The evening world. Newspaper, December 31, 1907, Page 3

ae ~ A _ Dispossess Actions, Expect- ing Trouble to Be Settled. — For With Contributions of Others in Fight. At the Socialist headquarters in Grand, street to-day it was stated that @evera! individual victories had been on the east side. :The leadersof the strike of the tenants expect, they say, Gays In their fight the Socialists are em- pect @ have to fae. Compjaints of wariou# offences ugainst the sanitary code are being carried to the Board of |Health and the Tenement House Com} mission, and larly obnoxious landlords are being walled upon to alter the plumbing, im- Breve the drainpipes and reconstruct me fire-escapes. ‘gome Rents Reduced. Tt was announced this forenoon that Promises of rent reduction had been made by the proprigtors of the houses tat No, 20 East Tenth street and at No. 321 Monroe street. ‘The lessee of the deuse at Nos. 216-218 Cherry street, \where the strike started, served dispor-| weas notices on three of his rebellious __\tendnts yesterday, but to-day he came round and told them they need not move yet, as matters might be ed- justed, ‘This the leaders took as a hopeful sign. If the weather is good there will be Chree tig mass-meetings of the tenants to-nisht—one tn Rutgers Square, one in Clinten street and one in Suffolk street. It te stated thet the police will net in- Fregrom te being made in the Bronx and Jn Harlem by committees of the and ome of the landlords, to Keep olit, the anii-rent emixsarios, Bole: picket duty in| front of: heir, tene- ‘To-day the agitation spreal to New- kK, and there is expected to be oon. widerable activity there before the end Great gains are announced: on the evel in the worid. “ot the week. The landlord tained Edward Schoen, of Ke: ark, Jeok after thelr cases In Court. Muetn't Touch Meters. wor gas company Mok Against tampering with mete: landlords page Tetallation upon the rent strikers Blot meters are not affected, but Cae Kinds have been shut off and th stenants forsed to use candles or ker “gene, or camp in the rooms of ueig! bors: Boy ‘Boclalist Makes a Speech. An itgromptu meeting was held at y the Grand street headquarters at O'clock this aft-rnoon, an address be! made dy little Joneph Rossnbeck, sal to be the youngest Soclulfst orator jn the world; Chairmah Kaplan suspended Dusiness and called upon the child f what any alow Enfglish, he said: Tam Joseph -Kosenbeck da half years old and going to. be | fine in Sune. 1k (0 thet public school and am tn Panera eN rimary. My mother {« Mrs. nieck, of No, M0 street, She bas and one boy.tha is dead an myself of the girls are work- “sty mother Ge in the rent mirike be- cause the renta\are too Dich. Bhe has to May $17 for ‘four rooms, iwl le $14 would be enough—#.0 {« ‘enougn to pay for any room on the east side. ‘T go to the Soclaust Hebrew Sunday wchool, which meets every Saturday. Te Repubvoan and Democratt parties are both alike, » party offered to give $3 for yotex In of concett and In| {hose Evicted Will Be Cared ploying two weapons which the owners | Of the tenements evidently did not ex. | denta of the old Frog Hollow section of | result is that particu- | 1 | SOME LANDLORDS (BOWE WRECKS REDUCING RENTS HOUSES BURIES ~TOMEETSTRIKE: Others Said {o Be Withholding Ww hole Front of B -of Buiding gained inthe movement for lower rents | & general weakening on the part of the | Jured. landlords within the next few hours or | AND BODIES LEFT PRISONER IW PAILNAY CAR in Victims in Mysterious Double ' Tragedy in Buffalo Killed, * — TENIN EN IN DEBH nd had married a ma gion It waa my idea b 1, Oliver, and also my son iNentetday. In « conversation with The Which Two Families Slept | | Foe That lGitealiy. detest that. he had a son | gathered in the street outside th | Blown Out by £ scsi for Their Money. ned, George He sald oliver wae his bei they’ appeared. || ae Seen “ only enild ‘Ouals, hostile cro: ‘The | _ Says He Went to New Zealand, [men hooted and the women Jered. “Welle? ‘Thompson went on, “I finet) Part of the crowl followed the atrest- BUFFALO, Dee. 31.—Two men were| my wife and we ime recondied, |G& Upon Whiolt the prisoners and the nd jaead (orany empty West {She lef sington, and In 16, pith ere passengers imtil t was found dead to-day tn anjempty West | She ne wonn Oltver and Gepree, | Melon the road dross the Hackensack ‘Shore vox car on a sldjbg near tlie y dauRliter,, Taazie. I sailed From Thompion and Kirkman are und th = t S am Re and Sie Deny Grace Stone Crushing Company's plant for New Zealand and setthedl In $5 099 ball each, and ball-is. likel . at Akron Junction. The leads of both ‘ouble with my wife In Ayek- Increased before Tmanyehours, | Black Hand Thfeat—Rela- were ext omen an ic wiin an axe, and jand.and WG ger andi cides Mie) viekers Che ot Potter Maxed ot Hee | both had been dead for a number of) {ne “earthquake, and came. mcrosa the) TION, Ave orders this atternoon that when discovered hi work in the foundry agai ative of Former Sought, to pieces early to-day at No. 36 Ei |One Hundred and Forty-ninth street. They hada itUe money with them and | ere in the Village yesterday afternoon pd made a few pr There are s | They wera dug out by the police, and, strange to say, none was scriously ne mprderer, thé cas ° ‘ ° ° : Sister Victim, Says Mrs. Hull, The bomb was evidently planted il timed to go off after the nian who set | it had had ample time to get away. Toe explosion awakened hundreds of real- | Mrs. Agnes Young, day by Mrs. Frank Hull a the vietlm lof the Harrison, N. J, murder, was | found alive by an Evening World re- [porter to-day, and when this informa- tlon was conveyed to Mrs. Hull in Ha Bea she made another identification. | She ssid the dead woman was her eld- est blister, Minnte Jeannette Womack, an actress, Se tnaisted tht she went n her sister to Jersey, City on Chris the Bronx and stampeded twenty-fnve| horses in a livery stable near by. Joseph Re, a fish peddler, his wife gon and married daughter, Mrs. Marie} Bottisano, occupied the first floor of the house, a two-story frame. On the pther floor ved John Sinnalyaldi and his wife | and four children. he two families | were asleep at 250 o'clock when the) : ° 5 . blast let go. | Chief Executive Sine oF lloilo Vic- FILIPINO Pl POLITIC The whole front of, the house was é f és fmasaimorning wathatinthe Sea torn away, Mrs. Bot{icano was in tim of Disappointed Man— {Charies Meyers in the Pennayieania rear room. A deot\i from the front | Station, and that. Meyers and the wont jan started together for Newark. room was blown from ita hinges an | fell op her as she lay in bed. Plaster- Seriously Wounded. The Sinnabald! family found them- statement wil! nelvea unable to get out of their rooms, | by a disappointed poilticlan, It ts not fore they cun carry ahy w ght. for on thelr floor'the bomb had tangled | te) that the wound will prove. Evening Worl up chaire and tables axd plastering In| 7.) lace ud rid Finds Mrs. Young. a mass that covered the leds of the atx, | S'*! = | Mra. Young was found at work as an jaccountant in the office of Wood, | Harmon & Co., real estate, at Forty: second “street and | Madison ‘avdnue. Site said she knew Mrs. Hull and had befriended her, but had not seen her for nearly two years. | The first intimation that she had been dragged into the xcruesome mystery of the Hackensack Meadows reached Mrs. 5 Young to-day, when her name stared forced to dingorge the $111,052.78 @t her from the front page of her ch (ook for himnelf out of the, Moming newspaper as she begin to paper Wall Street Ferries Rallroad | 24 It on the train ae vik the ety from her home in the suburbs, ‘Tha|atalra 6 Blnnabelai's rooms were! Andrew W. MolAmont, the electrical | gpyey giz: se aay isberveduy wrecked, but the police got up, and af-| engineer for the Commission. has re-| tne train wus Moni te ye eee tor untangling the debris led the fright-| horted that the present condition of the] ¢ i Deiat Geres Hurry lng. en Ucericeretanare ibe from the Grand Central Station to the ened faintly to . Y | surface lines car equlpment ts without a | w, = don with loud wails. | Wood, Harmon’ & Co, offices, she found enlivened the occasion parallel in the dntire country, His | gy, ded horses were in the the staff consiferably exercised over ‘The stampe: r staff, conalating of six engineers and/tne {dentin - table of George Brady. It ju u four e Sdentificatior made tn the Harrison stable o Ls {tour transit inspectors, have examined | sorgue by Mra. Hull. story brick. Every window in it on the] 9 cre in the bana and 1,60) cars on ' aide next to the dynamited house Was | the eri Slight Physical Resémblance. broken. The horses got loose and tore| 7) engincers found S82 cara| It ppears now that there was not! sroun cr puy were) Merz celned: without vestibules, 401 cars with| (‘e slightest excuse for coupling Mra, In three flat houses opposite the} © cis, 1,006 care with axte| YOUN with the dead woman beyond wrecked dwelling, Nos, 31°23 and 26,| #"¢ het the slight physical resemblance. Mra. They yelled for help and waited, as did | the Res, Nelghbors were soon up and doing. ‘A tusillade of shote was fired. Police- man Curedale, of the Alexander ave nue station, was quickly on hand, rap- ping for ald. Three other bluecoats came, and the tour went into the dwall- ing. They bad trouble getting to the Res, fo@, while the doors were blown | off, thelr frames were jammed and part of the celling was hanging down. But he police got tn and-helped. the temily. out. PUTS FAILURE TO _ PROSECUTE RYAN UP TO JEROME. \ .@ . (Continued from First Page) all the front windows were sinashed,| Kear motses, 440 care without) von, was at her nome, in « little and the tenants poured ouc of their| MeadMuhts, 708 cara (hat needed) virhan town up the Hudson, rooms in terror, Meantime a crowd| Paintiwm, and TSG cars that rattled! (itistmas Day, She did not meet Mrs. Lad come from all directions, for the|Weenmae eof Wefective: tracks, Imj pri) on that day, and did not go to explosion wivised sleepers more than| fact. over 50 ptr cent. of the 4,000! Newark with a “man named Charles halt a mile away, | care ‘ Moyers. tro air hoes sf Che idee eens! | he overhamte PA MED i EL ay a luted quarter by the explosion and the| Seats for 28,972 Strap Han, Cth CUT A tt ad ee Cake screams of two Injured families, has registered iS M who seek to shut off the gasjratad. Recently Antonio wante are rduraeeteih a raced half. clad through’ th To meet the ¢ tx of an : raced half clad through the erowd of population. eningave | Harrison murder mystery the Hudson sei rene wa itr ears Curedale, | day ert ab one pene ent | County authorities, who have done’ whily Waiting for an amublance trom|of the xurface . had placed the | “ Lincoln, Hospital. rom | meagre order of 23 newzifara with the | bracteally nothing of any use in the | Sinnabald! said he hadn't an enemy | builders. Of this numoe: are of the | cas, Were just aw busy trying to preve hee (rors cite SHO2Kk ia head. | He | new pay-as-yourenter, puktern, [her dead, ¢ Te-| swore the Black Hand had never both-| D. 1. Turner, with a xtaft of twenty-! Earl to} ered him. "Tl nyecinmpectors, has charge of the work | out a ony he rns they had sent | |" His datighter Marla, ha declared, was | cking up the service orders. Mr. i tesa pegs he poltoane ti all eeiilen rried a year ago to Antonio Botti-| Turners. 3 ‘show. that tnereawed |t© arrest Charles Meyers) a plano | 0. Antonio wax twenty-one and) servi as been given when ordered by |tuner, who {s now believed .to be - ian nineteon. The marriage ek n he Commission. he maid, Botte , character Invented by young Mrs, Hull. Mrs. Hull had been heid, a prisoner, one; HApDY and the The following table Indicates the tm-| provement In Manhattan since the Pub: | ie Service Commission toox he in Increase in d Mar to come back to him, but she wouldn't, “He chme here a week ago and tried | | Newark. fo do merwith a knife!” the fathers tebe y order of Prosecutor Vickei jaw said. “But the nalghbors dr )/of Hudson County, who took office at him away. Thats all (he trouble I i iEis(| midnight succeeding Prosecutor Speer, { ————____. [Tiroadway 5.2) 4s soon as Maxistrate Branegan, of NEW ORLEANS ENTRIES. {"Trouston street. m S| Harrison, got to .bIm office to-day he ean, 3] iasuied an order cotnmitting, Hull An ¢ Kervive |{0 the custody of the Shirt Hudwon CITY PARK. Ew on LEANS La,! ‘ per cent, County at Jersey City, to be held as a| tees ‘ kod tn by the State | Wiinesa, ec. 3 i for Lo-Morrow"A Hinepectors, so thls Increase }« omitted, races are as follows “Apparently the company did not use Wonderful Little Faker, FUT HACE. Three turiomes: purve Haid ye poetaients For a few brieg hours, iltte Mrs. Hult ers power and w sinail) Was in her glory, She was in the I am elght My father | | | ‘Tue Republican | tis nejehiborhood, and the Democratic | party eaid that tt would give 3. election th promtts Why don't you vote the 80- olalint) Aicket? —Xhe _ Soclaliet manda for tuntice, Moerty and freedom. “tn elosing T wit! rebite a Ittle poem whioh I learned from a friend. It ts called "An Easy Pair,’ ” This 1s the poem wer had a working man, o had a muh wave my fife I couldn't tell Which was the Olagest fool, He fod the man on. live: the mule on hay ed the man and kicked ‘And worked them ev'ry du: od old stormy weather mit enule Would pull x cart, hump himself and hustle TAN Wt pearly Droke MMe heart; And in’ the chilly atabt He'd mtund and chew fits hay, The bose would way “Prosperity.” y that mule would bray — a The man would dig and hustle “And work until he dic Ta see bow much he could prod Ti was his joy and pride, Tho bows would trke hia product, I'm mot ashamed to tell, And wien hed say Prosperity!" ‘Oh, how that man would yrllt Yr. i mya shat doth that man and mule ty Uttle wense 1 bathe leve to Ko to school"; *¢ better bolt: commence. / Baas day when aha Poth find out} two ure in one boa’ cyetit mule will silt to khok. After | ¥ bot forgot all about tleir | party | rotbide he mule, | entry of publicity; reporters were fon that the | peste {sadison. avenue increase wan uitected ing her, photographers w ak- Dy A norresponding decrease in the nua. |1ng pictures of her and heavy-footed, ber of cars oh some line agalnat whi ! i) solemn - visaged slouths Tie Broadway | she abelian ear ey | shertits bvere watching her evel and fe Jeaale McCane kt. ITouston (ment. Zhe tact that Mra, Yous’ must jase FARE SRTEL DS t und the extension of the Boule-|Inevitkbly step forth before long. and 18 Bvelin ¥ beer ar service down to Murray prove her to be a monumentalfitar did Ye Geo Whe. i jnot give Mttle Mra.” Hull the atighteat ee tthe tye payee | eran {apparent cencern, feces: JOHN MITCHELL AT HEALTH She will go down inte the criminal Ts) Needmore | : history of New Jersey as the moat aa aD RACE Selling; mile and a oix-| eae to work upon but peweneiee 1 | 1OR, “gprs 8. -Mo., Dec. | photographs and a vivid Imagination, 1 Mitchell, of, Inclunapolls, pres- | shy decetved not only the New Jersey of the Untted Mine Workers of America, ts here to enjoy which, & but her own husband. and head ‘bookkeeper of the both of whom confirmed, authoritles, a period of F. 8. Ryman, ording to present plang, | Ansonia Hotel. H4* Ianhow as, Beak srlod Of bout] In part at least, her identification: 0H" GE One. m 1 reached here | gruli, who Js aeparated from his wife FOURTH TAGE One , vd ly hie brother, | Handloay, $1,000 «diel ih kod, his private eecres | bUt on, terma of friendship with her, He wax Inclined to discredit her story, when at rete had gained strengths since hin re- told last night at bis home, No. if isu? itanridge it Nee of sincss, and to-day jattan avegue, that ale had dented Cle: Heer paaebhedel sade body in Wee Harrison mystery. Mra, om Indianapolis. iy No. $3 West One Hundred » with Mra, Drewei ent deal of time at > c a «J and Second street, cw and Fou! spends a 7 Weat One NOTHING IN THE BOX. PUTA RA CE sii, far Seareh for the Missing $150,000 lurked in the air, He was born dt SS? Hanbrid, < AON + Ay 9 2: t the home of Airs. Lange. ey (ii) Cooney FE Sccuritlon Proves Unmvatting, "61° nusvand said he met her two At feta oe Maronte nade xin Atlante De-! nights ago on the atroet, and she told} sted 2 s ymulty at No. 47 Wall! yim velleved the woman In the : reel wan opened turdayl (here wan not Marriagn © my wee Mra, Agnes | PETTIBONE WOULD WAIVE Young. Huil, who had not seen Mr, Young for a» Jong time, tried to talk her out of the notion, but’she went to Har- yerterday’ without his knowlede ade her Identification, H uaband Na Decelved, ce of jew of the Eller Hit was believed David, officers ust O. which € mil hon dole Mle and *Alpenmarchen , rd tt tm ike oii OF rowinig aowatt Hi the | ton, But when he saw ag ¢ body le said that he waa not sure, ite timight be that of Stra. Youne: Apprentice all if an. of the ‘Wa, “along- aide of whose desk Men, Yor i vorked i Beorchial Trochos” eieee i y allaeh deel Incite tiem muannces tr ceneaine: pean oe He reds OMS y Ads biinraer: AIK, eiving Jmmoediate relief. Fre eet SIMIC E Seettes Harrison ifully preoared to dis ates, 260, B0c, and $1 a Grove on Wx, ie, Oo® TWO MURDERED ‘DESERTED. WIFE OF. (Evening World reporter, Thompson spe- The police place no credence whatever Se Renee ing, parts of the frame of the hous. ‘inthe second identification. Mrs, Hull and furniture were hurled over the) yrantLA, Dec. M.—Gov. Topez, of Mo-/ has so distinguished herself a» an agite| sisenens: Ino, has been shot amt sertously Wounled "4 resourceful identifler that her ave tp be proved be- carrying her to! gaged In disaszociating. herself with the | all night in the Continental Hotel, {at—. PLA TTSRU nails the {dentiication, but was un¥ ats Maver gE egress ts 1907. A FIGURE IN SWAMP MURDER' (Continued from First Page.) Harrison lockup to the dail in Jersay. Ci Be by Detectives” Ward and The news that they were to removed had spready around Har- rison, and a crowd of 2.00 persona (had n{ferred from the oO) Hudson Ci | wfternoon Campton, | be continent to Elizabethport, and went tol the pond in which the body was found! done, adjournment being taken, jahall be pumped dry. “It ix believed that shouted | found tn the mud at the bottom of the |Publican Assemblythen a’ the probable The men, who we Austrians, had h : Where ix your wife now?” asked De-| the shoes and other missing article: | TEST Ae dome to Akron a few days ago, seeking (fective Wale, appare)! of the dead woman, wil) be Ten persons were led inder jwork, bul tie wtone crusher, where they |. “She x’ fu New Zealand.” | found } haul expected to xet employinent, had Thompson. swear before my God) pon Wreckage of a house practically blown eae een eee eown fos the winter, (aie ein New Zealand.” {="ThompsSn'n boat will be xyatematt-| | Pra ; Thompson and Kirkman were trana:!cally searched for the first tine, + Mrs., Young Being Found Alive. | identified yester- ablated #0, He waid the body might | without opposition tg succeed itmself as {son's oblef counsse}, Martin W. Little- opening. She settled rapid! en Coe ee pele Speaker. fton. The elder Mre. Thaw is in poor|Jawis and his crew of five gvere quit [noe ney ee Young: She doest—"The Democratle members of the Aa-/health and her physician advised | Willing to boant a ple’ of aces that Aen pret gMlevera. | It) sembly are to select tieir leader on the agains: her presence on. te ground |iqunches that drew alongsite to take Reigeniine ee fe a of the House at thelr caucus, | tha: the strain might do her serious |.them off.” , count : : . and Oliver, of injury, b : 2 4 iz (hole rst MPU SUne Tine eee ee Geese Custer (eaten GO ie in ats that Hee place secate OF the big Hole tn I ott medlalalpinieeen heen T upparentiy in’ the lead: | Was at her boy je in the ordeal that |{t was deemed best’ to a ie Bu Fy Ra OOS ETI Pat « ormanization practically re: | 18 nw at hand. _[aington to rest on the rocks would Chrlatmiaa toric: on on | malns Intact for waother year | Besides Mra Won in piers paystecss tie valle a ibe esp “ha ef TAWA 0) into op wate 4 4 She said she inet Mrs. Young by ap-| Mrs. George I. Car- eine thia afternoon she was subme god Pointment on Christmas morning at 8 o'ctock, at One Hundred and Fourth street and Columbus avenue, that they had breakfast together and went to-| kether to the Pennsylvania etation in Yermey City, where they met Charles Meyers; that Meyere and Mra, Young | went to Newark together, saying that | | they were to attend @ Chystmas party on a houseboat, Invented the Houseboat. The houseboat detail mhowed that 1it- tle Mrs. Hull had -béen reading the! accounts’ of the-tnyatery.. She knew | that two men were under arrest in/ Harrison and that they had been ar- rested on a doat tied up on the bank of the Passaic River, a sliort distance from the scene of the murder, She had also read that. a few hours before the discovery of; the body, a man and a woman were seen in the [vicinity of Five Points pond, where jthe body was discovered on Christmas Day, The man was described as short,! }stort and dark, weat ax a dark gray| overcoat, -dark clothes: anda derby hat.) Mrs. Hull, in describing. the mythtsat} Meyers, said he was short and stout. with dark curly hair and wore « dark, «ray overcoat, &@ dark sult and « brown derby hat, | Prese nt eo Clears Aw »TRSL ATORS IN THA “ALBANY READY FOR | THE NEW HEN SESSION Caucuses Ron by Both Parties, and Reading of Goy- ernor’s Message To-Morrow. fr ALBANY, 31.—Repudjicane.and Democatic members of the new A: sembly will hold caucuses to-night. Dec. Goy. Hu merfrow to receive s's an- | Lyjial message, prob- ably until next- Monday night. The feature of the caucus of the he- joutcotne of the contest Ithat house. Col. Archie Clerk of that house for several years, tsa candidate for re-election, He ts opposed by Ray B. Smith, | Clerk. Both candidates have made an | |active canyans, but Smith appears to be | [in the lead. Speaker for Clerkship of hie E. Baxter, Wadsworth | be selected by his Republican colleuxues } will ALDERMEN HOLD. CLOSING SNH ya Wot of Accumulated | . Business. i a it Vice-President Charles Goodnian pre-| sided at the final meeting of pres- |} ent Board of Aldermen this rnoon The first communication taken up was one from the Standant Concrete Stee! Company opposing tif new Building Code. It was referred to the next | * board. This wag. taken 10) indicate that when the new Bulld/ng Code comes up for action St will-be killed ‘A report was recelyed from the Com- mittee on Eleetions, which upheld Al-/ dormen Callahan,“Murphy, Hahn, Hig-} ins, Keely and Monahan in their re against. contestanta, The committe decided that in the matter of the pro- When asked about her own life, Mrs. T Hull sald that she was seventeen | ; Years old and a native of Chattanodsa, | ' Tenn, : “Iam a movatain girl," she sald,| "and waa married when I was fifteen. I Feloped with Frank tfull, marricd in New York. pecullar.way. Tanawered an advertine. ( t! ment of a patent-medicine concern and urked If they knew of any rice young| man, I got a letterjfrom Mr, Iull and| the elopement followed. He docs artis-| _ Ue printing of showcards, Athough we jure separated we frequently meet, We Were at o theatre the other nigit and got to talkmg about the Harrison mur der. From what Ivhad read I was suo} that t:wan Mra. Young, My husband | told me that I had-better ko to. the police and tell them what ‘I knew, J | rollowed his advice, and taat Is how, 1} jam here’ iC. H. MYERS, PIANO TUNER, IS FOUND. | nd we were! Y., Dec, 31—C. TMyers, & man of the sume name itor whom it is_Teported the -wuthorities are looking in Connection with the Har- rison, W. J., case, Jeft here about Dec. | 2 to #pend Christnas at his home In Roseville, N. J. He Ix a plano tuner employed by # ‘Troy manufacturer, wio | has branch gtoges In C ‘alis, Platts burg and other. points | Myer Ix about: twen! ars old, ¢with smooth face, stort in stature and ac. He wbout eb. Wus not ex- 1. hax a hich fore pected back here He mpendy part Falls, | it ts revorted by telegraph trom lens Falla that Myers left Uiere to-day | {abure, Pat he is not here, Myerne |friends bere eay he will easily prov Ithat he bad nothing to do with the New | Jersey murder, | poineee INDIAN FIGHTER:RIDG WAY DEAD IN PITTSBURG 31.—Direotor Frank | ! hits of ume dn PITTSBURG, Dec. Ridgway, of the Department ef Public Safety, and prominently known in con- nection with the United States Weather Bureau, died In a hospital here early to-tay of typhold pneumonia, Before | coming to Pittsburg ten yours ago 'to take charge of the local weather tu- reau Mr, Ridgway was head of the bu- reau at Harrisburg, Pa. Several years, ago he was granted an indefinite fur-| lough by the Government and was ap- pointed by Mayor Guthrie to be Direotor | of the Pittabirg Public Safety Depart- | ment, ‘The best part ef Mr. Ridgway's life had ‘bean apant In the ‘Bignal, Corpe of the United Btates Army. He fought In- dians in Arizona. and rated the Govern nt telegraph line hrough the sagebrush and on the cliffs of the Rovky Mountaina, when read | ARGUMENT BEFORE JURY. ROME, taho,Dec: 31 rested In the Pettibone case toy offered to nubmit the case to,jthe jury without argument, Sree ee BELGIAN PREMIER ILL. BRUSSHLS, Dec, 31.—M, de Troon, the Belgian Premier and Miniater of the Interior, 1s critically Wl, The Jast rites of the Church have been adiminia- bh tered to Files: Cured In @ fo 14 days, Pano Oint- ment le guaranteed to cure any rise of Itch: Hiind, Wieeding of Protruding. Piles. in| Ji'days or money refunded, Bec. ta. text of J. Phelps Stokes against Bor-| {ough “President McGowan, protesting hia seat, be dismissed, as the committe e met. In ajcover the 19 | Almont iterrible automobile acc | SCHIEUFELE,—On Monday, Deo. was not sure it bad any jurisdiction, ‘The Board adopted a report of. the Finance Committee callie for an sue of $43,000 in special revente bonds for Bellevue_ant Allied Hospitals to deficit. It also contirmed | the report from the Finance Commilt- concerning municipal court salary increased salaries in’ the then 4, wef General Sexsions and for the repalfliofs municipal court bulldings ‘About $100,000. was represented in the reports, ¢ Bourd proceeded “to c lot of similar orders. One of $75.00 for the Richmond Borough Topographical Bureau went through sind then another for $40.00) as propurtionate amount n up a to be borne by the city toward the | abolltion of grade crossings and ott | similar improvements, Then the Hoar dopted a resolution callin fo pay clerical expenses of je Commission, EE JUDGE STECKLER BETTER. r $! Building Recovered From Injurlen im Auto Accident, Former Justice of the Supreme Qéurt | Alfred Steckler {s rapidly regaining his accustomed health and spirits after a. Sepge of inyalidiam resulting from the) ent of Noy, 16 at the Harrington Park crossing of the West Shore Rallroad, New Varney. Judge BStecklar tx now at the, Marl- borough-Blenhelm Hotel, Atlantic City. Ho {9 doing five or six miles walking every day on the board walk and devel- oping the sfingth of an atilete and xoon will bo back at hin office, Harris Suction Clip provides —a solution for all “broken eye- glass troubles’ — it | prevents them. Holds without hurting. Fitted te Your G lasses for 35 Cents, Sold Only at®Our Four eae OCULISTS AND OPTICIANS. 54 East 23d St., near Fourth ava. 54 West 125th, near Lenox Ave. 442 Columbus Ave-> sist & 624 te, 489 Fulton St., BROOKLYN. Opposite Abraham & Mraus’ DIED. FY.—On Sunday, Dec, 29, THOS F.. on of Jas, and May A. Mulve; Iuneral from his Inte residence, y tout at, Wednemiey, Jan. 1, 0 id Brooklyn. | HANNIGAN,—On Dec. 113° North Oth HANNIGA. Members and-vetgrans.of 9th R, ment are invited to attend the filgeral fon Jan, 2, ® o'clock sharp. MU 0, wt his renidence, Urooklyn, JOIN 1907, FREDERICK J, SCHEUFPLE, aged 44 years, Funeral’ from bla late rosidence, 188 Iuron mt., ‘Brooklyn, Jan, J, 1908, at 10} ALM. 5) LOST, FOUND AND REWARDS. ay, SY main’ “it On 6 We is, at. om wold molincing, Ward if returned 10 Il, Js 1teas, GON Broad way. it TT hiaeke ap and feet: $3 reward. Ol Pierrepont at,,, Brooklyn, nial, white obeat |, Monfoe place, near t the Countess of Yarmouth will not be} The , Present at the second trial of hor broth+ Wy to be Legislature {a to convene at noon to-'ler, | Stanford White, Dit no business will be| Monday before Justice Dowling in the Criminal! Branch of the Supreme Court. dors of the Thaw family through the} firat trial.» It had been expected until! Engiand for the next hearing of the cake, but it Is now stated that she will the Assistant {remain on the other side. accused man, will reach New York from {her wil undoubtedly | Friday night or Saturday morning she and, of course, Harry EOD wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw. ———_______. EX-INSPECTOR STEERS IS Old Comrad ip of. Byrnes and Mur- who ! tem: Byrnes ee S COUNTESS (OLD FERAY-BOAT “SISTER WILL NOT) BURLINGTON BEAT AIS TRIAL) ON THE ROCKS Prisoner's Mother Defies Ad=\Sto¢k. Transfer Ship Strikes vice of Physician to Come “;Man-o'-War Reef and ° to Son’s Ordeal. Is Abandoned. ‘The dingy old Pennsyly a ferryboat irlington, which for years has been miblodorously familiar to travellers on for the murder of (the waters hereabouts, ran’ on Man-o'- which: begins next It {s authoritatively announced* that Marry Thaw, War reef, at the lower end of Black Ws Island, and rank this afternoon. MMs used ay 4 stock transfer doat, And had just unloaded a big cargo of shea and calves at the aldo er house at, the foot ot East Forty fifth street. ‘ha, the boat backed out bao the atream on the retura trp to,the Union Stock, Yards, In Jersey City, her ruddor chains broke. Capt. Lewis whistled for assistance @nd tried to steer her with the paddie wheeis, at the tide swept her against the rocks, ‘A big hole was stoye in her starboard side and water poured in through the Lady Yarmouth sat with other mem- to-day that ashe would come back from Mrs, Willtam Thaw, the mother of te home in Pittsburg Friday. On hold a long conference with her two sone, Edward and Jo- AT DEATH'S DOOR TO- DAY. Sutiering From a Com- plication of Diseases, e Inspector Henry V. Steers, suffering, rom a complication of Isisew at hia home. No. 471. Weat One indred and Fifty-second street, was said to be very low this morning, and is Ta Ex-P ~ the! discriminating Smok- in QUALITY than any h is expected within twenty- | Sther little ci | gar made. jurs. He has been ill about two jf’ To those who desire a DELIGHT- { FUL willd smgke, try TELONETTES. | Steers comes froin a family tha: Sold Everywhere ke Oo was idenGfied with the o "1 P Ward and which” was wide; | ALLEN TOBACCO COMPANY, nown as ahipbuiiders on the East Rty cco » u NEW YORK. Independent Manufacturers. As a poilce Inspector he was con orancous with Police Inspecto. and Supt. “Billy? Murray, [PENNY A POUND PROFit] =» COUNTER GOODS, LB., 20c. THE LARGEST LINE IN THE CITY. Kecan Chips, Molasers Hock, Fruit aad Nut Bultercups, divlasses Peppermint © Almoad Chips, Vs Butterscoteh Wa yeannt Chips Peanat Caramels, Chocolate Butterscetch Waters, Cinnamen Tablets, Eie,, Bic. Ete, _SPECIAL FOR THIS TUESDAY VANILLIN CREAM |g (y¢.| SPECIAL ASSORTED ALMONDS. - POUND, chocoLaTes. .is., 1 9¢ ONE FOUND BOXES, FIVE POUND BOXES, OLD U AIC MIRED OAN Sls Ube MIXED CANDY a god- Contectiones oun: MIXED CANDY— 10c 85c for, SPKCL aun ot Chocolate Drops, MIGH GRADE BONBON: iT i serach | 1} qnoepL ar! and G rept oe Riek [3c] cuerotates sod Geach all Ch ites, 30 kt hy Sh cheselntes "a6" Kinds, 3 $115 25c VERY HIGH GHKADE BON- BONS, CHOCOLATES “AND ing SRABS, SERGRE®? 25¢| ghaPaeite nw iNE $1.75 SPECIAL FC R NEW YEAR’S bs HIXNED CANDY rt ae ROSE 5 Re Tied Vs, ANOIrABLY. FOR S TADLE DRC: 6O0c OKA’ RTSD FRENCH GLACE FRUITS, NEW IME 5-POUND BOXES. GROP JUST ARRIVED, $1.50 ———— Sale of Imported Satin Lined Baskets, 25c. Each, TO-DAY OUR STORES WILL BE OPEN UNTIL, emIONIoH TT: WE. eels FREE ‘200. to int ., Brooklyn, Hoboken ad Jereey Gliy: "No geoda rent G, 0. D. Gans dies ‘tor our out -town customers carefully packed our special mail order. 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