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0 THE YORK -TniES; J. SUNDAY;" JAXTTAIl? 20, 1001. KILLED IH OLD BUILDING Heavily Laden Floor Collapses and Two Men Are Crushed.iV; Iron Worker Engaged In Rwensirue. tlon Blame, Contractor Build- Ing Department OfMcial Da niet Negligence. jj Two 1MB wer killed and thlrdwas bad ly Injured by the colleps of the heavily loaded and, at alleged, weakened flooring of the fourth etory of the old resldenc 1JJ East Twenty-third Street, In course of reconstruction.

Into a large office and studio building; yesterday. Without warning an Immense maas of bricks and timber was suddenly precipitated through three, lower floors of the structure. In which were nearly twenty laborers, carrying down to death in the basement Edward Nelson' and Ousts son, Ironworkers, and badly Injuring about the bead and body Jamea Murray, a atone aura of $17 South Third 8treet, Brooklyn. Nelson and Gustafson were relatives and lived at 1,016 Second Av nu. Both were pinned down by heavy Umbers and almost Instantly killed.

Responsibility for the fatal accident! is placed by the ironworkers directly upon the contractors, who, they allege, weakened the cross beams of the flooring and placed thereon heavy masses of bricks and timber. Indirectly the- Building Department Is censured for failing to have Its Inspectors examine each floor Jn process of al- teratkra. Superintendent John A. Dooner of the Building Department denied that any of his men was negligent or careless, and declares that, the accident was caused by the hoisting of iron beams' to the fourth floor by means of apparatus attached to a wooden Deam, weakening it. and allowing the overweighted floor to crash through the centre of the building.

He places the responsibility en the ironworkers. latter deny that any hoisting was done yesterday, The house, which "was known as the Gantley mansion, is owned by the Beach estate. Julius Sternfeld was the last occupant. Upon his vacating the premises some months ago, it was decided to convert the edifice into a seven-atory Studio and office building. William Young, a builder, of 1.133 Broadway, secured tho contract.

TV. C. W. Chllds of West and Milton Streets, Brooklyn, was doing the masonry work, and Stevenson Drelsler were looking after the Iron work. The room parti tiona had been removed some days ago, and only the old wooden croas beams supported the five in number.

These beams were being removed and Iron girders substituted in theh places. The wooden bnw. it is said by the Iron workers, were partly sawed through ore-. paratory to this removal. Bricks and timber were heaped on each floor, v- Mr.

Toung was seen standing In front of the building- before the crash came, but I.6"1' minutes later could not be located. This gave rise to the erroneous report than he had been buried beneath the ruins. It was said at his of nee that he was aat-4 and at his home in Brooklyn. Frederick L. Bowman of R8 West Sixtieth Street, Bayonne.

N. an Ironworker, who bad a close race with death. In describing the accident, said: With Nelson and Gustafson, I was corns in aown me ladder from the fourth floor, where we had been at work. We had lus gotten off the i ladder when I heard a crushing sound above. I didn't think the whofe tloor was coming down, but I yelled: 'Look out.

boys, the cave-ins Gustafson jumped, and I started to run, but Kelson, who alwaya was slow, stopped and squinted in at the first floor. Just then with a mighty crah the whole lot of rafters- and bricks came shoving through the first floor, and the next thing I knew I was sprawling on my back near the toolbox. Poor Ed and George were In the cellar beneath two big beams and a lot of broken rafters. I ran down and got to Ed before he died. He never spoke.

George was dead." D. Wellington, a mason foreman, of 2i Ldgecombe Avenue, and James T. Stevenson were arretted by Policeman New-. bam of the Kaot Twenty-second Street Station at the direction of Acting Captain Fagin. who made a technical charge of homicide against them.

Coroner Zucca admitted both to ball. WOMEN COOKS AS SPECIALISTS Market Demanda Confine Each to Her 8ingls Best Product. The specialisation which la to be seen In all kinds of business is to be found In do-, mestlc lines of employment. Women, who support themselves, or make a fair Income by cooking, deal altogether In In the different women's exchanges of the country there are few of the consigners to the culinary departments who vend. in more than one variety of article, or, two or three at the most This may be partially due to the fact that a high standard of excellence is required, and only the best a woman's work Is accepted, and It Is refused as soon as it fo lis below a certain degree of excellence.

To make her work acceptable, a woman la obliged to send the one article which she Is the most expert In making, while constant practice increases her skill. Good things to eat come from all parts of the country, from the New England States to California, to the Woman's Exchange at Madison Avenue and Forty-thjrd Street, each one representative of the locality from which it cornea. In a single meal at the lunch room of the Exchange one may have a bill of fare which will Include a dosen different articles from, as many States. To mention a few of them, there is orsnge marmalade, which comes from the South and from California as well. That from the South is a sweet orange marmalade, while that fronv California is made the bittfr orangwsv and the consignors are two elderly maiden ladies, who make a.

"considerable Income from this one line of work. Mince pies come from Connecticut, a lark proportion of them, and na woman on last -Thanks- giving Day sold tw pies. The Exchange old. all told, on that day 30f plea, and 600 during Thanksgiving week. There a nice little New York woman who makes the In- dividual mince pies which are served to lunch-room customers.

She has been making them for many years, and Is now able to take a little holiday once a year and rest for a time from her labors, all on "the profits of her mince plea. Election cake also cornea from This ja. the fenulne old-fashioned election cake, which comes each cake put up In a box. It Is made by an old receipt which has been In one family for years, and according to the old-time requisites for a good cake Is set to rise, twice in the night worked over, and baked In the morning by a fresh fire. -Tfl? beaten biscuit come, naturally, from TirginU, carefully packed in tin boxes.

The woman who makes them Is the mother seven children, and one the Exchange customers says facetiously that there la no reason why she should not be an expert In anything that requires beating. r- Brown bread comes from New York City. 4 and Vermont women send down nioe Mttle cakes of maple augar and other kinds of candy as welL Preserved peaches. the famous brandled peaches which must be prepared in exactly the proper manner. come from Delaware.

The most universal article is wedding cake. It comes from all parts of the country no State has a monopoly. It is put up In small boxes ready to be sent out for weddings, or comes In large loaves, or It is sold by the pound. T- This to the way It Is usually sold. In these i days of easily accessible dainties wedding eaka or the rich black fruit cake la no on Jnd housekeeper but It la one of the dainties sent frequently to colleges, for It can be kept indefinitely Improves with age, and the college boys like to have It ready for Impromptu spreads.

The rich bis ek fruit cake Is someUmesr sed for birthday cakes, and one Ex-change cake had eighteen candles upon It not long ago. The ordinary birthday cake Is for children. Is made of more digestible materials, and la frequently of angel cake. Colombian Porta Closed. '4 WASHINGTON Jan.

dispatch to the Bute Department from United States Consul IpgersoU, at Cartagena, states that all the ports of the Gulf of MorrosqutU have been cloeed to commerce by Governmental decred. 'i i it. 4 Jamaica's Exhibit at Buffalo KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan. lfl.Tke Gov-srnment baa (ranted 11.000 toward the und for paying the expense of the representation from Jamaica at the Pan-Americmn Exposition, to he behf in Buf- falo, A number of interesting exhibits are eins arraned. DUC DE BROGUE DEAD.

Famous French Author, and Statesman -j Suecumba, to Cancer In Hla Eightieth Year. PARIS. Jan. 10. The Due de Broglie died at t'M o'clock this evening from cancer of the tongue.

i Son. of the famous -Foreign Secretary of Louis Philippe, and grandson of another! politician, who perished under the guillotine, Jacques Victor Albert, Dud de Broglie, Was Interested in public question at a very early age, and Just after he reached bis majority he produced a volume of brilliant eesays. He was born on June 13, 1821. and even when a student at the University, attached, a reputation, as a precocious publicist, advocating the causa at the constitutional monarchy andl that Established Church. Ih 1882 'at the remarkably early age of hlrty-one he was elected a member of the Academy; this Honor being accords to him for his work on The Church and the Roman Empire In the Fourth I Under the Second Empire' the Duo' held loof from' politics till, Just before Its fall, devoting himself entirely to literature.

la I860 he stood as a candidate for the Chamber for the Department of tbeEure, but failed of election. He was returned for the same constituency soon after the establishment of the republic, and shortly afterward was appointed French Ambassador in London. However, his free-trade principles gave his enemies a weapon which to attack him, and, in consequence of the strictures passed upon his conduct when he; was the unwilling agent of the abrogation of the Anglo-French commercial treaty of: 1800, he sent in his resignation in 1872. i From that time on. as leader of the Conservative Right Centre, which held the balance of bower In 'the Chamber, the Due's main object was to restore a monarchical form of government in France.

In May, 1B73, he forced M. Thiers, i the President of the republic, to resign, and the Due became Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Council under the Presidency of Marshal MacMahon. It seemed that the Monarchists had victory within their grasp. Antl-Kepubllcan measures were at once All depended upon the Question of fusion- of the Orleanist and Legiti-ralst but this fusion failed, chiefly through tho adhesion to extreme principles or-the Comte de Chambord. Then Gam-betta made the.

people of realise their true position, and In May. 1874. the Due de Braglie, beaten on" question ofj Three years later he -again formed a Royalist and Imperialist Cabinet. In which he became President of the Council and Minister of Justice. Again he attempted to overthrow the republic, by packing the magistracies, gagging the press, and mak-VJ use of the personal popularity of MacMahon.

Aa before, however, Gambetta prevented the Royalist schemes from succeeding, and they received al crushing defeat at the polls. On Nov. lo7lo77. the Duo resigned, and a year Afterward the Chamber passed a vote of censure ion him. M.

de BrOklle. Since that tltmo hat hwi I repeatedly defeated in his candidacy for iv, nruimco), ana in ms last years he again devoted himself to literature alone. Among his best-known works famous ''Memoirs of his father, the "Memoirs of Talleyrand." "History In 1845 the Due married Mlle Pauline de Galard de, Beam, who died ln 180. His e'Qe son, victor, waa Chef de Cabinet for FRENCH EXPORTS TO A i ri. i o-- Recent Yeara Reported at Meeting of American Chamber of Commerce In Paria.

PARIS, Jan. 10.The annual banquet and meeting- of the American Chamber of Commerce in Paris were held to-night There was a Urge attendance. Henryj Peartree. President of the Chamber, occupied the chair. William Seligman and United 8tates Consul Oowdy were the only speakers, the former replying to a toast to the Franco-American relations.

ln the course of bis remarks. lliruK? nowlnr an Increase ln rnce.to the United States of francs over those of SB1?" the exports for the years with those for IK to lUOU, inclusive, he showed that there had tor th tattr Period of tfc.xi0,tm0 francs. i VOluntsrlly relinquished the Presidency of the Chamber, after his long and Francis Kimble waa electc-d President, and Henry Cachard Vice President. The other officers retain their positions. SHOT AT FRENCH PROFESSOR; Russian Girl Student Fires at Senator Deschanel and Wounds Another Student.

PARIS, Jan. tragic incident occurred at tha College of France this afternoon. A Russian girl student, Vera Gelo, tried to assassinate an aed prof essor, Senator Emile Deschahel. father of the Presl-' dent of the Chamber of Deputies. The professor had Just concluded a lecture on French literature when Vera Gelo.

who was one of the audience, fired a re volver at him Her friend, another Russian student, noticing the movement, sacrificed herself by intervening, received a bullet In cil.e"t.. and u. at -Pro'- Ieschanel a feet, bleeding profusely. Vera Gelo waa arrested. It appears that she is mentally deranged.

She said Prof. Deschanel had slandered her, and added. ilL tones: have wounded my iriend. BRITISH ARMY REFORM. Great Effort to be Made to Secure Pas- aage of Bill Providing Extensive Manoovring Grounda.

LONDON, Jan. Army reform, it Is learned, will consist chiefly in an endeavor to Improve the existing methods of general military training rather than In any attempt to eradicate Individual defects. With a more fully developed home army, the administration believes that many of exiting at present will gradually disappear, whereas ruthless reform would only result in disorganisation ana chaos, i nd vlew new Manoeuvres bill will be introduced, giving the Government plenary power to select large tracts of especially in Ireland and Scotland. wherS the home army will have the opportunity of manoeuvring In considerable numbers over a rough and unknown country, where the Generals will have the opportunity of learning to handle divisions, ln the opinion of the Secretary for War the Right Hon. William St.

John Brtc it is futile to criticise officers and men who have never been handled or who have-never co-opera ted except in the restricted confine of Aldershot, where every Inch of ground is known to almost every officer of (h service. The birrarlri Knll.iin. Salisbury Plain will, it Is believed, aid this anJ become generally reeog- sr viuce mat it is absolutely essential) to have rough country and a good deal of it at the disposal of the forces. Many difficulties lie In the way of securing this. The moors of Ireland and Scotland are almost all the private property of aristocratic land owners.

who either use them or let them for shooting purposes. One season's manoeuvres over these estates would! probably ruin the game; hence be paid. This Mr. Brodrlck hopes to get appropriated, in spite of the present heavy taxation, believing it would be an investment which would save the country millions In case of another war. Many other changes are likely to come in force in due course of time.

The Board of Army Reorganisation Is sitting day in and day out. dealing with the Immense problem, but the cardinal point of the deliberations, on which public opinion Is unanimous, is the necessity for the new Manoeuvres bin. To use the words of Lord Ra Tou might as we'll criticise the Admiral who is always oblige- to keep his fleet in harbor as to criticise the army, for which the country provides no manoeuvring facilities. i FAR EAST CAB LB PROJECT. Plait for Joint German-Dutch Line To Extend to America.

BERLIN. Jan. 19. The project of a network of cables to cover the world la being diligently pursued by Germany and la most actively furthered by the Emperor, who msda some significant utterances on the subject ta Privy Postal Councilor Strecker Proposaiaso far as the Far East is concerned, are as follows' Germany and the Netherlands to jointlv lay a cable which wlU go through the Dutch Indies, touching at the Natunas laE ands, Biillton. Palembttng.

BaUvia, Macas- sar, ATtbolna, German New Guinea, and the Carolina, with a central point at Shanghai, thence branching from Klso-Chow utterly to Japan and America. The Dutch Government will lay the cable through Its own colonies and Germany will do the 'est. The fi lancing of this project is about con eluded principle. Tho plan of Gen. von Podbiel kl, the Imperial Postmaster General, fo- gradually ratving the annual ep-proprlailons to a maximum of (UWO.OuO marks 1920 has been approved by Emperor tlliam.

But if private companies, with a I Itate subvention, will undertake the work yon Podblelakl will not object. BCSRS 'CAPTURE A TRAIN. PRET DRIA. 1.The Boers have capture I a train laden with mining materials 1 etween Brugsprult and Balmoral. The jassengers were robbed of every thing.

No ore German Troopa for; China. BERl IN. Jan. Foreign Office discredi the sutement that fresh German troopa ri about to be sent to China for the relief sick, wounded, and returned soldiers, ily supplies' for the troops will be sent her 'after. No plans exist for the withdrawal the German troopa or the return of Fleli i Masshai Count von Waldersee.

Germans has no plans in this connection apart-fiom the other powers, and will not take In lependent action. How long the Oerman troops will remain ln China, depends, ion the Chinese themselves. ns Maasacra Story Dented. ROME Jan, 19. The rector of the Seminary of Foreign Missions has received a letter fr om Mgr, Passerlnl, Apostollo Vicar In the Chinese Province of Shen-SI.

an-nouncln the good health of himself and the mis: ionarles and sisters in his charge. This la contradiction of the story of the massacrb of the missionaries and sisters published at the beginning of the Boxer outbreak. Mbra Horses from America. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. British steamer Rossettl cleared to-day for Cape Town with KM) horses.

PLUCKY FIGHT WITH A LION. English van In South Africa Put Xia Arm Down tha Beart'a Throat. LOND 5N, Jan." 19. News of one of the most rer isrkable fights wth lions on record comes -om a correspondent in' Northern Rhodesli Mr. Johnstone, a Collector of Customs In the employ of tha British South Africa ampany, waa out hunting and shot a buck.

As the buck tell, from the long grass sp ung out five lions, who commenced to eat the buck. Mr. Johnstone, not to be robbed of his into action with his mai asine rifle, killed one lion and wounde another. The remaining three fled. Tl wounded lion, enraged, attacked the hun ter, whose x.

agasine was empty. He callti. for another gun; but his native follower: i had gone. The police with him fired a lid volley and retreated. Mr.

Jo tinstone sought a nearby tree, and was neatly out of reach when the lion caughfr him and pulled him down. Mr. Johnstone pat his left arm down the lion's throat and gav a aledge-hammer blow with hla right on the animal's head. Surprised at the resistance, the lion relinquished hla attack. Propping himself against the tree Johnstone, in snlte of his mauled then, Mil arm, pulled out a cartridge, fired, and took the lie oni ngni Between tne eyes.

Killing him. Three rweeks latel Mr. Johnstone riled from blbod-poisoning, from his mangled arm. SNEER AT VANDERBILT WEDDING. London Papers Comment on.

Vulgar Ostentation." LONDON. Jan. 19. The Vanderbllt-French i uptlals have afforded several papers In I ondon an opportunity to sneer at the dlspHy of wealth made upon that oc- caslon. -Bad ne paper says: taste and want of breeding, have their held In America, and there wealth flaunts itself with vulgar ostentation, to find a to the parallel for which we must go back worst period or the Roman Em- pi re.

Thk latest examola Is the execrable taste of the marriage at Newport." I Another paper enaeavors to a raw a barallel between the Vanderbilt deadly and Roc efeller nuptials, by nolntimr out the simpl iclty of Mr. Prentice, who is de- ertDea ak a struggling lawyer and Sunday teacher. school Other English narjers comment aravelv on the American love of display. 44 SAM LEWIS'S PECULIARITIES. Ho Delighted to Taunt Aristocrats, but Wals Charitable to tha Poor.

LONDON Jan. 19. Anecdotes about Samuel iiewls, the money lender, who died last Sunday, continue to appear in the pa- pers. I Lewis's humor took a fanciful turn. Wheneve he saw an opportunity to make ble for SDriffs of the aristocracy life miserable be never missed it.

Once he eras able to taunt hla victim he did not seem to care wnetner i a beggar he got his money back or not. Yet never asked mm for alms in the hout a substantial renlv. He fre. Street without puently he scan said he had so much money that anew wnat to ao wttn It. character of the man is hnt I The triie ludged bt tv.

which his enormoua beaueata to fVhari. have not been equaled in the re-ry of England. It seema that he cent hlstiry devoted. Older to I Lewis la life ta robbing- the nohilltv tn t-nrlch the poor. uvea tn a gorgeous house In Groevenor Square, where his wife enter-shly.

His tight trousers, imri talned lavish Clothes, nd immense diamonds gave him tne appearance oi a xtasn racing man. The Late Bishop of London. LONDON, Jan. 19. The Bishop of Xxtn- don, Who the Right Rev.

Mandcll Creighton. died on Monday, had many attalh- waa accounted fin nf Vi mnm ments. erudite aild theological historians of the day. Yet none Ewtuu ivu a cigarette more aeftiy nore nulrlclv in unJnla ian or retort He wore Bis learnlnir lie-httv but his addresses to the cierry were hardlV ever nea. in ruling bis episcopate troublous tlnwa nf rh.

during uall8tic cdntroversy, he avoided stern, legal measures genenuiy securea ODedlence He was an athlete in his youth. 1 ln an Oxford Okii. to tils wil and rowed adored -r Hi an1 itnnn aKawa i. greatly spch an ideal Bishop was appro- ivl eccnrdln tn him kiM.i a oiatea Paul's CahhedraL Absconder Hertz Sent to QUEESTOWN. --Jan, 19.

Slgmund Herts of Kew York City, who waa arrested shortly ajrter his arrival here Thursday en the Allan Line steamer Carin. evening. thlan, forgery, trdrn Halifax, Jan. 7, charged with uiaumm oi ine united aukhoriUes. appeared In the police Biaies court to-day and was handed over to the 8 Copland rt urn dAtAotlvM k.

v. nere zor the purpose of taking the prisoner to London) for extradiUon. When the depo- si tiona wtte read, Heru replied: "I have nothing mi, nau H.U- MmMnlM Hart mnmmm Ka a h.hi. i w. na wire, wno had ac- wwt uwjmuj luv proceeuuigs, Bavarian Prince Says Ha Waa Snubbed.

Jan. 19. Another BERLIN standing has arisen with Bavaria. Prince Alphonsa, nephew of the Prinos Regent. who atteilded the funeral of the Grand.

Duke of Haxe-Weimar. claima that he was snubbed am lumporor representatives, knd questions of precedence beted. On returnlnor te H.ri. etiquette Involved. Prince Alshonse reaiirned command of the lavkrtan Cavalry Brirade, with the Regents approval.

The Prince Re- First Bav Prince gent then ii conferred on him a higher. buC Sank, and also bestowed on him inactive. the highest oisposaoie aeooration. Tht krrlage of Holiand'a Quean. THE HAGUE, Jan.

19. -Duke Henry 'of Mecklenbuk-g-Schwerin will arrive hers on lattend the festivities preliminary to hlsimarrlage to Queen WUheimin. Is officially announced that immediately after the marriage the Queen will confer on him the title of Prince and give bint hlah military aid naval rank. Rata Dkad from Bubonlo Plague 1 BERLIN! Jan, 13. The German itMm PergumonJ which arrived at Hamburg on Jan.

15 tmm 8myrna. had a number of dead rats cion that La board. This caused a they died from the bubonlo nlaaue. Tie rats are undergoing bacterio. logical exaknlnatlon.

Danish (Steamer Sunk In Collision. COPENIIAOEN, Jan. IS. The Danish mall staamers Gefloa aad Hveen wars ln collision, a nd the former sank. Tha 1st tor put into Mairao, In a leaky condition.

Tha passengers and mails Of the action were saveo. REPUBLICAN CLUB CONTEST. JudgV Olcott'a Friends Say Can. remain Has Not Voted In New York City Electlone. The for President the Republican Club Is being hotly contested.

The two candidates, ex-Judge W. M. K. Olcott and Gen. Trematn have many friends who are working constantly for votes.

The friends of Judge Olcott have bad an expert examine the of voters as published and discovered that Gen. remain, although a resident of JOS East Eighteenth Street since IS34, has never voted from that The members of the Republican Club have been excited over this discovery, as It was thought that Gen. Tremaln was always a stanch Republican. Martin Scudder, Republican district leader, who lives ln the same apartment bouse with (Jen. Tremaln, said last "I have no knowledge of Gen.

Tremaln voting la this district. If be bad voted from The Florence apartment bouse, 105 East Elghtoenth In the Twenty-fifth Election District of the Twenty-fifth Assembly District, I would have bad him on mjrlliit. 'He has not voted from that address either tor CoL Strong for Mayor or again! Robert A. Van Wyck." la Gen. Tremaln a member of your district association? was asked by a Times reporter last evening.

not and never has been," Gen. Trematn haa a country residence bear Lake George, and he spends most, of his time there. The friends of ex-Judge Olcott claim that as Gen. Tremaln has not. voted in this city for seven years, and has not taken an active part, in local politics he is not entitled to be elected to the Presidency of the Republican Club of the City of New York.

There are 600 resident members of the Republican Club, and it is supposed that MiO votes will be cast in the election for President. The Nominating Committee in the club has issued a circular In behalf Of Gen. Tremaln, in which it is declared: At the November taMtlng two tickets 'tot Nominating Committee had been voted for, oaa of' which, rcperMntcd by Its friends to be- an Olcott Ucket. bad been beaten, Tha situation of the club demanded a President who would have the leliiurs to give time and thought to Its interests. Oen.

Tramaln had such leisure, and txprsMad hia wlllinjrnma to devote It to tfea attain of the club. Ur. Olcott waa a vary buay man, occupied ta private and publlo litigations, and could not have the needed time to OVvot to the club. Oen. Tremaln has been a member of the club aince 1870.

tb rear of Ita organisation; was Vtoa President three years, aad the past year haa been a member of the Committee on National Affairs. He bas stood by the club la adversity and prosperity, and haa been as active as anv member wbo has not sought office ia the club. Oen. Tremaln has always taken a cltlsen's part Irt the social and political life of the city. Tbe fact that be has not sought or held publlo office ought not to disqualify him for tbe Presidency.

Ur. thitton. the regular nominee for Third Vice President, baa been an active member for over seven years one year Recording Secretary 3td three years member of the Committee on embcrshlp. Why la be displaced by a gentleman who has been a member of tbe club less than two years? Mr. Clarke, the regular nominee for 0r-rsspondlns Secretary, haa been an active member of the for eight years.

Why is ha displaced by a gentleman who has been a member lees than one yean who, if elected, will become a member of the Executive Committee? It is thus evident that the opposition is based simply on personal Is this sufficient ground for rejecting the resrular nominees pot before tha club by the regularly chosen Nominating Committee The ticket beaded by Mr. Olcott was subsequently put In nomination by Individuals representing themselves and not the club. GOV. ODELL AND PLATT CONFER Chairman Dunn- Saya tha. Police BUI Will Bo Slightly Modified A Tw Year Term for Mayor.

There was a conference yesterday afternoon between the Republican leaders in th Fifth Avenue Hotel In reference to police and other Gov. Odell had a ahort talk with Senator Piatt and left for Newburg on the 3:30 train. State Chairman George W. Dunn remained In conference with the unState leaders until the evenlnjr, when he left for his home at Blngha.rn.ton. It whs announced after the conferences that there would be minor changes In the Police, bill now pending In the Legislature, but that these changes would cot materially affect the bilL The statement that the power of reajoval clause, giving the Governor the right to remove without charge tbe single-bead Police Commission, would be stricken from the bill was denied by Chslrman Dunn before he left the city.

Chairman Dunn said: There "will be some changes In the Po-UceUl, but none of any importance." Thero are some features of the Police bill which the leaders-are considering carefully, especially the Election Bureau feature. There was also a meeting of the lead-era to discuss the reapportionment of the State under the Burleigh The State of New York gains three members of Congress, and according to the plana made yesterday two of these members will be allowed to thla city. There was talk yesterday of the Introduction Of a bill making the term of office of the Mayor two years. The leaders favor the change and a bill to bring it about will be introduced in the "Legislature shortly- CLAPP' WINS SENATORSHIP. St.

Paul Lawyer Nominated by (tha Minnesota Republican Caucus. BT. PAUL, Jan, General Moses E. Clapp of St. Paul was this afternoon chosen as the Republican nominee for the place ln the United States Senate made vacant by the death ef C.

K. Davis after one of the hardest contests in the history of the State. Six candidates remained in the contest and received votes for fifteen ballots, and as many others were looked. on as possible nominees, although not atjany time receiving any votes. Uast night.

In a caucus lasting four and a half; hours fourteen ballots were cast, the flniU one showing no material change from t'M first. Tbe caucus then took a recess till 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, and the work was continued at that time. Only five of the 140 Republicans were absent, and, these were represented by proxies. The first ballot of the day, the fifteenth of the contest, ahowed a gain of three for Clapp and a loss of the same number for Evans. However, that ballot was never announced.

i Earlier in the afternoon Mr. Tawney had told bis friends that he would release them from their pledges, but they announced that they would continue to vote for him. This ballot ahowed them all ln line, but before the vote waa announced Senator Lodge expressed a' desire to change from Tawnes to Evans. He was quickly followed by othtirs before Senator Mac Arthur un-ncunced hla change from Tawney to Clapp, others making like statements, Clapp getting meet of the Tawney vote. Speaker Dow ling.

In tbe chair, realising the nearness of a decision, cast the seventy-first Clapp vote. that being the number needed to elect. Other changes followed, and thun Representative Sherman 8mlth of the Evana foroea moved to make the nomination of Clapp unanimous. This mo-tion was carried with a rush, and a committee was sent after, the winning and defeated candidates, who addressed the caucus appropriately. Moses E.

Clapp Is forty-nine years "of age, -and was born ln Delphi, In When he was seven years of age hla parents moved to Wisconsin. He secured his common school education ln Wisconsin and was graduated from the Wisconsin Law School in 1873. He moved to Fergus in 1840. where he took up the practice of taw. permanently locating In St.

Paul la 1881. Mr. Clapp was elected -ho State in lbtt, lKsv and M90. and baa been prominent in poll, tics, tie was candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor in 1 Sue. but was defeated by Gov.

Clous; h. He enjeys a large Inw practice. He Is an orator of ability and la familiarly known as the Black Eagle of rora votes joint sessiohv Delaware LeaTtaiatare Casts Senate. rlKl Ballots Wltkeat Result, DOVER, DeL, Jan. W.

The voting to-day la the Assembly for two United States Benatorp was with all tbe customary form attending Joint balloting, although only four men represented tbe State. The Constitutional provision requiring balloting every day at the noon hour waa carried out to the Utter by the four men. we ou" Senator Alia presided at tha unique lolnt session, end the balloting resulted thus' Trm-Rlchard Kenney. (DenS T2: John Edward, Addlcks, (Union Re) 'Via quorum; -o election. Unexpired TermWu- lard Saulsbury.

2: John Edward Ad-dicks, (Union No quorum; no elee-tlon. No Cholca In HELENA, Hon' Jan. 1-The first Joint ballot of the short-terra Senatorshlp resulted ln no- choice to-day. Fifteen members were either absent or paired. Charles Bucr of Fort Benton developed a boom, receiving 11 votes.

He had but one yesterday. Lee Mantle received the entire Republican vote present. MfV BAILEY EXONERATED. w. sss.

Texaa Legislative Committee Finds that Chargee Are False. Social te Thi Srw Yyk Tvmtt. GALVESTON, Texas, majority of the members of the legislative committee which bas Investigated tbe chargee preferred by David McCall, a Democratic member of the House, against Congressman Joseph W. Bailey, wbo Is a candidate for United States Senator at the election to occur next Tuesday, to-day completed their report, the adoption of tbe following resolutions: i Whereas. By the most diligent tnqeiry they have not bsea able to discover a single fact or circumstance deeredltable either to the Bon.

J. W. Bailey or-to aay other Htate official, bat oa the oontrary, all of the evidence before said committee completely and ovei-wtaslmlngly exonerates the W. Ballsy and aU 8 tats officials from the charges of misconduct; therefore, be it Resolved. That the House of Representatives denounce the Imputations and insinuations against the integrity of i.

Vf. Bailey end our State officials as tbe most cruel, vindictive, and unfounded attack ever made span the character of a faithful public servant la Texaa. JThe minority report opposes the adoption of the above resolution, on the ground that every citizen of Texas has the right to discuss and criticise the acts of officials and those seeking high and honorable offices at the hands of the people, so long as such criticism is kept within the bounds of reason and not Inspired by malice. i BRONX AND RAPID. TRANSIT.

Prbftoted Change of Plana Causes Much Indignation. The rapid transit question Is still agitating the residents of the Borough of the Bronx, and the recent proposition to suspend the construction ot that portion of the underground system from One Hundred and Forty-first Street and; Lenox Avenue to One Hundred and Forty-ninth Street and Third Avenue, haa stirred up a storm of indignation and a very lively controversy among the members of the Taxpayers Alliance. As a result of the oposltlon that baa divided the members of the alliance, which Is composed Of associations throughout the borough, a special meeting will be held on Wednesday morning at One Hundred and. Seventy-sixth Street and Third Avenue, when a. very, lively time Is expected.

The proposition which Is to be. considered at this meeting Is embodied in the following; resolution, which caused all the trouble: 1 Resolved. That we request that the elevated structure be at one built as planned 'by the Rapid Transit Commission, north and east from One Hundred and Forty-nlntb Street at Third Avenue, along the present proposed route; aad provided a rapid transit connection by a direct east side line to the City Hall, with a continuous and satisfactory train service and at a five-cent fare, la obtained within two years, we approve tha suspensloa of the building of the link from Lenox Avenue to Third Avenue, end tkat If such satisfactory east side rapid transit by through trains and at a five-cent fare be not obtained by that time, then tha contractor shall be requested to at once proceed to build the sua-' peadeii luik, his contract to do ao remaining rdeanllove. In lull force. Provided, however, that we favor, thla proposition as a means to ultimately obtaining an east t3e Underground line from Forty-second 8treetto tha Borough of the Bronx to connect with tbe proposed line from One Hundred aad Forty-ninth Street along Westchester Avenue, and so on to Bronx Park.

Resolved. That the Rapid Transit Commission be urged to proceed at once in the preparation of plana for an additional route along Jerome Avenue in the Borough of the Bronx, and that the alliance earnestly recommends that such plans i take, precedence over any further Provision for the Borough of Brooklyn. Keolvd, That the commission be requested to give a hearing; to the alliance upon this subject wuwnwni oaie, ana mat the members of the alliance and others Interested In the subject be notified or the date, and requested to attend the bearing. Mr. Hart wen, a member of the Mapes Estate Taxpayers' Association, ln speaking- on the proposition, said: After years of fighting a contract bas finally been let and that contract calls for a route laid out and lndoraed by the Taxpayers Alliance.

The proposition as proposed practically asks that city money used build a feeder for the Man. batten, Elevated Railway Company. This m'aM'-wroTigt The east side is asked to give up something tangible for something very uncertain. There la no good reason fhy the Taxpayers Alliance on of two months fis2 up tbe Jerome Avenue section at the expense of sections with a very much larger population. The preposition practically provides for rapid transit "or about 00.000 of our population in-seead of the 140.000 which whTbe provided for If the present contract is carried out.

The proposed branch of elevated road vr3r benefit to the eaat rtde of the Bronx. can now go from One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Street to West Farms, by trolley cars, quicker than in the elevated structure. This proposition gives us practically nothing, and asks us to yield Nilea. Chairman of the Rapid Transit Committee ot the Taxpayers' Al- nance, said: Tli Taxpayers Alliance voted down the abandonment of the One Hundred and f7'5lnAb 8trftet Hnk two months affo. I think if we allowed the Rapid Transit Commission to abandon that link be suicidal to our Interests.

If we did we uukiii jusi aa wen give up rapid transit and go home, for I don't think we would ever see It north of the Harlem Rivera There are, however, many Bronx residents who say they are not as sanguine regarding rapid transit aa they were a year Charles M. Kajeppel. a real estate1 dealer and member 'of the North Side Board of Trade, when asked for his opinion regarding rapid transit ln the Borough of the En nx said: Several years ago a representative of Ths Naw Tone Tin as called and Interviewed me with regard to my idea as to the possibility of the Bronx receiving rapid transit. At that time I said that the only rapid transit we could hope for would be the existing surface railroads, namely the New York Central, the Putnam Division of the Harlem Railroad, and the New York. New Haven and Hartford.

After the Rapid Transit Commission had given public hearings to delegations representing the North Side Board of Trade, Property Owners' Alliance. Twenty-third Ward Property Owners' Association, and others, and after having encouraged them in the belief that the Bronx would not be- neglected. In fact, after having awarded the contracts for the Improvement, the north side Is Ignored, because the commission says that there la not sufficient money to take care of the Bronx, as Is stated lr a communication to J. C. Davies of the North Side Board of Trade i from Chief Enctneer Parsona.

i Last 6undaya papers gays, illustrations showing the eoratemp'ated improvements on the Orand Central Station at Forty-second Street, which are to connect the Vanderbilt roads. with the rapid transit which In Itself shows conclusively that the railroad companies have persistently worked against the Bronx In matters ot ranld transit, and would only sanction It where they would resn the benefit, which without a doubt will be a harvest to them In every sense of the word. The time is ripe for a most vigorous end hearty protest against the methods employed by the eorportlons whose roala run through the Bronx; It Is time for the people to unite as one man to fight for their rights." National Wool Growers' Convention. SALT LAKE. Utah, Jan.

10. Seventeen States and were represented at the National Wool Growers Convention, which met here, to-day. Vice President F. P. Bennett delivered tha opening; address.

Among the subjects discussed were: 8heep raising In forest reserves, freight rates, the skirting clause. Government Inspection of sheep, leasing of Government and the tariff queatlon aa affecting the sheen Industry. Senator Francis Wae.n elected President and p. Bennett of 4 1 Mr. Godard Sues for Heavy Damagea.

SYRACUSE, N. Jan. 19. Alonso Godard of Liverpool, N. who was Injured In a head-on collision on the Borne, Water-town and Ogdensburg Division of the New York Central in thTs city Nov.

SI i haa brought suit against the Jfew York Central iw $00,000 damages, APPROVED CLAIMS i BEFORE THE SENATE It Nearly I to Satisfy Them Dk ibis Pay" to the Amount of 1507,120 Asked foi Fleet of Old Vassals Some "yplcal "Old 8leMer." If Sp4t'u I tt Tt A'ra IV Tmti WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. When Senator Money mad)' an effort, a ahort time ago, to Induce tha Senate to take up and pass a bill that Would take some 18,000.000 to 1 10,000,000 iit of Treasury and give It to person who claim to have been on lawfully deprived ot property to that amount during tbe war of the rebellion, tbe attack mad upon the Treasury aroused tbe watchdogs at both ends of tho Capitol, and some account was taken ln a general way ef the kross demands upon the Government for payment of claims. Tbe aggregate waa stated at anywhere from to $500,000,000. The last figure ts probably quite Inclusive of all manner of claims preferred and that have and have not yet met with the approval of tbe Committees on Claims la the two branches of Congress.

Very close computation can be made! however, of the amount that mem bere of the Senate, through the Committee on Claims ofj that body, haa declared to be worthy of payment. i The session is not yet over, and the Claims Committee may meet many Units before the adjournment of Congress. It baa been Industrious, and It baa reported with favor, thus Indicating Its opinion that the.fiuras demanded should be paid, bills that carry certainly $13,500,000, and other bills permitting prosecutions to be brought ln the Court of Claima that may later Impose additional heavy obligations upon the Government and burdens upon the cheerful taxpayer. This Is the account as It is made "out from the calendar of the 8enate ahd from the text of the ap proved bills and the accompanying- re ports: Whole amount causd for specifically by hills reported Reported by Senator $233,078 Reported by Senator Iepew J.2U0 Reported by senator Keaa tu.454 Reported by Senator McCumber ei.2& Reported by Senator McLaurin. Indefinite Reported by Seeator Martin eO.841 Reported by Senator Mason.

S.0S3.433 Reported by Senator Rawlias Reported by Senator Stewart 81.7aS Reported by Senator Taliaferro 65,258 Reported by Senator Reported by Senator sO.600 This list shows that some Senators have been more considerate of claimants than others, and that Chairman Stewart baa not reserved to himself the right to put the heaviest bills on the calendar. Senator Mason and Senator Teller are the most generous In their Indications of willingness to have the Treasury relieved of some of Its of the more than JJet. Maaon's credit would go out If the bill reported by him and pressed by Mr. Money to recover money said to be due under the old "captured and abandoned property act should M.r- Teller's legislative key to the Treasury an omnibus." which car- nl 'oad of veteran claims. Bomei of them may be found on the calendar Iseparately.

but the persons Interested In them, seldom ln any case the persons for whom the original obligation was supposed to have been contracted, desire to have the benefit of inclusive or separate action. BOMB MISCELLANEOUS CLAIMS. Senator Teller's omnibus bill carries appropriations! of $4,709,909 for State claims and $904,677 for miscellaneous claims. Among the miscellaneous claims is one for $15,000 by W. JR.

Austin for getting; up a list of members of the Grand Army of the Republic, fn 1887, which was found to be useless when, la 1900. the Eleventh Census was completed. W. 11. Crook renews his effort to get $4,000 for signing land warrants for the President from 1879 to Crook is disbursing officer at the hits House.

I and besides paying off all bands he was I assigned to sign these patents. He has been trying since the Forty-seventh Congress. Another old claim, originating ln the FortWlfth Congress, is that of James M. Wlllbur. for tiling In the Post Office Building at New York.

This claim was fori $12,000 when it waa made, and It has grtwn to $13,615. most of the added amount being required, presumably, to satisfy the demands of successive attorneys who havej tried to get It through Congress. The work for which the claim was made was performed by certain and their Contract was satisfied. Will-bur could not! get anything aa a subcontractor from the contractors In chief, -so he came to the Treasury, which, after an investigation. Offered him $1,214 to get rid of htm.

He refused the offer. The claim has been as high aa $32,000. It ought to be said just her, before going further to i describe some of the snore Interesting claims and their origin, that most of the bills that bav been favored by th Claims Commute of th Senate are v.u wiuicriw. inriuvm IUSI Dire Deefz consecrated by the favorable action of Congresses aa far back as the It Is common to find bills that have been before one or both houses since the Fiftieth Congress. -It waa admitted In debate In the Senate, en the urgent questioning of Senator Bpooner, that If is the practice, la the Committee; 'on Claima to allow any member to report any bill Introduced If it has ever been reported favorably before.

That has the advantage of lessening tbe work of claJmanta or the purchasers of claims In accumulating fortunea that should have been enjoyed, perhaps, by unrelated persons long yeara ago. There le a pretty little bunch of approved bills I claima for payment of charges upon vessels constructed for th United States Navy during the civil war. All of these vessels have been fully paid for. under the terms of th contracts made with the Government. But a board, called the Bel fridge Board, that seems to have been wllllnrr toi allow anything, once upon a time decided that more money ought to have been paid far some gunboats and monitors than was paid when the contracts were satisfied.

Already a great deal of money has been obtained by legal representatives of the men who constructed these vessels, a whole fleet of them. It is asserted that most ot the money awarded has gone to one man, who haa contrived to secure the claims, and that bv personal at-tentlona to members of both houses he haa won so much favor that no legislative diner at his Lucullian feasts would thlnki of voting against a bill to increase hi easily made fortune. This tittle bunch of claima for vessels not paid for In the estimation of the Pel-ridge Board fmounta to $507,130. Th items, and the Senators who have asked the Congress to sanction them, are aa follows: Senator Denew Thr tugboats excess awarded- by ooara n. ii 1 1 000 Gunboats Meucomet and Mendota 51.

aril Chlcooee and Tallapoosa 40.aM Osceola and et.Soo Josoo ILToa Senator McCumber Macktnbw iimi Senator Taliaferro s.wi 8eor.rr.nlai8h,Wk-"-"-----' tasapee 7 Msssasoit i clMC.i,,lV.-vV Indefinite Senator Allen; bas a very comfortable group of cases to look after. Tbe estate of Eli Ayres wants $155,000 to compensate it for some land purchased In lft and said to have been much more valuable tha they were when they were sold. There la no statement of th amount required to meet the btll toi readjust salaries of Post, masters between 184 and 1874. Th legal representatives of James Boyle want $7,029 to compensate Boyle, long since dead, for having served a Secretary ot the Navv In IKU while holding the offic of Chief Clerk of th department. Other legal representatives of A.

G. Boone desire to be presented with $12,291 aa the amount In value of the sen-vices rendered by Boone in 181 in securing a treaty with the Chey. nnea that waa advantageous to th Government, th Interior Department having refused to give this money because Boon was paid as an Indian agent while performing the services. QUEER-LpOKTNO VETERANS. -There are soma queer-looking veterans la th long Ust reported by Senator Keen, although hla list does not foot up ao por- tentously as some shorter ones.

Agnes nut Maria Leon ask for $1,000 for rent house at Albuquerque. New Mexico, by th United SUtes from ISM to laeL Daniel M. Burner wants $20 for a valuable hart Uken from his father many years B. K. who is according t9 the report on his claim, wants $507 sail ta be due on a mall contract fined before th war of th rebellion ln Kentucky and Ten-be.

Mr. Kean's largest proposed drafts upon th Treasury ar to pay for vessels already paid for. but which claimants be. -llev ther Is a prospect of getting paid fo i over again. Among th claims reported by Senator McCumber is on preferred rmZgZ for lnlury don to tbe house cf Thomas Powell, in Tennessee, in 1063, tbe bin n-ans? for $10,523, It is assumed that ther to doobt ol Powell's loyalty because waa paid for supplies furnished by him in Cel.

John S. Mosby has a claim the Senate, with th approval of Senator Martin; to be paid th value of 7.600 pounds of tobacco seised by th United Bute la war time. Senator Mason asks $5. 000 to pay th widow of a man named Hennlng who was kilted by a box that fell out of a Uclted States warehouse on Henning's head. Will-lam Leech stepped Into an elevator shaft In th Treasury on March.

29. ISO. and nja been helpless sine: he wastts Mra. Lavlnla Payne aska for ST.0U) for supplies taken at Baflev's Crossroads early tn th rebellion. Flora Darling ask to hare $5.63 given to her because she was bothered while under a Unltad States flag of true at New Orleans during1- the rebellion.

She waa then sua. pected of being a spy. and the report shows that she sympathlaed with her rebel hus. band, wbo was a prisoner, whom she was visiting. Senator Stewart has some veterans on hi string." Payne.

James A Co. want to obtain $82,750 for rrocerte destroyed by Federal authorltle fn Tennessee during the rebellion. Then he has reported another interesting measure. It Is a bill to glv Winiam J. Murtagh.

publisher of The Na. tiona 1 Republican many years ago. which Murtagb Insists he ought to bar been paid for publishing advertising that had not been properly authorised to publish, but which Gen. Orant assured him should be paid for. Rllev Montrey.

a man who led a rescue party Into th Sierra Ne- vada Mountains In to find a party of emigrants caught la the snow, and who I eld and the last survivor of the rescue -party, would like to have something, a wmivnaoiv uiu ciaim zavoreo dv air. Stewart Is that of th administrator of Haller Nutt. who asks to km tvv.t&A handed over ta him In consideration of JlS! furnished to th. United States in Anna M. Coleman desires to secure permission to sue for the recovery of $30,000 tn stores seized In 1885.

Senator Taliaferro favors th claim of George T. Hamilton, who. In ISfiS. when sixteen years of are. was injured by a shot -at Stanton.

Del. He desires to have 5.0O. becaose th injuries he received, and th fart that Is fifty-three years of eg snd baa lght children, ntltl him to receive this indication of a liberal Government appreciation of long suffering and Industry. Senator Warren has on hia list the claim of Geonr Rushberjrer. who asks to be given So.000 for capturing Santa Ana's money at Cerro Gordo.

Mexico, in April. 1847. Th. estate of W. W.

Burns asks through Mr. Warren for royalties on Sibley tents, to th tun of 17.987. and there Is another bill reported for although Sibley was supposed to be ruled out because be was a rebel and forfeited the half royalty to which would have beefl entitled nrip Ms m. tract with Burns. George F.

Roberts and others are favored ln their demand for the restoration of some paid ta whisky taxes. It I- rf this svf that th- antn $13,000,000 Is mad up. As to the real Its of most of th cases it Is very doubtful If th Senators reporting; them would venture to do more -than reiterate their confidence in their predecessors who mid th original Investigations and reports. ry few of these, bills will ret the elg-nature of th President thla session. Th grafters who are waiting behind thm.

prepared to take advantage of th first opportunity to realise, are not needy persons, suffering Iter for th necessities of lift, but for the most part ar second-hand, dealers In claima, carrying large stocks. -and willing to wait longer to reap la-g profits. E. SWINDLED OUT OF $20. Sharp Practice by Two on Charlee Bower, a Shirt -Manufacturer.

Charles Bower, mannfaetnrer of ahlei and retail furnisher, of 30 West Thlrtluth Street, went to- th West Thirtieth Street' Police Station last night and reported what termed on of th slickest flimflam gam a man -rr ran up bad been robbed of $20 and some merchandise by two strangers, and he told th following story of how cleverly they commit ted the theft before bis very eyes: -t "Just a llttl while ago two fellows ra-terd ray store and asked to see om shirts and collars. One of them was tall and blond, th other ahort and The tail on bought $4JS3 worth of foods and hitd-ed me a twenty-dollar bill, and I gav htoa his change. He went away with tOa com panion, -rney returned soon, and th tali -on said to me: Would yoa mind letting bav that twenty back? I had forgotten that law sister gave it to me to mall to my mother I agreed. Then he handed tn an en- velop and asked that I plac tho twenty Inside it. a hi hands were too cold for eaveiopw was aaaressea to- urn, E.

Johnson, 137 Washington Avenue, wasnmgton. D. and In on corner was the reminder, that it waa to be returned, if, trndelivered. to T. M.

Johnson, New York: Post Office. I pat tbe bill In. Th man gave me a roll of small bin. Baying: Yen had better count that carefully to see tf It Is correct I counted, and found only $19. Lan-ed again, with th sain re- suit.

The tail stranger aald he must have made a and that he would Just step over to the bouse and get tho vmsr oouir irom us Th two went out. carrying the $lu with them, bat l. thought, th twanty-dollax 2.1 1 Mt V.nd'p mZ bnd In th envelop, which, aatar aa I could tell, had been tyiutr on in counter all durlna tn conversation. Wba tbey bad been rone for om lit-tl time. I began to wonder.

Then I took envelope and opened It. Inside there scraps of paper, that waa had exchanged th envelope which I bad filled with cash for another one Just like It." -Capt. Thomas told Mr. Bowr that he would put detectives at work oa the casew nd htra ot th result. Tn merchant said that he had llttl hop of capt-urln the swindlers.

Anybody who could VrfsF Bt ta tnlfAsTs Sft as a awsa sVWa. a a St ttip'SiV bVaaidr raucn proramty in Albany. SPteial Tht Ktw Ytrk Tim. ALBANY, Jan. clergy of Albany ar at th present tlm agitated over th -marked increase la profanity beard oa th streets and In th public place of th city.

Th view that the coming of the members of th Legislature had anything to do wlU this Increase haa not ben expressed, but coincident with th arrival of tha legislat-ora a mass meeting waa held, th object of -which was to diminish th practice. speakers at this meeting was Simon V. Rosendaie. ex-Attorney General, who spoke at aome length on the reverence la which, th nam of God was held among: th ancient Jews. Ithaca Man Missing.

ITHACA, N. Jan. Andrews, President of th Cornell Incubator Company of Ithaca, left her tea days ago for Rochester. Sine that time be bn heard from despite repeated effort of bis family and friend to discover his whereabouts, lis waa expected to Mm. i.

i day- It 1 generally feared that he has ralWiinA0.u, 'ajri tlaance ar la good condition, and ther Is no known reason why he should abeent himself for auch length of time when preang egag ments demanded his pre ao her. A MUtourl Bank. Defilcatroru RICHMOND. Jan. si amlner Clark baa finished his lnveatlxH-Uon of th Ray County Bank's affairs, to discover th amount Ot th alleged abort- 8h0tU.

th mlaalcg ndt.b." llren th flgurei Couund1.1 beKyrha Oold Discovered Near Victoria. VlCTOniA, B. Jan. haa bwa found la pa! quantlUe. o.

the betcn -l.