The evening world. Newspaper, February 18, 1903, Page 1

GENERAL ’ SPORTING NEWS ON PAGE 8. “Circulation Books Open to All.” | PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, WEDNE SDAY, “ Circulation Books Open to All.’’ VEBRUARY 18, _ ‘Coldest Weather in New York This Winter Causes Intense Suffering and Fills Hospitals with Pa- tients. TWO DIE IN THE SNOW BANKS Mercury Had Fallen to Six De- grees at Eight o’Clock, but Rising Temperature Later Afforded Some Relief. WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six hours ending at S P. M, Thurs- any for New o¥rk City ana vi- einity: Continued cold: snow fluriers this evening; clouds to- night; r Thursday; fresh to brisk westerly winds. Oe THE TEMPERATURE. 12 Midnight. 1AM, 2A. M. 2AM 4A.™M. BA. OA, TA. nA. vA. degrees degrees degrees degrees degrees degrees degreen degrees degrees Meceeoee M. auoM areM DEATHS FROM COLD. ANDERSUN, ANDREW, of Coyten- ville, N. J.3 body found in road hack of Fort Lee. , RILEY, PHILIP, No. 13 Lister ave- nue, Newark; body found in front of the doorway of hin home. IN THE HOSPITALS. .THOMAS FLYNN, of No. 318 East Nineteenth street, ‘Bellevue Hospital; hands frozen, JOHN GUTHRIF, no home, st, Vin- gents Hospital; had feet and ears frost-bitten: RACHEL DE LUKE, of No. 7 Prince Street, elipped on fce dt Broadway and Fourth street, St, Vincent's Hospital; wrist broken. CHARLES EUBERS, of No. 1006 Oak- land place, struck by train while shov- @iling snow off the Elevated structure Beoond avenue and One Hundred and Twenty-first strect; Harlem Hospital; fractured skull, WILLIAM ROONEY, of No, 237 Ba ‘Twenty-kixth street, struck by Twenty- thind street car while shovelling snow; New York Hospital; forehoad injured, PATRICK STULBY, of No. 333 Hast Seventy-seventh street, slipped on che ioe in the rear of No. 317 East Seventy- Mfth street; Presbyterian Hospital; waht shoulder broken. As. New York whivers to~jay in the @aldest- weather of the winter there ome reports of extreme suffering and death. ‘The temperature, which was 10 degrees at 2 o'clock, fell slowly until 8 o'clock ‘Wiis morning. At that hour it was only @ degrees above zero, From that hour it moderated somewhat. ‘The wind Was not sb ‘strong as yesterday and that helped make the temperature bearable. Reports of Death, Reports pf death from the bitter cold began coming early in the day. ‘The first was from Hackensack, and told how Andrew Anderson had lost his life. Anderson and John Pepper, of Coytes- ville, walked down to the Fort Lee Post- OMice for their mai! last night and then started home over the mountains, They had not reappeared this morning, and Mrp, Anderson and @ searching party started throuwh the snow to find them, Anderson's body was found in the snow on the mountain trail, He had been Pepper has not yet ‘The body of Filip Riley, of No. 15 Lister avenue, Newark, was found to- Gay by @ policeman, It was in front of the doorway of his own home. It is (Continued on Second Page.) - ize rich dividends on a small investment MoCarren had two rooms at the House, CET ICH MEN ARE SET FREE. Two Arrested Yesterday Are Discharged in Centre Strect Court Through Lack of Legal Evidence. ANOTHER ARREST MADE. Captain Langan, of the Detective Bureau, Says He Will Keep His Men at Work Until He Rids the City of These Firms. Charles E. Rand and Joseph Regan, arrested yesterday on the charge of running a “get-rich-quick” concern, were discharged this afternoon In the Centre Street Police Court. The out- come of the case illustrates the dif- flculty of getting evidence against the men who offer to pay Investors from 8 to 5 per cent. a week on a “sure thing’ method of speculation, Detective McConville, who led the raid on the Rand concern yesterday, called to the stand to testify against the prisoners. He said that de- spite the ytmost endeavors of himself and his side partners, Baker and Pea- body, he had been unable to find per- sons who would complain that they had been swindled, On this representation nothing remained for Magistrate Breen to do but discharge the men. Post-Office Inspector Ashe was was Court, but made 2e move to arrest Rand! Ydanhoefer, and Regan. They left the court free men. ceedings to recover the mail taken from his office and examined by Office authorities. Anyther Arrest In Mude. Ernest Matthews, who describes him- nelf as a clerk, was arrested by Detec- tive-Sergts. McConville, Peabody and Clark this afternoon on the charge of running a get-rich-quick turf informa- tion bureau under the name of Gmith” and “Burns Wallace & Co.” Matthews was arraigned in the Centre treet Court and held in $1,000 ball for examination to-morrow afternoon. More of Them Left. “There are more of these fellows left,” said Capt. Langan to an Evening World reporter later, “and I'm going to get them if I can. It is not easy to locate them. Thoy rent expensive offices in big buildings and the signs on the of- | fice doors are not always Indicative of the business that is golng on within. Most of these fellows we have caught to date we have had pointed ovt to us through the complaint of some one who has been swindled, In the case of Rand & Co,, the raid was made on a com- plaint received by Commissidner Greene. I have my eye on another susptslous firm and I may land them before tne day is over. “1 have been looking over these tip- sters, too, I don't know exactly what kind of a game they work. It may be legitimate and it may not. At any rate I'm going to look them over and Sf I can drive them out of business too I'll do it, Boy an@ Girl Customers. “The great trouble with these ‘get- rich-quick’ fellowa 19 that they do most of their business with out-of-town peo- ple. They \advertise in-country papers and there are plenty of suckers waiting to bite. Some of them advertise discre= onary pools, where you send in your money and agree to lét the steerers do as they please with'it, and oth ma “A great nfajority of the vicums in these turf swindles are women who have been speculating without the knowledge of their husbands or families, 1f I can't get the evidence to convict in the State courte 1 will turn the prisoners ‘over the United States authorities for viola. tuon of the postal laws. — McConville, Clark and Peabody, from now on, will devote their tme to these turf crooks,” it’ in Jamaica, L. 1, Walter Tho: the firm of George to be dealers in clalties, Inspector w MoCarren & Co,, wald ‘get-rich-quick’ — jompson found that Bergen on ‘the corner of Fulton and ‘ots, Proprietor Cohn could spector wo information con- whereabowis of MoC and the Inspector, after a search rooms, did’ not ‘find anything worth apeaking about, There was no litera: ture or anything of that sort, Mr. Cohn sald that McCarren had rented the rooms only for the purpose of receiving his mail. Postmaster Henry Haviland, of Jamatca, at OM. s mall was of the registered letter rt_and that MaCarren usually called ‘or it hienself. No one in Jamaica had seen McCarren to-day, ——— SNOW DELAYED FIREMEN, Three Alarms Newessary for Blase Williamabarg Flat The roofs of two flat buildings at Nos, 118 and 120 Harriton avenue, Will- jameburg, were destroyed by fire this afternoon, and the household belongings elght families ruined by water, hree alarms had to be sounded, ‘The nearest box wouldn't work when the Gre started, and the police were tele- yed the arrival of the apparatus so long that’ many. persons velleved there uid be a rious ca fagration The body of Adam Schulte, in one of the flats awaiting burial, was by ie re- the firemen to @ place of Rand said he would begin pro-| the Post-| | Centre ntre. “Dan) ,| Cont EIGHT ARE aTTEN B A MAD 0G Powerful Newfoundland Runs Amuck in the Wholesale Grocery Dis- trict, and Spreads Great Terror in Broadway. TEARS A POLICEMAN’S LIP. Animal Runs Through Hudson, Leonard, Canal, Centre and Other Streets Before a Po- liceman Shoots Him to Death BITTEN BY MAD DOG. Clarke, A. B., No. 444 Forty- eighth street, South Brooklyn, bitten in the leg in Grand street Frank, No, 42 Baxter street, bitten in the arm in Hud- et. Christopher, No, 423 Kast Elghty-sixth atrect, bit- ten in the arm in Canal street. MeGulre, Robert, patrolm of the Leonard street station, lp Iac- erated in Hudson street, Piszarellf, Abraham, ‘Treses, Charles, No, 303 East Fifth street, bitten in the right hand in Centre street. » 401 Two children, bitten in Mual- berry Bend Park. A powerful Newfoundland dog, un- doubtedly suffering from rabies, ran amuck through the wholesale grocery district; and thénce across Broadway @nd Centre street to the Mulberry Bend section to-day, biting elght persons and spreading terror and excitement in its path. Patrolman McGuire, whose upper Mp was nearly torn off by the maddened animal, Is In a serious condition at his home, No. 683 Hudson street. He was visited this afternoon by Dr. Rambaud, of the Pasteur Institute, who sald that if the dog was really mad the outlook for the policeman is grave indeed. First Seen in Hudson Street. The animal appeared first in Hudson street, running north, McGuire was on post in front of No. 42 Hudson street. He saw that the animal was foaming at the mouth, and made an effort to stop it by striking at ft with his club. The big brute made a apring for him, tnocking him down, As he’ fell the sharp teeth of the animal were imbedded in his upper lip, and before he could get free his fece was frightfully Iacerated. After attacking the policeman the dog continued north in Hudson street until it encountered Durant, who is a butcher 4nd was on his way to market, carrying a basket, Durant was knocked down and badly bitten in the arm. At Leonard street the dog turned east, followed by scores of men and boys. In crossing Broadway the animal snapped at several persons, but the crush of tra Mc appeared to confuse him, and he made no direct attempt to bite. Down through Leonard street to Elm and north on Elm to Canal the animal ran, Pizzarelli was attacked {n Canal atrect. He managed to land a kick that took some of the fight out of the dog for a moment, In crossing Centre street the animal attacked Clarke and Tre injuring both of them severely, Bit Two Children. ‘The course of the dog lay through atreet from Canal back to Leon- ard and then east into Mulberry Bend Park, where a crowd of children were enjoying themselves in the snow, Two of the children were bitten, but the police haye been unable to discover their names, ‘By. this time the mob chasing the dog numbered hundreds, Some of the men ad revolvers, which they fired at the leeing animal, imperilling the lives of people In the streets, The dog ran diag- nally through the park to. Mulberry wtreet and north In Mulberry, Policeman Walter Flanders, of the Mulberry street station, saw the crowd from his t and ran up to see what was the matter. He got to Mulberry street just as the dog turned and is Dunsuers, who scattered in every drection, The doz waa within five feet of Fian- ders before the pollceman could draw his revolver, and it looked for a mo- ment as though two pollcemen were to be lald out by the terror, But Flanders managed to land a bullet in the mide of the beast just as it made a leap at him. Second Bullet Killed Him, = Turning aguin, the dow ran into Spring street, pane. in front of a store at No, 42, Flanders ran up and with an- other bullet ended the brute's lite, ‘All of those who were injured by. the dog except the two children. wont to Hodson Btrect Hospital, where. thelr wounds were treated, By the advice of the hospital doctors they went at once to°the Pasteur Inatitute, with the ss rt ad re, who was too badly ured. A he body of the Gow was sent to the Pastour Institute, where the brain wilt the analysed In order to determine for i whether or fot ft waa aufforin yc pe ot: uppoeition that the animal $< DPLPIDORG = HLOA CLARKE SAS, FLOWER Charming Stage Favorite Bride of Millionaire Nephew of Former Governor. WEDDED AT PARENTS’ HOM Beauty and wealth joined hands in the culmination of = romance to-day when Hilda Clarke, late prima donna of the Bostontans, became the wife of Fred- erick Stanton Flower, the millionaire broker and nephew of the late ex-Gov. Roswell P. Flower. At the home of Miss Clarke's parents, Mr. and Mrs, Milton Edward Clarke, No, %3 Riverside Drive, the charming soprano. who won fame as the “Bride- role and became the real bride of one of New York's most popular young men. American Beauties, palms, ferns and smilax formed the stage settings of the interesting love climax to-day, zhe Clarke home being converted into a bower of flowers. At 4 o'clock the beautiful bride, on the arm of her father, appeared at the folding-doors of the drawing-roan, while the orchestra rendered the wells known Lohengrin wedding march. ‘The maid of honor was Miss Gertrude Mann, of Boston, a schoolmate of toe bride's. Nathan Monrge Flower, cousin of the bridegroom, was best man. [he ushers Were afirry Benjamin Combs, Anson Flower Robinson, Kt. Allen Kipp, jr, and Benjamin Cornelius Van Dyke. Tn none of the roies of her operat career, when Miss Clarke charmed th Pubic, did she uppear with more rice nd beauty than to-day. aifer gown. Was of white satin, prin- cess, draped tulle and ap: i in real Jace. The tulle bridal ¢ ‘er caught with orange blossoms, In her hands she carried fewouauet 0} orghids and lilies of the valley. yesilhg her throat was suspended the ft of the bridegroom, 2 double, pane ting of a heart-shaper . a ad large square emerald. which was perferm- Kittredge, be- banked with roses and asparagus fern, was fol- lowed by a peption. ing Mr, and Mra, Flower leave tor =, Bouthern wedding trip, but will be, at home at after, March 1 halon, No, of Fifth ave the Flower mansion, nue, FOUND BABY IN THE SNOW. t Police That's What Davis Said Think Differently. John Davis, of No, 127 Kingston ave nue, Brooklyn, walked into the Elm- hmurat police station last night carrying a/big baby, ten months old, which, he said, he had found in the snow on the side of the road in Maspeth. ‘The po: flee were: sueplciour a tained Davis “He was arraigned ishing Col to-day and held as @ suspicious persc It js believed that the baby is his own and that he was attempting to get rid in t it fhe address given by Davis was found to be a vacant lot; in fact, there is nothing but vacancy for a whole block at that point SECRETARY ROOT ILL. nbago, but Tranescts Busine: WASHINGTON, Feb, 14. Root is confined to his house to-day by an attack of lumbago. His condition is pot regarded a4 serious, and it is ex- peoted that he will be able to resume his Guiles t the War Department in a fow ry ntime he is traneact M1 of th realli tis pecvonad atterion et A Tour t $99OOOOO40-HF40899-0OH0G00G-O4 fe 38053.505006 Leaves Footlights to Become |: Elect,” cast aside forever the opexatic| g Abel ZERO UP-STATE. Warrenburg Coldest Spot: in New York, Six Feet of Snow in the. Adirondacks. (Special to The Evening World.) $3 18.—The | Adirondacks the snow |s from four t six feet deep. The cold wave SARATOGA, N. biizxard ‘has been followed b ly cold weather in various sections of the State,. especially in the northeast- ern districts, Below zero figures are*Ballston Spa, 18; Whitehall, Schroon Lake, Warrensbury 20; Indian orth Cy ‘There are Indications of another heavy NEW YORKER DRUGGED. Was Mee of MMe le out, 1 to The Evening World.) {Special to NORFOLK, Va., Feb, 18,— a young traveling # ork, claims t and robbed here. ¢ by condition and locked up. HG BEER TRUST SMASHEDRY EDERAL COURT Judge Grosscup of Chicago Declares the Combination to Be in Restraint of Trade and Illegal and Grants a Preliminary In- junction Against Its Further Operation, Big Packers Refraining from Bidding — Against Each Other Reld to Be in Viola- tion of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law. > CHICAGO, Feb, 18—The Beef Trast) forcing any decree under thie petition got another hard slap in the United |!8 beset with difficuities and that eral enforcement may resuit in yexa- tlous interference with the defendants’ Court to-day, Judge Grosseup declared the combination of Swift & Co. ; | and other members of the combine to be in restraint of trade and Illegal, ov: “But in the inquiry before me I am not at Itberty to stop before such con- The Sherman act, as ine terpreted by the Supreme Court, Is the law of the land, and to the law as it stands both court and people must yield ruled the demurrer to the complaint filed by the packers and granted a prelimi- restraining the Trust from further operations, “There can be no doubt,” sald Judge “that the agreement of the from bidding against each other in the purchase of ts combination “The demurrer is overruled and the The ttle of the case States versus Swift & Co. copartnership and error Included in the +80 also Js their agreement to bid up ae i he packers have not anhounced prices to stimulate shipments, Intending to cease from bidding them when shipments have arrived “The same result follows when we turn to the combination of defendants {o fix prices upon and restrict the quan- titles of ment shipped to thelr agents or their customers. nothing less packers, however, may di eal in order to hasten the | adjudication of th not thought likely that they matter go by default and netion permanent. he packers are charged with ha 10, control prices am e May 1 last, and a temporary injunction Age the packers to this Such agreements than restriction | upon competition, and therefore combi- {nation ip restraint of trade; and thus the petition, makes out a case urder the Sherman thus make the Mealy combined and the demurrer was argued Dec, VANDERBILT'S MAN MUST PAY PENALTY, Chauffeur “It may be true that the way of en- BESSIE MELTON REGAINS FREEDOM, No Evidence that She Com- mitted a Crime in Suffolk brought the thermom- eter down to fificen degrees below zero Jat. Saratoga to-day Exonerates ionaire in Auto Case—Wil Be Tried by Himself. registered at various: places, In the country distr blocked with siow, teen feet high in some places the roads are e drifts being nf PARIS, Feb. 18.—The appeal of W. K. Vanderbilt, who was sentenced in dew fault last year to two day3' imprisons ment on the charge of driving an au- tomobdile at (special to The Evening World) KONKOMA, N. Y., Feb. 18.—Bes- on was arraigned before Justice Hawkins this afternoon, charged with attempting to wreck the Riverhead ex- Jil wind exhibited bruises which he sald y the officers e deny the story of brutality .Cromaline Nas been stop; speed in the © was resumed to-day ~ tefore L. Becker, Justice of the Peace _ of the Thirteenth Division, A chauffeur named Coubac, who ran the machine at the time, testified that Mr. Vanderbilt was not in the auto- mobile, whose only occupants were the Duke of Marlborough and himself. An aMéavit of the Duke of Marlborough, to the same effect, taken French Consul in London, was also ine Champs Elysees, John Stack, her jilted lover, testified that she acknowledged placing stones on the track to stop the train, aboard which was his rival, George 8. Tampf. showed about He went out to see the, sights and sald ) unknown aitloon he have beef drugged omaline the police at midnight in a belpless In court torday a large sum o} Other testimony or twenty-five pounds of stones on the brother did not testify, and there will be BROOKLYN MAN RACES ON SPECIAL ENGINE TO WED, JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Feb, 18,-William D. Sargent, of Brook- lyn, Vice-President of the New York and New Jersey Telephone ompany, was compelled to charler a special Baltimore and Ohio locomotive here this morning. to reach Somerset. thirty- six miles away, to be wedded to-day to Miss Mary Kooser. His train was eelayed four hous oy the snows.cr ordered a special and reached is bride in time, t a ed — TAX DUMMY CASE CLOSED. uments of the lawyers wei } of Nathan 5; on the ground that he might incriminate An amusing scere occurred when Cou- bac finished +his testimony, The Justice sald that in view of th seemed proper that the chauffeur should be brought before the court asthe ac- cused, instead of as a witness, and he asked Coubac if he wished to change He Is alleged ‘to have witnessed the Lawyer Pelletreu moved that, as there was a lack of evidence to committed in Suffolk be dismissed. motion was granted. JUSTICE SHIRAS LEAVES THE BENCH WASHINGTON, ’ two days’ sentence standin Vanderbilt could be transfer Coubac protested ene the Judge's s come before the eUcally agains gestion, declaring he had urt as a witness and guilty or not guilty. nee of the sentence.” then announced journment of the ease until March 15, aying that Coubac would be cited not a8 @ witness but as VANDERBILTS HOME HS HEALTH GETTER. Cornelius Vs thelr trip to States Supreme to-day presented to the President his resignation as a member of that tri- bunal to take effect Feb. Ex-Becretary of State William R. Day, hag been selected as the suc- cessor of Mr. Shirase | 5 | CORTELYOU TAKES "LATE RESULTS AT/NEW ORLEANS. Foyrth Race--Manshak 1, Dick Bernard 2, E. C. Runte Fifth Race—Scorpio 1, | Et ae THE OATH et Oflcer Succeeded by renne 2, Carl Kahler 3, have returned from taken to ald Mr, recovering from his severe attagie typhold fever. ho much improv At the same time William Loeb was) #trensth whit wworn in as Justice Roogayelt gate Bsoee 18.—George B. of the Department of Com- merce and Labor shortly before noon His health tw completed this afternoon in @ tax-fraud case VV GUREES