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tua Ua ‘i oe a "rik ienatin THURSDAY EVENING, ‘JULY 7, 1904; TWO CHARACTER SKETCHES OF JUDGE PARKER ! NA ONL HOW ASME: MAY DE Hite: NO WORRY’ HERE, + bydlegroes in Her Home Loses . Her Reason and Is in a Dan- gerous Condition. DANGER OF LYNCHING NOT YET AT AN END. | Crowd Is in an Ugly Temper, * »and but Little Provocation Would Be Needed to Bring * About Attack on Jail. (Special to The Evening World.) BURLINGTON, N. J, July 7.—The mind of Mrs. Charles Biddle has given way under the terrible shock following o@ the attack made upon her by four Regroes, who have heen arrested and have confessed. Dr. Rink announced this afternoon y that the unfortunate woman was in- wane, but he sald it would take days before tt could be determined whether this condition would prove permanent or only temporary. Her vitality con- tinues low and her life Is In danger. An officer left here to-day for Lan- easter, Pa., with warrants for Aaron q ‘Timbers and John Sims, who were ar- ny Tested in Columbia. ! Four negroes are under arrest charmed with il treating Mrs, Charles Biddle, { and three of them have made full con- feasion, implicating the fourth, ‘The negroes arrested are Aaron Tim- bers and John Sims, caught early to- Gy fh Columbia, Pa,; William Austin, @aught last evening in Philadelphii and William Jones, in jail at Mount / PbS ODED noe WOMAN DOCTOR ENDS HER LIFE |Did Not Win Success in Her Chosen Profession, So Made Careful Preparations for Sui- cide by Inhaling Gas. a | CHAMP CLARK, OF MISSOURI. HDADODEESEDOOOSSS WILD SCENES IN THE CONVENTION ler feeling between the whites and ne- sroes, He has been in the’ tolls of the police many times before. Witiam Austin was at the home of Timber's sister in Philadelphia. The detectives were watching Timber's home here when they saw jegro girl enter, She was recognized the niece of notorious negro, | cl Ide goad og ras Map Burlington she was followed to | (Continued trom Second Page.) nm y ra. Bd Weasel bar accallante, home In Philadelphia by Detectives report. That committee at once announced that it would not be prepared to report until 2 o'clock, ‘The chair then recognised William F. Sheehan, of New York, who moved that a recess be taken unt! 2 o'clock. The convention was instantly in an uproar of confusion as the delegates and visitors rose to leave The motion to take a recess was agreed to by a viva voce vote, and the morning session came to a close at 11.04 o'clock. ey eae NOMINATE TO-MORROW, SAYS DAVID B, HILL. CONVENTION HALL, 8T, LOUIS, July 7.—Senator D. B, Hill sald this aftornoon during the recess of the Committee on Platform: “We are hear- Educated Abroad She Grew Des- theugh wat lte Lala oo tas weil somteste ca Pieay’ tr harara| Poneent When Patients Did , 80 will nominate on y. Ihave no Superstition on that point. I was once nominated for Lieutenant-Governor Not Throng to Her—Was Young, Pretty and Ambitious. Parker and aDrlington. Timbers, Sims and Austin were hiding in the house. The first two escaped, but Austin was arrested at once. Under close questioning by the Phila- delphia police Avastin is said to have cunfeased that he and three other ne- sroes were the assailants of Mra, Bid- dle, His implicating a fourth negro, who Is said to be Jones, has convinced the people here that Mrs, Biddle, in im- plieating only three negroes, failed to see a fourth How Timber and Sims escaped the Philadelphia police has not been ex- plained here. The police got track of them, however, and, believing they would hide in one of the Pennsylvania towns, descriptions of them were tent te the police of every town in Penn- sylvania, The fleeing negroes are be- Neved to have gone to Columbia on a freight train. They arrived in that town shortly after midnight, Both were badly frightened, and when seen skulk- Ing along the streets were pieced undor arrest, ii Sims and Timbers ma i at the time they were Columbia police, & confession wht by the according to word fecelved here to-d They sald that Austin and Jones were equally guilty, Austin Also Contesaeid, Austin also made a confession, Plicating Timbers, Sims and Jo! Jones denies his gullt. He is badly frightened, for outside the jail in which he Js confined !s a mob of men who » &fe clamoring for his life, ‘The arrest and confession of the ne- haa not quieted the excited people In fact, one misstep on the part of the soldiers of the aNtional Guard, the police or the deputy sheriffs who Ure endeavoring to restore order, and there will be mob rule aud possibly a LOUIS, July 1.—Willts HER FIRST PRACTICE “Say, but it's tough,” Louls, face war. » Phat such conditions prevatied were grater to-day when armed men aled through the streets openly Wareatening vengeance upor the rst wesro who championed the three as- , pita of Wrs, Biddl f ‘or a long time been a shteriess between the whites and blacks In thie place and in Mount Holly, The Diacks number about as many as the whites, and it is said to-day that they are equally well armed, and should there ‘Be an attack on any one of them be- @ause of the sympathy expressed for ‘the assailants of Mrs. Biddle that it will be resented with shot, Bveryhody Goes Armed, Burlington and Mount Holly were dangerous pl to be In last night, The very best element of both towns “have joined In the general demand that the negroes be quickly tried and pun- fehed to the full extent of the law. Every man who appeared on the strests after dark was armed. Men patrolling the country roads between the iwo “towns or searching through the woods for the negroes, took their life in their hands, 't was reported that more than one shot was fired at these search- ors. Only @ guard of determined police .. and deputies, backed by members of the National Guard, saved William Jones, the negro in the Mount Holly fall, who was identified by Mrs. Biddle ‘as one of her assatiants, from hanging at the end of a rope during the night. men, with pockets bulging from rifles or shotguns stood about the jul. All that was needed to precipitate rh And bloodshed was leader, Had this | ft Jeader sprung up the jall would have | 4) ren stormed and there would have been and twice for overnor on Friday and elected, I was then nominated for Governor on Wednesday and defeated.” Senator Hill that there was no very great friction in the committee on the proposed ff planks. He thought that the friction would come on th financial plank, Senator Daniel and Senator Hill agree tn the opinion that the full com- mittee will spend most of the night discussing the platform. Mr. Daniel is sar®d thd Ninth street to-day by in- , hall th h a tube, According of the opinion that the co:vention will be extended until Saturday, but Mr. ts her friends hee medical practice had Hil) thinks the business can be concluded by to-morrow by holding a night been falling off and she despaired of session. | making a success of her profession, “We can get through with the platform and nominate our candidates | for the first place during the day and finish up by nominating a Vice-Presl- | dent at night,” he said. hours, She left no writing to explain HARD WORK TO MAKE boars. THE PARTY PLATFORM jive sorte ie CONVENTION HALT, 87, LOUIR pared for self-government, ‘Ths " July 1.—The sub-committee of the Com-| mittee agreed ma ee iidates te trie mittee on Resolutions continued its} the election of Senators by direct vote work on the platform to-day, but was! of the people, slow in gétting down to business, Mr.| Mr. Bryan went direct trom the con- Thomas Heffern, forty-three years| Bryan and one or two other members| Vention after adjournment to ahe room old, a laborer, of No, 147 West Sixtieth | Were absent, but the committee decided | Wf the Committee on Platform and tm- street, decided to-day that he would like|t0 proceed with the consideration of| {pediately entered on the work in hand] life work. studied in several Eu-| gway, to commit suicide. He asked his friend, |questions in which the absentees are] Soon after Mr. Brya: 41 Police, Topean universities and secured her Policeman Hickey, if he knew of any|not specially concerned. Accordingly, mmissh of New) degree before coming to America, polson that had green in it, as helan frrigation plank, presented by Mr. for consultation on! When she arrived here she began wanted to die a loya! Irishman, Hickey 2 was taken up, and after its| ton in tho army and py a3 ling 00) practice in Brooklyn and later moved to| mont headquarters mentioned paris n, Presented by the Nevada] "w ayy pase! W'S gwuttiots valiea New York. Dr. Portagallis says that eatghowy Aten, 2s Hickey. was passing |eenator was tentatively accepted. | the ’ called out some of) ier friend's girlish appearance was consideration of the proposed the members of the committee to ur loud cries coming from high up in the}? on them the importance of a Vigorons| Probably responsible for her failure Looking up, he saw Heffern lean: | statehood declarations was then entered on and the question discussed at length. eaetinat the non-enforcement of} in her profession. Ahe had not a suff. an 4 A ! i ° Sd othe’ the roof, waving his hands Fullerton, ot Lodge, Mont., was clently stern bearing to inspire con qitickey, Hickey, get an ambulance’! 4 plank for separate statehood for each | AiMAtted 10 present a plea for a plank up $10 a set for the cigar lel local Citizens’ Committee. “With {out to the address of the Dr. Julia Miedelman, thirty years old, an exceedingly pretty woman, ended her Mrs. Biddle's condition fs sald to be very serious to-day. She is hysterical, HE WANTED SUICIDE WITH IRISH TINGE So Heffern Chose Paris Green, but Yelled Lustily tor an Am- bulance After He Had Swal- lowed the Stuff. I was courteously informe: his morning. @ couch, fully dressed, with a gas tube in her mouth attached to a gas jet. Bhe had wound cotton about the tube At the jet to prevent any gas eavaping. When found she had deen dead several oie was entirely unknown to him, in Parker,” mont miidiy, na of the dead woman, bain g ar Dr, Portagallis said that she had known Dr. Fiedelman for ten years. When a young girl, living in Switaer- land, Sophie Fiedelman decided 0] wyotin wine, adopt the medical profession as her Mr. said the colored man. MacDonough unable to told him he had no idea of fidence, She worried over her lack of - tion of the President for bloodshed and death, i We coat summoned an, 8mB- | oe the territories wi f , ‘ lance and ran up to t fT he le rmitting the sale of liquor in the was rather refreshing,” Mr. While the white men stood outside tte | found ‘Heffern Tolling abuut on the tin| ‘Tewne's Phittp . ellowstone National Park contrary to Sant ig reoorted by him to nave making no effort whatever to con- {, grasping his stomach and moan- w. He clatmed to have affidavits : y, the ni were in| ing! “Oh if they. oni this out-of] During the forenoon ex-Senator/ and photographs in substantiation of eral thelr identity egroes were in | ing y only 7 another part of the town talking fight, |™e I'll never do It again.” Near him|TOwne was admitted to the committee Wig charms nkaetilltch” disband t Forty-second street, $0 as 19, siould the fall be stormed and should re & growler in which he had made|room to present a petition signed by ered upon the |) her band, as you might sa. ae 4 consideration of the question of trusts Bhe harm come to Jones before a trial, of as OTe oad Oe epttal, 10,000 persons requesting the insertion) snq monopolies und Mr. Bryan made Rain began fafling after midnight, an with a stomach pump|f & plank declaring for the inde-| plea for the reaffrmation of the Kane the wl ell the Mount Holly | and removed much ot the fren pendence of the Philippines when pre- sie City platform on this point. Givperned for the time being. They | Then he took Heffern to the hospital rtagailis, “and a year ago sh ~ | said work In the German Dispensa: 100d mood last ni in, ward ¢ Judge's 3 of the actions of As to Mr. Ilearst, Dersiatent libations of Tamman wife was away when Paris gre SHOT IN PAWNBROKER’S. Fatally their faces, too, It was remarked that ‘These men do not represent a disorderly class. They represent the most re. bought the apcctable farmers in New Jersey, and the party.” they Dave been joinet by wealthy land ‘ep: fore ON" THAD AL Employee’s Face, Hands anti BROADWAY ROBRER Find Big Box on Street, Haul It WN FFTH AEN Fashionable Thoroughfare Is Clerk Examining Pist we ds Custome: is the only jus ted ovt to the eee one tint and Thngytourey imot,| Aroused by Lively Blaze in an| Arms Seared by Strong Elec-| '® pgs sgn got thera tev tem ad ted tence eon cei denta! an it to- os < such-were the dangers on tre streara| 23% 0%, bist leancs, cle for storia! Apartment-House, Which Was, trical Current—Injuries Are| ° 't Contains Plaster from we Wolf, a pawnbroker, of No, 2% Third avenue, ‘Wynn bought a revolver in the pawn- broker's shop a short time ago. Wolf nas i wea . Sr, ay in oan. It Hy ure place vorday fo nave r ropalre 4° A fire in a fashionable apartment- Wynn handed the to es, hut}house, at No, 10 East Sixteenth street, ’ “¢ RUn Sie eauek eettriaeet The | caused excitement this afternoon in the entered Wynn He was ¢ Old Building. of Burlington and Mount Holly during the ‘night that women did not appear thelr homes after dark, but they on the streets early to-day, talking hing and death to the three negroes, ‘There is no busines of any kind being tray sucted here to-day. Stores and fae. are i rire bay bay Barge and Mt ness for the time being. mood. Quickly Subdued. Likely to Prove Fatal, In answer to @ loud ringing of the police telephone from the box at the cotner of Broadway and Franklin street Richard Frank, an employes of the Interdorough Rapid Transit Company, while working to-day on the structure of the Bixth avenue “L, Hefased to Go Home, i houses surrounding and adjoining the early to-day the telephone man Im the] of No. ly below the heart. Harlom Hospt No, 417 West Broadway, , fe In & dangerous ones b yr Bee y ve Reve: + building in Fifth avenue, in the rear. ]O8 the third mall and was horribly | Llizabeth street police station inquired) missing from home since June % and * It ie not believed that the mob spirit | arrested. The gathering of fire apparatus tl burned before his fellow-inborers. were | what was the matter. his parents have asked the police to will rise to an assault on the Mount ee that point attracted a great crowd of/abie to rescue him. His f hands z find him. Holiy jail RIOT AT BALL GROUNDS. people in Fifth avenue and & was with on ee Poss Maar | ¥ a rong| “Matter enough,” said Policeman} tng poy was employed by the Na- ex on the * JaiMeulty that the police succeeded in| jured were as biack as coat * || wWittam O'Connor, who stood on the) tional, Blue Print Company. On the} the move. Frank was ed to vi p +) day that he disappeared he drew his State thay Rumors of @ riot at the baseball La egg higore ea Neclt fvst tn the| Hospital and the gurgeons there think | corner watching @ bla Vox with one ey#) tia and got permission (0 Ko AWAY fortes thai grownde of the American League at|..1n*, "0. Showed Noell, fret. tn he may not recover. The Injured man-s|and the telephone with the other., for the rest of thi He did not negro celting of @ room in the apartment of | home Is at No. 25 Nineteenth street, ‘ return home, buts duye iacer a hd 8, C. Harriman, on the fourth story, | Brooklyn. fiend the patrol wagon here quick and! friend met hint on Vouss reet and told ; “ ; him that Nis mother worried Then its ate its way through to the stent. some detectives. There has bees a burs) 117 sick about him. The friend asked root and the outside. The firemen suc-|SHOPLIFTER PLEADS GUILTY, | tary committed on my post iim to go home, but the boy refused. | : ceeded In preventing its spread further, The detectives found O'Connor sitting mata ‘ but the furnishings of the apartment * hox and looking up and down de- Ja Jennie Maxwell, who w: were damaged by water and got a] June 23 for shoplifting sorted Broadway. score.uing, too, 0 the box, which weighed 30 pounds, and | Forty 4 placed it in the wagon, the detectives Whe tales ae ind of the y to the Park Commission and | the possessor of the handsomest set of whiskers in the convention crowd, not even excepting those of James Hamil- WAS IN BROOKLYN. ton Lewis, bemoans his bi prey “Betore I left New York I promised a friend for whom I would do anything that I would get two sets of tickets for the convention and send them to two friends of his who were In St. This morning when the tickets looked so scarce and the convention hour was drawing so near 1 did po have the two, So | went downstalr stand ‘heae put on: sale through the fr hil mysell these tickets 1 hiked my olf j life in her office at No, % East One; my New York friend. seen I fi2 there hat the ple I nought had left for the East “Talking about hard luck—say!” “Doc” MaecDonough, a well-known wine agent in the West, went pM Fiede! « tera to see Auguat Belmont. When 7" caplnbigenng eye ny beginedeg the Belmont headquarters it happened that the first man he met was Mr, Belmont himself, Mr. Belmont “What can I do for yout” asked Mr, Belmont in the most affable way. “Tl tell you what you can do for me, old man,” said MacDonough, giving him a slap on the back, “you can defeat :his “Do you want Parker defeated?” “Want him defeated!” exclaimed Mac- be would give $90 0 & ked Mr, Belmont. aald MacDonough. Belmont laughed and walked the “Where's Mr, Belmont?’ questioned MacDonough of the colored porter who guards the outside room of the Bel- “Dat wus him you wus talking to,” nearly fainted, Being get near Mr, Brimont again he went down — in the motel end e ‘ called him up on the pone. le and wished to apologixe for his famil- patients, though she nad ample means IFNy. ey necessary, your freedom William F, Sheehan felt in such a « ht as a result the Parker landslide that he was in- In magnanimous language to- ho had opposed the “Tammany certainly has acted hand- nearby shelter, hut there was | Mp will be out again ins few days somely since Ithas been. here,” jeop in the town, and day was b Mr. Sheehan, without pelaxing a muscle n | Riss wife, has been Ill for & few days SB I mae! 4 . Is on | And endeavo: gyre, by ni} we he certainly 's a fine man, who deserves lots of credit for the goo! work he has done for The California delegation were most assertive in the convention yes- terday. They carried cowboy bells an. big fags and yelled like college herr BOY OF 16 A RUNAWAY, Seen After His Disappearance beat Benjamin Desberg. sixteen years old. 7%) East Ninth street, has been Cat fancters all agree that Japan in- While six policemen struggled with | deed is the country of curious felines, no example of the freak 1) “ mish spend t be Fi ig AT HS HOME In ESoPus, PLLLDLDDEAMEALIADD DP RIDEODOY SOD Conbention Humor By New Yorkers +o It Cost Willis Holly, of Whiskers Fame, $26 to Be Good-Natured—McDonough Offered Belmont Wine to Defeat Parker. chairs and waved thelr flags, They had seats in the back row in the centre and people behind them sa.d sw’) inuer sit behind some other de ton, “LM tell you what I'll do,” Senator Thomas F. Grady remarked to Assem-. blymaa George M. Palmer, ‘I'll trade my place on the Committee on Riles | for one \ ing Ag oe the beleony” But Mr. “Convention tickets! Buy or sell!” ety the speculators at the doors of the rinctpat hotelp, They attack th ites for their spare tickets, and beg eleates to send anybody having tickets they cannot use to them, “Thirty dollars for your badge and Py Aicket." seid one of these fakire to a Nebraska alternate, hac Pops * later there was a cen, the teenlone with a ovat te hy Ifocn {lon can be dough’ 5 fakire are asking only $% for @ ticket 00d for one session only, “Let's cut out the convention and go to the races,” sald City Chamberiain “Pat” Keenan to a sroup of Targmany men in Murphy'e headquarters, ll ps 10 to 1 we have better luck picking Innere at the track than we hi tr this Presidential sweepati eat She bad no tlekets to . in then started for the ace” *Or* Simon Bteingut, @vneue,” made a modest entry to town to-day with three valets and two se retarios, with the Idea that he would Participate in a revival of the MeClellan AND A PHOTOGRAPH OF CHAIRMAN CHAMP CLARK. RAN AWAY PPPS OLDS OASE LOST OOD OEDIOPA FOSS H ELODIE HON NaPLPOOODEDDIOSSOO OOO IOO OOO EO OEDE & The latter decided 0d loca-| started. t as low aa $12. Tho @ Mavor of reond | '* AS May Smith, 17, Fell in Love wa Louis Poussaint, 19, Who Served Her Delicious. Was Cream Soda Over Counter’ GIRL LEFT NOTE FOR MOTHER IN SEABRIGHT; hor Family Had Just Returned from Abroad and Gone to Hotel’an Coast for Summer, Where Youth Followed Them = * a4) Ee Louis Poussaint, of No, 21 wert Bnd avenue, won the hesrt of se year-old May Smith, daughter of ral Rheldon Bmith, of No. 317 West Seveng tleth street, by the way he bata cream soda. Pou! ‘ only ines teen years old, but he mustere® ‘wp enough courage yesterday to go ever to Seabright, where Miss Smith war,Jom the summer, and elope with her, 9. About ten days ago the Beaithg rs turned from abroad and went t0 Bead bright. Poussaint was so Wrdent-tm hig attentions (o Miss May that the girl had been warned by her parents to di continue her asgoclathns hb ant Povasaint himself had been’ dered by his employer to advise; amith not to come in the drug $™ any more. Poussaiat waa junior’ @rug clerk at Wiimot's Pharmgey, at a Leth street and Amsterdam aven' Glel Lett a Nete, When Mrs. Sheldon Smith retumedl yesterday after a drive to the hotel as which sh@ .4 stoppig in se daughter's actions that she taken to her mother-ii harlem, Her daugnter Danied he, Laver in the day the eloplog pul in an Se oro Lge woen (they u father aod a had gone te Siniin’s mother's home in MATiOMy ad Ft left by. ise , oft Wee and that mot uld not Put mother did. so much, in ar} ine is now very mueo nt. Vas = int Is a grot-loaking Day after day the passed out hi vicer with ph ey won the girl's affect tain, in the light of sul tion. et Evidently Informed abou of Mrs, Sith and her daughters, saint went to Beabright atm t es the elopement would be al d from | mens. The girl had|a part warrdobe in @ Mipped out of the hot ven= Jett with him, romarce. . ied th aes tP fatce obtained & vonitlon a on competent (9 support Mi regular " Renbrigh:. determined to pr Ine touches on the love boom. He remained about the centre| began at the marble fount Of political discussion for an hour be- «4 In the elopement, fore he became aware of the real state| , 4%. Smit of affairs. Then he antd: When Information was Yender Murphy or his field marshals In their Parker campnign as to the progress which, was being made In stir- ring Mp the opoosition, the tnvaraible reply was; “We've got 409 votes.” “Murphy's four hundred” soon be- fame a catch nhmae in the corridors, “t alwaye knew that Murphy had social ambition,” remarked one of the fee be oee take men; wag! t never 0 o# Anfty enough to organ- ize Four Hundred - - Wivle a delegate from the Indian Ter- ritory wan telling the crowd In the Jefferson to-day that he was for Clellan and for no one eve, the Park boomers around him got busy and cov- ered him with Barker buttons, The more he talked the more interested he hecame and the less likely to notice what was peg done to him. The result ° was that by the time he had sald ihe last thing that he could think of in favor of the Mayor of New York, there was hardly an Inch of his outer cloth. by | that was not Diastered over with an adv rertisem tered over with a7 |Half Hose in black and tam proto y preyld Paneer hie tans ous silk embroidered _ cal worker. THINKING FOLKS need food that will keep brain and nerves well nourished else the brain grows dull and tires quickly. Suppose you spend a few min- utes studying the subject and a few days on an easy pleasant jtrial of GRAPE-NUTS food ‘that will furnish a clean cut ‘argument (o drive the facts tome, A strong, sturdy, money mak- ing set of brains can be built on Grape-Nuts and ‘iglal proves it sought of West Se “This . , tgp | Gay. that the cou were ae bum convention. Ts tur eS r} terday and thit seriously fl! frvm the excitement bv ber fave ter's a'anemen’ Sale of "sted Men’s ‘= Half Hose and Onderweare> Men's... Fine Lisle Thread vertical stripes and jalso openwork with colered silk figures, leek ‘ JIE: eee 3 pairs for $1:00, value soc. & 7§¢, painesey oP athe French Balbniy Underwear ; shirts with or short sleeves, drawers: jlong or short inseams, {sy | 75¢: cach... ! ‘Lord 87 Ti aylors ie