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she count. Fair to-day; MONDAY. cloudy, to-morrow. APRIL 6, followed 1908. by rain VOL LXX.

-NO. 218. NEW YORK, MONDAY. APRIL 6. Copyright, 1905, by The Sun Printing and Publiahing Association.

PRICE TWO CENTS. TO HUSH UP HAGAMAN'S DEATH OBJECT OF ALLEGED OFFER OF BRIBE TO JEROME'S AID. Wanted Garvan to Agree to Announce That the Death of the Man 000 of Whose Money Went Quickly to Flower Was Due to Natural Causes. The examination of George E. Mills, law partner of the son of Dr.

R. C. Flower, the great American mining stock promoter, was begun before Magistrate Pool in the Centre street police court yesterday morning. Mills was arrested on Friday, charged with bribing Detective Sergeant Brindley and with attempting to bribe Deputy Assistant District Attorney Garvan to destroy six indictments for grand larceny found against Dr. Flower.

It will be to recalled that the District Attorney at present engaged in an investigation into the death of Theodore man who died in his apartments at the Waldorf Astoria some three years ago. after en illness of several months, during which he was attended Dr. Joseph Heald, who had been associated with Dr. Flower. After Mr.

Hagaman'e death, Mrs. Hagaman, to whom he had handed over his money, invested something more than $200.000 in one of Dr. Flower's mining specialties. Hagaman's body was exhumed, but the District Attorney's office rather despaired, owing to the length of time the body had been buried, of determining the exact cause of death. It came out in the Mills examination yesterday morning, however, that Dr.

Flower, wanted chiefly a report that Hagaman died a natural death. Brindley was the first witness. He said that by previous arrangement he and Mills met in Raan's restaurant on March 31, and after a couple of drinks, according to Brindley, Mills said: Flower is very anxious for me to 600 Garvan personally. Flower has hired high-priced counsel and they are trying to drag the thing along in the hope of getting fat fee. I know a better way to manage a thing like this, however, and it will be much quicker.

I was an Assistant District Attorney once and I know how such things are arranged. As to the indietments, they could be misplaced or lost or destroyed and others could be substituted which might easily be demurred to. to the Hagaman matter, that can easily be arranged, and that's what we want. Garvan could say that, after thorough investigation, he had found that Hagaman came to his death from natural causes. Flower could have done all this himself once, had he only known how such things are fixed up.

He was in Garvan's office few weeks ago and the two had things all to themselves. Had Flower only known enough, the whole thing could have been fixed up then and there. The trouble with Flower was that he was too alow." Brindley told Mille be would see what he could do and agreed to meet him the next day. Both men kept the appointment, 1 by they of conversation, business remarked: Mille. you are pretty good sort of a chap and you ought 19.

making lots of But you next to deal you can make lot more than you madding now. And there would be plenty of money in it for both of us. mining company in which there barrel of money and, if you'd like, 1 see that you get in on the ground evidently hard for anybody, once with Dr. Flower, to get away, for any length of time, from mining proposition. After Brindles, according to his story, had stolen the indictments and fired up the Hagaman matter, he was to be made millionaire by in vesting his profits in the deal in Flower mining stock.

Then Brindley told how the deal was concluded by his receiving $1,750 and Mills rotting the indiotments. That conoluded the direct examination and he was taken in hand by Benjamin Steinhardt, attorney for Mills. After asking Brindley several questions, Steinhardt asked him If be knew Andrew Meloy, Deputy Assistant District Attorney Kreeel objected to the question and Steinhardt snapped out: want to show that this is a dirty, contemptible conspiracy, inspired by Meloy and hatched in the District Attorney' The question was allowed and Brindley said that he did know Meloy. He added that he had had telephonic conversation with Meloy, who told him that Mills wanted to meet Garvan. Mr.

Garvan was next called. His testimony showed that the District Attorney first learned from Meloy, the foe of the Flower tribe, that Mills had in mind an attempt bribe the District Attorney or one of his assistanta. Meloy came to the District Attorney's office tion week he said ago to-day had and told of a conversahe overheard at of the directors of the Lone Pine Mining Company between Mills and another. According to Meloy, the substance of that conversation was that Mills said he believed Garvan could be reached and he was going to try it. Garvan added that Meloy peated a part of Mills's remarks, as follows: know Garvan can be reached.

He's got a deal on now over something or other with Lawyer Hart. You know his father used to be a rich man, but he lost all his money while ago, and Garvan wants to get all the stuff he can to help the old man out I am going to the District Attorney's office to a personal talk with Garvan. Mr. said that as 6000 as this alleged conversation had been reported Brindley was assigned to the case and was to the District Attorney. Detective Sergeant told to get into touch with Mills.

After Brindley had reported, Mr. Garvan made report to District Attorney Jerome. On cross Mr. Steinhardt asked Mr. Garvan if he had reported to Mr.

Jerome just to show that he couldn't be tempted. at all, said Mr. Garvan. 'I wasn't tempted. It was my duty to report such matters to my chief.

said Steinhardt. "Then you just went to your chief to show your purity?" Mr. Garvan said that such a thing wasn't pecoesary, and then asked Magistrate Pool if Mr. Steinhardt couldn't be induced to confine his questions to the subject in hand. At the conclusion of Mr.

Garvan's' testimony, Mr. Steinhardt asked for an adjournment, saying that be wanted to put District Attorney Jerome and several other persons on the stand. Magistrate Pool adjourned the case until this afternoon at 3 o'clock, saying that he would sit until midnight if it were necessary. can sit until the crack of doom, if you maid Mr. Steinhardt, as he picked up his bat and left the court room.

WATCH ON SEEKERS FOR BODY. Police Say Adolph Openhym Had Valuable Papers When He Disappeared. The search that is being made for the body of Adolph Openhym, the silk merchant who is supposed to have jumped into the Harlem River from High Bridge last Monday, WAS kept up yesterday by a gang of ten men in boats with grappling hooks. who dragged the river all day and last night. Capt.

Wendel of the High Bridge police and his detectives were out in a boat and kept watch on the searchers. Capt. Wondel said the relatives of Mr. Openhym think be had some valuable papers in hie pockets. AUSTRIA THREATENS TURKEY.

WI Occupy Mitrovitza if Order Is Not Restored. Special Cable Despatches to THE SUN. CONSTANTINOPLE, April is nounced Government has decided to send sixteen battalions of Anatolian soldiers to Albania, in addition to the sixteen battalions already on the way there, to occupy the country, especially the disaffected towns. Pending the arrival of the troops the pacificatory mission, headed by Yusuf Effendi, sent by the Sultan to the Albanian chiefs, is instructed to do its utmost to convince the Albanians that the reforms will in no way injure their rights or liberties. It is doubted whether the commission will effect anything unless it is backed with money to buy the chiefs or unless it is made clear that a military occupation is seriously intended.

It is rumored that Baron de Calico, the Austrian Ambassador, at an audience with the Sultan on Saturday urged that strong measures be adopted to suppree lawlessness. He hinted, it is said, that Austria, in accordance with the Treaty of Berlin, would occupy Mitrovitza unless the Sultan asserted his authority. The extreme northwestern part of Albania has been partially occupied by Austrian garrisons for years. LONDON, April English correspondent at Vienna says he has knowledge, despite the denial of Austrian military authoritics, that the army corps of Agram, Serajevo and Temesvar is already on footing, but that the officials embarrassed because these troops are not fitted for mountain campaigning, such as would be inevitable in the event of their being required in the Balkans. The Banian and Tyrolese regiments would be suitable for this purpose, but the former consists mainly of medana, and therefore cannot be used, and the latter cannot be moved eastward without publicity, which would en ate alarm.

The Mohammedan population of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which Austria occupies militarily under the treaty of Berlin is growing dangerously excited. The men are secretly arming and smuggling arms and ammunition from Montenegro. It is feared that they contemplate an armed emigration to Old Servia to join the insurgent Albanians. The Austrian military authorities realize that the situation is consequently most critical. SOFIA, April greater part of the district of Okhrida is reported to be practically in a state of rebellion.

It is stated that the shops in the towns of Okhrida are closed. The Turkish troops who surrounded the revolted villages on the norther, shore of Lake Okhrida are, it is said, themselves surrounded by the armed inhabitants. They are said to have lost thirty men. The Turkish military authorities are dis. cussing the question of proclaiming martial law in the vilayets of Salonica, Monastir and Kossovo.

It is believed that the recent blowing up of the railways with dynamite was a preconceived signal for a general rising, and that the plan miscar- ried. DRUNKENNESS AMONG WOMEN. Dr. Banks Says It's Increasing in This Clay in the 400 and the Middle Classes. POUGHKEEPSIS, April assertion made by the Rev.

L. A. Banks, D.D., pastor of Grace Methodist Episcopal Church, New York city, regarding the increase of drunkenness among women in New York, was listened to with astonishment by the Methodist clergymen in attendance here at the New York Conference. In an address at the Hedding Church, Dr. Banks stated as a positive fact that intemperance has increased among respectable women.

have looked into this he said, some of these days I will give some startling facts. The most dangorous drinking by women is in the better and middlo classes. In New York city women, members of the churches, drink whiskey cocktails in public on Sunday. I say nothing but what I can prove in court. American civilization is like a pie.

The top crust, or the 400, is steeped in champagne, while the bottom is soggy with beer. The middle class, until recently, has been fairly Dr. Banks sounded a further note of warning by saying: "You brethren know that when men like Bishop Potter put themselves forward on every possible occasion on behalf of an open saloon on Sunday, you have got danger on hand. You can't close your eyes to what these men say, because it has Dr. Banks asked why Methodist women, Baptist women, Presbyterian women, and those of other denominations have the punch bowl in their houses beside the lemonade bowl.

Why do prominent Methodist men ignore the lick nse system? And he explained that in his opinion it was because the pulpit has ceased to preach the Gospel that a drunkard will never enter the kingdom of heaven. FUGITIVE FORGER COMES BACK. C. W. Robinson, Who Forged for $200,000, Visits New Bedford and Disappears.

NEW BEDFORD, April W. Robinson, who in 1890 disappeared from Brockton after admitting that he was forger, and who has since been a fugitive from justice, suddenly appeared in this city Thursday, called on friends and then as quickly disappeared. When Robinson came here he took long chances, for his forgeries, amounting to not far from $200,000, were the sensation of the day at the time of his disappearance. There are still many who would like to see him behind the bare. Besides, he is wanted in Texas on similar charges of a half a dozen years where he carried on a large stock brokerstanding.

In 1890 he lived at Brockton, age business, and was also When clerk of the Brockton police court. his partner faced him with disclosure, he said have been pursuing a criminal course, and am one of the blackest rascals ever saw, and 10,000 times blacker than you Immediately after making his admission of forgery Robinson fled. Notes began to come in from all quarters, cleverly forged, and dated to show that Robinson had been pursuing his course for detection. months He and had drawn possibly years without on almost all of his intimate friends and before the matter was adjusted several of them, who had been supposed to be wealthy, found themselves ruined. PUT OUT FIRE WITH WET SHEETS.

Mr. Davidge Drives Home to Find Daughter Fighting a Blaze. William H. Davidge, an insurance broker, returning to his house at 157 Cast was Thirty-seventh street in a cab from an out-of-town visit last evening when the fremen arrived there to Aut out a fire that had started in a room on the top floor. One of his daughters, however, had been fighting the fire by soaking sheets in a bathtub and throwing them on the blaze.

She had the fire nearly out when the firemen got there. It destroved some antiques valued at $1,000. POLICE CALL SPOOKS ACTORS. VISIT A SEANCE AND INSIST THAT IT'S A SUNDAY SHOW. Mediums Protest That It la Religious Service--Dollar Admission- -Mrs.

dard Gray and De Witt C. Hough to Be Summoned, Capt. Dillon Says. These our actors were all spirits. -Prospero.

Capt. Dillon of the West Forty-seventh street station sent three of his detectives to the "Spiritual Science Institute," at 831 West Fifty-seventh street, last night and disturbed "full form materialization her son. De Witt Hough, were giving which Mire. Stoddard Gray and for the benefit of about 150 men and women, who, according to the police, had paid $1 apiece admission. The police didn't end 1 the show, but most of those present left after the arrival of the police.

A detective stayed until all was over, and Capt. Dillon said that he would get summonses to-day for Mrs. Gray and Hough. The captain says they were giving a theatrical performance without a license and on Sunday and that he's going to stop it. Capt.

Dillon's district has been flooded with cards saying that Mrs. Gray and Hough would hold and "full form terialization and communications from spiritual friends Sunday and Wednesday evenings at 8 o'clock and Saturday afternoons at 2 o'clock. They have done so for years in various parts of the The cards added that the admission would be $1 and that by appointment could be had at 'partice' own The cards also stated that Mrs. Gray and Hough would hold private mental and' written communications from departed and spiritual The detectives who went to the house last night were MoGee, Hore and shire. The "Spiritual Science occupies the parlor floor, and when the detectives appeared there was a great ado among those present.

At one end of the room was a cabinet-like booth with black curtains over the front. In the booth was Hough gagged and with his hands tied to his sides. According to the announcement, he was giving chemical, physical and musical manifestations under the controls of Col. Andrew Perkins and Prof. Robert As the detectives entered strains of "In the Sweet played on a harmonica with a jingling of bells accompaniment, came from the direction of the booth.

The music stopped as soon as the sleuths walked into the room. Mrs. Gray walked up to Detective McGee and told him he had no right there. Then a big red-headed man grabbed McGee and tried to push him out of the door. McGee gently threw him aside and the red-headed person said: 'You had no right to come in here and you must get out.

Who's going to stop me from coming in here?" asked McGee. am," said the red-headed man. If you don't keep still," replied McGee, "I'll back up a patrol wagon in front of this place and take everybody to the Mrs. Gray told the red-headed but man to be quiet and he subsided, not before he had remarked: If you fellers had come around a little earlier we'd have given you few dollars and then it would have been an all Gray asked MoGee for explanation of the invasion and he told her that as she charged admission for the it became a theatrical 'performance and the police had a right there. Why, not at all, said Mrs.

Grey. only took up a collection. We are holding religious Mrs. Gray having made her little speech, fat woman in a red waist got up and shouted across the room: husband is a city official. All they're looking for is graft.

I'm going to tell my Nearly everybody, however, slid past the detectives and out the door. fat man who had a thin woman with him stepped "Say, old man, don't stop this show. up to McGee and said: Why don't you let it go on? I paid two dollars, one for my wife and one for myself. I'm not goin' to get my money's When the room had been almost cleared McGee examined the black -curtained booth. Inside was Hough, with a gag in his mouth and his hands tied to his sides.

He was trying hard to get the But gag the out of his mouth and and be aard. gag stuck be couldn't make a sound. Overh ad, suspended by a string from the ceiling, WaS harmonica. On the ceiling several emall bells were nailed. With the assistance of harmonica and ring was the belle while he was spook Hough suppoend to play the bound and gagged: The detectives removed the gag from his mouth and took his name.

Then they got Mrs. Gray's name and announced that they would go to the West Fifty -fourth street police court this morning and get summonses. McGee and Hore went away and left Detective Dukeshire at the house. Dukeshire was instructed to stay unil the performance was over. Not long after that a reporter went to the house.

A young light-haired man the door. man, "and the police sent you he a said the young added. "How do you suppose I knew that? Isn't that wonderful. You' go back to the police and get all your information from them." Capt. Dillon said that had along been with the distributed cards A number of circulars in the district.

One part of the circular said: "The medium will be incesed in a wire netting each evening by a for committee appointed from the audi-nos that purpose and with the parlors brilliantly lighted. Startling demonstrations by invisible agencies will plao, such as playing on musical instrumente, belle, Capt. Dillon said that the performance WAR nothing more than jugglery and could be seen any day at any Coney Island concert ball. BUYS A FLOATING ISLAND. A.

Lawson Hays He Has Anchored 30 Elusive Acre in Onata Lake. April Parker has sold his floating island in Onata Lake to Alvah S. Lawson, who says he has now securely anchored a valuable piece of property that has been wandering about Onata since 1800. Originally a part of the old Parker farm, it consists of about one acro, heavily wooded, and has been the object of several laweuits over the question of For a time the island would be ownership. next to certain shoro and the abutting owner would lay claim, only to awake some morning and find that it had migrated toward his neighbor's property.

On one sion after securing title to the land the owner sought to keep his elusive property by chains attached storm to one the night mainland the chains trees, but during a snapped and away went his island to another The island is a favorite resort for picnic part of the lake. parties, and Mr. Laweon this is going season. to Onata build another cottage on it ia one of the largest and deepest lakes in the Berkshires. All Western Health Resorts on or via the Rock Island SystemColorado, California, Hot uptown Springs, office, Ark.

861b at. and Tickets al FINA also at 401 Broadway WANTS ONE GIGANTIC STRIKE. Bucbanen of the Bridge Workers Foresees It-Talk of War on U. 8. Steel.

CHICAGO, April Buchanan, president of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, declared in a speech before the Chicago Federation of Labor to-day that he believes that the time is near at hand when labor throughout the country should unite and declare one gigantic strike against the combinations of cupital. "The present strike of our members all over the country against the American Bridge Company the of the industrial he barinning, strike is likely to spread so as to tie up the building industry in the United States, we are considering the question of refusing to handle material made by the United States Steel Corporation. In case such an order is issued, thousands of men not directly interested in strike will be involved, because, if the ironworkers refuse to set structural steel, all the other building trades will be thrown out of Buchanan arrived in the city this morning from New York, where he been direoting the strike against the American Bridge Company. He said he was anxious to explain to the labor unions of Chicago the original cause of the strike. The company, be asserted, persisently violated its agreement with unions of iron workers in several Eastern cities and forced the strike by refueing to treat with the international organization.

strike thus far has been in favor of the men, as the company is completely tied up all over the country," he said. His assertion that the time is near for strike of all organized labor alarmed some of the delegates, while it amused others. Following as it did the report of Organizer Fitzpatrick that the employers are organized in every branch of industry, and setting pitfalls for the unions in the hope of disrupting them, it caused a sensation. HAVE A MOVING PLATFORM. The New Terminal for Express Train Service to Coney Island.

The construction of a new terminal for the trains of the through elevated lines to Coney Island will be commenced to-day. The new terminal will involve a loop and a moving platform running from West Twelfth street and Railroad avenue to Luna Park, the trains being elevated and running around the park to the tracks of the Sea Beach line. An express service is to be inaugurated on May 3, making the time from Park row to the terminal forty -four minutes. The new terminal and platform are to be built by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and the proprietors of Luna Park jointly. EDWIN J.

DUNNING GUILTY. It Is Now Alleged That He Secured 000 From the Late F. A. Brooks. BOSTON, April J.

Dunning, the State street broker, was convicted yesterday afternoon in the Superior Court on four counts of larceny. The Court under the law may impose a maximum penalty of twenty years' imprisonment, five years on each count. Lawyer George R. 8wasey asked for an ext nsion of time for Aling exor ptione. He into nds to take the case to the full bench of the Supreme Court and the Court granted him until May I.

Although the Government's bill alleges the laro ny of only $23,000 from the late Lawyer Francis A. Brooks, it is understood that on the str ngth of certain fraudulent took transactione in which imaginary Belgian financiers figured, Dunning cured from the aged lawyer euma aggregating a figure far in exc ss of that. The Bankruptcy petition rontly Ailed in Dunning's behalf cite that he is indebted to the Brooks estate to the extent of about $300,000, a significant item. Dunning in default of $20,000 bail has been in jail since his arrest. The Dunning home is in Brookline.

Dunning is a college graduate end is well known in New York business circles. BISHOP IN AN ODD CHURCH. The Archangel House of Worship Is tered Through an Apartment House. Archangel Episcopal Church. in St.

Nicholas avenue, near 114th street, used its auditorium for the first time yesterday, and last evening Bishop Potter preached there and confirmed a class. The church plant is one of the oddest in the city. The Archangel is an apartment, like everything else around it, and when completed ite street front will rise to the height of the apartments on each side of it. At present it is but one story up, but it is to contain guild rooms and rectory. The church, which was used for the first time yesterday, is entered through the apartment, and Alls the rear yard.

It in still unfinished, but is spacious, and has a large chancel. The seating capacity is 1,000. Imtrediately lelow it is what has teen named the Neighborhood Guild Hall. It seats 1,200 and is provided with a stage. Archangel Church lost its property while the Rev.

R. W. Kenyon was rector, and had to start new. Ite plot is worth $50,000, and the building, so far as it has been erected, la debt. DRIVE FOR PLEASURE STOPPED.

Negro With a Wornout Horse Arrested in the Park Carriage Parade. In the parade of fine carriages along the West Drive in Central Park yesterday afternoon was a dilapidated wagon drawn by a horse that looked as though it should have been pensioned thirty years ago, and driven by a negro. Opposite Seventy-seventh street Policeman Howard hailed the negro and asked him if he wasn't afraid the animal would drop dead. mah "It's hoss, sah, an' Ah'm jee' takin' ride foh pleasuh. You min' yo' business an' Ab'll min' mine, the driver said as he started to whip up Several persons stopped to look at the rig, and Mrs.

M. Merritt of 1 West Sixty street. who was driving by, told the policeman that she was willing to make a complaint of cruelty to animals against the driver. Howard arrested the man and took him to the Arsenal. The prisoner gave the name of Louis Bennett and said he lived at 508 West Fifty-fifth street.

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals took charge of the animal. MRS.JOHN KENDRICK BANGS DIES Was Well Until a Few Hours Before Her Death Last Evening. YONKERS, N. April Agnos Hyde Bangs, the wife of John Kendrick Bangs, died suddenly last evening at her home on North Broadway of heart trouble. She had complained of illness afternoon, but it was not thought serious.

She expired at 6 o'clock while her family were all with her. Her husband and three children survive her. No funeral arrangementa have been made as yet. Dining Car Service on the ve Pennsylvania Railroad is unescelled. tract menus and escellent attention.

-Ads TROUBLE IN GERMAN EMBASSY BARON VON STERNBURG'S PROMOTION AROUSED JEALOUSY. The Resignation of the Military and Forestry Attaches Due to the tion of Baron Sternburs Over Men Who Were of Higher Diplomatio Rank. WASHINGTON, April brief cable Berlin in THE SUN this morning, quoting the Taegliche Rundechau as saying the German Embassy Washington had that the military and forestry, of returned to Germany, owing to the failure of Minister von Sternburg to leave cards upon their wives, attracted a great dea! of attention in diplomatic circles here to-day. That much of the story which indicates that friction caused the return of the two is correct, but it is not understood that any action of Baron von Sternburg's was responsible for trouble. In fact, from all accounts, the shoe is on the other foot, and there is more to the story than the Berlin newspaper tells The trouble at the German Embassy is attributed primarily to the promotion of Baron Sternburg the rank of ConsulGeneral to that of Minister and Envoy on extraordinary mission.

He was thus advanced through every subordinate grade of the German diplomatic service. When Baron and Baroness Sternburg arrived in Washington only one member of the embassy staff, the chief clerk, met them at the railroad station. It soon began to appear that there was a studied attempt on the part of the of the embassy to show as little courtesy as possible to the new Minister and to his wife. who was Miss Langham, an American. The Countess Quadt, wife of the Counsellor of the embassy, failed to call on Baroness Sternburg.

It was said that this was due to resentment on Count Quadt's part over the promotion of Baron Sternburg, the Count having been of higher rank in the diplomatic service than the new Minister and to the claim of Countess Quadt that she was of higher rank in the nobility than Baroness Sternburg, and it was, therefore, the duty of the Minister's wife to pay the first call. Ultimately, however, Countess Quadt called on Baroness Sternburg, but it is said that the latter, having heard of statements made by Countess Quadt, deemed it her duty not to return the visit. According to current gdesip, Count Quadt was not alone in resenting Baron Sternburg's promotion, the other members of the Embassy staff, with the exception of Count von Montgelas, Third Secretary, sharing his feelings. Baron von Ritter zu Grunstein, Second Secretary, did not pay a visit of courtesy to the new Minister, and is reported to have failed to attend to his official duties. Major Otto von Etzel.

the military and Herr A. Scheck, the expert in agriculture and forestry of the Embassy, are said to have also shown no desire to assist the Minister or to perform the social courtesies due to his position as their chief. It was inevitabie from the beginning that Baron Sternburg would be obliged to make sweeping change in the stag or ask to be s-called, As AB the rious aspect of the Venezu lan trouble had disapprared, Count Quadt obtained leave of aber noe, Barca Ritter resigned his post in Washington, Major Etzell went back to Germany also, and Herr Scheck obtained transfer to another post. The general opinion among members of the Diplomatic Corps appears to be that Baron Sternburg pursued a conservative and patient His resentment of the alleged attempt to slight his wife is widely commended. It is proper to say that the statements made in this despatch concerning the trouble at the Embassy were not obtained there.

They have been known in the diplomatic circle for several weeks. PUGILIST TO.M ALLEN DEAD. Old Fighter Was to Have Been Married This Month -Native of Birmingham, England. ST. April Allen, one time prominent in prizefighting in this country and England, died to-day in the Baptist Sanitarium.

Two weeks ago Allen nounced his engagement to Mrs. Tillie Hartgrave, saying the wedding would be on his sixty-fifth birthday, April 25. Later his condition grew worse and death came this morning. Allen was a native of Birmingham, England. He weigbed in condition 175 pounds, at which weight he fought most of his battles.

He first became known to the followers of the ring in 1861. He met Waggoner of Birmingham, who WAS 8 budding heavyweight. Allen lost. From this pericd until 1887 his career in the ring was varied. In that year he came to America.

On Jan. 12, 1869, he met Bill Davis near St. Louis, and won in forty-three rounds. Allen's first fight in this country with a prominent man was with Mike McCoole of St. Louis.

They met on July 5, 1869. After nine rounds had been fought McCoole was whipped. The McCoole party then cut the ropes and rushed into the ring. The referee was besieged by McCoole'8 friends to give the verdict to the latter. but the referee refused and Allen's victory stood.

In the meantime Jem Mace arrived in the United States. Mace challenged May, 1870. Mace won a in 40 minutes, but Allen and they met near New Orleans in Allen scored the first knockdown. Shortly afterward Allen met McCoole again and whipped him in quick order. Allen's last fight in America was with Joo They met for the championship of America and $2,000.

The mill was held in Kentucky in 1876. Goes won in 53 minutes, the fight going twenty-one rounds. CHICAGO WOMAN'S NEWSPAPER. It Will Be Called the "Daily Bulletin" and WIlL Have a Sporting Page. CRICAGO, April now daily newspaper to be owned, edited and managed by women will be called the Chicago Daily Bulletin.

It will appear, It is announced, on May 1. 15. Incorporation papers were filed yesterday at Springfield. The capital is $100,000. Dr.

Frances Dickinson is president of the company and Mabel E. Brown and Alice G. Blount ace interested. Offices in Market street have been engaged, and presses and typesetting machines have been purchased. Capable newspaper women have been hired for places and advertising contracts have been completed.

Many novelties are promised. Woman suffrage will not be an issue in the editorial columns. Neither will there be a cry that the "Saloon must go." The Bulletin will have a complete sporting page, edited by a woman, and a man's column under the same editorial direction. It is even said that there will be a column of "beauty hints for men. Much space will be given to times for both sexes.

News of men's clubs will be carefully conned. The promoters of the enterprise promise that their newspaper will last. Burnett's Extract of Vanilla Ada purity and strength pre-eminently superior. CLEVELAND TO A NEGRO. Writes to Plokens, Yale's Colored Orator, for a Copy of His Speech.

NEW HAVEN, April of letters received by William Pickene, the negro student who won the Ten Eyck prize at Yale last week, the first time in the history of the university that negro has secured the honor, was from Grover Cleveland. It said: PRINCETON, April 2, 1903. Mr. William Pickens: MY DEAR SIR: I have seen in the newspapers to-day an account of your success in winning the Ten Eyck prize. I am very desirous of reading your successful essay, so, if possible for you, send me a copy or a fairly full newspaper report of it.

Yours very truly, GROVER CLEVELAND. It has been learned that the night before Pickens delivered the oration which won for him the Ten Eyck prize of $100 he tried for a place on the debating team that is to meet P'rinceton here on May 4 and was rejected. 'BURGLAR SHOT DEAD. Discovered in a Store Which Was rounded by Posse. PENN YAN, April burglar was discovered in Eliot Vorhees' store at Himrods early this morning and in answer to the call of the man who found him there score of men, nearly all of whom were armed, surrounded the building.

Then they called for the burglar to come out. The burglar opened the door and fired his revolver into the crowd, without hitting anybody. The crowd fired back and the burglar fell dead, with a dozen bullets in his body. The dead man is unidentified yet. He was about 38 years old.

In his pocket was slip of paper bearing the address, Fdwards street" and the name Julia Sheffer." A tag on his suit indicated that it was made at Watkins, N. Y. BRIDE SHOT DEAD. Her Husband Says She Killed Herself -He Is Locked Up. WILKES-BARRE, April mysterious sheeting affray occurred at the home of Fred Barney, a bartender, in this city His bride of a few months was found dead in her room, having been shot through the heart.

The husband says his wife accidentally shot herself while bandling his revolver, which was in a bureau drawer. The couple had been out walking early in the evening and had quarrelled. Barney was locked up to await an investigation by the police. PAUPER BARONET MARRIED. Sir William Gordon, Macgregor Sister of a Woman Who Rejected mitiga Special Cable Despatch to THE SUN.

LONDON, April William Gordon Macgregor, the pauper nobleman who was recently taken from the workhouse by a woman who, it was said, intended to marry him, but who failed to do so, has been married at Southmead, near Bristol, to Miss Alice Gulliver, 40 years old. The bride is a sister of the woman who rejected Bir William almost immediately after their bethrothal following his release from the workhouse. It is understood that the bride bas only a small income. It is stated that a prominent society woman has undertaken to endow the couple. TIN CAMPBELL VERY LOW.

Unconscious Much of the Day--Many quiries at the House. Former Congressman Tim Campbell was reported to be in precarious condition last night and his wife was informed that he had but 8 slight chance of recovery. His house, at 14 Columbia street, was besieged all day yesterday by friends who called to And out his condition. He was unconscious most of the day. In his delirium he constantly called for Bismarck Ruskow, and Ruskow was sent for.

Ruskow for years was one of Campbell's closest friends. Campbell recognized Ruskow and said, "Well, as sick as am, am glad to meet my old Dutch friend." Christie Sullivan, the active Tammany leader of the Eighth Assembly district, sent a horseshoe of flowers to the house. According to the doorkeeper at the house, former President (leveland sent a telegram of inquiry. $4,000 WON AT ROULETTE On the Sixth Avenue Elevated System, In the Tenderloin. Although gambling places are supposed to be shut, it was told in the Tenderloin yesterday that a man won $4,000 at roulette in a West Twenty -eighth street house on Saturday night.

The winner is a man generally found on the house side of 'the game. His place being closed, he paid. a social call on a fellow gambler and took a spin at the wheel. He played what he calls the Sixth avenue elevated system, that is, the station numbers, 8, 14, 23, 28 and 33. As 14, 23 and 28 are in one section of the wheel, the system is one that appeals to students of system.

The ball kept on leaving the track at these stations often enough to bring him out $4,000 to the good, whereat the house closed for the night. JOHN MITCHELL TO COME. Rebellion of the Anthracite Miners WIll Bring Him to Wilkes- Barre. WILKES- BARRE, April officers of the United Mine Workers received word to-day that President Mitchell will come to this city as 800n as possible. He was summoned yesterday when there came news of more petty strikes and increasing dissatisfaction, despite the finding of the strike commission.

The disinclination of the men to obeerve the recommendations of the commission is growing rapidly and the district officers feel that the presence of President Mitchell is necessary. He talked from Indianapolis over the long-distance telephone with the officials and said that he would come next week. The refusal of the mine workers to work extra time, being suspicious of an attempt by the operators to accumulate a stock, is regarded by the operators as direct violation of the miners' agreement to obey the commission's rulings. WANTS CHINESE LABOR. Transvaal Sends Commissioners Over to See How It Worked Here.

The Cunarder Umbria, delayed a day by stormy seas, arrived last evening from Liverpool and Queenstown. She passed off the Banks eleven icebergs, none lofty. Among her cabin passengers were H. Herbert Noyes and H. Ross Skinner of Johannesburg, South Africa, appointed by the British Government to investigate our perience with Chinese labor, with a view to utilizing it in the mines of the Transvaal.

Messrs Noyes and Skinner said there was a lack of native labor in the Transvaal and that the natives were unsteady. They will go to San Francisco and thence to China. Some Extra Touches on the Pennssivania Limited are the barber shop and bathroom, the observation car and the omcial stenographer. Adr. SHOT HERSELF BEFORE MIRROR MRS.

VAN WEIK, TWICE ONCE FROM A BARON, Fully Dressed, She Sits Defore a Glass Her Room in Jersey City Hotel Puts Bullet Into Her Heartdaughter of Bishop Ames of Baltimore and a Graduate of De Paw University -Her Last Husband, Baron bauer. Said to Be an Austrian Noblemai Mrs. Louise Ames Van Welk, who cently got a divorce in South Dakota from Baron Wolfbauer, said to be an Austrian nobleman, was. found dead yesterday morning in her-room. No.

13, of the Hotel Washington in Jersey City, with a bullet through her heart. the had killed herself while sitting fully dressed in a rocking in front of a pier glass. Mra. Van Weik had been married divorced before, her first husband being 0. B.

Van Weik, a post office inspector. She was the granddaughter of Bishop Ames of Baltimore and a graduate of De Pauw University. Mrs. Van Weik was at 'the Hotel Marlborough in this city, from March 5 till March 10 She returned to the hotel last Thursday and somewhat anxiously inquired if there were any letters or telegrams for ber. There was a letter awaiting her and a gram addressed to her was received after she engaged a room.

She left the Markborough on Friday morning and directed the clerk to send any mail that might come for her to the Hotel Washington in Jersey City. None came, it was said. Mrs. Van Weik's body was found in her room in the Jersey City hotel at 11:45 o'olook yesterday morning by Edward Case, son of Proprietor Frank M. Case.

Water which escaped from a steam radiator in Mrs Van Weik's room leaked into the hotel dining room. Case tried to into the room to remedy the trouble but found the door He broke in the door. HELD REVOLVER IN HER HAND. He saw Mrs. Van Weik, dressed in a dainty blue gown, sitting with her back to the door.

The dress was unbuttoned at the throat, partly exposing her bosom, which stained with blood. The revolver tightly clenched in the woman's right hand, which lay in her lap. Young Case didn't investigate further, but telephoned to Police Headquarters that woman guest had committed suicide. Chief Murphy, Inspector Arohibald, Roundsman Higgins and Policeman Rooney went to the hotel. They sent the body to Hughes's morgue, in Montgomery street, and took of Mrs.

Van Weik's effects, whiob packed in three trunks. Chief Murphy said that he thought from the appearance of the blood stains that the woman had been dead about ten hours. This opinion was shared by County cian Charles B. Converse of Hudson who viewed the body in afternoon, The Chief said that the women had deptly proceeded in the work of berself great care. In order to no mistake she had removed her corset and unlockened her gown so that she the muzzle of the revolver direotly against her breast.

She had taken Ave tridges from new box which stood on the bureau and loaded the revolver, which showed only one empty shell. Mrs. Van Weik was about $2 years She had light complexion, regular gray eyes and abundant light brown hair. her clothing was of fine material. blue gown in which she killed herself trimmed with lace.

Chief Murphy found large bundle of letters in the woman's trunks, but be would not make their contents public. Many of them, which had been postmarked in Cuba in 1900 and 1901, were addresard to Mrs. L. A. Wolfbauer, care of Mrs.

Pease, 1388 McCullough street, Baltimore, Md. Others were addressed to Mrs. Edward Wolfbauer, 1017 Fifteenth street, N. Washington, D. C.

HER LETTER TO ME. TOWNSEND. Mrs. Van Weik left an unsealed letter dated Saturday and addressed to Charles H. Townsend, 17 West Thirty-fifth street, New York.

Mr. Townsend is director of the Aquarium. The letter read as follows: MY DEAR CHARLIE: Yes, Indeed, I should be delighted to dine with you this evening Call for ine about 7 o'clock. I am sorry the weather is so bad and hope it will improve by evening. Sincerely your friend.

LOUISE. P. send this by messenger and hope you will get it all right, A receipt was found for an express package which Mra. Van Weik shipped to Mr. Townsend at Battery Park on Saturday.

On the same day she rented a safe deposit box in the Garfield Safe Deposit company, Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street, where the police believe her jewels will be found, as no jewelry of any kind was found among her effects in the hotel. Mr. Townsend rented a room at the Thirty-fifth street house two months from its lessee, Charles H. Niehaus, sculptor. Mr.

Niehaus said he knew very little about Mr. Townsend. He said, ever, that Mr. Townsend received gram yesterday at about noon and left the house scon after. MR.

TOWNSEND'8 STATEMENT. Mr. Townsend was away all the evening and returned to his home at midnight. He told a SUN reporter that had spent almost the whole day trying to get into communicaticn with Mrs. Van Weik's relatives and friends.

Mr. Townsend said he met her in Washingen several years ago. -She spent most of her life in he said. When her father died he left her considerable property there and in Washington. Her Arst husband was O.

B. Van Weik, who is now a post officer inspector in 8t. Louis. She was divorced from him about five years ago. They have child, who is about 10 years old' and is now in a boarding school in Washington While she was travelling in Europe about two years ago she met Baron bauer.

He followed her to chis country and married her at Washington. Ven Weik carne to my office Friday and seemed very much dietrea that she, a young woman, should already have been divorced from two husbands. On Saturday she sent me a mresage asking me to call upon her at the Hotel Washington, but 1 ent back word that I was ill uptowa and couldn't see her. "The first thing I knew of her death was when the proprietor of the Hotel ington told me about it this morning. have sent a telegram to her first husband, but have received no answer from him.

also sent a telegram to her lawyer James E. Carr of Washington, and he come on here. I haven't been over to Jersey City, yet, but I shall go there to-day." Charles H. Townsend came here about six months ago from London to take charge of the Aquarium when the control over it passed into the hands of the New York Society. LEFT PROPERTY TO DAUGHTER DOROTHY.

Mrs. Van Weik left a will, dated Sioux Falls, 8. March 2, 1903, in which she bequeathed all her property, real and sonal, with the exception of her wardrobe, The Lake Shore Limited is still the great 24-hour train to New York 3:00 P. arrives 4:80 nest usurious servios. Pullman.