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} COURS MESSAGE layed an Hour for the Arrival Important Despatches, HURRIED FROM MONTREAL ON FAST SPECIAL TRAIN.! « The Sailing of the Big Vessel Was Delayed at the Request of the Russian Government— Started an Hour Late. By request of the Russian Govern- ment the French liner La ‘Pouraine, which should have sailed at 10 o'clock this morning, was held at her pier in the North River for an hour. Lieut.-Col. A. D. Dabovaky, of the Russian Army. bearing most important Yespatches from the commanders in the far East for the Czar and his Ministers, tame on a spectal train from Montreal to New York. and it was for him that the big liner with her cabins full of pas- hengers was held. Ordered Ship to Stop. Capt. F. A. Fafolle. of the Touraine. had given the order to cast off the line. the whistles had blown and the gang- Planks were being put aside while the Passengers and the friends on the vier were waving farewells, when Agent Bocande, of the Frerich line, came run- ning down the pler. He yelled to the taptain on the bridge and waved sever- al telegrams and cablegrams in his hand. The engines were stopped and the Gangplank run up again, Bocande showed the captain the telegrams from the Russian officer, saying he w: coming as fast as he could and asking that the ship be held for him. “No, no,” said the captain; “we wait for no one. ‘Then the agent showed a cablegram from the head offices of the French line tn’ Paris to Capt. Fajolle In*which {t was sald that on the order cf the Frenck Government and by request of the Russian Government he was to hold for the Russian officer jt moment when it would be possible to get out of the harbor on “Oh! that's different,’ tain, “We wait, but no French linet ever waited before.” 5 The news spread on the pler and throughout the ship, and every one waited in -euepense for the arrival of ‘he Russian army ‘officer. ‘Chey had waited an hour when sud- denly there was a cry at the head of the pler and a barouche drawn by two foamy horses dashed in through the crowd and stopped at the foot of the gangplank. Lleut.-Col. ‘Dabovsky, covered from head to foot with gold lace and many medals, jumped from the carriage and ran up the gangplank. A man followed him with two heavy vallses. A half a ‘iozen dockwallopers hustled a flat trunk board. ‘rhe passengers cheered the new ar- rival, the whistles bigw and the ‘Tour- fine poked her nose out into the river, turned and scurried away for Sandy Hook, an hour late, * Uletit.-Col. Dabovsky come from Yokohama, landing “at Victoria and crossing the continent on the Canadian vacific.. At Montreal he saw he would too late to catch the Touraine if he took the regular train, so he cabled his Govertiment to use its Influence with che Brench Government and tn line to have the steamship walt for h and thon he lired a special train and a came through, had tuey! YOU SHOULD not ~~: discouraged beca you do not reap results, You undoubtedly do not . ADVERTISE your wants jn the only known result producer (The World). There are a ew using World Wants, why not you? 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ENGRAVERS EXAMINELS ASueevarBsstorse _ OS SHIP WAITED FOR | French Liner La Touraine De- of Russian Officer Bearing “| ter the strike was settléd I couldn't CLOSES 6O0E HEHE G04 29D9TDD LODHD99S9-999999909H999H90OH-0990S-9O9699809:99 SO8O000O008000 ES BE RIS) WURTD ry I ny WANT YOU, DRAWN ODD9-09O-090H9D $00006-09600.0090060060+ DAVE eeees CARTOONIST $992932 FI9STSH9F99099299 o* PrdEdooF 2 RRR REED ip WIFE ILL, HE STOLE TO BUY HER FOOD Pathetic Scene in the Police Conrt When Young Woman Pleads to Keep Her Husband from Going to Prison. Arthur Gomez, a young Cuban cigar- twaker, was arraigned to-day in the Yorkville Court on a charge of petty larceny. The cgmplainant was Joseph Curran, a plumber, of No. 305 Hast Sixty-second street. Curran said that his clothes and pawned Gomez pleaded guilty, but told a story to Magistrate Whitman that excited the sympathy of all in the cqurt-room, and If Gomez's wife fails to raise the neces- sary money the court officials will try ty prevent, if possible. the going to Jail of the young Cuban, Mrs, Gomez was in court. Her face was frightfully scarred and her body wasted by sick- ness, It was to keep her allve that the. husband stole the clothes and after” ward pawned them. “T have been marrjed a year,” said Gomez. ‘Three,months ago there was a fire in our room and my wife was badly burned. Doctors’ bills took all I dered a month ago and being a union man I stood out with the others, At- work again, ‘My room rent, $2.25, was due and I didn’t know what to do. “I went out and determined to get money for my wife's support. I had a friend living where the plumber lived and I knew I could get {t from him. He wasn't home. While passing the plumber's room I saw the clothes and I took them. Then I pawned them and spent the money only on necessities for my wife.’ “What can I do?” sald the Magis- trate. “By the confession the man stands guilty,” “Please don't send him to jail.” besged the woman, “I didn't know that he would steal for me when he left the house, and he didn’t say how he go. the money. Let him go, I'll go out and get the tnoney some way even if I have to beg for it, Please give me time.” Curran would not withdraw the charges. ‘The Magistrate was affectod by the woman's plea. He gave her time to raise the money, Atter the Womez family left the court room the clerks and other officials got together iacy pledged the sum to the Magli~ trate If Mra. Gomez should be unaole to raise it, Dr. Draper Wouldn't Come Eant, URBEFUL MEN .. 4 WAIST MANDS.. 3 HEMSTITCHERS. 3| WAITERS u BOUSEWORK .. 88) WAITRESSES... 9 MIBCEL, . ...44..184 TOTAL .. CHAMPAIGN, Ul, Jan, %.—The re- port that Dr. Andrew 8. Draper, Prest- dent of the State University, may gv to New York to be State Conimissione of Bducatis authoritatively d It ie stated. that he vould not conmlao any. og ay to leave his 4 position to go East. had. Where I worked a strike was or-|® DIGGING GRAVES FOR DEAD MINERS Seventy-eight Bodies Thus Far Recovered Will Be Buried in Half-Acre Plot Purchased by Coal Company. PITTSBURG, Jan. %3.—Burial of the victims of the Harwick mine explosion begins to-day. Half a hundred men are digging graves os fast as the frozen earth will permit. The interment will take place in a half acre plot adjoining the Lutheran Cemetery, between Ches- wick and Springdale, purchased by the Harwick Coal Comrany, There are now seventy-eiht awaiting burial, The charfed and burned pit is hourly disgoreing the maimed and distorted bodies of the un- forfunate miners. The rescuers are workiifz in three-hour shifts, and even this short stretch of work is too much for some of them so foul are gases in the mine. As fast as the bodies are brought up they are carted up the hill to the school- house, where the undertakers and their nts await them. The remnants of clothing that have not been burned off or torn off by the fire and force of the explosion are stripped from the bodies by the undertakers and clean white sheets are wrapped about them. Arrived to Find Husbands Dead. Many pathetic scenes have been wit- nessed since the explosion, but there has been none that snade such a pro- found impression upon those connected with the mifte as the arrival of two Hungarian women from Europe yester- day. They arrived at the little station here yesterday and sat waiting in the bitter cold for some one to come after them, One of the women had a letter which she anxiously consulted from time to time. Finnlly-one of the men asked the woman with the letter whom she was expecting, She displayed ler let- ter, It was an affectionate letter from her husband, who was one of the work- her full di- bodies: ers in the mine, It gave reclions how to reach the town of Cheswick. and concluded with the injunction for (he wife to wait at tie station and the husvand would comv to get her, Seance FOUR MINERS KILLED IN FALL OF SHAFT CAGE. BROWNSVILLE, Pa., Jan. 28.--While a number of laborers were Leing low- ered into the new shart of the Briar Hill Coal Company near here to-day the’ cage broke and .ell vo the bottom, 30) ‘Boar ‘mn are reported dead and a NATIONAL SURETY CO. NOW HAS NEW HEA | William B. Joyce, Western Man- ager of Concern, Takes Full Charge of Its Affairs as Act- ing President. Fresh from Chicago, with a breezy Western manner, William B. Joyce to- day took full charge of the affairs of the National Surety Company as Act- ing President, Immediately upon his coming into’ the offices, at No. 36 Broadway, the offictal announcement was made through William J. Griffin, one of the vice-presidents, that the company would continue in business In all of its offices in the United States and that the rumors that it was to retire were unfounded. ‘The troubles of the National Surety Company have been brewing for a year or more, It is sald that certain of the stockholders and officers were diseatixted with the management of Charles A, Dean, the President. A meeting was called and the resignations of Mr. Dean, Thomas F. Goodrich, Vice: President. and Ballard McCall, Sec tary, were offered. Mr. Dean's resignation was accepted to take pluce at once. ‘The resixna- tions of Mr, Goodrich and Mr, McCall were tabled and will be acted upon at the first meeting of the Board of Di- rectors. It is not belleved that either will be accepted. The rumors that the company was to quit business followed the resignation of Mr, Dean, The company was or ganized in 1897 with a capital of $500,000. The main office in the New York Lift Building is large and very expensive. There is an office force of more than a hundred. Offices were also established in, the West, and William B. Joyce was m Western manager. hrough hin work he attracted the at- tention of the New York directors, These directors are Perry Belmont, W. D. Baldwin, James A, BH y Gould, Henry C. Payne, William B. Hornblower R. Wilson, Samuel R. Shipley, J. Ed- ward Simmons and Samuel Slow, jr The directors invited Mr. Joyce to ome to New York and become’ Presi dent of the ¢ He was le acting Pr at once and wil be clected President at the next meeting of rectors. Richard Olney, Tnese r sensiona we fallure of the comps fd Mr. Griffin y has made mon vad, nonay that the company will’ continue to do business and will be more active than ever,” oo You will waste a lot of time looking through dictionaries and encyclo- pedias for facts. You will save time Py egnaulting ‘hay World Almanac nt cyclopedia. Erice 26 cents, b; mail 35 cents, ‘ nM “ eae Be area) |No. 288 Oakland street. FOOTPAD VICTIM FOUGHT RESCUER After the Robbers Were Routed White Attacked Stranger Who Had Aided Him, and Both Were Locked Up. Fred Taeton, of No. 29 Jackson street, Williamsburg, was in the Ewen Street Police Court to-day accused of fighting on the street. So was James White, or Jast night White, returning from a ball with a young lady, was attackea Ly two footpads. Tacton went to his assistance, but in the dark White thought that Taeton was No, 3 of tne sacred Order of Knights of the» Road. He went at Taoton, It was a sad night for White and Taecton, both of whom were taken to prison for conduct on the street nor becoming to two gentlemen, one ot whom was in exquisite evening clothes. Tackled the Wrong Man, “I was on Manhattan avenue, near Jackson street, when two men jumped out of the darkness and attacked Miss Bouten and myself,” said White, “T fought with one of them and Miss Bou- ten struggled with the other, The man who trled to get my watch was having @ hard time of it, Then another mi came into the Nght. When I finished my man I found this third party re- maining, Of course I took him on," ‘Tateon's face showed the wear and tear of the night before, He said: "I found the man attacking the girl and I went to the rescue. I finished my men in quick fashion and then this man tackled me. Of course, I had to fight t9 protect myself. I was forced into it. After a hard go a policeman took both of us.” y The girl, Miss Della Bouten, about that Ume lost some of her self-posses- sion and remained speechless. She for- got to explain things (0 the officer and the gay cavallers were taken (0 the sta- tlon-house White Was Amazed, Weil, who'd ever thought it.” xaid White fn court. "And all the time i thought he was. bud man just ike the others. | was so flustered that I couldn't Just explain ft last night,” remarked Miss Bouter, While it Insted she had put up a game resistance to the on slaught of footpad No, 2 The Magis- trate after figuring up the factal and bodily damage excused both men An hour before this hold-up Henry Ehm, a photographer of No. Broud way, Willamsburg. was attacked by two masked mon. He wan at Slegel and Graham avenues st the time, He put up a fight and his cries aroused a po AD OFFICAL Coroner Scho'er at Inquest Over Mrs. Codrington, Who Was Killed on Track. Will Make < Searching Investigation. als of the °L" criminal negligence rood may be for in Mrs. Male rington, who fell or was crowded from the platform of @ Sixth at Eighteenth street on Tf {t is tound at the inquest. which 1 shail hold on Monday. into the of Mrs Mate Hattie Codiingte Coroner Bcholer, “that the eate of Sixth avenue vlevatcd car from which ahe fell to her dawth was open, it will be recommended that the G; ad Jury find indictments against the directors and officials of the Interborourh Rapid- Transit Comrany. 3 Christopher George, the guard who was in charge of the car from which Codrington fell, says that the were open and that the platforms of the cars were so jammed with peo- ple that it was impossivle to close them. People familiar with conditions on the “L" road during rush hours have seen guards in just such a predicament as George found himself, not once, but thousands of time: Gate Was Not Clom David E. Ostro, of No. 6690 Lenox ave- nue, who was the man just In front of Mrs, Codrington on the car platform, says Positively that the gates were not closed; 80 here is the admission of the guard and the confirmation by Os- tro, a reputable witness. The law on the matter Is contained in section 139 of the General Laws, chapter 665, of the luwa of 1890, as amefided. It reads: Section 13%.—Trains to come to a full stop. etc.—All trains upon elevated rall- roads shall come to a full stop before enger shall be permitted to trains; and no trains on such says the leay every passenger desiring to depart therefrom shall have left the train, pro- vided such passenger has manifested his or her intention to so depart by mov- ing toward or upon the platform of any car, nor until every pa: upon the platform or station at which such train has stopped and desires to board or enter such cars, shall have actually boarded or entered the same. but no person shall be permitted to enter or board any train after due notice from an authorized em- ployee of-such corporation that such train fs full, and that no more passen- gers can be received, The statement of Supt. Frank Hedley, of the Manhattan system, is interest- ing. He says ‘ “Tt in absolutely certain from many witnesses that the gate was shut.” ‘This is denied by Guard George, David E. Ostro and others. Mr. Hedley does not give the names of his witnesses, Superintendent's Explanation. In explanation of the apparent cal- lousness of the employees of the road in permitting train after train to roll by without making any attempt to go to Mrs. Codrington’s assistance, Mr. Hedley says. “Both the platform man and ticket= chopper belisved the woman had fallen from the train intq the street. They both ran down stairs and ,under the tracks to pick her up, and while they were gone several trains ran past the bod: Edward Rich and Daniel O'Connell, who stood on Sixth avenue near Eighteenth street, saw the woman clinging to the car by one hand and at once ran to the Eighteenth street sta- tion to tell the platform man what they had seen, They found the plat- form man nat his post, and they de- clare that he laughed at their story. ‘They boarded a train and saw the body They asked the train guard to stop and he pald no attention. Mr. Hedley last night added to his other statements by saying that he had had a long talk with George, the guard, and that George had decinred he had closed the gates before giving the sig- nal to go ahead. d McAdoo Investigating Report. Coroner Scholer will hold his inquest on Monday. He will subpoena all the witnesses possible with a view of deter- minthg what he says 18 a most vital point, whether or not the gates were closed when Mrs. Codrington boarded the train, Nine subpoenas h ready been issued. In the mean time Police Commissioner McAdoo is investigating a report that ‘© a«l- the police were very tardy in starting their investigation, being content to rest on the assumption that the whole af- fair was an unavoidable accident. The State Railroad Commission has also detailed an inspector to learn de- tails for thelr especial edification, The body of Mrs. Codrington Is still at Roth's undertaking rooms at No. 393 Seventh avenue, Mrs. Codrington's husband viewed the body yesterday and ain re te ‘vodrington said ‘later that he would bury his wife tn Kensico Ceme. will be held on Saturday at 2 P. M. at Roth's establishment. MRS. LYON RE-ELECTED. The Queen of Clubs was officially re- crowned yesterday. Mrs Dore Lyon felectic Club at Delmonico's in an at mosphere of peace that spoke volumes for the war that preceded It The defeat of Mrs. George Howe Winkler and the victory of Mrs, Joseph Cozzino over Mrs. George Finck in the contest for .the office of First Vice President that the oppositio: harmony. 3 new meni dure Mrs ni Olin. Gray," Mtr Mrs. Richi nn FY. Zeb hath Da “rhe Much discussion. x'F te onorable Hash, fash will probably be honored by Wernmental recognition. Commissary Gastero 4a Gifelens pati of the CoMde's, under orders to muse experiments in the use of hash, huve issued canned hash to some of the troops with most + i Nesnon 5 Ae. pseatlonts lectins hurry and escaped. The police jeve the same men attacked White and Miss ———— satisfactory result ments Are as sal 0 probably be introduced as @ tation of the army. rullroad shall be permitted to start untll, tery, near White Plains, The funeral was re-elected to the presidency of the | ter, Mrs. | PASSES AWAY ' Dies, Cespite Efforts of Phys- icians, While Her Husband Is Racing to Her Bedside on a Record-Breaking Train. MOTHER REACHES CITY | TOO LATE TO SEE HER. | Daughter-in-Law of Senator from Montana Suffered Re- lapse When it Was Thought She Had Been Cured. save her life, nt least until her husband could reach her bedside, Mrs. Charles | Walker Clark in dead in the apartments of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Addison in the Algonquin. Death came last night. The special train which ts bearing the son of the Montana Senator to this city will not reach Chicago until just in time for him to eatch the fast Twentieth Century Limited over the Lake Shore. Mr. Clark was in Jerome, Ariz., when the news of his wife's seriots iliness reached him. He had left this cltv a few weeks sro in the belief that Mrs. Clark had almost entirely recovered from the attack of Bright's disease for which she came from their home in San Mateo, Cal., for treatment in the fall. He at once ordered a special train on the Santa Fe, and the officials of the road promised him that all records to Chicago would be broken. With ideal conditions for speed all along the linc the special was given the right of way with a schedule of 1,877 miles to Chi- cago in twenty-nine and one-half hours. Mr. Clark wired from Kansas City that his train was ahead of the schedule and that only some unforeseen accident would prevent him catching the Twen- tieth Century, which would bring him to New York early to-morrow morning. ‘The, physicians redoubled their efforts to retain the spark of life that re- mained In Mrs. Clark, but it was futile, Mrs. M, L. Cunningham, Mrs. Clark's mother, arrived here to-day. She, too, had raced against death. She did not know she was too late until she stepped from the train. Mrs, W. L. ennick, Mrs, Clark's sister, is ex- pected from Futte, Mont. during the day. word from Madison, Ia., that the Clark special had lost over two hours would not arrive in Chicago before 1.20 P. M., too late for the Twentieth Cen- tury Limited on the Lake Shore. KANBAS CITY, Mo., Jan. train bearing Mr. C here this morning several hours. late. It had been delayed by heavy snows. At the station, a ir, Luke, a fri of Mr. Clark, boarded the train and told him of the death of Mrs. Clark. In spite of the efforts of physicians to! CHICAGO, Jan. 2%.—Train despatchers of the Santa Fe in Chicago received | the Pensecola Club were present 2%—The sh rk passed through id} Lou! GALS SAE OLD WAN FROM FRE Two Dash into Blazing. Room. Drag Him to Roof of Veranday from Which They Jump to Escape Flames. BOTH BURNED AND NOW og UNDER DOCTOR'S CARE. | Occupants of the House, Warned — of Danger, Leap to Snow Banks, Thinly Clad and Suf- fer from Cold. (Specta) to The Evening World. WHITE PLAINS, N. ¥., Jan. Mer), ‘Through the brave action ofthe Miah Blanche and Elizabeth Bayliss, Ca Ap ers of Mre, Elizabeth Bayliss, thelr’, uncle Henry Bedlow, eighty-three ‘ old, was saved from being burned in &” fire which practically destroyed their home at No, 6 Hamilton avenue, early to-day. 4a P Miss Katharine Baygiss. daughter, was Swakeneal iy ‘tne snout! Ag and as she opened the door of her bed-) |) room flames which filled the hallway!" singed her hair and drove her back. Shouting warnings to the other o¢= cupants of the house she, braving smoke }- and flame, dashed to the room of het mother and awakened her. Then’ they Bs both jumped ‘out of the second story, bs windows’ into snow beneath, Se | dt. Bedlow cecupled a room’ over» A looking the top of the front yes. Ke and Elizabeth and Blanche ran into hit. | room and by main force carried him’ |” out of a window on the roof, where was resuced by Policeman Ci while the girls had to jump from veranda roof to escape the flames. Mins Katherine Bayliss’ was burned about the head and hands carrying out her rescue work and sister also suffered from burns, are now under a doctor's care. : All in the house were forced to esc attired only in their night clothes, as there was an {cy wind they greatly from the intense cold. © ag) The. blaze caused $20,000 damage, , Bee — rena) " | e ) Bo Fe Onkley in = Rose Bower, oe Commissioner John T. Oakley. , of the Fourteenth Assembly District, gave his annual entertainment and b last night in the Lexington A) Opera-House. -All of the members ei there were many visiting political lead- ers, Commissioner Oakley stood im 4 bower of roses and welcomed every ag, who w ere ex-She! joner Francis John Cc CORBY, Doc! Maurice Featherson, “Florri james Fri ust ‘Tom’ ¥. Ahearn, ffen, John ‘ie 2 ictor J. 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