The evening world. Newspaper, May 3, 1905, Page 3

A ’ a WOMAN WHO DODGED JEROME COMES BACK Mrs. Gelshenen Returns to New York, but Tries to Avoid Recognition. CHILDREN WITH HER. Hurried Abroad After Being Asked to Testify in Dodge- Morse Scandal. MUTE Ie aT ey oS eer) ee THE WORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, Annual Four-in-Hand Driving Club a Great Success—Big Turn Out, of Society. With all the preciston of a neatly executed military manocuvre the annual coaching parade of the Ladies’ Four- in-Hand Driving Club started a@ M4 o'clock to-day from Seventy-seeond street and Fifth avenue. behind four beautiful chestnuts that swung Into Beventy-seoond street from Fifth avenua over to Madigon avenue, and then executed @ graceful turn into the line set apant for the tart. Be- ide her wae her father, Whitelaw DENIES IDENTITY AT PIER,} #2. Says “Hor Sister’ Wishes to Be Left Alone—Go with Party to Hotel Netherland, Mrs. William H. Gelshenon, whose @udden departure for Europe last Janu- ary after District-Attorney Jerome amied her to go before the Grand Jury, ‘was one of the sensations of the Dodge- Moree oase, has retumed. She arrived On the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse to- Gay and made every effort possible to @oncea] her identity. Her name was mot on the passenger list and she tra- veiled as one of the family of ‘Herr @elshenen,” her son. Bosides her son @he was accompanied by her daughter, @ Miss Laweon, @ Miss Dunn and a ‘mata. An Evening World reporter approe: chs | 1 Mm. Golomenen on the pler. She| denied her {dentity to him, ) “I am not Mrs. Gishrnen,"' she de- i chs aan her sister,’ Mrs. Gelshenen atill in Wurope? asked the reporter, ul “I refuse to any, “b—that i, my ais was the reply, ten—wants to be left the Dodge-Morse boiling point, Mr, @ letter he had the public Mra. Gelshenen asking her to Jury and give Mra. Gelahenen arrangements to sail for Deutsch! (eatore the i Mitting that she had sailed and sharp- ly oriticieing the methods of the Dis- trlot-~Attorney’e office, Mr. Jerome re- ped, through the newspapers that th Dodge-Morso case was a “live wir and Mr. Beck would find it out, Many Denials Made. Pollowing the disappearance of Mra, Gelwhenen, the Grand Jury found indict. ments against Abe Hummel, the law- yer, and others, for conspiracy in the Dodge-Morse case. Mr, Morse was in Paris when Mrs. Gelshenen sailed for Europe, and is sald to have seen her at Naples before he returned hero, When seen by correspondents of the New York papers abroad, Mrs, Gel- shenen emphatically denied that she had furnished the money for the fight against extradition put up by Charles F, Dodge in Texas. Miles O'Brien, of this city, for years an intimate friend of the Gelshenen family, supplemented this denial with the statement that Mrs, Gelshenen was not and never had been in love with Mr, Morso, and that sho had never had any connection with the Dodge-Morse conspirac Next canve Mrs. Thomas Hastings, the President of the Club, driving chestnut leaders and brown wheelers 'Then the other turnouts drew up tn rmpid order, With the gay coaches came @ ewarm of society folk in cabs, auto- mobties, victorias andall sorts of rigs. Young Robert Goelet whizzed about tn @ large touring car, Mra, Cornelius Vanderbilt and her daughter drove up Jn a victoria. airs, Cowles, the Pres- {Ment's sister, wae emong the early spectators, ‘Mins. Hamtings was at the head of the Une as the parade started, Behind her was Miss Gerry, holding the rains over four stunning senl-bnown hones, Mite Webb, with roan leaders and chestnut wheelens, was fourth, and in due onler came Mies Adelaide Randeiph with four bays, Mrs. J. Borden Hertman with four Drowns, and Migs Gulltver, the Secrotary of the club, driving three browne and a oan, The Guittver turnout was by far the moat conspicuous of all The ooach with {ts yellow decorations and the roan horse prancing with {ts three brown partners formed a decided study in colors, ‘The procession proceeded through the weat drive of the park and returned by way of the east drive to the Metropoll- tan Club, where luncheon was served. Among those in the coaches were Mrs. President’sWordtoGeronimo LAWTON, Okla, May %- With con ventional dignity and ostentatious cer- emony Quanah Parker, chief of the Comanche Indians, to-day delivered a mossage from President Roosevelt to Apache warrior, at Park- Seronmmion & teen miles west of this city, Geronimo departed with the as surance, it ls said, that he and his tribe will get their liberty from martial aub- Jection within one year, [Receiver In $2,000,000 Sult. BARATOGA, May :8—Supreme Court Justice John M. Kellogg, of Ogdens- bi has appointed Charles Pedrick, of Giens Pulls, receiver in. the $2,009,009 mortgage aotion of the Hudson River Blectaic Company against the Hudson River Water Power Company, which pullt the new big granite dam at Spler Falls, this county, Celebrated Case Closed. NORTON, Kan,, May 8.—The celebrat~ 4 case of Chauncey Dewey, a million- aire ranchman, and Clyde Wilson and A. J. McBride, cowboys employed by Dewey who Were charged with killing two members of the Berry family, neighboring ranchmen In Northwestern Kangas, has been ended in the Dis- trict Court here, when tho Judge dis« missed the defendants without trial, Dewey Is the son of tho late C, P, Dewey, a pioneer Kansan, and at the time of the killing of the Berrys man- aged his father's ranch, ‘ Pope Pius Praises America, ROME, May 8.—Tho Popo to-day re- colyed in private audience D, Ogden Mills, of New York, and the Misses Mills, Miss Burden, of New York, and the Hon, Miss ‘Cavendish-Bentinck, The Pontiff expressed to Mr. Mills his admiration tor Americans, saying that America was the country from which he received consolation, Firat to appear was Miss Jane Reid, Misa Parmeleo with four bays, | | i | John Prenthoe, Miss Barney, J, Henry Snuth, Mr, an@ Mrs, Robert Pruyn, Dr W. Seward Webb, Miss Whitney, Miss Tucker, Mrs. A. G. Jennings, “ob” ry, Broderick Johnson, Migs Twom . Miss Cryder, Miss Dix, Mra. J. H Wright, Miss Bigelow and Richard Peta: | WOMEN HANDLE RIBBONS IN COACHING | Event of the Ladies’ Or Pfc rh et eel ehekek et akakek halal akal al al al ol af al al al al caked Pray for Rain to Stop Fires, BWASTPORT, L. I, May 3,—Destruc- tive forest fires have raged ia tho pine ‘woods, between this village and Port Jefferson, since Monday morning and thousands of acres of valuable wood- land are devastated with attendant eerl- ous loss of hundreds of quail, par- tridges and rabbits. Many outlying homes are st‘ll threatened and fervent prayers are beng offered for rain, ‘which promises only relat, “Rainmaker” Gets His Prize. LOS ANGELES, May 3,—Charles Hat- Held, a “rainmaker,"" who has been work- Ing since Dec, 15 last to produce elght- een Inches of rain for Southern Callfor- nia by May 1, on a pledge of a number $1,000 1f he aucceevted, has completed his domonstration, and has been paid a lange proportion of the sum promised, ‘The fall of rain in Los Angeles during the season ending May 1 has been 18.96 inohes, which far exceeds the fall of last season, and Is far above the normal @nnual precipitation fer this sestion. Hatfield's method ts a generation of gas and its discharge Into the atmosphere from a chimney, This, he claims, at- tracts forces of nature which compel molsture to form and be precipitated, Echo from Chadwick Case. CLEVELAND, May 3—A, B, , cashier of the closed Citizens’ Bank of Oberlin, in the Un tes District Court was to-day tentlary tor yeven y ed guilty to one cou charging him with n in the hank's books. District - Attorney mended that all other | indictmen's |Agalnst Spear, containing fifteen coun |be nolle prossed, need to the penl- He had piead- of the indictment ing false entries Sullivan recom: of Los Angeles merchants to pay him | TOKIO, MAY 3.—A solemn process on ceremonial at the Shokonsha Temple to- day. tives of tho dead, High officers of the and 1,400 sailors from Yokosuka present at the ceremonies, A Novelty in College Honors. WORCESTER, Mass., May 3,—To- night at Clark University Dr. Jean du Buy will be Invested with the diploma “Venia Legendl'’ with formal ceremon, Dr, G, Stanley Hall wil! deliver a sho address telling the meaning of the di- ploma, the first of the kind to be award- ed by an American University. Buy will deliver an address on Teachings of Kung (Confuclus)," Big Test for Gasoline Motor, CHICAGO, May 8—E, H, Harrimin has approved a plan for an ocean to ccean tour of the new gasoline motor, just finished at Omaha and turned over to the Union Paelfie Raslroad, tt 1s | the Intention to exhibit the ear at the Lewis and Chick Exposition, and thence jrun for: San Francizeo to > rleans, Chieago and New York and from there back to Oraha, ‘This will give a thorough test of ts long-distance abill- tlos, power on grades and will satis he curiosity of raflroad men, who have escorting the spirits of the dead sol-| Army ders and sallors opened the ensnrining unr y army and navy, @ large force of troops | engaged iin a week people be; | administered Krupps’ 2 Important Forcign and Telegraphic News. « Japan Honors Dead Heroes.! A “‘Coxey Army’’ {n England. The throng filled and surrounded) War Office in London and jay the men's PARADE. | | | | |t | WINS FREEDOM FROM 7TH HUBBY \Mrs. Crowther Gets a Divoroe and Can Take an Eighth Hus: | band in the Dog Days If She Wishes. HER SEVEN VENTURES. | Husband No, 1—Edward Wake. LONDON, May 3.—A miniature Coxey Fa) man, dled. | !s forming among tho striking No 2-Henry Saunders, Hate yoet oat Northan'ptons ; died, shire, It 1s proposed to march on the No. B—Joweph Powers, |) fed, No, 4—John — Godfrey, the temple, including thousands of rela- | grievances In regard tu pay, &c,, befure | the officials, A band of music hag beon Morphia in Flour, 50 Die, SAN FRANCISCO, May 8—The steamship Coptic brings news of many |gentha in the inland country of Ching. | Justice Leventritt 1s the only member t has been the custom to smuggle morphia into that section Inside a ship- ment of flour, In some manner the boxes of a recent consignment broke, ausing the deadly drug to become mixed with the flour. ‘The stuff was sold to the up-country districts, With- to die in large numbers, and for nearly a month the Chinese “were dying from the polson in apparently the” most mysterious manner, It 1s estimated that fully fifty people died of morphia poisoning. Business Booming. PRUSSIA, MAY immense contracts, partly for at the German artil- Russian, Je have compelled the ine the number from a 0) te Tempo rrack # rted for the 000 men, Krupps’ the resarmam lery and 1 of for workmen than 20,000, been er the extra manifested unusual interest in the m-/King Edward Visits Salons. novation, The motor ts capable of bnuling ag least one heavy pissenwer ear over moderate grades, The macnine fs propelled entirely by gasoline, there helng no electric motor, SHERMAN LABOR COMMISSIONER Governor Solves Problem and Gives MoMackin’s Place to Reformer Who Has Often Blocked Tammany. ALBANY, May 3.—Gov, Higgins sent to the Senate to-day the name of P, Tecumseh Sherman, of New York. to be Btate Commissioner of Labor, in Place of John MoMackin, of New York, whose term expired March 6, ‘He aleo appointed Dr, Edward H, Porter, of New York, State Comme- sioner of Health, wo succeed Dr. Dan- fel Lewis, of New York, whose term expired March @ The wppomntinent of Mr, Sherman as Labor Commissioner soives the mooted] Question a8 to the succession of Me-| Mackin, whose retiremon, from offi ‘was followed by a more or less sensa-| tional controversy. Novelty was added to the affair when @ woman was talked of as the Chief OF the Labor Bureau P, Tecumseh Sherman ts a son ct the late Gen. W. ‘T, Sherman, anda wll, konown lawyor of this city, He has been more or leas prominent In local. poll- tlos for years, having served on the Board of Aldermen, where ho Wasa Oonetant stumbling block the way Of the ‘Tammany men, Mr. Sherman. isa. graduate Lows University and also ‘ale and Columbia. He prs, A very pronounced Re in 1900 he bolted McKinley, cay ra he psi not aw Oo had tolerated such treatment Aa" tho American’ oldie the Spanish war, ae Cue gront: in of St stirdied at WAS at one ublioan, but giving ag Nort nny. SHOESTRING SAVED HIS LIFE Boy Was Hanging Head Down- ward Over 50-Foot Cut Where Trains Were Passing—String Held Till Help Came. Hanging head downward, but held by a shoestring caught in a tres stump, lvtle Charley Lewis, aged ten, was to-day suspended over a 80-foot rail- way cut, whore trains were constantly passing, until rescued by two men who heard his screams, Tae boy was playing in the rear of his parents’ home, at No. 187 Kearny avenue, Jersey City, to-day and Ike all boys choose the most dangerous piny ground on the brink of te cut throug’ which the Central Railway of New Jer- sey rung, Suddenly his foot slipped and with a of fright the little fel- low plunged headlong over /the cut. In some providential manner one of ho shoestrings becune enttngled Ink stump a4 he fell and the boy's full Wow brought to a halt, He sereatied at the top of his lungs as he dangled In his precactous posl- don apove the trains, Jolin Murolw Tht Philip, Moyer, Uwe ‘piiniers who Were, Wwerking on the Lewis nouse, heard Charley's erios and ran to hig age fleunes.. When he was hauled uo It was fonnd Cat the boy had been slight Iybrulred but was otherwiee all right, atenbbiavdocn MANGLED BY A TRAIN. (Bpecial to The Evening World.) A . keep: sro 0, tbo grey street, Newark, was ftor this Mr, Sherman bec: wterested Yn tocal reform movenionts, 1 Q ber he ra atree! toe WAS “NOA Prove that Wife Had as Bad a Temper as She Has Shown He Had, Justice Amend ie iatening to-day t> stories of how Florence Crosby Hort. mann, whose witnesses have told how George Herrmann skipped, kicked and boat her, and swore at her and calle! her baj names, did much the same to e,'" Mrs, Jennie B. Chapman the Herrmanns boardes in street, testified that ngol. She sald that Florence frequently as- sulted wge" and bragged of it aly wand “she often call hor huedand a lar and frequently told him to go to hel sald the witness, “Why not say ‘the Whole word right ut?" susgested Herrmann’s lawyer, © told me she would get a divorce," 1 Mrs, Coapman, "She drank. to many covktaily and ‘once told me. how | with whom Forty-olgith Worence was no ahe it etruck George with a halr- \ brush ‘et ynan admitted she took Mrs, “ann back as a boarder afer and Herrmann separated Lu Pesala Missing Over a Week, Mystery surrounds the disappearance of Albert Beck, superintendent of the Lergen Point, N. J. Yacht Ulub. {eft the. Clubhouse,” foot of “Linge the unt, April 4, to _purchase piles at eau Huilnoad ier and ie bee! \ Petes: \ | Sait to Be Victin—Devoted Her Time to Children Il! with: Dread Disease, | It became known at Bellevue Hosp!- tal to-day that Miss Jennie Jacobs, the |sentor nurse in charge of Ward 3! whore the cases of cerebro-splnal men- ingitie have been confined, is in all jprobability herself stricken with the | dread disease. Miss Jacobs hae devoted her entire time to these cases, and has been Known about the hospital for nor evotion to the Ittle children particu- lJarly, picking them up dn her arms and carrying them about as If they were perfectly well, ‘The cases of this Meense wore trans- fernad yeaterday from wand 31 to pavil- | fon 2 one of tie now outdoor tents, | lwhore they were lsalated, Miss Jacotn aided In the transfer and later com. plained of exceatingly heavy hoada 4nd a general feeling of lassitude was compelled to go to bed, a Leroy Smith and Dr, GR. Lsskwor \altended her, Cuitures were taken and opamined by Dr. Nornis, the patie aogiot oF ents Rockard, when asked about tt to-day, denied that she had the disenge, Mra,’ Josophing Millezzo, of No, Bilzabeth street, and Josephine, six, and Franc avers inken tothe ‘Bellevue Hospital Apri. @ suffering ue spinal meningit! Miss Jacobs hem charge, n AMril 29, le. th. ter A yenth avenue and Sixth street, Brooklyn, her daughters, | the boller-room, 3.—The Japanese more have bury ommodation of divorced, to accompany the strikers, No, 5—Willinm Gay, dt~ were whoso march Will probably occupy @ Vacs maak No. @James H, Lind- || ley, divorced. 7—Thoman Crowth- (" vorced. No, ot the Bupreme Court Bench who, sit. ting In trial of undefended casos. In the bargain divorce court, decides the cases at the end of the trial, Tho fire: of the plaintiffs to be awarded a decrea | by him to-day was Mary J, Crowther whe won freedom from her 1 husband, Mrs, Crowther was married to ‘Thomas on June 12, 1901, ‘They had Myed toe gether but a few months when her trouble began, Nearly two years ago she sued him for a divorce, but the trouble was smoothed over, only to break out again with to-day's decree | as the result, | Mary Jane Gonld was only a aiip of @ girl of fourteen when she was wooed and wed by Edward Wakeman, a Dan- aatmaker, When she waa sixteen he dled and was succeeded by Henry | | Saunders, of New York, whew death made a vacancy filled by Joseph Pow- seventh | pra, of Danbur He died, nd John PARIS, May 3.—King Edward spent Mrey, of Jersey City, was Mary J.'s| (he ynorning tn the salons making a husband until a divorce made her single | leisure Inspection of the pictures, He! again, and Willis ¥, of Brldgepon Junched with the Marquis de BUM eagiiier iy aM RMU ESL And continued his round) of private 48) Ou) visits, | Divorce relieved her of Gay, and 2 | James H, Lindley, of Meriden, was still an of cle to her marriage to ‘OW SAY FLORENCE NURSE STRIGKEN SUES CHURCH NGEL” WITHMENINGITIS FORS MENINGITIS Herrmann Brings Witnesses to:Miss Jennie Jacobs, of Bellevue, Herman S. Hall, Whose Boy Was Killed by Boiler Explosion in Edifice, Demands $25,000 ON’S DEATH Damages. of Baptist Chureh, Broo! fath the yn. Mareh §, his *, Herman 8, Hall, living at Sev- to-day began a sult the Court, Brooklyn, against the chureh so- clety for $25,000 damages. Mr, Hall alieges that the boller was old and unfitted for tho use it was put to, that It had in no safety valve, the valve being closed by an tron plug; K. OF C, ELECTION. that lt had not been Inspected, and at - vhe Janitor in charge was not a Heensed engineer, Tho church society, in its an swering afidavit, makes! a general de- nial, alleging that the dead boy was a trespasser, At Ing to the story of the janitor, Hall The janitor said mn a6 them her eapeciai| that he hind not been absent long when 8 HORST, oi @ terrific explosion occurred, When he Saughtey, Menace died yen; went into the basement he found Hall EAE ), fread. The other boy was badly injured. Greenwood | Supreme | the time of the explosion, ascord- nd $63 boy companion were visiting him In ho went upstairs to do some work, leaving is,|the two youthe in the boiler-room and | ther when he first proposed matrimon Ja, 1900, Fi M Mr, Crowther's lawyer got a divorce for her and then she became Mra. Cr ther, In four months she sued Crowther for a separation, but withdrew tt A| year ago she sucd for divorce and withdrew {t, Now she ts divoreed and| when August dog-da, have arrived sho will be ready to take the vows with No. 8 If her decteo is confirmed, She Is Jeti] on the shady side of 3 and a jcomely woman of dark hair and plump | j igure. — | | MRS. DANA SEEKS DIVORCE. | | Wife of Former Editor of Smart Set Asks for Freedom, As @ sequal to the tramic death of! Among the six matrimonial disputes Young Richard Hall, aged 16, whos for Justice Teventritt to settle, in the| head was blown off by the explosion of | Dareiin day!" divorce court, to-day, | the heating boiler was that of Mrs, Gertrude Hill Dani |who came to court with her white-hatred | |mother from Albany, both in mourning, to ask for an absolute divorce from Marlus R, Dans, former editor of Smart! Set, to whom she was married ten years 0. The story brought out by Frank Moss, counse] to the Parkhurst: Soclety, wa the commonplace one—a visit in Janua last to the Olympla Hotel, In the T Gerloin, With another woman, on was reserved EEL LES SNe Deputy on Thin win Mattle for State Afternoon and Result He Clone. Tre Staite convention of the Knish's of Columbus at tho Hotel Astor wil elect officers to-da and the Might over Btate Deputy blis far to bo very vlos ‘Where are four candidatos, In his report to the convention to-day State Deputy Francis D, Thorne rata there aro 1% councils in the State, {hth membership of $6,860, The re= hort shows that the onfor by now oF, Funisea in nearly ai) the States and Is trongest in this State, \ val | No. |'Dhe detectives | Station, THUGS HOLD UP WEALTHY MAN IN CIGAR STORE: Attack J. A. Wright, Vice- President of International Navigation Company. James A, Wright, Vice-President of ho International Navigation Company. oicor of the Morgan Ship Trust, and a capitalist well known In this city and Philadelphia, was held up by four highwaymen in a clgar store on Sev- enth avenue early to-day, while on his way home from the banquet given by he Roundabout Club at the Waldorf- Astoria Mr. Wright gave his name and ad- dreen to the sergeant on duty at the West ‘Thirty-seventh street station- house, out dosoribed himself as a clerk. He was locked up on a charge of In- toxteation and Jt was not until 6 o'clock this morning that bis wife reached the statlon-house and gave bail for him, Mr, Wright was In his evening clothes (was very indignant after he got avenue, to Seventh Wa'dort. Wright walked over atier leaving the and started down town, He 1 Si West Twelfth atreet. He vs vione And apparently enjoying himself vit the me he hit Seventh avenue ur thieves noticed him and (ook up ho trall Detective on the Trail, ame thne De tive Boyle, of th street station, yes and aisy tne | staking He decided to at No, At n eed the man they Ww cage Ub the (rail himself, Mr, Wright, in pilsstul ignorance of Impending. canger, sauntered — aiong sioWly Until he came to the cigar store | at No, 40 Seventh | entered to get a) the place he ho waiked In backs that} a roll of yellow himost made the four crooks gasp. ‘This Jeautiful roll Was supplemented by & noer of diamond lipss, @ diamond | oh box, a diamond-svudded wateh | other Valuavies which made him a) bit of picking. ihe four crooks i0oked around and not seeing anybody, decided not to waste time, Boyle had dropped Into | th shadow of a CD atat we they poked him as they plunged into cigar store, Before a aL d what had happened he ha Hen | hacked’ Up hgainat the wall and. the men were going through his pockets, Boyle saw the entire performance through the window and prompily blew nig police whistle for assistance, Two policemen reeponded and although the t crooks trie O Bel bhes Were caught and taken to the station: i. Mr, Wright also wi nonne men gave names obviously fict!- tious, but two of them were recom- niaed by the police ex-convict They were lock: UR, In the meantime the eearch of Mr, Wright had reveal- ed) thousands of dollar worth | of statemen' le juables, His ey ite were his diamonds olgar. | As pulled out nL m a who! a olerk Ai hend eusied ae n Keane ond, Bit. Wright was not feel: tng. very well over perience, and tata some things to the sergeant, H was promptly locked up on a change of intoxication. took some hours for him to get word to. his home of hls plight, and he was in a cell for hours before Mra, Wright came to the rescue with ball. ‘Up to nearly noon Mr. Wright had not putin an appearance at hie office, 5 Brondway, At his home he 4 o nee anybody. ole four prisoners were arraigned in the West Side Court before Magistrate Grane later in the day. They save thease names and addresses: Charles Flynn, of No. 2047 Fulton street, Brooklyn; James Watson, of No. 887 Hast ‘Thirty-ninth sireet; James Brady, of No, 616 Weat rorty-ninth, street, and Frank Mahony, of No, 3% Bast Thirtleth street. Mr, Wright remained In the Magts- trate’s private office during the hearing. in the case could not y actually saw Mahoney swear that th land Flynn engaged In the robbery, 80 were, diccharged, The others were n $1,500 bail for trial. Mr. Wright then left ‘the court by the Magistrate's private door, He declined to make any whatever. they held fi statement SAYS HE WOOED HER AND WON HER $300. Pretty ‘Shirtwaist Maker Cauwes Arvest of Manufacturer Char- lat on Larceny Charge, Lizale Conner, a pretty shirtwadst maker, who Mvex with her widowed mother and two small alsters at No. 74 ldridge street, acoused Elias Char- jut, & manufacturer at No, 744 Broad- way, in the Centre Street oPlice Court to-day ot the lakeeny of $300. To Magistrate Moss the young wom- an said she had been engaged to marry Charlat after a courtship lasting nearly two yenrs, and upon his learning that she had saved $300 he importuned her for {t under the pretense ‘that he want- ed the money to help furnish a fiat. A week later his love waned and he avold- ed her. “LT met him on the street and asked him what the matter was,'' Miss Con. ner said, ‘and he sald he was tired of me, T aaked for my money and he told to go fish for it, Menarint was held ‘In, $500 ball for ex- amination next Tuesday and sent to the Tombs. KEPT AWAKE BY BLACK HAND. Fearing Dynamite, Many Brooklyn Folk Refuse to Go to Bed, Residents tn the neighborhood of No, Middleton street were greatly ex- night over a threat made by Hand" to dynamite the | house of Dr, M. Lombardo, who tives | ht that address. Although the police | uarding the physician's home, way Bethe neighbors Yefused to go to MANY Wa vat uN Most of the night. bad An ombardo has received several | ofthe Hand’ letters recently, but paid no attention to te, Yeat etday porn: owevel h ‘ a etter igned Ing por threatening to dynamite Home if he did not pay the money vested In the first letter, Becoming {idrmed, Dr, Lombardo went to Capi Madtinad, of the Clymer Street Police nd showed him. the letters, aptain detailed several detectives Te sand the. phy hom 7 cited last the "Black “Hack Hand i tae H WANT TO MAKE MONEY Or Secure an Ideal Place to Live SEND POSTAL FOR CIRCULAR AND VIEWS OF East Elmhurst ON PICTURESQUE FLUSHING BAY, MOST ATTRACTIVE 'TOWN- THE yy IN NEW YORI CITY, Nenrer than Brooklyn, Bankers Land & Mort r Corp. 887 Manhattan Ave. as arrested. | GRADY DID NOT TALK FOR MAYOR Latter Repudiates His Threat of Inaction by Board of Estimate If Aldermen’s Powers Were Transferred to It. Senator Grady's declaration at Albany. that tho Board of Hatimate would not pass upon any franchises should the Governor n the bill curtailing the powers of the Board of Aldermen wos not authorized by the Mayor, the latter rald to-day, ‘The Senator is quoted as having said the Board would hold up franchises until the courts had passed tipan the constitutionallty of the legis: lative measure, “T @id not discuss the matter with Senator Grady In that light,” sald tho Mayor, "Nor had he any authority to make such @ siatement, It ls a fact that the constitutionallty of the measure has been attacked not only by former Judge Dillon, who 1s an authority, but by others capable of rendering @ Aecision, Lrom my point of view I do not see how the vonstitutionality of tae law can be tested except in Its applicas tlon; that Is, 1 doubt if the abstract question can’ be taken to the courts, Some action must o tiken under tne law to raise the question of constitue tonality. Campiroller Grout talked with a mem= her of Ut) Legisinture at Albany over the telephone to-day with reference to [ie bid but declined to discniss tho mate ter or 8 ebttoe niet TR EEE Received Callers On 90th Birthday Mrs. Phebe Amelia Pratt Observes 90th Anniversary of Her Birth at Her Home in Chelsea, Mass. NAS WY WS | fl MRS. PRATT, Says She Is in Excellent Health and Feels as Vigorous a3 a Girl. Dua tothe Use of Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey. Mrs, Phebe Amelia Pratt, widow of Wille fam Pratt, yesterday celebrated her nine- Meth birthday anniversary at her nome, 166 Broadway, Chelkea. A reception was held from 2 to 6, during which the old lady re= fulved numerous callers and was the reclps font of many presents, She was assisted In focelving by Mr. and Mrs. George Pratt, of Stoughton’ Mr. and Mrs. Charles H, Prats, of Chelsea; Mrs, Bugona Pratt, two of her grandohildren, Chester and Witilan Pratt, Of Cheleen, and [da and Mabel Pratt, of Bloughton. The reception was planned by her rela: tives and the members of the First Haptist Chureh yt Chelsea, of which whe 14 a mene ber. During the summer Mrs, Pratt wrote: "Gentlemen: I am now almost vl yeure of age and am in oxcellent health, owing to the usu of Duly's Malt Whiskey, Cae tarrh of the throat troubled mo for four years, and I tried many remedies, without any benefit, until a friend induced me to try, Duffy's’ Malt Whiskey, My general condition was very poor also until I used Duffy's, but [ am very glad to stato that aince using this grand medicine the catarrh has loft me, my general health {i better than it hus been for years, and L know ‘that it haw prolonged my ite,” moat certiinly would not be without it? This letter of Mrs, Pratt was taken at random from among thousands recolved from men and women who gratefully thank Dufty's Puro Malt Whiskey for their won: derful freedom from disease and for thelr marvellous old ago, More are published (n a booklet, which .you may havo free by writing. Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey is a gentle, soothing, toule-atinulant, which replac the weakened, diseased tiasues, tones up the nerves, strengthens the heart, makes flgestion and nutrition pertect, It’ purifies the blood and regulates the circulation so that every organ {8 made to do {ts work verfectly and fully, keaping the whole sye- tem ‘in Vigorous health and lengthening the days far beyond the century, very tes monte] {s published in good faith and guar- aniteed, all good oy ie tml Accept noth xyarantecd ¢"fuivel oils ste an ttle, things, Pur ed by unvcruptlor x but the tte ae 2 fo seit RU PaaS ‘ou will know It by the rmde-mark on the label. Dui Rochoate ¥. W. L. 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