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II II Ste NjsiGMr Wicrarlk "All the News That's Fit to Print" THE The Indications for to-day la this city and atelghhorhood aro rain, colder, to-night, sootherly winds, becoming northerly. VOL. NEW fYOBK. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1897. TWELVE PAGES.

PRICE THREE CENTS. Stock market ua end. Irregular. Cash irbMt. Ko.

3 red. 4Hc; cash corn, jv'k 3 mixed. S3o; cub cotton, fi 13-10c rORElOX. Arthur H. A.

Morton. Conservative, was elected to Parliament In the Borauth of EX-ptford. London, to fill the vacancy caused by the elevation of John Darling to the bench. The relation of Japan and Russia, are strained over the Utter efforts to control the Korean customs. M.

Scheurer-Krstner, one of the Vice Presidents of the French Senate, has written a letter to the newspapers la which he asserts that on Oct. a he presented to Oen. Billot, the French Minister of War, documents proving- that ex-Cept Alfred Dreyfus, the altered traitor. It innocent. Snow has fallen In Scotland and Northern England, and the east coast of the Island is swept by a gale Capt Kastopoulo, a Greek officer, has been con-' vtcted of culpable negligence In connection with the torpedo scandal and cashiered.

The British Niger Company has eat an expedition to Arku. West Africa, te stop the slave raiding of the Prince of Idau. James Bryce, Liberal member of parliament, aald In Aberdeen that several branches of British engineering had already gone to the United States as a result of the big strike. The Italian bark Esperla uassed thousands of casks of petroleum and a quantity of wreckage on the Atlantic. The court-martial In Berlin has con Armed the sentence of the lower court on Dr.

Carl Peters, the German explorer in Africa. He is dismissed from the service, and sentenced to pay the costs of the prosecution. Page 7. Page 1. President Low ot -Columbia University was rriueted to withdraw his resignation, and he did so.

Two attempts to wreck trains were made Sunday night on the Erie Railroad near Sloatsburg. small fire In Union Square caused much excitement, though it did little damage. Six girls were rescued by means of a rope. gtichard Croker. accompanied by Mrs.

Cro-ker, Thomas F. Grady, and CoL Asa Bird Gardiner, returned to the city from Hot Springs, yesterday afternoon. thirteenth annual Horse Show was opened In Madison Square Garden. Bad weather kept down the attendance and helped to make the social side of the affair less prominent than in many former years. it mustang, supposed to have escaped from a freight train, ran along the elevated track of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Jer-' sey City, slipped and got wedged in the trestle.

Trafflo was delayed until It could be released. There Is a feeling of resentment against the Sagasta Cabinet in Spain and in Cuba on account of the attempt to establish autonomy on the Island, against the wishes the great bulk of the population. Annexation to the United State is present-In itself to all as the best solution of Cuban difficulties. 2. JThe New York Presbytery held a heated session In which harsh language was used shout the case of Warszawiak and the Fifth Avenue Church.

tlartha Morton stoutly denied a charge that she took her play. A Bachelor Ro-manee." from a novel entitled "A Little written by The Duchess." iW III lam Sidney Wilson, a son of the late United States Senator Wilson of Marr land, and himself one of the most proml-aeot men of the State, committed suicide on Sunday while temporarily Insane from me enects or nines s. The wealthy Summer residents of Newport are displeasqd at the prospect of success of a project to construct a trolley road from Fall River to that resort, which would bring thousands of mill hands there on pleasant Sundays-in Summer. The fear that Martin Thorn intends to kill -himself still worries Sheriff Doht of i Queens County. District Attorney Youngs and.

other officials visited Philadelphia' er.d became convinced that the story that Thorn had been imprisoned for the theft of a. diamond was false. 3. Sit the meeting of the Republican Club last night Chauncey M. Depew.

whose name for President figured at the head of the anti-Platt ticket, was selected by five votes to four. The conference of American. British, and Canadian sealing experts at Washington will be concluded to-day, after which the diplomats will endeavor to agree upon a settlement of the Bering Sea question. Fears are expressed that the negotiations will result In failure. The Board of County Canvassers took up ihe votes of the Nineteenth Assembly Hetrict The official count showed dls-erepanci'Mi between the returns of the polios land canvassers, and the Citizens' Union candidates are confident that they will be victorious.

Page -4- ilnother strike of tailors la threatened, owing, it is said, to new demands on the part of contractors. The capmakers also threaten to turn out 'A. Davis, a Boston life Insurance agent, committed suicide yesterday. His sister, who lives In Philadelphia, thinks he overtaxed his mind In the study of psychology. lira.

Katherine Stead man. who drank carbolic add In the presence of a policeman on 'SunJay night, was the wife of a Syracuse man. She left her husband several years ago and come to this city to go on the vaudeville stage. Chief of Detectives Reynolds of Brooklyn la his Investigation of the Lyons murder, is searching for a man said to have been ith Lyons on Saturday night, who was found to have washed blood from his hand afterward. 9be French Line steamer La Gascogne reached here twenty-four hours overdue.

She encountered heavy gales throughout the voyage and was considerably battered. Other craft that had ben delayed by storms and fog also arrived In port. The Amateur Athletic Union of the United States held its annual meeting at the Astor House, and elected officers. The committee which tried B. J.

Wefera and John Co grove on charges of professlon- allsm made reports exonerating them. Much other business was transacted. Pag S. Ifjyor Hooc vetoed the plans for Jersey City water supply. Ho wants provisions safeiruarding the city's Interests inserted In the most acceptable of the three propositions.

tie sums which the city must pay owners real estate in Westchester and Putnam Counties, which is to be taken for protection of the Croton water supply, were awarded by Commissioners of Appraisal. The Secretary of the Treasury yesterday decided that sugar produced "Wholly In Denmark will be subject to a counter-. vailing duty of not less than .135 of 1 eent per pound. This la understood to Point to a like decision as to Dutch sugars. Postmaster Van Cott has secured from the Post Office Department an Increase of sal-art for clerks, and expects to obtain au-tnoritr to establish a station at Broadway and Howard Street, and to extend the hed of the Post Office on the Mail Street aid across tho street Pag T.

Df. Thomas W. Evans, the famous Amer-n dentist la Parta, la dead. Ctra A. Braadreth died at hi home In oing Sing.

He was heavd of the famous f-f medicine company, and prominent hi town. Pa) IX tJl Baur. alias George W. Duval, was held tn crg of robbing Sadie tujer and carrying knock-out drop. cWer ar to be laid by tha Postal Pr Company for the purpose of fur-niaiiing more prompt report of the- arrival ot veels at this port.

of John C. Van Bchaack won a erdict lor W5.000 a suit in Brooklyn against her father-in-law, Peter Van Jk tor alienating her husband's aX- Coudert was appointed tempo-rary administrator of th estate of bis Charles Coudert, pending; th de- u5i2 Lth eoatest over tha two will fcrt by the latter. fWM1 meeting of the Federation of rZZ. enrtauaa workers th r- I'xtm shewed satisfactory, results, and wa decided to send an address to tha cnciiaa aerauon r- A seven-year-old girl showed In Recorder Goff a court In an arson trial how ah and other children of Bernard Blumenthal played with lanterns. Judge and Jury were deeply Interested In the demonstra- 1.

tlOrW 1 i. committee has been appointed to consider the proposition to raise and equalise the salaries of teachers In the public schools. submitted to the Brooklyn Board of but President Swanstrom says that It cannot possibly be adopted. 7 Relatives contest the will of Thomas E. Bradway, who left hi entire estate to Miss Fannie E.

L'Hommedleu, hla step-granddaughter. The contestants deny her relationship to him, and allege undue Influence, It Is said. Tha examination of Homer W. Nichols of in the Richardson wlir congest, was concluded yesterday. lfcu C.

Hawley. a hardware merchant of 127 Duane Street an old acquaintance of Mr. Richardson, tesnned that be visited the testator two or three times a week during his last Illness, and hat In hi opinion Mr. Richardson was then Irrational, i Arrivals at Hotels and Out-of-Town Buyer. Pago 2.

i News of the Railroads Page 10. The United Service. Page fa Marine Intelligence. Page 3. Business Troubles.

Page 0, Losses by Fire. Pago 8. Amusements. Page 6. Legal Notes.

Page 12. Real Estate. Page la Court Calendars. Page 10. SOVEREIGN FOR PRESIDENT.

Report that the Fo-sner Master Work-saaa of the Kalahta of Labor Hopes to Saeeeed McKlaley. LOUISVILLE. Nov. 15. A morning paper, under the caption Sovereign's Vaulting Ambition," says: The great secret Is out at last Mr.

J. R. Sovereign, the retiring General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor, resigned his position In order that he might push his candidacy for President of the United States In 190a Being free now from the responsibilities of General Master Workman, and having none of the former difficulties to contend vth, Mr. Sovereign has a clear field before him. Delegates to the General Assembly openly acknowledged last night that Mr.i Sovereign is an avowed candidate for the 'Presidency of the United States when Mr.

McKlnley's term expires, and the movement of making him a field worker Is the Initial step of the General Assembly of the Knights of Labor to launch Mr. Sovereign's boom. While It is said that Mr. Sovereign and the Hon. W.

J. Bryan are on the friendliest terms, the supporters of Mr. Sovereign say he will make every effort to land the prise which Mr. Bryan seeks to secure." This announcement was read with Interest by delegates to the Knights of Labor General Assembly In session here. Few of them would admit tfiey believed it was Generally they ridiculed it Mr.

Sovereign has no such idea." said one of his closest advisers this morning. and there Is absolutely no truth In It. If the Presidency was offered to htm I suppose he would accept it, as almost any other man would do, and the Knights of Labor would glory in him, but be ha no designs on the Presidential chair. His resignation was solely for the purpose of giving him more time and a broader and wider field In which to work for the upbuilding and strengthening of the cause in which he is so vitally GOING TO THE KLONDIKE. Mr, mttA Mrs.

Richard H. Hoag of Orana-e to Sail in a Few Days. ORANGE, Nov. 15. Mr.

and Mrs. Richard H. Hoag and their daughter Constance will sail for the Klondike gold fields In a few days on the brlgantlne Harriet G. On their arrival In Alaska Mr. Hoag will open a general supply store.

The expedition with which the Hoags are associated Is being fitted out by a mining and trading company of which Mr. Hoag is tha President The Hoags are well known In Orange society circle j. Mrs. Hoag is the niece of the late George Innesa. the landscape painter.

While in the gold fields she will wear a' fur dress cut on the style of a bicycle costume. HORSE BLOCKED A RAILROAD. Wedged la Trestle of Pennsylvania Elevated Track. Jersey Several trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad were delayed last night by a runaway horse which got on the elevated track. The ownership of the animal could not be traced.

It is of the mustang breed, and Is believed to have escaped fr6m a West Shore Railroad train at the freight yard on the meadows, i The animal ran through the Bergen cut and down the tracks to. the elevated road, which begins at Brunswick Street. It had no difficulty? in keeping its footing, the tres tle being (toarded over. It dashed down ixaca iso. used tiy outgoing trains, and would have made Its way to the station without mishap, had it not been that Just above Newark Avenue the flooring had been removed.

There the mustang plunged on to the trestle and went down, its body resting on two sleepers, while its feet dangled in the air Just above the heads of pedestrians at the Newark Avenue crossing. The operator in the signal tower at Henderson Street notified the station agent and traffic was suspended till a wrecking car with a derrick, arrived and hoisted the animal out It was unhurt and the Society for the Pre vention of Cruelty to Animals took charge SENATOR HAWLEY TO RETIRE. i Secretary Porter Says He Is Hot Candidate for th Seat WASHINGTON. Nov. 15.

Senator Hawley of Connecticut Is In poor health, and the report Is current that he will not stand for re-election at the expiration of his present term, two years hence. Senator Hawley Is seventy-one year old, and with the end of the present term will have served twen ty-three years in Congress, two terms and a half In the House, and three terms eight een years In the Senate. J. Addison Porter, secretary to President to succeed Senator Hawley. Mr.

Porter was a candidate for Governor last year, but failed to secure the nomination. It has been reported that he will make another attempt next year, with a view to making the Governorship a stepping stone to the higher honor of a seat in the United States Senate. 'I Secretary Porter I declines to be Inter viewed on the subject, further than to say that under fro circumstances will the use of his name be allowed In connection with th succession to Senator Hawley. He is on friendly terms with all of the leading can didatea said to' be already in the field for Senator. Secretary Porter's sdberents hav urred him to enter the race lor thie Govern orshlp again, but this he will not consent to do II It anouia invotve a ponicjii.

Life Saved an Eaglaeer. CHADRON, Nov. 15. Quick work by William Cooley, engineer of the east bound passenger train this morning, prevented loss of Ufa and Injuries to about fifty passengers. Through misconstrued orders, two trains, a freight and a passenger, collided near here, but the application of the air brake and th reversing of hi engine by Cooley had arrested the motion of the passenger coaches, and when the collision occurred, hia train was moving slightly In the sam direction as tha freight Both engines wers destroyed ana several cars were nroaen but beyond a slight jolting and an Inconvenient delay, th passengers suffered no 4 Wa.j.n...

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ass ether flAJnm AST, SPAIN1S 0DIL00K DARKENS Sagastd's Effort to i Establish Autonomy Unpopular Among Spaniards and Cubans. MURMURS AGAINST THE QUEEN Annexation to th United Btatsi Be gardedj as All that Will Sara th Island from Anarchy Insur- gtnts to Kak a Demon- stration. HAVANA, via Key West, Nov. slderable anxiety is expressed in official circles here las to what will happen after the arrival of! Gen. Weyler In Spain.

There are people wSo believe that trouble will follow any detetknlned effort of the Spanish Gov ernment to discipline the former Governor General of Cuba, and. In any case, many well-lnforkned persons believe that serious events will occur in Januarv or Pebruarv next. ny Spanish officers are returning to' Spain, on leave of absence, and their number in commenced to attract attention here. en In this city there, is a feeling of suppnssed resentment against the Sa-gasta Ca blnet, and theisj are murmurs heard evin against the Queen Regent, due to ner rmitting the Premier to make an. attempt a establish autonomy In Cuba against is 1 la said, of the great bulk of tie population, and because she Is alleged have permitted the Spanish press to insult hnd hurt the feelings of the.

Span lards resiling In this Island, without taking into consideration the enormous sacrifices of men And money made in behalf of the Crown But what gall a the Spaniards the most is jthe feeling that the attempt to establish I autonomy is due to the Influence of the UAited States, and this is doing con slderable 1 Injury to the cause of Soaln. in somuch tnat the Cubans will not even have to tbankl the Spanish Government for any improvement which may occur In their con anion. i ine wlole outlook is mining rh mnmt serious apprehension to the wealthy Span- iu residents, ana it is intimated that civil war In Cuba would be certain to fol low mo (establishment of an autonomous form of government The Cubans are quite excited ih their utterances on the subject, one of them having Dubllclv exnressed the wish recently that Qulntin Bandera would soon come to Havana and cut off the heads of all the) Spaniards in the city. During the last fewl days this kind of talk has frequently been heard in nubile and it is re called that such utterances were frequent oeiore uie present revolution broke out Others it the Cubans say openly here. JJon't talk to me about autonomy; I am a Other of the Cubans say.

Oh. now, ourj hour is coming," while others still. remark, signmcantly. After Blanco, there win oe no more Captains-General of Cuba. One Ciiban, referring to an interview in New York with Dr.

Jos Congosto, the former Confeul of Spain at Philadelphia, and now Seca-etary General of Cuba, in suc cession to the Marquis Palmerola, made a very, appropriate remark. Congosto. who, by the way, said to becoming unpopular, especially with some of the newspaper men, on! account of his favoritism, waa quoted as saying that he was going to Cuba to curelthe sick men," to which the Cuban referred (to added: Yes. but he will not cure the Sick Man. but will I help to amputate his two arms," referring) to Cuba and Puerto Rico.

From the state of public feeling it can be said that there are no signs here of any likelihood of the troubles in Cuba ending at any earlr date. On the contrary, it would appear tnat the mere prospect of autonomy is makln matters worse than ever, and day by day 1 he belief grows that only annexation to he United States will save Cuba from ararchy. The political horizon at present 1 blacker than ever before, in soite of any official or semi-official utterances to tne cont -ary, and this is, seemingly, more due to the so-called friends of Cuba than to the ei lemies of this island. Concer ling the movements of the insurgents ve -y little is apparently known here, but a liable man who has Just arrived here from the Interior says that Gen. Max imo uorr ez has never been able to pass the Moron Jucaro trocha, and that this is the reason hy many of the insurgents' leaders who were to take part in the Presidential elect ion were unable to do so.

It is also stated tl ere is no truth in the report that Domlngci Mendes Capote was recently elected President of the Cuban Republic, and it is asserted that Cisneros, the Marquis of Santa L.I icia, continues to act as President. Howev there are rumors current here that the insurgents are contemplating an lmportai demonstration previous to the meeting of Congress in order to strengthen the nan Is of their friends in the United States, i -ho hope for some action in behalf of Cuba upon the part of the United States Governn ent SPAIN. SEXDS A KEW ADMIRAL. Lais Piastor Laadrro Succeeds Xa- yarro la labaa Waters. HAVANA.

Nov. 15. The Spanish steamer Alicante! returned to Spain to-day with 800 sick or invalided soldiers. The Sdanish steamer Alfonso XII. arrived here to-day, having on board Sanitary Sub-Inspectal- General Mass, Brig.

Gen. Diego Figuerol. 25 officers, 5 Chaplains, and 700 soiaiers.i Admiral Luis Pastor Landero also ar rived bjl the Alfonso XIL He Immediately reiieveal Admiral xavarro. the Spanish na val comlnander in these waters. The latter will return to Spain on Saturday next WEYLHR AMD THE MAPS OV CUBA.

Madrid Joarnal Says the Mattt Mast Be Elacidated. MADRID. Nov. 15. The semi-official Cor- respondncia, referring to a Havana dis patch published in a New York newspaper yesterday, asserting that Gen.

Weyler car rled off maps and other documents concern ing Cubh. says: The teravity of the statements does not permit comment. The matter must com. pletely elucidated, for. if confirmed, the Government will be obliged to assume an in exorable attitude." GEN.

LEE CALLS OX LA 5 CO. American Coasal Makes Official Tls ltl to the Sew Aathorltles. HAVANA, Nov. 15. Consul General Flts-hugh ilee paid official visits to-day to Marshal Blanco, the Governor General; Gen Pando Iwho has been assigned by Marshal Blanco jo conduct the military operations In the fieldl) and Senor Jose.

Congosto, the new He wis courteously received bv; an and. according the official account subsequently express.d himself as well satisfied with the results pi tne interviews. Kltajalmmoais Laager an Elk. i KANSAS CITY. Nov.

15. In a letter which le makes public to-day Robert Flta-slmmonia. the pugilist, resigns his member ship In Ihe Marlon (Ind.) Lodge of the Elks. lit says in nis tarter: Feeling that my admission ta memhAi ship hah placed your lodge In a position to be criticised, no matter how uniuatlv I r. fer thii resignation In th hope that your rlendls relation with the order may Wholly restored." The Marion order had been suspended for receiving toe vnaunpioa into Its fold.

Stale Canals to Close Doe. 1. ALBANY, Nov. 13. Superintendent ot Public I Works George W.

Aldridga an- nounoet to-day that th official closing of owe caoais would taa place unless saver weather doses to em patore. CHATTANOOGA CYCLE MEET OFF Step Besalta frees the Georsrla Central Railroad's Detention ot Atlanta Wheelntens Ba garage. CHATTANOOGA, Nov. 15 The bicycle meet that was to have occurred In this city to-night, participated in by the riders of th A. Bald, Klser, Cooper, and others in the Booth, with Spooner and McLlsh, was declared off because of the action of the Georgia.

Central Railroad today In attaching the wheels of the riders In for an alleged debt claimed to be due them from a man who has been traveling with the racers advertising cer tain maits ox wneeu- i The attachment was levied Just as th train for Chattanooga was pulling out The rldert. then ordered their car to be ritahnri as they, could not come without their wneeis. ine local coliseum Company has lost a great deal of money In advertising, and has authorised Its attorneys to hrin suit for 110,000 against the Central Railroad. PRESIDENT LOW TO STAY. Reaaested to Withdraw His Resia-aa- tlon as President of Colombia and Ho Does So.

A regular monthly meeting of the. Trust ees of Columbia University was held yester day afternoon In the new Library Building on Mornlngslde Heights. The Chairman of the board, William C. Schermerhorn, pre sided, and there were present Bishop Pot ter, President Low, Secretary John B. Pine, Stephen P.

Nash. Charles A. SUliman, F. Augustus Schermerhorn, Gerard Beekmah, Edward Mitchell, W. Bayard Cutting, George I Rives, Lenox Smith, John Crosby Brown, the Rev.

Dr. Marvin R. Vincent, Dr. George G. Wheel oca.

Herman H. Cam-man n. the Rev. Dr. Edward B.

Will iam Barclay Parsons, Frederic Bronson, and John McLean Nash. The board transacted considerable' business, and was In session over two houra. The special committee, of which the Rev. Dr. Morgan Dlx is Chairman, to which the resignation of President Low.

made on Oct 4, was referred, waa called upon for a re port. In the absence of Dr. Dlx, Stephen P. Nash reported that the committee had decided to request President Low to withdraw his resignation. The report was accepted, and President Low complied with the request, making no remarks on the subject President Low reported the death of Prof.

cnaries k. Colby, professor of Organic Chemistry. A number of gifts were reported, the most important ot which was a valuable collection of books from the Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts of France. Four large marble statues were presented. They represent Sophocles, Demosthenes.

Euripides, and Augustus Caesar. Prof. Marston Bogert was selected to fill the position made vacant by the death of Prof. Colby. HOT SPBJNGS HOTEL THAU'S FEB The Eastman Goes Under the Control as the Arllasrtosu HOT SPRINGS.

Nov. 15. At a meeting of the Directors ot the Eastman Hotel Company to-day, recent negotiations for the transfer of this property to. the same parties which control the Arlington Hotel were ratified. The deal involves $750,000.

A. B. Gaines of New York was electod President S. W. Fordyce of St Louis Vice President, and layman T.

Hay manager of both hotels, it was decided to open the Eaatman about Jan. 15 and to keep th Arlington Hotel open the year round. INDEPENDENT ME. BECK WITH. Robert T.

Lincoln's Soa-ia-Law Wants No Assistance. MOUNT PLEASANT, Iowa, Nov. 15. We are married and aro going to settle down quietly Just like any other vounar married couple, and I am going to work and support my wife by my own efforts," said Warren W. Beckwlth, speaking for the first time in regard to his marriage and future plans to-day.

The vOUna? ooudIa reached home at midnight last night Robert. T. Lincoln need nave no fear that he will be embarrassed by an application for a soft thing in the office of the Pullman Palace Car Company by his unwelcome son-in-law. Mr. tfeckwith says his father-in-law will receive no such application, and if he should condescend to offer him a sinecure, he would find his condescension politely but firmly declined.

BADDATZ'S SUBMARINE BOAT. A Sale Reported aad a Saeeeasfal Test Made. OSHKOSH, Nov. 15. Richard Rad-dats, the inventor of the submarine boat, declared to-day that the sale of his vessel had been consummated.

The purchasing syndicate consists mostly of Eastern men, but there are at least two Milwaukee men in it. Mr. Raddatx refuses positively to give any names or the price. This afternoon the boat made a trip, more for the purpose of testing its air-supply facilities than anything else. The voyage was a success.

Mr. Raddatx was- accompanied by William H. Englebrlght proprietor of the'Tremont Hotel. The boat remained below the surface a little over three hours, and Mr. Englebrlght declares that the atmosphere within the steel double ccne was pure and wholesome all the time.

A descent was made to a depth of eleven feet A BAD SPOT OH THE EBIE. Attempts nt Train Wrecking Wear the Sees ot the Marder. MIDDLETOWN. N. Nov.

15. Two attempts were made last night to wreck Erie trains near Sloatsburg. A west-bound passenger express had a narrow fescape from being derailed by running Into a pile of fishplates on the tracks. The wheels staid on the rails, and the obstruction was cleared. Soon afterward an east-bound freight train ran Into a pile of heavy ties placed across the track near the spot where the fishplates had been found.

The second train escaped with a broken pilot There is a steep bank beside -the tracks where the attempts were made. Had the unknown miscreants been successful, it is probable that many lives would have been lost for, if the passenger express had left the rails nothing could have saved it from plunging down the bank. The engineer ot the train saw the fishplates Just In time and reversed his lever. The engine and two cars passed over the obstruction before the train was stopped. The air couplings were broken apart, but the damage was repaired In half an hour.

It was near this point that Mrs. Kinney was found murdered ten days ago. Academy of Design Plans. The jury selected by the National Academy of Design to cjhoose an architect for the proposed new home of the Academy oa Mornlngslde Heights submitted their choice last evening to the Council of the Academy, and It was ratified. Carre re at Hastings were selected ss the architects.

The site of the new academy la on the east side ot Amsterdam Avenue, between One Hundred and Ninth and One Hundred and Tenth Streets. BaffaJo Gas Syndicate. BUFFALO, Nov. 15. Th representatives of the syndicate which recently purchased the gaslight companies of Buffalo, effected an organisation to-day.

Emerson McMOIln of New York waa chosen President of th new company, and Directors were elected as follows: Pascal P. Pratt Branson C. Rumsey, and E. H. Hutchinson of Buffalo; Emerson MoMillln, Henry Sellgman, Stephen K.

this ytoyarcUvs, shrdl cmf wyp pouayouo i ii M. i. i Secretary Alger at Again. WASHINGTON; Nov. Alger was sufficiently' recovered from his attack of tonsolitls to be able to spend the morning at the War Department RICHARD CROKER RETURNS He Comes Back Rested and Re-i -X freshed After a Nine Days'.

I Stay in I Virginia, TALKS OF PUTT AND LOW Again Denies the Story that He Went jLway to Unka Slat "and rSaysi- We Can Do Tout Hera." Richard Croker returned yesterday from hla journey into the South In search of rest and recreation. He was accompanied by Mrs. Croker, and on the same train were District Attorney-elect Gardiner and Thomas F. The party left Hot Springs, Va, Sunday night and arrived at the Jersey City Station of the Pennsylvania Railroad a few minutes before 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Up to ths time Mr.

Croker started South, nine days ago, he was making his headquarter at the Hurray Hill Hotel, where he bad a room. He did not return there yesterday, however, but went to his home, at 5 East Seventy-fourth Street, only stop-Ping at the hotel for hla mall. When seen at his home last night he said that he had had a pleasant trip, and felt a great deal better for the rest It had given him. 1 MWe took It easy down there," he said. Hot Springs Is a little place, with a pleasant hotel, some cottages, and a store or two.

There was nothing exciting- there, and we spent the time eating and sleeping, with walks and drives about the country tor variety." When the frequently made statement that he and hla political friends had gone off to arrange a slate for. the new city administration waa mentioned. Mr. Croker repeated what he said to a representative of Ths Nxw Yoax Tikis Just before he went away: We don't have to go away from New York to make a slate. We can do that here." Mr.

Croker said he hadn't been talking politics while away, and didn't care do so now. He had read the statement from Mr. Piatt, printed in the morning papers, but he did not wish to discuss it I don't care anything about that" he said. That's their affair; we have enough troubles ot our own." Pressed, however, for an expression on Mr. Piatt's utterance, Mr.

Croker said: "From a Republican standpoint I think Mr. Piatt Is correct I believe that Gen. Tracy got more Republican votes than Beth Low. The tatter's vote was swelled to some extent bv the holier-than-thou ele. ment ot the Democratic Party.

The Demon crats who considered themselves better tha4 uicir uri7 vuieu lor Ajanr Because tney re Sirded him aa the embodiment of their eas and notions of personal oolltlcs. The rank and file of Democracy, who principle aoove personal wnims and ambitions, and the people who have learned by experience to rely on oraraniaatlon for the accomplishment of their aims and are identified with the Democratic Partv through principle, solidly supported Judge van wyca-ana gave mm tne magnificent plurality which has placed Greater New York in Democratic control and Inspired wiui cumuButsm ine democracy oi tne station." Tne return of Mr. Croker to town has re vived tne taut of the possibility of John Sheehan being displaced aa leader of lammany Hall. John F. Carroll is to suc ceed bneenan, according to one story, and according to another it Is Mr.

Croker" plan to control the organization more directly than heretofore, dealing himself with the district leaders. Roth stories totally lack verification, and all reports of friction between Mr. Croker and Mr. Sheehan are vigorously denied by the minor Tammany leaders, it was said at the office or Mr. Sheehan.

253 Broadway, yesterday, that he had not returned from Pittsburg, but he was exoected to do so to-day. As Mayor-elect Van WyciLdld not go to join Mr. croker in Virginia, the inference drawn in Tammany circles is that the two will ret together soon and start the work of apportioning the patronage to be given out alter the 1st or January. Acting on this supposition, the applicants for. place are bestirring themselves.

Thomas Brady Is circulating a petition in support of his application for the post of Superin tendent or tne department or Buildings. Theodore Sutro Is conducting what many stralg-ht-out Tammany men pronounce a hopeless fight for reappointment as Tax Commissioner. Thomas E. Crimmlns went down to Hot Springs while Mr. Croker was there, and is supposed to be a possible Com missioner or street Cleaning, to succeed Col.

Waring. Gossip also assigns good places to w. j. ul. K.enny, Alfred M.

Pownes, and Willis Holly. BIG BOSTON- OAS DEAL. The MeMtllam-Elklas-'nraltaey Syndicate leearea Control. BOSTON, Nov. 15.

It was announced here to-day that the McMillan-Elk ina-Whit ney syndicate had secured control of the Boston gas field. Mr. Whitney, when Interviewed, said the deal was in progress. Lawson, Weldenfeld sc Co. wired their customers this morning as follows: Henry M.

Whitney says he has captured all the. Boston gas companies. That you may not be confused, we will say that the Whltney-Elklna syndicate has bought all the Boston Ths trade was completed eatly last week. The Whitney people have not yet paid for them, but will probably do so this week. This is the startling announcement we re ferred to In our letter ot last week.

There Is nothing In this project that can possibly affect the safety of the Boston gas securities." DOUBLE TRAGEDY IN A Hashand aad Wife Posse from Pistol Womnds. Dying BOSTON. Nov. 15. Frank McLaughlin and his wife, Mary, were found in an unconscious condition at their home, 44 Third Street South Boston, at 630 o'clock this morning.

Both had been shot and both, It Is thought, will die. The man was revived by physicians, and In a short time was able to talk. Ha Informed the police that his wife had shot him while be was asleep and that she afterward attempted to kill herself. Upon Investigation, however, the police found that this story waa probably untrue, as the position of th woman's wounds Indicated that they could not have been -self-inflicted, and the officers believe that McLaughlin, who Is a consumptive, becoming despondent on account of incurable illness, shot his wife and then himself. McLaughlin had been ordered to go to the hospital to-day by his physician.

The Interior of the apartments occupied by the couple Indicated that they were In abject destitution. There was only a single piece of bread In the place. McLaiighUn Is about thirty years of age and his wife Is twenty-six. They have been married only about ai year. A child that was born to them two months ago lived only two weeks.

A Denver Rotel to he gold. DENVER, Nov. 15. Th Windsor Hotel, built In 1881 by an English company, is to be sold at auction Dec 18 to satisfy an Indebtedness of held by James William Barclay and John Irving Courtney of London. The ruin of this hostelry has been the upward growth ot ths city end the construction of two pew hotels.

Bagle" Knitting Mills on Fall. Time. LITTLE FALLS. N. TV Nov.

IlTh Eagls Knitting Mills. owned by Sheard. which bad been running on three-quarter time for eight months, began operations oa full time to-day- QUEER FALL FROM WINDOW. A Friend of Lyooa, the krdered Printer, Setiensly Hart 1st '''f tlysterloas Maaser. William i Carpenter fell or jumped from the 'fourth-story, window of his home at 27 Mornlngslde.

Avenue late last night, and the chances are that he will die. He says himself that he does not know how he got out of the window. A peculiar thing about the case Is that Carpenter, who Is a printer. worked at the sajne case at th LoJrwool Press as Thomas- Lfoos, who was found- muraerea in-a- Brooklyn- tot eany- nunaay morning. Since the death ot his friend Car-.

penter has bad charge or nis ansirs. carpenter lived ta the house wita- nis two male cousins. When the cousins went to bed at 110 -o'clock last night Carpenter was sitting In a chair in the front room smoking a cigar, with his feet on the keyboard of a piano. He said that he would be in bed In a few minutes. Fifteen minutes later one of the cousins, believing that he heard a noise, got up, and, finding Carpenter asleep, woke him.

Go away from me. said. I'll go to bed in a few minutes." Just at midnight the cousin heard -ths sound of a window being raised. He went a second time into the front Carpenter was not. there.

The front window was open. The cousin looked out. Down In the street he saw the form of a man and heard a groan. Then the two cousins went down to the street and found He waa bleeding from injuries of the head and body. An ambulance took him to the Manhattan HosdIUL His skull SDneared to bo fract ured, his thigh was broken, and, he was evW aentiy wternauy nuru- When he resrained he said that the last thing he remembered, was sit ting in- in cnair i must nave goo to sieep alter mat, no saio.

The two cousins said there was no so far as they knew, why Carpenter should have jumped from the window, except that he had worried over the death of his friend Lyons, and that might have affected his brain. The police, after an examination. saia tne man couia not easily hav fallen from the window. LIVELY FIREJN UNION SQUARE. Fire-occurred late- yesterday afternoon in the buCdlng 31 Union Square West, at Six teenth Street, and for a short, thna caused considerable excitement In the neighborhood.

The building Is of brick, four stories high. The ground floor Is occupied by Brentano's. the third by George Prince, pho tographer, and the fourth bv the Rialev lather Company. The third floor la va cant It was about 530 o'clock when Frank Smith, a driver for Brentano's and John M. Williams of SOS Broadway, Brooklyn, stand ing on the sidewalk outside the store, heard tne noise ot ores sing glass, ana saw names shooting from the front windows of Prince's establishment Knowinr (hit sev eral boys and girls were employed in the (earner company omce, cney ran upstairs to tell theui their dancer.

As hT reached the landing of the third floor, the Inner glass door of Prince's recentlon tar- tor was shattered with a loud explosion and a sheet of -namo barred their further progress. The leather eotnoanVa MnninrM heard their cries, and finding the hall tilled wim amoae naa cum-Dea from the rear windows Of the office to an extension mnt August Wlchmann and Alexander jMiiw ua wiOTimin oi tne ten-story Decker Building next door, let down a rope with a noose from, a- window eight feet above the roof and hauled the six girls to saiety. xwo ooys reacnea tne eidewela: by tne nre escanes. The others return mi tn the office when told from the street that tne nre was almost our. Within fifteen minutes after: the alarm was given the nre was under control.

The insurance patrol gave effective service with their oilskins and hardly any damage was aone to tne stocx ot notiaay goods on Brentano's counters. The store will be open today as usual. The fire was confined to the photographer's reception room, where it started. Mr. Prince and his assistants left the place about 6 o'clock.

None of them could aay hew the blase originated. All say there were no chemicals in the The damage to the parlor which Is a total wreck, is estimated at $1,000, and to the building at uw. election case in Wyoming. CHEYENNE, Wyoming, Nov. 15.

The Supreme Court to-day rendered a decision In tne Carbon County election case sustaining the contention of the piaintins, wno were the candidates for fstiintw Tmmiim, A .1 1 sloner on the DemocratIctlcketat the last election. The court decided that foreign-born citl-sens must be required to read the Constitution In the English language In order to vote. One hundred and fifteen Finns who voted the Republican ticket could not read the Constitution In English. Their- votes were accepted as they could read ths. Con stitution in tneir own language.

The decision will put the Democratlo candidates in office. ITGHT AT THE STAGE DOOR. CHICAGO. Nov. 15.

Overzealous atten tions to Miss Theresa Vaughn and Miss Dorothy Drew, members of The Whirl of the Town company, by a stylishly dressed young man, who represented himself to be the son of Commodore Miller of New "York, caused a fight Saturday night at the stag door of the Columbia Theatre between the women's admirer and his companion and the stage hands. the fight grew warm the man calling himself wss the signal for a renewed onslaught by the muscular stage hands, and the man with a revolver was landed in an Ignominious manner in the dark alley, where he was left to find his way out as best he could. THE WEATHEB. heal Hntmm mtam Hmmd at tkt tmm a. par to Os rigU UU titU.

MMMa Ths pressure continues high la the East Gulf States and In the Atlantic States and New England. A large area of high pressure covers the Rocky Mountain districts and is extending southeastward Into the Mlsslislppl Valley. The nreasure ni. lively low over the lake regions and the j.iipm u. 4ieW i--ni.

land, the Middle Atlantic States, the lake regions, the-Ohio aad Mississippi Valleys. The barometer has fallen In the lower lake Jl0tt" PWly throughout the Rocky Mountain slope, and generally la Che Mississippi Valley and the Gulf State The temperature -is higher east of the Mississippi River; It has fallen In the Rocky Mountain districts to 'M or degrees on the Southern Rocky Mountain loP-, Threatening weather with showers is Indicated for Now Hn gland, the Mtdd'e Atlantic States, the lower lake region The Ohio, and Lower Mississippi Valleys. Ths temperature will fail decidedly the Ohio end the Lower Mississippi Valleys and the West Gulf BtatesL The temperature will fall about freestng in the northern and central portions of the West Gulf States The record of temperature for the twenty-four hours ended at midnight taken from Ths New Yoan Tins. therrnonJeter and from the thermometer ot the Weather Bureau, ta aa follows Bureau! Tinsel a am lw. 1T.

A. wl oeeVS HJ AA ft s4 sIC oo35 8i AA 12 4d A 4 Pe Meee. ,.51 AJ LQ IV Me 4w I- eee e44 ftO fa P. Th Tinxi's thermometer Is feet above th street level; that of the Weather Bureau Is 5 feet above the street level. Average temperatures yesterday were as follows; Printing House Weather Bureau Corresponding date 1SU6.

43 Corresponding date for last 20 43 The maximum temperature yesterday was degrees, at P. th minimum waa dtshsrwsskss mt) A srswA a. 1 .1 1 at A. M- and at I P. HOUSE; SH0I7 ME UjVlZ Th3 -Social Sids cf It Mz Prominent 'as In Scrr.3 Fcrmsr Years.

WELL-KNOWN FACES KISSED Bad Weather-Canned TbJg a Con- gldarablg Extent Oowng ef Some of the Women In the Boxen. annual. Horse Show was opened yesterday In Madison Square Garden, and It suffered severely from thebaJ weather. The dreary drlssle and the influence Of fashion's decree formulated three seasons ago. that the first day cf the show.

shall -not bo marked by a distinctively' fashionable arteijdance. combined to make the society side ot the affair In the, afternoon aad evening its less important one. -There were many forms and faces well known In the gay world In th boxes and seats both-at afternoon and evening. but there was' no outpouring of the society host, and ths promenade was at no time nncomfortably crowded even by the general public who have la past years resorted to coe snow to see the leaders of New York society on drees parade. It Is, of course, Impossible to predict the social success of this year's show from the first day, but, although tb evening broughc a better attendance, there were unmlstaaa-bie signs that th show has lost Its once fashionable Importance and Interest Ths leading families of New York society-were for; the most part unrepresented, and, although Mrs.

Harry. Payne Whitney. Mrs. W. L.

Sloans and 'Miss Sloans represented the VanderbtitB. the crowd looked In vain, for the Belmonts, I set 1ns, Goelets. Hive-meyers. Mi Uses, Burdens, and other prominent people. -They saw many handsome women, especially at evening, on the promenade, but were not as a rule, known to be in New York society, Anna Held, the actress, was a conspicuous figure on the promenade-both at afternoon and evening.

Defeataate Well Step reseated. Th debutantes of the' coming season were weU represented, and attracted much attention. Miss Tottle Miss Chrle-tta? middle. Mis Grlnaell. Miss Henderson, and Mias Isabel Cameron were ail surrounded by a throng of youthful admirers.

ra. Edward Moore Robinson of Philadelphia, formerly Miss I vers of Ssn Francisco; Mrm- Frederick H. Benedict and Mrs Btuyvesaot Fish were the handsomest and most strikingly gowned of the married women present in the the unmarried women Miss Eleanor Sedley of States Island. Miss Bessie Stokes, and Miss Viva Boarman of New Orleans were the undoubted belle. Mm Mrs.

Charles Child. L-Mrj. Crocker Mrs. Belmont Tlf-fsny. Mrs.

Harrison B. Moore. and Mrs. George Gould were also ths recipients of much attention. 01 Mr.

and Mrs. Richard Croker arrived about P. and as they walked around the promenade were the objects of much comment The dressing was not as striking as had been. expected, but this was largely due, to the bad weather. The leading cubs were represented, and a notieeable feature of the boxes was the large out-of-town contingents, principally from Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington.

weather may Improve the social condition to-day and some ot Ihe old-time atmosphere may. return by the c'--'r days of the affair. Boxes Fairly Well Filled. Considering the bad day and the pouring rain, the boxes, were well fined. Mrs.

Eben Wright formerly Miss Llta PsO. was tn Box No. S. with a large party. She wore a becoming black, cloth gown, with blouse waist which was braided la black, and had a plaid front Her bonnet was small, fitted closely to her head, and was trimmed with black Jet and an algrette.

William C. Whitney, who has Jusf returned from Europe, was In Box 49 and looked remarkably welt -Her gown was a walking costume ot plain black cloth with a brown English hat with long plume of brown and ecru feathers. Mrs. Joseph E. Wldener was in a dark red cloth skirt and Jacket braided In black, and a large gray felt hat.

trimmed with gray plumes. Mrs. Henry Sloane was In Mr. Hamilton W. Carey's box.

She wore a large purple velvet hat. wth feathers and a fun crown. Her frown of dark green corduroy waa extreme-y becoming. Mrs. Albert C.

Stevens wore a deep purple cloth gown, with Jacket to correspond, and a large picture hat of the same color. Miss Marie Winthrop. and Miss Evelyn Burden, were with her. They were both in walking costumes ot dark cloth, with large hats to match. Masy Tsssg People.

Mrs. Louis Fitzgerald had her box full of young people, among whom were her two unmarried daughters. Miss Adelaide and Miss Nora, and her married daughter, Mrs. Ernest Adee. Ths young ladies were dressed almost exactly alike, with walking suits of black ladles cloth, with white satin fronts, and large velvet ha ta with cock's feathers.

Mrs. Robert Steven, who was Miss MelUe Whitney, had Miss Euretta Kernochan with her. and the box was crowded all the afternoon. Mrs. Stevens wore a pink sillc blouse, which was made most becomingly.

hat was black with black feathers and aigrette. ine aeoutante roaa a -rood showing and were out In full force. Here was one box full of pretty girl ia particular, who attracted much attention. Among them were Miss Julia Dent Grant Miss Katherino Hoppln and hereister. Mis Esther Hoppla.

who, being In mourning, wore black gowns, and Mi Elisabeth Hare. .7 In Mrs." H. F. Whitney's Box. Mrs.

Harry Payn Whitney looked) remarkably wen In a gown of dark: green cloth. with a bodice of white chiffon, puffed and trimmed with lace inserting and white satin ribbon, a broad stock of white satin with tufts and ruche at back of the neck. Her hat was very large and worn a little to one side. It was fairlv loaded with black and white plum-. In the box with her was Mrs.

John Sill Hoffman, formerly 8ybll Herman, who had on a becoming gowa of light gray cloth. The Jacket was trimmed with sable fur She wore a small black velvet toque wit it black and white plumes, and an aigrette of black Jet vr Timia exquisite gown of dark green velvet which Ik, full HlrtllaA 4 Jet belt around the waist -Mrs. Edmund L. Is always nvm iwr ner iwu lasie la irill. Waa in th box with her mother.

Mrs. Alexander Van Rensselaer. She wore a gown of heliotrope velvet plain full skirt and waist with puffs let la here and there of silk of the same shade, only a. trine darker. Mrs.

Van Rensselaer had es a black sad white tripod llk dress, with-the- bodice luoy trimmed In heavy Jet Mrs. Gerry. and Her aad Mrs. Etbrtdge Gerry and II! Angelica Gerry occupied their own box aU the evening. Mrs.

Gerry was In a beautiful gown of black and white silk, with the bodice trimmed with steel embroidery a black chiffon. Her bonnet was of gray v-. -vet and steel embroidered bareee an n. small tuft of gray feathers. M.ss Grrry dressed la black cloth, with dark tiue front with slashes of 4 braid.

Kae wve with this ooatuma a small round hat. trimmed with two blue plumea llwi k. I Oerry. who was also of the party, dressed la a gown of very dark red a beautiful aaade. The bodice was I waa relieved by a fu.l real laee.

Her picture hat of dark rri i-vet with long red feathers. ti mn.l coming. The Oerry box was crowud the evening. Mrs. Frederick K.

was ii gray velvet Mrs. A. J. rvatt from -Oelvhls was ia a box wil h-r two ters, J.fls an i it --satt Mrs. waa g.nl 1 i i grtea velvet wnh bocnt a t.au-:.

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