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"Ail the News That's: Fit to Print" THE Rain brisk "east winds. A VOL. GOV. DDELL DEFIES PUTT Says He Will Veto the Senator's Police Bill If It Is Passed. Examines the Proposed Measure and Tells Young Piatt He Repudiates It Refuses.

He Says, to be a Man of Clay." ALBANT, March 20. Gov. Odell has positively and formally declined to sign any Police bill. lie has repudiated the new bill Brawn by Senator Piatt and his friends, and said to-night that If the measure came to him he would veto It, even If It was made plain that it would pasaed over his veto. Frank Piatt, son of Senator Thomas C.

Piatt, arrived here to-night with the newly prepared bllL It provides for the re-enactment of the Metropolitan Police bill of 1857, but Including; some territory contiguous. to Mew York City. It also provides that without disturbing the present conditions in New Tork City, the Governor shall appoint a Commissioner, the question of whoso right to the office; hall be carried immediately to the courts, and who In the Interim shall not Interfere with the present police arrangements la New York If the bill be declared unconstitutional, then the State shall at once assume control of the police. Mr. Piatt told the Governor that the bill had been decided upon by those representing the organization, and that he desired a decision as to the Governor's attitude on the measure.

His suggestion was that the Governor should send In a message suggesting the passage of the measure. The Governor replied' that he could not see. the reason for such legislation at this time. He had repudiated general legislation In his annual message, and the party had agreed with him. He had signed a New York City Police bill and the party had agreed with him.

He added: "I will not send In a message urging such a bill. If possible I will remain on friendly terms with Senator Piatt, but If auch a bill comes to me I will veto it. If the legislature cares to take the responsibility of passing the bill. over my veto, very well, but' I refuse to be a ma clay, and I wUl not stultify Then Gov. Odell went to the banquet of the Republican Editorial Association and made merry.

A conference of State leaders baa been called In New York by Senator Piatt for Saturday. Gov. Odell baa positively re-fused to attend. JUSTICE. GOODRICH'S DISCLAIMER.

Justice W. Goodrich, Presiding Justice' of the Appellate" Division of the Bupteme Court," In" he Second Department, yesterday expressed his annoyance at the publication In various Manhattan newspapers that be had been assisting In the work of drawing up a 8 tale Constabulary bill In connection with several other lawyers. He said: I have applications made to me by cltl-sens, doubtless based on this report, asking for some provisions which ought to be Inserted in such bill. I want to say that neither Senator Piatt nor any other person has requested my assistance in the matter: that I have not taken any part nor given any advice in the construction of such a bill. It is obvious that It would be a breach of Judicial etiquette for me to do so.

Such a bill may be the subject of judicial inventus Ion as to Its Constitutionality, and consequently might be brought before the Appellate Division." DETECTI VESSCOURING TH CITY Commissioner Murphy May Make Pub- i lie To-day the Results of Their Work. Police Commissioner -Murphy said last evening that to-day he might make public the results of the scouring of this borough by members of Chief Titus's command to discover what places where the law la habitually violated, which were on a list furnished by Chairman Nixon of the Tammany Hall Investigating Committee, were open. CoL Murphy added that he might also make public the list Capt Titus was yesterday summoned to the Criminal Court Building to a conference With District Attorney PhUbin. Charges and specifications against Ward-man Lyons of the Twenty-second Precinct, who is charged with receiving protection money from Mrs. Hamilton, were served on him yesterday.

He will be tried on Monday. Col. Murphy said that he might conduct the trial If department business did not require his attention. If this ts the case Lyons will be tried by Deputy Commissioner Devery. Jacob Hess, one of the last Board of Polk Commissioners, went yesterday to the Central Office to secure a certificate which will release him from his bonds of aa Treasurer of the former department.

TO RAISE BLACK CATS. Cenaeetirat Cescera Betas; Organised with l.OOO Capital. Special to Tkt New York Timet. WINSTED. March SO.

A company Is being organised here, with a capital stock of $1,000, to raise black cats. Edward A. Nellis. High Sheriff of the county; H. Mac-D.

Allen, a stock broker, and Burton E. Moore, a real estate dealer, are the pro-rooters of the enterprise. The skins of biack cats are quoted at SO cents, and. there being no law to protect felines and the fact that they are not subject to taxation, has led the promoters to believe that a good proftr can be realized in breeding them. An Angora cat company, capitalised at has just been organised in Winsted, and it is possible that the two companies will be tnerged.

INDEX TO DEPARTMENTS. Stocks Irregular. Financial Affairs. Pages 12. 13, and 14.

Wheat. No. 2 red. 81c; corn. No.

2 mixed. 4Mc; oats. No. 2 mixed, cotton, middling, 7-lc; Iron, Northern No. 1 foundry, $16.

Commercial Page 10. Amusements. Page 8. Arrivals at Hotels and Out-of-Town Buyers. Page a.

Business Troubles. Page 10. Court Calenaars. Page 11. Insurance Notes.

Page 12. Legal Notes. Page 5. Losses by Fire. Page S.

Railroads. Page 3. Marine Intelligence and Foreign Malls. JPage 10. New Corporations.

Page 13. -C Real Estate. Page 14, 1 foclety. Page 0. TTnlted Service.

Page 5. Weather Report. page 3. Yesterday's Fires. Page 3.

ia.OO ROCSD TRIP 1S.OO. laehidina meal mad stateroom aeeommodatloas upon Old Domlntoa steemers to Old Faint Com-t't an4 Norfolk. Moat dollKhtful Bprlng trip eat of Mew Terh. Steamer every week day. Adv.

STRIKE RIOT AT MARSEILLES. Several 8oldlera Injured Townspeople Panle-strlcken Government In a Difficult Position. MARSEILLES, March CO. The situation here la very disquieting, owing to the Increasingly aggressive attitude of the strikers. During disorders to-day the townspeople were panic-stricken, and stores, restaurants, and cafes were hurriedly closed.

The leading thoroughfares of the city were deserted. It waa feared that the mob, which was charged by mounted gendarmes and hussars, would attempt to pillage, A crowd numbering 2,000 burst through a cordon of Infantry along the dock side. The cavalry charged and drove the strikers stones was then thrown In all directions, and a brigadier, two gendarmes, a hussar, and several Infantrymen were injured. One gendarme was stunned, thrown from his horse, and trampled upon the cavalry. He waa removed to a hospital, where he Ilea In a critical condition.

v.h,. wer rreatly exasperated, thern. offtcer succeeded In controlling The French Government Is In an m5Tas8lns position, especially th.e Minister of Commerce. The Socialists demand that the Government Intervene In favor of the strikers, and are disgruntled at the employment of troop. On the other hand, the Government is urged to take vigorous measures to se-c of labor, especially In view i.

5ct foreign element, chiefly whJch Preponderates among the striking dock laborers, is utterly Indifferent to the fate of Marseilles. A SCHOOL GIRL MISSING. Police Are Searching for Mabel Connor, a Student of the Normal College. Mabel Connor, eighteen years old, daughter of Thomas Connor, a shoe merchant of Hudson. N.

and who since last September has lived with her aunt. Mrs. Daniel Jordan of 121 West Forty-first Street in order that she might attend the Normal College at Park Avenue and Sixty-eighth Street, has been missing since Tuesday morning. She started for the college at the usual hour In the morning, but she did not reach there, and a diligent search of the homes of her school friends and the city institutions failed to yield any clue to he-whereabouts. The matter was yesterday placed In the hands of the police, and they, with a number of private detectives employed by Mr.

Connor, were last night scouring the Tenderloin for her, as her aunt's home is in that district. The anxiety of Miss Connor's relatives, however. Is somewhat lightened by the knowledge once before she disappeared In a similar manner. When she went away Tuesday morning she had her books and luncheon with her, and wore a gray Alpine hat, black velvet coat, and checked skirt She Is of slight build with unusually rosy cheeks and gray eyes and looks at least two V.BP, VAim kaM V. 1 IT i .1 i I vuo.

ou to. ner until ves i hnr i that she wandered off while ment- uy oeruiKea irora Her last disappearance was two years ago. while she was attending school in Hudson. She was found wandering through the woods on the outskirts of that city, and her parents kept her from school for several Her father Is in the city assisting in the search, and her mother Is stopping with Mrs. Jordan so aa to act the first tidings of the girl.

TRUST COMPANIES COMBINE. The Gaardlan of Baltimore Absorbed by the Marylaao. $fceiat Tkt At York Times. BALTIMORE. March, 20.

NegotJaUons were completed to-day for the sale of the Guardian Trust and Deposit Company to the Maryland Trust Company. The latter company will absorb the former by exchanging Its stock for the Guardian's on a basis of one share of Maryland for two of Guardian. Knowledge of the consolidation sent the stocks of both companies up with a rush on the Baltimore Exchange. At a meeting of the Directors of the Guardian Company they agreed to accept the offer of the Marvland Company and to recommend similar action to the stockholders. The total assets of the Maryland Trust Company amount to thow of the Guardian Company to John H.

Blake is President of the Guardian and J. Willcox Brown President of the Maryland. The Directors in both companies include some of the wealthiest and rnost nromliient business men In Baltimore. The fine new ten-story building of thn Guardian Company under the deal passes Into the possession of the Maryland Company. POLICEMAN WANTS AH" ISLAND.

A Chicago Officer Lays Claim to One of the Bahamas. Special to The New York Timet. CHICAGO, March of the Bahama Islands, or a part of it. will fall Into the possession ofPoliceman William Henessy of the Attrilf Street Station. At least information of this sort has reached Mr.

Henessy. He Is not quite positive whether he will get the whole island, but he hopes so. Anyway, he says be will have some of It through the death of a long-lost uncle, John Scanlon, capitalist, trader, and bachelor. The search for the heirs of the Scanlon estate occupied a law firm In the Bahamas for ome time, while Mr. Henessey was traveling a post or doing plain clothes duty out toward the "Jumplng-off place" In Milwaukee Avenue.

Finally a relative chanced to see an advertisement In a newspaper inquiring for any one who would like to claim a Bahama Island which was among the possessions of John Scanlon. Mr. Hcneeay's attention was called to the advertisement and papers are now being prepared to prove the heirship. As there are only two or three claimants It is possible there may be a vacancy on the police force. Canadian Duty on American Lumber.

Special to Tkt New York Timet. OTTAWA, March 20. The House of Commons to-day discussed a resolution proposed by Mr. Bennett of Slmcoe to make the duty imposed on lumber Imported Into Canada equal to the "United States duties on Canadian lumber. This would mean that an import duty of fcj per thousand would be imposed.

The Manitoba and Northwest members opposed the resolution and the British Columbia members supported It. Mr. Charlton, lumberman, came out strongly for the duty. He said that the United 8tates was loading Canada with cheap grades of lumber at less than cost. W.

C. Edwards of Ottawa, another lumberman, who Is an out-and-out free trader, opposed the duty. The resolution was not disposed of when the House adjourned. CUBAN TO DECIDE TO-MORROW. March 20.

The Committee on Relations to-day decided to hold a meeting to-morrow, when the report on the Piatt amendment will be discussed finally. Scnor Juan Gualberto Gomes, who drew up the report, asserts that four of the five members of the committee will recommend the Constitutional Convention not to accept the amendment, but to leave the question to the future republic. He says he is confident that the convention, which will meet Friday, will adopt the report. Empire State Express Delayed. For the first time in a year the Empire State Express pulled into the Grand Central Station last night an hour late.

schedule time is The engineer said he was running at a aeventy-mile-an-hour. rate and was forty-four miles this side of Albany, (which must have brought him near Poughkeepsie.) when something happened to his headlight. This is a very powerful Vght. and is almost a searchlight. The whole front of It had been smashed in some unknown manner, and three train lanterns were rigged up in place of It.

Faster than Kvr ta; California. Kvry eimf ta the ytur the Overland Limited loaves Chicago P. M. via th shortest rout. and Northwestern.

Union and Bouthern faclflo Railways, and arrives Kan Francisco P. M. third day. Best of everything. Doubl drawing room steering ears, buffet, library car.

wth barber, and dining cars. Pull Informattoa at Northwestern Una Office 411 Broadway. Adv. NEW YORK THUESDAY, MAK0H 2L lOOLSIXTEEN PAGES. UR.

ROSSIlfeaOUI OF BROOKLYN TRiHSIT 4 He Resigns a Meetings of the Directors. Boards tf J. L. Greatslnger, Reported to be Backed by Portei-FloW Influence," Mr Roeslte ra 8ucceaaor. Clinton I Rosclter.

President of the Brooklyn Ranld (Transit and Brooklyn Heights' Railroad Companies, resigned as President and Dlrector of both companies yesterday afternook at special meetings of the Boards of Directors held at the office of Anthony N. ady. Chairman of the Board, at 54 Wall BtreeL The resignation cepted, and J. I 4t Mr. Rosslter was ac- preatstAger waa elected President and Director to fill the vacancies thus created.

Mr. Greatslnger la the Presl- dent of the Minnesota Iron Company and its constituent companlea, including the Duluth and yIron I Range Railroad. Mr. Greatslnger has bein identified with H. H.

Porter of the Federal Steel Company, and his appointment waa attributed In Wall Street circles to the Porter-Flower lnflu- ence In the Brooki- Rapid Transit Com- pany. Every member excepUon of Capt the board, with the R. Somers Hayes, was present at the meetings. The Directors adopted the follow mg resolution in regard to Mr. Rossiter's services: I Resolved.

That in accepting the resignation of Mr. L. Rossltir as r-resiaent toe board aesires to express Its earnestness, loyalty. Ind ability with which he nas dlscoaj-ged the dbtiea oi on ice lor ta T1 irtnv that mWm! vnoa or nearly six the; railroad propertl have steaiillv ImnmvMH Iwith rin.npi.l 11 and 'hyslcally. the system has ln greatly, enlarged company's history have ana at no time in uia the nonitltlnn nMMitpv tor complete success ara at nan in Ibeen so favorabl as tKv alccompllshing thesa results Mr.

Rossiter's Influei i ana eiioru nave been loreroost. ana In the he proposes to dev iieias oi errort to which nimseu tnis board ri- tends to btm its slnc4r wtsnea lor similar sue- Resolved. That the JSecreUry be Instructed to transmit an engrossed copy oc tne above resolu- tion to air. Rosslter. The appointment of Mr.

Greatslnger. It was stated. Indicated a change of policy on the part of the Urooklyn Rapid Transit Company. In Mr Greatslnger the road who is said to be not now has a Presided so much a flnanc! tr as he is a practical railway man. whe possesses an "actual Knowledge of the peratlon of a railroad, was further stated, be mis selection will, followed bv other taianges, not so much in the personnel of the management as in the methods of operation.

The chief points in tnis cnange are said to be Increased econu- mies ana a greatet effort to cater to tha convenience ana en the traveling nuhlli cofcifort of that portion of which patronises the nelt system. waa resent at th Brooklyn Rapid Trf jar. meetings and was Introduced to the Dlrect- ors. refused after- ara to see reporters. Jie expects to resi assume his new was bora In Elrr Hide In Brooklvn and will les without delay.

Ho a. N. about, fiftv lmii-a. years ago and was Free Academv. educated at the Elmtrit began railroad life on firing switch engines.

tho Erie Railrcad, Aiterwara ne serv city from fireman ketl in almost every caps- to General Manacrer or tne various rn prising tho old X't, Railrcad Company, lroad properties, com- tJca, Ithaca and Elm Ira now a part of the It rugn vauey systei serving ur.aer Prenl- Kara Cornell. nents jyiuiam I. Poor p. Edwin Hn. In 1888 he Btrt.

Elltirldge. and Austin Cor- went West to accent the" lM8ition of master the Chicago and mechanic 6f what Is now stern Illinois Railroad Company. master mechanic the Duluth and Ir years titer, he wa post of General Sut a Range Railroad two soon promoted to the Surlprintendent. and in lcrj was elected Presll ent of that railroad. which position he Mr.

Greatslnger 1 since occupied. ast December wag cho- sen to succeed D. H. Bacon as President ot Company and all of its the Minnesota iron constituent compan les. Konstter a slter.

now First brother of E. V. W. Ros- Vlte rresldent and prcvl- ounly Treasurer of ttho Nw Vork Central. J-le was present, a At their close he vesterdaVs meetings.

(Inclined to spe-ik of his future plans, beyond a etntement that intended to taae a Irest. He was asked If ne was going to i Jit urn to the New York Central Koad, and All I can say a eplled: this time Is that I ara going to take a re? wnen neen inter tague Street. Broi ht his office, 1 Mon- Brooklyn, i vn. Mr. jossiter en id a voluntarily and that that he hart resign he had been offer-! anotner Place tr the but had Late In the nftei refused to ncctpt it.

ifterioon it was, declared in financial circles th Mr. Torter had stic- ceeded Mr. Brady ad CKatrman of the Board of Directors of the Ccn'pary. No such prookryn Karid Transit statement was author. ixed at the.

latter Mr. Porter sjiid tha bffice, while a friend of tne report waa nrema- ture. He did not Irteny that the position I Mr. Porter, but he in- had been offered tlmated that the t4 increasing ycrs. together with his other Interests, might cause him to dec! ne tne unairmansbip.

Mr. Brady a should not be resignation. ion. it was aaceu. an an indication that accepted his interests in the transit company are in any way diminished SMUGGLING AT THIS fORT.

Application of ew Orders Discloses state or Affairs Which Astonishes Treasury WASHINGTON, March 20. Collector of Customs Bldwell oil New York was In the city to-day conferring with Assistant Sec- retary of the Treas ry Spauldlng regarding the reorganised conditions at the New York Custom House. He brought figures to show that the duties from passengers on four steamers arriving last Thursday, Friday, and Saturdky were $22,000 greater aboard steamers, of than from passengers the same lines on corresponding days last year. The extent of the smuggling disclosed by the new system in New xorx nas almost dumfounded the Treasury officials. Inves- tlgatlon resulting from these disclosures has revealed the fafct that a large number gera.

supposedly wo- of transatlantic passengers. men of wealth and faahion. were in fact milliners and dress makers regularly smug- gling goods from capitals. It is asserted Pairls ana otner that the disclosures are near future in soma likely to result In the radical changes a Boston, Philadelphia, large cities whence Baltimore, and othrr transatlantic liners kalL FIREMEN RESCUE CHILDREN. Simon Weil's 8ock of Dry Good Damaged $5,000.

Fire started last right in the basement ot the two-story brick building 2.823 Third a dry goods store am! Avenue, occupied a dwelling by Simon Weil, his wife, and six children. Well and his wife were attend- lng a down-town th A passing poltcem hka tee an saw the smoke com-4 windows In the bulld- ins; irom one si in nar and nutcklv tui turhed in an alarm. When the firemen arrived .1 they found the place smoke. After an hour's filled with a dense wrvrlr tha fir a was under control. The is estimated at XX ftnrt damage to the stock and to the nuiiaing Tha sis children at bf, who were up- a nart men ta lri.il lit stairsl In the Uvlnf come down the back by the smok-r telrs, but were driven They then made their were rescued by fire- way to tne root an men with ladders.

Porto Rlean Ed itor Coming Here. SAN JUAN, Portd March 20. Sen or Democracia, left for Abnll, editor of New Tork yesterdd to purchase a plant with which to start the new-paper of the Federal Party Sefktr Munos Rivera, who will salt May 1. wll edit the paper, the on Ject of which win I leans a. nfore inte to create amonxAmer- iifgent interest in forto Kieaa ai lairs.

COPTBIQBT, 1B0L BT THH NSW TORJC XlMSTCOlCPAirT. CABINET POST FOR WOLCOH; It Declared that the Ex-Senator -la to Succeed Mr, Hitchcock at 1 Secretary of the Interior, PUEBUO. Col, Joarcli DaBy Chieftain win say to-morrow: -Itls definitely known here that ex-. Senator Edward O. Wolcott of Colorado will in a few days be appointed by the President to be Secretary of the Interior, to succeed Mr.

Hitchcock. The news baa been received by friends of Mr. Wolcott In this city, the statement being made un-equlvocally, and it la Indicated that the announcement will be made In Washington MR. GAGE TO BUY NO BONDS. Secretary Says He Does Not Contemplate Using the Surplua In That Manner.

SPciai Is Tkt Ntw Ytrk Timtt. WASHINGTON," March 20. Secretary Gage said to-day that the report that be proposed to buy bonds with the Increasing surplus waajiot Justified by anything, that he had said about the condition of the Treasury or because he contempt ted a bond purchase. There was no such purchase in contemplation, and there would be no Immediate use of the surplus In that way. It Is true that the receipts were large, and that it was apparent that with all de-manda upon the Treasury honored, there would still be a surplus at the end of the fiscal year of something like toO.OOO.OOO.

The estimate made at the close of 1900 that the surplus would be $80,000,000 was given without making due allowance for some large military expenditures that must be met. Another Treasury officer said that if the Secretary had intended to buy bonds and expected to be able to do so with advantage to the Government, it was not at all probable that he would advertise the fact to the market, and thus thwart the purpose of obtaining them at the rate that private buyers could obtain them. Some caution is to be observed in getting rid of excessive revenues during the early part of the next fiscal year, when there win be a falling, off In internal revenue, and continued heavy obligations to be met on account of the army and navy. With the continuance of business activity, the maintenance of our large exports and the absence of new disturbances abroad, it la hoped that the revenues of the next year will In good measure be employed to reduce the National Indebtedness and to lighten the burden of interest charges upon the people. TO KEEP DOWN PENSION LIST.

Medical Inquiry to Be Made in Each Case of Disability Reported When Volunteers Are Discharged. Special to Tkt New York Timet. WASHINGTON, March. 20. Secretary Root's order regarding the muster-out of the volunteers next June makes some unusually stringent provisions to avoid the padding of the pension roll.

Under it a thorough physical examination must be made of all officers and enlisted men except Generals, officers of the general staff, and officers detached from the regular army immediately prior to their muster-out or discharge. 3 When an organisation is about to be mustered out each officer and enlisted man will be required to fill out a blank form describing his physical condition. This blank will be certified by his commanding The papers will be given toAhe mustering officer, -w ho will cause a physical' examinatlorto bo-made, papers will be completed byJv medical officer detailed for the duty. Any officers or menho ctalm to nave a disability of which, the medical officer can find no evidence. or claim to have a disability incurred in line of duty while the medical officer Is of opinion that it was not so incurred, will be examined Immediately by a board of three medical officers, which will make a full report of the case.

If the medical officers fall to agree with regard to-the case, a separate minority report will be made by the dissenting officer: The papers will be turned over to the mustering officer, who will forward them with the muster-out rolls to the Adjutant General. While this plan will do much to avoid the granting of pensions to undeserving persons. It will also facilitate the granting of pensions to men who have actually been disabled In the line of duty. A reference to their records will be enough. APPEAL TO THE LEGISLATURE.

Parents of a Texas Bride Want Her Marriage Annuled. Special tc The New York Timtt. AUSTIN. Texas. 20.

The Texas Legislature has been called upon for the first time In the history of that body to perform the functions of a divorce court-Several months ago Frank Williams and Bettie Green, both belonging to prominent families of Brown County, eloped and were married. They were both under marriageable age, and the parents of the bride took her away from her young husband. Although the couple are anxious to carry out their marriage vows and to live together as man and wife, the parents of the young woman are firm in their stand against the proposition, and at their request a bill was to-day Introduced in the State Senate by Mr. Grlnnan to annul and set aside the marriage and to restore to Mrs. Williams her maiden name.

Her young husband and his friends will oppose the passage of the bill. ft ALLEGED ATTEMPTED BLACKMAH. I Commodore Edward Weston went to Jefferson Market Police Court yesterday to appear against Paul D. Hart, alias David C. Adams, who says he comes from Chicago.

About a week ago Mrs. Weston received a letter signed with Adams's name and postmarked Allentown, stating that the writer would withhold certain information from her husband if she would pay him to do so. Mr. Weston consulted the police, and Detectives McConville and Itlich laid a plan to trap the writer, who a few days later wrote to the Commodore, offering to sell him the Information. Mrs.

Weston having paid no heed to his demand. A decoy letter was written, and Adams came to the Waldorf on Tuesday. Mr. Weston detained him in conversation till the hotel detectives summoned the officers from Headquarters, and in eight of them Mr. Weston paid the man They then arrested him.

and Magistrate Hogan yesterday held him In 9,000 bail for trial. $60,000 for Allegheny College. Special to Tkt New York Timet. MEADVILLE, March 20. To-day, at the last chapel service for the Winter term.

President Crawford announced to the students and Faculty of Allegheny CoUege a gift of 00,000 additional endowment for the Institution. This gift Is made on two conditions; that the donor's name shall be withheld from the public for the present, and that additional endowment shaU be raised within the next ten months Three new buildings already have been announced this year the Newton Observatory, the Ford Memorial Chapel, and the library building. Will Enlarge Harvard Law School. CAMBRIDGE. March 20.

Work ts to be begun at once bn two large wings which are to be added to the Harvard Law School Building: One wing will tcontaln a atock room for SOO.OuO volumes. The other will have a reading room on the top floor, with lecture rooms and rooms for tne professors on the two- lower The reading room will have 8,400 square feet of space and will be ona of the largest, and flpest In the country. Vanderbllt at San Juan. 8 AN JUAN DE PORTO RICO, March 20. Frederick W.

Vanderbilt'a steam, yacht 'Connueror, Capt- McLeod, with jowner and several guests on board, arrived here t-uay from Port of Spain, Trinidad.1 IfflSHEBLIAll SULZER IS CUT OFF ffiIH Mrs; Welmann Gets $20rOOO and the Bulk of the Estate. i To the Son S5 Is Given and to the 1 Daughter 15,000 If 8he Doea Not' Live with Her' Mother. V. The will of Councilman Herman Sulser was tiled in the office of the Surrogate late yesterday The will Is dated Nor. 11.

1808. and: has three codicils attached, dated June 12, 1800; Nov. 12, 1800. and Sept. 17, 1900.

Ida Herrmann Welmann and William F. Grejl, the Sheriff of New Tork County, are named aa executor and executrix of the will. The widow of Sulser Is cut off with 13, his son Ernest with a similar sum, while his daughter Clara, who Is under 'age. Is bequeathed $5,000, which is to be held in trust, and which is not to be paid to her unless she, for the' two years preceding the attainment of her majority, shall not nave lived with her mother. Catherine 8ulxer.

Bequests of $5,000 each are made to Ernest and Alfred Sulser, the brothers of the deceased, and Mrs. Welmann is left and the bulk of the residuary estate. William Grau, a faithful friend of the testator, is left 1,000, and is asked by the terms of the will to give the benefit of his advice to Mrs. but this bequest la revoked by the first codici The will says: I give and bequeath to my wife, Catherine Sulser, the sum of $5, which la Intended by me to be in full and in lieu of her right of dower, and all and every of her other rights in and to- my estate. I make only this provision for her for reasons well known to her and to all my friends, and for the further reason that during our married life she was willful, wasteful, and extravagant, and brought upon me much unnecessary suffering.

Ernest Sulser, the son of the testator, Is bequeathed S5. this provision being made for him because during his whole lifetime he has been disobedient and ungrateful." City Magistrate Lorens Zeller Is appointed the trustee for the five-thousand-dollar fund for Clara, the daughter of the Councilman, of which the Income is to accumulate until she becomes of age. on the condition that If at that time she shall have conducted herself in such manner as in the judgment of said trustee shall entitle her to receive the same, and provided she has not during the two years preceding her majority, lived with my wife. Catherine Sulxer." If Miss Suiter shall have lived with her mother during the two years preceding ner majority, or shall not have. In the Judgment of Mr.

Zeller, conducted herself so as to deserve the bequest, it Is to be paid to Mrs. Welmann, or. If she be dead, to Alfred and Ernest, the brothers of the testator. "I give and bequeath to my faithful and devoted friend and housekeeper and manager of my business affairs. Mrs.

Ida Herrmann Welmann," the will says. now at the date of the execution hereof the wife of Paul Welmann. the sum of $20,000." Mrs. Weimann is then left the remainder of the estate, both real and personal. Magistrate Zeller is removed as a trustee of the estate of Clara, tho testator's daughter, by one of the codicils, and judge Foster of General Sessions appointed in his stead.

Mr. Sulser provides that any contestant of his estate shall be cut off from any inheritance therein, and gives Mrs. Welmann the full management of It as long as "she considers wise and prudent." She Is re- Eulred to give no bond as executrix, and heriff Grell is appointed executor as a lifelong friend of the testator, and that he may give Mrs. Weimann the benefit of hla advice. The will waa filed by James r.

-Ernest Sulser, when seen at his home, HI Wert One Hundred and Tenth Street-last night had heard nothing of the filing of his father's will and was Ignorant of It provisions. When told of them by a New Vork: Timss reporter he expressed surprise and said: I cannot yet say what action my mother and I will take In the matter. We will consult my mother's counsel, Moses Goodman, to-morrow and decide at that time. I do not care to discuss any of the provUlons of the will now except to say in regard to my sister, who is Just sixteen years of age. that she will continue to live with, my mother at our home." WALDORF BURGLAR CONVICTED He May Be Sentenced to Ten Years' Imprisonment as a Penalty.

Charles Gares. recently of Chile, whose five months' residence In America has, for the most part, been spent In the House of Detention and the Tombs Prison, was yesterday convicted of burglary in tha second degree before Judge Foster in General Sessions, and may be sentenced to ten years' imprisonment ns a penalty for having been caught in Commodore Weston's room at the Waldorf-Astoria late on the night of March 4 last- The police afterward discovered, they said, a cold chisel and a skeleton key In the room. The Jury deliberated but a few minutes before returning a verdict of guilty. TO ABSORB ARMOUR INSTITUTE. Chicago School May Soon Become a Part of the University There.

Special to Tkt New York Timtt. CHICAGO, March 20. In all probability the Armour Institute, founded by Philip Armour and by him endowed with $300,000, will soon become a part of the University of 'Chicago. Since the resignation of Dr. Frank W.

Gunsaulus. shortly after the death of Mr. Armour, the Trustees of the institute have become convinced that the work of the school would be more successfully carried on by the university manace-ment. Mrs. Armour and J.

Ogden Armour are now considering the plan of amalgamation. There are now l.ouo students enrolled at the institute, which haa a Faculty of thirty-eight professors. ASK J. P. MORGAN TO INTERCEDE.

WILKESBARRE, March 20. Some days ago a letter signed by a number of business men in Wllkesbarre and surrounding towns was sent to J. Morgan, petitioning him to meet the anthracite miners in Joint conference and thereby avoid a strike. To-day the letter was acknowledged as follows: B. 3.

Hope; Wlllce-bi Dear 'Kir: Your letter of the lath Instant, addressed to J. Plarpont Morgan, haa been received. Mr. Morgan ts at present absent from the city and will not return for some little time. Very truly yours.

1. P. MORGAN COMPANT. SCRANTON. March 20.

Secretary Athetton of the Board of Trade waa called up on the long distance telephone to-day by the Rev. Father Phillips of Hasleton. who figured ao prominently in the last strike, who wanted to know if the President of the Scran ton Board of Trade would agree to accompany the Presidents of the Wllkesbarre and Hasleton boards to New York, there to meet "Bishop Potter and Archbishop Cortigan. and together with these gentlemen wait upon J. P.

or ran and endeavor to have him use hla Influence In bringing about a conference between the operators and the miners-Secretary Atherton replied that the President of the board would have no authority to act unless authorised to do so by the board. Thre will be a special meeting tomorrow nlirht for the purpose of considering the strike situation, and Father Phillips's proposition will be acted upon. Child Burned to Death. Spteial lo Tkt New York Timet. -i WINSTED.

March 20. WhUe Mr. and Mrs. Albert Decker of Great Barring-ton, wore away from home yesterday afternoon their flvej-ear-old daughter, Mary, opened the stove door to put some wood on the fire. As she did so a spark flew out of the stove and set fire to her clothing, which was quickly consumed.

Her neck, face, ami body were burned almoat to a crisp and she died in terrible agony. i i' J. R. HAZARD A FREE HAN. New Yorker Who Was Accused of KM.

lng Hla Rival In Maryland Cleared by Woman's Testimony. Sfttiot Tkt Ntw York Tmts. HYATT SVE0LE, March 2flL John Hazard, formerly ot Berwln. this county, who was arrested In New Tork on a wax-rant sworn out by Charles 8. Howard of Alexandria, oa the charge ot kUllag his son.

William X. Howard, waa trlum- Shantly vindicated at the bearing here to-ay. There were about twenty witnesses, but the principal and most Interesting was Miss Jeannette Smith, for unrequited love of whom Howard, as aha testified, committed suicide. Miss Smith testified that both suitors were at her house on the evening of Aug. 81.

but Hasard left early. After be had gone, Howard asked her to marry him, and upon her refusal, threatened, aa he had threatened-before, to kill himself. He then left, and Miss Smith said she aaw a pistol In his hand. On the following morning Howard was found dead near the bouse. IN, THE BIG STEEL TRUST.

It la Said the Tenneaaee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company Haa Been Abaorbed. Special to Tkt Now tort Timtt. BIRMINGHAM. March aa The few persons who. until to-day.

believed that the Tennessee Iron, and Railroad Company would. not be absorbed by the big steel combine, to-night state that they think the Tennessee company will be part of the combine, I. Beecber, Treasurer ot tho Minnesota Iron Company, which la controlled by the iteel Company, a member ot the arrived In Birmingham today and took charge in the office of the Secretary and Treasurer of the Tennessee company. He stated that he expected to be formally elected Secretary and Treasurer of the company by the Directors at their meeting in the middle of next month in New York. Meanwhile he bad come to familiarise himself with the duties ot the office.

His main office, he said, would be in New York, a sufficient force being- retained here for local needs. D. H. Bacon. President of the Minnesota Company, was recently chosen Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Company.

Mr. Beechers coming election as Secretary and Treasurer is accepted by the Industrial and business public as a clear Indication that the Tennessee Company has practically passed Into the hands of the Northern steel men. and that formal announcement ot this fact is but a matter of time. WEDDED AND DIED SAME DAY. Miss Boudlnot of Philadelphia Married M.

Gacharain-Lafite, and, Died a -Few Houra Later. PHILADELPHIA, March 20. A private cablegram received here to-day from Brussels announces the. marriage and death yesterday -in that city of Miss Ursula Rose Boudlnot, daughter ot the late Ellas Lewis Boudlnot of this city. The cablegram states that Miss Boudlnot was married to Henri Gacharsln-Laflte of.

Paris and died suddenly a few hours The Boudlnot family is prominent in society here and abroad. After the death of Mr. Boudlnot, some years ago. Miss Boudlnot and her mother spent most of their time In Europe, and-for the last year they had been living in Paris. The bride was descended "on her father's nt frem -FA las Boudlnot.

famous inOleva-luUonary times. M. Gacharsln-LafUe is -a Frenchman of. distinguished family- EDITOR KEMPSON IN He Will Run His Publications from a Hotel During His Stay Here. St.

George Kempson, editor of two New Jersey newspapers and a local Insurance Journal, all three of which he and his second wife have been running from the county Jail, la New Brunswick. N. for the past few months, arrived In town yesterday. The second Kempson was with him. During Vthe remainder of his stay here, all his publications wilt be run from the Astor House.

Ex-Senator Robert Adrian, counsel for Mr. Kempson. characterised the whole proceeding against Mr. Kempson as extraordinary. The State' of New" said he.

alleges that -an Injunction Issued In New Jersey, served In New York, and directed against an act of the State of North Dakota, has been violated. The Chancellor's Court fining my client $5 for contempt of court further provided that he should stay In Jail until he had annulled his divorce. When the matter was taken to. the Court of Errors he was at once admitted to bail. Mr.

Kempson will fight the matter through all of the courts if necessary when it comes up in June." "FRANCOIS GOT-IS DEAD. The Celebrated French Actor Wee in Hie Seventy-ninth Year PARIS. March 21. France-is Got. the celebrated actor, is dead.

Francois Jules Edmond Got was born at Lignerolles on Oct. 1. 1822. He went to Paris, as a young roan, and after being employed in tho Prefecture of the Seine he entered the Conservatoire, where he attndd th class of M. Provost.

In 1H42 he won the second piise for comedy, and the following year the first prise. He was then obliged to serve for a short time in the army, but lit he made his debut at tho Theatre where he scored an immediate success. In 1850 he became a eocietalre of the ComMis. It is impossible in limited space to give a Hat ot M. Oot's well-known parts.

The critics regarded htm as being beet In modern comedy, although be played In many of Mo-llere'g plays with success. M. Got was Professor of Elocution at the Conservatoire. In 1881 he obtained the decoration of the Legion of Honor. He wrote tlte librettos for a few operas.

STONE ACRE BURNED. Residence of George B. Raymond at Morristown a Total Loaa. MORRISTOWN. N.

March Acre, the home of George B. Raymond, gtneral agent of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, was burned at 4 o'clock this morning. Charles Raymond, an Invalid, was saved by the des-perste efforts of his father, who wrapped him in a blanket and carried him to- the street after the lower part of the house wns In flames. The fire was caused by crossed wires In the cellar, and was welt underway when Mr. Raymond waa awakened by the telephone bell ringing from the same cause which started the blase.

Only a tew books were saved, and much costly bric-a-brac and many paintings were destroyed. Miss Raymond, telephoned to the Morris-town Fire Department, and an engine and book and ladder company responded, but they arrived too late to save the bouse. The total loss Is about $50.000. Killed by. a Wooden Toothpick.

SPrtM Tkt New York Timtt. CHICAGO. March CO. A wooden toothpick caused the death of Jam! M. Land-reth, ao old resident of this city.

This was the report' made to a' Coroner's Jury to-day by Light ner, his son-in-law. with whom he lived, and the Jury found that It was an accident. The toothpick had been dropped on the rug In the old man's bedroom. When he arose on the morning of Feb. 6 he stepped on It, and the wound resulted in his death.

ONE CENT JsvmwJ FWkm, City, aa4 Xtwatkr JTwUlkllS, RUSSffl'S ALLEGED DEMAriDS Wogack Calls on British to Siding at Tien-Tsln. AJo" Requires an ApologjM-Gen. Bar tow Both Demands and Is Gathering Reinforcements. LONDON March ZL The Peking correspondent of The Dally Mall, wiring yeatcr day, says: Gen. Wogack has refused to accept Count von Waldersee'a arbitration at Ties- Tain, and demands that the British not only withdraw, but apologise for removing tha -Russian flag.

Gea. Barow ret oaes ta do either, and ta ao refusing haa tha support of th Britiaa Government 7 1 British reinforcements are sent," Tne officials of the Foreign Of flea her have received no information of an out-. break ot Russian-British hostilities at Tlen-Tsln. Their latest advices say tha position remains tha same. The rumor, credited yesterday by a ztewa agency to th London Stock Exchange and published In New Tork.

that the British and Russians had fired at each other at, Tlen-Tsln. did not even reach th lead-, lng Stock Exchange firms, nor did any de. -dines in prices, which the circulation of fuch a rumor would create, occur, "TTEN-TSIN, March 20 Ninety British marines arrived her last night from the Taku forts to replace the Indian Guards oa the disputed land. A detachment of tuaUlera la expected, and a special train bearing re- inforcementa of Australian troops left Fe- king for Tlen-Tsln at 10 o'clock this morn- lag. Outposts from the lines of communlca- tlon are also coming In to be ready In ease of necessity.

The British are under arms to prevent the settlement being rushed, but they do not anticipate such extremes. Both the' British and Russian detachments have orders to do nothing aggressive unless forced to do so by the other side. Gen. Lorn Campbell, the British commander, and Gen. Wogack, commanding the Russians, met Count von Walderse upon his arrival here.

Learning that both -had received instructions from their -Governments. Count von Waldersee said it was useless, for bim to give even an opinion regarding the matters at Count voa Waldersee started back for Peking- to-day. Except the army and ramp followers the only Russians now residing here are the members of the Consulate staff, two clerks. and two Jews, who are running stores, and who' left Russia in order to Save their lives. 'Inducements are now being offered.

to th Jews to move to the Russian concession. The French concession is quiet French gendarmes are on duty to prevent the soldiers from trespassing on the British concession, and Australian brigade men are preventing the Sikhs from invading the French concession. Gen. Lorn Cam nbert. upon hearing of the death of a.rrlnon, ordered ail the British flags to be flown at half mast.

-On an Italian, and a German warship are- outside the bar. v--' i 7- PEKING." March 2). The British rein-forcements, consisting of ninety marines, who arrived at Tien-Tsln last night to replace 'the Indian guards on the disputed land, are explained as due to a fear lest-, any Incident arising out of. the Russo-Britlsh land dispute should cause the French troops, whose conduct has given much; trouble, to precipitate a collision. The British commanders desire to have enough troops in Tlen-Tsln to-preserve or-der in the streets.

Gen. Bailloud left here this morning to in-quire into the conduct of the French troop at Tlen-Tsln. ST. March SflThe RuaC sian press Is not alarmed about the Tien- Tain affair. There la nq mention of it in the official agency's dispatches, but the London correspondent of the Novo Vremya characterises the dispute as unimportant.

Another London eorrespondeni quotes a diplomat aa saying that an Anglo-Russian war is impossible, as Russia need only threaten to support the Boers in order to bring Great Britain to her knees. JAPAN THREATENING RUSSIA 7 Warships Said to be Mobilizing for mediate Departure to the -J Korean SHANGHAI. March 20. A 1 dispatch The China Gasette from Toklo, dated March 20. says that all the Russian warships In -Japanese waters have sailed for Korea and that the Japanese squadron Is mobilising for an immediate departure to the Korean 4 LONDON.

March 21." Russia's proceed. Ings In Korea." says the Kobe correspond-ent of The Dally Mall, "are now openly aggressive, and it la believed that ahe is aoout to make further demands In connection with Maaampo." ST. PETERSBURG. March Nov osti advocates a Russo-Japanese alliance. -which, it says, would assure Japan her resent possessions and a large market fcr er industrial products in Russian terri- -tory, where they would be protected against i Anglo-German competition.

In conclusion the Novoeti article declares this alliance- would be aa Important In th Orient aa the Franco-Russian alUancej is in th Oed- WHY RUSSIA IS WARLIKE. Theory that She May Want to Create a Diversion on Account of the Disorders at SPttiol to Tkt Now York Timtt. WASHINGTON. March Ml An Interesting suggestion, connecting th latest developments of the Chinese question with tho riots In St Petersburg and other Russian cities, waa made to-day by a public man ol dlplomatlo experience who Is well qualified to discuss European affairs. His theory ta that Ruasia's-belUcoM attitude at Ttea-Tala and her- apparent disposition to provoke Great Britain are directly connected with the conditions at Russia, be declares.

Is not at present In position to risk a war ever Manchuria or Northern China. She ts undoubtedly la a better position than Great Britain, but ah has not completed th trans-Si berlan railway and is by po means ready for a contest in the north. It te the general understand- lng of her policy that she does not wish a war until her prepare Uona in th north ara completed. This applies at the present tiro not so much because of Great Britain's ca- padty for resistance, but because of noaal- ble eompllcatlona with other powers. A motive for Russia's warlike attitude must therefore be sought, and a suggestion Is found in the apparently serious state of things at St.

Petersburg and elsewhere. It 1 a well-known axiom of statesman)! to that when- doroestlo disturbance are l- coming dangeroua a foreign war will distract the attention of the people and pro- due a reaction in favor of the Government. It is quite evident that the present disturbances iu Russia are more serious than anv since the death of Alexander II. It Is believed that the Russian rioters may hav forced the hand of th Government and compelled It to court war when it Is unready, solely tor the sake of weakeaiivg A..