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Augustus J. Brunson, of Plain- field, Was Experimenting Se- cretly with Chemicals When the Accident Happened. WORKED IN STRUCTURE BEHIND LOCKED DOORS. Not Even His Wife Knew What He Was Doing—Sought to} Repair an Engine Without! Calling in an Outsider. éSpeciai to The Evening World.) PLAINFIELD, N. J., Feb, 12.—Augus- us J. Brunson's desire to be known a’man of sc an Inventor ha cost him his He is to-day patient at Dr ndicott’s sani. tariumsat 2 nd Seventh Atreet, where all efforts to restore his sight have py fruitless. Speclalists, including Dr. Janeway, of New York, and several. prominent phy- Nelan§ from Philadetphiz, have been called in, but they have not been able 0 give Mr. Brunson any relief, In ad lition to the loss of his eyes, Mr. Br ton suffers severely from other bruises, (is hands are practically .usciess and | the upper part of his body ts a mass of bitsters, As a result Plainfleld loses the active service of a man Who as President of the First National Bank had done much for this city, He is rated as million- aire, and though only thirty-three years ad has always been one of its most progressive citizens Secret Experigentn. Mr. Brunson's misfortune is directly due to experiments he bh 1 se- eretly conducting for more than a year. No one can say positively what he solight to accomplish, but It Is thought he was at work upon a machine that would greatly cost of manu- facturing matches ed In high ex About Mr. bFected a pe ¢ huillding ‘far out Rock avenue, ty gonered with sheettrons It had do walls between which the hagoway louding to the Insic shop. No strangers were ever. per mitted to enter and an old man ‘has been o neonstant guard since the day place was built. here Mr. Brunson spent the greater tof hig time. He always worked With” the ddor locked, “He. had con- siderable machinery moved in and also. 4 large gusoline engine. Last week he was it Work when some- thing about the engine bechme d fanged. For fer that an. out called in to repair it might learn’ th secret held within ,the factory. My Brunson decided to do his own vepait- fag, In doiig so he caused the gas faniter ‘to explode, That end of the Dufldiiie was totally wrecked and Mr. Bruno was buried under ai muss of debris. | There he was found “by the aged attendant..who carried him in his ums to the Endicote Sanitarlurh, Secret Sfill Guarded, Dr. Endicott will permit no one to see or talk with Mr. Brunson, so {t 1s Impossible to learn the true secret of his: experiments. ven the old) man] who guarded his factory was not taken Into his confidence, Mr. Brunson was recent}s ied to Miss Gertrude Izard, of Ma nding, Bhe sald to-day that she was as ignor- ant of her husband's experimental work as-any one In Plainfield, TANDERER CURED HIS TOOTHACHE Chloral Put Him to Sleep, and Even Pins Stuck in Him Did Not Wake Him Up Til a Sur- geon Was Called. Louls Zanderer, n drug clerk, of No #3 East Fight was uf- fileted with) such Be © toothache this iti while visiting a friend who Ib fo, MM Fas in -ninth street, that he sent out for ebloral to| make him sleep. “Don't take too mucl the kind friend advised as Zanderer, the drug flerk, was pouring tt out. “Don't talk to me,” said Zanderer, |who died at No. 4 jvealed the fact that for ye 50 feet, | "|other kept in seclusion at No. 903, where daughte months ago at No. 407, had been aware jof his complicated marital affairs. She lived with him and the “secor' Mrs. Heyzer for several years before her | death, friend!y relations with his children and frequently called on them at No, #3. He also continued to support their mother, lived with his father at No. 407 was not married to him, and had no right to call look after the interests of the children and Northern Mason. ficlated at the initiations of President trar in the New York Ci for years, §200,000 ASKED viding for the payment of $200,000 to know. It's my business. Zanderer fell asleep as soon as the evidences of unnatural slumber that the | friend feared all not well, All th efforts to wake the drug clerk proved futile. Pins were stuck in Zanderer, he was, Wi 1 up and down the r n and hit briskly, but he persisted in si Finally the friends sent for Dr, Schnepel, of the Harlem Hospital. More pins were stuck In anderer, He was taken into the alr and walked up. and down the block and cuffed a bit. Then he Woke up and was sent home. — a ODELL MOURNS, ELLSWORTH. ” Governor in the Throng Which At- tends Funeral of Ex-Sen LOCKPORT. N. Y., Feb. 2 funera of ex-Senator (1. Was ‘hold at his late resifence this af- ternoon, the obsequies being attended, by friends und neighbors trem, Lock- | port ani wil Niagara County and by Qfficials from Washington and Albany A special train brought Gov, Odell and other State officials, together with the | committee from the Senate and As- sembly, The room where the body lay was a mass a flowers. Rey. :Willam F, Faber, of Grace, Hptscopal hurch, of which Col. Ell worth belonged, conducted the simple services at the house, after which the body was taken to Greenwood. Ceme tery for burial, All, business was sus- pended ‘between the hours of 1 and 5 rhe Queen Liltuokalant, formerly o} in satisfaction of all claims, “legal or chloral passed his lps. He gave such | equitable," was taken up in the Senate address measur ceded that Queen Lilluokalant had no had produced @ total revenue of $ land: neve’ r The debate i vi 7 ‘by Senator Mitchell, | passage of the bil D —$—= The Ru ‘Baath Wears 2 avAY Eres FEBituARY 12, 1904, ~ BANKER BLINDED RUSSIAN ARTILLERY PROTECTING TROOPS CROSSING THE YALU. BY AN EXPLOSION. NOTED MASON HAD 2 FAMILIES) Dual Establishments on Sixth Avenue Within a Few Blocks of Each Other, The death of Charles H. Heyzer, one of the foremost Masons in the count: Sixth axenue, re- rs he had seholds, and that two 1 grown-up children supported two h women and seve’ purned for him. Each of the women called herself his wife. Neither of them attended the impressive funeral ceremonies held at the Masonic Temole. One remained at No, 407, where he had dicd, and the she lived with her two son? and three Heyzer's mother, who died thirteen Edgar W. Heyzer, one of the sons of the dead map, ,,sajd,is. father and riotherinad drifted apart about eighteen years ago. Tt was at that time that Heyzer formed the alllance with the woman with whom he resided at No. 47. It was said that he continued The son said that the woman who herself his wife, He also sald that Hey- zer left some property, and that the family lawyer had been instructed to of all the N Masons since 18% count of his exalted position he of- Roosevelt. into” Matine ‘oc Lodge, on titled to that Sum to Cover pie "CRACKLING SNOW" THIEFS S FOOTSTEPS: While the cannes Brought Cheer to a Social Gathering the Robber Made Off with Host’s WASHINGTO Feb, 12.—The ‘ill pro- Hawaii, this afternoon, and Senator Blackburn d the § in support of the He said that while it ts con- legal claim, the Islands, wh Committee on Pacific had reported the bill, held that in equity she is entitled to compensation, He siated that while she exe i the functions of a sovereign she had an Income of $50,000, and in addition a for- tune of her own, All this she had lost, ‘und Mr. Blackburn contended that every n's sense of fair dealing would sug- st (hut some compensation be mad n sald that since the acquisition of the Hawallan Islands the crown lands which would have gone tothe Queen If Asworth sie hud remained on her throne, Senator Bpooner took thi nm that the Queen had wo interest 8 the title to those lands was posit japanese Death Grap Whe war between Russia and Japan promises to be one of the greatest con- | ficts im history, What do you know about ite, What are they fighting for? Which stands the best chance of win- |nlug? What does the scene of the war ltook lke? How far apart are Port | Arthur and St, Petersburg? Are you G'olock,. and many — bulldings “Wwere,| Interested? ‘If so, you should have'next draped in mourning. . ‘To Prevent Em cummonta: pareinn eis ine Ae uate $82 tt follow: the war Jn every dete In »| map of the theatre of war, and a host Sunday's World. It will have a colored of intelligent facts that will enable you Phe: World ‘Magasine, * SAFE ROBBERS GET BlG PLUNDER They Operate in Office Building, Blowing Open Strong-Box of and Carry Away Money. and Papers. MMNY KILLED I SANDOMINGOFIGHT Charles H. Heyzer Maintained Minister Powell Sends News to Washington of a Big Engage- Factional Forces at Sanchez. WASHINGTO: 12.—The State Department has received a cable from at San Domingo, that @ report has reached him of a big battle fought at Sanchez. ALBANY, Feb. 12—A safe‘in the law in the Albany | Minister Powell, Insurance Company Bullding on State . was blown open during last night information many |, both sides losing heavily, The French warship Trude had arrived | at San Domingo and departed immedi- Probably for Puerto Plata, the Jiminez rebols were creating din, The Spanish warship Rio de la which had also arrived at San Domingo, later followed the Trude. ROOSEVELT HIT ON PANAMA POLICY Senator Morgan Declares the President Has Been Planning for Two Years to Evade the Spooner Law. sum of $7,788 which was placed in with an estate now in process of set- TUSSI IT Tapantry Peddy For TAG ACS: attack- JAMES H. HOFFMAN |MRS.LORENZ FREE TABLET UNVEILED) IN POSTAL ee Twentieth Anniversary of the Court Orders Jury to Find A Verdict of Acquittal, the Evi-, dence Not Sustaining the Charges of Fraud. Is noselue to the robbers. ROSSEAU BOY WINS SUIT FOR $100,000 Appellate Division Affirms the Judgment Awarded by a Jury in Action Against the Broad- way Rouss Estate. ‘a MAN SHOOTS HIMSELE 10 DEATH Eighty-eight Years Old, Brooded Over His infirmities and Then Took His Own Life. lYork she c: Founding of Technological Celebrated. IIness and WASHINGTON, Fi j tal trial to-day aft submitted Justice | directed the jury to fl not gullty in the case of Mrs saying there was not sufficient evidence 12—In the pos- all the evidence WASHINGTON, i Morgan's resolution asking for ,infor- rv ‘mother, mation from the Attorney-General as to Heyzer had beeri Commander-in-Chief | What steps are being taken to aci quire thern Scottish Rite| the property of the New Panama Canal and was also a mem- | Company ber of the Supreme Council of the} this afternoon and Mr. Jurisdiction. On ac- | ni anniversary, of Toukaine of the Hebrew Mecnnclonisal . elehty-eight years old, , Was found dead in bed t-hole in his left. bre: day at his home, N | cabinet-mak, » Court to-day affirmed the judg- trial court in the case of 1a verdict of mont of the interesting yeeros was an unvelling of the tablet the graduates to the mem- y of James H. dent of the institution, ‘% Stuyvesant street. was found a revolver with one chamber empt night clothing was d held the revolver closo to lis body and fired a widower and. lived with his daughter and a niece. alive at 1 o'clock this morning by At 10 o'clock she went to his bedroom, which adjoins the kitehen, call him. She found nim dead, not see the bullet-hole nor the revolver from natural Antonio Zennanine, adjoining apartment, evidence of suicide » in the building heard the shot “GAS-HOUSE COP" CATCHES BURGLAR}: Policeman Has Fight with Pris-|' oner in Hallway—Finds Jimmy in Gutter and Two Bottles of Whiskey in Ash Barrel. . a8 executor, was taken up in the Senate harles B. R Charles B, Rouss. Morgan recog-! of his father, plaintiff ‘claimed to be the y in rebuttil was given to- ed to speak to it, he Alabamian stated that his throat }at No, was in such condition as to render Long Ysland. He had served ae Regie, (!mpoasible for him to deliver the speech stom-House | He therefore asked that Senator Car- mack might be permitted to read the spec There was no objection, eded ff read, overnment was John R. ad the original not mination ef Machen in the Postmaster- Rouss, and he sued upon a contract al- been made profile of the former head . bear’ this Inscription: of the plainuf, who sued in his behalf , and obtained m verdict for the actual judgment eneral Bristow on May 18 to the arrest, day Machen some of his replies to ques- ported correctly. d out to the Conrad that the reading in severa particulars diftere ten manuscript Tulles ‘to. cor and Mr, Car- To the: memor: full amount, mack procs tions were not r sitting by his side, Tt was poin' ‘The First President of the Hebrew Technical Institute. 1 supposed h ie the Court a beauti- “Autoblography of ved blanks in artistic design filled in under title heads arraignment of | the policy of the President in connec- fully gotten up book, mprising engr ‘This tablet in erected In urt would not asserting that ct his notes, eculve has been ars engaged In plauning the evasion for the past 1 “Baby's First Shoes,”* Charles Bro: y of the en Senator Blackburn Holds that! ,,\” ex-Queen of Hawaii Is En |‘°". Alumni Assoots ereises, and the tablet was p chairman of th a question by admitted that he d his notes in one instance, a word in a Replying to Samuel Sass, Memorial Committee. Bloomingdale, » Hebrew Technical Institute went into executi }to all having business with the eccen- first page mentior Counsel pointed out va- are met here to-day to do ti 4 pay tribute to our ices shown between ytes und the (ranseription were in- Rouss appealed f anniversary of whose birth is to-day r witnesses were heard the re eapectally ftting should take place tas that, this ceremon respectively on similar contracts tal testimony was r then moved that the jury directed to return a verdict of not — ASH CART HORSE BOLTED. orge W. Motley Fell oft Was Fatally —————__—_ « Father Dead. County Cler! Hamuton & Son, ci » would oppose y regain his health. father of County deal in his argun ndants in his opinion should be ess of a Vigilant young pa- |e rather for a <Blun Shoe st 'y recently Waterproof Sho: Cleaning Department, jured this afte being thrown rs of the force a raised in that district, “Tisten to the snow crackling on the wontleth str ‘said one of the guests at a so- hering in the home of Clark A. |. the Pelham road, New Ro- was frightened by clad counsel for th Lorenz gave charged with bur When passing the chelle, “What a nice, cheery wintry feeling it gives one, dvesn't it? 446 Guess Ul agreed that the sounds chimed in with the music like an obil- the lust guest nud gone y was stopped by mour Thompson at One rs ais he jolned tn in stopping the get at any price—even now we believe that 3 taken to the 2 else at Hood, Wright. Hospital ; 2 2 our very moderate price a ———_ agged from his ho not to be had any excused until Monday MILLS’S CONVICTION STANDS | the crown {found the window open. q aud jewels to the v 500 Weer missing, The soft, scraping sounds which had cheesy wintry Ings to the guests had been the faint & second-story few footprints in the snow were traces he had lett. secking him. * — BANKERS ROBBED BY SAFE BLOWERS. caught Dono given tence of Flower'n footfall of The police are now ming the judgment ¢ etion of Lawyer G: Cita Napoli eof grand tare Jonet di Giorgio INCOMING STEAMSHIPS, DUE TO-DAY Bada, Veluidad, Mills was trying to unlawfully wrds which were GUNBOAT RAMS Uh Ss. COLLIER} WwoopsTocK, lars blew open the safe of the private James Munro at Embro last night, securing a large sum money. They also blew open the safe of Moleons Bank -at Aylmer and stale Vise hey were tristitened away from and with the bank of Tol. OUTGOING STEAMBHIPS, BAILED TO-DAY, Buy of Birminghain, Afgpings, uraauars now in Sing t Concord In Justice Hatch “he Injuries sastained by raham and Lau ay pach ‘Charleston. Piylieiierale es A runt dissents, ‘Tha Conord was not Injured, aie cn ih i ht AN db ca ll st, . ‘3 COYNAMITE FOUND ON ThE MAJESTIC ‘Supposed Anarchist Arrested at Liverpool with Enough of the Explosion to Have Blown the Big Liner to Pieces. CAUGHT BY LIVERPOOL CUSTOMS INSPECTORS. Believed that He Was on His Way to Kill Emperor William or Some Other of the Eura- pean Rulers. -OOL. Feb, 12+—The custom officiuls this morning fod eighteen 3.00 detonators ession of an Austrian emi: nt on board the White Star line Steather Majestic. which left New York Feb. 3 and arrived here yesterday, The Austrian's trunk had a false bot tom, In which the dynamite was, cone cealed pounds of dynamite a In the py ri man, who ve the name of Ivap Taubanovic, sind who was ontenstbly hound for Carlstadt, was arrested and’ remanded until F 20, ai ‘tte Hi believed to be an Anarehiat and i ns mission wa to KI Emperg William or some other Europea, eee jah en the above despatch was shown tele ements of the White Star iinesin , iis city they declared that they had ote etn report of the finding f the dynamite in the emigrant’s trunk, They said that'thelr books showed that the man who was arrested In Haiverpool was booked with a number of other emigrants by the . Prantl Savings Bank of Pittsburg. He Inve the name of Ivan Liubanovic and 4 clared that he was bound for Carlstadt, whieh tein Croutht, a ore a province Austria, ; * The man was by other Austr: eived 4 kel with a score of nx who had been work= ing In the mines tear Pittsburg and had placed their savings in the Pittes burg bank. He gave his age ax thirty years wad stated that he was tnmare vied The steamship agents sald to-day that they had personal recollection uf the man. The customs officers who Ine spected the luggage of the steerage bassengers of the Mafostic when she sailed from New York could not recall the man or his trunk, ; When the Majestic sailed trom New ghty saloon passen- gers, sixty nd cabin passen- Bers and 207 steerage Among the first cabin passengers Were the two sons of the late Sir Mic chatl Herbert ert and Mj- chael Herbert. Other passengers wile were booked from New York were: Mr. J. Ackland, Misy Bidwell, Mr. H. +E, rd E. Bridge, Mr. Bros 5 . Carter, jr. Alexander Smita Botha, John W. Cox, John Cuflen, J. Cuthbertson, H. A. Pastore Miss Allee, Eastwood. Sins J.D. Eppes, Gallaghe! C. Harny a hire Bdee Harris. W. A. Haughton, Ben Hein Mrs, t Mors: WORKED IN PITTSBURG > IN THE IRON MILLS, (Special to The Evening World.) PITTSBURG, Pa, Feb. 12.—Sui Mtendent of Detectives Thomas McQuaide this afternoon detailed eral of his detectives on the case, and upon investigation found that the men{ on the Maiestic are probably Cano Lubany! and Ivan Brozovi, who secured passage through thé agency conducted by the Franklin Savings and Trust Company of Pittsburg. They pros" cured passage for Karlstadt, Crotla, on Jan, 9. They s@med to have of money, none of which they had changed into foreign currency. The men came to this country about two and a half years ago, and for @ sh time worked in the mines about the city. r the past two Marit ia mployed in Rey Gould. talk very: tile nee and were known as troublesome n among those with Whom the: worked, Nothing more is known of —<—<— 5 ‘The Battle of the Brooklyn Bridge, Stirring ounts of conflicts in the Far Kast are of comparatively little tm- terest to one portion of the population of New York—that which crosses the Brooklyn Bridge at the rush hour every duy, There is nothing like it in the world. If you are a Brooklynite you Will be Interested, and if you are not one you will be shocked, when you read : graphic article and see the photo graphs of this daily fight between thove «| sands, in next Sunday's Wor! 1. jae iis, In next Sunday orld Magiy Blucher and the popular lace cut, were impossible to even now we bel are manufacturing retailers—with every facility for the economical production of depend- able Shoes in all grades. 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