thin people, whatever the cause, is Vinol. eTo combine the medicinal properties of cod liver oil with organic iron in such a powerful and yet well-tasting prepa tion, was a great discovery. @'If you try it and are not Picea we pay the money back. Riker’s Drug Store 6th AVE. and 236 8T Wail Orders Supplied, $1 Per Bottle, Express Paid. a Jonn Danial, SonskSons. Dry # Fancy Goods House. Clearance Sale in Ladies’ Suit Dept. (Second Floor.) A great variety displayed in such manner that a single glance will be sufficient to make a se- lection, Suits—Cheviot, Broadcloth or Zibeline, formerly 20.00 to 65.00, for this sale 13.50 to 42.00 Walking Suits—A variety of mixtures and colors, Blouses, Norfolk Jackets, formerly 15,50 to 35,00, for this sale 10.75 to 22.50 100 Silk Dress Waists—all col- ors, in a variety of styles. Value 8.00, at 4,75, Immense Cut in Prices of Trimmed Hats, Toques # Bonnets to effect a clearance sale, Were 7.50, now 4.00 Were 10,00, now 6.00 Were 12.00, now 8.00 Were 15.00, now 10.00 Were 18.00, now 12,00 Were 20.00 to 25,00, now 15,00 Entrances on 3 Thoroughfares, Broadway, 8 & 9 Sts. Floliday Sale of Oriental Rugs. Karabagh Rugs, $13.50. Kavrabagh Rugs,| smaller, $10.00. and Sizes, 87.75: Lord & T. aylor, Sixth Avenue, 20th fo 21st: Street. || Broadway & 20th 6t. an Our December Sale of Blankets, Comfortables and Slumber Robes |w2ll take place to-morrow, Wed., Dec. 3rd. Unlimited quantities, exceptional values and sterling qualities. Only the Best New England and California | Mills are represented in this sale. Single Bed Size, 10-4, Double Bed Size, 11-4. Extra Large Size, 194, Also superior grades of Extra Fine California Blankets, large sizes, suitable for Holiday gifts, ; $12.00, $17.50, $21.50 & $23.00 per pair, ‘4 Another large purchase of Down Comfortables, covered with figured mercerized sateen, woven from combed } Egyptian yarn, beautiful designs; former prices $5 to’ $6, sale price $3.85, and a very choice collection of Holiday Specialties, frofd $4.75 to $28.50 Figured Silkoline Comfortables, filled with pure lamb’s wool, and sateen filled with pure cotton; two leaders at $2.50. Special Holiday Importation Roman Slumber Robes or Couch Covers, in hundreds of beautiful stripes and jacquard effects, at prices varying from 98c. to $6. 75 each, One special lot with Leopard Skin and Oriental signs and Color Weaves, specially designed for Bachelor Apartments, at In the same department may be seen a Fine Display of Fancy Pillows for sofas, cosy corners, etc., in ruffled and corded silk and. satins, together with fine specimens of Japanese hand em broidery; Special values, at $125, $2.75, $3.75 to $7.50. In connection with above for to-morrow, 1,000 Special Pillows, with 5-inch ruffle on figured sateens in Floral and Heraldie: 59c. each, Lord & Taylor, Broadway and zoth Street, devices, at Said the Bird: Take a bird’s-eye view. Re Look over our whole stock of boys% wearables, clothing, furnishings, hats and | shoes, and the two most are Wear and Gaod Looks. Boys’ suits $3.50 to $22. Rocers, Peet & Company, 258 Drosdway, cor, Warren, ‘opposite City Hall. 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