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2 Rojestvensky Tel a ALT WATS TO uur ote egraphs Request for! Relief to Czar, Who Warned Him of! Reported Japanese at Hull and Paved! Way for North Sea Incident: ST, PETERSBURG, Oct. %—The Statement ts positively made this after- Roun, though It is impossible to confirm | it, flat the Ewperor hag received a telegtam from Admiral Rojeatvensky, saying that In view of what had oc- curred he ashcd to be relieved of his command, It Is also stated that a telegram from the Emperor communicated to Rojest- vensky at Copenhagen was a warning About the reported appearance of Jap- ghese officers at Hull. Was Near to War, a LONDON, Oot will be avoided without d declared Prime Minister Balfour in a public apeech at Southampton last night, “the mat v has been referred to jonal commission, and iL abide by the de- clston of that comminsion, which Wl cousider all the Gaestions at tear,” Count Benckendorff, Russia's Ambas- gador In London, sald to the corre poudent after Mr. Balfour had spoken: “It our fleet had left Vigo there prob- ably would have been war, but now all ts well. . re never was any question of apology and compensation, These were freely conceded. The only approach to & bitch occured In connection with the question of guarantee of punishment. The Fleet's Mistake, “When those differences appeared acute the whole situation was changed of by the appearance of Rojesivensky’s | | feport. ‘That was obviously made } sv0d faith. 1. is possible our Adzatral’e Subordinates made the mista! either he nor they are ‘infallible, it they jMade a mistake in hitting trawlers {9 | j obvi that they were mistaken tn be- leving they saw torpedo-bonts remains to be proved,” Russia has expressed willingness to detach the commander of her fleet and such Other officers as may be found to have been concerned in the incident for examination by the commission, It \s Mkely the others will be detained at Vigo for only a few days. The appointment of arbitrators will | be settled by Ambassador Benckendorft and Lord Lansdowne. | TOKIO, Oct. %—It is officially de- | clared in the most positive terms that Japan has netther purchased nor or- dered @ single torpedo boat in Eagland since the outbreak of the war, The British battleships Jupher and | Magnificent sailed from Gibraltar to- ja ‘Their designation is believed to he Tangier, The British seoond-clas# orulser Doria, whith has been patroliing the) Straks, also sailed. westward, oe | RUSSIANS LOST 45,000 | IN 10 DAYS’ FIGHTING 81. PETERSBURG, Oct. 9.—The Gen- eral Staff to-day issued a statement that the number of killed, wounded und missing In the fighting which began Oct, # and ended Oct. 18 totaled $0 officers and 4,000 men, ~ MUTE NEP 0 CORTE Republican Chairman Now Says - He Never Promised to Make a Speech Defending Himself from Campaign Scandals. With characteristic Republican adroit- fess Chairman George B. Coftelyou, of} the Republican National Committes, who was announced last night as th principal speaker at next Friday nig Republican — gathering at Duriand's Riding Academy, switched around to- day and declared that he was not gotng to make a speech, and that he had never sald he w It is perfectly true that Mr, Cortel- you never publicly sald that he was going to make a speech, but the an- nouncement was made by men high up in the Republican party, who are not given to reckless utterances and when the denial of Mr, Cortelyou was made public to-day, the general impression was created at once that the thing waa put out as a feeder and that the re coption accorded the announcement was ot what had been hoped for. na “rhe only desis,’ said Mr, Cortelyou to-day, “for this statement, 49 the faot that Mr, Ward (Willlam L. Ward, an Odell Heutenant) telephoned me in be- halt of the Lyoseengind na niprgarneg 94 eaying that they would like ve present at the meeting. I replied that I would try to be there, There is ab- olutely nothing else in el ‘at all gure that I will be at the yt’ kfown that President Roose- vet has been anxious for some time to eradicate from the public mind the open chatge that he put Mr. Cortelyou , in @ position where he could pry into the secrets of the trusts and then made htm campaign collector, well knowing that the bulk of the financial support ‘campaign would have to come ped a ae Very name erusts, The Pres- nt has been caworing for some method of answer: is charge. bree me he thought 0 Miss Ella Bagley. ‘Te funeral Of Mise Bila nah commiiied suiide at turning on tle gas, was held to-day at the chapel in the undertaking rooms of the Stephen Merritt Hurial Company, at ‘Twenty-first street last ednesday by | shock. LITLECHLDI CLE BY TU Gracie Baldwin Run Down and Crushed on Her First Day Out | After an Iliness that Lasted Three Weeks, / Gracle Baldwin, the six-year-old | daughter of George W. Baldwin, of No. 28 Power street, Williamsburg, was run down and willed to-day by a heavy oll tank truck driyen by Valentine Bode- mann, of No. Bergen avenue, The unfortunate driver is 80 unnerved from the accident that the police in the Stagg Street Station, where he is held on a charge of homicide, are keeping him in sight constantly for fear that | he may do Injury to himself, Bode- nn {8 the father of four children and en he picked up the mangled form of Gracie Baldwin and carried |t into | her house he fell on bis knees beside the couch where he had laid it and called upon God to strike him dead. Out for First Time To-Day, Little Graole had been confined to her home for three weeks until to-day by gastritis, and she was permitted to go out this morning only after her play- mates had waited in & body upon the Baldwins’ physician. He told them that if to-day proved falr she might go out and sit in the sun with them. The child's friends were at her door the firat thing to-day, and all of them weni across the street and sat on the stoop of Depaty Police Commissioner Har- rell’s house, Grace had her doll, and one of the children suggested that she cross the street and get the dolls buggy, which was on-the stoop of her own home, ger me and see how fast 1 can the sidewalk, with her head turned. Bodemann's team was ed tee tottiae. the driver, who had + pulled out One of the children ee child in the i tikes: eet Z E z PALE AST LA'S BOE Heitéss of Expatriated Ameri-| can Millionaire. Beoomes the Wite To-Day of Former Cap- tain of the Lite Guards,- | ‘a LONDON SOCIETY IN FORCE AT WEDDING, Magnificent Jewels Among the Bride’s Presents, Capt. Clay, Investing Half His Fortune in Gems for Her, (Special Cable Deana, to The Evening | LONDON, Oct, %.—Paullne Astor, the |danghter of William. Waldort Astor, the allen American millionaire, was married to-day to Capt. A Spender Clay in St. Margafets Chutch, The ceremony, regarded as one of the bril- ant events of the season, attracted & distingwished gathoring of social leaders, h The Bishop of London, Dr, Ingrath, Canon Wilberfores and other clergy | took part In the esremony, which was performed at 2 P. M. Astor Gave 6: ) Away. Enormous crowds outalds watched the arrivar of the bitde,. Beldegroom ati! weddnig quests. ‘Tie obutth, which was tatestully adorned with flowers and autumn foliage, was crowded with dis- tingui@hed persons and présanted a brilliant scene when, to the strains of a) Proceesional hymn, the bride, with her ten bridesmalds and two pages in white satin Cavalier suite tored up the adsle wo the chancel steps. Mr. Astor wave away bis daughter. The best man was Capt. Claute de Creapigny, Vice- roy Curton's Alde-dé-Camp. At the conclusion of tha ceremony a reception was held at No. 18 Cariton House Terrace, many hundreds of qwell- known people being oresaat. ut & Very charm. Mugistrdte Wintman calped Capt. and Mrs. Spender-Clay subse Shading irese wae quite weiter in tee the case Mrr, Sheridan told her story Quently started for Cliveden, where they | Paliweueht, though made of the richent las to the receipt of the blackmailt will spend thelr honeymoon, 4 eet eh, cule Demeneee. The Hletters signed “Mlack Hand,” and of ‘The presents were magnificent, largely oming to her delice Deautg ths {her turning them over to Ingpestor dlamoudas and other Jewels. The Duchens | dreas of soft satin, trimmed with McClusky, F of Argyll (Princess Louise) sent a gold | beautiful face and white silk embroid- Mrs, ‘Sheridan #tigned @ formal com- cup Lon’ Rosebéry, the Duke and | Sf, gt Court train ts of the samo wort % and) white satin, lined with chiffon. 8he plaint accusing the two men of black- Duchess of Notdik, Land Lansdowne, | wore a piain tu le veil over a wreath of mall} Lord Halabury, ra! cc uty, Alfred Charles de ‘arried a bouquet y = Cooley om the Stand, Rothsohild, the Duchess of Suthertand, the Duke of Roxburghe, Lord and Lady Wolseley and the Earl aud Countess of HM Bh is mp io pees Cyrson, Viceroy * Cl 5 through Assistant District-Attorney Warwick were aléo among the donors. a nm of Mir Claude de| ived Krotel called young Cooley to the stand, Criepigny, en He ts only twenty-two years old and! Gifts from Vanderpilts, The Earl and Countess of Warwick. Col. and Mra. John Hay, Ambassador and Mrs, Ohoste, Mr, and Mrs. Cor- neliim Vanderbilt, the Duohess of Man- chester, Seorstary and Mrs, Henry White, the Countess of Strafford and Mre. Arthur Paget were algo among (be donors, The list of prewnte file a column in the néwepapérs. | The nobility and fashion of London Went to the ohureh oO only to see, bet to smile. After tlie gossips of Europe | had spent three years marrying Miss Astor to prindes of the blodd, duked, marquisés, ministers 6f Mate, and in- terweaving the name of: Astor with names that Have, ahone, 1A Europe for centuries, it was for soelety: to laugh when H, Spehdér, Clay bacashe the ac- cepted bridegroom. ‘ Since Capt. Clay came before the [public as the dupe of Lord Willlam | Nevill, whom he prosecuted for forgery and grand lareeny, the Youle fnan Has been a, butt for Shiirp épl- Grams. ‘The gullldllity he exhibited in his Assodtations lon Nevill was not only astounding, pat funny, Capt. Clay Was ‘Masy. Even though the ‘ratoally noblemen was transported: to spérid five geara in panal servitude, many aympathiged with him, Spender Clay had been 60 easy, such a tender moraél for the dashing, to have taken the thoitaandd of pounts his lordship muloted from the Captain, i a HE 5 5 = z fi F é ; [OOre Astor inns «cng dageled Surope with |her jowels, since her engagement she [has recelved a porleot. deluge oi WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 29, 1904. |W. W. ASTOR’S DAUGHTER AND CAPT, CLAY, American in the lavisiness of his pres. only fabulously rich, Crespigmy. of the Beoond Lite Guards, aloe rare ce tS SRA nMOS) 2 0Y EIED DESERTED WIFE SUB ADS, RUBBISH, DEMOCRATS WAR IN Mrs. Levinson. Gets Husband Chairman of Art Commission | | | writihg you these letters?” Magistrate | Whitman tnquired of Mra, Sherid | ered --— ' s bag nid ae replied, “1 Wed / jabors jer o kdea F ded Jeas than twelve months, Mrs, | “It onerhalf of the people of ibis city, OYSTER BAY, L. 1, Oct. 2&—The| money. He brought sult against me fennie Levinson, twenty-one years old, | are againat the advertising signs in the | rival Democratic meetings that ang ad- |tWo years ago lout it, of No, 43 West One Hundred and Twon. ty-Afth street, and her husband, Alex- ander, a youth of nineteen, tried to put the blame of their separation on each other before Magistrate Baker tn the rh rae tofssion, expressed his opinion of the } Harlem Court to-dey, advertising signs in an interview to-| Henry B, Claytos, of Alabama; Cech | ments and emiled. Although | Mra Several weeks ago the husband . Cooley tried to ade Douvall to releseed after being arr and was day, Hughes, of New York; John Luke A.|qamit his guit he stoully dested ineae ‘ arrested for de-) “ygy view is,” said Mr. Warner, “that |Kecaan, Distriet-Attorney James P, | ing dictated or even suggested the Oe cane tO pay Siew Nieman, Demooratts nominee for Coun. | ters to Cooley. He asked tme to con- week to his wife. He got tired after two weeks and went back to his wite.| He left her again in September. Lavinaon than acoused his ol, of No. 108 West One Hundred and First street, @ clothing manufacturer, of using undue influence and restrain- ing her haisband from living with her. and asked for a writ of habeas corpus to compel Mendel to produce Alexander) i court. Referee James J. Nealls, to! thet ‘get broken’ the better it will be. | of « fight between the Counsy Demo- | , fe! ee ne the eamanetTted, decided) “The Rapid Transit Commission ought | cratic Central Committee and the Dem-| |, . Me te forana cetee ete ert: | £9 ave saved the public this trouble: | goratic leaders in Oyster Bay. The|Highest Tributes Ordered by Pending its formal service Mrs. Levin-| These defacing signs should be ‘treated | #0n got 4 chance up in Harlem to have Alexander takén to the Harlem Court,’ and when status of the case clear he postponed i! until “‘Tharsday next, 90 the Supreme) fan,» Court can settle ite end of the case or ‘Only One Girl’ Impromptu “Rush” at Bellevue! 2 ee WHOSE WEDDING SOCIETY IN LONDON AYTENDED. CESS POT OWLS | Court About Plan to Blackmail! | Mrs, Teresa Sheridan. | \INTENDED VICTIM “QUEEN OF THE MUD SCOW FLEET”| Cooley Was Arrested with Ed-| ward Douvall, a Former Em-' ploye of Mrs. Sheridan, Who Received ‘Black Hand’ Letters! Because of th@ @ntrenties of his mother and his eweetheart Alvah R. | Cooley, an optician, who was arrested yeaterday with Edward Douvell, a» scow-hoat captain, by Detectives Mo- |Catferty and Miley for attempting to biackmall Mrs. ‘Teresa A, @heridan, known as the “Queen of the Mudscow | Pleat." to-day made a full confession to Magistrate Whitman in the Cenwe Street Court, | With tears steeaming down their cheeks two women-the gray- halred mother and the doving sweet th ~begged the son and fiance to onfess the truth if he wae guilty, Al- | though defiant when arrested yester- day, the youth broke down apd an- nounced to Assistant Distriat-attorney Krotel that he would make @ alean breast of the whole business. “Y will love you all the more,” thp young woman told Cooley, “it you wit only do #0." “| will, sweathenrt,” replied the) youth, as he Kissed her tenderly on the cheek. ‘The young woman, who is Mise Dora | Tersansky, of No. 9% Courtandt a |nue, in the Beonx, Oried her eyes and eat down, The e@nxious mother, stilt! crying, clung to het boy’e coat, beg- ging and imploring bim to remain steadfast and tell the truth. ‘The now Mrs, HH. Spender Clay is not whi were, The best/man was Capt. Claud de very sporty looking, with just @ trace of! down on his upper lip, He described himself as a “refracting optician,” and sald he had known Douvall for several years. Douvall lived with him, he stated, at his mother’s home, No. tw Kast Tenth street. “1 wrote thowe letters,” he declared, | ‘at the request of Douvall. He dictated -OOSEVELT'S TOWN 52S | | eee | | himele Rival Meetings Will Be Held uns wnsmer sae nin | To-Night in Oyster Bay and ; “Yes, sir; T did,” replied Cooley. “But } } had no idea what be wanted them | § Lively Time Is the Prom: and praised him for telling the truth, ised Result. SEAS THO CURT EELIRS WARE Before Police’ Magistrate— Says Public Should Take! Action Delayed Until Supreme, Matter in Hand and Clear) Court Case Is Disposed Of. | Them Out. | ‘or Mra, Sheridan patted him on the back “Have you any ls motiy vertised to be held here to-night attracting much attenfon and great in- minal | terest is taken in the peculiar situation, | adjourning the - on lied Detective jerty to the John Sharpe Williams, the Democratic | Pai e told hi leader th Conghes, te, ennounosd to | Reset, She, Une, ae be smeeent Be. hae speak at both meetings, as ore also! subway ‘stations, I think now is the time for them to go to jail if need be for the, cause,” In, this manner John De Witt Warner, Chairman of the Municipal Art Com- these stations should be kept clear for ; ith a lawyer and the adjourn- the use of the public por! ¥ oe ment was granted for this purpose, FUNERAL HONORS | FOR POLICE HERO ty Judge; Frederick Wavtris and oth- ers, Marching clube from Hempstead, finwola, Roslyn, Sea Cliff, Westbury, 1 Cove, Locust Valley and other es will come here by wain and at- | to blame for them have no right to |tend the meetings, It Is expected to be | expect, but since they cannot well be ihe liveliest night of the campaign in | thrown out of any window that I per- | this village. {haps the better way to treat them.| The cali of two meetings on the The more, ¢svecially the large ones, | same night is sald to be the outcome ‘These stations }are public places and I believe such Mrs. titter a8 much a nulsance as if left on brother Men-|¢he sidewalk, To turn these signs to Ghe went before Justice Gilderaleeve the same as an accumulation of pack- | local leaders and many of the Demo- | Ing-Doxes oF other rubbleh whic, the | cratic voters in this village did not owner of a place should leave in front | a Magivtrate Raker got the) of hts prew . favor the holding of & mass meeting of “hn organ grinder might set up Democrats to President's home ‘tand before my house and put “~ signs | town, but the County Committee, of was going to piety ‘mck Tigo which Congreseman Townsend Scudder [as have these signs in public places.” is « . Were in faver of having Fran yw gee RTE ee waxed |. on here, | the doors weve held fast. It was only) A the Cowaty, Centre! On $ by a flying wedge and the force of |ago wit! leaders, and there erencer nambers that the doors were sai to had a stormy time. The McAdoo for Patrolman Pat- a the in South Brooklyn Fire. Police Commission¢r McAdoo to-day | feeutd an order that Patrolman Pairick Cushing, who was burned to death In the Gre at Bush's #tores, South Brook- UNG MEDICOS | IN STREET FIGHT members of the County Committee final- | torped, " widel to hod a rattiation meet-|lyn, yesterday morning, should be! Titers, follewed a free Village ball and truck-house | buried with the highest honors the | figbt, wiifeh lnated @ half men, tinting that & Meet-| police Department oan bestow, ow, planned t> own in aw big) Cushing lost bis life while notifying the crews of vestels moored to the burning pler of the danger they were tn. Commissioner MoAdoo also ordered | an investigation Into the exact clroum- siances surrounding the death of Cust ing to ascertain If any one could have | saved the unfortunate fellow Cushing wag unmarried. He with @ brother in South Brooklyn. He } rushing fighting streets bhvught « large age. ‘ engaged brase| letal patrolmen were fi en kept oul of the way, an reets of the village will e tosnight with music and mareh- | clubs, ———— Boa ad ala Results in Blackened Eyes, GERMAN CRITICS LIKE CALVE «cy:p” ARFECTS THR Bleeding Noses and Torn) wat some of ine Peop TRACLION STOCKS, i Apvlause mt Viedt. Clothes for Many Taking Part. BERLIN, Oct. 2% —Mme. Calve is tour. The efte ft the b es done by the | had been on the foce only since Novem- ing: Gérmany: for the first time, She subway bn Its first running day waa! der last He was a young and active , " sang in “Carmen” lat evening ‘ toway’ on the etocks of the trac. | man and bore an excellent record, sis An impromptyi tush between the first solout house, aud many re smpanies In Mar ' ort fey bag Rie and 1wK | io ari the mage t le sitan eyat Yommisstone: < ot a and second Yeh mén of the Bellevue! af the audience did noc participete in gael by -_ bul ne maneker | office to-day, being confined to his home F . | Une enth usteam clined twd polnts o ek market 4 Boel) SNe s00k E88 “thie a ipa crise aed et day, Wh ¢ Manhattan | DY & oe sompps2s oe Shenae on cdl ing upatint ot bh * opening exercises, i and Mave. Caive rep irinen in | Railway ats ee eee olmen making. her a fine lady in eulons stocks were at a three * infortunsta eriougin to get to windward, | MM" OFS MmPle Sigaretto girl | ain on the curt | PHILADELPHIA DOCKS EARLY, About 1 firtt year men were holdin, Neigh ¥ _ on n Friday 4 at 1%, waa high at 4 wat 1234 | s Losey ig eed | tae by Y hong piedy it, Kanne Ony Joernat) 4 chased at 126 Manhattan, closing v4 Bia Steaper from Sent! won| 1+ apa Because. of his wite’s continued iliness, | Friday at Mi'y, opened at 18, and went Arrives oa Tt A clas Président, when the! cowart Farthing, who lives even miles (#teady Up to 109%, whore It closed. The steamer Philadelphia, from were ‘thrown .open suddenly) Of Hennessey, w Southampton and Cherbourg, arrived at tities «of borax were to Siek Wom Salcide, her dock early to-day. several day | NBWARK, N. J., Oct, 2—Mrs. Annie | She was reported off Fire Island at ver ity ede ia Bitso, sixty- Years old, committed |24@ A. M. lorty. ot |euieide to-day by. « paris green at wat itz | her fone, Wo! theo. street. suntiAy Bante wane. * a4 heen In node tor a lone "MONDAY MING a8. the hehe eS at LAR riok Cushing, Burned to Death! a toed |Several Fitémen Partially | WV come by Smoke— Alarms Bring on Soene” Fire-Boats ahd Five gi ENGINEER CRAWLS uP THROUGH COAL: Woman Escapes from Floor of Burning & Climbing Down iron R Awning to Street. 5 +h Three alarms Were turned tn for which was Gisooveréd in the ¢ brick building at Nos. street to-day, Chiet Croker ordering: sevond and third Alarms within minutes after the fire started, ‘The building is ogeupled by & Higgins, sie manufacturers, and: ing to the piatetlal the flames had feed upon the amoke became #0 that the firemen could not enter bullding. The fire started in the room and Wal discovered by Freedland, who ls employed ta i market near by, aie har ¢ Chief Crokér was on the » & halt minutes after the frat wes turned {n asd, on ree nature of the butlding a: contatied, turnie€ in the econ: Only two pértone were fn the when the fire started, Houghtaling came tp from the room thfotgh’ a coal’ hole In # dresued and halt-daged condition, ~ sald that, oWing to the smoke, it be Intposs!bié for any man to enter i. basement, Mrs, Anderson’ Cilnnad down the ‘Bre-sec 5 cape treat By the fron a : a yw building hack® up e; 29, ML and 2 Watar strest, ~ iin AS ahd nae Chief Ci or & force of ot t sees! ‘the, fire. Con tf wero Afier this formality had been gone) had heavy eal from: ies fi amashy the Br thelr tin the aoe: OM POSTAL CARD a ic wae ai age at Le * ; ‘the ¥ oe |Aleged It Was Used Onoe ’ Often by Mr. Smith, of _ towh, Who Is Charged \ Violation of Postal Laws; Siready pagsed through the "ie United States taken to the PR ryt lyn, 0 answer to a charge of the postal laws,» « en Mr. Smith belongs to one of the ole est families on Long Island He for four years postmaster at Pack, LL, under the adi of President Cleveland. He ber of the Protestant Eplacopal C1 4t Gmithtotwn. His business is im estate and feuracee. When he adked if he could get a bondsman said that Supreme Coart Justice who ro! | waa the cancelling. # tran been, jamttt: the firet sald to Banextte: BERGER NCW A the a