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BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 18. 1902.

THE DIED OF STORM INJURIES. TREATMENT OJ? NEEDY FAMILIES. QUICK JURY VINDICATION OLD JOHN BROWN SOUL HTHD THE APPELLATE JUDGES CANNOT TAKE GHftNCES. NEW TAMMANY BIG FOUR IS COMING 10 TIE FRONT Carnegie would join the Democratic party v'uen such a renaissance was assured. He recalled the fact that Carnegie confesses to having oiTered personally to President Mc Kinley to pay the whole amount of $20,000,000 due to Spain for the Philippines, on condition that, the Independence of the Filipinos should be conceded.

He hinted that there were a i ler nf .1 i .1 Tif.v. .1 Charity Workers Take TJp Matter of Be lief at Home. "The Treatment of Needy Families in their Homes" was the topic discussed' to day 'at the Summer School in Philanthropic Work. which is being held in the United Charities' Building on. Fourth avenue, Manhattan.

Jef frey R. Brackett, president of the department of charities. and correction in Baltimore, who will preside at the school for a week, de scribed in a general way the object of social service. He said, among other things: without comparing social conditions with those of the days of our grandfathers. It' can be said that however it is there is more use to day for scientific spirit and metho ls In dealing tvlta problems concerning the needy.

What we are aiming at is not so much the Independence of men, as dependence on one another. Wc cannot set too high an aim on philanthropic work. C. C. Carstens, assistant secretary of the Society for Organizing Charity In Philadelphia, speaking of "The Right View of the First Request for Aid," urged upon the workers a searching but sympathetic investigation at the start.

MUST GIVE UP THE PROPERTY. 'Bub" McLaughlin's Widow Included His Sister's Trust Estate in Her Holdings. In the suit of Mrs Ann O'Connor, as committee of the person and estate of her sister, Grace McLaughlin, against 'Mrs. Pauline McLaughlin, which was tried recently in' the equity term of the Supreme Court, Justice Marean has given in favor 'of the plaintiff. The defendant is the widow of the late Under Sheriff Hugh McLaughlin, better known as "Bub" McLaughlin.

Grace McLaughlin, "Bub's" sister, was born In 1853 and has been simple minded for many years. Another sister, Mrs. O'Connor, has had the care qf her since the death of their father, John Mc Laughlin. The latter, in 1S5S, created a trust for the benefit of Grace in the purchase of the property at 51 Jay street. During the lifetime of "Bub" the rents were, collected for the benefit of his sister Grace, but upon his death he bequeathed all his property to his widow, and this Included the Jay street property.

Mrs. 'McLaughlin refused to complete the trust and suit was begun to enforce it. In the meantime the Jay street property was sold to John Meyer for $4,750 and the plaintiff asked judgment for that sum. Justice Marean granted judgment for that amount and Interest and a referee is to be appointed to compute the amounts of rents collected. MAYOR A VETERAN FIREMAN.

Used to Run Old Pacific, He Tells Ex Register Howe, Wio Thought Him Unsympathetic. A delegation of Wllllamsburgh Volunteer Fire Veterans called on Mayor Low thla morning and appealed to him to approve the aldertnahic resolution requesting the Board of Estimate to set aside $6,000 for the purchase of a building In Wlliiamaburgh as headquarters. 1 Ex Register Howe a plea for them, saying that other Brooklyn districts were provided for, and it was only fair they should have help. The Mayor said if there was a public building in the district where rooms could be set aside for the organization he would agree, but he was not disposed to look with favor upon the plan to buy a house for such a purpose. Ex Register Howe made a touching appeal for the old veterans and fire associations of the old volunteer days and remarked that the Mayor was too young to know much about it.

"Oh, I used to run with old Pacific No. 14," replied the Mayor. "I know something about it." Mr. Howe coyly admitted that he himself used to run with "The Old Maid" Engine No. 15 In Chrystle street, Manhattan, near Canal.

Mayor Low promised to give the matter careful consideration" and then shook hands with the entire delegation before the' veterans left. SHIP NEWS. Arrived At New York. Coronda, from Buenoa Aj res. Bergenseren, from Sanchez.

Monterey, from Havana, i Snyg from Glbara. Tuscarora. from London. Tonawanda. from Shields.

Nueces, from Galveston. Bureermelster iterson. from Shields. BluefleldB, from Baltimore. Waccamaw, from Georcetown.

Dona Maria, from Lisbon. Ocennlc. from Liverpool. Federica. from Trieste.

Foreign Forts. Manchester Arrived Flaxman, from New York. Singapore Arrived Asama, from sw York. Singapore Arrived Richmond Castle, from Xew Cherbourg Arrived Pretoria, from New York. Southampton Sailed Kronprlnz Wllhelm.

lor NVw York via Cherbourg. Ushant Passed Prlns Willem III, New York, for Amsterdam. Tarlfa Passed Perugia. Naples for New lork. AT EAGLE PARIS BUREAU.

Eagle Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon. Paris June IS The following Americans have registered at the Paris Bureau of the Brooklyn Eagle: Mrs. M. B. Richardson of Brooklyn.

Mrs. M. A. Lany of Brooklyn. Mr.

and Mrs. H. D. Annable of Brooklyn. Miss Estelle Elcock of Brooklyn.

F. W. Stockew of Manhattan. Burnett's Cocoaine allays all Irritation of the scalp, ana prevents the hair from falling out. DIED.

X.TJTZ On June 16. ELLEN LUT2 (maiden name ELLEN MORN), beloved wife of WiUia'm Lutz, at her residence. S9 St. Funeral at 3 P. Thursday, June 19.

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COWARD, 268 274 Greenwich St, Send For New Catalogue, Good Sense Shoe Young Lalor Struck by Branches of Lightning Riven Tree. James Lalor, 12 years old, who lived with his parents at 348 East One Hundred and Nineteen street, Manhattan, died in the Harlem Hospital this morning as the result of injuries received during a heavy thunderstorm, on last Friday. On that evening, young Lalor, with three or four companions, sought shelter from the storm beneath an, awning in front of Andrew Davey'a grocery store, on the northwest corner of One Hundred and Eighteenth street and First avenue. Near the store stood a large elm tree. This was struck by a lightning bolt, and split and shivered to its roots.

All of Lalor's companions, at the first crash, ran as fast as they could, two of them, it is said, receiving slight shocks of electricity, but young Lalor remained and was crushed beneath the heavy branches of the tree which fell on the awning. He was taken from under the debris with his skull fractured, and was taken to the Harlem Hospital, where he lingered until this morning. POLICEMAN'S STORY REJECTED. Magistrate O'Reilly Says Ex Pugilist Loeber Might Make a Charge Against Roundsman Smith. Edward Loeber, 30 years old, once a pugilist, was arraigned before Magistrate O'Reilly in the Manhattan avenue court to day on a charge of intoxication.

Loeber denounced his arrest as an outrage and Magistrate O'Reilly discharged him. observing to Roundsman Smith of the Herbert street station, who made the arrest, that Loeber would be justified in making a charge against him. According to the roundsman, who had been ordered to watch Loeber's saloon at 535 Graham avenue, he entered the place last night and Loeber ordered him out. Smith left and started for the station to make a report and as Loeber followed him and made a disturbance, as he alleged, he arrested him on a charge of Intoxication. At the station Loeber denied that he was drunk and demanded that a doctor examine him.

Dr. Gale was called from St. Catherine's Hospital and pronounced Loeber suffering from alcoholism. He was balled out later by a friend. Loeber told the magistrate that the officer came into his place and used vile language and that when he was ordered out he used his club.

Loeber showed a split ear as corroboration. He said that he started for the station house to lodge a complaint against Smith, but that the officer reached there first and entered a charge of intoxication. Magistrate O'Reilly believed Loeber's story. HARKINS TO BE A CAPTAIN. "Will Probably Succeed the Late Captain Dunn in East New York Precinct.

Patrick J. Harkins, sergeant in the Fulton street police station, and the man who is now at the head of the eligible list for promotion to the rank of captain, was sum monad to headquarters in Smith street this morning to have a talk with Deputy Commissioner Ebstein. He had a long talk with the major, and It was understood after the confabulation was ended that Harkins was assured that he would be promoted within a very few days. It is not the purpose of the administration to delay much in filling vacant places, for promptness saves trouble. It is also the purpose of the administration to make captains in their proper turn on the list.

It is the privilege of the commissioner to choose the next captain from the three names at the top of the list, but Colonel Partridge realizes that there will be no heartburnings it he promotes in the proper order. It is quite probable, therefore, that Harkins will be sworn in as captain in place of the late James Dunn very soon after Captain Dunn's funeral. It is probable, too, that Harkins will be sent to fill the vacancy in the East. New York precinct. Ho served as sergeant for several years in East New York, knows the neighborhood well, and has, beside, property interests in the Twenty sixth Ward.

Major Ebstein was asked this morning if there was any significance in the fact that Harkins had been summoned to headquarters. "No," was his reply. "Sergeant Harkins stands at the head of the list for promotion, and I think he will be made a captain soon. I had not seen him and I wanted to make his acquaintance. I must say that I am very much pleased with his appearance.

He Impressed me as a good officer, and bore evidence that the many good things that have been said of him to me by his friends were fully justified. I have every reason to believe that he will be the next captain appointed and that his promotion will come very soon." THE WEATHER. INDICATIONS UNTIL P. M. TO MORROW.

Washington. June IS For Eastern New York: Fair to niftht. warmer: Thursday, fair, except showers in interior; light to fresh west winds, becoming south. LOCAL PROBABILITIES. Fair to night; Thursday, partly cloudy: slightly warmer; variable winds, mostly southerly.

At noon the Eagle's mercurial barometer registered 30.03. Record of the thermometer as kept at th Brooklyn Daily Eaelo Office: I A. M. to day 66 I 10 A. JI 9 4 A.

Kl I 12 (A. 13 1 2 P. 78 IA.M 3T. 7U Average temperature to day Average temperature corresponding day last yr niH HIGH WATER. Following Is the oftlelal announcement of the tim i and duration of high water at New York and Sandy Hook for to morrow, June 19: I.

A. M. 'Time! Height ill. M. Feet; i li nt Klse I Fall H.

Feet k. M.ln.u ew 3.7 1 1 7 1 1 1 1.0 Sandy Hook' 0:3 1.1) il i I i The sun will rise to morrow at 4:23 ai. and vill set at P. M. INDEX To Classified Advertisements day's Eagle.

in To CLASSIFICATION. Amusements Auction Sales Board Bankruptcy Notices Business Notices Business Opportunities Business Personals Coastwise Steamships Copartnership Notices Corporation Notices Death Notices Dividends Dissolution Notices Employment Agencies Kxourslons Financial Furnished Rooms Hel; Yantd Horws and Carriages Hotels and Resorts Instruction LeR. ll Notices Loans Lost and Found Manhattan Amusements Miscellaneous Ocean Steamships Post otlk Notice Proposals Pulilie Notices Railroads Real Estate at Auction Real Estate Loans Receiver's Notice Resort Guides Situations Wanted Special Advertisements Special Notices Sporting Steamboats To Let and For Sale Wanted PAGE 1 14 13 4 13 2 15 15 15 19 5 22 20 15 14 4 ....20 21 14 11 IS .15 10 17 13 is i9 13 22 1 ..2 3 5 6 15 13 ....19 22 IS 15 li 15 19 IS 14 22 9 4 15 ....11 15 li ACCUSED BY WIFE Mrs. Craft Fails in Her Attempt to Get a Divorce From Her Husband. CRAFT NEEDED NO DEFENSE.

Justice Herrick Said He Couldn't See Much in the Case of the Plaintiff. The suit of Mrs. Anna B. Craft for an absolute divorce from her husband, Jesse Craft, a pump dealer on Front street, Manhattan, was placed on trial this morning in Part III of the Supreme Court, before Justice Herrick and a jury, and resulted in a signal verdict for the defendant. The question for the jury to decide was whether the defendant violated his marital vows with Mrs.

Hattle "VVightman, who keeps a boarding house on Jefferson avenue, at which. It was so testified, Mr. Craft boarded. After hearing the testimony for the plaintiff the court ordered a verdict to be given the defendant, without hearing testimony for the defense, save a denial on the part of Mrs. Wlghtman as to any wrong doing on the part of the defendant and herself.

Much of the story that led up to the separation of the couple was told at the time the suit was in the Supreme Court Special term on a motion for counsel tee and alimony. Lawyer John C. Judge appeared for the plaintiff and Lawyer Andrew Van Thun represented the defendant. The parties were married on January 17j 1883, and have a daughter who Is now about 17 years of age. The wife accused the husband of having treated her in a cruel and Inhuman manner and said that he compelled her to take refuge with her parents.

She said that he accused her of being insane and that when she started a suit for separation she was forced to drop it because she was without funds. She declared that her husband is making an income of a year from his business and property. The first witness on the trial this morning was Harry E. Taylor. The latter told the court and jury that he was asked by Mr.

Holmes, who is associated with Lawyer Judge in the case, to go to Mrs. Wightman's boarding house and secure board and to watch the defendant, who was said to board there, and his boarding mistress. Mr. Taylor told his story In a matter of fact way. He said that from what he saw he thought that Mr.

Craft and Mrs. "Wight man occupied the same room and testified that he was led to that belief because one day he saw Mrs. Wlghtman go into the room, which he understood was occupied by Mr. Craft, that she went in in her street dress and came out with her hat and coat on; From that he supposed she kept her wearing apparel in that room. Justice Herrick questioned the witness very closely as to just what he had observed, but Mr.

Taylor stuck closely to his story that he had on one occasion seen the two go into the room together. Mr. Taylor told of the deportment of the two at the dining table and testified to the same allegation of facts that he made in his affidavit. Dr. James T.

Burdlck of 434 Gates avenue, the father of the plaintiff, was the next witness. Ho said he had known the defendant since "the 70s. After telling of the marriage of his' daughter to the defendant Dr. Burdlck testified as to their separation. At that time they were living next door fco him in Gates avenue.

Dr. Burdlck said that Mrs. Wight man was living in the house with his daughter and Mr. Craft when they were separated. "What was she doing there?" asked the plaintiff's lawyer.

"She was there as a servant of Mrs. Craft," replied L'r. Burdlck. "How long did she live there?" "About two months." "And it was here that the separation took place between your daughter and Mr. Craft?" "It was." "Did you ever see Mrs.

"Wlghtman again?" "I saw her in Classon avenue, I think the number was 3S7, near Greene." "Who was with her there?" "Mr. Craft and her mother." "How do you know that Mr. Craft lived there?" "I called there and saw Mr. Craft. He called Mrs.

Wlghtman 'Hattle' and admitted that he lived there." "Did you ever see Mr. Craft and Mrs. Wlghtman at any other time together?" "I saw Mr. Craft and Mrs. Wlghtman driving once on Bedford avenue." After a short cross examination from Lawyer Sanders Shanks, who was associated with Laivyer Van Thun in the trial of the case, Dr.

Burdick left the witness stand and Harry C. Burdick of 893 Park place, an elder brother of the plaintiff, was called upon to testify as to the times he had seen Mr. Craft and Mrs. Wlghtman together. Testimony was given by Mr.

Burdlck that he had seen them together a number of times. After further testimony the plaintiff's case closed and Justice Herrick remarked that he did not see that there was much In the case He said that it Mrs. Wightman wished to go on the witness stand to clear up the matter he would hear her testimony. Mrs. Wightman then went on the witness stand and denied that she had ever lived with Mr.

Craft as his wife or that she ever had committed infidelity with him. "Cross examine," said the justice to the lawyers for Mrs. Craft. They did not cross examine Mrs. Wight man to any length and the court ordered the jury to bring in a verdict for the defendant.

FOUNT) FOE MBS. INNES. Bandmaster Loses Suit for Absolute Divorce. The ury in the case of the suit brought by Bandmaster Frederick N. Innes against his wife, Georgia, for absolute divorce rendered a verdict in favor of Mrs.

Innes yesterday. The jury was ask'ed merely to settle two questions of fact: first, whether Mrs. Innes was guilty with Ernest H. Crowhurst in the Hotel Walton, Philadelphia; and, second, whether Frederick Neill Innes was guilty at the Herald Square Hotel with Mrs. Katharine B.

Wenzel. The case now goes back to the special term of the Supreme Court where a decree will be granted to Mrs. Innes in her counter suit as a matter of course unless there is an appeal from the decision of the jury, as there undoubtedly will be. WOMEN VAGRANTS DEALT WITH. Three women who were arrested on Sunday night, all of whom had black eye3 when arraigned before Magistrate Voorhees in the Flatbush court on Monday morning, when they pleaded not guilty to charges of vag rancy, were up for examination to day.

Mary Gallacher, 39 years old, was sent to the Kings County Penitentiary for six months; Catherine Hawkins, 50. was allowed to go hoine with her sister, and Mrs. Isabella 61, who lives in a hut on Washington avenue, where all the women were" found, was allowed to go with a suspension of sentence. THREW BOILING POT AT HER. When John Monahan went home last even ing he got into a wrangle with his wife and becoming enraged, he picked up a pot of boiling water from the stove and hurled It at her.

She was burned badly about the body and arras and was taken to the Seney Hospital. In the Butler street police court this morn ing John tvas held for examination on Fri day next. He is 38 years old; she is 32. They live at 248 Sixth street. CABLE NOTICE.

The Commercial Cable Company this morning issued the following notice: "Messages for Japan routed 'via Northern' are now accepted without restrictions." euii iju it i ju int. rin.il turn Tenth, and Twelfth and Fourteenth Wards where the money Carnegie was squandering on books not likely to he read, would appeal strongly to local Democratic sentiment. SHE FEARS GUNPOWDER PLOT. Miss Vanderberg Complains to Police, Who Will Investigate. Miss Cornelia Vamlerberg of Sixty fourth street and Twelfth avenue, Bath Junction, complained to the Fort Hamilton police yesterday afternoon that an attempt had been made to blow up her house with gunpowder some time during the day.

She said she found a Hiick of gunpowder under the front stoop, but was unable to produce it, and the police are skeptical. The woman who, the neighbors declare, is eccentric, says that she was attacked recently by a strange man near her home and she also says that an attempt has been made to tear down her house, a one story affair. Several boys were recently arrested Joy Detective Martin H. White on a charge of breaking in the house, but they were released. The police will make an investigation.

C0LER PAYS $1,400 TO RAMAP0. One of the Suits Over City Water That Have Cost the Ex Controller Ahout $30,000. The Ramapo Water Company is $1,400 richer to day. Yesterday afternoon former Controller Coler paid it that amount to satisfy the judgment secured against Charles B. Keator, the taxpayer whose injunction suit three years or more ago prevented the consummation of the forty year contract at $5,000,000 a year that the then water commissioner wished to make with it for the city.

Mr. Keator's suit prevented the contract from being made, but later the injunction was dissolved and costs given against him. Mr. Coler had promised him he would not have to pay anything and now he has gone Into his own pocket to meet the judgment. Mr.

Coler said to day that this payment, along with those he made in his fights against other water schemes, tunnel propositions and confessions of judgment against the city ccst him a total of about $30,000 out of pocket for his four years' term. The only organization, he said, that ever offered to help him out was the Merchants' Association. Asked about the Ramapo Company Mr. Coler said: "So far aa the city is concerned It is dead. The people in it will need that $1,400 to pay for lunches." Regarding Mr.

Color's payment of this and other costs in confession of judgment suits, Mr. Rives said he told Mr. Coler that although be had a moral claim against the city, he did not see how the authorities could allow it. Mr. Coler will have to get the Legislature to help him out or else stay in his present plight.

FISHING SMACK IS BLAMED. Company Officials Confident That the French Cable Was Deliberately Severed. A cable of the French Telegraph Cable Company, connecting New York and Cape Cod, was cut about two miles off shore at Manhattan Beach, June 6. The ends were recovered and spliced only a day or two ago, as the cable company had to await the arrival of their steamer from Cape Cod. When the break in the cable was noticed June 6, it was supposed that the cable had been broken, and it was not until the cable eteamer recovered the severed ends that it was found that it had been cut.

The company's officials at 44 Broad street, Manhattan, immediately offered a reward of $500 for information that would lead to the detection of the guilty person or persons. H. E. Behn, secretary of the French Telegraph Cable Company, when seen by a reporter this morning said: "The cable was undoubtedly cut by some fishing smack that got its anchor fouled in it. Of course I don't mean a small two or three ton boat, for the cable, which is eight inches in diameter, weighs about nineteen tons to a mile.

It would take a rather large boat to raise the cable, but an eighteen or twenty ton vessel could do it all right. There are a lot. of large fishing boats off Manhattan and I think some captain got his anchor hung under the cable and, through pure maliciousness, cut it. It was sawed in two smoothly and it must have taken an hour or two to do the job. We have three cables landing at Manhattan Beach and have a little house down there, but in the afternoon we have no watchman at the house." It is not an unusual thing for a boat to get its anchor fouled in one of the cables landing at this point, but when the captain has patience anti skill it is not by any means an impossibility to save the anohor.

Sometimes the vessels give up their anchors and collect damages from the cable company. Mr. Behn said that the company would have willingly paid for the anchor in this case, if the company's theory is right. "There is no doubt whatever that the cable was cut," said Mr. Behn, "as our expert on the cable steamer made a close examination, and it could not have been broken and left such smooth ends.

Beside, there is nothing to break the cable there except dragging anchors and that day the weather was calm and the sea smooth." SAILED WITHOUT FUNDS. Missionaries Prom the Paith Association 1 Leave for Bombay, Friends of two missionaries who sailed this morning on the steamship Philadelphia hymns on the pier until the steamship was far out in midstream. The missionaries were Mr Minnie Hanley and Mrs. Josephine Peterson of the World's Faith Missionary Association, which has its head i quarters in Shenandoah, la. Most of the crowd on' the pier was from the branch mis sion in Brooklyn.

The two missionaries are going to Bombay, India, without funds, be lieving that "God will provide." i Others who sailed on the steamship were: T. K. Cunningham, a contractor, and his niece; William M. Elkins, William Flinn, George H. Gordon, James Crawford Hanna, Professor Edgar S.

Kelly. H. R. Preston, Ogdcn Mills Kcid. Captain Edward S.

Wright and Charles Young. PIRES IN" BROOKLYN AND QUEENS. Fires reported and alarms for fire received at Fire Headquarters, Brooklyn, during the tw four hours ending at A. June IS. June IT, A.

street, three Ftury to v.uiMinK trifling, damage to Pteck none. June IT. l'j Moffat street, two story fram. te and sleek tetal. June IT.

P. Ken nituh street, between and T'ur 1 avenue, nut.lie "him no loss. 17. I'. l'n avenue, four strv te t.uil.iiujr nunc.

to selell irlfllns. IT. 2 I'. Manhattan 1 one story U.iituiKe l.uUitlns and stock total. CANNOT REQUIRE UNION WORK.

Corporation Counsel Rives has advised the Aldermen that they have no authority to pass a resolution requiring in the case of city contracts that union labor only may be used. Such a clause would increase prices and restrict competition, and thus harm the city. DADY BUYS A LOT. (Special to the Eagle.) Patehogue. L.

June IS M. J. Dady of Hrooklyn has bought a piece of property on th east side of I'urman lane. Patehogue, which is assessed oa the Patehogue village tux rolls at fSOU. Grant, Cockran, Purroy and Sheehan May Succeed 'the Present Triumvirate.

IT'S AN ANTI CR0KER MOVE. If the Combination Goes Through Sullivan May Be Left Out in the Cold. A new "Big Four" is said to be rapidly coming to the front in Tammany Hall. Its members are Hugh J. Grant, TV.

Bourke Cockran, Henry D. Purroy and John C. Sheehan. Advices from the inside indicate that their ascendancy may be established Immediately after the September primaries, ft accidents do not intervene. It is a foregone conclusion, according to the best informed leaders, that Charles F.

Murphy, Daniel F. McMahon and Louis F. Haffen will soon abdicate. They have already found that they are powerless to control the executive committee. They were put In office by Richard Croker, and almost immediately afterward they passed a resolution, saying: "Richard Croker shall not come hack." Both Croker and antl Croker leaders are, therefore, hostile to them, and the organization has gone back to precisely the same location in the air that it occupied immediately after Nixon resigned.

Anti Croker sentiment is behind the proposed elevation of Grant, Cockran, Purroy and Sheehan. Grant has not been on good terms with Croker since John F. Carroll first became Croker's political agent. Cockran quarreled with him seven years ago, and would not return to Tammany as Jong as he was in control. Purroy left the organization in 1895, after a bitter personal fight with Croker.

The relations between Croker and Sheehan are ferociously hostile. Their rise to control in Tammany will mark the downfall of Richard Croker beyond any dispute. Within the past three days both Purroy and Cockran have announced their return to Tammany. Purroy will be the recognized authority from the Bronx. Cockran Is slated to go to Congress from some safe Tammany district.

Grant has the backing qthe contracting interest now represented in the triumvirate by Daniel F. McMahon. Sheehan expects to carry his own Assembly district and a few others, to which will be added the Carroll and Martin strength. If the new combination works successfully, as it is expected to, Senator Timothy D. Sullivan will be out in the cold.

His followers are alarmed about It and have sent for him to come back. He is expected to get into communication with Croker at once and patch up a new combination. His combination, which was strong enough in May to put Murphy. McMahon and Haffen in control, is now a wreck, according to many of the leaders. Just where he can secure the votes to defeat the "Big Four" is not clear to any of the politicians who are anxiously watching developments.

John F. Carroll's attitude is again a matter of grave importance in the Tammany situation. The leaders are just waking up to the fact that they are obliged to carry out Carroll's policy in the proposed changes, whether they, follow his leadership or not. He was the first to declare war on Croker and to suggest the abolition of the finance committee and the titular leader. His strength among the leaders is said to have considerably increased since Justice O'Gorman was elected grand sachem.

It is suggested that he may hold the balance of power when the reorganization is attempted. In that case he may become either one of the big four, taking the place of Grant or Sheehan, or he may, with their support, assume for himself the position of titular leader. 1 Ex Judge George M. Van Hoesen, chairman of Tammany General Committee, expects to see Carroll land the leadership as the outcome of the present dissensions. Discussing the situation he said to day: "Tammany will have a single leader before long.

It will be some man who has worked his way to the top, like Kelly an'd Croker did, through sheer ability and fitness. I am free to predict that Charles F. Murphy is not the man. It may be that neither McMahon nor Haffin will return to the Executive Committee. The new leader will he the result of political evolution inside the organization.

"Just now," said ex Judge Van Hoesen, "Carroll is under a cloud. He carried out the orders of Croker many times against his own judgment and then had to shoulder the blcme when many of his acts produced unhappy results. Carroll is a good manager. Martin cannot be prevailed upon to take the leadership. Either Martin or Plunkltt may be called on to manage this fall's campaign, but the real leader won't develop yet awhile." Mr.

Cockran declared last night that he was not a candidate for Congress or any other office. He said, however, that he intended to aid the movement for harmony ia Tammany, and would speak at the Independence Day celebration of the Tammany Society. It is said to day that Jacob A. Cantor is likely to he prevailed upon to rejoin Tammany Hall. Mr.

Cantor says he will not consider any such course as long as the shadow of Croker rests "on the organization. He has many friends in Tammany who say that he will be back as soon as the reorganization now proposed is effected. SAY HE HAS A SCOTCH WIPE, TOO. Percy H. McWilliams, Purser, Charged With Bigamy.

Percy H. McWilliams. '26 years old, a purser on the steamer Finance, was held this morning in the Gates avenue court on a charge of bigamy, preferred by Mrs. Catherine Armstrong, of 536 Court street, who alleged that McWilliams married Minnie Armstrong, her daughter, 23 years old, last December while he had a wife and four children living in Scotland. McWilliams, who is a good looking youne fellow, and Miss Armstrong first met five years ago on a Transatlantic steamer.

McWilliams was employed on the steamer, and an acquaintance sprang up between them, and it is alleged that they were married quietly last December at a church In the Twenty sixth Ward. McWilliams pleaded not guilty when arraigned this morning, and was committed to jail in default of $1,000, the amount of bail fixed. He refused to explain the charge brought against him until he had secured counsel. BOUGHT BY A. D.

MATTHEWS' SONS Two Houses in Livingston Street Se cured for Future Needs. A. D. Matthews' Sons have purchased the two private houses 174 176 Livingston street, which are immediately opposite the rear of their Fulton street building. The new owners will hold the property for future improvement.

They are using one house as an annex for storage purposes. The other house is. rented as a boarding house. The primary object of the purchase of these houses was to provide for the future growth of their Fulton street store. CAME ON THE OCEANIC.

Among the passengers who arrived to day on the steamer Oceanic from Liverpool and Queenstown, were: R. K. Appleton, W. Graham Bowdoin, Nathaniel B. Coles, Hunter W.

Finch, John Gardiner, Colonel W. E. Hopkins. J. C.

Howe, C. H. Kahn, E. H. London, Daniel T.

McLean. Frank H. Piatt, Norman P. Ream, D. Stevenson.

E. H. Van Right Rev. A. Van de Vyrer and Paul Yeakel.

Might All Be Arrested for Misdemeanor if They Let Jersey Lawyers Practice. THE LAW OF 1898 IS STRICT. It Would Be a Pretty Spectacle to BsWp in Special Sessions, Says Justice Goodrich. The attention of Presiding. wmiam W.

Goodrich of the appellate division of th Supreme Court for the Second Department, was called to day to the newspaper announcements 'that the Supreme Court, of Niew. Jersey had 'promulgated a rule preventing New York City' lawyers from practising In the courts: of that state. said that hehad receiVeaa communication 1 from Chief Jiistfce Guminer of; the Court of. Errors and Appeals and nai answered It. Justice Goodrich had no hesitancy in conceding that the rule of the New.

Jersey "court was made in a retaliatory spirit. "I received a letter from Chief Justice Gummere;" said Justice. Goodrich, "and I wrote him a polite reply; saying that would give the matter our consideration, but In the multiplicity of our work we have aa yet failed to take up the matter. "We shall do so at as we. have wish to ha unfair, but wsh only to obey the law." Justice Goodrich then spoke of section 64 of the Chije or, Civil Procedure, which says: ''A judge, justice or magistrate within tho City of New York who knowingly permlta to practice, in his court a "person, not regularly admitted to.

practice in courts of record, Is guiltyrof a misdemeanor." "You see," continued Justice Goodrich, "that the' justices of the Appellate Division of this department are only, obeying the law. It is there and we must respect it. Formerly it was the practice to extend the privllega of being heard in our courts to lawyers from other states as a matter of courtesy, but the Legislature, in 1S98, passed the law I have quoted and made it a misdemeanor for a Judge within the City of New York to knowingly permit to practice in his court a person not regularly admitted to practice ia, courts of record. "it. would be.

a nice spectacle if the five, judges of this Appellate Division were haled before the Court of Special Sessions for a misdemeanor. It would be a sorry spectacle, indeed. I am sorry for the New Ydrk lawyers, bat the law is mandatory, and we must obey it. I have practised all over the country and I never been refused the privilege of appearing in any court, aa a matter of courtesy. But the Legislature of the state bas passed this act and We must" bow to it.

I will be very glad if the statute, can be amended so as to meet the New Jersey rule as it existed prior to yesterday." Justice Goodrich would not discuss the particular case in which the was first, brought up and which caused the letter from Chief 'Justice Gummere to be written the appellate judges of this department. The announcement that New York City lawyers were to be shut out of the courts of New Jersey was made yesterday at the opening of the June term of the Court of Errors and Appeals; Chief Justice Gummere commented upbn the fact that there was, as he said, no reciprocity between the New Jersey lawyers having business in New York City courts and New York City lawyers having business in Jersey courts. "In view of this fact," continued Chief Justice Gummere, "the Supreme Court of this state sent a communication to the Supreme Court of New York, asking that tue interpretation of its rules be so construed as to conform to the practice of the higher courts of New Jersey. To this communication no answer, further than a ornfal acknowledgment of its receipt, has been received, and the Supreme Court, with th concurrence of the chancellor, has therefore decided that while the present rule obtains in Greater New York, lawyers from that city will hot be permitted to appear before the Court, of Errors and Appeals, the Supreme Court; the Court of Chancery or the Prerogative Court." ST. TERESA'S SCHOOL BOYS.

Many Brooklyn people attended an entertainment given by the boys of St. Teresa's School in St. Teresa's Hall, Rutgers and Henry streets, last night. The programme consisted of songs and recitations by the boys and concluded with a two act play entitled "Arden's Rosary." There was a large audience and the. entertainment was much enjoyed.

i BUSINESS PERSONALS. A LADY IN PRIVATE LIFE HAS GUARAJs teed preparation for whitening and improving the complexion and for removing blemishes. First flat. 1,236 Fifty ninth st. Brooklyn.

1S 3 LOST AND FOUND. LOST OX FLATBUSH AV, NEAR FULTON ST. burnt leather POCKETBOOK, contalnlns owner's card, a real estate card, a five dollar bill and some Reward if returned to .193 Lincoln place, LOST TUESDAY P. BROWN POCKETBOOK containing sum of money: on car between New York and, City Hall. Brooklyn, or between City Hall and Gates and Nostrand av.

Finder "tirlH be suitably rewarded by returning to 252 Monroe st. Brooklyn. PROPOSALS. PROPOSALS FOR BIDS AMI ESTIMATES FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS. The person or persons making a bid or estimate for any services, work, materials or supplies for The Cltv of New York, or tor any of Its departments, bureaus or offices, shall furnish the sam in a sealed envelope Indorsed with th title ot the supplies, materials, work or servlcesror which the' bid or estimate Is made, his or their name or names and the date of presentation to th President or Board or to the head of the department at his or Its office, on or. before the date and hour named in the advertisement for the same, at which time and place the estimates received will bo publlclv opened, by the President or Board or head of said department, and read, and the award of the contract made according to law as sooa thereafter as practicable. Each bid or estimate shall contain the nam and place of residence of the person making th same, the names of all persons Interested with hint therein, and. if no other person be so interested, it shall distinctly state that fact: also, that It made without any connection with any other person making an estimate for the same purpose, and Is.

In all resoecta fair and without collusion or fraud: and that no member ot the board of 'aldermen, head of a department, chief ot a bureau, deputy thtereof. or clerk therein, or other' officer of The City of New York is. shall be or become interested, directly or indirectly, as contracting party, partner, stockholder, surety or otherwise In or in the performance, of the contract, or in the supplies, work or business to which It relates, or In any portion of the profits thereof. The bid or estimate must, be verified by the oath, ivi ot the party or parties making the estimate that the several matters stated besetn aeV in s.11 respects true. Each bid or estimate shall be accompanied by the.

consent, in writine. of two householders or freeholders in Th City of New York, or of a tuaronty or surety company duly authorized ky law to act, as surety, and shall contain tbe matters set forth in the blank forms mentioned below. No bid or estimate will be considered unlesa accompanied' by a certified check upon one of the state or national banks of The City ot New York, drawn to the order of the Comptroller, or money to the amount of five per centum of the amount of the bond required, aa provided In section 120 of the Greater New York Charter. For particulars as to the quantity and quality of the supplies, or the nature and extent of the worX, reference must be made to the specifications, schedules, plans, on file In the said office of the President. Board or Department.

No Did shall be accepted from or contract awardod to any person who is in arrears to The City ot New Tork upon debt or contract, or who Is a defaulter, as surety or otherwise, upon any obligation to The City. The contracts be bid for separately. The right Is reserved In each case to reject all bids or estimates if it is deemed to be for the Interest of The City so to do. Bidders will write out the amount of their bide or estimates In addition to Inserting the same lm figures. Bidders are requested to make their bids or estimates upon the blank forms prepared and furnished by The City, a copy of.

which, with the proper envelope In which to inclose the bid, together with a copy of the contract, including the specifications, in the form approved by the Corporation Counsel, can be obtained upon application therefor at the ofltc of the department for which the work, is to. be done. Plans and drawings Of construction work may also bo seen tJierw. Aided by Geo. F.

Peabody They'll Reorganize Democracy on i Abolition Lines, AMIGO'S DINNER AT THE CLUB. Anti Expansion the Slogan One North Carolinian Balked at Alliance. Those Present. The whereabouts of the "abolitionist vote" has suddenly become a matter of mo merit to certain statesmen of this city, who are classed as anti expansion Democrats and who view with alarm the imperialistic i tendencies of the government. An effort is being made to discover what became of it when the Abolitionist party dis banded in 1S70, and whether it can lie again compacted into a tangible quantity to meet the present crisis in national affairs.

Assuming that these results can be accomplished, the statesmen referred to, who are now acting tinder th" leadership of Edward M. Shepard and George Foster Pea body, are discussing the question whether a working combination can be effected be tween the Abolitionists and the Democratic. party. Mr. Peabody is certain that it can be made.

Mr. Shepard. though not so sure of the issue, is of the opinion that it ought to be tried. 'Agreeing with Mr. Shepard and inclined to look hopefully on the outcome, are Messrs.

John De Witt Warner, John Sprunt Hill and True L. Norris. Mr. Norris is the Democratic national committeeman for New Hampshire. Disagreeing with all of them and pronouncing the Abolitionists to be historically "dead ones," is Martin W.

Littleton. These men assembled the other night, on the invitaiion of Edward M. Shepard. at the Hamilton where they had dinner and tr.aile speeches pro and con on the subject. It was a secret affair.

In his note of invitation, Mr. Sivpard said they were merely to discuss the reconstruction of the Democratic party. The question actually mooted the IX'mocratic Abolitionist combination was the thought 01 Peabody. So many grave considerations were suggested by it that they talked far into the night, and, adjourning, agreed not to take the public into their confidence until a definite decision is reached. Messrs.

Shepard and Peabody are now in correspondence with Abolitionists in England and Pennsylvania to see what may be done. Imperialism as a policy is very strongly opposed by all the men who attended Mr. Shepard's dinner. Mr. Littleton believes in expansion "of the Jefferson kind," but the rest see no distinction between that and imperialism.

Mr. Shepard has frequently proclaimed against it. Mr. Peabody has been its most uncompromising enemy. Mr.

Warner wrote brochures on the loss of the national honor. Mr. Hill ran for Congress on an anti expansion platform. Mr. Hill, who was a Nor.th Carolina man before he became a New Yorker, shied a little as a Southern man at the proposition to take the Abolitionists into camp, but made no serious objection.

It is related that once during the discussion he tried to change the subject by describing the campaign he is now conducting for the Tammany leadership of the Nineteenth Assembly District against Johnny Sexton. The guests looked so shocked that he did not finish the description. By request, the guests at the Hamilton Club dinner all dressed in black except Mr. Littleton, who wore his usual business suit of gray. Mr.

Littleton explained to his host that he had acted under a misapprehension of the purposes of the meeting. "We are assembled." said Mr. Shepard, as his words are reported by the Eagle's informant, "to discuss the best policy which the Democratic party may follow in the supreme endeavor that must be made to stay the progress of imperialistic tendencies. I believe that you are well acquainted with my views. To them I need only add af this time that in my opinion steps must be taken to arouse the public conscience.

To that end there should be a campaign of education. Public speakers should be sent throughout the country. Literature should be distributed broadcast. N'o effort, in short, of which patriotic men are. capable, should be spared to put this issue right before the American people and to maintain the Democratic party in the strict line of its duty to the nation." For Mr.

Peabody was reserved the distinction of explaining the abolition idea. This ht did. according to the Eagle's informant, in arvery impressive manner. He called at Itntion to the fact, that the Abolitionist party had begun its caieer isolated, weak and detested advocate of a very great principle. It.

was to be expected that its resuscitation at this time would be attended by the same rude and unreasoning opposition. Yet be elii vo 1 that the spirit of the Abolitionists, and of their natural sympathizers and allies, the anti expansionists, is an ur.rnnquerable moral force. This force should be set in motion as it was before the Fremont cnmpaiiii'. "The Abolitionists." said Mr. Peabody, as his argument is rememberer! by the Eagle's informant, "went, out of existence as a party or.ly when slavery was finally abolished.

But the Abolitionists exist, to day as vital an afroivy for great moral achievements in the nation as they did when they forced the Republican party first to declare against the extension of slavery and then to destroy it. These same Abolitionists are the ami imperialists of tn They recognize in the policy of the government toward alien races in the Philippines the same evil principle which cnsulfed the country in Civil War from ISfl'j to "The question is: Are they willing to go as far in the battle for human liberty now as they were thn? I believe they are. I think they will be just as steadfast, in the approaching crh'is as they, were before the "There i no hope that they can on'oree their principle upon the Republican partv as they did at that time. The Republican party is too completely committed to its policy of aggression in foreign lands, of oppression of inferior races. There is do nucleus of opposition within Its ranks to build upon.

The Abolitionists of to day must do their great work with tlv Democratic party. The foes of imperialism arc all in the Democracy. It is a matter to he profoundly thankrul for that there p.rf thousands of anti Imperialists iherr ready to entpr upon another Abolition movement. There is reed of hut one thing a forward in cs or freedom. Tiiore was a great iii wheti Mr.

Pertho.ly ftu down. cma.ks were ap prov 'i in the general which followed by Messrs. Shepard. Warner and Xor ri Mr. Hill, win a cnlhnl upon, spoke in gener.

ti terms or. the subject of expansion, hut made no reference to the Abolitionists. Afterward he is understood to have remarked that he was in or.ic doubt as to how the Southern Denioe: cy would leeeive the suggestion an alliance with the Abolitionists. He wound up his discourse by a few hopeful words about the reform of Tammany. "In my district." said Mr.

Hill, "we have the co operation of all I he refon elements of the Democraey." "Do you exp' to carrv II'il's Kitchen for reform?" Mr. Hill was asked. "We certainly do." he replied. Martin W. Littleton wound up the speech making.

Mr. Littleton did take any stock in 'he Abolitionist project and, accord to the Eagle's informant, said so in plain words. He is reported to have made a red hot expansion speech. In his closing remarks he declared that the Democratic party should advocate the establishment of a free government under American protection in the Philippines, the building of the Isthmian Canal and the extension of internal improvements. It is said that these recommendations wore allowed to pass without comment, the thoughts of the assemblage being concentrated on the Abolitionist scheme to the exclusion of all else.

A working Democrat somewhat given to Irony, remarked when told of the Shrpnrd abolition renaissance that probably Andrew.