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"AH the News That's Fit to Print" THE WEATHER. Fair, much colder to-day; fair to morrow brisk northwest winds. yoi. Lvru.j;a 18,218. new vtoek, Wednesday, December 1907 eighteen pages.

1 ONE CENT Greater Xew Terk. T1 tXaii, JtiMT CUr.HlKmik, ITWO A 1 1 BOMllCE RAUS WALL ST. FERRYBOAT pail River Liner Hits the Baltic When Going Up the East River In a Fog. PASSENGERS IN A PANIC fVomen and Children Trampled On on 'i Ferryboat Woman and Man Jump Into tht River, but Art Saved. The steamboat Providence of the Fall fliver Line, going up the East River la a dense tog Just after 5 o'clock teat night, ruhd bow on Into tb aid of the fer-Tyboat Baltic of th Wall Street Ferry tins, causing a panto aboard the ferry oat and leaving a large bole In her port aide.

Part of the ferryboat's cabin was alio carried away. The ferryboat's pas- gangers, numbering about 000, fled to the tern cabins, seised life preservers, and fought their war back to the decks. In the general scramble for life pre servers women and children were knocked down and trampled on by excited men. Many of tha women fainted. One Jumped overboard, but was rescued by a negro, i ho dived Into the river after her.

While this couple struggled In the water a man fell overboard, but he, too, was rescued. tTnere were reports that two of the ferry-be at' passengers were drowned, but these Reports could not be verified last night. With 430 passengers on board the Providence left her pier at the foot Of War ken Street. North River, at o'clock. As the rounded the Battery and started up (he East River a heavy fog was settling over the Lower Bay.

The tog overtook the steamboat a minute later, and Capt. George Chase, who was la the pilot bouse, saya be sounded bis fog signals at frequent The ferryboat Baltic, with Capt. John W. Baulair at the wheel, left her slip at the foot of Wall Street soon after 8 O'clock on her way to the foot of Montague Street In Brooklyn. In leaving the Up he blew a long, whistle, and sounded a fog signal, and the ferryboat was.

Vout two lengths from the Mew Tork Vvore hen the Captain saw the white lights of the steamboat approaching on his starboard bow. lie stopped and reversed his engines, and the Captain of the Providence did the same thing. The boats came with a crash. and amid the screeching of the whistles of the boats could be heard tha cries of the wo-men end children on the ferryboat. Deck Heads Gave Warming.

The three deck hands on the ferryboat gave the alarm half a minute before the oraah came, and they hurried the passengers from the forward end of the wo -BWdj-sUln in time to save a hundred 05 mora from being Crushed 4o death. It was then that the panlo occurred. Most of the passengers on the ferryboat believed the boat was sinking, and the noise made by the bow or the. steamboat crushing Its way Jnto the ferryboat's cabin added to their alarm. A score of men climbed the 'stationary ladders to the roofs of cabins hurricane decs, and clung on to the Steel stays of the smokestack.

Others made tholr way to the pilot house and Sited the Captain to lower lifeboats. Borne ran to the engine room. Tags te tha Iteseae. Prom th neighboring slips and from all directions came tugs, big and little, ferryboats, and launches. It was with inach difficulty that they got close to the Baltic and.

Providence, for the fog bad thickened until harbor lights were practically useless. A tug which came alongside the'tenf-boat made fast to the Baltic and took off a hundred or more passengers, who were North R'w. in the SLm.0,21,thl.n iwo h-ndred Women tk-if Ji Wre? n-a managed to climb wSri Vitiir.d,eckB of th PrevldenTe, ta Atlttntl Aven ferry yaidi fter the ferry-1MT wtir the decks 'rto1 "Al pid er. Bhe called him seemed to know coward and then i.p1.into.lh Hver. A negro who atood hear t' aiooa Uler ii.n" na nute if the tiS- rd for help.

A dosen tKMenFer" went to be negro vre dragged up Une about HeTghU. ca J2i 5. on Brooklyn cab to nk? wom nd hired boat w.m nome hen the ferry rS5 fTrrr "'Zl to th Atlantic Avi. Wa womn refused 4o the ej'f." or.r--v She aaid that ns be t5d.d,llv,B hf ad for the "what did not know jto th. hv?" Whatt -UI life tn rJ on ot them, he man ShVvwntak P2t untu a llnasas STa he was hauled ofaZV The Wa hauled on deck.

Faulate ckxjk wnen Cant. the ferryboat rerortet Wrhun had th "ferVy- MU lP at at 1,4 w-i Cart. able to TJ.n with several tu- eaaia 11 wun several tutr- th Rltlc and half a dosn wr- Baltt Unded th tslir WM towed back to her fcatorltwr 0f wf Street The dwkST JLSl the Pro vl-abSS? tftt they knew nothing Jvrvhni. nul they saw th? rWr Pr7vidcrwalheW bout 9 while i tatei.Mhl!.0.t Pflenc made a eei to Jh affeet that he did not Ell be hit her. Jli under re! and wae sounding her fo shMj" xTrhrT.Jth 'fryboat loomed up said ha wa thl to bUma ta tha matter, as 4h.

ferryboat would So" ea? ot th 'rrTboirs tthitfJ he Sound a -y, ui sw auaaj talU twenty feet from her guard I Highland Av. SnthlLJ who had a psengr Whi- ctt the steamboat fie wM to bar ple.r. saying I fcrtaTTi4 ot risk jrolng up tha Sound "ld-sLzdCsV: -iftt Wst filxtr ak-atreet, ais isfa.ta ahlp, HEAVY GALE OFF THE HOOK. Incoming Vessels Battle with tha Worst Southeaster In Yaara. All Incoming steamers yesterday report ed heavy weather outside Bandy Hook.

Coasting skippers and pUou said this had been th worst southeast gala they bad experienced for the last twenty years. Tugs were sighted yesterday from Bandy Hook towing dismasted sailing vessels Into safety. One of th fruit steamers from th West Indies rolled so heavily that "her hatches were under water and her cargo of bananas nearly capsised. Th Captain said that another trip Ilka that would make him bowlegged ana cause htm to cos tract St. Vitus' dance.

Th British steamer Puritan, from Colombo, battled with, the storm all dsy on Monday, when th water cam over th aid In such volumes that th on the upper bridge, had his sea-boo ta filled by each sea, aad Benbow, tha ship's cat. was washed out of th galley. In company with th eook and a oopper of scalding bet pea soup. What th cook said nearly stopped the action of the sea for a few seconds. The storm signals wsre flying at Bandy Hook all day.

warning small craft not 'to put to sea. The Government Weather Bureau reported th storm raging, as far as Cap Race. The powerful White Star liner Oceanic, which seldom fails to make this port on Wednesday, will pot be in until to-morrow morning, while the Ryndam of th Holland-America Line, from Amsterdam, due last Sunday, will not arrive until this morning. The force of th gal was felt so severely at th Quarantine Station that a two-masted schooner dragged her anchors and nearly got into collision with the steamer Erika, just arrived from, Lisbon. la view of the prospects of a continuance easterly gales.

Captains of steamers are refusing to ship men who are afflicted with, whiskers, as It makes such a' difference In going against th wind. YQUNQ NEW YORKER IN PERIL Arrestsd In Brazil with Filibusters, Ha'a Under Sentence of Death. It wss definitely learned yesterday that at leaat on more of the filibustering party arrested last week at Mlnas Oeraes, Brazil, by th Government officials and sentenced to b. shot Is a New Yorker. He Is Samuel Parker, 22 years old.

ot 150 East Thirty-ninth Street He left home Nov. 6, saying that he was. going to Brazil on a mining expedition. He talked very little of the project to his family, and did not mention any of the other member, of tha tmrt. Toung Parker was said to be steady and nara-working.

lie had a good place with William L. Perrin. an Insurance broker of 43 Cedar Street His 'older brother. George, said last night that although the ooy laixea little to his family of his Intended trip he did not believe that he knew that be was going on aa unlawful venture. "To boy.

was Intelligent and jHi Was not recklesa or ool-hardy, and cannot believe that he could be Induced to go Into a thing ot this kind knowingly," said Mr. Parker. Mrs. Parker, the boy's mother, has not yet been' told of his predicament and thinks that he is probably prospering la Brazil. LONGWORTH SIDETRACKED.

Cannon Gives Plac Ha Desired on Ways and Meana to Keifer. Special It Stw Yk Timtx. WASHINGTON, Dec 10. Gen. J.

Warren Keifer will represent Ohio on the Wsys and Means Committee of the House, succeeding Gen. Grosvenor. Representative Longworth. th Presi dent's will succeed Gen. Keifer on the Appropriation Committee.

Thus Speaker Cannon glides quietly out of aa embarrassing situation which developed from the ambition of the President's son- in-law to become a member of the Ways ana Means committee. An Intimation was made to the Ohio delegation that the Speaker was inclined to compliment th President by giving th plac to Mr. Lbngworth, but the suggestion stirred up a revolt among th Ohio men which has been giving Uncle Jo considerable wornment Finally It occurred to th Speaker that Gen. Keifer Is an ex-Speaker of the House. He then explained to th Ohio delegation and the President's son-in-law that in recognition of previous services Gen.

Keifer should have the prise. This left a place open for the President's aon-ln. I law on the Appropriation Committee. It i. noi as aeairaoie aa the Ways and Means appointment but It Is a substantial advancement for Mr.

Longworth. THE MINNESOTA FOG-BOUND. Big Battleship la Forced to Anchor Outsld of Virginia Capea. SUtiii 7s A'ns Yh Timet. NORFOLK, Dec 10.

The battleship Minnesota, one of th largest of fleet of sixteen which will start next Monday for San Francisco, lay off Cape Henry all of to-day. She la the last of the sixteen battleships to arrive near th rendezvous. There was a thick fog off th coast an day, aad the wireless station at Cape Henry received word late this afternoon that the Minnesota would not attempt to com In until to-morrow morning, when she will tak her position With tha other veesela. Th southwest storm of this morning kicked up a nasty sea, but th vessels were little affected. The weather Interfered, however, with the day's ezerciaaa, and coaling th Illinois, th Virginia, and th Rhode Island was difficult Th Kentucky arrived at th anchorage this afternoon and saluted th flagship of Admiral Evens, th Connecticut Th transport Sumner arrived also to-day, with stores and ammunition tor th fleet Capt Murdoch, commanding th battleship Rhode Island, was summoned to New Tork by th tllne of his wife, who is said to be la a very serious conation.

8h is suffering pneumonia. Th Officers aboard th Rhode Island are afraid It win accessary for Capt Mur. dock to seek relief and that a aew commander for tha vessel will hav to appointed at th eleventh hour. 4 DELAWARE BOOMS GRAY. Dtmocratlo Stata Commltte Indorses Him for tha Presidency.

DOVER. DeL. Dee. 10. The DcsnocraUo Stat Commltte to-day passed a resolution Indorsing -fudge George Gray for the Prealdency.

Bryan men will make an acttva ram paign to prevent a Gray delegatioa from being sent to th convention. After An, tk te-taa that mad in aJksaU Xamoast Advy BRIDGE COLLAPSES, ELEYEHHEHDROM Half-Completed Structure Over Susquehanna Carried Down I by Flood Water. 36 in raging; river Water Rosa Foot an Hour After 8teady Rain Mills Wero Forced to 8usptnd Operations. I Spttialf Tkt Ntv Ynh Timu. HARRISBURG, Dec.

10. A half completed brtdg which was being bunt by th Stat aoroes the north brand, of the Susquehanna River la the eastern part ot Columbia County collapsed at 5 o'clock this afternoon and fell into th raging waters, carrying with it thirty-six Of these twenty-flv reached shore la safety by scrambling across th debris. The remaining eleven were drowned. Four bodies were token from th swollen river, but seven have not yet been found. Th brldg was being constructed by Th Tork Bridge Company of Tork, Penn.

Tha contract, for It waa let av couple of years ago. Th substructure was entirely finished, and the flooring of the had been completed half way across tha nvir. Th accident waa due to high waters. Several Inches of snow fell over a considerable area of th watershed a week ago, nearly all of which was yet lying upon th srrounri whom In Sunday. Th temperature ros and th rains continued, with th result that the North Branch ros at th rata of a foot an hour this afternoon at Berwick, near where the bridge waa being built an almost unprecedented rise.

Th flood water undermined th piers and weakened them' until they oould no longer withstand the pressure. Th Columbia and Montour El ec trio Railway Company had a right ot way across the viaduct but had not yet laid any tracks. B. R. Sponsler of this city.

President of th Elctric Railway Company, received a meesage in this city to-night stating that the working-men noticed the brtdg weakening, and at once took steps to strengthen It; ten minutes more would hav been sufficient to save th structure, but th water rose so rapidly that th brldg want down, PHILADELPHIA, Dec. ia-Loss of life and great damage to property Is reported from central and eastern points la the Stat by floods caused by th heavy rains, of th last few days. Th Delaw Schuylkill Rivers are rising rapidly, and uiui tne coal regions have Overflowed their tunv. iwneaV. causing cav-lnav and dolhr great io rauroaa ana other property.

At Hudson, a mining town a short distance rem Wllkesbarre. th surface over an abandoned min of the Delaware and Pine Brook Colliery began to cave in and water ruahed into the workings la torrents. Operations In another seottoa of th mine were suspended, aad nearly 800 men and boys were hurried oat Of th mines. The settling of tha along the line of the Delaware Hudson ami Mb T--T. v.umu xuuiroaaa.

ana. 00 men wtn nut to ww trs. ing uie course of the stream In order to protect the mini'1 Dd -JPTnt th HoodJag of Imino by -king XWa overflowed atbranton, and much damage ha been TruJfltJn th waller from CarbondaJe to OKI Forge. Trains on the Erie and tauY. of wazhoutsT U1.

Ur -m. xviayuem tne river has broken Its banks and is cutting a newcnannal through th low landj. Bo great wm fhi danger or flooding that thToiSSwdod Mine ceased operations and th men were ordered out of the workings. In Scranton two new bridges were badlv damaged. The false work was waaheS away, nermlttin k.

A bridge f- :tUChanIaifIv.0nwaVand nJliiinff Cit Columbia County o'ver- a a TOa.llaTa AUITl Pejr tJOTTI HZrXi uiouaana auv wun or tn union Tanning Company are flooded, and th town nf K.ntn. la washed awiy" er OI Dln WILKESBARRE. Dec. ia-A continued of rlln throughout the Wr --v- "-v. Mia eu-Kiuenanna River to rise nearly a foot aa hour sine noon to-day.

Th altuaUoa to-night Is ban the river! .7 l. taiiic. Dei ween acre and cui oil xor ovwrfow of vu.iu VI Hi IB Clljr. fiillC mlllsl BkVVil At-ltsaa -i1aMa a aL sea as tew lag -UfJ tsJUUl" rn part of the town were forced to suspend operations. Southwest of tills city, on the low lands, many houses were flood- uioi in water aimost reaching the first floors of many of them.

FATHER HORRIGAN DEAD. Benedictine Priest Expiree at Home of Mother In Orange, N. J. cio la Tk4 A'ns Ytrb Tint. ORANGE.

N. Dee. 10. Th Rev. Father Michael Antoninus Horrtgaa, a member ot th Benedictine priesthood, died last alsht at tha hnm, via Mrs.

Catherine Horrigaa, 28 Central He had' been at th head of the Bene- aicune order in Kansas City, aad sustained a stroke of naralvai. thara a moath ago. v. He bad a premonition that another at tack would coma soon and thai not survive, so as eoon as he waa able to crave, a cam jast to spend his last days with his mother. Father Horrigaa was bora la Ireland hrtr yfars ago, aad cam to this country with his parents when waa in old.

He was educated la St. John'. p.m. chlal BchooL Orange, and then went to St. Benedicre College.

In Newark. He sVtsi sTaliista tA a BndlcUn Colleo of St. JoMplx, la OhkL nl trwW viva The body wUl lie lA in Tst Antoninus Church, la Newark, to-morrow nightand th mass of requiem will sung there on Thursday morning. Tha body will be Interred in a plotBspeclally set aside for priests of bis ordw. Taft Sal Is, from Plymouth.

PX.TMOUTH. Deo, 10. Th steamer President Grant with Secretary Taft and th members of his party oa board, left here at o'clock this morning for New York. -Adv. GOLDFIELD PROMOTER KILLED Editor Who Being Run Out of Town Shot Him.

GOLDFIELD. lOt FranclfL. Barton waa shot and killed to-day at Mlna by J. Boltmaa Buck, editor aad proprietor of Th Western Nevada Miner. Buck printed la his paper aa article asserting that Burton had been run oat of the town of Rawhid by a committee, and eounselllng the same treatment by the citizens of Mlna.

Burton took Buck to task and la th quarrel ensuing th form er was killed. FUNSTON FOR GOLDFIELD. Trouble Expected Thuraday When the Mines Rssume Work. SAN FRANCISCO, Deo. lO Gen.

Fua-ston said to-night that he would leave tomorrow with two or three staff offloers for Ooldflald to took orerthltuatloa. Be said was not going to take command of th troop there. Neither will he order additional troops to th mining region. Sptdal TU Nne Far Tlmts. GOLDFIELD, Dee.

10. Gov. John Sparks arrived to-day. After holding extended conferences with the mine owners sad with Cot Alfred Reynolds, he gave out the statement that ne expected trouble Thursday, when tha mines aad mills would reopened with strikebreakers. The mine owners assert that they are fully prepared to open th mines Thursday morning, whll th officials of the Miners' Union scoff at such assertions.

Th union officials refuse to divulge their plana. Gov. Sparks arrived here at noon from Carson City. He denies that an effort has been mad to Indue him to ask for th recall ot th troops, aad says they will remain here until, there is no further possibility of rouble. LEAN CHRISTMAS INWALL ST.

Nevertheless the Little Exchange's Collection Promises Well. Christmas among the brokerag houses tn the financial district this season la expected to be even a leaner year la the matter of bonuses to employes than last which fell far below th fat times of 1804 and 1905. For all that, however, tha eommlttea on the Consolidated Exchange which has in charge the matter of collecting the annual gratuity for employes has been receiving more liberal returns than wet-a generally expected. Sine th Exchange moved into Its new building, at th cor-r-er of Broad aad Beaver Streets, tha members hav prospered. Th committee tn charge of th Christ mas fund allowed the news- to get out yesterday, that th nrosoecta nolnt ta a larger collection than last year, when SS.OUO was distributed among th employes of the Exchange.

WESTON TO LASH HIS AGENT. Starts for New York After PattenT Who CHICAGO. HL. Dee. in llnH P.mnn Weston, the pedestrian, who recently oom- pieiea ta waia from Portland.

Ma, to this city, started east to-day with the avowed purpose of horsewhipping Dana R. Patten, his former advance agent' Tn lash his race." declared th old "I'll whip him tn Broadway, and rm taking along enough money to pay my fin." Weston will lecture in Buffalo Saturday night and will In New Tork next Tuesday. Weston's grievance against Patten is the action of the latter, tn trying to tie up all the money the aged pedestrian had earned In bis long walk across the country. Th Old man finished hla walk practically broke," and Patten's action aoaea much his embarrassment Weston received $400 here yesterday aa the proceeds Of a benefit srtven him at tha Garrick Theatre Sunday afternoon. $10,000 DAMAGES FOR A LEG.

i Another Jury Think a Dssth Worth only S800. Damages amounting to 10,000 were con sldered adequate by th Jury in th Supreme Court presided over by Justice 0Gorman yesterday in the case of Arthur Clements, a ten-year-old boy, against the New InterhanMirn RanM Tnlt Company. The boy waa run over by one vara vi La neienaant tiept. ZL, ld06. and lost his lear.

and alaimad that the accident was due to negligence on the par oi in motormaa. i A Jury in Justice Gtegerich's! part of th Supreme Court aald that ttttt waa a fair amount for John Murphy, a wealthy grocer ot una city, with a country home at Ttirogg. Neck, to pay John Bheehan. a bricklayer, for the aeath of th law teTs son, John, la years old, who was killed by a runaway hors owned by Murphy In July. 1905.

YnilTl fiKaTsaTshsas as4eVa-. Via at Throggs Neck at th tlmeof his death. owm or ssorpny stepped on his head, killing aim Instantly. FORTUNE FOR BOY CRIPPLE. Portland Millionaire jto Make Dlslnher Ited Son's Child His Heir.

Social TU Nrm Ytrk Timtt. PTTTSBURG, Deo. la Arthur Hepburn, aged 7. aad ramus a leg. which lost under a street win a millionaire some day.

Several days ago the Pitts burg police received a letter from W. W. Hepburn, a millionaire lumberman of Portland, Oregon, tn which asked them to' locate Arthur, his grandson. told tt polio that ten years ago his only son. W.

W. Hepburn, had eloped with a young woman aad had bean disinherit ed. Since then, Hepburn said, be had learned that his son had deserted his wife and their son. that th latter had been injured Iff aa accident and that, as he had relented, he wanted to car for them. To-day th pone found Vrs.

Elisabeth Henburn and Arthur at 306 Oakland Ave nue. Since her husband deserted her three years ago Mrs, Hepburn has been clerking la a department store. Th elder Hep-t urn Is expected here to take charge of them, and Indicated to the police that be wouw max in ooy nis air. Tn wner-aboutajpX th lad's father is FINDS $3000 IN GROUND. Teakettle Full of $20 Gold Pieces on a Connecticut Farm.

NEW M2LFORD, Conn Dec. 10. Three thousand dollars tn twenty-dollar gold pleoes wer dug up yesterday by T. J. Jonas, on bis farm la th MerrtaH district whll was digging a trench, Mr.

Jones was formerly a New Tork business man. and about a year ago bought the farm from Edgar Peet The gold was la a tea kettle, which Mr. Jones state had evidently been In the ground for many years. Make the Joy tha eeeealoa poanpiete by up iraa shite was.) BOSTON REPUBLICAN BY HEARST VOTES Postmastsr HIbbard Is Elscted Mayor Over Rtzgerald by About 2.000. LEAGUER POLLS 15,871 City Goes.

Strongly for the Sale of tuorwRopnbiicans Win In Locl School VlghL BOSTON, Dee. ia-Ia th closest and hardaef fought election contest whicb Boatoa has known for many years, the elty went Republican to-day by about 3LO0O Totes. Po.tm.at.- tin. wwv. mm a.

11111 defeating Mayor John -nocrat who was a can didate for re-eleotldn. Tha rvt- -tn--. show th following vote cast for th May- va.tr vimius.es: John A. jCoulthurst (Independence ritggerald, Hlb- The city voted to A m-rtty. somewhat amaller than In previous years, however.

onto a hard campaign on th part of th clergy and others In aa endeavor to keep -wwua mi. ox tne suburbs. Two features eontrVhut. retura of a ReswbUcan Mayor after six vt jmnocrauo administration, one being the heavy vot no League candidate by Democrats, and v-w wiorougn investigation made by a finance commission tnta at th aty Hail in which evidence has oeen orougnt forth alleging irregularities in-the purchasing denartment a.i crantlng of contracts, through which- it wM wHfl mai tn city had lost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Whll th Indenendenoa iM-m.

M. proved sufficient to transfer th power from on ot th leading parties to the other. It did not however, come anywhere near the strength expected by those who based their estimates on the vote In the recent Stat camnalfn. whan polled a vote larger than the Democratic -rariy. I CoulthUrSt Who waa th DemocraUo SUte Committee, la popular among the younger Democracy, and It waa from thi.

that he drew much of his strength and euninouiea to tn defeat of Flttgerald The eampala-n was strenuous tti out Mayor FlUgerald delivering several uuoar-na apeecnes in every part Of the City, and onlr cloainar bla laKnra 1.. hour last night Postmaster HIbbard and sar. (jouunurst wer hardly less' acrlre. and addressed the voters dav and nfrht it tho The returns Indicate that' wtll strongly Democratlo, with th Al-dermaalo Board more closely divided, i Th contest for two places on th School Commltte aroused almost -nnK i. est as the Mayoralty fight It being mala- wuueu uiat aa enaeavor was being mad to fore th School Commltte into pontics.

The early returns pointed to th election tw.t vamiinaif-s tor the School Commltte--Jsmes B. Ma- avuua ana ur. v. ix. scbanneL WORCESTER IS TO BE DRY.

Repttblkang Elect Mayor and Eight of the Eleven Aldermen. WORCESTER, Dec. laOn th heaviest vote aver railed at an in Worcester, the Republicans swept the iecung tn Mayor, eight of eleven Aldermen. Including the Alderman at large, and will hav licans and nln Democrats members of in city council The voter. James Toran.

fRn 11 090. t.v. Duggan, (Dem.J fl0; Eliot White, Worcester votes no Ilcenaa foe eloa time tn sixteen veara The mswir licens lass year' was 1.057. This year xor as uoonse is vsz. CHICOPEE.Maaa.1 TVey.

inrw Beauohamp was elected Mayor to-day. running en MepuDucan nomination papers tn a tour-oornered cnntnmt rtr n. Champ's plurality was 130 in a total of voie ox ut. seauchamp received 927 votes; John P. Kirby, Democrat, T97; William J.

regular SenubiiMn nnm. tnee, 623, and Alderman John Kelley, socialise, o. The license vot Tea. l.D- uv 62. i.

-f-- tiSKK. Deo. 10. Aa a raanlt'nr aa active tA-Uranaa Mmniln m--4- by the clergymen ot all denominations and oy temperance peopi generally, th city declared against th sal of liquor In th election voted for licens for eleven years, elty has voted tor license for eleven years, last year by 1.177 majority. Thomas F.

Porter, Republican, was elected Mayor. TWO REPUBLICAN MAYORS. Victories In Elections In Portsmouth and Keene, N. H. CONCORD, N.

HW Dee. city slectlons wer held tn New Hampshire to-day. Za Portsmouth Mayor Wallao Hackett CRep.) defeated Samuel W. Emery, 1.170 to SfS. Th entire Coun cil is Republican.

Martin. V. B. Clark (Rep.) was re elected Mayor of Keene over Albert E. Fish (Dem.) by 8S5 majority.

The" Oty Oovernment Is Republican. HUGHES SENTIMENT GROWS. y-atSBBBBmSBBBBBVSBSBBBa Rome Republican Club Indorses Him 5 i for Nomination, i ROME. N. Dec.

10. At a meetina- af th 4tom Republican Club last evening a raaolutloa was adontati in. dorsing Gov. Hughs as a eaadldate.for th Republican nomination for th Preei deaey. AXJBANT, K.

T-j Dee. lo-CoL Michael j. zady and Harry Ralston of Brooklyn called oa Gov. Hughes to-day to pay their respects. Cot Dady Informed Secretary paQr that th sentiment for Gov.

Hughe tOT in Tsaunoy n. unwui(. lm)rtaJst mmmmU the most important astloa ebost tailk is Its Bvrltv. BeUability bum back or roar sniai: BardM's iMum XwtT ta taelr (ra.a ralik ana umi Mi-Mug-1 ennrtaa-ail milk aad par. tamm tmturmlllL.

Borttaa'. miUi le trmS fiwai oaatrr aaJrtM, SaaM as4 AcUrtCVd la SteruV usa ess town nmt PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS BURN. New Zealand LoceSv Library Which Contained Many Valuable Books. WELLINGTON. New Zealand.

Dee. 10. The Parliament Buildings, the library of which contained a large and valuable collection of books, were destroyed by fire to-aay. ATTACK PORTUGAL'S KING. Numerous Speakers Talk! Against Him Reform of Houee of Peers.

-'A USBON. Da. 10 A dlsnnattlon In at tack th King was th most noticeable feature of th speeches made at numerous We 11 -at tended nolitleaJ (BMtlnn ttalA hara to-night In connection with th political Mcuona. Rumors ar current that th new Deon- ties win hav constituent Bowers, to model th House of Peers. A SECOND SIMPLON TUNNEL 1 Switzerland Determine to Duplicate the Great Railroad Work.

BERNE, Swttserland, Dee. 10. The State Council has approved a plan for the Immediate construction ot a second Slroplon tunnel by th administration of th Federal railroad. The first Slmploa tunnel was opened May 19, 1000. It Is twelve and a.

Quarter miles long, th Swiss terminus being st Brieg, In the Rhone Valley, and the Ital ian terminus at Iselle. Its cost Is esti mated at $14,000,000. SHOT FOR A RABB1TJ Son of a Connecticut Man Does Not Discriminate, WINS TED, Deo. 10. H.

Daniels of Southlngton, after running a rabbit into a wall yesterday, handed Ms gun to his 13-year-old son, with Instruc tions to "shoot If he comes out The father pulled the rabbit out of the hole, and It made a break for liberty. whereupon th excited son pulled th trigger, shooting his father tn th hand. Th rabbit waa not Injured. 'POSSUM FOR WHITE HOUSE. Mrs.

Longstreet Is Now Fattening It on a Persimmon sum aw yr OAlNEavTLLE, Oa Dec. fat Georgia 'possum Is to be a part ot the Christmas cheer at tha Whit House. It wa caught some days ago, and Is being fed on persimmons by Mrs. Helen Long-street Post Mistress ot Gainesville. The 'possum Is a big fellow, and th per simmon diet is adding fat at great rate.

Mrs. Longstreet' Is the widow of Con federate Gen. Longstreet. SPECIAL TRAIN FOR QUAIL. William Procter 8peede to Reach Hunt 'Bfl Ground on Time.

Storial to Tkt Kr Fork Tieus. -'r 'MEMPHIS, Dee. 10. In order to reach their" around near Rna-nrtna. on time thev had nlannaKt.

win. Procter, the soap manufacturer of Cincinnati, accompanied by Mr. King, caused a special engine and car to be mad ud oa th Southern to-dav ari true. ried to the spot They missed connection. naving neea delayed from Cincinnati here.

Tn sudden rninr, in Mh tnnoM.iM to' freeslna and renorts of abundant at quail induced them to pay the big expense. SANTA FE SHIFTS Transfers Cases from State to Federal to Evade Legislation. Social 10 Tht Ntw Ytk TimiTmm GUTHRIE. Deo. la John Deve-reaux.

as special counsel for the. Atchison. Topeka ak Santa Railroad, to-day transferred seventeen cases In which th Santa Is a party from th Stat to th Federal Courts, thus anticipating th pas sage of a bin by th SUt Legislature an- nulling th charter of any foreign corporation that so transfers a case. Eight of th cases transferred by Dev-e reaux were in th Key County. Court at Newkirk and nln in the Noble County Court at Parry.

It la understood th San ta will quickly aa possible transfer an Its eases In th SUt. SUICIDE FOR COLD SUPPER. Husband of Two Months Dives Oown Dumbwaiter Shaft After a Quarrel. After with his wife bees use he did not keep his supper warm till his return home at 8 o'clock last night Jacob Victor of 877 Hamburg Avenue, Williams burg, committed suicide by diving down th dumbwaiter shaft from the fifth floor of his home. The Victors had been married only two months, and It was their first quarrel, according to Mrs.

Victor, who wss prostrated by her young husband's act FOUND JAPANESE SPYING. Posing as a Duck Hunter, the 8tranger. Sketched Fort Monroe. Shtitt Tit New Far HAMPTON. Dee.

la Joseph Daly. Treasurer of Phoebus, who owns a nous oa Phoebus Bay overlooking Fort Mon roe, this morning caught a Japanese sketching th fort from th river bank. He had noticed a man acting strangely for several days. Th Japanea carried a double-barrelad shotgun and said was hunting birds, but as this region 1 not frequented by quail Daly decided to watch him. Daly reported the facta to the authorities at th fort.

The matter has mutt considerable interest. It Is thought h. mm un proour in plan of. vt Auuiv, cu aa Durv. rh.

Ships ot th Atlantis Fleet AMORY WINS UBEL SUIT. 8upreme Court Awarda Him 110,000 Against H. H. Vreeland. -After two mwvloua trial.

w.A In dlsagreemeata. a jury before Supreme wm. wmmnm m-vvwi yCSleT- dav sio.000 to Col wtni.m a against Herbert H. Vreeland) ortner Statdent of th MetropoUUa Street Rail Company, as damages for UbeL -Arnory. who mm formerlv th Third Avenu Railway Company, -w voas a oaa oe-oi untied by Tree-land; who la a published article referred to htm as a notorious rH.

alleged that Amory had been ngaged In in reKara to Metropolitan Street r.ii pany. 7 and said would appeal the Oealclon. CoL Amory waa greatly pleased atlwhat beaiied tie vtodiJtloSat a 01IE UORE SU11DAY UNDER BLDE IAW- Aldermen Postpons Enacting I a Compromtss Plan Until Next Week's Meeting I THE VOTE STANDS 35 TO 34 New Ordinance Permits Concerts, and Possibly One-Act Plays, but Is Still 8trlngent An Alderman Punched. New Tork Is to have at least one mors blu Sunday. Tn Board Aidermaa so decided, in ffot, yesterday by a vot of S3 to S4.

If so many Tammany men hadn't been absent 1 from -th meeting Alderman Reginald DouU'a ordinance pr- mittlng a more 'liberal Sunday than the last would' have passed. But New Tork won't hav mor than on mor really blu Sunday unless all eigne fall, Not la years has th Aidermanlo Chamber been so crowded. Th Aidermanlo Laws Commltte. to which was referred the liberalising ordinance. wlU hold a publlo bearing at the City Hall Friday morning at o'clock, when sides win be heard on the matter of the Sunday law.

i i Th theatrloal and opera heus man- agers, who had been opening their doors on Sunday, will: hold another meeting at th Hot! As tor to-morrow afternoon at o'clock. Last week they passed a resolution not to try to open last Sunday. Tomorrow they will probably pass a similar -resolution relating to next Sunday. Th several lawyers for thes Interests admitted last night that they were surprised by th failure of th Aldermen to rellev th situation Immediately. They said they did not know how to get around th law as laid down In the Gorman decision.

Soon after the ordinance- waa offered Aidermaa Meyers, Republican leader, moved that the ordinance referred to th Commltte on laws and Legislation. -which was to give a publlo hearing and report at next Tuesday's meeting ot the Board. waa on this dilatory move that -the fight was made. 1 i With a few exceptions th battl 'resolved itself Into a fight between the Tammany Democrats on th one aid and th allied Republicans and M. O.

L. men on the other, And It was a stirring battl. Llttl Tim Sullivan spok four or five times. He and bis mea labored to get a majority. The atmospher was thick with oratory.

Board "President McGowan had. to go away to attend a wedding. Alderman Cornelius Noonan, a M. O. L.

mar cara in lime to vote with the Republicans. Hla waa the deciding vote. Ha later had a fist battl about that with an Innkeeper. That, however, was th only physical encounter actually within the City Halt Doull ordtnanc offers no relief to moving picture shows, penny arcades, nickelodeons, and th ordinary five and ten cent entertainment houses. Thee number at least BOO In Greater New Tork.

and their owners form a large and power -ful body ot men. The lawyers for most of these interests will meet to-day to decide upon a plan of battl of their own. Th board was due to meet Yesterday about noon. Long before that the corridors died with representatives ot labor unions, clergymen, press agents, representatives from the German socle-: ties, and curiosity seekers, i The board was called to order at 1:39 o'clock, with Pre. Went McGowan In the chair.

The gallery was packed. The commltte room, ad joining the Chamber, was filled with union men. number, of communications -from Christian societies and individuals were received, but their reading waa postponed. Quiet cam when, finally, Alderman Doull. Uttle Tim Sullivan's right-hand man, got up with his ordinance, which foV-: lOWS: Teetls tn Bin Lavv Dvawm.

Be It ordained by toe Board of Aldermen of the City of New Tork ss follows; Section t'-'It shall not be lawful te exhibit as th first day of th week, eomsaonty called Sua oay, to tne puDue, in any muamg. sarosn, groaads, eoaoert room, or ether room er phvo within the aty ec New Tork. the petto-man ofany tragear. eomear, fare, aegre minstrelsy, aegre or ether daaclnsv. siesrilBi.

beatag wtta er without gloves, spss-- ring eontest trial of. strength, or aay part et parts therein, or aay etreus, equsstriaa, er dra- matio petfut manoe er exerelse, er aay perform. of Jugglers, -ac-eaat ersh rope esaeera Provided, hew- 7- that nothing hereta eoatalaed shall be deemed te prohibit st aay such place or places the first day ex the week, commonly ceOad Sanday, aaered er edueatiotiai. vocal or tnstra. tal eeoearts, lust was, sairesees, racttsna.

sad staging. ovldad that seek stints usee tloned entertsinmenu shall be gtvea ta soak a toanner aa not to disturb th psbUe pesos er ameuat te a serious Utammdon of the sepoee aad taligtotst neerty ec the teuuuuultn Aay I rTfrnfltrg srstnrt itis issiTsliia off cms seecioa, end ever psoa amewlngty aaW tag in such exhlMUoas, except as herein pre- vtted. by advertisements or echarwls, aad ery sassr er is aay buildlna. part at a bttllilng. groonde, sarSea.

or esaesrt recta, or ether roam er place, who shall- less or let out the same for the put so ec aay each ec hibltloei or performs are, except as aetata provided, er assent that th same be ased for any sacs porpoee. shall sablect to a mis in af taoo. wbieb XMealty la CorporaUoa Cean-al ec said city le Heresy asthertsed. la tha aarae ot the City Xew Tork, te pnaeeat. for, and leeoveri aad oa the resevsi of a Jadgmsat for the penalty aerala provided for against spy propnator.

waat, or leasee ronsaut tag to or eassiag or allowing, or letting aay part of tie baudlag for th psrpse any ex. hlMUoa er performance prohibited by this erdl- tbe Uoeas whldi shall have been pre Vtoealy obtained by eook aaasger. pnnrietar. I ec Itself vaested aad aa ft. This erdtnasee shall take effeas Immail lately.

Mr. DouQ said he bad worked 'carefuHy 7 over the preparation of this ordinance that had conferred with the Mar or. who had approved of ttf with Corporation counsel readietea, who had said -waa legal, and with a Supreme Court Justice, who bad believed that it would stand the re of the courts, Us explained that he had not tried to frame up an ordtnaaoe that would try to glv a wlde-opeo Sunday. didn't want' didn't believe tne board want- ed It. He dd believe, however, that such a Sunday es had been, brouaht about by th O'Gorman decision deprived th publlo of legitimate and harmless entertain- Alderman Meyer moved that the ordl- nance be to th Commlu on I-awsuiXesl-iaUctw -t-a.