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RACING # SPORTS GENERAL SPORTING NEWS ___ON PAGE 10 | “ Circulation Books orld, NIG Open to All.” EDITION PRICE ONE CENT. NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1903. PRICE ONE CENT, POLICE RANGAGK MIG. PAINE GHOME HOR MURDER GLUE + Buffalo Sleuths, Against Her Protest, Seek for Incriminating Evidence te Connect Her with the Tragedy That Resulted in the Mysterious Death of E. L. Burdick. Belief Expressed by the Detectives that an Arrest Is Due Within Very Few Hours and that the Clue That Was Needed to Put Them on the Right Track Has Been Found. (Special to The Evening World from a Staff Correspondent.) BUFFALO, March 4.—The police this afternoon cearched from cellar to garret the home of Mrs. Seth T. Paine, at 492 Elmwood avenue. The work was done under the instructions of District Attorney Coatsworth and Chief of Detectives Cusack. Mrs. Paine was prostrated when the of- though husband at first objected to the search being carried on, he was forced to recognize the rights of the police, and he submitted to the inevitable. Mrs. Paine is the handsome wife of Dr. Paine and the woman whose photcgiaph was found in the “den” of Edwin L. Burdick, She admitted to: thd police yesterday that she had called up Mr. Burdick on the telephone the dav of the tragedy. The police apparently searched for letters to-day. ' Whem asked whe’ her or not there had been any 1esults Chief Cusack Bald: ‘It is not time yet for any disclosures. We will speak in good time and not untli we are suve.” PENNELL HEAVILY INSURED. The foregoing was interesting to the friends of all parties concerned. but even as interesting was the fact divulged to-day for the first time that Arthur R. Pennell, lawyer and clubman, whose name, has been linked with that of Mrs. Alice Burdick, since the murder has had his Ife insured for $356,000, Fear of Mr. Burdick, it is said, prompted Pennell to take this ac- tion. It is known that there were harsh words between Burdick and Pennell and Burdick had lately taken to carrying a revolver, The question now asked by the police in connection with th did Pennell fear for his life. Pennell when interviewed on this question to- day said: “I don’t care to talk too much about this turn in the case; per- haps I have already talked too much. The fact that I have had my life so heavily insured is nothing to any one but me and my family.” Superintendent of Police Bull, who made the first definite announcement last night that one woman whose identity he will not disclose, but who has been under the gravest suspicion for five days, murdered Edwin L. Burdick, added a little to his statement to-day. He said that in the case of this woman there was a double motive for putting Burdick out of the way. The woman feared the exposure which the divorce proceedings would entail upon her, She had another and a pow: erful reason for wishing Burdick dead, What this reason was can only be surmised. It may have been that one more dear to her tnan her own life or her own honor was involved in the scandal, which was on the point of breaking. It may have been that the price of her own happiness with her lover or husband was made contingent on her doing the awful deed. Heretofore, the officials have declared stoutly that the person who did the murder was one who would suffer by the disclosures to be made on the trial of the divorce action brought by Burdick against his wife, NOW ON THE RIGHT TRACK, ‘To-day Supt. Bull declared that he was not satisfied that the sole object of the murderess was to shut off all further action in the divorce proceed- ings. The Superintendent said there was just one line of information which the police required before they would feel justified in making an arrest. This particular line of information had evaded the police up to yesterday, ‘Then they got on the track of it. Detectives are working on it now. When they secure what Superintendent Bull believes they will bring in within a few hours the woman suspect. Chief of Detectives Cusack spent almost the entire morning in confer- ence with District-Attorney Coatsworth. When he emerged at noon he was asked; “Will there be an arrest to-day?” “There may be," he said. “I am not sure, of course, It may come to- J day and it may be delayed, but we are on the right track now. As to the identity of the women we suspect, we have never departed from the right fieers entered her home, but her «Continued on Eighth Page.) BIG SHIP WENT ASHORE. POPE MUST HAVE REST. te Rocks at) “ee Will Receive No One Until End of Next Week, ROME, March 4.—Although the Po (Special to The Evening World.) pe wi ‘ ay,| 18 4n good health his physicians have NORTHPORT, L. 1, March 4—The! imposed complete repose for the pres. British steamship Beckenham, Capt.| ent, Reaburn, went on the rocks at Baton'’s Consequently, the Pontiff will receive Point in the dense fox before daybreak} 2 98€ Unt the end of next week. ee to-day and stove two big holes in her HORSE KILLLED HIM. foreward water-tlkht compartments, Had Been Kicked and His Dead Beckenham Struck Eaton's Point, L. L All pumps were set to work and by dently afternoon the water was suMclently re) yaa) Way prior hr (Special to ‘The Byening World.) duced to float the ship at high tide, wien / assistance came trom a New York] NBWARK, N. J., March 4.—Joseph wrecking company. ‘The veasel left Cal-| J0Y, seventy years old, who lived alone cute twenty days ago with « $1,000,000) Si cack Otave, N. J wae found dead cargo, half of which ehe discharged in| His skull was fractured, ik Boston, he is owned by the Britieh alles Steamehip Company and carries & orew ea Hot herat ee ta Edy rae Snes BILLION AND TWO GRASHES |*** TALE RECORD FOR CONGRESS Peaceful Close of Exciting Session Marred by Slur to Speaker Henderson, Who Bade Farewell in| Tears. BIG APPROPRIATIONS MADE. ny Excuse Heavy Expenditures by Citing Amounts Set Aside for the Panama Canal and Post- Offices. (Special to The Evening World.) WASHINGTON, March 4—While the strains of ‘Auld Lang Syne” were echoing through the House at noon to- | day, Speaker Henderson's gavel fell | and the Fifty-seventh Congress was de- clared adjourned. | It was a peaceful ending to @ session | marked with many exciting events. The closing hours were given over to song! and evidences of good-fellowship, only one disturbing incident, that of certain | Democrats objecting to a vote of thanks to Speaker Henderson, marring | the jolly finale. The Fifty-s the total amoant set aside ander various bills being $1,554,108,518, an compared with $1,440,480,488 for the last Congre for this by the for the Pa: priations, Roosevelt There. President Roosevelt and all the mem- ters of the Cabinet were in the Capitol to witness the dissolution, while diplo- mats and officials of every degree were in the throngs that jammed the House and Senate, and visitors from every- where crowded every part of the great building. With no business to transact, the House met at 10 o'clock to walt until noon, the time of adjournment fixed by the Constitution, All the galleries were filled by 9 o'clock in expectation of an exciting finish, but the Congressmen had been In session until 4 o'clock this morning and had passed all the appropriation bills, leay- ing nothing to be done. Cannon Called Up. "Uncle Joe Cannon, who will be the next presiding officer of the House, stood in front of the Speaker's desk “watching to see that no one got away with {t," Representative Clayton, of Alabama, said. "In order to give him a warming up” Speaker Henderson ailowed Mr. Cannon to preside for a short time. When he took the chair he was wildly applauded by both Republicans and Democrats. After Mr, Cannon took the chair Rep- resentative Payne proposed the usual resolution of thanks to the Speaker. He said Henderson was entitled to it. ‘A small portion of the Democrats op- posed it, but not a suMcient number to even get a roll-call, When they stood up to be counted they were hissed and jeered at by the galleries and Repub- lican members, and the resolution was finally adopted. President Roosevelt sent in a veto message on a bill to congtruct a dam on the Tennessee River. Representative Richardson, of Alabame, tried in vain to get the bill passed over the veto, but the House refused, and it was re- ferred to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors. At 11.30 o'clock the songsters in the House began to warble the songa that always go with the close of a session: & Hole in the Bottom of the ‘8 favorite H jolly Gray" being some of the ditties rendered. Mra, Roosevelt, who sat in the gal- ‘Treasury, and others, who were her guests, seemed to enjoy the singing ‘mmensely. A Teartal Farewell, The Congresemen were not in epecial- ly good voice, for they had been ait- tung for long hours smoking many cigars, and had spent @ good deal of the (Continved on Fifth Page.) WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast OF L'TRAING; FOUR INJURED Blinding Fog Obscures Sig- nal Lights and Rear-End Collisions Result Within a Few Minutes of Each Other. ROAD BLOCKED TWO HOURS. Motorman and Three Passen- gers Seriously Hurt and Scores of Others on Trains Badly Shaken Up and Scared. Four passengers were badly Injured and trafMe over the Fifth avenue divi- sion of the Brooklyn ‘ system com- pletely tied up for two hours during the rush period this morning by two rear- end collisions which occurred between the Twenticth and Twenty-fifth street Stations inside of half an hour. Both collisions were due to the dense fog which hung over the rivers and bay and disrupted schedules on all the fer- rles and elevated lines. Three ferry-boat collisions also occurred as a result of the fog. The first “L" collision occurred at 7.16 o'clock. A Coney Island train cars, crowded to the guard- taking on passengers at the Twentieth street station, when a Bath Beach train, |in charge of Motorman Herman Jacobs, ran into It, Jacobs says the fog was so dense that ‘ne did not see the train ahead until he was within ten feet of it. He his power and turned on collision was inevitable. The passen- gers were thrown off their feet by the shock and every window in the forward train shattered, The rear car of the Coney Island train and the forward car of the Bath Beach train were thrown from tae track, thereby blocking all traMe toward Manhattan until the ar- rival of a wrecking car. None of the passengers was injured, though many women were on the verge of hysteria, The Second Collision, Half an hour later and less than 300 feet away a south-bound Coney Island train, slowing up as \t neared the Twen- ty-fifth street station was run into from the rear by @ south-bound Bath Beach train in charge of Motorman M. Marion. ‘The rear train was going at top speed d the impact was terrific. witch collided, were but rear not platforms, smashed, the rear plat- car and the front platform of the car behind it telescope 1. three passengers on the platforms were severely injured. ‘The rear platform of the forward car lay over on the platform back of it, and, smashing the rails, pinned down James a sixteen-year-old plumber's ap- prentice, whose home is at No. 42 Sixth street. ‘The Jad suffered from contustons of the abdomen, a lacerated wound of the scalp and his left leg and ankle, which were pinioned down by ® broken guard-rail, were fractured. A crowbar had to be used to release him. He was taken to the Norwegian Hospital. John B, Tomascello, the conductor, had the bones of his left leg ftrac- tured. George Goets, of No, 187 Doue- lass street, Jamaica, had his left leg badly wrenched. Thomas James, of No. 690 Quincy street, and Amos Holden, of No. §7 Bedford avenua who w hurled from the platform, suffered from shock and contusions, Passengers Hurled from Seats. The two hundred passengers aboard the trains were hurled from the seats to the floor and showered with brokea glass, They scrambled to thelr feet und rushéd to the platforms, but the guards would not let them leave the train. Policeman William Holland, who was on the sidewalk directly beneath, heard the crash and at once turned in @ fire alarm and an ambulance call, When the Department arrived he led the fire- men to the "L" platform and they litted the jsusengers from the cars to & nar row foot rail, along which they walked to the Twenty-fifth strest station plac form. Home of the splintered woodwork, which was damp, fell across the third rail and ignited, the fire adding to the panic of the passengers, Both trains were derailed in the sec: ond collision and in places the broken platforms tore up the sleepers in the roadway, General Manager Dow F. Smith, of the Brooklyn Heights Ralfway, was in the vicinity and he (ook charge of the wreck. hours ending st 4 P. day for New York City a ctaity: Partly cloudy to-nigh Theveday cloudy « ening # ight variable winds mostly ensterty: tug crews which were summoned to ciear the tracks. He said: "Both collisions wore due 10 the dense fog, ‘This section, lying between the bay on one side au reenwood Cemetery on the other. is reatly exposed. The fog there is always ickest, The trains were running slows ly or the accidents would have been uch more serious. I saw that the the motormen seem to have been creep- , Dut the fom was so thick t! ing Sa eet ee taza ther Pes cg Popaszivenie BE serariie By some strange fyeak the front and | form of the forward Bath Beach motor | The guard and| living at No, 162 Fifty-seventh street, | SETH PAINE, WHO WAS ; FRIENDLY WITH E. L. BURDICK. 4,000 °L" ROAD MIEN READY 10 oTRIKE, They Hold Secret Meeting and. Decide that if Demands for Concessions Are Not Granted They Will Tie Up the Whole-Manhattan System. What the “‘L,’’ Road Trainmen’s Union Demands: $2 for ten hours’ work for train guards, i $2.50 for ten hours’ work for conductors. Extra pay for overtime. Preference to be given old men in chances for extra pay. All of the employees in the transportation department of the Man- hattan Elevated Railroad, except the porters, who are negroes, have or- ganized a union to formulate demands, and a decision has been reached to strike unless these demands are granted. Although the leaders of the new organization will not admit it, The Evening World has it on good authority that a refusal of the company to accede to the requests of the men will result in the crews deserting the trains wherever they may be between the hours of 5 o’clock and 7 o'cleck next Monday evening in the height of the “rush hour,” i The organization was perfected to-day in the Horton Building at No. 410 East One Hundred and Twenty-fifth street. The new union is to be known as the Elevated Railway Employees’ Association and will have by to-night a membership of close to 4,000 men, including motormen, who are also members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, conduc- SULLY GAUGHT ‘Movement Begins While Game Bull Sp NN PANIC MAKING. HALO ON GOTTOR + lator Is Out Eating Luncheon, Following Flood of Selling Orders, and May Co Him and His Supporters Many Millions. PRICES FALL NEARLY $2 A BALE, AND SPECULATORS MAKE FORTU Bear Trader Price Was in Full Commar at the Close, but the Fight Will Go on Morrow When Lively Times Will Repeated on the Cotton Exchange. Amid scenes of the wildest excitement on the Exchange, the long expected break in price came in the ho before the close of the market this afternoon, and the b believe that the doom of Daniel F. Sully, the bull leade who has been trying to boost the commodity to 15 cents is sealed. ‘ Theodore H. Price, the bear leader, predicts that’ bottom has tallen out of the market, and that there wil a slump to-morrow that will wipe Sully and ‘his tol out of the market. i ee ae Cash cotton closed this afternoon at 9.84, 32 point yesterday's close; May at 9.76, 33 points, off yestei close, and July at 9.54, 28 points off yesterday's close. average net loss on cash cotton and all options amounts $1.60 a bale on the difference between the closing prices yesterday and to-day. The market was wobbly at the opening to-day and Mr. Sully had work to keep up his end. Selling orders came in from all over th u indicating that the Southern planters are convinced that the market is the top notch and want to get rid of their cotton at 10 cents, Reports. Alexandria, Egypt; Liverpool and New Orleans indicated a weak m WENT TO LUNCH AND WAS SWAMPED. ‘ Sully stood the rush nobly and kept the market well up until about 180 ‘o'clock, when he left the Exchange for lunch, He was gone for twenty | minutes, When he returned the market had gone to pieces and offers were | hurled at him so fast that he was swamped. The roar on the Exchange was deafening and the dealing in the last halt hour of trading was the heaviest in the history of the Exchange, During the day 800,000 bales Were dealt in. Of these it is estimated that Sully bought abou‘ 250,000 tales at the top prices and the close found him lover ‘ about $240,000 on the day. | PRICK MAKES $160,000 PROFIT. 5, tors, guards, eleetricians, ticket-sellers, ticket-choppers, gatemen, track walkers and switchmen, The union is affiliated with the American’ Fed: yeratign of Labor, / fof | Herman Robinson, District Organizer of the American Federation. of ;Labor, and William D, Mahon, of Detroit, President of the Amalaya- . x ee NR | (Continued on Elghth Page.) LEROY DRESSER QUITS ™ It was learned late this afta; oon that Leroy Dresser nos resigned as President of the irus: Company of the Repubilo. He will probably be succeeded by Henry M. Satterlee, the present attorney and Chairman of the Board of, Directors, The trust company is the fiscal agent of the United States Shipbuilding Company, of wh..’; Lewis Nixon is President, __ Dissatisfaction over the affairs of the trust company is be- lieved to have led to this step.. +e ASYLUM FOR WOMAN ARRESTED AT WHITE HOUS: _ PITTSBURG, March 4.—Mrs, Sarah E, McCloy was oo” mitted to the insane asylum at Marshalsea to-day. She was Srought to this city yesterday from Washington, where she iad oeen arrested while trying to see President Roosevelt a2. t an imaginary post-office robbery. wh MAN OF E!GHTY-FOUR ENDS HIS LIFE, Leopold Boelim, eighty-feur years old, of No, 3492 Third avenue, committed suicide this afternoon by shooting himself, te rt Samantereeneaen | | TRUST G2, OF THE REPUBLIC, M’COY AFTER F Mr. Price, the rival of the Providence bull leader, sold 100,000 bales |rhort before the slump came, and closed his deals with a profit of close ta 79 $160,000, In an effort to rally the market toward the close Sully flooded these had little effect. It is said that Sully, to protect himself, dumped some of his holdings Into the market in the last few minutes of trading, j ‘LAVALY TIMES EXPECTED TO-MORROW. | Lively times are looked for at the opening to-morrow. The bears p= pear ty have the upper hand and will force the price down from the tap” ‘of the bell. It would not be surprising were the predicted extermination of Sully to come to pass unless he can gather a more powerful influence than — backed him to-day. Interest ‘n the cotton market 1s dominating Wall street. Twelve bers will be admitted on Thursday ‘o the Cotton Exchange and the pri¢e, hag risen from $7,200 to $7,600. It is expected that a horde of ‘out 3 Will be in the market to-morrow to take advantage of the Mucts nd dealing in cotton promises to reach an unprecedented figurg ITZ. FOR A BATTLE _——— Aons. Kid Will Meet Ex-Champion Anywhere, An Place and on Any Terms. “Bob Fitasimmons wants to fight,! what he likes—meet him at any p does he? Well, here's his chance,” sald| he likes, for any amount of money: Kid McCoy to an Evening World re-| likes, or for a purse, and I'y to porter this afternoon, “Me made a pub-| any conditions that he chooses #o He challenge to Ryan for the middie: | Now, there's a chance for Mry weight championship, and agreed to| muns to fight, If he Wants to. ie7aiel fight him at 1S pounds, I give Fix doesn't, why dont he aay so? "3 all the credit that's due him for that. | I spoke to Fite’ last Sunday because it would be a hard job for him] conference detwoen Jeftrleg to get down to 188 pounds, Nobody | bett and ask Asien fy, knows that better than he does. Hut ¢ Kid,” not Dow; Ryan has side-stepped. He says that] ‘ Fita ts an old ‘has-been,’ and eyidentiy | ATE RESULTS AT NEW ORLEANS, Sixth Race—Peat i, Compass 2, Moroni 3, Fort Erie club offers a $10.00 purse, “Now, TH make 4p offer to ‘Bob’ Fitssimmons. 1/1) Aight him at catch weimbta—by that I mean be can weigh 4 does not Want to fight him, althougn | wey