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2 red, 77c; rash corn, No. 3 mld. ac; cash cotton, 0 5-lflc. VDREION. A mob at llllversum, Holland, wh-r martial law haa been established, stoned the troops yesterday, tha cavalry replying by a char and the iafantry by voll-y.

Ona rioter wan killed and two wounded. Workmen In Southern Russia fear that the end of tha world la ap-proaching. and are leaving their places of employment to upend what they believe to be their laat days In their village bomea. A mob of Cuban aoldiers awaiting their pay at Cuevltaa, near Santiago, attacked the Captain of Gendarmes, whose men fired into the crowd. Five were killed and ten wounded.

The Constitutional fight in Jamaica Is becoming a struggle for the retention of the Constitution Itself. An Knglish firm has an order for 14.000,000 Mauser cartridges for Africa. Only the lioer use Mausers. The Boers are contemplating sending commands for the rowder detained by Portugal In Delagoa lay. The British.

Wall Paper Trust, with a flfteen-mllllon-dollar will be launched this week It is denied that tha bubonic plague has appeared in Naples and Palermo. Cuban papers aay it is the duty of the United States to protect life and property there and establish a stable Government Pages 1, 0, and 7, Fae a. A non and two sisters-in-law of Charles W. Trlppe, a Sanitary Inspector of the New York Health Department, ware instantly killed In a grade crossing accident at Hoa-brlgbt yesterday. Mrs.

Trlppe, her baby, and the nun, who were also in the car-rloge, were more or less injured. Poring the first two months of the fiscal rear the army has cost the Government Congress only appropriated for the year, and at this rate the funds will not laat the year out. Secretary Gage says a bond issue will not be ecessary. Paa-e 3. Tammany Hall baa practically agreed upon its municipal and other tlcketa for the Autumn elections.

Mrs. Henrietta Becker, a patient In a private sanitarium and hospital at 241 West Forty-fourth Street, leaped from a window yesterday and died of hr injuries. The President spent yesterday in preparing for his departure to-night from- Platts burg. A stop will be made at Long Branch, and then a visit will be paid to -Pittsburg, where the party will arrive late Saturday night. rase 4..

It was denied yesterday at the office of John D. Rockefeller that he is aiding the local retail butcher in their fight against the wholesale meat dealers. The night watchman at the Misses Crelgh-ton's school for girls in Knglewood, N. shot and killed a burglar, who had entered his room early yesterday morning. Capt.

Austin of the Seventy-first Regiment has declined an appointment as Captain In the United States Volunteers. His friends say the offer of the honor has vindicated Capt. Austin against the State court of Inquiry. Gen. Otis has aDolied the Chinese exclusion laws of the United States to the Philippines.

The State Department had no knowledge of the order. The Chinese Government ia much exercised thereat, and asks for a suspension of the order. Secretary Root saya that every enlisted volunteer will eat his Christmas dinner In the Philippines. Several officers have declined commissions in the volunteer regi ments, Pas; S. All of the two-year-olds that will, compete in the rich Futurity on Saturday are quartered near Bheepshead.

The field will be large, but lacks class. An expert gave the opinion yesterday, that tne enamrocK is more eveniy mmcneu with the Defender than with the Columbia, but he said she certainly possessed great power. j- O. Bobert P. Porter.

In an interview granted exclusively to the special correspondent of The Times, in London, discussed the Industrial conditions existing in Europe at present, and explained tne huge increase in exports from the United States to European markets. Pave 9. 1 The Union Steel and Chain Company has secured options on many large plants and mineral properties. Pas; 12. The annual convention of the New York Grand Dodge of Odd Fellows was opened yesterday.

The transport McClellan, with a large car-go of supplies for the Puerto Rlcan storm sufferers, sailed yesterday. There Is a rumor that tugboat and excur- sion steamer firemen will strike for higher wages on the day Dewey returns. The Rev. Dr. Benjamin F.

De' Costa haa resla-ned his position as rector of the Church of St. John the Kvangelist- It was reported yesterday that the Brooklyn Rapid' Transit Company 1 ready to absorb the trolley systems controlled by the New York and Queens County and the New York and North Shore Railroads. The dead bodies of John Landauer and Josephine Engel were found yesterday la a lot at One Hundred and Fiftieth Street and River Avenue. Both had been shot, and the man still held a pistol in his hand. He had deserted a wife and family for the young girl.

The committee on the "plan and scope of the demonstration of welcome to Admiral Dewey yesterday and made the final apportlonmentof the fl.TO.OOO fund to be expended for such a purpose. Acting Mayor Guggenhelmer haa cabled the Admiral suggesting that he arrive on the evening of Sept. 28. Arrivals at Hotels and Out-of -Town Buyers. Page 2.

Marine Intelligence and Foreign Malls. Page 3. Bustness Trouble. Page 9. Yesterday's Fires.

Pages 2. New Corporations. Page 5. Insurance Notes. Page 9.

Court Calendars. Page 9. Weather Report Page 2. Losses by Fire. Page 2.

Real Estate. Page 10. Amusement. Page 1. I Railroads.

Page 5. Markets. Page Society. Page 7. MINISTER STJES FOB LIBEL.

Dr. Kerfoot of Loalsvlll Objects to Betas Called Car-Foot." Sfttial to Tie Ntw York' Time. LOUISVILLE, Ky, Aug. 23. The Rev.

Dr. F. H. Kerfoot, a Baptist preacher of this city, to-day filed suit for damages for libel against The Shelby SentlneL Charles M. Lewis, a Goebel worker, is edi- tor of the paper.

The libel complained of is alleged to have been contained In an editorial article pub lished last week reviling Dr. Cur-Foot," as he mt roforiwi thrivin. because he had stated the position of Senator Goebel and op- pusa KODerts loee.l upuon dim. a sot-nun Of the Mlltnrial la aa follows! It Is unfortunately too frequent that the Cloak or relirinn La utiad to cover the hvdra- healed and venomous snake of rottenne ana treason, and whenever beneatn us iom is discovered such a cur It 1s fitting that the foot should be called with it until he is Kicked from bis false position. MOTHER AND SON DROWN.

Mrs. Teeples Meets Death la aa At tempt to Save He Child. LOUISVILLE. Ky, Aug. 23.

Mrs. Anne Teeples and Herbert, her eight-year-old aon. of Charlestown. met with a tragia death at Fry's Landing, twelve miles above here 'on the Ohio River, to-day. Th wars ma- ra if a flshlne DartV.

and while the men were away from the ramp the boy went bathing and got beyond r. iM prang into tne water aiier miu. motiier and son were drowned before assistance could them. When the husband returned and found that his wife and son were dead he attempted suicide by Jumping into the but was restrained by other member- of the party. The body of Mrs.

Teeples was recovered to-night by the llf vera. 1 a I Ths Kew York Central offers toWare ex-enrriom for Lsbor tsr to Jlaicara Falls, Adlrtuj-, ark Mountain. Thousand Islands. "ontwtU uta. c.

Apply to ticket asrnis tteketa, aad particulars. AUr. 110 AUTHORITY FOB RAHAPO CONTRACT Ex-Judge Dillon Riddles Claims of Friends of the DeaL NO LEGAL LEG TO STAND ON Framers of Oreater New York Charter While Host of the Option on CaUkill Lands Expire April 1, tha Water Company Has Privilege for Many Benawala. When the Board of Public Improvement met yesterday afternoon the. Board Room was crowded with citizens who had gathered to protest against the Ramap water steal, but the matter waa not brought up.

The only time it was' alluded to was when President Holahan announced. In reply to a letter which he had received from Thomas A. Fulton, the Secretary of the Citizens' Union, requesting a hearing, that any one who had any fact or figures bearing on the Ramapo would have a chance to ex-prea their views at next Wednesday's meeting. During the session copies of the restraining order issued by Justice Bookstaver at the suit of the Press Publishing Company prohibiting action on the Ramapo. contract were served upon the members.

The matter was referred to the Corporation Counsel. While the project waa thus left In a quiescent state by the body which claims the power to enter Into the contract, ex-Judge John F. Dillon, who helped to frame the Oreater Xew York charter, was writing an opinion on the matter for Controller Coler, who Is one of his clients. Since the memorable meeting of the board on Wednesday of last week. Judge Dillon has been engaged In a study of the proposed contract, the Constitution of the State of New York, and the city and his conclusion is, to use his-own language, that- there ia no authority In the Commissioner of Water Supply to make such a contract, and that the proposed contract, made only under the sanction of the Board of Public Improvements and the Commissioner of Water Supply, has not a single legal leg to stand on." JUDGE DILLON'S OPINION.

In effect Judge Dillon declares that neither Commissioner Dalton nor the Board of Public Improvements has the power, alone or together, to make such a contract; that portions of the charter of the Ramapo Water Company which conflict with the city charter are. repealed bjr that act that the city, through the Commissioner of Water Supply, the Board of Public Improve ments, the Board of Estimate, ana ine MunlclDal Assembly, has fun power witn- out further legislation to determine all sources of water supply ror tne jiiy 01 ew York anywhere within the State; and that, having selected and determined the source of water supply, then by the action orthe municipal authorities the City of New York has the power to acquire by condemnation any real estate or any Interest therein that may be necessary in order to acquire the sole and exclusive property in such source or sources of water supply and to wholly extinguish the water rights of any other person or corporation therein. i Alter quoting bwuuii i wkink riva hp Miin'rlnal Assembly the Sower to construct additional water works, udge Dillon riddles the contention of Pres ident Moianan tnai me utui uuui the city from acquiring an additional water supply In these words: DEBT LIMIT NO BAR. Bonds rday be so Issued to procure such supply of water without any reference to- the 10 per cent, debt limit of tne constitu tion, such being the express provisions of the Constitution itself on this subject. The cnar- ter Commission, in drafting the charter of the City of New York, were perfectly familiar with the water situation of the city, mey knew that the old City of New York had expended, first and last, in the neighbor hood of a hundred millions to acquire a wa ter system of Its own.

They knew that the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Wards had been recently annexed, where there wrr local water companies, and thev irave the new city the power to Con riomn and acaulre these properties in ex press terms. And having in view this situation, they enacted Section 42. The power to acquire additional water rights being tiin. avtiv-maIv In the aforemen tioned city authorities, and the policy" of New York to own Its own water works having been so pronounced, it will not lightly be supposed that the charter conferred upon some administrative officer or some administrative body, the power to- overturn this Having disposed of the ability of the city tn urnuirc a water supply. Judge Dillon turns his attention to Section 4il, under which Water Commissioner Dalton claims viimtve rieht.

after favorable action by tha Board of Public Improvements, to enter into contracts with private parties for the supplying of water to the city. This section, the Controller's adviser says, was not smuggled into the charter, but waa placed there advisedly. The nigger in the therefore, must be caught else where. In speaking of the application of Section 471, Judge union says: COMMISSIONERS NOT EMPOWERED. If this section be read carefully" it will be seen that it does not contain any grant of power whataoever to the Commissioner of Water Supply to make a contract, or to inv one else to make such a contract as Is proposed, or any contract whatever.

So far from being a grant of power it is a limita tion upon the per of the water wm mlssloner to make contracts. It was not into the charter by anybody. It muni lust what it says, a limitation upon not rrint of power. The purpose of this section is that whenever any contract within the power of the city has been duly authorized the Proper officers or bodies, the Commissioner of Water Supply shall not even then enter Into It. Xhmlts all the details of the con tract to the Board of Public Improve menta.

The Oreater New York charter having clothed the city with tMljpmfrio acqu.ie for itseil aaaiuonai 4w. c.vt,., nf thJ State by the concur rent act on oPthe Board of Public Improvements, the Board of Estimate and Municipal Assembly, no court cart be Justified in holdlna that Sec- court Pnmm nn. er on the mere assent of a majority of the osiw. improvements, to overturn the whole policy ot in" -of water supply and to make a contract which will disable Greater New York from requiring for itself 4 water suppjy whenever "rid wherever it desires to do so. if this contract were good.

vr York City should to-morrow or Sex yefr say. We want to acquire water Im additional sources and con struct the works the effect of uri. eot Lon- otner tars Contlaaed aa $500,000 A DAY. At This Kats Appropriation Will Not ths bar Out Congrats Gar 80,000,000. Sfttial Tki Ntw Yerk Timtt.

ug. Fifty-fifth WA8HINOTON, Congress appropriated for the maintenance of the army, inclu Ing all expenses except those for the construction of fortifications. about IMO.OOO.OOO. It had authorised the President to raise men, and It was sup-ng the use. of money an army of lOO.OOtl posed to be alio enough to keep thoke men In the field, that the force asked could not be at for would be- unnec ssary.

If the War DepaH ment were to regulate its expenditures appropriated by cording to the amount Cf ngress, it would spend for the army about a month. Two months of the flical year have almost passed, and in tho has cost more thi two months the army al.x,J. At that rate the appropriation for the army win not last until Dect- Inber. Bome of the iron It Is explained, is go- Ing out to meet cop tracts entered into last avertable expenditure will be smaller after a th or two. But it will have to be much if Is to last until a dncienw bill can be passed.

Secretary Gage am asked to-dav wheth- er he thought it fculd be necessary to sell bonds to provide money with which to maintain the army He replied that ne thought not. If Congress had BP thorized the expenditure of more than fSO. IxtO.ooo for the army in tne nacai year, it that the income tne Treasury opinion from customs and In ternal revenue wosld to sufficient to meet every demand, but the trouble appears to De not tne dimcu about raising money spend it- but the authority to me estimate su the army asked year, on the asau mitted to Congress for for for the ptlon that HiO.ODO men would be allowed to-be maintained in the army. The cutti off of the $04,000,000 seems to have been ill-Judged, tor it tne expenditures conti ue to be at the rate of 15.000,000 a monta as they have been In July and AuguBt, he appropriation will not pe nair enoutrh. nut tne Treasury will not sell bonds to The only remedy will remeuy tne matteo.

be the consent of Congress that more than may be xpended. DICKENS'S NEWSPAPER WORK. Tho English Journal on Which He Ac- quired Expeti ence is Merged with The Suffolk Mercury. Sptcial to New York Timtt. LONDON, Aug.

:3. The, merging of The nto The Suffolk Times Suffolk Chronicle and Mercury serves to recall an Interesting Incident in the llf el of Charles Dickens. It was The Suffolk Chronicle which slxty- three years ago brdught Dickens to' Ipswich for the purpose of county election. assisting In reporting a But for this fact we should probably never have 'had Pickwick nocturnal adventures at the Great Whl Horse, nor would we have heard of ThtJ Eatanswill Gazette and The Eatanswill Independent. YAQUIS EVADE SOLDIERS.

Gen. Torres Got Within a Few Miles of a Large tile Band of the Hos- Warriors. POT AM. Mexico 23, via Nogales, Arizona. Gen.

Tosres, with his command. arrived opposite Tbiin this afternoon, and every one Is asklag why he advanced to within two or thrde miles of where several hundred warriors were known to be and then turned and raarched to Torln. Infor; matiori has been rAelved that a great-many of the rebels have returned the last two days to Vicam and other places from which they had routed. Indians, with bows and A smalt band on arrows, have been passing up and down the river, killing an til horses and mules they round, a great ny rafts have been cont ing down the stream ouring tne last weeK. They are built by the Indians as a means of crossing the ri ter on their way to the sierras.

A short time oefore the outbreak oc- curred Joaquin Fohtes, the Commissarlo at Potam, sent a xaqpi to the Bacatete Mount- alns with some arses to be left there on pasture. He retu rrted to-day, and tells how he was held prison by some hostlles on his return. Claiming lo be a sympathizer and eager to join them, ne gained tneir conn' dence. and when opportunity arrived he mounted a fast rse he had selected and placed in the brush and pulled out for the valley as last as WissiDie. rie says there were about four hundred with tha families, at this one place, and that from conversations he judged there werd several other camps al- most as large.

HEABST INTEREST TO BE SOLS. One-third of the Homestake Mime Will Aug. 23. Ad is- Brln MINNEAPOLIS. patoh from Dead wood, S.

says that the Hearst interest. 1 hich Is one-third of the great, Homestake (Mine of that city. Is to be sold in London kiext month. The details of the deal are all made. ued at about The mine -Is val and is capitalize) at it has paid dividends or $7,723,300, and is under- stood to have grotln opened to insure divi- dends ot SU5.000 mp ntbly for the next twen- ty years.

The Hearsts get about $3,300,000 for their share in the Homatake alone, and it is sup- posed that the sa interest in Dead wood Terra and Highland will also be sold. SALE OF SHIPYARD. Kew York aad Phlli adelphla Men Paid 350,000 To Special to Float It at auoo.ooo. New York Timet. PHILADELPHIA Penru, Aug.

23. Fur ther developments in tho sale made a few days ago of the sington occurred ranged the deal Illllman shipyard of Ken- tb-day. The man who ar kvas John Dougherty of New York, formeily Auditor at the Cramp ahipyard. Mr. Dougherty is said to have represented the interests of Seligman Brothers, the Ne York bankers, while at Cramps.

In the rpcent sale Mr. Dougherty acted as middleman between the purchasers of the defunct Hlllman shipbuilding plant and the assignee, l. Warner Couiston, wno terests of the creditors. represented the The price paid the Hlllman plant was xsr.o.ouo. with $25, WOO deposited ad earnest money.

Tne latter has been placed in the hands of Attorney Couiston. Mr- Couiston At seen yesterday after- noon In his office, nen asked to divulge the names of the purchasers- he refused to do so. He copfinmed mi tne sale, however, in the courses of a few and intimated tnat days the identity the new company would be made puouc. Mi ir. couiston 'was offered a certain percentak' on the purchase money aa a sruarantee oi good faith on the part of the wealthy rew York and Philadelphia deal.

This proved un- husineas men in satisfactory to and $2.000 was patd. It' was learned, wever. mat owtng to tne present, boom; In tppuilding tne purchasers will in all probalai iiitv capitalize the new nlant at $000,000 nd place it on the mar- ket at that figurd MEXICO'S KlfJHT NOT CONCEDED. Got. Sayera Sats the Six Mexican Prtaoaers Are Aaerlesa Citlseas.

Sfttial to New York Timtt. AUSTIN. Texasl Aug. 23. Gov.

Savers day received a telegram from Plutarco Ornelas. Mexlcanl Consul at San Antonio. as follow: If you have flnlshed your Investigation regarding the sixl Mexican prisoners In the Hidalgo County jail complaining of 111 treatment, will kindly wire me the suit, as the Mexican Embassy Is solicitous roatteH Rot. Savers rei plied that the prisoners with one exceptida were citizens oi exus. ARMY COSTS and that In their rsses he could not recognise th rlcht of the Msslcsn Government to take cognisance of the matur.

WANTS HOUSE RULES CHANGED. SepresentatiT Hepburn Is Again Agi- tating for Modification In th Next Congres. Sfttial to Tkt New York Timet. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.

Representative Hepburn of Iowa, who last session frequent ly made known his dissatisfaction with some of the rules of the House, is again agitating modifications for the next Con gress, and is hopeful that Speaker Henderson will lend; his assistance in brlngtng about sundry changes which be, Hepburn, considers essential to free expression of opinion and the wider consideration of busi ness. Mr. Hepburn insists that there shall be a return to the old rule of recognition, as un der the latest rule the Speaker was not obliged to recognize a man although he in ract did see mm ana Knew or his desire to be heard. Mr. Hepburn's Idea-Is that there should be as complete recognition of members in the House as In the Senate.

During and prior to the Forty-sixth Con gress the rule of recognition was to permit to speak the first of three men risina at nearly the same time and the others in turn. ir. Hepburn would return to this practice. He would almost do awav with the Com. mittee on Rules as now constituted and empowered.

It would be a committee of the majority, not subject to the control of the Speaker, an of which he would not be a member. It is doubtful whether the Idea of recog nition advised by Mr. Hepburn will find favor enough to carry. Members as old in service as Mr. Hepburn say that, while theoretically every member of the House Is entitled to be recognized when he indicates a desire to speak, practically it is out of the question to accept that plan and.

expect to accomplish anything in the way of leglsla-on. The suggestion that Senate rules be applied to the conduct of the business of the Is regarded by those who dis-ahirev Vth Mr' lePburn as intolerable to numu uuuuuuieuijr auu io liie epeechmaklng. but It is not believed that it WOUld increase' th sum nt wMnm th quality of legislation. NEW TORK POSTAL STATIONS. Department Otders Location of Three ox Them Ckaugrd.

Sfttial to The Ntw York Ttmtt. WASHINGTON, Aug. addi tional removal of postal sub-stations New York have been ordered bv the Post OHice Department. Sub-Station No. 5." is to be at 171 Hester Street: No.

67, will be located at Eighty-first Street and Park Avenue, and No. Ti at Amsterdam Avenue. LOBBY OF POSTAL EMPLOYES. The Department Is Preparing to Pro tect congress rrom a Said of Letter Carrier and Postmasters. Sftcinl to Tkt New'York Timet.

WASHINGTON. Auc. 23. Th Pnst Of fice Department Is aware that two great lobbies representing two branches of the i-osiat service are likely to descend upon Washington and upon Conn-ess durinr the next session. These two lobbies will represent the letter carriers, who number 14,000, and ask for a minimum ra nr $1,200 a year, and the fourth-class Post masters, who ask for not less than $100 a year and allowances for clerk hire, rent, light and heat.

iikH tatlonery. Their compensation Is now- baaed upon the cancellations made by thera. and they do not get the allowances enumerated. l-osimaster W. H.

Thomas of La Grange, representing the National League of came to Washington to secure legislation "Vlr employes represented by film. (-nroln. Mn 0u.i. ah vrfaiiu was against a rule of the department. He was so Informed and went home, but he began sending out circulars soliciting contribu- jurpuBe menuoneu.

and was removed trtm him it. it vv I1C IB nuw soliciting contributions of from 2 to $50 to th. w-, S. I uii.i. oranng in mina tnai the employes of the Public Printing Office last Winter pledged to pay the expenses Df securing from Congress an in-rese of pay in the printing office from J.i.50 to $4 a day, and accomplished It.

the fourth-class Postmasters are encouraged and are contributing, it is said; liberally. wnerai emitn aoes not insist that the Postmasters have not the rlpht to organize to secure the object set forth by them in their request for increased compensation, but those organizations are kept under watch to see that they do not prejudice the Interests of the Government. A warning was given to clerks in one association that they must not permit, their paper to threaten to retaliate upon merchants who declined to advertise in it. Then there is the rule that employes must not come to Washington to promote legislation, as the Government is competent to manage that for Itself. The Postmaster General says that the department will have to protect Congress la case pressure Is exerted to secure the pay asked for by the fourth-class Postmasters.

He would send figures to Congress to show what appropriations would be necessary to pay the 70.000 men who would be affected by Its terms. The letter carriers, who are also organised to secure Increased compensation, are paid a year, and it is believed they will raise a large fund to promote legislation for their benefit. CLAIMED HE KNEW W. W. AS TOR.

Holmes Anevr. Who Married a Xevr York Girl. Fined la Londas Court. Sftetal to The Ntw York Timet. LONDON, Aug.

23. Holmes Agnew was fined $10 yesterday for disorderly conduct after claiming that he was an acquaintance of W. W. Astor. He was married to the daughter ot Mr.

Foote, a member of an old New York banking firm. She divorced him. MUST REMOVE THE DEAD. Before the City Anthorltles May Flood Land for Water Supply. Sfttial to The Ntw York Timtt.

POCGHKEEPSIE, Aug. 23. The question as whether or not New York City should be obliged to remove 600 dead bodies buried in a small cenmetery In Westchester County was decided by Justice Joseph F. Barn ard here to-day, who held that the bodies must be removed, because they- are buried in land to be flooded by water to be used bv -the people of New York. In his opinion.

Justice Barnard say the ctty is solely bound to remove the bodies. This duty is single and supreme. The exi gency of constructing a reservoir is not made to depend on the action of some 5oO persons, or until some 500 removals of the dead are maa oj some one. a aeceni reacted to the wishes of any relative, who de sires to be present at the removal of any body, and should ask to be permitted to be present, should be observed, and notice given to him of the date of the removal. Fewer Paupers la Eaalaad.

Sfttial to Tkt Ntw York Timtt. LONDON, Aug. ,23. The proportion of ninnrra to the population of England Is lower now than It has been for forty-five years. C.

W. Mora Leave Eaalaad To-day. Sbteuu to Tkt New York Timet. tnsnos. Au.

23. Charles W. Morse. President of the Consolidated Ice Company of New York. leaves tor tne continent to morrow.

Tit Laks Will Sail To-morrow. Cunit Tk New York Times. lAvnos. Ana. 21 The steamer Lahh.

which was to sail to-day, will not sail before Friday, a further repairs are needed- Earatnea, the new suburb of New York, can be reached in iraura or me ioj-k wa-trr Saratoga Limited." and every mile of the trip is along unonc nuasoa wvr jut. THREE KILLED BY A TRAIN Son and Sisters-in-Law of Charles W. Trippe Dead at Seabright. MO WARNING AT THE CROSSING Mrs. Trippe, Her Baby, and Nurse, Who Were Also in the Carriage, More or Less Injured.

Special to Tkt New York Timet. SEABRIGHT, N. Aug. West End Express on the New Jersey Southern Railroad, due here at 8 o'clock, ran into a carriage containing a driving party at the North Borough crossing this evening. Thre of the occupant were Instantly killed, and the other three more or less badly Injured.

The dead are: Ml ft LOUIfHS TBJIRY, twenty-two years old. HItM CAN IT A TEKRT, h.r sister, thirteen years ohl CHARLES W. TRIPPE, lt.7 seven years old. The injured are MRS. CHARLES W.

Internal injures Jtna sboca. The TRIPPE BABY, two months old; slightly nurt. LOUISE FARR. ths nurse; slightly Injured. Mrs.

Trlppe la the wife of Charles W. Trippe, who is a Sanitary Inspector of th New York Health Department, and whose city residence is at 320 West Seventy-eighth street. The Misses Terry were sisters oi Mrs. Trippe, and had been stopping with her at her Summer residence here. This afternoon Mrs.

Triooe hired a two- seated surrey from the livery stable here and the party went out for a drive. Miss Louise Terry was driving, and on the front seat with her was her sister and young Charles Trippe. Mrs. Trippe. her baby, and the nurse occupied the' rear seat.

The North Borough crossing, where the accident occurred, is one of the most dan gerous in this vicinity, and several other accidents have, been reported here within the past few years. It is Just beyond th bend in the line which shuts out from the view- or those crosnlng any approaching train, and within sight of the Trlppe cottage. On this occasion, it is. alleged, no warning whistle was sounded, and there is neither guard nor gates at the crossing. iiic van? urove along on tneir way name Chatting mertilv.

and with nn Mm at (ha approaching danger. Miss Terry drove the twin upun me raus, and as sne did so tne train thundered around the curve at full speed. Before she could lay lash to the horses, the enzlne hud atmr-lr th. squarely at the front seat, smashing It to Dimmers ana Killing tne norses. The two young women and the boy on the front seat were horrlhlv manrlnl and ihi.

death waa instantaneous. The engine seems iu nave cut me carriage cleanly In half, and Mrs. Trlppe with her baby and nurse were thrown into the ditch at the side of the road. Mrs. Triooe Was nicked tin nnrnmxlna.

The baby and nurse were hurled some distance further on. and both of the latter escaped with slight contusions Medical aid waa at nnm iimmnnA Dr. H. S. Houghton had the injured persons 1, w'n grippe coiiage.

ay direction of Coroner Hunter the bodies of the dead Terry girls and young Trippe were removed to the Long Eranch Morgue. This-action was also deemed advisable on account of the precarious condition of Mrs. Airs. Trlppe regained consciousness after! a time ana inquired ror her son and sisters. 8he was told that they were only injured, the physician fearing that in her condition the know.edge of th death of her sisters and son would have a fataLeffect upon her.

The train was In charge of Engineer Martin Maloney, and on Saturday night last his train ran over and killed a man at Highlands. Thej-e was much excitement In the village to-night, and much indignation was expressed by the citizens ver the failure of the railroad to place gates or a guard at this dangerous crossing. Coroner Hunter will hold an inquest, and the matter will be thoroughly investigated." SAYS ALL ARE AGAINST NEGRO. Colored Preacher Tells His Audience that They Must Learn to Make Guns and Powder and Use Them. ATLANTIC CITY.

N. Aug. today's session of the Colored Baptist Congress of the United States, the Rev. Dr. Robinson of Pittsburg in an address declared that the colored race must paddle its own canoe.

We must get money, banks, railroads," he continued; "learn how to make guns and powder, and then learn to use them before we can become a power in this country." He closed by asserting the North, the South, and the devil in hell are' against the negro, and God is fhe'only one who will accept us." LINES, NOW A BOARDING HOUSE. The Old Alaska I Fitted Ip tor the ilttt of a Shipbuilding; Firm. Sfttial to The New York Timet. LONDON, Aug. 23.

Vickefs Sons .4 Max im, the great shipbuilders at Barrow, bad great difficulty In housing their workmen. so they fitted jip the old. Alaska, once the fastest of the Atlantic liners, and remodeled her into a boardin? house, which is to be opened to-morrow, with 10Q boarders. The men will sleep and eat aboard her. The dining, reading, smoking, and recreation rooms, the promenade deck, and baths are all at their disposal, and the food will be of the best quality.

All this, with washing and mending: will cost $3.30 a CLYDE LINES, ONEIDA DISABLED. Shaft Snapped OS Atlantic City Hard Time la Hurricane. Sfttial to The New York Timet. ATLANTIC CITY, N. Aug.

23. The coasting steamer Oneida of the Clyde Line, bound to New York, dropped anchor oft this city to-day with a broken propeller shaft. The vessel, commanded by Staples, had come up the coast from Wilmington, N. with a mineral cargo pn board and passed through the West Indian hurricane in the vicinity of Cape Hatteras. The accident which disabled the steamer occurred at daylight this morning when about fifteen miles east of this city.

This afternoon an officer and several seamen came aahoro In a rowboat with the news of the vessel's whereabouts. Capt. Staples was at Georgetown, S. C. when, he learned of the hurricane.

At Wilmington he laid in for a day, expecting to weather the hurricane In port. Thinking its speed had taken it well to the northward, he sailed from that port, and off Cape Hatteras ran into the storm. The vessel was forged on through the hurricane with decks awash. Waves carried away everything portable above deck, including a portion of the deck railing. The vessel was in smooth water this morning when the shaft suddenly snapped.

-Being unable to proceed under canvas, Capt. Staples anchored and sent ashore for as sistance. Word was sent to New York for a tug and one arrived later and took the Oneida in tow. K00P KITE PABTT.1" Sfttial to The Ntw York Timet. CHICAGO, Aug.

23. Welnshelmer of 3.040 Calumet Avenue' gave a roof kite party' last eight In honor; of Miss Constance I. Rice of York. Two kites, six feet in height and made of bamboo cane, covered with heavy silk, were launched into the brisk breexe. and at intervals of fifty feet eight Japanese lanterns were attached to the swaying rope.

It waa necessary to fasten the end of the rope securely to a windless and by this means the kite's actions were controlled. After 2.ouo feet of rope on the first kite had been played out the end waa tied to the other kite and soon both- were flying high above the house tops. The strain wa tremendous, and when feet were reached it was thought advisable to let out no more rope. Then a third kit was floated and to Its attached a tray containing powder. This wns lighted as ths kit drtd upwsrd, end it mad a quivering streak of fire In the sky, SUGAR WAR IS ON IN CHICAGO.

Trust and Anti-Trust Jobbers Are Kow in Open Conflict and the I Prices Are railing. Sfttial to The New York Timtt. CHICAGO. Aug. 23.

Wholesale Jobber of sugar and grocery houses of th city. Identified by the trade as trust and anti-trust establishments, have locked horns in a hard fight. The action of the American Sugar Refining Company in reducing the prlc of sugar last Monday 18 cents 100 pounds precipitated the battle here. the wholesalers of this' city made a reduction from $5.25 a hundred pounds to $5.01 for cash to customers. Recently the so-called trust houses of this city were selling sugar for $0.7.

Owing to the sctlon of the outside houses, the prlc was steadily cut to Although th latest reduction wa based largely on the action of the Sugar Trust in reducing prices three-sliteenths of a cent a pound, the real motive Hps deeper than the question of market adjustment. At present the houses on both sides are selling sugar at a loss of from 75 to cents on a barrel. W. M. Hoyt Co.

and Corbln A Sons represent the anti-trust faction In th local field. The other side is represented by such houses as Franklin Macveagh 4 Sprague, Warner 6c Held, Murdoch Steele, Wedelesand and other Jobbing houses belonging to the so-called Commercial Exchange. This exchange Is composed of nearly all the leading wholesale grocery houses of the city. At stated periods the Exchange forward to each member schedules of price for the various kinds of sugar on the market, and requires each member of the Exchange to adhere to that range of prices. Several of the large Jobbing houses refused to join the combination, and resisted all efforts made to Induce them to join and uphold the scale of market price.

The anti-trust people claim this association Is nothing more or less than a trust to control the price of sugar among the wholesalers, and to dictate to what exeht each house shall share In the sugar business. KAISER PRESIDES AT COUNCIL As a Hesult It la Understood the Cabi-; net Will Remain in Office Some Dismissals to be Made. t. BERLIN, Aug. 23.

A Prussian Crown Council was held to-day. The Emperor presided. It lasted two and a half hours. Before the session of the council his Majesty received a report of the situation from Dr. von Lucanus, Chief of the Emperor's Civil Cabinet.

is understood that, ar a result of the council, the Cabinet will remain In office and there will be no dissolution. It is possible, however, that' th Minister of the Interior, Baron von der Recke von der Horst, will be replaced, he having bungled some instructions from the Emperor regarding the votes on the Canal bill in a manner irritating to the Conservative Party. The dismissal of some dozen District Presidents who contributed to the defeat of the bill is also expected. It is believed that Emperor William now regrets his visit to Dortmund and the speech he delivered there, which was made without full knowledge of the temper of the parties on the Canal bin. it is inougni he will not wait until next session before trying to arrange some compromise.

The miners announce that von Bock und Polack will succeed Gen. Count von Schlieffen, who will retire from the post of Chief or the oeneraX-Stan alter tne au tumn manoeuvre, MAYOR JONES FOR GOVERNOR. His Platform Demands State Owner ship of Public Utilities and Union Wages for Public Special to The New York Timet. TOLEDO, Aug. 23.

Mayor Jones formally announced himself a candidate for Governor to-day on the following platform: The right of self-government through abolition of political parties, nominations of can didates by the people: (bt direct making or laws by the people. me piatrorm also demands pumic ownership of all public utilities; the extension of the principles now operating in the public ownership of the Post Offices to the operation of mines, highways, steam and electric railroads, telegraphs and telephones, water, gas, and lighting plants, and union wages, hours, and conditions, or better, for skilled labor, and an eight-hour day. with a living wage tor unskilled labor, on all public works. The contract system Is denounced as the glaring evil of the competitive system, and on all public works the substitution of direct employment Is demanded. The nresent system of exploiting prison labor for the penent or pront-mongers ana to tne injury of free labor must be stopped.

It is also the imperative duty ot the Statu Legislature to deal with the question of the unemployed, to the end that provision may Immediately be made that no citizen of Ohio, who is wllline to work, shall be driven into pauperism, crime, or insanity for want of work. HE THREW GOLD FROM A WINDOW Geaeroa Boston Hotel Gaeit Scatter Tea-Dollar Pleeea Among; a Crowd. fecial to The New York Timet. BOSTOS, Aug. 23.

Somebody In one of the upper rooms of Young's Hotel, on "tho Court Square side, precipitated the wildest sort of a scramble this afternoon by throwing ten-dollar gold pieces Into the street below. He started In soon after noon flinging out nickels and pennies, and a crowd or about 500 newsboys and bootblacks fouebt each other in the struggle to pick them up. Some torn clothes and several disfigured countenances were the results of the first half hour of the contest. At dark police were patrolling the oppo site sidewalk, having so far failed to dis cover the generous man, and the crowd was skulking about expectantly. Quite a large rum of money must have been picked up during the arternoon.

The hotel people professed Ignorance as to the identity of tne person or uic rewwn iur nis uucnuijr. PLACE FOB PRESIDENT'S NEPHEW Sftcial to The New York Timet. BIRMINGHAM, Aug. 23. Alabama Republicans are very indignant over Judge David D.

Shelby's action In requesting pie resignation of Nathaniel W. Trimble, Clerk tor twenty years of the United States Court for the Northern Division of Alabama, for the psVpose. it Is stated, of putting In hi place Charles Allison, a native of Ohio, more recently from Knoxville. and for three months only a resident ot Ala bama. Allison is a nephew of President McKIn-ley.

No charges have been preferred against Trimble, whos record Is without flaw. Trimble will tender bis resignation effective 4. Collector Bingham and Marshal Cooper, both orieinal McKinley men. are loud In condemnation of the importation of foreign material for this i.0 a year position. The charge is tnai Phelby is paying a political debt contracted when he- received the nomination to the Judgeship.

Allison waa McKinley representative In Alabama in the Presidential campaign when Shelbv was sent to the National Con vention a a McKinley delegate-at-large from this State, and was closely associated with Shelby. Allison's removal to Birmingham three months ago is now believed to have been anticipation or nis appointment. Capt. Kingston Becomes a Major. Sftcial to The New York LONDON, Aug.

23. Captain Glrouard Klngstone ot rhe Ontarl Military Academy a graduate who had charge- of th build ing of the railway during the advance into the Soudan, been made Major in recognition of his services. Good music, srand scenery, rlorious sail make travel ny -Albany Uaf lAoo a constant joy. ur, Dn CIS AT GOIISE'S EXPEtiSE Accusing General Is Roughly Handled by. IL Labori.

A YAIGNAC ON DEFENSIYE Will Explain His Attitude Toward Dreyfus in a Brochure. ESTERHAZY'S LETTERS They Are Bead in Court in Place oj His Evidence M. Jaurea Dig. Situation. Special to The New York Timet.

Aug-. hear to-night that M. Godefroy Cavalgnac, ex-Mlnister of War, is about to publish a brochure In which he will attempt to explain hi attitude in the Dreyfus affair. He will analyze those telegrams original text of which is In German, and will endeavor to prove Capt, Dreyfus' guilt thereby, The interest of the sitting to-day wa chiefly supplied by the reading of Ester-, hazy'r. evidence before the Court of Cas- sation.

I hear that the Government Commis sary will try to adopt a sympathetic at titude toward Esterhazy during future sittings. But he ia expected to receive a terribly crushing set-back If he does o. Maltre Labor! is also indisposed to provoke Esterhazy more than is necessary. In the meanwhile the chances that Es terhazy will be arrested in England be-fore long are daily The charge against him will probably be criminal libel. He recently wrote a blackmailing letter to a London paper libeling Sir George Lewis, the solicitor, and a member of th royal family of England, who was clearly meant to be the Prince of Wales.

ROWLAND ASSASSI NSt AFTER LOUBET 7 A Rumor of aa Attempt the French President's Life Officially Declared lot roe. PARIS, 'Aug. 23. A rumor was current In various newspaper offices late this evening that President Loubet had been assassinat ed at Ramboulllet. Subsequently the report was officially de clared JAURES EXPECTS ACQUITTAL He Says the Geaeral Will Make Their Last Stand ea the Bertll-loa Srstt RENNES, Aug.

23. M. Jaurea, the Socialist leader, who, with M. Mathleu Dreyfus, sees Maltre Laborl every day after the ses sion, and who who is acquainted with the entire tactics of the defense, said to-day: I am convinced that Dreyfus will acquitted. He must be acquitted, for no new fact has been brought t.p against htm.

The Generals, 1 believe, are going to make their last stand on Berttllon's system, which they Intend to submit as proving Dreyfus guilty. Intelligent men -laugh at it, but it Is very Ingenious, and has -the in the eyes of the Generals, of being Incomprehensible to an ordinary man, and thus calculated to impress him, If supported by the puppets ot the General Staff. Bertillon's theory has already been In troduced by some of the military witnesses, who declare their confidence In It, Th trial, in my belief, will last about another twenty daya" WILL PROSECUTE DRUMONT. Laborl Will Proceed Aaralast La Llkr Parole's Editor aad Also a. jfgjat Croix.

RENNES. Aug. 23. Maltre Labor! ha decided to prosecute La Croix, one of the leading Clerical organs, and La Libre Parole, together with M. Dromont, proprietor and director of the latter paper, personally, for declaring the recent murderous aUack upon him a fake." PANIZZARDI MAY TESTIFY.

He I Said to Have Beea Graated Per-aalssloa to Attead the Co art- saarll If Cited. LONDON. Aug. 24. Official permission to appear at th Rennes court-martial.

If cited, has been granted, according tothe Rom correspondent of The Daily Mall, to CoL Panizzardi. formerly Italian Military Attache In Paris, who recently denied, la a communication to the Figaro, the statement of Gen. Roget. In his evidence at Rennes, that Panizzardi addressed a report to 8i nor Ressman, former Italian Ambassador to France, to the effect that Col. Bchwarz-koppen, former German Military Attach In Paris, had relations with Dreyfus.

LABOR!" CORNERS GEN. GONSE. Tho Aeeaser mt Dreria Trie to De- lead Ilia Hoaor, hat th Law- -yer Show Hm Merey. RENNES, Avg. 23.

Maltr Labori, lead Ing counsel for the and Mm. La-borr (rt present in court when th tral of Dreyfus was resumed at th. Lyoe at 6:30 thi morning. As M- Lttorl was entering the court he was informed by a newspaper man that Gn. K3get esterday received documents from Major Count Esterhazy, wbo is now In London.

Counsel was much interested, and ititaned a'i the Information possible. On the arrival in court of Gen. Roget It was noticed that 'he carried a bulky, en-', velope containing the documents referred to. Outside of this there was no incident worth noting at the opening of the prr r.tdiUK". The session -of the court to-day was com- -paratlvely uneventful.

The depositions were not productive of any really thrilling incidents. The Systematic production of the flimsiest trash, which the prosecution dma profiuibl to Inflict on th 'Judga aad.