The evening world. Newspaper, May 26, 1905, Page 3

cAll the News. ‘Che “ Ctroulation Booka O, PRICE ONE CENT. to All.’’ LH RS "| “an th NEW YORK, yin telecen eri Vi MAY 26, 1905, [Fomninion mea] _| CAll the News PRICE ONE CEN i, AUSSIAND Are Now at Shanghai, by the Enemy. is preparing for eventualities. SHANGHAI, May enteen vessels of the Baltic Borth, may begin at any moment, The appearance of the Ruselans in sthese waters, when everybody thought them tn the Pacific, 1» a complete sur- 4 Drise and has caused great excitement. Naval authorities now af aovept as a fact that Rojestvensky ts really seeking Togo for ¢ decielve fight and will attack the moment he sights him. Wooming, whence the main feet ts feported, ts ten miles north of Shang- : hal and about 400 miles gouth of Ma- ; Bampo, Corea, where the Japanese If commander has been reported with his fect for a week past. :) ‘That Togo waa well posted on Rojeat~ venaky's plans ts shown by the position Hd It iw nertain that he Is fully prepared for thé enemy and will ho has beld, atrike back with vigor. aition, Being at Mausam tically equally distant ain point ussian base on the supply base, his in bette Ing more thoroughly equip) the battle he eceks fight death him, showing how well the Czar has planned. There is great activity all ing for the first shot in dattle, TOKIO, Ma} that the action of of the Japanese intern the slower craft, and withdrawal of the te regarded to be without jess aa 8 diversion, The whereabouts of Admi ral venaky's feet ie not official ‘i Here cha opinion ta divided aaeconatee Fed the Paciflo or tes er it hes ente: Surned to the Chinese coast, ‘The location of Admiral Togo’ eontinues to be secret. Popular feeling the Japanese public “al Togo is pre- confident that Admin pared to meet any situation, LONDON, May %.—A, Lioyds from, Shanghal Gal ia i yr Veuncis have arrived off the ¢! ’ Sinai mir,” Voron: nd Yi three coliters, the Livonia, ronis, are anc off Bhi (fon, wih Detectives McGee, @nd Hoster, raided an alleged the Bennett Building .at No; 9 Nassau street Inte amd arrested three men who were found at telophones thei . piace’ was in room No, 94, on h floor, amd on the door was the sign, “Bay State Traction Com- pany.” The officers broke open the door, which was looked and announced ‘to the three men in the place thet they information bureau , in thi afternon the * wete under arrest. ft raohn, mumbo: ted, NEAR BATTLE. In Yellow Sea WITH APS ‘Rojestvensky Suddenly Ap- pears with His Fleet, TOGO WAITS FOR HIM. Holds His Ships Off Corean Coast Prepared for Attack TAINGTAL, May %.—The whole Rus- wlan fleet is assembled near \Voosung, and the German squadron at Twingtau 26—Noon,—There re indications that Rear-Admiral Ro- | Jestvensky has divided his feet. fleet an- chored at Saddle Island last night. ‘It is believed that they coaled there and that from that point they will proceed The proximity of Rojestvenaky’s fleot 4 to Togo's naval baso proves that the Sreat seh batile ls due, and Oghung Feor wote time. A physician in the | landed proprietors, netted Haas we crowd that followed the body to the Hl fa Surin tie, Duseh eeionshl Gaye, Tt seems as if Togo has the advantage over Rojeatvensky in the matter ot pee » he is prao- rom the dn the battle waters: Woo- jagaeak!, on the south Chefoo, at the head Patty Be ‘As he is close to his docks and mal nes (fRIPs are undoubted! han the Russian pia Make faster time in addition to ‘bes ped, ‘The Russian Admiral's darin; \- 5 tng StMEht into Japanese, wets tt has won fo: Praise and brings full bellef in me at Ment be made some time ago that the rrould mean either victory or r ‘Another surprising fact 19 ‘that im- mense quantities of supplies have been recetved at Woosung for the Russians, along the Onions Cobay RDA erRCLGAy Te erie the great 20.—It is beloved hero the @ending veusels to Shanghal js part of @ diversion plan ‘e draw oft a Dortton ect. It ta thought that possibly the Russians intend to Baadie Ta ands (s group of wenty-fve small ends situated about sixt, ence Bharata, 'Y miles south. eapetch adda tee thi Russian oluinteers hee THREE NABBED. WN PACING AD Capt. Hodgins, of the Oak Street Sta- PRESIDING JUSTICE C Venerable Jurist of the Appellate Division Expires Suddenly at the Manhattan Entrance While in Company of His Daughter. HEART DISEASE SAID * TO HAVE BEEN CAUSE Was in Feeble Health and Had Been Considering Retirement from the Bench—All the Local Courts Close in His Memory When the News Is Received. Charles H. Van Brunt, Presiding Justice of the Appellate Branch of | the Supreme Court, First Division, dropped dead this afternoon as he was ascending the main stairway of the Brooklyn Bridge at the Manhattan entrance, , Miss Georgia Van Brunt, a daughter, was leaning on his arm when! the jurist suddenly pitched forward, and before his daughter could catch him fell heavily. Miss Van Brunt gave a suppressed cry, and policemen and passersby were soon around her and her stricken father. The aged justice was lifted by four policemen and carried downstairs | to the bridge hospital, followed by a crowd excited by a report that a mur- der had been committed. An ambulance was summoned from Hudson Street Hospital, but upon its arrival fe was extinct, Dr, Long, the ambulance surgeon, re~) Justice Van Brunt was on his way to fused to remove the boty, and it Iny| his daughter's house In Brooklyn When on an Improvised bler covered with newspapers for more than an hour while efforts were boing made to get in touch with a Coroner who Would give permis sion for Its removal. Contemplated Retirement. Justice Van Brunt wes ataty-nine years olf, and on account of rapidly Approaching infirmity had been con- templating retirement from the bench atricken, Juatice Van Brunt was a Tammany | Democrat of the old school and in 1897 was re-elected to the Supreme Court by the largest vote of any justice in that tribunal, The yote was 276,070, ff the head of the As pellate Division | of this district had lived his term would have expired on Dec, 8l next, On Dec. % next he would tiave been seventy yeare old. He was born on Long Island, a de- hopndant of one of the old Holland HO VAN BRUNT DROPS DEAD AT BROOKLYN BRIDGE JUSTICE WHO EXPIRED AT BRIDGE. member of which fm was at one time a Justice of the Supreme Court and the Junior Governor of the State. Mr. Van Brant was admitted to the bar in 1868, und was s ly engaged In tho practice of the Juw until 1869, when he was appointed to All a vacancy in the Court of Common Pleas. Afterward he wan clected a Judge of that court for a term of fourtess years, but durin, the greater part of that time he served in the Supreme Court by assignment of the Governor. In 1883 he elected a Ivatice of the Supreme Court, ani Jan. 1, 17, became the Prosiding Hoe’ of that court In the Hirst Judi , 1886, educated at the Univeralty of the City of New York, from which he was grad- tated in 1856. He studied law and was @ clerk in the office of Leonard & | Hoffman, in Wall atreet, the senior Bridgo Hospital gave it a his opinion that heart disease had caused death, ‘The body was taken to the Van Brunt home at No, 10 East Forty-slxth atreet. GANG KILLS “EAT-'EM-UP” JACK M’MANUS East Side Leader’s Skull Is Crushed with Iron Bar in Fight, *at!Em-Up-Jack"" MoManus, a no- torious Bowery character, former bouncer for McGurk's Suicide Hall, the Tivol, Gotham and many other sup- pressed dives on the Bowery, died in Rellevue to-day from the effects of a beating with an fron bar which crushed his #kul), the force of the blows bend- Ing the bar. McManus was auruck early to-day during the war of extermination raging between the east side gangs, whieh has claimed four victims during the past twenty-four hours, and which wae caused, the police say, by the yangs accusing one anstaer of havin turned informers, John Griffo, known as "Kid," {s held on suspicion by the pnlive, WHO gay he wus with MeMunus Just betvre the fatal blawe were deait the bouncer. : Griffo was arraigned in the Yorkville Court, He said that he was ianooent, He told the Court that ho was same five paces in front of McManus when he heard the blow. ‘The assailant, be said, ran the other way and he coul not ddentify him. Griffo was held on PAST “L’ (Bpecial to The Evening World.) ALUANY, N. Y., May 26—If the managers of the Third Avenue Ble- allowing tra! tiens contrary to sched- y are committing a serions if eviden fore the board to that veatigation will be ord dlately.” This statement was made to-day at the office of the Btate Rallnoad Com- mission when the practice on the Third wvenue line waa browgsht to the atten- |ton of the department by The Even- ake recomme: operation of elevated roads, tts recommendations are usually MUST STOP JUMPS Department; and as such originated and carried out many substantial improve- ments In the methods of conducting the business of that court, He had never hold any other than a judicial office. On the reorganiantion of the Supreme ’ STATIONS Warning Comes from Albany that State Board Will Investigate the Complaints Made Against the Third Avenue Line by The Evening World. out, It seems inroncelv- that the Third avenue line FQ ite schedule and ‘The practice would Inder ordinary conditions trains must be ran ac- cording to schedule, The achodute must be arranged entircly with a lew to abcommodating the public, ‘The only way to remedy the ma ter is to have a complaint filed with this board and a request made for an inventigation,” The Btate Commisnion disciplined tho Manhattan Railroad, which operates the Third avenue line, In 1903, when numerous complaints were made con- vorning the poor train service afforded the public on the lines of that com- . Ag a result of the board's ac- Rati company prepared @ now @ short afidavit of suspicion of homl- olde and was remanded to the coroner, By the death of “Hat-m-Up-Jack, what the police oall the worst man the Bo ang code of settlement, fone held the east side in terror. gangs gettic thelr own scores and sooret, Laveenne and no “squealing to the céps” is allowed, At Police Head- it wos rumored that $5,000,000 T0 PUT TRUST CO. eMante wi @ man who shot Frank Tricker in the early morning shooting yeaterday. TWO MEN KILL THEMSELVES TO-DAY ON SECOND AVENUE. Frank A, Neff, a victim of consump- thon, after tramping the streets all morning In search of work, went to his room mt No, 686 Becond avenue just before noon to-day, and turned ‘on the as, He was found dead a short time after, He was thirt; ears old, an fad been employed ik an Mighih aver nt, but was discharged a Reported that Friend of Dr. Munn May Come For- ward with Amount. Tt wag reported in finanolal ciel today that Dr, John P, Munn, Preal- Apnt of the United States Life Insure ance Company, and physician to Helen! Gould and Russell Sage, had promised (OF) ie the directors of the Merohanta’ Trust ratory i Company that he would do all in his to save the company et, thirt ti uldide tosd: ym the roof Beoond avenue, perted to have made the statement yesterday that he had a person whom he thought would come forward with $5,000,000 to save the company, Whether Dr, Munn's capitalist ma- terlaliaes of not tho directors of tie company have made up their minds to fight the applisution of the Atiorney- General for the appoinsment of a per- it re to Ine terend Tr Munn’s attitude ts said to be due to the fact that he feels mos or loss reanon- sible for the connortion of Georgy E, Fisher with the company, WANT TO MAKE MONEY Or Secure an Ideal Place to Live SEND POSTAL FOR CIRCULAR AND VIEWS “BAST ELMHURST Sh, Fis vod UE FLUSHING phe sea hich {Court under the Constitution of 1895 he WAS aj i by Gov, |siding du ne Appetite Div Jot the Kir ment, the posit | Was occupying, Js renomination wonventions oF Uy great vival po 1 appro pasties hi to | Just Marked the ge of public service, Van Brunt was a member anbattan an Lotos chibs, the nolag Sackety. and ane oF w He the foremost rar wis rocownized as Of the ablest jurisis 8 written” many. ‘ed to constant- scents of All of the courts, elvit and erinyinal, adjourned Immediately upon hearing of [the death of the aged Juetice, Many [trials Were Interrupted the moment the news reached the court, POLICE FIRE AT CROWDS IN ‘STRIKE RIOT Chicago Mobs Resume Fight- ing as ‘‘Breakers”” Appear. CHICAGO, May %.—Shots were fired by the police to-day In a strike riot. At Twenty-second street and Ashland avenue a crowd fecred passing Jumber wagons, driven by non-untoniste, and the police ordered the crowd to dis- Perse, but no attention was paid and fighting began, ‘Nhe police then drew thetr revolvers and fired several shots into the crowd, but, so far as known, no one was wounded, ‘Two arrests were made, and the wagons proceeded without further dis- turbance, Elsewhere in the district the police were kept busy clearing out sa- loons and dispersing crowds of Idle men, There were Mots at Thirty-fifth and Morgan streets, in the lumbet diatriota, to-day, @ mob of four hundred attack: i “breaker drivers and fighting viciously until forty policemen pulled thelr platols, th raity of the City of! in BODY 1S FOUND IN THE RIVER Almost $1,000 in Cash and Small Bills Taken from His Pockets. A river myatery with unuaual features developed to-day, when from the body of a men towed ashore at Gansevoort Market by an oyster barge almost # | thousand dojlara in money was taken, There w money in every pocket. ‘The man's clothing was of the Muest quality | Weeks in the water had made hia | features somewhat {udistingulshable and positive identification will only be pos- | sible from hie clothing and general butid, | All of the clothing was of winter weight, | There are no marks of violence on the | body. How the Body Wae Found, | ‘Phe oyster barge Edina was heading j for Gansevoort Market early to-day whon the mate, Jerome Gretasman, dis- | covered the body floating face down in | the very centre of the river, He went | alormreide of it, liad @ man fasten a | rope under the arms, and then towed 1 Ashore. The police ware notified aud tho | body uiken to the station-house, where Ja careful examination was made, | The body l# that of a man about: forty: | fuur vears of age, He wolghed 200 pounds, was about b feet 10 inoies tall, tremendously broad shoulders, and Vee evidently w man of the greatest strength, ‘The man wore heavy underwear, a biue suit of clothing, patent-leather shoes, black socks, fine nen and vhinchitla overcout, In one pocket was fyund a par of spectacles In a case, Money in Every Pocket. The clothing was made at Brokaw hros., and in one pocket an Engilsh |penny, evidently | found, | Phe surprise of the police came when they began a search of the pockets, for hot a pocket piece, was one that Was touched falled to Jd some money, ‘There were #1 bills, Is, $5 bINs, everything In fact up 1s, and When all the loose silver n taken out and piled up there Was enough to fill a pint measure, ‘The | notice count of the money made It total Ja Uitte less than $1, | The polive bellove that the dead man. fell from some steamer ether down’ the y or At sea and was carried up the hy the ‘des, va viver (MAYOR WEAVER ls Assured of Enough Votes to Sustain His Veto of the Gas Steal—Blow Struck at Big Contract. (Special to The Evening World.) PHILADELPHIA, May %,—Mayor Weaver late this afternoon gave Sut @ statement in which he sald that he was certain the Gas Leaso bil would not be passed over his veto at next Thura- "g session of the Councll, “T have the ageurances of a wufttctent number of Councilmen from — both cheimbers to waretn me In saying thet my veto will be sustained,” declared Mr, Weaver. “Por the time belng I deem st best not to mention the names of the gentle- men who have pledged themselves to ao my support. ‘Mhey thermsolves wall make known thelr position within @ few days. "{ want to take occasion at this time to express iny, thanks. to the Counedl- men who have so bravely taken the Stand with me, Not only am I plea Antly surprised at thelr avtions, ‘but 1 fin rimply delighted with the neible re- eponse made to public sentiment,” ‘Almost the firet official act of A. Tan- ker, the new Director of Public to-day, was the annulment of streot claining blds which had been ad- Vertised and were to have been opened June 1. Mr, Acker could not be seen as to the import of the move, The contract for next year, which will Include both the cleaning of the streets and the gnther- ing of ashes, will aggregate over a mill. fon dollars, ; anut J3rittlo. wi right" ts the qu ours | up ty Butter—an unborn! FRIDAY ONLY. ble combination, UN) SSORTED FRI ABHOCOLATES VANILLA AND MAP! YORrannn WALNUTS. rounn 19¢ CANDY BOXES COV: BRED WITH GILK AMERICAN FLAGS in 4 sines, at 18¢,, 200, Val nti nibh Routed Peanuts, Confectioners’ Sugar and the very best Table PECIAL FOR FRIDAY. AND S & » NBONS, OR AN Al! Bron feted IGT AT AN Rptoprinvely packed in boxes for Memoviml Day.. ’ tee CANDY BUTTER PEANUT BRITTLE—pound, 10c. intessence of candy excellence, ‘fhe ‘make SATURDAY ONLY. CHOCOLAT ERED. PRRSIAN DA UND AY. Y 25¢| 1 KISHS......,. POUND 29¢| ven fine fe CARAM MENICA, PENOC! "SAYS HE'LL WIN ~— [MONEY-LADEN [MATTHEWS WITH THREE OTHERS ON SERIOUS CHARG! yers Samuel R. Ferguson and John W;, Wooten of Conspir Left by William Weisele. Based on evidence contained !n looting of the Wolsell estate by David Rothschild, the convict wrecker of!* the Federal Bank, the Grand Jury to-day found indictments againet Oxy! Alderman Armitage Matthews and La’ W. Wooten, ‘The indictments were handed in to Judge Cowing in Part I, of General Bessions this afternoon when the Grand Jury adjourned for the day. ‘There are three soparate indictments against the deferdants for conspiracy, three each for grand larceny and an additional in- dictment against Lawyer Wooten for grand larceny in the second degree, Several months ago Roths@illd wrote to District-Attorney Jerome from Sing Sing that he had startling disclosures to make in regard to the looting of the Welsell estate and other matters involved in the wrecked Federal Banik, He was brought down to New York, where he made a full confession which s0 impreasod Mr. Jerome that he had the caso taken before the Grand Jury. Mr, Mathews and the two lawyers were jn oourt when the Grand Jury handed in their Indictments, They had been notified ahead that they would be indicted, In order to give them time to arrange for ball, ‘They were all. ar ralgned at the bar and the Indictmen read agalnat them, Each Held In §8,000 Ball. After the indictments had been read Judge Cowing fixed ball at $5,000 in Quah case, except as to Rothschild, who was taken back to prison. All three men had come to court prepared to give ball in the sum that was fled, No plea was made to the indictments, this privilege being reserved for a later, date, ‘Thy indictment ts a document of aixty~ ‘vo pages. It charges that the mefend- ants looted the esate of the late William Welsell of $75,000, Welsell died on April 7, 188, leaving an estate of more than KO) in personal property, ‘The dead man's will Couch Bed Sale. 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