The evening world. Newspaper, July 29, 1903, Page 3

‘ é SCHIFF NERVOUS IN TRIAL BY BOLTE Young Lawyer Who Testified Against the Justice Forgets Whether He Took Exceptions to Rulings Against Him. A TILT WITH BLUMENTHAL. ae vont THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1903. a WOT NE ETN MANY KILLED AND INJURED | IN DYNAM the region resembles a battle field. The explosion occurred at 9.06 caused by the jarring of dynamite sto: Assistant Cosby Telis of Judgments Rendered Against the City, of Which He Learned a Month After They Were Made. Hearing on the charges against Jua- tie Hermann Bolte, of the Municipal Court, looking toward his removal, which are brought by District-Attorney Jerome, acting as a citizen, was contin- ued to-day before Referee W. H. Willis. Lawyer Benjamin B. Schiff was cross- amined by Maurice Blumenthal, coun- @el for uJstice Bolte. “Did you ask that certain evidence be striclen from the record in the case of Cigarette Company vs. Comiskey?’ asked Mr. Blumenthal. “I did, and the motion was denied.” “Did you ask for adjournment so that you could prepare your rebuttal of what You considered worthless testimony?” “I asked for adjournment so that 1 could have time to go over the evidence, and this motion was also denied.” “Were you too excited to carry on the ease at that point?" “Tt was my first appearance {n court amd I was a little excited, being alone tm the case.” “Was Gtenographer Spellman acting in @ @pirit of enmity or friendship in sug- geeting that you had not made an ex- eeption during the entire trial, Mr. Gonift?” “It was in response to a question of mine, to settle a doubt in my mind whether I had taken exception to the Lawyer Blumenthal undertook to un- Germine Schiff's knowledge of New York @tate law and went into a number of technicalities bearing upon the hearing of Schiff's case. ‘After attempting to show bias upon the part of Lawyer Schiff, Mr. Blumen- thal ploked out of the court record a atatement dy Schiff in which he ad- mitted thet he wished only Bolte to try tire case. ‘Witness admitted this, stating ‘I had Feasons for making this assertion.” Mr. Gchiff admitted that he had been fm Justice Bolte’s private room where ‘the second case on appeal was settled. In a tilt between Blumenthal and Sobiff the latter declared that he did not wish to know anything about dispo- of cages in the private room of ‘ © Bolte, while Mr. Blumenthal re- tallated that he needed to learn a great eal about the law business. Assistant Corporation Counsel Arthur ©. Cosby. testified that he tried cases before Bolte against Alfred Seaton, Jr.. ‘Alfred Conkling, Baward Lorillard and Boldt tor violation of oor: ordinances. Having from the Court he went in ere fe 1908, to look th and found to his surprise that judg- ae for the defendants had been ren- early in the preceding December. LIGHTNING KILLS FIVE IN A STORM, i lon, BPoveral Other Persons Badly Injured In.Michigan—Orchards Levelled and Crops Destroyed. * AILPEMA, Mich., July 2.—A terrific twind and rain storm, accompanied by Qeafl, passed over Alpena County last ight. Orchards were levelled and ‘arops in the fields destroyed. James Fingleton’s house, in Wilson ‘township, was struck by lightning and ton instantly killed, while his wife and daughter were badly burned. ‘Walter Pilisbury's farmhouse at Gree- bey Wes Sadly injured by the ebtning, wes injur iy 1e ing. Re Harriovlue, 8, village in, Alcona ‘Count; on eo CJ ore, Pied Semen De Forrest and ‘hi ‘Queir home. Their bodies were found by @ miloman to-day. Dell Crothers, a Count: Wiled Seaterday alternoon was yesterday afternoon bya Yightning bolt, In Long Rapids, ‘Hansen, fourteen years old, and is sin, a ng girl, were doth ‘Jlled: and Hangen's uncle was seriously Hiktrea white they were sitting in thelr parlor watching the storm. GIRL LOCKED IN ROOM FLED BY FIRE ESCAPE Mary Lumbach’s Mother, Who Ob- Jected to Ypung Man's Attentlons to Daughttr, Appeals to Police. ‘The police have been asked to look for Mary Lumbaech, sixteen years old, who, after being locked tn her room by her mother at No. 261 Bast Tenth street, got away by golng down the fire-escape, The mother reported the disappear-! ance to the police, giving a description of the girl and saying she had been Yocked up to prevent her meeting a ‘young man to whose attentions the mother objected. The girl is a blonde and looks older than her . When her mother saw her last she wore a white waist, dark skint, black stockings and shoes and white straw hat. DIVORCE FOR MRS. M. CLAPP. ined Custody of the Chil- dren and $3,600 a Year. Justice Bischoff to-day granted Mrs. Mary A. Clapp an Interlocutory decree ef divorce from Herbert Mason Clapp on @se statutory ground. ‘The apptication ‘wan based on the report of Referee Ed- ward G. Whitaker. All the papers ex- cept the decree were sealed by order of the Court. Mrs. Clapp is awarded the were laying a new floor. some unhurt and others badly injure church of the Sacred Heart in Moore street, and the Wigginsville Mission The Wigginsville echool-house, in the course of erection, was also chapel. demolished. Through Lawrence, Church, Cen’ the houses were wrecks, doors and windows wrenched off. EXPLOSION LIF TRAIN FROM THE RAILS. BOSTON, July 29.—Persons coming on the 9.57 train from Lowell were eye- witnesses of the explosion at the United States Cartridge Company's plant at Lowell. ‘The accident happened just as the train was passing the works, the tracks of the Boston and Maine Railroad being about a third of a mile away. To those In the train there seemed to be two distinct concussions and the air in the direction of the cartridge com- pany's works was filled with a white (Continued from First Page.) bed. The force of the explosion, he states. threw him across his bed-} room, but he was not injured. Immediately the house caught fire, but he and his family escaped in eafety. The Le Blancs, however, lost $500 tn money which they were obliged to leave behind. The wreck caused by the explosion covers an extent of three acres and in ruins, some half demolished, others hardly more than a heap of broken timbers, still others smoking from recent fire. The dynamite set off the powder stored in one chamber, and that explosion was followed by another in a second chamber. Persons buried beneath the wreckage of thelr homes were dug out, Those that had not collapsed had had their ITE EXPLOSION. Houses, barns and outbuildings lie A. M., and {is thought to have been red in the magazine, by workmen who d. Two churches were destroyed, the} tral, Gorham and Merrimack streets TED Smoke like that from burning powder jand debris was seen flying In all dire: tions, The speed of the train permitted only a momentary giimp: Director A. W. Sul ton and Maine Raliroad, was a passen-| ger on the train, He says that for an! instant the massive br.ck walls of the magazine bulged outward and then | crumbled into a great cloud of dust. The | | concussion was so great that {t seemed | + of the Bos-| to life the wheels from ‘he sails, and | passengers feared that the cars would turn over. ‘The train, however, sus- talned no injury from the shock. SHRAPNEL SHELLS IN FIFTH AVE. HOTEL Two Empty Ones, Found In Store Room, Left in Room by a Guest Long Ago. It came to the knowledge of the management of the Fifth Avenue Hotel to-day that a box which has been in the store room since Jan. 90 contained two shrapnel shells. A policeman was called in a hurry. He took the box to the station-house and thence to the Bureau of Combus- tfbles at Fire Headquarters. James L. Wilson and his wife stopped at the hotel in January. It Is thought that Mr. Wilson is an agent for an ammunition house and carries with his) Vaggage cheerful packages of gunpow der, lyddite, dynamite and the like. At any rate, when he left on Jan. 30 he) forgot the box. Six months having expired since the box was left at the hotel it was opened to-day in an effort to find out what it contained. The effort was successful. ‘The shells were not loaded. GROUT PROMOTES A TAMMANY MAN, Appointe Edward A. Slattery a Bu- reau Chief In Place of the Late Col. McFadden. Controller Grout to-day appointed Hd- ward A, Slattery Chief of the Bureau for the Collection of Assessments and Arrears in place of Col. William E. MoFadden, who dled suddenly about two months ago from an attack of heart disease in his office in the Stew- art Building. Comptroller Grout in announcing the appointment said that Mr. Slattery, who is a Tammany Hall man, had earned his promotion because of the efficiency and ability displayed while acting as Dep- uty Collector under Col. MoFadden. The Comptroller added that politics cut no figure in the matter, and as evidence of that he sald he had ap- pointed J, B. A. Mullaley, an assistant deputy in the Bureau, as deputy in place of Mr. Glattery. Mr, Grout added t Mullaiey is a member of the Greater New York Democracy and was nt Corporation OLD MAIL-CARRIER ACCUSED OF THEFT. | Dean, Ten Years in Service, Accused of Taking Five Marked $1 Bills from Decoy Letters. Herbert C. Dean, a mail-carrier, ten years in the service, was arrested this| afternoon by Post-Office Inspectors Ja- cobs and Meyers for robbing the mails. Dean has been under suspicion for some time, and to-day decoy letters containing five mariced $1 bills were sent throug; the mails, After he had de- Uvered his route he was seen to go into @ cigar store, where he exchanged the $1 bills that had been marked for a % bill. He was arrested and the money taken for evidence. Dean was locked up in the East One Hundred and Twenty-sixth street police tation. He is married and lives at No. U1 East One Hundred and Thirty-firet street. COLUMBIA’S SPARS ARE TAKEN DOWN, The Old Cup Defender Is All Ready, to Be Brought to City Island. NEIWPORT, R. IL, July 2.—The for- mer cup defender Columbia has been dismantied and is moored in Brenton Cove, raedy to be towed to City Island. Her topmast has been sent down and with other spars and sails hes been laced aboard her tender, and all is ready to go to the westward when the weather favors, there being a heavy blow on to-day. A portion of the crew have already deen discharged, The Reliance and Constitution re- mained at thelr moorings back of the torpedo station. —— BOY DROWNED FROM BOAT. Craft Upset, but Two of His Com- panions Were Rescued. HACKPNSACK, N. J, July 29.—A ‘boat containing three boys upset in the middle of Hackensack River at Little Ferry this afternoon. Only two were rescued. George Michaels, twelve years old, was drowned. talneers, the eleven fugitive convicts ;who escaped from Folsom Prison are Intrenching themselves {n the rough CONVICTS IN FORT. MAKE LAST STAND Escaped Foisom Prisoners In- trench Themselves on Hill, Near Auburn, Cal. and Militia Is Ready to Attack Them. i CATLING GUNS IN POSITION.| © Sheriffs’ Posses, Composed of Skilled Mountaineers, Reinforce the Troops to Take Part in the) Battle of Extermination. Th AUBURN, Cal, July 29.—Hemmed tn by a company of, militla and three Sher- iffs’ posees composed of akilled moun- Mountain country to the north of Lake Tahoe and will fight until exterminated. The pursuers were only an hour be- hind the fugitives during the night, and this morning surrounded them on Gran- ite Hill. The convicts are secreted in| the brush and have thrown up Intrench- nents. An attack was delayed until the | Placerville military company can bring | up {ts Gating guns | The battle will be decisive, as the} convicts Gave sworn that they will not | be taken alive and the pursuers are equally determined that none of them shall escape. Rewards offere! by Gov. | Pardee and the State Prison Board put @ price of $150 on the head of each fugl- tive, Encape Wan Narrow. The guards and citizens taken as hos- tages by the escaping convicts have re- turned to Folsom and tell remarkable tories of thelr experlence. They had @ narrow escape, as the convicts de- Mberated for a long while whether to kill them or set them free. Guard John Klensdorff escaped from the convicts during the battle between the convicts and their pursuers at Pilot Hill, He sald: “Our first experience was at Mormon Island, wnere Guard John Ryan exchanged shots with the con- victs. He hit ‘Red Shirt’ Gordon. I saw Gordon drop his gun, then pick it up and crawl into the brush, He was a forty-flve-year man and had been the leader up to the time he left the party. “We went up the river to the ranch house of John Foster, who was com- pelled to feed the crowd. His big farm wagon, drawn by four horses, was taken and the entre party piled into it, Tae ranch hands were compelled to go along} as guides. At this time we numbered twelve convicts, five guards, two citi- zens and the two ranch hands, “The team was driven at {ull speed toward Pilot Hill. All the way the con- victs took delight in abusing the guards, ‘They’ mude us get down and run bare- headed in the broliing sun after the wagon, We were told that when they were ready to get rid of us they would make targets of us or force us to jump into the river, Stop at Hotel. “At Pilot Hill the hotel was sur- rounded and the proprietor forced to feed the crowd. At that time the pure suers were almost upon us. We nad eaten and started on our way When « volley of rile snots came irom ooth sides of the roudway. At the first orack 4 rolled out of the wagon and one v1 the farm hanus fullowea. Convict itov- erts pointed his rine at me and told me to halt or he would bluw iny head om, but 1 saw his shell was jammed in the breech of the rifle aud ‘I sprinted gown the road with the ranchman after . He dodged Into the sheiter of the hotel, but 1 kept on, and the bullets icked up the dust of the road on both sides of me until I got out of range. “When I went back to the hotel { found that I had been mistaken for a convict I was wearing a striped suit, as we had been forced to exchange clothes with our captors at the ranch. “In the wagon Convict Murphy lay dead with a bullet through his head and another threw his heart. The four horses had been killed and the bullet holes in their legs showed that the pu suers were good marksmen. ‘The pos had surrounded the hotel while we we: eating, but did not attack until we go away from shelter. The way the con- victs escaped us was by making Over- seer J. 8. McDonough stand up in, the wagon and wave a wiilte flag. ‘Phe firing ceased; then the convicts, covered by the hostages, walked up the road until they saw a chance to dash off into the brush and escape. GRAPE-NUTS FOOD r is a good thing to know one’s strength, for the complish work in this world one side. stop at the foot of the stairs the top. “T regularly use fruit @trained custody of the three child: her marriage, Kunice, Herbert jason and rothea Clapp, and her husband is irae ee nes eet eran ree ne is “the decree-for any alimony’ tor gree A woman in Toronto writes: a long time and got so weak and run down that I would often “T began using Grape-Nuts and in a very short time that weak, broken-down feelis entirely disappeared. formerly been forced to give up my breakfasts in order to give my stomach a rest, but when I got hold of Grape-Nuts I could eat breakfast, for the food seemed to help digest other foods, and soon I began to gain in weight and strength. breakfast and can work harder and for a longer time than ever before.” Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. GAVE THE STRENGTH. of food that will add volumes to strong can do*things and ac- while the weak must stand to “T was in very poor health and wonder how I could get to I had it and Grape-Nuts for Name given by Ua ali i.e Me A it Aad eit Chel dat nabs We Give “S. & H.” Green Trading Stamps. SIEGELF,OoPERG SIXTH AVE. AOD Mt. Ain Intensely Interesting Sale of 4000 Women’s Summer Dresses wt $1.75, $2.50 and $3.25 Each! A Stock-A austin Men's Yegtigee Shires Most Astonishing Low Price. At a Sizes 14 to 17. Splendid values for the money. year. brought double. if you prefer the Shirts that way. Price of every Shirt in the lot is reduced to.... Sood side bolts, S2inch, Minch. 36-inch, 38-inch. 40-inch, ING SACQUES AND KIMO: | Regularly, 6.20 6.70 7.20 7.70 8.20 NOS; white lawn and pretty | Special, 5.65 6.00 640 6.80 7.20 Polka dot effects: some have bor~ 50,000 Lucke’s Rolled Cigars. We offer for to-morrow only the above quantity of the popular LUCKE’S ROLLED CIGARS, at less than fac- Box of 50, made to sell at $1.25, tory cost. Mail orders solicited. Lace Parasol Covers Jor Baby Carriages and Go-Carts. A special lot of lace Parasol Covers, which com- prises an assortment of all the newest effects; some with two, three and four ruffles; regularly sold at from $3.00 to $4.00; to-morrow, Used Pianos Earlier in the season virtually every Shirt in the assortment would have readily Many were made to be sold as high as $1.25. Now They're Scheduled to Sell at a Price That Is Absurdly Small. And Negligee Shirts are proper all the year round. Attached or detached collars and cuffs. terns—those that are most wanted. Neckband only with detached cuffs, Grunks Underpriced. Wom - BASSVVOOD_ TRUNKS, h covered, oil fainted, bound with hard H fibre, have two fibre centre bands pro- tected with hardwood slats, brassed malleable iron clamps, corner, end and iron bottom, linen lined, two trays, one with hat-box and packing compart- ment, other for dress skirts, &c. Summer Carnwat of Yations. Many New Attractions This Week. Japan and China play important parts in the big Summer Festival At The Siegel Cooper Store this week the decorations being peculiarly appropriate and eye pleasing Sherman's fy stifying ACTTY IN ITSELF is drawing great crowds to the Fifth Floor Auditorium. — Pee Creation, ‘*Phantasma,"' formances at 11 A. M. and 1.30, 2.30, 3.30 and 4.30 P. M. Startling Tableaux. Vivid Stereopticon Pictures. Popular Songs. No charge for admission. About 1.000 can be seated at every performance. 18"6139"STS 4 Charmingly stylish Beautifully Summery. Airy, light and ainty. It's been many a year since frocks so pretty were offered at prices sc amazingly low. At the beginning of the season these dainty Dresses would have readily retailed at $5.00 to $11.75; but the maker held on to his surplus stocks until suddenly brought sharply to a realization of the fact that Summer is wan- ing and that the thoughts of manufacturers are already turned Auitumn-ward. Thus we were enabled to obtain i 150 Styles in a Bewildering Variety of Modish Fabrics and Jaunty Materials at Vastly Less Than the Usual Prices. Every dress is strictly up to the hour. The materials are Dimity, Lawn, Batiste, Linen and Madras. The trimmings are exceptionally attractive, 2 are like. Sale of The illustration gives you a fair idea of what these Dresses (Second Floor, From Note the 6th Avenue window display. Emphatically the best Negligee Shirt bargains of the Hundreds of choice pat- IIe General Clearance Sale of en’s Dressing Sacques, Kimonos and Wrappers. LOT I—WOMEN'S WHITE | LAWN SACQUES AND Kl ; MONOS; several very pretty | styles to select from, 4. Ks) ranging in price up LOT 2—WOMEN'S DRESS- (Main canvas stitched leather handles, to $1.25; reduced to der trimming with ribbon finish; » others lace and emi trimmed; ranging in price up to $2.25; 64% S reduced to s 1,000 Women’s x Wrappers. LOT 1—WOMEN’S WRAPPERS, rfercale and lawn, in very attractive patterns; skirt cut extra full with deep flounce, and waist trimmed with fancy washable braid and bretelles; regular price, 98c.; re- duced to LOT 2—WOMEN’'S WRAPPERS; percale; fine quality, in very pretty patterns; excellent styles; regu- lar price $1.25; reduced to (Third Ficor, East.) 139¢e (Main Floor, East, 182 8t.) 2.29 (Third Floor, Kast) (Second Floor. Bast of Centre.) H t SQUARE PIANOS. ! Now NEWTO? HALLET & DAVIS, FISCHER, y other and newer div 2rsions. A: the prices we name any one can afford to own a good piano, repaired and renovated. purchased in this sale will be taken in exchange for a new one at any time within a year and the price you paid allowed. Any of these instruments upon the easy payment plan.” A litle sum down and a small amount monthly. the demand will be exceptionally active. at Phenomenally Low Prices. [ Also Organs. ; A Very Attractive 3d Hoor Sale Begins Go-Worrow. f A: WONDERFULLY interesting occasion. We will show Le | you some astounding bargains in Pianos and Organs _ | which, although slightly used, have been so thoroughly re- novated as to be practically good as new. The Display is in the Third Floor Main Aisle. Not a few Pianos at little prices, but many of them. A really extraordinary assortment. Pianos whose reputations have become universal. Pianos you are not ashamed to own. Just what’s needed for the Summer home, or the youngster or beginners when the vacation’s over and the return to town means Every instrument offered ir, this sale is in perfect order, having been ! Used parts have been supplied with new ones. Any instrument Early selections are strongly advised, as This list fully warrants that. VPRIGHT PIANOS. ORGANS. SQUARE PIANOS WAS. was, WAS, NOW: Sow | i 5 3 & POND, pret} . STORY & CLARK, $150 5 | HORNBAKER, » BSTEY, 135 NN, IED) | aces N GRAND PIAN Se ow BABE: CHASE, Was. NOW. | SHONINGER, DON, VAY Parlor Grand, $1000 B45 H E, “AY Baby Grand,’ 90 HORACE WATERS,