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SPORTING N ON PAGE 6. GENERAL EWS ___»_| “ Circulation Books Open to Ali.” soe cog PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, EDITION PRICE ONE CENT, PLATT AGAIN SURE TO £0 TO SENATE. Gov. Odell, After a Long Conference with the “Easy Boss,”” Comes Out Squarely for His Re-Election. HAD GIVEN HIM A WARNING. State Executive Threatened Senator’s D<.eat if Bickerings Did Not Cease, and Platt and His Friends Got Into Line. SENATOR T. C. PLATT SURE OF RE-ELECTION. Senator Thomas Collier Platt wil be re-elected to the United States Senate. This was-determined upon this after- MILLIONAIRE LEAPS TO SHOGKING DEATH + Coffee. Broker Thomas A. O'Donohue, Nephew of Former City Chamberlain, Worth $2,000,000, While Crazed trom Typhoid Fever Takes His Life. Thomas A. O'Donohue, a very wealthy coffee importer and broker, and a nephew of ex-City Chamberlain, the late Joseph J. O'Donohue, who was popularly known as the ‘Coffee King,” leaped from a window in his apart- ments on the seventh floor of The Ormonde apartments, Seventieth street and Broadway, this morning and was killed by the impact with the sidewalk, Mr. O’Donobue had been ill with, typhoid fever and during the momen- tary absence of his nurses at 4.30 o'clock this morning and while delirious he left his bed, raised the window, which had been fastened, and jumped out, uttering a yell as he left the window sill. The distance to the street tg about ninety feet. A colored boy who attends the main corridor was sweeping rugs on the sidewalk when he was nearly knocked from his feet by the crash of Mr. O'Donohue's body, not three feet from him. The boy said that the sick man’s feet struck first and that his body seemed to telescope itself. helped the porter carry O'Donohue into the corridor. He was dead when they laid him down. Mr. O'Donohue lived at the Ormondo with his brother and aister. The sister became hysterical when informed of her brother's tragic death and is now under the care of,a physician. and the trained nurses whose absence from the room gave their patient the opportunity to leap from the window. Mr. O’Donohue, who was thirty years old, was worth $3,000,000, part of which was inherited from his uncle, nephew of the farmer City Chamber- lain, who left an estate worth about $12,000,000. He was a prominent Tam- many adherent and a warm friend of Richard Croker, who advanced him in political service. When he died, in 1897, he left his immense coffee business to his sons, who Are now conducting it Thomas A. O'Donohue, besides having an Interest in the coffee busti- ness, was Treasurer of a financial concern at No. 104 Wall street. He became ill with typhoid fever two weeks ago, and was approaching the most serious or critical stage of the diseaso when he killed himself. noon when, after a conference lasting ywo hours, between Senator Platt and Gov, Odell, the Governor cime out with = statement indorsing the-eandidacy of the Senator and pledging himself to work for his return to the Senate. Up to the conclusion of this conference Senator Platt was in danger of defeat. Fefore leaving Albany Gov. Odell, tired of the bickerings between Senator Platt and his enemies which crop out annually and hang on year after year, said a close friend in the capital: “There is extreme danger of Mr. Platt not being re-elected to the States Senate, Unless his sare stopped he will either defeated outright or his re- hela up indefinitely, 1 to stop all this for the anke of the party.” Doewt Care tor Platt. ‘The Governor, according to his friend, oes not care in particular for Mr, Platt. He does not believe that Mr, Platt “made him,” as the Senator has often claimed. He believes that he has done as much for the party as Senator Platt end that his strength is greater through- out the Btate than that of the “Easy Boss" at any time. The Governor handled the matier without gloves. He was prepared to show how Senator Plajt could ov de- feated down 10 @ man. Here is a I!st of the legislators who, if the Governor kept his hands off or even so much as winked approval, would not vote for Platt: Senators Marshall, Bleberg, Goodsell, Ambler, Warnick, Brackett, Bames, Malby, Brown, Lewis and Armstrong, Assemblymen Finch, Bostwick, Conk- Mng, Agnew, Orr, Bedell, Dowling, Weber, Smith, Knapp, Doughty, Cham- bers, Reynolds, Whitney, ‘Thorn and Hughes, Out for Platt Now. ‘his was the condition when the oon- ference began at the Fifth Avenue Hote to-day. What Goy. Odell said to Senator Platt and what concessions Senator Platt made to Goy. Odell can- ‘n here, because no one pot pee the two men, but the Gover nor. who had refused to say anything tthe Benatorship prevtous to the speYeronce, issueq this statement after ST°hm for Mr, Platt’s re-election to the Senate, unequivocally and unre- servediy, for I belfeve that the Republl- can party owes to him this renewed honor because of his services to it, Any rumors which may have been In clroula- to the contrary are falpe and un- ole. I shall not only ask, but ex- , my friends to ald in this direction, 11 do all 1n my power to accom: te result.” ‘0. the issuance of this stale ment, Speaker Nixon went to Senator Platts room for a talk. Goy, Odell neld ‘@ conference with the State leaders con- cerning the organiaation of the Legiala- and the settlement of clerkships other minor appointments, Pca A idan thirty-oix me at 8 P.M, Sunday for New York City and vicinity: ao Two nurses, Miss Murphy and Miss Gray, had been In attendance upon him, and one had been with him continuously day and night. The patient had not slept and had been delirious two days, causing considerable exer- tion on the part of his nurses to reatrain him. ‘ One of the nurses was sleeping this morning when the one on watch stepped into the hall to get a glass of water from the bathroom. The nurse was out of the room hardly a half-minute when the death shriek of the fever-racked millionaire startled the whole neighborhood. He was a son of Peter J. O'Donohue, and on the death of his uncle he and his brother, John B., became the managers of the immense coffee business. He attempted a few years ago to corner the South American coffee market, and while a complete corner failed, it is reported that he made much money in the venture. The firm's mills are at the foot of Bridge street, Brooklyn, WIFE HEARD OF ICH BROKER 1 CHORUS IRL Now She Is Suing Young William H. Shepard for Divorce and + Names the Fair Mabel as Co-respondent. E. J. Dunning Is Indicted by a Boston Grand Jury -on a Charge of the Embezzlement of $23,000. TO BE HEARD BY REFEREE. |HIS HOME IS IN NEW YORK. A pretty Httle chorus girl, much ad- mired in the Tenderloin, has disturbed the famfly effetrs of William H. Shep- ard, jr., nephew of Lawyer William H. Shepard, of Ghepard & Prentiss, of No. 10 Wall street, Young Mrs, Shepard is sulng her ‘husband for divoroe and has left the cozy home at No. 692 West One Hundred and Fifty-eecond street to go back to ber parents in Newark, N, J (Mabel 1s the name of the attractive chorus girl, When Mrs. Shepard began to recelye anonymous letters ji forming her of the constant attentions of her husband to Mabel, she began h quiet investigation, of which the proceedings for divorce are the result, To-day Jus- tice Freedman appointed August H. Vanderpoel referee to heay the teatl- mony, Mrs. Shepard's attorney, B, P. Coyne, sald to-day that he was not at liberty to relate the allegations set up by the aggrieved wife. ———— HAMMERSMITH REARRESTED. | (Speciny to The Kvening World.) BOSTON, Jan. 10,—Edwin J, Dunning, of Dunning & Co., bankers, brokers and promoters, was indicted to-day for the alleged larceny of $23,000 from Francis A. Brooks, for many years a leading member of the bar. It 4s charged that more than $100,000 was taken from the Brooks estate. Dunning was brought into t perlor Criminal Court before Jud; where he waé urraigned on the indict- ment, containing four counts, The Court fixed bail at $20,000, E. J, Dunning Is a New Yorker an still retains his oMce and home there. He has a brother, Dr, W. B, Dunning, 4 prominent New York physician, and his daughter is an ambulance surgeon of the Gouverneur Hospital, being the fret woman accepted tn thet capacity in New York. * ODELL TO AID GREENE. Will Give Persousl Attention Four Police Bills at Albany, Commissioner of Police Greene an- nounced to-day that In a conference he bad had last night with Goy, Odell at the Wifth Avenue Hotel the Governor had promised to personally interest him- self In the legislative action to be taken on the four police bills which have been sent to Albany. The bills Gen, Greene would like to have made lawe ar: 1, Provision for a third Deputy Police Commissions: 2. Increase in pay of Chief Inspector and Borough Inspectors, with provision for a Chief of Deteotiv jonnel of the ‘olloe vA of ent of HOUR ion and onder the A thorn: Jerome Proceeds Against the Man Whom Coroner's Jury Set Free, Jobn Hammersmith, of No, 239 Baat Fitty-eighth street, who shot and killed Henry Maurer, of 166 First avenue, New Year's eve, after a quarrel in saloon at No. 16M Hirst avenue, and who wan discharged by a Coroner'# ury on the ground that he agted in self-defense, Was re-arrested this afternoon by onter of District-Attomey Jerome, charged with homicide He was committed to the ‘Tombs. and will be arraigned in the Pollce Court Monday, 4 Increase in the de Relleving ” kis: q charge of blesing It. ond Brown, Inspector-Gen- a ati itary Homes, died in this oh? to. ot heart aiscnae a way, A.W. OP, pty i idm: < Dr. Goelet, who has an office on the first floor, ran to the sidewalk and s HELO FOR THEFT. ‘KING ALFONSO OF S IIFE WAS ATT MACHINE 15 USED TOSWVE -HERMEMORY iMarvellous Device Is at | Work in Strange Case of Madeline Church, Who Has Forgotten Nearly Everything She Knew. SHE MAY HAVE AMNESIA.’ - Fails to Remember the Name of Her Parents or Relatives—| She Was Lost and Is Now Un- | der Study by Two Experts. AMNESTA.—Forgetfulnens; also n| defect of specch, from cerebral eave, in which the patient aub- | in| to ALFONSO ~ am stitutes wrong words or nam the place of those he wi PAIN, WHOS EMPTED IN MADRID. employ. Similar to aphasia. —From the Medical Dictionary. ‘That's what alls Madeline Church, a red-cheeke4, black-hatred , wholesoma- looking Amerloan girl, now under treat- ment at the New York Infirmary Hos- pital, in Bast Fifteenth street. {Ay one Ze lable to have ammesia. A shock or typhoid fever may put one in such @ state that the past is all a blank. ‘The case of Madeline Church is so ourtous, @o exceptional, however, that no physician at Bellevue or other places where the girl has been examined can fathom the mystery of her condition. When a reporter and artist for The Evening World called to-day at the New York Infirmary they were ushered upstairs to @ bright, sunny room, filled with pecullar-looking apparatus, dyna- mos, eleotric machines and testers of | ‘various sorts. Studying Queer Charts, Two psyoho-pathological experts, Dr. Boris Sidis and Dr. Georgen Parker, were standing at a long table closely regarding some charis, long black strips of paper with tracings that zig-zagged | from side to side. | ‘The room was oppressively quiet. The newspaper men waited while a scientific- looking clock ticked off a minute. “You've come to see the amnesia pa- tient,” finally observed Dr. Sidis, “Well, she's an interesting case. Don't often bave one like this, Last we had CEN, MOLINEUX INJURED BY CAR. ls Confined to His, Bed with Sprained Knee as the Result of an Accident on Broad- way. WITNESSES ARE WANTED. Gen. Molineux, who has heen con- spicLously before the public because he is the father of Roland B, Molineux, recently trie and acquitted of murder, is in beo this morning with a badly sprained knee, the result of an encoun- ter with a Broadway electric car last night Gen. Molineux Is under the care of a physician, Dr. Clarke Burnham, of No. 182 Clinton street, and in addition to the sprained knee suffers considerably from the shock and excitement of his mishap, Asa result of the accident the follow- Ing advertisement has been sent to The World for publication: Molineux—Broadway and Eleventh treet, New York, Priday, Jan. % 1903, at 10.30 P.M. Persone who oaw the reckless action of the conductor of « Broadway by which Geo Molineux wan thrown to the ground, communtoste with Hirsch & Rasquln, > Court street, Brookiyn was Hanna, the clergyman, who had a ry just like the The Right of shock, lost his mam men in Gilbert Park: Way.’ “Tia surely odd about these people. You know Hanna forgot how to walk. Yee, sir, he had to learn all over-again, “l hope that some citizen who saw the acckient will come forward and Rive hig tesumony, for I intend that | «al other; “why there she 1 to the end of a room where sat a beauti- ful girl in front of a machine that any | have sstixfaction for that conductor's one would have taken ¢or a typewriting | Teckeencas,, If it developa (hat I am y hurt, device, Then he wanted to catch the moon, and, | Gen. Afolienux sald, thie afternoon:| p s ‘ y wife and son were well on the my, wasn't he surprised the first time | while 1 had one foot on at the time th he saw a boy riding a bloycle through | reckless conductor gave ihe signal to the street!" Both doctors chuckled at|80 ahead. I called to him to atop, but tha lpeeninianen en he pald no attention to me If he heard iy 4 “My nibs ar ed and ‘one But how about this Madelind| knee-cap, It pratty badty hurt Church?” ingulred the reporter, some- | 41d my back fecld an [f It were strained what restless. The Wnotors say they will apt. be. ah to for several days whether The Cane of Mad Chareh. | juries will result, seriously, “Madeline Chure nied the| expect to be In béd for a week at COW TO CONFER WITH COAL MEN. Invited Presidents of the Com- bined Companies and George © the coal carrying ronds at a conference at the City Hall Tuesday which he him- self arranged to-day. He purposes aak- ing the presidents to Increase the sup- ply of coal now being sont to New York. He will make the request not only in ‘behalf of the poor of the greater city, but also for the many pub- tic and charitable Istitutions which complain daily of the lack of eval, The Mayor's action was prompted by a resoliition adopted at the meeting of the Board of Estimate and Apportionment yesterday calling upon the city's execu- Uve to make official effort to relieve the coal stringency as far, at least, as New York {s concerned, Those invited to the conference are A, J. Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania Railroad; EB. B. Thomas, of the Lehigh Valley, F. D, Underwood, of the Brie; W. H. Truesdale, of the Delaware. Wackawanna and Western M. Olyphant, of the Delaware and iomas P. Fowler, of the New o and Western; George F, of the Reading and preeldent of the Lehign and Wilkesbarre Coal Com- pany, and George B. Markle. represent- ing the individual dealers. ilere is the Mayor's letter of Invitation to tae pres! dents “T phall be greatly obliged 1f you will Mayor's office on 11 o'clock, this subject ou have al- meet wiih me. in Tuesday morning, Jan to confer ‘With me Lupo: “I know of the effor ready made in this direc’ cate them, but it is such a confer new methods may bo devised f ing the suppl: that may prov 1" "You didn't expect to find her in « ward, did you?’ laughed the experts, hy. we've got to test her to find out first whether she’s a fake or not. erious p tient, “this girl found Christmas night up at One Hundred and Fifty-firat ward there and thc turned her out with | the verdiot, ‘No case.’ Bho was then taken here, for the ‘ue people had an idea tho girl suffered! from amnesia, It was also sug- gested that sho was shamming, though we have not had time to tom her with all the machines, it seems to us| Thomas Cory, living at No. you understand what I am saying?” ing the gi She Understood Him, "Yes," she replied, dreamily, ‘You say they think I'm a fake? But I'm no: What would be the use of shamming?” | The gtrl, who calls herself Madeline Chureh, fe an attractive maiden of twenty years. Her hair {se raven black, her cheeks glow with « rich, warm color. | Ing, her teeth @ as sawed ivory and her figure would be envied by an artt: model, LATE RESULTS AT Charges were preferred late ing and intelgence, and her handwrit- ing shows a modloun of education at least. But al! her beauty and oleverness avail novhing. In her present condition Madeline Church se not even eure of her name, can mention no triend oF relative, knows (Continued on Geoond Page.) ‘or next Tuesday. CINCINNATI, Jan.10,--Ban Jo! The Luxurious South i" Limited New Nork naa ot Ai Leave Mew xork 5 tom, Tae exer Bus lay, 12.40 There aro to twa ion He was taken to Flower Hospital. acini dca » Johnson sal oe sere tae “CORY PLUNGED FOUR FLICHTS wieceeeswaeae — THROUGH WELL OF STAIRWAY 246 East forty-ninth street, nero through the well of a winding stairway this afternoon and eocived injuries which will cause his death. Cory lived on the that Madeline bas lost ber memory. Do{ourth floor and had almost reached his apartments when he Jermandoa tha unytiniea, sudden mtn tost his balance and fell over the railing. NEW ORLEANS, Fifth Race—Maghoni 1, Blanco 2, Spec 3. Seen ean ae CHARGES AGAINST CLERK IN POLICE COMPLAINT BUREAU, to-day against Robert E, Pee Her black, lusirous eyes speak of fosi-terson, for twenty-six years employed at Police Headquarters s custodian of the police records, The allegation is irregu- arity in keeping the books of the department. The trial is set BAN JOHNSON TELLS OF BASEBALL AGREEMENT. hnson, President of the Ameri- an League, left the session room of the baseball peace ton- erence at 3 o'clock and oonfirmed the report that a satisfao- ory agreement between the {wo leagues tol ues W hau been reached, erking tn inmony, 3 Toye ae B. Markle, of the Indepen-' dents, to Talk Over Situation. TO MEET NEXT TUESDAY. | attempt nad been made upon the iife of the young King. Mayor Low will meet the presidents of ; — eee ATTEMPT TOKILL SPAIN BOY KNB. ~ 16 PARI REPO ‘Despatch from Madrid to the French Capital Briefly States that an Attack — Had Been Made Upon the Newly, — Crowned Ruler by Assassins. - It Is Added that No Details Attack Were Obtainable at the Time the Telegram Was Filed by the Correspondent in the Spanis Metropolis. PARIS, Jan. 10.—The startling report reached this city this that another attempt has been made upon the life of young King Al ot Spain. According to the information, which could not be fully vi through official circles Here, and which was received in a despatch & Madrid, King Alfonso was attacked while out driving. Born a hing, young Alfonso XIII. of Spain was formally recognised: its monarch Seturday, May 17, last. On that day the authority of 1 mother, Queen Maria Christina ceased, and she handed over to her who had then attained his sixteenth year, the government of Spain. The boy King’s instalation was a gala event 'in Madrid, and was nessed by many members of the royal families of Europe. On the ‘very of the celebration ell Madrid was thrown into a panie by the report th MADMAN FRIGHTENED HIS ATTENDANTS, It was discovered that as the royal cortege was leaving the p madman rushed up to the royal chariot and pojnted a hand which o . a folded paper at the King, and shouted in Spenish: ‘Down with the K He was at once seized and conducted uncer strong guard to prison, the appearance of the crank the young King showed no agitation, though 3! hig mother and sister were very much alarmed for several minutes - wards, | Since his regency several other demonstrations of almost similar Acter have been made in the presence of the King, but the care with i he las always been surrounded has prevented the young monarch from ceiving bodfly Injury. ee One week after the ceremony of {nstallation the police of Madrid- covered that the King was to have been assassinated with dynamite by archists during the ceremonial event. Ten Anarchists were arrested. Ii cartrkiges of dynamite were found in the lodgings raided by the polie communications showing conclusively that the plot of assassination been contemplated were also taken, , KING WAS A SICKLY BOY. King Alfonso was the only son of King Alfonso XI, and was teenth monarch of Spain to bear that name. His father died of : tion at the age of twenty-six, just half a year before the present King % born, The young man had always been delicate, and it was an open tion from his babyhood whether he would live to be crowned King of To a great extent the boy King has triumphed over his inherited years old. | stitution. He is seventeen AGAIN UNDER WAY, SHERWOOD 0 Three Witnesses Examined with Assistant Appraiser in the St Much Secrecy at the District-} Division Resigns at the Re« Attorney's Office. quest of the President, ysterio Assistant Appratser Warner te Another one of those mysterious D at s ! Doe inquiries of the District-Attorney | wood, in charge of the silk divislon ef) before Justice Wyatt, of Spe the Appraiser's Stores, announced toe | Boas vr in Assistant District-Attorn tay Wat he bad banded ie oy a esaions, In Assist ote he had handed tn: | Banford’s private office this afternoon, Belay ft leasure ‘Three witnesses were examined, One ‘© been current that: of them was a man with a fur-lned a jbrked for hls 8 & overcoat, who looked much Me which. followed ‘oe 8 ered & 2 Rosslyn, the English lord-turned-act plowed oe aera | who thinks he knows more or le#s about aad “Mire shor gambling 5 Aesietant Diastrict-Attorve: Osborne yas present to help do the questioning. | made some years since and were \The iner'ry wae very secret, reporters | (@ the atlatuction of the depar _ “grit x sto which {not even being allowed tn ante Fait 'roem. lt was useumed that tt hed at Appraiser is famathing to do with elther the Canfleld |wble at the pleasure of the \gase or that which the District-Attorney | With oF without cause. Ag fs |v ate make leged proprietor Jin West Thirty-thind atreot a FIRE IN MINISTER’S HOME. |piaze Originating from Overturned O1L Stove Does $600 Damage SISSHTON, Tho | daughters of Wire to-day in the third Soar of the} deughlere 0 three-story treme structure ocoupled by} to geath in the Rev, John C, Peter, at No. 247 Wess oqnting iat Ninety-ninth street, caused $50 damage | rather, but Hn riginated from an overturned ol monn fi a or stove, They bi