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oe GENERAL SPORTING NEWS aS : ON Be all _[Giroatation Books Open to Au.” | 7 ose NEW YORK, TUESDAY, ‘DECEMBER 9. 1902. FORTY- FOUR SWS E a a VOTESAGANST Oa WN BER a WOE THE TUNNEL? . | Used Bromo-Seltzer, the Boy ‘Carelessly Dropped Stick of Dynamite| Declares, Then Stole Old ‘City Fathers Forward Resolution to Man’s Pocketbook and Causes Death of Four Men and In-' Bought a Bicycle. jury to Many Others in the Shaft of) Board of Aldermen Post-' one Fight Until Next ; © Fesday. but Opposition 2 Colliery at Wilkesbarre. STUDENT OF MOLINEUX CASE. : Claims a Big Majority. WILKESBARRE, Pa., Dec. 9,—Four men were killed and ten injured, three YOUNG Westphal’s Remarkable the explosion of a box of dynamite in No. 5 mine, of tee! erye Breaks Down Under probably fatally, b: BOTH “SIDgS DODGED ISSUE, | venish ana witkesvarre Coal Supe eee Wilkeabarre, to-day. Repeated Questioning—From | | ‘Board of Estimate, Requesting that Comp< “Although Mayor Low Sent a1 i0st#, Ax2HUR sont Sundtrnty it, a | His Adioion the Mystery troller Be Empowered to Invest That PHILLIPS, MATTHEW. miner, th Seale apa fies j jay Be solved. Amount in Fuel. Bie Message Favoring Pennsyl-) GLYNN, JAMES, laborer, thirty-f FATALLY INJURBD. vania Franchise, It Is Assert- | George Knorr, Charles Stafford and Thomas Evans, Having admitted that he put bromo seitzer In the beer which George F. i = SERIOUSLY INJURE) ed More Republicans Now Op Leyh drank and then died, Robert West- 1 Sweeney, John Austin, Dominick Hart, James Peckems. [eres pose It. ne men had lowered into the shaft, whictt is 110 feet deep, a box of dynamite. phalent hel fourteetsyear-oldi cfiae. boy, trom of the shaft was reached Phillips took the box off the carrlage. | expected by the Brooktyn potice to make a clean breast to-day of his en- = When the bot | tire connection with the desth of his | It ellpped from his hands and fell to the ground + lon exploded the dynamite and the twenty men who were in the very little debate the Roard of Alder- . ative {20d and wealthy émpioyer, Retin AIHE Afeernoon postponediconsidera- | immediate) Vicinity. retting thelr: tools) in readiness) to ‘go to. their respective |""noth the polie® and the Coro- tion of the Pr ivanla tunnel fran- | chambers, were hurled In ail directions. The woodwork at the bottom of the/ner are convinced that the boy f# still chive until next Tuceday, ‘This waa done, shaft was alro torn and scattered about, Aa soon as possible word was sent to| withholding a great den! and tat what masta the surface and a resculng party was sent down. admissions he has made are only sem- | after a message from Mayor Low urg- The mino has the reputation of being the most gaseous in the entire region | blances of the real truth, 1 ing action had been rea, Seed Hea etal tee RAs eae Ot elses Bottle of Polson Found. Before the Board met it was asserted | nd at fret It was feared that the Bas had expe Fee ae | There is some renson to belleve that J that the opponents of the franchive | had been kilied outright, Fortuntely, however, the gas did not explode. lherpblbin MRE ecaleeal Daghia death The dead and injured were brought to the surface as soon as possible. Phil-; was bl-rulphide of mercury, one of the deadilest known to chemistry. In Leyh's store there was a bottle of this chem|: Coldest Dec. 9 in Twenty-six Years Bri Misery and Suffering to Thousands, Relief Is Badly Needed to Keep Disea and Death Away. Without taking a test vote and after 'Pae conc a The Board of Aldermen to-day yoted unanimously t MANACLED forward a resolution to the Board of Esti | tionment requesting that the Comptroller The Injured were wrapped in biankets tH |spend $100,000 for coal for distribution am cal. It was marked ‘poison.’ It stood | 4 §. thirds vote. Fifty-three votes Fs on A shelf beside a bottle of cyanide of IN HI RAGE | TRIAL FOR LIFE. Alderman John T. McCall introduced olutia BPA Ys ty be, casi to suspend the raten, Biche yotaenisn lsinuatee eryytals(and| | «/which went through with arush. The Alderman stat | y iabgarey pear tava fated: - TEARS SH OA] | could Rot te readlly ‘weed In beer. ‘The a |that the poor were unable to procure coal in quant lo get eo many votes, At any | mercury Is a powder and resembles very : f fAt6, they made no protest against post much the sediment in the bottom of tse] Mischievous Boys Throw varie TOR: the Tl peheaac Breaks | Sufficient to heat their homes. if epiment ior 8 meek. STRIKE HEARING AND CAR COLLIDE =: from which Leyh dramk the fatal iW Eront’ ct sh in Six-Day! Loose in Court Bee teen He suggested that the Board of Estimate and Appot yhat will be done with the franchiso, The bottle holds wuces, AI | i when the ovard mects next Tuesday of it teimoue ne cormiepats fo aire Race at Garden and Spill ately Tries to Reach Assist- tionment authorize the i pete of corporate stock to cover t We stit probiemation!. Betore and after, been removed with a Knlfe anit nt District-Att Clarke, |COSt of the coal. Not a dissenting vote was recorded again Opie) uuiling ie #es ceca ce the powder poured out-parhape ax Results ant Distriot-Attorney Clarke. | 5. A iderman’s resolution. r way atrmen are now clvitea in tis) Pathetic Story Told by a Miner’ Windows Smashed, Women| Aithousn the police were’ mate eeure To-day is the coldest Dec. 9 in New York City record since Dec. 9, 1876. On that day the tempe tar Would insist upon immediate considera- ert tion. This would have necessitated a suspension of the rule v-quirng a two: lips was mangial almést beyond recognition. McGlyni had his arms tora off.) of. the existence of thig bottle and its | Employed by Markles Arouses| Passengers in Panic, andsossibie tearing on the cass then E KILLS OFF SPRINTERS.|FOUR MEN OVERPOWER HIM. 22 y t take thi bli , —o 44| the Sympathies of Commis-) Traffic on \ Broadway | Line I8| ne interased naam tho pa’ aceg)! 2 reached 8 degrees, the same as to-day. +2 fihict tae “Fto the atore could. have destroyed tt if O'CLOCK. WIth @ spring that carried him clear iB Wrisis w poll tanen in the Beare chne| Mmissioners and Spectators. Blocked. he so wished, No one has done soy Sie ° across’ a table: four fest wide “Butch" ON Tar nls MoI is PUR Ga iamaien this Atieencon the fox iri ponte bere wet, eed seis ee Tobin, the murderer on trial for killing | OUT Y'S SHIVERING POOR BEG FOR COAL lowing Is the present attitu | 1 3 of the" | JUDGE GRAY PLAINLY MOVED./SIX THOUSAND — SHIVER, |te!2 without deviation. at east fey |Breton—Darrago>‘.... .... 790 "4 [ant bring Coby Toe ts the em) SUL Y FAR FROM EQUALS DEMAN | dividua! members on the franchise Far! i times a day to police, Coroner, detec- ° aio i 5 " Maya cone aise to reach and assault Assistant FOR THE FRANCHISE. Lives, reporters and members of mtr. | MCFarland—Maya Ch ie Clarke, lin’ Justice taoaslal eh the evoktnn Wari) Six thousand men and women shiverea | L@h's family was finally broken down|Stinson—Moran .... ...../ 799 4 Winter's grip on the city !s so strong 7 Pare Pas Dec. 9.—President|until they were numb and blue for an |thtough the good fortune of Detectives Bedell—Bedell ...... « 799 4] _The quickness of Deputy Bheritt Van | to-day that it is murderous. Men are | WEATHER FORECAST. Roosevelt's strike commission heard|hour and a half this afternoon as the |Donlin and Miller in discovering that Deesten and prompt action on the part} actually tr: o death, While the| We 1. N ‘k—Jayobs 79! actually freezing to deat |] Forecast for the more to-day of the deplorable con-|result of an automobile crashing into |Weétphal had purchased a $27 bleycle lewkork—Jayobson 799 4 | of the court officers wag all that sa Lori ky, a bitter|]| hours ending at § P. M. Weds tions In the Hazleton region, particu-)and entangling itself with a Broadway |the night of the day Leyh died: The | butiep Turville .. 799 4 | Mr. Clarke from what would doubtiess |U" shines In @ glorious sky, és City jarly under G, B, Markle & Company. |car shortly after 12-o'clock, purchase was made at a sporting gools ore) ore [have proved severe injury at the hande| Wind, that bites and cuts and stings, | day, for New naieee auite Henry McGontgal, one of the cmploy-| The auto-frack belonged to one of the {Store in Willamsburg. With foresight |Leander—Floyd Kreb .... 789 4 oe ptadales prisone: screeches through the streets and makes inity: Fair and ees of this company, who was evicted In| big downtown department stores and {that won the admiration of the police ) Ab 799 3p omn was quiet during the proceet- cople falrly fy for refuge where- R 2 ‘ys87, told how it occurred, saying thet|was bowling along eastward on Twenty- | Westphal had crdered the salesman not bor ress Fare ings yeateriay, after a commission ot| Ve" rey be naa, A CHASE it was because he served on a com-|sixth street when all of a sudden it got |t2, deliver the bicycle to his home until |Keegan—Pctersen .... .... 799 3 | allenists had reported that he was sane, | ever It may de had. north to northeast windey Lah mittee which presented to the Markles|heyond the control of its driver, John |Chtistmas Eve, Garinenect 799g | AN his demeanor to-day was normai| The sad thing about the situation is ance a number of grievances, Five others!O'Brien, and racing madly from. Fifth Denied Making Parchane. i f 7 a a tlaree Me eemaee ae ad opening ad-| that these refuges are so few. There , Hee ine A acnicghin Cuil ers Brenial (0 Brosensy, {following a lg-) Tho detectives went at once to We Doerfinger—Heller. . 738 Aawet in hipweat and glare pureeen (| are more desolate, dreary, freesing } TONG . Ga er, yor p28 course, ran full tilt into a moving |phal's home and took him to the store.| «phe jongedistance cyclists: at Madison ‘i Cath ow day TURE. tials 6 3 s ‘ B dis olists adisontet the Assist District- e homes in New York to-day than ever : f Markie & Co., €xplained the system Of | Broadway trolley car. The force of the | When confronted by the proprietor, wha Although H Detaten earn eainn |eerore The coal famine, about which THE TEMPERA ing a company miner, He showed | coltision broke every window in the car {had sold him the bicycle, he dented mak. | SUU8Fe Garden were in the same rela-) (NONE) OAM Oe utterly, unprepared since the strike ended the company jang threw its occupants, who were |ing the purchase. But the proprietor'a| tive positions late thin afternoon that} ey, the oatiike movement. with which there wad so much talk when the days Metiger, } him to such . Ria bade caine aes Lae iaarn Hoaty resied Bat A panic, though |wife also identified him, and then he|they have held since Monday morning. | ‘robin bounced froi his chatr and acroas| Were Wet and muggy, is now a grim re- “reaner, MO era Us es eanta avcnslsntpnal oti nar oreo oem. Was invured:, | 1m colliding |eave.tn, ‘The seven leaders, are watching each| the table. But, qulck as it was, Van| ality. Sead a day as before the strike, ‘The place | oving truck became entangled with aes dstanives set the money?”| ner ao closely that it is next to’ tm: monet rw td vee Daten ce oes un nguemtianranen te cnes ine jae works Is so “hard that the men ine fender and dashboard of the car in| “I found a puree containing $2748 in| possible for any team to get the coveted | {100 rabinan mayer: he brought obi | of tenements are erying to thelr parents alain, would not work it on contract, such a Way that it took an hour and a| front of the First National Bank, Broad. | lap. Breton and Daérigon are really | i) wage y But Tovin | or warmth that the parents cannot buy. boner. | How the Pay Wan Cut haif to free It, Way and Kent avenue,” was the ready |the only men whoghave tried to steal] ri murderer cursed at the top of his! Coal has soared beyond the reach of ‘ ney worked as company miners at! As a result traMe along Broadway | response. Then the detectives took the : j bee Sea anata seth sien pasate tt 27, with thelr supplies supplied. After| as held up for an hour anda half, and| boy to Police Headquarters, where (Continued on Tenth Page.) (Continued on Second Page.) “pad (a 2 witt ‘ve. ne atrike the company would not allow|before long a hundred cars between|Capt. Reynolds and Inspector Druhan knew what it was to be without a fire. Senter: them to work as company miners; they wourtssneh street ane Fifty-ninth street ered him with questions for art i mG = yi Lf Even the Rich Suer. pat nad to talce {t on contract. He can now| Were huddled together in a congested| hour, They made him admit that the Even ‘the well-to-do and the rich are ye junder this plan only make 6) cents a | line, purve veloniged to old man Levh, Coal 1s #0 scarce that it !s vay. He has to pay g cents a gallon) Even when the motive power is on, th Found Pocketbook on Floor, - suffering, Coal ts ei p \tor, pil and % conte for blasting paper | slim, little electric radiators in hols || (whan Leyh was carried up stairs the re 1 aimcult to get at any price. Specuia: te ay tiem tor iuee bait Phe Come | face trolleys generate only sum™icient| boy says he found his pocketbok on the ii tors contro! the situation. The smalltl TENSE COLD IN "The poll was taken by a non-partisan | mission tried to tind the cost of powder | heat to make the cars comfortable on an franfarecekee had slipped from the old y retailers are buying of them at % a ton f H\] committee of the Board. The poll shows | '"yne operaibes “ald it was $1.26 and CA nl AAG LAG odeeaed [EI fadifssion gaye th the police an op- because they cannot buy of the apera- NORTHERN NEW j that: several Repubiican members have | the mine workers 9 cents. o y give out absolutely no heat at| portunity to make a prisoner. ; 0 re- | RATHON to'the Spposition tothe: tung}, Fresh trom the grave of his wite, who|all. ‘Tho result was that these mtatied | Dr eccaunt of Ble was turned in f=] tors at any price. All over town the H pr tunne). he over to the Children’ nd lock- r ce by the ton {s $10, and one Is i . Alaa etter cetehing While being |carg, which averaged about sixty pas-| ed up in the Taetitution in Seven by | tall price by the tor Guratogn \scte .30 ti Arras Exesent: Cole an old miner, came before the car | MEMKOS, soon were like cold-stormge | street over night. siitaealy lucky to wet a ton at that price. ire [Amsterdam a iM ole. * A 5 or 60 cents to spare ttevees somes } ‘The: preat public interest in to-day’ | minsion thie morhing and told his pa: | boxes, the commingling breaths of the |» the Vey was held on the char Feo BOO ee ORT Toe Deae And DAlls OF] UEla eras mecting was reflected in the large| {Rete story. His wite was sick when | passengers giving forth the only avail-| Court to-day, to give the police tine for are spending na a ( xntheFing of Democratic and Republican | Siac ’ehe died on Frida a | able heat, Sean LACHES AF ino srookiyn ae-| , After a long conference between Justice Wyatt, of the Court) fatke'to wie nomen ae MY) poltdsians, Assemblyman sam Prince, Yesterday. “Cole worked hinetom Yeara|, For the first few minutes of the | sective depurt wid tapday thac| of Special Sessions, District-Attorney Jerome ar istant| At every coal yard on the east side ) Mho.made n speech in opposition to the | fo" Matkie, & Co. and never had any blockade the passengers sat In ahiver- | Westphal Was one ‘of “ihe mott rear wa on the far west side where coal i M trouble wit 4 employers, but thinks i _|able prisoners he ever had t rt ‘ ft #| tunnel at the public Rearing of the com | ie. Togedt dlmeutty’ was che real of his Re nore gr wens ae tie cats Kee Aste ayn has Imprensea the to deat witn.| Digtrict-Attorney Sandford a warrant was issued by the Jus-| 07% ging sola by the bag or all here tt) Nov, early and oc- ving served on a relief committee dur- b * similarity between the Loyt y 0 of poot ple with pinca-|§ in matte pea or, me estaelen ana ing the strike. He waa horribly hart in| exercise themeelves in abusing the road Incident ‘as, he describes it and. certain tice and plaiced: in Mr. Sandfcrds hands,’ It is rumored that] wero xroups Ld patented apd Bent Wi) When Ste. Fornee cated the meeting | bone ifs boy groxen ee” METOEVEFY and, ie managers, Finally they re- | ig a ald’ ghiuve been" cearuits| Mother raid will be made in the Tenderloin to-night. Stans of the burden bearers were litte, | 4 to order It was observed that he had a] | “Evers a he sald, except my parted, tqunawinsins Abels ety ite danolenat ne rogtected An, the Molineux Se poorly clad, shivering children, whose} so. yor, bs : us ok. ati was hur’ skull w ow cl 0 e cars, with the | © isiness ani He rmet a | Rew gavel, The old one went to smash | Pek Aad Td nineteen, ‘aR Jn'my|reault. that. this improvised friction, | Mr. Leyh had frequently to snatch the " thin bodies could not be warmed bY there comes a let up in, the at the last meeting otitne board, Alder: head, all my lbs were broken and my lwhen the fying arms flew wild, woun Ranapaper 330 from bins waenne told his even the exertion of dragsing a ftty man Harnischfeger. of the Bronx, made }arm Is crooke | the fingers oe my a ay rat sf Re enone © modelled , °i pound bag of coal through the streets. | y ihnve gemaran Th peivato at the uppear-| hanay vers, trains my! leer, mare UP,tn several personal cacountery, he | area Opie a atactl” oy tel BICYCLE RACE LEADERS’ 6 O'CLOCK SCORE, sia Oe oe ee eae [ae ee ance of the-new gavel: one, I iost-an eye inthe mines | method of enlivening the. elrculation, | seltzer 1s another echo of the Molineux ; No. 230 East Forty-second street, they | so slippery that they are fal » reton and Barragon, crariand an aya, ‘I spe the President has a new bung- got a glass one, J eannot see Sreactbatou gecntine about, Ereauen tly case. ¢ '- Led were burning wood in the office. The) where. Many of them are not B starter. The Pennsylvania Railroad ts . FIsOHAN 00) egensnineria Les IRIs Als L Ww aoe aes (ao: Stinson and Moran... @20 1 J. Bedell and M. Bedell 820 P{snoemaxer's cnitdren had. no shoce in| shod, so. quickly’ aid the cold @ jittle ahead tn its’ bestowa!l of Christ- Spectators Moved to Tears. the feminine passengers whose toes suf- ODEL'! ORKS ON MESSAGE. Newkirkand Jacobson 820 1. Leander and F Krebs 820 1 other words, for they had sold the only| down, and the force of horseal mas gift He sald that when he was. confinea| fered. so that by the time the cam pis eat : 4 : two loads of coal they had been able| not sufficient to keep up with fis Infuties une compiny Mover gave finally started some of the old: warmth ; Butlerand Turville... 820 1 Barclay and Fr. Krebs 820 Q|to buy. They had to send two tons of| mand, ; Crank Threatens Enrthquake. im @ny money, and that when his fel-/ 1d been restored, oO A soft coal to the Empire Theatre to keep] The thousands, who came over 4 A man more daring than Alderman |low-workers, Failsed for him aie te — Keegan and Peterson. $20 0 Galvin and Root..... 820 Off fherrro trom siutiing down t0-| nrookiyn Bridge thle. morning. Seaeeiee ae ’ et C1 na . SYN. —— -$-¢— ua. " 2 Hemliirence aa eae) ert) bag ae epeeey is. Supt “Smith "gave NEW POSTAGE STAMP IS ODD.| areaxy. XN. Y.. Deo. 9 —Gav. fel night, Mr. Gordon sald chat the eitu-) a shiverine xa 0-08 the Die the f from the gallery. He arose while the! fim #10 for his Injured te = has definitely decided not togo to Wash- : tion was really most critica in front of th t aM was being called anid pointed a long, | Wille, ne was, bel, evicted hie aope Just Insued and Wirel to ear a|inaton this week, owing chiefly to pres: LATE WINNERS AT NEW ORLEANS. Senet Bros., No. 218 Bust Forty-fourth| one gaze was sirfliclent, andy bony finger at the Chairman and shout-| Sion? in order to get somo place for hi 7 sure of work upon his message. i] | i treet, managed to buy from speculators | thelr wraps closer about themyo® . a6 t adataer est laias He has completed the first rough Fifth Race—Glennevis 1, Harry 2, Canyo.: 3. at 1 Broadway two tons of coal] hurried on. ed: ‘{If this tunnel franchise 1s ap- aise wife and her mother,” who is over dts proved and the tunnel built It will be} 100 years old, but he was put out on the| WASHINGTON, D, C., Dec. §—Stamp|araft, and Is consulting with those e1 “ £ ” road !n one. rain. His wife grew. worse ect id curio thual: - | pectail int ited respectively | Aearroyed ny 6 arent eartbaunke.” Jaw lags HaTacmarist Spiny gut | ceertert and curl enthamiasia are on |peaely esse etyataes atau mae NIXON PLEADS FOR SHORTER’ HOURS, While Sergeant-at-Arms Dawson was|‘the mother-in-law wax progtrated and ° 9 lave just issued by the. United States Gov- | 48° “4 i % fty pour h mi er ane S eaiar nny Serer wks LR hi ory rani of tne | ernment, vearing for the Grat time In| wash Won, Lewis Nixon, ex-leader of Tammany, argued before the Civie ry UN AME Seite crciy at tte 7 Yorke Sdake a aot {dome with the second visitation of | fleiny vaftected, Awsigtank’ Haoniae| the Government's history the portrait | lasedlaiioavieaiwtea as WEA Federation for shorter huurs. He said that he had tried ‘tin the; barge is presumably being held for] thermometer with the bulb ag | |from a barge which lay at the foot of] This cold wave te of Manitoba mM to Bast Forty-fourth street. They paid] facture, There it sent the curs 5) a ton for Ht and sold It to the poor} more than thirty degrees Ghelat, You can verity my statement] Momly wept opénly, “the teare stream: | Ot 8 woman. | BORDENTOWN, Dec. 9.—The peta-| fast four years and, while it had cost him between $40,000 and] nigher prices. zero as possible for that Pe Seayrine to chants, 2, verse: pot | PF Soe i ee con-| aie in tho port-oflcos of te goumuy, | ware River ffosen over trom the! $60,000 a year..he wes stil in favor.of the reduced time for| coat aay me git m tom, |, en A mind, whieh band the Sergeant-at-Arms reached Pakilar tb that on the old ee qe athe ih workers, “This-question,” he, went on, “vill Ue'settled by evo-| ‘nis is only the second day of the} up the cold wave tn Mani gs 004 Gewesed him atrurating 181, nesantneaie tern | sede Searing ah a Seisinat’ steer weet tem | {ution and’not by,law: ,He-emded with a.plea.for: good wages.) s0'tner “Many ot theo ace sulig| Base! <.. eontinued on Becond Page.) Sarven ale tustanes Get ra oeere va “printed “Before, Sut "never praliaes ed are, gculage weaves see | Mr, Cleveland left at 4.30 in order to catena train, and was UN-1 Goa, delivery in ten days, at $10 a. ton. (Continued on Seoond, : ‘ i » able to speak, as fie had intended. He-will not "be erseent ‘toe < morrow.