The Brooklyn Daily Eagle from Brooklyn, New York • Page 1

XE YOEK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1898. 58. NO. 306. 16 PAGES.

COPYRIGHT, 1S98. BY TUB BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE THEBE CENTS. POUB O'CLOCK. STEAMER BURNED AT WHARF. EVIDENCES OF FRAUD IN REGISTRATION LISTS, NASSAU TRANSIT DEAL IS STILL UNCOMPLETED, BRITISH WARSHIPS TAKE ON MUNITION, SPAIN'S HIGH FIGURES FOR THE PHILIPPINES.

MUSTERING OUT THE EIGHTH. Six Companies Xeave the Service Today. Six companies of the Eighth New York Volunteers were in the armory of the Eighth Regiment, at Ninety fourth street and Park avenue, this morning to be mustered out. Very nearly the full strength of the companies was represented. All appeared on the drill room floor at 9 o'clock, with Captain LOWER STATE RECEIPTS.

Treasurer Colvin's Report Also Shows Increased Expenditures. Albany, N. November 3 State Treasurer Colvin has compiled the financial statistics of the fiscal year ending September 30, IS'jS. A balan of is shown. The receipts of the year were $30, 4SS, 400.50, as compared with $32,678,112.09 for the previous year.

Expenditures were $33,757,981. 3j, as compared with $30,364,254.21. The balance on September 30, 1897 was $7,243,904.31. SAMUEL BAILEY KILLED The Wilson Option Does Not Expire Till To morrow. INTERESTED MEN ARE SILENT.

Former Governor Ros well P. Flo wer Expresses Ignorance of the Exact Status of the Deal and Thinks It Would Be Bad Policy to Discuss It. R. T. Wilson and Edward H.

Harri man Also Quiet Rumor That the Transit People Have a Full Report of the Nassau Business. The Nassau Transit deal will not be consummated to day, but all things point to the transfer to morrow of the R. T. Wils on holdings in the Nassau Company to ex Governor Roswell P. Flower, Anthony M.

Brady and other financial interests back of the Transit Company. None of the men interested in the deal is prepared to talk lor publication ait this time, but a number of significant facts have come to light to make It practically assured that the deal will go through. For the last two weeks an expert accountant has been engaged going over the books of the Transit Company and bis work of course has been with the full knowledge and consent of the controlling interest of the Nassau road. It is now said that the expert has finished his work and made a full report to the would be purchasers as to the exact financial status and business done by the Nassau Company. Stiil another most significant feature leading to the bolief that the deal is going through is that a number of surveyors have been going over the Nasau mileage collecting the most, available points where possible con nections might be made with the iirook)yn While Taking Down a Public School Flag Pole.

Samuel Bailey. 7G years old. of 139 Twenty second street, was accidentally killed this morning. He was taking down a flagpole in front of public school No. 104, at Ninety second street and Fifth avenue.

Port Hamilton, when the heavy pole fell upon him, striking him in the back and crushing him to the ground. Dr. Jcfan Oorish of Ninety second street and Ambulance Surgeon MoCui lum, of the Norwetgian Hospital, arrived on the scene in respcn.se to a call, but the man was dead when they came. Bailey was a well known character in Southe Brooklyn, having supplied flag poles to police stations and public buildings for many years. THE POPE SAID TO BE ILL.

London, November 3 A special dispatch from Rome says the Pope is ill and that his physician, Dr. Lapponi, has been summoned. FASH0DA DISPUTE NEAR AN END. England Issues an Official Note Announcing That the Situation Is Ameliorating. London, November 3 An official noto 1s sued this evening says: There Is now good reason to hope that the political situation is ameliorating.

It can be confidently stated that when the cause of tha irritation which unfortunately recently state of the relations betwee the two coun tries. wayiu iramit system. 1 nese men are sun at existed in France and Great Britain on the work. 1 upper Nile is ramov ed. which is expected soon Ex Governor Rosw ell P.

Flower was seen this afternoon at his office, 45 Broadway, t0 be the case the d00r be ofMm Manhattan, by an Eagle reporter. Mr. Flower i for a resumption of those friendly negotia has just returned from Waitertown and ex tions which happily characterize the normal Cairo. November 3 Major Marcuand, the the latter numlber is a two story frame struc commander of the French expedition at Fa ture. It is owu ed by Mrs.

Dougherty, who oc shoda, arrived here at 7 o'clock this even cupios the first and second floor. She said that ing. He was met at the railroad station by she had never heard of a man named P. the French officials and residents. Te ex Williams" and the same story was told by plorer looked thin and worried.

Directly the major appeared at the door of the train the spectators rushed forward, wav ing hats, sticks and handkerchiefs and crying "Vive Marchand." The lattor, who was much pleased and touched at the reception accorded to him, drove off to the French diplomatic agency amid more cheering. The French officer, who is short, slight, active and bronzed, was dressed in civilian clothes. MUSTERING OUT OF I floor, said that he knew no one in the build Will Be Granted to the Men lug named Carls. Haas lives on the second. William Ldssiter the Sixteenth United Sta'tos Infantry, as the mustering officer.

In command of the various companies weer: Oaptain Melville; Captain Edwards; Captain Brown; Oaptain andan; Captain Lyons, and Captain Donnelly. Colonel Chauncey was not present. As each man's name was called he stepped forward and signed the roll, then getting his pay, and ended his active service as a volunteer. It was thought that It would take all day to muster the men out The other six companies will be mustered out to morrow and after that the field and staff officers. None of the men wfll vote from the armory.

All the men registered from their homes. Only about a score of persons watched the proceedings of mustering out the men. GENERAL LEE'S MOTHER DEAD. ('Special to the Eagle.) Richmond, November 3 Mrs. Anna Maria Lee, mother of General Fitzfaugh Lee, died at her home In Stafford County "this morning.

SUCCEEDS JUSTICE VAN WYCK. Frederic Ward Appointed by Governor Black to Fill the Candidate's Unexpired Term. WoTd was received from Albany by one of the judges of the appellate divison of the Supreme Court this afternon that Frederic A. Ward, the Republican nominee for Supreme FREDERIC A. WARD.

Court Judge, has been appointed by Governor Black to serve out the unexpired term of Justice Van Wyck. The latter, upon his nomination for governor by the Democratic party, resigned his position in compliance with law. This leaves a vacancy in the office the term of whdeh expires December 31. To fill tliis vacancy Mr. Ward has been appointed.

Should he be elected at the coming election he will, of course, continue in fire same office. BIG CONSOLIDATION PLAN. All the Electric Lighting Interests in Greater New York May Be Combined. The report was in circulation to day that the people controlling the Kings County Electric Light and Power Company had under contemplation a consolidation of all the electric lighting interests in the Greater New York and that the Kings County stock would be valued in the new deal at 200. This rumor derives some color from the rapid advance there has been in the stock of the company in the last few gelling, as it has, from 100 up to 115, and also by the great strength which is 6hown in the stock of the electric light companies of Manhattan.

Edison has advanced there from 120 on October 17 to 140 yesterday. it is said that the company which was recently incorporated at Albany with a capital of $25,000,000 to carry on a gas and electric lighting and power company in" Greater New York will be the absorbing company. Felix Campbell, who is president of the Kings County Company, was asked if there was any truth in the rumor. He said that it had been talked over and the whole matter left in competent hands, but that he did not expect immediate developments in that direction. Within the next few days tlie Kings Counity Company will take possession of the plan of Edison Company and of the Municipal Company.

Some little time ago it purchased She franchise of the Amsterdam Company and, therefore, controls every existing franchise for this borough in perpetuity. The plans have been completed by the Kings County Company's management for the operation of the system, but they will not be made public until the company takes possession. It is understood, however, that Lhe entire city can be supplied with light from the one Edison Company plant at Bay Ridge and 'It is for the best economy the Pearl street plant and the Municipal Company's plant will be closed entirely. The plant of the Kings County Company at the foot of Gold street is also unnecessary. Negotiations are under way with the elevated railroad companies looking to tlhe making of a contract by which they will be supplied with power for the operation of their cars when they 'begin running by electricity.

GOLF AT WESTCHESTER. (Special to the Eagle.) Bronx River, Lower West Farms, N. November 3 There was a fine list of starters on hand this morning when the time arrived for the beginnig of the Westchester Golf Club's three days' open tournament.The best score made during the morning round was that of Walter J. Travis, the Oakland crack, who came within one stroke of the record of the course held by Willie Sands of the Country Club of Westchester. It was as follows: W.

J. Travis. Oakland: Ou: 4 5 4 3 4 6 4 4 li III 3 6 5 4 4 4 4 12 S2 Other cards follow: Name ar.u club V. Gunilier. J.

N. Steele, M.ihlslorie Out. In. Total. 45 17 Flames Spread to Freight Sheds and Caused Heavy Loss.

Collingwood, November 3 The passenger steamer Pacific, owned by the Great vu.cuuiu oe iuow, ucu ft. nej Grand Trunk wharves here to day. The railway freight sheds, filled with Canadian and American goods, were also destroyed. The Pacific was valued at $65,000 and was insured for $23,000. The loss from the burning of Hie freight sheds will be very feeavy.

The i steamer was operated between Collingwood i and Sault Ste Marie, stopping at way points. ADMIRAL MILLER'S RETIREMENT. Says the Pacific Station Is One of the Most Important in the Navy. Chicago, 111., November 3 Rear Admiral J. N.

Miller, who hoisted the Uag over the Hawaiian Islands and proclaimed them a part of the United States, left this city today, after a day's stay, for Springfield, his boyhood home. Admiral Miller will retire from service in the Navy November 22. Before leaving, Admiral Miller said: "I believe the Pacific station to be second in importance, if not the most Important, naval station we have. I am greatly gratified that the government has seen fit to send such two magnificent battle ships as the Oregon and Iowa to the Pacific station. "One necessity shown by the war is that of having a large number of first class battle ships, capable of sailing 18 miles an hour.

We must have them and I think we' will have them. We want more ships like the recently launched Illinois." THE PANAMA IS SAFE. Transport, Reported to Have Been Lost, Puts In at Havana and Resumes Her Voyage. Havana, November 3 The transport Panama, from Santiago, fears for whose safety had been entertained, arrived here this morning. The Panama reached this port at 9 A.

M. and landed seven American passengers, including some military officers. She left Havana at about 10 A. her destination apparently being New York. It is reported the Panama has about 400 sick men on board.

Washington, D. November 3 The reported loss of the Panama caused great excitement at the War and Navy Departments this morning and both were deluged with telegrams from relatives and friends of per sons believed to be on the transport, begging I for information Neither department had any information on the subject and each one discredited the report. To all inquiries replies were sen that the department had heard nothing on the subject and did not believe the story. The principal foundation for the department's disbelitif was t'hat a telegram had been received from General Wood at Santiago about midnight last night treating of purely business affairs and saying nothing whatever of the rumored loss of the ship. It was assumed that he would have telegraphed if the rumor appeared to be well based.

General Wood was wired to regarding the report. Colonel Bird of the War Department, who has charge of transportation matters, says the Panama was regarded as thoroughly seaworthy. The wearher bureau's report showed that the West Indian storm passed far to the westward of the Panama's course. Pittsburg," November 3 The members of the West Indian party from Pittsburg and the Immediate neighborhood who are believed to be passangers on the Panama are Congressman John Dalzell, ex Congressman George F. Huff of Greens'burg, Judge Jacob F.

Slage of Common Pleas Court No. 1 of Allegheny County; Dr. O. F. Bingaman of Pittsburg; J.

G. Trescher, ed'rtor of the Jeanecte Dispatcb, and another Greensburg man, a friend of Mr. Huff. AVhen this party left Pittsburg about two weeks ago it was reported that Messrs. Dalzell and Huff were going as the agents of the Pennsylvania Railroad, but this has been since denied.

Mr. Huff's Object no doubt was to look after coal lands In Cuba and Porto Rico. Mr. Dalzell went to investigate political conditions in the two islands. The other members of the pany were invited guests and on their part the journey was undertaken for nlptasnre.

This afternoon P. Duff, brother in law of Congressman John Dalzell, received a cable gram from Mr. Dalzell, announcing his safe arrival at Havana and the fact that the re ported loss of the Panama has no truth in it. ALL CONTRACTS UNDER WAY. The Department of Highways Is Taking Advantage of the Weather in Paving The borough Department of Highways is taking every possible advantage of the few days, or a the most, weeks, which remain before the advent of winter weather.

Work on the asphalt contracts is being hurried in all sections of the city where street improve ment nas oeen authorized. Some of the thor I oughfares are to be paved with Belgian block and a few in the outlying districts with macadam, but the great majority will be laid with asphalt and it is important that the process should bo completed before the sharp frosts set in. list 01 the streets in which work has actually been begun is open for inspection in Deputy Commissioner Fen all's office, and as fast at the new contracts are certified by the Controller they are added to it. Commis I sioner Ferrall announced to day that contract 1 ors this week started the West Seventeenth street improvement, which on account of its connection with the Harway avenue bridge, is especially important. The news that the work is actually under way at last will be received with satisfaction by all those who have been agitating the matter since before consolidation.

The complete list nf now pav ing now going ou is as Orient avenue, from Metropolitan avenue 1 to Olive street; Butler from Troy Albany avenue: (late avenue, from Bush wick to Ralph avenue; Pacific sin t. from Brooklyn to Kingston avenue; Twelfth street, frjm Third to Seventh avenue: Butler street, from Nostrand to New York avenue; S'mtii Ellimt place, from Atlantic avenue to Ilaii on pl.iie: President street, from to Conn s. re 't; Fourteenth street, from Fourth to Sixth ave Verona place, fnm Kui on street: Macon street, from Stuyvc ant ti Iteid javi ime; Prospect place, from fi. ookiyn to Kingston avenue; ior avenue, from Palmetto street i Putnam avenue; Richardson street, from Humboldt street to KitiK. iand avenue; No avenue, from Butler to President St.

Xi holas ave nue, irom Har: street to ivenu, Winthrop street, from Fiatiuish to rs avenue; Avenue from Fatbu Ji to Island avenue: Wct Seven een "li street, fr im Surf to Canal avenue; fr 1 Troy to Schen ta ly urn tnrerse tiori of Piaibush ami )eean a tmvs. 1 1 Rovul Hint; I.illl' to Washington. New 1 1: 1:. It. of Jersey, fool I.iO rf.

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iys. jit A. to. 1'. 1 Tr.iie.s South Furry of Whitehall 5 in in VIQ? arller Trulns l.

avln; at A. M. r.u F. are llve huur trains i 1 Extraordinary Activity in Naval and Military Circles at Hong Kong. CRUISER ARRIVES FROM MANILA.

All of English War Craft at Chinese Naval Base Are Loading Stores, Ammunition and Coal Report That They Have Been Ordered to Be Ready for Sea Immediately American Coal for Great Britain's Naval Stations in West Indies Rumor That Gunboats Will Rendezvous There. Hong Kong, November 3 Extraordinary activity has prevailed in naval and military circles here during tile past few days. No Information on the subject Is obtainable, however. The British first class cruiser Powerful has Just taken on board over two thousand tons of coal and all the other British warships here are taking on board stores and ammunition. It is reported that they have been ordered to be ready for sea immediately.

The British second class oruiser Bonaven ture has been recalled from Manila and arrived here last night. She Is now coaling with all possible haste. It is reported that the British gunboats have been ordered to rendezvous here. At the navy yard here the ordnance department Is most active and is engaged in mounting siege guns. American Coal for England's Naval Stations in West Indies.

Philadelphia, November 3 A morning paper to day publishes the following: "The probability of war between England and France received fresh impetus yesterday by the action of England, which has purchased a large amount of American coal, for immediate delivery at her West Indian naval stations. In response to hurried cablegrams from London ship brokers engaged in the West India trade spent the greater part of yesterday searching for tonnage suitable to transport the coal from Philadelphia and Newport News to points where it will be most convenient for English war craft to fill their bunkers. Sailing vessels from 1,500 to 2,000 tons carrying capacity are particularly in demand. "The first shipments are bo be sent to Kingston, to be followed by vessels for Bermuda, St. Lucia and Demerara, which are the principal ports in the West Indies subject to Great Britain.

It is also proposed to discharge a part of the purchase at St. Thomas, a Danish island, where hulks will be used. "It was reported yesterday that two British warships had been ordered here to undergo slight repairs, which under ordinary circumstances would have been made at either Hall fax or the Bermuda Islands." Warships at Halifax Cleared for Action Halifax, N. November 3 The crews of the warships in port, the Renown and Pell can, were given orders this to clear their ships for action, and everything was cleared from the decks of both vessels. The warships are now provisioned for a long voyage, provided with extra ammunition and have a full supply of coal.

The wa3 completed last night and to day their decks present a warlike appearance. Chinese Minister's Views of the Situation. Washington, D. November 3 The Chinese Minister, Mr. Wu, is foil owing with much interest the developments in the East, where the conflicting interests of Russia and England seem to be on the verge of open hostilities.

Concerning the latest report that Russia had taken the treaty port of New Chwang, thus giving her control uf all Manchuria and shutting out the British from trade in that great section, Mr. Wu says it is hardly credible that Russia has taken such a step, as New Chwang being a treaty port, is of almost as much interest to the outside world as 'it is to China. The treaty ports are freely open to the foreign trade and, as a result, large foreign colonies have been built up in them. It is at the treaty ports that the UriltedStates have established their commerce with China. For this reason Mr.

Wu feels satisfied that any such important move by Russia as the taking of a treaty port would be speedily reported by the United States Minister at Pekin and all other foreign representatives in China. Mr. Wu has a personal familiarity with all the country around New Chwang, as he projected the railway running from Tlen Tsin to Kin Chow, which was designed to be extended to New Chwang and thence northward, tapping the richest sections of Manchuria. It is at the head of the Gulf of Pechili and is so situated as to be of great strategic value In conection with Port Arthur, now occupied by Russia under a lease from China. Port Arthur is at the extreme end of Liao Tung peninsula, while New Chwang Is at the threshold of the peninsula, so 'that together they command ail that territory which seems shaped by Nature for military and naval purposes.

It is this which has led to such activity in the British naval stations, particularly at Wei Hai Wei, across the gulf from Port Arthur. While Mr. Wu does not believe Russia has occupied New Chwang and thus given opportunity for a clash, yet he says Russia may have given color for such reports by pushing forward some of her troops to New Chwang. It is in the natural line of developments If Russia diverts the Traussiberiain railway so as to make a terminus at Port Arthur and for that reason is doubtless much coveted by the foreign commercial interests. A private telegram received yesterday announces that the engineers of the American syndicate which has secured extcoisive concessions in China have arrived at Shanghai.

They will begin surveys on the proposed line from Hankow to Canton, eonnectimg some of the largest cities and opening up some of the richest country in China. Prominent American! railway mon are represented in the company. Opinion of British Naval Officers. Kingston, Jamaica. November 3 Tbe British naval authorities at Port Royal, the naval headquarters here, express the opinion that the order for the mobilization of the British North American and West Indian squadron, forms part of a grand, comprehi nfivo scheme for a navai domoii.stration on the Pacific and Atlantic intended to indicate Great Britain's preparedness to face any and all possible hostile developments.

EARL OF MINTO LEAVES LONDON. London, November 3 Many distinguished people bade farewell to day to the Earl and Countess of Minto. who left London to embark at Liverpool am board 'the Scotsman, bound for Montreal. The Earl is on his way to Canada 'to assume the duties of Governor General, in succession to tbe Earl of Paris Paper Says One Hundred Million Dollars Are Demanded. powers CAsraror aid spaht.

SSurope Has No Interest to Interfere, the Petit Bleu Declares If United States Restore Philippines to Spain, Germany "Would Offer Her Assistance, and International Intervention That Would Provoke a Grave Quarrel Would Follow American Diplomacy Praised Figaro Says No Instructions Have Been Received From Madrid. Paris, Novembei Tie Echo de Paris today expresses sbrong (approval of tie speech delivered at Worcester, on November 1 by Senator Hoar, In which he denounced the so called policy of American extensions. The paper mentioned quotes the speech fully and remarks that all American political men "ap tparently do not agree with the policy of conquest." The Figaro says: "The peace negotiations have reached a Very critical point. Up to yesterday the Spanish delegates had no definite instructions from Madrid. Will the Spanish government accept the American proposition? We doubt It." The Petit Bleu remarks: "One must adtmit in looking beneath the surface Shut the late war has completely changed the American character.

Outside of being anxious merely for commercial supremacy and playing a small political part, save regarding the South American Republics, the United States felt no desire to interfere in European politics. But everything clanged very suddenly. After the success (against Spain the American government felt jjtself capable of caking part in European poli the American Ministers they could speak up. This popular feeling has induced tine American government to demand the whole of the archipelago, when ait the outset a part of the Philippines was all that was demanded. "This new demand exceeds a war Indemnity, and this is the weak point which American diplomacy has encountered.

The Spanish government is at the end of its resources and, hopeless as it is for her to attempt to master the insurrection in the Philippine Islands, even if they were handed over to her to morrow, 'it is evident that if. instead of using the word 'abandon men against a cash indemnity, is spoken of, the Spanish and American delegates may come to 'terms. "The American delegates have made several offers and have at the present time proposed the sum of $40,000,000. The Spaniards want more and have demanded $100,000,000. "The Spanish delegates, for whose sad condition one must feel pity, had for a moment the Illusion that Europe would intervene and defend the interests of Spain.

They must have loBt this illusion by now. American diplomacy has played its part with great cleverness and has frcm the outset gained an extraordinary position. At the present moment the United States 'is taken advantage the hatred against England, which is wing upon the continent, and offers its itrallty, if Europe will leave the United States a free hand with Spain. "Beside, Europe really has no interest to interfere. The various European governments foresee what will inevitably come if the United Sta'tes restores the Philippine Islands to Spain.

As soon as Spain had proved her Inability to quash the revcult, Germany would offer her interested assistance and immediately the of French, English and Russian diplomacy would provoke international Intervention, which would raise a quarrel of exceptional gravity. "Alt 'the present moment, it is because something of the sort might happen that the attitude of Europe in general toward the Spaniards and Americans is as follows: 'Come to some agreement about the price of the Philippines, make concessions on either side, but whatever you do. be quick about iit. There are plenty of troubles floating round Just now upon the political horizon without a prolongation of these dangerous negotiations of The generally accepted view here of the peace negotiations is that Spaniards will not agree to the propositions submitted by the Americans to take the Philippine Islands and to reimburse to Spain the money spent upon permanent improveme n'ts in these islands. But there is a conflict of opinion as to Tv hether the Spanish commissioners, to mor Jrow, will present a counter proposition.

This natter, It is added, was undecided at 2 o'clock this afternoon. onon kicin vnDi wr rinir Tn.n a imi vv iuni vuimm iu uhi. Vote Will Be Light, as Over Half of the Regiment Is 111 or Away War Board Coming. Camp Meade, November 3 The vote of li. Ttetm W11 Hrorl arirl TiV.ir.

1. to ment is being taken to day, poiis being opened from 9 to 4. The regiment is isolated among the Conewago Hills on account of an outbreak of typhoid fever after reaching here, and less than, half the command is on duty. The rest are in the city hospitals or home on furloughs so that a light vote is expected. The other two New York regiments have voted.

Arrangements are being made to take the votes of the four Pennsylvania regiments next Tuesday. General Young will start the First Division eoutn on oaturuay. me aeiaenments sent a.way on Wednesday to prepare the camps only reached Augusta and Athens to day. The war investigating iioard has not vet reached Camp Meade. Judge James A.

Beaver of Bellefontc lias gotten as far as Harris burg and will stay there until bis colleagues arrive. They are expected this afternoon and will hardly visit Camp Meade before to morrow. It Is not thought that any testimony will be taken as only three of the investigators are coming here. They heard Major General Graham's story ait Washington a month ago, and Major General Young has told what he knows of the alleged abuses at Camp Wilton. Judge Beaver will not say what the commission will do until he has conferred With bis associates.

TO DEVELOP INLAND EMPIRE. Portland, November 3 Incorporation 4 WWW W0 IllU AL1 1.4 UlCUl (11C1 Valley Railroad with an authorized capital of $3,000,000. The purpose is to bulk! and operate several hundred miles of railroad and telegraph lines in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. This is understood to be another step in a scheme of development for the Inland Empire. TThat Was True In '07 la True iu 'OS.

Bee Bdw. M. Shepard's statement page 7. Adv. Voters Cannot Be Found at the Addresses Given.

MANY WARRANTS NOW OUT. Result of an Eagle Reporter's Investigation Proves Interesting McCul lagh's Deputies Busy Applying to Police Magistrates for Warrants to Apprehend Men Who Are Suspected of Violating the Law Deputy Ash by Arraigned on a Charge of Perjury. The question as to whether or not there has been illegal registration and colonization in the borough of Brooklyn is one which the plitiea managers of hath parties are now trying to determine. The failure of the post office officials to find a number of persons to whom eommunciatlons were addressed by a political club has led officers of that organization to advance the theory that fraudulent resristration has bc en carried on in a wholesale manner. The name and adIr(tsses on the letters and postal cards returned were, it is asserted, taken in every case from the official registry list and had the men been legally registerd the post, office carriers would, it is comtenrtded, have had no difficulty in delivering the mail matter.

The number of letters and postal cards returned marked: "Not found" is, it is claimed unusually large when the faat Is taken into consideration that th lottnrs and cards were sent only to a very small of the registered voters. Several of the undelivered letinrs and carda were turned over to the Eagle, with the re that an investigation bo made with the end in view of discovering: whether the nost office officials were in error or the names of the alleged voters wtre mythical. The result of the inquiry made by Eagle reporters follows: A postal card addressed to M. P. Williams, at Dli" Fourth avenue, was returned marked "Not found." The registry list shows that M.

P. Williams lives in the Eleventh ljLstrict of ihc Etyfheh Ward and that he reg istered from Fourth avenue. The house at Mrs. Burke, who lives with her husband, Pat rick J. Burke In the basement Inquiry was made in tlhe livery stable office at 1,101, but Williams was not known there.

Neither had he ever been heard of in B. McGarry's saloon, which is opposite, on the corner of Thlrty ninlih street and Fourth avenue. Another communication returned was ad dreis sod to D. Carls, 1,127 Third avenue. According to the official registry list Carls enrolled as a voter in the Fifteenth District of the Eighth Ward.

No. "1,127 Third avenue" is a three story tenement house. Henry Hasse, who runs a candy store on the ground Door. The families of J. D.

Kernan and Mr. Williams occupy rooms 011 the third floor. They have lived there for years and nver knew anyone named Carls to live either in the house or in the neighborhood. Mrs. Williams' mother owns the building and she waji alsocertaiu that 1).

Carls" had no residence in the house. "No one 'by that name ever lived ou this block," said Mrs. Williams. 'lhe postman who carries the mail on Oon over street was unable to find William Collins w'ho, according the registry lives at 143. Tbe card was returned ui tltt; writer and an Eagle reporter tried to locate the mysterious William Collins.

The n.gistry records Wiliani Collins as a legal voter in the Fourth Distr.ct of the Twelfth Ward and gives 5ii3 address as 143 Conover street. The house at that numlber is a four story i. alian teiioiiK nt. It hasn't been e.eeuiiicl for some time, tha last Italian family having moved out three mouths ago. J.

Cas.samasa, who is the proprietor of a barb sho 0:1 first fi. jr, had never heard of William Collins, and he had been in busines at that, stand for years. He told itie Kagie reporter that he knew arly everyone in the neigh'oorh i xl and that it" Ooi l.iis had ever lived in tin; bouse In would know it. The woman who acts as landlord's agent for premises, was also s.s n. She likewise declared itiat.

Wiliinm Collins mtisL oe a stranger for sin had oari for t.ho house for ever so in. my yiurs and had never had tbe pleasure of b.s in anee. "I don't. Know now loith wli.it you might find him down in Van street, stud ih woman, "hut ilieti 1 guess net. for it was Tom Collins I heard them tall.

ing itioiit tind not William." Although tie inline of M. I lei.re.ur; is down on the nll'iolai registry list as 0 resident 154 Hamilton av oiue. the p.i niti vas itu.ihle to locate sti' ti a tn. iti 11 Kogle reporter. upon making an in vest icri i lay, dis I In mil ton soot west i'ltttbia which It corner.

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lit: Applications for War lice Justice ants W.itle to Fo Brenner. ra been ry in h. iff ei; a not who .1 iso cul a had ih ft 11 ii 11. i warrant fo ed er t.i.n do rcl Tl. Nliepurtl'N Opinion of Taiumuiiy Hall.

H. T. Adv, pressed ignorance as to the exact status of the deal. WSien asked point blank If tfae Wilson option would be taken up to day he said: "1 do not think the deal will be closed today." When pressed for the exact date when the deal would be closed, Mr. Flower said that he was not prepared to discuss that point.

The whole matter, he said, would be made public at the proper time. When asked if the option for the Wilson stock was held by the Transit Company, Mr. Flower said that the Rapid Transit does not appear officially in the deal at all. Mr. Flower would not say however, who held the option nor who conducted the negotiations.

He admitted that the option had been secured, but would not say when it expired. The reporter asked if to day were not the last day of the option Mr. Flower said in reply that he did not think the option expired to day and that an extension of time might have been obtained. As to this he would not speak positively, however. An intimate friend of R.

T. Wilson said to day when seen by an Eagle reporter thai a mistaken impression tl'Oa of the option. Instead of to day he said the option really expired to morrow. Untii that time the Flow er people have the privilege of purchasing the Wi'lson Nassau stock on the terms expressed in the option. Mr.

Wilson was seen at his office, 33 Wall street, but he refused to discuss the deal in any of its phases. Edward H. Harriman, who has conducted the negotiations between the Flower and Wilson people, was also. seen but refused to speak for publication. From a financial stancipo.r.i and 'the one in which the men in control are chiefly interested, the consolidation uf the two systems would mean a saving of many thousands of dollars each year in operating expenses.

Just how much this would amount to is not knwn, but the experts who have gone into the subject with care, and on whose reporas the deal was undertaken 'by men of such financial acumen as ex Governor Flower and Anthony N. Brady, ay that the yearly saving will amuunt to cicse upon a million dohars. This will be by reason of the enormous economies that can be effected by a joint operation of the two systems in the matter of power, employes, management and all the different items that go to make up the operating charges of a railroad. In the matter of power 'alone the saving, it has been demonstrated, will be in the nun dreus of 'thousands of dollars, as the electric I plants now operated are more than ample to supply the power for the two si's cents if they were united. One engineer has report I ed that fully one third of the cost of nianu i facturing power would be saved if the two systems were consolidated.

A saving in the management and ai' ii many ramifications of heads of departments and their aesiKtantK I would also be effected and in this be no inconsiderable item, as has beeti proved by expert inve. ciation. The prc sent management of the Nassau Company would also be dispensed with and ceseratk ef the r. ad undertaken by the executive heads of tne transit Company. If actual consolidation or merging of the companies should be impossible by reason of financial defficuities in way of en ugh of ttie si ck or lease of the N'as.

au system the Transit wtiuld tie means ui ed to overcome this difficulty and a Nassau management, friendly to the Transit people, would be put in oliiee and wouid e. operate in the loan to uperate tli two systems as if they were one in fact. So far as the operation of Lwo sy.s t.ems jointly is conceriKd. this has been tlhe subject cf a careful study by the officials and engl neons of ttm Transit Company. Then are a number of point where connections could be made that wtmld be highly advantageous to each syst.

and would cut down the operat ing expense. This is nsippci'ally true where the two systinns parallel other, and In this case tlhe service on one line could be cut off altogether, while that 011 the other Ik in creased, or both could be reduced, without f'Vir of com pctition, to a more paying 1) tsix. As to the plans of the officials on this point i no information o'ltainable, although It is known that t'V matter has been fully discussed and earefuily debated. The results of the consolidation of the Transit and Nassau I llectrlc systems would be almost as Important to the traveling public of Brooklyn as to the shareholders in the two companies p.irned. This would be so as it would mean greatly increased and better service on the two systems, many connections r.ie.

the i v.u. y. and very probably a generous extension of the present system of transfers, which, if put into execution, would make it possible for a passenger to ride to almost every section of the borough on tlo payment of one 5 cent fare. This, however, is perhaps 100 much for the public 10 expect of i railroad that is not in bus.tiess from pur ly philanthropic IMOtlve.s. although the poiiey tile Transit Company in iti.ig' ment in regard to transfers pr.

that sue a con solidation would fo. lowed by a enlargeineni of system. Tie 1 a large measa. 10 curtail to tli Xa Company as a 'oil marked of "ousi ro ss from that tnpin miiitat oirain.s: its being od and th ar 's pa'r 00 lib rally extend vho maintain that li ng fear from Transit Companv of eu ting off the nc. il by it.s with as soon a then aas the Nassau riv the would purMie r.he jKiiev transfer s.vsr as evidei.

ilr i.ea! of that privilege on I days. undays and hol In linneit mid Ciindiil Opinion didllierately xpreni ed by Haw. M. fsln pard. See Iiatie 7.

Adv. I at Once, Without the Customary Purloughs. (Special to the Eagle.) Washington, D. November 3 Brigadier General Randolph, the mustering out officer for New York State, has been ordered by the War Department to issue at once discharges to all the members of the Twenty second New York Regiment, without granting the cus tomary thirty days' furlough. The regiment is to be mustered out at Fort Siocum.

The Thirteenth Battalion, composed of Brooklyn men, is 111 this regiment. In explaining why the department finally determined to discharge the Twenty second after announcing positively that no more troops would be retired. General Corbin said that mo.si of the members of the Twenty second were young business men and that it had been shown that an injustice would be done by keeping them in the service. He said that the friends of Colonel Bartleit. had used the greatest pressure in their efforts to have the re giment discharged and that the Secretary of War had finally agreed to their demands.

When General Corbin was asked whether or not the department, had adopted a new policy in regard to ihe number of men to be retained in the service and if additional discharges would follow, he said: "I have received no orders to muster out other troops." Colonel Franklin Bartlett of the Twcnty soeond New York Volunteers to day ri reived the order notifying him that the regiment was to be mustered out. The orders were sent from the War Department yesterday and were received at tin; Department ol the hast tins morning, and immediately forwarded to Fort Siocum. where the Twenty second is doing garrison duty. The exact elate of the mustering out has not yet been determined upon, but. it is believed that, the preliminary work will begin within the next few days.

GEORGIA LYNCHERS FOILED. Five Hundred Men, Including Many Soldiers, Attack a Jail General Fusillade Follows One Man Shot. Augusta, November 3 Yesterday a negro named Will Robinson attempted to assault Miss Walker. Later he was arrested and confined in the Jail. Tbe occurrence excited great feeling in that section of the city in which the young woman lived.

During the night, about 51 mi men. including a number of soldiers in camp here, forme the bail parli. several block." from the jaii. They formed in a column of fours, marched to the jail in' which twenty policemen had been stationed and demanded t.ho surf iuler of ihe negro. Upon being told by Jailer Keri.os that the jail would be defended, one of the attaching partv shot at the policeman holding a 1 te n.

A gen William Moo lough, was die. Win ai fiisii.ad. tin a volunteer ot through tin In di the tack win iiCelllen was injure 11 folio on 1 1 aiel ab.ui.lo None of the policemen was injure I. DEFENDER AT BRISTOL. Results of Old Cup Racer's Accident Not Serious.

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am ihr.ugh o'clock wharf. Tie ici.t and she II. an The gait w.trnoi' making iniiii.itn plates on the v. i.u.ge.I out in ill. st hers are den ted in 1 defects are though; of the Defender Ilochelle.

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gK. ApawaMu Harold Gljuwln. Quints MAN BADLY BURNED. Edward Brown was severely burned to day, in a fire which destroyed plant of the Agatine Shoe Honk and Eyelet impany, on Norfolk street, Newark. N.

J. The fire was cauced by spontaneous combustion. The damage by the fire will amount to about $5,000. Ueiid Tooili Talk Top of I'ajre U.S. Dental Ass'n (Dr.

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