The evening world. Newspaper, May 8, 1905, Page 3

aan fe JOY LINE STEAMSHIP SUNK BY COLLISION; Aransas, Rammed by Barge | in Fog, Goes Down in Fifteeh Minutes, MATE PROVES A HERO. Mainly to Him Is Due Escape of . 64 Persons, Passengers and Crew. HELPED FILL LIFEBOATS. ‘Then, with 6!x Others, He Mounts Mast as Vessel Sinks “and Waits for Rescue, VINEYARD HAVEN, Maas, May 8— “With the arrival here early to-day of the tug Patience came news of one of the most remarkable marine disasters tn ‘the dtstory of Vineyard Sound ship- ping. The Joy ine steamer Aransas, bound from Boston for New York, was struck by the ooal ladén barge Glen- Gower, in tow from Philadelphia for Bowbon, and sunk less than fifteen min- tes later, but out of thirty-seven Passengers and a crew of twenty-nine ‘on the sbeamer, most of whom were eseap at the time of the collision, only one life wes lost, Mies Année FNeld fell as she was de- @oending a ladder to the lifeboat and was drowned, She was bound to Now York, where she has two eisters living. ‘The woene of the collision was abou @ mile and a half southeant of Pollock Rip Ghoale iehiship, Although the ac- aident happened at 1.80 o'clock yester- day morning and at a polnt only thirty. three miles distant from this port, the survivors did not arrive until early to- day, the thick fog which prevailed no- cessitating slow navigation, Mate Proves Hero, Mate Crocker was the hero of the occasion, getting the passengers and most of the crew into the lifeboats untll those were filled. He remained on board with six men, four of them passengers, while the boats were putting some of their load on the barges, Before this could be done the Aransas sank, but Mite Crocker got the men to the fore- mast head ,which remained out of was ter, and all escaped. ‘The Aransas, Capt. Rood {n command, left Hoston at 6.05 v'chwk Saturda afternoon, and was well across the ba} before she ran Into the fog, The steamer rounded Cape Cod and plied slowly down the Cape shore. It was abou: midnight on Saturday when the steamar begnn to thread her way cautiously across the perilous Nantucket shoals. Bho kept elese to hor course in spite of the fog, which hid, the Melis of. the ghtships benind @ dense mantle? of opaque mist, At 130 o'clock Sunday morn'ne, wion @ nille and a half from the Pol: lock Rip Shcals Lightship, the tug Pa- dence, with a tow of three Reading Rullroad barges, loomed up through the fog. ‘The tug cleared the Aransas and the barges Franklin and Pine Forest, but the barge Glendower struck the steamer amldghips on the starboard #ide opposite the engines, tearing open @ great hof® through which the sea poured like 9, cataract, The Glend, wer Was uninjured by the collision. he engine-room and hreroom of the Aransas were quickly flooded, and some of the firemen burely escaped being caught by the torrents of water thut rushed through the great hole in the ateamer's side, It was seen at once that the steamer was sinking, and orders to lower the boats were given. Helped Miss Field Out. Among the passengers were five woman and one child. All were saved with the exception of Miss Field, The women were taken care of tirst, and Mate Crocker remembers distinctly that he assisted Miss Field’ to the ladder leading to the lifeboats. Whether she became terrified, logt her balance and fell overboard, or whether ehe returned to her stateroom to get some forgotten article and was carried down with tho steamer, will never be known, but when the roll of passengers and’ crew! was called at this port Mtss Field was the ‘only one who failed to respond, In his excitement the purser first gave <the name of the missing woman’ as |) Mary’ Kelley, but the lat. of passengers hows it was Migs Mield. She “Mad ved with Mra. inte At No, 222 Weat fewton street,and left there to Hew Tork, hetolaneumeatalerers Bhe had been employed as a waitress and was twenty-seven years old. Fow of the passengers eaved anything except thelr clothing ‘dil! Mitall hand baggage, S80 rwpldly did’ the steamer fll with water that she sank in lea than fifteen minutes atier the collision, Land at Vineyard Haven. As soon ay the Arghaad had dieap- Peared beneath the wives the tug Pa- Uence, with the survivors-on board, put about and headed for this port, On ac count of the dense fog the tug pro- ceeded at u snail's pace, and it was not unui after midnight that she arrived one. The women naerengern were taken | @ hotel, while ‘tho mon_were given Toon ANd lodeings At the Soamen'a Bethel, @ DALECIROIS and crow left Vineyard Hinven nt 6:40: o'clock ig, mornkie on RR Wood's Holl, eRe eee Liat of Passongers, The list of passengers save here ne garnered wp to date te agit Pe OM NEW YORK—William Carr, Hugh Cannon, wit) att Bp Cannon, William Schiauter, Bd: wai PROM BROOKLYN-R, B. Filnt, No. & Willow place; James Man id 2 TL, Kinlock) dio. Harrison, et Std 1. ior ROSTON — William Sweet, Clay, C1. Hannon, Carl Jon fam groan donea, Gua Cariion. ib," Hal Hattot, AK cennedy, Nikodan Kuriweky, att s of Bouth Boston, Pn Nts ASR AY W. til, Blamford, Conn, Metianso) r } Bere: an Francleco: Lowa Tees sit ng i i onmminenmeten tin tiie re TAM. ARANEAS? Into the Inst boat just as st was being pushed off, History of Boats, The Aransas wos a twin-scrow steamer of 1,156 gross tonnage and 673 tons net, She was built in 1877 at Wile m'ngton, Del. Her dimensions were as followa:’ Length, -241 feet; breadth, S35 feet; depth, 16.5 teet.' Her Indi: cated horse-power Was 6%, Sha was clalmed In the Government lst of mer- chant vessels of tho United States as | AN oceim passenger steamer, Her home | port was New Orleans, Sho was formers: owned by the South- ern Pacific Railway Company and for | meny, years was omployed th rervi out of New Orleans, running from that | port to Havana and also between New | Orleans and New York. ‘The varge (ilendower waa a converted | schooner of §55 tone grows and #23 tons | not, 192 foat, long, 31 feet broad and 16 feet deep, She carries a crew of three men and was built at Neank, Conn., In are ned CAPT. ROOD’S STORY OF THE DISASTER. | (Special to The Evening World.) BOSTON, May &—Capt. Roni, of the Joy liner Aransas, arrived jn Boston to-day and told the story of the dis- aster. He sald: “We had hardly got serosa Boston | Bay before a thick fog shut in on us and we were compelled to run at half speed. We made soundings all across the bay afd picked up the fog signals off the tin end of the cape, Wo made & good run considering the conditions round the cape and down past the Peaked Hill bara to the buoy and new Pollock Rip lightship. It was lgte when We passod the lightship, but we could plainly hear her blir fog whistle and shaped our course ty make the old dy- ing beacon, Py “Thre was a brisk breexe blowing at the time. The fog came in from the sea and hung close, to the water, so the lookout could not *ee the prow of our boat at times as she groped her way over the sunken ledges through Pol- lock Rip. Quartermaster Sampson was at the wheel and Firat OMcer Qrocker and myself were in the pil house with him, Shortly after passing the new lightship we heard a faint whistle, which I recognized as that of a tug. “The windows of the pllot-house were open, and the soun of the whistle seemed far astern. channel is very harrow about a mile from the Pollool Rip Lightship, I suddenly saw a big craft looming out of the fog, and, springing out of the pilot-house, saw the dow of the barge heading directly for us, as if trying to cross our bows Quicker than I'can tell you the bark struck the steamer a ternific blow which made us tremble from stom to stern, The captain of the tug Patience save the steamer had hilt ot uN ahead ‘of ‘the Glendower, "The blow punched a hole in the Aransas amidahips, through which the Hea poured in tons.’ Iirst Officer Crock- er blew the whistie to man the boats, and I ran down and roused the passen: wera. When the barge struck us she Knocked one of our boats to pleces, but we had three good ones left, an were hastily put Into the water and the assengers began to get into them, Order Well Kept. “TI omlered the women and children to be put in boats fret and this was done. They were @m calm as could be ex cted. The only man who got into the y Bagerly, who was told to st boat And help, ball the ater out of it. He Kept ithe women from becoming paniv-stricken, The first officer's boat was filled firat with wom! Hien, and wo puppored as among them until we called the roll when we got aboard the barge: The first officer intended to go In. hia bout, but the second mate, who had been thrown overboard by the shock of the ccllision, swam alongside just as the _THE WORLD: _MONDAYRVENING, MAY LPPEP eA Repeaceretis wc ovine» SHOTS AES AASEACNOS ees 2 +f NANTUCKET Sowwve boat was ready to be pushed off, clmbed aboard and took charge while Hist Of- ficer Crocker remained on the Aransas and helped to load the other boats. Tn my boat there were twenty-alx persons "We landed ail those safely on the barge ai rowed back, ‘The steamer had then gone down, Eyery passenger had a Mfe-preserver and I supposed all hands were safe on the barge, but heard. plstol-shots and put out again, only to discover that OMcer Crocker had remained on the steamer until she sank, together with the steward, David Hayes, of New York, and four passen- gers, ‘These had been driven to the rigging by Crocker and were clinging on with the water up to their waists, We located them after a while and took them off and put them aboard the barge. “T then called the roll and found that Miss Field wae missing, Crocker wos DEFIES COURT, SHIELDS TRUST, AND IS FINED Edwin F. Hale Refuses to. Answer Questions in Tobacco Inquiry. Secretary dha Treasurer Bawin F. Hale, of the McAndrews & Forbes Com- | Pany, a component part of the Amerl- can Tobacco Company, commonty called the Tobacco Trust, to-day defled the United States Government to obtain from him any oral or documentary evt- denca bearing upon the workings of the trust Th restraint of trade and commerce and was fined and adjudged guilty of contempt of court by United States Cir- cult Judge Lacombe. Hale declined to answer all questions + ‘propounded to him before the Grand Jury which js probing into the affairs of the Trust, on the ground that neither the jury nor Henry F, Taft, B, N. Hill and Fellx H, Levy, speolal United States Abtornieys, have any legal warrant for | his examination, and further thar any | answers which he might give would tend Go incriminate him. Preparing for Contes! The deflant witness, under an agree ment between his counsel and the Gov ernment attorneys, will not be commit-| ted to Jail until the way can be cleared! tn the Dilted States Sireult Court of Appeals for a writ of habeas carpus. | That will probably be on Thursday or| Friday, and Judge Lacombe will sign! an order committing Hale to the Tombs, | Five dollars ®as tho fine imposed: to- day, It the Chroult Court of Appeals should | confirm Judge Lacombe's judgment of Hale'# contempt it is the purpose of the attorneys of the Tobacco 'Trust—Mihu | Root, De Lancey Nicoll, John H. Lind- say and J, Porker—to carry the ease to the United States Supreme Count, ‘this contingency Will tle up the investigation for several months, Before Hale was sworn as a witness by the Grand Jury he made this state: ment, upon which he-based all his dec- Mnations to answer questions asked him: Demande Information, “Before being sworn, I respectfully ask to be advised of the nature and purpose of the investigation in whi I have bean summoned hepe—whethem it is under any atatute of the United States and the specific charge, if any haw been made, In order that) 1 may learn whether or not the Grand Jury has any lawful right or authority to nuke the tnaulry, and whether there is anything lawruily pending here upon Which witnesses may be summoned, Sworn and examined; and I also, ask That 1 be furnished with oupy of the Complaint, information ov proposed bitt of Indictment, If,any, upon whieh. you ire acting, i ofder that T may know concerning, What transactions, matters or things [ain cased Upon to teste Or produce evidence,” ‘These wre the questions Hale would not answer: “What business ta the Moe ‘Andrews & Forbes Company engaged in? “svnat business were, vou In before you came to New York?" “Who ls Prese {Qentot the McAndrews & Moroes Gone aang, 27 is tiv business?" "Where x Its office?” “Where [8 the office of American ‘Tobacco Com is President of the Amer Company?" Another question which Hale refused to answer Was, "Ts there any agreement hatween the Amerlean Tobacco Com- pany and the McAndrews und. Forbes Company in reintion to the. trade or husiness in’ Meorice, Heorlee paste ot Keorlee mass, affecting that business hetween several States of the United | States Immunity from punishment of- fered Hale, us provided in the Sherman get, but Mr, Hale was not to be moved froin iis determination to keep to him self whatever he knows about the 7 hacco 'Triast YOUNG ROWDIES FINED IN COURT. Magistrate Mayo Punishes 2% Doyn Arrested for Insalting “LL” Passengers, Twenty-two of the th arrested yesterday: for rowdylam on Third avenue “L" trains were to-day fined $5 each by Magistrate Mayo, one was fined $2, another was discharged, and the other thirteen were sent down to the children's court, bolng under sixteen yours of age The boys were arraigned by Detect Senwenk, Wiihelm, Sheeran and Son ville, of the Interborough Ca Detectives Price and Sulll Alexander avenue station, All ‘were ar= fored at vanous Bronx stations of the Third avenue elevated road. They were returning from playing baseball th varl- ous flelda In the Upper Bronx, and caus ed disturbance in the trains by tossing balla in the aisles and dnsulting passen- gers. ty-seven boys Moderate Liberals Win. ST. PETERSBURG, MAY ‘&.--The ex- treme strength developed by M, Shipoft, President of the Mossow Zematyo, at the Moscow Zemstvo Congress, is the Cause of great satisfaction to the Mod- erate Liberals, He delivered a strong speech against the Radical Constitution- al programme and, although twenty-four orators opposed him vigorously, when the question Was put to a test he cap- tured 80 out of 182 delegates in the op- position camp. ‘ Another Battle with Hereros BERLIN, MAY 8—A force of Hereros on April 27 fell upon a German column under the command of Capt, Winter- feldt, in the mountains east of Gananis, German Bouthwest Africa, and’ in a lively fight which followed ‘sixteen Ger- mana were Killed or wounded, The ae tives were beaten off with the loss of fifteen men killed Judge Hargis Released LEXINGTON, KEN., MAY 8.—Judge James Hargis, whose trial for the mur- der of James krill resulted In a hung jury hete ‘Phursday, Was released to-do; SN. Wome ot 28,000, \ 4 All ina Rush for-Fez, TANGIBR, MOROCCO, | May fans Gorman mission, headed by Court von ‘Tattonbach-Ashola, has arrived at Al- car: Keeber (eighty miles northwest of Fez), where It was met by an imnosing detachment of cavalry which will escort the mission to kes, A number of troops heve arrived here to escort the British Minister, Gerard A, Lowther, to Fea, Lady Curzon's Appreciation. CAL, MAY 8--Lady Curzon, ite of the Viooroy, in top ne | en U. S. Destroyer Damiaged. SAN FRANCISCO, MAY §.—A stiff gale frdm the southeast has damaged Several vessels In the upper bay. The torpedo-boat destroyer Paul Jones dragged her anchors and ran into the crulser Marblehead, staving in a plate of the Paul Jones and ruining one of Its boats, Several merchant vobsels were damaged. All Spain Honors Cervantes. MADRID, MAY 8.—The tercentenary of the publication of "Don Quixote” wag observed to-day us a holiday through. out the country with floral festivals and the unveiling of monuments to the author, Cervantes, Madrid swarmed with sightseers, An academic festival at the Royal Academy was the’ fea- ture of to-day's programme, Secretary Hay Doing Well. BAD NAUHEIM, GRAND DUCHY OF HPSSE, MAY 8,—Seoretary Hay has finished the first portion of ‘the cure and Js now taking the higher grade of baths, He drives, walks and goes to the concerts on the Kur 'l rgace dally, Pro- fessor Groedel says Mr, Hay's condition Ix natiafactory, Will Get Big Bequests, PHILADELPHIA, MAY 8.—The Stale Supreme Court to-day reconstrued the will of the late John Handley, of Scran- ton, who left an estate largely devoted to charity, and the beneflolarios will now receiv the amounts named in the docum: tr, Handley created a twenty trust in “frwor of Sh Must Go Back to China. WASHINGTON, MAY’8.—In the case of Ju Toy the Supreme Court of the United States to-day held that the de- cision of the Secretary of the Depart- ment of Commerce and Labor is final in Chinese exclusion cases, Ju ts the son of Chinose parents, but clalms to have been born in the United States, His-exclusion was ordered.after a tem- porary vistt to China, and he took the case to the Federal courts, Telegraphers in Convention. BUFFALO, MAY 8.—The Initial meet- ing of the fifth blennial and fifteenth legular aesston of the Grand Division of the Order of Raflroad Telegraphors opened ‘here to-day with about three hundred delegates in attendance, The President of the association Is H. 0, Perham, of St, Louls, Among the ex- officers present were A, D, Thuraton, of Ht, Louls, senior President and the founder of the order, and G, D, Ram- say, of Chicago, and M. M, Dolphin, of New York, both past presidents, ‘The | question of amalgamating with the Com. | mercial Telegraphers Union of America will be considered, ‘The Order of Ral- | road Telegraphers has a membership of 45,000, and the Commeretal body claims | | a total of 15,000 members. Recalls Byron’s Swimming. Victory. | i VENICE, ITALY, MAY 8—Lord Byron when here challenged his friends Patrick's Orphan Aaylum, of Scranton; of Good Shepherd, Scranton, er, Va. The rithed $80,000; di, $50,000, $0,000 for to a swimmingmatch from Lido toSanta Chiara, a distance of eight miles, The challenge was accepted and the poct Wont & splendid vistory, In remembrance i i bd > Important Forcign and Telegraphic News. © Will Bulld Four Submarines, QUINCY, MASS., MAY &.—The entire technical force of the Blectrle Boat Company, which has offices in Bayonne, J., and a plant at New Suffolk, L. + canie to this city today, where they wll co-operate with the Fore River Shipbutiding Company in the construc- tion of the four United States sub- marine torpedo-boats for which the shipbullding company has the contract The Blectric Boat Company was for- merly the Holland Torpedo-Boat ©: puny, ‘Phe transfer of the office for of the submarine boat gompany to th « city will faciiiiate the wo ttn une derstood that some of the machinists at New Suffolk, 1. 1, will be brought here to ald the Fore River workmen One Way to Punish France. TOKIO, MAY 6—A member of the Chamber of Commerce of this clty has written to that organization suggesting | retallation on the hospitality commercial France on account, of shown by her to Second Russian Pacife Squadron, The writer proposes that the Chambers of | Cammerce throughout the empire act jointly boycotting the gouds o° French me chants, Tt is posable that he Ghamber of Commerce here will decline to con: alder the question. organized i1T’S FUN To be Well! Leave Coffee, Use POSTUM | ONE LIFE LOST THE GLENDOWER ow FROM PHILACRLPHIA sure he had helped her down over the aide of the steamer. Whether she fell between the steamer and the boat or Was lost overboard as she tried to olimb Aboard the barge is not known. ‘Nhe ktoamer Hos in ten fathoms of water. We struck just at 10.90. It was go thick vesterday we could not get ashore to report the los. Pralses Glendower's Captain, When the collisson oceurred Capt Peterson, of the barge, sent his big MHOOK OVErDOAPA, ana pul GUL TA tae boat to help us. His thoughttul- ness in dropping anchor immediately saved our lives, Good work was done #il around, and of (ie BlAty persone on the steamer all were saved, except one. It ix a mystery how the young woman lost her lite, “None of the officers saved any cloth- Ing, except what they had on, The Passengers had little clothing over thelr Might robes. ‘There was little food aboar dthe barge. but Capt. Peterson uve us all he had and we finished that In three minutes, He gave his cabin to the Women folks, Sunday was a long Ad hunky dity “Migs Flold wax tho last passenger to come on the boat at Beaton, T notlend che girl acting qu y after we got out of the horhor, Croe also noticed her and remarked that she noted queenly,” Isaac Hill, cne of the survivars, si he saw the’ woman $n the saloon’ aft the steamer had struck, She was er tag and throwing her “arma about bia neck and ashed him to save her, He told her to Ro out and get into one of the toate ns goon as she could. Mrs, Bleges who talked with the woman, saya: “Nhe young woman sald to me during the fog: ‘It wor make any difference to me If | lose my lif Tam despondent, 1 have lost my alta tion, T haven't any home, and am going to Hrooklyn to vielt my, ‘sister to sec If T will feel any better!” Mrs, Allon. with whom the lit lve ya she been despondent, ARANSAS WRECK IN DANGEROUS PLACE. ‘The wrotk of the Aransas Is reposted to be directly In the path of constwise stenmers, First Offcer Osman Be of the steamer Indian, which arrived here late last night from Philadelphia, weported that yesterday afternoon at 5 yeolock the Indian pusaed the masts of « sunken vessel near the Pollock Rip whistling bi At that time the wreck of the Arensas was not known, bit later the Indian passed the tug Patience with her tow of barges, and it was noted that the barges carried several persons besides the members of the vrows, Tw) lifeboats were towing bee hind the after barge, The Indian found heavy fog all along thé const, and tad nat emerged trom It when the wreck was sighted, almost directly In her ccurse and in a position here It is Mkely to do damage to any unwarned steamer or sailing vessel making the regular course, u THREE CHICAGO | RIOT VICTIMS FATALLY HURT Two Brothers Stabbed and Another Man Shot in To-Day’s Fighting, (Special to The Evening Werld,) CHICAGO, May $A double stabbing opened this week's events in the team- Ster’s etnike, Two brothers, John and Mchard Fruen, wero the victime, both | being fatally wounded by a negro atrike breaker in a atreat fight. The agalant, although pursued by ‘A S\owd, escaped and the police have no meuns of identifying him, While tho authorities seemed bo have the situation better in hand, there was rioting at various pointe, and every wagon driven by a “breaker” was @uanted by a conton at poles, while | deputy sheriffs sat with the drivers, | The sight of the police and wagons | inetantly drew crowds ae they moved | along, and the progress of the vans was | marked by the usual scenes of clubbing and general disorder, Himit Hhnber, a unton teamster em- ployed by the Consumers’ Ice Company | who ovayed the role of peace-muker hetween wurr.ng faciions, waa shot In the back, He was tajcen to the Alexian Brothers’ Hospital, where the doctors pronounced hls injuries probably fatal, |The police are sarchina for Emil Huencke, who, If found, will be ar- reated un suspicion of baying done the shooting. ‘The tragedy grew out of w clagh on ClayBorne avenue. Another assault that grew out of the ntsiko was made on Henry Sache, a jani- tor, living at Blue Island avenue and Twelfth street, who was attacked under the elevated mtricture on Franklin street, betweon Van Buren and Jackson Boulevard, by mea who took him for a strike breaker, He was knocked down and severely beaten before he escuped, Held Crowd with Pistol, In the presence of a crowd of passen- ors, eBrt MoKay, colored, a ndn-unton | toamater, waa snvagely assaulted on whe | platform of the elevated station at State and Van Buren streets to-day. He was leaving an elevated train, when two men, who had apparently followed him from hia home, attacked ‘him, The ne- “ro was so badly injured that he had to he removed {a a patrol wagon. Williant B. Van Dyke was shot in the right leg thix afternoon by Harry Cun- hingham, a guard employed by the Adams Bxoress Company, Cunningham was standing on the rean end of the wagon, when, he declared, Van Dyke threw a stone, ‘he missiic Knocked ihe wuard’s hat off, and he fired two shots at Van Dylco, taking eftect. Many persons gathered about the express wagon and threat- ened Cunningham, who drew into the wagon for protection. He held his re- volver In ‘hin hand and held off the crowd until the police rescued him. Van Dyke was talten to the County Hospital. day, the thirty-first of the team- ators’ strike, found both sides prepared for an even more Intense atruggle during the week to come—the week In which President Roosevelt is to visit Chicago. ‘The commimsloh, composed of Prof, Graham Taylor, Towner K, \Webstor ng Willlam C. Boyden, appointed by Mayor Dunne to Investigate charges of Rraft and blackmail on the part of won leaders, and of efforts to Incite trouble on the part of the employers, has mado detailed plans for beginning the inquir: The merchants have made plans for tnore strenuous efforts to bring the re- | calcitrant team owners Into line, and the Federation of Labor, on the other hand, has resolved to seek the indict- ment of the otfecinls of the Mmployers' Aneociation for this effort, calling it | conspiracy, MENINGITIS DEATHS ON THE INCREASE. wenty-three More Fatal Resulin | an Week Previons—Denth from Other Diseanes Deo: In the weekly death report of the De- partment of Health, issued to-day for the week ending Saturday at noon, It ts shown that the deaths from cerebro- last Week 23 over the week previous. Last week there were 110 deaths trom this disease, against 87 the week prev- itous, In, the week before that there were 104 deaths, and three weeks ago lit eaths Means death tate for Inst week, nowever, jot all diseases: was considerably lens ‘Chan the corresponding week in 1904, It | was 2,10, ngainat 23,32 last.vear, Summer Curtains and Draperies. Ruffled Mushin, $1.00, $1.35, $1.65 pair. Ruffled Net, $1.35, $2.00, $2.25 pair. Renarssance, 2.75, $4.00, $9.00 pair. Colored Muslin, $1.50, $1.75, $2.25 pair. Snowiflake, | $1.35, $2.50, $3.50 pair, Madras, $3.25. $4.00. $7.50 pair. Lord & Cretonnes, 18c,, 35C. 50c. yard, Dimities, 25¢., 30c., §oc. yard, Taffetas (50-in.), $1.50, $2.00, $2.25 yard, Armures, &t., 75C., $1.00, $1.50 yard. Bungalow, &c., $1.10, $1.50, $2.25 yard, Sz/ks (50-in.), $1.25, $1.75, $2.50 yard. spinal meningitia increased during the) in Separation Suit that Made Threats Against Hin and Pawned His Pipes. | KIM me," sald George Herrmann, 61 man, testifying to-day In the trial of tht sult of Florence Crosby Herrmann & weparution on the ground of cruelty, “Bhe was heavier than 1 at that time! he added, "She welghed 165 pounds and I wetghed only 137, “Ones I wave her the money to pay! for a bill or goods she had ordered, When the goods were delivered a] asked me for enough to pay the and when I remonetrated she sald had spent the money for something Later I missed three meerschaum for whieh I had paid $105, and when gi” asked Florence whe said she had pawi the pipes to raise the money to that bill Herrmann told several stories of the gentle-faced Florence replied to remonstrances; "I don't care @ dat what you think or want.” Florrie came home one morning Ab 30 o'clock," sald Herrmann, “I got Uy, tired up the gas and looked at hefy I ald to her: ‘Florrie, this ts a Mee 1 called for Mr, Jones,’ the landlo When she heard him coming she quiet right down, The key was in the door. She locked the door and put the | in her stocking. “She said she and another wom went down to Brooklyn Bridge, whet they met two men and had dinner, Th she grabbed « knife and made for Next day Mr, Jones dispossessed us, POINTS TO A SUICIDE. A suit of clothes, Ine one of the pocket; of which wasa wedding ring, was foi on the top of a ple at the foot of Sout ighth street, Brooklyn, to-day, by Pos iceman Mavin, ‘The cloth was blue serge. ‘The vest was a cheok In whieh, bine figured prominently. The suspend were black and @ en striped a the @ocke blue. ‘Nie wedding ring w. Inseribed “R. to M Reduced goods have the. call’ this week, many the products of our own looms, \ Carpet reductions [ Regular, $1.15 Wil Now 90c. Bepuler, $3 beautiful, assortment, —' Regular $1.25 Axmine, sters—the longswear- ing sort, Regular 660. try Bruss equailed any whei Regular 7c, Ing! Genuine all- wool | mind_you, {ch Royal Wiltona; Oat? tt, know the’ wisdom of putting ven money Into this grade of rug. By buying now you save $6.50, | Mattings, $6.00 rol}: And upwar' Genuine and Chinese makes, are 40 yds, Some dealers cut thelr rolls to make their orice per roll seen ower than others, 1 John and James Dobson, | The Harris Suction Clip Feels like the touch of velvet, Dot bruise and pinch your! nose alloutofshap: by using | the usual clip on your eye-glass. ) ‘The Harris clip instead ot bury-_ ing itselt into the flesh for a hold; by its “suction”jfeature retai the glasses rigidly into place wit Adjust them once and they stay adjusted, and all the jarring am shaking of the head can’t bud ‘em. A clip to fit every shay nose. Taylor. 1 \ a Eyesigi Specialist 54 Bait 23d St. neur sem Ave, JO Bast 125th St., oar nad condition for you, a married woman, ; come home In,’ She jumped for me ; A) out a slip and without pressures 4) 7