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ITEMS OF WOMANLY INTEREST TABLE DECORATIONS A SHORT TALK FOR MOTHERS FASHIONS-PAGE 7 GREAT GROWTH OF THE MANDAMUS EVIL AND THE REMEDY PRO VIDED BY THE COUNCILS-PAGE 2 NUMBER 7125. PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 30, AGES. OXE CENT. foaiE imkki KioiiTOiEna ftgoie TTDOiaiEg Wffl(o)W iPtUESE. (Ennafiiapf GIRLS AGAIN IN REBELLION BRITAIN'S THREAT TO THE FRENCH GRErS STATEMENT IN PARLIAMENT CAUSES A SENSATION to take care of you 7 Too ought to be ashamed of yourself, always doiog something to give people trouble.

Didn't you behave beautiful at Madeira's that Sunday night yon were over here? You had better take a tonic and brace up' and look on the bright side of life and make tip your mind you will be happy and be a good, religious man. What kind of a life are you living, growl ing at some one all the time, when it la nobody's fault but your own? suppose it is lovely at the Park to-day and guess the sea breezes will do you good. Beatrice is just going out to take a ride in her coach. She ie such a sweet little soul. With much love and a kiss from little baby Beatrice to her papa, I am, lovingly, Bibdib.

A few days after receiving this letter Brown sent several telegrams to his wife, in ii3 jmt i a or mm absd mm vffi a mr mm Not Just Now. A JEALOUS MAN'S CRIME He Hacks His Wife With a Razor ana Then Cuts Hts Own Throat. Nbw Bnt'NSWioK, N. March 20. William Henry Smith, negro hostler.

2 years old, quarreled with bis wife before breakfast this morning, jealousy being the cause. They had a few angry words and Smith picked up a table knife, caught hi wife In his arms and cut her throat from car to ear. The knife was not very sharp and only left a rugged cut. She was able to break away from him. and ran down stairs for help.

Smith caught her on the lower floor and taking out his cane kult'e slashed at her several -times. Kuiith then returned to his room in the second story and standing before a large mirror drew the case knifo across his own throat. Apparently satisfied thut he had killed his wife and fatally wounded himself, lie crawled into bed. Smith and bis wife were removed to the hospital. Mrs.

Smith cannot recover, but he is likely to live. The la mates of the Heme for Juvenile Offenders at Chicago Smash Windows and Crockery. Chicago, March 20. The riotous Inmates of the Home for Juvenile Offenders, who have conducted a series of revolutions re cently, continued the reign of terror to-day. The few windows that were not broken in last night's outbreak were smashed to-day.

Another crockery bombardment was started, but prompt action by a police officer quelled the riot before it had reached dangerous pro portions. Mrs. A. J. Drayton, the superintendent.

whose methods of government caused the rebellion, has been removed from the posi tion, and Mrs. Moudy, formerly superin tendent of the Home for the Friendless, has been selected to fill the vacancy. Mrs. Moudy was so thoroughly frightened by the outbreaks of last night and to-day, how ever, that It Is doubtful if she accepts the position. The girls indulged in another riot to-night They had gone to their rooms for the night, when at a given signal, they began to scream, so that they could be heard fully block distant.

This proving rather tame sport, they began to tear down the frail par titions between the sleeping rooms. As soon as a number of girls were congregated in one room they would make an assault upon the room, battering In the doors and smashing the furniture. The matron and her assistants were utterly unable to control the girls, and finally a call was sent for the police. Two patrol wagons filled with officers hurried to the home, and after a hard struggle, during which some of the girls fought like wildcats, they were all locked up in rooms the partitions of which are proof against any attempts they can make to tear them down. COURT OFFICIALS SUBPOENAED The Senate Committee's Investigation in the Golf Bill Matter to Begin To-Day.

Special Telegram to The Times. New York. March 211. All the attendants in the Court of General Sessions have been notified to appear at the Criminal Court building to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock, when it is expected that the Senate Judiciary committee will begin its ln-vestigaton into the corrupt practices which have heretofore obtained in the court. Ihe investigation is the result of the op position raised to the so-called God bill, making the Recorder the presiding Judge of the court, with full nower of annolntment.

and fixing his salary at the lump sum of i ownei reiiows was very ousy to-day preparing for the investigation, and was in constant conference with Mr. Lind say: The Judiciary committee Is eomiwwed oi senators ti uonnor, uogiresnau, Lexow. Pound. Rufues. Parker.

McMahon and Cantor, making six Republicans aud inree jjemocrnis. TUPPER WILL NOT RESIGN The Government Organ Strongly Contradicts the Story That He Will. Toronto, March 20. The Toronto World says to-day thut It has good reasons for believing that Sir Charles Tupper will re tain his portfolio as Minister of Justice. If this be so, and the orld Is generally well-informed politically.

It shows that the Pre mier nas succeeuea in patcmng up truce, tor the present at least. The Mail, the government organ, gives strong denial to the whole resignation story. It suys: "Charles Tupper is still administering the affairs of his department. He has not tendered his resignation aud the state ments sent broadcast over tne worm that he has are untrue. This contradiction is given not only on the authority of the Minister of Justice, but with the emphatic con- nrmutiou or ir Mackenzie no wen." Pleaded for Bis Son's Assailant.

Lindsay Little, 16 years old, of 11)20 Moravian street was before Magistrate Pole yesterday with having thrown stone pud seriously injuring Michael Mc- Allien, years oui, or 1.11 urury sireet, during a street flirht on Tuesday evening. McGlllen's skull was fractured, but as he was getting along very nicely, and as there was no evidence of the stone having been thrown with the Intention of Injuring auy one, young Little was discharged. The Injured boy's father appeared at the bearing and expressed a desire that the prisoner be released, as his own boy was to blame as much as anyone for his Injury. A Crayon Portrait Establishment Closed. Special Telegram to The Times.

Tyrone, March 20. H. A. Grip p. an artist here, who has been doing an extensive business at teaching crayon portrait work by mail, was closed to-day by the Poet Office authorities, and mall coming to him from students and others has been ordered re-tifrned to the writers.

The direct cause for this is not known. This peremptory order of the government has suspended one of the busiest places here. Mr. Grlpp had some thirty-five or -forty girls and women employed In his establishment. He thinks he can prove that his business Is legitimate.

To Fight a Trolley Company. Special Telegram to The Times. Chester, March 20. J. Watts Mer-cur, of Wallingford, will be the first to file a suit for the recovery of the roadway in front of his residence from the Chester Traction Company, under the recent ruling of the Supreme Court.

Mr. Mercnr fought the Traction Company at the time their tracks were laid in front of bis residence. He had an Injunction served on them, but the lower court decided against him. He now proposes to take the matter to the Supreme Court on an appeal. The United States Will Participate.

Washington, March 29. It is Impossible to secure confirmation here of the report from London that the United States has cou seuted to enter the proposed International Monetary Conference, but the best information obtainable Is to the effect that In case a call Is Issued the President will accept the invitation under the terms of the law enacted during the last session and appoint the three delegates necessary to complete the commission on Demur, oi tnis country. Gold and Silver Found in a Dead Miser's Home. Shamokin. March 20.

The heirs of Solomon Dlehl, an aged bachelor of miserly hnbits. searched his late residence to-dav end found over $4,000 In gold, silver and copper coins. The money was tied up in old stockings and hidden away under floors and In crevices and cracks about the building. The money is now In baiik awaiting division among the heirs. A Month's Shut-Down for Plate Glass Factories.

Pittsburg, March 20. Nearly all the plate glass factories in the country will close down to-morrow night and will not resume until May 1. In the meantime arrangements ill be mnde to onerate the factories under the management of the recently formed combination, which Is to be known as the Pitts burg Plate GlabS Company. May Have' Been Dead for Days When Found. Special Telegram to The Times.

Lancabter, March 29. Jofcd Shoemaker, aged 75, who lived alone, was found dead In his home this morning, sitting on a chair. He had not been seen for several days, and it is supposed he has been dead for three or four days. He was formerly a resident of New Jersey. Henry Watterson Lectures at Wellsboro.

Special Telegram to The Times. Wellsboro, March 29. Henry Watterson delivered his popular lecture on Abraham Lincoln at the Methodist Church here to-night. A large and appreciative audience greeted the noted Kentuckian who held their attention for nearly two hours. LONDON PAPERS INDORSE IT Tlte Attitude of the Rose be ry Government on the Question of French Encroachments Upon the Territory of the Royal Niger Com.

pany Is Approved in the English Metropolis. Only One French Newspaper Notices Sir Edward Grey's Menace London. March 29. The statement which Sir Edward Grey, Parliamentary Secretary of the Foreign Office, made in the House of Commons last night, saying that an advance of the French into the territory of the Upper rule Valley, belonging to the Boyal Niger Company, and, therefore, under British protection, would be an unfriendly act and that it was well known to France that Great Britain would so regard it, is causing a profound sensation here and on the Continent. Sir Edward's announcement, which was read from notes believed to have been written by the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Earl of Klmberley, is looked upon as revealing the extremely critical relations now existing between France and Great Britain.

The fact that the statement was prepared In writing beforehand emphasizes the seriousness of the situation, and shows that every word embodies the views of the Cabinet. In brief, the statement is that It is becoming daily more difficult to live on good terms with France; that Great Britain has made concession after concession in the past two years in the interests of peace; but that the end has now come, and that It is found necessary to warn France from the Ministerial bench. The most important and significant portion of Sir Edward Grey's statement was the following: "But something beside our own efforts is necessary, and that is the co operation of the French Government and the French people. WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS SAT. The statement of Sir Edward (3rey formed the subject of editorials in nearly all the morning papers.

The Daily News says: "Sir Edward Grey's statement undoubtedly was a grave one. It was judicious and courteous, but perfectly firm. We are certain France does not meditate au unfriendly act. We fully recognize her rights, and she has not one thing of which she can fairly complain." The Standard warmly commends the government's declaration. "Nothing In the statement could give umbrage," it says, "yet we feel sure that the singularly deliberate terms of assertion will not be received with composure in Paris." Commenting on the present aspect of the Anglo-French situation, the Globe soys: "England can safely call upon the world to judge whether she should face France's deliberate provocations In Africa and Slain or whether it would become the dignity of aJ Kit-in iiiiuuu iu lurn ine orner cneeK to tne smiter nny longer." The Pall Mall Gazette says: "France is warned since last evening that she baa not a shred of pretense that she doesn't know that her advance in the Nile Valley would be regarded by England as nn act of open and avowed hostility." Sir Edward Grey's remarks produced a disquieting effect on the Stock Exchange this morning.

French Rentes fell and Consols and Egyptians Unified CAUSE OF THE TROUBLE French Incursions on the Territory of the Royal Niger Company. Great Britain and France have been on the point of fighting over these possessions In Africa several times. The Royal Niger uompany, cuarterett by the British Govern. ment, has an empire in Africa. It claims half a million square miles, stretching from the Guinea coast far back into the Dark Continent.

The company not only carries on extensive trade, but it provides all the machin ery of nn elaborate government, including a strong military force. Besides, it has the privilege of calling on the Britsih navy for neip. Great Britain, Germany and France agreed many years ago to divide up among them a large part of Guinea. Britain took the so- called Gold Coast, Germany the Cameroons aud France the Slave Coast. Naturally.

the boundaries have never been exactly de fined, and there has been a deal of friction, especially between France and England. There have been sundry conventions In regard to border lines, resulting in the agreements of 18S5, 188, 18D0 and 1893; but still the disputes go ou increasing in bitterness. Lieutenant Miznn, of the French army. started towards the heart of the continent in 1812 on a "scientific" mission. He pushed his researches so far that British trooos were sent to seize his outfit, though event ually it was decided to let the home governments settle the affair diplomatically.

In consequence of the "representations" of the itritisn uoverument. lieutenant Mizon was recalled. Yet, somehow, the message of recall failed to reach him until he had managed to get the French, British and German Governments into an ugly snarl. Ho was finally pulled oft, but afterwnrds was put at the head of auother French "scientific" expedition, showing that his government' bad not lost confidence In him, but, perhaps, secretly encouraged his methods of gathering geological uud other information. The foreign departments of Britain and France have had numerous knotty problems before them in the last few months, and more than once an outbreak of hostilities has been feared.

No subject has more real danger In It at present for those two countries than the subject of African possessions. What France Can Only Recognize. Paris, March 29. Only the Journal des Debats of all the newspapers of this city comments to-day upon the utterances of Sir Edward Grey. Parliamentary Secretary for the Foreign Office, In the British House of Commons yesterday evening.

The Debats savs: "In regard to the Upper Nile, France can only recognize the rights of Turkey and Egypt and no others. The proclamation of England's claims there does not constitute a title." ELECTRIC BREVITIES The Delaware and Hudson Canal will be open Monday, April 8. Russell Coetlognn has been gazetted Consul for Great Britain at Charleston, S. G. The Castlne has sailed from Port Said for Aden, on her way to the east coast of Africa.

The President has recognised Thomas J. Hunt as Consul of the Republic of Liberia at Philadelphia. The Civil Service Commission has decided that the employes In the Census Office are within the classified service. John S. Peters, an ex-State Representative, died yesterday at bis home In Lebanon, of heart disease.

Minister Thurston, former Minister of the Hawaiian Islands at Washington, arrived in Chicago yesterday afternoon from the East, on his way to Honolulu. The extraordinary grand jury of the Court of Oyer and Terminer at New York, by order of Judge Van Brunt, of the Supreme Court, had their ordinary time yesterday extended indefinitely. Post Office officials are searching for three State of Washington general fund warrants, valued nt $2,375.11, which were mailed on March 20 by Gladwin Morse, of Hartford, to the People's Savings Bank, of Rockvllle, Conn. No trace of the package has been found since that date. quiring about their baby, and said he was coming to Philadelphia to see her.

On March 8 his wife wrote him In the following strain: Dear Husband: Your telegram was received this afternoon, and I think you must have lots of money to throw away, sending telegrams all the time, if you are so flush with money, and pro fess to love Beatrice so much, you had better send me some money to buy her some spring clothes instead of talking of how much you love ber. As Sadie wants you to spend Sunday with her, I think you had better go to Asbury Park to-morrow instead of coming to Philadelphia, for you know papa does not want you to come here, and I think it best for you to stay away. And then I am thinking of going away to-morrow to stay over Sunday. As you want my advice, it is to stay away from 500 South Forty-second street Beatrice is well and sends her love to her dear papa. Take good care of yourself and try to brace up and be a good, religious man.

I do hope you will be more successful in your business and sell more goods than you have in the last two months. Do have some push in you. I have been as busy as a bee for the last three weeks helping the dressmaker. Good-bye. B.

sends a kiss. Lovingly, Birdie. WHERE THE TRAGEDY OCCURRED. As far as can be learned Brown ceased writing to his wife after receiving this letter, and remained with his sisters iu Asbury Park. He came from that place to this city yesterday morning, and reached the Leibert tesidence shortly after noon.

He was admitted to the house by Gertie Kaston, a colored servant, who ushered him Into the reception room. Mrs. Brown, with her parents and child, together with her younger sister, Lilly Leibert, and Miss Marlon Stockton, were In the sitting room in the second story when Brown's arrival was announced, and his wife went down alone to see hi in. The house is a handsome brown-stone structure and is surrounded by a spacious veranda. The reception room is directly opposite the entrance, with a doorway leading from the hallway.

Adjoining the reception room is the parlor. The bouse is exquisitely furnished, Mr. Leibert having been when in active business a cut glass manufacturer with aesthetic taste. When Mrs. Brown entered the reception room her husband was sitting on a sofa near the door.

What conversation took place between them could not be ascertained. Brown seemed to be In a bright mood and talked pleasantly with his wife until they were Interrupted by the call for luncheon. The husband declined to luiv-h with his wife's family and Mrs. Brown left him and entered the dining room. When the meal was finished she rejoined her husband and they continued their conversation.

Shortly after 2 o'clock, while one of the servants was passing through the hall, she overheard Brown ask his wife to come back to him. Mrs. Brom replied that there wa no use of asking her to Jive with him; that he was already under the influence of liquor and his face showed that he had not kept his promise. A THREAT AND A STRUGGLE. Soon after this Brown abruptly pulled a 42-calibre revolver from his pocket and threatened his wife unless she couseuted to again live with him.

Mrs. Brown leaped to her feet and wrested the weapon from him and he jumped up from the sofa. After standing over his wife for a moment Brown grabbed her by the hair and dragged her toward the door leading into the hallway. Leaning down he then grasped her hand and regaining possession of the revolver, pointed It at her as she knelt before him. During the struggle Mrs.

Brown made no outcry nor was anyone In the house aware of the drunken husband's threat. While Mrs. Brown was on her knees in the doorway her little daughter Beatrice started to come down the front stairs. Lilly Leibert, missing the child from the room, went after her and when she reached the stairway she looked down and was paralyzed with the sight that met her gaze. Brown was just forcing the revolver against his wife's head, and Mrs.

Brown, ducking between bis knees, begged him to spare her life. Crazed with anger and liquor, however. Brown, with uusteady hand, fired at her. The bullet, Instead of entering his wife's brain, tore Its way through the back of her neck. The shot aroused the woman and startled the man, for she Jumped to her feet and rushing through the room to the parlor passed through to the kitchen and then ran Into the back garden, where she fell down.

Ah she reached the parlor Brown again fired at her, but the bullet buried itself in the wall. SHOT HIMSELF TO DEATH. Crazed with failure to kill bis wife, Brown then deliberately ended his own existence. Placing the revolver on the right side of his throat he fired, the bullet passing out on the other side, cutting a deep furrow in the wall across the room. Paying but little heed to this wouud, the desperate man then fired two more shots at himself, both of which entered his skull directly behind the ear.

As he fell to the floor he fired the remaining shot In the revolver, which found lodgment in the sofa. In the throes of death Brown dragged himself along the hallway to the entrance to the dining room, where he fell over and expired. Meanwhile the members of the family, who were up stairs, rushed down and found Brown dead where he had fallen. Mrs. Brown, who was In the garden, bleeding profusely from her wound, was reclining in the arms of Gertie Easton, the servant, who had followed her when she ran out.

Policeman McGeary, of the Woodland avenue station, who was on the corner when the shooting occurred, heard the shots and rushed into the house. Learning that Brown was dead he summoned the patrol wagon and sent bis body to the station house. Mrs. Brown was taken into the house and a second patrol wagon was sent for, and this conveyed her to the University Hospital. Dr.

Taylor, the resident physician, made an examination and found thut the wound, while painful, was not necessarily serious. Soon after her admittance Mrs. Brown, on orders Issued by her father, was taken to a private room in the hospital, where no one was allowed to see her. Her family were grief-strickea over the tragedy and denied themselves to all visitors. WHO THE VICTIM IS.

Mrs. Brown is well known In West Philadelphia society, where she is a general favorite owing to her beauty and accomplishments. She is only 24 years of age Her husband, previous to their marriage, lived In Asbury Park with his two sisters, his parents belnlg dead. He is 30 years of uge. Shortly before Christmas a married sister, Mrs.

E. C. Madeira, who lived In this city, died. He Is said to have been devoted to bis wife and child, but was a victim of drink and did not seem able to control himself. The news of the tragedy soon circulated In the neighborhood and a -crowd of curious people congregated on the corner and watched the house.

A number of policemen, however, kept the curious spectators at a respectful distance. BERTHA L. EHOWN. The Vlclim-From a Bketcli. SHOT HIS WIFE KILLED HIMSELF JOHN A.

BROWN ATTEMPTS A DOUBLE CRIME AXD HALF SUCCEEDS. A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY ENACTED Because She Would Not Live WitU Him the Young Husband Visits His Wife at Her Father's Handsome Home in Wert Philadelphia and Makes a Deliberate Effort to Murder Her Then He Shoot Himself to Heath Their Three-Year-Old Daughter and the Victim's Sister Witnesses to the Awful Scene The Woman Dragged by the Hair to Where She Was Shot DownShe Will Recover Story of the Domestic Troubles Which Led Up to the Murder. Mm. John a. ltrown, the pretty young daughter of William W.

Leibert, a wealthy retired manufacturer, wa shot down in the reception room of her father's handsome residence, at 5K South Forty-second street, yesterday afternoon by her husband, who had returned to her after a long desertion. Failing in his deliberate effort to murder her the would-be assassin then turned the revolver on himself and ended his own life. His wife, though seriously hurt, will recover. The tragedy occurred shortly before 3 o'clock, and from the developments afterwards the family express the belief that JOHN A. BROWN.

The Murderer From a Sketch. Rrown, who is a New York salesman, came to Philadelphia with the Intention of killing his wife. The only provocation that can be assigned to his act is the fact that she refused to live with him on account of his excessive drinking and dissolute habits. The couple were married in tills city about four years ago, Mrs. Brown leaving a luxur ious home to accompany her husband to New York city, where he was employed as salesman for a large drygoods house.

They had been married but a short time when Mi's. Brown discovered that her husband was addicted to drink, but in spite of her entreaties and appeals he would out reform. "Finally the habit is said to have become so constant that Brown not only took to abusing his wife, but failed to provide for her and her little (laughter, Beatrice, who was born to them about a year after the mar-Ttage, The separation took place in July last In Anbury Turk, where Mr. and Mrs. Brown were stopping with her parents.

The husband left his father-in-law's home and went to New York city, where he secured employment in the woolen house of James A. Tnlcott, nt 1S Franklin, street. RETURNED TO HER HOME. His excessive drinking, however, so Interfered with his business that the firm several times threatened to discharge him. which threat caused him to rectify his ways.

He wrote to his wife nt -that time, saying he hod reformed and asked her to return to him. She replied that when he would demon strnt that he would stop drinking and could provide for herself and child she would come back to him. His life of sobriety, however, lasted but a short time and his letters became more infrequent. At the close of the summer season at the seashore Mrs. Brown returned to Philadelphia with her parents, and took up her residence with them at their home ou Forty-second street, which is one of the most aristocratic sections in West Philadelphia.

Early last month her husband wrote her and said he wns tired of life and was going to commit suicide. On February In his wife answered his letter. The following is a copy of what she wrote: My Dear Husband: I would have written to you before, but i really huve been quite ill for the past few days, and hardly able to go about. I do not feel much better to-day. I do wish you would brace up and look on the bright side of life, and I know you will come out right tu the end.

Try and feel happier for Beatrice's and my sake, and Know you win succeed in your busi ness. 1 think you are very foolish to think of such a thing as suicide when you know you can be a happy man if you only make up your mind ou will. i LAST LETTERS. Biown replied to this letter, stating that his tmployers had discharged him, and that he war in Asbury Park with his sisters. To this his wife replied on February 24 as follows Philadelphia, February 24, 1895.

Dear Husband I was so surprised to hear your letter you had lost your position. I thought you engaged with Talcott Co. for a year, Irtaw came it they discharged you before the time up? What in the world will you do without alaob. Can yon find another? I feel awfully nonbf that you didn't try to brace up and sell goods, as to hold your position, for I do not see what are going to do without one. Do you expej Rebe and Lidie to support you? foot souls, for themseb i have no more than they require 1 I have been very busy for the last week drew busy for eonn spring dresses eking, and expect to be very brae come, making Beatrice her 1 I hardly know where to direct this le but guess Rebe will forward it to you not in Asbury Park.

What baa be, I the matter with you? Have you been ill, Xhii Jd.e had to go to New York LOST HER LIFE FOR OTHERS A Woman Saves Her Parents, But is Burnt to Death Trying to Save Her Daughter. New York, March 29. Mrs. William Reeves and her daughter were burned to death at Northport. L.

to-day. About 2 o'clock fire broke out In the residence of Israel Hlgble, a wealthy former. Living with him and his wife were his daughter, Mrs. William Beeves, and her 14-year-old daughter, Hat tie. Mrs.

Reeves was awakened by the smell of smoke and went down stairs to discover the cause. She saw that the building was on fire an ran across the street to a neighbor for help. Then, realizing that her mother and father and her child were In the burning buildiug. she ran back to render them asint-ance. She first went to the bed room where her mother and father were asleep and succeeded In getting them from the burning bull.

liny. Then she dashed madly back Into the burn Ing building to save her daughter. That was the last seen of her until the charred remains of mother and child were found after the tire bad been extinguished. The body of Mrs. Beevea was found close bv that of her du lighter.

AFTER THEIR ASSESSMENTS Discharged Employes Want Back the Money They Gave to Aid Eipe. Social Telegram to The Times. Pittsburg, March 2D. Kver since Collector earns was removed from office there has been rumors about some action being taken by the employes of the office to get back the campaign assessments they paid last fall to aid Congressman SIpe. Tbe assessment in round figures amounted to $20,000.

After the crushing defeat of Sipe there were ugly rumors started about the fund. It is now stated on good authority that a number of tbe employes will bring suit to recover their money. It is said the suits will be entered, against Sipe, and he will have to answer what became of the mioney. HIGH STATE OFFICIAL ACCUSED Lieutenant Governor Sadlier, of Nevada, Arrested Charged With Embezzlement. Carson, New, March 20.

Reinhold Sad lier, Lieutenant Governor, has been arrested on a charge of embezzlement. The charges wore preferred by a stage driver In Had Iter's employ, who says he held back money he had drawn from the government. Sad- lier Is under bonds. Stole Wire Cable. Sergeant Maekell and Special Policeman McKibben.

of the Eighteenth district, last night arrested Joseph Murray, alias O'Shay, and Mary Dougherty at Frankford road and Westmoreland street In the act of stealing cnble belonging to the Electric Traction Company. The woman's husband, John Dougherty, was also arrested at his house, 1618 Itodine street, where both families live, for being an accomplice. An Escaped Prisoner Recaptured. Special Telegram to The Times. Grbensburg.

March Mat- tern, a noted criminal, who is wanted In various parts of the country, and who es caped from jail hereseverul months agoafter beating Jailer Mcureaay into lnsensioiuty, wnu f-nntnrert In Somerset count to-dav. There are nine indictments against nlm here. A Postmaster Sentenced for Embezzlement, Vtica, N. March the Vnlted States Court to-day Hawley E. Webster, former Postmaster at Brockport, this State, pleaded guilty of embezzling money-orders to the amount of $1,372.

He was sentenced to nay a fine to the amount embezzled aud to be Imprisoned for eighteen months. A Woman's Neck Broken by a Fall Down Stairs. Special Telegram to The Times. Pottstown. March 29.

Mrs Rosa Kepkopskl was instantly killed this morning by falling down the steps at her home at Stowe. Her neck was broken in two places. Her dead body was found by her daughter shortly alter tne accident. Forecast for Saturday. For Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jer sey and Delaware, generally fair, but local showers in Northern Pennsylvania; slightly warmer; southeast winds.

YESTTEHUAV'S temperatttrk 8AM P. i Highest. 46 i Lowest. 30 44 EVENTS OF TO-DAY Reception to Governor Daniel H. Hastings at the Penn Club at 9 P.

M. Complimentary luncheon to Policeman MacFarlane In tbe Temple, Broad and Berks streets, this evening. Mass meeting of the Building Association League at Association Hall, Fifteenth and Chestnut streets, at 8 P. M. Second commencement of the Williamson Free School of Mechanical Trades in the auditorium of the school at 3.15 P.

M. FOUflD DYIJJG Il THE SQUARE YOUNG BEtfAMIN KAHAN-SUPPOSED TO BE A VICTIM OF SAND-BAGGERS. MONEY AND VALUABLES GONE A Oood Deal of Mystery Surrounds the Case of a Brooklyn Youth Found Vii con scious and Bleeding in Logan Square He Had Registered Under an Assumed Name in a Hotel, and Left to Catch a Train for New York-Struck From Behind With a Heavy Club A Woman in the Case. While pajswlog Nineteenth and Vine streets About 1 o'clock yesterday morning, a milkman saw a man lying on the pavement near the. northeast corner of Logan Square, aud on hearing a moan from the prostrate body he reined up his horse and shouted for Policeman Hopely, of the Twentieth district, who was near by.

The policeman, who responded, thought the man was intoxicated, aud tried to arouse him, but failing In this he made a closer examination and fouud him to be bleeding from the nose aud mouth. He then had him taken to the Medlco-Chirurgical Hospital, and reported the mutter to his station house. Special Policeman Miller, of the Twentieth district, was detailed on the case, aud made an examination of the spot whore the man had been found. From where he had been lying to the centre of the square the policeman discovered traces of blood, and at that point lie found a revolver with six chambers, two of which were empty. The finding of the revolver gave rise to the opinion that It was a case of attempted suicide, and Miller went at once to the hospital to report, THE VICTIM OF THUGS.

The physicians, however, said the young man was su fieri ug from a severe concussion of the brain, the result of a blow either from a sandbag or from a heavy club. In his pockets were found several letters, one of which gave his name as Benjamin Kahan, of Gltl Flushing avenue, Brooklyn. Special fllcer Miller also learned that Kahan had been stopping at the Keystone Hotel, and was told there that Knban bad been a guest since Monday evening last. I He had registered there under the name of i D. Iteber, of New York.

He seemed to have plenty of money, the hotel clerk said. Ijist evening before leaving the hotel he wrote a letter to a Miss L. Haimond, at 420 West Twenty-sixth street. New York, which wns found in his room at tbe hotel after wards. The letter asked Miss Baimond to meet him In New York on Sunday and said in conclusion that the writer had a "nice present" to bring with him.

When Kahan left tbe hotel he carried small valise and said to the clerk that he was going back to New York. When he wns found In the square this valise was missing aud no money was found in his pockets. All the circumstances surrounding the case pointed to the youug man's having been tho victim of the thugs with which the city is now overrun. THOUGHT HE HAD BEEN SHOT. The police, however, are very much puz zled over the affair.

While he was being taken to the hospital he partly revived aud claimed to have been shot, but late last night, when he again revived for a few minutes, said he had been assaulted by nn unknown man 1 whom he bad met In the railroad station. The doctors claim In support of this theory that he could not received his injuries in any other way than by a blow on tbe head. It would have been impossible for him to have shot himself down the throat without death having been instantaneous. The hemorrhage is tlie result of concussion of the brain. He is still In a critical condition, although the doctors say he may recover.

John S. Kahan, a New York liquor dealer, who is an uncle of the young man, called at the hospital late yesterday afternoon, accompanied by his two sons. An effort wns I made to arouse young Kahan. but he seemed I too dazed to know his uncle and cousins 1 and could not be induced to talk with them at all. HAD MONEY WITH HIM Young Kahan Was in the Habit of Carrying a Considerable Sum When Traveling.

New York, March 29. Yonng Kalian's parents live at No. 010 Flushing avenue, Brooklyn. He has been employed in Jersey City for the past two years and his family were not aware of bis presence in Philadelphia until shown the foregoing dispatch. The boy's father Immediately left for Jersey City to learn, If possible, what amount of money his son had with him.

He expects to go to Philadelphia this evening. The Raimond woman alluded to is a variety performer. She says she Is well acquainted with Kahan and had an appointment to go driving with him last Sunday. He did not keep the engagement and this is what he refers to in his letter. It was stated that Kahan was In the habit of car rying considerable sums of money with him when traveling.

THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES Lord Kimberly Says the Government Will Insist on Reforms in Asiatic Turkey. London, March The Earl of Kimhpr- Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in receiving a tie puwiTion irom me Armenian Association to-day expressed worm sympathy with the objects of the association, and said that the government was doing Hk best to make the inquiry Into the outrages in Armenia as thorough tind searching as possible. The main object In view was to secure fn the future protectiou of the lives, property, creed and lands of the Armenian Christians. In this object he was glad to Kay that Great liritaln had the of France and Kussin, both of which conn-tries were conviuctMl of the neccsiiiv of reform. In conclusion the Karl of Kmiherly said thut the government wits Irretrievably pledged to take steps tu bring about reform in Armenia.

Gasoline Stove Explores. Special Telegram to The Timfh. Lambbrtville, N. Manh 20. A large gasoline stove exploded at the residence of Councilman Wesley Case to-night while the family were eating supper.

I he room was set on fire but the flames were extinguished before much damage was done. Stabbed in tbe Wrist. William King, colored, aged 20 years, of Lloyd aud Paschal avenue, was yesterday seriously Injured by being stabbed In tin-wrist by Charles Boozer, of Seventieth and Woodland avenue, during a fight between the men. King Is in the rnivtrsity Hospital aud Boozer was locked up. CCEAN STEAMER3 Sailed for Philadelphia Norwegian, from Liverpool.

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