The evening world. Newspaper, March 31, 1906, Page 2

Sm TORN has cqweressuinner & 3 a ne * coming, for, had he seen the whissng BLAST HURLS ROCK 200 FEET, KILLING A MAN Timekeeper at Pennsylva- nia Excavation Was 200 Feet From Explosion. CAVE-IN ALSO FATAL. New York Central Workman | Killed and Another Hurt by Fall of Boulders. In a sequence of three accidents, ell occurring within a short space of time end all in railroad excavations, two men were killed outright to-day, three more probably fatally injured and| seven others more or less seriously| hurt, The careless handling of a blast cost one man his life at the site of the new Pennsylvania terminal. A fall of stone in a ditch where the exten- sion to the Grand Central station will stand caused the second death. Two of the fatally hurt victims sustained their wounds in an explosion of forgotten @ynamite In one of the new tunnels under Bast river. ‘The rain of rock that nearly always follows a blast in the excavations , for the new Pennsylvania terminal at Sev- enth avenue and Thirtieth street cost & life to-day. A huge boulder traveiled 20¢ feet with almost the force of a thirteen-inch ehell and, striking e time- keeper squarely upon the head, crushed his skull to bits. The dead man was Philip O'Henton,| twenty-six years old, of No. 602 Fourth avenue, Brooklyn. He never knew what hit him, nor did he knew what was PASSENGERS I W AEGIS OF TWO SPEEDING TRANS Twelve Reported Dead on | Santa Fe and Others on Southern Railway. Railway, southvor turned o rolled down an embankmedt at Hol eight miles fro: Macon, this cS It is reported severml have been killed and injured, The Chicago and FPlorfda specials is the fastest train tn the Southern’s ser- vico between Chattanooga and Jackson- ville. Its equopment is of the finest, carrying drawing-room sleepers from Chicago and Cincinnati. The train left Chicago over the Big Four at 1 o’¢lock yesterday afternoon, and Cincinnett at 926 last night over the Queen and Crescent. The Soutier’s Une is reached at Chattanooga, where the train passed through at 7 o'clock this morning. It arrived at Atlanta at 1.40 A. M, and was due In Jacksonville, Pla. at 890 to-nfgnt, and St Augustine at 1 Holton. where the wreck oocourred, is the first telegraph station west of Ma- con. LAS VEGAS, N. M., March &1.— Twelve persons are reported killed in the wreck of passenger krain No. 10, running from El Peso, Tex., to Chicago, on the Atohison, Topeka and Santa Fe Raliroad this afternoon. The train was derailed at Fulton, thirty-five milos from here, turned over and Was ditched. No. 10 left El Paso at 8.45 last night, where it oonneets swith, the Mexican Central ,and passengers from Blexico ity and other points in Mex- e Pull sleeper from Bt pate asia Ge sas a to-day. Ca r regas at noon lump of stone, he could have saved/500,000 MINERS himself by a turn of the neck. Foreman Joseph Lynman's gang of men set off a charge of dynamite im the big ditch at a point fifty feet below the pavement level. it is claimed that they failed to properly cover and protect the blast—something that has happened a great many times before there. A\ lie roar of Lhe explosion a shower of shattered fragiments of stone flew descended in the midst of a laborers. Standing in’ the “middie, of the group was the young tun oes, er, y e- a O'Hanlon, "The boulder smashed tn'tng Jett side of his head, tearing half of the skull aw Suiasler © falling near by 0, 19) West Thirty third Walls, of machinist, who has gharge ot 1 i hliy Tor him the olow was ucing one, After Surgeon Mount of New York Hospital had dressed his Wounds he was able to go home. Acting Inspector Hodgins, who was passing on a enth avenue car, wit- agedy. He arrested’ Lyn- EIGHT MEN HURT IN RIVER TUNNEL, Py the explosion of a forgotten charge of dynamite in shaft B of the Pe nin Railroad's tunnel under the East River to-day, eight men were eoverely hurt. ‘Two of them, froin she. niurles aud conc wil pbaoly die was hing for tne injured ncy of explodt nward ins! the blast eight dynamite to bere Oo: upward. Otherwi have ora ah 1 would of the shaft, ane every man in re would have been crushed . Leger o -four years 1 street, is He has a skull and a WORKMA BY BL KILLED | ST CAVE I! One man was killed and another fatail: WILL GO ON A STRIKE TO-NIGHT. (Continued from First Page.) hour day concession and will be ob- high in the air, falling all over the | Served as usual as @ holiday. Reighborhiood. 1 e Diseest, Stone of ail,| It was anticipated by members of the nie oe e, Mere, | National Dxeoutive Hoard to-day that dred fect, and, traveling to inte | the scale would be signed in all prob- «d feet in’ iorteasterly direction, |@billty by some of the operators of Bastern Pennsylvania, either this even- ing or Monday, Before the board went into executive session at the national headquarters of the mine workers, members said a for- mal strike order would not be issued, but at the close of work to-day the men would leave the mines with their tools and would not return until the scale had been signed by the operators and they had been so notified by the district officials, Members uf the board said that every step possible would be taken ocked hi ft 'Combustibics hate |to prevent violence, and @ formal ward T Smith, stationed at|declaration to tie minera forbidding uperintend the blast-| pics rt re Triveds junt asst: | riotmg or destruction of propemy and off. Smith sald. the ng them properly to conduct them- 1) Dezls work with | Selves would probably be issued. arrival. President Mitchell sald this afternoon the board would be in session until this operators to sign the scale. President Baer's lester had not reached him this utternoon, W1LKDS-BARRE, Mareh 31.—The an- Notices were posted this morning by st Ot the companies asking the m turn to work on Monday Of the existing agreement, i that the order nd will remain closed, y of the men brougat their tools t of the mines iast night, and the others are to bring theirs out to-day, while the companies Instead of mining coal to-day are preparing their hurt w a great quantity of sto which had been loosened by blasting, fel! n the New York Central's exca- vation at’ Forty-fifth street and Park venue to-day Rernard Russo, forty-three years old A str 330 East S! King directly beneath where th cave in occurred, He was caught and crushed to death Instantly, The body was recovered. His companion, James nt teen years old. of > ixty third ‘str had his skull crusned VICTIM OF CRUEL JOKE | DYING IN HOSPITAL. Newly-Made Triends Treated to a| Drink of Carbolic Acid and Ammonia. Gustave Richter, elght years old, o mason, twenty- ‘0, 28 Siegel stree ie dying in St, Catherine's Hospital, Willamsburg, as the seems to have been a murderous prac. joke, He etarted out quite late to work to- day end when he had gone about a block from his door he met two men They seemed in Jolly mood, stopped him and asked the honor of shaking hands. Belng a good-natured young fellow he shook hands, When one of the men i him to take a drink and offered a boitie, he drank from it, While he Was drinking the two men @sappeared. A moment later he fell to the pavement writhing in pain, Poltce- man Schwarts, of the Stage Street Sta- tion, was calied to the asdistance of the stricken man and suinmoned an ambu lance from St. Catherine's Hospital. The surgeon on the ambulance pala that what the man had drunk contained ampnia and somo cartolic acid. The viethn will vrohably ¢ Aw CURD POR PILES, result of what! m collieries for the expected shutdown. Will Wash Coal. effort of the coal companies operate the large number é in the region small expenditure run produce a Frew In 10 ® were opera’ to, 1e3 n wi may be number of them now as unskilled workers {pate tion and & them gol es of the strikers, guard collieries, are athered rapidly at points’ con- this city so that they can be @s s00n as needed. mber of agents have b ese ten, und report Miners Are Jubilant. PITTSBURG, Pa, March 8L—Pitti miners’ natton: om Indl burg delemates to the who r which permit where the wage He th Poory resolu tion of all scale of 190% 4 von and| evening and nothing had been done that wouki be of public inierest, Inj} private conversation Mr. Mitchell is re- ported as dicting a stampede of they will le to get more. ‘They are | to be used in keeping the mines in re- patr and guarding the collieries: AIPM TR TH: SWS MS, WILLANS SA PARANOAC Further Efforts to Send to Asy- lum Woman Who Annoyed Morgan’s Office. | _ In to-dag’s examination before Referee James J. Nealis as to the sanity of Mrs. Ellen B, Williams, the woman who an- noyed men in J.P. Morgan's office, Dr. Gregory, of the Psychopathic Wand, Bellevue Hospital, testified that she ts aor a paranohic. John G. Semmes, of Bal- | (Spectal to The venting Worl4.) nore, trustee of De Witt Clinton | MACON, Ga, March $1.—The Chicago} Winans's estate, tesiifled that Mrs wand Florida special on the Southern) wiltams received a $2,500 income by bequest, and if she 1s committed {t will not be to the State haspital, but to a pay ‘asylum. She fs now in a private santtarum. Asked by ex-Judge Sylvester J. Tay- lor, counsel for Mrs. Willlams, to-day, what he based his opinion upon, Dr, Gregory replied: “She has fixed and systematized de- lustons, supported and expressed logi- cally; she is excited, elated and in a state of exaltatleo—all characteristio symptoms of paranoia. She told every new person at the psychopathic ward that she was a great lady. She offered Ja nurse £1,00) a week for her attend- lance upon her, and promised diamond stick pins to the attoiding physicians, She says she {s writing a book, and re- cltes poetry, which, she saya, she hes composed for that book." one SUES FOR $5,000,000. Charles D. Brown Brings Actio' On Raflroad Bonds, An actton was cammenced to-day in | the United States Circuit Court by Henry J. MoCormeck, an attorney of ‘0. 27 Pine street, representing Charlies D, Brown, of this city, who esks that @ judgment of $5,357,740 be awarded bim Cee eie Memphis, El Paso and Pa- cliio Railroad Company, a ‘Texaa cot to the com] it, the de- fe it tion, in oruary, 1867, isqued 2,400 first mortgage ol bearing 6 per cent. interest. T, Brown, alleges that he became the owner of 1,657 of the bonds; that no in- terest has been paid thi nis: principal oF $1,007.00; oO A 6. The latter, computed at Ghrobiio, ‘makeing wrtotaL ot night, which indicates that the miners expect a long strilre. ——_ RETA OOAL DEALERS SEND UP THE PRICE, ‘Wth ten milion tons of anthracie oval available to stave off a coal famine and the operators pledged not to raise the price to dealera, the coal merchants of New York have raised the price on the congumers, putting into effect to-day a strike schettule of prices. ‘The new schedule which went into effect to«lay, following a might con- ference of the Coal Merchants’ Associ- ation, is as follows: White ash from 50 to ST. Red ash from §7 to $7.75. 0. 2 pea coal from $4.75 to $6. Pea coal (steam) from $3.85 to 85. Buckwheat No. 1 from $3.36 to 64.50, Buckwheat No. 2 from §2.85 to #4. Soft coal from §4 to $5, This raid on the consumer's pocket is aggravated by the fact that the usual “spring reduction of 50 cents & |ton on domestic cowl becomes effective on April 1, so that to-day's raise is in reality a Boost of $1 above the norm: In. issuing notice of the advance the dgulers gave no reason for their action. The opportunity to rake in a few extra dollars presented itself and the dealers could not overlook the chance for a grab. hracite coal companies are making Plan May Fail, Anywa: nuous efforts to induce their men to] Jt may not be possible, however, for vork on Monday despite the union's or-| tlie dealers to squeeze the public, If the ger for a suspension, coul-carrying roads enforce an’ agree- ment thi ure reported to have en- tered into to withhold coal from deal- [ers Who take advantage of the strained situation to squee 6 consumers. R 4 o-da rol her 2| The opermtors, whe are anxious to today. aud promising them pro-| no14° public opinion. in ebelr, struggle S and a speedy and vidrous pros inst the demands of the miners, tion of all who interf with t [have bound themselves not to raise It’ is doubtful, however, “that many | thy price of coal at, tide water while report for work, as those who OD: | remains, and to limit the sie of the at cae Dibe t 1 = commodity to prevent retailers from Putors that they will work, do not) ccmering. the supply ! to come out openly as anti-strike | “Air jopes of @ peaceful settlement longe! 10 of men until it is no longer possible tO) the troubles in the anthracite district are not gone, despite President Mitchell's ‘on leaders report ation fn call ry will be obeyed unanimously, and that|eve of a final conference nwite he every colliery. in the. re will be | Operators. | Mitchell's announcement that all work would cease in the anthracite region on Apri 1 was a shock ‘to the operators | It took them off thelr guard, as the announcement to the publlo ‘was co- ineldent with a request to the operators for a final conference on Tuesday morn- Erie All Prepared. Penusylvania Cou Company, ich Js the gow deparument or we is clalming that it is in @ position vperale & nur Of its colleries at | having: a actively bre- | or @ strike for several ‘months, | compauies, however, all state | y too will be abe to operate | auies when they set about it. yare walting to sve what will come Luseday's conference, | The wo to | Where wa »puiion here among tae vpcritgio! repreveditatives that when | the Wniiets aud Uverawurs eel In New | York next ‘tucodidy the latver will’ sas | to the m leuders that they cannot enter ny Lesvdalions for a worKine Qgreament whue the men are out, ag ; ate by longer employees of” the While strong hope 4s generally ex- pressed here Uiat a settiement will be reached before the suspelelon has been on many days, It ly quite as generally that ‘there will be @ fight to a rn feared finish and that it will be a long-drawn- out battle The operators have given out state- its that the majority of thelr men opposed to going out, and they are peful that there will be no occasion for a general shutdown Monday, Among the men, though great surprise was expressed at President Mitchell trike of the interstate order, no disposition extuty to re: niners i igh the order be tern want |. The walk-out will be complete, Patory Of nd Iitinots; tt also means there| Monday morning 175,000 miners ta The will be no sirike. of importance in this anthracite district will be tdle, Fag, and that 200 of sie 2.0) miners |. 'Th@ possibility of @ general strike in| in Pittsburg. district. will, continue at | the ditumfnous coal fields, was averted | Work, with, hossibly a shutdown to work | at Indianapolis late vemerday, when the | off aoeumulated ste ited Ming Workers’ convention, ‘xt | Tt the Independent. operators refuse | President Mitchell's suggestion, author. to slgn the new scale, probably 5 zed National and District offelals to men will 4 work in thig distric yaereements with any coal Independents seen to-day were re-| Jecratar he We equivalent ney, the ticent and would not commit themselves | S41" ot’ twa veate a on the question of whether they would | "qvniq th an advance Uf 6.55 per cent. foliow. the example of the Pittsburg |in [Minois. Indiana, Ohio and "Weseerh Coal Company and pay the 1903 scale of | Pennsylvania and’ all other distriov wases, but it was intimated in most | except tho Southwest, where the 19g cases that the mines of the independ-| schedule Is etill in effect and whore a onts would operate if those of the co:n- of ‘8 in this fleld did not report at ¥ eS a Pilea, the collieries to-day. The men took all thetr toelg frem the workings last per cent, advance 1s demanded. Many the operators have agreed to. stgn bine dt he scale anit the strike in the bitunste Hundreds Quit Work. Bae eA HIN UNALEHAR ORG rat ural Pua ule SHAMOKIN, Pa, March $1.—Hundreds TO Colts \ COLD IN ONG DAY, Take LAXATIVE PkOMO. Drugelate resand inoney if it , GROVE’S signature om | maintained other establishments DA Keck yesterday inine Tablets, tis all he Gould for the embe tach box. “Ws, eet | “Sore, “Durmayr eoak "the | Guiity to Avoid F of Double Li money I had plenty of friends. were of the opposite sex, and to avol: Detectives employed in tracing his relations with women other than his handsome blond wife discovered to- day evidence tending to show he was a close friend of Ruth Rogers, the unfortunate young woman who shot and killed herself three weeks ago at No. 14 West Bighty-fourth street. Turney, when told of this, emphatically denied he had known Ruth Rogers. To ayold further exposure of the details of his double life Turney !s ready to plead guilty and begin to serve his term in prison. The bank officials have discovered that he expects to recelve a large cum of money soon from an estete now in process of set- tlement and have taken steps to attach it. The amount does not approach the amount of his defalcation. Assistant District - Attorney Pinohot conferred with lawyers representing the bank to-day and arranged to hasten the indictment of Turney. He may be indicted on Monday and placed on trial within @ few days. Ruth Rogers was not the only woman friend of the conniving bank clerk. His latest flame was one “Edina,” whose bills he was paying in a flat close to that in which the Rogers wom- an lived. Beskies, as packages of let- tors found in his locker in the Twenty- second Regiment Armory lest night showed, he was on familiar terms with one “Edith’ and one “May,” who lived in Brooklyn. Few of Turney’s assoolates, elther in business life or in the Twenty- second Regiment, in which he was a captain, knew of his relations with women, They supposed him devoted to his handsome wife and his big son, with whom he lived at No, 4 Montague street, Brooklyn, in the Arlington partments. Turney told an Evening World reporter in the Tombs to-day that he had been corresponding with other women for ten years. He kept all the letters he received in his locker at the Armory, and they were found there last night. Clue in a Gas Bill. That old admonition, “Look for the womaa,"” ocourred to the detectives yes- terday. They didn't have to look far. In the morning mail that reached the bank there was a square, white envel- ope addressed to Turney in the hand- writing of a woman. The detectives opened the envelope. Inclosed was a bill for $13 for gas used by Mrs Edna — in a flat convenient to the Twenty- second Regiment armory, at Sixty-sev- enth atreet and Broadway. The sleuths made a hurried trip to the flat, but Edna had evidently got hold of the early editions of the after- noon papers containing the news of Turney’s arrest. She had departed in a hurry, but she will have to return. For a time the detectives and bank offi- cers thought Edna might have the $24,000 that Turney stole, It was figured he took the money when he went out for lunch yesterday, met the woman in @ restaurant and passed it to her. Turney in his conversation witn, The Evening World reporter in his cell to- day said this assumption was ridicu- lous. Not a dollar of his stealings is left, he asserts. Stole for Five Years. “I began to steal from the bank five or six years ago—maybe longer,” said Turney, in @ matter of Cact way. ‘I stole all the time I was note-teller, covering up my transaotions by fixing the books. It 1s true I got away with $34,000 but not in a Lump, “Do you think I could have picked up $4,000 and walked out of the bank with it at ope time? The idea is foo- ish, The amount of my abstractions crept up until {t got to $34,000, and then they nabbed me. I spint every cent of it as fast as I took it out.” “How about the National Bank ex- aminers?” he was asked. xam{ned’ my books every six replied Turn But didn't they suspect anything; didn't they sce that your accounts were doctored Won “Well, you notice that they didn’t,’ ferere ee pee (utes as je expres- sive wolf-aatis: lon. ‘How about Edna's gas bill?” asked the reporter. ji ‘his Was somewhat of a knockout for Turney. It was the first he had heard of the revelations the police had made about Edna, The reporter explained that the gas bill had gone to the bank. “Did they have the nerve to--- Do ‘ou mean to say that they opened my fetters?” domanded ‘Turney, his face livid with rage. “I'll prosecute them for that crime.” Letters Old, He Say‘ Inquiries were made of Turney as to Fdlth and May and as to the letters found in h's locker. i “Those letters," he declared, ‘‘are eight or nine years old. I though they'd break Into my looker and tried. to get up there and clean it out before they locked me up, but they wouldn't let me chan the gnenyen occupied in Brooklyn,” he was tohd. “Ah, Cut that out," said Turney, with an airy wave of his hand. ‘And please don't ask me about Edna, 1 prefer not to talk about ner, it you Want any further information you will have to see my lawyer, Major Frank Keck, of No. 45 Broadway.” Wife Stands by Him. Major Keck sald that he had known Turney for forty years and had acted as counsel for him jn several lawsuits, one of which has not yet been settled. Turney's wife and gon visited Major 1d begged him to do znler. pewe of her 0. “The letters seem to indicate that E WORLD: SATURDAY EVE DEFENDS WOMAN WHO HELPED SPEND HIS STOLEN FUNDS “A man’s best friend is the money he has. Now, when I am down and out, no one has been to see me but my faithful friend and life partner—my wife.” Such is the philosophy of Joseph A. Turney, the defaulting noteteller of the National Bank of North America. Some of the friends his money brought him during the five or six years he was stealing from the bank Turney is ready, as he expresses it, to ‘take his medicin Embezzler Turney Ready to Plead urther Disclosures fe—His Wife © Loyal to Him. When I had plenty of id exposure of details concerning them husband's duplicity calmly are In company with her son she had break- fast to-day in the Montague Hotel, on Brooklyn Heights, Every one in the dining-room seemed to know who she was, and every one looked at her and talked about her, but she mae no sign of annoyance. “It ig too bad," she declared, ‘that I have to suffer ‘for this, I have done no wrong. I had no idea that my hus- | band was taking money from the bank. I thought we were living within our income, usband left home early morning, but I understood he had out- | side business to attend to before going to the bank. When he did not come | home until late at night I thought was engaged with his military duties |at the armory. “All I know about the alleged love letters found in his possession I have seen in the newspapers. I do not know if the etories are true and cannot talk about, them until I have learned the The lawsuft spoken of by Major Keck is @ civil action in the Kings County Court in the settlement of an estate, and Turney is a defendant. When the case is settled, according to Keck, Turney will receive a large sum of money—not large enough, how- ever, to cover his shortage with the National Bank of North America. Letters from “Edna.” The big packet of letters found in Turney's locker in the Twenty-second Regiment Armory is in the possession of the bank oificiais. They are being ex- every amined, In the hope of finding some clue to the whereabouts of some of the stolen money, but the hope is emall, President Curtis’ is convinced that Turney spent the money as fast as he stole it. The flat ocoupled by and searched. ry apartment. Turney insists that ‘Edna’ is a woman of means whose property he handles, and that the letters she wrote ne him are business commu: following fllustrations of ness correspondence are t “Tear Bunny—Why did you recognize me? Siw you from t cony. Was \ery lonesome up there all alone, Could not come down on fivor, ‘Thought vou might not lke It, “Will wait for you this eevning, ‘Lovingly, EDNA.” ‘Hotel St. Paul, March 18. Dear Dovie—Don't forget your ap- pointment, Will meet you, maln dining , Reisenweber's at 7.90. RE OE ES “Atlantio City—! oro-Blenheim. “Dearest: 1 am here spending a Uttle of your money, Wish you could be with me. EDNA.” ‘At about the same time “May’’ was writing him ean eon: Here is a y of one of her letters: sortase “Brooklyn, March 8, “Dear Cal My appointment with | you to-day will have to be off. “Miserable weather is the only thing that keeps me away. I hope to see you Soon. Will let you know when Mr. B. oes array. Devotedly MAY. TURNEY’SEMPLOVER IS AN EXPERT ON BANK PROTECTION. Alfred H. Curtis, President of the National Bank of North America, from which Joseph Turney, the note teller, stole $24,000 in a perlod extending, he says, over six yeurs, is also president of Group A, of the State Bankers’ As- sociation. Mr. Curtis t@ regarded as an authority upon methods of safe- guarding banks from losses through the dishonesty of employees. He has made thany hes on the subject in this city and up-State during the winter, and the news ¢hat one of his employees got awny with %4,000 under his very eyes has caused his friends consider- able amusement. < “They may josh Curtig” said one to an Evening World reporter to-day, “put the National Bank of North Amertca never had an expertence like that of the National City Bank, which sent a boy to Laidlaw & Co.'s bank with a draft. There's a story for you." ‘he Evening World reporter ran down the story. Laldiaw & Co. are private bankers, with extensive southern con- nections, at No. 14 Wall stfeet. The National City Bank 1s at No, 64 Wall street, a little over a block away. Re- cently the man in charge of the mes- sengers at the National City Bank called a boy and handed tim a draft for $8,000 on Laidlaw & Co,, instructing him to go to the Laidlaw Bank and get the money. The boy departed. In @ few minutes a boy entered the Laidlaw Bank with the draft. The cashier tossed over $3,000, slammed the draft in his drawer and the boy went away with the money, When they checked up that night at the National City Bank they were 88,000 shy. The shortage was traced to the Latdlaw draft, Laidlaw & Co. sali they had pall and to prove it they showed the draft Then came the hunt for the boy. The Laidlaw cashier had paid no attention to him and could not tell if he was three feet tall or six feet tall, if he had read bair or ted air Or one eye or four eyes. All 'y City Benk boys were lined up, but he could not even to pick out the boy to whom he paid that $8,C00, “the man in chatwe of the City Bank boys could not remember which one he sent out with the $8,000 draft. Each boy rlenied be had gone on the errand, The $8,000 had di . And Laidlaw & Co, had to pay it over again. pes eae os KAISER AGAIN GIVES HONOR TO VON BUELOW. BERLIN, Maroh 3L—Emperor William has appointed Prince von Buelow, the Imperial Chancellor, to be a member of SERS EMM ELS RG NT MARCH 31, Y90b. THREAT OF ARREST BRINGS BALLOT BOX Voorhis Takes It Before Leg- | — islative Committee, and It Is Opened. A new subpoena, following one of yes- terday, was served to-day on President John R. Voorhis, President of the |Greater New York Board of Elections, lat the instance of the Legislative Com- | mittee on Privileges and Bleotions, re- quiring him to produce at the Hotel Cadillac, where the Committee {s in session, the ballot box of the Thirty- fifth Election Distric: of the Seventh Assembly District this afternoon. Accompanying the subpoena was this order: “Bring the box at leo'clock or be arrested.” Acconlingly President Voorheis sent to Brooklyn for the box, which the Eagle Storage Company was holding for safe-keeping. Policeman James Hughes brought {t across the Bridge on @ prosaic Smith street car and took it to the hotel, where the Legislative Committee had been in session since yesterday, But the dispute over the box was not ended yet, President Voorhels, with As- | sistant Corporation Counsel Arthur C. Butis, arrived at the Cadillac about the same time the box did. He hadn't made up his mind yet whether he would open the box without a special order of the Supreme Court, or, standing pat, risk an arrest by an assistant sergeant-at- arms of the Legislature for contempt. Meanwhile, the Legislative Commitiee fumed at this fresh delay. Mr. Voorhis finally announced that the Eleclion Commissioners, while pro- ducing the box, refused either to open * or to authorize the opening of it Accordingly the Legislative Committee took the responsibility, The chairman broke the seal himself. Then, after ail outsiders had been exohuded, the work of counting the ballots cast in the race between Hyatt and Grady for Assembiymen wes begun. Hyat:, the Independent candidate, 1s contesting the election of Grady, Democrat. HIGHLANDERS G0 ON TO ATLANTA Griffith Disgusted with Birm- ingham Rains, Hopes for a Chanve. By Bozeman Bulger. (Special to The Evening World.) BIRMINGHAM, Ala., March 31.—After fully attempting to play out the ing and pull off a game, Griffith threw up the sponge to-day, and to- morrow the carmayan moves on to At- jana. While there was no rain, the Birmingham grounds were wet and soggy, and Griffith feared to tuke the chance of the players getting wet feet. The team is in excellent condition with the exception of Thomas, who is ill, and will wadt for good Weather in Atlanta. They will remain there a week and then start out for New York. A party Of the Colts will stop off at Lywichburg, Va. Al, Orth's home, for a practiso mame, and will be picked up by the fh ASK POLICE TO LOOK FOR MISSING WOMAN. Miss Catherine Grotz Disappeared Monday Last from Her Home in Hoboken. ‘The Hoboken police to-day asked the New York police to look for Miss Catharine Grotz, who has been miss- ing from her home, No, 408 Jackson street, Hoboken, since March 26. Her camily. fina Aisa dee, Legs me en tall; irresponsible an wandere. away. She had been an invalid @ num- ber of yone fav it was feared she oulg become insane. “Ghe is thirty-six yeare old, 5 feet 4 inches In height, stout, of light cam- plexio1 gray eyes and wore a blue Rdre Black Jacket, blue velvet hat and black button shoes, WATCHMAN NEAR TO DEATH AT A FIRE. S$ losses here aggregate $3,300. place was on fire early to-day and was Inter taken to Harlem Court on a charge of intoxication. Polic Bhi peeree Steno fire was caused by O'Brien who, drunk, upset an oll stove. ‘The policeman found O'Brien uncon- sclous ‘with flames all about, Firemen put out the blaze with $200 damage and then it was found O'Brien was suffer ing) mare from whiskey, than from smoke. He lives at No, 162 Bast Nine- ty-third stret. tb) an bile isa lee party en route to New York. Grit- | Patrick O'Bri watchman ‘at the new building, No. 159 East : Elghty-| ninth street, was rescued when the fT E Ry i MUTUAL LIFE OLD OFFICERS “Housecleaning” Com- | mittee Also Urges Suits Against Trustees. The Truesiale Housecleaning Com- mittee of the Mutual Life made public its fifth report to-day, The committee believes the system jot conducting the annual elections of trustees is radically wrong and should be changed. The report says nearly all of the 600,000 policy-holders are entitled to vote, but at the annual election in June, 1906, only 199 did vote, and these | Were nearly all trustees or employees |of the company. The report says: oeame Dower of any small num- | ber policy-heldera or their | Prox to clect trustees in a menace to the whole body of pollcy-holders. “To allow the President or any other oMecer of the company to hold such a number of proxies as will vest in him complete control of elections cannot but result establishing wrong rela- tions between the trustees and the Fresident and other officers of the company. “Ambition” Causes Ills. The committee recomments that the| number of trustees be reduced from thirty-six to twenty-four, divided into| three classes of eight each, so that the terms of one olass will expire each year. The committee declares that the trou- bles of the company can all be traced to the ambition of its management to equal of excell all others in the amount of in- surence i writes, and maintained fur- their by its other and possibly control- ling desire to be one of the great finan- clal powers of this country. The report fa | “The real purpose of the com- pany/s organisation, to tarnish to| its members absolutely safe in- surance at the lowest cost, seems to have give | thts ambition for power and in- fluence in the business and finan- | etal world.” The company's forelgn business, the| jreport says, has Leen conducted with |the same ambitton. ‘The report adds: “Ag an entire proposition, your com-| imittee finds the company's foretgn busi- |ness has not been remunerative, nor 1s | exception ‘of Great Britain, Holland, Bel- gium, Mextco and France.” It advises | stopping the hunt for new business in jother foretgm countries, Approves Armstrong BTls. | The recommendation of the legislative committee limiting new business writ- to $150,000,000 per year is indorsed. Deferred dividend polictes are called “a mongrel type of insurance,” and the! recommendation of the legislative com-/| mittee that the writing of such polictes he discontinued {s approved. The com- mittee hesitates to critcise investments in stocks of banks and other financial | institutions, but says such holdings | should be limited to 10 per cent. of the stock outstanding. Syndicate participations are disap- proved either by the company or any of its officers or trpstecs, As to Campaign Funds. The committee says it is ad- vised that the company’s funds donated for political or campaign purposes were unlawfully dis- |bursed, and recovery ean be h from the officials or trustees re- “Te upproves of the gotign of the Pres! laent already taken looking to mute to | recover these moneys, In spite of all efforts since Met No- vember, no trace has been found of: Andrew C. Fields, who wag in charge of, | the company’s “stationery” department ‘and through whom disbursements for so- | called legal expenses were made. | peters to “Improper Expenditures,”’ | the ay a: |‘ nie commnittes {8 amazed at, the| | character of some of those transactions and the apparent indffference regarding them shown by thowe officials of the company Who were also trustees, and \also by other trustees in a position to know of them and who approved or |countenanced them. Would Sue to Recover. ‘While your committee does not be- Pevelay, member of the E: rear ittee pe: ese naar tovtrbatae er” creat least the Chairman, certainly sible for them, and your Com: therefore: recommends: ipa ee er bbe referred to the Presid Dower to take action, to secure an accounting and restitution.” er goo! ms athe ticesprean its of the company, who were also trustees formally ap- |proved the large disbursements saferred to and others of lke questionable char- acter. They had long been connected with the company were paid large [salaries in return for thelr experience jand services, ‘They certatnly have fallen [short of their duty. |"In the opinion” of committee these offictale and vaveral others ne responsible positions in the company’s service cannot longer serve the com- ny's interest in the severs’ positions |they pave held and should rifire there- i from, : LOTS NOW $195 — APRIL 10th ally conduct you over th @ Beat 34th St. Ferry, depots. Come Again Sunday to Massapequa We were hardly prepared to give each one of the 360 purchasers who came out attention we wished to, and desire to inspect MASSAPEQUA more thoroughly, whether you bought then or not, we cordi lly invite you to come again to-morrow (Sunday) and we will then be ina position to person- ¢ property and explain all details to you. New York, at 1:10 P, M., Flatbush Ave., Nostrand Ave., or Manhattan Crossing, Our representatives with transpoi — QUEENS LAND AND TITLE CO. elsrber*: 1033} Brrant Times Building, 42d Street and Broadway, - - NEW YORK, N. Y, $240 — IN OUR FIRST SECTION s last Sunday, the personal you were out Sunday and Brooklyn, at 1:20 P. M. rtation will meet you at these | sent a hurry call to the Lebanon Hos- ft ever Mkely to be, with the possible| vt SURGEON CUTS URGED 10 QUST | OFF CHILD'S LEG IN AMBULANCE. [Dr. Kutcher Makes Des- perate Effort to Save Life of Elizabeth McGlory. In @ desperate effort to save a chihi's| Ife an ambulance surgeon to-day ‘am- putated a four-year-old gir¥s crushed leg while driving at breakneck speed to’ the Lebanon Hospital. The child was Hilzabeth McGlory, of No. ié7 Lin- coln avenue, the Bronx, and her con lis tion was such that when she arrived at the hospital Mttle hope was enter- tained that she would live. The child had just left her mother to run an errand for her and wes skipping across Lincoln avenue et One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street when Southern Boulevard electric car No. 1% going north struck her. The motorman, Henry, Michell, says the child dashed across the street #0 suddenly and unexpestedly that he had no warning. In spite of this he threw himself upon the brake in s0 frantic an effort to stop the car that a front wheel stopped upon the child's right leg without injuring the other limb. Instantly Michell reversed the car and released the crushed leg. A woman who refused to give her name rushed from a nearby door tear- ing her white apron into strips which she bandaged around the crushed leg, while little Elizabeth was carried into a corner saloon. Policeman Feudner pital and placed Mitchell under arrest. Dr. Kutcher arrived in the ambulance and seeing the serious condition of the of the lunging ambulance and ampu- tated the leg, which hung by a shred, FRENCH TROOPS FIGHT THE STRIKING MINERS. LENS, DEPARTMENT OF THE PAs. DE-CALAIS, France, March %.—The strike 1s being renewed throughout the mining region. A sanguinary affray has occurred at Henin-Lietard, +A striker was killed, three gendarmes were wounded, houses were sacked and win- dows were broken. ‘Over 30,000 strikers are parading and have engaged !n riotous manifestations, A thousand additional troops have ar- riyed here, The Parliamentary Committee to-day n ite investigation here into the catastrophe of March 10, and the etrik- made, demonstrations before the ' H : 4 Maybe you don’t Hl like beef extract; maybe you have tried the wron, kind. You will chan, our way- of-thinking if ou try one jar Armour’s Extract of Beef Different? — Well! Askyour druggist or grocer. ARMOUR @ COMPANY| Chicago ro en ~— {MPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT = Bullfrog-Keystone Gold Mining Company appears in the financial section of the Sunday World. Firet stock now selling at 5 cents @ share, par value $1.00, full paid and non-essessuble, | EEE DIED. =e MOLE.—Oo Friday, infant oon of Walter ‘and Nellte Mole, nee Briscoe. w Funeral at 1 o'clock on Suniday trom" hin Inte residence, Hancook st, . Van Nest; Church St. Edward the Mar- tyr, 12 EB. 100th et; St. Michael's « Cometery. . March 80, JACOB ROBINSON,—Friday. ROBINSON. Funeral will take place Sunday, Aprit residence, 69 Chryatie from his < and % 10 A. M, Relatives friends invited to attend. os be WOOMS.--On Tridey, March 86," WOODS, beloved hushana of YY Woods. 1 ss ke Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend the funeral from his lese s*sldence, 19 Tillery st, Drookiyn, co Biepang. Ape &, ah 8 Ad |