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ONFARLEY STORY ft Takes Up To-Day Charges of Extortion Against Parks and| ‘ne onty two women who have over RANDJURYACTS OLDEST recetved a degree from the ancient Untveratty of Heldetborg are now visit- ing in this city. They are Mrs. Agnes Smith Lewla and Mrs. Margaret Dun- lop Gibson, both of Cambridge, Eng., who are guests of Mrs, Bamuel Ven Vechten Huntington, of No, 69 East Seventy-eighth street. ‘These two womer received the do- gree of D. D. from Heldelberg for dis- covering, deciphering, photographing and publishing the oldest known manu- scripts of the four Gospels. They found the document im an an- clent Greek monastery, almost as old as the Christian era. nine days’ journey by camel acrogs the Arablan desert. The famous manuscript Is known as the “Lewis Palimprest."” A palimpsest fa a parchment from which one writ (ng was erased to make room for an- ether tn days when parchment was rare and precious, The second writing on the CLOSE FIGHT FOR MPLAUGHLIN'S JOB Other Walking Delegates of the Unions, ‘PERJURY CASE MAY BE PRESSED HOME FIRST. Housesmith Could Be Sent to Prison for Twenty Years on That Charge, and He Is | Closely Watched. The Grand Jury began an investign- lfon this morning of the new charges f@guinst Sam Parks and other walking Welegates who are sald to have extorted Yarge sums from builders and contrac- tors in this city during the past few yoars. ‘These charges are based on the In- formation given to the District-Attor- hey by Henry Farley, the walking dele- gate who turned State's evidence. I expected that some startling rev tions will be made by the witnesses who have been subpoenaed. 5 W. E. D. Stokes, who, tt is said, has jedmitted that he paid over $50,000 to welking delegates while he was building ‘the Hotel Ansonia, will be one of the most important witnesses. \ The Grand Jury will also investigate the charges of perjury which Assistant District-Attorney Rand has made against Parks, and if an indictment 1s found before next Monday the extortion ‘oharge will be held over. m all proba- ‘Mility, and a new trial on the charge f perjury begun. The maximum sen- tence that Parks could receive upon @onviction for perjyry would be twenty years. “Lewis ~ 3 McCarren on the Face of the Returns Has a Majority of Three of the County Conven- tion Delegates. Ly eee Thirteenth Fourteenth Fifteenth Sixteenth fleaths Wateh Him, Parks professes’ to make light of Far- fey's confession, tut it is pelleved that he ts well scared. It 1s said that de- tectives connected with the District- \Attorney’s office are watching him in Jease his fright should induce him to ‘wun away. ‘He has intimated that he will spend a fortune fighting the case, and he has one over the whole a with his at- Messrs, and Robinson, iey's confession made public. Former District-Attorneys Os- borne and George Gordon Battle will aeaist in the defense. Since Farley's confession was made pwdlic James Byme, a nephew of Will tam 8. Devers, who went its ball when 4f was announced that Farley Intended turning Staie's evidence, has been took- fng for him to surrender him and so be Feleased of al! responsibility in the mat- jter, Should Byrne surrender hin other Ybail will be furaished. eurs for Life, Total ‘There figures are the latest estimate of the County Commnittee’s vote of the rival Democratic factions in Brooklyn. ‘Tho closeness of the contest for the control of the machine, to be fought st to-night’s meeting of the Cunt) Con s rent rom these figures. Their accuracy ta admitted by the lead- ers on both sides in so far as they apply to districts known to be practically con- trolled. But the McLaughiin men say that MeCarren cangot get all the votes from the districts fh which he has the leaders, ‘They figure that in several of the dis- trict committees there-are men who will refuse to vote to indorse Grout and Fornes and thus shift the victory to the McLaughlin aide, although MoCar- ren has the battle won by @ majority of three on the figures. A change of two votes from his side would beat him v y Farley fears an attack may be made}, 9 majority of ome. i fen his life by friends of Parks, and the] *petections from | McCarren's «camp tricted » hug promise have been reported to Willloug ‘Disirict-Attorney bus promised him all have beet maid that “Larry Carroll, ‘the protection possible, ‘The confession of Farley has made @ @eep impression upon the union work- men in all branches of labor, and an evidence of this was given when Parks applied to the Central Wederated Union or moral support for the Houseamiths one of the trusted Heutenants of the Senator in his own district and a man with @ Jarge following, bas broken aw: afd will vote to leave the power wit McLaughlin, James Shevlin has a rela- tive on the County Committee from an- other district and this relative is count- Laughlin vot. egy on for tits That hie, may lose & 4 Me en | sua Bridgemen's Union in its ght] few votes when It comes to a count, but }against the Building Trades Employers’ | Pays ¢hat ne will make up forhislossea mal by whet he will gain from the McLaugh- | Meague. When he had finished making ‘Tne meeting 0 5 Bis appen! there was but slight applause, | HO golumn, ne reset ily in. @nd no one offered a motion for the sup-| years. 4 |port Parks had begged. ‘The president] , It 19 reported in Brooklyn thet Ed- | Balted for the regular order ot business, Sat A Sitkor two yeara ago, ie one f@ud Parka left without receiving the| Cate fo aoa who Te ina rom @1d_ ho asked vhen asked if the Grand Jury had sidered or would consider the con- Democrat was out of town, Mr, unded Har that he lies even when he trylng to tell the truth. He gave us Such a mass of undigested testimony that it will take months to verify tt.’” Farley will be arraigned in court some gay this wees to plead to the Indlot- piss for perjury agalnst him. He wilf PACING AT MORRIS PARK. NEXT YER Ourse, » Wil Not Be Ready Until Season of 1905—Most Beautiful Track in the World. ead guilty and throw himself on the rey of the Court. “L” ROAD TIED UP AN HOUR. “Break of Coupling on Brookiyn The Rrooklyn Elevated road was ted up for almost an hour at the rush hour this morning and hundreds of persons were deluyed in reaching thelr work. The trouble was caused by the break of @ coupling between the second and third gars on a Brighton Beach train just an \& was approaching the Duffield street station. i The jast cars of the train were left vq hundred yards from the station, where ey remmuined unul the next train feame and pushed them up to the plat- ‘dorm. ‘Train after train ran into the Plockade, and scores of persons braved! the third rail to walk from the stalled | trains while ta repairs to the coupling mere being made. {The angry passcngers demanded trans- ors, but none were given until a few t™iniites before the road was cleared, Racing will be carried on next year at Morris Park until after the fall meeting derplte reports to the effect that the course would be cut up into lots afe rthe spring meeing. This announcement was mede by Mr. 8. Howland, secretary of the racing aa- soclation, to-day at the offices of C. R. Leavitt. Mr, Howland further stated that the Ps Oe reason why ‘the Morris Park track would be used for racing until @o late SEEKING FLOOD VICTIMS. "Gate was on account of the omolais 24 | Charles F. Murphy to-day. registering in the First District, The! py; other She) ¥ t jeast, ion of Henry Farley, Sam Parks's pard was in town on one, a ally identical with those of gradual auf- ‘ 2 arks's | Of ‘the registration daya, Ht is sald. At focution, ‘This ract was atrikingly demon: at estar ats) Distriet-At- | Chg ime he in at Lake George. Jatrated'in the case of tho Hmpreas of “This man Farley is such a con- Austria, And the diabolic skill and pres THE WORLD: ‘BIBLE WRITINGS FOUND BY TWO WOMEN Mrs, Lewis and Mrs. Gibson Only Ones of Their Sex Ever Given Degrees by Heidelberg. Palimpsest is a record by some monk of the Middle Ages. Having no new Parchment or vellum, he had taken an ancient manuscript ¢rom the monastery brary and erased the writing. With the passage of time tho oxygen of the air, unjting with the Iron of the ink, made the first writing again visible; faint and shadowy, in crabbed char- ecters of old Syriac, but atill to be do- ciphered between the lines and on the margins of the dater screed. The monks will sell none of the an- clent writings, 90 that the only way to get them to the eyes of the world was to photograph them, Hour after hour and day after duy the two women gave to the monotonous labor, one holding the book and turning the leaves, ©e other manipulating the camera. Returning to Hurope with the prectous lates and publishing the results, the rman critics declared, on philological grounds, that t manuscript ed from an indiinitely earlier period than 190 A. D., the year in which the oldest Gospel manuscript then known was written. ODELL SAW DEVERY, MURPHY INSISTS Wigwam Leader Is Not Sur- prised by the Denials of the Governor and the ex-“Best” Chief of Police, ‘The denial of William 8. Devery that he met Gov. Odell at the Fifth Avenue Hotel recently and had a long talk with him was called to the attention of ‘Mr. Murphy sald: “T expected that Devery would deny it. Ido not expect that Gov. Odell will admit {¢ any more than he would admit the truth the time he came down to see Dock Commissioner Hawkes to steal one of our pliers, AM I have to say is that! I have absolute proof that Devery met the Governor at the Fifth Avenue Hotel," - Mr. Murphy was asked about the re- port that a fund of $200,000 has been collected from the disorderly house keepers of the city for ‘Tammany cam- Paign purposes. “Tammany Hall would not accept that kind of money. We don't need money. The le aro with us, If there was such a fund collected the only man I know: capable of golng out and getting it'ls William 8, Devery, and if It was collected It may explain ‘the reason, why pa th mn fund is sald re Fusion have deen enriched $100,000. The laun?! v the Renudlicans ing of this story tacit admisefon that light houses a) ourishes under the the attendant vice Tow sAministrationy on ae. | Speaking of the registration, Mr, Mur- ‘phy sald that his reports indfcatea that |Pammany Hall would win an over- whelming victory. He predicted that the Democratic ticket would win in all five boroughs, “They called me cra: dicted the enormous majority. last year," he remarked, Het en bed ty, | Just as crazy right now.” HEART WOUNDS. Many Persons Thus Injured Have Recovered. | In wounds of the heart itself the es- ‘cape of dlood is never in large quantity ‘and the lethal consequences are due to {the fact that the escape of blood from j within {ts cavity (or cavittes) ineo the surrounding sac of the pericardium me- chanteally interrupts the alternate con- traction and expansion by which its ig maintained. Accordigly, the ‘of wounds In the heart are ‘usu- when I pre- for Coler ell, T am ' resu cision with which the wound was in- filcted in her case offer a diagrammatic (justration of a necessarily fatal wound of the heart. ‘The instrument used was too large to form a mere “needle puncture; It was inflicted too high in the chest to be “non-penetrating,” for it was aimed with truly fiendish ingenuity at the po- jsition of one of the thin-walled of the fourth cavities of the heart, and the di- rectness of the penjration, combined with the thinness of the wail of the cay- ity, rendered st physically impossible that the wound could be ulvular.”” The Israelite warrior of old smote the en- emy—when possible— “beneath the lifth rib.” because the {impulse of the heart 4s felt there, But he propably did not know that it is In that precise position that wound of the heart is least neces- sarily fatal. The Itallan assassin af | recent. date displays incomparably | greater skill and knowledge. The sci- 2 of the present day also proves er that the historic account of the death of Admiral Villeneuve 1s open to scop- tleal doubt. And the recent cases of! suture of the heart give fMlustration | that modern surgical skill may attempt, | with success, the seomingly Impos-| 1e.—American Medicino, Whatever be made cos rei | dered (medicines excepted) to invalids who! ze CANCEROUS ROOTED (N THE BLOOD. allers to View Body Found tn- icntes Heavier Low Paterson, (Special to The Byening World.) PATDREON, Oct, 1.—The Qumbers of callers at the Morgue to-day | to identify a bad'y tecomposed body} {ge is greater than firat reports indt- he corpse foul to-day was that of iowa victim of the flood in’ Passale N. found on the river bank makes It cer- j@ain that the loss of life in the recent cated, At least a dozen persons were Weparled missing. \a man about forty sears ol4 and weigh- (peg, 100 pounds. hie makes the ebghic Woursy. AGED MAN DROPS DEAD, “Michac! Roardon, sixty years old, @ropped dead in the hailway of his home 2 ‘0, 383 Sixch avenye to-day from FeLL disease. DEAD 01, After the age of 45 or 50, when t er, it is noticed é of the Westchester Racing Association having decided not to hold any race meeting at tho new race course at Queens, L, 1, which will be known as Belmont Park, until @ year from next! ring. The new traok will be compbeted the hatter part of next month, when the three tracks whi b will be located with- in the big Inclesure will receive thelr first dressing, Boautifal Coarse, Belmont Park (rack when completed will be the most beautiful track in the world, The main track will be one and a half miles long, the inner track a mile wad th -elgatos, the gteeplechaso course One and a quarter miles and the soalsht chute seven furloags. Bealdes there will be a wile track ret agide for 1 Of hors the exercieini 08, Resides these ti ae. there will be sta- ) 1 r8O8, @ grand time of life warty growths, moles and imples that have ton on the bod almost from bi: pogee begin toinflame aud Patt to! fester, and befor: very long are large Rovan,to heal eating ulcers, oti no Whenever aigore CoRHaSer or ulcer i9 slow in healing then you wrong with your blood, bering there for years is beginning becomes a bad ulcer aud perhaps th the surface cl is what io a remedy, No vogetable that a hurt of any kind heals slowly and often a very in- significant scratch or bruise becomes a bad lees or sore, At thi A small, pimpl eter Ieouvsnfence, nd E ‘slot @ wondorful effoot 1! Some old taint or poison thet has been slum. | Bores are rooted in the blood, and whilc washes, soaps, salvos, etc., keep NEARER A TIE-UP ON THE L ROADS Interborough Company and Mo- tormen’s Representatives Go Into Conference, Each Sde Declaring It Will Not Recede. BELMONT INSISTS ON THE PHYSICAL TESTS. “If the Company Turns Down Our Proposition,” Replies Jenks, “We Shall Resort to More Drastic Measures.” The chiefs of the local unions of the brotherhoods of firemen and engineers, camposed of the motormen on the Man- hattan “L" system, went into confer- MONDAY EVENING, CCTOBER 19, 1903. ence this afternoon with General |i Manager F. P, Bryan, of the Interborough Company, aad several directors of the road. The result ts awaited with considerable anxiety on the part of the motormen, for they have determined to take more drastle meas- ures if their objections to the’new order for physical examénations are not heeded. Belmont Stands Firm, President August Belmont, through his secretary, declared that the In- terborough Company was going to stiok by its order that the motor- men pass @ rigorous physioal ex- amination in order to ualify, He sald that, after the most careful considera- tlon of the matter, the officers of the company had decided that the require- ments called for in the physical exam- ination were not unfair, When Chief Jencks, of the local untfon of engineers, heard of the statements by Mr, Belmont, he sald: “P want to gay that we are not now considering a ‘corupromise, We ‘have a plain business Proposition to make and we are going to make it and stand by it. If the compa-y turns down (the propoeition we wil have to resort to more drastle measures.” ‘Mr. Jencks would not say that these measures the calling of a strike, Tt will mean that the national heads of both brotherhoods will be summoned to New York to confer with the chiefs Of the locals. Then if the national heads ad a strike the motormen will go out In a body and the trafle facilities Monhattan willbe paralyzed, National Officials Conservative, & more conservative ton believe that the national heals of the brotherhoods will endeavor, if called to New York, to sade’ the officers of the Inter- borouga Company to make some sort of concession to the motormen that will bring about am amicable settlement. Conservatism thos always been the pol- fey af both brotherhbeds and their rt istory #hows ‘that taey never declare a ety until every possible argument or offer of compromise has falled. “It waa @ mistake,” Mr. Belmont told a reporter of The fevening World ¢his afternoon, "when & Was said that the engineers and the firemen would confer with me again to-day. The matter is Thevoficers of the company=ar. the officers o! e ir. Bryan.” SSyryou mean, by. that, Mr. Belmont, that you are through with the men?” "Oh, no; only thet there i no present necessity for another me, It may become necessary later, but that is not my anticipation,” DOCTORS GIVING FREE SERVICES DURING OCTOBER. British Doctors Performing Wonderful Cures. specialiste are giving their ree of charge to all in- vaila: ") for relief be- fore Nov Th i services con- sixt not only of consultat . examination! And udvice, but also of all inuor surgical Operations. of ‘Those Woo take view of ‘the situat! These eminent services entirely The Stait of Eminent Physicians of the | British Medical Society (inc.) aro located at | @ East 14th street, New Yor! ‘Tho object In p at 4 er ucquainted with the sick and al under no elreumstances wil for any servi A= | call upon them during this month. The Doctors treat all forms of and deformitios. and cure every undertake. At the fest Interviow examination Ip made, and {¢ theurab patients arg frankly’ and kindly talc also advised against spending thelr money for useless ent. id Veakness, Catarrh and aud Bronchial, Affos~ Hoart, Stomach, Wid : rostate, Varicocele,” Rup- ire, Rheumatism and Skin Diseases of all nds, are positively cured by thelr new treatment. Thelr Chief Consulting Physctan is In per- sonal change. Hours, 8 to 8; Sundays, 10 to 3. Notice.—Patients living at a dis- antot come to the city oan write, descrilng their troubis have a somolete course of Home 1 ent sent em. re) 0 0 er, ULCE S he vital powers are naturally weak- At this end it not begun to in: i on Boab over, but would not timo then the Oancer it was as large ic s of 8.8. 8. and determined hy siSleiighs %, Wyaconda, Mo. sure something ig radically tay be to assert itself, id breaks out and he beginning of Cancer. These old lean, they are not healing. 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