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‘ POLITE MAN GOT PIACENTE'S GUN AND HELD HIM UP ODDITIES IN THE NEWS ALL OVER THE WORLD Short Stories of Unusual Happenings and Singular Experiences Picked Out of the Chronicles of the Day. Bronx Undertaker’s Confiding Nature, He Says, Caused AN man housekeeper has been en-} street, Williamsburg. fell dead yester- ry : gaged by Justice of the Peage Thom jay at his home while laughing at @ Him to Trust Stranger. ence? | funny story. | ‘s eaia, | J4ppman, who was twenty-three, was ial i Aulaaked Lwhye He hire a| &t the breakfast table when the story Was told to ht Heart disease was LOST, | 7" sents DIAMOND RING IN |A FISH’S STOMACH. MONEY, WATCH “JACK THE HUGGER” New Friend Persuaded Him to|“wWisiam puaney, vridge tender at| WAS A TAME BEAR, a st t a carp In the| A wo otified the Si dal Give Up Pistol, and Rest nf founda: Giamnond|| potice in Chisago: lasts migNET Ine bua: “Jack the Hugger’ was operating near her home. He had attacked her, she | sata The police made a search and found ch had wandered away Kk. The bear was nd of Pudney* was lost Was Easy. By his own admission to the police Pasquale Piacente is a man of a tru | TRIED TO CASH HIS tha| MARRIAGE LICENS Re locked up iia | | ful, confiding nature. He state: A : | : abba eby. ‘or me.” J. L. Cratt,| ,. by ah es | he was not eee robbed by a ner, as ne| THIELE IN PRISON | man last ni, but that he ft license’ to | he st} MARRIED BY ’PHONE. 1 Brown, {n jail at Helena, Mont., Mollie Kufeldt, in the office of wn's lawyer, In that city, were mar- st evening by one. Brown prison for stealing Moilie’s jew- Clerk at Paducah, Ky., the highwayman the revotver | which was used in of the nefarious deed. Pasquale is an under place at No. Morris aven accom) nd rled was in elry. “| DIED LAUGHING | heart of the Frog Hollow | Carin ‘ : the Bronx, a section 9 a) AT FUNNY STORY. ase tn Jail, and, eee ome aged before th because} yforris e 2h Pe phone by HES CGS Oe the burden: of Black 1 jetigts| cote Tippman( ot No. 6 Bartlett! gymnan they are called upon to deliv and the; gound of an © joding dy nite bomb | Blowing out the front of a bullalng| Sorat ee aces WU TING FANG FOLEY FLECTION Sere DANE AAG Seated in front of his establishment at midnight, on the lookout for trade, Thurlow nen Barnes Tells; ; How Chinese Minister street and Park Pasquale says, he was approached by rge, well-dressed man, who spoke ked Pasquale if Could Dicker. | Pasquale said that | Itniian. They entered into conversa- tion and the stranger asked Pasquale a revolver td pro- robbers, highway- BLL CALLED BAD Citizens’ Union Declares Fair} Count Would Be Menaced 3y Amended Act. to take a cals .On the way @red and § @venue, the stranger he had a revolver. s carried 1¢ from a saloon at One Hun- Thurlow Reed Barnes, from his tes- (Special to The Eevening We ) andencld supe men t to-d: ALBANY. Jan. a had better let me carry the fe-lterms of cordi: | Union fares the bi volver,” said the stranger, “because If/ ring wang, then Chine. Agee Biman doe we have to kill anybody ft would be! at Washington, when. in 1897 and 1 ct better that T should do it and you would the negotiations whi be left free to attend to the funeral." concessions from the|cl: By ueeautring n the Hold Up. Chinese ernment to the Chinese |; 1 aaa Relat sounded like a business argu-|Railway Syndicate, For this service |cierks to be appointed to serve in every squale, and he handed over |he Sues the syndicate and its mill case in e district in which the ap- Immediately the stranger | aire members for $900.00 compensation, | pointee The prese law per- the open end of the weapon|‘n the trial now on before Jus mits qualified electors to serve in these end of Pasquale's nose. Davis and a@ jury in the St positions ywhere in the county in the stranger, “proceed to; Court. which ppointee li gu or words to that effect, The millionaire defendants include! The effect of this amerdment upon! } TAM ACialthalicavcl vente was tiellace: Samus! nd Marc the situation in ain districts in had loaded t himself. He! Hartley, F Ri sw York City, v both Kepublican 5 in cash, a $300 diamond | J. Cross, Charles Cary, Hugh J. Gre and Democratic organizations are in the James Still jam Barclay F control of the leader of one or the ot ot these parties, would be threatening 1 a $3) watch and chain, Then| Henry W. Ca anger disappeared, moving east | ‘Thomas F. Ryan, W. » Hundred and Forty-ninth street | sons, Catherine Olivia, widow of Cal-} fairness of urried, but dignified tread. |vin S. Brice; Grant B. Schley, George| ‘here is one dist New York nunted all around the nelgh- | R. Sheldon, ‘Edwanl J. Berwind, An-| " Union, “to e ee aes Hanae exen ia, | thony . Brady, Levi P. Morton, the Repub- f 4 considered reported the oc-|Stor T. C. Platt, George T. 131 ctors from all ‘acob H . August Belmont and Tom ‘onx Detective Bureau | down here, order to insure ja fair o unt ee a, None of them was " Wa SHOT DEAD GA ON eit Gee Ti Ta) imate 3 BRIDGE \ WORKER KILLED. Is claims when he rte signed a release in Octob claring that that wo jwork in getting The previous cla cessions for e Walked to End of Beam He Didn't Know Had Been Cut Nearly i Two. IN TOBACCO WAR ling ana othe beam that formed Py es . | Mr. Bar & the Queens | Watchman Kills Two Negroes Blackwell's Ialana as Attempt Was Made to |* ere Destroy Factory. bridge CLARISSVILL attompt wa and dynamit x Watkins, w ing to esce men, On thought to } one of t to us in nportant d comp New Spring M $8 and $10 Va nee of Wa Ine of people tracks | OF & ht to MISCHIEVOUS BOY CALLS ae FIREMEN TO SCHOOL. Fire Key larm, With No Stole Janitor’s and Turned Jn \ —— FOR ALMAN 7.18 TO-DAY, Eun rises PORT OF NOW YORIS, Try Owing to thew remarkable prices we cf Fre Alterations for thi rose pages) from Sale a! All Three will be given In the Mongar t NEXT SUNDAY'S WO! January This muste, consisting staffs, Ist only authorized copyrighted edition, and Sr, fy issued a¥ o newspaper supplement ex- elusively through The World by special rangement with the music publishers, | Chappell & Co, Ltd., London and New} York. Any earlier issues of this muste by | @ newspaper are PIRATED and P| plete. Get the REAL music of ‘Widow Waits in The World uth, 4 Ore Ce Sale Another collection from Most popular lines of new mode's — numerous THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, LANDLUBBERS IST TOO HARD Worse Than a Belaying Pin, Says O’Neil. PUTS UP GOOD FIGHT. Snug Harbor Man Holds Gang at Bay, and Police Capture Two. Henry O'Net! ailed the seas before the mast for three-score years, who has who fought with who has been attacked by pirates and who has been shipwrecked, wandered through evening theaemptatton to go among tie seafarin for a three w f He was sterring tack for the Harbor about the hour of daylight, when three men approached. The next Instant O'Neil was down from a blow in the back of the head. All the tricks of fighting he had learned oa shipboard came into play. and. pened along and collared men, All hands were taken to Oak) street, and there old O'Neil began to talk. I left Ireland when IT was a bit of a boy.” he said, “and stowed away on a ship. Then for sixty vears I was before the mast. T was an able seaman until I was sey and after that e that Harbor across tha bay. "he continued, turning tc have you ever been in that err It's an easy berth over there. You ge’ ar tobacco and grog free, and it's good tobacco and grog, too. “I've been hit by b once In a wreck off ( the good ship Pinto went down, a ma went by the boards and hit me in head, I got on the mast with seven mates and floated asho! a stiff blow I got. ying pins, crt! © Henry, when it “But this knockdown I just got was nd the old the wot rubbed his head driver ever drove like that land pirate’ 1 he looked admiringly at one} ers. The two vrisoners were charged wit assault and attempted highway 10: rey said they were James Sweeney and | orge Churchill, no home, home. BRYAN iN NASHVILLE. LECTURES FOR THE ELKS. | NASHVILLE, lJ odels lues #6): 95 Stupendous Offering Thursday Only the differeat \ styles from which to choose. Popular Materiais New Leading Models feature. | Something stunningly attractive, in every size. are compelled to withdraw our offer OR OLO SALT Bowery Thug’s “Pile Driver” | I got to) Kilts, plaits, cluste plaits, panels, folds | and every novel style ass or two or| ‘Ng. | nging to his| the policeman. feet, the old man gave a good account| When they rootel nae of himself until two policemen hap-| Mury backed up aguinst a wall ana | depos! jd them: ck with his revolver. | two of the! Capt. Kelley but that was | | h ill you be in Centre Street Court to prosecute tuese men? O'Neil was ked. “1 will that,” replied the old sailor, | “put I must be Ketting back in ue Har- | bor. I have overstayed my er Then O'N ered t course for Staten Island, in the he that he} could square himself at the sailors’ | bullet in his heart last night, declared LANDLORD HELD AFTER MAN IS CAUGHT TWO AS THEY RAN AWAY FROM “SUICIDE” Prisoners Declare Saladeno| Fired at Them, Then Shot Himself. Up When They Take Vic- tim to Hospital. Two men caught running away from{ Michael Martino, twenty-one, a la- a vacant lot near Fortleth street and|verer, lying at No. 348 East One Hun- Thirteenth avenue, Brooklyn, where | dred and Tenth street, walka into the Salvaria Saladeno was found dead with | Harlem Hospital early to-day supported | by Livero De Carlo. his landlord, | Andreo Albanese, his brother-in-law. He alades | Madeno shot | 1s @ bullet wound in his neck and 1s t0 the police to-day that |twice at them and then c " hi | cide. id then committed sul- |i. g critical condition, There are pow- fy ’ |Ger burns on the lapel of his coat, and The dead man was twenty-four years | (1 bullet, which entered his throat old and lived at No. 1240 Fortieth street. ; Jing to Frank Marino, of No. 1204 street, and Natalie Viviano, of af 846 Gravesend avenue, he came to this country in August and worked in «.. U2 7. of the left ea ves Sommer: Gne Hundr reet station, we! hosp!- the from Ne 8 |tal to get a E Sy: Gy until compelled to leave | wounded man, and he told them he was fer stabbing a man. Since he had| shot Ly some one in the dark hallway Ht to-day to have a look at | worked ina shoe shop in Brooklyn, ust outside his room on the second ed him in days} While out walking with him last night, | yecr last might. they sald when taken to the Parkvill » Carly denies eclaring there Nell has been an inmate of Sailors’ | police st HOewIIeniyc Orewa wet a See SRE ye feiseleea Snug Harbor, over on S volver while all were talking in al ene who lives at F the past year or so and friendly man fired two shots at s Martino tame t time making Httle kn } h nd turned the pistol on himself, | dren, He came over to M Policeman~ Joseph Murphy grabbed |neck and showed hin terday to sell his wares, and in the | Marino and Viviano as they were run- ded to co ff away from the scene of the shoot- he ck, ached t dust as he w, breathing his esi detained both men as sus- until they can clear up 2 shooting. took pi the mystery 0} | PRIVATE BANK IN CHICAGO ASSIGNS FOR CREDITORS. CHICAGO, Ja lot A. C. Tisdelle Started for the ree had jan and colons women ru ene a the prisoners away from | tried to take crowded him to-day de ide an a al aring rrived Ww the reserves | in: in time to rescue the prisoners from | the the mob. JAMES McGREERY & CO. 23rd Street 34th Street On Thursday, January the 23rd, LADIES’ SUITS. Velveteen Walking Suits. Various models, 22.50, 32.50 and 45.00 former price 40.00 to 75. made of Nove Suitable for im- 35.00 usual price 30.00 In both Stores. Tailored Suits, fabrics. New model. mediate wear. SILK DEPARTMENTS. “McCreery Silk.” Ten thousand yards Shantung Pon- A complete assortment of new as natural, white and 6s5c per yard dn Both Stores, gee. colors as well black. 27 inches wide, Twenty-five hundred white Shanghai Silk. Underwear. yards heavy Suitable for se per yard former price 1.00 JAMES McGREERY & CO. 34th Street 23rd Street JAMES McGREERY & GO, DRESSMAKING DEP'T. Fourth Floor. 54th Street Store, Orders accepted for Street, Carriage and Evening Costumes at large conces- sions from usual prices. Tailor made Walking Suits to order, 65.00, 75.00 and 85.00 Remaining stock Imported Models at greatly reduced prices. of Thirty-fourth Street. A Second Edition. OF THE 1908 World Almanac and Encyclopedia (4,000 PAGES) CONTAINING THE Quarter-Century Record of Events IS NOW ON THE PRESS, Price 25 Ge Wet of Buffalo and Pittsburg, so ci) P Khu: 35 Cts. Cloth Bound, 50 Cts.j by, Mall, Go SHOT IN HALL De Carlo and Brother Locked | | | { and | 1908." NEW" “YORK'S “FASTEST “GROWING "STORE, Bitraseuianty Sale at $10, 000 Worth of LACE CURTAINS and Upholsteries 33; and 50 Per Cnt Off Regular Prices The entire surplus stocks of two Wi Philade!phia mills. The choicest furnishings—mostly samples—and POSITIVELY "THE LOWEST PRICES YOU EVER DREAMED OF. Don’t miss this sale: Lace Curtains Uphols teries Lott. 3,000 Curtains—samples, 134 ]69C. poor PA oroPaceeit yards long, 100 ty Irish Point Door Panels, different — patterns; sold usually at $2 to $5.98 a p sale price, each., Lot ll. 5,000 pai length and w $1.00 kind it 49c pair. $1.50 kind at 75¢ pair. $2.00 kind at $1.00 pair, $2.50 kind at $1.25 pail $3.00 kind at $1.50 pair. Lot Ill. 1,500 Lace ith irge motive in centre; 19 of best. quality C Renaissance Scarfs, with a p la fs yeace Curtains, full e edge, size Window Shades Opaque Window Sh mounted on rollers; all colors; the kind 25c 396, each; rER Por- full wi jental ipe rent patterns, full cece SOC 49 Hemstitched Ruffled Curtains Dn SupeaeD dint; foguary Soe ue BQ]? Pian Qe Sale of Seamless Wilton Rugs Size 7x4.6 ft. Special to-morrow. Regularly 13.50; sale price 6.75. in a choice line of col- one of the this sale , pair Seamless French Ax- Axminster _and Wil- minster Rugs Sanford’s and shown in a large range of colors and patterns. Aw opportunity to get a rug worth $30.00 to-morrow at be and beauty of colors, ot be bought for $13.50; sale pr is lot out row we have ced them all to, This 3- Piee Bed Outfit bed {astra eel doubie 8,98 top mattress: value sale price, all <lzes 6.98 Linoleums "Way Underprice 10,000 eee ae ennantaaneenaeaael Quality Cork Linoleum Shown in inlaid and tile pat- terns; retailed in most stores 4-Yard- Wide Seamless Linoleum No oOtner house can show you such a Parquet Floor Oilcloth actually worth "35c. a spe-$ at 75c, and 85c, a square} variety; it is posi- cial purchase (none$ yard; spe- tively the best as- by mail cial here sortment — ever or C. O. to-morrow, shown, D.); at, square v4 C Regular per sq Starccetre price $1 Cc yard sq. yard. A Remarkable Price- Women’s Satin Lined Kersey Coats---from $8, $9 & $10 down to $4.98 ‘That's the entire story in a nutshell, A Mid-Winter Clearance of Coats—unquestionably the most sensational so far this season, Early choosing brings the most satisfactory values—so shop early, Made of fine all-wool kersey, l. 98 elaborately trimmed with wide Hercules braid, satin lined to Special Treas Sale of Silk Batiste or Lingerie awaiae mn extra quality heavy Princess Dresses mu coat, sce. Inghes lon Regular) re 8, 8 ana fe Bale pri A daity, richly made evening dross for parties, balls or theatre ‘use—as lovely as you might. de- sire-even If you paid as high as $10 or $12, Made trom’ dainty | Silk Batiste or Lingerie of tho very” best quality: handsomely trimmed with several rows of Valenciennes lace, tucks and medallions. Full flare skirts, tucked and. trimmed with ex- uigite Val. lace. 3 98 Special Value in Panama Skirts Just 450 of them— worth from $3 to $5 each. Extremely well made skirts of fine quality Panama—in 4. Shown in satgst Bale serie