The evening world. Newspaper, March 21, 1905, Page 3

~ BRIBE STORY IS DENIED. "Saye She Was Offered $1,000, | BIG INTERESTS INVOLVED, { @ald has been with a desire to * make a full SAYS LOOMIS Hay’s Assistant Went to \, Santo Domingo, |, 000,'but:it Was In the Na- ture of a Settlement. . — Attack Upon Hor Made Without , Warning, She Asserts, and Con- fidence-Has Been, Violated. Mw, Wa Rewls Reader, in an ex- Satie tappraant tthe Evening Work » pute it up to the substantiate ber story of offered a bribe, she says. “A lawyer of the highest standing In this community,” whe explains, “offered me $1,000,000 as a settlement, I did not expect this to become public, I know that in admitting the truth of {t I am making myself liable to be asked for an explanation, . "I can and will explain in full if Mrs, Reader admittted the truth of a story published to-day of her marriage to a’ man named Phillips who after- ward committed suicide in Chicago, She sald whe married him in Alabama when she was between dourteeen and fifteen yeara old, In this connection she mado her statement involving Mr, Loomis, as foll . “I have understood that. the Santo Domingan negotiations were in’ the hands of Mr. Loomis and mot ‘in the hands of Mr, Hay and that Mr, Loomis went to Banto Domingo himeelf some time ago, If necessary Mr. Loomis will be yequired to tell what he knowe of these transactions, and his testimony Will establish the truth of all that I have said, % ‘Mr, Loomis és now away from Wash- ington and it seems etrange that this | mo! Particular time should be taken to at: ack my connection with the negotia tons. As for the obarge that I am Wecking revonge, that is simply absurd, “Mt have been attacked without warn- ing and in matters which could only have become public through breach of condidence, All that tT have position plain and to protect Ry en who, e 4 reallze, may be ma \ iy Foren td fcr atecks® v i the ineinuations agains personally 1 , at a proper tie statement if it should seem necessary to answer my traducers, but now I will not allow Mr, Cromwell and his friends to distract attention from the main as they are evidently MRS. STANFORD'S BODY AT HOME Flags Half-Masted as Ship Bearing It Steamed In and Thousands on the Streets Pay Respects, — BAN FRANCISCO, March 21.—The re- malas of Mrs, Jane L, Stanford arrived here to-day on the steamer Alameda from Honolulu and were taken to Palo Alto on a special train, When the Alameda entered the harbor flags on all vesse's were placed at halt- mast, Later, as the hearse pearing the re- mains from the wharf to the Southern Pacific depot passed through the streets, thousands of persons lined the side- walks and lifted thelr hats as a mark of respect, The Reason People Lose Positions | is generally because they are not keenly alert in their en- deavor to do the very best they can— For the same reason many persons are slow to find profit- able employment, Wide-awake workers have lit: tle difficulty in finding good positions through Moeraing World Help Wants, 2,590 POSITIONS offered and sought last Week, | tain the man under arrest is the one \ steal { iat ASSAILANT OF (Special to ‘The Kiventng World) GREDNWICH, Conn, March %1— nard Diamond, a French Canadian, irty-five, who has a wife hdd living at i R rls if: Hf E E . ig E ii 3 i me E i hour later by . Sheri! and posse. He is now in Greenwich lockup, from where he to escape z i i ing ie him badly, and no pity i His Home Near By. Concob people say this is the third time Diamond has tried to get into the Lane house, He boarded with Frank Ferris, a few hundred feet from th Lane house, Frank Seymour, a New York real estate broker, lives next door, One night three weeks ago, he anys, he found Diamond at the bank door of oreen, chased hitn a mile, and then let Dia- mond go when he claimed that he was Intoxtoated, ‘ Last night at midnight Mr. Seymour heard the screams of Mise Kittle Lane and of her companion, a girt named Bilsabeth Riehl, s He ran out of doors, followed by his fon William, both in thelr ban ia pb They saw Diamond leave the Lane house hurriedly. The elder Seymour grabbed a ehotgun and chased He fired off the gun, alarming oeighbors, Diamond was overtaken by Seymour, and then neighbors saki they ‘would take change of him and let Sey- ‘mMour go home and dress, When he returned they told tim that Diamond had tun away, jumped over a high chicken wire and ran over the hills, Mean time the Sherift conatable hed started from Greenwich, three miles away, to the scene, They put a man to watch the trains, others to out off the woods, and atill others to keep the man on the west of the Mianus Rivet..: Ia A Targe boarding house near the bridge they found Diamond, who first denied and then admitted he had entered the Lane house, but sald he was drunk, ‘The crowd which gathered asked for @ Tope and got one to string Diamond up to the bridge girders, They were fed when they saw the officers mth on Greanwick lockup,’ and’ neat Grae Sue Gee ade Ses V7 plecks in bie b he had used for rams, and had nearly pushed a. hole through the celling when caught, iss Susan Lane ay eyes clesed and her neck IY ated, She was able, nevertheless, to {dentity the prisone: both ‘ROBBED BY FOUR THUGS ON CAR Arthur Hill Beaten and His Wal let Stolen in Sight of Theatre Crowd—Identifies Man Ar- rested as One of Thieves, Charged with being one of four men who held up, assaulted and robbed Arthur Hill, of No, 100 East One Hun- dred and Twenty-ninth strest, on a crowded Lexington avenue car at mid- night, a man who sald he waa Chir.es Daly, of No, 2588 ‘hird avenue, was arraigned in Harlem Police Court to- day, The hold-up was witnessed by a score or more perwons who had just left the Star Theatre, One Hundred and Seventh streat and Lexington aye- nue. Hill was standing on che rear platform of the car, In his pocket was a@ wallet contalning a large sum of money and three dlamond rings, At One Hundred and Ninth street four men got on, One suddenly turned upon Hill and dealt him a violent blow In the face At the same time a second min threw his arms about him, hokdmg ‘him, while the third went through his pockets, The fourth man Stood at the car dour to fight back any we might attempt to come to Hill's a d. Hill yelled for help, and the man who had struck him first beat him about the face, After securing the wallet the four men jumped from the gar and ran in different directions, 2) Detective Mahoney, of the East One Hundred and Fourth street station, ‘heard Hill's cries and ran up just as the four mon jumped. He followed one to One Hundred and Fourth street and Third avenue, ‘The man came to o stop when threatened with the detec. tive's revolver, “L was following one of those rob- bers," he satd, "I was not one of them, Tam a respectable man." Mahoney took his man to the statlon- house, and there he was positively ideh- tifled by Hill as one of the robbers, “Those men were in the theatre,’’ sald Hill, ‘They saw me ppll out my wallet to pay for a Ucket' and they then followed me to the street and boarded the car to rob me, I am cer- who beat me wile I was being held and robbed.” Daly was held in $2,000 ball for ex- amination Monday. The pollee say Daly was ren rested and his fgkemseeh Added to the Rogugs’ Gal- ery, te NEW SOUND STEAMER, QUINCY, Mass, March 2.—The new pussenger steamer Providence, built for the Old Colony Steamboat Company by the Fore River Shinbuld- {ng Company, left the company's works to-day for Now York, where she will be docked and prepared fox her trial thoy LYNCH THE RE ( LS To the Editor of The Evening World: Please why is it that your noble artist, Mr. Powers, makes his Knicker«| th ockers like a hot time in the old town last night, which I heard at the con- tinuous? I have a bet and should like to know, Father Knickerbocker of to-day should be a man of large Propor- tions, weighing some two or three hundred pounds. He should be in a smart, every-day business suit, with a little dinky his bald spot, such as the dudes wear of Broadway. noiseless ear-muffs, carrying his gas bill in his right hand, He should sport a small stone in his necktie, the watch chain dangling carelessly from his diaphragm (without the watch). ‘The watch may be sewed in his uriders| fe plaster may be worn on his shins| garments for safekeeping. Sticking after a trip through Mr, Belmont's Subway. He should be pictured as a man of genial habits and of great patience, willing to take his medicine (wood alcohol) and ‘come up smiling. © - Fa ALRKNICKERBO - By 7. &.. Powers, A QUESTION ANSWERED, \ CKER. SPINAL MENINGITIS THATSALL) 1 i CAR fij=\ stRAP HAND 19, E | a cd 4 QeANNe. APPROPRIATION SUBWAY, f Howe IN 15- \ A READER, dressed He should wear Please do not”annoy or feed my Father Knickerbocker, ‘ T. E. POWERS, ~ heanameer ac me ne Te ea ae RR elec ae 99 VICTIMS OF WIVES FIGHT AT | CRASH FOUND! — CHURCH DOOR Jecer-/Ruins of Grover Shoe Faotory|Mrs. Broas No. 1 Tried to Speak at Brockton Being Searched for Forty-six Still Missing— Publio Funeral for Those Killed —— BROCKTON, Masé., March %1.—A re- markable psychological happening in Connection with the explosion and great loss. of Ilfe at the shoe factory of R, B, Grover has given the police hope that a number of ithe forty-six persons missing may yet tum up Alive, The case in point ts that of Joseph Jones, employed in the switching room, who made his oscape with scarcely more than @ few brulses. In a con- fused state of mind Jones walked to another shoe factoty in the clty, ap- piled. for and was gven employment, and {n a mechanical way worked throughout the day, Not until he returned to his homo and found hig family grief-stricken and mourning him as dead, was the man’s brain sufficiently clear to enable him to recall the Incidents of the day. ’ A Publlo Funeral, A realization of the extent of the disaster which had come to the city came more clearly to the citizens to- day when they awoke to a full knowl- edge of the horrors attendant upon tho catastrophe, Fifty-five bodies have heen taken from the ruins and #orty-six are still missing, This indicates that the num- ber of lives lost may be one hundred ard one unless the hope of the police that some of the missing may turn up after they recover from shock Is real- Ized, Mayor Edward H. Keith lasued a no- tice to-day that he had requested every clergyman in the clty to meet with him this afternoon at City Hall to make arangements for public funeral services tor the victims of the accident, ——————_— NEW HAVEN ROAD DISPUTE SETTLED. Announcement that Agreement Has Been Reached on Point that Threatened a Strike, NEW HAVEN, Conn,, Maroh 21,—A formal announcement was made to-day by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rallroad Company of the ad- justment of the dispute between the en- gineers and firemen employed by the road dver the question of the presenta-! tlon of grievances of engineers who are; mentbers of the Brotherhood of Loeo- motive Firemen and not mombers of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers, ‘The matter has been under discussion for many weeks and at one time vhreatened to lead to @ atrike of the firemen, Ao Her Children and No, 2 Ob- jected — Magistrate's Sym- pathy Is with the Mother, Mrs, Mery Bross, Nousek James W, Miller, of No, 106 weet Nine ty-mecond street, @ppeared before Mag- ietrate Steinert in the Jefferson Market to-day as comptainant against Mrs, Jennie Broas, of No, 360 West Twentleth street, who, she alleged, had ree her in the face, : ‘ary was the first wite of Broas, and Jennie ts his haa tins By the first wife, trom ‘whom he was divorced aeven years ago, he had two Song, and these were given to the hua. aiety peerne by the courts, T#, Broae No. 1 told the Co learned her boys wore singing nh the cholr of the Church of the Holy Com. muinion, and longing to gee them went to the churoh on Sunday and met them as they caine out, ‘ "EL Kissed the youngest. Jean,” she fald, “whon this woman came out woth my husbend, She dit me In the face,"’ Mrs, Broas No, 2 in reply sald No, 1 ha threntencd to ‘smash her face,” The husband, Nelaon Broas, said he was willing to let the children see their mother "if they were willing to &o,"" and the Court finally directed him to send them for two hours each Sunday to thelr mother, and dismissed the pro- |?) ceedings, WIDOW SEEKS DAMAGES, Mra, Echevarria Demands $25,000 for Death of Husband, A case of considerable !mportance to owners and occupants of buildings hay- ing passenger elevators has just been commenced in the Supreme Court by Alfred and Charles Steckler on behalf of <Angetina Echevarria, widow of Antonfo Echevarria, against the Ton- tine Company, owners of the building Nos, 82-88 Wall street, to recover $25,000 damages, Her husband was killed on March 3, this year, as ho was In tho act of alight- ing from the elevator, which, the widow alleges, was prematurely started, caus- Ing him to be caught beeween the floor | and tov of the elevator, ——_—- REPUBLICANS WIN PELHAM ELECTION, ' The regular Republican ticket was rictorious in the annual election at Pole ham Manor to-day, The only opposition was for the two years’ term of trustee ship. Charles R, Gillett, Republican, received 48 votes to Edward Fowler's 40. | Frederick H, Allen was re-elected a dent for a term of one year, He had 20 opposition, 4 me se sal hic hei skimmer covering i aN MNING. tein POOL-ROOM AFLOAT CAN DEFY JEROME The Mount Desert Is to Sail Out Beyond Three-Mile Limit Each Day. ‘When the trim steamer Mount Des- ert, for many yeats a familiar excur- sion craft. in Maine waters, slips her haweer at the Battery on Thursday she will head directly out to sea with but one object in view—getting be- yond the three-mile limit, where all legal jucisdiction ends, griminal and civil, and where Father Neptune is supreme, though he {s. down pretty deep and not likely to come up to lead a merman raid, Oboe beyond the three-mile limit tho passengers on the Mount Desert (and as her excellent variety of entertain- ment becomes generally known she will undowbtedly be patronised with a rush) will get yery busy with'a wireless tel- egraphy apparatus, The cabin of the steamer will be pro- vided with racing, charts and other conventional paraphernalia to ald those who, wish to bet. The fact of the matter is: The Mount Desert will slip through the Narrows with demure unobtrusiveneam but once on the high seas, beyond the three-mile @ will become d floating Monte Beyond the Laws, This floating pool-room is a serious enterprise, and\ will be conducted as decorously as possibly. Those who have chartered the steamer are confident that neitner the local nor Government rities ean interfere. with them, When the boat leaves ‘her Bier there will be nothing evident of any Illegal design, On the more supposition that a crime might be pomnitted ‘on the ateamer she ne this venture will peolsisome will be uch, beheduled and passongere fA oer ure ase ticketa in the expectation of having leagant 5 jappens when ps over the three-mile line may Le looal authorities, but legally it ts none of their busines: Hven Uncle Eitri te att? hfs fo interfere OU haa once bounded out on the high seas. Propared for Fight. ‘That th uot of this aingn! abode of 0 bookmaker vil nt Be a no one doul Sautions. are ‘taken’ accordingly, lawyers (not each trip out to sea two fea Janyers) will be taken on the Mount Desert as part 0! per eaulp- ment, These men are learned in the in- tricadles of the gambling Jaws, and under their advice 4 the ty is fringement of existing stat ped A nine pitt crew. an organizes the steame: h axe and grap pie Fon al or heavy damages will ii The if can comfortably shelter 600, a pine, Oe be ‘taken on coe SPRING HERE able; Gets Even for the Fine Weather of Saturday by Rain- Ing or Blowing Ever Since, Northeast storm warni P, M, Breakwater, Reedy Istand, Port Norris, Cape May, Atlantic City, Philadelphia, Sandy Hook and New York, at 10 So fascinated Is this month of March, never certain, always a bore, with Miss Spring that he hes pounced his dis- agreeable self in her lap, and there he Mngers, crushing her and sending forth his unhealthy cold blasts of wind, with rain accompaniment, Saturday came along with its prom- se of spring, but Saturday was only a ‘ay day, March began getting even on Bunday, and eince in he has been collecting tribute of the sun, Here it is March 21, when spring Js officially sup- posed to have arrived. There {s not enough spring here to-day to notice it. March never Is gulded by precedent, and he goes against prophecies of the weather man just to be contrary, ——a AMBASSADOR WHITE SAILS, Henly White, recently appointed Am- hassador to Italy, salled for his post to-day on tho Krononng Wilhetm, Nel- kon O'Shaughnessy, rew Third Seere- y of Hmbassy at Berlin; Olyd> Fitch and William KY Shochan also bailed on the wane boat, FROM Brewery to Home We have just established a delivery service for the prompt distribution of our pure FIDELIO BEER fresh to your door, Not a Flat Bottle in the Lot, Our beer is thoroughly Pas- teurized, is absolutely pure and can now be obtained di- rectly from our brewery, Drop us a postal or telephone. 80 Cents a Dozen. $1 a Case, TRIAL BOTTLE FREER, Telephone 318) Madison Square, H. Koehler @ Co., Ist Av., 29th & 30th Sts.,, New York. WHAT A START! March, -Bound to Be Disagree)" tlon., He anid. | JULES VERNE, (Steet NOVELIST, KY a IDRANK IODINE, DYING AT 77 Last Moments Cheered by Messages from Thousands of Admirers, AMIENS, France, Mardi f,—Jules Verne:ts dying. In the home in whlch he wrote his famous, highly-colored and Imaginative stories his Iie is ebbing away, From all parts of the world tele. froma of sympathy have been received. Many of them are from children who are in the midst of thelr first acquaint. ance with Verne, Others are trom sdl- entlate, Police Sny that Mra, Mahnien, Atel ter Quarrel with Tiushanil, That Must Bet Swaljowed Drag, een Mra. Maybelle Mahnken, a handsome Notifies Police Fi young! woman of twenty-two, was taken i from her home, No, 1037 Bergen street, Brooklyn, to St, John's Hospital to» day, suffering from fodine poisoning, At the hospital the woman was placed in the prison ward, the police charging fat whe had attempted to end ‘her e, According to th ico Mrs, Mahns en nad A dispute. ithe Bee ant and in a moment of anger ewallowed the fodine, She will’ recover, i GNCONSCIOUS JN STREET. Victim of Cercbro-Spinn! Meningitis Suppored to He Newark Yan. A nian believed to be |Victor Meindl, an Austrian, twenty years old; of No. fh 911 Highland avenie, Newark, was Tt has been a dimouit ‘task, for the found unconselous in front of No, 292 nanie wi World's greatest inventors to Catch up Fulton street eatly to-day. a ee inhi Pockets, by with Verne, In his “Around -the| taken to th tl Rt) World in Mighty Days” he was in ad. A ony he 4 rr SON FOR GOV. BECKHAM, FRANKFORT, Ky., Marohil.—A pon vance of railroading and steamshio Frege travel, In his "f'wenty ‘Thousand bane i Leagues Under the Sea’ he reduced was' born to Mrs, J, C. Beckham to-de; this heing the second child of Gov, and | Mrs, Beckham. submarine travel to a solentific per- tection, which in theory worked with- out & hitch, In his “Five Weeks in a Balloon"? he solved, theoretically, of course, the problama of aerial naviga- ‘and Restores Nervous, oe wa 4 ) Dyspeptic Catarrh P vA ha: //) i 4 f]h\s my Sef” (Wg ry ah ee att 1KB A Dendy rip has. crossed our country, I ink Aehina woores of physical wrecks. : p Victims of catarrh of the head, catarrh of the throat, catarrh of the lungs, catarrh |, of the atomach, catarrh of the kidneys, catarrh of the pelvic organs, are to, be counted by hundreds of thousands, Grip is epidemio catarrh, and sows. th eel of chronic catarrh within the syatem, that few grip sufferers are complete recovery until una. } Nerirn “busi of ‘Alcbamar wren 08 | "Your remedy tor oatarrh In grip ry) v Pyrat fae Goa nu tod OME ea .) Fi i‘ te "I have, used It for a hort time and Raye aa ; Improved rapidly from the an Honky : veaily” muon aurpFised at nah o ahiek Met Bacaeee by } MH } be ti o i effective cure. Forthe Alter-Eftects of La Grippe, 1 eulogies as Peruna, vt you de not derive prompt and satis- factory results from the use of Poruna, | w te Te lk a eg FO PR a ye Our Case, . Metand "to ety stomach and kidneys, years from effects of the |p 4 he seemed to settle in my plerved to give you his valuable advice de ra Fhe Od Five bottles‘ of Pe- ft me.’ tha oat BROOKLYN. The Burlingham (Like Burlap) Pongee at : ; Sold in Other Stores $1.75. ns One of the principal reasons why the Abraham & Straus sill easily leads in Brooklyn is that all the silks may be had at a lower pric than anywhere’else we know of. There are many MA ld silks that cannot be bought anywhere else in the borough—yet they are lower prices than they can be purchased in stores in other ities, 1 fact that we are exclusive sellers does not tempt us to create unni profits. Burlingham silk, a rough weave that looks like silk burlap, $1.75 in other stores, Wee sell it tosmorrow at $1.35 in all fashionabl ‘e wee ( Mat Floor, Wont J Beautiful Lawn Waists At Absurdly Little Prices. My, how they are selling! and is there any wonder when the becoming,| pretty, € | worked Waists that won so much admiration as soon as introduced by us this Spring aré these ridiculously little prices— ; A ' 5 button back; entire front of dainty Swiss embroider: Fine White Lawn Waists, sleeves; finished with tucked cuffs; natty tucked call models; trimmed with fine lace and medallion embroidery; va'ue $2, . A button back, with yoke of fine Valenciennes lace; front embroidered ino! | Mercerized Batiste Waists, fre tucks each side, large bishop sleeves, wlth culth of lace. inset tucked collar; other attractive models made with yoke of lace and em! ‘insertions and ks and tucks; generously full ar, as valk other