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Change Has Taken Place the Relations of the fore Details Now in the Way of A Final Settlement of the En- fire Dispute with President astro. MLIN, Jan. 27.—President Castro's fr of 90 per cent. of the customs pts of La Gunira and Porto Ca- fs @ guarantee for the payment of mn claims is regarded in official roles here as an evidence of the sin- ity of his intention to make a satis- settlement. As the offer, however, includes the s of other countries besides those part in the blockade some doubt wed as to whether 90 per cent. quate. cussion is now proceeding to de- ‘this point. It is also uncertain the allies will admit that which did not join in the blook- Shall share in the results the former gured through expensive naval opera- Dented in Uerlin. following statement was author- oi here is not the siighest truth in Teports of friction or misunder- we between England and Ger- an regard to Venezuela. Both ments continue to act in perfect my and will slmultancously with: Faw the blockade at the earliest poss! ) moment. “Mit is to be regretted that the House © @f Commons ts not in session, ax a jon in the House would doubtless the perfect understanding which between the two countries." punt von Quadt, the German Charge aires at Washington, has been in- d to communieate to the United jovernment, and Count Wolft h, the German Ambassad to the British Foreign o1 particulars recelved by the Government of the circumstances Occasioned the bombardment of , San Carlos, Venezuela. According p this statement the German cruls fanthier was proceeding to enter Mara- Jagoon wien she was suddenly upon by the fort, and lve but to return the fire Ordered to Bombard. commander of the Panther com- eated with the German commodore, | thereupon other German warships ordered to bombard Fort san dn making this communicatic United States the German WAMent expressed the conviction that British or American admiyal would ave suit his ships to ve fired upon . Hppout retaliation. | dno alter- the German officials | an and making it ap. q vere acting ught the fort would fired on a British ship. Wish to Avold Trouble, Aa incicative of the fact that the Ger- do not desire to embroll the siu- eee innecessarily it is pointed out in official statement that the Restau r, now under the Ger fired at i fa order not to 1 le she t without returning the fire. WOMAN BURNED To DEATH. { Fire and She Could Not Help Hernels, some unknown manner Miss Agnes a seamstress, forty, of No. £33 fest Fitty-third street, set fre to her Qthes yesterday afternoon while at in the home of M Henry Ww. ty at No, 32 Kast Elghty-fourth t and died an hour later from hep he Pr erian Hospital, Miss Blank was p bon o P and that in some t fi her that sho ie helpless with fear and sank into air without belng able to move s to save horeelf. | SEES A PERIL IN AMERICA. ¢ ana Payer Thinks Burope Munt ; Succumb to Us, MBNNA, Jan. ne Arbelter Zel fees in the signing of the L les Panama Canal treaty the sof the ambit of Hngland, wd all the other Muropean per adds: “America will « nant world — pow burden of | The Kaiser will, vassal of the MUTINIES AT SEA, ae Sailors in Irons at Norfolk. =, ho The Byealag World.) . a efused to work. ‘Phey command of Capt aie fsht ensued, te were no match @ balance of the Were called upon. powered re amered and peenines 8 sue bold CHILD ACCUSES | POICEMAN Patrolman Young, Father of Nine Children, Arrested on Complaint of the Mother of a Five-Year-Old. MORE CHARGES AGAINST HIM. Jacob Hf, Young, a policoman at- tached to the Bronx Park station, was G@rrested to<iay by Inspector Hrooks, charged with !1!-treatment of a five- year-old girl. ‘The almost Incredible feature of the case is that Young ts the father of nine children, There are other complaints against Young, two of them from women living in the precinct in which he Is stationed, charging him with @l-treatment of girls from ten to twelve years of age. The mother of the five-year-old had him summoned to Morrisanid Police Court and he was arrested there by the Inspector, Magistrate Hogan decided to postpone the examination until next Tuesday, In the mean time, Young was paroled in the custody of Inspector Brooks, who sald that the had preferred charges against the policeman to Commissioner Greene. Considerable indignation ts felt by the Policemen in the Bronx over the fact that Young was paroled, Wihen Wil 8, Devery was Chief of Police a charge of this character meant the public strip- Ping off of the potleeman's buttons, and Devery Intarested himself personally in the prosecution, GUESTS OF CAFE. WAULON'T PAY Although They Ate and Drank Their Fill, They Wouldn’t Pay the Little Bill—And So the Business Now Is Nil. MEN HIGH UP, THERE TO SUP. Neufer & Lighte, proprictors of a cafe at No, 103 Fulton street and No, 15% Pierrepont street, Brooklyn, have filed a potition in bankruptey In the United States District Court, attributing their retirement to the failure of their pa- trons—who are named as politiclans, C mment employe and men and women of the sets of the Heights sectlon—to heir debta, Among the more prominent ones, the let following are nam: her with the amounts they are ° Amaranth Dramatl relety, $08.45; Central Council of the Catholte Benevo lent. Legion Nautilug Boat Club, $00; Long Istand 1 & A. M., $ ( B 1 Renevolen: Ogden, $71; Mrs. W. LL. W Mer nite. Chib. $8 District De 8S Mi vi Mob KR, B. Willfams, 712.80: Willlam Jarvis, Chandon, Hipst Voorht s M. Fitzgerald, Glldersleeve, . Britton, 3 ie oa Welr, jr, ul Ost COACHMAN HUBBY WANTS $100 00 Rilea, the Reins-Handler, Will Sue Wife’s Father for $50,- 000 and Her Mother for a Similar Amount. SURE OF HIS BRIDE’S LOVE. Paw Rilea, the coachman-husband of the stepdaughter of Capitallst Charles Heckman, of Coney Island, proposes to turn the tables on his wife's rich rela- -| tlves, who have taken her away from him and who had him arrested for marrying the 3 dung’ woman, Me gays that he wil) sue Mr, and Mra, Heckman Jolntly for $0,000 for allena- ton of his wife's affections, and Heck- man individually for a similar amount for causing his false {mprisonment. Riles told a reporter of The Evening World to-day at No, 231 Eas: Twenty- ninth street. that he knew his wife would return to him soon, because she loved him better than any one eise, and becnuse she was soon to become the mother of his child Sure Will Come Back, “I know my wife will return to me,” he sald hopefully. ‘Although she was 4 to me in court yesterday it was because she was under the Influence of her relatives and parents and for other reasons that I cannot now explain. She will come back I am sure. "Tam going to make arrangements to-day with my attorney, William Cum- mings, of No. 1123 Broadway, for the commencement of the actions agalnst the Heckmans, “I have not said anything heretofore about my romantic courtship of Miss Cornwall. 1 feel now that the time has come to give the facts out, and I shall teil the story to ning World. Then people can judge if 1 am not justified In my actions “E direst met the lad, who is now my wife im July last at Sea View, L. L, where she was staying with her mother, stepfather and grandmother In a board- house kept by a Mrs. Pool, I hap- pened to be on the beach sketching «| b sailboat one day when Miss Cornwall came up behind me and asked me what 1 was doing. She Was Interested at Once, “I told her something of my artistic ambitions; that I intended starting a studio In New York, and she stemed to become interested in my work at cnce. We met a few mes aft that, end told me that hur ts did not want her to mee jy, and that if we were to vonthe our ac qguuintance we would hi to meet clandestinely Nenr Bach Other, we continued ember, just be! Bensonhur Plot to Be vised a scheme whereby we could be to- gethe. Juri he Witter » family, needed 4 man of work and Mr Heckman was going to advertise tor one, "I arranged with Miss Cornwall to answer the ad, and thr in- fluence Mr, Heckman engaged me. T advertisement appeared in Tne World on Oct, 10 and read: ‘Wanted—A man to do plain cooking, Addr a W. I sent a letter telling of my q tions, and in a few days rec answer tell me to call at 41 VTwenty-hfth street, Bensonhurst. an Bay Horses and Cupid. "1 knew more und aft about horses than two weeks in whieh | 1 Cornwall und Qu Lge buy some Lonowed Mm, Post-Ofliee, arti tu Brookiyn to Miss Cornwat met at the ternoon were at 1 David I, Blewart, Oppenheimer as a witness, we returned home we were OF being 100 intimate, and my rt Milly. I wtood bok her part. My | dis: iy on an, 10, altho I tor thtea months iehpor u inarried by Aigerm, with A. HAL COACHMAN AND MRS, PAUL RILE Stern Brothers are displaying on the Second Floor An Advance Spri French Tri Also a large assortment of those of their own production | Suitable ng Importation of mmed Hats for wear At Southern Winter Resorts To-morrow, Another Purchase of 5,000 Yds. Best Quality Imported Printed Flannels in the most desirable designs and colors, for Waists, Kimonas and Children’s Dresses, Regular price 65c yd. Bric-a-Brac Department Third Floor A Large Purchase of Greatly Below OLIVE OR BON BON DISHES, odd shapes, CARAFES & VASES, NAPPIES, 8 and 9 inch, fancy shapes, SALAD BOWLS, 8 and 9 Inch, Cut Glas # In Extremely S Rich Patteras Regular Prices 29° at $1.55, 1.95, 2.25 « $1.95, 2.35, 2.95 * $2.75, 3.50, « 83,95, 5.50, 4.50 7.75 West Twenty-third Street. ‘A, THE COURSE OF WHOSE LOVE IS BLOCKED BY IMPEDIMENTS. ANY NY \ \\ Ww 1 » Heckman, ‘and you had nispered to me: | reful, Paul; don't let him Jump ur throat, as he did at the other took good care that he didn't, dn Jan. 16 Nellie came here to my | rooms, and we went to Bath Beach to- gether and remained until Monday—two exday she returned home and sent me ao package through the express with $60, I sent back $0. ‘The m was to help me to England to» 1 not arrange wita my Uncle, the I of Birming a ‘ York. “That was the last 1 heard of her, although | wrote ond wrote, unt i Was atrested, That is all th is to it. You know about my arrest ang the aWiy of my Wife " my wurn.! ——___—. » Ruler, STOCKHOLM, Swed Joint meeting of the Swedish-Norwegian Council to-day, Crown Prince Gustaf assumed the duties of the Regency of n, Jan Atay the two Kingdoms. He will go to| Christiania, Norway, on Jan. 90. | As announced from Stockholm on Jan. | King Oscar had decided to tem-| porarily intrust the Governm of the country to Crown Prince Gustaf, ‘This action Hie Majesty was ta as th f medical advice, It wax also! hat the King had abandoned his projected visit Lo Norway. aie WRECKED STEAMER GERMAN Erronconsly Reported as am Amer= fean—Her Crew Saved, LONDON, Jan. %.~The steamer re- Ported ashore at Aberfraw Polnt, Isle of Anglesey, is the Bothilde-Russ. She je a German vesse! and wes bound trom WEEPING WOMAN GIVEN HER CHILD. Court Was About to Commit] It to State Care, but Tears Restrained Him. On the charge of Mouth-old baby Annie Seventh street, Jersey City, was ar y A to-day before Justive Hoos in t t Criminal Court ink, of No, 28% Varick Incipal witness against he told the Judge that had been Wnt to her by At pothing ihe had been heard from her sin Justice Hoos ordered that the ehtid be x (nto the custody of Miss Frances Day, agent for the State Board of Guardians On hearing this the mother burst into tears. Holding a handkerchief before her atrean i she told the Judge that her as dead and s was compelled to earn her own livin She had to look fs work durin day and ot night she had no sult Plice to whieh she could take the ! Bhe leaded to have her baby stored to her on the promise to ¢ for it Vora WUffevied by the sight of eoping for her child mitted the baby. to care until Mra. Ebert sh to provide for | HUGEST OF SEA FIGHTERS. Great 18,000-To) that the Government has invited tenders for the construction of 16,000-ton battle- WITH HIS PA Threats Against T Landed in Jail. James C, Wynn, of No, 31 Hundred and Twentieth str father's house ak things up Ken nts, unless they had him arrested, ys brought before the & tearful coneullation, In Judge took part, they’ de furnish the bond; and the jail, . | Policeman Reard Mark Captain under charges b CG ridge, was aestod ye nd held on a char Policeman Richard Bedford avenue station, Br o Assnulied a Reardon, that he would start a No, 267 pesterd oven Si tree " O'Connor ~ detaieg to WYNN LOST OUT RENTS Squandered Their Money, Made hem and 4 East One ect, Wa raigned In Harlem Court before Magis- trate Crane to-day on complaint of his father and mother, Michael Wynn is President of the Wynn Roofing Company, of No. 418 Fast Twenty-third » set his son up in business in two enterprises, one a coal business ¢ Zant Twenty-third street, and the other a stable on Kast Twonty-fourth street. The son has v his moncy, Yesterday he came him more he peace. Young Wynn had no money and ap: pealed fo hie father and’ nat ‘ Mer After which cided not to son went Lo -|CAPTAIN’S SON IN TROUBLE. O'Connor Saya Young Him, of axsaulling O'Conor, of ooklyn, the Reardon, 1t 1s charged, openly boasted FE WORLD: TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 97, 1903. Rothen WEST and when he! flocking to Sea Cliff, which has become Magistrate Placed under a $5,000 bond to keep New 1ork's Fastest Growing Store. Last Days nnot advertise them—UN Walking Made from men's pepper and salt tom and five rows tailor stitchin Lengths 37 to 4 value $3.00; they last, at... reverse cuffs, 4 good, big $12.00 worth, special. . Silk Grenad Fine imported Black wide, will be offered to-morrow at clos half their real value. woven frame, with attractive brocade signs. On special tables, at, per yards. Granite Cloth and Dotted e cloth is 38 inches wide and sh 44. The gr: in cadet blue, marine blue, reseda, green, gray, tan, royal blue and gobelin blue. green, brown, black, white, grays and nets. sily SOc, values, at, per yard, Women’s Fast Black Seamless Cotton Hose, fleece lined, rib top, extra elastic, high spliced heel and toe; also double sole, 19¢. quality, at Undervests, nicely trimmed and tin ished, drawers to match, French band: Worth $3.00 at Double Breasted Si cheviots, stitched seams and turned suits to a customer. round and square necks; in plain or with embroidery and torchon Jace trim- mings ; all seams felled ; bound arm holes, pearl buttons; 19c. value, atesss Corset Covers, F: fine cambric, round neck, torchon lace embroidery trimming, 25c. value, at.... Drawer: of tucks and deep hem, 19. value, at... ONG LAND PANCAKE MAD Challenges Pour in Upon George Koup, Plumber and Gasfitter, of Sea Cliff, Who Claims the Championship. HE ATE 22 IN TEN MINUTES. (Special to The Evening World.) SPA CLIFF, lL, L, Jan. 2.—Long Island is wild with excitement over the forthcoming Pancake Kirmess and Flapjack Festival to be held here at en early date. Iocal ‘pride {s responsible for the furor. The claims of Mr, George Koop, plumber and gasfitter—estimates chear- fully glven—of this place, as champion pancake eater of the world, have beea contested. Mr. Koop's record, being published in a Brooklyn paper, has brought a flood of challenges upon him. The town ts full of panoake-eating the post-office is swamped Nonges that come by mail. from Pittsburg, of griddle cakes from Park New York, hungry men from Har- n, OWners of some of the most cele- ated appotites In New Jersey, all are gorgers Ro’ the pancake storm centre of Long Island, the home of the pancake-eating Industry, Clam Digging at a Stand Still. Clam digging Js at @ standstill, bust- ness 1s suspended, Throngs gather an the streets before the bulletin boards of the loval papers and receive with cheera and groans the claims and challeng of home favorites and ultlander o lengers posted there. . isoap will eat pancakes blindfolded ist four other noted apetites at the F nament, He also pledge: himself to meet all-comers, ether limited bouts or to eat pancakes to @ Anish, « Mr. Koop js, out with a» swopping def to this éftect, Mr, Koop's record is twenty-two pan- ool-room ati cakes in ten minues, standard size of » directly acro: lige "station, watch five inches across and of two-ounce Offer the Greatest Mon-y-Saving Opportunities of the Month, Now for the fine effort of the greatest January we ever knew! Values will be better than ever. Small lots will be marked lower and lower to clear them out. immense Skirt Bargains To-Morrow. blue and white and black and white, pleated style, with flaring pleats at bot- while Monte . Garlo § These are full length Storm Coats in the popular Monte Carlo style, made from all- wool unfinished worstzds. back, Couble shoulder cares, velvet collar, newest puff sleeves and Shown in Oxford gray, Ik Grenadines, 45 inches Strong, carefully dotted suitings are 40 inches wide, in blue, Unparalleled Hosiery and Underwear Offers |2se Ribbed Shaped Heavy Fleece Lined Perfect workmanship. Pants have extra strong drill waistbands, double hems; 7 to 15 years; limit two None sent C..0. D., and no mail orders, Muslin Underwear Selling as Never Before. Corset Covers, perfect fitting, fine cambric, high, ch styles, long and short waists, full size, heavy muslin, cluster [Sco a Te ST Roasypebupey Reronaiee of the January Sales In many instances assortments are so small PARALLELED OPPORTUNITIES! Skirts, fancy suitings $3.50 Walking Skirts, $1.98, In all-woot invisible stripe cheviot, as well as pepper and salt mixtures, made in the new panel-front 7-gore style or 7- fit; actually worth gore flare; handsome- 98 1 ° $3.50; at. ly tailored; beauti- torm Goats. in mixtures; new of g: A; ful. in shape and ].49 They have full pleated Monte Carlo 6.98 » blue and brown; sizes 34 to ines. ove Suitin gs. 39 e to de- for single The for you to-morrow! Good, durab’e, attractive blankets at a Extra Heavy Wool Blankets, bes Extra Heavy, Californ‘a; were $8.00, now. 6.49 e Blanket Bargains. saving of 25 per cent. and more. Look at 4 98 3s were $3, now. © Extra Heavy, California; were $9.49, now 7.98 We're going to clear this stock at any cost. Great values here these offers : Extra Heavy, for full-size beds; were $7.30, now...++» 5,98 Extra Heavy, California Wool; were $11.00, now..... 8.98 gar- Children's Underwear—Closing out bal- ance of fleece lined Children's Vests, broken Sizes, usual prices 19c. to 25c., now at % 15c i) Women’s Full Fashioned Fast Black Heavy Cotton Hose, double sole, heel and toe; value 25C., at s.0+..scccss cece ne Sy $1.45. uits, of dark striped Well Worth $2.00 Per Pair, In Lace or Button—well worth $2.00 per pair, New, perfect, well made shoes, in all the latest styles; fine, soft dongola kid leather; single or heavy walking soles, up high, medium or spring heels; all sizes; worth ° QL special at...eeeee Drawers, heavy muslin, umbrella styles, clusters of , hemstitched tucks, deep hems, also with lace j9 edge, 20c. value, at . c Gowns, heavy muslin, full size, Mother Hubbard yokes trimmed with doubie clusters of tucks and inserting of em- broidery, finished with cambric ruttles; 45c. value, at wees Skirts, fine cambric, full size, deep umbrella rufiles, clusters of tucks and deep rufiles of embroidery, 65c. value, atess.,... oe 10c and 19c AIc eaten twenty-six pancakes at a sitting and then to have stood up and con- sumed four. more. His feat was not timed, and Mr, Koop has told Mr, Tuttle to "Go get a reputation,” Mr. H, Bloodgood Cutter, Island Farmer Pvet, epic on pancake eating, the Long has written an All Want to Be Champions. he young men of the neighborhood, whose ambition has been, up till now, to be elected members of the local fire company, only think of being pancake champions, Many older citizens have gone into training and are increasing ‘their pan- Pointers! $10.50, All our cake capacity by strenuous endeavor, | Stores, Trial heats in pancake eating are all tho rage, Stald citizens wake their] Yes! Pointers for everye wives before daylight to make them get up and cook pancakes for them for @ practice spin, Mr, Tuttle announces that he uses no butter, but competes with sausage gravy as @ pancake lubricant sololy, Butter its votaries, but syrup has few followers, although Mr. Koop claims to have made his record with syrup, The Pancake Pastime Club of Brook- lyn has sent a delegation here to be Present at the coming contest between Koop and Tuttle, The winner will be challenged by them on behalf of the Gowanus Unknown, who has given pri- ate exhibitions of his skill and endur- ance as @ pancake eater, body, particularly young men, $16, $18 & $20 Suits for $10.50, and dozens of good styles to choose from, The time 7s now—our ad- vice to young men, $10.50, Hackl Carhart. Fe TOMER EEG IPT oN Three | Or sath a, 0 ostracized by the elles, widow noted for her violent temper and | BROADWAY | Cor. Canal St, excellent pancakes is now considered Stores, Near Chambers: the most desirable parti of Sea Cliff, and has already been proposed to by several Wealthy residents, * he ‘Town Council will petition Con- gress to make Shrove ‘Tuesday, or Pan- Day, @ national holiday. Mr. Kop 18 being talked of for Mayor, Should he defeat Tuttle he will probably receive the nomination Congress, Many profess to belleve that Tuttle ts the Jack Mu of pancake eating, and that his alleged record is # fluke, Many local pancake eaters who rec- ognize they are not in Mr. Koop's class are anxtous to place the sport on a higher level and to divide pancake eat- ers into class rding to weigh) Rules of the st are already being drawn up. A dark h recently gave a private ate pancakes for forty minutes steady, using currant Jelly as a lubricant. How may he consumed was not stated, those present belng sworn to secrecy, Meanwhile the excliement continues unabated and nothing else 1s talked of on Tong Téland but nancakes, and noth: ing Is belng eaten save this delectable brealr 4 SPOONER CHOSEN AGAIN. MAIL BAG WRECKS AN. YC EXPRESS, Thrown .Underthe Wheels, It Derails Fast: Train, but No One is Seriously Hurt, PALMYRA, Jan. 21.~Passenger ¢rain > 16, eastbownd, on the New York Central Railroad, Waa-thrown into the ditch here to-day by @ mall ibe thrown under the wheels of from train No, 85, fast mall ‘Tho wrecked engine was . Wisconsin Senator Meets with Ne! mngincor George Hall and prance Pepe Dckay, Hall was badly br 4 train wes d@ayed somew! traffle suffered a delay of @