The evening world. Newspaper, July 16, 1904, Page 3

| SHEEKAN KEEPS PEACE IN PARTY 4 —_—so Agrees with Judge Parker that the ‘National Committeemen ‘Should Name Their Choice for Chairman to Run Campaign. / NO FACTIONAL FIGHT v* iF ‘ bd aerated small personal tfataintance, ” eee WILL BE PERMITTED. MeCarren’s Friends Say He Will Run State Campaign and Treat with Tammany District Leaders Direct. Judge Parker will keep his hands off fn the selection of a Chairman for the National Committee, This much bh been eéttied, and Mr. Sheehan, who all along has poured oil on the troubled raters, agrees with the Judge that the t thing to do is, to let the National Committee members elect their own chairman without any suggestions from Judge Parker. Any one of @ half dosen men will be satisfactory to the Judge. It ts thought that the Judge would I'ke Mr, Sheehan to take the place, but he has declined. This does not mean that Mr. Sheehan will take no part in the national cam- palgn; on the contrary, he will take an qetive part and ald jn every way he can by suggestion and advice, but as to tak- ing up the nerve-wracking position of chairman his health will not permit of tt. Mr, Sheehan will also take an active interest in the @ campaign as han- dled ‘by the Executive Committee of the Btate Committee, No chairman of this committee has been named, al- though Serator McCarren's name heads the list, and it ts usual for the man whose namy heads the Iist to be in charge. ‘ * No Factional Fights Permitted, Tt |e safe to aay that no factional fights will be permitted to work si. Kj the State or Cothm’ tt > felt, will aaa th thei 5 LY thee Chairman see no way drags bis fight Into ee, cam) vctldnal REAL be y a On question’ fi Yori and the tween McCarren and Murphy Mr. kee sting thi 0 keep repeating " mocratic orpantsato me needs will in the rural dis- honesty ot the eiaation’ saaien > pe fay aires my in * Phere the vores 1 oh ae in many cnaes mae ed the ublicans to ns as they wished” make up ‘Ua Denounces McCarren, ight in Kings geunt i and James She vin r dleased & statement against McCarren ne ‘he |e the worst friend Parker can havi has announced that Mecarren @ political burglar gig upon the old guar No, 9 starry street. e of Shevii oCarren’s friends say Hosa Bs bone at sCiellan and i eat McClellan and Mo Fen took the forlorn hope in the ety S-Cuscaanioe’ Democracy in Kin carried the county for the county ticket and McClellan when the Me: ughiln crowd wai tien 4 Low woul Brooklyn by a ere from five to 0 fit. teen thousan ty, 8h nd then came in the movement to kilt off work for Parker. bed backed by and every bit of ‘ould be his. ha will open. Bt Ld open a os Heftman Hoy nds that then, re tits at Ih Tammany aisteet leaders direct tal at with Murphy, liticlans believe that before it oon to the Angst i nk Priel h + Influences more powertyy. th MoCarren or Murphy will see to {t th there ere no factiona fan in the party. SS ee MRS. PHILLIP H.WELCH DEAD Was the Widuw of the Well-Known Hamorous Writer, Mrs, Phillip H. Welch, widow of the humoriat whose newspaper work was famous throughout the country at the ie of his death, In Pw died Bi ny as, er home No, %61 Jett rooklyn. Four children pure! H, Welch died with a eom- is name was widely known. A a was started by newspay men t Yr byl for the education of Ratt ae enild: In less than a year $25,- Bes through voluntary eon- The reer part of the wi sormorial ind is attll intact, petals SIU DROWNED BATHING IN POND, The nude body of a man was found floating in Martling’s Pond, West Brighton, 8 1, yesterday. In the pushes Jongside the pond were found hh man's eee, and a Boast watch ta chal eae a identified as it of Vebster, of Manor rh nc rea Wen boarded with Mr. C.F. Et “4 and on Tuesday morning left ey into the pond Ae : a vent, "growned. Webster was . mauve ot England. »./ SMALLEST INCUBATOR BABY. ATLANTIC CITY, N, J, July 6— Mra. Newlin Johnson, of Burlington, ve titth to @ male child to-day MMbnias ‘one pound and five ounces. and Dr. Brace. the fam- yo neigh 100k a special pirates Camden and arrived in et Kh Bee to bh the news- ore, They had as%, Bis, 7 wth them and want ~pables ‘ouns's Pi iiay LO s imanity, barely ght placed in a special ‘smallest picerca THE TOWN CRIER AT ESOPUS. Powers.) 4 L POPOPPPS PGES PDF PPPOS LIED I-FE GOD HTSHEGID FOP PS HLS GSES E- G8 PSPS TST STIS 290899 9999908O99090509090000 BONES IN GIRLS TA CRUSHED | Miss Hart Must Have Been Strangled to Death by a Phy- sical Giant—Rochester Mur- der Mystery Still Unsolved, ROCHESTER, July 16—Search for clues ty the murder of Birdie Hart, the | pretty basket-maker, of Webster, con- tinues unabated, Excitement is intense in the village as time lapses without an arrest being made, although the crime was committed two weeks and feeling runs high against Erwin N. Sinith, the girl's sweetheart, who was last seen with her, Tt will be brought out at the Inquest Monday, to which fifteen witness have been subpoened, that Smith is pos- sessed of extraordinary strength and that he has an ungovernable temper. ¢|Smith has already testified that the girl begged him to marry her after »! had told him @ secret on the night she He says he probably met her death. left her op the road to Hollauer's pack- It is the theory of the police that the girl had been clutched by the throat. Her assallant's strength was sufficient to erush the hyold bone, killing her almost instantly. It ts believed that her body was then placed In the cellar and & fire started in the excelsion to hide the crime. The murderer then fled, dul, the building fatling to burn, he returned the following night and again set fire to Jt, but the flames were disevvered in time to save the plant and the body from destruction. Smith testified that he did not go into the basement where the body was found after the fire. He told how he stood on the top rounds of the ladder and looked down to see the engine. It was shown that he could not see the engine from the ladder. The authorities are looking for A. W. Bteale, who disappeared |ast Wednes- day night and hag not since been seen. Steele, Birdie Hart, Smith and a man named Hi an had a quarrel be- cause she girl told Mrs. Steele that her usband had been driving with another SS ee 8T, JOHN'S HOME BAND NIGHT. Preparations have all been completed for a gala night on Monday for furty members of the St. John’s Home and of Brooklyn at Manhattan Beach, Ernest Waddock, who Is instrumental in arranging the good time for these orphans, has arranged an enjoyable Programme comprising Pain's fireworks, where Mr. J. H. Pain will receive the little lads. One hour preceding the dis- Play they will give a band convert on the pavilion, After the display vf fire- works they will be the guests of Messrs, CHILD DING! DONG! Hear ye! Hear ye! Hear ye! later ‘ THE WORLD: 8A‘ URDAY EVENING, JULY 16, 1904 BY I. E OST On July the Sixth Charley Find him. The Gas-House Murphy got lest, 7 will pay the cost. . Lost at St. Louls, while watching a circus. Return him! The price—if it’s smali—will not irk us. Ding! Dong! Bell! Hero Tells How He Saved Drowning Boy “Dis Is De Real Dope," “And | Wants De Saved Annuder Ki looked, See?” He Modestly Admits, Paper to Put It In—I d, but dat Was Over- A young man who thought that The, Fvening World was overlooking an act) of heroism which its readers would av-| plaud called at the office to-day to fur- nish It with the ‘real dope.” “Dis man, plece In. Me name is Peter Joseph Me- Entee, an’ [ lives at No, 3% Folst aven- yer, 1 does odd jobs along de docks when dere's anny te be did, an’ on de tight of July foucteent’, between de hours of 8.9 and 69, I jumped over- board at de risk of me life an’ saved + gaid the youns | Tommy Courteray from drowntdg, H. nine years old, and he couldn't swim \atroke, He lives at No, (8 Fotst avenue, “Tommy's a big kid an’ made a fight In de water. fell inter de Eaat River from Twenty-elghth street dock an’ I swam to him Ifke a fish, De water wasn't very deep—only t'ree feet, | Dut de bottom was eoft an’ it was hard swimmin’, | “I saved anudder kid at de risk of me Ife in July, 1901, Dat was overlooked den, an’ T don't want tt to happen \ again, See?" PLANS ALL MADE 10 NOTIFY ROOSEVELT Ceremony of Informing Him of His Nomination Will Take Place at Oyster Bay on July 27. OYSTER BAY, July 14—President Roosevelt and Secretary Loeb are pe fecting arrangements for the cere- monies inoldent to the Presiden: formal notification of his nomination, which will occur at Sagamore Hill July | m. ‘The ceremonies will not be elaborate. About one hundred people, including the members of mittee, will be present. Speaker Jo- feph G. Cannon, the Chairman of the Committee, will deliver to the Presi- dent the Committee's announcement, and the President will respond at some length. As now arranged the President and Speaker Cannon will address the little assemblage from the veran Sagamore Hill home. T will take place about 1 0’ afternoon, At the conclusion of his addreas the President will entertain those present at luncheon, which prob ably will be served on the veranda, The members of the Committee and the invited guests will be driven from Oyster Bay to Sagamore Hill, and after the luncheon will return to the Yilage in tune to catch the afternoon train for ore Hill was very having official dent were re- After transac! the it of f ropiine Mr with Be tes Preatdeatdev¥ied we aie thet dst er recreation the National Com-| THIS BOY DODGES DEATH FREQUENTLY}, Son of Former Mayor Dillon, of New Rochelle, Has Many Es- capes, but He Is Still Alive and Happy. Ex-Mayor Dillon, of New Rochelle, has an eleven-year-old son, “Phil,” who seems to have a charmed life. The boy has been saved from death three times and once barely escaped being |carrled off by a band of gypsies. “Phil” waa in a runaway accident at Greenwich, ich his aunt wa: killed, and he in a carriage when it wan struck by a trolley car and over- Tapes nai ‘The y's letest ence from 4 eccurred Thursday evening whil was riding his new bicycle along t Shore road His attention was a tracted by fishermen on a pier. wit Pre ot ebyond his con- trol and dashed into the Sound wit him. John Roth, a life. aver aw whe Jad take the plunge and dived into the water and brought him out. The boy eried for his bicycle and the guard dived tn ain and brought it out for him. E: layor Dillon heard of | the rescue and gave the guard %. He told him that he was sorry that he could not give him more. TRAMPED 50 MILES TO WED, BATTLE CR Pursued by an on horseback, Charley Shreck over the celery awamps of Kalama County before. they could teach the county seat and get a riage license. It was another thirty miles to this city to find a Justice to marry them, but they, kept ahead of the old man the entire distance and wen out in their race for at. Now dad has said he will take them to his bosom, and a job on fog OAL F, Dig farm near = awaits the ‘ ~|humble opinion this blot on American POTTSEDEOD 4 YFEESIOE SE COE HOLEDS: WORRIED OVER THE MINERS When They Display Indifference to His Second-Thought Invi- tation the President Rushes { More Telegrams, WILKESBARRE, Pa, July 14—The extreme anxiety of President Roos velt to aquare himee with the union miners and allay the Ill-feeling caused by the turning down of thelr committee ac Oyster Bay was plainly shown yee- terday, When the miners’ committee reported how they had been snubbed by Secre- tary Loeb, Repubdlioan leaders here scented trouble at once, At the sugges: thon of some one of them, It Is believed, D, J, Davis sent his mes on Thura- day to the President asking {f some time could not be set when the miners would be received Secretary Loeb replied im- mediately, Inviting them to Reannors Hil) Friday or to-day. Mr. Di swered proposing next week Mr, Roosevelt Worrted, Indifference apparently worrtes| for he has sent two 7 Ths Mr, Roosevelt, more telegrams to Davis concerning the ty Loeb. trouble caused by Secre' Mr. Davia will not telegrams contain, but one received Thursday from Secretary Loeb, It says thet the President will receive the committee on Tuesday or Wednesday next. A similar telegram was also sent to John B, Wash, Preat- | of the Gentral Labor Union. It) be decided on Sunday when the comtalttee will go. Mr. Davis said the same committee, with perhaps two more members added, mey call on the President next week continued “Henry Herskovits and M. T. Burke, who were turned away by Secretary b. will report at the mee! fd 4 of the unions of eranton, Pittston, Wilkes! Mouth and Nanticoke on Sund noon just what occurred whi asked to see the President. W the delegates will take cannot be said.” Politics Rebind It, | was much indignation yesterday the mine workers when It be nown that Davi d signed his) " United Mine! He thus gave that he repre: sented that organization, when he does not. He is not even a delegate at the convention to be held in Pittston. It is sald to-day that the telegram was in- ling Republicans here with a view of the feeling ogainst the etition which is to he presented to the President declares after di i” {ng conditions In Colerado that civilization has become of national im+ port and therefore within the jurisdic« thon of the National Executive “We trust, Mr. President, that ovr appeal for the redrese of the Intolerable | condition of aftairs in Colorado may meet with your hearty approval vigorous action, and that jn the future those whore actions have cast cloud on Peg od institutions as exe: plified im the American structure of gov- ernment shall he brought to a sense of their misconcentions of the true LJ e. citizenship, be they whom y JOVERWORK KILL | pluno tn concert hails and worse places ¢|burg avenue, Brooklyn, said yesterday |for her and thelr year-old child, Mrs, looking. Since y jot care and food. | TELEGRAPH MEN DROWNED, Aj Robert L. O Neiil were drowned ear’ MISO WORKER Victor H. Benke, “Volunteer Or- | ganist” and Reformed Drunk- ard, Victim of Spinal Menin- gitis, Succumbs to Strain, WAS HERO OF PLAY AND MANY PATHETIC POEMS. Converted at Bowery Meeting When His Playing on Organ Amazed Everybody Present— Assistant Superintendent. Victor Ho Benke, the ‘Volunteer Or. ganist,” about whom the play was wrt tan and concerning whom many poems have been contributed, ts dead from spinal mening brought on by o work among the people whom he was striving to reform His funeral will be next Monday after- noon from the Bowery Mission, where he was reformed and from where the Interesting story concerniug him be Benke came to America eleven years 4a0 from Austria, where his father, a musician, bad given him a musteal education and had trained him to be a civil engineer, His father had died, and Benke, who was then twenty-one years old, brought with him ble share of the fortune, He found friends fast, who stuck with bim as long as his money lasted He lived @ wild life and soon his for+ tune had been dissipated. Verd to Beg B Then he commenced Bowery resorts, like many anoiher in the same ciroym s He went lower and lower, bexging beer money where he could get It. He played the it Money, fo haunt the For shelter be waa iike « lot of other outcasts who, having their fill of beer and liquor, sought shelter in the Bowery Mission, there to sleep on a bench and keep warm. One Sunday morning in 18M, when Benke wae without a home, hungry, penniless, dirty, ed, unkempt and trembling from the dissipution of the night before, he stra; 1d imto the Bow. ery Mission to rest until afternoon, when might be able to pick up a few 3 pennies playing the plano in @ concert ti hall, Mre. Sarah Bird, who always | the meetings, announced. that would then sing Hymn No, 24, but that as the regular organist was sick they would have to sing without acoompani- ment unless there wag some one present who could play the organ, His Pinying Amased Everybody. Benke stumbled out into the aisle, pushed himeelf forward past several at- tendanta who tried to stop nim, and took the seat at the organ. He made that old Instrument play aa’ it bad never pinyed before, Mrs, Bird and her ants stood by in open wonder, After that they would not let Renke leave. Mrs. Dird plouded and begwed with him, She. gab hun hie face and sen ny for for him, Her pi a taht they touched the young man, who bad been going lower, anw ik wer. That was his turning point In a ai jeading meetings 1 zed a al ing quartet of Tegeneraled hoboes and they travelled all over the country He became assistant superintendent of the Bowery Mission, and waa a louder in tho slum. work. slong Bowery WIFE WARTS HIM T0 MIND BABY Stoothoff Says ‘All She Wants Her Husbdhd to Do Is Tend the Infant, and She Will Provide. the ‘Tam willing to work for my hus- band as long as he lives if he will only come home and take care of the bal Mrs. Georgiana Stoothoff. a pale, care: worn young woman, of No, @% Ham- to Magistrate Naumer in the Manhattay Avenue Court, when she charged her husband Albert with falling to provide Stoothoff ts twenty-three years old and hes husband twenty-five. He te rickly st December, his wits declares, he has been living with his mother, “I know my husband f= sick,” she went on, “ard cannot provide for me]. derbilt, Nathaniel Thayer, B. L. and my baby, but that is not what i8/ Winthrop, Hurry F. Eldridge, Harry troubling me. T want him to live with | nosne Whitney te Cans Ledyard, me. He Is not getting proper treatment | i,.4/61 p. Fearing, James V. Parker, | at his mother's home. If he comes and|\- giocry Wells. W. Watts Sherman. lives with me I will give him the best! 4.4 G Vanderbilt. George Peebody I do washing every day. One week | have eight washings to do, and the next week I have ten washings. “1 do not mind working. But the baby | a@ drawback. If my husband will |come back to me and take care of tie baby 1 will pay all the arrearage of his dues in @ fraternal order which his mother allowed to go by default. I wil do anything In this world for my hu bard if he will onty come back home.” Yhere were moist eyes before Mre Stoothoff finished speaking. and Magis. jtrate Naumer was much affected. The case was adjourned —— Me Two Rallroa Were Taking « mia t Swim. LOVIS, July 16.=D. C. eT ay in a slough i the ratiroad yards Louls, to at East St The men were night telegraph oper- ators opplored, jo, Sarees: Ay Chtoage, | \° onnecticat Man Dis Boyd and| It MRS. IRENE PARSHALL TRIED | SUICIDE; DIED WATURALE TRIED SUICIDE DIED NATURALLY, THEIR QUTEREA SOLDIERS REGRET: * Mrs, Irene Parshall Turned on Prisoners Who Attempted Es- the Gas with a Tube in Her Mouth, but Is Stricken with Epilepsy, Mra. Irene Parshall. fiftyelght vears ld, of No. 2 West One Hundred and Sixteenth strect, was stricken with epl- lopsy while trying to commit autelde. Wut her purpose was accomplished, as she died. Mrs. Parshall. grown despondent over her physical condition, left her husband early in the evening and went to her room Intent upon dying by gas. About 40 o'clock Mr Parshall heard wild scream. ‘Thinking tt was another attuck of epilepsy, from which his wife had been a sufferer for years, he rushed to her room. When he opened the door aping roped his way to her bedalde. was dead when he reached her, Mrs. Parshall had an attack of epllopsy yesterday afternoon while sit- ting in the parlor of her home Her physician, Dr, Alexander, of No, 2 Weat One Hundred and Fifteenth street, was summoned and he remained with, h til the conyul@ons had passed Mts. Parshall's spirtts'did not “rally after the attack and she brooded dur- ing the early part of the evening, When oh ou her buaband she sald that she was to retire for the night with- out fue a sien of her intended action joing to t ed a@ tube ander was of the opin Ah was" vehponaie for he her death LINES DRAWN FINE AT NEWPORT BALL Only 200 Persons in Exclusive Set Will Get Invitations to Subscription Dance at the Golf Club. NEWPORT, R. L, July 18 —An! exeiu- sive set in society here is going to start a fine row by attempting to draw the lines in the social world very closely. A subscription ball is to be given at the Golf Club soon, at which the @iviad- ing lines will be first drawn, A each to have the dispoeal of five tickets, will have charge of the ball, Admission to committee of forty men, the affeir will be eolely by ticket and) he committee will be | each member of held responsible for each of his tickets. On this bi only © persons will bead permitted to enjoy the ball, and these. it te id, will hereafter be regarded a: tre favorad circle in soctety. committee includes James J. Van Alen, Oliver H. FP. Belmont, John Jacob Astor, J. De Forest Danielson, Ell Dyer, jr, Ho Mortimer Brooks, Perry Belmont, E. J. Berwind, Harry 8, Lehr, Claronce W. Dolan, Lispenand Stewart, Ogden Mills, J.D. R. Baldwin, Reginald more, Lorillard Spencer, John xel, Pembroke Jones, W. 8 ler and Joseph B. Widener, Oth be “carefully” selected —_ BODY IN MOUNTAIN HOLE? | ppears After Revelviug Legacy—Wife Missing. ers will NEW HAVEN. Conn, July %*-T sterious disappearance of Robe Perry, of Marion, who suddenly dropped out of ning into Ja legacy of £10 relative in England, wit an investigation Ace {ted Select ts body of # na hole in Wolcott 3 promon When P disappeared. Mrs. Perry destared that he had deserted her and gone to Ei nd and taat she intended to follow him. Nothing has deen heard vhs 1 they oat | ther of m gince, Selectman Leni will os Wolcott Mountain tor Perry's body. 6 as pourrd out, and he} to} aa, Dr. | cape from Governor's Island. Would Have Been Given Their Liberty Within Two Months, Tt was discovered to-day that two ef the three soldier prisoners who attempt. Jed to escape from Governor's Island were to have been released within two weeks. One of them was Private Al fred Bostwick, who was shot through the Jaw by Sentry Sheppard and prob ably. fatally wounded, Pestwick and Private William Rhein er, Who Attempted the escape with him, and a private named Cox, had been rodel prisoners, and the War Depart- ment ordered that they be discharged op Aug. | When they heard thie news to-day they regretted more than ever that they had made the attempt to ee men bad been assisting ow the work of filling in the extension te the south of Governor's Isiand. A shore distance from the shore a rowboat was anchored, ‘The three prisoners seized a favorable moment, waded out into the water Jumped into the rowboat. One of srabbed the oars and the other two, one of whom was Bostwick, stretched out on thelr stomachs tn the bottom of the boat, The rower pointed the boat for the Brooklyn shore and one away for dear life They had gone about 900 feet ‘when Sentry Sheppara spied the fugitives, About the same time somo one on dishver working neer the island ea’ therh too, and the whistie on the lighter shrieked to let the folks on, the: taland know that something wae wrong. Mrs. Crawford, the wife of Capt, Crawford, who is stationed on the island, heard the 1, and telephoned to oeadquarters, Private Sheppard niean time had notified another sentry, and (he word was passed along to the pler at the nort oners. ower ee on as hen tuplaid of the guard that an sae betag attempted, — ar with steam up. In « “Tow captain had received wi Meantime, hewerss, Siva had been busy, heppard bullet struck Doawiak. carsman. stopped, ‘he The Gen, Wikoff, tae general {rth for the island, was |around to the southern the and und head off three escaping sea wall and Yelled” won the boat to stop or he struck Bostwic! right cheek, sev out of the left came along Wei shore. Rostwick was rae ihe and he some ide The authoritt while to tell good fortune oa mead ottempt Hpac EBS encape. |THUGS HOLD UP AGEL HOLD UP AGED Fe Find Only ao Penknife in Pooket Old Printer, Two bold street thieves selsed |neld up George Westbrook, age two years. @ printer, living at pa ». re} beth street, at the corner of Hester | Bilzabeth streats while tt was atitt, aytent d rifled his pockets for aay, jarticles of value the old man might have about him. All they got was a pea knife, as Westbrook had no money. The hold-up was later reported te the poliee of the Elizabeth street ett tien, and it was only » short time whem Detectives Powers and Corr arrests atrick McQuade thirty years, She cave his address as No, 20 suveet. MeQuade denied all of having Yeld up the old man, bet the police suspected him and a companion, { being (he Hants, About the same time Officer Martin, of the Elisabeth street (ean yi Mulberry street, “a hteen vears vd, of alberry ‘the hove were ate ay and locked up in the Ritsabetts street police station. Nerves??? They don’t cry when roperiy F Grape-Nuts . Get the ithe hem, “The Welvtiie”” in eh P Tt eee