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weatner Forecast: PAIR. QA 1 PAID HELP WANTS printed in The World last month. Only Pa Hel Wants in New York's 14,748 thirteen other papers combined. more iri The World. World more than double.

The Circulation Books Open to All." woatner Forecast: FAIR. Circulation Books Open to HO PAID WANT Oj O3O TISEMENTS printed in The World during November. A gain of 1 7 7 over same mon th of last yean World Want gains prove World Want results. VOL. XL.

NO. 13,989. Copyright, 18OO, by the Press Pnbll Ine Company, New York World. NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1899. O.VE CENT In Greater New York anil Jersey City.

TWO CENTS ontfcltlc of Greater New York nnd Jersey City and on traini. Former's Resignation as Ch rman of Steel King's Company May Mean a Fight, WILL BE A BATTLE OF GIANTS. 'Pittsburg Banking Firm Incorporates Steel Concern in Which Frick May Enter- OR HE MAY RUN HIS COKE BUSINESS, Cnrnoffle Buys Conl Ln-ncld, imil Former Associate Secures Sites for Iron-MnUliis Plants. A war of and Frlck- 1s threatened in the steel and coke Business. Its effects may be momentous.

Andrew Carnegie returned to his home In this city last night from PiUsburg. He refused to make, any statement regarding the resignation of Henry C. Brick from tho chairmanship of the Board of Directors of the Carnegie Steel Compa.iy (Limited). The World announced recently that Mr. Frick and the Jloorcs, of Chicago, were 'trying to buy Mr.

Carnegie's Interest in the Carnegie Steel Company. First they obtained from Mr. Carnegie an option for $150,000,000. When they found they could not raise so much money they secured from Mr. Carnegie a second option, at a.

reduced figure, $125,000,000, of which $25,000,000 was to be In cash and the rest in per cent, bunds. The consolidation under the second option has been hanging fire, and the re- of. Mr. Frick Is the first dclinite news that Frick's effort to get Mr. Carnegie out has finally failed and that as the other alternative he has himself got out.

Differences Between Them. It has been known for a year that there were strong personal differences between Mr. Frick and Mr. Carnegie. Mr.

Frick's friends have not hesitated to say that he considered that the attacks which Mr. Carnegie kept making on the National Administration In connection with its Philippine policy were llltely not only to hiu-t the Carnegie Steel.Company-in-the armor-plate branch of. Its business, but also tended to create fjenera.l prejudice against the company unions Republican business interests. The resignation of Mr. Frick is there- lore said by Mr.

Frick's friends to indicate that he and Carnegie- have come to the parting of the ways. At the time of Mr. Frtck's resignation, -which was on Dec. 5, a statement was given out at the Carnegie offices in Pittsburg that Mr. Frick had merely grown tired of the burden Involved in active management and preferred to become a consulting director of 'the company.

Everything was harmonious, It This statement was not signed by either Mr. Carnegie or Mr. Frick, and directly opposed to It are certain developments which are now In active progress In Pittsburg and Chicago. Developments That Mean Mncli. These are as follows: Mr.

Frick and the Mellon banking firm have recently secured possession of every large manufacturing elto in tho Pittsburg district. Mr. Frick has bought a large manufacturing site at Chicago. The banking 'firm of tho Mellons, of Pittsburg, who stand very close to Mr. Frick, has organized the Union Steel Camp-any, -ostensibly to onanufacture rw'ire and wire rods.

The Carnegles h-ave secured options on a. tract coal in the coke district in Washington and the Monongahcla Southern Railroad is to -be extended into the field, Mr. Fnick has lost $250.000 in cash his part of the forfeit of $1.000,000 by the lapse of tho option on Mr. Carnegie's Interests, and a large sum In addition by -the lapse of the $126,000,000 option. Henry -M.

Curry has also resigned the directory of the Carnegie Steel Company, limited, and the places of him and Mr. Frick have been taken by George Laudcr and A. M. Moreland, both proteges of Mr. Carnegie.

Two Courses Open to Prlclc. Two courses are now open to Mr. Frick. Ho may exchange his steel interests for the coke interests and concentrate his capital and energies upon his coko, plant, or he may go In with the Union Steel Company and thus become an active rival of Carnegie in steel and Iron. When Mr.

Frick was Invited -by Mr Carenglo to become the latter's partnei and when Frick and Carnegie, Phlpps Co. were merged Into the Carnegie Stee Company, limited, there was a mutua agreement by which Frick got Carnegie steel property at cost and Carnegie go Frick coke securities and property al cost. Mr. Frick has retainec control of the H. C.

Frick Coke Com pany. Thus Mr. Frick, If he now so chooses Is In a position to cut off from the Carnegie Steel Compa.ny an im'portan part of tho coke product on which the Carnegie mills depend. "AUTO" 1 Xew Variety of Disorderly Conduct CoNl ChriKtoiiIier HariiiN $5. Chas'ing a policeman with an automobile was the particular kind of "disorderly cjnduca" with, which Christopher Harms, of No.

5D3 Pomeroy street, Steinway, LJ. was accused "in the Harlem Jourt yesterday. Harms, who is an apent for the Dalmer Motor Company, of Astoria, uses In lis business a trim 1'lttle gasoline run- In which he daily crosses tlie Asoria ferry at Ninety-sixth street. Po- say that he has given much rouble by running his machine on the oats ahead of other vehicles waiting In Inc. Policeman HJckey, of the East IQighty- ilgh'th Street Station, on duty at the erry, told Magistrate Flammer that -larms repeated this manoeuvre yesterday while tryilng to get aboard the 2.30 'clock boat.

When warned to desist he wheeled his machine around and play- ully chased the policeman all over the pier. Hickey satld that he had to flee or his and believes that he would lave been run over had not the automobile been brought to a halt by the wheels catching sin a car track. Then pulled Harms from the box and marched him to court. Harms wanted drive to court, but the policeman re- 'usod to run any further risks. Magistrate Plammer fined Harms $5 ind had him locked up when he was un- ible tj pay.

Later he was bailed out ind went home in 'his automobile. INDEX TO AUVERTISEMEATS. IMM.O i-nnli I'nt Agent! Wanted 10 8 1 Auction 1 lUnkliiff nnd 4 Wanted 10 Hinrd fi lliiNtntu Property lo l.ui. 9 Cmlrvoyant lu CoMtwuu Bteamart 10 3 Colltgci, Schooln, 7 Juicing Academies 8 7 Dlud 7 Ii Docc. BlrtU.

Ac 8 7 Elirito'i Noilcej 9 4 ElSaged 11 1 7 0 Kiiroi.f an BU-amoru 10 .1 10 aiidAparliiifUU lo Ut 9 Flais and Wanted 9 For Sale tl 6 I-urnlshed Itoorru to Irft. KurnlshedUoomHWantedlU 'J Coo.i Will, Snle -Help Help 1 Last. Found mill lU Marlilnery Medical MortcflRC Iioani Muaii-nl 1'iibllc MotlcM Puirlmfie niul lont Auulio Itenl nnx 9 til City Kol Kstnlc 9 llf.nl lo Kj-ham-r. 9 1'e- inalo II Lot .9 Unfuralsbtd Koomi to 19 Jates Is Now on His Way from St. Louis Detectives Watching the Woman.

DETERMINED TO PROTECT BOY, SUNDAY WORKERS BARRED. Two Motormcii SiiHiiciidcMl from lionton Congrrcgrntiuii. Because two motormen had to vorlc on Sunday they were suspended Tom tile congregation of Dr. J. M.

oster's church In Boston. Dr. Foster made this report yesterday it a' meeting of tho National Reform 'Vssociatlcn In tho Broadway Taher- Tacle. lie was talking on "The Keeping ot the Sabbath." Dr. Foster said that when tho young men got jobs they had jeen warned not to work on Sunday.

They applied for that day off, but the'lr were refused. "When they continued their work they were called be- 'ore the church and suspended. Both men'had families. Dr. Dixon said that temperance work- rs were thirty-five years behind the times.

The ballot-box, he held, was the only way to prevent drunkenness. Dr. VVyllo read a set of sixteen resolutions, "eluding protests against the army canteen, condemning lynching and approv- ng the President's policy in the Philippines. Charles TJ. Bates, a jewelry salcsmar of St.

Louis, Is expected to arrive ir own to-day and wife a hi? nomlnir with a revolver In her lianrl, he- hind the barricaded dr.ors of tho homt of a friend at No. Monroe street Brooklyn. This up-to-dato waj of a husband assured Mrs. Bates, because sho claims her hits)and Is trying: to kidnap their ten-year- old son, Charles L. Bates, falling that to have her declare 1 insane.

"1C any of my enenilos, my husband or the a Rents he has had pel sor-utinp me for months, attempt to take my hoy HYPNOTIC THIEF GOT $4,000. Mr. Dnlizcll, oC Ilostori, Got Arouiifl Enrly In tlic Morning. (Special to The World.) BOSTON, Dec. admits ho has stolon 54,000 worth or R-o fit tho dolivrry wagons if the York and Boston Dispatch Express Company, and says that he does not ow why he did il.

Ho thinks Komey who Vs more expert in hypnolism than ho is sot up to it. hut he admits no one but himself profited from stealings. Dalizell is twenty-four years old. His system was to get around early at the express company's offices and pick out promising looking packages from tho loads of. othor drivers, put rhem on his own wagon, and by abstracting tho bill for tho stolen packages allow the oilier driver to go out without suspJolon that lie was -'i package, lie lins been held in $2,000 Cor trial.

ROOF GA'RDENFORA CHURCH. Will He to Cliiirch Polls Wlmt Mml- Ssoll Is lo Theutl'c-Goern The plans for the new $150,000 Hanson Place Baptist Church. Brooklyn, provide lor a roof Harden where will be held during the summer evenings. There will he four elevators to talte the worshippers up nnd down. Rev.

A. C. Dixon, pnstor 9f the church was not at home yesterday, but Mrs, Dlxon was In. She said: "It Is nol really a roof garden, simply an open-nil auditorium where It will be pleasantci to hold services on warm evenings than In the church. It will he to church people what the Madison Square Roof Garden Is to theatre goers.

Of course there will not he any drinks sold of any kind. It will not be much different from a chapel, except that 1 will have no roof. 'The work on the new cburch not been commences as yet." PENCIL PIERCED HIS BRAIN. Robert Mortimer Dies After Four of Grent Afvo Bobert Mortimer, tho six-year-old son of James Mortimer, who was one of the judges at the National Dog Show, died on Wednesday at his home In Hernp- as the result of a singular accident. On Saturday night the boy, whll playing with a sharp lead pencil, fell from a chair.

The point of the pencil struck his forehead, piercing the skull and puncturing the brain. The boy lived' in agony fot lour days. MEDIUM ADVISES MINISTER. Rev. IDr.

Hubert Is Told Wife HUH Killcil Hcrnclf. ''Oh, Mrs. 'Hubert will come bnck. hasn't committed suicide. A medium told Mr.

Hubert so," said the Rev. Mr Hubert's housekeeper, of No. -153 Halsej street, Brooklyn, yestenday. As told In The World, Mrs. Hubert disappeared last Monday, leaving a note saying s'he was going to drown 'herself ''Yes," continued the housekeeper, "the medium salt! Mrs.

Hubert Is alive an well, and will return in two days or two weeks or two months." A MIDNIGHT MAtt-H-TAGE. Parental Opposition, Thirty-Mile (Special to Tho World.) HAGBRSTOWN', Dec. Bluli' and Miss Maggie Hall, of Charlotte, drove thirty miles over the nine' Ridge in the bitter cold last night to escape parental opposition. A clergyman at a hotel here was aroused from his bed and married them at midnight Congressman George A. Pearre was a witness.

The couple went home to-day to seek parental forgiveness. To Cure a Cold In, One take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drug gluts refund the monoy.lt It faila to cure. E. VV Grove's signature 10.

eacb box, 25o. Mrs, Bates Awaits the Coming of Her Husband with Pistol Ready to Shoot. THINKS HE MAY STEAL SON, SIXTY INJURED, ONE DEAD, She Is Suliif? Him for Divorce, nutl He Will Try to Hare Her Committed to mi Asylum. 'rom me I will shoot thnm sa.Id L1U1II IlllT -L Will nilUUL Ill Ml HI, Sil.Ml Mrs. Bates to reporter for Tim World y-esterday.

"I am for any jmerft'ency that may arise In this trouble Delwcen my husband and mysnlf." Mrs. Bates Is the of ihe late T. J. Peter, who was a woll-to-do railroad builder and mlno of St Louis. Her husband is a di.irrnml PX- and siilosman in the i-mplny of a g-established jewelry IHJUHP in St.

Louis. Airy. Bates was on the rarly in life. Her mother made ii socojid mnr- rlatre and became llic of thn mil- road builder. Mrs.

Bates's stepfather placed her In a convent, whom acquired the many ruromplishmcnls which afterward made nor hello in St. Louis society. She hen mot Bates and they were married. Threo daughters and a wore born to thorn, and Ihelr married life was happy until about a year ago, whon ian estrangement took place while couple were living at No. 4124 Page avenue, St.

Bates Is to havn flcensed his wife of being too fond of the society of a youth named James K. Reeves, who was a protege of 'Mrs. Bates's -when she was interested In the Masonic Home of S't. Louis, wtherc Reeves was an inmate. Mrs.

Bn tea's lilt ere? 1 in the lad was motherly, she says, but the launls of her husband became so insulting that she was obliged to bring suit for divorce, the papers of which am now on file, in the Western city. Sho was compelled to come Kast her son a Her the filing o'f her suit, and since then has been shadowed by her husband's detectives and 'has received warnings declaring that she will be harmfully dealt with in ease she goes on the street. The motion to have her husband compelled to give her alimony and couuse fees pending her suit, will come up snnu time this week, and in the moan timf Mrs. Bates has learned that her husbant has started East to try and have hoi committed to an insane asylum and her child taken from her. She has not been nut of her tempornrj home 'with- a Mrs.

Giles at the number given since Nov. 7. WREATH OF BILLS FOR HORSE. Money AVoii 011 a WiiR-or 1Iiin tlir Animal AVonlcI Drink lleer. On n.

wager or $20 George Avery, St. George. S. led his horse las Wednesday Into barroom of the hotel of Otto Credo, in Richmond 'retrace, Now Brighton, and gave the anl inal a glass of beer, which it drank. Avery first -attempted to drive inti the barroom.

In the saloon Avery ex claimed: "Friends, let me Introduce my 'horse 'The Bear; 'The are friends." "Drinks for the crowd," said thi stranger, who had made the wager. Avery ordered a schooner of heor fo the horse. When the glass was fillci Avery- poured the beer down the anl mal's throat. "The Bear" took kindlj to the! beverage and a second drink fol lowed. The young man chanpred the money had won Into one dollar bills and mak Ing a wreath of them placed It ahou the animal's neck.

Reharnesslng th horse to the wagon -he drove home. KILLED SAVING ANOTHER. Uoylc liOfcrt His Tjlfe Trying; to i-iie an Old 31aii, It IK TboiiBlil. (Special to The World.) Dec. Em State Express, whirling by Dutch ess Junction to-day, struck and Instant ly killed William Doyle, of Xewburg.

Doyle's body as It was hurled struck Francis TImoney, seventy-five year old, a wealthy citizen of Newburg TlmoTioy was rendered unconscious, bu will recovei-. Mr. Timoney's son says he believe! Doyle was killed while trying to save; his 'father. A similar accident occurrec on the same spot a few months ago, a flying body knocking down a man. LEGISLATORS AS WRESTLERS Seiiiitor Snlllvriii Wuutn liim'imi crs'Fit to Cope with Roosevelt, Senator Timothy D.

Sullivan said yes terday he had prepared a bill which hf would Introduce as soon as the Legls lature met. It will provide for State instructo In wrestling, whose duties it shall be to train members lo enable them to cope physically with Gov. Roosevelt. The Senator is a. humorist.

Tlironjjrh Fnllmnii Sleeper Cleveland. Via PoDMylVinla Krtlroad Joaves New York West 23d 7.55 F. OwVlindt Ul ie, 8.00 r. -U. )oors OnlyWayofEscapeWastoJump Three Stories to Grounda uasoline Exploded in a Reading Hosiery Factory and Almost Instantly the Whole Plant Was in Flames.

HEADLONG RUSH TO DESTRUCTION. Pnnlc-Strlckeli Kcjl From Fire Escniue, Jnmiicd or i "Were Crowded from Hoof. (Special to Tho World.) READING, Dec. a flfe which to-day destroyed the large lip- slery factory of the Nolde Horst Company, fully sixty of the COO erh- were Injured, and probably hree lost their lives. A body burned to a crisp was taken out this afternoon.

It Is that of Miss Clay, aged forty-eight years. A'll he other employees have benn accounted 'or. An explosion of gasoline started the ilaze, and within five minutes tho whole structure was a shoet of (lames. Doors were locked, windows screened. Nearly all the injuries were received in jump- The Injured.

Here Is a partial list of the Injured: I1A1CH, ANNIE, nnlde broken ami arm ppralncfl. KARON. I.Ot'ISA. Injured ulxml limbs. UAfSllUn, SAU.1B, Ire brnltc.Il.

HUWMAN. AXSIK. Injui-nii inluni.llly. I10YKH, KLJIIHA, I'-ga Injured. HOVER, KATIK.

Inq face burned. 1iKrXNF.lt, ANNIR, nllklo broken. KATIK. FISHER. UI.I.IK.

bruised. FLANII1AX. MISS, limited. GEHI1ET, MAM IK. urm sprained.

MAMIE, brulse.1. HWIvEll, I.IX.7.II--. brillHi'il. HI.LA, Illtprlliilly HORNBK.I'.nKR. I.IZ2IK.

binlly tiurnerl. IIIACH. MISS, ankle brnki'ii. KICLLV. GATHAHINE, inti'Tlially Illjurcil.

KHAEMEH, MAMI13, hijurccl Internilly. LAL'UMAN, MAMIE, ICR brnlgod. fa-e burned. LINTON. PnANCES.

badly bruised. I.UMH, EMMA, both It-'b't; fracLureil. face, und hflllcln brillsod. bnrlly liurned. FRANCES, b.v'k nverc'ly Injure.l.

MMKAlin. ANNIE, bruised. Injured Internally. JIAIlEliRV. l-s lirakeu.

MAHKHRV, ELLA, lee broken. MIU.EU, MAM1IO. MILLEH, NELLIE, brulacd. MO11V. ELMER.

Ivi'lly bunicd. NAG LE, liadly hurt. REISER. Hhotildcr and thlElt spialnel. HAI.LIK.

ankle upralncd. RCIIAIDFFICR. DEP.SII.:. lefr broken. SCI1MENK.

PALI.IE, biulsed. SCHWARTZ, ICR broken. SBYFERT. CEUTIU'DE. Ic'K nrokisn.

SllERMAX, SALI.IE. Inju.cd Internally. JENNIE, back Injured and miklc sprained. WEIXEUT. ANNIE, arm badly Injured.

WI1ITMEYER, leg broken. WINTERS, EMMA, teeth knocked out and lace bruised. YI3TCII, MAIIY, bead cut. JC.vplosIoii, 'I'llen a Punic. The plant 100x400 feet in size three stories, with basement.

All the 1100 employees were girls. Fire started on the Iloor in what Is known the singeing room, where stockinirs are yiven the finishing touches. In this work gasoline Is used. Suddenly there was a terrific explosion of the deadly fluid. It spread in direction, burning several of the employees, and setting fire to floors, wallt und material.

The Hlrls were In a panic. Some rar, for the windows, but most of these were covered with wire screening. Oth girls made for the roof and the fscnpes, but the ladders were not Ir position. One B'lrl jumped to the ground, and then another. Those in the rear forcr forward those already on tho eseap and those huddled In front were compelled to Jump.

Headlong they fell the whole three stories to tho ground. Neighbors brought ladders, and, after costly delay, some girls were rescue'! from the roof In that way. The girls say It was the firm's custom to lock the outer doors of the factory after all the employees were in; also that 'there were screens at the windows on the floors where they worked, and they were nailed fast, except where the lire-escapes were located. Story ot an Edward C. H'uhn, of Philadelphia, who In the olilce of the mill, said: "During tho time it'took me to walk two blocks'frqm the olilce the place appeared to fill with smoke.

I noticed girls on the upper floor trying to raise windows to set out. The windows appeared to be nailed down. One girl kicked the window out 'and she and many others made for tho lire-escape, and many of them fell over each other in getting out. Their screams, mingled with breaking g'lass, were awful. "In half a minute there was a.

background of (lame, which appeared to drive the girls out through tho windows. they were climbing, crawling and tumbling down the fire-escapes flames In big sheets hurst put through all the windows of tho top Iloor, while smoke In clouds was coming.from all tho windows. "I heard what 1 took to be four distinct explosions." Tho lire at 10.30 A. M. The property loss ia $230,000.

DRUGGED THREE AND A DOG. did Wnntcrt Tliankx- Turkey (Special to The'World.) GI3NESEO, N. Dec. 7. James Boblnson and James Cliff are under arrest charged with robbing the house of James Tettsworth, of Groveland, and chloroforming Mr.

Tettsworth, his wlfu and daughter and the watchdog. Cliff worked for Tettsworth, who is a farmer. He wanted to get the JSO his employer had received for Thanksgiving turkeys. I'cnnMylvnnia Limited via Pennsylvania Railroad to 9t. Louis, Ixmtovlllo, Cincinnati.

Cleveland. Toltda uloV Dtttolt. PLANNING TO ELOPE IN A PRIVATE CAR. MISS FLORENCE PARKER. Sweethearts of Eighteen, She Beautiful, He Rich.

Will Outwit the Guardian, Who Refuses His Consent to Their Marriage. Roy's (Special Tin: IlIClhMO.VU. Doc. Florence Parker, a. belle of rho S'jJlh lul a conspicuous figure In lliclininnil KINSLEY SHOWS THE PEN HABIT OF MOLINEUX.

Swears the Accused Wrote the Note to Stearns Co. Signed Cornish," and Gives His Reasons. JURORS STUDY HIS LETTERS; One, Mr. Crane, Even Gives the Expert Points on the Rebukes the Wrangling Lawyers, and Weeks Still Objects. William F.

Kinsley, expert on handwriting for the prosecution In the trial ot Mollneux, swore yesterday that In his opinion Roland B. Mollneux wrote tnlB letter: "Frederick Stearns Detroit: A. A. Harpster has applied to me for a position as collector, Mo did not refer to you, but mentioned having been in your employ. A line from you would be considered confidential and greatly appreciated.

Yours very truly, CORNISH, 1020 Broadway, New York City." Mr. Kinsley swore he arrived at his conclusion after studying and comparing the handwriting in tho foregoing letter with the handwriting in tho following letter, undoubtedly written by Mollneux and signed by him: "New York Athletic "My Dear will be handed to you by ray friend, Mr. Charles Allen, a young gentleman who wishes to find some position -where his knowledge of chemistry will be of service to him. Anything that you can do or suggest for him will be appreciated. He has been with me for a year or more and I have found him capable nnd obliging.

Most cordially yours, ROLiAND MOLINEUX, "July 2S, COMPARED WITH AN ACCEPTED The expert had also compared the writing in the letter signed Cornish" with the writing Mollnenx did In Mr. Kinsley's office, which has been accepted by the Court as a standard of comparison, and which includes a copy made by Molliiciix of the address on the poison package: dale f.ir the wr-itdlng would have. be)' i his it'll for Han's I ohiK'tlun. i Virginia ilo nut and nor clghtecn-ycar-old r.ancr. i mlmini in marry without a i-crtlllcati-' Lambert, of 91.

i.otilj, whose fju.mlla:! of c-onac'iit t'nim pan-ills m- guardians. inalsis that is inu yuiiiiK marry. Ui be whirled away In Washington de.ehind to send private ear t.i carry i'arUer, her hrides- a I Fre.irrk by Pre.sldeni. 'U-velaml. wao iuM her il tile conscmi Kuardlann nri 1 be married.

anil ivliil ami lii-i man lo This is I'M happen before Carlstnias. Washington. according present Tin. 1 bride ii I'lii'lier Is ilir Mrs. J.

W. one of Virginia's most beautiful iliuish- lli'iison, whu K-i Parker, ters, ami ymmg Lambert has some $30,000 a year. Miss is JUKI eighteen, live older than the man she is tu marry. Her tinner and commaliiii'd Parker's Hatlury during tiic- civil war. Home time nl'i i rwanl.

whni with scv- and was afturward a clri-Kyinaii in till 1 I "rat friends was Waslilnslnn. liio.v city. Young Lambert met Miss rarkc-r in Richmond last sprliiK. ami fur iimnthM afterward he n-maineil here, paying lis-r tho most marki'd attention. He ffivi- iicr a smart trap and a Kentucky ilHiruush- bred among ulln-r ihlngs.

Ufceiuly their engagement was aimoiineed, and lin- whu won! them. She I iiuio in Society of Old Brooklynites Offered a Prize to First Father of a Baby. Answer Came, He Says, When the Man Who Had Tried to Strike Him Dropped Dead, HE GOT LAST YEAR'S PRIZE, TOO, BUT DOCTOR SAYS HEART DISEASE, ii YOIIIIK rimii of Slily-lwo ivltli Twfii(y-llvi-Yonr- 01(1 IcIllllOIIM III I.ilH'lU-.V MarkN oil INMi'-'n Has 11 Fitful Inn. The Society of Brooklyniles. maiV up of centenarians.

octoBonnrlans. tuagonarlans others have lived in Brooklyn nt lenst lifty yoars. mot ntfrht in the SurroRiite's room In tho Hall of Records lo discuss tho benolHs of expansion to the 1'nited Statos. In walked Thomas U. a younpr chap of sixty-two, as proud a pc.coc His feet scarcely touched 'tho ciiipc (.1 floor.

His bosom swelled with pride, his eyes beamed with Joy. Ho whispered to Dr Watson. That vonornblo gentleman leaped to his foot, shouting: "Tom Jones has done It again! He sets the silver mug!" The graybeards yelled their approbation and Tomi Jones bowed. Throe years aso the Old Brooklynites formally'resolved that any member who had a male child born to him should bo presented with a silver snoun. Tom Jones voted for Ihe resolution Me had married a younB wile oi twenty-five.

Last December, almost a yoar aBO to a. dav he walked into a meftinK ot tin- Old Brooklynites as if ho were treading the spoon!" ho shnutcd The spoon was not presented until lust June, as the Old Unmklynitos wameirt Tom Jones, and Mrs. Jones to bo on hand. Speeches in.i.l.-. tnoro mi.s fcastlni; and the spoon was lost, but another was purchased.

On that occasion the proud father proposed that nil restrictions should be removed and that tho member who next became the father of a boy or R'lrl saould 'bo'given a silver loving cup. The resolution was passed. Sly Tom Jones! Mrs. Jones beenniu the mother of a Klrl baby a few days ago at her home. No.

45'l Fifth street. Mr. Jones was the only man at last nlsht's meeting who denounced I ho policy of expansion. Married Iloth IXMIll. 'ADELE, Dee.

Huttheus to-day boat his wife to death with a club and then shot himself dead. Ho was sixty-five years old and had been married forty years. Six children survive the couple. Jealousy caueod' the Jragedjr. (Special Hi Tin' Wi.ri.l.) UCTTE.

7. a hi'alod dl.spute over religion between K. S. Charlebols. 11 "divlno healer." and Prof.

Malachy Dw.vc.-i-. an old resident uf Hullo, Uwyi'r iiltcmptnd to strike the "hcakT" and iload before ho could do Chiirlobois siiyn hi- appealed to lieavon I'ur Di-otectlon asainsi his assailant, and believes Dwycr's doalli was the act of Providence. Both men have been regarded as an lilies on religion. They mot In the public library, where both were looking up literature on religious subjects, and they a discussion ovi-r their different beliefs. C'harlebols produced a table of letters and figures which ho said had to by Inspiration.

The figures footed up a. tutal (ilili, and Cliarlebois fell certain they had SOUK- ilc-op and sac-rod meaning. Ho asked Dwyer for his opinion, and the latter expressed the belief that they bad an anll-L'hrli-tlan siffiiiil- oaiu-i'. whereupon the healer said he had been told that the- ligures were markod on Ibe POJJO'S forehead. This so angered Dwyer that applied tin opi- Ihot to tho healer nnd raised Ills hand to strike him.

"I stcod up and put my mini In God and asked Ills protection," said Cliarle- bois "ami Dwyc-r dropped dead." A physician, who made an examination says doatb- was duo to heart disease. Dwyer wa.s sixty-eight years of ago. Formerly he was an in the Oivdc-nsburg (N. Charlobols. who calls himself a Divine Scientist, publishes a paper called tho l.ivlnff Truth, and recently- has created it by alleged mirapulous cures.

The blind, deal, lame and sick are run. nlng after him. Woman Ilni-Ucl-Slioii Ivecuer'N CHICAGO, Deo. Marlon L.U. Touchon was to-day bound over lo the criminal court on two warrants charging her with keeping a wicket-shop tit No.

107 Dearborn street. All the witnesses In the case are women. In sickness ajitl in Jioaltli, It can't be "Old Saratoga," Oerfltley Co. a Uuioai wblsltcy. Acker.MtrriU&Cmidlt lell 1 MR.

HARRY CORNISH. I i ATHLETIC CLUB, I MAPISOX AVE. AND NEW YORK CITY. i Stop a moment. If you please, to consider the importance, in the prosecution 1 eyes, of the Identification of the II.

Cornish letter its-being in Molinuex's hand- writ Ing. Kmlulph Ik'ilL-s has lestlficd at the trial that Molineux Induced him to send a c-tliM- (o Kredcrirk Stearns it Harpster's former If the is they hoped, was derogatory to Harpster, Cornish's friend, it was to be used to nisi. HarpsU-r from his then position, collector for Ballantlne's brewery. Ilr-llfs testilied, too, that he destroyed Stearns reply to the letter only iftrr Mollneux's arrest and after he learm-d In the that a letter to Slearns tt Co. signed Cornish" WHS In existence.

CONTENTION OF THE PROSECUTION. Th' 1 prosecution contends that iMolInenx signed the name of his enemy, Cornish, to tile II. Cornish letter. This chargi' Is the weightier because the prosecution contends that Mollneux signed to ulher letters the name Barnet," who, the prosfrtitloii says, It will prove died of poisoning by cyanide of mercury. The prosecution contends also that if Mollneux signed the H.

Cornish he must avc rented a private letter-box at No. Hroadway, to which the reply was to be sent. Klrst a photograph of the Cornish" letter tiiken by Dr. E. G.

Lederle, 'liemist of the Board of Health, was handed to each proof of' the cure the people have taken In the preparation of the case. tho jurors were studying the photographs, Mollneux was whispering to his father. Whnt he said must have been reassuring, for Gen. Molineux repeatedly lodded his lint 1 while head and smiled. EXPLAINING M'OLINETJX'S "PEN HABIT." Mr.

Kinsley explained to the jurors I IIP characteristics of the handwriting In lie M. Cornish letter as he saw them. of the letters proved the writer's 'pen habit." often a k'tli'r In a word was not connected with the letter following II. Thus the word "appri'Cialed" might be represented as written thus: appre-ci- iiled. Tile first was not connected wltii that follows it, the was not connected with the that follows It.

So with the word "confidential" In the II. Cornish letter. It may be thus typified: i-onfi-denti-lil. Imagine that the pen was lifted for the thousandth part of a second between the making of the first and the and between the secojld and the Let me give you an Idea of how closely tho jurors were following Mr. Kinsley the photographs they held and studied: "May 1 ask a question?" asked Frederick B.

Crane, a clerk, juror No. 12, who has Iron-gray hair, a fine nose and a pointed beard. "Certainly," chorused the Recorder and the counsel on both sides. JUROR CRANE ASKS A QUESTION. "Take the word 'line' In the letter," said Mr.

Crane. 'A line from you would be considered confidential and greatly appreciated. Is the In 'line' joined to the 'n' that follows it?" Mr. Kinsley carefully examined the and the through his magnifying Is," said the exiicrt. will now pass on to the letter to 'My Dear Austen, 1 signed 'Roland said Mr.

Osborne, and a. sclentlHc, exact photograph of that letter was placed before each juror. "Mr. Kinsley, state how many different kinds of 'f's' are contained In the Mollnenx let-tor." "I object," shouted Mr. Weeks, and he went on to tell why.

"If Mr. AVeeks continues to make these numerous speeches this case will go. on until time passes Into eternity," cried Mr. Osborne. "It will If you do the same thing," said Recorder Goff.

"1 find four initial 'f's' In the Mollneux letter," said the expert, and he wai about to go on when Juror Crane remarked: "I find five." And live they "f's" beginning the words "friend," "find," for" and "found." "Much obliged to you, sir; very much obliged to you, sir," exclaimed Mr. Osborne to the juror. But it struck me the prosecutor was not truly happy that Mr. Crane's eyes, for the moment at least, were sharper than the expert's. PECULIARITIES CE HE PRISONER'S HAND.

Mr. Kinsley dissected the Initial "f's" In the "My dear Austen" lettP- He said there were two kinds of "f's" and described them. His description -was hard to understand. But. In tho "My dear Austen" letter he found the same character-, iatics as in the Cornish" letter.

In this "collector" was written colle-clor; "considered," consl-der. In the "My, dear Austen" letter, "service" was written serv-ice and the word "appreciated" was exactly the same In both letters. Besides, the capital In Allen was exactly like the capital "A's" In A. Harpster." All throe were small "a's" enlarged for use as capitals. "How about the word 'Roland'? asked the who had been stuydlng a photograph too.

The Judge's wisdom in picking out "Roland" for Inspection Is apparent. That Is the word of all words savu Molineux that Mollneux writes most familiarly. "The 'n' Is separated from the answered the expert, "and the same twb letters in the word 'found' are written in the same way, the is separated from After much more ot the same sort of testimony Mr. Kinsley repeated his belief that Molineux wrote the Cornish" letter. Yet one of the best authorities on handwriting had the curiosity to ask 77 per cent, of people who write separate the preceding letter from such rounded written letters as and Try It yourself.

Write a sentence In your natural hand and study It. Before Mr. Kinsley could demonstrate that a man must mind bU i.