The evening world. Newspaper, January 1, 1903, Page 1

‘RACING # SPORTS GENERA SPORTING NEWS ON PAGES 6 & 7. L. The CANS Canis VEINH vere ATH orld, n Books Open to All.”’ ‘ NIG EDITION ; “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ wat "PRICE ONE “CEN NEW YORK, THU DAY, JANUARY it 1903. PRICE ONE cave Early Rounds. (Speciad to The ‘evening World.) \ FORT ERIF, Ont, Jan. 1—Five thousand persons surrounded the ring of the International Athletic Club this at- ternoon to witness the“ twenty-round bout between Philadelphia Jack O'Brien ang Al Wienlg, the middleweight fighter | of Buffalo, The fact that the men fought for a side bet of $1,500 to $2,000 evidently aroused the Interest of the sports -nd they bet all kinds of money \ on the nant. ¥ \ Brien, according to the articles of agreement, had to stop Wienig in less than twenty rounds or else forfeit h money. O'Brien was favorite in Yhe betting at the odds of 2 to 1 that he would stop Wienlg. Three Quick KK rhouta. main preliminary bet Buffalo, an The ren Zurbrick, of MoCarthy terminated in two i men fought at 187 pounds, but Zurbrick, who is Weinig's sparring part- ner, so completely outciassed McCarthy that Referee MoBrije was compelled to stop the ; Ther wer two other pre Ferns knocking 0 first round and Billy Pick Fox a negro, In three O'Mrien an After a short walt O'Brien and Wie- 14g entered the ring. Both men looked in perfect shape for the battle, #8 a Tegult of their three weeks of traln- ing. Atier“Referee MeBride had introduced the men and tlso Informed the sre tators of the conditions of the contest the bel rang and they came out of! their corners with a rush. Firt Round, Round One—O'Brien let left to jaw ane missed, stepped back and put right to heart, both clinching, O'Brien rushed and put right to jaw, putting Weinig to floor for the count. Jack puts right and ieft to face, is very quick and put- ling it all over the Buffalo boy. O'Brier rushes and puts W Weintg fighting very cautiously and evi- dently laying for the right blow, O'Brien A QUICK KNOCKOUTS —INNEWYEAR'S FlbnTS. Preliminaries to Big Battles at Fort Erie and New Britian Are Fast and Furious— Big Crowds Surround the Rings—O’Brien Hammers Wienig in ‘§ to the ropes, fe TWO WOMEN MUTILATED BY ROBBERS Ear Lobes of One Terribly Lacerated by Highway- man Who Tears Out Her Earrings After Luring Her Into Ambush. uppercuts to jaw, Round ends wtih O'Brien doing the fighting Second Round. Round Second—O'Brien puts left and | right to face and fo:lows it with right | STRUCK WITH BLACKJACK, to Jaw, almost dropping Wienig. a Pinger of Another, Riding in an then put hard right to heart Jacl * tries for Jaw and is viocked. Weinig's| Automobile, Badly Slashed by left eye’ puffed up. Welnig receives a! Thief, Who Tried to Steal Her Ring. hard right to aw and Is getting con- siterable punishment. Jack puts left | {to face then pounds right and lefts tol fare again, | Third Roand. Round Three—O'Brien walks in in a crouching manner and Is met with lead from Wenig, which {¢ blocked. Jack nds right to face, following St with ome heavy body blows. Plenty of jelinching by both. O'Brien puts hard right to heart, Jack hitting in clinches and there are cries of “foul."' O'Brien | gets inside of guard to face. Both spar- ring when bel) rings. |QUICK KNOCKOUT IN NEW BRITAIN RING. {Special to The Evening World.) BRITAIN, Conn.. Jan. 1.— About 2.500 enthusiasts gathered at the Two wenen were made victims of particularly brutal highway robberies during the passing of the old year and coming of the new. The ear lobes of one were almost torn off by a ruffian who snatched her earrings; the finger of another was almost severed by | a thief while endeavoring to steal | her ring. When Mrs. Mollie Cohen, of No. 7 Pitt street, got up this morning she had ja pair of diamond earrings in her cars |valued at $200. When she goes to bed |to-night she will have nothing in her jears but seven si!tches made by a sur- geon. This change in the condition of Casino this afternoon to witness the/the ears of Mrs. Mollie Cohen was ‘ound battle between Joe Gans) prought about by a bold highwayman. and Gus Gardner, of Philadelphia, at! The husband of Mrs. Cohen, Max, Is \135 povds, before the National Athletic @ gutter employed at good wages by the Club, firm of Welss & Rosenblatt, at No. 63 In the first preliminary between Tony / Stanton street. He went to work at an Spore and Joe Ryan, six rounds atjearly hour to-day. Some time after a catch welghts, RYamjenocked out Sposetstranger.called at the house and asked in the secoud round. for Mrs. Cohen. bra enya He was a tall man, welldressed, with tININETEEN PRIZE FIGHTS a dark face and thick black mustache. H | He sald he was a friend of Cohen's and SCHEDULED TO-DAY, | nas secured ttm a better position. | “Go around and tell him to come home,” said the stranger, “I'll wast here for you.” Mrs, Cohen hurried around to Stanton eet to notify her husband of his good Fortin The entrance to the shop i | That pugiiiem is as popular as ever is evidenced by the numerous contests scheduled to be decided this afternoon and to-night. Not since the introdue- | which, Cohen works 1s through 3 long, a oO 1] en irs, Coh oO LOB LoE Sheiaport Heerivin ‘elt .a ene aa ha the stranger who had followed tury ago have so many bouts been down her from her home init her on the head decision as there were to-day, wit a blackjack, rendering her insen- Seven shows we carder, which in (Continued on Sixth Page.) DEAD WOMAN ON A COWCATCHER ~ Mrs. George Applegate Run i Down at Passaic and Carried h on Erie Express Engine Pilot mn to Paterson. by ENGINEER DIDN’T SEE HER. ‘} "Mrs. George Applegate, of Passitte, J., was killed by an Brie express train fo that city under circumstances quite remarkable. ilnd not two men atanding on the platform of tne station at Passale ct the accident, the body of the wo- man would probably have been carried on the lou of the le-omotive to Port i Jervis. N. +» &8 the engineer did not killed her. e train was erson and the body was removed. Mrs. Applegate, @ very pretty woman, way to a ball In Passaic, had been standing on the station form. waiting for a friend and sta ed gcross the track just as the express pame thundering along. The train was going so {ast that she could not get out of the way The men on the platform turned th waa on her She heads when it waz apparent that sae would be struck. After the train had Baca they went to look for the b jy, i at could find no trave of |t. They not. fled the station agent, who telegraph to Paterson just in time to have 1 dl of tha ‘woman lies> An They: had oeen separated for Mrs. Applegate came from Has Verstraw, N. ¥., where her parents re- mde. the thirty-six tS P.M, Feiday w York City and vieiatiy; Vo-night; Friday inereas- with snow or THREE MEN KILL. PRETTY MODEL? Sudden Death of Nellie MoCar- thy in a Philadelphia Hospital | Causes a Searching Investi- gation by the Police. FOUL PLAY IS SUSPECTED. (Speclal to The Evening World,) PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 1.—Nollle Me- Carthy, twenty-three years old, a pretty artists’ model, is dead in the Hahne- mann Hespltal, and her three supposed rs are being scught for, Since a child Miss McCarthy had lived with her aunt, Mrs, Catharine McCarthy, at No. 1628 Wood street. On the day be- fore Christmas she left home, pre mably to visit a sister in Jenkintown, Eurly Tuesday morning a cab con- taining three men, drove up to the aeci- dent ward of the hospital, ‘They aesist- ed the young women in, and before the receiving surgeons .could get any ace eount of her iiinces or obtain an ace rt esrlpton of the men, they The case was recelved as oal case, being diagnosed as renal The patient was placed tn charge of Dr. Bigier and complained of intense paing in her abdomen. p did this morning very suddenly,| (gg7” nd notuniil then did the physicians| 93 Meme uspect foul play, Renul ovlle, although « causing symptoms simflar Bree to those of the patient, would n. Ciuse such sudden death. The suspi- clous clroumsiances caused the ease LO be referre] immediately 1889 1890 vare disease, slight to the police, A vague dosréption of the men and cub BPR, were furnished and @ vigorous search begun. 1887 ad An official of the hospital acknowl. 1888 edged that renal cotic bad not caused f death, the real reason for which must 1889 oned by nosl-morion examina: ‘ ‘ hysiian, Morton, noivesited ‘Ker enter, 1820 e in Jenkintown. Sirs, Mc 1891 bell that her pretty i ? ry establish 1892 ° (= 7,640% THE NEW ‘POL ICE batein, COMMISSION Commissioner Greene. Capt. Piper, from she Then he tore the earring rs and made his escape bet red conse Cohen, ble M at the ears, was discovered by ant in the house. summoned a phvstclan. ‘Then ts e were notified, and Detective Jack of the Delancey street station, arted out to find the robber. BOY CUTS GIRL’S FINGER TRYING TO STEAL RING Mrs. Sarah Goodman, of No. 217 Hant Houston street, motherottwelve-year- old Henry Goodman, who slashed the ring finger of Miss May Lewis, of No. 129 West One Hundred and Twenty ninth street, as she was leaving the Liberty Hall Cafe last night, sald to- day that if her son had committed the crime in an attempt to get the young woman's ring by cutting off her finger he had developed a viclousness which she had long feared he would acquire, because of his surr ‘oundings. Miss Lewis, Miss May Mathews, oi (Continued on Second Page,) JACK O'BRIEN KNOCKS QUT FORT ERIE, Canada, Jan. 1.—Jack O'Brien knocked out Al Wienig, the Buffalo heavy-weight, in the twelfth round at the International Athletic Club here this afternoon. AL WIENIG IN ROUND 12. Wienig was completely outclassed by the olever Philadot- phian, and, after being floored several times and receiving con- siderable punishment, he was put to sleep by O’Brien witha right-hand swing on the jaw. O’Brien was declared the winner amid wild cheers. O’Brien won $1,500 besides his share of the gate receipts. Wienig bet he could not be stopped in 20 rounds | LATE RESULTS aT NEW ORLEANS, va Fourth Race—Witfull 1, Maghoni 2, Glendon 3. ~ The Evening World’s Great Growth in Advertisi (Evening Edition Only.) 1891 1892 1893 1894 NO. OF COLS, OF AD ' , 42034 “cis ° 5 . 1,11634 + + U4t3%4 . 6 A 334% . . 41,36 1% aie + 2,050% 4, 17 34 Tae 1895 This is the comparison for the last six months of each of the above half of 1902 beat all previous records and exceeded the corresponding 1099 1896 1397 1898 All Previous Records Beaten. 1900 showing that the last < months of 1901 by Columns of Advertising Printed” During the Year 1902. == 616 Columns More Than During the Year 1901. 190) 739 cols. Gt ythe fo [is known, ; = BALENE aI POLIGE REIGN TH GHAKE-UP, 'First Five Minutes Alter Hi His F Formal Installae tion Devoted to Promoting Republican in-— spectors and Captains and Suspending Several Democrats. Cartright Made Chief Inspector, Capt. Walsh Acting Inspector and Miles O'Reilly fn Command of the Tenderloin Precinct While Inspector Cross Is Let Down. Cross out among the goats. Practically, () It Is a setdown for bim, He was In- sp2ctor in charge of the Bronx. Now, that Inspector Brooks has charge of the! boroughs of Richmond, Manhattan and the Bronx Cross Js left’ a plain Inspea= tor, In addition to shifting Inspectors Commissioner Greene issued an order that they shall remove thelr offices wee Mulberry street to thelr inspection dis- |” | tricts. When the Commissioner asked if he did not, think thig gave the Inspectors a chance to feather their own nests better than they could when al y under tne eye of the oars i he said that he could not see Gen. Greene reached Mulberry bie accompanied by bis private Beorel “W.-d--@oiltwey! * THE new Police Department was attired: frock coat and wore a flower in his: ton hole. He went at once to the vate office of Col. Partridge, where he was greeted warmly by the retiring and Deputier Piper and Ebstein. The General took up a position weaad Partridge just as the fifteen inspec+ a¢ tors, who had been sent for, filed ini the ofice headed by Inspector Cortright Col, Partridge Introduced each patios i to Gen. Greene, who bowed and smiled as each one approached. After @ oy formalities Gen. Greene addressed Inspectors, clearly indicating his ute "3 tion to preserve a military policy in bis deallngs with the officers of the depart. ment, This is what the new head of police Commisstonor Francis V. Greene sig- nalized his avsumption of control of th Police Depariment to-day spending one inspector and five © captains—ail Demozcrats—and promoting two ains—all Republ Inspec- tors and three ca ne, Here are the changes made in within half an hour after the new Commimsicner took hold: Inspector Moyen Cortright was lef Inspector of the en- re uniformed force. Capt, Mules O'Neilly was trans- ferred from the Onk street sta- tion to command the Tenderloin Precinct in place of Capt. Walsh, who was made Acting tm=preta These officers were ordered nus- pended indefinitely from @uty pending their t on charges preferred against them: Inspector Donald Grant, Captains Stephen- son, Gannon, Halpin, Haughey and Herlihy, “For the moral effect it will have,” was the explanation of the foner of his act in or Brooke in made Senlor Inspector in place of Inspector Cortright, and put in command of je Boroughs of Manhattan, Bronx |and Richmond, Capt. Walsh takes Inspector |safd to the assembled inspectors: Brooks's place in the Fourth In-| “Inspect‘ors, you are at the head of ape District. the uniformed force of police in largest city of the United States. You have grown up in the force, have every position in tt. ‘ou Know every detall in the depart. ment, and you have a more knowledge of the ins ana outs of this’ great city than is possessed: by any her fifteen living men. Nothing ean take place in your district without you! knowing it. These being the facts, it is evident that the successful administras” tion of the department iargely upon the degree of honest effort which” you make to perform your own duties — and to make your subordinates do thelr Inspector McLaughlin, of Drook- lyn, ix made Chief Inspector of the Roroaghs of Brooklyn cud Queens. Capt. Stephen O’Brien, of the Leonard street station, ta placed in |command of the Second Inspection Diatrict on probation, Of the men promoted Inspector Me- Laughiin, of Brooklyn, is the only Demo: erat. This Is the man whom Dovery dubbed “Bile Hat" MoLaugh To the mind of Devery Mclaughlin was a joke asa policeman, and back of Devery's ridicule of the Brooklyn Inspector Wes | aity, 1 shall hold you personally tothe the enmity ef Hugh Mefauugbiin £0 loro sig responsiblity for what does. | Devery. Although they are not related. [Te pigee in your districts and for pete | the Dearne r of Brooklyn and | rornance of duty by yourself and those, his name e police force are plaice very we unde y “You who are District Inspectors will” move your offices to some station with’ in the limits of your districts for which: you are responsible, so that you may be in the closest touch with the officers and men under your command, phen O'Brien, who is brought ‘om the goats and promote anand has the s ne; 89 has Capt on the way to Miles O'Reilly is |mising Republican, It !s su the old guard of the Man force that he been above Thir- ty-fourth street more thsa three tmes in hin life, and what he ts expected to do to the Tenderloin ts a whole lot, When asked to make a statement con- the sudden and radical changes Commis gave a reply close Devery ever of- he good of the mmisstoner Greene sa! “These changes were made to the efficiency of the department The whift in Inspectors puts OVERDUE ST. LOUIS” HAS BEEN SIGHTED 2 Big American Liner, Thirty-six Hours Overdue at Southampton, Passes the Scilly Islands. AU Palls Brokem, “Dp shall get aoquainted with the fores; as possible, but I shall always deal with it through you. Every man on the force can rest assured that he will receive fair and just treatment: that his standing in the department will depend solely upon his record and that no Influence will protect him if he is found guilty of wrongdoing or neglect! of duty ase| "Now ee gentlemen, I extend to you my Adam (Continued on Second Page.) deg PLYMOUTH, England, Jan, The American line steamship bad ich should have arrived at Hea ES yesterday mornit afternoon at 3.80 o'clock off the Scilly Islands, No cause for ber She passed Saray Hook at noon on Wednesday # week Ago no word of her was received this moruing some pee felt for shipping circles. The St. Louis is one of che awiftest boats of number of times, ee has been fa trouble id 8 Midas fone se