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Fen ‘Has Formed in Its Wake, and that the Place May Be ~ Engulted. ‘ LEGE OF GAELIC STUDY Boh READY TO OPEN SOON. i) in Mayo, Where the Natives Speak Jin! the Parish of a Relative of Jim thett—New Daily Paper in Dublin—’ ‘Murder of a Returned American, a ‘(Special Correspondence of The Evening World.) / | +,, (tom Our Regular Correspondent.) LIN, Ireland, Jan. 6.—A fresh menace 1s now caused by the phe- r ane emdnt of, tho great tract of hog in the county of Roscommon. W people of the region around the village of Cloonshievors, which is, en- 76 Bottled own) after the exciting events of the migration, but some new terror in the form ofa great lake that sprang into {the ‘wake of the bog. ‘This lake has again forced the bog into t thin time it threatens the thriving town of Castlerea. It is feared ‘the water may urge the mass of peat in the direction of fit, ag it did the village, of Cloonshievers, At a meeting le, presided over by The O’Conor Don, a large sum was sub- ‘dratnage on @ plan that: may relieve the situation. “> p the Magistrates with the murder of! Willem: Regan, ex-soldier in the American army and a veteran of war, The evidence, which is sig- nificant, showed that the prisgner was acen in company with the murderod man near Legtervdiaarin nd was dis- dovered, {in possess: a bl instrument which could have ine floted the wounds, and that subsequent to the mutder he attempted to pawn the victim's gold watch and ‘chain, The ‘prisoner, who reserved his defense, was Thrilling Rescue Revalied. tain Nicholas Weldon, moster of lang, sailed eo night by rhe, two warders Fenians, outside. Offered by the Be ie eae tants bi mias oath into och Doe Tionce the i fo be eat of raand RUBBER PLANT | MILLED SLEEP Woman Screamed When It Fell and Man Fired Two Shots lint} from Revolver While Others ‘11° Called Police. in the New| “ts titat Police Headquarters?” asked near Rah-| an oxctted woman's voloe of Police Sergt, Marixin over the telephone early But come! A wows: ts belng mur- dered in the apartment-.muse at Ons Hundred and Thirty-fitth street ard Seventh ayeniie.” / 4 “Who are you? asked the Sengeant, “Never mind me," replied the volce at the other ghd of the telephone, “I don't wout any notoriety, Just come og aend and save this woman from be- ing. murdered,” From the Telephone Exchange Man- ain learned that the woman had talked from the house of Frank Orawford, at No, 201, West One Hundred and Thirty- fifth street. Handly nad he got this telephone ad- frees when a man called up Head- quarters and bald: y “A woman. ivas just been’ mumered wt One Hundred and ‘Shirty-fitth street and Soventh avenue, She has been shor to death. Two shots were fired,” Mangin at once called up the police of the West Ohe Hundred and Twenty- fifth street station and also the J. E Wright Hospital. Polfceman Creatine who was sent from the station-house, and an ambulance arrived at tho place of disturbance about the same time. Everybody on the block was awake, Men wero running about the streots and women were @tioking thelr heads from windows and screaming, Creeden made his way into the apart- ment-house where the woman was supe posed to have been murdered, From apartment to apartment he went, and then he learned that the falling of a rubber plant had so frightened a woman that she had screamed, She was not murdered, by any means, Her goreams had awakened a man aerces the Alreet, and thinking murd was being done he had arisen, whippe ‘At firwt tried to put out with the roforma@tory appa- hick had hot ‘been used burst under the pressure WWh, ary ane in poured in through rol 2 tua been left open cries of distress from Anvestigation showed on ls ‘wero filled und 100 others whose oa with smoke were them, The convicts by armed guards during it It took to get the blaze the fir betn; cells cloared shots In the alr, And 9 the mystery was solved, The mon and ‘women retired to thelr homes; the ambulance rattled off to the hospi- tal, and the policeman went back to the station-house, nearly smoke, ner taken back to thelr to fina Shel tarry pied slumber. wae gutted. T ‘ Nhe das ited Yo be nearly $10,000, the fire Is a mystery,| “It's a. pes ¢ nelghborhood,” he d bp 14h to spontaneovs | reported, “A rubber plant suffered a were confined tal. No one Injured,” ’ ent, but the re ere system, ene House, DOVER, Del, Jan, 14—W. B, Denny, Union (Addicks) Republican, was elected wee fr of the House late to-day. This stad eat eat ives the roault ry tor the .|make money out o to-day, “Come quick! Bend pomfbody! | o, out his trusty revolver, and fired two > Neadlock Rroken tn the Delaware ¥" HOLAHAN'S LIFE ~~ EBBING AWAY Old Politician Has Had a Long and Picturesque Career as Tammany Leader and Munic- ipal Office-Holder. DEPOSED IN DISTRICT BY LEWIS NIXON. F , Caught in Pool-Room Raid Downtown, His Excuse that He Was Looking for a Way- ward Son Excited Derision, ———e Maiirice F, Holahan, former Prest- dent of the old Board of Public Im- provements during Mayor Van Wyck's administration, who is ill at the New York Hospital, 19 watl to be @ litte better to-day, ‘The physicians, how- ever, are uncertain as to his recovery. Mr, Holahan {a suffering with paraly- a's, it belng sald that this Is the thiml stroke, ‘ On Monday last Holahan collapsed at ‘Thirty-fourth street and Broadway and wag unconscious for many hours, Even now he las only a faint idea of his sur. roundings and his heart Is so danger- ously weak that it threatens mo- mentarily to give out, Little has been heard of Maurice Holahan eince Lewis Nixon, during his brief reign as leader of Tammany Hall, tonk from him the control of the Twenty-fourth Assembly District and gave It back to Victor J, Dowling, whom Holuhan displaced under the tule of Croker, Maurice Holahan since then has been content to keep out of the Imelight of political activity and to let the reins of power that he held for move than twenty-five yeurs go into other hands, Victor Dowling ls now & Tustioe of the Supreme Cuurt, and Jobn V. Comgey is Tammany leader in the Twenty-fourth. | Holahan's Boasts. Tf there was ever a boast that a man was prow! to make tt was Mautice Hol- ‘ahan’a when, in the old days, he used to point to thls children and "Thank God, 1 have. the. strength and purpose to bring my youngsters \ip #0 that they shall want £2 be men and women,” | He-had poll i ta, too, and It was his to fling them forth defiantly that there never ‘been u disorderly house within the boundaries of the ‘Twerity-fourth Distiiot; that not one cent. had ever been contributed to cam- within his control by @ geloon-imeper, and that no yaloon~ Keeper could ine that any of his lieutenants had ever taken a dollar police protection. \ And after all this the end of Maunice Holahan's political career began with his being caught {n the sensational rald by District-Attorney Philbin and then Justice Jerome on Ridge Levien's I-room at No, 20 Dey street in 11, Tammany veteran was President of the Public ee Works Department and ag one Van Wyek of the hardest biows the administration received. “Wayward Son” Story. wes told that my son Frank wus "geld Holahan to Philbin and Jecome, “I received two tolenten? ice 1 wo tad av Levien’s, and I went there, ‘he! yy has been wayward,” and the volce of the old man choked. Tears, blurred hia eyes. His explanation of his pres- dn @ pool-room was received ‘with emiles, Reform was pring: for! and “Where Is My Wandering Boy ‘To- nee Tanks of the [ & popylar air in the han opposition around the City Hali, It was @ flippant time they had with the old mar,’ and fil cy Is a kmite thet gets home to the eart. It got home to Maurice Hola- 8. han’ With the passing of three or four ree, men are more apt to believe that Mngs may be true; when at the mo- ment ‘those thingy first strike thelr ears they turn with a laugh and the word “lie” upon thelr ps, That way~ ward son for whom Maurice Holahan gaid he was seardhing on the day Phil- bin and Jerome raided Ridge Levien's has told his own wtory. At firml, he too, laughed at his father, with the rest of the crowd, Acoused His Father, Then he charged his father with hay- ing een in @ compact ‘with him to htigante In con- demned real esiote Vaca earns In charge of the Public Works Depart- ment. Later it developed there was nothing in this accusation, as tho father ld at thel time, when he courted investigation and removal from nee, ‘hen @ little later Frank himself told how he had left his father’s home and the side of his wife and four months’ old baby and gone into the West, where he divorced her, When he came back to New York, it was discovered that he had married a nineteen-year-old girl, who had been @ stenographer in his law office, ‘There also was something sald by Joe Holahan, a brother, about Frank and ‘tve ponies’ and ‘Forty-second street. But Maurice Holahan’s real friends say that very little of thie matters to him now, There was always forgive- nese in his heart for his children, and although he loved political power dearly ede he holds no resentments toward ose who contributed to taking it away, <0 ( GEN, PIET CRONJE TO TELL OF BOER WAR. [Famous south African, Soldier to Appear with Irish Band at the Academy of Music, / | The appaarance of Gen, Piet A. Cronje Jet the Academy of Music to-morrow afternoon and night In conjunction with | Ireland's “Own” Band promises to be ‘as Interesting as was his first appear- ance Jn Boston on Sunday, Jan, 1, at the Boston Theatre, where an immense | audience gaye hm an ovation, He will describe at the Academy of Music his experiences during the awful ten day of the Paardeburg di hell Br ye ind sey ly nor did a sword (With the sin an vd home sma we about hi din this gul ory ‘until the last il. Poardeburg, after the most ,g that ever hero made, somemoni ents prior to this Gen, Cronje had overwhelmingly defeated the British GROKER AGAINST ALL FIREWORKS Fire Chief Asks Commissioner Hayes to.Prohibit Use of Night Pyrotechnics on the Fourth of July, —_—— If Fire Chief Croker has his way the small boy next Fourth of July must onfine his celebration of American. in- dependence of the firecracker, The chief has written a letter to Commissioner Hayes asking that ajl other kinds of fireworks be prohibited this year, In future years the chief hopes that every form of pyrotechnic celebration will be abolished, In his letter to Commissioner Haye the chlef says that he would also ask), that firecrackers, too, be abolished, but for the fact that such action would cause great hardship to dealers under existing conditions and entail the loss of a large amount of money, Firemen Dread the Fourth. “Tt is outrageous,” OChiet Croker sald to-day when seen at the Broadway ‘Cen tral Hotel, “that the promiscuous dis- play of fireworks should be permitted in a city like New York, where every fire that staris may end in » lose of Ife elther to the inhabitants of build- ings, firemen or policemen. Fourth of July 4» the one day in all the year that a fireman dreads, “No matter it he 1a assigned to @ re- mote district in the Bronx, In Brooklyn ‘or in Long Island City, he knows that on that day he must work hari, It is the one day in‘all the year that we Keep’ every one of the 8,000 men in the department at- his post. I have re- peatedly taken up this matter without success, but now I hope that Commis- stoner Hayes will act upon my letter, Pert) in Fireworks, “The average fires for each day in thé Greater New York district number about eighteen or twenty, but this av- erage ix increased over the normal con- dittons by the Fourth of July celebra- ton, “Tt Lan't so much the small fires that are ocaysed by fireworks which we dirgad as it 1s the big ones that happen wintle the engines are’ running to the little ongs, Say, for instance, @ mis- directed skyrocket or a blazing ‘all from a Roman candie starts a small blaze, An alarm {s tured In, and the fixemen are called out, While they are ing to the fire, that might easily we been extinguished with @ hand ‘enade or a bucket of water, another re starts and gains great way Migs PAs engines get R It, ist on the Mourth there were: BN fies, In rete York and 240 accklents, I didn’t slee from § A, M. July 3 until 8 A. M, July 6, Would Prohibit Fireworks, “The reason I did not ask the gom- misstoner to prohibit firecrackers was because warehouses are already filled with them and there are many. ships nowon thelr way here with ful ry from China, All of the other eee, are made In this city and to exclude them as a form of celebration would ¢ such a loss to manufacturers, y one who has suffered from a aured by a Fourth of July cele. bration {s in favor of an ordinance pro- hibiting fireworks on that day, We can easily have some other form of celebra- tion that will be less dangerous to human life and property. ae OWER WEST SIDE TO DANCE. To-Night George Hamman, Jr, Association, teception ot » The annual H ot, sption of the George Assoc ody of any +sent out, and almost “2 In socia political ¥ lower west side ef town will and participate in the gravid i assoclauion ra some of working with a fore m full time, offiyal sald that orders are t laxgur Gh dey several months Dash, | nan, to-night at 4c Hall promises to bo tho greatest eyer given by the organization, More than five hundred Invitations have been | An Maurice ‘Francis, * tiolahan,; SAMARITAN COUNCIL, R. A., INSTALLS NEW, OFFICERS, Past Regent Traynor In Presented with Jewel Set with ° Diamonds, Laat night was installation night at Samaritan Council, Royal Aycanum, ‘The counoll was crowded with delega- tlons from other councils, Supervising District Deputy |Palmer \installed the offfcers for the year 190, assisted by District Deputy Drake, who acted aa Grand Guide. Addresses were made by Past Grand Regent Gellott, Supervising District, Deputy. Palmer ana Past Regent Ryah, Past Regent John J. Traynor was presented’ with a Past Regent's jewel, set with diamonds, on the expiration of his term of office. He is President of the Catholic Young Men's Association, No, 9 White street; a member of the imothy D, Sullivan Association, Royal Arcanum Clb and other well-known clu FIVE.YEAR CHASE Work, Indicted in 1899 for Using Mail to Swindle Thousands of Poor Through “Investors” Trust,” Captured Here, LIVED IN LUXURY ON BOTH SIDES OF OGEAN. Taken from Fashionable Board ing-House to the Tombs— Held in $2,500 Bail by U. s. Commissioner Shields, —— C. Lawton Work, one of thore debo- nair men who always dress in immace- late clothes; whose manners mark tho daily contact with the world of fashion and refinement; whose suave 8) falls entertalningly on the ears of both men and womon, was arraigned to-day before United States Commissioner Shields charged with using the maiis to further @ scheme for de- fravding the public, Mr, Work has been chased halt round the world by detec: tlyes ence an Indiétment was returned againet him In?Philadelphia in 1899. Work was charged with having been connected with tho Investors’ Trust, which, it ts sald, swindled thousands of poor people out of their hard earned money, It guaranteed exorbitant divi- dends on investments, and for one year dia astonish some of the emall in vestors by paying 26 per cent, profits. Work jwas arrested by Deteotive Far ley and Post-Office Inspector Holden, of Philadelphia, who came from Phila- delphia for the purpose of identifying the man, Work was found in one of the most fashionablo boarding houses tn tho city, at No. 27 West End ave- nue, He had apartments which took up the entire second floor and lived here with his wife In such luxustous style as to be envied by the other boarders, all of whom are persons of means, Luxury on All Sides, The Work rooms were littered with the rarest of books, bric‘a-brac, paint- ings and other objects d'art, all of which had been added to the rooms after their occupancy hy Work and his wite, The woman's wardrobe is en- tirely Parisian and the man’s clothes bear the stamp of a most fashionable London tailor, The detective entered the West End enue house and ‘was shown to Work's om by\ the butler, just ‘before the @aner hour, Work was perfectly cool when the detective told him his pur- pose and smiled blandiy when he ‘threw his fur coat over his arm to ac- company Farley to the street, where @ ab was in waiting. ‘The dining-room opens Into a large re* ception hall, and as the men Walked i the detective, being called ‘he detectiv weasel re ogized to the ise mis smiled as Work apol ing-house im! A and stepped altde to. allow the detective to pass out ahead of him. Farley want. d lefty grace and more action, 80 ho took Work's arm and the two went down tho stairs to) (he cab, The other guests were not in the dark, however, and the cause of Work’s sudden departure furnished the subject of table talk for the reut of the. evening, Jn 1899 Work Hyed tn becoming style In’ Phitadelphla when he “jot into trouble with the postal authorities,» A Miva Russell wee living at the «ame house, Work galled: for Eutope and Miss Russell went to Saranac Lake for a visit, Work liad a wife and several children and the Iatter were in a fasi~ jonanle seminary in Albany while ho itoured the continent, His wife was in the West, Hurmpe was too slow for his activ tfes so Work returned to America, liked’ the climate of Canada and 61 grayed in lumber operations on 4 large roale near St, Agatha, ie even wont #0 far as to build ‘a railroad from Bt, Agatha to hia lumber camp, but soon picked up a lor of trouble with the mill hands ond left the whole enter- prise in other hands. Married Second Wife. About: this time his wife died in Evanston, il, and he married Miss Russell, Another tip to Europe, where he mage monoy, put him in funde, and he sauntered round tho wateri being seen as only the wealthiest are seen, in automobl In boxes at the opera, at the most exolusive hotels and at the most elaborate gaming places, He returned to America just after Christmas, “T expected to arrive in New York for Christmas,” he said to one of the guests @t the boarding-house, “but I tad wo wait until my tailor finished my clothes, A lange order came in from King Ed- ward, ag IT Carre recel ‘the ry and attention of thc fet tailor I perforce ‘had to bile my e! Mrs, Work loft the West Bnd houge a week ago. Work had stopped there two weeks and was Introduced by a wealthy r pan ‘who knew the boarding- house anietrese, Work was, hokl fn $2,500 bail for a ed in the Eastern Dis- ‘lvania with J, Welles roulars sent out by the ‘they said that their operations had brought a profit of 1 per cent, In Standard Oil tho first year, 180 per cant, the second year In tobacco, 106 the third year, and the year prior to ‘the issuance of the circular 208 per cent, Tt also cited tho case of a patron who Invested $100, and in four years reaped & profit of $7,000. SEA Bs MAN FRACTURES SKULL _ BY FALL FROM WINDOW. Edwin Kros, While the Gest of Friends, te Found Unoon- actions in the Yard, Edwin Kroz, of No, 873 South First street, was found unoonsolous to-day in the yard of No, 618 Driggs street, Will- famaburg, with his skull fractured, No one knows how he came by his Injuries, Kros last night visited tho family of Mrs, Leive, who Ilvea on the third floor at that number; but did not return to his home. Both the Krog and the Leive famiies are on the most friendly terms, and i has been 4. custom of Krok' to remain over night when he ¢alled on) Mrs, Leive and her two daughters, After midnight he went to tho room which he occupied when.a gitest of the family, Groans were heard early to-day by Charles Reich, who lives on the first floor, and he traced them to Kroz, who trict of Leavitt. In Investors Tri down the stains the guests were seated at the table, all in evening dress. ‘Pray excuse me a minute,’ sal rik lay jn the yard. It is belleved he jumped oy fell out of the window on the third fipor' while asleo) Retired Grocer, Despondent Over Iliness, Leaves Family. 7 at Breakfast and Kills Hin self, ‘ ‘Thomas Noss, retired grocer nnd rer 4 spected neighbor, shot himself to death ‘on the roof of hin home, No, #6 Fourth, ” place, Brooklyn, to-day because he hay /) Deen in Hl-health and dospairetl of ree. oovery, Micrnp 4 Ross, who waa regarded 24 4 of means, had been ill for thor several months, Ha had’ peen: dempor ent for several da)a and at the bi fest table this morning he told bis wi and children that Iife with such #1 ing as he has hed was’ not worth, { living, \ Leaving the members of his hold at the table he wont to the Hela in on@ of the upstairs 4 man, past iting a revolver, { ‘The revolver shot was heard through! the neighborhood, but no one ‘where it came from until a saw Mr. Ross's body lying near the; of the roof. Members of he Roms ily were natified and running to roof found Ross dead, Ho had aimselt through the right temple, amlunuiee surgeon aold that death instantaneqns. STRANDED SHIP HELD FAST IN SAND - Dut the Indus, Aground at Fire) Inland, Lies More Raatly and Orew Is im No Danger, While more than two daye and night) of almost constant effort had falled.ce move the tramp steamer Indus an ingly from the spot where she grounded on the Fire Island eand ber lsp@ Wertnesday night, the wreckers to-day, believed ¢ there waa still a good chance to save ner, " Mhe sea has wemained practically emooth ever since the eteamer wtriol the bar, and there ts no indication to» day of an immediate serious change im the weather conditions, The wind had freshened somewhat, but the sea re mained calm, and the Indus to-day was lying eastly on an even keel in the eand in the very spot where she grounded, The work of removing her cargo of sugar continued without cessation, and It was hoped that she would have bon) eufficiently lightened to allow the. ti to. pull her off at the next high tide, The Nfe-savers are atill alert In cage of need, but the crew aboant the Indie ‘are in no peril, Another attempt to float the Indus ‘was made to-day when the tide was ape proaching {te height, and the tugs anos ceeded In moving the tran about fifty feet, There she Stop; fi however, and despite the ‘most strenw= ous efforts to pull her into deen water to have firmly lodge La lr fe. iy ’ 4 “WANT” TOW More Workers Wanted. Come 3,053 Chambermaids 3,573 Cooks (female) 2,255 Housekeepers 21,591 Houseworkers. 2,852 Nurses 5,775 Bonnaz Operators 1,391 Chocolate Dippers 2,635 Designers 4,123 Dressmakers 1,519 Embroiderers 2,410 Errand Girls 821 Fur Operators at A A AA OE at uD MR Raa 1,783 Bookkeepers (female) Come where idleness is unknown. - Come where good positions are plentiful. where: you can follow your chosen vocation. Everybody Come. 10,400 Girls 1,418 Improvers : 21 85 Ladies 2,511 Milliners 1,302 Neckwear 10,679 Operators 5,936 Salesladies 1,930 Skirt Hands 2,434 Sleeve Hands 1,085 Stenographers(female) 2,573 Waist Hands 5,487 Waitresses 6,003 Laundry Help 10,110 Agents Came last year—in all, a total of 389 Pe epg Saea 2,124 Bakers 6,339 Drivers 2,490 Bartenders 3,689 Drug Clerks 1,860 Bookkeepers (male) 1,578 Electricians | 28,334 Boys . 1,333 Engineers 8,354 Butchers 1,326 Ladies’ Tailors 1,945 Cabinet Makers 1,457 Painters 3,983 Canvassers 2,836 Plumbers i 2,046 Carpenters 10,261 Salesmen é 2,185 Collectors 1,038 Shipping Clerks 4,143 Compositors 3,837 Stenographers (male) r 4,030 Cooks (male) 1,605 Tinners 1,457 Cutters 713 Upholsterers 2,883 Clerks 3,208 Waiters i 821 Designers 1,171 Watchmen \ MEN=—=WOMEN=BOYS=GIRLS were offered positions during the year 1904 through the “Help Wanted” Columns of The World. There’s plenty of room in “WANT” TOWN, Plenty of work and pay; If you'd like to get there quickly Read WORLD HELP: WANTS to-day. f . 4 |