The evening world. Newspaper, December 26, 1902, Page 1

{ if «pleasure in se! ON PAGE RACING # SPORTS SPORTING NEWS 8. [ “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ ) | N IGH EDITION 4 [« Circulation Books Open to All’? )_ PRICE ONE CENT. ; NEW YORK, FRIDAY, PRICE ONE CENT. DECEMBER 26, 1902. SPEGULATOR ENDS LIFE WITH ACID Oswald Weber, Jr., of Brook- | lyn, Treasurer of Royal Arcanum Lodge, Com- mits Suicide at the Grand Union Hotel. LOST HEAVILY IN COFFEE. On the Wrong Side When the! Market Broke Recently and Was Badly Pinched—Spent |: Morning in His Office. Oswald Weber, jr., agent of the build- ing at > 138 Front st committed sulcide at the Grand Union Hotel to- ct He was f ernoon in a dying condition. unk two ounces of p: id. He lved but a few minutes after the arrival of the ambulance surgeon from Bellevue Hos- pital, Weber went to the t 1 o'clock this afternoon. He regist his right name and gin advance, as he hi At 2 o'clock a ¢ heard groan Weber wa found lying on the b dressed, The porter at once notifled t desk and sal aid way summoned, fd was too deadly to venth street, wad father, who » Support he assert that spe for his tak- ily long of t broke re- an Rayalid an Friends of V tion In coffe ing his life. coffee, and when te ma ntly was badly pinet de-was at his office as usual this morning and seemed in good spirits. He laughed and joked wit rof his friends who came in. Just befere noon he went out, leaving word that he would be backyiater in the day. Lt is inferred that he went frst to a ¢ the acid and ther drank It. A. T. Stewart, of No, 108 Front street, friend of the 1 man, sald that was treasurer lodge, but want did not handle was also a Mason Masonle Club in br that he saw Weber Arcanum he ¥oula not delley s death when he heard |t The suc left a note marked “Not for publication, ei read “Notify m of my iplatives. take care of my my body cremate y rit Burial Company. I a and want to die.” NINE MORE POLICE PROMOTIONS. MADE Partridge Rewards Faithful Ser- vice with Appointments of Men as Detective Sergeants. to-day made Police, Depart- that he had the work and need, made Commissioner Partride nine promotions tn t ment. He announ taken into considerat! records of the men adv: The following Detective gve¥ants: John V. Long, of the Di fective Bureau, Brooklyn; J Me Kirdy, Atlantic ‘ook- lyn; Richard L. ad. Mundy, both of the Manhattan. To be detectives attached to the Man- hattan Detective Bureau—Michael Pro- ysel, East Six street station; Richard Manning, Fifth street station Andrew J. Klernas enty-Fifth cinct, Long Island City, and Joseph F Roberts and George W. Reynolds, both of the Oak streot station. In announcing the promotion of Ro! erts and Reynolds, Commissioner Par ridge sald the two men were wardmen of Capt. O'Reilly and that ho took great tMheercallont “aervice Wek Wad been doing. under Caps. O'Rellly. —— WEATHER FORECAST. Foreeast for t thirty-six hours ending at 8 P. M. Satur- day for New York City and vi- einity-Partly cloudy to-night; cold wave; fair and continued cold Saturday; fresh to brink went to west winds, * | up. } Magist was, | ra SLEUTH ACS CASE MUDDLED. |Surrenders Himself to Court Policeman and the Magistrate Thinks He Has Disappeared | When He Fails to Answer. GETS HABEAS CORPUS WRIT. |By Clerical Error This Is Dated Returnable at 10 O'Clock at Night and the Detective Narrowly Es- capes Being Locked Up. It is Jacobs, District-Attorney ghtning-change sleuth, who indulges in habeas corpus proceedings. | repr ative of the law firm of | Parsons, Closson & McIntyre, of which Parsons is the head, got a writ $ corpus from Justice Scott this noon ordering Police Sergeant Pat- trick H, MeGirr, of the Yorkville Court | squad, In charge of the Yorkville prison, | to produce Joseph Jacobs before Justice | Scott to-morrow. Justice Scott also fssued a writ of 1, and through a clerical error was made returnable in the Supreme Court at "10 P. M.” and the | second at ‘11 P. a “This cannot be right, sald Magis- Brann, ‘The law clerk tried to ex- | tr plain. “You don't know your business,"’ Mag- istrate Reann added. “This map is not [in the ¢ y of the Court and hyre with writs returnable at d of in the day time.” proceedings of Jacobs's ring got mixed up this afternoon. acobs went into coug, to give himself . nn was out and Jacobs’ f up to the sergeant of the rt squad. gave h ka mai | Yorkville Co When the case was called late in the |police court, Jacobs, of course, did not ppear, and the eplanation of his non- appearance had scarcely been made when the Incident of the writs occurred. |Magistrate Brann could not understand why the writs were made returnable jat night. | “They nad a Citizens’ Unton clock,” |suggested Abe Gruber, who appeared {0 {uehalf of Campbell and his manager, | Burbridge. | Assistant District-Attorney Sanford | trte to straighten out the tangle, and yr a time Magistrate Brann threatened to lock Jacobs In a cell for the night. 'Winally {t was decided to let the case @.t!] 9 o'clock to-morrow morn- nue the sleuth's ball n upon which the writs were signed by Jacobs, sets forth \that as soo as he heard that Magistrate \Brann had fssued a warrant for his t on Wednesday on the complaint muel G. Hitchings, charging him, with prying in the “John Doe" | proceedings before Justice Wyatt, of | Special Sessions, Dec, 10 and 17, he sur- | rendered, ja demands his release on the ground that there was only one ac- user, the law demanding two in a per- |su purjury charged against is In connection with visits to Burbridge’s HER BULLET SAVED THE MAN SHE LOVED. Girl Fires Just as a Jealous Ri- val Was About to Stab Her Sweetheart to Death. — (Special to Tue Rvening World) SCRANTON, Pa, Dec. %--Angelina Tedesco, a young woman of Pittston, saved the life of the man she loved when another suitor for ‘her hand was about to plunge a knife into his heart, by shooting the jealous rival, Luts! Tirrelll, the man who was shot, will recover, Angeilno Tedesco last night gave a Christmas party to some of her friends. Tirrelll and Narestino, his rival, were among the number, ‘The attentions of Irrelli were so marked during the ning that Narestino became bicvrly lous, aad challenged his rival to a Aght. ‘Tirrellf threw Narostino to. the greund and about his was to plunge Knife into the heart of Narestino when pulling out 10 had the > rushed up and, Miss Tede re ed at the man wl round relll was carried home by some of his friends, The shooting was not known to the authorities until late this after- [noon (Tirrelil admitted that the girl had shot him. MINERS DEAD IN WRECK. Car with Fourteen Men Smashed and All Killed. TRINIDAD, Col. Dec. 2.—A coal miner from north of Trinidad, who was taken out of the debris of Colorado and Southern freight wreck north of Trint- dad last night and died a short time later, sald just before his death that there were fourteen coal miners beside himself in the car in which he was riding and which was smashed to splin- ters. The ruins of this car remain under tons of wreckage. All the men In It must have perished. ‘ts now eatimated that the number Re nees will reach from twenty-five to FIGHT 1 ON AGAINST CAR JAMMING. The State Railroad Commis- sioners in Conference with Representative of) ¢ Merchants’ Association Outline Scope of Inquiry. FIRST GUNFIRE TUESDAY. Immediate Temporary Relief to Be Insisted On While Some Method Is Devised for Perma- nent Remedy. (Spectal to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Dec. 26.—The State Board of Rallroad Commissioners practically be- gan its investigation of the complaint of lack of transit gacilities in New York | City to-day at a conference with Mr. Mead, secretary of the Committee on Franchises and Transportation of the| Merchants’ Association, of that city The State Board, through Col. Ashley W, Cole, its President, expressed itself as heartily in accord with the movement to secure better transit facilities in New York City, and promised co-operation to bring about a full performance of duty on the part of the railroad companies. The conference was preliminary to the investigation which the board will open formally with a hearing in Brooklyn on ‘Tuesday covering complaints of inade- quacy of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit service and in Manhattan on Wednesday relative to the service of the Manhattan Flevated, the Metropolitan Surface and the Union Rallway systems in Manhat- tan and the Bronx. Scope of Inquiry. Col. Cole and Commisstoner Frank M. Baker, of the commission, and Mr. Mead were present at the conference, The pur- pose was to ascertain from the State | i Board the contemplated scope of its in- vestigation and to discuss the best plan to follow in Its conduct. ‘The board contemplates, Mr, Meal jeavned, an exhaustive Inquiry relative to the facilities which the companies are affording the travelling public ia New York City, the effect of such ser- vice and what can be done to bring about, first, a temporary and, second, a permanent rellef. ‘The question of jurisdiction was dis- cussed, and it was decided that the State Board has control over trafmfic facilities, and that the elty and Board of Health jurisdictions extend mainly in the lne of police and sanitary mat- Mr Mend after the conference tera, sald: To Define the Law, “The commission of lawyers called to- gether by the Merchants’ Association will meet to-morrow afternoon and will outline @ plan of action so that we will have a firm working basis and no delay when the Railroad Commissioners meet {n Manhattan on Wednesday. We will then know fully the rights of the rail- road companies and the public, and the duties which the one owes to the other. We will seek immediate rellef in one form, Jf nesessary, and peemanent through another if the situation requires ft, The Board has informed me that the investigation will be an exhaustive one, There will be complete co-operation. It will take up the whole subject. ‘That a favorable and speedy solution will be Teached, I am confident.” M Mr. Mead returned to New York at | sup? athe x * 3 + /suvo'Y QoL Park avenue, and certain re- Rn o'clock, Col. Cole also went to the |@ No. Sta Me eaerehonce: e efty. —_-— WORLD AIDS IN FIGHT FOR BETTER TRANSIT. The World to-day forwarded to the State Board of Railroad Commissioners the mass of evidence and the exhaustive tables concerning the running of trains on the “L” lines of New York. All In- formation supplied by Phe World was in the form of sworn statements and will be used when the Commission be- gins its formal Investigation Tuesday. The statistics were secured by World reporters, who were stationed along the Sixth, Ninth) and Third avenue lines. ‘They recordéa every train that passed the stations, noting the time and the con- dition of the cars, When their reports were handed in thev were compared with the schedule supposed to be In op- ration. ‘That this and much more testithony sworn to by the World reporters will be of much value to the commission is the statement of Willlam F. King, of the Merchants’ Association, which Qucting the fight for better facilitle the "" roads for hand): i Ho {sin the fight determined to gal his end and says The World has been of great assistance in the work, ‘Auguet Belmont, head of the Inter- borough system, which Is to take the Manhattan “L"' on April 1, was asked to-day at iis home, No. 44 East Thirty. fourth street, if he had made any plans to relieve the congestion, which has ren- dered intolerable the condition of the patrons of the elevated lines, “At the present time," said Mi mont, “we @re not operating the ‘Any comment I should make as to fu: ture Improvements, might be co in the light of criticism of the sider methods Jan ample supply of coal 18 prepared for ed | nue, while THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS WILL GET THE “T) MEN IF THEY DON’T WATCH dEeoDee JHE STATE RR, COMMISSION, 4 © POOGHGHOOHGHHS-5OO0H COAL FOR THE NORCAN FLATS. Summons Procured for the Great Magnate Because of the Coldness of the Store the Nevelsons Rented Is Vacated. PROMISES TO PROVIDE HEAT. ‘The suit against J. P. Morgan, brought by Harry Nevelson for the alleged fail- ure of the financler to provide heat in fan apartment leased by Nevelson,,has been settled out of court, it was stated ‘at the office of Daniel W. Blumenthal, counsel for Nevelson, this morning, and Mr. Morgan 1s not to be summoned to court. Mr. Morgan got down to his of- fice in Wall street at the usual time, Sho settlement Was arrived at after a conference between Mr. Nevelson, Mr. fiumenthal and Messrs. MeClay & Davis, the agents for Mr. an, There wag no payment of money, Mr. Blumen- Wil "sald, but Mr. Morgan's agents promised that there would be an ample iy of coal in the apartment house pa ‘The following letter was addressed by so Bpiumenthal to Mr. Morgan's agents today? went, Mr. Nevelson, has in formed me of your proposition to adjust the matters of difference between him- the and. Mr. Morgan, and I have ad- Syita nim to accept tho proposition. Ac- Uordingly I have given instructions to freCity, Marshal to withhold service of {he summons, and shall see to it that all proceedings are discontinued. jease arrange that the radiators in client's establishment are repaired that for the balance of the season < my and the building. NAVY CORNETIST GIVES BAIL. Venevio Wan Accused of Aasault- ing Band Leader. Pasquale Venevio, of No, 1718 Second avenue, cornetist of the Brooklyn Yard “Admiral Band,” was to- mitted to bail. Magistrate Zeller, in the Harlem Court, on Wednesday held him to await the outcome of the Injuries received by Lucien Conterno, seventy years old, the leade of the urteenth Regiment Fund, who claimed to be suffering from blood-polson4ng caused by an alleged assault by Venevio. ‘Two physicians re- ported that they found Conterno to be Auftering only from three slight wounds made by: an operation. ———_—_— BOY FALLS THREE FLOORS. Fractured Skull While Playin Near Open Door of Elevator Shaft. John Whelan, seventeen years old, an elevator boy, of No. 331 Lexington ave- ying on the fourth floor of his home this morning fell through the . ed ‘To Cure « Cold tn Ome Day Quin! ees att, receiving a fracture of He was taken to Bellevue oe Well-Groomed Man Hark, hark, the dogs do bark, The Commis No more crush for the “L” Road “push,” Magnates will bow low down— OUT (NO HAGUE TUN WILL ARBITRATE President Forces England and Germany to Adopt His Plan of Referring the Dispute with Castro to the International Court for Adjudication. ae Discussion When It Is Taken Up for Adju dication Is the Statement Sent Out fron the Government at Washing ton. WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—President Roosevelt will not be the ar | of the Venezuelan controversy. The whole vexatious subject will be “SEE THE STERRY. L ROAD i MAGNATES ff | sessions of the Cab!ret usually are, All the members except Secretary R oot | were present. The Venezuelan question was the principal and practically t} only topic of general concern under consideration, Secretary Hay pi the net result of his cable correspondence with the Governments at Lo | Berlin, Rome and Caracas. In accordance with the suggestion made several days ago’by P Roosevelt, through Secretary Hay, President Castro, of Venezuela was | ported to have agreed to submit the differences between his gov | and the European powers to the arbitration of the tribunal at The |The European powers not only consented to submit the controversy to arb | Hay is preparing a note to the powers in which the gratification of government is expressed for the course agreed upon by them in settlen Cotton Beard and Wig of Will- of the pending difficulties. iam Grass Caught Fire as He CONDITIONS NOT MADE PUBLIC. ° ices ‘5 i No intimation js given of the conditions which may have been im} Distributed Presents to Little yy tie uropean powers or by President Castor precedent to the arbitrations: | < lon is coming to town; ; Nitl Nit! Nitt WOMAN KILLED: POLIGE BAFFLED. Mary A. Darby Found Choked to Death in Her Home, Where She Lived All Alone in New tration, but while they had expresed a preference for arbitration, to'be com= ducted by President Roosevelt, they had assented to his suggestion that the matter be referred to The Hague. : The presentation of the case met tie hearty approval of the member cf the Cabinet. No fear is expressed by the Administration that the roe Doctrine will be brought into the controversy in any manner might result in an embarrassing situation for the United States. § Jersey. Ones. It is known that Great Britain was willing to submit the subject to the’ arbitration of President Roosevelt practically without conditions, but the! Cheieepraccibtinien) Willlelp ar AREY epee suggestion Is made tha cone and perhaps two of the other powers involved! TOMB RIVER, N. J., Dec. 26—The| impersonated the ben. Propored some conditions which might have proved embarrassing to t police of this county and State De Nt of his litt and sisters President hed he undertaken the responsibility of determining the ques= tive Parker are invetigating the mur-[last n ight. He to-day from|tion, It is understood that some money must pass, but it also is 7 der of Mary A. Darby, whose body was found tn her home at Tuckerton last night. The woman had been assaulted and then choked to death, She Hved alone and was last Wednesday afternoon, when some of her neighbors spoke to her. When she did not appear on Christmas her ‘friends burns, In the North Hudson Hospital, |-nat the amiunt of cash to be required of Venezuela before prec Hoboken. With a beag@ and wig of white cotton 20t nearly so large as has been supposed. and scarlet red jacket trimme cotton and stuffed with pillows, Grass was circling the brilliam Christmas tree in his home Liberty str . West Hoboken, ing gifts to the children, when his beard was ignited by a candle In a moment the flames covered his a conditional protocol, and it Js hoped that while 1 st! QUESTION OF APOLOG young seen 0 It is not possible to learn either whether the allies insist upon apol ‘\from Castro and, while it {s assumed that the blockade will be speedily; ) raised, no arrangement to that end has yet been made, The energies of they negotiators.are now being devoted to the framing of what will be known ag this class of document does) went to her house and found her body. en No suspicious characters about Tuckerton on Wedne: were si terday and the polte face, and before his parents could tear ty work on, The woman was flity-elght]| the disguise from iim his flesh had been| 2Ot Undertake to closely define the issues to be presented, it will still contalmys Beas ae Dialered’ de inhaled theifire a provision for the removal of the biockade, ‘a rr In theexcttement the tree wer aniseed Seams wana eek see ns | WARSHIPS AVENGED AN Wants. ONE KILLED AND THREE HURT BY AN ERIE RAILROAD EXPRESS PATERSON. Dec. 26.—One man was killed and three oth- ers injured, one perhaps fatally, on the Erie Railroad at Under- cliff by being run down by an express train. INSULT TO BRITISH FLAG, % STON, Jamaica, Dec. %.—The]9," sald Capt. Davison, “while we were British steamer Topaze, Capt. George R. | discharging coal at the whart we were |! surprised ®y the sudden appearance of = Dayison commanding, has just arrived} n armed guard which, without parley, here with details of tho assaults mado|ieieq aboard, and in a very rough aaa nm glish and German subjects by the/ excited manner drove my: Venezuclans following the seizure of the|crew ashore at the points of Venezuclan fleet, the ordering of |#Words and loaded Mausers, i ew consisted of men of British flags lowered and of the arrest ‘All were treated more Ikke) and imprisonment of his ¢ dhim-|cattie than human belngs, We tite self not given time to lock up our foommjlaT Capt, Davison, who 1 or put on more clothing. # La Guayra on Dec. lved at Puerto Cabello on Dec. | “Venezuela, even at this time of the 6, and remained there unloa¢ || year, is a very hot country, None of the The four men were employed by the H. B. Strong Company, | Der. 8 when he heard of the trouble | crew aul, much. clothing on oe fow | inland. of Cleveland, 0,, contractors, for building additional tracks be- tween Ridgewood and Turner's. The man killed was Edward Martin. of Berea, 0. The injured are Henry Naholic, Stenci Xtanislauski, of Berea, and William Shields. of Undercliff. (Con ed o4. Second Page) 7 ne k In the evening of Dec, bout 8 o'clo PACIFIC Shields may die. o? = ITALY OFFICIALLY CONGRATULATES MARCONI. HALIFAX, N. S., Dec. 26.—The following message was te~ eeived to-day at Glace Bay by Sig. Marconi. in reply to his wire- fess telegram to the Italian Minister of Marine: “Considering he co-operation of the navy as a duty which was owed ta you, | am happy and proud to have been responsi- ble for erranging that it should be given. | congratulate you co:'- dially upon the great sucness obtained. MINISTER MARINE.” f ee on a LATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS. Fifth Race- 1, Rough Rider 2, Phaceenameey 3, ey |Permanent Landing, It Is Announced, Will Be. hs Made at Sandwich Islands in a Day or Two, a of the cable, than the sea |AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2%6.—The fol-, The shore end lowing telegram has been recetved from] of a heavier t the cable ship Silverton, at Honolulu, | will be spliced to the sea cable timed at 4 A. M. to-day: miles off Diamond Head, which is (is “About to buoy the cable off the faland | the Innding piace, of the, + of Oahu in about 450 fathoms of water, | the splice 18» 2 | Up to this time 2,238 nautical miles ot |g geese See eable have been pald ous." th miss 3¢-—Sarill « Sixth Race—Poténte 1, Major Mansiy 2, Smile eo Work