The evening world. Newspaper, December 8, 1902, Page 2

Pe East One Hundred and Sixt © {7 was found In the Hari afternoon ©. the nose, a deep fracture of the back | Bd of the skull and ten throw #a@hich was aia’ ve, de _ and only Roni went to » ® members of the Plain and Or: ; SHOMSHURDER? ACANST SONS’ Off One Hundred and Twenty-| nates the Young Wife of One’! fourth Street. of Them in Suit for Divorce. | HAD FIRST BEEN STABBED.|FIGHT ON THE STAIRWAY. Pockets Were Turned Wrong Side Troublous End to a Golden Wedding Out, Showing, It Is Believed, that Anniversary Celebration Caused the Unfortunate Man Was the by Sudden and Apparently Inop- | Victim of Thieves. portune Return of Young Husband. | e diverce suit of Harry 1, Powers : his wife Minnie was begun be th street, | fe Hall a jury in the | a River off One | Supreme rt to-day. Jesse Powers, nd Twenty-fourth street this (dr. the plaintiff's brother, js named as | the co-resnondent. and the aged fathe s against the wife. Mrs. Powers was Miss Minnie Betts, f his | daughter of C e Betts, a retired that |and wealthy business man, liting at No ind | 68 Bast One Hund nd she returned st death and her hush ling, denylng any wrongé ng the cage for the husband sald he expected to prove esse Powers, ir, and Mra. 1 * guilty of acts in various her husband to an ab The body of Jullas A. Mayer, 9 pros petous and lo dentist, of No, 110 A deep knife cut from the left ear to| te clothes turned fneide out Indie de was mi s body ro! Phe police @ result of 3 ‘ er who was Ujlety-s ¥ years a t left his hom Sie wight of Des 3 Since then he by his fetond 1 f teeta he was to deliv patron on Or nied and Six- 1 See riaeonual ate Jeane W. Powers, ex-Park Bain thi and! tant ommissioner, and the father of Harr that he thouzht he woull go to {ind deste Powers, He Is a sllver-gray ary oon One Hundred and |& in of the ol! school, and text! fd in a tone that bespoke a feeling of Pith stvegt for an 30 deep humility and m Mrs. Powers, in kK velvet, a Body Found by Wor One Ui se ap Who may Mol turned w je card nwers senior sald he wits seventy rete es uu ai : five years ol, .He was forty years a noone corner of ANG small Park Com: yunter Mayor father sald Jesse Miss Corrie Mc ne and th 7 While he was at ind what Jesse a i nd frequent W In ni 1 to Ko tite Harrys root ed with Jesse's room—and t/t per found i wih he Lon bia. breast Sho aed aa HL the #tory of the night if his own golden wedding. Lt was he who first came upon hiss x i page nose wae eacaod the wite of, his aon Harry Nekt the abras ro the fracture the rew occur: It eould mn pHi adjacent to the aut showed | hardly fight,” ws the angry unk > cup tae WOUUD ave DEERE tdiall ot J fe into hha bec caused by the! jaan Jet In the river.) Martin Wo 1 1 ihe fracture and) put thi bor were Infilesed pares acaed the warer, The Jy ' hy Mitre wers oc Wil with water, as ying with Papdid have teen the case had Mayer Ion tnt a drowned Ridwars 1. Bpitser id dixwenth street, sald this utechoon of had cashe i pression we ands Dib vou anything to Jesse and rin-liw when yon surprised Ia Harry's room?! Mr, Littleton Ieper women r on the statre of 0. without pitt 7 Vist, some smiling and # to New York twely n NewsHaven. He h eumeta din New Yark. tiie employed ateivd sat No.3 eae my 1. Thel \ Land closed the door of my sigbt,” said why you of the Mr. Lit thie yt men. pocket was fount One Hw ile at i reward toward era sald tmpres- | ned to tan tt. 1! this dls ful | 1 was ash ig then tha Hd be settled tno som AuVe not told you all thi that night, It was too t Faumdred and snd of the akg wont H the hamuer y 6'Ca),Was assauited by robb, ~PLASTERERS STRIE Thought They Were Married, | Mrs. Mary Quackendu at the Stockt in the autumn ¢ , Who was em- | ge Mountain | Ls when the fan tostifled sae Powe rt of three. Mt Powers the | 1 the old gentleman | Mr ys ne door be n their rooma was always open. € bight late is Bent mb . \ aw Mr, Je : ‘ tow nd this lady in his room. Wh Union Men Quit Work in the fur tue toon open Me dom owers had his arms aroun) Mrs. Harry Powers and was kissing her. but he! Mayor's Office and Threaten jumped vy'and san away, was! dark | to Tie Up the Repairs. bined thon’ chomers ON in tte Mall] din on them.” | To whom did you tell what you saw that night?’ eWeell, 1 wasn't married. th soon as 1 got married [ but whe men engaged In doing the plaster Wark in the Mayor's oMfce at City Hall went out on strike to-day, They a ne Mr. Cole had Jesse Powers » up so that Mrs. Quackenbush « 1 oilfy him Si yBiasterer’s Union and the reason they , Mts. Mary also from sentral (telling Dare rebelled is, they declare, that wijie be Ke House nou-union labor hay been put on the u alanis & Powers . iS hey wo work alongside any men {ten a Her swho Aid not belong to the unton and “Mrs. Mary packed up their Is and quit mit Ridge M |) @ontractor Mattaew Ryan, who will }ey J bepite Se fined heavily by the city unless the aa eae age sion rapa Job ia completed on schedule Bre moraine when l we Mp @ quandary. As the contrac floor, 1 saw Mra. Pow | engaged the non-union men by the work [dese | we pee will have to pay them the full war 1 Viweek's splury. In the mean time no th Muion men will Ru to work on the jab, 18 nd the city is powerless to expedite 4 sf tiers. e apparently te that tae Ay asain the lum ir D Mrs. Powers, An efor made to that all’ the. witnesses gainst hi under obligation to the were! of the striking workmen sug-|elder Mr. Powers, ested placing thelr grievances before |, its. Ma Mayor and sollciting bis influence, | Jexse W wthe others sald such @ moye would | well erved and charming to man- wpigontrary to the rules of the auton, | Her folly fe “testified thar th Ing delegate was called In, Hel }uwersa room ai Je @ talk with the contract worry to he: that if the non-union me VRC rag ay ca @ off ali Uw other trades + She watt 4 on the Job—carpenters, plum vad the door . thers, painters and ule layers — Lat $a. pbonid be called out. ‘ it is up to the ‘contractors tu ™“ Feared 1 rf Eig City Hall work from ein men! Fenree. neoube Lp lefinitely. pare engaged Powers, mother 0 Powers, also silver-hatred but bie wuppose Jesse should come ‘give sald again whe coutdn't help it, I tuid “Minnie. several Umes that it Gan't look Well for her to. be arvund with, Jes T uw Jesse m. Thad spoken to he beside Jesse while he was ding the newspapers. Tsai: 2) ce one Ming, Harry: will come tn and gatoh you. a was at our olty WNo, 418. Gouth Sixth sirect, |Wyo4e Mount Morrie Pasko BONS: Beh to-day, He was in) She told of the Aght off the stairs. \ t and: passed the = pen of a number Of BOOKER WASHINGTON NUYS KIDS. iis We death is sup-| 900 Be {0 patural causes, WINSTHD, Conn,, Dec, 8—Booker , yiertnad thy pe t incipleny ‘ters, experiment on ralt ity. THERE’S ALWAYS SOMETHING DOING WHERE A BIG SCHEME’S BREWING. Julius Mayer, a Prosperous Den- | Testimony of Elderly Parent of | tist of Harlem, Found Dead} the Powers Brothers Incrimi-| —_— continued from Firsts Page ) | There was much talk to-day over the Jopen charge ge |Manded by has been gent to th at each | the her was Central Fed- ard will repudiate 1 the Merchants’ Bank and | “the ‘no matter wht men, claiming to | chis Inbor organizations, had been rn ~| apposltion of labor men to the proj Her thas day's work 0} that some Re Ji bers will vote organizations the tinnel Job, nd Fusion mem- opinion ef those was regar tunnel the opposi- They say thitt ng majority in the board and ean yer a bet is weakening meeting to-m © 18 a prospec ton until the Didn't Get the Money, tu suspend the rules . who brings the charge against members will AAMER BRANDT (CHILO FORGOTTEN, SEEKS RICH MIAN. BURNED TO DEATH | Father Broke His neck Sliding Down. a Post and Three! Others of the Family Injured. ster But He Gets Into Wrong Camp and Things Happen to Him on the Bowery. andl dwelling of Max Manthey miles north of thelr lives and {to | man jriag reenwich and Multy find | trist sup Jed | In man, win-] who will read from the Ser was awakened Med with smoke, Washington Market that day avenue car smash it to pleces. was a very spirited i forgotton | 1 Mr, Manthey , Mot more than one-third of-the ninety lruke Mis neck in attempting to slide} three schools being provided with Bl- wag, burned to death, that the driver * my son Ives nyself as a witness, most, running a nail ints into her brain, | 2p old my | was f Street Rallway Well, sir, do, you know they kep' me waltin servant Were of them sildint = am imnad Te wid when they ast me « ESCAPED. MURDERER CAPTURED BY BDI. They Find Him in a Haymow, and After Digging Him Out Send Him Back to Jail. rytiing was hunky then and hurried © Lime to get an (have ef man might ly Jto respond to the Me U. S. MINISTER SHOOTS MAN. Representative Accused of An WASHINGTON, Harey and Jesin Powers and wite of| of 1k, Who esa’ econd n t THystane Adan Monravia on the west ¢ , of d MAN supposed to be Thomas the United States Minister to Liberia, Dr. J. R. ‘The State Depar an investusation of the siGoting, as the affair furnished papar, which ‘agre and confusing, is an electrician and time yesterday nid his compantons ey found him in ent has begun | details of th y about |, F frica he has been perfecting the tele. graph aeryice ip Liberia, Minister Crossland and they were known friends. The shooting was not | SUBWAY CASE IS DELAYED. | Supreme Court Wil It for Argument, WASHTNOTO} Not Advance Holmes Takes Oath an Justice. WASHINGTON, Dec, 8,—The new As-j Stat soclate Justice of the United States Su- Kids. of Burton. B. Moore, of|preme Court Wendell Holmes, of Mas-|$° sachusetts, to-day took the oath of of breed | fice and Washington has purchased a couple of oral argument veose, but the Chi tod that early. attention Re Angoi Princtyle. | Winsted, and will, pccarding Aa en t ok pUDMULUg the case 9 print. Which Wold You Rather Be, a State Legislator or an Alderman? Likelihood go scheme in a Broadway cafe, complain- ing that they had not received the money premised them. What influence was behind the offer Mr. Key he does not know. He claim# too. that Samuel Prince, who appeared before the Board of Al- derme ov, 25. opposing the fran- vresentative of the Amerl- of Labor, and James who appeared on the same necasion as a representative of the Cen- tral Fes n. had no right to situtions of both » that no sala sional polit ux a delewa from) the sear AS a Willis ave! pubit shail. lve inspector e bridge. rv, Keyes drag in the sman-eleck Timothy D, says that the money pid to the “labor wing the tunnel at, the Matamora Club—the Tim- othy D. Sullivan’ organization in the Sixih Assembly Distriet, © When Alderman “Young Tim" autlt vants "attention alfod. this ‘after- noon to the story about “boodte he inched Into a0 attick Upon its author, cretary Jamas K of the Masters’ ‘Hots n “This man sid Alderman Sitl- livan, “within the lase few months was estad for jaesuiting « man In the Everett Ho He Was arraigned he- fore Magistrate Plammer, who held him for examination. This isthe kind of a man who attacks the Board of Alder- men, His charges are worth a res ply." | Sullivan, | was to “hav for opp rooms of th ‘BIBLES NEEDED IN - QUEENS SCHOOLS. Not Money Enough on Hand to Buy Coal and the Scriptures, Too—Principals Are Advised. ading of the sin Long Beginning to-day the | bible In’ the public sch Island City ra@d the other schools of Queens Borough, which custom had been abandoned, for some unknown rei Yaon, will be resumed by order of the dis- rintendents, of the schools the principala ures will be compelled to bring family Jes to the schvol-houses with them, bles, Although the char} provides that In lic schools the Bible must be read Schoo! N in the ng Island City, 1s the only one in that borough in waten, the rule has been falthfully followed, |The district superintendents only learned that the Bible reading had been discontinued from a complalgt made to them by me ‘sof the Junior Order at least once a day Astoria section of L offending district nisinterpreta- inquiry. re ‘act that many of the school plied with Btbles. Applica- pply Committee found that a {sa searclty al as Bibles, and some of the schools may bo forced to clome tor morrow unless a supply of fuel da re- ived at once, and the members af the upply Committee are confronted with the question whether to deprive the chil- cren of heat or Scriptural {nstruction, the money on hand not permitting the purchase of both $$$ CONTROL PERE MARQUETTE. Syndleate Headed by Thom Rynn Gets the Rallroad, omas F, Ryan, Mark T, Cox, d e thi y_ unpre of Coal as K oe in the St, Louis and San Francisco Rail- iVing it a majority of all the outstan: is the Bead, has also acguired st checked free; all thaniel Thayer and F, H, Prince, of the present Board of Directors of the Pere Marquette Railroad; President B. PF, kum and several of his associates road haye formed a syndicate and now \Jcontrol absolutely the Pere Marquette . ‘The syndicate has purchased, through the Old Colony ‘Trust Co. ot Boston, shares of stock and 20,000 shares. through private negotiation, making its total acquisition 93,717 shares, ‘Members of the syndicate are deposit- ing 28,000 shares with the syndi ate Ing stook and the control of the fy. "Phe syndicate, of which van ATTACK WITH AXE Proprietor of Brooklyn Hostelry Dying of Blows on Head and Police Arrest Assailant at Pawnshop Door. GOT $500.AND GOLD WATCH. Louls Jaeger, who was arrested outside of the pawnshop at No, 181 Bowery to- | day on suspicion that he had strack with axe and robbed Simon Nager, pro- orietor of the Empire Ho: at Atlantic © and Williams place, East New York, early this morning, confessed to Capt. Reynolds when taken to Brooklyn Follce Headauarters thet he had com- mitted the crime According to his confession, Jaeger read Nager's advertisement for a porter in one of the Bunday papers. He at once applied for the place and got It, He worked around the hotel all day and early this morning Nager took him down into the cellar to show him how to fix the furnace. Nager Gave Him # Shove. “He told me what to do," said the prisoner, “and then I started in to do it. I don't know what it was, but some- thing that 1 did made the oid man mad and he gave me a shove, telling me that I a fool and to get out of the way, As I fell over f grabbed at something—I | guess {t was the axe, I hit the old man! on the head with it and then ran out.” Jneger would not say anything about why he robbed Nager of the $500 he had in his clothes and the watch and chain, but he admitted that he had pawned the watch at No, 19 Bowery just before he was arrested by Detectives Betts and Langdon, of Capt, Reynolds's staff. Hod it not been for Capt. Reynolds's energy Jager would probably have es- caped. He sent word to the New York Bureau to watch all the pawnshops, giv- ing a description of the porter, who was svepected of the crime because he had disappeared. He sent his men to watch the Brooklyn shops. Later he thought he would send Betts and Langdon over to this side on a general scout and they got to the shop at No, 181 Bowery just in thme to catch | the mau. Novo of Capt. Titus's men! was on hand. Mr. Nager was attacked In the base- ment at the foot of the stairs, The) struggle was heard by his wife and his| son, Simon Nager, Jr., who were asleep in rooms above. The son rushed down- stairs to find his father, still semt- conscious, struggling up the basement stairs, the blood streaming from his head. Lay in Wait for Victim. ‘At the foot of the stairs was the axe, red with® blood, and an open door} showed where the assailants had es- caped. The gas in front of the furnace was lighted but the furnace had not been fixed for the night, showing that the robber had Ikely lain in wait for) his victim and struck him soon after he reached the basement. ‘ The young man helped his father to the office, and Dr. Charles R, Butler, of | No, 584 Franklin street, and the police) were summoned. Mr. Nager lapsed into | unconsciousness before any statement could be obtained from him, When the | doctor arrived it was found that the skull was badly fractured at the base and that there were ugly cuts and bruises gil over the head. ‘The nature of the wounds showed that the assailant had used the blunt end of the axe. Nager was moved to a room on | ne of the upper floors of the hotel and | the physician said that he could likely | live only a short time. Efforts were made to arouse him long enough to get an ante-mortem statement, but they Were unsuccessful. FEAR LIVES LOST IN AN EXPLOSION Chicago Factory on Fire as a. Result and Other Property Is Put in Great Peril. CHICAGO, Dee, §.—An explosion this afternoon In the basement of a five- stery building at Nos. 6% and 64 Canal street, occupied by the Marshall & Hus- chart Machinery Company, and the Schnelder & Trenkamp Stove Company, has enveloped the structure in flames and threatens other property. It is feared that several lives were lost ———_-_ BRITAIN GAGS DIPLOMATS. Hereafter They Must Not Publish Reminiscene LONDON, Dee. 8.—Replying to a ques- tion in the House of Lords to-day re- | garding the reminiscences of Sir Horace Rumbold, who was British Ambassador at Vienna, published over a month ago in London, the Foreign Secretary, Lord | Lansdowne, somewhat tartly commented on the former Ambassador's “reprehen- sible Indiseretion”’ and said the incident had led'to the adoption of a new rule jn the Foreign Office to the effect that yelirament, are absolutely forbidden without the express permiasion of the Maelgh Office to publish thelr reminive eences or experiences in the countries in which they were officially employed. HOWARD GOULD’S LOSS. Intended (Taking om Yachting Cruing Are Misting. Mr, and Mrs. Howard Gould,"who are preparing to start on a year's yachting cruise around the world Dec. 30 ere isgustea over the loss of a ot of the J Je and, Detroit River, Hatiroad, and « * will he rn er js week. The United | Mitorstood that Messrs, Ryan, Thayer, denied] Prince and Cox will remain in the r things which they expected to take They stlpped several trunks full of thelr belongings. from thelr at Sands Point a few days ago t: Island City, but py. got lost somehow | ihe fe trapalt, Paint co! y has aa tet QUICKARRESTFOR | diplomat#, either while in office or after | my health gave out, the chief cause That the first anti- Wenig thet coffee had any- EUTSCHLAND “PIERCE STOR Ocean Liner Arrives in Good. Time Despite the Fact that) She Eneountered Terrific | Weather Far Out at Sea. | YERKES AND DOG HERE. Officers of the Deutschland, which ar, rived in port to-day after: a voyage of 6 days, 6 hour’ and 41 minutes, report the passage was as rough as any | they ever experienced. Snow and rain | rode with the high wind, but there was no fog, and, considering the adverse conditions and high head seas, the big Vessel made good time. ‘The worst weather was experienced last Friday when the Deutschland was far out at sea. It was on this day that the baby blizzard struck New York, and much the same sort of a storm shook the big liner. Nearly all the passengers were Ill, Some of the women, worn out by the eontinued strain aince leaving the other side, became hy joa. tion projects have caused all sorts of excitement in London, was a passen- ger. He was accompanted by ‘his wife, who led a tremendous and ferocious ap- pearing bulldog at the end of a long chain, Mr. Yerkes will spend the holl- days at his home, No, 864 Fifth avenue, to an Evening World reporter. ‘Our company—the Underground Blectric Railways Company of London—has a total length of fifty milesgm four tube lines. ‘Dhe work of excavation Is vastly Gifferent from hag in your subway here. All of our work throughout the length of our system is done in blue clay. The shield is forced through by hydraulle pressure and the tubes are completed behind it. ‘The line is from 40 to 100 feet below the surface, and there are about three stations to the mile. “It has been said here that Mr, Vree- land, the manager of the Metropolitan system, would go to London to take charge of your lines," sald The Even- Ing World reporter. ‘That is not true, Iam sorry to 8a: replied Mr. Yerkes. “I believe Mr. Vree- land has too good a thing here.” Mr. Yerkes sald that he did not con- template taking many Americans to London to work on his tube ines. His agreement with the Government pro- the Princess Radziwill, who are related by marriage to the family of the late Eugene Kelly. ‘They will remain in New | York a day at the home of Mrs. Kelly and then proceed to Monterey, Mexico. | | We also offer the beautiful new CHESTER PIANO for $170 cash or $190 on instalments; PORTER’S PROTEST MILD. Appeal for the Panstont Verbal One. PARIB, Dec. §—It develops that Am; bassador Porter's representations in| behalf of the Passionate Fathers of St. Joseph's Church were entirely verbal and were not gent in a strong letter to Foreign Minister Delcasse, as reported here or in any written communication. ‘The subject was discussed during the revent diplomatic dinner given by Gen. Porter, and it 1s now expected this will lead to a consideration of the question the Cabinet, with the view uf de- termining whether It is posalble to re- commend the Chamber of Deputies to make an exception In the cise of the Passionists. BREAD DEARER IN LONDON. Price iv Advanced a Cent a Loaf by Bakers, | LONDON, Dee, 8—The price of bread was raised one cent per loaf In the Hast End of London to-day, thus tntenslfy- ing the dietress of the ‘persons who are | out of work, es Dead from Gas. | Evening World.) | J, Dec, 8&—Mrs. | Evisabeth Kempton, thirty years old, employed as a servant in the family of Lawyer Joseph A, Bergen at No, 217 Hamilton avenue, was found dead in ‘ed to-day from gas asphyxiatlon. The woman had a patent ‘heater attached to the burner In her room and it Is sup- posed that she went to bed with the gas turned on, —_——— A SOLDIER’S FOE Knocked Down by Unsuspected Enemy. Coffee so affects the brain and nerves that proper nutrition ts inter- fered with and the final ending is frequently nervous prostration. “During the Spanish-American war y went with my troop to Chicka. mauga,” says Lieut. J. G. Talbott, of Springfield, Il, “if there is any one plave on earth where one drinks more coffee than another it is in the army. It is a soldier's “packbone,’ and | can assure you that I drank my share. ‘After several months of hard drilfing being coffee, bad food, over-exertion and beat, ‘On the advice of the surgeon, ! ten- dered my resignation, and with my heart full of regret and my nervous ghattered, I returned home. Timoet the first thing the doctor whom I consulted agvised me was to with my condition, The ‘next thing was ‘what shall I drink? || My wife's mother used your Postum Somee end Ipare now to make "| so I tr. and grew very fe erie My nervous trouble soon teh: my old time health came back, and that Fall 1 gained eo in flesh that boys on returning efter ‘muster rout,’ hardly knew me. Quitting coffee Haga uning Post dhe wonder, for baat ss VEL 8h FIFTY YEARS, but WATERS UPRIGHTS of To-Day are finer in tone andfisg workmanship than ever be- b fore and rank with the few leading HIGH ART PIANOS Charles T, Yerkes, whose transporta-| gf the world returning to London early in the year. He will not go to Chicago during his | visit. | “Everything in London is progressing most satisfactorily,” sald Mr, Yerkes A beautiful WATERS UPRIGHT, 7 4-3 octave, 3 stringed, iron frame, repeating action and contain- ing all the latest improve- ments, for $225 cash or $250 on instalments; only $10 down and $7 monthly until paid. vides that he shall employ Engilsh labor and English material as far as possible. Among the other passengers were, Prince Albert ‘Radziwill, of Poland, and $5 MONTHLY until paid. EVERY PIANO WAR« |RANTED SIX YEARS. WATER wonderful SIMPLEX PIANO PLAYER. With it anybody can play any- thing, with the touch of the artist and the feeling of the y composer. Both stores will remain Open Evenings. | until January 4. RUG WARS & 0, 134 Fifth Ave., Near 18th St. HARLEM BRANCH, West I25th