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36 THE BKOOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 1899. TO BUY LANDS IN CUBA. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. HERBERT PUTNAM ACCEPTS.

DESMOND DUNNE'S LEG BROKEN IN TWO PLACES ROTHSCHILD ABANDONS BROOKLYN REAL ESTATE WHITE CUTTERS' STRIKE OH EAST RIVER BRIDGE. BESTCO i QUICK WAS TOO SLOW, An Employe's Salary Does Not Materialize and Growing Suspicious He Notifies the Police. While John H. Shults Is Confined to His Bed, Suffering From Shock. AN EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.

The Advertising Man Was Joking With the Millionaire Baker, Who Gave Him a Gentle Push. A very peculiar accident by which one well known man had his leg broken in two places and another received a shock which has caused bis confinement in bed happened ou St. Patrick's night in a well known billiard parlor in the vicinity of the Borough Hall. Desmond Dunne, the advertising man and real estate operator, and John H. Shults.

the septuagenarian millionaire aakor, had a Utile tussle, during which Mr. Shults gave Mr. Dunne a shove, causing him to fall on the marble floor. Mr. Dunne's legs were twisted in a peculiar way aud the right leg was fractured twice.

It is also said that one of his rangers was broken. Just how the accident occurred no one seems to know, though there were several bystanders, when it happened. According to a friend of the two men Mr. Dunne was joking with Mr. Shults in the way which is called ia coai mon parlance, "jollying." A few bantering words were passed and then Mr.

Shults said: "Oh, go 'way from me, will you?" At the same time he stretched forth his hand and gave Mr. Dunne a little push. Mr. Shults. it appears, does not yet know how seriously his friend was injured for he left immediately, according to the different sterie.s told of the scene.

A carriage was called and Mr. Dunne was removed to his home, at 25 Prospect Park west, where he now lies in bed, under the care of his family physician. An Eagle reporter called at the house and saw Mrs. Dunne. She consented to, ask Mr.

Dunne if he cared to give the details of the mishap, but when she returned she said he would much prefer that as little as possible should be printed about the matter. She vould only say that the reports had exaggerated the case, and that Mr. Dunne was too sick to be seen. An odd phase of the story is that Mr. Shults is also confined to his bed in the Plaza Hotel.

Manhattan, suffering, so far as an Eagle reporter could find cut yesterday ul'teruoon. from sort of shock. He was too sick to be seen, a bell boy saiJ. and would send word to the reporter regarding tne accident. It is said by those who kne.v tbe men that they were good friends and that there was disagreement between them and no effort on the part of either lo hurt the other.

The reporter tried to rind out why Mr. Shults was also sick, but no one seemed to know, though the suggestion was made that he might have discovered that his shove had resulted more seriously than he had at first believed, arrd being a man of nearly TO years of age, that the news has temporarily prostrated him. OBITUARY. Hachel King, wife of H. King, died on Friday at her home, 31 Pacific street, in the 39th year of her age.

Her fatal illness lasted two weeks, but for ten years she had been a patient invalid. Her husband has for twentv vears been foreman of the Eagle job I printing office. The funeral was held last night at her late home, the Rev. C. Goodell conducting the services.

LIVING IS NOW EXPENSIVE. Subsistence Commodities Are Consider ably Dearer Than They Have Been i for Several Years. I That it has cost, so far this season, much i xrrore to live than it did in several previous years, is an undisputed fact. All descriptions of food supplies are considerably dearer than they were last year, and also in the three or four years next preceding. Produce dealers complain that they cannot make money in their business because of as they express it "high prices and nothing to sell." The general run of the population appears to have settled down, so far as is possible, to doing without it whenever the price of any commodity reaches too stilted a figure.

This temper was forcefully illustrated in that almost indispensable article eggs when It was rushed up lately, not by speculation this time, but absolute scarcity, to nearly 40 cents per dozen. The people simply stopped using eggs, and the price receded as rapidly as it had advanced until reasonable figures were reached, when consumption was resumed. Tiiey are. however, still several cents above the rates at the same dale for four years back. People must pay at this time comparatively high prices hi any line, and for about any artiel The following table of comparison of the rates ruling the past week and the same week a year ago at wholesale, in Wallabout Market, shows a high percentage of advance for the current season: ISf.

r. fanr Klein. iwiuil'l Eggs, frli Cheese, full c. oam Poultry, per H.unl Turkeys Fowls Chickens Gops Squall, p' rlnv.en 12 12 13 11 a 12' ai2" The aforegoing are for drr ssed poultry. Live poultry shows equal differences.

Sea I' iund: Smelt. Blue tish Coil Shad, each Hoe ilell Meat, per pound: Ueef Mutton Lamb Veal Pork Fruit Strawberries, per quart Apples. Jier Orans' California. bux Flr.rMa Jamaica, per barn. Grape fruit, p' I'ox ta bios: Can' ages, p' l' Cc'ifry, pur bum Potatoes.

Onions, white OnloiiH. re. I Turnips Souu p' i luir.rhi Hi 2'' a able m1 2'a tie Go a7.V' 2')e 7'ial2c 7 alb TU.l 7' 7'ul hCall 5'. a "a ati' 3.50a 7." 2.7:.a 1.1'.". 1.7r,a4.'" 1.2." 7.0 S.M.V.'i.i"t l.r.' a 7Vatl.7.

i i i i I Big Brooklyn Syndicate Sends E. W. Hearn to the Antilles. Frederick W. Hearn.

a well know resident or Twenty sixth Ward, and living at 156 Barbey street, has sailed for Cuba as the representative of a syndicate of New York and Brooklyn business men for the purpose of inspecting lands in the vicinity of Santiago. The syndicate represents a capital of $6,000, 000, and the selection of Mr. Hearn was not unexpected, as his business qualifications are as well known in Manhattan as in Brooklyn. At Santiago, or near that city, Mr. Hearn will inspect S2.000 acres of tobacco and sugar lands and S.000 acres of mineral lands, on which Ihc syndicate has an opeion.

If no terms are agreed upon there Mr. Hearn will go to Porto Rico, where the syndicate has an option on 10,000 acres of coffee lands. He will return to Brooklyn in about two weeks. TO PAY CUBAN DEBT INTEREST. Madrid, March IS The cabinet at to day's session approved the CTedlt for the payment of the interest on the Cuban debt.

KILLED BY A TOKNADO. K0D Ho Ark March IS A tornado swept Rob Roy, over this day, killing one man and several others. FOILED OF SUICIDE. Ingenious Mode Adopted by a Hotel Guest for His Taking Off Believed to Be P. H.

Oelriehs. A man. believed to be P. H. Oelriehs, at tempted to commk.

suicide in a room in Uinla's Hotel, at Fulton street and Alabama avenue, by inhaling gas. He is now unconscious in St. Mary's Hospital. He may recover. Oelriehs, who is about 30 years old.

went to the hotel late on Friday night, hired a room, drank at the bar and then went to his room. In the afternoon Jo.in Houlihan, one of the helpers, found the door locked, and, smelling gas, summoned Roundsman Mason of the Liberty avenue station, who broke open the door. The man was found lying in the bed with a llexible rubber tube, which led from the gas, nis mouin. He had taken curious precau tions to make his job of self destruction buc cissful. He had carried the tubing and a bot tie of mucilage to his room, and pasted 'a lot of small pieces of paper together to form a plaster over his mouth.

Then he had passed one end of the tube through a hole in the paper. String had been attached to the tubing and this ho ha.1 secured at the back of his hsad i and under his armpits. Finally, before turn ing on the gras he had smeared the nlastor i with mucilage and pasted it over his mouth. He had evidently taken so much time for the preparations, however, that he had not given i himself time to take much gas before he was discovered by Houlihan. Roundsman Mason sent for an ambulance and two surgeons from St.

Mary's Hospital i worked over the man for a long time In an effort to bring him to consciousness. Failing, I they took him to the hospital, i He had a dollar bill and some silver, a pawn ticket for a watch, that had been pledged in a Manhattan pawnshop on Friday, for S3, and a notebook with his name and the address "SS0 Gates avenue." Inquiry there developed the Information that Oelriehs had lived in the house, but had gone away some time ago. The last know of him was when he was working in a bakeshop in Manhattan. It was understood at the house that the young man, who is unmarried, "has been out of work and was in poor health. Ho had written a letter in German to his brother, wn3e name and address he did not give.

It was a farewell IDENTIFY STOLEN PROPERTY. More Claimants for the Goods Seized on Skillman Avenue. Among the crowd of callers at the Bedford avenue police station Friday night to Identify recovered recently from the house at 29 Skillman avenue, occupied by Catharine Lapato and Jacob Freeman, were two brothers, surnamed Wellbrock, who reside at0 ne tnom identified a gold watch and chain, a wheelman's gold pin and a gold ring as belonging to him. The other brother iden lifieil a pair of trousers and a gold chain as I his property. The latter articles were stolen i only a few weeks ago.

In addition to the Weilbrocks nearly a score more people have identified some of the stolen property within the past twenty four hours. Captain Short has come to the conclusion that tho property found was the proceeds of at least 100 robberies or burglaries. Many of thi victims, Captain Short believes, and, in fact, knows from the identifications so far made, were in other precincts. Some of the claimants of property have come from Har Iem, Manhattan. TRYING TO BEAT THE MAILS.

The St. Xouis Brings an English Messenger Boy With a Letter for a Chicago Man. Among the passengers who arrived yesterday morning per steamer St. Louis from South air.pton were R. H.

Ourn.Ion. LL. Theodore A. Fox. Dr.

W. H. Fitzgerald. Dr. T.

Fri dolf, Kolberg. Sol Lichtenstein, Captain T. J. Albreeht and John Harrington. There was also on board the St.

Louis as i second cabin passenger, William Thomas Jag grrs. aged years, a district messenger boy. who brh.gs a letter for delivery In Chicago for tho purpose of beating the mail. which came by the Sr. Louis.

The Inter is, addressed to Mr. Clark, 2.000 Perry avenue. Chicago. The boy was met at1 quarantine by S. 13.

Van Xortwick of the i American District Telegraph Company and! V. J. Connors, one of its messengers, who came down in the United States Revenue Cut tor to meet the steamer. Young daggers pro ceedf with the steamer to this citv. I EX JUSTICE CLEMENT'S WILL.

He Leaves All His Property to His Widow No Schedule of the Estate Was Filed. The will of the late former Supreme Court Justice H. Clement was filed yesterday for probate In the office of the Surrogate. It was made on one side and part of the other side of a single sheet of legal cap and was Hindi' on November 1 A peculiarity of the will was that the words 'he il.ui 'one thousand eight hundred and nineiy scven" were originally written "one thousand eight hundred and seventy nine." The "sevrn'y iiitie" had been evidently recter to "ninety seven" by the Justice There is no schedule showing the amount of the estate. All the property goes to the widow.

The will in full follows:" i Am n. i. II. in. I.

lie, piil.b. I'. my last will ami testament, div. Is. r.

1 atb my )'. i 1 ir.w.i. icy 1 felly, l.otb iii in acil iy. c.l. I hereby I to be (.

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niu wKN by iio v. iTi.ess lo 1 iiav, hereunto i .1 my icitn ao my al. tli. Kith ilay or nil it; riu ih: i a. The witnesses were M.

E. Ffnr.lgan of 10S ProKpeci place and Mortimer .1. I i ro of fin St. Janus place, boih of this borough. SAILORS GET AN ADVANCE.

Cleveland. March IS At a meeting of the executive committee of the Lake Carriers' AssccJatirn held here to day it. was decided to advance tho wages of sailors five dollars Resigns From Boston Library to Take Librarianship at Washington. Boston, March IS Herbert Putnam, librarian of the Boston Public Library, will accept the appointment to the librarianship of the library of Congress. 1113 secretary, Philip H.

Savage, made the autboritatlve announcement to night. Mr. Putnam has placed in the hands of the president of the trustees of the Beaton Public Library his resignation as librarian and clerk of the corporation. The date when this resignation will take place has not yet been determined. FOR USE AS A WINE SHOP.

Cottage Where Thorn. Killed Gulden suppe Will Be Reoccupied. (Special to the Eagle.) Woodside, L. I. March 18 The two story frame cottage, where William Guldensuppe was put to death by Martin Thorn and Mrs.

Augusta Xack, is to be turned into a wine shop. The cottage is owned by B. Buala and is one of three. The owner has found it impossible to secure a tenant for the house since the crime wa3 discovered. He is building an extension and the place has been leased to Louis Etlenne.

From what can be learned the room where the crime was committed and the bath room where the body of Guldensuppe was cut up by the murderers will not be changed and will be fitted up as "features" of the place. JOHN SHERMAN'S CONDITION. Washington, D. March 18 General Miles has received a dispatch dated Ponce, Porto Rico, stating that ex Secretary Sherman is very much better. A CHARGE OF FRAUD Made by Mrs.

Dugan in Her Husband's Suit for a Separation. Justice Gaynor reserved his decision yesterday on the argument on a motion for alimony and counsel fee for the defendant in the suit of Daniel Dugan for a separation from Minnie Dugan. The marriage was in 1883, and the husband charges that the wife abandoned him. It was admitted by Lawyer Robert H. Roy, who appeared for the defendant, that Mrs.

Dugan had left her husband twice, but he declared that she was compelled to do so because Dugan was cruel to her. She had to earn a living and was employed as a domestic in a branch of St. Vincent's Home on Staten Island. On the other occasion when she left him she was with Mrs. Emma Bisang at 111 Amsterdam avenue, Manhattan.

Mr. Roy said that by deception and fraud Mr. Dugan bad tried to perfect a scheme to enable him to get a divorce from her. A certain Stewart bad called on her and told her that her husband intended to marry his cousin; she was urged, in order to prevent the violation of the law against bigamy, to go with Stewart to a house where he said the marriage ceremony was to be performed, in order to confront her husband there. In her affidavit she deposes that for this purpose only she consented to meet Stewart at Third avenue and Twenty fourth street, Manhattan.

Stewart left her in the parlor for a few minutes and, when he returned, she, at his request, wen: to a room with him. He said th3t he wanted to leave her there and told her that if her husband came in, sue must say that she wanted a position with Mrs. Xolan as a servant. Mrs. Dugan deposes she became alarmed at the situation and told Stewart that if she was not permitted to go away at cnee, she would make an outcry.

Then, she says, Stewart let her go. She says that she believes chat the houso was not a respectable place and that Stewart took her there in pursuance of a plan made with her husband. Mr. Roy said that Mrs. Dugan alleged that she had a scar behind one of her ears made by a metal match box when her husband struck her.

She says that Dugan has a house on Warwick street in East Xew Y'ork aud that he earns $18 a week. In opposition William J. Courtney said that Mrs. Dugan is often intoxicated and that this habit was really at the bottom of the whole trouble. In all of the papers, he said, there was not one allegation that ber husband had not cared for her and supported her properly.

The allegation that Mrs. Dugan drank to excess was denied by Mr. Roy and he said that it was false. DISTRIBUTIVE TRUST FUNDS. Their Liability to Government Tax to Be Tested Before the United States Courts.

United States Internal Revenue Collector Frank R. Moore has again brought before the department for settlement a question in which many estates are interested, which involves millions of dollars held in trust, and which, it is now claimed, must pay legacy tax under the war revenue law. The case which has been made a test is that of the estate of the late Sarah Mehitable Coggeshall of Brooklyn. A trust fund which was distributive on her death on December 21, 180S, was established in 1S61 by George Coggeshall by will. This fund accumulated quite a considerable gain, cn which profit the heirs have paid the legacy tax without objection.

Through their attorney, however, they protested against paying the tax on the original fund, as having been created before the present law became operative. Collector Moore held, however, that the whole estate to be distributed was liable to the tax and submitted the case to the departmen in Washington. His position has been upheld by Internal Revenue Commissioner Wilson, who instructed Collector Moore in the following letter just received: Your letter of 2Sth ultimo has been received relating to lesacy returns which have bet lik upon demand of your deputy, by ths attorneys for the trustees under the will or fleorsc of Brooklyn, who died in these returns being re.irte for lis nn legacies lvhlch the hrotlirs ami sisters of Sarah Mehitable GoKgeshall became entitled in f.tecemb er, 1WS, upon her death. As they did nut Income entitled to the possession and enjoyment of these legacies until a time when the Present law. impeslng tax on legacies arising from Iiersonal pmpmy.

was in full force. It appears that tax must be regarded as having attached thereto and lir oiime due and payable by the trustees thereon, under act of June 1SDS. if the decision of i toe eme court in vs. saestent (lot U. r.i ,5) is to regarded as applicable to this raw.

I You will, therefore, deposit the money which. It apjicam. has been paid into your hands hv the 1 trustees, ponding the determination nf this ques tlon, and then, if the counsel for the trustees of opinion, upon reference to the decision in Mason vs. Saegent. that legacy tax is not due in the present case, you may furnish the trustees with the I prescribed form for making claim for the refund ihff of the sun paid.

In case or rejection of such claim by this ofiicc. lie will have recourse, bv suit, in order to obtain Judicial determination "of rh question, and. in that event, this office will glad to have the case submitted to the court upon an statement of the facts. Th'ere are several estates which have become distributive since the war revenue law went into effect and which are waiting settlement pending the adjudication of the above ques i tion. It is the intention or several of the at torneys interested to join issues and present a case before the Uited States courts as early i as possible.

CITIZENS' TROY LINE. The Citizens' Troy Line between Xew York and Albany will resume business for the season on Thursday, March 23. leaving the West Tenth Gtreet pier daily except Saturday at o'clock in the afternoon. The new steamer Onteora has been added to the service. Improvements have been made on both the City of Troy and the Saratoga.

Decorations have been made throughout, the old electric light, chandeliers have been replaced, with new ones and dining room of the City of Troy has been remodeled. The new dining room Is on the main deck, aft. Each steamer has a powerful naval searchlight which will add to the attractiveneaB of a trip tip the Hudson. The Saratoga will go into cctnmission In the first week in April. The steamer leaving New York on Sunday evening will reach Albany the followiafc morning.

Says He Can No Longer Contest With Deputy Building Commissioner Guilfoyle. COMPLAINS OF HIS TREATMENT. Declares That His Plans for a New Building Complied With the Building Law. J. Rothschild, the owner of the condemned building at Fulton and Jay streets, which was recently torn down by order of the Building Department, has decided to shake the dust of Brooklyn Irom his leet and dispose at public auction of all his real estate holdings here on account of the treatment accorded him by the local Building Department officials.

Mr. Rothschild is especially severe in his strictures on Building Commissioner John Guilfoyle, both ia regard to the rejection of the plans for a new building on the Jay street site, notice of which, he says, was given only through the newspapers, and the charges made for shoring up the condemned building at a cost of some $2,800, which, Mr. Rothschild says, competent experts say should not have cost more than $400 or $500. The plans for the new building rejected by Commissioner Guilfoyle are also vigorously defended by Mr. Rothschild, who says they were prepared by an eminent firm of architects and ia strict compliance with the building laws.

Mr. Rothschild expresses the opinion that, after such tactics by the Building Department officials it would be sheer folly tor him to attempt to build here, and in consequence he has decided that he has had enough of Brooklyn real estate, and he will, accordingly, sell his holdings, even though he expects his loss will be a heavy one. Mr. Rothschild's statement, in which he explains his position ia the matter, is as follows: "My attention has been called to an article in the Eagle of the 16th inst. headed, 'Guilfoyle rejects which refers to the new plans just submitted by my architects, Messrs.

Harding Gooch, for a new building on the corner of Fulton and Jay streete. The article in question was an utter surprise to me, inasmuch as neither my architects nor myself had any knowledge of the rejection of these plans. The high standing of Messrs. Hardin? Gooch as architects, the firm being expert leaders in their line, seemed to me a guarantee of their plans being proper in every way. and especially as regards construction.

They have constructed such buildings as the Cable Building, the Postal Telegraph, the Holland House, the Dun Building and many other large structures too numerous to mention. I have their assurance that the plans for my building were drawn in entire compliance with the existing building laws gaverning such buildings. "Applying regular business principles, it seems but reasonable to suppose that, had there been any discrepancy in the plans for which rejection was Justified, either the architects or the owner should have been notified in a business way, rather than through the newspapers. But, in view of the practice that has governed the Deputy Commissioner of Buildings of the borough of Brooklyn to constantly have resort to the newspapers in the conduct of his business, I suppose I must be content, even in this instance. It convinces me, however, that with the best intentions possible, with the employment of the best architects and builders, I shall constantly be exposed to such attacks, and no sensible man will blame me under these circumstances if patience ceases to be a vitrue.

"I have come to the conclusion to leave the field to the Deputy Superintendent of Brooklyn, and to further prove the wisdom of such conclusion I need but refer to the treatment I received at hi3 handis, when he recently initiated proceedings against, me for the condemnation of the building, which formerly stood upon this ground. After exploiting the newspapers, he took proceedings, serving papers on me at 8 o'clock in the evening at my residence In New York. Although I had notified him of my readiness to at once strengthen the building as he might direct, he, at about 10 o'clock that night, took possession of my building, put it in the hands of his men. commenced to shove up at different parts and doing one week's work upon the building in simply shoring up. For this little amusement on his part, I was compelled to pay a bill, of which the following Is a copy of items: To 30 days' work, superintendent, at $10 $300.01 To 60 days' work, foreman, at S3 SOO.OO To 3S.1 days' work, shoreman, at 1,347.50 To 52 days' work, watchmen, at $2.50 130.00 To 20 truckages, each $5 100.00 To 10 cartages, each $2.50 2K.O0 Tu "00 wedges, each 5 cents 25.00 To 0 IVellsllght, each $5 moo To 7.7GO ft spruce timber.

M. 22 ITU.0'1 To 7.9S4 feet yellow pine, 277.69 Total 01 "No comment is necessary upon these itens. I was forced to pay his bill and another smaller one In order to again obtain possession of my building. After that week, continuing his snap judgment proceedings, he obtained overnight from Judge Hirschberg at Xc wburgh. an order, which, in his official capacity, gave him the right to tear my building down on Monday morning if I had not paid the above bill before 10 o'clock.

It needs but the judgment of any sober minded man to bear me out in this matter. If for one week's work, I was compelled to pay over twenty eight hundred dollars, which was worth, according to the estimate of a competent expert, about four to five hundred dollars, what would this bill have been had 1 permitted him to take down the building? I dread to think of that amount. Concluding, therefore, that I was in the hands of the enemy. I submitted resignedly to measures, which I will not characterize, again obtained possession of my building, and, through my own contractor, had it taken down." "Now when at this time I am ready to put up a now building, for which I gave orders to my to comply strictly to all existing regulations and laws of the Building Department, and the aforesaid tactics are renewed. I eome to the conclusion that any attempt on my part to obtain justice or fair treatment would be sheer folly, and have, therefore, concluded to sell my lots.

Let build in Brooklyn whosoever may have courage to do so, I have enough of Brooklyn real estate! I have definitely determined to dispose of my property there at auction to the highest bidder, as will appear by notice in another column of your eoteemed paper, although my loss be a heavy one. It is tbe only thing to do." PEOPLE'S LINE TO BESUME. The People's Line of steamers which operate between Xew York City and Albany will resume running for the season of 18M on Thursday, March 22.. The regular steamers Dean Richmond and Drew have been thoroughly renovated, and overhauled and the comforts have been provided for the traveling public. The boats run regularly daily from Pier 32, foot of Canal street, Xorth River at six o'clock in the evening except, on Sunday and connect at.

Albany with trains for the north, east and west. The ice has disappeared from the river and the Hudson is navigable its entire length. EMPLOYES' WAGES INCREASED. Norwich. March IS Notice was posted this morning by the Ponemah Mills Company, in Taftville, that beginning April the wages of the employes will be increased on a scale of from 5 to 10 per cent.

The company employs hands and manufactures white goods. JUDGE DAY IN THOMASVILLE. Thomasville. March IS Judge Day, formerly Secretary of State, and Mrs. Day arrived here late this afternoon on their way North from Palm Beach and are stepping at lb Piney Herri.

They are verv after their journey and will not call on the until uvouius. Forty Men Go Out Because an Italian Woikrnan Joined Another Union. LABOR RIVALRY THE CAUSE. A Fight Between, the National Granite Cutters' Union and the New Legal Union. A strike, which may prove difficult of settling, has been in progress among the granite cutters on the Brooklyn side of the new East River bridge since last Thursday.

On tnat day forty men In the employ of the Degnor. McLean Construction Company went out on account of a difference with their employers in reference to an Italian granite cutter who, while being a member of the Granite Cutters Union, signed a petition for the incorporation ot an organization known as the Legal Granite Cutters' Union, an organization formed largely of Italian granite cutters which obtained letters of incorporation at Albany last week. The strikers are not agressive, although it not known what action may be taken at the Central Labor Union meeting in Manhattan to morrow. Speaking of the strike to a reporter of the Eagle yesterday Harry Haverkamp, foreman of the granite cutters for the Degnon McLean Construction Company said: "There are two organizations, one, known as the Xational Granite Cutters' Union and the Legal Granite Cutters' Union just incorporated. The Xational Union demands $4 per day for eight hours work while the Legal stands on its own bottom, like a tub.

Its members get paid for what they can do. It a man is worth Z.vO, he gets it; if he is worth S3. 75, he gets it or if he is worth $4 he gets 1. We pay men according to their merits and their standing. Sines the strike began we have taken on twenty four men and they are working today.

We will have taken on forty eight tomorrow morning, and we are to take on altogether 125, for now, since money has been appropriated, the building of the bridge is to go ahead with all speed. We are recognizing nobody but the Legal Granite Cutters, although the men are prepared to take any man into the union who is a man. Tho secretary of the new union is P. P. Morelli.

You can say that Carlin, foreman on the Manhattan side for Shanly Ryan has already forty five members of the new organization in his employ and they are doing well. There are others of them at work on the Tombs Building in Manhattan." When the Eagle reporter was leaving the yard of the Degnon McLean Construction Company he was approached by one of the striking members of the Xational Granite Cutters' Union, who desired that the men's side of the case be published. The workman introduced tho reporter to John Keane, a striker and a member of the organization. Mr. Keane said: The Xational Granite Cutters are affiliated with the Central Labor Union and the Central Federation of Labor.

We liked Mr. Haverkamp very well, but knew this thing was coming on. As I understand Mr. Haverkamp is trying to gei some of our members back. The difficulty arose through one of our men.

an Italian, and member of our order, having signed a petition for the Incorporation of the new organization. We inflicted a fine ou this man and told the boss that we would refuse to work with him. have found out since that it was generally known in Manhattan that the Italians were applying for a charter." Another striker in company with Mr. Keane said; "The statement is made that we have been hard on the Italians: That is not so. We found it necessary to inflict penalties for violation of our laws.

Then they formed this rival organization for the express purpose of putting us out of the business. The fight is narrowed down to one between rival organizations. If the Italians are competent to do the work, which we seriouslly doubt, perhaps the victory will be theirs: but we entertain the hope that they are unable and ineajiable of doing the work." UNIQUE AMONG CRIMINALS. Four More Complaints Against Macy, the Boarding House Expert. There were fqur additional complaints made yesterday against Lawrence Macy, alias John Powell, who was arrested and held for the Grand Jury on Friday on a charge of having stolen from boarding houses in this borough.

The new complaints will probably be taken before the Grand Jury. Captain Reynolds of the Detective Bureau, says that Macy had been out of prison only a few days, when he came to this borough to try hiii dishoi est luck with the boarding house keepers. He was such a nice man that he gained the confidence of housekeepers where ever he went and it is a matter of fact that women who are very shrewd and who have hitherto been on the lookout for just such swindlers, were readily taken in by the smooth tongued rascal. He claims that he intended to reform and that he was looking around for some honorable source of employment. It is evident that he was not stealing for personal gain, for his robberies were of weekly occurence and he only took enough from each place to tide him over a few days at the best.

His largest, haul was the robbery of property worth $180, but he took a rest after that and did not steal again until it became with him. according to his limited ideas of right and wrong, a matter of dire necessity. He seems to have been like Francois, in Dr. S. Weir Mitchell's story of that name, who had no moral sense, but who stole when ho was hungry.

The police believe that Macy is a novelty in criminal annals. NO UPRISING IN PORTO RICO. American Officers Discredit the Alleged Threatened Rebellion of the Natives. San Juan de Porto Rico, March The reports contained in newspapers just received here alleging that danger exists of an uprising of the natives are regarded with astonishment and are absolutely without foundation in fact. The only disturbances that have occurred, here have been local fights between the American volunteers and lower class natives.

The correspondent of the Associated Press, who has just returned from an extended crip through the island, says he found only occasional evidences of dissatisfaction resulting from brawls and local politics, and American officers now here ridicule the idea of an uprising of the natives, who. they say, are without weapons and are entirely lacking in organization. The Colonial Commission appointed by President McKinley will hear the testimony presented, which, it is expected, will be contradictory; and, after consideration, will advise (he authorities mainly upon political questions. The Americans 'cek the establishment of a federal court, and a number of the aspirants for judgeships have requested Governor General Henry to recommend them for appointment. General Henry, however, refused their request.

The Commission has refused to make pucHjc the nature of its discussions. The membeiN will leave shortly for tho western na.rt ot' tho Island. Dr. Henry K. Carroll, United States Special Commissioner in Porto Rico, who has been making a tour of the Island, will leave to morrow on the transport Buford lor the United States.

AN INVESTIGATION RESULTS, And the Collection Agent Is Now Behind the Bars With Two Charges Against Him. Emil A. Myrus of 82 Prospect place got work on Wednesday a week ago with William A. Quick, who runB a collection agency at 525 Pulton street. Late yesterday afternoon he caused the arrest of Quick because he said Quick had swindled him out of $5.

The complaint upon which Quick was arrested and locked up in the Adams street station was not formally made by Myrus, but by Officer Crean of the headquarters detective bureau, who took him into custody. He is charged with having improper pamphlets in his possession. Myrus i3 a very bright young man. At one time he ran one of the big passenger elevators In a Fulton street dry goods store. He fell ill, was taken to a hospital and lost his place.

When he recovered sufficiently to get about he looked for light employment. He fell acroes an advertisement in a morning paper offering a good salary to a bright young collector. The advertiser was Quick, who claimed to be at the head of the Xew York Collection Agency. Myrus called at Quick's office, which is on the second floor of the houso at 525 Fulton street. According to his story.

Quick had a very modest office. It was a small room just off the parlor In Quick's living apartments. A bright young woman was employed there and her business seemed to be the endless preparation of circulars In bundles for stamped envelopes. Myrus saw Mr. Quick and had a long talk with him, frankly telling him that be had not much money and that he was willing to work as hard as possible if the labor was reasonably light.

Mr. Quick said that it was his custom to exact a bond from his collectors, because, he explained, It was not uncommon for them to handle large sums of money. In the case of Sir. Myrus, however, he would make an exception. He was willing to take Myrus in right away on a salary of $6 a week, and more if he proved his value, but the applicant should first pay a deposit of $40, which would be returned to him as soon as the arrangement between them should cease.

Myrus said that he could not raise $40 and asked if the head of the collection bureau would take less. Mr. Quick very accommodatingly declared that he would be willing at a pinch to accept but not a dollar less. Myrus went home and all that he could raise was $10. He was not even willing to relinquish that so he finally succeeded in getting the agent to take Then he was installed as a coljector.

He found that he was expected to collect bills that had been hopeless and which other collectors employed in the same agency had failed to secure. He kept at this for a week and then told Mr. Quick that he found that it was impossible to get any money on the claims that had been placed in his hands. "Keep at 'em, my boy, keep at them," said Mr. Quick.

"We must worry 'em if we expect to get anything out of them." Myrus asked for his first week's salary, but all that he received, he claims, was He had been asking questions and had become suspicious. One man, he found had paid Quick $40, a month before, for the job and had not even received wages in consideration of his labor and deposit. Thera were other instances of the same kind and Myrus questioned the young woman. She said that she was paid regularly, but, then, she explained, hers was a business transaction and she had not paid any deposit. She could not hold out much hope to young Myrus, who, by dint of much exertion, succeeded in getting Quick to pay him another 50 cents on account.

Myrus called on Captain Reynolds of the detective bureau, but there was no offense to charge against Quick. He decided to send Detective Officer Crean up to tbe house to investigate and there the officer found sufficient evidence, as he thought, to warrant Quick's arrest on a grave charge. Th officer discovered in the house a number of circulars addressed to out of town people. The circulars were varied in character and each envelope proved to be a perfect prize package. Mr.

Quick In bis circulars advertised cook books, song books, stamping outfits, razor paste, songs, sheet music, confederate bills, printing for photographic amateurs, a $10 typewriter, "Books by Famou3 Authors," and certain photos. It was the latter that cauEed the arrest of the man. There were no photographs, it Is true, but there was a circular which was in Itself, the police believed, as bad as the photographs if they were in existence. Quick was taken before Captain Reynolds and afterward was committed to the Adams street station pending arraignment before Magistrate Brenner in ths morning. He described himself as William A.

Quick, married, and an agent by occupation. He is about 35 years old. It is said that a number of men who have paid him deposits of money for employment will appear against him when the case comes up in court. SUIT FOR DIVORCE. Riverhead.

L. March 18 Mrs. Malinda 0. Thomas of Riverhead has brought suit against her husband, John C. Thomas of Eastport, for a divorce.

Mrs. Thomas alleges in her complaint that her husband is living with Miss Minnie Albin of Eastport. Mrs. Thomas is the daughter of David A. Vail of Riverhead.

She has one child. Recently Thomas spent some time in the County Jail here for assault, the complaint being made by his wife, who alleged that he struck her as she was coming out of a church at Eastport. STRICKEN "WITH PARALYSIS. Riverhead. L.

March IS Word was received here to day that Mrs. J. Henry Perkins, wife of one of the first citizens of the village, was suffering from a stroke of paralysis in Manhattan, where she had gone for a visit. The entire left side is affected. Mrs.

Perkins is too ill to be removed to her borne here, and Mr. Perkins went to Manhattan this afternoon. SPECIAL ADVERTISEMENTS. THE RUSH For Easter will soon be upon us. Why not get ahead of It and Order your Suit Top Coat now? All the Newest things in WOOLENS we have.

SUITS to order, $20. 77 1 Broadway, J4'y r47 Bowery. YORK CITY. Yon Generally Consider Moving a' creat hardship, but if you employ the vans and services of THE EAGLE WAREHOUSE AND STORAGE COMPANT your trouble la ovsr. Foot of Fulton at.

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Address GODMOTHER. Box 4. Eagle of c. LOST AND FOUND. LOST Oft STRAYED.

A PU.G DOG; BLACK face and hack; by the name, of Jlp. Finder will be rewarded by returning him to UZ Fif ty slxth at. LOST ON SUNDAY, 12TH A PERSIAN lamb MUFF, on Ralph bv, between McDonougb. and Halsey sts. Suitable reward will be offered if returned to 162 Halsey st.

LOST MARCH 10, PUO DOG LONG LEGS, black face, curly tail; shows his tongue. Persons having found or purchased same will be liberally rewarded by owner. 401 Macon st. 1 LOST THURSDAY, MARCH 16, A GOLD WATCH, with blue ribbon chatelaine; watch engraved with E. A.

G. chatelaine had silver crescent slide and silver heart. Return to 10 Lafayette av; reward. $20 REWABD Will be raid for return of sliver CUP, engraved with owner's full name, also date, and silver HRl'SH. with monogram; stolen from Hotel St.

Georpre, March 14. Apply to J. H. HUNT, 323 Froduce Exchange, New York. 1S 2 i THIS WEATHEB.

INDICATIONS TILL 8 P. M. TO MORROW. Washington. D.

March 18 For Eastern New York: Rain, winds becoming high northeasterly. The following Is the record of the thermometer is kept at the Brooklyn Dally Eagle Office: 2 A.M. yesterday 33 4 A. 38 0 A. 38 8 A.

38 10 A. 38 13 41 IP. 36 2 P. 42 5 P. 37 7 P.

38 9 P. 52 11 P. nl 1 A. 50 The aun will rise to morrow at A. M.

and will set at 6:12 P. M. HIGH WATER. Following Is the official announcement of the time nnd duration of high water at New York and Sandy Hook for to morrow. March 20: A.

M. nmelHelght H. M.I Feet. TrmeiHeiehtl H. M.l Feet.

I Dora'n of IRlseJ FalL U. K.H. M. New York .1 2:54 1 3.B 3:46 1 3.4 6:54 0:31 Saudy Hoot; 2:09 1 4.0 2:51 3.4 6:08 6:31 MOVEMENTS 03? OCEAN VESSELS. ARRIVED SATURDAY, MARCH IS.

Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Campania, from Liverpool. Palatla. from Hamburg. Washington, from Hamburg. El Dorado, from New Orleans.

Peconlc. from Haytl, Buceros. from Glasgow. Mascenomo, from London. St.

Louis, from Southampton. Aller, from Naples. Trinidad, from Bermuda. Nacoochee. from Savannah.

Aller, from Genoa. British Trader, from Antwerp. SAILED. Palatla, for Shanghai. Banes, for Port Antonio.

Chateau Yquem. for Lisbon. Camntense. for Para. Wlllkommen.

for Flushing. Manltou, for London. Etrurla. for Liverpool. La Bretagne.

for Havre. StCuthbert. for Antwerp. Algiers, for New Orleans. Energle, tor Flushing.

Brasilia, for Hamburg. Altai. frr Kingston. Trojan Prince, for Naples, 4o. Vlgilancla, for Havana.

Island, for Copenhagen. Braomar. for Rotterdam. Irrawaddy. for Grenada, Colorado, for Hull.

Ollnda. for Neuvitas. c. ARRIVED AT FOREIGN PORTS. Lucanla.

from New York. Liverpool. Francisco, from New York. Hull. Urd.

from New York. Lisbon. La Champagne, from Now York, pd. Linn. Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss Ss SAILED FROM FOREIGN PORTS.

Umbrla. for New York. Liverpool. La Normandie. for New York.

Havr Siberian, lor cw igrn. uw. Frlesland, for New York. pd. Dove INDEX To Classified Advertisements in To day's Eagle.

CLASSinCATIOH. fa ML 23 25 27 6 31 31 25 32 32 31 23 33 26 25 31 3 30 27 28 31 31 35 4 5 7 31 82 36 32 82 30 31 30 31 26 80 32 29.30 7 2t Amusements Auction Sales Board Business Notices Business Opportunities Business Personals Clairvoyants Coastwise Steamships Corporation Notices Dancing Death Notices Dentistry Dividends Employment Acencles Excursions Financial For Exchange Furnished Rooms Mcln Wanted Hotels cf America Horses, Carriages, Etc instruction Lost and Found Marriage Notices Miscellaneous Musical Instruction Ocean Steamships Personal Post Office Notice Railroads Real Estate Real Estate at Auction Real Estate Loans.V. Religious Notices Situations Wanted Special Steamboats To Let and For Sale Undertakers Wanted iV Inter Resorts, The last list is for northern winter vegetables of which good crops were raised last summer by nearby market gardeners and farmers generally. In early Southern produce there have been no really quotable prices since the blizzard cut off practically the entire Florida cultures. LIEUTENANT J.

W. DUNN DEAD. yWisbinRton. U. C.

March IS General Greely received a cablegram to day announcing the death of Lieutenant J. W. Dunn near Baracon, Department of Santiago. Ho from effects of nr. ncci i.

ru which occurred while he rn duty. He has a brother at Richmond. 'a. WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH. Troy.

X. March IS Mrs. Timothy Colo was burned to death at her home on fVn'ral avenue. Cohoes, this afternoon. clothes caught fire from a lighted pap with which she was burning pin feathers from a chicken.

DO NOT KNOW IT YET. At Fort Hamilton last night no orders had been received for I teat it was to go to the Philippines, as stated ton dispatches yeste: Cy. in the 'Wash lag.