The evening world. Newspaper, May 13, 1905, Page 17

) POLICE CHIEF TO BE INDICTED FOR TAKING BRIBES Head of Jersey City Force and Captain Accused by Leading Men. Orders Prosecutor Spear to In- dict Murphy and Cody for Alleged Protection. Prosecutor Spear, of Jersey City, has been ordered by the Grand Jury to draw up a DIM of indictment againat Chtel of Police Murphy and Pollee Capt, Cody. It is believed the action of the Grand Jury 1s based on thelr efforts to trace to the bottom the report that $1,000 had been pad by the gamblera to one high in authority and who ts ablo to guarantee police protection. The movement against the gam Dlers which has culminated in the pres- ent action of the Grand Jury began @ month ago, when Jerry Murphy, of No, OL Newark avenue, was indicted Keeping @ pool-room at that ad- + Woleh Is around the corner from, for lee Headquarters, Reuben Simpson, a fo, omnusstoner of Finance of Jerse; yy sald that some one had in+ formed him that $1,000 a week had been ad by the gamblers for police protec: ne hen came the Rey, John Scudder, who sade open al itions that the omnes were running wide open in y City. Added to this came the statement from Dr, Walscheid, a former Grand Juryian, (hat he and Newton e Walked Into Jerry Murphy's Pool-room and bot $16 across the bodrd on Prince Richard. They then tuid ‘the Chief of Poltce about the povl-room, and a rald was vrdered, Jerry Murpliy” was arrested with several others, all of whom were held for the Grind ‘Jury, Alleged Police Protection, During the 1 sessions of the Grand Jury v r of Kambling and alleged’ police — pi nm wore Cuseed. Simpson lle waid he he ary i wa \- Moned, und le mude W siatemnent vaya ing that he beard 4t on the street. h urd Chief Murphy ‘oy as defendints a member of and Jury last night asked for an’ ment. This was put to a vote and 1, According to the procedure in Clty the pepeecutor is then asked to frame ‘a pif und return it to the Grand Jury, ‘Phen the Grand Jury votes ph Muoter or not the bill ty true biti n atirmative vote e the indictment follows. poreed shen (Chief of Polleo Murphy gai Evening World reporter to-day, 8 “I am not fearful of the result of the Grand Jury's deliberations, The po: lice have mado every effort to’ suppress wambling, and [Nave lists of. rald inade and reports of the men in tho den partment showing What every effort was mado by them and me. “Phe reason why gamblers have been adla to do business surreptitiously la that the lookouts know the policomen, whether they are in plain clothes or unt! form. It makes no difference.” Capt. Cody refused to talk, SUES CLUBMAN FOR $10,000 Pretty Girl Demands Damages from William D. Van Vleck, Retired Broker, for Alleged Breach of Promise. the Gi indietn gurri William 1D. Van Vleck, a wealthy re- tired broker, ving at the Hote) Astor, Wes astonished when a process eerver from the office of ex-Judge Kremer, of (Neo. 81 Rroadway, to-day served him with summons and complaint of Mins Winifred May Cavanaugh, a pretty, tai hatred girl, in an action for $10,000 dam- ages for alloged breach of promise of marriage. ‘ Mr. Van Vleck immediately turned the papers over to his a:torney, Pailip Bee Bod will fant it, Cavanaugh ives ‘with her mother and is twenty years old, She Geolares that she first ‘met Van Vieck dn January, 1903, and that he was her devoted attendant for two years, and Popped the question Nov, 23 last, With the now year hts love cooled, and since Feb, 18, she says, all her Importunities to him to keep his promise have fallen Upon deat ears, 9 young woman says she rel largely upon-a hunch of Atty notes and A, Which phe says she tecelved from Mr, Van Vleck, ae much ag upon hig introduction of her to his famfly and among hie acquaintances rove her ne ni ressed to the notes, as t night every ght of you hour in that snow storm, “Was atthe bank. to: A Sis ‘then, my iftle rh seid Heromer, bas @ bank, book a opened at the Pilara Bank in the girl's nam day the Tr was write Bid 9 REIT NOT Broken-Hearted \BUT IN Business Started Miss Hattie Gainsborough Was crossed, one day, in love; BaShe did not cry, but quick and spry Went and bought a turtle dove, The aoe she sewed to a great big ats The hat she sold—then got more— And soon through a World Business jar gain Hattle bought a millinery store, IF Disappointed in Life or Love Read, To-Morrow, Shad RUD: SATTRDAY KVENTNG, WAY 19, 1908, DIAGRAM OF MIDNIGHY BATTLE WITH LURGLARS—LAWVER KOUN AND HIS WIFE, "HAV. NOSIdVL - GRAFTING MUST STOP IN HARLEM POLICE COURT Magistrate McAvoy Declares He Will Put Officials on Grill, Magistrate Frank McAvoy, one of the recent appointees of the Mayor, an- | nounced tn the Harlem Court to-day | after his attention was called to a sus- | Piclous case about to come up before him, that he was going to wipe all evidence of graft from tho Harlem |Court. Ho then appointed next Thurs- day afternoon for a hearing when mem- bers of the court squad will be put on the grill, “This is what I have been waiting for," sald Magistrate McAvoy. “When Mayor McClellan gave me this appolnt- ment he told me he was dissatisied With the way the police courts were being conducted, and that he heard many rumora of graft, He said the Harlem court was tho worst of them all. Now this graft if any there Is must be uprooted. During this week 1 have heard more graft talk than in the nineteen years F was in the cus- tom house,"" ‘The case In question was that Policeman @ri(- Pivoreask, arrested Ry | An attorney by fin, of the court squi the name of Hyman arose when the prisouer was arralgned and sald (hat ne had heard @ conversation between the prgoner and an attuiney named Henry , and in the conversation officials of the court were implicated, it was then toe Magisiiuie made his speech, The lawyers in the Harlem Court and court sharks have been fight- Ing one another for some time, and these charges have been frequent, ' They have worked taeir way down to the Commiasioner'’s oifice, and some changes have been effected thereby, —— HOW SHARKS GRAFT IN POLICE COURT, It 1s probable that Sergt. Martin O'Connell's action in arresting James Cagmano, a bootblack, for disorderly conduct, will result In a full investiga: tion of tthe graft system among shark lawyers in the police courts, The arrest bore on the grace’ question only be- canse of Mayistmte Pool’s remarks when the case came up. O'Connell has tried to stamp out the vulture police court lawyers in Yorkville Court ever since hé went there last June, wvery one hig fougit him, atid some haye (red to bring abowt nis transfer, The bontblack Ads been around the court for sixteen years, He knows ull the lawyors who jwractice there. Somo {inves he gets "cases" for a triend. That {8 easy, because many persons afrested for the first dime don't want to take Any ohances with ithe Magistrate, and are only too willing to hi a lawyer for #2 or $&, ur for Oy cents, if that is all he or anne has. "Conaell doesn't like that thing. He knows by exporitnes thet the @veruge drunk takes his arrest too seriously and that at the worst he han $8. There- will not be fined more. ti er for $10 and pay fore, why hire & Imwy the $$ besides? When O'Connell took the suad he decided That mad charge ot ee ind runners in Gourt, the lawyers angry. A cour * loged to have derived conslaoraiie tele enue from this source, aleo was angry, Hoe often, it Is charged, dlrocts prison- era Whom to hire for counsel, and the feo le split. Jt isn't really graft, it's SHE \ SPRINGS OUT 77 oF GED ANG OF GRAPPIES, Half-Hour Battle in The east side of Harlem was rot | lawyer, on the second floor of No. 1 Roth, oll joined in the fight, and the Every few seconds some one member and yell for the police, sides of ison avenue and on One dred and Eighth streets people were y could. | For half an hour the fight Kept up | while the neighbors yelled, but never a| pelleeman appeared until the last min- ute, when Roundgman Monahan, of the st One Hundred and Fourth street | station whe had been at some remote of Joha | part of thy: precinct, came running up, some noise they @ ané made short got in the Kohn ha: work of the thiever, One Burglar Caught. Three of the latter escaped, but tho fourth was subdwed by Monahan after a hard fight on the fire escape. The Konns lve is an old-fashinoed | house, of which they have two floors, | Their dining-roor, Is in the rear and the windows open on an alley which |runs in from One Hundred and Eighth | street, A tire escano runs from the | alley up past chelr windows and It was! up this fire escape that the burglars came, There wero four of them and they entero thy atley at about 8 o'clock, One remained at the entrance to the alley as a lookout, while the other three climbed up to the Kohn apartment and forced the windows Once Inside two of them pro¢eeded to | pack up the silverware, while the tuird went prowllng up the hall to see what he could find, Packed Up the Sliver, ‘The Kohns haye a valuable collection | RICH DODGERS Watering-Place Assessors Find Some New Yorkers Shirk Full Share of Taxes in City and Country—Valuations Raised. | NEWPORT. R. 1, May 8.—An in-| crease af $15,318,100 or nearly 200 per) cent, In the valuation of the personal | property of the olty was announced by | an extra revenue, When a man who knows the ropei the court Is"vatied upon as can inter preter in case of emergency, he always tells the prisoner in his or her lan- Buage to got a lawyer, with the assur- ance that ihe knows the best in New York, The lawyer and the agent then split the fee. The stopping of all of thia has ma Martin O'Connell unpopular, and is sal to have started the trouble with boot- black Coggins, fi EX-CHAMPION SKATER TAKEN FOR KIDNAPPER. Bugene B. Wood, of No, 1 Hudeon street, Hoboken, formerly the champion skater of the world, was drameing a email boy who had taken pansies from bad oer to Eotee adquarters to- bel et lea ha 9 00} up rece yy, and ham weet, , fashioned hi the boy and the one-| iter were discharge: 4 {the personal vuluation at $21,179,000; last | the Boanl of Assessors to-day as the re- sult of Investigations made by the city ciMeials hero and in New York of the claim that a number of persons having residences In both places have not borno their share of tho taxes in elther elty, The Assessors’ flxures for 1906 place year's figures were $7,866,600, ‘The figures respecting personal prop- erty were a surprise to many citizens, ——— FAMOUS ALHAMBRA FALLING IN RUINS. MADRID, May 13,—The Alhambra, at Granada, is in danger of falling In ruins, Tt la feared that if energetic measures are not Immediately taken this last ves: tige of the domination of the Moors In Spain ‘will soon disappear, The Minister Of the Interlor has sent Senor Corteso, ‘a famous architect, to Inspect the palace and take all possible measures for its | IN BURGLA +> Rouses Neighborhood, but No Police | Appear—One of Gang Cornered by Mrs. Kohn Js Captured. unusually bold burglars on the apartments of Emrich Kohn, a well-to-do | FIGHT Lawyer Kohn’s Flat | | mused early to-day by a raid by four 632 Madison avenue. Soon after the thieves got into the Kohn apartments, by means of a rear fire-escape, they) were discovered, and there was a desperate fight, | Kohn, his wife, his brother, S, E, Kohn, and his father-in-law, Max noise roused the entire helghborhood. | of the family would rush to a window The cry was taken up by neighbors, until on both’ the wall she took down a heavy or mental club, to which a thermometer ts| Hundred and Seventh and One Hun- | yelling for the police as loudly as they | of silver, Mr, Kohn, whose law office 1s at No, 920 Broadway, |s prominent in the polities of his district and ran fer the State Senate against Senator Fraw- ley Inst year. The thieves had about | $1,500 worth of stuff packed up when made aroused Mr, Roth, He got up and, seeyg the men In the dining-room, roused 8. 1, Kohn, who slept in the room adjoining his The two men rushed to the dining: room and tackled the two thieves there, Tho latter dropped the sliver, but in- stead of trying to escape they fougiit, | Roth, who Is nearly sixty years old, was locked with one of the men, whea he suddenly gell to the floor, blood flowing from wounds {n his arm and in his side, The thief had stabbed him twice and then ran to the assistance of his companion, who was having @ hard| time of It with young Kobn, | The latter Kicked at him an he ap- proached and kept him off until Roth | got up and pluckily attacked his man again, Kyerybody was pretty busy when a disturbance from the front of| the house indicated that the third burg- | lar had got into trouble. Women In the Melee, This man had wandered Into the bed- room of Mr, and Mrs, Kohn, and Mrs, WHEE On DINING Rood HERE 1S were eS THE BIG Fiomr (TOOK pLace 2! Burgiar COMING DUWN, FIRE ESCAPE, attached, and as the burglar turned at the noise she hit him over the head with Jt, This aroused Kohn, who then jumped out of bed. The burglar ran back to the dining-room, followed by the Kohns. It was now threo burglars axalnet three men and a woman, and Mrs. Kohn was no ally to be despised! ey wielded her club vigorously ‘and ree nen turn at the window yelling A half an hour of yelling failed to ring a policeman from any of the near-by beats, As for the man on the Post, nothing was seon of him at any dme, not even after jt was all over, When Roundsman Monahan arrived he came in the front way and with drawn club ran to the dining-oom, The burglars had shown no disposi- tlon to quit before this, but the sight of Monahan was too much for them One drow a revolver and grabbing some silver jumped out on the fire-escaps. Ho was followed by a second man and these munnged to get safely down In th alley, where they Joined the and fled, One of Gang Caught. The thira man would have escaped but for Mrs, Kohn, she recesnized this man as the one wio had been in her room, and drove him into a corner with her club, ‘The man punched her sey- lookout nim cornered could help her. until some of the men When the man saw his! companions get away he made a rush for the fire-escape himself and man- aged to get out on It, but Monahan was close behind him. The two grappled on the baleony and there was a hot fight, but the Kohns got out and helped the Youndsman, and the thet was dragmred back Into the room finally, completely | subdued, He was taken to the ptation-house, Where he described himself as Samuel Lewls, nineteen yeurs old, a tailor and homed He refused to give the names of his "pals," but later at Pollce Head- quartors he was put through the third |degree and then detectives were sent to get the others. After the affair was all over the | Kohns found that the two men who es- caped got away with $800 In money, @ | gold watch valued at $125, two diamond |riaga and some silver, After Lewis left Pollee Headquarters he was taken to the Harlem folice | Court and arraigned before Magistrate He mado no atempt to de- MeAvoys fend hiinsel et . in the country four years,’ he sald, "I came here from: Rugala and tried to make a living as 0 tation, but T couldn't do tt, 1 fell in with ‘a ging of east side crooks and they Introduced me to this work, T have Jdone several jobs and got away with |them, and T'dhave got away with ¢ one tf it hada't Geen for the woman, She clucied ine all over the place, and kept me back twice when T ould have gol past the men and esauped.” Kohn had geen him, Reaching over to, ural times, but she managed to keep! Lewis was held In $500 bail for trial. City and State Will Unite in) Honoring Soldier of 1812, Hiram Cronk, the last survivor of the! war of 1812, dled to-day at his home) near Dunn Brook, N. ¥., at the re- markable age of 165 years, Besides bearing ‘he distinction of be- ing the last of a ..ost of 200,000 soldiers of the war of 1812 to pass to the great beyond, Hiram Cronk had the added prestige of being among few men living whose funeral honors were arranged in advance of his death by the City of New York or any other municipality, The Board of Aldermen of this city, by unanimous vote some time ago, ar-| ranged for the funeral in this city of the war survivor and planned an elab- orate programme, Slate officials at Albany took coinel- dent action, with the result that an im- posing funeral will be held in this city, where the body of the old soldier will Me In state, It the relatives agree to details the brdy will lo in etate in the City Hall for twenty-four hours, and Dr, Mor- wan Dix, of 'frinity Church, will of- ficinto at the funerni services, The burlal will be at Mount Victory in Cypress Hills Cometery, where aixty veterone of tho war of 1812 already lie, The Adjutant-General's office at Al- preservation, bany and National Guard Headquarters will collaborate In arranging the full funeral programms, while a company ot regulars from Governor's Island will be detailed to form part of the escort, and the Old Guard of New York and _U, 8. Grant Post of Brooklyn with the ‘Twen- ty-thind Regiment of Brooklyn will also participate. Hiram Cronk for years occupied a unique place in American history, As the fast survivor of the first foreign war in which his country engaged at ter securing its independence he had been honored by the National Govern- ment and by his native State as well, Back to Wa Born at Frankfort, Herkimer County, N. Y., on April 2, 1800, Hiram Cronk became a member of Capt, Edwar Fuller's company, of the 157th Infantry, when only fourteen years old, by vol untary enlistment, His term of ser vice was short, however, scarcely five weeks, and nearly all of it was spent in camp near Lake Ontario, He had hardly “smelled powder” up to that time, On the day following his discharge, however, while he was staying over at Watertown on his way to his home, tere came the sounds of cannonading At Backett's Harbor, where a British warship was bombarding the fortifica- Hons, In less than a month he was back in the ranks serving with his father, James Cronk, and his brothers John and Caspar, at Sackett's Harbor. There he served forty days an a private, as- isting In the construction of barrac! In November, 1814, he was honorably Gischarged from the service, At the close of the war Mr, Cronk learned the trade of shoemaker, by » Important Forcign and Telegraphic News. « Two Dead in Train Crash. CORRY, PA., MAY 18—Two fast freights on the Chautauqua division of the Pennsylvania Radlroad crashed head on this side of Hydetown early to-aay. The locomotives and w en loade cars were Katee lity Bngineer Wi! ioe. Sitting, of OW City, Lied, Firem: te mas instant) ry 1e Bigman di later In the Titusville rah Bev. other trainmen wero injured, New Haven’s First Deficit. NEW HAVPN, CONN., MAY 13.~A deficit of $417,204 for the quarter ended March 31, 1905, i announced In’ the! New York, New quarterly’ report of the Haven and serecara, Allroad Company, » Thie iw the net reault ‘of sy ua id is cone surplus of quarter! in} Two Drown from Canoe. LEXINGTON, MASS, MAY 18—A double drowning accident was made ford and the Carlisle bridge o° the bod- los of Willard Greene, superintendent of the Lexington and Boston street rail- way, and Herbert M. Reed, a clerk, The men went fishing In a canoe yoaterday afternoon and about sunset their canoe was sven floating bottom upward by the | proprietor of a boat-house at West Bed- ford. A searching party at once was Organized, and early to-day ‘the bodies of the two men were brought up from the bottom by grapming trons and taken to thelr homes hete, Mr, Greene was fimy years old and lewves a widow, Reed was twenty-five years of age and ‘was not married, 22 Killed in Explosion, BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, MAY 13,— | night. Town: Joins in Slayer Hunt, ATHENS, GA., MAY 13.—Twelve ne- &roes, three of whom are women, are in Frank Holbrook and his wife Tuesday | ‘Dhe people of Oconee County have ‘stopped thelr work and are all on the trail of the murderers, It ts now ‘generally believed that the murders were the result of a plot. Gov, Terrell \has offered a reward of $500 for the ar- lrest of the guilty parties, Calve Sings at Wedding. DON, May 18.—Archibald Mao- kirdy American Vice-Consul at M Arwla, was marred at St. Margaret's Courch, Westminster, to-day to Olive Christian Malvery, an Bast Indian, ni ent five years workin, of fondon, . The B Hed to-day au Y Auto-Boats Off Again. PORT MAHON, ISLAND OF MINOR. CA, MAY 18.—The autoboata which left known by the finding early to-day !n | jail at Watkinsville, suspected of hav-| Algiers May 7 In a race to Toulon and the Concord River between West Bed-|ing been implicated In the murder of drtived here, the end of the first stage, the same evening, started for Toulon at 4 o'clock this morning, French Warship Safe. PARIS, MAY 13.—-The French naval training-ship Duguay Trouln, which was reported yesterday to have struck rock in Baint Jean-de-Lux Ray (twelve miles from Bayonne), was refloatead to Gay without sustaining serious damage wno Elght-Hour Law for Isthmus WASHINGTON, MAY 13.—In an opin- red ion rendered by. Attorney-General Moody regarding the application of the elght- NEWPORT AFTER [HIRAM CRONK, WAR VETERAN, DIES AT 105 which he gained a Nvellhood for many years, Democrat All His Life. Then he purchased a hundred acre farm at Dunn Brook, Onelda County, not fav from Rome, which he continued to cultivate even until ripest old ago. For the past fifteen years he had been cared for by his daughter, Mrs, Sarat A. Rowley, Since boyhood it was Hiram Cronk's boast ho was a confirmed tobaceo- chewer, and he frequently stated that he bellevyed tobacco had a preservative effect upon his Iife. He cast his frst vote for Andrew Jackson GOING TO WATCH JAP FIGHTERS [English Army Officers Here on Way to Manchuria—Major Shee Says England Will Send Big Fleet to East. Among the passengers on the Cunard per Lucania which arrived to-day from Liverpool are Col, Bannatine-Allason, staff officer of the British Army; Lteut.- Col, G. H, Fowke, R..B,, and Major Shee, bound to join the Japanese Army in Manchuria. They will sail on the Empress of Japan for Toklo on May 22, With them Js I. Womato, of the Japan- ese army, just returned from a warship- buying mission to England, Major Shee sald; “The British Gov ernment has ordered warships from various points to assemble in the China sea, making what will, be the biggest feet ever seen In Chinese waters. Since the difficulties with France and Japan to began England has determined strengthen its fleet in the East. violation of the laws of neutrality has ade this necessary.” »mato has placed a rush onter with Newcastle firm for two ble warships No Appendicitis For those who use STEAMER HITS. WAR MINE AND COES DOWN Passengers on British Vessel Sobralens Drowned Off Port Arthur, TOKIO, May 13.—Tho British steamer Sobralens, bound from Newehwang to Kobe, struck a mine off Port Arthur yes- terday and sank Jmmediately, Boats from Port Arthur rescued all the Europeans aboard, but it Is belloved that several of the cre wand passengers were drowned. It is also believed that the steamer Was inside the zone that ships have been warned to avoid. pote Sy WAR FLEET NEAR VANFONG BAY. HUONG KONG, May 18,—Seventeen warshipa wers alighted during the even- ing of May 10, twelve miles off the Three Kings’ Rooks, near the entrance of Van- fong ay. ‘Transporta were seen in Kuabepas (iion-Kohe Bay?), seventy-five miles north of %ameanh Bay, the sume day, SAIGON, Cochin China, May 13.— Nothing has been heard here of the movements of Admiral Rojestvensky’ fleet since May 9, when the Russians left Van Fong Bay, JAPANESE CRUISER SAN FRANCISCO, May 18—A third- class crudser of the Japanese navy is re- ported to be on the way to this port to undergo repairs amd a general over- hauling ‘The nume of the vessel is not known, but from all accounts the warship late: ly left te Aslatic coast under orders ty come to this port to be repaired, and it Is likely that #he will upon arrival, be detuned ere, dad Was the Russian cruise! Lena, until the en@ of the war on the Astatic const, ‘The Japanese cridser 1s datly expected to arrive, Ic 1s presumed that she had been scouting In the Pacific, and haying become short of fucl, ordered to pitt in here, both for advices and to re- celve an overhauling in case repairs should be necessary, 2 i qi WIFE IN THE , - WHITE HOUSE Man Found Forcing Enitanes Crying ‘‘ Francesca, It Is I)” WASHINGTON, May 1.—A man WhO said his name {fs Daniel Costabie mit Itallan, wag arrested by Policeman, kins while trying to force an ent at tho rear door of the White House alout midnight, He was locked up, When questioned aa to the reason fer” being on the White House grounds @e | Geclared a spirit had entered ‘tis need | and told him that his murdered wife” was to be found in the White House, ‘The man was hatiess and clad only)! in @ ooat of thin serge, He wae fi seen by a negwo climbing over the iron, fence surrounding the grounds of the White House, and shortly afterward he was found tugging frantically at door and shouting "Francesca, it ie Policeman Hopkins rushed up hurled him to the ground, stri Off his coat he made a dash for liberty, but was stopped, Six men were neceme! sary to place him in a cell, i ed FIREMEN KNOCKED OUT BY LIVE WIRE? NEW ROCHELLE, N, ¥., May Bev! ‘The New Rochelle Mre Department was | called upon this forenoon to assist the | Pelham force in extinguishing a fire im the handsome residence of former Cone; misonnan A ackna ee R. Smith in Pele. Park, The blaze etarted on the thind floomy ‘and was discovered by a servant, ‘ing? Pelham firemen responded quickly to the alarm sent out, but before thi ‘iad been tong at work alx of their numing ver were temporarily knocked out byt coming In contact with lve el wires, It was then that the New Ro= ehelle firemen were called upon. Three of the latter were also shocked) frected a] of the family and néighbora, but ab the men 1. ‘The servants, members aid o fthe firemen, saved about furniture from Bos ‘the wh out on the law, he Mand the “ativer waa rlso saved. building was $70,000 RUSSIAN ADMIRAL SLAIN BY ORDERLY, Shot Down tm His Room by Man Angered by Dinmtssal and Order to Go to the Front, ST, PETERSBURG, May 18.—vice- Admiral Nazitoff was shot and killed ‘by an orderly in his room to-day, The orderly fired’ thiee shots from a re- volver at the Adniiral. The erime is attributed to the anger of the murderer at nis dismiasal from hia duties as orderly and being ordered to proceed to the front, — 27 KILLED IN RUSSIAN RIOTS, ST, PETERSBURG, May 13.—The No- Yost! suys it has received private in- formation he effect that during the recent rluting sixteen persens were Killed at Zhitomir, ten at Trojanoft and one at Soungart, and that about one hundred were wounded, The bodies of the killed, accoriing to these ad- vices, were terribly mutilated, in many casos belng unrecognizable. RUSSIANS JOIN IN GENERAL STRIKE. KHARKOFF, Buropean Russia, May 13.—The workmen here hay proclaimed a general strike for to-morrow and the Govornor Is taking special precautions (o prevent disorders, -—» ——_— PRESIDENT REMOVES OREGON MARSHAL, Belicved Not Wholly in Harmony with Prosecution of Land Fraud Cases. 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