The evening world. Newspaper, July 9, 1903, Page 4

SHE SUES FOR $5,000,000 OF e _ After His Death. ais WILL STOLEN FROM Her Mother’s Effects, Are to Inherit Fortune. Mf a century has passed heen stolen from the Trent Resords and that the only Will ls now in possession of 1 Wave a purpose in concealing tents. py LEN ESTATE Mrs. Hardy Begins an Action to ~ Recover the Vast Fortune ' Left by the Famous Governor |. of New Jersey, Twenty Years || THE HALL OF RECORDS. | _, Plaintiff Bases Her Demand on} Scrap of Paper Found Among! in} Which She Says Her Children ‘One of the most tnteres:ing suits ever Drought in the Chancery courts of New derney was begun to-day when Lawyer Joun Fallon filed papers in an action of the} mothe ous whol an in fts_con-) and LEAPS TO DEATH WHILE BROTHER WAITS FOR HER Girl Throws Herself Through Upper Deck Window of Ferry- Relative Later Searches for Her in Vain. |HE GOES TO POLICE AFTER FOUR HOURS. | Feels Responsible for Letting Sister Elude Him, and Is So Shaken that He Goes Direct to House to Break News to His Father and Mother. After suffering from fespondency for months, Katherine Koven, a beautiful young woman who lived at No, % Wes and Twelfth street, One Hundred ea- ties vinice Buta Monsen: oF ye. | caped thé watchfulness of her brother Gover property valued at $5,000,000 lett} and leaped from a Staten Island ferry- | by her grandfather, Charles mith) poat into the bay early today. It Olden, Governor of Now Jersey during | was four hours later when Abraham Meats soc the State's most) oven reported dhe aulcide to Rounds- Shira, Hardy is the only surviving a-|™an denn Appel in the Information ech descendant of Gov. Olden arly | Bureau at Pollce Headquarters and ce net|asked that the harbor police search for ndpavent ovcupied the highest office! the body. In his grief and exe ent it is native te. He has been dead) je had first gone home. Ri twenty-nine yearr, | The young woman's family had long Bi The basis for the present action is that) feared that she would att to end B. the original will loft by yy, Olden has| her life and for many weeks she has Hall of never been out of the sight of her father, ree months ago | und brother. ‘I friend committed suicide s Koven never recovered from it left her a nervous wreck. nate © sock Wak Mather Disinherited: Kyerything possible had been done to give her a more cheerful view of life. According to Mra. Hardy's story she | Gontinued {il health, however, caused \ is the daughter of Elizabeth Olden. the} per to declare that she Would be vetter only child of the former Goverrwr.| geqa, vhen a young woman Miss Olden mar-/ o¢ oie her father and brother have fed Samuel Mortimer, a Bohemian! tien her on the boats every night. Jandscape painter, against her father's Trips to Staten Island, Coney, the High- will, For this she was bulk of the estate. Mortimers. Te Dut two years old. Qistribluted, though fed very young. disinherlte’. Her children, however, were to get the Mrs. Hardy was the only child of the) her to the country next week Both her father and mother @led {n comparative poverty while she The great for- yuhe Af Gov. Olden had not then been @ multiplicity of ew up as children together and mar- tile thought had ever. been given to} the chances of securing any portion of the Olden estate until a short time ago, | lands and other points, it was thought might benefit her health and reiicve her mind, They had planned to take it was on one of these trips that she aluded her brother and cast herself into the water. Ride on Ferry. Last night she complained of the heat Patra werd fighting for it. Mrs. Hardy | 4 ner brother suggested What they ride i naan tee oe oral to the Battery and spend the evening jusband, ‘Thomas | | on the ferry. They Staten Island several times. Miss Koven said little, although her Wrother af- fected more gayety than usual and tried to lead her into pleasant conversation ‘As the boat was coming toward the hen Mra. Hardy came across an A@e- | pattery just after midnight Miss Koven Maced scrap of paper on whic her! ier ner brather and went into tho mother had written that though she was| omens cabin on the upper deck, The cut off by her father's will her daugter | brother became alarmed when she did woutd Inherit his mililons. | not return in ten minutes, and asked Two Valuable Blocks. hough far from alfluent, Mrs Was able to secure the servic afd mouldy documents, found that th Was ample basis for a sult. The Oli tate consists of a square b operty in Washington, D.C, ¢ which faces on Pennsy posite the State House. These tw eka are valued at $5,000,000. eck more than $2,000,000 that ha. «fued to them in rents since thelr at iC was largely through hi hut New Jersey contributed hi id quota of troops toward the 4 cause. A Princeton Graduate. emt. chant and, after graduating ceton College, he enti h Philadelphia. From there be New Orleans, where he mage ¢ tune and retired In 1834. Princeton ise college, Meénee and widiful ffom the financial and after mntered politi f terms in the Legislature was elected } Governor in 1859. ue After the war he speculated largely } An real estate and amassed a fortune By of several millions. He was Presiden- » ‘a Princeton in 1876, OILER KILLED BY “werk and Received Shock Which y Caused Instant Death. Hardy of al Igwyer, who. upon investigating records | 404 e| chair, Kk of| Ivania avenne ‘and a square block in Trenton, N. J., Should Mrs. Handy he successful tn Ber suit, not only will those who are et went in possession of this property | ® OF sain to vacate, but also to pay fares Smith Olden was one of tne m 1850 to 1864, and historians record v. Olden was vorn in Princeton tn | He was the son of a well-to-do trom | y d business went big | He returned nd was made treasurer was Almost entirely through his management the pniversity was able to recover e embarrassment d by, the burning of Nassau Hall, several Mal elector several times before he died »- POWERFUL DYNAMO. | “ Glimbed Ladder to Polish the Brass- Wliber Veale, an oller employed at | one of the attendants on the boat to speak to her, When the attendant went Into the cabin the young woman's hat nd handkerchief were found but she was gone, The window left little douot that she had drowned herself pen Her brother was frantic with grief. | He refused to belleve that she had ended her Mfe, and although Ne had | watched the door and knew that she ‘had not come out, he searched every nook corner gf the boat. When the pass had left he again made thorough search. He Felt Responsible. Thinking of nothing but that his care- lessness wis responsible for the death of his sister, he left the ferry and took x toe e 3 Eile: in to his home. There st distinguished Governors of New|an Elevated train rey. His term in office extended | the anxious father and mother were sitting wp to await the return of thelr son and daughter When they saw Abraham come in alone they knew without his telling what had happened. Mrs. Koven | swooned and her husband gave himself 1p to grief. It Was an hour before the ing man felt that he could leave them, It was not until then that tt occurred to him that he had not re- ported to the police. Miss Koven was twenty-four years old and attractive in face and figure. efore overtaken by melancholia she was extrem popular, but of Jate has had little company. Her hair was jet black and her complexion a rich olive She -wore a blue waist and black skirt, a black slik jacket and white un- derwear. On the third finger of her left hand was a plain gold ring, the only one she wore. ——_— KOCH EMPLOYES’ EXCURSION Mutual Heneflt Association Goes to Hoynton Beach Saturday, The H. C. F. Koch Co.'s Employees ‘Mutual Benefit Association will hold thelr annual excursion to Boynton Beach, Saturday, July 11. ‘The large meamer Richmond and barge Vanderbilt, of the Starin line, with a capacity of 2,109 C +80) e' he One Hundred and eg lyn Rapld Transit power-| Pesons, will leave t i bi fad |e ynin gli and aacoualatest Twontyeninth street pler, in North Dy) wan Killed by an electric shock while at| River, at 1.20 P. M. ed place. him instantly and oi8 and lived at No. Oe Serve sen’ ne / work to-day. +) He had climbed on a ladder to polish ‘Orasswork of a dynamo and in some unexplained came in contact The powerful d ‘als 20 the floor. He was twenty. OFF TO SING SING. mea in Attempt to Mis, the lawyer for Dr. R. ‘was cofivicted of an at- \fourt record in an t Distriet-Attor- A high-class entertainment with musts by a well-known band will be the special features of the afternoon and evening. Theso excursions are always popular ‘and a good time is promised to all who attend. Tickets are fifty cents and may be ovtained at the store or at the dock from the officers and director: The object of the association is strict- ly a beneficial one. Upon @ small week- ly payment the members receive in case of sickness @ weekly allowance and in case of death a substantial sum ts paid to thelr heirs. A. Riesendery and B. Koch are the honorary Presidents, The other officers are Geor Waterford, President; Mr. Wittenbaur, Vice-Presi- Br Padistenacl Visca: 4 . Lynel c lai Secretary. ‘The Director Mie pet es #. rtright, J, Lynch, M Ei Baaeer™ 8. Hondhelm, rw, 0 ECL OAR et ie Boat Without Being Seen, and rode to and from | on a| are Mies|had been friends since they were boys THE WORLD: THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 9, 1903. FEL TO DEATH ESCAPING FROM ~WRONGED WIFE i In a Desperate Attempt to Get) Away From Irate Wife a} Woman Clumbed Out and} Tumbled from the Fifth Story | to a Paved Court in Rear. HER BODY NEARLY CUT IN TWO IN DESCENT. Husband of the Woman Who Was in Pursuit Made Good His Escape by the Fire-Es- cape, but Returned Later and Fell Into Hands of Police. In attempting to escape from an angry | j wife, who accused her of an intrigue |with her husband, Mrs. Bridget Cav- anagh to-day plunged to a horri-) | ble death from the fifth-story fire-e1 cape platform of her home at No, 743 |Phird avenue to the court-yard below. | The accused husband is said to have fled down the @ scapes. Mrs, Cav- anagh Intended to do the same, but the dizzy height appalled her. Then she made a bridge with an troning-board | across the narrow space to to building next door, Tho board turned as she was on it, and the woman was dashed down the chasm-like area, her body striking an {ron bracket at the frst floor and, be- | ing terribly mangled as it bounded to the stone-paved yard, Mrs. Bridget Healy, pale, gaunt, {Il- |fed and poorly clad, and leading’ her barefoot boy James, found Policeman} |Edmond Barry at Forty-sixth street {and Third avenue before daylight and | showed him a summons she had for her | husband, Thomas J. Healy. whom she | accused of deserting her two months ago. She said he Was then with Mrs. {Cavanagh in the latter's room and asked for the protection of the poite man while she served the summoas to court on her husband. She Went to Serve Samino | he policeman went with Mrs. Healy and the starving boy to Mrs. Cavan- | agh’s rooms on the top floor and Mrs. | Healy rapped on the door while Barry | stood back to see that she was not | harmed. Immedintely the voices of a man and woman were heard Inside, and then the door was thrown open and a man, who cirs, Healy says was her hus- band, rushed by. He darted by the po- jlicertan while only partly dicesed and | Jumped out of the rear hali window onto the fire-cscape. He had climbed down, lbefore the wife and policeman could reach the window. | In another minute a person was heard |running through the rooms parallel with |the hall, ‘The rear door was flung open jand a white-ciad figure leaped out and Jon to the fire ) This was M nagh, She was hardly upon the fire-escape when there was a terrific noise from below, In his |vapld descent Healy had overturned a | barrel of discarded tnware on the third} floor janding and several windows were | broken. bad Mr. that up his Scarcely | thelr 3 they HE aU 7 fT got] Hill BURGLAR PURSUED THEM Louis Enright and Charles D’Al- maine Removed from Chicago to Escape Plague of Thieves, but Were Robbed. LoulsB nright, a civil Charles D'Almaine, of the Broadway Theatre, lived in Chi- | cago until the burglary plague got #0 removed to New oYrk. Enright took up bis residence at No, 790 East One Hundred and Elghty- household gods wotten settled ew York homes when each was MRS. BRIDGET CAVANAGH AND HOW SHE WAS PLUNGED TU DEATH. | | STILL engineer, and he first violinist at No. 1971 Huahes avenue, in the Bronx. had they in | visited by burglars and robbed of sll- verware and jewelry, valued in the ag- } | | gregate at $00, oit burglaries were Hoard Hurled Her Down. committed in broad daylight in full Mrs. Cayanagh had evidently sought | ylew of persons in the street ne same escape as had the man, but Met Visitor with Revolver. | when she got on the platform and looked | | 2 | down the distance intimidated her. She; When the Enright home was visited | placed an ironing boant, which was on| by a reporter to-day Mrs. Enright, a from the rail he platform, ng over to ing and very pretty woman, leaned he edge of the roof of the building 5 is {neat door, thus forming a bridge on|OUt of one of tho upper windows to ask hich she tntended crossing. But the| what her visitor wante’. When she boa ned with her and sh i The neighborhood was arisen while the excitement was at its height ard dema to know what it about. Then Mrs. Healy served summons on “him and the man suggested that they all go to agt Ptfty-frst street etation. | were detained until a full window," tled 1 | Investigation could be made. Mra. Cavanagh had four children by her fret husband. She was a Mrs. | McGrath, a widow, until last’ January When she married | Cavanagh, Hat oldest daughter, Sadie, sixteen years | old, Jett her then and’ took with her | her elght-year-old sister, Annie. They | went to work in factories and lived with an aunt | Soon after this the Children's Soclety |took the two other children, emall boys, [from her and sens them to an instita: tlon. Cavanagh left her after they nad been married two months Healy had been iving in the house as a boarder fur two vonths, MANGLED BY AN ELECTRIC CAR. Mrs. house at for a been latter, Mctorman Declares the Victim Was Concealed by “L" Road Pillar and Fell Under Wheels. Thomas Cahill, of No. second street, Brooklyn, w and killed early had 252 Twenty- run over to-day by a sand car pins. on the surface road at Fifth avenue and|!%d last ‘Twenty-second street, went Uund: The car was belng operated by Pat- rick J. Malley and aPtrick White. Ca- hill had been downtown earlier in the night and was going home when he | stopped to rest, I¢aning against a pillar supporting the elevated road, ‘The motorman of the sand car could|* |not see Cahill as the car approached door. sand on the rails, was going at a speed of about eight miles an hour when Ca- hill suddenly lurched forward in froat of the car and was under the wheels before it could be checked. Because of the unexpectedness of the hill's body was horribly’ mangled. The | body was sent to the Morgue and the| two men on the car were arrested pen: n investigation. > th White and Mally were arrested. ite told the police that Cahill and he seriously wi and that he believed the young man met is death while attempting to jump on the car to greet him. Hospital. opened the door sh visitor, was open, had ceased teral by way of the cellar, the burglars having cut out one of the panels in the Other points of similarity the police to think that the same men implicated in both robb All the D'Almaines’ wedding presents t o'clock trip to the cou returned carly fly noticed the front door of their house investigation showed that burglars had forced the cellar door, ‘The bureau drawers in every room had taken strewn on the floor. Discriminating Thieves. The burglars had discriminated be- tween the solid and plated allverware, taking all of the former and leaving the In the An out and A package of bonds had been opened and thrown back into the closet eral hundred dollars worth of jewelry veen stolen, being a ruby stud valued at $150, gold watches and several diamond stick- am The D'Almaine resitence was bunglar- Thursday. a nelgnbor's storm, returning when the Mer hoy the crossing, he being concealed by| Were among the articles stolen—a loss the pillar, The two men on the car| Which they feel especially for senti- said that the car, which was sprinkling | Mental reasons. ————_—_- TWO SCALDED One May Die as 2 Result of Acol- dent en Tugbeat, sceldent the car could not be stopped until it had gone thirty feet, and | Andrew Burn Frederick Kensinger, scalded by in the engine-room of the tug Virgint 1A Moons at the foot of Morgan uiece Jersey City, to-day. Kensinger’ was taken to §t. cranci It {8 feared he will die. Burn was taken to his home in Elizabethport, Hoe will recover, afterward she held a Ug revolver, fully loaded, in her hand, $| Prepared for any emergency. “If you liad made any attempt to open the door or had put your hand on the J her somewhat star- 1 would have shot you. We won't have any more robberies here 12 we can help ft." |J, Simpson, a Princeton sophomore, who third street. while Mr. D'Almaine set |D0W lives with his parents at No, 123 Enright then said thst she, her husband end hér stepson, had left the terday morning y. When they evening the fam- their contents Sev- jong the articles two Mrs, D'Almaine jouse during the raln en- use also wa lead ries, BY STEAM. deckhand, and firemen, were wscaping steam was GOLLEGE MEN OF TO AEAP THE COR Several to Leave Here Next Saturday and Others Will Fol- low in Answer to Appeal by| Farmers of Kansas. A crowd of college boys, with mus- cles hardened by work on the foot- ball field and in the gymnasiums, have) anewered the piteous appeal of the Kan- sas farmers for help in the great wheat fields, and on Saturday will leav New York, to be gone until the doors of the universities are thrown open again In the fall. Six of the youths will stact -his week and many more expect to follow within the next ten days. ‘The fact that thelr services are eagerly sought In a score of places emphasizes the dire need of men that Is felt by the Kansas grain- growers. ‘Thousands of men In the crowded cities can find work in plenty with good pay if they will only go West. It {s not a summer yacation upon which these college youths are starting, and they know {t. One of them grew to young manhood !n a Western State, and he Knows that it 1s no outing jaunt to spend a harvest season unde# the broiling Kansas sun. This youth is W. Madison avenue. It Is Not a Piente, “It you fellows think you are going on a plenie you had best stay at home.” sald to the other men when the project was first discussed. “You don't know what it is to be hot until you get out on a Western prairie and wield a pitchfork for a few days. “But let me tell you the bumps on the gridivon next fall won't hart half as much after you've gone through a hun- dred days of that grind. We'll all have muscles Uke iron and a tan that will make these seaside fellows look foolish. “The work is hard und there is lots of it. Those farmers expect a man to work long hours and work herd, bat they feed you on the fat of the land and giv’ you a bed where the cool breezes come in laden with clover per- fun.e until you almost forget to wake Not all of young Simpson's auditors “stuck.” His description of what was lo be expected frightened out a number, but fe sald they were ready to g once. ‘They are C, R, Prentiss and "Si" Wade, both classmates of Simpson: L. G. MoAneny, a Columbla man, who lives in Jersey City, and Albert Seaman and Andrew Taft, Syracuse seniors, who live a. Cornwail-on-Hudson, WHL Work North From Ki The boys will go straight to one of the points waich have appealed for heipers Chrough John J. Bealin, Buper- intendent of the New York State Free Employment Bureau. They expect to versa, Meneas unul the grain is har- ted, and then work northwa Dakotas and Minnesota. Bee ey expect to make thelr expenses, and at $2.9) a day save $100 or more t0 help toward their expenses al school next year, But the principal things they want Is a chance to see the Westeriy country and harden their muscles for athletic contests, The need of men during the harvest season has never been so. strongly. im- pressed upon New Yorkers as this year. Few in the crowded Bast realize how hard it ix for the farmers there to get men to harvest the groat felds of erain vet stretch out across the, plains for miles wi ardly’a break, Every year along the employment of- ficeg fi Canal street In Chicago are signs! asking for men to do this work, but this year the need is so great that the Appeal has come clear to the sea coast.| Thousands of farm hands are needed in| Kansas alone, while Nebraska, Towa. | Miesour!, the ‘Dakotas, Minnesota and other States are daily’ sending out ap- peals. Laborers Auctioned Off. An extraordinary story from Topeka is that the service of ten negroes fo: thirty days tas been auctioned in Rus- sell County, 1t was the men’s own idea and one of their number stood on. the block ang pointed to the row of black faces as in the days of slavery, From a bid of $3.50 a day the price leaped to $421, at which figure two of the men Were engaged. The bidding con- tinued until Jasper Hoover, a gigantic Kentucky negro, sold his services for MOTHER-IN-LAW "GESTED BESTOR Brought Him to Court on Charge of Knocking Her Down in Tus- | sle for Child and Had/ Him | Fined. DAUGHTER BACKED HER. | Wife of Accused Je!ned Mother In Testifying and Won Case Although General Denial Was Made—Row Followed Family Trouble. NEW ROCHELL N.Y. July 9— Ceell Earl Hestor, an insurance clerk, was arralzned before Pollce Justice Phelps here to-day on a chatge of as- sault im the third degree, ‘The oom- plainant was his mother-in-law, Mra. Sarah E. Power, wife of E. McKinney, Power, a lawyer, Restor his wife, Cora, have been separated, the wife having returned to her parents’ home. Mrs, Power sald that Hestor had called at her house for the purpose carrying off his baby, and that when she tried to take the child from him he attacked amd knocked her down Mrs, Restor also appenred against her husband and the upshot of the hearing was that Restor was fined $50. He did not have the money and was committed. He will be given until to-morrow to pay the fine and If he has not succeeded will be sent to jail for Atty Bestor denied that he assaulted his mother-in-law, He sald that when he tried to take away his child his mother- {n-law followed him out of the house and in her haste fell down the steps, thus receiving ner injuries. He dented Mrs. Powers's allegation that he had ill-treated his wife and said he was the victim of persecution Bestor was sure his uncle and brothers would pay his fine CAPE TOWN SHAKEN BY AN EARTHQUAKE, The Most Violent Shock that Has Been Felt in Twenty Years in That Vicinity. FRR ATT REO PT NR Oe PE IPE TET ABSENT WITHESSE HAMPER INUIR Subpoenas for Four Important Persons in Dock Investiga- tion Cannot Be Served Be- cause They Are Out of Town. CLARKE REPLIES TO CRITICS. _— GEN STEINHARDT, REFORMER, WEPT Voice Trembled with Emotion | as He Appeared in Court in His Lofty Crusade Against Wicked Race-Track Gamblers CAUSED ARREST ON TRACK. Denies that He Has Given Out In-| Didn't Want Case Adjourned Because formation Concerning that Por- tion of the Inquiry Which Is Still Secret. The investigation of the doings of the Dock Board under Tammany which the District-Attorney is conducting Is threatened with temporary interruption through the absence of important wit- nesses. Officers intrusted with the ser- vice of subpoenas have reported that four at least of the persons sought are out of the elty on vacation and cannot be served, Among those are Philip Donahue, holder of the bathing privileges at One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street; Nicholas T. Cunningham; John B, Kane, treas- urer of John B. Kane & Co., in waose name $730 worth of treasurers’ orders from the Dock Department are made out, and Richard ¢ "ch, one of the in- corporators of the New York Contract- ing and Trucking Company. Assistant District-Attorney Clarke sald to-day he had learned that before Donahue got the tathing privileze at One Hundred and Fifty-fifth street: it Was in the hands of Katherine Smith, who got it from Mrs. Snook, who held the privilege for Peter Hunt, who op- erated the baths for twenty years. Mr. Clarke has learned that a former clean- er employed’on a recreation pler was named Katherine Smith, and he wishes to question Donahue as to her identity with the Mrs, Smith from whom he ob- tained the baths. Should they be one and the same Mr. Clarke wants to know where Mrs. Smith got the $777 with which to improve the place. ‘To the statements of counsel that Mr. Clarke was giving out information to} the public which was prejudicial to the defense in the inquiry Mr, Clarke re- plies that he has a perfect right to make anything public in the cases of Gaftney and Murphy which he sees fit, as thelr cases are now of public record. CAPD TOWN, Cape Colony, July 9,— ‘The most violent earthquake shock in twenty yeara was felt here at noon to- day. ‘The rest of the dock inquiry, which ts still secret, Mr. Clarke sald, was being ‘kept secret, and information bearing on ft was carefully guarded, Meanwhile Heinous and Unlawful Betting on the Ponies Would Com tinue at the Tracks. Tat eminent reformer and morallst, Benjamin Steinhardt, almost wept in Adams Stroet Court, Brooklyn, to-day, when he spoke of the scandalous vio- lations of the Jaw occurring every day on the city racetracks, Rarely has Mr. Steinhardt {n his unrelenting pursult of tae wicked racetrack gamblors been so moved The occasion was the arralgnmeat of John Buttle, a Pinkerton patrolman stationed at the Brighton Beach race- track. My, inhardt had Buttle ar- rested yesterday on a charge of felling to arrest a man he saw aaktog a bet with Mr Solomon Juicatensteln, the bockmaker, Buttle, who was former pon the Bridge police, was vepresented by Harris Linds- ley, of the Jaw firm of Davies, Stone & Auerbach. Mr. Lindsley asked for gu adjouramont, as Mr. Att@rbach {s in Chi- cago and to him will be intrusted the handling of Wie cose. i Steinhardt arose in opposition, c dled with emotion. he said, sorrowfully, prison this poor, unfortunate man. He happens to be an’ instrument in the pernicious habit of betting on the races tracks, Why, Your Honor, if we an adjournment here there will be'hom fing on the race-tracks every day. unthl {iia srmelier ty , Ewery day,” con- inhardt, his tones quiver- |!ng, “this heinous, unlawful betting will Unable to go further, he sat down. Magistrate Tighe adjouri x until next Tuesda y Soar pen te booed Left Sweetheart, Drowned Rima UTICA, N.Y, July 9.— of Little Falls, called ain ade heart Tuesday evening and sat with hee in a hammock till nearly midnight. Then |he went to the canal and jumped tn. The |Dody was found yesterday. The gis] says there was no quarrel, meee Worthy Poor to Get $10,000, CHICAGO, July 9 — ‘Ten thousand dollars is bequeathed to Chesterfield, Mass, by Horace P Taylor for “the worthy poor who have never been ic’ charges and. who are disposed to earn their own support so far as ati Suits of rich tailore A large and elegant line high-grade fabrics of every good weave in fine any suit in this entire magnificent lot (all sizes) 2-Piece of Crashes, $6 a day. All went to work energetl-| cally and showed a disposition to carn all that was paid the Along the Bowery and the river front in New York are many men who are willing to work, but they have not the means to leave the crowded city, How to get these men to the Wost is the problen: that confronts Mr. Bealin. Donbtiess there are hundreds who Would (oe, glad of the chance to earn m day, wi ir 5 Kany “is ‘many hyndred miles awey and Men have AO MOUeY. . ieee ppb steiboe ut serges, homespuns, wor- steds, cheviots, etc.; all the newest mixtures,some rich and subdued, some smart and dressy; all jour- neyman tailored, in fault- less custom style; our recent spec! ‘ prices for] these were $12.50 an $14.00, and they were —s conceded to be remarka- ble value at those figures. NOW you may choose Cheviots, Homespuns, &c., splen- SU ITS didly tailored; were $7.50, TROUSERS WASH VESTS White Duck Trousers, $1.50 and $2.00 kinds, all at 95c. ‘WOODS @. 740, 742 Broadway, dst \ blue serge, of smart and dressy homespuns, of splendid tested chev- iots, ‘cassimeres, worsteds, etc., plain and fancy, cut on the strictly correct lines of our blghestpriced garments, and extra well . hese are the Suits that were counted such extraordinary value at our recent special prices, $10 and $12. you may have your unrestricted CHOICE from any Suit in this ENTIRE COLLEC- TION of splendid Suits (all sizes) at...+++ NOW TheBig3s Yearly Clearing Sale which unusual conditions make three times bigger than in any former year. Could we have foreseen the Building Strikes we would not have made up such immense stocks—and yet the Building Strikes are only ONE of the conditions that leave us with such a tremendous surplus. The dullness in the stock market, the disagreeable weather—it seems that ALL conditions combined to prevent the big increase in business for which we had planned. These suits are of rich fabrics, beautitully tailored, but arguments won't sell them. PRICE alone is the irresistible power—and here are the lowest prices that New York has ever known for such high grade clothing:— *) Highest grade fabrics, hand tailored. We mon pays $25 or $30 for tom clothes. Our lowest former prices $15 and $17.50. 2-Piece mixtures—a great sale In this line the greatest 45 4® | suits of our regular $3.50 to loading we have ever of newest stripes and 1 8 5 $5 garments, NOW at — fine brand new Vests, N many of them foreign, all well cut and beautifull them—and we know the made d ey spent, the skill em- | i ployed, the methods used, the pains taken to build | ermanent satisfaction in- know this permanent ss the man who usually == buil fo the clothes. And we salise faction ts there. These are cus- own were NOW choice (all sizes) at....... of Crashes, Cheviots, Homespuns, &c.; were big hit when $10, NOW.. 6s and 225 aon known, all ‘OW at... StF) ees a a se