The evening world. Newspaper, April 18, 1904, Page 3

— REVERSES FOR JAP IN BATTLES ON LAND Attempt to Land Troops on Manchurian Coast Is Defeated, and Russians Again Cross Into Corea in Strength, Driving the Japanese Before Them. St. Petersburg Hears that the Japanese Will Abandon Their Intention of Bottling Up Port Arthur but Will Guard the Harbor Entrance. var" (By Associated Press.) ST, PETERSBURG, April 18.—An attempted landing by Japanese troops on the shores of Korea Bay, between Port Arthur and the Yalu River, April 12, was frustrated by ihe Russians. A Japanese torpedo- boat flotilla scouted the shores of the bay, but was received with such a heavy fire from land batteries at Taku-Shan, Ching Tai-Tse, Tchanhe Bedino that it retired. Vice-Admiral Togo’s flagship then recalled nine transports which were on the way to land troops. A squadvon of ten:warships protecting the transports withdrew with them. ‘lie Russians have 20,009 con+ centrated at Taku-Shan. The first of five new submarine boats building at St. Petersburg and forty wagonloads of ammunition were despatched to-day to the theatre of war. The submarine boat, which was sent off in sections, is elliptical in shape and fitted with an improved electrical apparatus for firing torpedoes, which, it is claimed, experiments have shown enormousty increases the offensive power of torpedoes. A force landing between Taku-Shan and Ching Tai-Tse would have been in a position to isolate the detenders of Port Arthur and cut their line of communication. Tako-Shan is in Manchuria, about fifty miles to the westward of the estuary of the Yalu River and Ching-Tai-Tse is about twenty-five miles west of Taku-Shan or about 150 miles from Port Arthur, The other towns mentioned are smaller places on the coast in this vicinity, Last Saturday the St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Stan- ard reported that Vice Admiral Togo’s fleet escorted a Japanese landing of troops to the westward of the Yalu River. When twelve thousand men had been landed, according to the rumor, the Russian troops, from am- bush, suddenly attacked the Japanese, driving them back to their ships with Bey losses in men and guns, -<——___— RUSSIANS RETURN TO FIGHT IN COREA. LONDON, April 18—Advices received here to-day say that the Russians have crossed from Manchuria into Corea, that they have en- countered Japanese troops along the Tumen River and that the Japanese have fled. ‘These despatches declare that the Japanese have retired to: Wonsan. The Russians are said to be the outpests of 5,000 men who are marching from Manchuria into Corea. If these despatches can be relied upon it is evident that the Russians do not mean to,give up Corea without a struggle, When the Russians quitted Wiju and crossed the Yalu River it was the opinion here that they were going back to their strongholds in Man- churia, where they could better defend their position. {t is now believed that this retreat was a blind to draw the invading army on, JAPS GIVE UP THE BOTTLING HABIT. ST. PETERSBURG, April 18.—According to information received in naval circles uere the Japanese have abandoned their project of bottling up Port Arthur. Henceforth they will strew mines everywhere to catch, if possble, some unwary Russian battle-ship. In the mean time the Japanese fleet will wait outside the harbor, cruis- ing about or lying at anchor. | BRITAIN’S KING AND QUEEN _ IN RAILWAY ACCIDENT Train Carrying Edward and Alexandra in Norway Leaves the Rails, but Neither Suffered Any Injury. COPENHAG. Denmark, April 18.— ‘The Nyborg-Fuenen train, conveying King Edward and Queen Alexandra from Copenhagen on their way to Lon- That was not dama don, was derailed this afternoon when |the King nor Gueenswase ce Pua passing to the steam ferry running | jured, i from the Island to Zealand to the Isl- } and of Fuenen GOMPERS TALKS OF PHYSICAL FORCE DENVER, Col., April 18,—Consider: tion of the eight hour and anti-injunc- tion measures pending before Congress is perhaps the most tmportant business of the quarterly mieeting of the Kxecu- ch tive Counell of the American Federation | O°" Of Boverrment, of Labor which began in this city to- ee » day. ‘The Colorado labor troubles also}. Are you Jooking for temporary riera wi Jeane expires’ next mpntht apa Wanted advertine- motal- [the “Gate mente Oe we sender Werte be Seed OE All the cars left the tracks with the | exception of the last, in which the | King and Queen were riding, ‘he mishap resulted only In a sight _i delay. President Gompers, who is here, sald: The wolation of the fundamental principles of our country has made Colorado the laughing stock of the | country, as well ax tie rest of the clvil- ised world. Besides It robs men of the| actual rights and protection guaranteed them by ,the Constitution. “It appears to me that sf the law co: tines to be overriden as it has been in the past, the fight will soon develop | from a technical legal conflict to a, physical ore. That would be the most deplorable thing we, could have in a country or State having a republican ace! Rear DAVID ROTHSCHILD, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL BANK, ARRAIGNED IN COURT TO-DAY FOR MISAPPROPRIATING FUNDS, SL OSSELSLOOOSD $ pOTIDOOS-3-40 t \ © 3 : : ‘JUMPS IN RIVER BOY BANDIT IN CHICAGO TO SAVE GIRL} TRIES TO CHEAT GALLOWS Bridge Tender Connolly, Wearer |Peter Neidermeyer Gives Four Startling Rea- sons for Attempting to Kill Himself in Jail—“‘It Is So Easy,”” One of Them. of Three Medals, Rescues a Six-Year-Old Child from Drowning in Harlem. Peter F. Connolly, tender of the Cen- tral Bridge, over the Harlem River, and the wearer of three medals from the elty and one from Congress, herolcally rescuod a little girl to-day who was pursued into the swift current of the river at that point by an infuriated dog. Segred Carlson, six years old, of No. 2785 Elghth avenue, and her cousin, Mildred Peterson, of rhe same age, of No. 2586 Seventh avenue, were playing | in the small park at the Manhattan end of the bridge when a huge black dog, | apparently a St, Bernard, bolted into the park and ran after the children. Mildred found shelter in a small sum- mer house, but Segred started for the bridge und the dog pursued her. Seeing that the dog was following her, Segred ran down the slope from the southwest approach of the bridge and onto the dock at One Hundre dand Fifty-third street. ‘The dog followed and was gaining on the child when she uttered a hysterical cry and nlunged over the end of the pler into the river. It was that cry which Bridgetender Connolly heard, He had already saved four lives at that point, for which he had been awarded medals by the city and nation, besides several others of which no official recognition was made, He says that whenever he hears a cry from either approach he shins over the rail, drops into the stream and looks about for the mrugeling form of some one @#ho needs rescuing. ‘That 1s what he did in this Instance, He saw the child being carried down in the current and went out for her, swim- ming “‘over-hand," until he reached her, Policeman Charles Francis had rived on the river bank, und when saw tbat Connolly thad the child he hurried to a telephone and called an ambulance from the J. Hood Wright Hospital while the Hfe-saver was bring- hig the child ashore. When Segred saw the big ambulance and excited horse she cried “Please don't take me Doctor, Little brother the acurlet fever and mamma, has moro home, Mr, , the doctor Ing she would be all right in a few Fecause. of Connolly's distinetio a life-snver he has been President for three terms of the Bridgetenders’ Aw: sociation. He is married, with three children, living at No. 1781 Amsterdam avenue. ‘DEAD FOR DAYS IN SEASIDE COTTAGE \Mrs. Almira Sooy, Mother of Senator Quay’s Friend, Found Lifeless in Her Home at At- lantic City. ATLANTIC CITY. N. J., Mrs, Almira Sooy, the mother of Capt. Ben, Sooy, who is closely identified with United States Senator Quay, and who is now absent on a fishing ex- cursion, ‘found dead in her cottaye April 18,— | here to-day. ‘The woman lived alone. The author- ities believe she has probably been pe the ene, last, as that appears co a day she was seen about f Booy's death was due to apo- \ed suicide carefully. CHICAGO, April 18.—Before making two desperate attempts to kill himself in the Cook County Jail to-day, Peter Nelderimeter, the youthful leader of the street car bandits, who is under sen- tence to be hanged next Friday, wrote @ letter, giving reasons why he sought to end his tlfe, In the note he inciden- tally expressed repentance for his ca- reer and said he regretted leaving the few who ldved him, The missive, however, was a morbid glorification of the writer's courage and his loyalty to his kind in contrast with Niedermeyer's associate, Gustav Marx. The letter concludes. “There are four reasons why I should take my own lfe. because of the public hat 1 cannot commit olde while I am so closely scaffold. “Third, that they cannot sny they executed me and made me pay for a crime. “Kourth, to ha nother mystery for the ignorant to'solve.” He wound up with this paragraph: “It seems very pleasant to have this everlasting erJoyment of rest. 1 am an atheist and do not believe in any re- ligion,"” Tried It Agal Niedermeyer's condition 1s so preca- rious that it 4s feared he will not sur- vive. Should he still be alive next Fri- day, ho be carried to the gallows and executed. The boy bandit planned his attempt- First he masticat and swallowed the heads of one hundred sulphur matches. While the phosphorus was burning his stomach he sawed at the radial artery of his left wrist with a sharp-polnted Jeud pencil. ed 'gtriking a bone on the wrist, he gave up trying to sever the art and turned hig weapon to the large veins on the outer side of his left forearm, tearing open the veins and leaving a large, jagged wound exposed, through which the blood gushed, dyeing his bed- clothing and running down over the cell floor in a pool. His second attempt came after the wound had been dressed and closed by the county physician. Niedermeyer was lying apparently unconscious in the hospital under a guard's care. His right arm and hand were liidden by th KILLED BY STEEL GIRDER AT CONEY’S ‘DREAMLAND’ Huge Steel Beam Serie (Renton Forty Fach One Man Lifeless, Fracturing Another's bed clothing, and with a. hardly, diss cernible motion he slipped the bandag: git his lett arm and with his sharp fingernajls tore away tho threads in the wound, and, inserting his foretir into the ragged hole, he work at the veins and sought to reach an artery. Ho tinconsclously uttered a groan and made a convulsive movement which at- tracteg the attentlo % ses and the guard, and and reopened the “Let Me Die, Doc.” Niedermeyer opened his eyes and with a leering wan smile exclaimed: “Let me die, Doc, Go away and let mé die, You ware almost too late the first tim ow why do you try to save my life Niedermeyer lost a large quantity of blood and was almost pulseless for a Ume, ‘The most danger, however, is that the polsonous phosphorus has burned him so severely that his life cannot be “saved for its final anumng out on the gallows, Niedermeyer said he got his Idea of swallowing phosphorus when i pris oner in the jail committed suicide. in that manner while Niedermeyer | Wie awaiting trial. For the last weeks . has bee ing the mate Tie even gave up smoking to some ex- tent so he could hoard them. In getting at the veins and arteries in his arm he first sawed three lon gashes, Then he pushed the sharp end of the pencil into one so it would pass under the veins, lie twisted the around and until the us were twisted and burst. In doin thin the pencil was broken Into several rmeyer's first attempt at suicide as nourly successful wan net John Roeder, passing Nelder- meier's cell, saw him huddled on hi cot |with a ket drawn over li head, n attracted his attention, head. vitarlnis, attempt. to. arouse him fruitless he summoned Jaller an and the cell was opened, rmeler was unconsgous and his clothing and the blanket’ were) found soaked with blood, which was flowing from a ragged hole in rist, Other guards were summone nd he wa taken to the jail hospi The artery in his wrist was fi ‘Then tt was learned that he ‘attempted to polaon el Mmselt cell was found the matches Itch he had eaten the heads, and from. the letter he had written was discov- y in his cot. ered tucked 1 eyer Prays, Neidermeyer recog- him and con: During t nized those Cath who ‘has sivert the, bandit interse pain and him. | For ‘epeated the Crushing Skull, and Injuring a Third. One man kidd, another man had his skull fractured and will die and a third was badly bruised on head and | was body by the falling of a girder “Dreamland” at Coney Island this afternoon, Where the old tron pier once stood, | ‘and which Is now being turned into a pleasure ground under the name of “Dreamland,” an iron girder was inane hoisted into place in a ope steel. Astride the girder was) Ch: Norris, twenty-nine years Old, of 2 burg, N, ¥.. Robert Nolan, also twenty- | in nine years old, of No. M48 Richard » Brooklyn, was watching its elevation. As the girder was being swung round to the framework the chains slipped and the half ton of steel rolled out of the noose and dropped a sheer forty feet. NoJan saw it coming, but failed to get out of the way I as ent under the weight and pinioned, Norris had his head fractured in the fall. He also sustained internal injuries. Mark Anderson, of No, 287 West Fit- teenth street, Coney Island, caught in the wreck on the gr a, Hie Mad his face and head badly cut Up and his body bruised, PHIFTTHISDHID d830% $ POLICE FAIL 10 SOLVE MYSTERY Body of the Woman Found in the Woods Near Hempstead (L. 1.) Cemetery Is Still Un- identified. DISTRICT-ATTORNEY STOPS THE FUNERAL. Some Believe It a Case of Sui- cide, ..Ithough Carbolic Acid Went No Further than Her sl eaceaeees onc HELD IN $2,000 BAIL In the Federal Court a Receiver Also Is Appointed for the Globe Company, Wreck of Which May Be Sensational. BONDHOLDERS FEAR FOR THEIR HOLDINGS. Former Bank President, It Is Said, Had Made Arrange- ments to Flee When He Was Taken in Custody. Justice Wyatt, of the Céurt of Special Sessions, sitting as @ Magistrate, held David Rothschild under ball of $26,000 to-day on a charge of stealine $200,000 of the funds of the Federal Bank, which he founded and which failed last week. At the same hour in the United States District Court a receiver was appointed for the Globe Security Company, an- other Rothschild coneern, the wreck of which may be more seysational than that of the bank. William Muirhead, treasurer of the Globe Security Company and manager of it after Rothschild ceased active con- nection, ts under bond on a charge of usury, and there ts fear on thé part of the bondholders of the concern,, who are scattered all over the country, that they will be wiped out. This was de- nied to-day by Col. W. R. Swords, for- mer sergeant-at-arms of the Republican Natlonal Committee, and J. H, Russell. of No. 135 Broadway, trustees. They say that they have in thelr possession 435,000 worth of collateral guaranteeing the bonds and that there {s sufficient to pay all bondholders’ claims, All the property of the Globe Security Com- pany that the receiver could find was the firniture when he took possession to-day. Had a Sleepless Night. Rothschild spent a sleepless night at Police Headquarters and to-day aybmit-| ¢: ted to having his picture taken by the official photographer. From Head- quarters he was taken to Centre Street Court, but Magistrate Cornell was so bnsy that the case was taken before |;, Justice Wyatt. Detective-Sergt. McConville made a short affidavit upon which Rothschild was held for examination unt!! next ‘Thursday afternoon, Assistant District- Attorney Kresel asked that ball be fixed at $50,000, as he feared that Rothschild would leave the jurisdiction of the court unless ball was heavy. Rothschild's at- ying that the amount was excessive, He assured the Court that Rothschild was not con- templating removal from the Jurisdic- tion of the court. Justice Wyatt sald he would make ball $35,000, but Mr. Leventritt. objected again and the amouft was reduced to $25,000. Roth- schila was taken to the Tombs to await the arrival of a bondsman, ‘The detectives who started hunting for Rothschild last Thursday say that if he had not been nabbed yesterday evening he would haye been out of the Btate by this time, Besides the Central Office men there were eight Pinkerton operatives on the tril of Rothschild, Posed as “8, Le Immediately after the Federal Bank failed last Thursday Rothschild went to the Murray Hill baths in West For- ty-second strect, registering as S. Levy. He had a sult case marked with his iniuals, “D. R.” which he sent out by 4 messenger to a store In the neigh- bork where the “D. R." was erased and "8, L.” was substituted, Rothschild remained tn a private room In the bath-house, sending,out for his meals and communicating with friends on the outside by telepaone. One of these telephone messages Was heard yesterday afternoon by Detective Ser- Beant McConville, arf led to the arrest the fugitive’ banker, | McConville learned that all of Rothgchild’s baggage had been sent to the G Jentral Sta- Uon and that he had arranged to take ate Tat aight, probably for in arrest yesterday, Rothschild amined Dy, Assista Attorney sel in a cell at dquarters Mure Kresel a Rothschild broke down and made many maging admissions concern the Bank and the Globe Security 33 Police id that tant Dis the he got 8 cy uted, ee to Kresel, Rothschild was hysterical during the ‘greater Of, the “Interview Was named receiver the Gtobe 8 th ‘United States noon, He Was required bond’ for $25,000, ‘and possession of, the effects of the company In the ant ‘Tract Bocloty Bullding were turned over Depu! ‘lace tae Bataniay the Place arday ttachi ‘Me! a law ver, with an ommce. ‘at No. ‘wit comes well Throat. FREEPORT, L. I., April 18.—District- Attorney James P. Niemann to-day in- structed the undertaker having the body of the mysterious young woman found dead near the Greenfield Ceme- tery not to proceed with the funeral, which was to have occurred this af- ternoon, until he recelved further orders. Mr, Niemann did not say what new information he had secured. ‘The authorities of Nassau Coun- ty are no nearer an tdentification of the body than they were when the case came to their hands five days go, nor have they found a clue which might lead to the discovery of the author of the anonymous letter, in which $100 was Inclosed, directing that the woman should receive a decent burtal. Hempstead residents have practically adopted the belief to-day that the po- lice and the coroner ag@ the rest of the officials whose duty it Is to con- duct an investigation, and if a crime vax been committed to arrest and pros: cute the criminals, never will do any- thing more than they have done. One part of the official force of Na: sau County says that the woman com- mitted suicide, although the autopsy has shown that the carbolic acid, which had burned her Ilps and the inside of her mouth, had gone no further than her palate, and that death was moat Probably caused by a blow over the left eye, which fractured the skull; another faction of officials holds that the woman was murdered; but by the time they find out who is right the trail of the murderer, assuming that the unfortunate woman was murdered, will be so cold that they might us well keep on arguing. ‘To Aualyze the Stomach, Although an autopsy has disclosed that none of the carbolic acid got down the woman's throat, District-At- torney Jamea P, Nieman to-day ordered that an analy: ould be made of the walls of the woman's stomach, despite the fact that if carbolic acid had en- tered the organ it» traces would be so evident ay not to require the use of any chemical agents to discover them. However, the prosecutor waits to get the police and the coroner think- ing one way about the case, und this is about the ony chance left to do it. ny persons ae been to Memp- stead to. u among them William ‘Ward, ‘of No. ¥ South Secon street, Williamsburg, who thought it might be that of a missing sister-in- jaw, A man who signed his letter Benjamin Lange wrote from Philadel Phin that he would hurry to Hemp- stead to see if the Woman had not been his wife, It ts nox likely that he wil e trip, for, according to a Gal spatch Teceived trom chicage to wormun ‘who sald she was the wife of Morris J.-B. Lange, “of Philadelphia, a Chicago police station, Identified herself and said that her hus: band knew where she was. Plenty of Clues. The case is not without Its c! {f it 18 ono of murder it is n of solution, for men ed and offer ter, offering its handwritt handled knife, which was found near ous I i pearl. the body, and also a fountain pen bearing two gold bands, on one of which are engraved the letters “O. H.” Besid these things is the note sup- sed at Gest to, Rave Deon written woman, 1t is only supposition that she wrote it: ‘The woman was not an ordinary per- son and not of the class that makes a living selling tollet articles, Her halls were well kept, her hands soft and indicative of good breeding and her clothing Was of the best material, The things she had carried in. the satehel which was found near the body are of a similar character and all her belongings betoken a person of refined manners. The leather satchel is not the cheap affair at first reported. It has seen little use and cost not less than $12 or $15. An old woman who lives near the edge of the woods says sie saw two strange men come out of a deserted house in the neighborhood on the day the woman was murdered or killed herself. She says they acted strangely, and on the description she has fur- nished that part of the Hempstead police force that belleves in the maur- der theory Is looking for the pair while the rest of them are hanging around the body thinking that some one will come and {identify tt. DIDN’T LIKE IT. Soon Found Why. Coffee has a terrible hold on some} people. “About 8 years ago I was a great sufferer from stomach trouble, my liver was all out of fix and a wise doctor forbid tea and coffee. At that time I was,so weak I could hardly walk, absolutely poisoned. “One day I noticed Postum in the store, and having read about it I! bought a package and made some. 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QUINCY, Mass., April 18.— the extensive yards of the Fore Ship and Engine Company here tled up to-day by a atrike of 2,600 over @ question of hours, ia The action of the men stopped worW on the battleships Rhode I: Jersey and Vermont, which tha’ pany !s building for the United Government, as well as on large contracts, It is thought that difficulty {s successfully adju launching of the battleship Rho fand, set for April 20, will be delayed. The strike followed the refusal of company to accept a schedule sivide Saturday haif-loliday in June, as aw in July and August. As in p years, it was proposed to shorten” noon hour, making the weekly rrovide for fifty-four hours of five and a half days. Rear Admiral Bowles (retired), dent of the company, and the other ficlals did not favor the suggestion tha workmen, As a counter plan proposed a achedule of fitty-five ing hours per week, with pay for extra hour. 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