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LAL FIREBUG) ~TODARESWED ROME CLS.) FRINGE ET” SNE EN WES PME THE EVENING WORLD, ‘TUESDAY, JEROME CALLS, TO SET TRIALS, { TWOFEER TN | ® stubby dark mustache. He vis- |~ As Has been told. the be Mrs. ited ibe Kegister's office soon after the Swan? sudA alaseyonllaag for hy, in ee aa to Inquire the “proper vorce and charged that a woman, WhOM tion, ta-ref she named spectfically, had creel inn person juniess by order of the C ving opened. for Inspec: e's report and testimony ; ection which has been or-° | the Court.” This mar. ile no geeret of the case to which he referred, | ae CHANGES INNEW YORK _ CENTPAL MANAGEMENT. | ‘on Bwan to forget hin marringe vows or about July 13, 1907." Promipily afer | recelving the report of the referee, by whom, the testimony was taken, Justice. Abbo:{ aligned the decree gramting Mra. Swan « divorce and xiving her the custody of ker two ghtldren. Wealthy Woman, Narned,. + The quiet rumor in the court, which | A. H. Sriitii, General Suyerintend- Tudges and lawyers helpas to spread.| ent, Now General Manager of SWAN DIVORCE i > i OU-Sdaked Halls “Were a Indicted Officials Sunnered MAES Brooklyn gaan dent. was entirely ignorant that sho} mo New York Central Ralltoaa a Flames and Escape by the Stairways Was Cut Off. are test, but beneath them was a well lead- INCENDIARY WAS SEE | BURNHAM CASE " UPSET. |. Policeman Searched in Yain for Him Just Before the Flames Rolled Up. * Fire of —tncenttary origin trapped more than one hundred persona in the bi six-story tenement-house, No. : '% Pearl etreet, to-day, every one of “whoin had to be lifted to tte street Gown the fire ladders by firemen end police, : z ‘That the fire was started by thieves bent on robbing the homes ef some of “the twenty-four faniilies in the house fe , the accepted theory of the’ police, but there 1s a suspicion it was the work of members of the Black Hand seeking Fevenge on one of several Italian fami- Yes. in the upper floors. © Late last night Mrs, Sarah Bohnelder, who lives on the third foor ef the tenement, at No. 7, saw a man on the woot of the house. across the street. The man moved about mysterious'y and. -Mra_Bchnelder.ran over te George Bierach, who ives at No. 14 and whe {aithe-auent foc Noni, Gaw Man on Roof. ____ femiiral intaionaavenT inst resticcioeer house,” she said. “He is a thief or a @rebug, You better hurry up there.” Bierach ran to the roof, but the man hed! disappeared. Again an hour later Mrs, Schneider crossed the street and qalled to Bierach: — "That man is again on your roof. I bave just seen him.” Again Blerach Investigated, this time with “a-policeman, but the-man could not be found ~ On—the_third— floor of No. 78 lves Mre. Tillfe O'Neill, with her four daugh- ters, Elizabeth, nineteen; Helen, sev- enteen; Lillian, fourteen, and Florence, twelve. The elder daughter was awak- ened at 2 o'clock this| morning by the crackling of flames and smell of smoke. _.fhe_opened the door ‘Jeading Into the ablaze from cellar to root. The girl Baa hardly time to close the door and eave herself from being burned, Frank Russo, who lives with his wife “and five children across the hall, wae awakened at the same time He, too, ” opened the door, and @ tongue of flame shot tn’ at him, burning him bedly about the face end hands, Stalrways Cut Of. Instantly the fire ory sounded through the house. Escape by the stairway wae “impossible, 20 fiercely wera the flames purning, The twenty-four families took to the front and rear fire escares. _/Thone on the lowest escapes discovered “they could not get to the street except by ‘a Jump.of more than twenty feet. Not canly, wera the lower ladders stuck ing Into the basement. The escapes ‘were soon jammed. with screaming women and children. Some of the men >on tho lower caceges leaped to the the upper eacapes could not —get—past the jam of frightened tenants. ‘Two Fall Off Escap ~ # denly crowded from the ladder by pressure from above her and fell othe pavement, fracturing her skull. Bantuel Rice, |who was on the ladder with Mies Stein,tried to catoh her es ghe fell, and he toppled off, injuring himself bedly. Misa Steln was takea: to the hospital. When tho -fireinen _arrived_ ~—wers-reteedand-the firemen brought | @ewn-more than 100 persons. ‘After the-fire- was out the police and. firemen began to question the tenants, Tt was then’ discovered that kerosene ofl had been sprinkled through-the hall- way, and one of the fremen came upon a oan thet had contained tte oll aaa aagncees DROPS DEAD | ACROSS i DOCTOR 'S THRESHOLD. “David Buckman,-a Tea Merchant, |° Was Visiting Physician for His Heaith. Peter Buckman, sixty-thres years of, | a tea merchant, of No, 874 Park avenue, Brooklyn, this afternoon called on his physician, Dr. Herbert 8. Dickson, at’ _ No, 3 Korolusko street, to coneuit bim about his hedlth, ‘Whoti the doctor opened thé door the merohant fell across the threshold died in « few minutes. pbgath was due to cerebrel-hemor-, | ‘There te to be a grand clearing up of [teel, agpinet hall, to discover the stairways and hall} Twithsur ihyury, pur thoes Pon: pall: to Appear in Court Next Monday ; Motions to Dismiss” Expected as Result of the Reversal of Conviction, - ~ |of twd Brooklyn husbands, who are quainted,, tli him whether the name of “The: changes became Beste totdny. x : burning to know who In -the “myster-/ his wife ‘fad Deen mentioned in the tes- ——_s—— nel fous co-respondent’? named. by timiony Jn the Swan divorce wotion, The| SEVENTEEN DIE OF BERi BERI. all the cases pending. against the tiur- pos oMictals who were indicted as the | A! result of the Armstrong Committee dis- Glowures im the Criminal Branch of the @upreme Court Monday. Bubpoenas have been fesued for the eppearnnce before Justice Dowling that @ay of nine of the big officials of the @ifrerent companies to put in their final ‘pleas to the Indictments pending against them. In nearly all the cases the Dis- trict-Attorney’s office expects motions will be made to dismiss thé indictments en the ground thet the State fails to Alleges crins as outlined by the Ap- Peliate Court decision in the case of George A. Barnham, of the Mutua! Reserve Life Insurance Company, whoee conviction. was set aside. j In event of these motions being de- nied District-Attorney Jerome, it ta! Qeserted, wi immediately move. the trial of the Indicted men. The first to DS placed on trial, It ts belleved, will be Walter R. Gillette, vice-president’! of the Mutual Life Insurance Compeny, against’ whom there are pending five forgery charges and one perjury charg. The -jatter charge willbe tried firet, the alleged perjury having been com- maltted befcre the Grand Jury when Gil- lette was called defore that body to. plain the forgery accusation. Trial for Grannte . Robert A. Grannis, also of the Mu-| whom: there are two: tn; Gietments pending—torgery and. misde- meanor—wilt be placed on trial follow- ing Gillette, ‘The trials of George W. Perkins and Charles & Fairchild, indicted on aix charges of forgery in- connection with the-New York Lite affairs, will, it the inélotments are not dismissed on: legal; ‘gtounds, in all probability be os) some time in December. ‘They will _be followed by the trial of wae} Thomas D. Jordan, formerly . eomp- troller of the Equitable Life Insurance Company, against whom there are eigh- teen indictments for forgery and one for perjury pending, John’ R. Hageman, President of the Metropolitaa’ Life Insurance Company, | who bas to answer to ten Indictments, seven alleging forgery and three per- Jury, will, it ts understood, be placed ‘on trial in February. De Limncey Nicoll fa Hageman's attorney, and {1 quoted uy-saying that the indictments ars de- fective, Cases Against Burnham. ‘The ‘cases _against-Proderiok—A__Bum- lamps onoree! 4 Burnham and George Do Elaridge, formerly “of the Mutual Reserve. Lite Insurance Company—ft- teen indlotments axainst-the-thres-in _probaldlity be movado Viee-President ef Joy Lim Rxpires from Paeumonta. George B. Brown, vice-preskient of the Joy Steamship Company, died at Ya home in this alty to-day from pneu- monta, He had been in feeble health feces Cie months rown wes made vice-president. PEST eS oid He ‘made to-day, to Justice Diokey or Jus-|' Bui only oneeco-respondant was named thea Abbott, of the Supreme: Court, in Brooklyn, for an Order to open ‘the ref- eree’s report-and the testimony in the Swan divorce case. sary. to relieve the torturing suspicions {have the Justice, with whom he ls ac: Marie Louise Swan in het divorce sul! on tha'referee’s report of, whioh Justice) eealed on the’ seme shall sot be exhibited to any utias dark ne to complexion and wear was that the husband of the woman} the Bostor-andAthany: whom Mrs, Swan. nanied a9 co: respon | RESTAURANT G EIGHTH 7008 | SIXTOIAV., 19”T0 20 * STREET: NEW YORK. “Magnificent Lace Curtains in This Sale at the- PS) of the Domestic Imitations _ on_the alert ‘for good - trade oppart acti had been so designated. Ami at least two porsons who had seen her name in the testimony whispered that ahe and her husband are wealthy and prominent In Brooklyn society ami that Justice Abbott wisely scaled the papers, jess @ tremendous scandal arise. Rouncen the following changex in ma agement: ‘A. He Bmith,> General Superintendent | of the New York “Central, appointed! Vice-President and’ General Manager} of the “Hoston and Albany, in charge; of operation and maintenance, | with | headquarters In New York. J, H. Hustts, appointed Asmstant Gen- | @ral Manager of ‘tha Boston and Al- any, with headquatters tn’ Roston, to rucesed Vice-President Edear Ven Eten. May Ask Caurt to Have Hares Opened. ‘Two applications are expected to pe Halt a doaen—men-know that «roa: Inert resident of, Brooklyn visited Supreme Court Tastice moon after 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Fg call. it ‘wan alec jearned, was ta «: ‘This ection, it te wats will be neces- effort to ti tustics asaured his friend that he posi- It, AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. L—Dr, D. M! | ige as to the hier 2 tively bad pol knows ¢ en-\ -wworvham, Superintendent of the State! Insane Aaylum, today inet there. has been an epidemic of Among. the: patienta, “In all there have Deen aovent# cases, seventeen of which proved fatal, ~ ’ tity Sethe co-resrondent Another Anxious Husband, Clerks in the office of the Register tell of another man, tall, of athletic hott wrote Inst Saturday: “The. papers in this action’ shall de the entry of judgment, and AV, 19®T0 20* STREETS NEWYORK. Charming New Millinery. ~ Ww are constantly receiving from Paris new shapes and styles in‘Millinery. ‘and lections of Hats most interesfing. our own experts are constantly devising new effects, whieh inake our col: heard of tora $8.50 values, pair, 31 designs in this lot, worth up to $17.50, pair _ While the collection is exceptionally large and selection is wide, certain numbers may g0- smore - abroad, our foreign office Eon pasted: forithie mous collection of Lace Curtains at the most advan- tagcous figures for such high-class merchandise that have been obtain- ed in the European markets this season. ©” The unusual price-concessions procured are refi Tuesday sale, for the quotations below ate those you expect to find on the American imitations—not on the genuine imported lace curtains. The vast and varied assortment embraces such popular styles as Lacet Arabian «- ‘Renaissance : Marie Antoinette Cluny. 15 styles. $7. 50 to $5 *9: 3 Brussels pater te Antique. All the latest, European Novell effects are shown, bac rth # are exclusive in this country with the Simpson-Crawiord store. « {18 patterns,thegradeusu- ally priced up to $10, pair 16° designs, magnificent novelties, 22.50 val., pr: quickly than others; therefore it is advisable not to defer your visit too long. Ruffled Renaissance Bed Sets—Underpriced. Our showing of Bed Bets embraces almost every desired style, while the pricing ‘the most remarkable yalues this store has ever presented along this Une. $5.50 and $5.90 Bed Sets at $3.45, ‘and equally good valucs at $5.90, $8.0, $12.76 and $17.60, Portieres at-a Third Under and at Half Regular Prices. “be—vow-are “The correct hungingé for your room—no matter what the period or color scheme may tain to find here and et Jeae than you anticipate paying-tor portieres of fine grade. $5 Turkish Rug Couch Covers, 92.85. $25 Portieres to go at $14.75 At this extraordinary marking you may select Cream. Gobelin Tapestries, Silk Crinkled Tapestries or Bordered Armure Damask—a superb gathering of foreign draperies at. the smallest price ever. Very heavy and durable, reversible and fringed all around. Sale limited to one to « customer. Positive $15 alse tuch- goods: You will also find great economies in mente at the assort- This exceptionally . swell trimmedhat—} $10 Felt with velvet under- brim. i Full trimming of ta! k and pompon. Please note that the pompon effect forms practically the whole trimming of this hat. We imported these . Pompons and believe no other establish- te ment has then: to-day. Price of Pompon. $2.65 trimmed _ hat with rimmed, hat Sieh | $7.05 VF ieeaces At This very swell nf Please note the aigrette effect of eatin feathers, brought from abroad by ourselves—shown there on $50 trimmed hats. We have just received these Jgrettes and offer them a UUOSAN PDIP 22LPIDDYIDIXNW MAUD /IDD fo DDDBPLBPLLLLLLASASA CL CGS AALS OAWDBBD DDD DDD VDPLE erareeron— sh <snvenhr imesh Ii SoS ABAD LENE Aor oer oe Hing ener ina i “am MUL OY OGLE’ i UM Tori ong VY Z Uy 72 LEE Mr VES) BM he, Ze pose OED Le ie ata iL. rel $5.90, $8.90, $12.50 and $ 17.50 and widely with stair carpet to match, Important Sale of *1.55 to "1.75 i Velvet Carpets at °1.25 a Yard on». O not confuse this with a ‘‘Remnant Sale,’’-for in this notable purchase are to be found from one to five rolls of each pattern orescence. te extensive ried showing of ‘about fifteen” Not in years have ttern: h bord “been able to announce auch values as these in. genuine Wilton Velvet Carpets which..as you probably know, are far superior te the ordinary “Velvet*': This is the extra heavy pile Wilton Velvet; the patterns are in the’ ntal_colors, suitable for dining room, library ora hall and A rare economy event scheduled for to-morrow at-..++ +0. stair, 50 $4. 255 Sanford's Axminster Rugs \ Special at $3.75. 38m. x 72 fn. / Runners, Piece esisixe as 16 yards, SHAT you are-offere ea a Full blea __. pure line: $1.65 Rerhnants, saab for hee ae in halls, &c. Smaller. Remnantd as Low as 40c. Yd, -In twotond colorings, also in floral effects; tee selectio’ 95c. Tapestry Brussels / Special at 40c, Yd. Pieces: run fm sise up to 10 yards; pate sits -full— bleached: Satin Damask Cldths at this saving we about through our having just ed a very large importation which our foreign aie: bought at Lie lac DE Oo”, great plans for the future conduct of our Piano business A, ’ Piano now ip “the Si Piano. ware rooms—whether_ taken +tm exchange or of our own—make which we ‘have had out on rental—at prices. that—will CAR RAMS WAGON. a} Driver Thrown Againat “L” Pillar} Fatally Hurt. Charies Burke, of No. 273 Gold street, | = Brookiyn, wae driving ani ‘express wag. | on_scroas Myrtle avenue at Oxtora streat to-day when car No, 217, af the Greenpoint line, crashed intc-the rear |” of. yehiole-and demolished it. » Burl nt an *L'* pillar und mortally hurt. He received of both legs, actures pal rere and internal nes He War taken to Geney Hospital CASTORIA For Infants and C Tak Kind You ie Ah Abways Is Boot Bigastere The deep, undertyin, > disease the surrounding flesh. 8.8.8, It ae leat heals ete ay and Perueacatly sa but a cure dkeaye pel ey Peon gnantean Cre impurities and poisons,/and then the place, being suppli¢ © place, Es of nk blood. faq canse of: the blood, This vital.filuid has become infected with same germ or poison |, _ whick prevents the place from healing. This infection al an inactive, sluggish condition of the system leaving: ter of the body to be absorbed into the circulation instead of throwing it —— off through the ugual channels of nature. Another catise is the weaken- ing or polluting of this lifestream from hereditary taints, or from the effects of along spell of sickness, leaving disease germa'in the system. When the blood is in this condition a sore cannot heal ‘because the im- purities with which the cirgulation is filled are being ‘constantly >dis-| charged into the Biase to irritate and inflame the tissues and further ‘The only treatment thatcan do any good <faTone thit removes the cause, and for thia pu: ins at the fountain head of the thou LD SORES ey: be the result e refuse mat- nothin; uals te and dived Bat ae Local applica clone eal Cas cera and Fee et SS SNS SEER EE SERRA A SRS cause their Immediate disposal. Consequently you are o! ered the greatest plano buyiag opp irtunity tha s been pre- sented in years, for these oa, from polut of all-round excellence, good condition and high tonal qualities are __Absolutely the Very Best Pianos Ever Offered at the Prices Named‘ Our experts have been busy for two weeks overhauling theeo Pianos and putting them ia..thoroegh repay. ~-below is ready to be o'fered for to-morrow. Note Pianos marked w They are exceptional bargaiis at the prices named.” ——LIST FOR WEDNESDAY: 16 Up t Pianos, incluuag sf oy ee ao 1 right, 1 See, 3] 1 bo) 1 Wilson Upright, and l0‘others at this pries. __ Other Specials for Wednesday: © 1 Schmer Baby Grand, |1 Sherwood Upright, Aa7e, °1 Haynes Upright. 1 Bradbury Up, $1. 1 Whitney: Upright *1 Bterling Up., $250. 1 Parlor . Organ, SS Ss IRSREEEEEESSERSESERSERAEIESRERS # STAN SS aN SS PLAS LADLE LPNS IIIS YNZ | SSIS ERS bet 195, $15 | SSS EEE SSNS ASEAN SSS AMNUIZAPSSOESSS LMT YY. ZZ sty0, contemplate ene a Hau cot eo cesses ae miss for . any reason Whatever—and remomber no Plano sold.except on day ignated, For complete lst of Pianos to be sold om ther days during week refer to our big Piano ammouncement in The World or American of last Sunday. SSNSSN SSS SS SSS i BS SS LE DW DDB IIDULILL 2) DPDIIL LLU LD dE MPEP LOI hhh AL LLLAD LLL OLLI AP SSSA LLLP LLY) aT fecrcorecaee pms EULESS Dinner Napkin Hematitched Tea Cloths—36x3u inches— -Hematitched Linen Bed Hemustitched-Li Shects—2} ind x2 yards= pair $4.95. Pillow Cases—224x36 inches—pair §1 Huck Towels—grass bleached--red border—extra quality: ~Hematitch: a ed Bureau Scarfs Hemmed Crochet Bed Spreads— —full size—value $1.95— Fringed Bed 5pre WE a half position to offer the shapes and compositions are the newest; the ate tloral designs. pare in this great Irish Pc Point Tambour instances some of As notable examplesiwe cite Verdure Couch Covers, each §S_— }mpor : each. “T Foretsn Rug Couch Covers, each @10 $1.25 yd. 1.85 te $1.75 values $1.65 Savonnerie Axminsters at 9Cc. { . Remnants in exquisite colorings and patterns. - enor- rere 50 : and Remnants Teguierty: 950. really Ox. th tancy drawn werk os inches | long—S0c. More $25.100- Bien imported China and -__ Porcelain Dinner Sets at $15 =«~en- are probably the largest importers of dinnerware in. America. In quence of this buying-advantages in the European markets are obtained | which permit of our offering in many instances dinner sets-at_a third or eyen below the prices other stores must ask. 4 ‘Asan instance—this pazticalar stock of china and ‘poreelain dinner sets was contracted for before the raise ‘in duties, and on suth an extensive scale ce we agree to parchase that we ere new in: = Displayed ¢ on Seen , dining, bablos 6 on.our fifth fess HT QUEY 1 ills seo, sets of fine} thin, translucent. ‘Austrian and Bavarian China”and high-grade English Porcelain; A genuine bargain 935 Theo. $3 Haviland 100° Ca pe. Dinner a $7250 Limoges China 100-pc. Dinner Sets, $2: $15 Porcelain 100-pé. Dinner Sets, $10 5-pe. Croton Sets, large assortment, $1: $1.50 Glass- Footed 10- sin. Fruit Stands, 95c » $3 Footed Bohemian sal 315 $3 Cut Glass Fruit or Berry. Bowls. $1.85 $5 Cut Glass Sugar and Cream Sets, $2,905 F $5 Weath, Oak Mantel Clocks. $2 ‘i -; $10 Nickelled or. Copper Coffee Percolators,§5 | | lass 9-in, Com otes, $1. A Reference Book for You and for Me, for Our Friends and Their Friends. The 1907 World Almanac. ON SALE EVERYWHERE, Price, 25 Cents, By Mail, 35 Cents,