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| 4 | , ee BOTH MEN AR cE TREY WILL WIN IN TO-MIGHT'S BATTLE Sharkey and Munroe Arrive in Phila- delphia and Inspect the Arena in Which They Are to Struggle for Pugilistic Honors To-Night Before a Great Crowd. Sailor Regarded as Possible Winner}: Majority of Sport-| ing Men—He Says that He Will ' of the Battle by Knock Munroe Out Before the Sixth Round. VHILADELPHIA, Pa, Feb, 27.—Jack ‘oree, of Butte, Mont., and Tom Suwrkey, the sailor pugilist of Ireland, |, @rrived in this city this afternoon, Sharkey, accompanied by Jim Buck- Mey, his manager; Tom Riley, Tom Carey and “Spike” and Jack Sullivan, who will sing the second hymn tn to- night's fight, arrived at Broad Street Btation shortly after 1 o'clock. The party at once went to the Hotel Scott, where they registered. This will be their headquarters during their stay in this clty, There was a big coterie of New York, local and out-of-city sports iting Sharkey's: arrival and he was @ flattering reception. After regintering Buckley and Shar- Meoy took the car to the Second Regiment ~ which-ts to bé the scene of the Conflict. Here another big crowd await- €d Sharkey, and scenes at the Hotel Beott were again duplicated, The pugilist and his manager ex- Pressed complete satisfaction with the @rrangements for the mill, and they Gfterward “left the building, returning to the hotel. Before retiring to his room @ rest for the fight, Sharkey said: “I have trained faithfully for this Contest and expect to win decisively. By this I mean that I expect to knock my man out Inside of six rounds. I have worked hard at Sheepshead Bay getting Into condition, as it is my am- bition to get another crack at Jeffries, Who I belleve I can beat. Joffries has agreed to meet the winner of to- night's bout, which, of course, means me. If by any chance I am beaten I shall have BO excuse to offer," it was shortly after 2 o'clock when Jack Munroe and his retinue reached the Quaken City. ‘hey did not go direct to the hotel, but left the train at Huntingdon street station and visited the armory before coming downtown. Everywhere Munree was scen he wus recognized und given a flattering recep- ton. After inspecting the hall he came down town and registered at the hotel, The pugilist looked to bo in splondid shape and promises an interesting time for "“Suilor Tom” to-night. M When seen by The correspondent he said: “I have undergone a careful prepara- ‘tion for to-night's fight, Ever since I have been in the fighting game I have heen desirous of meeting Jeffries for the championship. He has promised the winner a meeting, and I shall be Prepared to sign articles Monday, which date he has set for the purpose. “I am satisfied I can lick Sharkey and before another day dawns the public will recognize that fact. I do not under- Evening estimate Sharkey in any way, but 1! have my plan of battle and shall follow it religiously. I have learned a few tricks from ‘Kid McCoy and my train- ers, and will showsto-night that I have the right to be Jeffries's next op- Judged by the reception accorded the two. men in-thie.cltyy. public ts about equally divided over’ the ont- come of the fight, Many feel that Sharkey’s best days are over and that (he younger man will lower his colors while others question whether Munroe has had enough experience. In no fight in this city has there been such a wide divergence of opinion a= to the fignt- | Ing qualities of two men. The New York delegation began to ar- rive at noon and every 1 oming train since of Gothamites who are barred by the Horton law from witnessing a contest in the metropolis, y tickets remain um- sold. The advance sale this afternoon jounted to over $6,000, and pasteboards at a premium. tlpers from New York are doing a ko0d business and those who neglected to purchase their tickets in advance are compelled to pay twice and in some in- stances three times their face value. A record-breaking crowd will be on hand, but the crush and disorder which characterizes the recent fight between Ryan and O'Brfen will be avolded, owing to the number of entrances and exits at the armory. There has been little betting locally. What few wagers have been made aro mostly $10 and $20 bets, and the decision will be left to Champion Jim Jeffries in | ‘The Evening World, a AMERICAN GUNNERS [PICKING COALS, BEAT ALL RECORDS; Jackies on the Battle-Ship Wisconsin Make Nine Bull’s- ‘Eyes Out of Ten Shots with Thirteen-Inch Guns. MANILA, Feb, 2%.—The battle-ship ‘Wisconsin has beaten the world's record with 18-inch guns, its expert gunners | having made nine bull's-eyes out of ten ehots fired within ten minutes. ee eae GUNBOAT TOPEKA AT SAN DOMINGO Warship Sent to the Troubled Republic to Protect American Interests There Begins Her Patrol Duty. WASHINGTON, Feb. 27,—The Navy t haw received a cablegram the jarrival of the gunboat ‘Topeka, at Puerto Plata, San Domingo, where she was dispatched to protect American interests during (he progress, ot abe revolution: there, Fees CHILD CRUSHED pele, Engineer Had Seen the Little Girl Run Along the Tracks, but Could Not Stop Train in} Time to Save Her. It was cold in the Otis home, at No, 634 West Thirty-ninth street, to-day, and little Josephine, eleven years old, went over to the Pennsylvania Rallroad | tracks to pick up some coal which had | fallen from the cars there. She had almost filled her basket when a hew coal train came rushing down upon he tessed her far ahead on the rafls and | A moment later crushed out her ttle | life, x Jullus Hogel, the engine: the child as his engine raced had seen along the the train to a stop. He did so within @ short distance beyond the spot where Josephine was struck, He got down thé ground, and going back found her ugly wounds on the face and hody. ‘A police was told of the accident, did not arrest Togel. FALLING WALL KILLS Two, Nine Other Workmen Injured in Crash in Baltimore Fire Ratna, BALTIMORE, Feb, 27.—Two workmen wore killed and nine injured this after noan bya. falas wall’ in the burned district. but | World that time has deposited its quota} (NEW YORK, SA’ ATURDAY,. FEBRU ‘ARY a7, | iw Circulation Books Open to AH. a H| PRICE ONE CENT. ‘BIG FIGHTERS WHO BATTLE FOR PRIVILEGE TO MEET JEFF. | firin of Howe )& acted as counsel in the amazing involved the Mo © and the fo red to-day tha: interested | in > M “who mig! fraudule Mrs. Dodge from | Morse. “Our firm,” cents’ jnot acting in* above board. early obj b ts, Had th n maintained and & new marr! contracted. “Tt Is true tha spending money xpect to be reim f our expenses feo; | Hexead fees by Mr "Everything 4 desire of Mr, Morse his legal wi tracks and plied the brakes to. bring | Vives hin so that she may come Benjamin Steinhardt, or even a relative” and for which we never got, we Hummel, who hav for Charles F, Dodge legal tangle that has ormer Mrs, ta “very close fi of the rs. Morse’x” 4 ht be Mr. Morse nt divorce obtaine her husband. paid by 8 rigid sve there would not age t firm has Dodge, a our burke Charles W. have done in Moy’? to make member of the marriage of Charles W. Dodge, de- o person mos! rital Mr, sald Mr, Steinhardt to an | Evening World reporter, “has been en- |#aged in several capacities to protect the Interests of our clients and our friends, and I wish to correct the impression that has gone abroad that the firm of Howe & Hummel were the matter fairly. and “Che secrecy that was observed in the Stages of this investigation and subsequent developments was carried to |such an extent that it defeated its own been such publicity to.the matter and a new divorce would have been obtained would have been been 1 we for every cent Morse, this lauattee is on the level and pursuant to Mrs, ‘In case sho sur Into possession of his fortune in a perfectly legal manner. “Mr, Dodge | Wite wot nev: a divorce o bleeding and lifeless from a number of | !¢tters and signed pa) red whether not. He W er his rote 8 iu the matter as the lawyers in New York told him, He also furnished dence to secure th have come to New’ York’ personally to accept service in the sult if they, had requested him, After he had done these things I don't bel 1 them with the he divore lieve he thought evi He would any more nbout the matter until we wrote to him, “oat charges of persue vm rat must house: to New “York “Hue ie'ch ce ode vs enurely thicent of any tid rel by Mr. [Steinhardt also stated that his firm ex- |Pe ted to be relmbursed for every spent in the case and also to ha ali legal fees due them ery got cold bank at building False ing i that M r ; is she hientity of the Rerson who bets in sucet up the addr However, Alarm ©: Attorney Steinhardt Defends the! | annual me arut of His Exploits a Position of the Millionaire and] | Also of C. F. Dodge in the Divorce Tangle. time Mr. Sch two hundred miles of Monte breaks the bank—in the estimation of the journalists of Paris. who know Mr. lost two stacks of blue checks he would ‘eet, and that the annual Monte Carlo Schwab has come to pass. they accuse him of breaking the Ship- Trust. Schwab siun he would be lookt «of a savings bank t WLW t HORS ‘SCHMB HES PAY THE BILLS? THE BANK AGAIN t) 2 maiden. Monte Carlo Sent Out Once More by Way of the Paris} sitrea Ireatherstone's cast-o} Journalists. The annual despatch from Monte '}Carlo announcing that Charles M. I Schwab has broken the bank arrived to- {ha ea ua day. It comes by way of Paris, Those Paris journalists do get awfully reck- less with absinthe just aft the be- gitning of Lent, sometimes ¢ MT as much as Uree glasses at a sitting wab gets within Carlo he New Yorkers y that if he if he won three fracturing of the by Charles M. Dee el BOY CRIED FIRE FOR FUN. ed Panic Brought Engines, larm for Cun, Dodge tia mpexichment. With hia coat on his arm and his cap | 5) in his mand, a fitteen-y down the stairs of a si -old boy ned bullding at Nos. 19 a street to ying: “Phere’s a fire upstairs. Down thé narrow staleway’ venina! him followed men, women, boys. and 4 from many cf the small shops in He in believed to 1s Mr Morse any feel- Doak, done in the matter Eversthing en- aged the firm of Howe & Hummel to! fi be nvestixat ood te fe the Dodge very shortly, e have divorce will and it wil then} acted In the in- f most concerned jn| of tue President siraigtitening: ont this: legal tangle will also be seen thon that the lettar| which Ww: straight and above board on’ the face | unhealthy and that cuse whe lr. t whieh, the! divorce of aor he? wrote to Mr. Morse is t Mr. Steinhardt said that he-has entire pange of the Morse case he will have charge of che! $90,000 for for dis firm, nthe application Is made by muel Untermver, | counsel oO nave the broccedlaugs hans, Moray’ was reopened. JACK MUNROE SAYS: on Shark friea's next opponent will be Jack Munroe” No wonder | f 26 23098409 0560O6660400060400260009:044.06.5-4-6-0-0000080460600006. |! 3 : i! TOM SHARKEY SAYS: “Tam back to my old-time form 1 tooki “Til win gure, y's chest for keeps. Til wink that ship Jot. In faot, 1 was never better ipon Munroe as easy game BOLT SEEIOMERR MEI EORERE RES 2 PODHDPPDODDOODID OGG o00008 B00600096-606-01 es - AUTUMN LEAVES WINS SPEED HANDICAP AT NEW ORLEANS. At.,Odds. of 6 to 1 eagaunane Mare Takes| ‘Important Event of the Day from a! .Good Field of Sprinters‘—Meister-| singer and Claremont Win Again. j “THE WINNERS. FIRST RACE—Preterius (30 to 1) 1, Gus Heldorn (7 to 2) 2, Josette 3. 1D WACE—ctaremont-(4 to viay Floment (BND to“). , Trogan 3. -]_ hd t | | e| | (8peMal to The Evening World.) |) RACE TRACK, “NEW ORLEANS, ‘Feb. 47.—Thorpughbrede went begging in the before the races. Hy mettus brovgit the biggest price of the A $1,000, “Taek “Phillips, father of the Hymatis jatter soid thé mire”to ‘C. W. Stanton ur weeks ago for $2,600, Stanton is sick and his norsés weré sold, “Alberc Simons consned=two horses, Duncan | and Ring Dove, to the sal THIRD RACE—Meistersinger (8 to 3) 1, GircusGirl (7 to 2)°2, Past 3. | 8. W. Street patd 95 for Ring Rov { simona says he paid $2,600 to J. R. jigeene for Ring Dove. Wille Midgley | FOURTH RACE—Autumn Leaves secured Duncan for $5. Sandy .Me- ughton bought Que of Dixiana for $10. ‘he same man paid $9 for Lowly. | Hons ‘a five-year-old black horse, b: | Hanover, waa Gisposed of to C. Phelps, 14 Mississippi planter, for $7, Hanzie is (6 to Ye es (10: to 1) 2, Frank Bell 3. ACE—Port Royal (5 to 2) (9 to 2) 2, Gravina 3. FIFTH 1, Ostefc! Ed Falley got! Peeper, one of the Stan- SIXTH. RACE. jemper. Vivax ton Idt, for $700. Stanton bought Peeper —s from Bauer, who brought a string of to New 7 by thr Orleans this winte: he} that FIRST. longs; purse $400; enirance y-olds and upward, selling Bt MEP 1 all furlong won lengths, $20; for Bettiny D RACE | Dupwe 85900; for three: welling. Hit. sin. Starter, weight, fockey Brevortus. |Sabinat 1 u Matha Start | Time Gus Heldorn started out to make a runaway race of it. In the run around the further turn he opened up a lead of three’ or four lengths, but when the final test came he began to tire, and in ‘Cioeus Girl si She Droke runn y yy well down the backstretch, where fe a moved up and passed her i without an effort, In the run home the later drew away and as the winning mark was passed he was under re- a driving finish Pretorious got up and| straint. | beat him out. ae ABCOND RACE, AUS [ea elects 8 $1.00 Seven furlongsy: purse £400; for three-year- str. Pl id colts and xeidings. mI Rotting: iPiarter welabtocksy. OL. Hf Fin. itr nk Fi remont, 212 Livton. 414 orp. ocolo 8 Yor! Hi dma yaa feat. 10- Start bh Place ime—1.1 4-8. In the Speed Handicap, at six fur- Jongs, the best of the sprinters that had heen left over went to the post. New York, with Fuller up, was he choice, and heavily backed. 'Scropto had. the early 3 i frort in setting the 73 do Viace driving Claremont was much the best of the \] pace with up told o1 1 tot that went to the post in the second the run home, wh he tired. The nish ‘ace, He was ulways Mt resulted hurd drive between Aue on. When It came to the 1 tumn Leaves-and Rowe, in which ‘the mado a show of his comp. former proved the gamest and, gett min down the backstre cadgh he and passed Dr. Loder without an effort, jand after being eased up toa bai nal stride, she beat Roi ‘The ‘total value o TOTTERMAN IS. GUILTY. SONI WANTS). building, Reaching the street, the Alleged Ripper ts Held Galley of|t dashed to the flreslarm box at| wavaer } and Chrystie streets, where he i After searening the entire bullding jtelal for several days for the killing of the firemen determined that there was | | sera Martin inn James’ Siip hotel, | ¢ and left. The boy, whom no | was found guilty of murder tn (he first | b Know) Glaspheared atte pans late this afternoon | Some of His Bent Horses Rpined| in Present Quarters _and He, | Asks That New Place Be Pro-| ee —_—— WEATHER FORECAST. Forecast for the thirty-six hours } i | vided for Them. I ‘Tending at 8 P. M. Sunday, for j New York City and vicinity— WABHIN Feb. Ri ® Humbert Partly cloudy and slightly below freezing to-night; Sunday partly cloudy, above freezing after the morning hours; fresh to brisk easterly winds. dest he t Fly have been ruined by betps ke the old stables which were damp di hie is the reason given by Seoretar ‘Tait for requesting an appropriation of new stables fok the White b wase mpayniited Ww Uh / House, wh! Holine to-day by, the Treasury Depart-! oft, DQtm is Mealelme, cured I) bor ot ment, { hi iin G. Brooks, 150 Bushwick, BY ba ee 4 aA #4 anese statements. Chou to Port Arthur or Vladivostok?” | Far Eust, is at Pskov, on a visit to his aged mother. front in ten days. totally disable the Russian fleet and leave the sea open to Japanese trang- ports. freee north of Port Arthur. fortified, At other points the shores are forbdding and landing forces w be submitted to a deadly fire from shore, RUSSIA INGIGTS THAT daPG LUaT TWO WARGHIPG Admiral Alexieff, Describing the Fight of February 25 at Port Arthur, Gives It as His Opinion that the Japanese Boats Went ,» a Down in the Open Sea Under Fire. SEVERAL SEA-FIGHTERS SAID TO HAVE GONE HOME FOR REPAIRS. — Newspapers at St. Petersburg Continue Their Bitter Attacks on the United States and Insist that This Government Is Showing Entirely Too Friendly Feeling for Japanese. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 27.—The Czar has re the fo lowing from Viceroy Alexieff, dated Port Arthur, Feb. “After the moon had set early in the morning of Feb, 25 the, Retvizan repelled several attacks by the enemiy’s torpedo-boats, two of which are believed to have sunk in the open sea. Our torpedo-boats, under Captain of the First Rank Matussevitch and Captain of the Sec~ ond Rank Prince Lieven, encountered, unsupported, and pursued: the ; enemy's torpedo-boat tlotitia. They sighted no large warships.. : 4 “Later in’ the moming of Feb, 25 ‘the cruisers Bayan,’ Diana, | Askold and Novik were sent out to prevent the Japanese cruisers from pursuing a portion of our returning torpedo-boat flotilla. One of our torpedo-boaf®, ‘which was cut off by four Japanese cruisers, sought shelter in Dove Bay, where it was subjected to a long-distance. fire by | the enemy: It had no casualties. “The Japanese fleet on sighting our cruisers, came in closer to ‘the forts, whith, together with our warships, opened fire at 10.50, Our cruisers, still firing, entered the harbor, which our tarpedo-boats ‘had a ready safely reached. “The enemy’s shells tor the most part fell short, One seaman wounded, but we sustained no other casualties. “The Japanese tleet consisted of seventeen large warships and ight torpedo-boats, whereas the squadron which attempted to block the -em- trance to’Port Arthur had twelve torpedo-boats.” apt |JAPANESE GUNBOAT LOST IN BIG BATTLE. CHEFOO, Feb. 27.—It is reported here that the Russians at Port Arthur have done more damage to the Japanese than appears from the official Jap- A number of Japanese who landed on this coast yester-, day from an open boat are said to be the survivors from a transport sunk by the Russians. This is denied by the Japanese Consul, who says that they . are members of the crew of a gunboat that was disabled while trying ta reach port and were compelled to take to the sea in a small boat. They are probably sailors who escaped from a Japanese vessel sunk im the action of Feb, 25 at Port Artnur. That the Japanese have been severely damaged in their repeated aa saults on Port Arthur appears to be confirmed by the statements of persons here who say they have information of several big war vessels tied up @t Japanese ports for repairs. RUSSIAN PRESS BITTER AGAINST UNCLE SAM ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 27,—The newspapers continue to criticise the attitude of the United States. The latest attack appears to-day in the Bourse Gazette and is based upon a despatch from Washington announcing that he United States Government will lay a cable from the Philippines or | Guam to Japan to prevent the isolation of Japan should the Russians eut the Shanghat cable, The Bourse Gazette asserts that the claim of the United States that the laying of the cable would be undertaken for che help of trade relations 4a not well founded, and calls the reported action contemplated by the United { states a new evidence of its breach of neutrality. “What would the Americans say if Germany had run a cable from Kise asks the Bourse Gazette. Gen, Kuropatkin, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army in the He will start for the Two thousand cars from the Russian Buropean system are being sent |to the Siberian system for the transportation of troops, The Russian military experts are convinced from the desperate attacks japan is making on Port Arthur that the purpose of the Japanese is to LAttle credence is placed in reports of proposed landing of Japanese The only suitable landing places are wi ‘