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Lin. NO. SPEYER LOAN BE PAID Endcf Troubles in the Soo Appears to be at Hand. Belief That Canadian Government Hat Com to Rescue cf the Company All Quiet and No Destitution. Sfttial If Tit Ntw York Timtt.

ST1L. MARIE. Sept 26. bare been coRjammattd to par or! the Speyer loan of 13,030,000 to the Cor-soaldated Lake Superior Company; at least this Information was contained in a telegram this afternoon sent by T. H.

Clergu from New York to Superintendent Lewi 'of the company's steel plant; Tha dispatch also. Instructed Mr, Lewis to get things' in readiness to start tip the plant on Oct, 8. "Thi the beat news the two Soos have received for eeveral months. Lewis' was brought to the Canadian Soo by Mr. Clergue, and has been closely associated with Ma in numerous plana of the Lewis confirms the receipt of the telegram, but professes to be In the dark regarding the status of the deal.

In the Canadian Soo the belief la expressed that the Government has come to the aid of the company, and that the property will be preserved intact. It is known that Clergu has been workinir to that end el nee the financial troubles A cud-lock between the officials of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company and the representatives of the Speyer Syndicate bad deveicpod before this latest development Mr. BicknelL a Toronto attorney, arrived hare yesterday 'under orders from Speyer Co. to take possession of the Before his arrival. Mr.

Coyne, as sistant to the President, had sent a circular ordering the heads of departments to keep tind- lock and kev. and tnrougn an tne oinces ex ine company everything under lock and key. and ti deny the authority of the Speyer repre sentative. The heads of departments were ordered, if the Speyer people entered the offices and attempted to sbow-their authority, to shut up everything and clow the offices, giving the new-comers nothing to work with. What the meaning of this la the officials of the Consolidated Company re-fur to state.

Mr. Bicknell and Mr. Coyne spent all of yesterday afternoon in conference, bat neither would say what bad be1 accompli' "-ed. The Algoma Central train to-night brought in more woodsmen, and the steamer Minnie M. is expected to bring1 in about the same number of miners from the Mlchipooten district.

Everything is quiet about the streets 1t-nighL -Arrangements have been made by the company and the municipality to care temporarily for such as have no means. Quite a number were taken by employment's gents to other camps to-day. Many are remaining in town in the hope of receiving their, wages soon. Announcement was made early in- the week that the men would be paid Sept. 28, but this will not be done.

Notices are ready, for posting around town to this effect. There may be trouble Monday, although It is not seriously anticipated. Mondav morning a number of home guards with arms will be placed around the com- pev's plants for their rotation. The streets of Canadian Soo were never more quiet than to-night. There is no absolute destitution, nor will there be.

A eonfeence is scheduled to take place tonight, after the street cars are taken to the barns, between the representatives of the company and the street railway employes of both aides of the river. This is at the instance of the company, and the man say they don't know what It means. There has been talk of the employe going out Monday in the event of their not receiving their wages that day. and it is thought tho meeting to-ilrht is for the purpose of ob-. vlating a possible strike.

MAY ASK FOR A RECEIVER. Stockholders In Consolidated Lake Superior May Move Against the Speyer Syndicate. PHILADELPHIA. Sept Is reported here that the Consolidated Lake Superior stockholders will move formally on Monday for a receivership as the surest way to protect their equity in the property. This action has been determined upon, it is said, in view of the uncertain attitude of Speyer tt and a conviction that the time has come when the step cannot be delayed longer without danger.

The application for the appointment of a receiver for the $117,000,000 corporation will be made In Connecticut, under the laws of which State the Consolidated Lake Superior Company is Incorporated. Promptly after the expected granting of the petition for a receivership eopllcatton will be made In New York for the appointment of an ancillary receiver to act in that State. This will be accompanied by a petition for an injunction to prevent the disposal of the Spever collaterals. 1 The management and Board-of Directors of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company are cognisant of the Intended receivership move. and.

it Is understood, have agreed to interpose no obstacle and to give the stockholders an entirely free foot In these matters. This acquiescent attitude of the management is believed to have been obtained by the minority stockholders during the protracted board meeting on Friday. BACK TO WASHINGTON AGAIN. Capital's Dull Season Ending with Return of President, Cabinet, and Diplomats. Sirtiot la Tkt New York Timtt.

WASHINGTON. Sept. M. The dullness which has bung over Washington since early in the Summer will be broken next week by the return of the President and his family, members of the Cabinet, and Representative of the more important foreign embassies and legations. The President and bis family will-leave Oyster Bay Monday morning and shouid reach this city about 4 o'clock.

No demon. atration to mark the return of the President has been planned, but he will be greeted at the station, by Col. Slmonds, who is on duty at the White House, and those members of the Cabinet who will be in the city. The Improvements at the White House which were started during the Summer Were completed to-day. and the mansion is now in readiness to receive the President and his family.

This was the last day for the admission of the public to the state apartments, and as a result there was an unusually large numwr or visitors. Secretary Cortelyou, Secretary Hitchcock. atd Attorney General Knox will also reach Warhington next week. Mr. Cortelyou is now on a trio through the provinces of vsnsda.

and Mr. Hitchcock is at nis Bum-, residence in New Mr. Knox is at the country -pine he recently purchased tn the Valley Forge region of Pennsylvania. Th. British Ambassador end iJidy Herbert will soon return from a European tour, which began In the early Summer.

Since thev left Washington the Brliuh Kmbessy has ben closed practically, as the Attaches have been spending the Summer at Newport. It is understood that the return of Lady Herbert will be hastened hy her desire to participate In th weddlnr Plans of her niece. Miss Goelet, who Will be married to th Duke of Roxburgh on Nor. l. The French Ambassador and the MexUan tb CMIe and Reeerta oeth.

SoBlhera Kr. th. IV.r.lus rd Hoping aervtce on througb Trains. N. T.

OiiiD, til ao4 1.1 Si Bresdwar. Adv. Of JJil Hovm4 Trip to Callforsia. Oct. to 16, limit.

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Qitlem 71, lt atraaeajr-AAv. Ambassador and their household will also reach the capital next week. ITCH ELL AIDED PRES1 DENT. Reported Ha Had Much to Do with Keeping Federation Council from Acting on the Miller Cae. Social la Tkt Nrw York Timtt WASHINGTON.

Sept. Executive Council of the Federation of Labor has aafely steered past the Miller case, and in all probability, win not be troubled by it again. The council adjourned leaving the matter with a sub-committee, whose membership has been kept secret. It will be three months before the committee can make its report, and before that "me it is the general expectation that the case will be settled to the satisfaction of all concerned, except possibly Mr. JllUer himself.

There is every promise that the question will come up, strong and Insistent, at the Federation convention in Boston next November. It. Is stated on good authority that the principal reason why the "council did not take up and dispose of the matter was that it to disrupt the organisation by the introduction of political animosities i There were friends and enemies of President Roosevelt in the council, as it may be interred there are in the organisation at large, and it was at once clear to every one that If anything like partisan action was taken now on the Miller case It would lead to a general division throughput the Federation on the issue of supporting or opposing President Roosevelt. One version of the attempt to get the council to act is that important financial and political influences undertook to array the labor element In th. mlntnv wfflnnl of Pennsylvania.

Went Virginia, and the ft against the President, and the diffl- culty over the Miller case' was seiied on as a means tn thla nt presence of John Mitchell in the eoun-ell helped to counteract this attempt. Mitchell has not forgotten the aid the President gave him last year In the coal strike, and he was not to be persuaded to take a position now against the man who. more than all Others, befriended him anA hi. nennle In their memorable strua-gl against what they as a 1 a a. a a i held to be unfair dealing.

MITCHELL TM Ki TO MINFR I HUfVO IU 111 1 CnO. His Address Regarded as the Foreshadow of a Strike in land Region. a 7 TL. "TV rt'vnrDT xrr lrj na Tv Workers, addressed 4.000 people in Lovers Retreat Grove, at the little mining town of Midland, in this to-night Mr. Mitchell was In conference with "Vice President Lewis and National Organizers Morgan, Salmond, McCulloh, Haggerty, Loaper and Noon, of the United Mine Workers.

The operators here have viewed Mr. Mitchell's visit with some concern, thinking that a strike was about to be inaugurated; but Mr. Mitchell, in an Interview, sa'd that bis vltlt was along purely friendly lines to promote the Interests of the organization, and that there was no "early" likelihood of a strike, although he intimated that discharges of men for having Joined the Union, were not conducive to good fellowship between the operators and the miners. district President Ianlel Toung presided at the meeting and Frank Morrison of Washington, Secretary of the American Federation of Labor, was ope of the spcakn ers. received with' great enthusiasm, said that the organization had brought into a closer relationship the miners and operators of eight of the greatest, coal-producing States.

I am sorry, he added. that In Maryland and West the operators refuse to treat with the representatives of the union. They are making' a mistake, but I suppose they don't care for my advice. I give it to them, anyhow." Applause.1 Mr. Mitchell said he did alt in his power to avert strikes, making every peaceful and conciliatory move possible.

But" he added, these companies must not discharge men because they are members of trade unions. We want peace, but we do not want peace at any price. We want peace consistent with decency and honor. There has been some discontent among the miners, and these remarks are considered to have some local significance. ARCHBISHOP CHECKED BATTLE.

San Domingan Generals Heeded His Mandate Not to Fight on Good Friday. Sptcial ta Tit Nrw York Timtt. BOSTON. Sept- 26. The French cruiser Trade arrived fh the harbor to-day and anchored near the United.

States cruiser Atlanta. The men of both of these ships took an active part in suppressing the recent revolution in San TJomlngo, in which more than a dozen towns were destroyed, not to mention a heavy loss of life on boh sides, Hostilities had begun before the arrival of the ships In April, and shots flew thick about them. The most dramatic incident happened on April 9, the day before Good Friday. On that day a carriage drawn by six horses and accompanied by outriders drove Into Ssn Carlos, a suourn or o.uw in ih WTsnonica? rJ and bearing an apostolic crosier stepped out of the carriage. Vou must not fight to-morrow.

Good Friday, under pain of excommunication." he said quietly to Gen. Gil. 'Who are you. Padre?" asked the General. The ecclesiastic frowned, I am Fernando Arturo Delmerlno, Archbishop of San Domingo and Primate of all ta Indies." he replied.

And if I defy the mandate of the Church?" Then I shall chastise you personally," thundered the Archbishop, waving his crosier threateningly. Gen. Gil. who had fought valiantly (gainst the Governmental forces, was cowed by the power of the Church, and agreed to refrain from doing battle on the AiiAinir 1 a 17 Then the ArchbtshoD drove back into town and exerted a similar tnflu- ence upon vasques. witn tne result mat not a shot was fired until after midnight of Good Friday.

Then a vertltable hell roke loose, and more than three hundred houses were totally destroyed in San Carlos alone. AS GEORGE GOULD SAW THINGS. His Trip Showed Him That the Country Is Prosperous and Railroad Outlook 8plendid. Spteiot ta'Tht Nrw York Timtt. of nuia ar QA.4"ieor(ra J.

Gould it fit Louis to-day. after an ex- i tensive and somewhat erratic tour over i the many unes wmcn wumu o- of hi, trip. Mr. Gould said the West In nourishinr condl- and Southwest are in a flourisning condi- Oon in almost every respect. The corn i crop is gooa.

no i on are maiA Mr Gould, -have all thev can attend to, and. If anything-. need more equipment than they, have on T.ovil!.crr;.. r.nu i. exas.

the term'nals. and seemed much interested in th Texas railway situation as regards Its future developments. The condition of the stock market did not seem to worry the railway financier, and I fie Bl.irU .114. Steel was of but little importance to him. as he did not own a worm oi "'while in Texas Mr.

Gould wore a straw hat and it is stated that his return to St. Louis was so rapid that he did not have time to assume tne ran neaaseur uciure he rolled into th Union Station. OalT Ware EDUCATION to See Sm 'erk. NAL. BKIHTSKEINO.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 1903. -32 -Pases. Magazine Supplement end Financial Supplsmsnt. WOMEN HIDE INTO YOTERS They Besiege Greenwich (Conn.) Town Hall in Squads. Tell Thjelr Agea Without Bit of Hesi tation Their Aim Is to Control New School.

fftcioJ I Tkt Ntw York Timtt. GREENWICH. Sept. 20. Sisters accompanied brothers, wives went witn their Jibands, and women whose hus- oands were busy gathered up tneir con dren took the babe in arms to the GreeinwlLh town building to-day.

that they might be made Voters. Some single misses with thi more timid married ones, formed parties And went before Selectmen Knapp, Wilson, land Bitch and Town Clerk James It. Mead together, and afterward gave tne uecessany data for the record book. With lone exception all the thirty-one women hvho appeared came from bouna Beach. -There they had been worked up to a high pitch of excitement over the mat ter of controlling the new Havemeyer me morial IschooL- nearly completed.

Tney wanted It elect a woman committeeman, it Is understood. Twemi-slx were house wives, one a dressmaker, one a hotel keeper, one a ona lived with her father." and one bad no occupation. One old lady gave her occupation as housewife, and added, "and everything which koea with it" which cauaed the younger! ones to amlle. Registrar Brush declared! housewife the most honorable occupation of all for a woman. The afrerage age of those who were made voters olid swore to vote without favor of any perlon or fear of any man was forty- two.

Ttie youngest was twenty-three, the venty-three. Qnl lour til Only lour were unmarried. Eight were under tllrty, ten were from thirty to forty, soven vAre in the forties, five in the fifties. and the next to the oldest was sixty-five. Nol see here before I swear.

said on wornaj who stood ud aith two little chil I ule" her side, tavlng handed her baby wm wan to Inooln Ford to hold, I want to A. llnooln My bus- band -4is born In Scotland and has not i 1 i8aTn V4r i I can't vote, though I been turaiized. 1 some li-nnle av always wanted to, because my nusDana is not a cl izen." This i a discussion between Registrars imeron and Brush, and Selectman Knapp o.isulted Town Counsel Wright. The tier aion was that she could vote. All thle women, including many who are most prominent in social circles in Sound Beach.

gave their artes without a bit of hesltitlbn. Registrar Brush got around ask ng th4 delicate -question of age of the vounrett armllcant in tits wav: Youl say vou wtu born In Scotlani. How nJany years hake you lived in this countrvn The answer was seventeen. Hovf old were you when you came nere "Six. MRS.

STUYVESANT FISH TALKS IN PUNGENT STYLE. Mia. I A A I nsaataaasTtaaaa 4 set dftrt ft 4 a i sa vasws vii vvvvi Lookk If Harry Lehr "Just Or- dinary" Roxburght Wed ding Foolish. LSfwia to Tht Nrw York Timtt. ST.

lOUlS. Sept 28. Mr. Stuyvesant Fish, at tha Southern Hotel this morning. Just before starting for Colorado and the Pacific ICoast consented to be Interviewed about larious things, particularly about Newpoot and the fashionable set.

She laughed at the idea that she could possible be Mrs. Aster's rival for social honors. She said she thought of entering politics by way of doing something worth while, or, she said. Newport ha become aometh ng of a bore, especially since the advent lot a large number of rich nobodies. Amoiik the caustic things she said were these: Mn4 Roosevelt dresses on $300 a year.

and shi looks like it. American women should wear American gowns I and not patronise the Parisian makers! If some lead Ins; woman of the United i States, like tne resident wite. would let the fashion and wear American creatlois. which are Just as pretty and costly, post of the women would follow suit. weuia not iiae to oe a rresiaent, nor a wife of I a President, for I would not like to have td eat with nerroes.

DeFfite the efforts of President Roose velt Americans can never have negro equal ity. I fere win never De equality among the white people of the United States. lne will oi necessity be two classes tne aristocracy and tne common people. We should not be too democratic, as it la dangeriua, and people are not equal, any 1 1 .11.. 4r.ca.

and Ahe Kuropeirns cannot The! marriages of American girls to Im- pecuni'fus foreign noblemen are very foolish. Tre latest piece of thts sort of folly is the Carriage of Miss Ooelet to the Duke of Roxlurghe. nartry Ljenr never gave any monkey dinner at my home at Newport He is Just an ordinary person." REGICIDE IN THE AIR. Londoa Hears the Is to Die To day An Attempt on Alfonso Reported. LONDON, Sept 2d A rumor is current 1 tn the (inner circles of foreign Anarchists Lonfon that a plot has been formed to assassinate the Sultan of Turkey, which is expectdd to culminate No reli ance can be placed upon this report how ever, als the Anarchists her are merely inspire! by advices from the Continent which, it is believed, are more' likely than not purely visionary, A spfcial dispatch from Genoa says the police khere have arrested an Anarchist namedlBartelonl, who is accused of com plicity In a plot to kill King Alfonso.

GRAhT IN THE STOCKYARns i I nicago msai inspector vnargea witn I xJafflrklnn In rnnrfamnaH rjaiflcklng In Condemned Beef. i I SW Tit rtr ark Timtt. CHIClAGO, Sept, 26. Charges have been sgA.i...1 Chief Meat Inspector John Cashlnl who Is accused Of trafficking In carcasJe. of beef after their unfitness for food hi been ustabllshed.

Cashi has admitted to his superiors that he tra. ricked in beef which on the hoof had 1 been uaraetined, later condemned, and i post-01 rtems held to Judge it condition and st; ge of disease. Araoi th charges made against Chief Meat ispector Caahln are the That as a civil service employ has conducted a business of purchasing and B.tft, Cbleaaro to PaelSe Coast. Dally I until November 30. Through train, via Chlcagi MUwauke and BU Paul Railway.

and tkkta, Ul Broadway, N.w Jo selling beef adjudged unfit for food by himself and other Inspectors. That as a civil service employe he conducted this alleged illegal traffic in the nam of tho C. D. Calumet Packing Company, which Is said to be a fictitious concern, That he has in the pay of one of the large packing companies and acted as its buyer of passed bee, for which he received 91 a carcass. That he has engaged in the passed beef traffic with certain slaughter house Interests.

That he has been guilty of releasing carcases of beef after the meat-had been condemned as unfit for food. According to one reliable stock yards man. as much as ItOu) a week is divided among members of a clique interested in the alleged graft, SCARE AT OYSTER BAY. Assassinatron Plot Story Startles the Town After Arrest of Two Men for Shooting Robins. OYSTER BAT.

L. 8ept people of this village were startled thla afternoon by the report that an attempt had been made to assassinate President Roosevelt and that two Italians, supposed to be Anarchists, bad been arrested in connection with the plot Two Italians had been arrested, but the only crime of which they' were accused was the shooting of a few robins. The scar was caused by Deputy Sheriff Palmer of Farmlngdale, who, in his effort to uphold the dignity or' the' law, created a sensation so great that the villagers flocked to the Town Hall to catch a glimpse if possible of the would-be assassins, whom they denounced in unmeasured terms. Business men closed up stores and offices so that they could Join the throng, and th whole population was aroused. About noon a wagon was driven Into town containing, three men.

Two of them were handcuffed and the third man, who was driving, had a shotgun between his legs and kept a sharp watch on the others. The man with the shotgun was Deputy Sheriff Palmer, and his two prisoners were the Italians that he had arrested at Farmlngdale for shooting robins. After Vain attempts to find Constable McQuaid and Justice Franklin of this village Palmer drove to the Town Hall, where the Italians were locksd in a cell. Deputy Palmer said he caught th men In the act of shooting robins and that he found a number of dead birds In their pock-eta Of these he took possession to be used as evidence. The Italians.

Palmer savs. be came excited when told they were under arrest ami made a show of resistance, and waa account, he says, that he tout the handcuffs on them i i SENT THREATENING LETTERS. Relative of ex-Mayor Van Wyck Leaves Fishkill to Escape Prosecution of His Wife. Spatial la Tkt Nrw York Timtt. FISHKILL LANDING.

N. Sept Miller Van Wyck. a relative of th New Tork ex-Mayor, left here with hi wife at noon to-day. Mrs. Van Wyck was in the Police Court yesterday on a charge of attempting- to tak th Ufa of Georg Knapp, the Town Collector Two days previously the Van Wycks had aent out two anonymous letters of an ingenious, Ona was addressed to Mr.

Knapp's daughter and th other to H. 'The letters consisted of words cut from various newspapers, so placed together as to convey various meaninas. Til.i was 'not a word of writing. Hints ot poison were made, and in each letter there was a clipping about a man in Kansas who had been arrested for poison, ing his family. Mrs.

Van Wyck. it Is said, constructed the letters and sent her husband out to mall them. At noon be was caught In th act of dropping them In the night letter-box by a detective who had been on the case, and the mysterious letter-writer of thla place, who baffled the authorities for over a year, bad at last been caught. Yesterday when Knapp met Van Wyck in front of the tatter's home he beg a to upbraid him for sending the lettur to his daughter. la an Instant Mrs.

Van Wyck appeared on the scene, tihe r.j a revolver In her hand, and said: I im a good shot and will shoot," Van Wyck asked her to go awa7, but she would not Knapp got under cov.tr. and in a short time swore out a warraftt for the woman. The Van Wycks were taken to court and the evidence was against them. A postponement to secure an important witness was made. However, Mr.

Knapp agreed to withdraw the complaint if. the Van Wycks left town at once. They packed their furniture and said they were going to New York, but refused to give any The Van Wycks believed Knapp was in a plot to polaen them. Many prominent people had received letters and they are now certain th Vnn Wycks sent them. AET GALLERY FOE STILE.

Ckteaa-o Artist Will Bet Seveaty Paiatlatra to Kellew-Artist fa Arlsona. Sfftial ta Tkt New Yark 7'imas. CHICAGO. Sept 28. Because Frank Holme, exiled to Arizona by illness, cannot come East to see the paintings and draw- ings which were his life in Chicago, his i a I HT aa.n Kim mn Art llTv Th.

flrst of miniature paintings by shipped from Chicago to Phoenix next Friday The seventy small paintings, ach by a different artist were made for the sick and homesick painter In Arizona. Mr Holme expressed a desire to keep in touch with his art world, so his friends, especially in the Palette and Chisel Club, adopted the plan suggested by Gus O'Shaughnessy. The largest painting to be sent I three inches square, and the smallest is a half inch square. There are landscapes in color and la black and white, etchings, heads of women, posters, and fancy designs. In the list of painters are the name of almost every well-known artist in Chicago.

LAUNCH CLIMBS A RAPIDS. OGDENSBURO. N. Y- Sept 20. Th often tried and never before accomplished faat of ascending the Long Eault Rapids of th Lawrence River was performed to-day by Jonathan Walnwright of Over, brcok.

in a thirty-eight-foot gasoline launch. Lelghton of Syracuse handled the en-cl which was of twenty-four bors power The six miles of rapids were ascended in thlrty-fiv minutes. The engine broke down st the head of th rapids, but shore was aafely reached. Jury Disagrees in Crocker Will Case. Sftciol la Tkt Ktw JrVft Timtt.

BOSTON. Sept 28. A disagreement of th Jury is the outcome of th latest trial of th Uriel H. Crocker will contest. Th issue on which th case blnged was whether or not the will had been obtained through the fraud or undue influence of testator's wife, Annie J.

Crocker, to whom the enjoyment of the entire property ol JTOO wes given for life, to the exclusion of the three contestants, George U. Crock-, jnefh wkr. V'dvwr Cnvker, Uriel H. Crocker's sors by his first wife. On thts i0ue a' uuuiurdloou the Jury was evenly divided.

Sharp Frost Up the State. HOCSICK FALLS-' N. Sept 26. There was a sharp frost in this vicinity last nlRht. the temperature falling to 30 d.

sires. Corn suffer th greatest damage and all garden truck was al fueled. Cuba's Little Earthquake. SANTIAGO. Cuba.

Sept. 20. A sharp earthquake shock was felt here this morning, th fourth within a month. damage was don. Fe the PALI, MALL Locdoa ir.tia.

Adv. MRTIIEHT TENANTS FLEE BEFORE FLAMES Church of the Archangel in Harlem Destroyed by Fire. Police Arrest Five Persons Who Were Acting Suspiciously "Attempted Robbery Suspected. Fire destroyed the new edifice cf th Protestant Episcopal Church cf the Archangel, on St Nicholas Avenue, between One Hundred and Fourteenth and One Hundred andFJfteenth Street, early this morning and burned out three floors of th Carvel Court apartment house, adjoining th church, as -well as the three upper floors of the apartment house at 121 West On Hundred and Fourteenth Street throwing the tenants into a wild panic and sending them scurrying in night clothes for windows and fire escapes. The plain clothea men attached to th West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street SUtlon and several Central Office detectives arrested five me tn the apartment houses as 'suspicious Th police say the men were suspected of boing; In the apartments for the purpose of robbery.

The fire, which started in th ventlbul of th church, was discovered by Policeman Goodrich ot the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Station. He turned in the alarm, and as soon a the first relay of fire fighters arrived on the scene two additional alarms were turned In, calling all available fire-fighting apparatus above Fifty-ninth Street to the scene. The church edifice is new. having been opened for services only as recently as last Easter. The front is of brick, but the rear part as well as the roof, are of wood.

The church is only one story in height above the basement. The rector, the Rev. George Starkweather Pratt, who lives on Seventh Avenue near the church, was notified, but was too late to sate any of the parish documents. Within five minuter of the time when the fire ws discovered the flames were burst ing xortn irom windows and turouj the roof. As soon as the roof had been pierced a pillar of flame shot 200 feet up in the air.

On either side of the church ifa the larg i tvarwirk and the narvei fmirt rva i I liXi houses, rising eight stories above the sraal ler Duiioings. The greatest excitement prevailed tn th two-apartment houses. The north wall of the Carvel Court is very close to the wall of the church, and it was not long before the windows on that side were broken by the heat of the flames, and the sashes caught fire. The colored elevator boy William ran his elevator up to the top floor and notified the tenants there. Then he ran it down, stopping at each floor to notify the people of theh- danger.

A family named Scott on the fourth floor was awakened by the heat breaking the windows. Then the rooms began to fill with smoke. Mr. Scott got his family together, and they fled to the street in terror. A child in the family-of man named Ames on the fifth floor was sleep-ing In a room where the heat broke the windows, and was almost forgotten in th excitement.

It was carried eut without injury, however. On the sixth floor Uvea a family named Strube. and on the asventli floor a family named Goodrich- They were all gotten out In safety. In the Warwick, the colored elevator boy, John Minott, of 121 East Ninety-opemi Street and the Janitor. L.

V. Tyrell. MviJod the house between them in notifying the guests, and within three minutes had everybody on the ground floor. Tha corridor was crowded wliti- -excited-- uvea, women, most of the "Women carrying article of value. Several of the women bad pet dogs under their arms, while others carried expensive gowns.

In about an hour the fire was declared to be under control. The police estimated the damage to the apartment house at IluO.OuO and the church loss at SS0.00U. Edward Gels, a salesman for the- Brooklyn Knitting Company, 'his wife Ella, his three children. Rose. 5, Edward.

3, and EUa. lhi years old. his mother, and Mrs. Geis's sister, live on the ground floor of the Carvel, next to the church. The smoke had made its way through the windows when they were awakened by the noise of 1 the lire engines' ana pounaing on tn aoor.

Mrs. Oels had been 111 for two weeks. -Mr. Gels too Rose and Edward out to the street and then went back for his wife. She had been slightly overcome- by the smoke, and he carried ner across the street to a delicatessen store.

He then ran back and brought out the baby, who was also slightly overcome. He was dressed only in night clothes and -hi feet were cut slightly bv broken glass. Both Mrs. Gels and the baby were revived, and did not need medical attendance. The mother, Mrs.

Geis's sister, got out safely. Patrolman -Carter of the West One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Station was told by an excited woman that her seven-year-old daughter was in an apartment on the fifth floor. Carter rushed up there and found the girt who had been slightly overcome by smoke. He carried her down to the street whare she quickly revived. An elderly woman in the apartnwnta of, C.

C. Giles, on the fifth floor, was shrieking in terror while smoke was filling the Carvel, and some of the male guiiats of the house tried to enter the room. Th door was locked. One of the men got an ase in the hall and chopped down the door. The woman was rescued, being taken down in an elevator.

The Police say that skeleton keys were found on three of the prisoners who went found in the Warwick Apartments. FIRE STOPS CAR TRAFFIC. South Brooklyn System Upset by Power House Blaze. Fir during th rush hqurs yesterday afternoon in a power house ot th Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company, at First and Fifty-second Street that borough, did damage which th pollc stlmat at $175,000. and tied up practically every surface and elevated line in South Brooklyn, Men were making repairs in th basement of th power house, where the huge feed wires run into the building, when shortly after 4 o'clock a hug electric switchboard blew out with a loud detonation.

A so-called short circuit had been 'caused and fir began to spurt from the damaged wire. The fifteen large feed wires, carrjlng th power to as many sect'ons the South 1 Brooklyn trolley system, run into the base- i ment through an underground, tunnel con? structed of steel. Is a network of smaller th feed wires with upper floor of th power house, Just under the roof. The sparks from th damaged switch set fir to the rubber insulation not only of th wires running through it but to the insulation of every one of the nundreds et wires in th basement. When Chief Engineer who heard the detonation, ran fronr his office he saw dens smoke issue from the basti-' ment stairs.

Summoning some ot the em- ployees he-organized a bucket brigade, nut bis effort to extinguish th fire without outside assistance soon was abandoned, as the smoke grew In volume, rendering acaet to the basement impossible. An alarm was turned In, which brought all the apparatus In the neighborhood and Iei-oty Chief Lally of Brooklyn. For from two to six hours during and lifter the fire the service th various surface and elevated Unes iu that st-ctloa f.r.O.OO TO CAHFORMA via Sou Ry. nirtha7TfX. wltbout chans.

from Wamlugtea. ri.n..k aieeBlasr vai ftleeplaar Car nu ta Ua gouthem Hr- N. itrgadwajAdy. I. UJ1 and 1.1 i In th basement Itself ttnimtt, would be tander slmiconditions.

''V I -fo "IV e.erv cf Brooklyn was entirely dlsorganited. For about an nour" almost tne enure rapm trarlt system in South Brooklyn as tied up idtoerther. Tte lir nes affected were the Fifth' Ave nue, Seventh Avenue, rlatn tieacn. way itidl.e. and Coney Island lines, the Third Avenue surface cars, and the Fort Hamilton line.

On the latter line traffic had not be-n resumed up to a late hour last night-Worse off than any. probably, were the crowds at Coney Island and at the Sheef.s-head Bay race track, where the. tie-up was complete for two hours, and where, even then, traffic was resumed only in a desultory way. Visitors to the race track in mat case started to make their way back to the city on foot, while others returned in all sorts of conveyances which had been preised Into service to meet the requirements of th situation. It took some.

Of thta until midnight to reach the city. Tli crowd on Coney Island was practl-callr marooned. No word had reached thet about the fire in the power house and no one seemed to have the slightest idea as to what raused the delay. At the Thirty-ninth Street station on th FUlh Avenue elevated line there was a tre-tnerdous crush of passengers waiting for can i to take them to Bath Beach and th surrounding section. On the platform an employe of the raiiroad was handing out transfers for the surface lines, accompanied by cheerful Information that there was no cars running beyond Fortieth which rendered the transfers useless.

No infcrmatlon was vouchsafed the passengers as what had caused the or when tratflc would be resumed. DROVE ENGINE INTO CROWD. Driver of Fire Apparatus, Striving to Avoid Collisiori with Chief, In- Jured Several Persona. Willi trying to avoid running down th wajron of Deputy Fire Chief, Fltspatrick at Bridge and High Streets, Brooklyn, about 10 o'clock last night Driver William Hamilton of Engine No." 107 pulled his hor.tes up on the sidewalk, knocked down and injured a half dosen persons, smashed the big plate-glass window In Michael Carney's saloon, and was himself hurled from his seat through the window to the barroom floor. While the accident threatened the lives of several persons, no one was seriously injured.

The fire, which was of small consequence, wan In High Street, and. both the engine and th Fire Chief were on their way to it. The engine was going down High Street at a rapid rate, while Chief Fltspatrick wail driving down Bridge Street at an equally rapid pace In his fire wagon. Both wammon hUf rTriT and Sallied tSwl' wi7 bim i A. did bot swerve bis engine from Its course.

a puled to the left over toward the sidewalk. hoping to rmas the Chief and also keep off the sidewalk-and the crowd gathered to see the fire. But to his horror one of the horses slipped in iiwerving. and quick as a flash the en- flm was thrown toward the sidewalk and its own force dragged the horses upon th crowd. Th frightened pedestrians scrambled out from under the horses' feet as best they could and the animals kept on along- the sidewalk.

Their course was short but destructive. Several in the crowd were knocked down before the engine was brought up short by the pel crashing througn the plate glass window of the saloon. T.ne wheel struck the sidewalk edge and Hamilton was thrown through the window. The rear wheels meantime swung around against the Fire Chiefs wagon, knocking off a hub and sending Fltspatrick sprawling in the street. Firemen from the truck ran up and seised the engine horses and picked up those of the crowd who were injured.

The worst hurt was Kate 8hea, eighteen year Old. of, 162 Bridge Street whose arms and legs wera badly bruised. George Rooney of Bridge and High Streets and Michael Kelly of ItiO High Street also were bruised and cut by the glass from the saloon window. MRS. DAVIS'S CONDITION.

Unchanged According to Latest Reports from Her Bedside Physicians in Consultation. BUFFALO. Sept 26." Mrs. Davis's condition remains unchanged." was the report that came from the bedside of Mrs. Jefferson Davis at Castle Inn to-night Owing to th advanced age of th patient and th failure ot her organ to yield to the treatment of the physicians in attendance, every hour that passes adds to the anxiety of her friend here and the relatives who have hastened to her bedside.

Mrs. J. A. Hayes of Colorado Springs, a daughter of Mrs. Davis, arrived here tonight.

Miss L. L. W. Hayes, a daughter of Mrs. Hayes, came to Buffalo with Mrs.

Davis from th Humberston Club, on th northern shore ot Iake Erie, and has been in almost constant attendance upon her grandmother since she became 11L Mrs. Davis Is conscious, although very weak. She recognised her daughter the moment she entered the room and greeted her with loving words. Mrs. Davis bears ner severe Illness with remarkable fortitude, considering her advanced age.

for she is in her seventy-fourth year. She suffers great pain at times. Four of the leading physicians of th ctiy held a consultation at Castle Inn this afternoon. Dr. Stockton, the regular hotel physician, realising the seriousness of the case, called into consultation Dr.

Roewcll O. Park, the well-known surgeon, who assisted In the surgical operation upon President McKlnley, Drs. Jones and Carey. No operution has been performed upon Mrs. Davis, and It is doubtful If her system could withstand the shock of the operation that would be necesarv to relieve.

At 12 o'clock to-night Dr. Stockton mad the following announcement: Mrs. Davis's condition is unchanged. Drs. R.

D. Park. Charles Cary. Allen Jones, and myself held a consultation this afternoon. It was decided to continue the treatment which has been followed since tha beginning of Mrs.

Davis's Illness. jjrg. Davis's condition is serious. "ONE CONVICT "ByIxPRESS. BOSTON.

Sept 28. The distinction of being the first prisoner ever sent by express, and half way across the continent that undoubtedly belongs to Floyd T. Ferris, who arrived here to-day by American Express from Colutobus, en route to Lynn. wn i larceny ot $230 from the company wL-r-n transported him. i wi-rta was willing to return, so word was sent East that It would not be necessary to send an officer after him.

He was accordingly entered upon the regular way bill as One man consigned to Podce, Lynn," at owners' and with lla-bility limited to actual value." He was placed In the express car with nmacnnr as Kuard. He was not hand- I cuffed and was (ed. regularly, as a pet TRAMP LADEN WITH DIAMONDS. With Gems of Great Value on Person, John Lyman, Alleged New Yorker, Is Arrested as Vagrant Stinal la Tit Ntw York Ti. OMAHA.

Sept STWohn Lyman, i claiming New York City as Ms hams, where he says his father Is a prominent Wall a- arrested ber laat Street operator, was arrestee ner last night as a vagrant, and spent the night In fall. This morning, on being released, he drew from "fllfrerent secrt places in his oi clothes worth of diamond jewelry, there ucmt eigui wuc nuuu alone were worth Dressed a a tramp. Lyman was beating his way to New York. He says he has spent the allowance given htm by his father, and is toe proud to aek for more. Lvman's conversation showed him to be well educated, lie left for Chicago thU afternoon on a through freight.

MOO. BOSTON AUTUMNAL KXCURPICN. V. 00 Oct. 3 Krom New Vers and putnts via Iay Line to Albany, scrota Htw Er.ctiuvj to ttoiton back hy Sound eteam-ra See L'? Lis.

Adv. 'Hudson Valley. H-rsiUilrea. Boaioo. at It.lr bl.

Aa. wires connecting -Ferris says ne nJoea ma jto om the threatened snd should M-ri. the dynamos on thi "TLh i 0r(fVt aBJ decline to run. it wou'd i aeg, 4 larva -'m 1 MlimflV ft flrf 'I A FYl It 1 in SIR PRICE FIVE CENT. HfiPiinTlBT IS GROUT AlQ FORHES Ultimatum to Behalf, cf McCielian.

CUTTING DOES NOT OBJECT Grout and Foraca in Receptive Mood Toward an Unsought and Uncon- diiionil. Dcrnocratic Inicrse-. ment McLoiu hlln and Sheehan iaae-ulous. Strang and unexpected developments the present, municipal campaign reached a climax yesterday when, at the evident Instigation of Charles F. Murphy, leader ct Tamman; Hall, th suggestion was put out that Controller Edward M.

Grout ar.d Charles Fornes, President of the Board of the Fusion candidates to succeed themselves, be indorsed by tha Democratic City Convention and made the running mate of CoL George B. McCielian for Mayor. The complexity of the situation was fur- -the enhanced when Fulton Cutting. President of th CUlaeiiS" speaking over the long-distance telephon from Summer home in Tuxedo, said thst ho could see no harm In such an Indorsement and in Mr. Grout and Mr.

Fornea accepting the same, as they first had been named by the Fusionista. Messrs. Grout and Fornes, when seen -last night while making no definite declaration as to what their action would fee If tendered 'nomination by the regular -Democracy for their respective places, created the Impression by their utterance that if Democratic nominations came to them unsought and without any conditions attached they would not decline them. FRIENDS PERTURBED. When the friends of Mayor Low heard of Mr.

Murphy's suggestion and of the position 4aken by Mr. Cutting, and by Messrs. Grout and Fornes as well, they were declaring that an acceptance cf a Tammany Indorsement at this time by Mr. Grout and Mr. Fornea would mean the height of disloyalty to Mr.

Low, and the disruption of the Fusion Further than this, they declared that unless Mr. Cutting recanted and took an entirely, different position, and unless Mr. Grout aad Mr. Forae -should decline a Tammany indorsement Li -the event or It being tendered," they tad no doubt that Mr. Low would -et off the ticket.

Still another featur of the affair was the report that In the event of Mr. Grout and Mr. Kernes being indorsed by the Democrats and acceptirg. i the i York Democracy, unde? th i5SJer.h!',' oC John C. a ihlr-l ticket with Its own Mayoralty candidate, but with Messrs.

Grout and Forns in- dorsed likewise for their present offices. Whether or not Mr. Marphy -Intends Carry out the suggestion that Mr. -Grout and Mr. Fornes be nominated, it is cet.ihi that notice to that effect was served yesterday on the Kings County leacers as tne -second step in the Murphy war oi acrs-sion against Hugh McLaughlin and associates in the contrcl of the WUiouahoy Streiet" organisation.

Sy such a move it Is the belief of the Tammany organization that it can absolutely klil if McLnugii-lln and James Shevlin as factors In tne Brooklyn political organisation, and tbm gain control ot the party machinery in wrii of th five boroughs. That Mr. Murphy has taken up the Grout-Fornes proposition with determination, as an act of retaliation against Air. McLaughlin, however, remains undoubted, ami from clone source to the Tammany chief it was said last nlrht that there was a reasonable chance- that h-s would put the tentative slate through and give the ticket to the peopi ort next Thursday, thus stealing two ot th Fusion candidates much after the tnnnner in which Richard" Croker stole A bran. S.

Hewitt as his candidate, taken from tht County Democracy ranks in the year whmi Croker-clinched his leadership on the Tammany organisation. Brooklyn leader lt professed to be merely arousvd at tiia report from Manhattan, but beneath thir affected amusement there was a good dal of consternation end they eagerly sougi.t ail the facts obtainable. Mr. Murphy would have nothing to mt -concerning the report beyond the which he repeatedly has given to t-i people concerning the ticket to Le plicoi i the field. "AH that I can s.iy at th! time 1 tht the Democrats of New York wWi find in the field the strongest possible ticket, stvi ticket of which they all wtil be was his only comment Beyond that tv could not be drawn into the discussion In any manner.

Few of the Tammany leaders were at th IT.iH vesterdav. and Mr. ifurohv it.t nrt i appear there at any time -during It was afternoon before it leaked out tht. the throat or indorsing urout Tor "i-troller and Fornea for President of noard of Aldermen had been sent to-Brooklyn. n1 on bearing of tt district leaders were as taksn a were the Brooklyr.ites.

On the Murphy coup -was resarded as on unusual force, but at tha same Jime fraught With no little danger. The great point agnlnst It was that miv did not believe Mitrnhr eriou In mention, and others declare that with th urout ana ornes nave given May vor iw ana tne usion cauw ctiiiid not sccept Democratic hdownwn'. although Fulton Cutting. PresWrnt of the Citizens Union, declared that he tivf no reason why the candidates shouid rot accent such indorsement. It was bv Tsmmanv men that Richard Crclo-f' leadership- was built up on such movs, but on the other hand it was 3-clarod by that an ln.lnrserr.erit this sort would ms-an the eonr-ssion of weakness on the rrt of Ttoraanv, ar.

uld make' that org-anlratlon power'er lo barraMirg predloametiL un the ether i. should tho nominations iriAde and I thev sccepted. It would leave Mr. 'tv in th position of having been sold out associates on the tu-Veu It was r-rirst-d out that neither Mr. Orcut t.r-r hU.

Forres Blight he sMe to take the ttm for Fusion against Tammany when thv at the ks me tlfne were candt'ia'. as the of their spe-eha wou'd iv b'i eted at the outset. i ne pecuii.rn.o- nr.ui amnUvitiA. rt 1 aittiartf.n a-er 3t cast doubts on its rrobahnity last but whethrr or not the "state" thst Put 0l i-t mde up with th idea thf to rinattvi or meriv to throat. Kings County an-i to be a to how" the people v.ouii take tt, no one in a GROTTT IS RECEPTIVn.

Controller Grout was seen at the Tro -k' lj-n Club late lat night after ha, driving and dining away from hom. lews th'm informed of the report thst Tammany tQlgl-t indorse hla candi-iacy. At tho time bo was accompanied ty Luk D. pleton -and Henry A. Tor.g'a.

Uiirwrstioa Counsel. I shall not durlnyr the coming do t-iij tnir.se Inconsistent, la c- i spirit, my letter Mr. Cuttlnr. lust Mr. Grout.

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