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_YIN THE TOURAINE 3 es Alice Skae Suffered from Neurasthenia and Was Under Close Guard, but Managed to Swallow Carbolic Acid. "DAUGHTER WAS POWERLESS. BS Nasr $ugband Was a Millionaire Mining Speculator, Who Died 13 Years Ago—Left a Fortune for Which She Had to Fight. Notwithstanding that every apparent tion had been taken to prevent from Killing nerseif and, th: ree women, one her daugh- fer, watched over her with untiring “wigifance, she was found dead In bed | / to-day in her apartments In the fashion- able Toura'ne, No. 9 East Thirty. oninth | treet. The bedciothing was drawn up @rotfid her, the face was calm and the Hangs were crossed on the bosom, al- though the medium employed for the @ of causing death was carbolle | Not the least puzzling feature of this fe fs the fact that the bottle which | contained the polson cannot be found. *Bikne deank the mixture fromga found on a chair At ed. It ts prodable that “pouring the poison Into the glass) placed the bottle In the hiding | that had concealed It when {t was for it must have been concealed since + Skae was and the J of the Canadian fifty-seven years of widow of John Skae, an Pacific Rall- At intervals he- and trips to large fortune. voyages abroad in the Touraine with her daugh- terpiAllce, nineteen years old, a com- peor and a trained nurse, Miss ey. ++ | Victim of Neurasthenia, For « long time Mrs Skae had been ferer from neurasthenia. Late in she went to Atlantic City, where " oth@r two women at the Hotel Rudolf. the month of June she devel- sufclda] mania and it became to keep constant watch over « managed to get out.on June 28 » and; purchased a bottle of medicine con- ing opium, Miss Toohey saw. her ‘when she returned to the hotel and fol- lowed her to a retiring room, where ‘Mrs. Skae attempted to drink the con- tents of the bottle, hoping that the ‘opivm might kill her, Miss Toohey was time to prevent It, tie City physicians advised thet |be returned to t city. They her daughter that she would ly, kill herself if the slightest unity present. Miss Alice, the end the companion aver that not since that day was Mrs. Skae out . The only/way they can r her possession of the car- is that she bought ft in At- ete at the time she bought the gpiam medicine and concealed it about mong her effects. She fereined to (he Touraine on June 9. . Fell Into Deep Slumber, Miss eos and the companion ret! \ night. Mies Toohe remained early this mornin, early with Mrs Mrs. Skae neh the Hipto an apparently As the nurse was nothing about the ‘ould assist an effort SaaS ate Hepalred to a room ad- Skae and went to e@ time in the early morning hours ie Bkae, s0 quietly that the three tg close to her did not hear her, peours the bottle of cArbolle, ae ured the poison into a ri “ank it and Ha into bed to die. Miss ocnayy segring th Ye room intervals, thought ih BB, ae mae will asleep, and @ odor | ie acid was smothere he smell of other medi st discovery that w No. . Bishop nowified m, who, after an investigation, that an’ autopm would not bo cae was a native of Asha ‘and the fed will ‘probaby "be i inere for husband of the suicid man ‘widely known tn Callionee Northwest. Beginning life as a @ branched out {nt ‘or of ire jumped to le died of small-pdx San fabs pe leaving an estate badly involyec what was left of the enormous ore bestowed upon the widow and thter by the Probate Court after a of four years with the cre BROOKLYNITES ___ HAVE A NEW Joy. Hy Wighton Beach Trains Are Stopped Stock Still While Conductors Collect Fares. Ipdignation is rife among the residents Piste Brooklyn suburbs over the latest woof the B. R. T. Railroad officers ch is causing more delay than usual petting to business in the morning hme at’night. For years Brook- | ites haye suffered, complainingly and | apomp lainingly, but this new idea just Hin pffect they declare is more than! hu can or will stand, gew order—~hyich is so ridiculous hattan Railroad oMiciais are | led to laugh heartily at its ‘righton Beach trains shall be stock still just before they ar- Park place, Brooklyn, to allow to collect what fares are PQ aren, may not Paucar nm paid, This oy trom three to tan min- jan Jury. Bray, ~ She stopped wita her daughter and the | 414, spoke to several persons. I was to the side and a little to the rear of him. Aa room Macfarlane turned his head look over the rail. who asked him Where he was going, and WINKS IN COURT Spencer Apparently Cc! and Unconcerned as Witpesses Tell How He Killed Supt. Mac- farlane, of Anti-Policy Society DETECTIVE TELLS OF DEED. Bray, Who Was with Victim of the Crime. Also Shot and Shows the! Jury Coat that He Wore at the Time. In the court-room at whose portal William Spencer killed Charies 8, Mac- farlane, the story of the murder of the detective by the negro polloy-dealer was told to-day. Spencer, with a face} on which the anlmaj 1s pronounced to abnormal degree, smiled and his undershot jaw relaxed as the whole) story of the brutal Killing was told. Sitting beside his counsel the negro, whose chances for the electfic chair are considered as good or better than thoxe| of any candidate for a’ similar fate wao ever faced a jury, was wholly uncon- corned. He Ustened to. the recital of the Incidents connected with the mur- | der of Macfarlane, looking the witnerses lin the eye, and once turned as the court- room door opened and nodded to a negro friend who had come in to hear the trial. Only once did he appear to take the affair seriously or give it much atto tlon, That was while Detective Bra the partner of Macfarlane, who was with him and who elso was ghot, was telling his story, The negro then kept his head down for a few minutes and drummed on the table with his fingers, As a whole, he gave an exhibition of his absolute cold-blooded jndifforonce that haa characterized his behavior wince the time he was arrested. As the trial dragged on in the morning session he yawned as though tired of the whole affair, Detective Bray Sfory. The telling of the story by Bray was listened to with great interest by the in reply to questions, said: ‘Macfarlane and myself cdme up in the elevator on the Franklin street We passed along to the Elm reet side of the corridor, Macfarlane we came toward the door of the court- to “I saw Spencer standing near the stairway on the Bim street side. He had his back turned to us. I recognized him from the back of his head. We passed him and I heard @ shuffling of feet and turned. Spencer was coming for us with a revolver in his hand. I caught Macfarlane and turned him around and jumped toward Spencer. “@pencer fired and the bullet hit Mac- farlane. I don't know where it hit him; I ¢hink in the body, I had got to Spencer and the second shot was aimed at me. It struck me in the le¢t arm and I staggered back. Fired Two M Shots, “Macfarlane staggered forward and then turned around, :reeled, and Spe cer fired two more ‘shots into Muactar- lane, Then he came tow work. ing his fingers on the trigger. 1 dod rod into the judges’ chambers to thei and Roundsman Kelleher, I grabbed him. Macfarlane had f eile The witness was asked poe e coat ho had on when he w “1 had on this one," 6: nd at tho request ‘of, the’ "DisirictsA tones Bray went before thé jurors and showed them the pgtchel! coat where the bullet had gone through tt. The first witness called was John Ire- who eyore to plans the,murder took he court-house where pinee. Patrolman Melvor told of meeting Spencer in the corridor, He said as he came up in the elevator he met Spencer, land, an architect, of the corridor of when he replied Macfarlane wag was not and that was to,se him, e court to see if Spencer said he he (Spencer) was oO led, the = witness, ‘Don't go in chore, You aren't golng to send me ay tim You told truth, but lant about me. Was Excited Trembled. Under cross-examination the witnes: suid Spencer was excited and trembled. Melvor said he had continued on into the court-room, a half minute later heard the shooting and ran out to see with Roundsman Bray then Rave is testimony, apa Lawyer Geo Bimpson, an eye-wit- ness of the ki Ning, ‘was sworn, Mr. Simpson’s Testimony, Mr. Simpson testified: “Il was standing by she stairway, wey PATTY GR? THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1903, ABOUT AT AN END Labor Unions Reported to Be in Favor of Accepting Employ- ers’ Peace Terms and Are Likely to Return to Work, DELEGATES STAND ALONE, They Are Opposed to Plan of Settle- ment Because of the Curtailment of Their Power, but Are a Backed by Army of Workingmen, ‘The labor unions In the building trades are concluding thelr deliberations over the scheme offered their representatives last Friday by the organization of em- ployers for ending the long lockout. From any Information that can be gained the men are in favor of accept- ing the plan, with possible slight modi- fications, Irrespective of what the walk- ing delegates may think about It. The United Board of Building Trades, comprising the walking delegat Into session at Brevoort Ha for a. Ingyinj ay, Inasmuch as the plan of hai employors takes from the walking delegates the power to order strikes, they are unanimous [n opposing powerful in many untons than all the other officers, But the walking delegates have been ing reports from the various union tings held since Friday's conference and they know that the mon are anxious to get back to work, Under tae condi- tions it 1s believed that they will ma some proporition to the employers that will go a long way toward breaking the lockout, even though thelr power be diministed, SEARCH GRAVE FOR DEATH MYSTERY Discrepancies in Death Certifi- cates Issued for William B. Allison Induce Coroner to Order the Body Exhumed. Mystery’ surrounds the death and burial of William B. «llison, a pros- perous and well-known merchant of the frult district, Manhattan, who lived at No, 1165 Herkimer street, Brooklyn, and Coroner Philip Williams and Dr. Byrne, of the Brooklyn Health Depart- ment, are investigating. The quesiion is whether Allison died of delirium tremens in 8t. John's Hos- pital, as the certificate signed by Dr. C. B. Cortwright, of the hospital, says, or of appendicitis, as certified by Cor- oner’s Phyaician Charles Wuest on a superficial examination of the body, or did he shoot himself to death, es hie neighbors in Herkimer street insist, Allison lived with his wife and three children, He Wag a member of the Royal Arcanum, He was taken to St. John's Hospital Jast Tuesday in @ de- lrlum, He died there on Thursday and @ burlal permit was issued by Coroner Williams on Dr, Cortwright’s certificate that death was due to al jconouam, ane he was buried in Evergreen Cemetery xesterday, Rumors of a mystery in the fruit merchant's death oame to the eai the Coron ag adrmali to Allison for miostipitanare and he got th bottle and took an overdose, but that he was quite over the effects of it long Be death belng due ieee cowed eee of t death to appendicitis. | ‘This, certificate has never been filed, that of Dr. Cor wright belng used in obtaining @ burial permit. Capt. Gardner reported that he had visited the house and that Mrs, {llligon fatly refused to give him any information. Coroner Williams went to the house to stop the funeral yesterday, but tt had already started for the ceme- tory and before he could communicate with the sexton the body was under Broun The Coroner has ordered that it be exhumed In order that the. mystery, ay there really be a mystery, may polved. “The basin for the nelghborhoos stories that Allison shot himself could not ve discovered and the story Is dis- credited CURB STOCKS DULL. it, and the walking delegates are more | reemereuremenpree 05 ye TE ———— PMAN ENDS LIFE {NEGRO SLAYER — [BUILDING TIE-UP {HIS LOVE REJECTED, HE ENDS HIS LIFE Jacob Haas, Son of a Wealthy Importer, 1s Found Dead with Bullet in His Heart Near Catskill Mountain Village. LOVED A PRETTY JEWESS. For More Than a Year He Had Been Devoted to Her, but Was at Last Told that It Was All for Naught «and that She Would Wed Another. His mind unbalanced because of the spurning of this affections by Carrie Kahn, @ beautiful Jewess, with whom he had been madly in love for over a year, Jacob Haas, a younger son of 8. Haas, of 8. Haas & Co., ilnen importers at No. 278 Church street, killed himself to-day near Fleischman's, a Catskill Mountain village, where his sweet- heart lives. ‘The young woman threw Haas over last night, when she told dim that she intended to marry a wealthy Harlem wholesale butcher. An hour after leaving Miss Kahn Haas met several friends, and told them that he didn't think Ife was worth li?- ing. He mentioned the break between him and the young woman. They told him laughingly to brace up and got him into such good spirits that when he left them to go to Wed they had forgotten his fit of melancholy, When he did not ap- pear for breakfast, to-day a search was begun and Haas's nude body was soon found on the bank of a small creek on the outskirts of the village. He had shot himself through the heart with a stnall pocket platol, Moses Haas, @ brother of the suicide, and a member of his father's firm, which had employed Jacob as a sales- man, saye thal the young man left New York Friday afternoon. Tn: “He did not say where be was ing,” sald Moses, “except that he tended to go to the mountains for a few days. 1 knew of no love affair, and can hardiy believe that my brother would committ suicide. I have known at Flelechman's on trine up + and know that be had friends there.” Youny Haas lived with a married sis- ter in this city, and accoming to hiv friends had teen visiting Fleischman s at frequent Intervals since fast sum- mer. At that time Louls Kahn, of ca West One Hundred and ‘Thirty- ond street, opened a delicatessen in the village, and bis sister Carrie ran the businesg for him, Haas met her in trad- ing at the store and was soon infatu- ated by her charms, "Phe body of the suicide will be brought here to-morrow for interment. HANNA STICKS TO BUSINESS No Truth in Stories of His Inten- ator, Although He Shows Signs of Illness. Senator Mark A. Hanna arrived in New York to-day from Cleveland and to an Evening World reporter denied the report that he was going to retire trom business and devote hi re time tu politics, @ald Senator Hanni “You oan say for me that Senator Hanna {s not going to retire from bual- ness, all reports to the contrary not- withstanding. I have always been in @otive business and intend to keép at Brownsville police it. Certain people appear to take an Pr, : ea Wiest visited eye house, Baturday exclusive interest in my affairs and the Body issued’ a certificate assigning | movements. When asked about politics the §en- ator smiled and replied: “Young man, you know that politics is my hobby. I sball continue to give it some of my attention until I am too feetile to do anything more, and that will be some time yet, Going to See Rooneveit, “We are going (o Oyster Bay this at- ternoon on Mr. C. A, Griscom's yacht Alvina and will be the guests of Preal- dent and Mrs, Roosevelt until Wednes- day. Thursday the yacht will put in at Newport, where Gen. and Mrs, Cor- bin will join the party. We will run up to Ber Harbor and will probably Mactariane, passed’ me. T gaid,, ‘dood: Mac.’ He sald, ‘Good-morn- ing, nodded and passed on, The next thing I saw was the defendant to the rear and side of him. He had a re- volver pointed at Macfarlane. He fired one shot, then another, and I dropped behind a'pillar. He fired two more, an then I looked’ out from where I’ had sougat refuge and saw the defendant working at the pistol cylinder and anap- ping it. A roundsman grabbed apother man hit his hand with an um- Drella and he was caught, JULY GRAND JURY. Only Sixty-nine Complaints Await Their Attention, Judge MaoMehon, in Part L, of Gen- eral Session: to-day impanelled the Grand Jury for the month of Jul John P, Faure, former Commissioner of Charities under Mayor Strong, who has sat on scores of grand jurit was se- lected as foreman, In charging the new Grand Jury the Court said that there were only sixty jnine A om awaiting their attention, |most of them of eet rtant char. oter, Of the sixt; ty-mix were prison cases and awautys three ball cases. STOCKS STEADY IN LONDON. American Railway Shares Show a Better Ton ihe eine Brighton . Be ee ite aha ce h r iD mitneae 4 sto) commuters late American railway shares. had a be tone in the London stock mark. while the other: departments erally steady, with busine counts continued, with drooping ‘ices for Americans were nw St 2 14; torte. frat Preferred 09 3-8; Gentry nae Loul Le a Northern Securities a Feature, with Slight Ad ‘The curb market changed to-day. ee. was dull and un- Northern Securities was the feature, that stock realizing an advance of 1-4. The bid and asked prices of the principal secyrities were: Mar Interborourh R. Standard OW rection . Traction, New Oriea Orleans Unton Unked INSPECTOR “JOSHED.” City OMelal Thus Explained De- mand for an Exorbitant Fde, James B, Gebrs, of No. 6% Summit avenue, Jersey City, complained to Mayor Fagan to-day that Bullding In- spector Kelly had tried to extort $25 from him for a building permit, legal peice of watch le but $1 ion summoned before the Mayor, mitted that he had aaked Gehra for $25, but said he was “just joshing.”’ After making sundry demnatory of elly's sense the Mayor preferred him and he will be tried jeu gral: y the Cit DROWNED WHILE BATHING. Thomas Brophy found the body of a man in the East River to-day, oppo- site Fifty-fourth street. H thirty yeare Old, ‘ve. fe tall.“ welghed 16 Down w 5 Balding tru the water cruise along the Atlantic coast for a month. Then I shall return ready to take up the work of the campaign. That does not look as thought 1 were going to rere from politics, does it?” Senator Hanna, accompanied by als wife, Miss Phelps and a maid, arrived at Jersey City from Cleveland at 12) O'clock and at once went aboard Aivina, which lay at Pler By foot of Grand street, where they were greeted by Mrs, Griscom. ‘After the party had deen shown thelr aterooms and had removed the stains ot travel, luncheon was served in the It was saortly after this that Stuatur Hanna showed he was not in the best of health, Evideuce of Iiness. The Senator, accompanied by Mra, Hanna's maid,’ started down the gang: plank to she whart. sangway was foteen, feat above he whart: Halfway ¢ down, Sedat ton Hanna stopp as Blpatly, Tee Sia to sides ache pla te though Ei i the fasid for Nippott wn, he force, rushed the” gungplaney Se taking hold of the ‘Senators, Fight ra asuisted him to the wharf and into & Waiting cab, In which he wae driver to this city. “That was & narrow escape, observed Senator He ay ne settled back in the ved a slgh of relief, Was going to New York of 3, and reap t rv Griscom, ‘woud we apdardy end Aivina would steam While” Benator Hanna has a”, he los: vieckone walke with an unsteady itveduentiy gurning around ae mins step, though ie. to determine his exact rn - WOMAN SLAIN IN HOME, DENVER, July 6.—Mabel Brown, axe twenty, was found dead in her house in Market street early to-day. Her hands were bound and there was evidence that dark she had been strangled. There is nojt® clue to the meta The seeming 00K piace fet -|oft his charmers, tion to Retire, Says the Sen-|_ GRABBED LOUIS Was Acoused in Court of Aban- doning His Wife and the Al- leged Deserted One Threw Her Arms About Him. “NAY, NAY,” SAID THE OTHER. Both Protested They Loved Him, and All He Could Think of Was Going to Jail to Get His Cloth Louls Du Val, a Frenchman, of Great Neck, L. 1, who has been employed as gardener by the Vanderbiits and other wealthy families, is a much-loved man, Louls was haled into the Long Island City Court to-day to answer a charge of abandoning his wife in Long Island City and going to Great Neck to lve with another woman, who also called herself Mrs. Du Va On the stand the woman who mede the complaint admitted that she was not Du Val's w: nd Magistrate Con- norton discharged the prisoner. The other woman was also in court, and when Louls was set free the two made a mad, loving rush for him. “Oh, Louis, my love, I would not send you to jail!" cried the deserted one, throwing her arms about bis neck. ‘The Great Neck lady butted in witha side hold and told Louis not to notice to the tolls of the law. Wanted His Clothes, Louis remarked that what principally Interested him at that time was his clothes, which were still at the jail, where he had been a@ prisoner for @ week, “I will go with you, Louis,” sald the Long Island City woman, “So'll I," chimed in Cheerful Chris tine, determined to Aght for home, Louls and Great N Bo (Louls started for the Jail with one nging to his collar and the other one hanging to his coat tall. A nui of Long Island citizen’ on foot and in carriages. followed. in. pro- cession and enthusiastically urged the rival sweethearts to keep a tight hold ‘on Louls. Louls seemed a trifle embarrassed, but he acted like a perfect gentleman. At the entrance to the jail he shook and there the du- piicity of man exhibited itself, He had a few whispered words with each of the women. Thought of a Great Scheme. He told the Long Island City one he would come out by the front door and for her to wait for him there. Into, the shell-llke car of the Great Neck he whiepered he would make ie exit iby th the back door. "+ had disanpeared: jail the Great Neck lady took a, wali around the block, walle the Long Taland city er took up ‘her station in front of the bastlle, there was a wild cry from woman cl “Took!” yelled a sympathetic man, as he selzed the Long Island City woman by the arm and dragged her around the corner of the Jail. What the woman saw caused her to let out a whoop that scared a cow two blocks away. There was the false and lying Louis ing it across the field as fast as he could go, while puffing and panting at ‘hig. he was the Great Neck lady. The Long Island City woman gath- ered up her skirts, and at the hour of going to preas she was gaining steadily on the Sesneinel Sea oe pair. SUICIDE BEFORE WIFE'S PICTURE Broken-Hearted Old Dealer in Antiques Had Prayer-Book and Hymnal at His Elbow and Was Dressed in His Best Suit. ‘With a prayer-book and hymnal at his elbow and a rubber tube attached to an open gas jet lying in his lap, Augustus Hawkins, an‘aged and well-known deal- or in antiques at No. 22 West Twenty- seventh street, waa found sitting in his favorite chair to-day dead. Carefully dressed in his best sult of black, the suicide looked like a wax fig- ure, and the books, table and chair like a simple stage setting. Since the death of his wife two years ago the old man, who was seventy, soemed to lose all interest in life. He frequently talked of suicide in a thought jonate manner. Mr Yer not wee why T should not go to my dear wife,” he would say. “I am a very old man, and no one here wowd miss me. I do not see why it would be wrong {f £ should go eway." the creature who had handed him over a by the |io KNICKERBOCKER Assessed Values Show an In- crease of More Than a Billion and a Half Dollars Over Last Year's. REAL ESTATE BEARS BRUNT, Of This Enormous Sum the creased Valuation of Personal Property Tenth of the Total. The Board of Aldermen met to-day to confirm the Tax Department rolls for 1908. The figures which were aub- mitted to the Board from the Com- missioner of Taxes showed an in- crease of more than a billion doll; in real estate valuations for 193 over those for 192, and of more than one hundred million dollars’ in personal property, ur a total inereage in taxable pro} ot ‘Manhattan The Bronx Brooklyn Queens Richmond 14,922,011 4,310,416 -84,751,532,828 91,420,885,247 aluations are shown in; Total ....1 Personalty the fpllowing* Valuation—1903. Increase. Decrease. Manhattan $680, 866,002 155.169 Se $098,985 Net Increase 9164, 486,953 The 6 mombere,0 of the Aeneas Lae nurvived the ‘Fourth to a every i Pace je for tory the epeciat meet- Ing called for to-day, On. motion of Alderman Oatman the tax rolls were referred to the Finance Uttee. The rolls will remain in the possession of President Fornes for Dublic Inspection. The Board will meet as usual to-mor- ow. COTTON TAKES A DROP OF 93 POINTS Wild Selling Drive on Report that New Orleans Brokers Had Quit Brown Bull Pool and Were Uriloading for Profits. Cotton came down with a bai to- ‘dey, losing 98 points in a wild drive of trading that created bedlam on the Bx- change. Bears in full cry went about the pit shouting that the big bull ring had been proken, and selling’ orders flooded the floor, while the bulls made ineffective protests and fought unavall- ingly to halt the Nquidating slump. The opening of trading was on a frm basis at an advance of 10 points, and higher cables, together with flood news from the South, were factors against] © the shorts, so a rising market through- out the day was anticipated. Suddenly a volume of selling orders that had been thrown out increased to a torrent, and the word went around that New Orleans brokers had quit the pool headed by Bull Leader Brown and were getting rid-of their holdings for profits. There was no mistaking the fact that orders from the South were being run out, and the market with the broken pool announcement shouted on all sides went to pieces. Brokers in a frenzy bat- tled at the trading posts until July, which had opened at 12.00, was beaten down to 11.75; August fell from 13.65 to 11,62, while September slumped from 11.48 to 10,71, October lost 25 points and and the far options from 16 to 10, ‘The Brown forces were in the centre of the rush and took in all the buying orga they could and finally halted pr 1408 drop and turned the figures up- Wout they had to Maht hard for every point, and it took them an hour to check the bears. In the early afternoon August had re- U, while gained 17 polnts and the far months showed moderate re- oy a t up to 11.90 In is. recovery. ‘uly got up to z me 5 im_ the afternoon lili Be mien, 10.04; oT: Pci Decem- ni “speaking in, sald that tl rt ote break in corner was ‘out n. a renewal of the ciroulated week ago and that to-day's big slump was due wholly 40 @ specu- lative movement. The dears became active again and bettered prices, the final quotations ral, 11.7% to it, fee Ca A look of ineffable ‘ongng would come into the dim eyes, and they would turn Invariably to the picture of a sweet- Lage Ay ae on the wall. see why it would bewron, tortie to 7 away, ie old man would repeat as if speaking to the picture, ‘Sn' the Fourth of July. the old nay was more { usually “downcast. Tecalled that on that day he and ine wife ower went into the oountry, where th were sweet, the woods cool ‘and the birds as happy as their own hearts. But this Fourth there was no excur- aion, The oid man did not stir from his room all Gay. puna y, however, he went to Gree: wood, carrying armeful of flowers for the grave which he knew #0 well” etayed very long in cemetery. adows were thening, whei a last strange amile he turned pedecked moun Rte ta when be! reached = lis eaid he was tired’ and anes Rea ches ete y upon dnawerr The boy rapped oh turned’ the knob and preped ths door, An srt ing flood a poured | in out, eakat da heal fatten lupoe th he had noua 1 dropt home, imme- W, terry Gib- is lap. t rong “one: 18; AN eptember, Ton te 0.78; October, 10s TOOL November, “9.74 Cembere 911 to. 87a; ‘Sanuary, "0.09 9.20; February, 9.62 {to 9.64; “Starch 9.61 market closed tooal were “about 1,000,000 | Fenn balan: os NEW ORLEANS SHARES SLUMP IN COTTON. NEW ORLWANS, July 6.—In « emali- sized panic in the cotton market to-day the September option fell 70 polnts, from 1.79 to 11.0. The selling in September was tremendous. New York had an im- mense quantity of selling orders in local brokers’ hands and ithe first declines scared weak aie, rel unloading as fis hae prison went ‘aawa 9°€0 38 points at ‘The, pa clique was pelelee sree! Sredited wit “ poloadin and it ocal Long longs were unloading” in ty. and was thls: paweago: 2 1 commit ‘my inthe hymnal were nell lay upon the the book wine Tay "hands ve everal ad Re Is Only About One. ‘LOVELORN WOMEN |TAXES OF FATHER. {STOCKS CLOSED SHOWING GAINS Market Improves and the List Generally Shares Advances. Colorado Fuel Being the Best Issue in. Trading. COPPER WEAK FEATURE. 80n and Steel Among the Leade: There were encouraging signs in to- day's stock market, even though the se of prices was limited and trading dull, The list made headway after a flat opening and general gains were held throughout the session, the closing pee, fractionally eber: Ea sensational “lump on the Cotton Exchange was @ favorable tector, Wall {Z| street taking the heavy drop as an sn- dioation that the big pool is nearing the end’ of its operation and ts therefore 199 | diminishing as @ menace to the tinan- clal situation, Buying of stocks began with the shrinkage of cotton vatues. Encouraging” railway statements for May and June also contributed to the j feeling of es iagaay “Colorado Fuel as @ strong tseue all day, an initial advance belng added to as the dealings contined. Amalgamated Copper, Sugar and Smelting and Re- fining were the weak jeak epota on the list. Amalgamated i Gevoee ‘was sold on Stories that the bearish attitude of for- elgn copper interests andthe course of the local market ,for egret have caused @ change of sent mt on the part of certain members of the Stand- ard Onl party. It was eaid some time Feline is Abarey ‘Wpeculative line had ed by Mr. Rogers and his Paria Arent the late décline and. ru- @n increase ih the dividend rate cocdaatens It is now asserted that there will be no such tmerease. ated closed at 63, its lowest bic eth cadanreats per cent. \forea*e toate 2 pac A cand dey In tho final dealings Suser|f; was lowered 21-4 per cant, oat eee ered 7-8 and closed with a loss of 1-2-4 at 1201-8, Colorado Fuel and Iron closed at 643-4, a gain of 13-4 per cent. Ten- nesee Coal and Iron. was up? 21-8 at S14. It o 13-4 at 527-8, Tater old at Or and trectional adeameee were scored In the railroad tlst, Nor- folk and Western and Illinois Central ‘dcoring the largest gains. ‘The former was up 34 and the later, I per cent. St. Paul preferred opened 2 points up at 177, and later advanced to 177 1-2 where it cldsed. United States ‘Steel preferred closed 1-8 over, while the common was down %8 per cent. The Erle issue fell off frartionally toward the closing, but closed wit gains of 1-8 to 3-4 per cent. Atenison, St. Paul, Missouri Pacifie and Union Pacific each realized an advance Of 18 Denver & Rio Grande, New York Central and Reading ~second preferred Were up 34, \Canadfan Pacific was 1-4 over, and’ Chosapeake & Ohio, Rock Iai: Aud’ and Winsconsin Central’ preferred likewise, Pennsylvania rights was 3-1 Lover and Reading 5-8. Ontarlo & West- orn, Louisville & ‘Nasnville, Pacific, Texas Pacific, Chicago Great Western and le’s Gas of Chi- cago were fractionall: jaitimor: foan ar ferred, Derventa: Ilo" Grande peatenret, ‘Undted States ea ‘Wisconsin Central and The tota sales of stocks were 133,000 De ‘and of bends $1,090,000. closing prices or as follows: at Open, High. Low, kell eri Capper 63 53 1h pogphrs & Ref. a 8% HM s Am, 93 92% 92% — % am. Si 131 19% 120% — 1% Am. 119% 119% 1 Atel 6% 67% 68 ” fae 92k % aie ee Ge oe — kl y . — Giada Peete Nise ww aks oe ee a one a * eb ier eh ig me 67 + th we pT Hog = * 136) cn me ea a ios x + % Meenas in En if 1 es t Pennayivanta ye ie ie -% fee ie + * fon toe font & Read! Rock Ma fe tad t 3 Bouth: Ballmer MH" Taso Tenn, 108: ae bi ga Fak 81 81! pe Bee & ak Som gus & ely «81% ht Wabt WN We 20h Wabaet oi, Fd a Wiss Gemral 96: % ak fiw— ¥% + sdvanoe, The Wheat Market. ‘Wheat opened firm and fairly active ‘on firmer cables. Corn also had a strong opening and was a help to wheat, There was very little pressure on elther mar- ket. To-day’s weather was considered favorable, New hve hats 10.0 A, Flat eet Amalgamated, with Sugar and Smelt- ing and Refining, Sold at Lossese— Tennessee Coal and iron, Atchi- SWEPT INTO SOUND THROUGH HELL GATE Lawyer Hetherington Fell from Hie Small Boat and Was Carried Away by the Ebb Tide. Within a ¢ew feet of shore John Heth+ erington, a lawyer, of No. 91 Woolsey street, Astoria, was thrown accidentally from @ small boat last night and ale most drowned before being picked up by members of the Hell Gate Life-Saving Association. Mr. Hetherington had been sailing on the Sound in his sloop yacht Wanderer. When he got into Hell Gate on his wi home he found that he could not make landing with his yacht on account of the strong ebb tide. He anchored the yacht and started ashore in a small boat, trall- Ing a line which became entangled. 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