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| Took Place Within Two ‘Hours, Near Each Other, and Chref Purroy and - Police Say Blazes Were Set by Thieves. E HEROIC RESCUES. and Children Were in Danger "of Suffocation as a Result. 4 mo ‘Within a period of two hours seven in- fires in as many crowded tene- eo all within a short distance of each other, were started early to-da; " @Atising a panic in each place, nearly en the death of one child and in- ing a great property loss. Purroy and the police say that fires were started by thieves who to get the police into one spot so fat they can operate in the district Which the police are taken, ofirst fire was in the five-story mt at No, 27 East Fifty-ninth Frank Grosso, a tenant, dis- “‘eoyered the blaze in the cellar, where a F Pile of rubbish had been fgnited and "the wood bins set on fire. The 150 mem- s of the twenty families rushed to ‘Street, many of them going down 7 ‘fite-escs The fire was extin- ®vished before $200 damage had deen done. ‘Phe firemen had hardly reached thelr | fiotieen when they were called to the = five-story tenement at No. 340 Hast Six- = ty-third street, where the coal bins in the) eellar were burning. ‘The twenty-two © families had found safety from flames > ih the streets, but they stood shivering! freesing in the cold. Many had le‘t| fF beds In such a hurry that th “aid not stop to cover themselves with Other than thelr night robes. This fire eaured a damage of §100. Vincenzo Guida, a baker, living on the | Beoond floor of No. 233 Hast Seventy: t, discovered fire in the coal story jement-liouse, and while shouting the wlarm through the house he endeavored #0 save his own family. First he car- “tied his wife out, and then took their “baby down. He believed that his fifteen-year-old ‘gon Joseph had taken his five-year-old Brother, Louis, out, but when they Feached tho street the last time & was found that Louis was | Pireman John Duane ran b: “Dullding and found little Louis uncon- gelous and suffocating on the fluor of front room, He carried him out, where Policeman Van Twister, afles e section of his guide ap- “Brio First Ald to the Injured," 7 imistered the necessary relief and wed the boy's life, The boy was sent ‘the Presbyterian Hopital to. re- CRARY) VORE a staat LORD CHARLES BERESFORD HERE. The British Vice-Admiral, Ac- companied by His Daughter and Son-in-Law, Pays Us a} Midwinter Visit. | NO OFFER FROM MORGAN. Lord Charles Beresford, Vice-Admiral of the Britien Navy, admiring America more than ever, e@lepped from the steamer Kalserin Marin Thoresa to-day, PREMIER BALFOUR IS SERIOUSLY ILL. English Statesman Seized with a Chill and Forced to Take to His Bed in London. LONDON, Jan, 18%—Premler Balfour was tken suddenly {Il to-day, A bulletin Issued by his phystotan states that the Premier is suffertus from the effects of a chill. ‘There is al { slight rise in his temperature, which itates confinement to his bed, oo Sunday World Wants Work Monday Morning Wonders, Supreme Court Mr, Hreldman'a teoth out because he pros tested. ad OUR “00 GUILTY. Court Holds that Sporting Man Used Abusive Language to a Policeman, but Sentence !s Suspended. —— TALE OF UPPER BROADWAY. —_——_—— A Chop-House Dinner, a Street-Cor- ner Halt and a Flood of Choice Repartee the Tenderloin Variety. of ‘The case of "Tom" O'Rourke, of the Delavan (House, whom Policeman Zei ler, of the West Thirtleth street st tlon, arrested Monday on the charge of using abusive language, was called before Magistrate Barlow to-day in the Jefferson Market Court, O'Rourke was found guilty and sen- tence suspended. ‘The case was adjourned yesterday to allow O'Rourke to get witnesses, When the hotel man appeared on the “pridge" to-day the Magistrate asked him where his witnesses were “This officer has intimidated said O'Rourke. “You have no right to say that,” satd Magistrate Barlow. “Well, that's what they tell me,” re- plied the former backer of prize fight- ters. * A. Clayton, advertising man Savoy Theatre." The pollemean testified that he met O'Rourke and a friend on the corner of Broadway and Fortleth street, and the prisoner said, “Hat! who took $10 from a friend of mine und then arrested him, If I thought that you were that —— man who came into my place an hour before cl time Saturday night Ya by O'Rourke tesghed. a friend had Just come trom a chop house, and as We crossed Broadway this offi sald ‘Hello.” [ said ‘f don't want talk to you at any time.’ ‘Phen this man sald ‘I've come up here to get you and you some time.’ them,"* ot the 10 Ko dong all rant he station house wit i Clayton corroborated testimony when Zoller ein re not the man that was defen when I arrested fan sith, him was a short ee melt FOR SEVEN TEETH. Frefdman Gets Verdict for Injury by Car Conductor, A fury in Jutsice Marean's part of the Brooklyn, to-day award- 1 $1,500 damages to Goodman Freidmazi, Yo. 1s} Rutledge street, Manhattan, » Matropolltian, Railway Com? his suit tor %,0 alsin and Niswite: W Houston street car in June, conductor stemmed on Mra, dress and then knocked si riding 1901, re! 1a have one witness here, Waiter! “ Wo 10 | THE BOLTERS. Elsberg, Brown and Brackett Are All Assigned in the Senate to Important Committee Chairmanships. GEO. MALBY FOR FINANCE. Five Chairmanships Out of the Whole Number Thus Far Agreed Upon Are Given to Greater New York, ALBANY. Jan, 13—Both Licut.-Gov. Higgins and Speaker Nixon are in town jay and at work upon their lsts of nmittee chairmanships. The following may be regarded as now settled: G pe Ge tw MALBY, of St 1 JUDICVARY ‘EDGAT uy ETT, of Sa RAILROADS HENIAMIN W: T and GAMBE—ELON on DAVIS, of N. Monroe. WAYS ANI Republi AMES. you are the man| JA S—IESSE AL LAW INRY A, PATTON, AND N aeens, SIOUIs REDELT. y AND GAS—JAMES ot ‘Weatene lester. Coa BREAKER (ER SET ‘ON FIRE. Incendiary Trie ar Grinpie thracite Mines. (Spectal to The Evening World.) SORANTON, Jan, I.—A daring at npt was made last night to burn down the big Powderly coal breaker of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Co: ; Carbondale, The t 1 been up- piled and the flames had gtined econ- siderable headway ‘The fire after an hour's } saving the structure A short distance from the colliery on jug which had contained kero. ne and & number of burned matches were found. The colliery Is one of the largest in the anthracite regions, to An- a A tall, ter the the HS CNSR viento, How New Yorker Calls on City Chamberlain and Pays the Amount He Had Long Owed the City. MENTAL PANGS TOO MUCH, Dignified Old Taxpayer Refused to Divulge His Name Until Promise of Absolute Secrecy Was Made by Deputy Campbell. dignified-lookh Md man en 1 the office of ¢ nud at noon to-day rmitted to and puld, = He Informed was that rn for an hour. hen may I see y, ov his confidential man ly visitor, anxtously, Du elde! ty Chamberlain Campbell Invited Chamberlain and asked to be talk with Afr, Mr, yould was at lunch and would not re- the Chamberlain's . |e tOnly = this amt ‘nehisg more,’ qubiea the Visitor he ointled, and drawing from an inside pocket five $1,090 Old certificntes placed thom on desk In front of the Desuty Cham lain. 1am in debt to the city amount," said the old man, consctence has troubled me greatly ¢ the matter for several years, TY money has long Been overdue, and t day 1 have jugt screwed up sufilcte courage to Hquidate the obligation und which T have labored.” He added t pald into only after M that he would 1 the old gentleman told him who he wa “He isa well-known New York ma fs all that Mr, Campbell would say. CITY HALL CLOCK STOPS. Coal Presidents Were the Situation with the May When Sad Affair Tin While the coal preside to explain to Mayor Low | Hall to-day, why they are making Ne York City a place closely allied to th North Pole in climate, th clock on the City Hall tower stopped, The works were froxen. Not in years has before from auch a cause. While the City Hall employees worke fn Ww pell had promise e wheels and cogs t down in the plained and The clock stopped at 12,30 o'clock, Not until the last of the coal presi dents had taken e coal presidents rp joe and ex sid gentleman into ‘his private office start It again. the that and my Ureven| hia name that Discussing faithful old the clock stopped up In the tower ue fee from the his frosty presene? from City Hall Park was {t possible to TOA BARN aN FIR ais Wife, se Sh a Son and an Ems ployee Arrested, Accused of Having Ill-Treated Him at-His. Home in New Jersey. nt ‘A HIS NEIGHBORS INTERFERED, TON, N. J. Jan, 18—Mtre, , her son Elijah and Frank an employee, have been bound trial in the Warren County urt on the charge of having starved and chained to the floor of a barn Mra, a husband, ‘s complained to Overseer of the Poor Huff that the old man was being inhumunty clared that he was Which offered little. |the weather, and that while helpless jhe had been beaten and his face painted |green. Huff found wiite-headed old man ina pltiable state. His body was emaciated and covered with bruises. Mrs, Susan Beers is twenty years her husband's junior, Feeling against her and her son Elijah Js intense, Old man Beers has been taken in charge by two of his older sons wha live in Pennsylvania. chained in the barn, protection against applauding President Roosevelt for nis stand in the Veneguelan affair, tndors- ing the Monroe Doctrine and saying that alt countries fwhould copy the e fire had caused a panic among the hundred people In the bullding and § about extinguished, after doing ~ $1,000 damage, when the firemen and po- and they quickly root. and flourish.) Almost any grave change in health is at once betrayed by the loss of flesh, which shows most often in the face, under Pierce. at Buffalo, N. Y.,. sion of Dr, R. V. LIVING FROM HAND 10 MOUTH, Dispensar: tite super com: will be cheer- | lice were startled by #lx shots fred In Tapia succession a blook down the street Running down thore, the police found the fire-escapos in front of the five-| J atory tenement at No. 32 Hast Seventy- Atth street packed With frightened peo- ple. “The fire was hardly out when the fire- ‘Were called to the five-story t Ment and flat-house at No. cee street. There ‘the fire had becn Fted in the basement against the Woodwark of the coal bins, and was burning brightly, It got to an alrshatt and spread to the upper floors with Rorapidity, Roundsman Dunne ar ae Jbraith and Sexton carri ekelted tenants from the fire assisted | mero, the sou of, the lessee of. t ote Whio lived at No. 303, two doo rect. He went back to his et warmer clothes, there that the cellar of ‘No. 903 was ise on fire. “it had been startea in t Bame way, and the flames went up a@irshaft ay spread out ut the top lke 2 mus! KESSLER DOESN'T WANT TO TELL. Asks Restrain- st Sev~ ¥ A. Kessler is a little sensitive not want to testify in the ‘John Doe” inquiry. He was 4 at the French Bali. p Gchanps applied for an order meee Freedman, of the Supreme , this afternon, in Keasler's behalf, fhich Dist. Attorney Jerome 1 Juatice Wyatt must appear to- ‘and show why they ehould not ted from making Keesler tes- out Canfiel Saya that no warrant has d for the arrest of Canfield; chamber proceedings by Wyatt Judge Wyatt bas no juris- a8 the subpoena served on 4 hoes this morning at the gommands him to appear Wyatt to-morrow after- ly remedy at hand is a writ 4 s P refused to grant the an order returnable Leventritt to-morrow Justice Wyatt to show @f prohibition should mercial enterprise of this nation. The Kalserin Marla Theresa was two days overdue, and her commander ex- piained that ‘the heavy weather, which included a high wind and snowstorm for every day, foreed him to reduce speed. The veusel weathered through excel- lently, however, and landed # happy but «mall number of passengers. Accompanying Lord Chanles is his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs Renjamin Guinness, They went immedi- ately to Port Washington, L. I., where they will be the guests of Bourke Cock- ran for a few days, Later the Admiral will visit, Sir Michael Herbert, the British Ambassador, {n Washing when he will pay his r dent Roosevelt. If he finds time, he wil! attend a banquet of the Chamber of Commerce of Philadelphia and also of | the Chamber of Commerce of Syraci | Secretary Charles W. Wood, of the Syra- cucuse Chamber, met the Admiral and secured his partial promise to be the guest of honor at the body's banquet, No Offer from Morgan, “Iy it true that Mr, Morgan offered you the position of head of the new In- ternational Mercantile Mafine Com- ay? he was asked, ‘o, And 1f he had offered the place to me I could not have accepted It. I am in the service of the British Gov- ernment “1 came to America on private busl- ness this time," he continued, “but whenever in America my principal bus!- hess is to observe the manner in which business is done here. I wish that tho English fathers and mothers would teach thelr children business instead of trying to train them for a political po- sition or for service in the army or navy. I do not/ wish this because It would make the children richer, but be- cause 1t would add to the prosperity of the whole nation, In England the de- sire hax been in forming a great com- pany to have a duke, or a lord, or an It Means Starvation for Some. An eminent physician of this city recently sald: “Very thin people live from hand to mouth, and have little re- gerve fo emergencies.’ Of course we know of per- sons whose nature {t is to be thin— “born that way,” some This condition almost always co- exists with tmpoverished blood, A gain of flesh up to a certain point means a rise in other essentials of health; the red corpuscles of the blood are increased, and the color improved. When persons find them- selves losing weight they should heed the warning and use the proper means in time before disease fastens on them, A tonic alterative is needed to digest and assimilate the food, Cod-Liyer Oil was the old-fashioned remedy for a run-down system, or a chronic wasting disease, The diges- tion of the oll is a task for the healthiest stomach, and sensitive stomachs rebel against it, A great earl take the presidency, Here the de- aire ts to have a businegs man be presi- dent, and it matters not whether he was a boptblack or @ newaboy, Monroe Doctrine All Right. “And while I am waiting to have my lugwage inspected I do not mind eaying that in the recent Venesuclan matter the Monroe Doctrine was proved to be @ great thing, It is such @ good thing that I believe England, for her own ad- vantage by it, should formally sanction it, and she should fight for its main: tenance, The Monroe Doctrine is one of the best of the many good things this country ha “Concerning the recently concentrated fleet in the Caribbean, Admiral Dewey proved that America is able to take care of herself in any emergency. it Was @ great showing," ‘The Admiral is to attend the Pligrim's ‘| Danguet at the Waldorf on Jan. 21, and M then sail for England, as he must When Parliament Ta oteeeel # ¥. say, but there is a healthy standard by which a person who knows hinwelf can gauge his good health or poor health. If for any reason he or she is below his or her normal weight then it is wise to look out for trouble. In case the germs of grippe, typhoid, or consumption gain ap entrance to the body they fin fertile fleld and de- velop immediately. We can only compare this sudden taking on of disease germs by the thin y to the fertile feld which lays fallow until an wind carri ot improvement in the means em- ployed for the benefit and cure of such cases is Dr, Plerce’s Golden Medical Discovery, which maintains the nutrition of the body by enabling the person to eat, retain, digest and assimilate food, It over- comes indigestion if present, soothes tho cough, and, by its al- terative properties, cleanses the blood, All the organs therefore are fed on pure, rich blood; and the person using the ‘*Golden Medical Dis- id $3,000 FORFEIT fully paid in lawful money of the United by the under- signed, proprietors of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, if they cannot show the original letters and signatures of every testimonial among the thousands whi§h they are constantly publishing attesting the superlor curative properties of their several medicines, and thus proving the genuineness and reliability of all the multitude of testimonials volun- teered by a grateful people in their behalf, Mr. Roy A. Rood, of Casper, Wyoming, writes: “For eight ‘years L had catarrh of the throat in thy very worst form: could pove a whisper for two y # dozen patent medi- 1 war so dts: cine on the twentieth of December surprived to note th result of the Arat| i. After using six bottle: * Golden Medical Discovery Twas perfectly cured. Tt has since 1 took the not had the have felt bett than time," Mrs. ¢ two months fous to this Lydia James, of Oxi writes: "In regard to your way that the ‘Golden Med Discovery’ is a God-send to suflering women, 1 was sick tn bed with liver complaint and kid- hey dinouse and fever when 1 began to take Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Di 1 ten days’ time T was so I could get around the hous slong. After that, too of It, and am sure Tw burg, Wis. eine will P i Lambden, of Havana, N- Dak., ie can tell how leg, It was 80 bad to ue Robt \ eM much I'suffered with for a year 1 could hardly walk around to do my work, and at times couldn't even e Wolght of a sheet over me at night, medicines cured me, My leg {6 After T had taken two Medical Dis- ve {ferent and Took nine bottles of etting better. also used Dr. Medical Discovery,’ Pierce's All-Healing Salve, and now my leg is as well nu it-ever was. Am willing every one should know what good medicines have done, aud would advise ‘of as 1 did to try the treatment help them,’ think apd feel sure it wil THE REASON. here is no medi- suf A LIFE SAVBR, gains in flesh and strength, Fever, night-eweats, headache, are dispelled. 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