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Next Week's Complete Novel In The Evening World TWO YEAR THEFTS PRECEDED SPOONER \ $20 Manager Lived at ') $45,000-a-Year Rate, . 7. HAD $5,000 LIMOUSINE, Dany against Renner, who says Spooner admitted to tim he had per- fured himself. The suit was on a mortgege foreclosure and was decided against Renner by Referee Dickey, and will come up for argument before Supreme Court Justice Crane. Spooner, who was twenty-seven and bad been in the employ of the coni- After the hearing, in which Spooner was @ witness, Renner says he com- plained to Assistant District-Attorney been at work for several weeks. However, Renner asserts the company te finenctal condition, ying the bank examiners @o in- formed him. He says complaints have been made at the Eagie office for the past two years and that shareholders eecking President Edwin Piper never Ne to find him, and that consequently was the buffer. also intimated that action may be taken by the United States District-Attorney. He said that after & conference with Assistant District- Serna <4 Lee os seine Regd next wee! expec: Bevel warrants ‘would be issued. In July the shareholders bold meetings, according to er, from 100 to 150 taking part. It was through their activity that com- plaints were first filed. There are 5,000 shareholders, he sa: ind while now the complainants only include mortgagors, the savings bank de- Positore will be included. to rations jolders ve bee: tt Another meeting of shareholders be held next Wednesday. Renner described Spooner’s plan of Gperation as the securing of the ont at was suposed to be paid we ft Mra. I "s books to in- it the of taxes had been of No. 208 Bt, deans ewood OPM car ot, Jana ‘man's body was found, “al ‘According to Philip Leifert, of No. sore tee Baia St wach . al ing at the Hotel Bousert, and ous’ pttnen- Roan CAKE 16 FEET HIGH, Wuge Party Feature of Bassar for Seldiers’ Families, A Dasear for the benefit be to 10 o'clock P, M. in the galleries of M. Goupil, No. 58 West Forty-fitth The Cercle Soran Bornhagdt CFasra ee SCENES IN ANTWERP NOW OCCUPIED.BY GERMANS AFTER TEN DAYS’ GRUELING SIEGE/WH) NEEDS DUKE. i THe eat Museum CARDINAL FERRATA, PAPAL SECRETARY OF STATE, 8 DEAD Church Diplomat Stricken Shortly After His Appoint- ment by Pope Benedict. ROME, Oct, 10.—The Papal Seore- tary of State, Cardinal Ferrata, died here at 1.80 this afternoon. The Car- dinal had been sick for eeveral weeks, following an attack of appendicitis. The immediate cause of the death of Cardinal Ferrata was peritonitis, an outcome of his protracted illness. Because of this peritonitis it was con- sidered imprudent to operate, Among the telegrams of inquiry re- ceived shortly before the Cardinal's death was one from M. Briand, the French Minister of Justice, ‘The death of the Cardinal, although mot unexpected, greatly affected the Pontiff . The news was conveyed to him by telephone and his commen was; “God's will be done, but ft takes from me a dear friend and my right ‘hand.” ‘ The Pope immediately retired to his private apartments, where he prayed for the repose of the soul of the de- ceased Cardinal, ‘The Secretary of State passed away surrounded by faithful friends. He was conscious to the last moment. His last remark was: “I am 20 tired! I go to join my Baviour.” Cardinal Ferrata was appointed to be Papal Secretary of State by Pope Benedict XV. Sept 4 last, succesding Cardinal Merry del Val. He had been Secretary of the Holy Office. Cardinal Ferrata was sixty-seven years old. He was born in Monte- filascono and was Archpriest of the Patriarchal Lateran Arch Basilica. He became a Cardinal in 1899. He was one of those regarded as likely to suc- coed Pius X. 2,000 AMERICANS SAIL ON FIVE OCEAN LINERS Hamilton Fish, Perry Belmont and Mrs. Philip Lydig Among No- tables on Way Home. LONDON, ‘Oct. 10—Five steamers sailed from British ports for the United States to-day carrying abdut 2,000 Américans. Among the passengers were Hamilton Fish, Perry Belmont and Mrs. Philip Lydig of New York; Rodman Wanamaker of Philadelphi. and Alexander Cochrane of Boston. About 200 of the Americans had been ake assisted by the American Relief Com- miteen, # 5 GIRL WHO VANISHED FROM BOARDING HOUSE SOUGHT BY POLICE Landlady Fears for Safety of Pretty Florence Beresford, Who Was Going on Stage. A general alarm has been sent out by the Detective Bureau for Florence Beresford, a pretty nineteen-year- old school gtri, who came to New York a month ago to seek a thea- trical engagement, and who disap- peared on October 1 under mysterious circumstances from her boarding house at No. #9 West Forty-fifth atreet. The police were notified by Mrs. Clabby, the girl's landlad; last night, and were informed that Miss Beresford had but one visitor since she came to New York on September 18, that visitor being a young woman who lived somewhere in Washington Heights. : Miss Beresford informed the maid, the afternoon of October 1, that sho would spend the night with a friend, and would return the next morning. Her possessions are still at the room- ing howse. Bhe was not discouraged, nervous or homesiok, the landlady said this morning, mor had she any financial troubles. She had been promised an engagement by a vaudeville agency. Letters found in her room indicate she attended High School at Win- throp, Mass., and had relatives there, ‘These were notified Thursday of her disappearance. She is described as being five feet four inches high, weighing 140 pounds and having brown hair and eyes. oo TO SELL JENNINGS’S LIBRARY Many Fields Covered in Journalist- Critio’s Books. ‘The sale of the library of the late John J. Jennings, author, journalist and critic, is announced by the Anderson Auction Company of Madison avenue ané Fortieth street, for Oct. The library contains, besid: of standard authors, many lating to the drama and the stage, Mr. Jennings’s taste and ability in dramatic criticlam was testified to by his frequeat tripe aboard with his friend, Charles Frebman. on play buying expe- tions e frequent commissions he Feeaved 4 Gade plays for Mr. Front © wide oxperi- who had vg, news work in St, ow eaeee were we I ford on ye Raisd tn guno, e author o} rae ai » Jennls oe in wpeare’s plays, racted favorable attention on of the Atlantio, Seen REGISTER TO-DAY. To-day le tl letration, Polle to 10 P.M. If m Bed ju do net register you etn i OOC wo ae fe <a ee NY SI | } re Oddities in the War News A new battlefield anaesthetic, a sort of fermented morphia, which does Bot induce coma but numbs the nervous system, has been introduced in the war. After its use wounded soldiers feel no pain for #ix hours, by which time they can be moved to # hospital. The military commandant at Saarburg, Lorraine, orders that all French | signs end inscriptions be removed from shops and other buildings and for- Dide the use of letter heads, bill heade and envelopes bearing French inscriptions. Prominent men of Paris are urging that the ruins of Rheims and of the Cathedral be left as they are as an everlasting record of German barbarity and a new Cathedral as nearly a: possible like the old be built nearby. rain ls an Mme. Mercier, a poultry dealer of Corlay, France, has twelve sons and two sons-in-law at the front. " Py A Lancashire man achieved @ war service record dy enlisting and leav ing England for the front on Thursday, being wounded on the firing line the next Monday and being back in England in a hospital the succeeding ‘Thureday. i Before the Bowars and Bepoyes left for France they were shown pictures Of German and Austrian soldiers 20 they could identify the enemy. A #ikh corporal stepped forward and spoke: “Where, Husoor, te the chief one with the upturned mustache? How will we le ¢0 capture Mm if we don't exactly know him when we ere running after himr* More than 68,000 Roman Catholic ecclesiastics are serving in the dif- ferent armies, mostly in hospital work, They include seven bishops and nineteen other prelates. In the midst of burned and shattered houses, bulletriddled trees, shell-| Pi, torn fences and uprooted earth in the village of Melle was found a very ordinary cabbage patch protected by signs reqafing “Verboten.” The infer- ence was that the cabbages were wanted for sauerkraut A French captain is, authority for the story that two corporals and a private crawled within ten yards of German trenches while most of the soldiers were away for provisions and the officers were some distance back of the guns. Springing into the trenches the Frenchmen turned the guns on the Germans and put them all to fight, ‘When three British cruisers were torpedoed in the North Bea the Dutch steamer Titan rescued scores of exhausted and almost naked Britishers. Natives of Vollendam, eo the story runs, wear profusion of clothing and in| the Dutch crew were many Vollendammers, some of whom had on as many} as seven pairs of trousers. In some instances one generous Dutchman was! able to provide s!x Britishers with pants. STEP THIS WAY AND SEE THE GREAT BOMB HOUND He Comes From Australia and Is Trained to Bark at a Zeppelin or Aeroplane. Net as @ reservist, fle had a dog which looked like a cross between a kangaroo and @ water spaniel. “He is an Australian bomb hound, trained to bark at the roach of a Zeppelin or aeroplane,” Simpkins, From the animal's actions while the ahip wae getting away it's trained to mise an airship, a le 701,850, | The statement of the average con- Frank Simpkina, an Australian who ; dition of the Clearing House banks served as a Heutenant in the Britinh | avon of the Clearing House banks army in the Boer war, sailed ‘orday tai hat the cash owe "195,300, | on the Alinsetonke on his way so ¢a- | $40’ below’ legal vee et of §7,791,+ HO OOOO OOK bark at everything cise and couldn't |% rve increased fun RINE Sn ee O CANCER SUFFERER ROOT ANGERED LEAPS TD DEATH | BY BARNES DENES FROM HOSEA) AD TO WATMAR Nurse Returns to Find Caspar! Agetieved by Deal Whereby Davis Lifeless on Mt. Sinai | Guthrie Was Refused Place Porte Cochere. on Delegate List. Senator Elihu Root, political Achilles of the Republican party, is sulking | ‘bis tent, This tent is summer home near Clint far he has refused to com: any way ip the campaign. Although Senator Root’s name h: Mine Doane, a trained aurse for Casper Davis, a private patient im Mount Sinai Hospital, left her charge for a momient at 10,80 last night to fetch bim a drink of orange juice. Mr, Davis had been] i, in the hospital aince last Heptember,| {lst ok tandidates ap rat dele 4 sufferer from cancer. He wae oper-i nas not uttered @ word since ¢ ated upom sesersi days ago and, 88 saratoga conference, either for the surgeons thoucht, successfully. | aidate Whitman or the Constitu- Returning to the :oom, 198 Doane tional, Convention ticket. saw that one of the windows, both gone sharp practice by political of which had closed, was Open. ' bosses at Safatoge in making up the Mr. Davis was not in his cot. She jist of delegates at large to thé con- ran to the window and saw the body | vention nas agsrieved Senator Root. of her patient sprawled out on the ie desired that William D, Guthrie, roof of the porte cochere in front of one of the most brilliant lawyers in t.> main entrance of the hospital on! New York, be included in the list. Fifth avcoue. Mr. Guthrie wus @ prominamt figure Notifyiz; Dr. Schw.. , the he >! at the conferende, taning active part surgeon, she hurriel duwn and \s-'in questions relating to the conetitu- sisted the surgeon and orderiies %© tional ticket and the platform plank bring the body in, Mr. Davis's skull) referring to st. had been fractured and he bed been) ‘There was sudden conflict between Instantly killed. Miss Doane said be) Boss Barnes and Boss Parsons for complained of excruciating pain fF’ putting certain of thelr een taverns some time before asking for the! on ing lownte-atclarge list. Barnes ora: juice and had sald that un-! yo Willan M. Ivins and Mr. less he had relief he thought he would! q,44.4.. Parsons wanted the go insane, He repeatedly sald that ro himself. ‘There whe & day of man- he had no faith In the errata | Gots belleved he was just as badly off as iJ Tho hospital authorities were re-| 11 eos combination. ‘To luctant to have the police investigate complies 4k { -s be ac- the death of Mr. Davis, Policoman| ©” ¥, ; "areons-Koenig Yelaha of the East One Hundred and rie, controlling New York County, Fourth street station, when ho went| *sreed to displace the learned Guthrie to his Fifth avenue post a! mid-|@nd put in his place Jaco. Bronner, night, wae told by a watchman that Hes oid-time political boss of Brook- at the hos Le ca es at aa Tt was sala in political circles yea- ‘Word was sent to the family at the|terday that there is coolness also be- Davis summer home at Woodmere, |tween ex-Boss Barnes and Senator L Root over some other subject, which 1. D. Levy, President tends to irritate the honorary leader Le goog eer ey ted 8 and took |°f the Republican party, who was Charge of the body. He sald Mr, Davia | cheered to the skies at the Baratoga had suffered from cancer for six years, |“"RVery effort is betn, i de Oe but that It had te partetpato ier toe ntally and there had been no came ing on the part of his medical ad- Whitman leaders have re or his family that he needed to be closely watched. The Davis business, under the name of Caspar Davis & fion, was carri on at No. 48 West Forty-fifth stree his son Ralph was associated wi! him, pee EER MUNSTERBERG WILL HOLD ON E a eri E Ai fer vii pe ne lhe CHAUFFEUR SENT TO JAIL. Also Fined 9100 After Disastreve Evening Ride. days in the Workhouse and f $100, oF ton extra days in the sentence imposed to-day Ultimatem te Ha Move the Pri (Mpectal to The Brening World, CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Oct. 10.—Prof. Hugo Munsterberg 1» Inclined to pol fun at the ultimatum “dismiss Munat berg or lose a bequest of ten milli fesued to Harvard by Major Clarence ré alumnus of Surrey, Does Not jenaor. 1 am utterly con- this astounding ie) of ten millions! Gueas othing for me to do but pack ik and got out as quickly as pos- inkle went from the if at ‘fo in the ins, the ish, who live in his rofessor’s § Btebbins avenue, that “My dlaminaal | he Harvard corporation to Employees of Barren Island fought mati fire which started to-day in ected wil the gar; sees pant. Tho tite tighter, got the bi unde! POEUTe sconmued close up end shot’ Ly, 8! ove) atreams ashorm, : had closed his leg consular officers on account of lac re Cuban Minister ASCLERK? 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