The evening world. Newspaper, January 8, 1904, Page 7

* ATRL BY TOWER CAN Pennsylvania Bandits, After . Murdering a Railroad Man at Rydale, Place His Body on * the Track. HIS VALUABLES AND COMPANY’S MONEY GONE. Believed that Gang Waited Un- ~ til He Had Left the Oftice and then Attacked Him Near His _Station. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8.—Siain ana fobbed, the body of a man supposed to be James Weber, agent at Rydale @tation, on the New York division of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, was found‘a quarter of a mile trom the station early to-day. “The body was picked up in a man- Bled condition on the tracks by the crew of @ passing train, which ran @ver his body and ground it almost to pleces. The robbers, after stripping Bim of all his -valuabies, and, Mhought, considerable of the company's Money, beat the mian into insenstbility, and his body was placed on the tracks ef the railroad in the hope that the essing train would run over it and thereby destroy every vestige of the It is believed the same gang of ban- its who have been robbing and attack- wa acct ay 9 Bullty of t BURSTING: PIPES SOUNDED ALARM Aroused Sleeping Lodgers in Furnished-Room House and. Permitted Them to Run to the Street from Escaping Gas. srators and agents 1s t crime. ‘The noise made by bursting gas pipes Brobably saved the lives of many people fm the furnished room house No. 3% East Twenty-fourth street early to-day, ‘The explosign awoke some of the board- ers, and they rushed into the street terror-stricken. Mrs. Lizzie Finan, one of the lodgers, ‘vas missing, and some of the men went back into the house. They found the woman uncohsclous from escaping gas. Beveral of the boarders were made ee- riously ill by the gas fumes. The gas pipes had been frozen during the recent cold snap, and this morning they burst In the wall between the hall- way and the bedroom occupied by Mrs. Winan. Fortunately the bursting pipe made a nolse loud enough to create an flarm and awaken the boarders, Mrs. Finan was taken to Bellevue Hospital. Bhe will recover. ——————=>___ Kisses Barred Out. Whyt You must ask the mem- bers of the Anti-Osculation Society for the reason. They are tookins for converts to their strange be- make an effort én next Sunda it in| An gratify vantage of these ¢ ; OVER ONE: fetta Overcoat v: “HOTEL MEN'S FAST Simeon Ford and Patrick F. “Murphy, In Training for the After Dinner Champlonship, Have Preliminary Battle. The Hotel Men's Association had a twenty-fifth anniversary dinner last night at Delmonico’s, The great ones of the city, noted for their post-pran- dial wit, ‘were present. Here are bits of choice humor thut passed over the table: Simeon Ford to H. H. Vreeland in @ traction confidence: “If I could get as many guests in a year as you haye in a day and hold them still for twenty- four hours my fortune would be made." Patrick F. Murphy: “The hotel man’s science: ‘It ts the sclence which teaches how to get the greatest possible amount of beneft from # guest at the leust Possible amount, of vost to the hotel." “There is arethine! sivly satirical about the institution—upping—when we retiect that the word Up is un abvrevi- ation and was originally i “To Insure Prompt ni “Abraham Lincoln's phras shattered. For hotel Tne can fon peo ple all the time, Simeon Ford: "We are suffering fr undigested hotgla. Home day they may filled, ‘but the balance of the d States will have to be denonus 0 late eure “I have made my pile and it ts safely invested in Steel common, Amalgamated Copper and Shipbullding securities and nobod can ta ¥ from me. That ie, T havent found anybody will: ing to do sa as 5 “wa certainly have had, a very damp son in Wall street, “We now boldly assert that York is unrivalied as a watering plac FIRE PROTECTION ASKED FOR INSANE Superintendent of the Manhat- tan State Hospital, on Ward’s - Island, Wants a First-Class Engine and New Hose. De, E, C. Dent, Superintendent of the Manhattan State Hospital on Ward's Isiand, has petitioned the pres- ent admjnistration to place on the Island efficient fire apparatus. Dr. Dent says that during the last two exiministrations he has vafaly tried to have his hospltal properly equipped with a first-class engine and first-class hose. He has only been aible to get an antiquated fire engine and second- hand hose that buret the moment water was forced through 7 Dr, Dent thinks that the lesson of last ‘Tuesday's fire should awaken the ritles to the needs of the island, hat he does not ask for the establishment of a. fire company uch as they have on Blackwell's Taland, tor he belleves that the hospital, employees are able to cope with |any blaze that inay start until fire companies can be broiight over from New York. All he wants Is the proper apparatus with which to drill his force. ——__— LECTURE BY JOHN G. BROOks, John Graham Brooks will deliver the second lecture in the course he Is giv- ing at the League for Political Educa- tion, No. 23 West Forty-fourth strent, to-morrow morning at 11 o'clock. ‘The subject of the lecture will be The Ter- rors of the Boycot Our Overcoat Sale Instantaneous Success. The quick and universal Tesponse to our announcement of the sale of our mammoth purchase of the overstocks of Chicago, Rochester and New York's finest Overcoat manufaciure,s is more med with buyers eager to take alues at the average SAVING OI ing. Our store has been These Overcoats are look—and trade early. PEARLS OF WIT AT [NAMES HIS SON Med T. 1. P| tailored-ready-for-service clothing—rig! every particular, and we are wi thout est, the Swellest, the costliest, the grandest Overcoat display ever shown under one roof. $20 Frieze Overcoats for . $18 Vicuna Overcoats for $17 Black Thibet Overcoats for $25 Belt Overcoats for ~ $22.50 Vicuna Overcoats for. *\’ $22 52-In. Black Vicunas for . $30 Black Vicuna Overcoats for § $25 Belt O’coats, 52 in. long, for $25 Frieze O’coats, 52in, long, for $50 Silk Lined Carr Meltons . $45 Silk Lined Vicunas tor . $40 Silk Lined Elysians for . $35 Fancy Belt Overcoats for lor (fothing AS CO-RESPONDENT Lad Fifteen Years O!d Makes Confession implicating His Stepmother, a Bride of a Few! Months. ' | | Juatice Dickey, in the Brooklyn su- | preme Court, had under consideration | to-duy one of the most pecullar divorce | cases that has ever come before him for judictal observation—one in which | the plaintiff names ain own fifteen- | yonr-ol boy as cg-respondent. James Robert Linn, of No, 510 Second avenue, Brooklyn, is auing his wife, May Linn, for divorce. Airs, Linn Jy living with her parents in Elizabeth, | Nid. The strange case came to light i the application of Mrs, Linn's law. yer for alimony and counsel fee pend ing the husband's sult. Counsel for the plat declared that Augustus the boy, had confessed to his Yather that he had beer. guilty of im- proper conduc! it 1s also allel mitted the if this. gh lg stepmother. | Her husband ts and in away from home mbout eight months of t ‘The couple we.e | i, the husband being | der than his wife. marriage the son olling salesman was thirteen Counsel fo: clires that when | he was first married Mrs. Linn. disi the boy. After having he returned, cording the boy and got from i him’ a confession. ; ee MANY MEN ARE HAUNTED. Ghostly Hands Ever Clutching at Their Vitals —Wraiths of Dyspepsia. Thousands of men are haunted. A ghostly form leans over their shoulders every time they sit down to dinner, The wraith of dyspepsia deers at them: tompts them to eat as their appetites crave! threatens them with hours of misery 1: they yield. So they deny themselves. They go hungry | ne Rae sparingly of things they det: eat asional Rxall Dyspepsia Tablet they can oat what they Want and when they want without fear of the least discomfort. Rexall Dyspepsia sick stomachs well r They do this by supplying the one ment the absence of which in the juices causes indigestion and dys] They enable the stomach to digest ali} kinds of food and to quickly convert {t into rich. blood HEAR WHAT MR. BLASS SAYS: * For ten years I have been greatly trou- bled with indigestion. f tried all sorts of remedies without vuccess and had lost bone, when | heard of Rexall Dyspepsia Tablet: T'irled. them. and I am most happy to. say that they effected a compl ure. 1 no longer complain of hei after eating. and my ft {ect_-GEORGN BLASS. we know what Rexall Dyspepsia are and what they ck them to cure indi tion’ and If they fail we will refund your mi Price 25 conte per, full package, only at our store or by mail, RIKER’S DRUG STORE, 6th Ave. and'23d St OUR NEW YORK AGENTS: EMAN co. corporation), We Odway: 205. Broadway 200" W. st; Amsterdam ave, and 155th st.; Wellan's BRUM ETORRS, 12 KINSMAN'S DRUG ETORRS, J. AN. Drucelst, 1020 34 av 200 125th aagth hot. and 25 M Columb! a | and “Quality” Clothing al That. Suits and overcoats that bear the stamp of good tailoring all over them at the sharpest of January price-cuts. Suits and overcoats of materials that regular season at less. than twelve dollars. Don't miss seeing this Saturday offering if you need a suit or pvercoat and are willing to take twelve dollars’ worth of clothing for $3.50, $4.50 and $5.00 a pair, in this sale to- morrow, Not more than two No mail orders fille Boys’ $4 and $5 Overcoals $2.95. In sizes from, 8 to 15 years; some are the very latest style of be back overcoats, while others are long and loose, in the popular Oxford gray. jpeits to any one customer, cnn Record Floor. o9th Bt. Bection whatever it may be, to have it skimped in the gores, or poorly stitche mean more in cost to us to have them made stores are quoting to-day. Muslin Gowns, with: yoke of | Other gowns from 59¢. to $10. | tutks, finished with cambric | Flannelette Underskirts, | ruffle; sale price, 28c with deep flounce, scalloped; | Cambric and Muslin Gowns | Meat striped effects; sale (5 styles), high and. V necks, price, 29c | with yokes of embroidered | Musiio Skirts,.with deep insertion and tucks; also flounce, with hemstitched with hemstitched tucks and | hem and hemstitched tucks; four lace insertions; sale | no mail orders filled; sale price, 39c | price, 39¢ | Cambric Gowns, with low | Muslin Skirts, with dee | necks, with embroidered in- cambric flounce and 53-inch sertion and hemstitched ruf- embroidered ruffle; sale price, 59¢ | fle around neck, and with | Other skirts from 69. to $18.98. wide lace and ribbon bead- , Muslin Corset Covers, ing; sale pricé, 49c | high neck; all felled seams; NN Flannelette Gowns, good | only 3 to a buyer; no mail } quality, dainty patterns, Hub- orders filled; sale price, Sc bard yoke with pretty scal- | Cambric Corset. Covers, loped collar; sale price, 49¢ | round neck; full front; neck The “Calumet” Shoe: al $2.50 Is the Shoe for Any Man! As a shoe bearing every essential of style, comfort, durability and price- littleness, the “Calumet” stands first. The soles are of strictly welted rock oak; fully tae here cut onthe new- est up-to-date lasts; uppers are “of pat- ent colt and vici kid. To introduce these ___Main Floor, Goth st ection, — Boston, the finest attainable in custom- ht up to the minute in doubt pre‘enting the fin-f| We admonish you to come—f! So . ° $ ‘CHAMBERS ST. j shoes we've made the ~Men’s 50c. Undemvent 19. To inauce a quick clearance of this lot of regular 50c. underwear we have marked the price ‘way down to 19c. for to-morrow. The lot consists of well-made and comfortably tit- ting fleece-lined ‘shirts and drawers—pick your size to- morrow, at, per garment, Men's 69c. Underwear, 29c. | Men’s$2WoolUnderwear,98c Heavy plain Jaeger and natural gray | — Perfectly made and comfortable fleece-lined shirts and drawers; all | fitting wool underwear in ~ natural gray and white. Main Floor, Goth St_Kection first quality. we ses coer e nn Unlaundered Shirts at 29c. With a chance to buy at actually less than wholesale cost, no man should neglect the opportunity of supplying himself with good shirts. They are made cf heavy, durable muslin, with three-ply bosoms, reinforced front and back, ‘with protected neckband and flat felled seams, They are liberally made, in sizes 14 to 18; also boys’ sizes of 12 to 14. No mors than six to one customer andynone sold to Main Floor, 0 DANS ul Bt, Be _ dealers at our special price of 50c. and 60c. Sheet Music, 12c. So well known have these once-a-week offers in sheet music become that # needs but the announcement to bring a host of shop- pers to the music store. This list for to-morrow: We cannot fill mail, CO. D, or tele phone orders on any of this mualc, and will at each title to a customer. | Whats th qusic Pa hed, Printed on fine paper from hare new sur 4 beautif’: frontispieces. 1a Paloma. Fifth Nocturne. Love's Old Swoet Song. Pau Instrumental. Black Hawk Waltz Hite Danube, Cavniieria Ristioana, ehoon of the Ball Flower Song love's Proving. “BLOOMINGDALE BROS., » Or and Goth Streets. nen ALL CARS TRAZSFER TO BLOOMINGDALES'. 3d } cannot be sold during the|! $750 Thousands of pairs of Trousers worth $1.79 As to te shown the ‘Amaranth’ Shoe For Women al $1.98 a Pair You'll be impressed by its many good points. It Muslin Underclothes for Women Al the Greatest of White Sale Money-Savings. We know you appreciate garments of liberal proportions—it affects the goodness of a skirt, or ‘d, or carelessly trimmed.’ It may roperly, for care means time always—but we believe it's worth more than this extra cost to have people know we don’t sell “merely bargain-goods” in ary sale. And, together with this, our White Sale savings are based on prices w hich were regulated by market conditions of eight months ago—which means that the garments are selling at about half the prices other trimmed with lace ome inch wide; no mail orders filled; sale price, Other corset covers froin 29c, to Pi 5B. Cambric Drawers, with deep ruffle trimmed with Val. Jace and insertion; sale price, Muslin Drawers, with 4- inch embroidered ruffle and tucks of cambric with deep ruffle trimmed with two Val. insertions between tucks and lace edge, Other drawers from 49c. to Ape Muslin Chemises, round neck, trimmed with em- broidery; no mail orders filled; Sale price, 9c Other chemises from 18c. to $4. cS Second Floor, Near Rotunda, The Clearance of Watches. This affords a wonderful Cla tunity for a great value in a good, e dependable, thoroughly guaranteed watch. Better take advantage of it to-morrow. 75 —Worth $10. Gold-filled watches, with fine seven- jewelled American movements— Styles for men and women. $3.75—Wwortn $10. Men's solid silver hunting-case watches, with seven-jewelied Amer- ican movements $7.75-—Worth Sis. Men's and women's gold-filled watches, fitted with Waltham or Elgin movements, guaranteed for 10 years $10—worth $20. Men's and. women's gold - filled watches, fitted with Waltham or Eigin movements, guaranteed for 20. years. $13.75 & $16.50 Worth $25. Eight kt. gold watches, fitted with Waltham or Elgin movements $15, aS « $35— Worth up to solid oa 14-kt. watches for men and women; they are fitted with Waltham or Elgin movements. Main Floor, Front, Cenire Collars and Cuffs. There's no time like the present to lay in a supply of good collars and cuffs, In this White Sale of ours you get such values as these: Collars 45c. *; Dozen. Made of fine Austrian fabric; a ma- terial famous for its good-wearing qualities; every collar guaranteed four ply and perfect; 35 styles to choosy from; all shapes. Cufis 65c. 1; Dozen. Made of same fabric as collars; will launder and wear as weil as any 25c. cuff made; choice of five stvles; plain, les. round and link st Mal Those Fownes Gloves al 29c. will Soon Be Gonc—So Be Quick! halt the lot of those famous ed gloves for women . So if would greatest bar- ble gloves get gains here early to-mor These loves are Sold Everywhere at 50c. and 75c. They are made of the finest grades H : i { { { 7 WALL CARS TRANSFER TO BLOOMINUDALES'’, | : | The White Sale Presents the Most Vivid Mlustration of the Buying ¢ Advantages at Bloomingdales’. In many lines of merchandise the average woman is a very able judge of grades, qualities and valu Take lingerie, embroideries, handkerchiefs, domestic dry goods, and, in some insta’ Ns—most women can tell in short order the exact worth of the article under inspection Some stores don't count on this when making statements. We do! And to this fact do we accredit much of the extraordinary success of this 1904 White Sale. Qual} is our watchword always, and from this standpoint we are quoting prices in this sale wholly unmatched by competition. Women who are judges of merchandise know it! Special Sale of Waists, $1.37! A special purchase of new flannel waists enables us to quote this ex- traordinary price. They are of all-wool twilled flannel very prettily made; the fronts piped with black, finished atneck with smart separate stock collar—the colors:navy blue, gray, green and tan and black. Take your pick to- 1 37 0 morrow at the ex: ceptional price of Twill Flannel Waists $1.69. Smart tailor-made style, with wide and narrow pleats; with separate stock collar; . good heavy weight: ali aesirable colors, as well as black | French Flannel Waists $1.98. Tailor-made, with pleats or hemstitched. front; assorted colors and black. Second Floor. 59th St. Seetion, » Smart Coats and Gretchens ~ For Girls and Misses. The girl's coat, which is a little the worse for wear now, may be re-%d placed by a brand-new, smart, thor- oughly up-to-date garment at a trifling outlay in this clearance sale . scheduled for to-morrow. The assortment ‘consists of Over forty distinct styles, __, including such materials as kersey, eZ velvet, corduroy, imported mixtures, plain cheviots and worsteds, in long and short coat styles. Sizes 5 to 14 years. $6 and $8 Coats for $3.75. $10 and $15 Coats for $6.75. $20 and $25 Coats for $9.75. Geoond Fioor, 50th St. Sect! Specials in Girls’ Dresses. We'll make it very interesting in the girls’ ” | dress section to-morrow by offering two of. the best values you've ever been invited to take advantage of. In each instance “ Prices Cut to Half Original, | The frocks are dainty, new, and every one the smartest of this season's styles. \ All-wool flannel and cashmere dresses, with j yoke and ruffle trimmed with velvet—the cash=- mere dresses have accordion-pleated ruffle trim= med with baby ribbon; sizes 2, 3 and 4 years. 7) $1.98 now—were $2.98. Fine tashmere and all-wool serge dresses, in | two styles, with tucked taffeta silk yoke, ruffle with medallions*of lace, and Russian style trim- med with silk braid and small buttons; sizes 6 to 14 years, Fy ? ~-Of velvet and cloth, in 2 large assortment Children’s Coats~¢ dainty juvenile styles, all_ differently. trimmed and and greatly | reduced in price; sizes 2, 5:2, 3\and'4 and 4 yerrs, 20 Ft, 9th at, See. Women’s Fine e Underwear, 19¢. Regularly 35c. to 50c. We could readily sell every gar- ment in the lot at from 35c. to 50c. each, but in order to make Satur- day a record-breaker in the wom- en's underwear section ‘we are ‘oing to let this splendid underwear go at 19. s a Phere are sho dozen in all—fleece-lined vests and French-band pants to match, in white and natural gray; all sizes, including extra large up to 52-inch bust measurement. Be here to-morrow between 8 and 12 A. M. if you would profit by the extraordinary bargain—per garment, No mail orders filled. Main Floor, 5otn 8t. Section. | Women’s Dressing Sacques, ie. | Sorry we couldn't get a bigger lot of these dressing sacques— only got 50 dozen—because they are the best valve you've ever seen for the money. Think of getting a dainty, warm, well-made SU, of all-wool apple ciderdown, The Kind Regularly Sold for 75c., in all desirable colors and svery size, at to-morrow’s c| extraordinary price ot Second Floor, 30th St, Section. No mail or ©. 0. D. orders filled. ci seecenoee wna 123c. for 25c. Hosiery! A Chance for Men, Women and Children! ; + forth and we must get rid of these 12,000 pairs if we yguld have a clear record on the stock-sheets, and the quickest way to do’ this is to offer something extraordinary in the way of bargain-giving. Here it is—regular Women's black cott On Sale To-Morrow Morning Only— 8 to12 A. M. The of hosiery 25c, hosiery for 1248. There are 1 stockings, with double soles; Women’s black cotton siockings, fleece lined, with double soles; Men's extra heavy & cotton socks, with double soles; Men's wool socks, in natural and Oxford mixed colors; Children's heavy corduroy ribbed stockings, with double knees; sizes 6 to 10. Main Floor, Seth St. Section) | BLOOMINGDALE BROS. } ALL CARS TRANSFER TO. } sa avenue, soth and 6oth Streets, | BLOOMINGDALES’,