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Yast night and to-day, * Magistrate Barlow in the West sido beg ‘Thirty Thousand Workmen Join New Strike in St. Petersburg and Government Makes Arrests, While“ Trouble Is Threatened— Warning Given Czar. of ®T, PETERSBURG, Feb, 11,—Tho * that many of the troops which were ordered away after the recent distur ‘Bnces have teen brought back, A regiment of cavalry has been brought In trom Peterhot and posted in the Vi Phowing increasing signs of being on situation js so grave in the city to-day borg district, where the strikers are the verge of a violent outbreak, In bpite of the slaughter of hundreds of people, a repressive measure |- fwhich the authorities believed would put an end to all the disturbances, the people are in a more desperate mood than ever, 1, It te believed that the least thing will fan the rage of the people into Bother outbreak and there is not the slightest doubt that it would be treated. by the authorities precisely as the last one was, Cavatry are posted all about the city, Dut it is in the Viborg district that the troops are massed, for {t is there that ‘the strikers are restive and apparently leady to begin rioting at the least ex- @use, It is believed that more troops, srbo were sent back to thelr garrisons efter the last slaughter, are on thelr Way back to the elty, 80,009 in New 8trike, ¢ ‘At least 9,000 workmen have joined fn the new strike, brought about through the refuel of the Gemand for eight-hour day, wire strike extended to-day to Less- ner’s, Tielman’s and a number of other works, The men remain quiet and de- termined, and declare thoy will not ylold until they win the Aght for an elghts hour day, Strikers Arrested, ‘The day passed quietly without any epllisions between the troops and astrik- ars, though a number of arrests were made after a abig mepting at the Mos- cow gate this morning. The police and Cossacks did not Interfere with the as- sembly itself, at which there was only the reading of papers and a deasultory Ulscussion, but they followed the men when ithe meeting broke up and pre- “vented them from marching In large bodies to intimidate other workmen, A long drive through the disturbed parts of the city showed the presence of cavalry, infantry and police every- WIRE TAPPER SUSPECT FREED, ‘U. J. Muldoon, Larry Summer. field’s Right-Hand Man, Ar- rested and Discharged—Not Wanted’ tor Felix Swindle. Michael J, Muldoon, thirty-eight years old, who {s said to have been “Larry'’ Summerfield's right-hand man, was among a number of alleged cyboks who ‘were caught in the dragnet of the polico For some time Detectives Schmidt and Kahmeyer, of the West Forty-seventh aireet station, thought they had one of the men wanted In connection with the John Felix wire-tepping ewindie, Dut later found they were mistaken. ‘These detectives went to No, 923 Bev- ‘enth avenue, the saloon known js *Clancey’s saloon,” with the ostee ible purpose of making an excise arreat, They did not find sufficient evidence, but in the rear room found several men, mong them being Muldoon, He was arrested and taken to Police Headquar- ters. His picture was found to be No. 6,482 In the Rogues’ Gallery, it 1s alleged, @nd he fs known as @ wiro-tapper, He was "looked over’ and Acting Inspector ‘O'Brien decided that he was not wanted for the Follx case, and he was then taken back to the West Morty-seventh ptreet station, He waa discharged by Count to-day, Capt. Flood, while speaking abou this arrost to-day egain emphasized h! desire to rid — hia precinct of man crooks who infost It, Capt. Flood men Uoned several saloons on Broadway hls precinct, and said: “These places sre merely nothin more o} lose than dives, 1 am going t clean them tn and put them out o | business, They mie t os well clo right now, They will be ralded every night and these tin-horn gamblers! petty crooks and bunco steerers mignt) up well yet out now. I am not goin to have any patience with any one of, them, and every mother’s son of them goes, That's all there js about it.” Many well known aotors, it was learned to-day at Police Headquarters, have been used to butt the hooks for the prey of the wireless wire-tappers. | Although this procedure wes not taken | ‘with John Felix. who gave up $50,000 to the gang, other victims have found the | pleasant association of thesplans used 4S A means of gaining thelr confidence before they parted with thelr wealth, The operations of the wireless wire- tapping gang are conducted upon a reg: ular business basis, ‘The first thing is to find the “sucker,” and to this end runners are used in locating Mr, Good Thing, Junitors of large bachelor apart-| ments are given allright tips, and from them acting as press agents come many wealthy young men anxious to get up against the “Western Union man," and play the inside advance racing infor- mation, Postman Will Not Disappoint You ff your “Want’’ ts advertised in next Sunday's World Want Directory. The few “Want” Ads, asking replies to be sent care The World last Sunday drought 835 4-Answors-83.54 where. In the Industrial quarters moat of the establishments were closed at 2% P, M,, whe regular Saturday halt holl- day releasing practically the entire in- dustrial population of St. Petersburg and making it very difMfcult to verity the host of rumors, ‘The sirikers apparently have no plans for making demonstrations to-morrow, but it Is impossible to predict what may develop, That the Soolety of Russian L[ron- masters, the very employers whose men are striking, has recognised that there can be no peace under present condi- tions, is a great pncouragement to the reformers, This soolety, representing $50,000,000 of capital, has memorialized M, ‘Witte, the President of the Committ of Ministers, on the labor questior pointing out that the attitude of the people is a warning “that no repressive Measures will end the deeply rooted]: national people,” Tho ironmasters further declare that normal relations between the workmen and thelr employers are only possible with a syatem of government based on justice, and with the participation of th employers and employees tn legis- lation, equality for all before the law, inviolabllity of domicile, the right to hold meetings and strike, protection for workers against the attacka of strikers, freedom of speech and press and unl~ versal compulsory education, BELMONT CASH FOR SUBWAYS Banker Offers to Construst a Tunnel from Fourteenth to Forty-second Streets with Private Funds. Movement of the Rusalan In onler to ihend off the Metropolitan and other possible competitors for the future Subway work in this olty, whioh was laid out by Witlam Barclay Par- sons, before he resigned as ohief engin. eer of the Rapid Transit Commission, Auguet Belmont, on behalf of the In- terborough Company, haa offered to build ‘the new Subway from Bourteenth ‘to Forty-second street, along Broadway, with private funds, providing tne city gives his company @ reasonable fran- chise, It Is understood that Mr, Belnont has offered a very large income to the city from the franchise and to sell the sub- way to the city at the exptration of the ffahchise, if the olty desires to pur- chase, the price to be about what the construction of the subway will cost the company. In private talks with Alexander E, Orr and other members of the Rapid Transit Commission, Mr, Belmont is reported to have sald that he was will- ing to go alvead and do all the future subway worg In the city on this same basis, Mr. Belmont himself would not dis- cuss this matter to-day, and the mem- ‘the Commission were silent, but at the office of Chief Paes, George F, Rice it wes learned at present the Belmont offer is confined to this new Broadway line and t a epur to be built from the present Subway bthrougin Delancey tr: to the Williamsburg ndge, It was learned that Mr. Belmont has also expressed a desire to build the Lexington avenue line along the Par- sons plans, and that he has offered the Commission this alternative, He will elther ‘build this inc, fnancin the pndoranlng, with private capital, or he will double-deck the Third aye- nue elevated road and put in on extra track on the Second avenue elevated, Whiohever the commiasion decides will be best the Interborough 1s read to do, Tt. was loarned. that plans for the double-decking of the Third avenue ling have all been made. NEWHAVENROAD TOAVERT STRIKE Board of Directors Appoints a Committee to Meet the Rep- resentatives of the Brother- hood of Firemen, The Board of Directors of the Now York, New Haven and Hartford Rail road at a meeting in this city to-day appointed a committee to meet a come mittee from the Hrotherhood of Locos motive IMremen, In accordance with a request [rom the Brotherhood that the Board of Pirectors take up an uppeal from a decision of President Mellen, of that viiy. Engineers who are still members of the brotherhood of Firemen had. Ins Histed on tholr right to select their OWN representatives In negotiations, to settle disputes, but President Metlen dented St, The aerretary of the Board of Directors was instructed to notify the Brotherhood of Firemen of the ac- in one day—a gain ot 2307 Over same Sunday last year, Hon of the board, FRIOAY Fun ay WALK RUINED IN WALL STREET, TRIED TOEND HIS LIFE Jacob Lebenstein Had Lost His Own and His Wite’s Fortune, Jacob Lebenstein, retired merchant and respected citizen, whose specula- tions in Wall street fe carried away his own and his wife's fortunes, was ar- ralgned in Jeffereon Market Court to- day, charged with attempting suicide. Mr, Lebenstein tried to end his life last night at the St, George Hotel, No, 123 Univeralty place, after writing af- fectionate letters to his wife end his only son, Dr. Joseph Lebenstein,’a phy- sician with a large practice, who lives at No, 670 Lexington avenue, Retired with Fortune, Mr, Lebenstein, who was fitty-elght years old, lived with his wife at No, 4 Lexington ayenue, Until two years aga he was @ manufacturer of cloaks, bu then he retired with a good-sized ture tune, With nothing to do, the inactty life began to pall on him and he went ty ‘Wall street for excitement and to pass time, There he was perauaded to invest in Bteel, Gradually the stock—both pre- ferred and common—began to elump, and the old merchant saw his fortune being swept away. Hoe continued to speculate, however, hoping to recuperate his losses and some months ago he was persuaied to buy Wabash, More of his money wis lost, and, now deaperate, he applied to his wife, Hor money was lost also, day morning and went down to Wall stroct, as was his custom, He watched the tupe and stock ticker until the mar- ket closed, and then he went to the &t, George Hotel and engaged @ room, All through the afternoon tne old man was seen pacing Up and down the corridor, He took no dinner, and late last night he went to the weitlng-room and penned two letters, ono to his wife und the other to his son. Whe letter to the wite reads in part: Left Pathetic Lotters. “Dear Heart; There \s nothing In life left for me vut this, 1 cannot stand by and sé@@ you jn great suffering, Deatn is my only release, Be happy now with our son—our only child, Our separa- tion will not be for long,’' The letter to the son reads in part: “My Son: 4 commend your mother my wife—to r keeping.’ ur the arly to-day clerk of the hotel detected gas in the hall and traced \¢ to Mr, Leoenstein's room, He had regs istered under the name of Jacob Lives ingston, ‘he door was forced, and there, sitting bolt upright In a chalr, fully dressed and sinconsclous, was the rey tired merchant, Mr. Lebenstein was hurried to Belle- vue Hospital and revived, When the old man appeared before him, and on his son's promise to cae make another attempt on his jife he was discharged. John H. Whittemore, of Naueatuck, Conn., was elected a director, to suc: the tae Tob 3, Ha "I will not try to Kill myself aga! said the old man ay he turned awa; eee left the courtroom on hia son's arm, Mr, Lebenstein loft his home yester- b Magistrate Flammer hs son was with | for his father and tee that he did not} AR WACKER CHALKLINES f LINE AFTER WE ATE te Fin He just. walked a Did Mr. THOUGHT HIM ANOTHER HOCH Berry’s Wife Told Court He Had Married Nine Womsn—He Admits Only Four—-Divorced Three and Is Jealous of Last. —_——. this another Hoch?" demanded Magistrate Dooley in the Adams Street Court, Brooklyn, to-day, when Philip Berry, arraigned for wife-beating, was accused by his spouse of having had nine wives. Berry, who 1s @ photog- rapher at No, 213 Schermerhorn street, ™Modestly admitted that Matilda, the, complainant, was hig fourth wife, bul Anserted that the trio preceding her had been legally separated from him, Matilda, who Is a pretty blond Danish gitl, came into Philip's atelier nine weeke to have her phot tuken, Phil ne coal hak, ene tachios and imperial hypnotized her no more than her Biising. olden hair and blue eyes ippreeped hi ahd the ca: ot love at fist ne rushed to &, wed: ni oO ater, was happy unt last night, when, neconding. to tho wife, the handsome photographer | cane home with the unmistakable | Rey of the serpent and the cloven reath, Matilda was busy writing @ Jetter in Danish. She says she 4 ‘Ate 0| a girl chum, llips, who could not tad Danish anyway, and who was in no condition to read anything, accord.) ing to Matilda, declared that ehe writing to a "Mr. Erricgon,” — Fille with Jonlous rage Phillp denounced his) wife and she says that the quarrel cul- minated In Ne eating her ernelly, | When Matilda was telling her story to the Magistrate to-day she sal “Wey, this man has had nina wives, “Ig ‘he another Hoch?" asked the Magistrate in su . Berty protested at he had only had three wives be- fore, The first he wed jn Dayton, g. the second In Houston, Tex., and the third in San Antonlo, Tex., divorcing all three, The Magiatrate fined Philip $5 for in- toxicatton and placed him in $500 to keep the peace. Netti Ra DIVORCED AFTER 29 YEARS. | Dr, Henry A, Peek, of No, 87 Weat One Hundred and Twenty-fourth street, was freed to-day by a decree of abso- | werald, of the Supreme Vourt, from An-! nie L, Peek, to whom he was married twenty-nine years ago und with whom jhe had lived happily until Inst June, They had grown old and gray to-| \gother, and the silvery hatred physician | dressed to Anne," an Hotsl Astoria, in; “Dear moking H en end flaned by it. A, Brough: arle » Me - edie | THE AE Tome OEPOr NTE Beaurifu> (78 suaumy Taverns ) Mr, Walker Chalkliné chalked a walk line from his lot; And the walk line he had chalked ted him to 4 Which the many called old Gotham, a spot But Mr, Walker Chalkline for this didn't care a jot, her spot, 's mighty hot, chalk line, Chalked a walk line, Lined a walk with chalk And chalked a walk— Walker Chalkline, GET THE ‘SUGAR,’ RAINES'S MOTTO Has Two Amendments to the Excise Law Ready, Which He Frankly Admits Are Designed for No Other Object, Benator John Raines, at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, to-day propped himself for another dissertation on his pet e: ive law and Smaniment ‘thereto, ity Club were agreed stringent [ee reqviring that ding and Fird ih el ah cortity tels before & license is «rented were needed, but dif- red on the question of application for & leense, “What we need up the State is the legitimate ‘sugar’ to be gotten out of the anor dealer,” said the Senator. "Tam In favor o} Noung, evel cant for a license fo pind } 200 and if he has certified falsely that hie hotel ts according to Bullding and Fire Department laws, he shall forfeit tho $1, The State will get hale tho "and the rest mM@ B80 whereeves 'Y. “The City Club people want the au- thorities to first Br pon the hotel of the applicant before granting the license, but T am tn favor of getting the ‘sugar’ the way I have suggested, ar also \t eAvor (2 Imposing a fine o ‘on ali saloon-kespers wno cause Ld to be a tayed Aesignatiny hls a ‘hotel’ when It is & mere pul ‘0 the safety of alleged pli waloi NATIONAL SNOW Phow CO |has been impossible to get any infor- WITNESS DEAD “INEKGAVATION OF Body of John Brosso, Who Had Testified Against Wom- an-Slayer, Is Frozen, THE Ch Detectives Swing Dra Gather in Some E Prisoners, Capt. O'Brien's industrio 6elned tho city tor cruoka fi early to-day gathered in of men and women who hat male criminal] history for cities, | Detective » 8 i Fogarty and Trainer arrest Whleves at the Arion ball’ in Square Garden. They are ran, Charles Leaders, all ton (No, 7689 In the Rogues’ Georgo Wilson (No, 5290 In th Gallery). Curran and J chatged with stealing a the Garden, waiting for tive-Bergeanjs McMullen rented James McChesney, Comisky, and Thomas O'Brien, registered in the “strong-arm men,’’ i Frank Barry and Arthur fessional pickpockets, wore Boventh avenue and Th Vdward O'Brien, alias Wi ed up st Becond avenue and! ninth atrost, and Joseph “Deaty'’ Morrla or Conway, jin the dragnet at Kighty-als jand Central Park West, Alleged Slayer Cau j ; Detectives Petroaino and ) rested Vincengo Abrana, an wanted in Pittsburg for ho Brooklyn early to-day, In borough Alice Coleman, wanted for grand larceny, od by Deteotive Cunningh As a result of a shooting | by night Detectives Peabody and went to No, #6 West \T¥ atreet last* night and n oners, who were 4f x“ the Tombs Court before Pool, A man who called himaelt)) Martin, and who lived at the 4 fitth street address, was) dangerously, wounded street and Sixth avenue.) tivea visited him at the New pitul\he was recognized ag a rious pli John Brosso, a laborer, twenty-seven years old, who was one of the principal witnesses against Tomassa Mihaly, who was sentenced to prison for two years In Hungary a fow weeks ago for the murder of Julla Schmalel, of No, 215 Suydam avenue, Jersey Clty, was found dead in a deep hole alongside the Le- high Valley Railroad tracks at Whiton street and Cartaret avenue, Jersey City, to-day, The man's body was frozen stiff and it was in the excavation head down, There were no marks of violence dis+ covered, Nevertheless, on information given by @ prominent banker in the Jersey City Hungarian colony, the po» lice are satisfied that Broaso was a vio- tim of foul play and that he was killed by Milhaly's friends in revenge for the part he played in the man's conviction, Pollce Spread Dragnet. The polico have spread a dragnet) through the colony and sever arrests: will be made before night, Bo fay it mation out of anybody save tho hank- cr, and he only talked on the promise that his namo would be guarded, The murder of Mrs. Beli | was a Partloularly revolting crime, The wo- man and her husband kept a respect- able boariing-house at No, 215 Suydam. avenue, and Mihaly waa one of the boarders, He was employéd in the Standerd O11 works and on the day of! the murder he stayed away from busl- neas and In his room until he saw Mri, Eohmalal go to market, When she roturned he mot her In the hall. lured her to the cellar and there ‘knocked her down, He took several’ hundred dollars from her stocking, then renioved the stocking and wind- ing it around Mrs, Schmalsi's neok, btrangled her to death, Convicted In Hungary for Crime, Mihaly escaped and was not heard of for some marthe. Th he ‘was caught in Hungary and placed on trial there for the Jersey chy murder. He wes |e a an be 8 ry b in the Tendertoi RAN OVER A BOY; LEFT HIM 10 DIE The Driver of a Wagon Which Crushed Little Joseph Buehler Got Quickly Out of the Neigh- borhood, A workman employed on the new Richmond Borough Hall at Bt, George, Staten Island, looked out into Stuyvés- ant place, near Bay street, shortly be- fore noon to-day énd saw the body of a boy lying in the roadway. By the wide of the body was the wreck of a Nettle eled. is The body was carried into the bulld- ing, and it was found that the wheels of a wagon had passed over the chest, Evidently the wegon was very heavy, for the boy's lung® were crushed, He had been instantly killed, Mrs, Joseph Buehler lives in Stuyves- ant place, two blocks above Bay street, About fifteen minutes before the dis- covery of the body of the boy she had seon her ten-year-old eon Joneph start down the steep hill from in front of his home on his sled, She had given him permission to ooast, When he did not return for a second trip she went out td the sidewalk to look for him, Down tn front of the Borough Hall she saw a@ gathering crowd, ‘With a premonition of disaster clutching at her ‘heart sh in down the hill, and bursting through the crowd recognized in the lttle body lying on the snow her son. | No one could be found who snw the accident, although Bay street, which !s a short distance from the ferry tet: jThinus, i a busy: thoroughfare, No one ‘heard the boy cry out 4s the wagon ran over ‘him, And no one can furnish any clue to the vehicl GIVEN THREE DAYS TO LIVE Young Lady Rescue the Grave and Made Strong and Well by Father John’s Medicine. It (je with @ heart full of gretitude that I tell what Father John's Medi- cine has done for me. I had a terrible cough @nd Was so weak that the fam- ily physician gave me up, giving mo lute divorce, signed by Just’ce Fitz-| but three days to live, It was.then recommended and from whom it de- that J began to take Father John's Medicine, Any person wio saw me then would hardly know me now, I am so well, and the credit belongs to Father John’s Medicine, My little was shocked when ne found a letter ad- | brother drinks the medicine like syrups and balsams depend for their water and thrives upon It, (Signed) Mary A, B. Reynolds, 2410 117th St. Chicago, [., d from the Brink of \ Romember, Father John's Medicine {8 not a patent medicine, but the pre- seription of the eminent specialist who prescribed it for the late Rev. Father John O'Brien, by whom it was rived its name, It {s free from opium, morphine or any of the poisonous nerve-deadoning drugs or weakening | stimulants upon which the majority of patent medicines, so-called cough temporary effect, and which are | dangerous—you are warned against ‘them, Fifty years in use, Guaranteed, Bre onvi on. lavits Bent to By the ervey City pliner the, prineipad | relied Chol st” whieh Wak thee ot» rosso, known Brot boarder in ihe house and Seauaroetise et Mght Pann; Ny ok te, O'Keefe, a plekpocket, of Ming alas ‘Allen, of alias Orton le Hag Munsot 6 detectives fotind ‘two Beniskin coats, valued and, hundreds of dollars ort All fe Riso ore Were the Yorkvijie Court. © the ‘gent captures gariane In the colony are Pisin bare o! eniel ts that Goaity ehal ‘be ho" puns lishment for any member gullty ‘of be foe have not yet been able to ry ‘a movements last night, There was no evidehoe about the body that tho man had been drinking. oomRSaPea aus: 83/866 Mle remanded for further ROOSEVELT'S a GA CABINET RESIGN. |Sceptics turn B AND ARE CU! 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Agnew’e Heart C Revere, in 30 Sold by W, 8, Rockey, President Announces that All Will Be Reappointed Kacept Wy: Whe toes to London, WASHINGTON, Feb, 11.—The follow. ing statement was made public at the White House, to-day; “The members of the Cabinet have all tendered their resignations, and on the sixth of Maroh they will all be nominated for reappointment swith the exceptign of Mr, Wynne, who js to be Cogewl-General at London. oppoln i } nomiinat: aarti TPovumnaerer-enerat ts ht Are a universal remedy for Pains in the Back (eo in the case of women), They give instantaneous Wherever there is a pain apply a Plaster, DIRECTIONS FOR USE hedge ine in the its aortor a ier shou! apply Rheumatism, Colds, Coughs Weak Chest, Weak Back Lumbago, Sciatica, &o., REMEMBER — Allcock's Plasters are the Muine porous plaster and have never been equalled as lore, they are absaluéely safe as they do not contain, donna, opium or any poison whatever, Insist Upon Having Alicock's,

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