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TIIE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE; NEW YORK. TUESDAY. JTJLY 22. 1902. I GANG OF "THIRSTY" CROOKS.

PUMICE FELL IN BALTIMORE. 5k. Wi. PARLIAMENT URGED TO PUT IN FAST SHIPS. SHEPARD BEGINS QUEST FOR ABOLITION VOTE.

ALICE LIVINGSTON AGAIN PLAINTIFF IN BIG SUIT. ROOSEVELT 10 PRIESTS TALK ABOUT THE MS. pers and effects of the leaders and destroyed quantities of supplies. As cabled from Manila on July 17 an extensive drive, with the object of capturing the Ladrone chiefs, Montallon and Felizardo, and fifty of their followers, was organized in Cavite province. Twelve hundred constabulary commanded by Captain Baker moved last Thursday at daylight, forming a complete angle shaped cordon covering sixty square miles.

Patrol launches guarded the rivers and it was expected to close the cordon last Saturday. The entire male population ot the towns and farms were to be included in the concentration movement. When complete the Ladrones were to have been arrested and the others were to have been released. KING WELL ENOUGH TO WALK. is Canadian Senator Said Subsidized Line to Halifax Would Block Morgan.

$2,000,000 A YEAR NEEDED. Even Were England and Dominion to Be Joined, It Is Said Americans Could Prevent Any Rivelary. London, July 22 The House of Commons committee appointed to inquire into the question of steamship subsidies was in session this morning and examined Senator G. A. of Montreal.

Mr. Drummond said he had arrived at the conclusion, from recent developments of American shipping combines, that the land lines practically controlled the situation and that the ocean lines were merely adjuncts. At first sight it would appear that the purchase of a number of old British steamers by the American combination could be remedied by building new boats. But he believed that if this was done by a new or ganization it could be made unprofitable hy the Americans who, by means of through bills of lading from the producing centers, could control freights as well as a considerable portion of the passenger traffic. The Senator 'believed that the only hope of escape from the control of the American shipping combine lay through Canada.

Therefore he advocated a speedy up to date service of 22 knot steamers between Great Britain and Halifax instead of New York. Such a. line ought to be subsidized to the extent of $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 yearly for ten years, half payable by Great Britain, and half by Canada. he believed, if judiciously managed, the line would be self It would be advantageous to both, countries to cement the trade between Canada and Great Britain. Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beresford told the committee that he did not favor fostering trade by means of bounties.

He objected to subsidies, but attached the greatest importance to Great Britain owning a mercantile marine, containing vessels of great speed, and favored postal subventions for the encouragement thereof. Lord Beresford suggested that the government might build 24 knot liners and allow the companies to work them, the government sharing in the profits. The conference of the colonial premiers to day discussed steamship subsidies from the double standpoint of the economical carriage of goods and combating the subsidizing policy or foreign governments. Nothing of a definite character, however, was accomplished. The idea of Senator Drummond's is not new and has been advanced persistently by Canadians, who fear the Morgan shipping combine as much as do their brothers in England.

There have been plans for a line of fast boats to Montreal, Cape Breton and Halifax, but the first two are declared impossible of accomplishment because of the long and severe winters in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It would appear that the only hope for the Canadians is in Halifax as a port. It is estimated that 22 knot boats could make the voyage in a little over four days, but there would be a land journey of about two days before Montreal, the great shipping point of the dominion, could be reached. It also is pointed out that the deep snows of winter would block freight even longer than two days.

There would be no difficulty, the wise ones say, in American capitalists getting control of the railroad which runs through Maine and then the ship combine could dictate terms. LADRONE CHIEFS ESCAPED. Fourteen of Their Men Killed and Fifteen Captured in Breaking Through the Cordon. Manila, July 22 Montallon and Felizardo, the Ladrone chiefs, have broken through the constabulary cordon in Cavite province and have escaped to the mountains: A number of Ladrones were killed in earlier attempts to force the cordon. The cordon encompassed the leaders and many of their followers.

The latter, when trapped, made a series of breaks to escape. The constabulary withstood the first attacks, killing fourteen and capturing fifteen 'men. The Ladrones finally massed together under cover of the darkness and forced their way through a weak spot in the cordon, near Das Armas, killing one and wounding one of the constabulary. The latter, captured the pa TUSSOCK MOTH. If Refused Price of a Drink, Pedestrians Are Held Up.

Of late a gang of "thirsty" crooks has been holding forth on Hudson avenue, near High street, between 1 and 2 o'clock in the mornlne. Passersshv urn hailed and the price of a drink demanded. in tne event of a member ot the gang Being refused the pockets of the person of whom the demand was made are gone through, and pedestrians are subjected to divers other insults of a flagrant natiire. AT THE EAGLE PARIS BUREAU. Eagle Bureau, 53 Rue Cambon.

Paris, July 22 The following Americans have registered at the Paris bureau of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle: Emily A. Hackett of Brooklyn. Etta E. Nelson of Brooklyn. Irene A.

Hackett of Brooklyn. E. V. Armstrong of Brooklyn. Augusta Harrison of Brooklyn.

Charlotte F. Sheville of Brooklyn. Mrs. and Mrs. Charles S.

Wilson of Washington. Mary MacMahon of Manhattan. NO CHANGE ON BRIDGE NO. 4. Mr.

Lindenthal's Propositions Not Likely to Be Favorably Acted Upon. Bridge Commissioner Lindenthal's plans for the proposed changes in the Blackwell's Island Bridge, Bridge No. 4, seem to be meeting with no little opposition. The original plans which were submitted to the Art Commission early in. July and later withdrawn will, it was learned this morning, be greatly changed when resubmitted to the Commission.

It also developed this morning that the Bridge Commissioner has, withdrawn his order to stop work on the piers of the bridge and Ryan Parker are going ahead with the work. When it was announced that Commissioner Lindenthal had withdrawn his plans from the Art Commissioner the'opin ion prevailed that the Commissioner had received a gentle hint that the proposed changes would not be approved. In order to allow the Commissioner to witdraw gracefully the statement was made that the plans were to be reconsidered. The original proposition was to alter the piers, make provision for landing passengers at Blackwell's Island and to shorten the width of the bridge by forty feet. It appears now that the only plan which the Commissioner is likely to submit to the Art Commission is that of landing passengers at Blackwell's Island.

In the original plans for the bridge the sidewalks were on the outside of the bridge and in order to place these within the structure a proposition was made to le the of the structure and make it a double decker and provide for the walks on the second tier. The attitude of Mayor Low toward the proposed changes in the Blackwell's Island bridge was made apparent yesterday when the Queens citizens called to protest against the changes. The Mayor stated that no changes had been authoritatively proposed. Architect Hornbostel is working on the plans for the anchorage piers, where provision will be made to allow passengers to reach Blackwell's Island. It was thought that the engineers of the department were working on the proposed change to a double deck structure, but at the department this morning the Commissioner's secretary professed ignorance of the proposed plans.

It was evident that Commissioner Lindenthal has received a hint that no engineering changes will be allowed on the bridge and that it will only be a waste of time for him to propose any such to the Art Commission, OBITUARY. Professor Willard Professor Willard Groom, who died at his home, 3336 Dearborn street, Chicago, on Wednesday, July 9, in his 43d year, was for thirty years a prominent organist of Brooklyn. For fourteen years he was the organist of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church, going from there to Jersey City and afterward to St. Stephen's Roman Catholic Church of this borough.

In May, 1901, he moved to Chicago to establish a music publishing house, which he conducted till his death, and which is still carried on by his daughters. He was well known throughout Greater New York as a composer of merit, especially of religious music, and his sudden death is mourned by music lovers all over the country. SHIFT OF LUZON COMMANDERS. Manila, July 22 General Theodore J. Wtnt has been assigned to command the second brigade in North Luzon.

General Jesse M. Lee goes to Batangas when' Brigadier General Franklin M. Bell is relieved. Cholera continues to decrease in the city and provinces. The authorities think the epidemic is less virulent.

96 MISSING FROM STEAMER. Hamburg, July 22 The survivors of the steamship Primus of Hamburg (which, with 185 passengers on board, was cut in two and sunk by the tug Hansa on the River Elbe yesterday morning) say that ninety six are missing. WORK OF THE Idea of the extent to which the caterpillar of the tussock moth species is ravaging the trees of Brooklyn, particularly in the Bedford section, may be gained from the accompanying illustrations. This is the second crop of eggs. The larger of the two pictures shows a tree trunk on Spencer place, near Hancock street.

The illustration clearly demonstrates that wire may be a protection from cribbing horses, but is a strong refuge for cocoons. Many trees in the section named are completely denuded of leaves. The smaller cut shows a cluster of cocoons on a tree on Jefferson avenue, near Franklin. Jefferson avenue is particularly infested, and the residents appear to have given up the idea of ridding themselves of the pest. Early in the season the caterpillars got to work on a tree on the side of Dr.

Cadman's house at 2 Spencer place and did not stop work until every leaf was eaten. Further up town there has been no marked visitation of the pests. Strange Phenomenon Accompanied the Tornado of Sunday. Baltimore. July 22 During the prevalence of last Sunday's tornado showers of pumice stome fell in southeast Baltimore.

In the yard of VHllian Duffy, 312 Albemarle street, more than a bushel of pumice particles, each about the size of a pea were picked up, and residents on neighboring streets had the same experience. There is no pumice stone in this region, and the shower of stones has aroused much speculation. The pumice when crushed has a sulphuric odor and this has suggested the Idea that it may have blown from some active volcano. Scientists here will investigate the matter. ADMINISTERED OXYGEN.

Employe of Gas Company Was Overcome in Manhole. Generally when an employe of a gas com nanv Ik nvprcnmp hv pscaninEr eas hurry calls are made on the nearest drug and gro cery stores and he is given a big drink ot seltzer and milk, but George Staufenberg. 22 years old, of Lincoln road and Brooklyn avenue, an employe of the Flatbush Gas Company, had a novel experience yesterday. He was nearly asphyxiated in a manhole at New York avenue and Avenue H. Attendants pulled him out of the hole and carried him to the residence of Dr.

Charles Hen ning at 1.620 New York avenue. Dr. Hen ning has a big laboratory. He ordered Staufenberg laid out on the grass, thon K.Ai.Kt .1 Viic run nf oxveen and by means of a rubber tube brought the gas man back to nis senses suun uiu. ANCIENT SEWER A NUISANCE.

Property Owners in the Bay Ridge Section Suffering From a Failure to Complete New Sewer. The old complaint which was made several years ago about a sewer which runs through Third avenue and which is heard every year has been again revived and the Board of Health has been asked to remedy it. It has been said by several property owners along the Shore road and other residents in the vicinity ot a brewery situated on Third avenue near Ninety sixth street, Fort Hamilton, that refuse of all descriptions is carried out by the sewer from the brewery and emptied into the Narrows by means of a wooden box sewer which is built alongside the bluff at the foot of Third avenue. Mrs. Gelston, a large property owner in Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton, has made numerous complaints during the past five years, but she says nothing has been done to remedy the evil.

Many years ago there was a large pond at the corner of Third avenue and Ninety sixth street, which was complained of, and the officials of the former town of New Utrecht sought to drain the pond and run the water, by means of a sewer, to the Narrows, a distance of perhaps a quarter of a mile. A large wooden box sewer was built. When the Shore road was transferred from an ordinary country road to a beautiful driveway and handsome houses were built on it facing the Narrows, several complaints were heard about the sewer. Mrs. Gelston was one of those residents who objected to the sewer, as it was carried over the property owned by her on the westerly side of the Shore road.

The Board of Health paid no attention to the complaints made, Mrs. Gelston said, and she had grown weary of writing to the authorities about it. She declared the odor from the wooden sewer was very unpleasant, and all thought of a pleasant afternoon seated on her piazza was out of the question, and that she was obliged to keep within doors as a consequence. For some time past the work of building sewers In Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton has been going on, and the sewer on Third avenue has now been completed. It cannot be used yet, however, the property owners declare, and the residents of that section can expect no relief until the completion of the sewer on Ninety second street.

The work on that sewer has been delayed for some, reason unknown to the property owners, and they are anxious to have that work completed as soon as possible. The people who object to the wooden sewer laid by the former town of New Utrecht about twenty years ago say the complaints will cease just as soon as the Ninety second street sewer shall have been completed. Another property owner who lived until recently on Ninety ninth street, near Fourth avenue, made several complaints to the old Murphy Board of Health about the conditions said to have prevailed in the vicinity of her home, but nothing was ever done. WIRELESS SYSTEM EOR LAKES. Planned to Equip Steamers and Important Ports With Apparatus.

Chicago, July 22 Installation of wireless telegraph service on the Great Lakes is being planned and already a Detroit vessel owner has approved the arrangement. Owners of boats running out of Chicago are being canvassed, as are operators of freight and passenger vessels in all the larger ports. The plan proposed is to establish shore stations at all the larger ports and to equip with receiving and transmitting apparatus all the steamboats plying out of those ports. Chicago Buffalo, Detroit, Mackinac, "the Soo." Milwaukee and Cleveland have been selected for the initial installation, and thereafter Duluth and other points will be Included. WAS FOOLING WITH A PISTOL.

Miss Katie Reitz, a daughter ot Mrs. Mary Reltz, of Bushwlck and Montrose avenues, was burned about the right eye last evening by the discharge of a blank cartridge from a revolver in her own hands. Dr. Hart of St. Catharine's Hospital was summoned and the girl told him that she had not attempted to take her life.

It had been said that she had had a quarrel with her lover. This the girl denied and declared that he had visited her on Sunday evening and also on last evening. She added that the revolver had gone off while she had been fooling with it, and that it had contained nothing hut blank cartridges. FOUR INJURED IN A WRECK. Cleveland.

July 22 Three railway employes and a woman passenger were severely injured in a disastrous wreck on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Railroad in Hudson, 0., last night. An open switch allowed the westbound Pittsburg flyer to crash into an eastbound freight which stood upon the siding. Only the fortunate fact that the flyer was moving under a reduced speed prevented the complete telescoping of both trains and the wholesale destruction of the lives of a hundred or more passengers. JEALOUS HUSBAND KILLS TWO. Harrisburg, July 22 William Filer, a steel worker, shot and killed his wife, Clara Filer, and Harry Bennett, a machinist, today in Steelton.

The Filers and Bennett boarded at the same house, and Filer was jealous of Bennett's attentions to his wife. After a bitter quarrel the husband shot Bennett, killing him instantly. Mrs. Filer ran Into the street, followed by her husband, who shot her through the heart. The murderer escaped.

MUST PAY $3 WEEKLY. Joseph Raphail of 169 Boerum street, was cUarged with abandonment in the Flatbush court this morning by his wife, Dora, of 257 Clarkson street, who declared that she was the mother of seven children. Although both sides were represented by counsel, most of the talking was done by the principals themselves. The husband was ordered to pay S3 a week. BOY'S FATAL FALL FROM BRIDGE.

Morris Larsen, ard 12, of 1,035 Sixtieth street, tumbled frorVa bridge at Sixty second street and Seventh avenue at 9 o'clock last night. He was taken to Norwegian Hospital, where he died some hor later. Woman Who Once Got $75,000 Breach of Promise Verdict in Brooklyn. TRIED ON MATRICIDE CHARGE. Present Action Is to Recover $40,000 From Lawyer Who Defended Her in Murder Trial.

Mrs. Mary Alice Almorit Livingston Frey, the heroine of a famous divorce case in the Brooklyn courts, in which she got $75,000 damages again Henry Fleming in 1883; acquitted after a long trial in Manhattan in 1895, on the charge of murdering her mother, Mrs. Evelina M. Bliss, by poison, is again before the public, this time as plaintiff in a suit for $40,399.38 against Lawyer John Shaw, 'who helped to defend her In the murder trial. In her complaint Mrs.

Frey alleges that Shaw got possession in July, 1896, of a trust fund amounting to about $61,000, and held by Anson G. McCook, then City Chanmber lain, by means of a petition bearing what purported to be her signature, but which she declares to have been a forgery. The $61,000, with accrued interest, Mrs. Frey says, would now amount to over $80,000, and of this" she acknowledges receiving $40,315.21. She wants the rest of it.

Mary Alice Almont Livingston was a daughter by a second marriage of the late Chancellor Livingston. Her mother while still young, though a widow, married again and became Mrs. Bliss. The daughter lived with her mother and stepfather at Tom's River, N. J.

All of the older members of the Brooklyn Bar recall the remarkable Livingston Fleming breach of promise case. It was tried in the Supreme Court here, the hearing beginning on January 8, 1883. It had many dramatic features, and the result was a matter of perpetual record in bar annals, because the amount awarded was an absolute record breaker in breach of promise suits. The plaintiff made a practice of coming into court and ostentatiously displaying her baby on her knees. She was invariably flanked by her mother, Mrs.

Bliss. She was represented by Merritt E. Sawyer, and Henry Fleming was denounced as a "beast in human form," and other things. Fleming's defense was blackmail. He had employed Howe Hummel to conduct his defense, and shrewd lawyers declared at the end that the prejudice in Brooklyn against this well known divorce firm led in considerable measure to the size of the verdict.

It was alleged by the plaintiff that Fleming had repeatedly promised to make Miss Livingston his wife, and that later he had with frank brutality stated to her mothers "I won't marry Alice or any other woman. I have been deceiving her to gain my own purposes." Those who remember the trial recollect that Mr. Howe, the head of the firm of Howe Hummell, did not lose this suit because of any lack of energy. He was most vigorous in his cross examination of the plaintiff's witnesses. He carried the war into Africa in attacking Miss Livingston and her family as blackmailers.

He called repeated attention to Fleming's statement that he had paid $30 a week for many months to the plaintiff, and he concluded his summing up by readinpr the following verses from Proverbs 10: "My son, attend unto my wisdom and bow thine ear to my understanding. "That thou mayest regard discretion and that thy lips may keep knowledge. "For the Hps of a strange woman drop as a honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil. "But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two edged sword. "Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

"Lest thou shouldst ponder the path of life, her ways are movable that thou canst not knof them. "Hear me now, therefore, oh, ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. "Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house; "Lest thou give thine honor unto others, and thy years unto the cruel." These words were eloquently declaimed by sawyer tiowe. ine jury listened with a wearied air. Then it went out and quickly brought in the $75,000 verdict.

Various efforts were made with long deferred success to collect this judgment from Fleming. His property was pretty well placed to avoid collection. But at last, according to general understanding, about $40, 000 was collected. This may be part of the fund for which the suit is now brought against Lawyer Shaw. Miss Livingston's trial for poisoning her mother was based on the allegation which the prosecution failed to prove that arsenic had been fed to Mrs.

Bliss in a howl of clam chowder at an uptown Manhattan aDart ment. Mrs. Bliss died and there were some indications of poison, but the most diligent efforts of the District Attorney's office failed to prove any connection between the daugh ter and the poisoning. Miss Livingston was married about three years ago to Mr. Frey, who is a Michigan man.

She has" been living for months at Toms River, N. in the s'ame homestead where she first met Henry Fleming of Brooklyn. FOUND DEAD IN HIS STORE. Herman Lucke, 52 years old, was found dead in his ice cream parlor, at 511 Bast Eighty fifth street, Manhattan, shortly after 6 o'clock this morning by his wife Mary. Lucke lived at 512 East Eighty fifth street.

This morning he went to his place of busi ness to clean up. When he did not return for breakfast his wife went to the store and found him lying on the floor. An ambulance surgeon said Lucke had died from heart failure. 100 GUARDSMEN ARRESTED. Springfield, 111., July 22 About 300 members of the Third Brigade, Illinois National Guard, in camp at Camp Lincoln, came to this city and raided the tenderloin district, becoming so riotous that the polife sent to Camp Lincoln for aid.

General Clendenin, in command at Camp Lincoln, sent a provost guard of fifty men who, at the point of the bayonet, quelled the disturbance and finally corralled about 100 of the riotors, who were lodged In the city prison. SHOT WOMAN FROM AMBUSH. Helena, July 22 Mrs. D. M.

Durfee, wife of County Attorney Durfe? of "hilips burg, was shot and probably fatally wounded in a mysterious manner in Missoula last night. Mrs. Durfee was returning home from her dressmaker's. She did not see any one. Mrs.

Durfee is a most estimable woman and the shooting has created a great sensation. BOTHA GOING TO EUROPE. Pretoria, July 22 Generals Botha and De larey. with their secretaries, left here yesterday tor Cape Town en route for Europe. General De Wet will accompany them on the journey to the coast.

The date of their return from Europe has not been definitely fixed. BEES STlJte MAN WHO DIES. Baltimore. July 22 William Tiinger, 5 years old, died to day at his home, near Westphalia, from the effects of bee stinging. Mr.

Binger was returning home from his work last Tuesday, when his horse trod into a nest of bees and he was frightfully stung. SENT TO HOFFMAN ISLAND. Fifty six passengers of the steamer Morro Castle, which arrived to day from Havana, were transferred to Hoffman Island for Brooklyn's Political Philosopher to Make Speeches at Anti Imperialist Gatherings. GRIGGS SEEMS TO BE ALARMED. Chairman of Congressional Campaien Committee Fearful of the Tendency to Make Expansion Leading Issue.

Edward M. Shepard has left for a speech making tour of the abolitionist country. The Brooklyn statesman Is now at Lake George, where he will to night meet members of the Philippine committeeof the anti Imperialist League. To morrow he is going to Boston, where he will meet most of the distinguished anti expansionists and abolitionists of New England. He will reach Nantasket Beach on Thursday, where, with William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska, Senator Edward W.

Carmack of Tennessee, Senator Joseph W. Bailey of Texas and Mayor P. A. Collins of Boston, he will open the New England Democratic congressional campaign. Mr.

Shepard's tour is expected to have a somewhat disturbing effect on the efforts at readjustment now being made in the national Democracy. For some time past the national Democratic leaders have foreseen a new party division. Mr. Shepard's activity in North Atlantic politics is believed to be its first important manifestation. The extreme anti imperialists of the party are said to be' setting up business for themselves.

In New Yorkand New England they are exceedingly active. Their activity is disquieting chiefly because of the fact that they have not consulted those managers of the Democracy who are officially in charge of the party re organization now going forward in New York and the East. Congressman James M. Griggs of Georgia, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, is outspokenly opposed to the predominance of the anti expansion Issue. He goes so far as to criticise Mr.

Bryan for putting that issue to the front. His advice has been ignored by Mr. Bryan, Mr. Shepard and their antt lmperial istic colleagues. He is not informed as to their plans.

The only information ex Senator Hill, ex President Cleveland, Lewis Nixon, Senator Gorman and other Eastern leaders have of the movements of the anti imperialists Is what they read in the news papers. They have made up their minds that the' anti imperialists intend to do their own campaigning, and, in the prosecution of this design, to capture the Democratic organizations of New England and enforce their policy on the Democracy of New York and the Southern and Western states so far as it is possible to do so. The anti imperialistic contingent of New England is expected to be well represented at the conference at Lake George to night. It is to be held at the country place of Carl Schurz at Bolton's Landing. The Boston guests include Charles Francis Adams, Moorr field Storey and Julian Codman.

Herbart Walsh of Philadelphia and several Western anti imperialists are to be there. Andrew Carnegie, who is the chairman of the Philippine committee, is in Europe. The committee intends to adopt a report at the confer ence and this report will be cabled to Carnegie. Mr. Shepard is expected to make a if tailed statement of the position of the anti imperialists in his speech at Nantasket Beach on the 24th.

It is known that he has privately conferred with the principal leaders in the movement the past six months, and that his information of their, wishes and intentions with regard not' only to this year's Congressional campaign, but the Presidential campaign next year is complete. Mr. Shepard is understood to hold the view that the anti imperialists now stand in the same relation to the Democracy that the Abolitionists held to the Republican party before the war. He believes, it is said, that the new movement, properly exploited by its organizers until the Presidential campaign opens in 1904, will become powerful enough to control the Democracy and carry the country. In this connection it is recalled that Mr.

Shepard gave a dinner to some friends at the Hamilton Club about two months ago, where such a plan was fully discussed. His views were shared by George Foster Peabody, John De Witt Warner, John S. Hill and other anti imperialists who were present. Chairman Griggs, who is in the city consulting with Lewis Nixon, said last night at the Hoffman House: "I remember that in writing to the' Tammany Hall Fourth of July celebration, Mr. Bryan put anti imperialism first' among the issues, but there is a difference of opinion among Democrats about that.

Undoubtedly the leading issues of the campaign, the ones which the committee will keep in view in making up literature for distribution, are the tariff, trusts, the Philippine question and ship subsidies. There may be some difference of opinion as to the relative' importance of these Issues, but that is not material at present." GERMAN MOTES. The board of directors of the Schwaeblscher Saengerbund, at a meeting held last night, elected August Schmidt, G. Bretz. John Stalzer, active, and Joseph Zaengle, Henry Eochmann, August Lehmann, passive members.

President Robert "Weber of the Richard Wagner Quartet Ciub. at a meeting held last night at Moeser's Hall, Throop avenue, appointed the following committees: Finance, Olaf Ahrberg. Frank Gneupel, Robert Buck: music. H. Welmann, H.

Knlerlem, H. Kasten, F. Funke; house, B. Kuhfall, J. Gottechalk, V.

Riedmann. A. C. Schaefer; entertainment. F.

Zlnsmelster. H. Zenker. G. Bruck.

R. Busch. L. Maler. H.

Knlerlem, J. Degelmann, I. Klubenspler, H. Van der Schuyt, J. Schaub.

J. Hertz, B. Kuhfall. F. Funke, J.

Fenn, D. Stauch, J. Bernauer and J. Greseer. The members of the Koernerbund are highly elated over the success of their outing last Sunday to Sebastian Hofman's Park, Glendale.

The music committee of the United Singers will hold a meeting at the Brooklyn Saengerbund Hall next Monday to receive the answers of the different societies in regard to the choruses to Be ordered for the fall concert at Prospect Park. The quartets will be distributed at the monthly meeting of the delegates. August 3. Mrs. H.

Helssenbuettel, president, and Mrs. John Badenhoop, vice president of the Diogenes Women's Bowling Club, will sail next Saturday on the steamer Grosser Kurfuerst, from Bremer haven to America. Felix Jaeger, musical director of the Wllllams burgh Saengerbund. who for the last months has been conductor of the Boston Opera Company, will return to his post August 1. The 'Deutsche Schuetzenbund at last nlghfa meeting elected th'e following officers: Joseph Anton Moerle, president; Fred Schmidt, vice president; Jacob Albert, financial secretary; VS.

Kues, recording secretary: C. Homey, treasurer: Joseph Haensle, trustee: Dr. C. Pflug, physician: H. Knobel, M.

Methfessel. T. Rude, G. A. Ohlor, A.

Reich, finance committee; Charles Homey, Jacob Albert. A. Schick. F. V.

Kaiser, H. Knobel, law committee: A. Reich, Joseph Roloffen. G. Ohlert.

Joseph Haensle, 31. Methfessel. arbitration committee; H. von H. Kaiser, attorney; T.

Rudel, Kaiser and Roloffen, standard bearers. The Turn Vereln at a meeting held last night elected the following officers: Aflolph Schwel zer. first speaker; F. Schaft. second speaker; F.

Rost. recording secretary: John Beards, financial, secretary: I. Schaum and Eugene Loewe. section leaders; Phil Katz and I. Jackmann.

trustees. At a meeting of the Germanla Singing Society. Greenpolnt. held last night the following officers were elected: E. C.

Mueller, president; C. Feutt, vice president: F. Trost. recording secretary; G. Kunze treasurer: A.

Klein, collector; P. Buscher. librarian; T. Heubach. C.

Appel. Ft. Bertsch, finance committee; W. Relnhard, standard Otto Suess, musical director. The Bakers' Union No.

25. Brooklyn, has elected the following officers: Fritz Scheer, president: Jack Kill vice president; G. recording sec retarv; Alwln Hahmann, financial secretary; Frit? Baumann. treasurer. SAID STEPMOTHER WAS CRUEL.

William Fowler, 13 years of age, was ar raigned in the Gates avenue police station on a charge of vagrancy, and committed to' the care of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. The lad told the' court that his father, Charles Fowler, was employed in the tax office in Manhattan and that he had run away from home three months, ngo, because his stepmother was cruel to him. Prominent Catholic Clergymen Discuss the Question at Sagamore Hill. MASON BOOM GETS A KNOCKOUT. Circulars Coupling Illinois Senator's Name With That of the President Torn Up.

(Special to the Eagle.) Oyster Bay, L. July 22 President Roosevelt's hour lor recreation yesterday did not come until late in the afternoon. The day was devoted to business incident to the heavy mail, which comes regularly on Monday morning. Assistant Secretary Loeb was sent for before 8 o'clock and did not return to his office in the village until after luncheon, when he came laden with letters and official correspondence, which were not disposed of until long after nightfall. The President insists upon at least an hour's recreation out of doors daily, and so a little after 4 o'clock, accompanied by Mrs.

Roosevelt, he took an eight mile horseback ride toward Huntington and did not return until dinner. Senator McLaurin of South Carolina has written to the President declining the seat Jn the United States Court of Claims, to which he has been recently nominated. His position in the matter is stated positively. The reason given by the Senator for not accepting the appointment is based upon a newspaper clipping which was attached to the letter, in which the statement is. made that Senator MoLaurin had sold himself for the prospect of getting such au office as the one has been offered to him.

President Roosevelt regards this accusation as simply contemptible and regrets that the Senator paid any attention to it. The President was very desirous of appointing Senator McLaurin to some office under him, and believed his experience and his career as attorney general of South Carolina would have made him a particularly good judge of the Court of Claims. What place in the government employ will finally be given to Senator McLaurin even Mr. Roosevelt does not at present know, but it is a fact that his services to the country will be recognized by an appointment worthy of his ability. The Rev.

Dr. Peter McQueen of Boston took luncheon with the President, returning to New York at 2 o'clock. Dr. McQueen is the author of various books on Cuban affairs and has traveled extensively in the Philippines in search of information regarding the condition of the Filipinos and the natural resources of the islands. He was in Cuba during the war as a special correspondent, where he became thoroughly acquainted with the military operations.

The President had three callers later in the day. The Rev. P. O'Reilly, rector of ths new Cathedral of St. Louis, who, with his brother, M.

B. O'Reilly, and Joseph M. O'Reilly, his nephew, are en route to Rome, arrived while President Roosevelt was enjoying his horseback ride. M. B.

O'Reilly first met President Roosevelt two years ago In Colorado Springs. Referring to the President's trip Wist in September, Mr. O'Reilly said that St. Louis will be very much disappointed if anything prevents President Roosevelt from visiting there. On account of business In New York City, they returned on the 6 o'clock train, but will endeavor to see the President before they sail for Europe on the 29th inst.

In speaking of the Friar situation in the Philippines the Rev. Father O'Reilly said: "If the Friars are citizens and are public enemies, the government can remove them. No doubt many of the friars have strong individual political prejudices which are inimical to good government, but these individuals can and probably will be controlled by their respective orders, which will regulate their actions in accord with the laws of the United States as adopted in the islands. I think the matter will all work out right in a little time." Father York, rector of the Catholic Church at Huntington, came to see the President at night. Dinner had been served when he arrived.

The President invited him to a seat upon the large front porch, where they were undisturbed for half an hour. Father York frequently calls upon the President's family when they are at Sagamore Hill, but his visit last night was as much a business errand as a social one. Yesterday at noon Father York invited to dinner over at Huntington a number of Catholic clergymen, among others the Rev. J. L.

Belford of Sts. Peter and Paul's Church, Brooklyn. Most of these have just returned from their pilgrimage to Rome, where they had an opportunity of learning our position on the Friar question. They ere also informed of the Vatican's position in the matter. The subject was very thoroughly discussed there and Father York's visit to the President doubtless disclosed many facts of interest which have a direct bearing on the controversy, and to which Father York was especially desirous of calling the President' attention.

Congressman William P. Hepburn of Iowa arrived at Oyster Bay last night during a very severe rainstorm. He did not heed the elements, however, but got away for Sagamore Hill at once. Upon his return at midnight to the hotel at Oyster Bay Colonel Hepburn declined to speak about his visit with President Roosevelt. He was amused at the published telegram from Washington that the President stands ready to throw the influence of the administration to Representative Lit tlefield of Maine for the Speakership.

Speaker Henderson, he thinks, will have little, if any opposition, when the time comes to get really serious about the matter. In regard to the Iowa convention, which takes place this fall, indorsing Mr. Roosevelt for the nomination in 1904. Colonel Hepburn believes nothing will be done unless some reason develops which Indicates that such action upon the part of the" convention would be prejudicial to President Roosevelt's interest. "Anti trust legislation has got us guessing," the Colonel replied to an inquiry.

"It calls to mind the story of the man going to a gunsmith to buy a gun. He wanted one which would kill a deer and miss a calf; we want legislation which will foster and protect legitimate combinations and at the same time regulate and control unlawful trusts." Colonel Hepburn left for his home this m. rniug. A distinctively Mason circular, coupling the name of President Roosevelt and Senator Mason of Illinois as presidential and vice presidential candidates in 1904, was floated in Oyster Bay to day. The "good fellow." harping and "glad hand" shake for which the junior senator from Illinois is noted are evidenced upon the circular by the glaring heads: "Now, fellows, smoke up." "Something doing." "Get a front seat in the 'loop de loop' band wagon." The effort of some of Senator Mason's friends to buoy up the "good fellow" senator from Illinois by associating his name with that of the President was rewarded here by the circulars being torn up and thrown upon the street.

Mrs. William S. Cowles, sister of the President, arrived from Europe yesterday. Her young son and maid were with her. Mrs.

Cowles Is the wife of Commander Cowles of the Navy, and was one of the party of White law Reid, which was present in London to see the coronation of King Edward VII. President Roosevelt will be accompanied on his trip to Sea Girt to review the Second Regiment, New Jersey National Guard, by Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Alice Roosevelt, Mrs. and Commander Cowles and Mr. and Mrs.

Emlen Roosevelt. An informal luncheon was given In honor of Miss Alice Roosevelt to dayoy Miss Beek man of Oyster Bay. Twelve intimate friends of the President's daughter were delightfully entertained. Luncheon was served otfc the spacious porch of the Beekman matron, after which the party enjoyed a sail on the bay. NO BOBBERIES REPORTED.

There were no robberies committed in Brooklyn or Queens boroughs last night, at least no sports of any came to police headquarters from any of the forty two precincts. He Will Hold Council With Balfour in a Few Days. London, July 22 The weather was less wintry at 'Cowes, Isle of Wight, this morning, and the reports from the royal yacht Victoria and Albert continue to chronicle King Edward's improvement: It is said that he walked a few steps yesterday. The King will hold his first council since A. J.

Balfour became Premier on board the yacht shortly. It is expected that the name of the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to succeed Earl Cadogan, will then be announced. ALL CUTTING FREIGHT RATES. Other Lines Will Meet the Houstons' Cut to Ten Shillings on South African Business. London, July 22 It is said that the rates on cargo to be charged by R.

P. Houston Co. of Liverpool, which firm it has been announced intends to start a line of cargo steamers between the United Kingdom and South African ports, will be 10 shillings pel ton. The firm claims to have already entered into large contracts for years ahead and says it is ready for a fight, however low rates may be cut. It also announces that it will not have recourse to any system of rebates.

This is due to the cut in freight rate inaugurated some few weeks since by the Hansa line on all merchandise to South African ports. David Ripley, the American agent of the Houston line, said that the rates cannot be maintained, but his company would hold out as long as the others did. Formerly carriers charged anywhere from 30 to 50 shillings a ton for goods, according to the classification, but owing to the competition of the five lines now in the field, goods will be conveyed to Cape Town, Natal or Port Elizabeth and other South African ports for 10 shillings a ton without regard to classification. At the office of John C. Seager, who represents the Prince line, which is one of the new lines seeking an opening in the South Arfican trade, it was stated that the 10 shilling rate was 21 shillings below the lowest freight rate from London.

The war prevented any business in South Africa, and all that the ships, carried was on government contract. The congestion of traffic in the interior, owing to the necessary transportation of troops and war materials, had practically stopped all shipping by business firms except on government contract. Now that the war is over trade is reviving and a boom is looked for. A member of the firm of Funch, Ed ye which represents the Hansa line, stated to day that the South African trade had not shown any appreciable change since peace was declared. "If trade increases will be due to the low rates which we have offered to the shippers.

The rate is likely to stand for some time, but how long we don't know. The pace we set for the others has resulted in bringing in a greater volume of orders during the past few days, and at the rate manufacturers and dealers in general can sell their goods in Natal or Cape Town more cheaply than the English shippers can. This will no doubt encourage trade to this field." The Union Clan, American African and Hansa Lines have practically controlled the South African trade for a number of years, and it was not until the close of the Boer War that the Prince Line and the Houston people sought to secure a portion of the freight business. Shortly after the Inauguration of the competitive service, the combination made a general reduction in freight rates and offered a 10 per cent, rebate, payable in six months, to shippers who in the meantime had done business with other lines. The new lines offered a cash rebate, and finally brought the rate down to 10s.

a ton on all classifications, which cut was met by the older established firms. John C. Seager said yesterday that the combine, while it is advertised a 10s. rate, did not give the shippers the room they asked for. "They offer a 10s'.

rate," he said, "and if you ask for space for 500 tons, they may give you room for 50 tons, and charge you a higher rate for the balance. That is what delays their ships from week to week." There is business, however, for both sides. The Union Clan line will dispatch an extra steamer, the Clan Colquhoun, about July 25, and the Prince and Houston Lines, which advertise biweekly sailings, will add an extra steamer to their service. "The demand is mainly for lumber and structural material," said a prominent shipper yesterday. "Large orders are coming in also for all sorts of machinery and agricultural implements, and so great is the demand for plows that all the manufacturers are working to their capacity, and will not guarantee delivery before November 1.

Every ship that goes out carries a full cargo, and goods are left on the dock." MACKAY'S BODY EMBALMED. Outgoing Steamer Hopes to Send Wireless Message to Son. London, July 22 The Cunard Line steamer Saxonia, sailing from Liverpool for Boston to day, has a wireless telegram for Clarence H. Mackay, son of John W. Mackay, who sailed from New York on Saturday on the Campania of the same line.

The Saxonia hopes to communicate with the Campania to morrow or Thursday. The remains of Mr. Mackay have been embalmed and placed in a metallic coffin? which is now resting in the music room of the Mackay residence, surrounded by flowers, which have been sent in great profusion. Cards, letters and telegrams from many distinguished persons in all parts of the world continue to arrive in great num bers. ARCHBISHOP FOR MANILA.

Vatican Also Will Establish Three Dio ceses in Philippines. Rome, July 22 Beside an apostolic delegate tor the Philippine Islands, the Vatican is preparing to appoint an Archbishop of Manila, who will probably be Bishop Sebas tian Gebhard Messmer (a Swiss), professor of canon law at the Catholic University in "Washington since 1890. Three new Philippine dioceses will also be created. Governor Taft, before starting for Naples to visit Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius, ex pressed a desire that the bishop of one of the new dioceses De a native Filipino. REIDS SAIL ON SATURDAY.

Return to London After a Visit to Scotland and Carnegie. London, July 22 Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw Reid returned to London this morning, after a tour cf Scotland. Mr.

Reid went by rail, meeting the remainder of his party at Skibo Castle, Sutherland, the seat of Andrew Carnegie, to which they had journeyed from London in an automobile. Mr. Carnegie, who Is in excellent health, invited a large house party to meet Mr. and Mrs. Reid, and on their departure drove them ten miles to the railroad station in the four in hand coach in which James G.

Blaine made his tour of Scotland. Mr. and Mrs. Reid will sail for New York on Saturday. They have canceled most of their engagements, but will dine at Lord Rosebery's residence to night.

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