The evening world. Newspaper, November 27, 1905, Page 3

| ery dust ended, MRS, ROGERS DINED 100 Hig OT Federal Bench Declinesto Interfere in Vermont Woman's Case, HER LAST HOPE IS GONE. Death Watch Placed on Guard for Her Execution Next Week. FOUGHT HARD FOR LIFE, Was Granted a Reprieve Some Months Ago as the Hangman Waited Final Orders, ‘WASHINGTON, Nov, 21.—The 8u- Brome Court to-day affirmed the decis- fon of the United States District Couft of Vermont in the caso of Mrs, Mary Mabel Rogers, who is under sentence of death in Vermont for the murder of ber husband. The effect of the decision wil be to again place the responsibility of deal- ing with the case in the hands of the Btate authorities, and if in the mean tame neither the Governor nor the State courts take action in Mra, Rogers's behalf, her exeoution must occur on the day set, which |s Dec, 8 next, ‘The court held, in effect, that it was Without jurisdiction in all the points Talsed. ‘The case came to the Supreme Court on an appeal from the refusal of the United States District Court of Ver: mont «© grant to Mrs, Rogers a writ of habeas corpus after the Supreme Court of the Btate had refused her a now trial, The charge against Mrs, Rogers is that of murdering her husband by ad- ministertng chloroform ak Bennington, Vt, in 1902, She was tried In December, 188, and her trial resulted in nen- tence of death by hanging. The case has attracted much attention on ac- count of the defendant's sex and be- cause of the many narrow escapes she has had from paying the*extreme pen- alty for her crime. Reprieved Twice, Hor execution was first fixed for Feb. 4, 168, but the Governor of the State stanted a reprieve on Feb. 1 until June & When & seemed that she must in- evitably be hanged on the day fixed the Governor again on June 1 came to the woman's rescue, moving the date up to June 2 The last reprieve was granted June 2, to permit an investigation by the Federal Courts, Notwithstanding the various reprieves Granted by the Governor the mgans of waving of Mra, Rogers's life, they were seized upon by the attorneys to support thelr plea for absolute release, They contended that these stays of execution and the fixing,of dates for hanging by the e's chiet exedutive, other than the day named by the trial court, were iMewal, and that her detention in prison under them amounted to privation of her rights under the constitution, Other points cited by her attorneys In support Of her case are: ihe rs That after refusing her petition for a new trial last Moy. the Vermont Su- preme Court failed to fix @ day for the execution, rendering illegal her subse- quent detention; that at her trials sh¢ rwas denied the right to cross-examine witnesses, and that the hearing of her case by the State Supreme Court altting elsewhere than in Bennington county |e in contravention of the State constitu- lon, The fact that Mra. Rogers has been kept i solitary confinement for more than the three months required by t 6tate Jaws was also used in the are ment in support o case, The woman ‘8 now confined in the Vermont Btate Prison. Must Surely Hang. In_ his opinion Justice Day jald no Me ‘tress upon the of Mra, Rogers, Dut dealt with the case upon purely gal grounds. Reciting the pages in the case, he took up the various ef- forts made in the woman's benait, holding each in turn to be ineftect~ ive, On the polpt that Mrs. Rogers has been held In solitary confinement for mote than three months he said the record does not show that she 1s 60 held, though admittedly held in close confinement. This course was, he said, within tne rights of the State and could not be used a8 ground for interference by the federal court, He also sald that the State Bupreme Court could not be re- quired to Ax a time for execution; that whether je BI Supreme Court should ait }' Bennington county is @ itter of State practice oificiavly, ana irs that there is no, merit in the con- tention that fixing a ‘dafe for execution when granting a rievo is a viola- tion of the federal statutes, ‘The opinion in the case concluded with an order that the mandate Issue at IT THE WORLD: MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1005. CONDEMNED WOMAN, HER VICTIM AND HER ACCOMPLICE. MRS. MARY ROGERS WOMAN ACCUSED OF THEFT AFTER FRE — an Mrs, Margaret G, King Ar- rested and Locked Up in the Tombs. Mrs. Margaret G. King, a pretty and demure young matron of No, 679 Vanderbilt avenue, Brooklyn and owner of the Prospect Park Automo- dile Co, of 2» 920 and 922 Union street, was to-day locked up in the Tombs to await trial on a charge of Jarceny. Mrs King was called before Fire | Beers last Saturday to tell 10 knew about the origin of a in her apartment on Nov, 13. According to the firemen there were three separate blages in the apartment. The fire was discovered five minutes after Mrs. King was eeon to leave the house. “Mrs, King had $1 the furnishings,” sald Deteotive-Ber geant W, H, Funston to-day, | * Claimed damages amounting to $1,600 Funston was summoned to Brookiyn because Mrs. King resembled a woman he had arrested tn May, 1004, for Mgt Tt was then charged th. stole $5.33 worth of #ilk hose ei ball and disappeared. ‘dnt I arrest you for shoplifting?” Funston asked her. Mrs, King, who had been calm and serene under Marshal Beere's questions, displayed intense emotion when she was confronted by Funston, She would not admit that she had ever been arrested. “She is a game little woman and @ vietim of hard luck, {d Frank Fun- ston to-day, "Of course, she Is the woman 1 arrested, The strange thin, about the fire was that all her sil clothing waa In the dining-roam and burned, according to her story,” Mr. King is superintendent automobile garage. He sald to-day that his wife had told him about the shop- lifting © ir but sald the matter had been settled. “After the fire I told my wife we would have to go and board, as we did not have any Insurance,” sald King. “@he told me then that she had had the furnishings insured for $1,000," —— — YAP WAGONS ARE ON MADOO'S LIST Police Commissioner Finds Cause to Exile the Seeing- New-York Wagons. of the The sight-seeing automobile, or yap wagon, !s in danger of exile if Com- missioner McAdoo carries out the threat he made to-day to attempt driving them from New York, as the result of the accident early yesterday when Dr. Clar- ence Barstow, an asmbulance surgeon of Roosevelt Hospital, was killed in a collision between the ambulance and an automobite, The death of Barstow gives Mr, Mc- Adoo the opportunity he has been look- ing for for over a year, since he fins once, This will obviate the raising of the question of possible postponement of the day of execution ‘The death watch has been set on rs. Rogers, the day of her execution ing set for Friday of next week, WILD ANIMALS BALK AT ROUGH SEA TRIP. John Oestarman, who has brought many consignments of wild animals to this country, said to-day when he ar- rived on the Hamburg-American steam- shtp Patanga at Hoboken, that he had had the time of his life on the trip He looked It, for he was ‘Very pale and appeared to be almost wom out. Oesterman brought over from Ham- burg 4 collection of animals Intended for the Cincinnatt Zoo. It includes a water buffalo, which is sald to be the far yeet in captivity, several “antelopes, a lioness, two polar boars, a kangaroo, begas, his crusade agulnat the big “rub- berneck vans." He has edged them eround wil such traffic restrictions as were in his power, and now hopes to drive {aon our enwinety, Barstow was tiled at 1 o'clock Dr. yesterday morning at Fifth avenue and Twenty-sixth street. ambu- tance, with a maternity patient, Mra, Maggie Brown, was hastenin; y ‘Twenty-sixth street, when vie aut back from & jaunt through China- town by night, crashed into the read end, Dr, Barstow was thrown on his head and tendered unconscious, He was finaly put in a cab and hurried to Roosévelt, dying on the way. — GOV, HIGGINS COMES 10 HELP OUT PARSONS, Hurries from Albany to Take Part in Fight Over County Chair- manship, @ sebra, six lack swans and a number of pheasants, Oesterman said that the vessel en- counteeel cee weather faring wr: eral days of the passage, an was during this time that he had more trouble with his chatges than on They. very nearly free, he sald, and ad to call on the (Special to The Evening World.) ALBANY, N. ¥., Nov. 2%.—Gov. Hig- gina left tor New York this morning. It is expected that his presence there will have a favorable influence on the candidacy of Hubert Parsons for Chalr- man of the Republican Cor ty Commit- tee of New York, The Governor Is ir to have Mr, mittee, Pargons at the head of the com) BRANCH FELL SIK. |Timekeeper and Referee Say | Midshipman Did Not Seem to Suffer Much. ANNAPOLIS, Mi, Nov. 27.—The court martial which is hearing the case of Midshipman Minor Mrtiwether, jr the death of Midshipman James R. Branob, jr, ina fist fight, resumed its reasions to-day, the defense calling Midshipman W. W. Bradley, of the ‘sho s9cond class, to testity to circumstances | Chane? She fur-|to show that Branch had misused nis) 4%’ bY Policeman JoMetal position when on duty to make unjust reports against Meriwether, Midshipman Bradley then paid that ho had been detalled for duty with Branch shortly before the fight. Branch had told him that they must try to get & report agwinst “that man, Mer- wother,"’ When on duty Branch hed tried to induce the witness to make a report against Meriwether, whtoh he (Bradley) did not think was justified, and which | he refuged to make Branch bed also told him about find- ing the civilian clothes in the suit case, but had suid he had found thas they | did not belong to Meriwether, * | Midshipman Leigh Noyes, who was the timekeeper in the ring fight, th fied that Branch and Meriweather had fallen together in clinches three times. Branch hed fallen in three other In- stances and two of the falls had been hard, He had always risen promptly and did not appear pe mned, Midshipman = A. » Fitoh, who Tefereed the fight, was recalled and tes- tifled aa to the falls during its course. His testimony on that polnt was sub- stantially the same as that of Noyes, He also brought out the fact that Branch had not recelved much punish- ment after the seventeenth round, when Meriwether offered to stop. eee OLCOTT SEES PLATT AND ROOSEVELT Discusses Local Politics with Them, but Will Not Give Details. WASHINGTON, Nov, 21.—A long ference wus held at the White House to-day regarding New York politics, ea- pecially “he chairmanship of the New York County Republican Comuittes be- Lween the President ant Representa- tive J, Van Vechten Oleott. Secretacv Root was present during a pert of the interview After being in the President's office more than an hour Mr. Oloott left the White House to see Senator Platt, He | declined to discuss the details of the conierence, but admitted It related to New York politics, He is being backed by Platt for the Younty Chair hip. Mr, Olcott as be left the White House sald “Pam going now to see Senutor Platt, This evencng 1 shall have another talk with the President, Perhans after that I may have something to say,” eed CHINESE AID FOR JEWS. Inspired by sympathy for the suffer- ers of the’ Russian massacres a number of Chinese merchants in this olty are to give a Chinese play at Miner's Bow- ery Theat Sunday evening, for the benelit of, fund now belhg raised for the rellef of the survivors of the massacres. The Chinamen who will produce the Jay are all members of the Chinese fimpire Reform Association, an organi: zation founded to obtain refonm jn the government of China, Joseph M. Sin- leton, an Americanized Chinaman, who fi President of the New York branch cof the association, will have charge of the performance. Lawyers Jacob Newman and Abraham Meyers, who have done considerable work in raising ‘sg, Mod the relief fund, will sid the en in the presentation of the play, TIMES IN FHT SCENE OF THE CRIME COURT SOUNDS WARNING T AC | Magistrate Crane Makes Auto Case Basis of “Money Power” Talk. ‘The Lawless Money Power" was the text of a long lecture delivered In Harlem Court to-day by Magistrate Crane in holding T. Ferdinand Wilcox, of No, 115 West Seventy-fifth street, for automobile speeding. The discourse included politics, Insurance, courts and 00 insurance on charged with manslaughter, in causing | everiually automobiles. Mr, Wileox with his father, Cler- mont H. Wilecx, are members of the firm of Wilcox & Co., No, 63 Broadway, and both have seats tn the Stock Bx- The son was arrested yester- McGinley of the Hnudred and Fifty-second strest giation, charged with speeding along Bagecombe avenue at the rate of 2% miles an hour, The elder Wilcox stepped up to the bridge in court to day and attompied to tell the Magis- trate that the son had not Intention- lally broken the speed regulations, Mag- rate Crane inhaled @ deep breath and delivered this: “Mr. Wilcox, the power of money i getting to beso great these days that it goes wherever the people back of it want it to go, There seems to be noth- ing to check it now, but I want to warn you and other rich men that some day the people will take things in thelr own hands and find @ way to oheck tt, And when that day comes'’—the Magistrate solamnly ratsed his hand—"they will wivo the rich #o severe @ lesson that some people wl appnectate ite severity “Look at this insurance Investigation, Mr, Wilcox. ‘That's an example of the power of money, Men who had occu- West Ore in life have been shown to have sacri- ficed their character and reputation for money and the power it gives them. “And who must suffer and their children'a children. “The conduct of automobile owners who are the most persistent violator of the law, is becoming unvearacte b cause the money power {8 controlling our policy, They feel secure in their position of arrogance, Auto owners Are no better than poor pusheart men who when arrested are usually fined att younwer Wileox was then held in $100 to Special Sessions, —__— J, H. HOADLEY AND “OE? LENTER WK in Verdict Against Jud- son Alone. Joe Leiter ani Joseph H. Hoadley won a victory to-day tn the suit brought ty Willant H, Jones & Co, against Hoadley, Letter and Cyrus IMeld Jud- son to recover $67,500 lost by the plain- tiff in the International Power stock smash in April 100, The jury was out two hours and then brought Jn a verdict for the full amount against Judson only, Edmund L,.Mooney, counsel for the plainelffe, was very much surprised at the verdict amd moved to set it aside, ‘This motion was dented, Justices Dowling allowed an extra al- lowance Of $1,000 to Hoadley, but he re- fused to @funt the same allowance to Lalter, Mr. Mooney gaid that he yould appeal thé verdict of the jury. histices, dn other #ulte of the same character, have returned verdicts aguinst Letter and Hoadley, — Taft Dines Consalting Engineers, WASHINGTON, Nov, 2.—Soretary ‘Qatt last night gave a dinner to the con- sulting engineers of the Panama Canal, a farewell entertainment for the for- elgn delegates, who leave to-morrow morning for Now York en route to their respective countrics, pled prominent and respected positions” 2 Their children | Jury in the Jones Suit Brings) ¢* MET DEATH AFTER (ONE PARTY Body of Robert Allen Found Lying in a Tenement Hallway. With the neck twisted and crumpled by the hands of some of the roysterers at a growler party, the body of Robert Allen, stoker on @ traneatiant{c liner, was found in the narrow hallway on the third ftoor of the ilver front tene- | ment at 17 West street to-day, Neabody lin the dinev bat-cave of a house would tell anything to the nolies but the fol- Slowing persons were arraigned in Cen- tro Stret Court; Mary Schadder, "Big Bye” Mary Low rn sailor, Henry Schadder, Joseph Bannon, of No, 15 West streot; James Cottrell, | of No, 108 Washingtor | Bannon and Cottrell were held in $3,00) ball each. The\others were com- mitted to the House of Detention as witness as It is one of the scores of cases of Jack ashore that occur tn every port on the seven seas, Allen, who comes from Stamford, had his pay and went | to the little two-room burrow of “Big Bye” Mary, The police say they are sure of this and that with him at some dme. last nigitt Wag Olsen, Mary Schadder was one of the party. There wus deer \in plenty with much singing wut alone | towanda dawn, ‘There waa @ fight tn the | hall, @ groan and then @ slamming of doors, Later the songs were heard once more and the clinking of glamea, The Setting for the Crime. Buch nolses are nothing unusual at } No, 17 Weat street. It is a five-story brick building, fringed along the front with rattle-trap, rusted flre-escapes. On the ground floor is @ junk ehop and ‘The Battery Lunch Room," a@ little eating trough that was once wiite, Squeezed at one side is a slit of a door that opens on the dark, winding stairs, On every floor are four doors, each leading to a two-room apartment. On (the third floor the hall isso narrow that a large man, attacked from behind, , Sould not turn around If his assassin clung to his back, Allen was a big, broad-shouldered chap, | The roams of "Big Eye" Mary are at the head of the stair. Even at high noon no ray of ight enters the halls, and It is only on the third floor that a lamp {# burning, where asthmatic Mrs, Kate O'Hara, who lives in the rear Tooms, feels the good of it, as sho Bays. Discovery of the Dead Man, The songs and tho fighting last night were unheeded, until at 5 o'clock this morning little Susie Btevenson, whoso family lives on the fourth floor, was | sent out for kerosene oll, When she came down to the third floor she found Mrs. O'Hara's lamp was out, and she | Breped along the ball to the head of the stair Then she stumbled | body Allew bili} Dr, | tal, said that ‘Alen “had: dee 4n hour or more. He was n jalxty years old, bit of powertid at The doctor said that the man had bee choked and that his neck had been twisted half round during the struggle. In the fight the men had fallen | door, knocking out a pane.) eet Only Mrs, O'Hara w tl x She said: ae KE e was some time afore midnight, believe, when I woke up with the Asthma almost killing me. I'd been hearin’ gongs an’ Jaughin’ in Big bye Marys store I went to sleep, [ he some more singing an’ then’ bans holse in the hall, Somebody grunted | like. I heard curses, Then some one or sometlin’ fell hard on the floor, The door banged again an’ I went to sleep. O, ye don’t git up here for a Iittle | Noise, cause sometime the young men lo house come home with a dit of 18¢ On, HOUSE SHGCED AND THE TENANTS FLED Alteration of the Foundation Caused Building to Drop Two Feet. Four families fled trom a three-story frame buildiny at No, 22 Watkins street, Brownsville, to-day when ¢he structure dropped two feet he building is a regulation stx-etory tenement, but the ground floor was re- cently vacated so & might be used for & store. The founda’ @ltered, and to-day thx Mrs. Kaplan, on ¢ her dishes onasi ag they fell, and, grab. bing her baby, she rushed into the hal, screaming to te others. All ran to the street. loemen Horbert and Dochler went throug) the tate, extinguishing the firer, a that there was no danger of the building burning, An om ” arew shored up the buliaing. — Cherry, of Hudson Street Hospl-| d SULTIN BACKS DOWN AS WAR ETAWES HM Agrees tothe Macedonian Plan as Decreed by the Powers, VIENNA, Noy. 21.—The Neve Frole Presse to-day published a dispatch from | Constantinople saying that the Sultar, through Tewfk Pasha, the Foreign Min- {ster, has announced to Baton Von Cal- foo, the Ambassador of Austria-| ‘Hungary, that Turkey accede to the de- mands of the powers regarding the fi- nancial control ‘of Macedonia, | CONSTANTINOPLE, via Sofia, Bul- aria, Nov. %7.—The Instructions to the comthanders of the international fleat, were to land detachments and occupy Mytilene at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon | unless contrary orders reached thein in the Interim, Presumably, therefore, the capital of the stand f# now in the hands of the alifed forces, It was arranged in the Interview between Tewfik Pasba, the Minister of Forelwn Affairs, and the British and Austrian Ambassadors on Saturday, that If by 8 o'clock Satur- day night, tho Ambassadors received written notification from the Foreign Minister promising acceptance of the demands of tie Powers, the Ambassa- dors would telegraph to the fleet at Mytilene to suspend further operations until Monday No communicato: however, was re- oaived, so it is a ed that instruc- h of the com- Hong, staying manders of the {nternatiorial fleet have not been desnatche: IMMIGRANTS TOO OLD WHEN AOMITE Wants a Change in the Laws. (Bpecin) to The Evening World.) ALBANY, Nov. %.—The committes on State and allen poor of the Stato Boant of Oharities, in a eport issued to-day, recommended a change 1 nthe immigration law The United States laws, the commit- tea contends, should give the kmmem- ton bureau full authority to deport all undesirable gllens, especial the In- sane criminals an! paupers, at any’ time during the period of ten yeas after thelr arrival in this country “Under present conditions,” says the committee, “the United States authori ties seem to have no legal contro! after one year, even in the case of alin who would not b permitted to Innd if thetr true conditions were known “Phere oan be no question that a large peroenes* of the immigrants now ar- riving in the Untted Btates should be) classified as undesirable, Too many of| them are over the productive age. At the, very best they have only @ few years during which they will be Independent, “When immigrants dépendent on their own labor are over fifty years of age at the time of landing, there {Is little hope they will acourmulate enough property to provide for thelr old age In the fow years remaining to them during which they can labor. We have in our alms- houses many of this class, Under any circumstances laborers over fifty years of age have litle chance to succeed in this country “Every pers intending to settle tn the United States should be required to progure trom the American Consul near: i} clent Sumber should be nesi«: vice for euch might be required. NAN PATTERSON HOME FROM NEW HONEYMOON Says She Has Renounced Stage and Will Keep tb Simple Life. Nan Patterson and her husband, L, G, Martin, whom she remarried aftor they had been separated by divorce, seoured during her intimacy with! Caesar Young, was @ passenger on the| Ponce, of the New York and Porto Rico| line, which got In to-day after a trip through the West Indies ‘The Martins had been on thetr second honeymoon, visiting San Juan, Porto | Rico, and other West Indian cities. The former chorus girl did not mix much with the passengers on the ship and her husband did not wear the beaming countenance which {s char-| acteristic ueymoons, His. fellow he went about sad- | passengers decli the singular efferves. eyed, and not év cence of his wife could cheer him up, Mrs, Magtin said that she would now lead the simple life, having renounced aonenenatliins: aes CIVIL WAR VETERAN DEAD. (Special to The Evening World.) MOUNT VERNON. N. Y,, Nov Capt, Nathan Van Horsen, ‘aged sixty. three years, a pre Jand Past Comm | Post G. A. R., of this coty, died early to-day, —— Your System with rich blood and you will have PURE blood. POSTUM MAKES RED BLOOD, “There's a Reason,” | Railroad; The State Board of Charities ‘ “ree WCURDY FAL OUT OF MUTI Members Decline to Discuss Report that They Have Resigned. The report that President Richamt A McCurdy, of the Mutual Life, and his son Robert, who is the general manager ‘of the company, have resigned, causing widespread discussion to-day among the directors and trustees of the company, and especially ‘among the members of tho committee appointed recently to In- yestigate alleged mismanagement of the company's affair The leading members of this committee are Presi- dent Truesdale, of tho Lackawanna John W. Auchincloss and Stuyvesant Fieh The members of this committee who wore seen declined to discuss the matter for publication, Se when pressed eaid thoy hadn't heard of the resigna- tions. President McCurdy was not at | his office, but Son “Bob' was on hand, A report of the alleged resignations was gent to him and he returned the answer that as the report Involved two other persons beside himself he did not care to discuss tt. It is said that the MoOurdy resigna- tlona have gone to the Mutual's Finances Committee which held a meet- ing to-day, No member of the Finance Committes would discuss the matter in any way, It wee nointed out as giving color to the story that a committee of the Mu- tual’s directors had refused to accept McCurty's offer to cut his salary to half and to pare generous chunks off the salariés of his son and son-in-law, Had the committes accepted these cute {t would practically have pledged the Mutual tontinuation of the MeCuny regime. It was persistently stated that a ten- tative offer of the presidency of the Mutual had already been made to James B, Forgan, president of the First Na- Monal Bank of Chicago, who was for- merly an Equitable direcor, and that Forgan hed refused, Mr. Forgan’ CHICAGO, Nov, %—James B, For- gan, President of the Firat Nationa) of thls olty, denied to-day that received and declined an offer come Presidont of the Mutual Life lagurance Company to succeed Richand McCurdy. “'Nnere is report, that suc said Mr, Forga: CHIEF CROKER WINS SUIT. Denial. absolutely no truth tn the han offer was made," Former Chief Charles D, Purroy did not appoar to oppose the aut of Chie? Ba. ward F. Coker to recover the salary of chlef of the Wire Department pald to Purroy during the four montha Croker wos ting in the courts to get back the e from. which he had been ousted by Fire Comméssioner Sturgis Croker sued for $2,000, the amount of his salary collected, by Purpoy, whom his place was given, and Interest. He was awarded $2,449 by Justice Leven- tritt $12 to $18 el $ wi Fashionable Winter Coats at Fanuary Prices Before cold weather fairly be- gins the famous Bedell January Coat Sale is now announced— thirty days ahead of every one coats will be offered at $8.98, including English Kerseys, Cheviots, Every new shape and style—Em- pire Models, long tight fitting mod- els, smart semi-fitled coats—some beautifully tailor strapped, others Tuesday Only, This immense coilectlon of coats dis- plays every touches and the clever do c AMERICAN ENVOY MOB VICTIM WW ST, PETERSBURG ‘Secretary Bliss Attacked in Street and Badly Beaten by Russians, 8T, PETMRSEURG, Nov. a--6 P.M. —Robert Woods Bliss, Second Secretary of the American Embassy, who has just returned here after a three months’ vacation in Parts, was the victim of }an outrage by rowdles in one of the | most: fashionable streets of the capital late last night, and escaped bwing beaten to death owing to the timely arrival, of the police. Mr. Bliss was returning to the Bm- |bassy on foot from the yacht club where he had been dining. On the Horse Guard Boulevard, apposite tho | barracks of the Chevalier Guard, the | Secretary was suddenly set upon by two men who aprang out of the dask- | neas of the trees. | Mr. Bliss knocked down one of fis’ assailants, but was selzed by aympe- thizers with the rowdles, who had bean attracted the spot by the disturd- | ance, and he wes getting the worst of | | tt, when three policeman and @ house porter came to Mr. Bliss's rescue Qui | fought off and seized his aswallants, The rapidly gathering crowd, however, | which promptly sited aj the po- lice, rushed at the officers and rescued the prisoners. ‘The police managed to stand off the crowd and cover the retreat of Mr, Bliss, who was badly cut about the face, but not seriously fnjured, To-day a police captain viatted the Embassy and apologized for the attack on Secretary Bliss, but he warned the members of the Embassy that the streets were very unsafe, especially the |voulevan, which is the rendeavous of sailors in rowdies and soldiers and civillan clothes. | The captain advised the members of | the embaasy to go armed in future and | not to venture in the streets at night except In carriages. Charge Affaires Eddy has reported the affair to the authoriti¢s at Wash- ington, but a# the incident was a plain ease of rowdylsm he probably will not make official representations at tho Foreign Office hero unless instructed to | do so, Second Secretary Robert Woods Bliss, of the American Embassy at St. Peters- burg, comes from New York, and was |formorly American Consul at Vienna Ho was appointed Secretary at St. | Petersburg in October, 1904, and formerly was private secretary to William Henry Hunt when the latter was Governor of Porto Rico, OOM HER By Big Reductions 58 98 @ Coats Every Swagger Model. § ! se, For Tuesday's Sale. Our extremely handsome $12, 15, $16.50 and $18 winter ontagnacs, Stylish Mixtures th lap tailor seams. $8.98 | tailor ine that Anilored 10 headers, one of the new © made thly distinetly tyear Thes are positive Alterations Free, | SALE AT BOTH STORES, g i 1 C i o \ i ! Z HOSTON CHIPS, CHOCOLAT! CREAM FILLING... Pound 10c SPECIAL FOR TUESDAY. 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