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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SUNDAY. APRIL' 15,1906. MOTHERS' CONGRESS AT ATLANTA.

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WHITE GARAGE, 1380-82 Bedford Avenue FATHER GEORGE FESER DEAD. managers of the campaign on behalf of the Municipal Ownership League ticket to provide a watcher at every election district, and men had promised to serve as watchers in practically every district. The fact that there were no watchers after tho first hours of voting, in hundreds of districts, is only explicable by tho fact that they were bribed to stay away. That the managers of the McCIollan campaign resorted to bribery to accomplish this end is shown by attempts to Drlbe set forth In the annexed affidavit of Michael Meyers. As the only object in bribing the Municipal Ownership League watch ers to remain away from the polling places would be to enable the election officers to resort to illegal practices undetected, and discriminate against that ticket in the count.

and, as such practices would be unavailing in the absence of a combination between the Republican and Democratic Insnectors of election, the resort to these practices further evidence of the existence of such a combination and of tho significance of tho aforesaid discrepancies between the tally sheets and tee ballot clerks returns." No Attention Paid to Watchers' Pro tests. Illegal votes were counted for McClellan In defiance of protests by certain M. O. L. watchers, says Mr.

Hearst, and he charges that the early and often Bystem of voting was practiced in the Second Assembly Dis trict of Kings County, and the Second, Sixth, Eighth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Eight eenth Assembly Districts of New York County. From affidavits which were submitted with the application, Mr. Hearst, says it appears that "these fraudulent practices were so openly carried on and so numerous that the conclusion is irresistible and the applicant charges the fact to be that the election officers In those districts were guilty of wilful fraud In the conduct of the election sufficient to Impugn the fairness and accuracy of their canvass of the votes and to warrant a recount." Mr. Hearst relates that numerous con victions followed aotionB by the Attorney General as a result of such alleged practices. It Is also charged that there were numerous violations of the law as a result of intimidation of voters.

Ready to Furnish Bond. Mr. Hearst reviews the various legal pro ceedings which he instituted to secure a re count of the ballots by more direct means and concludes: 'Applicant was advised by his counsel. and verily believes, that an action in quo warranto is necessarily attended with very considerable delay, and for this reason and because of the fact that there has been pend ing before the Legislature a bill, which. If enacted, would permit a recount and a speedy declaration of the result, the applicant has postponed filing this application.

By a vote in the Assembly, taken on the 2d said bill was, by a decisive vote, recommitted to the committee from which It had been re ported, since which recommittal no action has been taken upon said bill by said committee. It now appearing that there is no Intention on the part of the Legislature to pass said bill, this application is now filed, to the end that It may be judicially determined whether the aforesaid George B. Mc Clellan has a valid and lawful title to the office of mayor of the City of New York. 'The applicant offers to furnish such bona as may be required for the prosecution of aid action, and for the payment of costs and expenses." independents''mass meeting. It Will Be Held in Carnegie Hall on April 20 to Protest Against Killing the Recount Bill.

A mass meeting to which the people of tho entire city are Invited, is to be held at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, on Friday evening, April 20, under the auspices of various organizations, to protest against the action of the majority of the State Assembly In killing the Ralnes-Murpby recount bill. A call for the meeting has been issued through the resolutions of the Direct Nominations League, the Municipal Reform Alliance, the Citizens Protective League and the Committee of Five Hundred, composed of citizens of the city regardless, of political affiliations. The mass meeting will be entirely non-partisan, and from the list of those who will take part it is shown that Democrats, Republicans and Independents, who were fighting for different candidates at the last municipal election, have Joined to give the people an opportunity to express their protest against the action of the Assembly, and demand that honest elections be given to this city. William Randolph Hearst, William M. Ivlns, Charles Sprague Smith, Calvin Tom-kins, Hamilton Holt, John Ford.

Judge Samuel Seabury and Clarence J. Shearn have been Invited to speak. Mr. Shearn will tell of the actual facts in connection with t.he tampering with ballot boxes in the last election as disclosed by his investigations, which have been carried on since election day. Tickets of admission may be obtained from the headquarters of the organizations interested.

ACCUSED OF BICYCLE THEFT. Arthur Powers, aged 14 years, of Sands street, was locked up by the police of the Adams street station last night, charged with the larceny of a bicycle from Captain Manley. of 211 Adams street. The bicycle was recovered, but tho boy says he Is guiltless of the theft. IN Brief Filed with Attorney General Last Night Calls McClellan Usurper.

HAD HOPED FOR QUICK RELIEF. Courts and Legislature Were Tried First No II. 0. Officials at the Foils. William Randolph Hearst Sled an appltca Hon with the Attorney General, last night.

in which he asks (or the Institution of quo warranto proceedings to secure a recount of the ballots cast at the last election. In the brief filed with the Attorney General Mr. Hearst charges that the Republicans, at the election booths, combined with the Dem ocrats to secure the counting in of George B. McCIollan, because "It was well known that the Republican candidate for Mayor had no chance of election." This, the brief says, afforded an opportuni ty for a combination to defeat Mr. Hearst, and affidavits which are supposed to be evidence of such a combination, accompany it.

Mayor McClellan is referred to as a usurper." and it is further charged that in timidation and violence were permitted at the polls, that the votes of men not registered were received and that many persons voted on the names of others. The reason for asking the Institution of these proceedings now instead of earlier according to the brief, that all the more direct means of securing a recount of the ballots provided for in the existing laws have been tried without success. It is recorded that the relief could not be secure! through court proceedings, and that the bill Introduced into the Legislature seems to have no chance of passage. In view of all this the quo warranto proceedings are asked as the last means at the disposal of the applicant. The brief states that the figures an nounced by tho Boards of County' Canvnssers as the official voto for the candidates for Mayor a-fe as follows: N.

Y. Kings Queens niond Co. Co. Co. Co.

Total. Ivlns 64.289 61.102 7.213 4.499 137.133 140.2U4 6K.778 6.127 Lie 3.387 847 117 11,317 305 331 40 129 1,483 63? i)5 39 2.27 Hearst 123,282 84,635 3.0H2 324.V23 Various Forms ef Fraud Charged. Continuing, the brief says: "That on December 27, 1905, the Board of Elections issued a certificate of election to George B. McClellan, who, forthwith, took the oath of office, and who, since January 1, 1306, has held said office. That in point of fact, as the applicant verily believes, the greatest number of lawful votes for the office of mayor, at said election, were cast for the applicant, who was thereby duly elected mayor of the City of New York, and that said McClellan is a usurper of said office and not rightfully or lawfully entitled to exercise Its functions.

That the votes for said office were not truly counted as cast, were llegally canvassed and falsely returned by the Inspectors of election. That intimidation and violence at the polling places during the voting hours and during the count prevented free expression of the will of voters, and a true ascertainment and declaration of the vote. That the same men were permitted to vote more than once. That the votes ol men who were not registered were received. That men were permitted to vote upon other men a names.

That votes were purchased and lawful voters disfranchised by trick and device. That all of Bald frauds were practiced, as the applicant verily believes, in aid of the candidacy of said George B. McClellan, and solely by means thereof was a plurality in his favor created upon the face of the returns. "No True and lawful Record of Vote." Mr. Hearst states that in several districts of the city there was a miscount of the votes and because the election officers in such districts failed to comply with the mandates of Section 84 of the election law and correct such miscount, on election night, no true and lawful record of tha actual vote was kept, and the only way to get it is to recount the ballots.

The charge of a combination against ths Municipal Ownership ticket is contained la the following: "The various election boards were required by law, to be made up equally of representatives of the party that nominated the said McClellan and of tho party that nominated William M. lvins. No other party and no independent organization, such as the Municipal Ownership League, had any representative upon any election board to safeguard its Interests. It was well known that the Republican candidate for Mayor had no chance of election. The opportunity was thus afforded for a combination between the Republican and Democratic election officers to discriminate against the Municipal Ownership League ticket and defraud it of votes.

Evidence of such combination is afforded by the affidavits, hereto annexed, showing that in many sections of the city election boards not only counted Illegal votes In favor of said McClellan and refused to entertain protests against counting such ballots or to mark and place in an envelope ballots protested, as marked for identification so that they might, subsequently, be' passed upon In the courts, but that they also refused to count ballots similarly marked when cast for the applicant and placed "such ballots aside in envelopes with no marking thereon to enable the courts to determine whether such bullots had or had not been counted. Evidence Found in Boxes Actually Reopened. "Further evidence of BUCh combination, and also of the significance of the discrepancies between the tally sheets and the ballot clerks' returns, is afforded by the result of a recount of five ballot boxes since the election, to wit, those of the Eleventh Election District of the First Assembly District, the Sixth Election District of the Eighth Assembly District, the Third Election District of the Fourth Assembly District, the Tenth Election District of the Second Assembly District, which were opened In the presence of the Supreme Court, on December 1, 1905. The results are shown by the annexed affidavits of applicant's counsel, Clarence J. Shearn.

from w.hich It. appears that In the first mentioned district there was a gain of seven votes for tho applicant on the actual tally of the ballots an they lay In the box, Irrespective of whether they were legally or illegally marked, three more votes having been credited to McClellan than were shown on the ballots and four less votes having been credited to the applicant than were shown on tho ballots; in the second mentioned district there was a similar gain of four votes for the applicant, two ballots that were marked for the applicant having been credited to McClellan; In the third mentioned district there was a similar gain for the applicant of six votes, five more votes having been credited to McClellan than there wore votes for htm In the box and one less vote having been credited to the applicant than there were votes shown on the ballots In the box: that In the fourth mentioned district, while the count was mathematically correct, there were fifty-six void McClellan ballots In the box." Watchers Bought by Wholesale. Hints that some of the M. O. L.

watchers were bought up by Tammany Hall are contained in the next extract from Mr. Hearst's brief. He says: "Furthermore, there was abundant opportunity for the aforesaid combination to work effectively, Inasmuch as in a very large number of districts there were no watchers representing the Municipal Ownership League ticket and In a great many districts where there were they were intimidated and prevented from exercising the lawful prerogative of a watcher, by the election officers, as appears in the affidavits annexed hereto. An effort was made by the FIRST-CLASS Piano, or Piano and Self Intending purchasers of a STRICTLY Plaver combined, should not fail to ex amine the merits of the world-renowned PIANOS and the "SOHMER-CECILIAN" Inside Players, which surpass all others. Catalogue mailed on application.

SOHMER COMPANY, New York Wareroomat Cur. Sth Ave. 22d N. MAN'S BODY FOUND IN RIVER. Papers in a Pocket Recommended Henry Juniber as "a Competent Cooper." Edward Wilcox, a deckhand, living 1n Jer sey City, was working arouiid the foot of Fifty-first street and North River, Man hattan, yesterday, when he saw the body of a man, fully clothed, floating in the wnter.

He informed Patrolman Dale, of the West Forty-Hoventh street police station, and to gether they got into a small boat, and with the aid of roues, managed to land the body. From nil appearances it had been in the water for some time. A search of the clothing revealed no valuables, but in the in side coat pocket a number of loiters of rec ommendationfrom firms in England and Scot land, including one from London, recom- mtndii.g "Henry Juniber as a competent cooper. The clothing was of good texture, and the man seemed to have been in comfortable circumstances. Coroner Acritelll was not ified, and ordered the booy removed to the morgue.

FOR EDUCATION IN SOUTH. This Association Would Give Industrial Training to Mountaineers' Children. To tho Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle: The Southern Industrial Educational Association is a new organization, but is accomplishing great things. This association was organized and incorporated in Washington, D. in December, 1905, with headquarters in that city.

Tho purpoao of this association is to better the educational conditions of the uneducated white children of the mountain districts of the South. Tho leader and president general of this association id Mrs. Martha Gielow, of Alabama famous in two continents aa author and reader and lecturer. Though non-sectarian, the lists of trustees and life members contain such names as Satterlee, the Kev. Dr.

Randolph H. McKim. Bishop Greer, the Rev. Dr. W.

L. Davidson, president the Chautauqua Association; General Greeley. Mrs. Donald McLean. Mrs.

Algernon Sydney Sullivan, MIbs Mary Sinclair Burkhara, the Hev. Dr. Howard Dufllcld, Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, Mrs.

Jefferson Davir-i. Mrs. J. Lowrie Bell and Mrs. Qamuel Spencer.

Senator Morgan and all prominent Southern senators and representatives indorse tho movement. General Woodford, ex-Minister to Spain, made a most eloqueut address in behalf of the association. He oaid among other things that Mra. Gielow was leading a crusade greater than the Crusade of Joan of Arc, with a cause more righteous, whoso results would beneflt the entire future of thls Republic. Mrs.

Gielow, who has been the honored speaker before almost every important club in New York, gave a dramatic recital at the Hotel Astor, on Saturday, the 7th before a representative Manhattan audience, for the benefit of her work. Her address on that occasion was most eloquent, and many Jiandfiome contributions have been sent as the result, to further the cause. A FRIEND OF EDUCATION. Manhattan, April 13, 1906. This letter is accompanied by a circular, Jiving the following synopsis of the aims the association: "From thit stock of mountaineers have come Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson and Abraham Lincoln.

We owe it to our country to carry edueaiion to their children. We ask you to help us. It is our purpose to 'establish settlements and Industrial schools among them to send teachers and missionaries wittaiu their very homes. To open up ilreeide Industries among them, spinning, weaving, cooking, sewing every kind of domestic work and handicraft. We want to help them help themselves, and especially to develop them agriculturally." RUSSIAN EASTER SERVICES.

Emperor Nicholas Eemains nt Tsnrkoe-Selo Ceremonies in All the Churches. 1 St. Petersburg, April 15 At midnight last night the tumul imposing Easter services were held in all the churches in St. Petersburg. There were no untoward incidents.

Emperor Nicholas, who ordinarily gives the signal, "Christ is risen," at the Winter Palace, remained at Tsarkoe-Selo, to which place special trains were run to accommodate cabinet ministers and other high dignitaries who went to the palace to be present at the service. The expectations that. Easter would be marked by some important announcement bearing on the fight between Count Witte and Minister of the Interior Durnovo were not realized. Several pages of promotions and decorations will be published in the llicia Messenger to-morrow, hut the Emperor has not even signalized the day with a generous gift to the people. Among the fcJaster honors conferred Count Cas-ini is made an actual privy councilor of the second rank in the Russian hierarchy and M.

UakhnuMicff, Russian minister to Japan, whose wite was Mary lieale, of Washington, is givon the Order of St, Andrew. DR. LAWRENCE'S NEW CHARGE. The Rev. Dr.

W. H. Lawrence, formerly pastor of the Morris Park M. E. Church, has been assigned by the conference to a church in New Haven.

where he will remove during tho coming week. Dr. Lawrence's new church it situated in one of tho many plciisuni suburbs of New Haven. The church parscnagf and parish houee, a new feature in are all free from debt, and the parish is in a flourishing condition. Eagle Souvenir Post Card Coupon.

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-Vi-ir. all mail to Snuvonir POST CAULi Brooklyn Eaule. Opens on April 23 Large Representation of Southern Women Expected. Atlanta, April 14 The Georgia Mothers Congress will meet In Atlanta April 23 to 25, at the call of Mrs. Theodore W.

Blr-ney, founder of the National Congress of Mothers. This will be the first mothers congress to meet In the South and a large representation is expected from all the Southern States. Speakers of national reputation will be present. Sherman Davis of the University of Indiana, Mrs. Frederick Schaff, president of the National Congress of Mothers; Robert Alley, Mrs.

Birney, Dr. A. J. McKelway, secretary of the national child labor committee; Judge N. B.

Frazier of Birmingham, Mrs. James Jackson and others identified with the women's clubs of Georgia will be among the attendants. Governor Terrell will preside over the opening session and John Temple Graves will deliver an address of welcome. LOADING FOR COLON. Steamship Austriana Taking Out Loco motives.

The British steamship Austriana is at Martin's stores loading a cargo for the Isth mlan Commission, to be discharged at Colon, It consists largely of locomotives for service on the banks and works of the Panama Canal, It is said that 120 of theBe have been or dered, the first consignment going on the Austriana, The lot Is valued at $900,000. The Bhip will be followed by the Santona, which Is to take out a full cargo of freight cars for the Canal. These are of the flat type, suita ble for heavy material. Several other car goes of railroad material and equipment are to follow on other steamships. BRIDGE NEARS COMPLETION.

Boiling Lift Span Over Flushing Creek May Be in Operation by August 1. The work of placing in position the steel superstructure for the new bridge over Flushing creek, at the foot of Broadway, Flushing, will be commenced this week Operations for the past year have been con fined to constructing the abutments and what are known as the rest piers. The bridge is to be of the type known as the Scherzer rolling lift, which has been used with conspicuous success in Chicago. It Is hoped to have the bridge ready for traffic by the first of August. In a statement made Friday, Engineer Byrnes, in charge of Drldges In Queens Bor- ough, stated that accounts of the difficulty with the abutment on the Newtown side of tho creek have been greatly exaggerated It Is true, he said, there was a slight move ment of the great mass of masonry, but it was so slight as hardly to be noticeable, and will be remedied by reinforcement of spiles and concrete on the outside aid with tie-rods from the inside.

APPEALS TO THE GOVERNOR. Arguments for Approval of Mortgage Tax Bill Presented by C. Augustus Haviland. C. Augustus Haviland has sent to the Gov.

ernor a brief arguing in favor of his approval of the bill to repeal the existing mortgago tax law. The brief sets forth that "it is now conceded that mortgage taxation is double taxation and that the borrower pays the tax. This alone should bring about the repeal of the present mortgage tax law if there is any desire to deal fairly with human beings. "The attempt to impose a tax upon the money loaner having signally failed, and thousands of poor men and women having been discriminated against and robbed, on the plea that the rich were escaping taxa tion, ought to convince your excellency that a wrong has been done whlc'n Bhould be righted. "The immediate advance last July in rate of Interest from 5 per cent, to 6 per cent, was brought about directly, as you know, be cause of the mortgage tax law of last year, which you urged upon the Legislature.

"The retention of the present law upon the statute book means, as your excellency knows, an annual tax of of 1 per cent. upon a man's debts payable by the debtor to enrich a state. Your experiment has been tried. It has disclosed that a burden nas been placed-upon thousands of human beings who are discriminated against because they are borrowers. These plain people, the bone and sinew of this great metropolis, have a rignt to fair treatment at the hands of their executive, and they mean to have a 'square if they have to battle for it at tne polls." A NIGHT IN BOHEMIA.

Enjoyable Reception to Charles Wilson, of Montreal. Charles Wilson, of Montreal, Canada, who recently graduated from McGill University, was tendered a reception by his Brooklyn friends last evening, at the home of Franklin Moss, of 522 Balnbrldge street. Tho occasion was called "A Night in Bohemia," and was a stag smoker. The entertainment consisted of dancing and singing by the Fan-tana Trio, Dr. R.

Lamkay, pianist, and B. F. Moss, vocalist. Mr. Wilson was accom panied on his trip to Brooklyn by Ernest Carreen, of Montreal.

At midnight a col lation was served. Among the limited number of guests in vited were C. Wilson, S. H. Moss, E.

Car- rean, 8. Kelt, Joseph Stock, Dr. R. Lamkay, Louis Lamkay, Fred Worms, Harold Worms, Martin Postner. Benjamin Batkln, Fred Lohnman, Walter Bnpp, Walter Grouss, N.

Schrelber, Charles Stone, Maxwell Mayer, Henry Winters, John Reese and Edward Herring. GAVE A SACRED MUSICALE. Enjoyable Entertainment Presented Un der the Auspices of the Allied Arts Association. The Allied Arts Association gave a sacred musicals last night at the home of Miss Laura A. Cregan, 181 Sixth avenue.

The house and dining room were handsomely decorated with lilies, rabbits and other Easter tokens, and the ice cream was served In lily forms. William Enderlin, the blind pianist, played Rubinstein's "Kamen-nol-ostrow" and an encore. HJalmar J. Clausen sang the "Palms." Miss Grace E. Huene, accompanied by Miss Charlotte Hague, sang "In After Years." Mrs.

Emma B. Sibley, soprano, accompanied by Miss Stella Dobbs, sang Buck's "The Redeemer My Lord." Joseph Stelnberger read a critical analysis of "Parsifal," claiming that the opera is not up to the Wagnerian standard. Miss Llllle O. Smith, accompanied by William J. Beatty, sang Johnson's "Face to Face." Julian Blitz, the young 'cellist, played his father's "Romance." The honors of the evening went to Miss Lila Haskell, a contralto from Berlin, accompanied most artistically by the A.

A. A. string trio Irwin Sveleth Hassell, piano; Dr. Edouard Blitz, violin, and Julios Blitz, 'cello. Miss Haskell's voice, style, method and temperament were a revelation and her performance was considered one of the best heard this season, by the association.

The trio played Lalo's Allegro, brilliantly and in a muslcianly manner. Refreshments were served, during which Henry Clifton Jahne recited cleverly an appropriate selection. BELIEF FOR ITALIANS. Ten thousand dollars, the first installment of the funds collected by the Italian Relief Committee, was forwarded to the district stricken by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius yesterday afternoon through the firm of C. B.

Richard Co. The money was forwarded by cable after a conference of the committee. There remains $13,000 in the hands of the commutes. ELECTRICITY. The LIGHT OF To-day.

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21-27 New Chambers St. OVER THE SITUAT1 Leaders Who Have Returned From New York Do Not Share Mitchell's Optimism. THINKTHERE MAYBE LONG FIGHT Coal Operators Are Making Preparations for an Extended Suspension of Mining. Philadelphia, April 14 Despite the opt! ralsm with which President Mitchell, of tha United Mine Workers of America, views the situation in the anthracite field, the min era themselves and business men through out the region express but little hope of nv peaceful settlement of the differences between the operators and miners. Leaders of tha miners organization, who have returned front New York, declare that although the pros pect appears gloomy there Is still hope that the threatened strike may be averted.

Tbef base this opinion on the belief that tha operators will accept some of the modifications contained in the last proposition ot the scale committee. On the other hand, officials of the coal companies have since Thursday, in various sections, been making obvious preparations for an extended suspension of mining opera. tlons. Imported laborers are said to have. been placed in the collieries of the Hillside Coal and Iron Company, the Pennsylvania Company and the Delaware and Hudson Company in the vicinity of Wllkes-Barre.

It is said to be the intention of the opera-, tors to concentrate the men until a com plete working force is obtained at each mine It is hoped to operate. The strike of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company's carpenters, which, resulted from an order to build barracks for deputies, was extended to-day to tha North Franklin Colliery, at Trevorton, when a gang quit work after being ordered to Locust Gap to construct barracks there. President John Fahey, of the Ninth District, was visited to-day by hundreds of miners in and about Shamokin, who ex pressed confidence la their leaders and prom ised full support of any action taken by tha scale committee. Mass meetings of the mine workers' locals throughout the region have been called for to-morrow, Monday and Tuesday, at whiob the situation will be elucidated by members of the scale committee, At the mines of the Lehigh Vallev Coal Company, recently purchased from Coxa Bros. at Freeland, the company today deducted from the miners' pay the amount of the house rent pf each for tSa month of April.

In order to determine the powers of tha state police, organized by an act of the lastl Legislature, mine workers in the vicinity of Wllkes-Barre are swearing out warrants for- the arrest of policemen who are be lieved to have overstepped their authority. Hearings will be held in three cases next Wednesday, the charge being assault and battery and perjury. Mahanoy City, April 14 The Lehigh, valley- coal company Is removing the pumps from the Jeanesvllle colliery which will be allowed to fill with water. Strikebreakers are being brought into this region aim are Demg boused in the barracks at tha mines. Union pickets are again guarding the approaches to the collieries.

Several engineers add firemen have quit work fearing they may be attacked by the idle men. Wheeling, W. Va April 14 The United Mine workers convention of sub-district No. 6, met at 10 o'clock this morning to receive the answer of the operators to the demand for the 1903 scale made upon them yester day. The answer was a fiat refusal to grant the demands and instead an offer to arbitrate on the lines proposed by John H.

Winder was presented. This the miners would not accede to. The operators then wltiidrew and a strike was declared; Eleven thousand miners are affected in the sub-district, which includes Belmont. Harrison and Jefferson counties in Ohio, and Brooke, and Marshall in West Virginia, Strike headquarters will be opened in Wheel. lng.

Pittsburg, April 14 The 1,200 mlnw era of the Great Lakes Coal Company, at Kayior, wno were called out on strike yesterday because one company refused to sign the wage scale, returned to work to-day, the scale having been signed Frank Feehan. who claims to be the legal president of the district miners, has ar ranged for a conference with the Pittsburg operators to sign the dead work scale. Tha conference will be held Monday morning. It Is reported apparently on good author ity, that Patrick Prolan and Uriah Belllng- hara. will retire in Monday in favor of the Feehan faction, and that the old district officials will not make any move to prevent the Feehan faction from signing the 1903 wage scale with the operators.

Greenville. April 14 The miners and operators of the Mercer and Butler County fields of the Pifttsburg district reached an agreement on the wage scale last night, which will be effective for two years, dating AdHI 1. 1906. The miners were granted an advance, but It is a compromise on the 1903 scale demanded. About 1.500 miners, who have been on strike, will return to work immediately.

A WOMAN DOCTOR Was QnlcU to See That Coffee Poison Was Doing the Mischief. A lady tells of a bad case of coffee poisoning and tells it in a way so simple and straightforward that literary skill could not improve It. "I had neuralgic headaches for 12 years," she says, "and have suffered untold agony. When I first began to have them I weighed 140 pounds, but they brought me down to 110. I went to many doctors and they gave me only temporary relief.

So I suffered on, till one day in 1904, a woman doctor told me to drink Postum Food Coffee. She said I looked like I was coffee poisoned. So I began to drink Postum and I gained 15 pounds in the first few weeks and am still gaining, but not so fast as at first. My headaches began to leave me after I had used Postum about two weeks long enough I expect to get the coffee poison out of my system. 'Now that a few months have passed since I began to use Postum Food Coffee, I can gladly say that I never know what a neuralgic headache is like any more, and it was nothing but Postum that cured me.

Before I used Postum I never went out alone; I would get bewildered and would not know which way to turn. Now I go alone and my head is as clear as a bell. My brain and nerves are stronger than they have been for years." Name given by Postum Battle Creek, Mich. mere's a reason. Heart tne little dook, 'The Road to Wellville," in pkgs.

Priest of St. Barbara's Church Passes Away in St. Catherine's Hospital After Long Illness. The Rev, Father George Feser, of St. Barbara's Church, Bleecker street and Central avenue, died in St.

Catharine's Hospital, last night, of a complication of diseases. Father Feser had been ailing for some time and as a last hope he was taken to the hospital. Father Feser was born in Brooklyn, fifty years ago. He was educated at St. Vincent's Academy in Westmoreland County, and later took a finishing course at Mary's Seminary in Emmetsburg, Md.

He was ordained to the priesthood In 1879. Nineteen years aao he came to Brooklyn as a priest and was attached to St. Boniface's Church, at Duffield and Wllloughby streets. Five years ago he was transferred to St. Barbara's Church.

July 5, 1904, he celebrnted his silver jubilee. Father Feser is survived by a sister, Mar garet C. Feser. The funeral services will be held In St. Barbara's Church, Tuesday morning, when solemn high mass will be celebrated.

UNLUCKY DAY FOR BIG TOES. Two Men and a Boy in South Brooklyn Have Members Crushed in Various Ways. Yesterday was an unlucky day for toes in South Brooklyn. Beside the usual number which were stepped upon on the elevated road and in the trolley cars, at least three men suffered the calamity of completely losing the use of one or more of these rather useful adjuncts of the human body. John Whalen, 15 years old, of 942 Third avenue, was driving a horse and truck at the Bush Terminal Company's docks, at the foot of Forty-second street, when he acci dentally caught his right foot beneath the hind wheel.

His big toe was crushed. Am bulance Surgeon Baumgard. of the Nor wegian Hospital, dressed the wound. Lewis Chuffo, 44 years old, of Ho Creamer street, while at work on tho lighter Albert lying at tho foot of Fifty-second etreet, had his left big toe crushed. He was carrying a case of machinery when it slipped from his hand and fell on hlB foot, causing the accident.

He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon Baumgard. The third victim suffered the loss of two toes. He was Joseph Ditta, 26 years old. of 8 Beaver street, Flushing. While at work removing stone flags from the Bidewalk at Prospect Park West and Prospect avenue, one of the flags accidentally fell on his left foot.

He was attended by Ambulance Surgeon Zimher, of the Seney Hospital. WANTED BY THEIR WIVES. Three Alleged Recreant Husbands Arrested by New York Detectives in Other States. Three husbands, afflicted. It Is alleged, with spring "go" fever, were followed out of town by detectives with warrants secured by wives and yesterday two of them were brought back to this city.

The first 'to be arrested was John Reass, 29 years old, of 194 Grove street, Manhattan. He was charged with abandonment by his wife, Mary Reass, of 334 East Ninetieth street. He was arrested at Providence, R. 1., yesterday, and brought back to this city on a warrant issued on April 8 by Magistrate Moss, and served by Detective Sergeant John Farley. Meanwhile Detective Sergeant Charles Farley was searching Atlantic City for John Boyle, 26 years old, of 539 West Forty-second street, who was charged by his wife with abandonment.

Just as he secured his man the detective sergeant received from Inspector McCluskey a telegram ordering him to arrest Paul Randolph Robertson, of 103 West Sixty-third street, and also of 5S Kinney street, Newark. N. whose ten alleged wives desire his presence in this city. Robertson and his alleged wlvee are colored. The principal request for Robertson's presence reached the detective bureau from Mrs.

Florence Ophelia Croeneceler-Robertson. She rotalned counsel. Lawyer Louis A Lea-vell, of 239 West Fifty-third street. He ealled upon the District Attorney and, after a consultation, a warrant for the arrest of the black Adonis was issued. Meanwhile the husband left New York and was supposed to be in Atlantic City.

Detective Farley found Robertson after a few hours and persuaded tho local authorities to hold him until the requisition papers should come from New York. Then he brought Boyle to the city. CELEBRATED CHILDREN'S DAY. About one hundred small children from the Intermediate departments of the various Baptist Sunday schools, gathered yesterday afternoon at the Baptist Home, Greene and Throop avenues, to celebrate the annual children's day. Donations of dry groceries were carried to the home by the children and their teachers.

Ice cream, candy and cake were sold at the home at a reasonable figure, and the old folks were brightened by their presence. Receiver of the Fredonla National Bank Brings the Suit in Buffalo. NOT KNOWN WHAT DEFENSE IS. Five Actions Have Been Started by C. L.

Williams Against the ustice. (Special to the Eagle.) Justice Warren B. Hooker, now sitting In the Appellate Division at Brooklyn, baB been made a defendant in five actions brought by Christopher Williams as re ceiver of the Fredonla National Bank to recover the sum of upward of $25,000 which It Is alleged Mr. Hooker owes the re ceiver of the bank upon his own notes or as indorser upon notes made by others. The complaints are on file in the office of the United States District Court here.

This afternoon Deputy United States Mar shal Charles Hettlg, of Buffalo, went to Fredonla for the purpose of serving the papers upon the Justice and upon the co- defendants named. It was said that the Justice would be at his home over Easter. The facts disclosed in the papers simply set forth that the receiver of the bank holds so much Hooker paper, upon which is due the amounts alleged with the interest Whether there are any Interesting stories to be told In connection with the notes held by Receiver Williams will have to be reserved until the trial, if a settlement of the Hooker accounts is not made out of court. It Is not known what defense will he interposed. Justice Hooker has twenty days in which to answer.

His friends in Buffalo said that Mr. Hooker did not owe the money. The first action 1b brought against Justice Hooker individually to recover the sum of $16,309.37, plus Interest from Jan. 1, 1905, less $49, and the costs of the action. In this action It Is alleged that Hooker, on November 6, 1899, made a promissory note to J.

A. Waterhouse for the sum of $31,540, payable on demand. This note was endorsed by Waterhouse and became the property of the Fredonia National Bank, which was the holder of It at the time the bank went into a receivership. According to the complaint, there was paid upon the note the sum of $15,230.63. A $40 Interest payment was made on August 8, 1905.

The second suit Is for the sum of $3,000, and Interest from July 28, 1905. It is divided Into five causes of action all of which are identical. The substance of the complaint is that on November 28. 1892, War ren B. Hooker made five promissory notes payable to the order of the Sheffield Oil Company, in the sum of $1,708.33 each.

Tha notes were payable 72 months after date at the Fredonia National Bank. The complaint then alleges that these notes were indorsed by the Sheffield Oil Company and delivered to the Fredonia National Bank, which was the owner of them at the time the bank failed. Payments were made on all of the notes at different times down to last summer, when there was due the sum of $600 on each note, making a total Indebtedness of $3,000. The other three actions are brought acalnst Justice Hooker as indorser upon notes. LABOR WAR IN SIGHT.

College Point Silk Weavers Disregard Employers' Request and Join a Union Being Formed. In Columbia Hall, College Point, yesterday afternoon, there was held a big meeting of silk workers employed in the mills of the place. There were over three hundred of the hands in attendance, and it was decided to form a branch of the Silk Weavers Industrial Union. The action of the meeting was watched with Interest, owing to the fact that it may mean a bitter labor war In the village, affecting thousands of weavers. That a union of the weavers was to be formed has been known for several days.

Friday night, when the weavers of the Myhnepo Mills, over five hundred in number, left the mill, each one was handed a circular by the proprietors of the mills, which warned the hands against Joining the union. The circular said that organization among the mill hands would disturb the harmonious relations that had existed between the firm and it employes, and that any one who would not Join the union would receive preference in future relations with the firm. This circular had an inflammatory effect upon the employes, and most of those at the meeting yesterday afternoon were employes of the Myhnepo Mills. Samuel French, an organizer of the union, commented severely on the circular. The employes of the firm in large numbers disregarded the injunction of their employers, and Joined the union.

A RAID BY CAPTAIN CULLEN. New Commander of Brownsville Police Precinct Says He'll Close All Disorderly Houses. Louis Thompson, 29 years old, living at 72 Chester street, was arrested last night on a warrant issued by Magistrate Higgln-botham on the charge of keeping a disorderly house at the corner of Chester and Fulton streets. The house which the police claim to be a disorderly one Is owned by Charles Van Slse, and Thompson has been running the place for him for some time. Police Captain Thomas Cullen, who was yesterday transferred from the Liberty avenue station to the Brownsville precinct, has determined to rid his precinct of all improper places.

On receiving the warrant from Magistrate Hlgglnbotham, Captain Cullen. In company with Acting Inspector John W. O'Connor, went to the hotel and placed Thompson under arreBt. He will be arraigned in the Gates avenue court this morning. "COLD STORAGE" METHODISTS.

Bishop Goodsell Advised Young Pastors Against Becoming Such Fasting and Prayer Urged. Cooperstown, N. April 14 The feature of to-day's sessions of the Wyoming Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was an address by Bishop Goodsell to a class of ten young preachers who are candidates for ordination and admittance to the Conference. The Bishop urged the young men to be good pastors rather than mere ly great preachers, studious and spiritual. "ThA Doorest kind of a Methodist." he said.

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