The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1905, Page 4

FASURES OF Hemment (lticials Here on | Hunt for $1,000,000 and Smuggled Gems, , REPORT SAYS. i Jewels Will Be Attached lor Benefit of Creditors of Oberlin Bank, CASE A WEAK ONE, lon of the Woman Who it in Millions Rests with Ohio Authorities, | Government officers arrived in ity, to-day. to, begin a systematic ‘the cade where Mns, Cassie 4a believed to have seques- $1,000,000 and $150,009 worth of the Jewels supposed to have been $6 this country from abroad paying customs chargés, C, cbilector of custome at and F. H, Oldham, chief of on of ingdlyent banks of the pliers Office at Washington, e of the search, but they are PHopetul that the hidden vatuables Aipoovered, ves from ‘the Treasury Depart- been working up clues for without ‘substantial result, jope that higher officials might d where ithe deteotives failed Mr, and Mr. Oldham were despatched Hoth men. expect ‘to be in towa ‘days and will devote their en- ‘time to running down to ‘their the. reports of the sequestered ch the search for the diamonds d Mr, Oldham will do) his ave them placed to the depositors of the Oberlin Bavk. The wrecked bank !s "8 creditor in the sum of y advanced on property part mythical. nment, however, has prac- ase against Mra. Chadwick, Offenses having been against iy atadutes. Thy ofivew of tho } allowed Mrs, Chadwick to whatever she asked’ for the Government mupt hold It, was gutlty of crime must be hio authonities, ait ebb: i of Clevelan have had rid adwiok (eo le ar if of any Pa ae ofrot LY OF SIX ‘lo 8 Strangers Had With Meter in the of whom are dy- come by gas in the four. at No, 112 Gerry to-day, The police ‘tation are looking t is thought tampered it night and was re P Condition of all six, we likely to ae are Annie ‘Yeere 010; Ella Bern- ‘Bekele Miller, their D, eighteen; Na- Bernstein, the | family live on the first street house, A thy RS. CHADWICK Shwerin BYRLIN, Feb, 22—Count circles are greatly agitated over the report that because of the Wadiscretion ci the Grand Duchess Anastasia of Mecklen- burg in semding her daughter, the Duchess Cecilia, to Florence, unaccom- vanied, to meet the German Crown Prince the matoh between the two will be broken off, ‘The Grand ‘Duchess Alexandrine, elder sister of Cecilia, hastened ‘hgre on Saturday to see the Emperor, ard it is hoped’ the difioulty Was patched up, although there is no denying the Emperor was very angry over the incident, Cecilia and her mother were winter- ing in the south of France and the FIRE DRIVES OUT 150 FROM BEDS Scantily-Clad Tenants of Big Tenement-House Driven from Building and All Reach Street _ In Safety. : Fire In a big alx-story tenement-house At Nos. 267 and 259 Madison street, which runs back, to No. 216. Clinton street, to- day routed more than’ one hundred and fifty persons. from thelr beds, and for ‘w tino the lives, of many of them were threatened, Only valiant work on’ the part of the firemen, who were delayed in getting to the blaze while a pollce- man and speclal watchman argued over whose duty it was tovturn in the alarm, saved them, The fire started in the hallway ’on the Madison atreet side of the house and was discovered by Policeman John J, Norton, of the Madison street station, At the same instant Special Watchman John McCoy ran up, and he and the po- Hoeman dashed tor the nearest fire-box, arriving there at the instant. Then the argument, Both seemed to want the honor of turning in the alarm, and there was a delay, until the question was settled by the policeman taking matters into his own hands, _ N Tenants Aroused, When the policeman and special watch- man returned to the fire they found Jacob Kokstein, a druggist, of No, 263 Madison street, beating at the front doors of the tenement in an effort to @rouse the tenants, "The door was broken in by the three men, and they dashed up the filght of atairs, arousing the sleeping men, women and children as they went from flight to flight, Be- fore the tenants could make their way . | to ithe street by the stairway the smoke had forced them ack to thelr apart- ments, and then most of them climbed to the fire-escape, all: scantily clad and screaming from fright, They remained on the fire-escape until the arrival of Engine Companies Noa, "i5 ‘and *6 and Hook and Ladder Company No, 9. The firemen found ‘the halls so filled with smoke that they could not enter the ‘house and, quickly raising ladders to the eacapes, they carried down the fright- ened.tenants to the t, ~“Bo\many ie sald it’ would | that the ‘family f ‘using the gaa, eared when a entered: and, asking to ter, Ad something to T 4 BUM another stranger ‘and spent some time ‘using tools to test it aaa ee at the usual hour, it inde felt a choki; Gnd: left her bed to je ‘water, after drinking which Way down, It was not until n, the father, awoke to- i ; Whe rest of the family were neclous from gas, staggered toward the bed- pwhere his children lay sleeping, iit @ match and reeled toward There was an explosion, sounded Iike the boom of a can- of the flimsy material in the fire, Bernstein's hands were burned. t the other ten: in ge He, beat tothe in the otner d unconscious, and. the b A) , Was es Ware the six given im- 1D BY THE SENATE, “Feb. 22.—The Senate to. . nomination of Ceylon ner vIF YOU CAN. Sof the Dancing Men" hpi 88 a State Tax Can you solve tenants, were’ there ‘many of+them: were bending far’ out./6f ithe, windows,; not being’ able’ to gék’on the escapes, Mey, too, were taken down befote etreams of water could be played on the’ blaze, Another Bullding’ Threatened. For a time the blaze thréatened to spread to the connection of the building on Clinton strect, but hard work pro- vented this, ‘The fire was put out after a loss of about $3,000, In Investigating the blaze the firemen found that it originated In a store owned by Otto Meltzer on the ‘ound floor, How tt began could not ws determined, et CHAMPAGNE DID IT ALL. Two Men nnd Woman in Hospital, Arrested Young Too much champagne, sald to have been taken at Martin's alter a night at ‘Weber's Music Hall, caused the arrest of Reginald P, Be , of No, 243 West Ninety-elghth street, and Ridgely L. Caldwell, of No, 6 Oakridge avenue, Summit, N. J, ay and the serious illness of Miss 8 Ronan, a hand- some young woman who lives Int house, at No, 4 ey eee 7d TIanCOe GYOW? PriAG. Crown Prince asked permission of his father to visit his flancee, The Emperor would not allow his’ helt to set foot In France on account of the bitterness BABY | ENGINEER SAYS Child Thrown Into Blaze, He Deolares, While Two Men Held Him Back with Pistols to Prevent Interference, (Special to The Evening World.) * ROCHESTER, N. Y,, Feb, 22—G, W.) McCaffery, an engineer, who lives at No. % Swan: street, has reported to Supt. Hayden of the Detective Bu- reau, that on Tuesday morning of last week two men and a woman entered the boller room of the building at No. 8 Furace street, and, while they covered him with revolvers, one of the men threw a bundle into the fire, The bundle contained a baby, he told Supt, Hayden, and after it was com> pletely incarcerated ‘the three’ took thelr departure, The -men, he de- clared, warned him before leaving that if he ever told of the occurrence they wolild return to the building some pight and burn him, - The police discredit. MoCaffery's atory. They belleve the man t{s parti- ally demented and that his story is pure invention, . According to McCaffrey's story, at 2 o'clockon the Tuesday morning in ques- tion the door leading to the boller-room was opened, A friend had slept in the place fotir nights prior.to this, and Mc- Caffrey says that thinking It was this FOR |ROVAL PERSONAGESIN MARRIAGE MIX-UP NFURNAGE, [ing Duc ATEXANORA, Schwerin. which still exists because of the Franco- Prussian war, He agreed, however, to allow the Crown Pince to go to Florence to meet Cecilia, providing her mother accompanied her, | The.Grand Duchess, who is very fond) of the Riviera,, was ‘taken il just be- fore she was to set out for Florence, and so sent her daughter on alone.| When’ the Crown Prince arrived and) learned the | situation’ he immediately wired to his father and got this answer: } “Send Cecilia to her mother; you re- turn at once," The Crown Prince obeyed without) hesitation, and all Germany Is await-) ing the result of the Incident, The) ruling family of Mecklenburg-Schwerin! 1s considerably agitated over the mat-) ter, and the Grand Duchess has been pay criticised for her Indiscreet con- net. man who ,opened the door he did not look up from his work, | Unexpectedly some one opened the! oor to*the furnace which heats an| eighty horse-power boiler. McCaffrey raised his head’and saw a stranger who wore a black mustache, McCaffrey or- dered him away from the furnace, The stranger produced, two revolvers, and levelling them. at the engineer's head | threatened to blow it off if he uttered another word; “McCafffey declares he) stood perfectly atill, being thoroughly) frightened, _ | Then the door of the boiler room opened again and another man and & woman entered, ‘Nhe latter was dressed in black, and @ yell concealed her face, The man who followed her catried what Qppeared to be a paper bundle, The first man then opened the fur- nace door, while the other stepped for- ward and threw the package in on the red-hot coals, As this, was done the woman gave a suppréssed ‘shriek and cried "Oh, God!!’ Aw she uttered the words the man who (hrew the bundle produce @, revolver and pointing At gt her sald: “Tt you open your mol again I'll shoot," t McOaffery (old Supt, Hayden that he heard the cries of a baby as the bundle struck the coals and the door was slammed shut, Since that night McCaffery has been unable to sleep, he said, Every time meht and day. He sald he had actu- ally grown: thin: from worry, and last night determined to tell the police, He added thet on Friday last he hired a man to do his work for the time being as he could not ‘stay in the place. a THE DANCING MEN. "The Mystery of the Dancing Men,” a atirring detective romance from ‘The Return of Sherlock Holmes,” by sir Arthur Conan Doyle, will be published! |"That’s the Man Who Tried to the Chena: she Cumnece, cage if woud re geo as cou! feream, The wall bas haunted him by | RAST PENNSYLVANIA HIGHWA IDENTIFIED BY THE CORNISHES John Murphy Picked Out in Couri-Room by Bronx Victims, HELD .IN $10,000: BAIL. Murder. Mel” Exolaims Mr, Cornish. ALLEGED WIFE DETAINED. Woman Held as Suspicious Person In $2,000 Bail for Examination, —Indigrant at Police. All doubt as to John Murphy belnig the man who held up Mrs, John W, Cornish last Friday night In front of her home at No, 722 East One Hundred and Thirty-elghth street was dispelled to-day in Morriaania Police Count, when Murphy was positively identified by Mr, and Mrs, Gonnish, The identifica- tion was conolusive, Murphy and his wife, who were ar- rested Monday In a flat: just around the corner from the hume of the Corn- Ishes, were taken from Harlem Court prison to Morrisania Court in a prison van, When Murphy left the van he was allowed to place a handkerchief over his face. (Mr. and) Mrs, Cornish were kept out of the court-room until Murphy had been given a seat among the spectators. Then Mr, Cornish and his wife were admitted. They were asked by the Magistrate if the highwayman who had stolen the brooch and fired at them was in court, A quick glance at the audience resulted in a. simultaneous identifica- tion, They had picked Murphy out from the crowd. "T'd like to Have him’ alone in a room without a gun,” declared Mr, Cornish, “That's the man who tried to murder. me,!* Two charges were preferred againat ‘Murphy, one of felonious assault, pre- ferred by Mr, Cornish, the other of highway rebbery; preferred by Mrs, Cor- nishy Murphy wes represented by coun- sel, who asked for an adjournment. untt] next Monday, which was granted. Ball was fixed at $5,000 on each complaint, Florence Murphy was arraigned on a charge of being: 2 suspicious person, Murphy has denied that the woman Is his wife, She wag held in $2,000 bail for examination on Saturday, The: woman was highly indignant at the action of the police in breaking into her flat without a warrant and placing her under arrest, All of her furniture has been taken to the Alexander avenue station-house, although she claims that sho paid for it and can show the bills, TRAIN IN WRECK. ALTOONA, Pa., Feb, 22—The .Pitts- bung Speclal, a fast west-bound train oven the Pennsylvania Railroad, was wrecked between this city and Tbrone early, to-day by running into @ light engine, Fireman J, C, Grove ‘was: scalded, and one passenger is known to have been complete in the four-page: color supple- iment ot next Saturday's Evening Word lent to the scene of the wreck, cut about the head by flying glags, As soon as word was receivea here a rellef train carrying physicians was | GOOSEBONE PREDICTED HARD WINTER ow Elias Hants ‘and the Prophetia Ga9cse Bone eT ee PROPHET Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey. PR ee aes Elias Hartz, Famed as a Weather Prophet, Told of. 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Mr, Harte from the years, 2 coal the has been gleaning weather for breantbone of a goose for aixty Mr. Hartz writes: It gives me pleasure to add my name to your list of “old pea- ple” and tell you the benefit I have re- ceived by the use of your pure whiskey. | have been taking it for a number of years as a stimulant and tonic, 1 am now 87 years old, hale and hearty, and hope to live to a much riper old age by the judicious use of Duffy's, To all who are suffering from insomnia, poor appe- tite and weakness of old age, | would cheerfully recommend it.—ELIAS HARTZ, 249 Pearl street, Reading, Pa, ive RY WBN EN, GREW FIGHTS FIRE AT SEA Oil Stove Upsets in Captain's | Cabin of Steamship, Betuana | Off Montauk Point and Blaze Destroys Furnishings, Prompt work of the crew fire brigade on the Briush steamer Betuanafrom Naleutta probably saved the vessel and its contents from a@ fire which: started off Montauk Point last night. The Bet- uana, Capt, Gregens commanding, salled from Calcutta Christmas Day, touching at Colombo, Ceylon, New Year's, and later discharging part of its cargo at Boston, Passage down the Sound was halted by big felis of ice, and the Betuana was forced to go around to Sandy Hook by wny of Montauk Point, While off the Point at 5 o'clock last night an ot! stove in Capt. Gregens's stateroom up- set, spilling the blazing of] around and igniting the two berths, The fire had spread to the officers’ cabin, and was burning the woodwork when the crew manned the. fire hose and extinguished the blaze after It had destroyed the cabin furnishings, The Betuaha, which carried a crew of forty-seven men and a cargo of East India goods consigned to Norton & Co,, of this city, decked at the foot of Forty- second street, Bay Ridge, to-day, little the worse for its exciting experience, Revolting appearance, frightful itching, intense paln from Eczema Cured to stay cured by D.D. D. 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