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SHORT $70,000. PLEADS NOT GUILTY. Manager of English Steel Company Confessed Theft in Letter. Prank S. Pllditeh, who for eighteen years was the New-York manager for the Wardlow Steel Company, of Sheffield, England, was arrested yesterday on two indictments charging grand larceny.

Arraigned before Judge McMahon, In the Court of General Sessions, pleaded not guilty and was released in bail. Pilditch is fifty-five years old and lives at No. 774 Brooklyn. Last April duke Wardlow, a member of the steel company, Piidltch that he would be here, to make his annual Investigation of the company's business, in the latter part of April. Wardlow arrived here on April 24.

and. going to the office of Pilditch, at 95 Manhattan, learned that he had disappeared two days earlier. Mr. Wardlow inquired for the books, and from h's son, William, who was employed in tho office, that his father had ordered the books taken to the Brooklyn home of Piiditch. was made of the house, but the cculd not be found.

They were ll found, however, and, according to Detecttwa lumnt sfcNaoght, a shortage of h.is already been discovered, and It is believed the total amount embezzled will reach IHMMMM. Experts are still at work. In May. a month after his disappearance. PUditch's counsel.

George Frederick Elliott, of No. Brooklyn, wrote to Wardlow, to make arrangements whereby his client could return to thi6 city, pay up the alleged shortage and avoid arrest. The 6peciflc amounts alleged to have been taken by PUdJteh are $1.178 30 on April 22 and $350 on 20 by means of checks drawn on the National Park Bank. It is also alleged, according to Detective Sergeant McNaught, that tfce $100,000 said to have been taken has been obtained during the eighteen years Pilditch represented the steel company in this city. In a letter sent to Mr.

Elliott by Pilditch while lie waa away from the city the latter declared that if he could get immunity from punishment fee would return at once and make a clean breast everything. "I would rather die and be lost to the world than return and disgrace my family and be Imprisoned for my wrongdoing," he said in the letter. DECLARES TESTIMONY PERJURED. Secretary Gustaveson Files Answer to Charges with Armory Board. At the meeting of the Armory Board yesterday John P.

secretary, who wu recently suspended on charges by Controller Grout that had favored his brother in giving out cdntracts and had otherwise mismanaged his office, filed his answer through his counsel, Kellogp. in which he declares that the charges are based on perjured testimony. The brief says the findings of the Commissioners of were based principally on the testimony of Charles Jacobs and James J. Monroe, of the Finance Department, and William Phalr. Robert Telfer.

Frederick Dardlngkeller and Lawrence V. Mer-han. It declares that Jacobs, who is an examiner In the Finance Department, bore a most unenviable record while connected with the Police Department, and was dismissed from the force. Dardingkellers testimony, the answer asserts, is lull of inconsistencies and contradictions. The same Is said of the other witnesses.

To find Giistaveson guilty Mr. Kellogg in brief declares "It necessary to pass by and completely overlook barefaced perjury of the accusing witnesses and to adopt the versions as against all the records." Mr. Kellogg contends that no proof has been to show that the city, through the actions of Gustaveson, suffered any loss, and that there has been no illegal or improper favoritism on his part in awarding contracts or in giving orders to Henry Day of which his brother was a member. TO PRESERVE THE NORTH WOODS. Association for the Preservation of Adirondacks Criticises Governor Odell.

To increase popular interest in the preservation of tiie North Woods, Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks ha; just issued a pamphlet of thirty-two pages, giving a sketch of the origin and practical uses of the Adirondack Park, and Bonn for the continuance of the State's policy of acquiring land for forest vation. It pays particular attention to Governor Odell's refusal to continue the policy of his five predecessors with reference to the Adirondacks. and declares him responsible for the alleged nonfulfilment of the pledge in. the last Republican platform to resume the purchase of lands within limits of the Adirondack and Catskill parks. The pamphlet declares "our forests are the natural conservators of the water supply of a large portion of the State, and have a direct value with reference to canals, navigation and water power and to the water supply, sanitation and lire protection of our cities." It gives facts concerning the acreage of public and private lands, and the rate at which the forests ere being removed for lumber and paper pulp.

It refers to the recent forest fires and argues for Strong protective legislation as well as the prevention of bad legislation. Copies of the pamphlet are to be had from the Association for the Protection of the Tribune Building. CHURCH EXEMPTION FIGUEES. Total for 1903 Va1ue of Various Church Properties. The Federation of Churches and Christian Organisations in New-York City has completed the Manhattan section of its annual tabulation of the tax exemption list, published on the last day of June in "The City Record." The list of this year is exceptionally interesting, because attempt has been made to assess the church properties at 100 per cent valuation.

The following are the figures on the island of Manhattan and the changes since last year: Total exemption Changes of ex-1903. empttoa 1603. J52.521.000 425.170.500 Roman Catholic 33.1G6.C00 Hebrew 11.839.600 4.815.000 Educational, hospitals and 20.087.600 6.621, 600 Christian Science 247.000 Unclassified 1.512.000 64.000 Totals 1150.173.700 145.658,500 The following are the values of properties of some of the religious bodies: Episcopal $44,303,801) $16,015,500 Roman Catholic M.im.9*> 6.5&0.400 rresbyterian 8.555.500 Hebrew 11.3;«>.5O0 4.945. Episcopal 4.941.500 857.500 Ileformed Dutch 4.702,000 1,685.000 Bantlrt 3.471.«KJ 724. 000 Vr 838.000 207.000 168.000 Lutheran General 733.500 Lutheran Synodical 657,500 £8,500 Society of Friends 530.000 Mi: (( before figure denotes loss of exemption.

ONLY A RECORD OF ASSASSINATION. of Board of Education for Eejecting Tablet for Three Presidents. The Board of Education held the last meeting of schocl year yesterday. A certified copy of the rcEolutlon of the Board of Aldermen demanding ttat German be restored as one of the studies In the public schools was received ficra the clerk of the beard, it having become a law without the Mayor's signature. It was referred to the committee on elementary schools.

The committee on elementary schools reported adversely or. receiving a tablet commemorating the deaths of Lincoln. Oarfleld and McKinley. to be placed in a Commissioner Jacob W. Mack, of the er.id that the gift was declined for the reason that the thiee martyred had nothing In common, except that they all died violent deaths at the tisnds of assassins, and that it would only bring to the minds of the children that the Presidents were murdered.

tablet represents assassination, and nothing said i Mack, "and no one would couple the three together they had been assassinated." recommendation of the committee was adopted. Baltimore. July The losses by the furious and peculiar storm that swept over Baltimore and vicinity yesterday aggregate about $400,000. The citizens' permanent relief committee will provide assistance for a number of homeless families and HERLIHY DEFIES COURT. Clash with Magistrate About Suspected Gambling Place.

Police Captain Herllhy. who recently was allowed to resume duty in East after long suspension, when his third trial on an indictment for alleged neglect of duty had been postponed, practically defied Magistrate Baker in the Harlem court yesterday. Herlihy had kept a policeman stationed at a cigar store in East suspecting that gambling had been carried on there. The cigar dealer was discharged yesterday when he was arraigned on a charge of assaulting the policeman, and Magistrate Baker said to the policeman: "You have no right to stay In this man's place if he not want you there, and the captain has no right to order you to stay there." "I have a right to keep a man in that store," said Herlihy. "I don't believe you have." answered the magistrate.

"As long as I am on the bench I will not allow any officer to remain in a place of business if he does not see any violation of the law." "That is not right. Judge." said captain. "I have the right to keep a man where 1 suspect the law is being violated. I am going to keep a man in that place every day." "If you do," answered Magistrate Baker, angrily. "'l'll have you up here on a charge of disorderly conduct." "You can do ac you Herlihy retorted, "but I will keep a man there every day.

I'm out on bail under charges now, and I cannot aTford to take any chances of having a gambling house running in my precinct." E. F. PHELPS A SUICIDE. Had Been Piano Manufacturer, Broker and Real Estate Edwin F. Phelps, once a well known piano manufacturer, of Brooklyn, and more recently a broker of the Consolidated Stock Exchange, and a real estate operator, was found dead In his bed at his home.

No. s)lfi West yesterday. The room was fiii! of illuminating gas, and the police and the coroner report it a case of suicide When Mrs. Phelps went to her husband's room she received no reply to ru rrtrs on the door. When she went Into the room she smelled the gas and found her husband unconscious in bed.

S. Olln Hardy, of Xo. 912 West was called, but nothing could be done. Waldo Phelps, a son. declared that his father died from failure, under natural circumstances.

Dr. Hardy said that lie found the room charged with escaped gas, and that Mr Phelps died apparently from asphyxiation. Mr. Phelps was born fifty-two years ago in Brooklyn, and lived there until eighteen years aso. He established and built up the piano manufacturing business which was known in its later years is the Phelps Son Piano Company.

The business prospered until Mr. Phelps became known as a wealthy man. He retired from the piano business eighteen years ago, and moved to Port Chester. After spending ten years without engaging in active business, be became a member of the Consolidated Stock Exchange. He spent several years in active operations in stocks, besides devoting himself to real estate speculation and development in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Three years ago his health failed, and be was obliged to retire permanently. Since then he has led a life of leisure. Nervousness was the principal cause of his ill health. About seven years ago, while living in Port Chester, Mr. Fhelps, who took a special interest In finely bred horses, was driving a spirited horse, when, in attempting to disengage a whip which had caught in a tree, his left leg was twisted in the wagon Wheel.

Complications followed the original injury and the leg was amputated. The family consists of two sons and two daughters by his first wife, his wife and another son. Waldo Phelps said that his father had rone to bed on Sunday evening apparently in the best of spirits. PLAYMATE SET HIS, CLOTHES APIRE. Now the Boy Is Reported Dying Friends Report Trouble in Summoning Ambulance.

A boy companion Bet fire to the coat of Louis Skoloff. seven years old. for a joke, on Sunday, and yesterday the child was reported dying in Gouverneur Hospital from the burns received. The Bkoloff boy lives at No. 62 Essex-st.

On Sunday afternoon he and his younger brother were in the apartments of a friend, named Saltzman, on the second floor of No. 64 over the saloon formerly owned by the late "Silver Dollar" Smith. There were several other boys there, and one of them lit Skoloff's coat with a candle. David Marks, known In the neighborhood as "Big Dave." and Michael Rosenblum heard the boy's screams and put out They carried him to a drug store near by, intending to telephone for an ambulance. The druggist refused to allow them, however, saying, it Is alleged: "I don't want any doctors here.

They use my stuff and don't pay for it." The men disregarded the refusal and called the ambulance. When one arrived from the Gouverneur Hospital the father of the boy refused to let his son go to the hospital, although the ambulance surgeon told him his son was in a critical condition. The boy was taken home and attended by the family physician, who yesterday told the father that the only chance the boy had was in hospital treatment. A neighbor named A. Goldman, at the father's request, went to the Eldridge-Bt.

station and asked the sergeant at the desk to send for an ambulance. After putting a lot of questions to Goldman, the sergeant, he says, said to him: "Why don't you mind your business. Get out of here and go to work." Goldman returned, and told the father what had happened. Skoloff himself went to the station house, he declares, and met with a similar reception from the sergeant, who ended by saying, Skoloff says: "Go and find the man on post. You can't get an- ambulance here." The father finally had an ambulance summoned by an officer in the Essex Market Court.

The boy was taken to the Gouverneur Hospital, where it was said that ha would probably die. At the Eldrldge-et. station all knowledge of the case was denied. NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, -rrESDAY. JULY 1003.

EFFECTS OF THE TORN A DO AT BALTIMORE. THE REAR OP DONOUGH-ST. RUINED STORE AT CORNER OF BROAD WAX" AND EAGER-ST. taken from window at house at No. 1.728 Eagw-st.

other poor persons who have Buffered from the 6torm. J. P. Luckett. an.

engineer and scientist and student of physical problems, who observed the storm, says: "The tornado was a distinct phenomena within BROOKLYN MURDER BLOCK Three Assaults There in Twelve Hours One Man Dead. Three murderous assaults within twelve hours in the Italian settlement in between Hamilton-aye. and Van Brooklyn, have recalled attention to what Is perhaps the, scene of more violence than any other block in the borough. John Bolden. thirty-five years old.

of and Strong Place, was ftabhed to death in front of No. 42 Union-st. at 10 a. m. yesterday At 2 a.

m. Antonio Farmica, of No. 19 was found lying on the sidewalk in front of hts home with a bullet wound in his abdomen and another in his chest. At 6:30 o'clock last night he died in the Long Island College Hospital, having stoutly refused to name hl6 assailant. In the same hospital lies Sebastian Barbara, of No.

36 who at 10:30 p. m. on Sunday was shot three tiTies by Lust Franch. a young woman, of No. 66 Columbia Place.

His recovery is doubtful. The police are much aroused over the continuance of lawlessness in this district, and will make some provision for a special detail of guardians of the peace. Scarcely a night goes by without some port of an assault, and many of them are murderous. Highway robberies in the neighborhood of the Hamilton ferry are of almost nightly occurrence. louden, who was a driver for the International Packing Company, had a load of provisions for the grocery store of Paul Pensabeie.

at No. 42 Unlonft. In dtiving up to the curb he tipped over an ice cream cart belonging to Charles Pensabene, a relative of the grocer. Charles began to jerk at the horses' bridles, and RoMen got down and a fight ensued. According to an eyewitness.

C. Rosenbloom, of No. 256 East Manhattan, one Italian knocked Bolder, down, a second plunged a knife into his breast, and a third drew the weapon out again. Tlk- throe men then ran tnrough the store and jumped over the fences, Charles Pensabene was arrested late in the afternoon and locked up on a charge of homicide. The police say that Paolo Crusalli wa? one of the three men.

They are looking for him and the third man. Bolden where he fell, before the arrival of an ambulance surgeon. The police have absolutely no clew to the murderer of Antonio Farmica, as there was noborlv in sitiht when he was found unconscious by a patrolman. When taken to the Island College Hospital he at Srst refused even to give his own md up to the last repulsed those who questioned him to why he was shot md by whom. Th.

police are confident, however, that he knew who his assailant was. On a chance they arrested a man who had been seen in the street an hour before Farmica was found, but Magistrate Tigha released him. Franch, the young Italian woman who shot Barbara, says that it was in revenge for wrongs that he had done to her. She has been sent to the Raymond Street Jail in awnit the result of her former admirer's injuries. MURDERED BEFORE 500.

Negro Coachman Shoots Another Four Times in Mount Vernon. An old feud between Brown and Perry Griffin, two colored coachmen for wealthy residents of Mount Vernon. because Grlflta said Brown paid too much attention to his wife, ended when Griffin shot Brown dead In front of the Mount Vernon City Hall. Trie murder occurred in plain sight of five hundred excursionists who were on Huckleberry trolley cars bound for Glen Island, and at one time it was feared that the murderer would be lynched. Grifnn, who is locked up at Police.

Headquarters charged with murder, is employed by Dr. Ronald-6on, while the dead man was coachman for Minot C. X' Hogg, a bank president. Griffin says that Drown threatened his life. "He pulled a stonu from his pocket, and I thought he was fjoinfj to hit me," said Griffin.

"He was a bigger fellow than me, so 1 just let him have four bullets." The bullets struck Brown in the head, and as fell dead he exclaimed "Now you have killed me:" Griffin started to run. but was followed and captured by Eugene Fisher, a former detective. Griffin trleri to shoot the detective, the latter says, but the weapon was struck from his hand. Fisher dragged Grifiin into the City Hull, where he turned him over to Patrolman Mars. Ir took six policemen to guard the prisoner, sj furious apainst him was tne crowd.

Coroner Weisendanger began the inquest last night, and heard a dozen witnesses. As to Griffin's assertion that Brown had a stone in his hand and threatened him, the witnesses agreed that Brown made no motion, and that while the were quarrelling Brown did no overt act. It was shown that about half an hour prior to the shooting Griffin went to a hardware store and purchased the revolver. Witnesses of the shooting said that as men were passing near the City Hall Griffin was calling Brown names, and that he suddenly drew the revolver and began firing. Both of the bullets took effect.

Brown started to run and turned a corner, with Griffin following him. When both were fairly around the corner, it was declared. Griffin began firing again. PENSION FOR BLIND FIREMAN. Gained by Special Act of Legislature Sacrificed Eyesight to Save Children.

John T. Mayers, the blind ex-fireman, and his little girl Nellie went away from the Controller's office yesterday in a happy frame of mind. Mr. Mayers was a driver in the Fire Department on August rr, ISC'T. when, in trying to stop a runaway horse, he steered the animal into an elevated railroad He did tins rather than run down some women and children in West Ninety-nlnth-st.

The accident resulted in the loss of his eyesight. A bill was put through the last legislature giving him a pension. It is not easy to get a special pension. Mr Mayers and his little girl have made almost numberless trips to the Finance Department to Inquire about the Coming pension. The ry papers were at last signed yesterday by Deputy Controller Phillips, and a drait was marie out giving Mr.

Mayers tSOft a year. with back pay fince September 1. 1902. Little Miss Mayers was radiant as she led her father away. MRS.

MOLINEUX'B DIVORCE HELD UP? Sioux Falls. 8. July 13 An apparently well founded rumor is in circulation among members of the divorce colony here that the application of Mrs. Roland B. Moltneux tor a divorce has been rejected for the present, at least, owing to the statement made by her last November as to her purpose in coming here.

the general thunderstorm, which came from west by north. It struck Patterson. Hall, picking the upper part of the Broadway front out as cleanly as if It had been done by bricklayers. Roofs were lifted a hundred feet In the air. It did not seem NEGRO ATTACKS A CHILD.

Citizens of Liberty, This State, Barely Prevent a Lynching. TELEGRAPH TO THE Liberty, N. July Eugene Smith, a negro porter in Robert Jacobs's hoarding house, about 9:30 p. m. Sunday broke into room occupied by Mrs.

E. H. Clarke and her two little girls, aged seven and eight years. It is charged that the negro seized the younger child by the throat and was attacked by Mrs. Clarke, who called to her children to alarm Harry L.

May. the boarder In the next room. They succeeded in getting out, and then Mrs. Clarke broke away and ran to the room. The negro followed and attempted to enter.

His fingers were caught in the door and his screams aroused the household. At last he got away. Several persons, frightened, had taken refuge in Jacobs's apartments. The negro, scantily dressed, hurried to the street. A crowd of about one thousand persons stood around the house.

Smith was struck with clubs and roughly handled. There were cries of "Lynch him!" Citizens then took Smith from the" mob and hurried him to The officer in charge addressed the excltod people, urging them to go quietly to their homes and let the law take its course. The leaders at last the crowd to disperse. It was found that the electric wires in the house had been cut before Mrs. Clarke's was entered.

RIOT CALL FALSE ALARM. Policemen Look for Race War, but Fail to Discover It. Thirty reserves from the West Sixty-eighth-st. and West Forty-seventh-st. stations were sent to BSxty-second-st and Ampterdam-ave last nisht.

where, it had been reported, "a bad race riot" was In progress. When the police arrived they found no one there except a few people who gathered whet: they saw the policemen hurrying toward the corner. was much uncertainty as to who sent in the call On complaint of a your.g man, who he waa Patrick H. Harrington, of No 426 West a son of ex-Alderman Harrington, a yountt colored man. who his name as Charles Nathing, of No.

West Sixty-second waa arrested on a charge of assault Later, It v. a riot call was sent in. only to i false alarm. The affair caused much apprehension among the colored men of the neighborhood, and many of then) were afraid to borne. After this r.

from frightened colored men came to the police station for protection. All were reassured and told to have no fear. REFUSE VERDICT IN PEONAGE CASE Alabama Jury, Judge Says, Is Telling Country of Its Race Prejudice. TELEORAPH TO THE TUIBUNC. Montgomery, July The jury in the case of Fletcher Turner, charged with peonage, failed to agree on a verdict, and Judge Thomas G.

Jones discharged them after a mm lecture. He told them that they were sending word all over the country that a jury of intelligent white men of Alabama had refused to convict this defendant because he was a white man and his victim a negro. He said that he had toM them their duty, but they had disregarded tho wishes of the court. Turner have another trial soon. The court allowed the defendant to sro to the bedside of his aged mother at Tuscatoosa, where she is critically ill.

SOLDIERS ORGANIZE LYNCHING BEE. But the Police Break Up the Game and Save Two Negroes. Leavenworth. July Si-ites soldiers from Fort Leavenworth attempted to lynch Kldridge Williams and Walter Brown, negroes, last night, and for more than an hour kept the entire police department busy. Williams and Brown got In a fight with some soldiers, and one of them fired a number of at a soldier.

The soldiers then congregated In great numbers, and it was decided to lynch the negroes if they could be found. Twenty-five soldiers and a number of citiz-ns surrounded the homes of Williams and Brown. Ropes hftd been secured, and everything was in recdiness for a lynching. Policemen with rifles and revolvers appeared on the kcene, and by careful succeeded in getting the away to the police station. A number of soldiers with revolvers wee arrested, but were released.

GET READY TO MOVE BIG COLUMNS. Sections of Pillars for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine To Be Rolled to Wharf. The work of moving the two pillars to be used In the building of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, on Cathedral Heights, began yesterday morning.

The pillars had been brought to thla city on Friday. Each of the columns Is in two sections, Urn larger 54 feet long, weighing ninety tons apiece. These are on the deck of the lighter. The smaller sections. 36 feet long and weighing forty tons, are In the hold.

The first work done at the dock at One-hundredand-twcnty-flfth-st yesterday morning waa to remove the chocks from the larger A temporary platform Is being built, on which the pillars will be rolled to the wharf. The smaller sections will be taken from the hold to the pie- hy derrlcks. The stones. It is said, can easily be rolled to the wharf. The hardest work will be to get the columns up on the steep Cathedral Heights.

as thought things were Mown by the wind, hut more like a dynamite explosion. Many roofs flew exactly against the course of the storm. It appeared as if a vacuum had suddenly been created over' the houses, and expanding air blew them up." M. R. CROW IN INSANE HOSPITAL.

Physicians Consider Case of Once Wealthy Man Hopeless. Moses R. Crow, lawyer, promoter and the constructor of several important waterworks in this and other cities, has been declared insane by the physicians at Bellevue Hospital, whence he was taken on Friday from hia home, at Chatham. N. J.

Yesterday he was transferred to the Manhattan State Hospital at Ward's Island. His case is considered almost hopeless by the physicians. ARRIVALS OF BUYERS. F. E.

Abeles Milwaukee; F. Abeles. piece goods, No. 85 Navarre. J.

N. Adam Co. Buffalo; Mr Borat. notions. No.

65 Whlte-at. A.lam. MeMrum A Anderson Buffalo; T. H. Myles.

dress goods. No. 2 Walker Almy. Bigelow Washburn. Salem; E.

W. Travis, books. No. 2 Walker-st. A.

L. Aujust. Fort Worth, A. August, clothing. Manhattan.

Bacon. Syracuse; C. E. Teeple. cloaks.

Imperial. Barnard. Sumner, Putnam Company, Worcester; W. J. Carroll, corsets, ladles' and Infants' wear.

No. 73 Hoffman. George S. Beall. Columbus.

Ohio; E. E. Beall. cloaks, suits and furs. No.

HO Albert. U. Balrd Son, Louisville; W. J. Baird.

millinery. No. 622 Broadway, Brownstei.i, Newmark Louis. Los Angeles; H. W.

Louis, furnishing (roods. No. it Imperial. Burke, Fit- Simons. Hone Rochester; Grove.

Brown, domestics, prints, ginghams, Navarre Carl. Knott Grand Rapids; H. J. Heysteck. millinery.

a S. Carl, millinery and fancy ods. No. Broadwa'-. Herald Square.

Carl. Knott Grand Rapids; Miss Comlncky. representative. No. 657 Broadway; Herald Square.

J. V. i merit Toledo; J. V. Clement, mllllnary: E.

.1 Clement, ribbon-. No. Broadway; Marlborough J. V. Clement Toledo; E.

J. Clement, ribbons. No. 622 Broadway; Marlborough. J.

S. Coons A Wilkfsbarre; C. p. Long, fancy goods. Imperial S.

Cohen Baltimore: B. Cohen, cloths. Imperial. H. C.

Rochester; H. S. Conn, piece goods, Victoria. W. A.

Doody Macon; E. F. Quinn. notions and furnishing goods. Albert Allan Dow, Boston, lares an.l embroidery, Manhattan.

Eckstein. Gustavo Savannah; E. Eckstein, drygoo.is. No. 893 Broadway; St.

Penis. Efroymson Wolf. Indianapolis; O. Efroymson. poorly, notions and furnishing goods.

No. 48 Leonard-st. Hera Square. J. V.

Farwell Company. Chicago; A. R. Flett. prints wash fabrics.

No. 115 Worth -el. Albemarle. Marshall Field Chicago; F. Drmin, W.

R. Hubbard. representative. No. 104 Worth-st.

Navarre; L. C. Tallman. representative No. 104 Albert.

Marshall Field Chicago; L. C. Tallman. representative. No.

Worth Albert. Oarson, Rochester; Garson. woollens; J. H. Garson.

trimmings. Victoria. H. Grossman Chicago; E. S.

Koms, woollen pleoe goods. Herald Square. Hart Cleveland; W. F. Hart, ribbons and untrimmod hats.

No. filM Broadway, Murray Hill; F. W. Hart, millinery. No.

621 Broadway. Murray Hill. Haski Jones. Portland, H. I.

Jones, tailors' trimmings. Park Avenue. Hunter Hunter. Detroit; A Krausman. notions and leather No.

55 Whtte-3t. Hutzler Brothers. Baltimore; G. H. Hutzler.

cloaks. suii3 nrM furs. Victoria. Irwln-Phillipg Ccmpany, Keokuk; I. a Sawyer, notions and furnishing goods.

No. 72 Manhattan. Kahn Brothers Chicago: hosiery and underwear. No. SS nonius si Netherlan.l.

Kline Brothers. Wheeling. W. Va. Ralph Kline, clothing.

St. Dents. Kohn Chicago: A. W. Kohn.

wooOaa piece roods, Ne'herland: T. 11. Kohn, tailors' trimmings, B. Kupponhelmer A Chicago; J. Kuppenheimer, woollens and piece goods.

Savoy. Landauer Milwaukee; H. Landauer. dress goo-is and silks. No.

Broadway, Savoy. B. Lowensteln Jt Memphis: C. New. flannels.

No. 43 Leonard-st. Mercantile Company. Bt. Louis; S.

ladles' hats and straw goods, No. Broadway, Hoffman. M. Livingston Son. South Bend.

Ind. A. Livingston, clothing. Imperial. Jones Long" Sons.

Scranton; S. A. Mester. notions; No 61 Franklin; Grand. Lycoming Pants Company.

Willlamsport; M. Singer, woollens. Imperial. Mabley Carew Company. Cincinnati; Robert G.

Caretv. cloaks, waists, Navarre. Mahler, Albenberg Milwaukee; Ed. Mahler. woollens, piece goods.

Navarre. Marx Haas clothing Cornpanr. St. Louis: H. N.

Marx, cotton piece goods; Benjamin F. Marx, piece gor.ds. Gregorian. Meier A Frank Company. Portland.

Ludwia; Hirsch. cloaks, suits, furs and shawls, No. 27 Washington Place: Savoy. Mears A Hacen. Scranton: J.

R. Mears. drygoods. not! ns. Victoria.

Michael Brothers, Athens. Ga. M. O. Michael, notions and furnishing No.

838 Broadway; Ma Daniel Miller Company. Baltimore; J. M. Easter, dress goods and woollens. Imperial.

Nushaum A Livingston. Albany: 1. Nusbaum. millinery, Mles P'nelan. millinery.

No. 721 Broadway; Herald Square. George B. Peck Dry O.xwls Company. Kansas City; H.

Denny, clothing. No. 2 Walker si Pettis Dry Goods Company. Indianapolis: J. E.

Keller, William H. Upper. r.otlorm. No. 2 Walker-st.

Pettis Drygoods Company. Indianapolis; P. .1 Shaw, toys' clothing. No. 2 Waiki-- Pith, Kimhall Ov.

Boston: G. W. Little, upholstering goods, Murray Hill. Plncus Jarrett. Houston.

Tex. Mr. Pincus. drygoods, notions and furnishing goods. No.

43 Room 302. Rauh Bros. Pittsburgh. A. L.

Rauh. furnishing goods. No 889 Broadway. I. Rice's Sons.

Rochester; J. L. Rice, woollen pleca goods. Victoria Rich Bros. Atlanta: H.

G. Bass, upholstering goods and carpets. No. Broadway. Herald Square.

Richardson- Rooerta Company, St. Joseph; Mr. Smiley, dry 51 L. Rosenbaum Son. Elmira; H.

L. Rosenbaum. cloaks. Victoria. Roeenthal-Sloan Millinery Company, St.

Louis; I. B. Roaenthal; m. G. Wiener, silks, laces and ornaments: 8.

Block, hats, and F. Mashmeyer No. SSI Broadway. Herald Square. Rothschild 4 Chicago; F.

W. Parke. fumlshlnjf goods, hosiery, gloves, No. 43 Navarre. Vandervoort 4 Barney Drygoods Company.

St. Louis; R. S. Johnston, general buyer. No.

874 Broadway. Navarre; Miss A. Hoklen, ladles' wear. No. 874 Broadway.

Navarre. Shartenbrrg Robinson. Pawtucket. N. H.

Studley. cloaks, suits, waists, No. 75 Spring- Navarre. John Bhllllto Company. Cincinnati; R.

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J. B. XaV KNEW HIS ASSAILANT, Cunt Inner! from First IV thence to where the curred. "--atfit When near became afraid. as It was dark, plr ll laughed, but agreed to go back.

As they saw a man and woman about tw 0 feet south of them. by the other couple, they turned and rj north again. Miss Thomasch said 111 taken only three steps when P.oxbury saulted. The man. she said, rushed behind her.

and. brushing her struck bury with some long object, the her shoulder. She grabbed her chatelai? 1 and ran. in accordance with the commas believed Roxbury had tried to give her. Up to ran.

where, seeing Albert Schultz and lam Yatea. she told them her story. posted calling a policeman, said the 1 demurred, because "she didn't notoriety, and couldn't stand being 80. while Yates and hultz went down scene of the assault, she stayed on Yates'a Presently they returned, unable to ste and then she went to the spot with them. Tates was searching the bushes she tola according to his testimony, the story of sault which verges so widely from her testimony yesterday.

After Mr. testified, she was cross-examined, and dieted his story. On the stand the woman was cool and fectly collected, even alert, the coroner sw That she was willing to help the authoriUeTk believed, but also expressed the opinion that-v was concealing things of material imported She was kept in the courtroom from 10 till 7 p. m. Her uncle and brother frequentmade efforts to get her to go home, but was kept there In spite of requests from mother, not even getting an opportunity get food.

Coroner Berry heard testimony from screw others. Two men and a boy said, that they a man and woman sitting on the fence the spot where the assault occurred, the fence over which Roxbury and Miss Thonma are said to have leaned. Mrs. Roxbury. the widow, has not been ton that Roxbury was with a woman.

No papers have been given to her since her reon from Asbury Park, on Saturday morning, cj all she knows is that Roxbury was iiwum The sudden manner in which her daughter toli her of the death, gave Mrs. Roxbury a which prostrated her. Dr. Post and Dr. Haver.

ill. are attending her. She was able to attsat the funeral last night. It is known that Roxbury frequently wort i light gray raincoat. The coat, wherever be, is not now in the Roxbury home, acconilaj to the coroner.

The weather was somwiu: threatening on the night of the murder, is probable that Mr. Roxbury carried this os over his arm. The coroner has a witness saw a man, believed to be Roxbury. such a coat. Coroner Berry suggests that wtes Roxbury was attacked by his assailant, wfc was accompanied by a woman, the rain eec fell to the ground.

During the struggle, the coroner thinks, bury, in using his umbrella, stabbed the womu who was the assailant's companion. She saj have bled, and the raincoat might have bm made use of for two to cover her bloodstained clothing, or, if she partly the bushes, to cover her as she went to at home. The bloody clothing, whether taken ai by the woman in the bushes or at home, hi probably been given by the woman to her Mepanion to be disposed of. He had thrown 3 under the Second-aye. railroad bridge.

The coroner suggested that the woman ejj live near the railroad bridge. MINISTER PRAISES ROXBURT. The funeral was conducted by Rev. John W. Campbell, pastor of the tremot Church.

Later Masonic services were held the auspices of Guiding Star Lodge, No. 56a Frs and Accepted Masons, led by Master Halseyl Smith. The church was crowded to the ism with friends of the dead man and those whoh4 been drawn there through curiosity, mazy hear what Dr. Campbell would have to say the case. His brief sermon was a defence the character of Mr.

Roxbury. The altar wa banked with flowers. The mourners consisted of the widow, aughters, his aged mother, Mrs. Gibson, li own sisters and a number of near relative! Dr. Campbell said, in part: Our departed friend was in the full prime when he feil.

We shall never be able to mystery of it. Such happenings as havsWrt occurring since Cain took the life his AbeL Some lessons need to to UWIW of our country. It seems Uiat life is tco common and too ehvao. I we are tec extreme age. There is rot that iear of the and of God that there should be.

I do not whether the blame, lies tins condition Church or the pulpit. When a man builds a character as he palace, without complaints by his neighbors, a fair structure. When men who have knows other for forty years testify as to his good chantthere must be hut few friends, life cheap if a buildii is to go down in man whose character for morality has forty years then, ouyht to stand now. character ought also to bo considered. five years of a steady business career was vvitu this pillow of (lowers on mat coflin.

into the family and learn the harmonj sexisted in that household, and where you testimony of the loving wife and children, no one could have a more loving father, put that also on the casket. That Bent his children to Sunoay school, ana saw they were active In church work; also venerable mother comes forward to fstify loving care of her son; these Jeweis ggi have a right to carry away in the MSKet You cannot kill character in a moment. SURE ROBBERY WAS MOTIVE. A well known business man. who lives a the Roxbury home in Crane Place, told 3 TiW 8 reporter yesterday that he spent the A 7 part of Sunday at the Roxfcury house, asd from all he had heard ana had read abfl'it 'JJ fatal assault he was convinced that the for robbery.

He said he had knowa Roxbury for about fifteen years, meetirs frequently at the clubroom of the Mount Chapter of the Royal Arcanum and at li of the Republican organization of di He ha also visited him many times at a 2u He could see. he said, how- the home ua Mr. Uoxbury could have been happier cor his business and social relations with ny could have made enemies. "Mr. Roxbury was a model man.

tinued. "When men have associated another for about fifteen years they know the strong and weak charcteristcs another. I knew Mr. Roxbury as wel £Sf' as any man alive. He had always life; his future appeared to have greater ness for him.

Besides the trait of 1 1 tlnaclty. his other principal trait like for gambling of any kind. i-ftssi "1 know very little about his except that I heard recently that herlted a sum of money. Whether taw was true I cannot say. as I never about it.

He was. in my estimation. est ice cream eater in Tremont. Before to live in Crane Place, he lived in i In which avenue Miss Thomasca home was there then. wj.

"Not a letter has been found amor.g bury's effects which would show acquainted with a person who son to kill htm. "I have heard some people at the fact that no one got Roxbury after he entered his night, after the assault. I who were with him after he 1 and until he died, and I am sure word to them from the moment ne house until he breathed his last, and speechless as he Some of the descriptions of Mr. him as a big man. He was of medium not powerfully built." DENIES CAN COMPANY Asked yesterday about the report 1 that the.

American Can Corner sorbed by the United ft member of the finance committee oi State, bought and wiU not buy I rig i pany.".