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WEHEATHER—Faitr, colder; # 110°CLOCK NIGHT EXTRA | Lom | e Circulation Books Open to All.” SA’ rv RDAY, FEBRU RUARY 2 20, yi : Fir __ BANKER ADMITS PRICE ONE CENT. THRILLING LEAP ~NEW YORK, SA JAPANESE TROOPS “ON FIRING LINE. (Drawn Expressly for The Evening World by Artist George N. MeEvoy.) DODO OF BOY BURGLAR ‘p= Fiteen-Year-Old Louis Delfos. Jumps Thirty-five feet from a} Roof in His Effort to Avoid 3 Capture. CHASED ON HOUSETOPS AND UP AND DOWN STAIRS. | | Thief and Companion Had Been! Caught at Work in an Apart: | ment-House—He Was Badly, Injured, John Polloc’ flat at No, Twenty-fourth young street, discovered two thleves in his apartment’ Inte thls afternoon and ran out in the etree? and notified Policeman Stackhouse, of | the West One Mundred and Twenty- fifth Street Station. Stackhouse went to the house and captured Joseph tong, fifteen old, of No, East One Hundred and First street, He wax about to take him to the station-house when a neighbor of the Pollocks told him that the other | hoy bad tled to the roof. Turning Long over to a citizen, Stackhouse went to the roof and discovered the other boy. Louls Delfus, fifteen yours old, of No. SM East Ninety-eighth street, hiding behind a chimney, When Deltus saw the policeman he went through the scuttle ef the hoyse at No. G17, Stackhouse went to xireet through the house at No. 319 and met Teifus on the sidewalic Instantly the boy turned and ran up the stairs | again to the roof, the policeman clo: behind Deifus ran across roofs until he reached No. 329. ‘There he paused for an instant, us there was a drop of thirty-five feet to the next roof. Turn- ing arotnd he saw Stackhouse close be- hind him so he jumped, breating on) hits legs and injuring himself internat ‘The policeman went back to the-strect } and there entered No. 29) went to the roof and made a prisoner of the Injured hoy. Both prisoners were taken to the sta-~ tion-house, where a full set of burglars’ tools were taken from their persons. They also had a quantity of loot, cluding four watches, two diamond rings and a number o ftrinkets of in- significant “value: An ambulance sur- geon dressed Delfus's injuries and he was then locked up. Both boys will be arraigned in the Harlem Court to- morrow. “{ITTLETIN' I MAVCR'S CHAIR McClellan and Fornes Both Out of Town, and Alderman Sulli- van Does the Honors Grace-| fully at City Hall. In the absence to-duy Clellan and President Boned of Aldermen, Vic P, Sullivan, Alderman and Tams many iender, 1s acting Mayor of the olty) Acting Mayor Sullivan, if you pleasa a communieption petitying him that he would be required to take the Muyor's|> chair for tho day or o part thereof. “Latde fim" beg pardon, Acting Mo hulilvan-—was content to enter the Ma; or’s private room officially, then retire the corridor of the City Hall, wher® he $ court among his followers, who came to pay thelr regpects, He wore a frock coat, striped trousers 4nd a spotless white vest, (rom the front of which depended @ neat gold chaln, A three-carat Solitaire flashed in his shirt front. Instead of a high hat, whiell is always affected by May: “Little Tim —bex pardon, Acting Mayor Sullivan disported a derby. Being a holiday, few visitors called at the Fiall to see the Muyor, but the act- ing Mayor received graciously those who aid, the rea! Mayor gracefully, Section 23, of the Charter gives the acting Mayor the power to sigh ordin- ances:-and make appointments after nine days, and the powers of acting Mayor mAy be vested either in the President of the Hoard of Aldermen or the Vice-Chairman. “Suppose Mayor McClellan and Presi- | dent oines don’t show up for nine days?’ a/constituent asked the acting Mayor to'duy! “I-wonld then be privi- leged to make appointments, and they Would be corkecs, ‘ty0,".answeres Al- derdian Sullivan, “We propos to give But or the city the best ever, Nothing is too! d tor New Yorkers and my uppoint- | F faents, if the facta willed it, would be be even Dr. Parkhurst. ugeeptable pe A Tal wane TO BE A STATE. Porto Rico, Fgh, Napeinbty tordity, by av who occupied the top| 9 West One Hundred and | years | the} He apologized for the absence of | ne Rueaing fo the font he opened up a up a seinting lead be ied tunt Porto Rico be pun aroumd 0) ood or thm he Utana|iorks hol 2330996 emmunieeces ae Bt tse a NE DOSER TRIBES. HILL i i ~BEATEN AT NEW ORLEANS, Count ‘Em Out, at Odds of 10-to 1, | leans Railway Stakes —Conundrum and Floral King Win ‘Again. NPW ORL! fa, Feb, %.—The racing stewai eare investigatins | WINNERS. charges preferred against ‘rater | = James Deviin, of the 8. V. Abel stablo,| FIRST RACE—Ball Hornet: (7, to two of his former employees, who|1) 1, Phiora. (15 to 1) 2, Young by | that he has been in the habitvat| Jegse 3. ng Clangor, Ancke and obner | eas {horses in the Abel stable. | SECOND RACE—Conundrum (6 ta | The death of Seoretary s) 5) 1, Clarem wife prevented. the stewards| (>. Claremont (7 to 2) 2 Gus Heidorn 3, ering the case this morning, Leander Sire, the New York theatrica THIRD RACE—Floral King (4 to }manager, ts i,corested in the Abel stable. Mr. Sire hus just returned hero 5). 1; Hymettus (10 to 1), 2; New fram Chicago, wherd, he dispoved Of] Mown Hay third, t api ES north ortt'| FOURTH RACE-Count ‘Em Out | (90 to 1), 1; Huzzah (5 to 1), 2; Tribes Hill third. \ sp Jast nist! shape, furlpng. jet 1 trance $20; for pun culds und Upward) selling, ht Jockey, St. Ht. Liv'ton Sadducee (4 to 1), 2; Rolliek tI, third. i #* Thotneycroft (3 to 2), 2; Free Admission, 3. $0 “got eaught‘in the barrl Jat the post and was draged of He f or! again sachs, ‘Then 5: the becter Huston, and runn away a milo, | swerved over into the outside tence and | so badly 1 it a runaway of He had been | hard ridden the last eighth to stall oft} Pilora, who finished second 4 six f three-yetrv et 85 Won arly Robbins. i$, SVN" 10% the start cam standing slideway ractically left at the post t the early pace. but in the run down the back sttetch Count ‘em Out caught ake Was FI RACK* Purse $100" Randlbape Yor three-year-olds Jievgotld: have won om had io ao de: | sired, Th ewlnner was boosted $805 over | ant up. hig ente price af $100 and bought in | | Start by his owner: | $oorptc THIRD RACE Won xal loping a ‘piace sanily. A with Scarplo miniged to get away a selcot! his Held andoin the run down the by gtretch rushed to the front and opencd e they had gone dozen lei in, the & quarters AC no stage of the trip was | frat cura Witson then Bearplo fully extended. Fuller eat, atit (3, Sutwan Unable to re-1 and let him romp along about his, busl- enicring the home yeas, winning wt the en, din a common ig geared to the out; canter. erat Ring, heavily hacked b: tfew, rade & show of his competitors, lead of ha’ id of srav him, Eretcn Flom Beats Him in Race for the New Or-} | FIFTH RAGE—Scorpio (1 to-3), VW} four arpenter 107 passed him, and in the run argund | fe Rurees, 1 un tura opened up a win nd, | | i Jin the fina 1 4 long, hard drive to | m Huzzah. With an cae ihe! latter could not have DP-DDLOD.DDDHHOHHHOHHHHHHGHDOGOOHHIDOHOS H6-HHHHHHHH-HHHHHHHHHHHOYD DHODH: | | | | SIXTH RACE:—Col. Tyler (8 to 5),) ia TAKE SAILORS OFF i )| broken up to a large extent in the las: | | tives when two Baltimore and Ohio tugs 69900 % be 3999-9995-0000 6090900992 ' Chanes é Broach, Broach, Assistant FORGERY CHARGE » Cashier of Equitable National, Which Is in Receiver’s Hands, Arrested and Admits Guilt. HE IS ALSO ACCUSED OF GRAND LARCENY. ing in Wall Street; that He Is Not the First Young Man Who Has Gone Wrong. Charles F. Broach, assistant cashier of the Equitable Natipnal Bank, which went into the hands of a receiver on Feb. 10 last, was arrested to-day in the office of Assistant District-Attorney Paul Krotel on charges of forgery and grand larceny made by Harry C. Mott, President: of the National Bank of Northport, L. 1. Broach was the owner of ten shares of the Equitable National Bank, which he held in one share certificates. Some months ago he negotiated a loan. of $3,000 from the National Bank of North- port, giving a certificate for ninety shares of Equitable stock. The re bility of this collateral was never que: tloned by the Long Island Bank until the Comptroller of the Currency closed the Equitable Bank ten days-ago and placed his own brother, National Bank Examiner Edward Ridgley in as re- ceiver, Were Allayed. The fact that Broach was a director of the Equitable as well /as the as- UP THRE HN KLE |Four Counties Shaken. thy. the Terrific Shock, Force- of Which Was ‘Felt Forty Miles Away, “Thousands-Be- lieving an Earthquake Had Occutred.. Three of the largest mills of the: Laflin-Rand Powder Company, -at Wayne, N..J., blew up to-day while a-hundred:-men were at-work. Three of the workmen lost their-lives, two being literally blown to atoms and the body of the third being so mangled and torn that it was recognizable only by fragments of clothing clinging to it. A number of men ase reported badly injured, but Wetails are difficult to get owing to the refusal of the officials.in charge of-the plant. to give | out any information. The force of the explosions: was. feii-for forty miles and chimneys and windows of all buildings within a radius of a mile-and-a half were shattered. The names of the dead are: THE DEAD. JANSEN, ALBERT, of Lincoln Park. WARE, JAMES, of Pequanhoch. WEIMER, FRED, of Wayne. . The bodies of Weimer and Jansen will never be recovered. They were in the building where the first explosion occurred and notning is left of them. Ware's body was blown fifty feet in air. It is little short of a miracle that more men were not killed, but at the first explosion there was a rush from all of the buildings of the plant, and 2 score of men who migat have been killed but for their alacrity were only cut and bruised by flying debris. ‘Several were thrown to the ground with such force by, the concussion that it was several minutes before they were able to rise. In all there are about a dozen buildings in the plant, all one-story af- fairs. The men, who live at Wayne or in the nearby country, went to work (Continued on Second Page.) the companion ladder to the cabin when the explosion took place, was It by a piece of red-hot Jron and badly burned. ‘The flames soon enveloped him, and he was dragged to safety with difficulty by mbers of the crew. BURNING VESSEL’ i e water were smashed by the ice that | Lashed gkeinst the boat Ten Men Raiahy by Tugs from) "h# fre noo spread to the cargo and the fire spread beyond conirol of the bucket brigade organized by the salle nd the buckets they lgwered Into 4 dense vol loped th the Big Schooner Frank Ben " to the for. do pur Yr where the Which Was on Fire | samesSsoon edict, Near Robbins Reef. anced upon them, ‘Th. swung on davits at, Were vurneu ‘The three-masted schooner Frank Ben edict a hored off Robbin's Reef, we burned to tho water Ine to-day and |) the ten members of her crew who were) a uute an board barely escaped with thel \ssistan 2 We sulO, » they cuuid came to thelr rescue. Five men were | fuken off the burning boat unconscious) and all were s erely burned in she) ik attompts to extinguish the flames, The schooner arrivéd in_port several | y ays ago, but was compelled to ancho: oi Robbin's: Reef because of the ive pack| In the lows bay Though the lee has | Mame Wael cue and titaed thete streams hours Four of mith In- jt wor Over’ them #ey t . the vessel was surrounded by es to-day that slowly washed hed ‘omp- 1c he | Kansville. ” ‘he crews of the tugs fought the fire The crew were gathered in the fare | pai eC hour batore they, subdited part of the schooner when a large stove in the cabin that had’ been allowed become red hot exploded, tearing out @ portion of ‘the cabin aud setting the entire after part of the ship ablaze, ‘the captaie Who was just descending! Almost the entire ty « schooner was burned aw Ye Preventy Pacumenia. Father John's Medicine cures ¢o'- o | the Court was severe sistant cashier served to.allay any fears that the Northport people had as to the firmness of his security. Nevertlicless they called upon him for more col- lateral, He paid no attention to the call, and suspicion being aroused the ninety-share certificate was examihed and found to be faulty in many ways. It-was submitted to certainsoMcers, of the Equitable Bank, who! pronounced it a forgery. ‘They said that it was a. one-share jcertificate,, which "fad beap ruined: Confesses His Guilt, Broach was’ seen ‘at the “Ditgabeth Street Station House by an Evening World reporter before he was locked up. He iw a rather undersized man thirty-three years oa. | He lives at Orange, |N.J.. and has a wife and three chiliiren. made no attempt’ to Suneeal tie wullt Of the charge against bim. He sald: “I did: get the money Just a, it is charged. 1 went through it speculating, in Wall street. I'm not the first one to make that mistake. Other young fel- lows have done {t before me and have had to face the music; now T’ve got to face it, I knew when’ I left home this morning that I would be arrested dur- Ing the day. I couldn't make good and there you re, | For myself 1 am pre- pared to take my meiicine, but [ am sorry for my wife and three little chil- dren, J kissed them all good-by when I left, but [didn't have the nerve to tell even the wife that I would not be back, She'll find {ft out only too soon, God knows. * Career of Bi ‘The Equitable National Bank had a checkered career up to ithe time it closed ten days ago, It was originally formed by Postmaster Van Cott and some of his pouteal friends, It was badly managed. and when @ new set of officers and directors were elected a year ago there was-some $10,000 In bad paper ted up with Its assets. ‘arl KR. Schilltz, the twenty year-old son of the soda-water urer, was elected President. and a the other officers were young me! bank struggled for mont able Hank. out making any | and on 9 the directors ga: and asked Her of the Currency to appoint @ receiver, which ned in the Tombs morning. FOUND GUILTY OF SILK FRAUDS. Martin L. Cot af and Charles C.| spiracy to Defraud the United, States Government. Martin [, Cohn. of the slik importing! firm) of A. S, Rosenthal & Co. aud Charles ©. Browne, formery an ap- praiser of silks in the Federal Apprals ers’ Stores a month before United States ¢ who lave been on trial fu Judge suit Thomas in the ‘ourt, were con to he Lern0od t three mas's cl defraud nment The Jury cause of Judge Delleved that Cohn might get oft, i his arriign- ‘Whe yury recommends aignmert of the i Browne, yin the final by Judge Thom uses OC Coht 2 Wluespred were Un us8 » celebrated | tried, By the -a¢ tie aileged, bad been it was ‘ out of milifons of dollars of | revenue Most of the fraudulent een were ates during the year en ay nese Kills and uunderwelghed “and rvalned by Browne. ‘Ther haw beon a great array of legal talent | js and a «reat effort was made to save Cohn. ,| Russians ‘Aiiack:«. Delactirnan a Detachment -of the Min Browne Convicted of a Con-| ling the Yalu River will be vigorously opposed. (PS WHIPPED IN FIRGT GLAGH WITH COSSAGKS. kado’s Troops, Who Were Probably on‘a_ Reconnoitring Expedition, and Took Them). Prisoners, Finding Maps and Papers. ny Their Possession. RUSSIA ORDERS ANOTHER NAVY TO BE BUILT AT ONCE. Special Commission Appouiad by Imperial | Decree with Brother of the Czar as Presi- dent to Arrange for Construction of Sub marines, Torpedo Boats and Cruisers--- Disaster on Lake Baikal Was Exaggerated. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb, 20.—A despatch from Port — Arthur to-day says the first land encounter occurred yester- day. A picket of Cossacks attacked a small detachment of Japanese: troops on Corean territory. The Cossacks ig captured some Japanese prisoners, on whom ‘they: : maps and papers. : ; Major-Gen. Pflug, the chief of staff of Viceroy Alexieff, telegraphed from Port Arthur to-day as follows: { iv “The situation at Port Arthur is unchanged. “A Sotnia of Cossacks, marching from Wiju, captured a Japanese major, Tatsaru, with soldiers and two civilians. “The reports regardig the enemy ate generally contradictory and scarce. “it is confirmed that troops of Yuan Shai Kai (commander-in-chief of the Chinese army), are being despatched fo Tsin-Chou and Ke “All is quiet in Manchuria.” JAPANESE FLEET ON THE ALERT. A special Port Arthur despatch says the Japanese fleet was observed Feb. 18 cruising off that port. , Reports from northern Corea say the Coreans are showing a decidedly friendly attitude to the Russians. athe The Manchurian railroad is conveying troops without difficulty to the various points of concentration. Native reports ay that the Chinese pirates, since the ou:break of hos- tilities, have been displaying such activity in eastern Asiatic waters as to almost paralyze the coasting trade. DENIAL OF LAKE BAIKAL TRAGEDY. With reference to the sensational stories of a disaster to Russian troops at Lake Baikal (one report saying that three regiments werg drowned while attempting to cross the ice-covered lake), it is explained that the Trans-Baikal line was blocked at the Baikal station during the night of Feb. 18 by an avalanche of snow which fell from a neighboring mountain, A train having troops on board dashed into the obstruction, the locomotive was derailed, and in the succeeding five cars one soldier was killed, five were severely injured and fourteen were slightly hurt. Tratiic was expected to be resumed she following day. Further advices from Port Arthur to-day say that all the women and children and most of the male civilians have left that place and that prac- tically only the garrison remains. The engagement referred to above indicates that the Russi mand Jap. nese armies are drawing close together along the Corea frontier and probably presages a decisive battle within a very short time. The Japanese have been pouring troops into Corea and undoubtedly have by this time an army of respectable size within striking distance of the Yalu River, to the banks of which the scouts have alresdy advanced. That the Russians should send Cossack troops into Corea appears to show that any attempt on the part of Japan to enter Manchuria by cross- ++ RUSSIA PRO VIDES FOR ANOTHLR GREAT NAVY. ST, PETERSBURG, Feb, 20.—An imperial ord‘r just issue& ap- points a special commission under the presidency of hereditary Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovitch, brother of the Czar, to aryange for the most speedy construction of a new navy for Russia. the commission is instructed to order by the ‘most speedy con- { struction” submarine boats, torpedo-boats and destroyers, cruisers, Sum 5 boats and even battle-ships. ‘ No limit has been placed on the amount of money to be expended and no appropriation has been made. A popular subscription has been started by the newspapers lo meet j the expense of this new navy.