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| SPORTING NEWS } } \ i \ j ™ 1 | — \ | HIS DA! ON PAGE | 0 The “ Circulation Books Open to All”? | “ Circulation Books Open to All,’’ ¢ PRICE ONE CENT. EMBER 4, 1902. NEW YORK, THURSDAY. DEC POISONED 10 AILL Min. LEY \ Coroner Convinced that ‘ His Death Was Intend. ed by Some One Who Placed Drug in Bottle. UGHTER’S STORY. ) THE BEER WAS SER IOUS TURN IN REED’S ILLNESS. ————+-+-—__ Kidney Complications Are Threatened, but the) Symptoms of Appendicitis Are Abated. | WASHINGTON, Dec 4. — Former Speaker Thomas B, Reed, who 1s ill at the Arlington Hotel, in this city, | passed a reasonably comfortable night. When his physicians called this morn- ing they found that the symptoms of appendicitis, which developed yesterday, had abated somewhat, but, on the con- trary, there were indications of kidney complications, These complloations are due, they say, to the fact that for two or three days Mr. Reed has been subsisting upon practically a liquid diet, largely chan- pagne. The effect of this would be to induce a little kidney troubie, so that the present complications gre not re- rarded as serious. Mrs, Reed and her daughter, Miss Kittle, who arrived last evening, are assured that the present t Father, Who Was Aged } Manufacturer, Wealthy and’ 4 with No Known Enemies, Was (Well When She Took Him His ¢ Lunch. 4 ; Coroner Williams, of the Williams- burg district, in his investigation Into {the death of George F. Leyh, the rich % ald truss manufacturer, who died sud- flenly in bis home, No. 78 Broadway, | (Williamsburg, Tuesday after drinking omy beer, reached the conclusion to- @ay that Leyh was certainly poisoned Bhd that there was no reason to sus- Pect any ‘member of the family of hav- ang committed the crime. He examined at length Robert West- Phull, tne-fourteen-year-old boy who was an tnyh'n employ since Oct. 8 The ‘Poy was present at the tragedy and was} thy nly person in the house when Leyh Crime the fatal draught. “oung Westphall told ‘the Coroner other {it war customary for the old man 4) drink beer every morning, The beer war Kept in the cellar. so fWho. wot this bottie of beer?” the bay wht asked 9 “Mr Leyh himself’ he answered. “I yeas pucting coa) on the fire and I didn’t Dave enongh, [saw Mr. Leyh go into Abs cellar and 1 went out Into the hall f+ mom coal 1 saw him coming up toe ‘cellar stairs with one bottle in his hind After he had brought {t up he poured, out a@ half glassful and I otleed thet there was no froth on the op He drank some of it and said: ‘Bonny, you taste this beer.’ M and said: ‘Ir ts bitter,’ and kt began 4: burn my throat and I got dizzy. He ‘Pr lked over there (pointing to another ait of tie 1o01n where the examina- fon was seit held) and fell.” Drank Ouly Halt a Gl "How much had Mr, Leyh drank?" “About half a glass.” “Was It part of the glass he drank t you drank from?" ‘He first poured out a half gl @rank it. Then he poured out another and {t was this that I tasted. Had you ever drank beer before “Two months ago I quit drinking beer beca! to go to church every @unday, and [ thought I'd stop. But I Knew the taste of it, and this was bit- on burned here In my neck and I got and then 1 got a headache.’ What did you do when Mr, Leyh felt “J ran over for Miss Leyh. I did not wi where she was, so I ran dowa- Stairs, and then I thought she went to B house on the other side to telephone, @nd.4 went over there and told her gomething was the matter with her bie: you have ‘a headache before you Went for her? “Not ‘inti! after.” 4 Lopked Like Licorive Water. + “Did you notice anything peculiar in the bottle?" “At the top It looked Ike licorice pow- Ger when you pour ft out after mixing # and it don't come ont clear, It had ome sediment in the botiou, ‘There 3 also some sediment left in the wa the Boy sald that the bottle looked ay, = oe » Th ‘Punt as the other bottles In the case did. f Thete ‘ard som ry that the Coroner does not like, he expects to continue his invest!- estphal fives. with his Sister: No %1 Stockholm street. He the Leyhs when he went to work them that he had formerly worked - Charles E. Ring, of Kent avenue fend gouth Eighth street. Mr. Ring Baye he never had the boy in his em- also said that ‘the youngster was Rnown among the other boys in the meighborhood as John Forster. He told ‘Rhem he came from Maine. His mother gays this ie not true. ‘Phe police say they have almost a full tle of beer, This hardly agrees with boy's etory that the old man poured out the second 4. ‘This would almost emnpty ‘the bottle, which does not hold gnore than two glasses. As no’ one watotied the bottle from the time Leyh i takert plok At. would haye been easy. empty and fill it up with water poleoh or anything else that pleased of the person doing it. } motive for the crime has been de- yoloped. Leyh was wealthy and heavily insured, but he was on the best of terms condition of Mr. Reed Is not alarming. The following bulletin was issued thie morning by Mr. Reed's phyaslolans: | “Mr. Reed's temperature at 8 A, M., pulse, 8; respiration, 3. Symptoms of appendicitis abating. Some kidney complications threatening.” At 315 o'clock this afternoon Dr. Gardner made this statement regarding | ex-Speaker Reed's condition. | “At 1 o'clock Mr. Reed's temperature | was 100; pulse, 80; respiration, 33. As far as the inflammation of the vermiform , Appendix ts concerned, this is giving | | the physicians little concern, as the in- flammation !s steadily decreasing, but a kidney complication has made its ap- pearance, which, at the present time, is | more werious than the appendicitis. The | physicians are endeavoring to ward oft | Uraemia as a result of the kidney com- plication. The physicians — anticipate that no operation will be needed.” | FOURTEEN DIE IN HOTEL FIRE Several of the Luckless Ones Killed in Their Mad Efforts to Reach Safety by Jumping from Windows to the Street. |MANY MARVELLOUS ESCAPES (Spectal to The Evening World.) CHICAGO, Des. 4.—A small fire In the Lincoln Hotel, at No. 178 Madison street, |a boy employed in the Cooke Locomotive to-day resulted In the death of fourteon) Works. in this city. was horribly tor- persons, most of them from out of town, were here to attend the International Live Stock Show. The hotel was crowded to its capacity when :he fire broke out. Cots had been put up in many rooms and in the hall- ways on the upper floors. At 10 o'clock last night people were turned away cause there Was no room for them. The fire. was discovered just before daylight, when the building was already full of smoke. There were no appliances for the quick notification of danger to the guests, and many of them were not awakened until the engines were in Madison street, in front of the building. Brave Police and Firemen. The smoke was so thick that it ap- peared es though to go into it would be virtual suicide, but the police and fivomen took the chance, and before the first stream of water was turned on the building they were carrying out the dying and the dead. Guests on the fourth floor found them- selves shut off from escape by the front or rear stairways. Some of them Jumped from the windows out Into Mad- json street, Others tated to climb down the antiquated fire escapes, only to slip to death from the cold bars to the side- walk, = The avst firemen to reach the third floor foend themselves unable to return by way of the stairway and confined their efforts to guiding guests to win- dows from which escape could be had to the building occupied by Vogelsang's restaurant next door, The first to be rescued in this way were Mrs. J. Shep- pard and ler seyen-yéar-old son Freder- ick. One Woman’s Narrow Enc! The little boy smelled the smoke and awakened his mother. She was terror- stricken when she opened the door to the hall and found the smoke so thick that to breathe in it was all but Im- possible. With fortunate haste she closed the door before the room became filled with smoke, and there she re- mained, holding her little boy clasped to her breast. At last she left the room and was run- ning along the hail toward tne rear of Lav building, Where sne would certainly have perished, when she bumpea into fiveman from’ Kingine No. % the prat man up the stairway from tne omice on the second hoor, He dragged tne wo- man and her child to a window in a nearby room and dropped tnem to the roof of the Vogelsang buliding. They were slightly injured, While Mrs, Sheppard was lying on the voxelsang building, half unconscious, she had another escape from death. J. £. Herbert, of Salin ville, Q., a large, trom the window’ of his fourth floor, alighting on the Vogelsang roof within a few inches of Mrs, Sh pard.. Had he struck her he would ce tainly have killed her. Herbert had h lege broken and sustained Internal } roof of the jes. ws taken to the County ‘ospital, where the doctors have gmail hope of his recovery. Panic in Other Hotels, Across the’ street from the’ Lincoln I) the Hotel Brevoort, and on the same side of the stree, between Fifth avenue d Clark street are several cheap ho- . ‘The euess in these were thrown into panic by the excitement attending the Lincoln fire, ‘The street was full of engines and am- bulances and the natural supposition of guests awakening ju the other hotels in he vicinity was that thelr own places were on fire. m, they began piling down the stairs a) out into the col morning in thelr night clothes, The ex- ghtement Communicated itself to the. bi hotel Morrison, at Madison and Clar! streets, and to the lodging houses along Clark street. Many of the escapes approached the miraculous, = W, J. ‘Thom: a mall clerk, of Ceda Jumped Rapids, from the fourth floor to @ stone coping about @ foot wide on the building next door, How he managed to "Sn the coping and stick thi unty resoued by men with laddere neither he nor me ow thrilling escape can BOY BLOWN UP WITH AIR PUMP. His Companions in Locomotive Shop Used Pneumatic Ex- pander and Distended His Body Until He Collapsed. |HE DIED IN THE HOSPITAL. (Special to The Evening World.) PATERSON, Dec. 4.—Harry Wright, tured and killed by several other boys who worked in the same shop. Wright was actually blown up by a pneumatic pump, Compressed air was forced into his body at high pressure until the pres- sure broke his heart, Then his abdomen swelled to a frightful. degree and the boys who were infiicting the torture jarepnea, the nump and fied. ; Men who were at work in the shop hoard the boy's screams and rushing to the spot found Wright writhing in Agony, An ambulance was summoned and young Wright was taken to hospital. Every effort was made to ve his Ife, but the shock could not |be overcome and the boy died. ; Wright's torturers were Henry Dorn, jAlbert Ross, Dante! Christie, Leonard | Vandersing and William Heintjes. All jare boys around the age of sixteen. ; They were employed in the night shift j4t the locomotive works. Their lunch- eon hour comes between midnight and one o'clock in the morning, and it was during that hour that the ghastly Joke was perpetuated on young Wright. Wright's abdomen was distended more than ten Inches beyond its usual size The boys squeezed it with the intention of forcing the alr out again, but found that the surface of the skin was as hard asa rook. Then they became frightened and ran for help, Meanwhile an ambulance had arrived and the physicians removed Wright to the General Hospital. His abdomen Was still distended and though every effort was made to reduce the awelling {t,could not be done in time to save the boy's life. Dorn and his compantong were taken to Police Headquarters. They were very penitent and insisted that the whole thing had been done in the spirit of a joke. They had had no {dea that the prank would result as disastrously as It did. An investigation has been started by the authorities, When the prisoners were brought into court this morning young Riut's father, who was present, made a vicious lunge at young Doran, striking him with his fit alongside of the neck and felling him to the floo Detectives and police officers kept the infurlated parent from infilcting dire in- Juries on his son's assailant. The boys in court all protested that they had no Intention of harming young Riut and that the practice of using the com- pressed-air pump was-common. ee McNutt Goes Back to Chicago. W. H, MeNutt, who is charged with swindling a Chicago merchant out of $13,500 by inducing him to {nvest in alted" mines, surrendered himself on an extradition warrant in the Tombs Police Court this afternoon, and will be taken back to Chicago’ After Mc- Nutt's arrest he was bailed out by Gus: sie MoKee, the “poolroom queen.’ —_—-— WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for ti thirty-six . eat S Pp. M, Thurs- day for New York City vi- cinity: Cloady to-n! lowed by rain wow; Friday rain or snow) fresh north to ‘The twenty gree |atrike and THIEF PARADE ON BROADWAY A Daily Occurrence, Je- rome Says, and Blames the Detective Bureau for Allowing Such a State of Things to Go On, RAKES DOWN SLEUTHS. Will Start with the Aid of Com- missioner Partridge to Weed Out the Worst Men in the aes a IGH EDITION PRICE ONE CENT, ——s Department. Jerome broke out into a tirade against Capt. Titus and the Detective Bureau to-day. His re- marks indicate that he has a rod in pickle for the Captain, and that he will proceed against him very soon for his Inactivity against the gamblers, He declared that the Bureau was won- derfully {nefMficient and had been rotten for q long time. He dressed down and Greased up dectectives who hang about the hotels ‘and upper Broadway, and when they read bis views some of them are going to get nervous. “Then, why aren't charges formulated inst Capt. Titus?” he was asked. “No police force can extirpate crim: he answered sophomoricaily. “There will come waves of public indignation District-Attorney ‘| which will arise and sweep evils away. Then they go down and the old con- ditions return. There will never be a time when there won't be work for the Distriot-Attorney and the police. “While the Detective Bureau as now conatituted Im wonderfully inefficient you must remembér that when you are emptying @ storage warehouse you have to take out one package at a time. You can't tear down the front wall and take them all out at once without doing more harm than good, “There has been no marked differ-| gnee. in the character of the Detective, Bureau for the last five years. When| Tom Byrnes was there it was efficlent. Byrnes could do things when he wanted, ty. Some of his bid men who are still there can do things if they want to, Dut must of the so-called detectives now on Titus's staff simply want to wear goqd clothes and stand around the Broviway hotels look'as for tips. Why, Brogdway is a parade of thieves. you @ remedy in sight?” he was anked. he answered with e 8 he shook his head threateningly. When asked point blank if he was going to take any steps against Titus at present, Mr. Jerome refused to discuss that point, but he sald that there were no new charges against police officials to-day, POLICE AGAIN RAID “THE ALLEN SPLACE Prisoners Discharged in Court and Bluecoats Told They Had No Business in the Club. . Chapman, of the Mercer Street raided the clubroom at No. 8 Sixth avenue again this afternoon, Allen has been accused many times of conducting the place as a pool- room. Two hundred and fitty men were found th this afternoon, all of whom DENVER HEIRESS. WAY WED ACA, WHER OLD HAT Beautiful Mrs. ilugh Tevis Said But She Didn’t know It Until She Got on a Street Car Full of Brisben Walker, Editor of the} Other Women, Then There to Be Engaged to a Son of J. Cosmopolitan Magazine. . Was WAVE LONG BEEN FRIENDS. Runtor has it that Mrs. Hugh Fevis, the beautiful Denvor Young woman who Jilted the man she had promised to marry, .wed, Abother and became a widow “and a'Ymotlier, alr in twenty months, ix'to’ marry James Randolph Walker, the son! of John Brisben Walker, editbr of ‘the Cosmopolitan Magazine. Young Mr. Walker lives in Denver, but visits New ‘York: frequently, sajd that there Is opposition to his marriage the part of his family, his mother espectal!y reacting shat he te too young to (ike on ‘matrimonial tiles, Mrs, Tevis lefe her apartments In the Burlington, in West Thirtléth street, a few days ago and has not been aren the Fo: Clinton In car looked a Toss After a ner. ‘ \ it. Then she gaye a since in Nef York. Young Mr. Walker | #/rald to # h returned to Denver a few days Inter, {little Jerk, ‘The ‘hat bobbed and the! It was said at the home of John Bris-| ¥oman again put her hand up, Then ben Walker, in Irvirwgtop-on-the-Hudson, | she grew pale, to-day, that he waa iNew Yoru and| She snatched, the hat ping trom the that James Randolph Wa.ker is sup-|hat, grabbed the hat and threw it to posed to be In Denver, ‘Thi ‘young | the floor with a dreadful scream. Every man was extremely to the | other woman the car jumped: up, tenctive beautiful Mrs. Tevis dn Bhe occasion of her last viait.to this.cit¥ J} well Known, | ‘An Evening World repokter wio called this afternoon. calm {n the car. MRS, HUGH TEVIS, SAID TO BE ENGAGED TO J. R. WALKER. a Big Time. BRAVE SERGEANT TO RESCUE Ses Twenty women and Seret. Brown, of sat In Newark, trolley car The sergeant was the only man passenger aboard. The womén had been shopping and had thelr hands full of bundles, but there was peace and Every one had a geat. At Lergen street another woman got She took a seat in the middle of the Bolng the latest comer every one rth Pollce Precinct, avenue, t her. Sergt. Brown ‘om her. n giabbed her akirts, climbed on to a seat and let go a 8 [had been in the MICE HAD NEST. Inute he noticed the woman's head wobbling about In a atrange man- She put her hand in her halr as though wer head itched, and she was » A nest of mice hat, and the occupants TUNNEL Would Be Unconstit Aldermen, and the opposition to it Odell this afternoon. “There will be no interfe franchise. spects- with the New; York and New again, Ther the Legislature passed me I vetoed it. “The matter of granting a franch tles 1s clearly unconstitutions t just befors the Legislature at all.” amending the charter, so as to take chise-gronting powers. | Pennsylvania Ratlroad I am not full om her at her apartmente In the Bur-| were now scampering from one end of Agron found the rocensyiitiod with rare|the car to the cther. Aowers. While the repdpyr was there | Sergt. Brown got off his dignity in a ames Randolph Walkart callce and | Jiffy. Drawing his club, he began rap- was Introduced as Mr. W “an old | pink at the milce to the muale of screams Frlend.” On this accasioht Mis. ‘Tevis| ln ‘twenty-one different keys, | There iad that she was engaged to marry | were four mice In alt. aj | Alderman .Reginald Doull, who de- 7 tor Met Tevis-Mr [last one lay A bleeding corpse on th i Ha ae ed ver MT | Hoar did the skirts come down and the|clares that his constituents and all Tevis ts not yet twerf} years of age she has. crowded Inte,her short Ife more of strife and excitement and sorrow than falls to the lot gf many. 3 EY ladies resume their seata. The poor woman who brought mice in also got off when he dld, prob: ably for fear she would be assaulted, ~NEW ORLEANS WIN First Race—Shoo Fly; & to 2, Wons Pure Dale, place 4 to 1, Seconay war Ury Ward, ime—T.1/ Capt. Chapman turned out, leaving two policemen to watch the place, The “members” went back to the room, and two of them were arrested because they refused to admit the policemen, ‘The bluecoats got a ledder and en- tered through a second etory window which they had smashed. Magistrat: Cornell, in the Jefferson Market Court, discharged ‘the prisoners, telling the policemen that they had no business in the club. Capt. an aleo Chapmi raided the ‘John Brown Republican Club’ No. 161 Wet Fourth | stteet, One arrest was made there ai @ prisoner was llke- wise discharged. i ee LEHIGH VALLEY’S NEW HEAD B. Thomas Ohonem to Succeed Alfred Walter. A PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4.—At a meet- ing of the Board of Directors of the Tehigh Valley Railroad Company helt this afternon E, B, Thomas was elected President to succeed Alfred Walter, who resigned recently, Mr, Thomas fs aleo Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Erie Railroad. He was prominent in the negotiations preceding the calling off of the coal fs in full sympathy with ident Baer, of the Reading, who talked of for a time for the office of President of the Lehigh. —— bi peony wid in ve New York after azivania, Qpectal. Pulatia! om the Pena- es] Second Race—Brandysmash, 7 to 1,.wons Sarner, place 4 NERS. oo to 5, second; Scotch Plaid third. Time—1.41 2-5. Third Rabe—Bptional, second; Rusgeliton third. % Fourth Race 1 to 3, seconds Yrav y Fiith Ree an i 3, second; St. Vitué,third. | Time—1. Sixth Race—Prin to 2, second: Fis thir —-— Oh eee " to 1, won; Moroni, place 8 to 5 Time—1.25 3-5, . e Lady, 13 to 5, won Jack Demund, place s third, Time—1.30, Ide).3\to. 1, won; Agnes Maok, place 7. 08 3-5. Bigzes, 2 to 5, won: Flaneur, place § ime—2.00 3-5: FOUR JURORS. CHOSEN TO TRY TOBIN. —>—— These four jurors were acce of “Dutch” Tobin, oF Lessler, of No. 42 East Third, streets an, of No. 40 Seventh avenue, iver View Terrac®, * us Lv afterneey in Rc ial fat beheading James B. Craft: et t, A. Scott; Patriok nd W bt —————— WARRANTS FOR MEN WHO ESCAPED THE RAID. Justice Holbrook this afternoon issued warrants for th . men. who escaped in the raids in the Mulberry street preci not ‘made public, W cn Monday night. ‘Théir'names were \ thinking people” are against the grant- ing of the tunnel franchise in its pres- ent form, sald to-day that his position remained unchanged. “1 am against this franchise first, last and all the time. itt the last man In the board and I have to fight It alone. It will be a fight to the finish with me. If I had the means I would procure the wide- spread distribution of printed coples of thia franchise and supplement them with the results of my own Investigations and the opinions of others whose judgmen? {s worth a good deal. Then we would see what effect the reading of the full text of the franchise would have upon public opinion and thinking men. “En ask the Board of Aldermen to grant this franchise as it stands to-day ‘3 an outri I do not belleve that it will go through. It must be amended not only to satisfy the just demands of labor #o far as the eight-hour day Is concerned, but as regards the compen- sation which the road now proposes to pay the city. That compensation is paltry compared with the magnitude of the enterprise itself. It Is the bigs! thing that New York has ever been asked to give away, which is practically the case in this Instance—giving {t away, WHI Divert TramMc. “Tt sill stocking merchants and bank- ing this tunnel franchise, they express no regard for either the welfare of the city or the workingman. ‘This city has rights which the Peansylvania Ratlroad L@WI@ company must respect and observe be- fore it can expect to tunnel under New York as part of a great railroad scheme alter E. Burkes Of NOsScaicuiated to beneft this city in no great measuro.in the end—that Is, if the Montauk Point project {s the ultimate intention of the corporation, At any \rate, the company has absolutely re- fused to accede to the recognition of the eight-hour law, to pay a just tribute to the clty for what the road wants or to/ regard ithe rights of property-owners iy. These, if there were no other rea- n3,, would warrant the rejection of the went franchise.” Benator Plunkitt denounced the Pean- as 10 OeALED BY THE GOVERNOR, Mr, Odell Takes Away the Last Hope of the Pennsylvania Railroad for a Franchise Declaring Its Passage by the Legislature — Alderman Doull and Senator Plunkitt Renew Their Attack on the Tunnel Proposal: and \% The doom of the Pennsylvania tunnel has been sounded by Gov. Oden, who declares that the Legislature has no right to Interfere in a purely 1ocal there appears to be no possibility that it will be granted. “Talk about the Legislature being invoked to pass Pennsylvania tunnel franchise over the heads of the Ne York City Board of Aldermen is all buncombe,” said Goy, lature if the Board of Aldermen should finally reject the “In my opinion, this tunnel franchise matter is identical in many” for the erection of a bridge across the North River and an elevated rafirdad Jong West street. Mayor Van Wy@®'vetoed The’franchise, and it was “The Legislature would not be in favor of depriving New York City 0 any of its constitutional rights. I do not believe that the matter will ea The Governor was asked if there was any prospect of the Legisl: “That question,” he replied, “1s rather far-fetched, re ‘GIVE THEIR REASONS FOR | FIGHTING THE TUNNEL, T will vote against it ers and brokers are in favor of approv-| +-—___—_ % ¥. by utional, in its present form is so strong rence on the part of the Legis=~ Jersey Bridge Company bill. providing {t over his veto, end when it came to ise over the heads of the local authori Bit frame 1 do wf an a from the Board of Aldermen its y informed.” ) sylvania Raflroad Company tn uni | ded terms at Tammany Hail to-day in) | the presence of a number of Ta: ites who applaujed his sentiments,“ | Aldermen are right In refusing to swale” | low what the Pennsylvania ‘ Uy ing to force down thelr throats, the Se hy, that cot nator, wants (o come into ‘New York at ‘pense of New York City and for # sole purpose of. ts Mont pushing 1 | Point scheme. That is the whole | mess. If that tunnel goes throl : the road is allowed to run trains New York the result w: bad. © "The rehandling of freight by wi and land at New York will be dlspen With to the detriment of all cl |Saged In the freight-handling b ashore and afloat. No Adequate Return, “The city will get no return adequate to the ‘benefits Which the corporation | will derive. If this matter should comme) ~ uo at Albany I will have a chance te © | alk officlally against the bill, “My regret now Is that I am not Alderman so that I could throw a 4 upper cuts Into that franchise,” Ae | Alderman Goodman, one of thé publican members of the Rallroad mittee, sald: “We deemed it wise terday to not take any action ual | had Carefully again gone: over | Phases of the situation. We also di |it wise to refrain taking a final vote ow the report until Monday, the day before! the Board meets. [ am ‘still In favor tunnel. The talk of ‘boodle’ Is rot |, Leader Charles F. Murphy reached | Tammany Hail shortly before noon. | “How qbout the tunnel franchise, Mr | Murphy?” asked an Evening World re~ porter, ‘othing to say to-day." he repli “Will the Board reject’ the francl baat 4 Into the matter” into i tatement onvthe Pee Hie PAE te to-day, was Mi ! lM ae |FATHER AND SON STRICK' | Typhold Attacks Col & and His Little B R es of Col. Sheffield Phe left Hackensack for Atken, fortnight ‘o, have recel dad stating that he ts erltically 1% typhoid fever. Hemorrhages have sot in and tient Is very low. A young #9m.8 Phalpa ig algo sald to, be, eit the. fever. y a of the Colonel's tenburg, Phe