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Effir mrfV0iUr-" mhA '3d, NEW CLERKS APPOINTED City Magistrates lN'ams the Atlacbcs to the Police Courts. IARGE MAJORITY AKE REPUBLICANS tolloe Jastlcee Ami Not So BcUlgcr-, eat Now and Will Uae No Fore to Oppose Their Successor. Tb Board of City Magistrates held an-I ther meeting la it evening, and at the con-' elusion of the session announced that It had agreed upon the following provisional appointment of police court attache, who will assume their Outlet to-morrow morning: POLICE CLERKS Benjamin F. Frey. 819 Weat Flrty-eichth Street.

Hepubllcan; John 1 S. Tebbetta, 117 West Fifty-eighth Street, Kepubllran; Ludwlg F. Thoma, 70 East Ninety-third Street; Republican: Philip Block. 1M West Ninety-eighth Street. Republican.

CLERICS ASSISTANT Edward J. Bird. Republican: Kugen II. Healey. Republican; Samuel Williamson, Republican; Charles A.

A dama. Republican; William Q. Davis, Republican; Thomas A. Church. "Republican; Washington A.

Coeter, Republican; Nathan Xl.ln. Republican; Harry Mers, Republican; James K. Doran, Republican; Iavld Crocheron, Democrat; John Gavlgan, Democrat; William H. Stelnkemp, Democrat; and Charles Anthes, I temocrat- 8TKNOORA I'll EltS James Nugent. 129 F-aat Fiftieth Street, -Republican: jT H.

An- drews. Republican; Michael J. Treacy, Democrat; Watterman L. Ormsby. Democrat: Edmund T.

Davis. Republican. INTERPRETERS Frederick Well. Republican St. Albe, Democrat; Arthur Erdofy, Democrat; Morris Bchwartx.

Repub- lioan. ATTENDANT-Blmon Klapper. The police clerks ar all new men. Of the Clerk's assistants, David Crocheron, John Qavlgnn. William H.

Stelnkamp. and Charles Anthes are reappointed. -Thomas A. Church la a colored man. -Stenographers James Nufent, Michael J.

Treacy. and Watterman L. Ormsby, are also reappointed. Ousts ve St. Albe and Arthur Erdofy, Interpreters, ar also reappointed.

There la still one vacancy each In the lists of police clerks, Cterk'a assistants, and Interpreter. The City Magistrate also Issued the following statement, with their assignments to duty, for the month of July: The Magistrates have not concluded all the de- tails, nor have they acawed upon all at the offices to be Ailed, there yet rtamalnina- some minor matter of detail, and two or three places for which, officers are ret to be selected. The nrst duty to be sorfortned will be the destination of the Magistrate to sit la the respective district courts. Assta-ameats have been made for sis months. It has been decided to make these aMlfnaienls mo as to carry out fully the spirit of the law.

which requires Magistrates to sit In rotation in these aiMrirt court, and such arrangement wlU accomplish a lust and equal of labor be-tweca the Magtetraaee. Each Magistrate must alt for three consecutive weeks) in each district court. oDoe every six months. As arranged for the month of July, Mag ait rat as will sit ss fol-lows: Mr. Deuel In the Tombs Police Court from the 1st to and Including the nth, to be followed for the balance of the month by Mr.

Ltrann. Mr. Flammer will alt In Jefferson Market from the 1st to and Including ft. 2 lat, to be followed tor the balance of the muoth by Mr. Deuel.

Mr. Simms will- alt In the Essex Market Court from the lat4o and Including the 11th. to be followed for the balance of ths month by Mr. Kud-licn. Mr.

Molt will sit In eh Torkvtll Court from ths lat to snd Including the 21 at, to be followed lor the balance of the month by- Mr. Hlmma. Mr. Crane will alt In the Harlem Court from the lat to and Including the 11th. to be followed for the balance of the month by Mr.

Wentworth. Mr. Cornell will sit In the Morrlsania Court from the lat to the 21 at. to lie followed for tb balance of the month by Mr. Crane.

Magistrates will proceed from court to court tin til they have been; in awry on of the district Courts. Hules for the court must be adopted, and for the time being the present police court rules, amended la soma minor 'particulars, will be continued. Tha action of th Police Commissioners nd Acting Chief of Police Conlln In ordering tha members of the Police Department to recognise only the new Justices of Special Sessions and City Magistrates In the police courts, and to treat the. old Jus-itlcea as private cltiaen to-morrow, baa already had a salutary effect upon the belligerent Police Justices. They have decided that Instead of creating a disturbance In tha several courts, as they at first threatened to do.

It will be more to the advantage1 of themselves and their cause to be content with formal protests against their removal, and then, having put themselves record, let the higher courts decide tha constitutionality of the act netting them The only police Justice who 1 expected to seriously oppose the seating of a City Magistrate In his place la William M. Burke, who has been sitting In Essex Market Pollca Court. Justice Burae yesterday ad- Journed the hearing of Wllmer E. Booth, arretted for forgery, until to-morrow, and announced that no wouid ait and conduct the examination. Tbe city Magistrates may alt on Monday, aald Justice Burke, "and ao wlU I.

iWe Intend to test the legality of their ap--polntment. and personally, am going to finish up my own cases." The tkve Justices of the Court of Special Sessions, appointed by Mayor Strong under the act creating them, held a meeting yesterday morning in the oltlce of Justice E. B. Hinsdale, Chairman of the board, 1U2 Broadway. The following appointments Were officially announced: Clerk Theodore F.

McLonald, lawyer. 280 Broadway; residence. 137 West One Hundred and Thirtieth Street; salary. H.oou. I-eputy Clerk-Wllltam M.

iller. 280 Broadway; residence, 49 East Twelfth Street; salary, sd.0ul. wi! Trafford. 231 West Eighteenth Street; salary. fl.5oo.

S2 81rnonun: aaiaxy, E- Woodmin. Hundred and Twentieth Street, Christian Hchlerloh, 3y0 Broadway: VTn'iiu Hutn a Avenue James W. ji-Cfc 'Twentyigntn street John Haaseiberger. 2a East Tnlrty-eeventa btreet; salary of each, fl.VoO. Messenger Lawrence Harvey.

83 West rSt.r:fuu.rtn aalary. ot CUerk. Theodore F. McDonald, the other court appointees must pass a formal. nonamiiiiti not attaint the re-.

mey win te nejected. and new men win be substituted. foVUf! linwi.i.r xj accompilsned me (university or Berlin, in Oermany. I. tha author of a standard Urcek Although there are flva Justice of the V0" lelal Sessions, only three will nout Justice Jerome, Hinsdale, and Hayes wttl ait ol Juat'lce.

Jerinc. iXcbti, Jnlnt- AiMruat. To. nthlywgrT: menu for the rest of tb year will be in-iwunced during the week. aw n1 aa In nowu with the matter at Issue MwUS the old B.ard of JustlcesT eW nd haThoWur rarEM open court until 10:30 VcsockT trrmlnatlon of Justice.

Hogan uLa' mA Foltner to take th bench it lo '-i "2 to iun. iSinal Th case of Thomas Thornton whn.i aentenc for wlf beating DurSl! deferred by the old uatlues right of th new Justices to paaa unSn it. 1 lj P. tha newVuilce may ciulm thtt, as the new JusUces did not sentence him, and they have threxleced toexercU their aUegcd Whta ji thu pr. -bed that they teat r.lV,,lh'm"tl,re" formal prJ- whle? by the -higher ccurra.

M0f constitutionality of the new fewweeka! i Jurllictlon of all Z. over by th old aald Sorter' foVV7.VMt dlS wf 7k New'York Time. and will wh them exactly as if tike old Jus-tlc. had never existed. If th old JumCcim HT- "'t sjitidpat aich however.

Imcsun tbty art nnen of Sena and arc advlaed by excel! eat counael, and they know perf.cu7 4e thll lv JAhllr to so conduct thetnt m11i, U'wLlnri llenata publlo ympaiajr, believa thejr mill rxaarely enter a formal protest against our so-called iuvii vi meir ouicea, ana will tnen retire ml w. 1 r. i h. v. decide vine controversy." r-tnco uommisaioner Andrews yesterdav aald there would be no change or tncreaae of court sauada to-morrow in anticipation of trouble between in justices and City Mag MfratM h.

auty.lcten fSr oiLi.L1 pone; uvn i inina. tnous-n. ttinrn wrin Uty Magistrates. My belief la i that omclata thj moM" eme tne uimcuity." Assistant a.ked iwbethwtte btatrtrtowycSS: would recoe-nixe the old or the new Ju Magistrates. JU3 Tf not It la w.

1 wiieiucration, l.ut. If li. of course. reaoKnlse th. fact nr JjA'Clala are at least de facto iTLBT Magistrate.

and'wlU Police Justice Grady aald mlonlir iii.J th- v-- ne taw unuer which are to be superseded. i liberty." he said, "to aay JTon. "1 act nUr under hla Instruc e.Ju7.rn"T.mel Mcat counael wit Anv Inltlatlvl an V. "towaa contest' bT tl? on 1J PPearlng in the various courts! ,0 my th le' PPrtel A.frt mljtht be made with entire nnt commitment w-f Maglstratea. The prisoner U.Lk.' to 8Pnie Court! Chambers, on the ground that the commit ment waa made simply by a citizen withi out judicial authority The ca would be decided In two weeks, and could then be taken to the General Term, where a de! clslon would follow In a fortnight more.

At the very latest, a final decialor? might be ISSVJhSr CUrt 0t APPeaI.m,tth riUhThrpVui- Justlcea were legislated out of office and their successors appointed by Mayor Have-meyer. The old board waa defeated In the courts but the present situation Is chinged ct" of the last Constitutional Convention, when It waa held that Justices who were In office at the time that Constitution was passed could not be removed by the Legislature." Police Justice Voorhls announced that be and hla associates would claim legal right to alt in their respective courts to-morrow, as their counsel had advised them to do. City Magistrate Deuel, who will, it is expected, be chosen President of the Board of Magistrate, aaid last night that he did not anticipate any trouble to-morrow -when the new Justices take their places In the various courts. presume that Judge Hogan will coma to the Tomba and file a protest. I shall receive him graciously and pleasantly, a I would any of my old associates, who, I feel confident, will pursue the wisest course ln the matter, namely, to appeal to the courts." Police Justice Hogan aald yesterday afternoon that he would simply go to the Court of Special Sessions, as usual, to-morrow and.

after filing a formal protest against the sitting of the new Justices, would retire. Justice Koch, however, declared that 'he Wmilli -A tft tl X.f-.e4 aaail. DA1I. -L a. isaiiia XUHCf LDun and innist upon presiding there In place of eel of 'waa.

iaieiQ loviato (ICAA, MR. BOOSEVELrS MIDMGliT Mfl 1 Tour Through Three West Side Predilcts Leads to Trouble for Seven Lax Policemen. President Roosevelt of the Police Bo ird again played the part of Itoundsman late Friday night and early yesterday morn ng. and as a result of this tour through ti ree precincts seven patrolmen will find themselves In trouble. This time Mr.

Roosevelt Investigated the discipline among the men attached to tha West Twentieth Street, West Tblrt eth Street, and West Thirty-seventh -Street Stations. On patrolman, John Cavanagh of the Weat Twentieth Street Station, waa cai ight outalde of a saloon on Seventh Avenue, Just mgb2eJ. 'clock ytcrday morning, diimk- he determined that 8.naU Ptro1 tnelr be-- touf- Nearly all the ar toT delinquencies Sv.iPb tour from midnight until 6 clock In the morning. "t1. out ehortly before midnight .7 P'aTht.

and went through Uio whlch ru" trom ioi-teenth to Twenty-eighth Streeta. weiit of Seventh Avenue. He waa accompanied by Policeman Michael Tierney. who is JetSlled in his otfice at Police Headauartcrt.T He found nothing out of the way -intll he reached Seventh Avenue and Twentyfflrst Street, where he saw a policeman outalde of a aaloon, on the southwuscT corner. Thla -waa at 127 o'clock Saturday morning, and i for ten minutes thi Com' mlaaloner watched the policeman afi he joked with tome persona who came out of the saloon.

Just as he was tbbut to approach he saw the bartender appear at the aide door and hand the yo-llceman a glass of beer. The policeman Jf f' nd he w5 Wiping the froth oft hla mustache, President kJoso velt went up to him and asked, sternly. What were you drinking, olrtcer? The policeman, recognized the President ft once, but he was so frightened tSIt he could not speak for some aeconda. iXhen he stammered out: That waa only ginger ale." I You know It was beer." aaid the fcom-mlssioner, and you ought to be ashamed of yourself to stand on the public highway, in tront of a saloon, and have beer passed cut to you. I shall bring chargea against you for It." i The President then took the policeman's number, which was 79, and found that he was John Cavanagh of the West TweiiUetn Street Station.

advise you to attend to your! duty better In the future." were Mr. Roosevelt a parting words to Cavanagh. No other delinquents were found in the district. 8 President Roosevelt then went to the Tenderloin precinct. After taking a general observation of the condition of i the precinct he walked up Sixth Avenues from Fourteenth Street to Thirtieth Street.

Klv patrolmen were caught napping, inj acu case the man was loitering on his beat, and in conversation. Mr. Roosevelt wanhd tui timed each one of them. They had various excuses to offer when he called them to account. One policeman said the man 1.

was talking to was an old friend, whom he had not seen for a great many years. When the Commissioner took the friend jto one aide and questioned him. the man said had never seen the policeman before! Mr. Roosevelt reached the West Thirtieth Btreet Police Station at 2:15 o'clock yesterday morning. He told Scrgt.

Flanner. who waa on desk duty, that five patrolmen on Sixth Avenue were lax in their duties, and he left orders to have th two Roundsmen In charge of the platoon come before! him After leaving the Tenderloin Mr. Roosevelt went through the Twentieth Precinct and called on Sergt. Woods at the West Thirty-seventh Street Station at A. He found one policeman of the precinct loitering and In President Roosevelt went bom at 4 o'clock In th morning.

When he tieached Headquarters yesterday he Immediately preferred chargea against Policeman Cava-. i I i snan( nave in six patrolmen before me." he aald. Two of then. I ma forsive. as I they told the truth hen I spok to them.

The others I shall make charges against, I shall also have the two Roundsmen of the Nineteenth Precinct up in. ui iucjt navel to aay about those men on Sixth Avenue, i "I wish to nay that every saloon I saw was closed after 1 o'clock. That 1 la, the lights wer-out and I saw no one going In and out.1 In the Tenderloin everything waa remarkably quiet. The men whom I caught on Sixth Avenue were evidently on the alert, but they did not obey theiregula-tlons of the department, and I Insist that every officer shall do so. I bop that when I take another early morning raTmble I won't find 1 any delinquents.

I shall be very touch pleased If I can come In from my tour without having any complaints to make. I can aay there has been an improve-, ment In th way th men do their Policemen Bauer, Duggan, and Crowley, who were recently detailed aa acUngTrounda. men by th Folic Board. In recognition of acts of bravery performed by them, wer summoned yesterday morning before President Roosevelt, who had a Quiet talk with them. explained to them that they had been detailed to their present positions tot good service done by them, and that their permanent occupancy of th positions depended entirely upon th futur afflcioncy displayed by thm.

Ha then aent than, back to thalr praclncta. i Fmpmlm Most ef Oraag i 381. ORANGE, N. Jun 29. Tha population of thla city, according to th census which waa completed thla week, la MUST BE ONE STANDARD Everett P.Whc Free Cu tier's Argument Against nafcej of Silver.

ALL OCR DOLL IIS SnODLD BE EQUAL Some Currency Change Needed, Ho Says Thd Rational Reform Cunfercliee at ProhlbK i- tlioa Park. PORT RICHMOND, S. June 29. Flftjrt delegates from Jab. ut twenty Statea gath ered at Prohibition 1 Park yesterday to ati tend the Nat bnal Reform Conference, which was cali led to discuss the leading Questions before the people of th United i i States.

The delegates are of both sexes and represent every ahade of opinion upon finance, tax tariff, woman suf frage, elective 4 nd legislative methods, the liquor traffic, and public ownership of piib- lie franchise. fwhlch are to be discussed The purpose of hhe conference la to effect a political union of reform forces of every character, or ak least to consider whether such union la desirable and feasible. The plan of tie convention la to have the subjects debated in the affirmative and negative by sel ected apeakera, and then, to have a general discussion by all the delegates. The att endance at the opening sessions haa been small, but more delegatea are expected at the sessions next Monday. Tuesday, and 1 Vednesday.

I The sessions yesterday wer given up to the discussion of the money question. At the afternoon session papera were read on Government Jotea," prepared by th Rev. James H. Ec D. of Albany, and read by E.

J. Wheeler of New-York; on "Thtt Double Standard," by Charles B. Spahr of Th Out-Look, and on "the Single Standard," by Prof. George Gunton of the School I of Social Economics, New-York. The discussion of these papers w.vs general and heated, and Erastus B.

Potter, th New-Jersey schoolmaster and Green-backer, took an active part. .1 I There waa a. debate In the evening on Free Coinage of Silver," with ex-Gov. John P. St.

John of Kansas In the affirmative and Eveiett P. Wheeler of New-York In the negatli e. Contrary to the rule, Mr. Wheeler waa first to speak. He aald that thla country ihould adhere, so far aa the foundation pr nclplea are concerned, to Ha present flnan system.

Some rhangea were needed, but everV-doUar Issued by the Governme it should nave an equal purchasing powei with every other dollar, and to secure thla there must be one standard. When Ccngi in fixed the standard of sliver at 16 to 1 of gold, while other nations bad I xed ratios of value of these metals at 15 to 1. Its purpose. Mr. Wheeler aald.

waa 1 create a standard, and that standard had been maintained. The passage of a free-aller coinage law would be to make a single standard of silver, and would practically bi a bankrupt law. permitting the Governme nt to pay its debts at 60 cents on the dollar. I i i Mr. Wheeh said that the rreat majority of the pebple, whether they were merchants, professional men, or workers for wages, were I creditors, and It waa all-Important to sebure the payment of thd debts due to them) In I an honest dollar and of equal value.

(Money waa but the measure of value, and eirery man who contracted for a bushel she uld receive thirty-two quarrs. and not slxt en. The Goveriment had for years tried to force the sll rer dollar Into circulation, but had failed, ind to-day six-sevenths of the stiver dollars coined by this Nation were In the Treasun vaults. The whole object of coining mom was to make a standard, or measure. lere was no need for a great volume of iney.

as the people preferred to transact bus neea upon the system of credits with che i and notes. Ex-Gov. St John declared that he was an advocate of honest money, and that there had not bee an honest dollar In thla country alnce ie demonetisation of silver. When the vernment discriminated against one. dollar.

It Increased the power of the other dollar It waa the law that made money valu bl, and there had never been anything bi flat money made. He believed that his country could afford to be Independent of I all other countries, and should ma, In; its own dollar tor its own people, and If England and the Rothschilds did not Ilk. that dollar, they could let It alone. i i The gener l1 debate continued for over an hour, and as heated and Interesting, i CAUGHT TILTISQ TO Pi IV 5 STOLES GOODS Alleged Apartsaent-Hoase Thlevea Ar rest After si Long; Chase. Jamea Mi Icahy, nineteen years old.

of 100 East Nine y-nrnth Street; John eighteen old, ot 157 Eaat Ninety-ninth 8 tree and James Fitzgerald, twenty years old, if 201 Eaat Ninety-ninth Street, were arral rned in the Morrlsania Police Court yest on charges of burglary. They wen remanded by Justice Martin until thla ornlng for examination. The men were arrested Friday afternoon for robbing tenants In the apartment house 373 Brook Ivenue. They were caught only after a Ion and exciting chase. Pollcema i Burke, while off duty, aaw the burglars merge from the cellar of the apartment house, carrying auspicious-looking bundli s.

He followed them to Mr. Levy's pai nshop, Third Avenue. He then askei 1 a i man to drive to Policeman Rogers's juse, 632 East One Hundred and Thirty-nln Street, and ask Rogers, who was also duty, to come to his assistance. Rogers i rrlved at the pawnshop Just In time to sf Burke chasing the three men. He followi in a wagon, and.

with Burke's aid. captui ed them at the foot of East One Hundred i nd Thirty-sixth Street. The con entB of the bundles, which the prisoners had not succeeded in pawning, consisted brass locks, files, and two carpenter's wa.l Fitzgerald had a gold watch and chain The articles were Identified by Mrs. Ida Lsbeek and Janitor John C. Tho-wlth of 37 I Brook Avenue as their property.

The your.fc men had pawned a number of brass loclaa at Levy's pawnshop, for which tickets wdre found In their Docket. I MIT MIDDLESEX JUL B1BD Post Ofn 'e Robber and Forger Landed in Flemlngtow FLEMi: N. June 29 A vlMous-looking How, who may prove to oe one of the i -lsohers who escaped from tn Mlddleses Ccjunty Jail, at New-Brjunawick, recently, nraa lodged In Jail here last night, charged rlth Post Office robbery and forgery. Tl prisoner refused to gtva hla name, i The pr joner broke Into the Post Otlce at Callfoi Thursday night and stole registered 1c tiers and money. He then foiged mLmLV 4h1anunt of on the Clinton thlhai BaB- P.

who cashed i5e ihe? bSne suspicious, and drove to. Clint, n. i where he learned that the ce.5Lfored- ConsUble. caught robber near Califon. late U.t niahu leveral checks which had been taken fr lettera stolen the Post found ln ls possession What i trengthens the belief that the man may be one of the prisonera wantll the Mid llesex authorftlea thlt Wall aew Br.ee mt B.msi Brook.

Walla, Bruce haa been requested by the peopl Bound Brook to deUver an address July 4 Lt th hlatorlo Washington Canm Ground. Mr. Bruce. a orator 3 good ou -of-door aa waa wltneaacd by th I act that enchained audience of la.Xl peopl on the occasion of th. Newbu Vmy 5t hr- lvtted to deliver an addressjAug.

2 at the unveiling of a STbiS at Thomaa Fh Rhymefa Towef. to th.Val! ley of the Tweed. Scotland. It was Towta to hla fbreslght while United SuteVConaul at Edinburgh that the tower was aaved demolition and therebv Insured to posterity aa th dldest memorial or structure in Scot, land co mected with Scottish llteraturaT aai gffled Chin ApprhBi4. i CLAeTON, Jun Chinamen war ciugfat In thla vicinity by customs offlcara to-day.

They cam from Canad a an excursion steamer across th Be Lawrei 'River, landing at Cap Vincent, aixteM lea from her. They had an Engl llsb-speiaklnr Chinaman with them and wer tatri ia an or- gania gang said at work smuggling Chinantea Into thtt Lnlud Buiu at a OMTVAUY IlCCOttJ)! Capt. Aaabroa Inovr, Capt Ambrostt Snow, President, ot tha Board of Pilot Commissioners, died at the hom of his son, Alfred 13. Snow; 129 Baln-btidgtt Street. Brooklyn, on Friday night from paralysis and apoplexy, He was stricken with paralysis on Wednesday night while out with members of hla family.

Ho did not regain consciousness. Capt Ambroa Snow waa born In Thomas-ton, In January, 1813. He was a de cendant of Nicholas Snow, who was Deputy Governor of the Plymouth Colony. Re went to sea with hla father, who was a Captain. He followed the sea for twenty-five years.

He was engaged all that time In the Atlantic trade. He entered into the shipbuilding business, and was very successful In this line, and early In the fifties came to thla city, where he established the shipbuilding firm of Snow Burgess. .1 Like ail New-England people, he waa ambitious and very active, and controlled a large share of the ahipplng business. When he gave up active business be Interested himself In public affairs. During hla residence In thla section he waa Interested In all the large maritime Institutions of thla city, and up to the time of hla death had been a member of the Pilot Commission, and waa President of; the Board.

He waa also President of the i Board of Trade and Transportation for; twelve or fourteen years. He waa a Trustee of the Sailors' Snug Harbor for fifteen years, and Treaaurer of the Seamen'a Savings Bank of thla city, and waa for thirty years a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and for a number of years waa President of the American Shipping and Industrial League. He was also President of the Marine Society for a number of years. Capt. Snow waa one of the Managers of the Produce Exchange for years, and was looked upon as being one of the beat officers that ever had charge of that institution.

He was also a Director of the Eastern District Dispensary. -i i During thtt war he took an active Interest In the soldiers, and was one of the Trustees of the Sanitary Commlaslon that held a large fair In Brooklyn at that! tlm in the Interest of the Union He waa a regular attendant at Christ rotes tint Episcopal Church tn the Eastern District, Brooklyn. He lived In that section of Brooklyu for forty-three years. i At tha celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the Inauguration of George Waahlngton aa. President of I the United States.

Capt. Snow, aa President of the Marine Society, acted as coxswain to th crew of old ship Captalna that rowed orest-dent Harrison from one of the United Statea vessels to the foot of Wall Street. Capt. Snow leavea two sons Alfred D. Snow, with whom he lived at 129 Bain-bridge Street.

Brooklyn, and Lewis T. Snow, who Uvea In California. I Th funeral services will be held at hla late home thla afternoon. Thtt Interment will at Tnomaaton. Ma.

Gem. Oreea Clay Saaithu Gen. Green Clay Smith. I the veteran preacher, soldier, and died at his residence In Washington at 1 M. yesterday.

He had been 111 for some weeks with a malignant carbuncle which resisted all treatment. 1 Gen. Green Clay Smith waa a grandson of Green Clay, a cousin of Henry Clay, and waa born In Richmond, July 2 1832. His father waa a member of Congress. At the age of fifteen years Smith enlisted In a cavalry regiment and served a year in the Mexican war.

He then entered the Transylvania University and waa graduated In 1880. After, a course, of law In the Lexington Law School he formed a partnership with hla father, and the two 'practiced law together. Entering politics, he served from 1863 to 18S7 as a School Commissioner. He waa elected In 1800 to the State Legislature, where he became known as an ardent supporter of the Union. At the outbreak of th war he enlisted as a private for home defense, and then became Major of a battalion Jn the Third Kentucky Cavalry.

He waa appointed Colonel- of the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry In February. 1882, and waa assigned to service under GenTRoee-crana. He went to the front and waa wounded at Lebanon, Tenn. He waa promoted In June of the same year to be Brigadier General kof volunteers. He afterward was brevetted Major General for bravery while in command of th Fourth Brigade of cavalry.

Gen. Smith's military career ended Dec 1. 1803, when he resigned hla commlaslon to serve tn Congress. i Htt "was defeated for thtt nomination for Vice President on the ticket with Abraham Lincoln by half a vote, the nomination going to Andrew Johnson. When Johnson became President he appointed Gen.

Smith Governor of Montana, and the General served in that office until 1809. when he was ordained a minister and waa called to the pastorate of the Baptist Church In Frankfort, Ky. He withdrew entirely from political life and kept aloof from It until 1876, when he was nominated by. the Prohibition Party for President. He received 9,522 votes.

He became pastor of the Metropolitan-BaptUt Church In Washington In Gen. Smith waa elected In 1801 Department' Commander of the Union Veterans' Union of the Department of the Potomac, and waa re-elected the following year. The General waa put forward several times as a candidate for the office of Commissioner of Pensions. i Georg Ten Byclc Sbeldom. George Ten Eyck Sheldon died last night at the home of hla son, Melvln Sheldon, In Sing Sing.

N. Y. He waa born March 8, 1818. In Burlington, Otsego County. N.

Y. When was five years of age his father removed from Burlington with' his family to near Albion, Orleans County. N. Y. He waa a true pioneer, for the western part of the State waa at that time a wilderness, sparsely inhabited.

At the age of twenty Mr. Sheldon came to New-York and engaged In mercantile life; first as a clerk and afterward as a merchant He purchased, in 18U2, a controlling Interest In The Sing Sing Republican, and for thirteen years waa its sole editor. During this period he served as Chief Clerk of lh.e.iniernaJ Revenue office of the Tenth Collector Mason ot.Yonkers being M.v Sheldon entered the civil service of the United States in IStfU. and waa ap-polnted to a responsible position in the ew-York Custom House, where he served for twenty-five years under twelve different collectors, He, w.aB an earnest worker In hla church, loved the Sunday school, and for twenty years was a very successful Bible class teacher. In the latter part of his life he became attached to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and at varioua times filled ail the lay offices In that Church.

Mr. Sheldon, from an early age. develored alove for literature, and from ISy hood had been a frequent contributor. In prose and yerae. to newspapers and magazines.

He loved a good book as be did a dear friend mnadnyheofhboVhe attsfactlon sodr fti 1847 They had two chlldret him. on-wh. a- widow, survive Jofcm R. Barrett. John R.

Barrett died Friday in the Hudson Street Hospital, where he was taken suffering from the effects of a stroke of apoplexy, received while on the floor of the Consolidated Exchange." Mr. Barrett waa born In Mecklenburg, Germany. Aug. 25, 1837. coming to thla country when a young man.

Upon his arrival here he entered the employ of J. H. Brower. the ahipplng merchant of 15 South Street, with whom he remained twelve years. Then for a number dealing on the Cotton Exchange, later Joining the Consolidated.

Mr. Barrett waa one of th i. -ler ln cotton New-York. flv years he had been with the Packet Company. SJCen Mr7 Bryantt New-hi itr l.n daUKhter.

aurvlvea Barrett waa a member of the nn and of the Royal Area-Prof. DaaUel Cwdy Eatoo. Prof. Daniel Cady Eaton. Professor ot Botany at Yale, died at hla home at New.

KTen Conn- early yesterday morning after a painful and lingering Illness of between seven and eight month. Prof. Eaton began hU customary work in Tale at thtt begin, nln of tb school year In September. lb04, but was forced to glv up active ditlea at of th Christmas vacation. untJ succumbed to th vl Ineurable disease.

Hi-EJoa w.ln nl sixty-second year, in th Ruaeell Schoo lVV.M Rensselaer School In ft TaU ywersity. graduating ii Uat-named Institution to leaf iV wveatlgaUng tours of natural science, particu-BollnW Jl? WM appointed ProfeaSor of rra.2 YL, eupylng a chair which erV.r8., 0ri, and wElch ha filled with work had been almost entirely la th BhetaeU kclanUno School, SUflHER STALES. Rattan and reed the strongest of light furniture and the lightest of strong furniture Is specially adapted for Summer. We have a large assortment jof easy chaJraV couches, settees, bettee-tockens all furniture that helps to make a Bummer day agreeable. Plain and substantial or handsomely finished, cushioned or uncushloned, with their pliant backs and seats; nothing can be more comfortable.

I In quality and economy our furniture has no superior. BUT OP THB MAKER." GEO. C. FLINT 43. 45, and 47 West 23d St, JfEAR BROADWAY.

I although he had generally offered one or two elective for academic seniors. Prof. Eaton waa a member of the Government expedition to the Wahsatch Mountains In Utah several years ago. He waa well known aa a writer on botanical subjects, his most Important work being The Ferns of North America." Prof. Eaton leaves a wife, formerly Miss Caroline Ketchum of New-York City, and a son and a daughter, both of whom reside In New-Haven.

Arrangement for hla -funeral are not yet complete. OBITUARY NOTES, The State Department at Washington haa received a dispatch from Consul Jar-nlgan, at Ruatan, announcing: the death there June 8 of hla predecessor In the office. William C. Burchard. who had been appointed to the post April 3, 1891.

Mr. Burchard waa born In -New-York about sixty years ago, and entered the service aa Consul at Comagua and Tegucigalpa, in 1880. He was one of the most efficient officers in the service, but of lata years had been In. wretched health. Mrs.

Emma Marie Newsom Brick, wife of the Rev. G. J. Brick, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, at I Tarry town, N.

died yesterday morning at her home, Sunnyside, on the Aspin wall place, after a week'a Illness. She was an Englishwoman and waa distinguished for having spent twenty-eight years with her husband, doing missionary work among the Indiana In the Northwest. Ten children survive her. James P. Miller a builder, prominent In the Twenty-third ward, died at his home.

299 Sumner Avenue, Brooklyn, on Friday night. He was sixty-nine years oil He had been 111 for eleven months. In politics he waa a Republican. He leaves a wife, two sons, and two daughters. DJ- Albert C.

Gorge Medical Director. United Statea Navy, died yesterday at hme. In Germantown, a suburb of Philadelphia. He was a native of Pennsylvania, and had recently been on daty at the Naval Museum of Hygiene, at Washington. -Miss Fannie, the only daughter of a A.

Hobart. Ice President of the Republican National Executive Committee, died lt' -John B. Brown, on of the largest sponge dealers of Nassau. N. died June i.r was formerly engaged In business ln New-York, and went there about 1C A It AY'S WEDD1XOS Lav Motte Walsh.

GLEN RIDGE, N. June 29. MIsa Mary Agnes Walsh, daughter of Jamea L. Walsh of Rldgewood Glen Ridge, and Loula Howell La Motte of Westminster. were married thla afternoon at 5 o'clock at the hom of the bride by the Rev.

John M. Nardlello of the Church of the Sacred Heart. Bloomfleld. The house was prettily decorated with palms and wild flowers. -1 i a uc uuuu wure nanasome gown or wnlte- aaiin.

irimmea witn LJ merle lace. and carried a bouquet of Bride rosea. She was unattended. Jamea A. Dlffenbaugh of Baltimore waa the best man, and the ushers were Smith Relfsnider, Charles Reif snider, and Arthur 8mlth of Westminster.

and Herbert A. Walsh, a brother of the bride. A reception and dinner followed the cere- mnn at trhlph thaea wava ov among them being Senator Plnckney Ben- Dona, i uisa JUdlk. Frank T. and Miss A.

Sterling of Baltimore; Mr. and Mra! Charles Chapman. Mr. and Mra Charles Stuart Camphell. Mr.

and Mrs. Alexander Nivln. Mr. and Mra Robert DavlsMra Frederick Harrison, Miss Virginia Harrison! Mr. and Mra.

William, and Mra Joseph D. GalUgher. ani Mr. and Hall Morrla. BALTIMORE, June CamllU Ridgely Morris, daughter of Mra Thomas H.

Morris, and granddaughter of the late Reverdy Johnson, waa married to-day to Mr. Clayton C. HaU of thla pity. The ceremony was performed by the Rev.J. s.

B. Hodges In old Protestant Eplsl copal Church, In the presence of a large congregation of Baltimore society men and women. Miss Alice Bowdoln was mild of honor, and Dr. Morris Murray 0f Washlna--ton the groom's best man. iThe bride woFe heaTy trl-nmed with old family lace.

Mrs. Hall is a sister or Mra Richard Irvln 0f xiw-York, and I cousin of Mrs. Frederick Gebhard. Waraer Anstea. The marriage of Mia Lola May Auten.

the daughter of Mra J. W. Auten, to Charles 'Henry Warner, formerly of Fall River, but now of this city, took place at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon In the Church of the- Holy Communion, Twentieth Street and Sixth Avenue. The Rev Dr. Henry Mottet officiated.

There were no bridesmaids. The best man was George Warner, a brother of the bridegroom. The ushers were James Morton and Mayer Lincoln of Fail River and Thomaa Patterson. Channoey Hubbell and Frank Osborn of this city. So" Growler lo Elisabeth.

ELIZABETH. N. June 29. The police of this city will to-morrow, tn addition to obliging the saloon keepers to remain closed, arrest every person they find on the Streets with a nalL Ditcher or thee containing beer. No growlers Is the order.

and none will allowed. Arrests for growler carrying were mad last Sunday aa a ..4 i MM 151M vuiqhib naa sustained th police. Thla action haa brought the condition of affairs home to th people In the past only the aaloon keeper haa suffered if anv one suffered, but from thla time forward the patrons who iJust carrj their beer bom will be taken la Tand I lappoaed to Hart Beta Dragged. A man who waa found unconscious In front or .61 Oreenwlch Btreet Friday and sent to the Hudson Street Hospital, waa Identified yesterday aa Prank Burk of IS Weat One Hundred and Fourth Street. Burk to supposed tto have been droggedu Bhake off the effect of a Bad Cold promptly ey th ua of DR.

D. JATNSTS KXPBCTORANTj and acaD th Sanaa a w. MBI MM Into a fatal GREAT CLOSING SALE ALL SUriMER PRICE don't COUNT COST NO PACTOR-The mtt detlnbU SKks show this season at very high prices will bs thrown out at nominal flgnrta. Printed Indlas. Brocaded Taffetas, Printed Warp Taffetas; Stripe and Check Taffetas, Dresden and Cbene Taffetas, Figured Indlas, White and Colored, i Black Satin Dochesse, Black Figured Indlas, I and a VERY LAR0E qoanUty ot HIOH ORADB WASH SILKS wlU be ON SALC to-morrow morning at prices ranging from -j 19C.

tt 6pC per yard. An accamolatlon of over 1,009 Silk Remnants, all this season's prodtic Hon, from hundreds of European and American looms. In lengths from TWO to TWELVE yards, at prices that will close them out In a few hours. Sale! com. mences at 9 o'clock.

ALL SUMNER RIBBONS Will be sold the coming week. We have never shown GREATER VALUES. Visit the FIVE-N1NETEEN and TWENTY-FIVE-CENT. SECTIONS of the da. partment and you will bo astonished, i pj mmm 5ECT10N wIU nno" Note the quota- Black, White, and Colored is t- Ostrich Feather at 03C 94C '9l 00 $25 each.

Oauze Fans, Lace tops, hand painted, at 1 .20, 1 .48, 1 .50, each worth double. Hand painted Spangled Empire Fans Hand painted Silk Fans, In boxes to match were 1.25. White Silk Fans, Ivory sticks. 1 .25, 1 .34, and 1 .87 each. Colored Jap Fans, Empire style from 15- P.

old everywhere, ile Hand painted and Spangled 1 am I Empire Fans, Ivory stick 03C, were $1.25, and were $1.75. Black Silk Fans, painted ln assorted colors and spangled, 30c. regular price 63c 48c, regular price 98c 75C, regular price $IJX AlILLINERY. Will continue the sale of Trimmed Sailors, $2.48, $2.96, $3.25, $3.50, $3-75 $3.96, $4.25, $4.50, C1TF AMD TICIXITY- Th offlc of Th United Preaa Local News, whose service la taken by the principal newspapers of thla city, la at 21-29 Arn Street. Information of publlo Interest forwarded to that office will reach not only these local newspapers, but will be disseminated throughout the country by The United Press.

i The body of the man found drowned ln the Eaat River, off 8eventy-1xth Street, Friday, was Identified at the Morgue yesterday by Bertrand Choucke of Eaat une Hundred and Nineteenth Street as that of Edward Boehn. nineteen years old. who lived ln the same house, and who was drowned by the upsetting ot a rowboat In Little. Hell Gate last Sunday. There will be music at the following parks to-morrow night at 8 o'clock: At Waahlngton Park, by Conterno'a Ninth Regiment Band, and at Rutgers Park by Squadron A Band.

There will be mualo at 8 o'clock Tuesday night at Paradise Park, by Crowley's Eighth Regiment Band, and at Mount Morris Park, by Eben's Seventy-first Regiment Band. The total number of deaths during the week waa 708, againat a total of 710 laat week. The deatha were from the following causes: Myeaales. 25; diphtheria, 27; diarrheal diseases. 121; pnuemonla, 00; phthlala, 81.

The Increase In the number of deaths waa caused by an unusual prevalence of disease among children under flva years of age. The Central Park Meteorological Observatory reporta that during the week that ended at noon yesterday, the mean barometer waa 2U.9S0 inches th mean thermometer, 73.8 degrees, and the distance traveled by the wind, QUI mile. The total amount ot water for the week was Inches. The first train excursion for the season to the Sanitarium for Hebrew Children will take place to-morrow morning. The train will leave the foot of East Thirty-fourth Street at 0:20 o'clock.

The first boat excursion of the season announced for Wednesday. Joseph Melano, fifteen years old. of 260 Elisabeth Street, accidentally fell off the pier at the foot of Sixth Street and was East River, yesterday afternoon, and waa drowned. Hla body was not recovered. An excursion to Buffalo and Niagara Falls will take place July 8 via the West Shore Railroad.

Trains leave New-Tork at 9 A P. 7:30 P. and P. M. A.

M. Wood, sixty years old. and living on x-ong Island, waa overcome by heat, on Pier 23, East River, yesterday afternoon. He waa taken to Hudaon Street Hospital. The Catsklll Evening Line will make a special trip with the steamer Kaatersklll on Wednesday, leaving Pier 48, foot ot West Eleventh Street, at 6 P.

M. Brooklysu The funeral of the late Police Inspect Edward Rellly will take place from St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church to-morrow at 9:80 o'clock A. M. -The call bearers will be Inspectors Mackellar.

McLaughlin, and Murphy, and Capts. Leavey, Campbell, and Kenney. There will be ten companies of policemen present, ln charge of Superintendent McKelvey. I Justice Brown, in the Supreme Court, Brooklyn, has denied the application of Michael Hyland for permission to examine the books of the Brewers' Exchange of New-Tork. He alleged that the President of the Exchange and others had entered Into an agreement to prevent hla buying beer.

He la suing for an Injunction. The annual meeting of 1 the Board of Education will be held next Tuesday. Edward Swanstrom Is a candidate for reelection aa President It will be the first meeting In which the women recently appointed by Mayor Schleren will take part. The winners of the Mayor's prises, a year, racniwwuiy aji wfciyn alDrary. are Elizabeth A.

Flanagan of Public School No. E. France Sou hart of Public School No: 15, and Mabel Kennedy of Publlo School No. 26. The Twenty-third Regiment Band will give a concert at Pro peel Park thla afternoon, when The Heavena Are Telling th Glory of Ood." from Haydn's "Creation." will be performed.

A new Poet Office Is to be established at Windsor Terrace, in the Twenty-ninth llua. Yaakers. Thieves broke Into the tailor hon ef John Cahill early yesterday morning ajl 16 Wells Avenue, and walked oft with new suits belonging to Dr. Edgar M. Hertnance.

President of the Board of Health; J. F. O'Connor, a broker, of 45 Excbango Place New-Tork, residing at Yonkers, and Dr. M. MorrelL The suits had Just been completed, and were to be delivered tu their respective owner yesterday morning Che thief removed his old clothoa and lolt them on the floor.

Ha put oa one of the new suits, Superintendent Gordon of the Board of Education haa made publlo the honors received by the students of Elckemerer Publlo School, who have not been absent or tardy during the school year. They are Harriet Ray nor. Bertha Plnamore. Oscar Bauer. Eddie Barrl.

Willie -Me Kim. Chart McKlra. Hina Wtlk. Bertha Earl, Willi Trauanack. Charlea Pa ugh, and Fred Grose.

Next week will be a busy one with the city cfflclala. The Board of Excise meets Monday night, the Board of Health' on Tuesday, the Board of Water Commlaslon-ers on Wednesday, and tha Board ot Fire Commissioners on Friday. Health Officer Banker reporta that were tea aeaib during the week, which BROADWAY SILK: FABRICS! 75C, worth $10. $4.96. a EIGHTH NINTH far below the number of th corresponding week laat year.

Cwaaryv Henry J. Qualman of Lincoln Avenue, Mount Vernon, la suffering from stings received Wednesday while hiving a swarm of bee. He la ln a critical condition. Three physicians are attending aim. "-The members of the Association of the Descendants of Revolutionary sires decorate the graves of Revolutionary aol-diera la St.

Paul'a Churchyard. East Chester, ow the Fourth of July. The Alumni Association of Drum Ha Peeksklli. will hold a reception In honor of the class of In the Depew Opera House on Tuesday evening. The Mount Vernon Driving Club wtU rve a matinee at the club track on the ourth of July.

There will be several trot- TELXGRAJPMIG BRXYITIZS. St. Loula. Ma. June 29.

Joseph Davidson, a Merchants' broker, who has recently dealt heavily In wheat, wss charged 'last evening with highway robbery. Mr. Davidson had a balance with Mr. Hamlin, another broker, and went to collect It. using a pistol for argument.

Mrs. Hamlin separated the two fighting, men sjad rave Davidson o0, upon which be departed. Meridian, Jun 29. A Jell delivery-and aa attempted murder of Deputy Sheriff in ton took place tn ElllsvUle, Mlsa. thi morning.

When Mr. Hlntoa carried breakfast to three prisoners, one of them knocked him down, and, with the assistance of th others, took the keys from him and escaped. A plan bad been concocted to murder Hinton. but It. failed.

i Philadelphia. June 29. By th explosion or a can of gasoline, four workmen who were engaged In digging a sewer sixty feet below the surface of the street, st Twenty-seventh and Christian Streeta. thla morning, were badly burned. Th victims are: Warwick Young, Jamea Uoeeley.

and Joseph Wilson, colored, and Sandy Guingraade, aa Italian. Hamilton. Ontario, June 29.J-The young woman cashier of Cbeaholm A Locle. a law firm, while going to the bank late yesterday afternoon, was robbed of the firm's bank book and 2,700 In cash and checks. While paaaing along King Street, a man rushed out from an alleyway, snatched the book from her hand, and made hla escape.

Boise, Idaho. June 29. Judge Beatty ef the United States court yesterday dissolved the Injunction secured by the Tyler Mining Company against the Last Ounce Company. The Last one ot the Dest mines in tne coeur d'Alrae. will start up immediately.

It haa been ln litigation for four years. i Pittsburg, June 29. William Little. rnnwn aa Whl.ltv tittu i morning sentenced to twelve years In th Western Penitentiary. Two weeks ago today LitXle murdered Hugh McClure.

at the bitter's residence, during a drunken frolic Little waa convicted of murder tn the reo ond degree. Chicago, June 29. Ex-Policeman Michael J. Healy and Thomaa J. Moran, who were recently convicted of killing Swan Nelson, were each sentenced to four i years In the penitentiary by Judge Horton to-day.

Their attorneys will take the case before the Supreme Court next week. i Corning' K. June "horse belonr-Ing to William Furry of Bath ran away this afternoon and dashed the occupants of the carriage against a large tree. Furry and his Lnrf.nt hilled and, his wife was badly Injured. Blnghamton.

N. June 20. Chapman Strang, a twelve-year-old boy. fcU from a raft upon which he waa playing with tever-al companions, at Oxford, yesterday afternoon, and waa drowned. LOSSES BY FIRE.

Newark. N. June 29. The Fandanee, Binder Mills, at Mlllburn. a two-story frame structure, 30 by loo feet, were burned early this morning.

The mills were run for manufacture of Government binder boa rot for the Washington bindery. The property waa owned by -Mis Annie L. Henderson. Loss, insurance, 922.000. Ninety tone of binder boards were destroyed.

Kansas City. Mo, June 29. Fire lat night consumed the contents ef a four-story brick building at lu and Ho Third Street, causing a loa on the build: ot ana v.v vn me siock and ma chinery ef the Kansas City Paper Box Com pany. The insurance is aeout two two-thirds th toaa. STS Licking.

Jun 2ai Nearly ail business bouses la this village were destroyed by fire, supposed to be of lncendlar origin; early yesterday morning. The tot loss la estimated at and la but i. -tlaily covered by Insurance. Egg Harbor City. N.

June lar-douUe frame dwelling aous occupied Capt. Joseph 8c ha be I. at Pomona, was stroyed by fire thla evening, i The loa la tlinated at OoO. Th insurance cevt thla Fort Lee, N. June 20.

A fire wai covered laat night ln the dwelling of Ko Levy, proprietor of a hot, thia P-The damage la (50a Am Kxearslea ta Xlagara Falls. The Lehigh Valley Railroad, oa the rtoirt Jaly. win rea aa eaearsioa trala aloag tu I areaqu tout, to Niagara Fella Th Ocka 8, aad wlU a good a an trajaa Jaly aJ tare to aad tacludiag July a. Train 1-CoeUaadt or Dibrose sXrat at Sa A. sd P.

aad the Peaaaylvaaia Xr aid aTj- u. kuK bwkr at a a rh Lahish will alao rua a srclal i-traia td lch Ckuak, oa On the eal.brat.4 Switchback. Tb. sv-at CWUa il er UtUvKi at iim A. m.

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