The evening world. Newspaper, April 25, 1903, Page 2

tf ee > REVENGE ON MAD MULLAH Gen, Manning Leads the Main Column Against the Fanatic’s Followers in Somaliland and Administers a Crush- ing Defeat, Killing 2,000 and Scatter- ing the Remainder—British Loss Is , Not Stated. ! IADEN, Arabia, ‘April 25.—The British force in Somaliland thes avenged the slaughter by the followers of the Mad Mullah of ithe detachment from Col..Cobbe's flying column, when Col. Plunk- jett, nine other-officers and 174 men were killed by a horde of the ‘Mullah’s-Mahometans while hurrying to the relief of another de- tachment, Brig.-Gen, Manning, commanding the main column of the Brit- }ish troops, after a heavy engagement with tho Mad Mullab’s forces jhas relieved Col. Cobbe, near Gumburru, Somaliland, forty-five jmiles westward of Galadi. i ‘About two thousand of the '** The British loss is not known. }@HE DISASTER TO COL. PLUNKETT. ‘The few details obtainable of the ‘on April 17 show the Mullah’s forces consisted of 2,000 horsemen and 10,000 spearmen. N They surrounded Col. Plunkett's wwifle fire, charged repeatedly with their horsemen and spearmen on all sides, The British detachment held cut and then endeavored to hold its squ ‘mately overwhelmed by weight of numbers. The British force fought until all its officers and 170 men were killed. (Most of the handful of men who reached camp were wounded. !Joases are believed to have been enormous. The Mullah’s forces are reported to aggregate from three to four thou- | \eand horsemen and about cighty thousand spearmen. TYNER RETURNS POSTAL PPERS *Big Bundle of Documents, De- clared Taken from Depart- ment Safe by ex-Officials’s Wife,Turned over by Lawyers WASHINGTON, April 25.—Attotneys Perry and Michener, counsel for Gen, and Mrs. Tyner, to-day submitted to Postmaster-General Payne papers pur- Porting to be the ones taken from the safe in the department by Mrs, Tyner last Tuesday. Mr. Payne had addressed a letter to them declining to consider a proposition to elther visit personally or send a rep- resentative to visit the Tyner residence, ‘but sald he would receive the attorneys @t the department and look at any papers they might choose to submit, Accordingly at noon to-dey the attor- neys brought an immense bundle of papers to the private office of the Post- master-General. There Mr. Payne and Wourth Assistant Postmaster - General Bristow, who has charge of the investi- gation, examined them, ‘The conference lasted two hours, and at its conclusion Gen. Tyner's counsel gave out a statement saying that by the direction of the Postmaster-General all the papers were returned to ‘'yner ex- cept those which referred to the con- @uct of a former inspector of the de- partment, now dead, which the lawyers waid, had never been fixed, and the mat- ter had been disposed of four years ago, ‘Acting Assistant Attorney-General G. ‘A. Christiancy to-day made public a letter written by him to Postmaster- _ General Payne askin ga thorough in- vestigation of hie actiong and official conduct, and requiring that he be re- ‘eved of the responsibilities of his of- fice pending the investigation, eee PUBLIC MUST PAY MEAT TRUST FINES. Kansas City Combine Doing Bust- ness Again in Spite of the Courts, KANGAS CITY, April 2.—Five pack- ers in @ combine paid $5,000 each last week as a fine imposed by the Bupreme Court of Missouri for conspiring to fix prices on meats. ‘This week they are fix- ing prices as of yore, and have already marked them up sufficiently to cover the cost of defending the prosecution many times over. "The weekly meetings of the trust pack- mm never ceased, but while the suit was pending groat care was taken to have #ufficlent variation in prices to disarm charge that they were fixed. This wee! the same grado of meat costs exactly the game, no matter what packer sells it, been put up virtually give as reasons for the ad- Vanoe that prices for cattle and hogs on the bool have advanced, Breeders say Pat they have not noticed it. ; Oo te DIED OF BROKEN HEART. _—-. Mullah’s men were killed. NEWSDEALER APPEAL TO LOW) Mayor Refers Them to Police Commissioner Greene, Who Advises Them to Have Side- walk Ordinance Modified. disaster to Col, Plunkett's detachment force in the open and, after a heavy until its ammunition was exhausted are with the bayonet, but was ulti- ‘The Somalis’ The arrest of six newsdealers recently for alleged violation of the law per- taining to, sidewall caused Thomas F. Martin to appeal to-day to Mayor Low. The Mayor referred Mr. tin, who is president of the News- dealers’ Association, to Commissioner Greene. At Headquarters president Martin got no further satisfaction than advice to have the law changed. stands HAY TAKES U AUSSI HONE Under Instructions from Presi- of , Aldermen,” said Commissioner dent Roosevelt, Secretary of |areene, ana you cannot blame Capt, i ? Piper for enforcing it, %f It is unfair State Considers Czar 8 Man- I have no doubt the board will make a churian Demand. proviso.” : Mr. Martin Jmmediately consulted law- WASHINGTON, is yers and by next Tuesday he will have heard’ from President Roosevelt, Gee [en ordinance introduced mitigating or retary Hay 1s now in @ position to act {entirely doing away with the present respecting the Manchurian matter. In- deed, he has already taken the first steps, although for obvious reasons {t 1s not deemed well to indicate thelr na- ture. But the broad statement is made that the Department of State is doing what it regards as necessary to meet the issue. Tt is made quite plain, however, to avold 4 misunderstanding of despatches from foreign capitals referring to the United States, that this Government will not join in a general protest against Russian action. The State Department policy ts so | gold one restriotion. POLICE officials assume that it is understood takes will be individual. It is true that it may run parallel to the action of other powers similarly interested, but jor the stepson to come here at once, there will be no entangting alliance be- tween us and those pow 5 In diplomatic circles developments re- the Chinese situation are anx- awaited. sentatives of the powers that Great Britain and Japan will act in harmony with the United States in the latter's demand upon China not w yield to the latest Russian demand. There i# no upprehension among the representatives of ‘tne powers that the Manchurian affair will lead to anything When it was shown to father's. it came THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL PETTO, “THE OX;" THE WATCH WORN BY MADONIA, AND THE PA WN- TICKET FOUND ON HIM WHEN HE WAS PLACED UNDER ARREST. SAY MAFIA MYSTERY (Continued from First Page.) and jt had engraved on it the locomotive and the scratches men- clearly defined in such mattera that the | Uoned by the dead man’s widow and stepson. that whatever action the United States| 67.EPSON HAS NO DOUBTS. A telegram was sent immediatgly to Buffalo asking either the widow Salvatore started with Detective De- vine, of the Buffalo police force, and arrived here to-day. The stepson was taken to Police Headquarters at once, and before the watch was shown to him he was again asked to describe it. He did so, and there was no It ts expected by the |question that he had seen the watch which had been pawned by Petto, him he unhesitatingly said that it was his step- Petto was questioned about the watch, and told a lot of lies as to how in his possession, One story was that a countryman, whose name he did not know, had given it to him on the morning of the murder, He said they had slept together in a Sixth street house the night before, ee WHY NOT LOCK PTH HN? Policeman ts Under the Grave Charge of Beating His Baby Nearly to Death with Club, Yet Wears Uniform. HE DENIES THE CHARGES.|! In a hospital, under the care of the Children's Society, Tommy Clarke, two and one-half years old, Hes in an un- conscious condition, His frail body is ed with scars and bruises, and Gibb, who js attend- child, ts doubtful about nis n, was ft for @ simi Charge against him wi Policeman William A, Clarke, the child's father, accused ‘of having in- ficted the wounds, is enjoying a pe- cular form of imprisonment at the Thirty-third Precinct station. Clarke lenae. gail in, He uiery Cae, Hundred is what the police call a ‘paroled pris- oner.” Although charged with cruelty! to his child, he is permitted to wear cs his uniform and has the freedom or ; the station. This courtesy has been ex- i tended to him by Magistrate Hogan, ae SEE : While Clarke is allowed to roam about, his wife is under arrest charged with neglecting the child. She was taken in custody several days after charges had been filed again: husband. é Not Teue, Sayan Clarke. Clarke declares t he is @ much- abused man, He says he did not beat his child, charged by Mrs. Mmily Plerson and Mrs. Martha Benson, his neighbors, and tries to lay the blame for the trouble on his wife. When a reporter for The Evening World called at the police station Clarke stepped out of a room where several officers were. playing checkers. He wore his uniform, club and helmet, “This thing has pretty near worrled me to death,” he said. “Of course I never whipped my child as those two women said. That charge don't worry me any. But it's com tht on top of Mr. Strohm Revealed the “Con: tempt” He Felt for Mr. Reitz-: enstein, but the Latter Lives and Was Sorry to Hear It. After a partnership of thirty-eight years and an ostensible friendship of fourteen years after they had retired from business, the will of the late A. A. Strohm revealed the fact that he held H, G. Reltzenstein in silent contempt. In strong terms he denounces his for- mer partner as ‘mean, selfish an@ greedy.” The terms of this remarkable docs ment have just been made public, al- though Mr. Strohm died in the Hotel at the number he gave they said they had never heard of the man. According to Frye, the pawnbroker, the watch was pawned about 4 o'clock on the afternoon of the day of the murder. ' “One of my clerks took it in,” said Mr, Frye, “He does not remember what the man looked like, but when the detectives came and got the watch and asked who took it in the clerk identified the writing in the record book and on the ticket. It was pawned in the name of ‘John, Elizabeth street.’ “The detectives took the clerk to the House of Detention yesterday to see if he could identify the man who pawned the watch, but he could not. They have his name, but I do not make it public, because he prefers to avoid the notoriety.” Salvatore Sagliebemi, the stepson, is absolutely ecrtain of his identi- fication, He made an affidavit, which was presented to Coroner Scholer when “The Ox" was arraigned before him on the complaint of Detectives Carey and Foy, He said that the watch really belonged to him, and de- scribed how he came to own it, “My stepfather gave it to me last Christmas,” he said. ‘That's why I know it so well. When he started for New York, having broken his own watch—a silver one—he asked me to let him ‘ake mine, and I did, The scratches on it were made by myself with a screwdriver while trying to tighten up one of the screws.” This afternoon aud to-morrow the police will endeavor to locate Petto's home, believing they will be able to find some other articles that will aid in solving the murder mystery, He has given several false uddresses, some of but | them proving to be vacant lots. IS SOLVED. beyond diplomatic exchanges, At the embassieg of the British, Ger- map, Russian and France, it is said that no official advices concerning Man- churla have been recelyed from the for- elgn offices of their respective govern- ments, In the absence of anything official from his government, the Russian Am- baxsador, in a note to Secre! Hay to- BT ee need that not Aatmical to JAPAN MISLEADING US, IE a RUSSIAN OFFIGIALS SAY. * course, The Japanese Minister, Mr. Takahira, hada ‘conference to-day’ with Secretary Hay on the Manchurian matter, —————— GERMANY WILL NOT JOIN IN OPPOSING RUSSIA. Britain of written protests from Great tain he United States especially, wi BEd jdaed at the Russian Foreign nice, and that these will be replied to wit ample courtesy and reasonableness, but that the correspondence will be the Sniy satisfaction the United States and Great Britain will get for thelr open- door demands. Germany is reconciled to Russian mastery !n Manchuria, BT. PETERSBURG, April %.—The of- clals of the Foreign Office here ex- pressed intense surprise to-day at ine report that American public opinion was isturbed by the news regarding Man- churla, ‘They declared the people of the United States were misled BY Japan, and said that the Improvements which were in progress in Manchuria Certainly, Would benefit international cothe ‘Foreign Office officials added that; no’ new fundamental conditions were etng, imposed, claiming that what are now in Wogress are pow Baxiere con; policy to resist Russia in nothing in| cerning (ie act of evacuation Chinese admin- which she is really in earnest, the organization of the Ch ‘The constant expression in govern- | “ye Chinese wdministration, However, ment quarters’ concerning Manchuria |j# not ready, Russia desires an assur. ever since Chancellor Von Buelow's |ance that China will maintain a suf- P Glont police force to repress local diror- declarations in the Reichstag two years | ers, which are conUnuous throughout as been that Germany bas no in- |Manchurla, espec he mountains. there and honca Germany Is BERLIN, April %.—Russia’s latest de- mands on China are no surprise to the German Government. Some indications even exist that the Foreign Office here was privy to Russla’s purposes in ad- vance and exprested indifference. to them. This is in exact accord with the by Mer Husband, Mre, Horst Worric) Herself to Death. “ Aying of @ broken heart; please are ." were the last words Foret, of No. 16 over @ year me bas worried @ position of calm observance. PR Py Pa telow might find it consistent with this attitude to join with othe: | wight-year-old Harry Beckerdort, of No, 48 Grove street, Jersey City, while crossing the southeast corner of Erie and Eighth streets, stopped on the iron 0 is 40 Join |covering over a sewer manhole, It broke Peking to |and the little fellow went down Into the in, ney rs « Le eae rt e POM yielding Of eVery | ower, No one saw him fall and he later expectation here is that all kinds |W## not rescued untli an hour } when Patrick Duff, of No, 2M Tall de eles to" tsige not hat rma will Jim Dumps with gloom was overcast Because his children grew so fast. The more he fed them broths and stews The more they looked like X-ray viows. But now they’re spry and strong of limb— i “Give thanks to ‘Force, “Sunny Jim,” my Force ‘The Reedy-to-Berve Cereal makes growing children sturdy. Sweet, crisp flaties of wheat and malt, says “My grandchildren like ‘ Force’ ste & wee thay sale twa ae ey y. They w some trouble I’ve been having with my|gt, Geo: ‘ wife, I've had her committed to Institt-| was protated Decesnur me te Ady an meres Sortie recently she has) written in 1898, and friends gay that this “No, aie never beat. the youngster, yong ingnyy, Was forgotten In later but she's given me a lot of trouble, and! 2s toliowse eee Paragraph ie her actions may have had something to| «. t do with the charges made against BS. pasltnay a Saree perinen Sane Every one around the station knows beecce 4 reed ys, erl0ah Inseam Tear We AUT Matty ote: tree Giaat tsr on Taree toward the whole world, except ; "oo his own wife and children, and as he Ia you think they wouid let me.go around gare that m: vife h " with my uniform on asIam now? | Piece elvan Siete |through me thousands of dollars into He Alwayn Looked starvea. his family, and has not been disturbed “I never whipped that child in my life, !n his pleasures one minute, has not He always was a puny kind, and, al- Shown after my wife's death the slight+ though my wife and I gave him all he ©st feeling of respect for her, has not’ wanted, he ldukea’ sort of starved. As Shown to the world around that he felt to his having bruises on his body, 1, With me a kind of natural sympathy don't know anything about them. A{/my bereavement, not even spent 7%" bowl fell on him a few days ago and a| cents for a crape band around his hat, scar was Infilcted on his forehead, but therefore, H. Guido Reltsenstein, th Gutside et thue-hetwasn'l WIFE war” Brooklyn, shall be excluded from’ any, ¢ benefit of my testament, me x | Mrs. Pierson and Mrs. Benson, how-| “the two men came from Germany on) } ever, told a different story at the first fhe aerne Boat. They sigeted ni enone hearing of the case, ‘hey live in an business, which prospered, a. ov te apartment afjolfing that of the Clarkes, {ed fourice” poate, ago, cach (with at No, 2104 Amsterdam avenue. ‘e the best of friends, a ances they “The way that child was treated was | ‘We never had a hard word," said Mr, { an outrage,” said Mrs. Pierson, ‘Mra. eemed Very oltzenstein forday, and he Benson and I were standing in the 8c Qvet U8!) kitchen of our flat, and could see the “I didn't wear crape for my own TIRED MOTHER'S STORY” WE Of Baby’s Dreadful Suffering. from Eczema Happily Cured > i 4 by Cuticura Remedies “Charlie was fretful and cross, but as he was cutting teeth, I didn't thinl much of that,” said Mrs, Helen Rath of 821 10th Ave., New York City. ‘'Evem ‘when arash broke out on bis face I wasn’t frightened, because everybody knows that that is quite common with teething babies. But the rash on Charlie's poor . little face spread to his neck, chest and back. had never seen anything quite like it before - The skin rose in little lumps, aud matter cam out. My baby's skin was hot, and how he di¢ suffer! He wou! fton I had to stop because I felt faint and my back throbbed with pain. But the worst pain of all ‘was to see my poor little boy burning and itch: ing with those nasty sores, which the neighbors said was Eczema. A lady across the street gave me some Cuticura Ointment, I think the box war about half full, and a piece of Cuticura Soap, J followed the directions, bathing Charlie with the Soap and putting that nice Ointment on the sores. I wouldn't have believed that my baby would have been cured by alitfle thing like that. Not all of a sudden, mind you. Little by little, but so surely, C! and I both got more peace by day, and more sleep by night. The sores sort of dried up and went away. I shall never forget one blessed night when I went te bed with Charlie beside me, when I woke up the sun was streaming in. For the first time in six months I had Cyad through the night without a break ‘e6, that fat little boy by the window is Charlie, and his skin is as white as a snowy { flake, thanks to the Cuticura Remedies, me P Cuttoure R 3, Be. bottle (in the form of Chocolate Coated Pills, Shc. ote eerne baes, Bee tiene Soop a6 see! Hu sad al td Hows —— SS rr ‘Them.’ TN Bue dso DIED. GRAY.—PREDBRICK GRAF, beloved tustand of Mattide Oret, Funerel from late reddence, 181 Oberry mt, Now York, Sunday, Aben 9, at 2P. 2. HOMMIBRT,—Oo April 34, 1908, CATHERINS, beloved wite of Theodore L. Houmert, in hee bath year, Funeral te be held gt 5B) Ghepherd ave, Brooklyn, Séndsy at BF. M& Interment Cypress Hille. 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