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APELEY Dl ~UAEALL OF EM, i | SS HEM Asserts So-Called Signals Were Reflex Muscular Actions, ; ' WHY, THERE'S CHARLIE! ME FOR CHRISTMAS 9 CALLS IT EASY DEATH, R aie All Sense of Feeling Lost, Van Hise Declares, When Trap Is Sprung. Savi 00 1 GEEK HrHAt <AKE of SOAP Er 8 HAS HANGED 70 MEN Whey All Act Alike on the Gal- lows, Says New Jersey Executioner. fhe controversy over the last mottona | Wéwin F. Tapeley, the negro mur- ferer, after he had been jerked Into he air by a welght on the gallows in fudeon County Jail, Jersey City, yos- qminy, hay spread all over eastern ‘orsey, Many of the witnesses of fanging declare that Tapeley gave Mstakable signals nearly a Mor the welght was dropped, Other mong then Hangman Van Hise. bat the motions Tapeley made were onvulsive muscular actions insopara fom death by viole: “That wan,” doctured Van Hise, de Mele carpenter shop at No. 1] mtayatte street, Newark, to-day, “died jst Whe same a4 every other man I the ve banged died. I have made a study €@ & and I know they don't suffer after he weight drops, even though the hook does not break their necks, “Ig te true that this man bent hte me at the elbows, They all do | eo bent his legs at the knees, me as the rest of t pd closed his hands. They % f muscular action and lasts longer | HT WONDER WHAT HE'S BUYING, | THE STRENUOUS E ’ Loewe Marry bbe By Chartes Raymond Macauley. OUGHT DID VOU, ‘NDEED? WELL, IVE rt FOOTBALL, 15 GOOD) PAIR OF LOVELY SLIPPERS. Scene—Any department BROTHER STRATELACE = ast a LEVENTH HOUR mnouen FAG ad, barende WD RUM [US BRE Mrs, Griffith, of Brooklyn, Helpless in Coach as It Swerved About. NOW, JUST SEE HARRY! we’) TALKING TO THAT FRESH) JONES GIRL AGAIN. ota COACHMAN POWERLESS, Emergency Gates Put in Place Just in Time to Prevent Disaster, Penned in a olosed coach, behind @ pair of madly galloping horses, Mrs, A. Grimth, of No 12 Willow street, Brooklyn, to-day had an exciting ride across Brookly; Bridge, while a negro coagtman on the box above sawed upon the lines without in the least checking the spead of the anima ne run ‘WADSWORTH SURE, away ended when the tea shed into emergency gates, which policemen had reared In time ‘Mrs. Griffith was on her way | Grand Central sta lou trom ter in a coach from sell's Livery H, Miles, of No. 679 Baltle street | the driver. ables wung lis team in an | the bridge Milos wer veliicie and the effor, to pass a | to the home) tast night of Assemblymen was! yyy | Nearing the Manhattan anchorage of) gin, { MILLION INTO. MRS, COREY’ XMAS STOCKING Big Check Promised by Steel President to His Wite. SAYS GOV, HIGGINS State Executive Belittles the Opposition Which Is Sup- porting Odell’s Man, BUFFALO, N. Y., Deo, 28,—Gov. Hig- @ins passed through Buffalo to-day on his way to Olean, He declined to make @ny comment on the reported declara- tlon by State Chalrman Odell, Assem- blyman Merritt and Senator Malby that | toe fight In the Republican onganiaa- | tion in the State would not end with the possible eleotion of Mr, Wadsworth, but would be carried inwo the coming NO SUIT FOR DIVORCE, sension of the Legislature along th uty Unee of a qaventiegiion of the new /Peace Negotiations Made by partnent and the State Railroad Com- mission, ‘ ‘The Governor was asked about the attitude of Assemblyman Rogers, “T don’t think he will flop more than Q 0, © before the matter said the Governor, | tions in thie contest | ppyyyas yw huis uniithess for | eA de Ala \ or of the Avaembly, | Cook Corey, whieh Keats res a n of fixity of pur-! Corey, President of the Steel Trust, has Perna, secon twee ine In New York! MccePted & wltt of $1,000,000 trom her pposed to, Wusband, and her threatened sult for opposed to the candidacy of Mr,! divorce will not be filed. The Isworth for @peaker be of ripen ‘adsworth for @peaker cannot be of can be received either as a Ch any great significance, OF the twenty-) gitt or as a peace otarite, ate members a‘ the first meeting, | ® A eee A als Para uuld be safely counted ns fas) Corey Agrees to ask no questions cal- 1 | culated to embarrass or humiliate. Father Head Off All Legal Action, Dec, 23.—Mrs, Laure wife of William Bilis are suttic the office of Spe in Wadsworth, The a ' . At pole snapped off short. Th ken end lly over and Mr. Wads- , % y eet Bole sf BOE Oe ero the funks andy £087 y overane yAny Tate, Corey will not seek to make Dib You MuRT taking fright, they. started full galt ‘a Squat when | “labelie Gilman, the actress, his wife, YOURSELF? along the north roedway, al Ve next Legislature Mr. | tt is agreed a) err ie path wis fall of tro cars) Wadeworth Is the an WhOT The doal w le Miles @wung back UPON) will have nothing WD? | is the wall bord made in two minutes we ength that! port any other ° alting-room of the Union Depot FOLLY FOOTLITES iY; store in the Grealer City. & @ome meee than in others “I didn't know there was to be any | FASTED 10 WEL ell and fitted the noose to hia neck he Ppeared to be perfectiy game. on the walk | ownstaire to the gallows, I had every- Overdose of Cider, Beans and Candy Made Them Easy Ourage oozed out a littl ing ready aod wanted to go right on of rith the hangtog as soon as the man Catch for Police. sached the scaffold. but they let him anke a speedh “That tw bad business. I always od: | tot to !t, especially in the case of & olored man, Ih knocks the nerve out f them. This man yesterday almost eved in when he finished the speech nd 1 sitpped the black cap over his jead, but he stood lone after we (Specte) to The Evening Wort.) braced him up and nobody was sup-| MOUNT VERNON, N. ¥., Dea 2— porting him when I pulled the spring) Cigarettes und dime yovels, and inet that released the welght | deta too much cider, beans and “Well, air, All of them; he died an easy death, he dled fust the same 98) candy, ied to the His | who were arraig son here to-day of the y by Detect ve anma were strapped at the Atwell with rovbiny y : a bor Atwe ‘obbing tho grocery | that he could bend them, I've seen) § of Monty Hredericks on’ North | open and close thelr fingers many| fy avenue. . ‘ourt time when there wasn't any sugges-) the prisoners, Joseph SHB tion of a signal, and nobody was look- AY 4 nd t Wiseman, cach fourteen ing for signals.’ People seeing a hang-| ® ; . " Ing for the ‘ret thne often tmagine| Years old, found Ot ue eee ae nat the ma he gallows suffering, | !ad away all his cash, th vetw of older barre After watering up @ large quantity candy and cigarettes, While the elder flowed they indulged in & full soure, while they gorged them- ———— selves With baked beans and candy WwW the deteeuive found them, both %0MB EXPLODES wane We teen foe foaat Bhey could UNDER HIS HORSES, | "3%": shen he la absolutely unconactous. ‘They vee all f feeling the second they j rel the pressure of the rope. of y recovered before being taken to and after arraignment, one of m sald Vindows Blown Out by Shock] ,"1f,we tad found that grocers money ‘ate Christmas by be- ad later we intended ans.’ Caused by Bursting of Mys- terious Explosive in Street, | Will probably be, aent to terious package, ly) ” the Westchester Temporary jome, as Io eee eaee en Couns ane {they have. been arrested ‘before, and SORE CLP OR IS AM. 18 the pollee say they are thoroughly bad. ue, caught the eye of August Loge: | bi aan, of No, 9% Elghth avenue, as he | rove on his wagon, He tried to avokl . but one of the wheels passed over he parcel and iminediately there was & iclent explosion, ‘lhe horses boited, erves of the West One | ation soon arrived. | candy store be at ri A KNELL FOR ODELL, Auften No, 746 tolumbus avenue, were broken, as well 4 tho#e in the house above the store, Great alarm was caused to. persons ving in the house, many of whom pre- red to run out, believing that the ding was fall Auffenburger told ‘the police he had | 40 reagon to belleve that the package | fas a bomb intended for him. The vaxter remains a mystery, Patrolmen Sullivan and EBokhart, of he West One Hundredth Street Sta: fon, made @ rapid Inves'igation of the "Black Hand outrage,” which speedily 4 sosolved itself into nothing more. seri-| “| ous than the explosion of a box of per. tussion caps that had evidently dropped| rom some express wagoh on Its way to| Jelight the heart of some favorite of Santa Claus. ———————— ‘ APPEAL FOR PATRICK. Petition to Gov. Higgina to Com- mate Lawyer's Sentence, —_ slaieesaeessiiemabianisioaennerse The Clristmas chimes will koell Of boss-ehtp for poor Ren Odell, Who then will find the other boys Have busted all his pretty boys, rink the A petition is to ho presented ta Gov, Higgins in the first week in January, praying him to commute the sentence of death hanging over Albert ‘T, Pat- | Hie elephant has loot it» trunk, Nek to fe imprisonment. Patrick is | Likewlve {ts grip is rather punk tondemned to die on Jan, 2 + | And eke Its chanee of victory Dr, Allan McLane Hamilton ts int Is not “rehear as It should be, lating. himself in the condemned man ind belle’ that a reprieve will event. | Alas! upon glad Christmas morn ally Kad to the establishment of | pon finds hin stocking badly torr Patrick's Innoeonce i * wns And then he'll fod his litle dole Of men have dropped out through the hole, ——— $25,000 CHRISTMAS GIFT. PHILADELPHIA, Deo, 2.—Burnham, | Williams & Co. (Baldein Locomotivs Works) yesterday gave a Christmas | present of $25,000 to the Univergity of | Pennsylvania for the new ongibeering Authorizes the various | building being constructed for the ual- Auction Sales | “i: is the second contribution of 9 * company haa given to the university. Sunday World Wanis Work Monday. Wonders, to be announced ‘to-morrow in Sunday World's Want Directory Bargain Seekers Attend Them. ya | Judge Simp: | Miller | FOR CHAUNCEY THE SAD. | Yes, Moauncey'’s pretty Christmas tres | Now spreading chost:ut needs to be. ‘The presents all are out of reach Of Chaunce who used to be the Peach His stocking ruefully he views As though he feared a gift from Hughes. And {t would give him such a shock To find retainers in his sock. A bag of chestnuts ‘neath the bough World make a pleasant pre ut dt would chill him if he His resignation, dog-skin bound, LYNCHERS SHOT B TENDED VICTIM —_—_— White Man Surrounded by Negro Mob Kills Seven and | ounds Same Number. | | | | | | VALDOSTA, Ga., Dec, %3.—A report | reiched here to-day from Ewing. be- | tween Farg> and St, George, the new colony tywn, that a crowd of negroes | tried last night to mob a white man | who was manager of a lange turpentine etill at that place. He barricaded timself, and opened fire upon them, killing five men and two women, and wounding seven others —— TWO POLICEMEN RUN OVER. One Had Just Returned to Duty | After Three Months Hiness, | Poltcemman John Madigan, of the! Hoilth Squad, who Is Afiy-six years old and who has just got back to work af- ter a three months’ ines, the result of being thrown from a car, was run over and seriously Injured by a truck at ritty-fifth street and Sixth avenue to- day. | ‘The track was driven by Gutreppe Ar-| ect, of No, Bil West Fiftleth street. Modigan-’s aro was broken, his head out open and he sustained Internal In- juries, Arecto wae arrested. Polleem n Joho J. Fitepotrick, of the ‘Traffic ad, was run into by a north bourd Sixth avenue car at Fourteenth etreet and eo reverely Ingured that bo had to be sant home. a KILLED BY RELATIVE. \ WESTDROOK, Conn, Doe, W=Jonn Mople, aged rixty‘seven, who was as with an axe by brothe:-[n- chacl Pluchel, aged seventy-ex, vat night, dicd to-day from a fractured atl Ban bbe? Wounds, The med gy to a dispute over @ baskot of anu, ne Figohel roll : lon of theft nat 0 axe wea. \J mn Whom the UNCONSCIOUS AND NUDE ON A ROAD onadpwat Find William J. Lynch, of Brooklyn, Who Cannot Explain Predicament. Julie Raich, proprietor of the Silver Lake Hotel, at Silver Lake, Staten Tsl- and, was driving along the Clove road, in the woods, to-day when he acmss a Gude man, un road, He tried to rouse him, t unable, He ove into Weat Bi and notified the police and an am lance wax sent out to get the 1 After |p had been treated at t pital he rewvered co's n sald he was William J. Lyneb. « | £6 Wolwott street, Broc He a} not tell where hte clothing was. His| body ed with wher busies had scratched him, Lyneh sald te had no idea how lie gut in the woods | What Christmas gift for Harriman, ‘What very, very merry man, Whose flippant quip and dinsy jest Are neat, refined and of the bost? Bome collars for the faithful two Who see that nothing wrong through A slapauck from insurance folks To emphasize bis funny jokes Je 29 Miller's joke book, full of fun In quip and jingle, jest and pun— Fit present for Ba Harriman, That ver yairy, merry man, —— ROBBED ON STREET BY THREE HIGHWAYMEN, Albert McGee, Held Up in Broad Daylight, Identifies Two Pris- oners as Aseailants, Albert MoGeo, Perth Ahboy, was to-day attacked by three as ho wae walking along Mb stract, Ono of them held him w ho other rellevo. | him of @ watch and chain aid 90 | cach, His crlos attracted the attontion of Patrolman Govier, who grabbed ono cf the men. 7 Jeoner eaid hla namo Whe ‘homes U'Ls n, of Ny. Aokeon etroat Tho two O.hor men got away, but dour an hour later Thomas Gilaey, or No, 40 East Twont airoct, was picked up in tho neighborhood and Idowtiied by McGee as one of hia as- callania, The property war not found | ! | | Wealthy rey only ~ ved alvoout the 1e ¢ Re She |inside of th she could not door Jate door and jump out i i $ upon the t to open the ) Dadly eut ont | Mrs. Grimth v na faint, She was bod it the pose and mouth, an en hor tongue badly, § 4 into the temporary he bridge entrance on the uttan side, where Dr, Vance, who came in an ambulance | from Hi Street Horpital, attended her, Later she waa seit how Miles, the driver, was pite alr—frog-fasiilon wher and fell sprawl: — aped with a few bruises LIKE SHORE FLIER JUMPS THE BALLS the phit IN PLATT'S STOCKING, Limited Speeding to New York from Chicago Meets Acci- dent, but Nobody Hurt. BLYRIA, 0 | mall car of Train No. Dec, 23,—The engine and the east-bound | limited on the Lake Shore road from | Chicago to New York, were derailed here at 1.90 this morning at the Baltl more and Ohio crossing ; The Lake Shore derafler was op@n Whe " a'b rofrain and the engineer fallel to apply the Tom Platt will look! alas! in vain air soon enough For that lone, stinging party whip, No one was hurt The train was de He hoped tha a wouldn't skip. layed two and one-half hours. Put when you hear the Chr smote ens Rowe boys CRUSHED TO DEATH. pie yao TOWN, Pa., Deo, %.-Alfred PSR ne sult aged tthirty-ttiree vears, a tele He wants a palt of boxing gloves graph operator for the Lehigh Valley | To | anie's cruel shoves, } Raliroad Company, was brus' ied to And whispers ‘mld. the Min sath early to-day In the railroad sta- May wooden presents ¢ to tin ton at Catasauqua. As a westbound froight train wus pnasing the station a brake beam fe derailing a freight into toe station lI If of the TB ALINGNT Charging Conspiracy in Di-| vorce Court, Awards Her $200 a Month. Mrs. her Margaret Sehmalhols, iusband, Edward whol who had shmalholz, @ or at No, 7%) Third avenue, and "Phil" Sweet, ex- Rough Rider, sted on Nev. 2 on a charge of conspiracy to seoure a dle] for her husband, was awanted| 200 monthly ativony and $1,00 counsel fee by Justice Amend in the Supreme| voree Mrs. and separated for years. Schmalhols h&d been under an agree- ald her $120 monthly is charged In her! ment by which he Mrs. S¢ maliiolz As Christmas Eve draws to a close, husband's complatst with visiting the 3.4 yge hangs up his silken hose, Hotel Te Es k, Albany, with Sweat | ‘Pie kind he wore with knee-high pants, October last fteen's " Mra Mohini dharees tht ah8 | At Loote Fifteen's fancy dance was introd to Sweet at tae Wal-| The gifts that will give James most dorf-Astoria early last February * | cheor extraoninary clroumstance when he| Are ¢ ts to that Paria dorr, way introduced to hor as Capt. P. K. |) Where ¢ an-ean can be found, Stone, of the Unitid States ormy."| And Ret Mills run the whole year He was ple vast and very en ‘row he Aaa } A faney wht In chante id, took up vould be a ault his taste mer at pla But don't forget no hast bot | Capt. ’ 1} bo tho fragrant violet. a y The President A Slave to Catarra Dr. Agnow's Catarrhal Powder Relleves in 10 Minutes, pie. Promdant ef # at + D. DA a Ethel to play tn it wnt y and walle Capt, Btono was wy applying the Ice the door was amashed tary relief ure open and hor husband and two other Aqmow's mon burat into th moet bratant on either, but §¢ l@ pelloved to save een carried off by the thint man, for oe ate now sotking, trate Dale each prone ‘or hold vball for further nas Hr 1 Din MeAuiliffe, members of the Lridee Squad, saw the} runaway coming, with other vehicles souttiing to safe'y anead of tt. They awung the eereney gite down Just as the horses dashed themnelves against It Both of them went down, that! toreste | Hor huebe ed the capialn pve’, ‘dog" and t to klil him, but De, Amnow's iieart Oure te tow the io {ing tig eg and it eating ‘end | Heart and Fin ten 6, | a waa woting a Bi Ave, a Mi Oopart ofthe conanttaaye, “AIM ANAL woe oy We Mog Be (= wPERTHWarp.” |. ' gw Everything for Is 7. Housekeeping CREDIT ADVANTAGES ‘ West 14th ee a Avenue Flatbush Avenue and Pulton Street, Brooklyn, - p \ “ hl ip | he cor hon tt | ‘€ to those who should ative Committees, Tam) know. Mrs, Corey, with ner son, Allen Wegorn New York is somewha: in-| WV: Corey, and two young women who (i knowing how Mr. Cox will | ad been in the West with her, aw well in tha diatribution of monore” WON lag with Misa Ade Coane, ted to the Governor, "It been | Ada Corey, sister of hee usband, I that he will be the next mu 1 Pitsburg by @ sub. th jurban thatn. ‘They lett uke fast. Chic t tor , wo, | capo traln Mea out of Pitts Cox Is a good fellow." said Gov. | aofas to dude paper men ai Higgins warmly, “and an‘ honest man. | ouiers, and came in slow train : a nothing to be mall yet, hows | They! were mot by A. A, Corey, fathy ever who will be the majority | of W. Bilis ( vho had a proposte eine ee mymatt Mint, will come fant to trust to the ph wirep oF In regard to t ointment of a) aaugnt eee it to’ bm State Tax Commissioner to succeed — tt waw the by would f est earns of Chautauua ¢ n t f > hy Lest earn Mn COUNTY. | nish to. hte wife able evidence Gov \ question has that tie and Mabel ave ceased : iene Iran sy | to be anything to wold vave t is that " f 0 neat or i i tant the give bls wate $1,000 i enough enjoying han $$ maker a will n thelr won Re “hie DMTONIRC ne heir, instead of cutting him oft, with have Stina ‘unl! RUAN? ws Ne threatened to do “some Mra, Corey consented and went with a her father-in-law to bis home tn N A CHRISTMAS DINNER FOR }2ig??<% gave, Me Coney Swatied | boldly up the street to his home, hows ing to his neighbors and eyading CRIPPLED CHILDREN. — | tins aout “the home ‘eomina fort nis daughter-In-law, Mrs. Corey and her 1 1 son slipned up the railroad ‘track back The little Inmates of the Darrach) of the ¢ home and trot in by the Home for Crippled Children will cele- | Kitehen door, | brate the first Christmas in thelr new) Alien W. Corey, tha son, was seen hom it No. 8 West One Hundred) ¥*!king about Braddock, When ques and Fourth street, Manhattan, by a din hed he sald Kk about her given to them by Charles Marshall her's case. It me, Of course Lam tn her + but. T shall not abuse it.” W. Fille Corey may be at his fat) y are to haye poor this afterngon. as guests fifty other children of the nelghbo are now practising Is, whileh ne for Christmas dinner and a will sing around t ristmgs , eral reconciliation, but It ts nat nece from which etch child will gather can: | sary, for It is understood that Alfred Mave avien | A. Corey brought back a certified check for $1.00,000 for Mrs, Corey, A Natural Laxative Inward cleansing is as necessary as outward bathing. To keep the bowels free and regular is of even greater importance than to keep the skin-pores from becoming clogged. The neglect of either in- vites disease. Everyone needs a natural laxative occasionally, to free the bowels of accumulated impurities, Fr this purpose take BEECHAM’S PILLS the greatest boon ever offered to those who suffer from the ills that follow constipation, For over fifty years Beecham’s Pills have Deen famous as a Stomach corrective, a Liver regulator and Bowel laxative. 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