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Sr. fE BROOKLYN DAITAV EAGLE. NEW VORK. SATtTRDAY. MAKCH 21.

1008. MISCELLANEOUS. TONERS QUICKLY BUILT Sll WOMAN PLEADS J. P. MORGAN Hi BIT.

REFUSE TO DENY STORY brokm; brothers' IT C0PFER ST WHITE HOUSE Hale's Honey of Horebound and Tar Hood's Sarsaparilla Under FOOD AND DRUGS ACT No chanco was uci-eiswiry in its rntjul.i or its advertising Always pure, safe aud bcm-licial from the it was oripiinted from the prescription of Dr. Oliver.of Itostou, by whom it was used Heard Swayne Had Cot a Divorce; And Then Was Married to McClelland. The One on Other Side of River Finished To-day; Brooklyn One Almost Done. Agreement Said to Have Been Reached, Regarding Tariff Revision. Gears The Voice Rumor Is That Magnate's Company Has Become System's Fiscal Agent.

with great success Hood's Sarsaparilla probably effected more cures pud r-. greater variety of cures, tluui any otbyr medicine- ilt is the ideal spring medicine, aud'bloqd purifier. Sold by Druggists ARREST0N SCHERMERHORN ST THERE'LL BE A CELEBRATION EXPERTS TO INVESTIGATE. A HINT THAT HARRIMAN IS OUT. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure In One Minute T0: WIDEN SCOPE.

No Immediate Prospect of Agreeing Spring every other day now. Won't be long until it's Spring altogether. Men who look ahead coming after suits and light weight overcoats in increasing numbers. We meet them with the 1 908 styles in all the new fabrics and colors. Prisoner Taken to Manhattan, Thrilling Story of Chase From 127 Weirfield Street Not True.

President Winter Acknowledges That Morgan Is Selling Some B. R. T. Securities. WEATHER FORECAST.

on Anti-Trust Law and Limiting Injunction. Citizens Central Committee Decides to Take Up. All Trust Questions. Next Come the Saddles, Then the Cables and Then the Heavy Superstructure. Tho completion of the towers from which will be suspended the cables and steel superstructure of the Manhattan Bridge is to be made the occasion of an official celebration by the contractors and the engineers and officials of the Bridge Department.

The last section of Bteel on the Manhattan tower is scheduled to be put in place to-day. The Brooklyn tower will be ready for tho cable work some day next week. The fact that the towers are practically completed has already been recognized by the hoisting of an American flag to the top of each tower. Commissioner Stevenson and his engineers arc gratified that Ryan Parker, tho contractors, made such rapid progress with tho towers. When the fact is taken into consideration that tho steel must be shipped from Phenixvllle, stored in Eagle Bureau.

SOS Fourteenth street. Washington, March 21 There was another conference at the White House today b'Uwcen the President and leaders of the Senate and House, with a view to fixing a legislative programme for the session The President bad with him Senator Aldrieh and Representatives Pnyno and Dalzell. It is stated that as a result of the conference an agreement has been practically reached regarding the tariff. The President and the Congress leaders arc still at odds on the proposed new anti-trust law and ihe bill to restrict the Issuance of federal injunctions. There is no serious hitch over the currency bill and the new employers liability bill, both of which will be passed in due time.

It Is now practically certain thai be ESTABLISHED OVER HALF A CENTURY ASTOR PLACE FOURTH AVE.N.Y. The rather sensational arrest of Mrs. Catherine McClelland, or Swayne, on a charge of bigamy at the house where she roomed on Schermerhorn street near Hoyt. last night, followed a stirring incident in the Gates avenue court yesterday. On a charge of disorderly conduct made by her brother-in-law and corroborated by a roan who said he was, McClelland, Magistrate O'Reilly sentenced the woman to jail for ten days.

Then her mbther and' two sisters, one of latter the wife of the brother-in-law who had made the charge, appeared in court, and declared the accused had not been "under the influence" and had created no disturbance. Magistrate O'Reilly listened attentively to all that was said, and remarking that somebody had deceived him, said he would reopen the case and paroled Mrs. McClelland for another hearing on Tuesday. The woman, accompanied by her mother and sisters, all ot whom were crying, left court, and later in the day Mrs. McClelland went to a large millinery store on Fulton Btrcct where she had been employed to get salary due her.

Her mother The report that J. P. Morgan Co. had become the fiscal agents of the Bro k-lyn Rapid Transit Companv and would have much to do with "nanclng the B. R.

T. in the future has not yet been contradicted. It is significant that the officials ot the B. R. T.

and representatives of Mr. Morgan'" office refrain carefully from making denials. Trcsident E. W. Winter ot the Brooklyn Rapid Transit added significance to the situation to-day by repudiating a newspaper interview which said: "Edwin W.

Winter denied the truth of the report entirely. 'It probably arises." he said, 'from the fact 'that P. Morgan Co. are handling some of our securities." Mr. Winter said to-dav that he stood by the following statement which had already been published: "All that 1 can say about the matter is that the statement -was not authorized by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company." Beyond that simple statement Mr.

Winter would not discuss the relations of Morgan Co. with the B. R. T. The fact that he reiterated that statement and at the same time repudiated the published denial.

Indicates that there Is some KILLED IN SELF DEFENSE. Coroner's Jury Exonerates Man Whose Blow With a Shovel Ended Fellow Laborer's Life. Persons desiring Information concerning the weather, temperature or other Information can secure it by unlng telephone No. '571 Mnitl. from 8 A.M.

to 6 P.M. week days. Klshts and Sundays, G200 Main. Indications Until 8 P.M. To-morrow.

Washington. March it For Eastern New York: Fair and warmer to-night and Sunday; fresh southwest to south winds. Local Probabilities. Fair and slightly warmer to-night; Sunday, fair and warmer; fresh southwest to south winds. General Weather Conditions.

i A slight disturbance that has been forced eastwanl off the" Bouth Atlantic coast caused rain last night In the Kast Uulf and extreme South Atlantic States and Tennessee and rain and snow in Virginia. In other portions of th country the weather has remained generally fair, except In sections of Wyoming. Oregon, Washington and Western Montana, where there has been rain or snow. No storm of consequence prevails to-day, but the development of one in the Middle West Is apparent. The weather has become colder in the East Gulf and South Atluntic States and in Tennesnee and in sections of the North Atlantic States from the Rocky Mountains eastwanl to tho Middle Mississippi Valley and central portion of the Lake district the temperature has risen.

Records at 8 A.M. Tern- Pre-I Tern- pera-ciplta-j pera-clplta Place. turo. tion.f Place. ture.

tlon. Boston ti New OrleanB 44 .22 Huffalo 24 -00j 30 .00 20 .001 St. Louis 38 .00 Philadelphia 3(1 Chicago 34 .00 Washington; .001 Dululh 2S .00 38 Fran'co 54 .00 Highest. 54. at San Francisco; lowest, 24, Buffalo.

indicates amount too small to measur. Official Temperature. FRIDAY. MARCH 20. 3 P.M 351 P.M 81 4 P.M 341 9 P.M.

30 5 P.M 3410 P.M ao 6 P.M; 33)11 P.M I I' M. 32112 (Midnight) 28 a yard at Bayonne. N. and then shipped in lighters as it is needed to the tower The Citizens Central Committee last night, at 'a meeting held in the rooms of the Brooklyn League. Temple Bar Biuld-ing.

decided to widen the scope of its work, sq as to include all transportation 'questions in the borough. Heretofore this qohunittee, which is composed of rep-neseptatives from about sixty civic organizations, has confined its efforts to questions, dealing with- transportation oyer or under the East River. On this line of effort the committee, has achieved remarkable success. Its agitation for an elevated loop connecting the Manhattan terminuses of the Williamsburg aud Brooklyn bridges resulted in the giving out of contracts for the subway loop now being built. Another direct result of this agitation was the passing oi the Public Service Commission law aud the displacement of the Rapid Transit Commission.

It was the unanimous sentimeut of the committee, as expressed at the meeting last night, that the center of the battle for adequate transportation had shifted from the river to the interior of the borough, and that the Citizens Central Committee, representing through accredited delegates sixty organizations in Brooklyn, should take its part in the battle. Former Senator George V. Brush, chairman of the legislative committee, had a very interesting report of the hearing before the Senate cities committee on the Travis-Robinson bill. The secretary reported that he had obtained from Bridge Commissioner Sle-venson the information that the work on -ihe new Manhattan terminal of the Bridge had been held up by contractors' inability to get money; that this had been remedied and the Wrk' had been pushed rapidly. Trolley cars will use the terminal next month and elevated trains early in May.

Vice President George C. Miller owing to the illness of J. Edward president of the committee. Patrick Sullivan, a laborer of Benson foundations on the Manhattan and Brooklyn sides of the river, Ryan Parker have done better than contractors have in the avenue and Bay Twentieth street, who was arrested on March 11 for causing the past with other bridges by having steel towers In place in a little over a year 3 time. With the showing that the con death of Joseph Fereri, a fellow laborer of 1361 Sixty-first street, by hitting him on the head with a shovel during a quarrel, was exonerated last night by the coroner's jury at the inquest.

and sisters returned to court to-day, be tractors have made in erecting the towers. the officials of the Bridge Department declare there is no reason why, the whole Sullivan and Fereri had become in lieving Mrs. would be. returned there. When they were informed that she had been taken to Manhattan they engaged a lawyer and departed for the Tombs court.

Alice, the 6-year-old volved in a dispute over the work, and Fereri struck two savage blows at his truth In the rumor. structure should not be completed within the contract time by December, 1909. The next step in the construction of tho Rumors In Wall street within the past few months all tended to create a belle! that Morgan Co. had obtained an in child of the accused by her first husband, bridge is putting the saddles In place on Walter R. Swayne, whom it is alleged she antagonist before the latter could return the blow.

Sullivan then, although badly Injured, managed to hit the Italian over the head with a shovel a.nd. the blow caused his death in the Long Island College Hospital less than an hour afterward. top of the towers. As there are four fore adjournment Congress will have authorized the first steps toward tariff revision. It is stated that Senator Aldrlci stand3 with the President on this matter and that Payne and Dalzell, the pet champions ot high protection, are slowly but surely giving in.

The proposition is to pass a resolution authorizing the President to designate a number of governmental experts to gather certain information that will be needed In tariff tinkering. These men will investigate the cost ot production at home and abroad, inquire into wages and other similar matters and report to Congress In December. Senator Aldrieh has agreed to this proposal, it is said. While Payne and Dalzell are still making a show of objecting to the plan, it is believed they will abandon their opposition when they realise that they will be run over if necessary. The sentiment, especially in the House, is strongly in favor of revision, and now that Senator Aldrieh is reported to have given his consent to the plan of inquiry, it is considered as reasonably certain that the work will be authorized.

It is also stated that there is no Immediate prospect of an agreement between the President and the Congressional leaders on the anti-trust law and the proposal to limit th use of in terest which might lead eventually to the exercise of considerable in he affairs of the B. R. T. It was reported married In October, 1901, while he was a sergeant in the Second V. S.

Cavalry, sta Sullivan, who is a very mild mauncred that the Morgan company hd l-torae tioned at Fort Myer, accompanied them. "My daughter' is innocent of any lnten-tlonal wrongdoing," said the mother to cables, there will be four saddles on each tower. The cables rest on the saddles, which are big sections of steel, with circular tops. There is, however, a radical difference between the saddles which ate to be Installed on the Manhattan Bridge and those which are used on the Will possessed of large blocks of treasury bonds of the transit company and had a SATURDAY. MARCH 21.

27 8 A.M 26 man, was supported by several and- the jury returned a verdict stating Ferreri had been kiled by him in self defense. y( A. relation the company 'which would day. "There is a conspiracy against the 1 A.M. 2 A.M.

3 A.M. 4 A.M. 5 A.M. The ca3e comes up in the Fifth avenue poor girl. When she married Walter Mc probably grow closer In fact 30 close that Morgan's compan might succeed 25110' A.M.

2511 A.M. 24112 (Noon) 24 1 P.M. court on Monday, and uSllivan will prob iamsburg Bridge. HELD ON LARCENY CHARGE. Clelland two years ago.

she believed she ably be discharged. 0 A.M. 7 A.M Flower Co as fiscal agents of the B. 2 P.M. On the Williamsburg Bridge tho saddles Average temperature to-day.

R. T. Ac- had a right to do so. She had been Informed that Swayne had secured a divorce and had married again." "McClelland knew my daughter had The failure of Morgan and Company and OFFICER NOT GUILTY. SUN RISES AND SETS.

Captain Knipe's Son, Thomas, cused of Taking an rest on rollers, which mov back nnd forth according to the strain which Is put on the cables. On the Manhattan Bridge the saddles will be immovable. The elat- March 21. March 22. Rises.

Sets. 6:09 6:56 Sets. .6:0 been married, and he kept continually of the U. R. T.

officials to deny reports of such grave importance caused Wall street to accept the reports with credence. This may have had something to do with the activity of B. R. T. stock in her to marry him.

I knew she in Grand Jury Dismissed Larceny Charge Made Against Corona Patrolman by a Citizen. ticity will be furnished by the towers themselves. They will bend back and forth to meet the strain placed on the tended no wrong and was misled. She has been employed as a milliner In a Fulton street store and living on Scher the past week, in which time the price ran up five points until profit taking junctions by Federal judges. The conser cables.

From an engineering standpoint HIGH WATER. A.M P.M.,! Dvnit'n at TlraelHIgh TlroelHlsh Bum lJI H.M,Ft H.M.Foetl H.M.fH.Mj New .110:24 I 4.5 1111:00 I 4.9 II 5:64 I 6:25 Sandy Hnok.10:10 I 4.3 10:43 4.T 6:08 9:35 merhorn street, where she went yester caused a slight decline. The situation at present is that each side stands on a statement that it did not authorize the the engineers declare that the method used on the Manhattan Bridge is far superior to that on the Williamsburg Bridge, because It has been found that The Queens County Grand' Jury has failed to find an indictment agninst Patrolman Thomas Harrington, formerly at report. J. P.

has refused to say anything further than this: tached to the Newtown precinct, and who moving saddles do not respond sometimes day after leaving court. I wish you would state that she was not arrested at my home. 127 Weirfield street, and that there-was no chasing over housetops or anything of the kind there." was arrested on January 15 last on a as they should to equalize the strain on the structure. charge of grand larceny preferred by Joseph Dcss of 24 Rapelye street. Corona.

Mrs. McClelland, or Swayne; was' ar rested on Wednesday last at the Fulton Preliminary surveys have already reen made by the Company ot Trenton to begin their contract in spinning the four big cables which will hold up the massive' steel superstructure. For months tho company has been manufac turlng, the steel from which the cables will be Ep. strand of wire turned out by company is tested to demonstrate whether or. it comesi up to the standard set by the engineers of Thomas Knipe, 21 years old, ot 348 "Irving avenue, and son of Captain Joseph F.

Knlpe of the Fort Hamilton precinct, was arrested to-day, at Grand avenue and Fulton street, by Detectives Walsh, Asip and Donlin, of the central office, at the instance of William S. Grover, the proprietor of a garage at 920 Union street, accused him of larceny in stealing overcoat valued at $25. Mr. Grover is a son of Manager William T. Grover.

According to statements made Magistrate Naumer, in the Myrtle avenue court, he employed young Knipe, vBome time ago, and let the latter wear an overcoat which. It was alleged, disappeared the same day, March t. that defendant did. The accused admitted wearing the coat, but. said he supposed it bad been given to him.

Mr. Grover qaid that such was not the case and explained to the-' magistrate that there was another charge against the defendant. He declared that Knlpe collected a bill of J30 for the hire of the automobile which had taken Governor Hughes around on Lincoln's blrth-v day. Knipe admitted he had collected rho money, but said It was only after repeated attempts to have the bill paid. Mr.

Grover had said to him that could have the money if ho collected rit. There was no complaint made on the -second named charge. Magistrate Naumer held the defendant in $300 ball on the charge larceny, 'for examination on March 23. vatives of the Senate are represented as declaring that both of these bills are entirely too important and far sweeping to he put through hastily. The disposition Is to have them go over until next session, and the Presidunt is represented as being equally insistent that they shall be passed before adjournment, especially the anti-trust bill.

This measure is expected to be filed In the House on Monday by Representative Hepburn. It proposes a radical change inthe existing laws affecting capitalistic combinations, and is bound to. give rise to a great deal of talk and criticism. Those, who know of its features are 'doubtful if It will ever be passed. Sen-(ator Aldrieh- is not at all Inclined to pledge his support to the measure, although It is understood that many of the big business men, bankers and captains of industry have been consulted in its preparation, and have indorsed Its provisions.

These frequent White House consultations between the President and the leaders of Senate and House are for the purpose of drafting a legislative that may be rushed through ut once so that an early adjournment can be had to give time for political work before the National' Conventions meet. It is believed, however, that an Insistence on the adoption of the new trust bill will result in a prolonged session. the Bridge Department, This Roebling Company, It is announced, is all preparea to undertake its part in the building of SHIP NEWS. Arrived at New York To-day. Prometheus, from Rotterdam.

Brooklyn City, from Bristol. Main, from Bremen. Kloterdyk. from Rotterdam. St.

Laurent, from Havre. Aurora, from Cardenas. Alamo, from Galveston. S. V.

raickenbach. from Ponce. St. Louts, from Strathyre-, from Santos. Trinidad, from Bermuda.

Merida, from Vera Cruz! Arrived at Foreign Porta Liverpool from New York. Port Said St. Dunstan, from New York. Santos Italian Prince, from New York. Hongkong Lowther Castle; frqra "Tfew York.

Sailed From Foreign Forts To-day. HavreLa Gascogne, for New York. Steamships Due To-morrow. From. Sailed.

Napolitan Prince Palermo 7 Hermann Lisbon Mar. 7 Krroll Gibraltar Mar. 8 Crown of Navarre Alhenga- Gibraltar 3 Cretic Naples, Mar. 10 Clenfuogos Tampico Mar. 13 Ponce Mar.

17 Alllanca Colon Mar. 15 City of Columbus Mar. Iroquois Ocinulgee Brunswick Mar. 19 the big bridge, and as soon as the sad dies are in place on top of the towers "The firm of J. P.

Morgan and Company is not responsible for the statement." Morgan and Company, in the panicky times of the past few months, went to the aid of a number of persons and firms In Wall street, and it was probably in this way that it became possessed of a big and of other consi'domtioimBlnia' helped to make a foundation for the report that the company would become the fiscal agent of the B. R. T. It was reported to-day that a member of the firm of J. P.

Morgan and Company would be elected as a member of the B. R. T. board of directors to succeed the late John G. Jenkins, Sr.

Another report was that E. H. Harrlman might retire from the B. R. T.

board, or, at least, be less active In the future. Reports that Harrlman had to sacrifice large blocks of his securities In the recent panic have not Included B. R. T. holdings among others sold by Harrlman, bul It may be that Harrlman's Interest in the Brooklyn company was disposed of.

at that time and that Morgan has become possessed of that along with the Interest of others. With J. P. Morgan and Company fiscal agents of the B. R.

T. the traction company's bond issues would probably have a better market than they now enjoy. There is a general belief that Morgan Is handling some securities for the B. R. T.

On Now Year's Eve, Dess was celebrating the dawn of 1908 by shooting off a revolver In front of his house. He alleged that while he was banging away at the clouds Harrington came along and ordered him to stop. He further alleged that the officer threatened- to take him to the station, but did not carry the threat into execution after he had searched him and found' In his hip but took the money and revolver, and theit walked away. Abou.t two' weeks after Dess reported the ease, to the police authorities, and Lieutenant George Cuilum of Brooklyn headquarters was detailed to make an investigation. On January 15, Dess went to Flushing police court with Lieutenant Cuilum and swore out a warrant for Harrington's arrest on the charge of grand larceny.

Harrington was arrested and arraigned in court, where he waived examination and was held for the Grand Jury. Yesterday the jury heard the evidence In the case and found it to be so flimsy that it threw the case, out and found the officer not guilty of the charge. Harrington has been a policeman for eleven years, and in all that time has never had a charge against him. He has a wife and four children, and resides at 36 Cambridge street. Corona.

sucet store she was" employed, on a warrant Ly Oiiicer Michael Collins ot the Gates avenue court. She was arraigned in the Adams street' court before Masictrste Doolcy on the disorderly conduct charge made by her brother-in-law, Edgar L. Stembler of 5H0- Bainbridga street, and paroled for a hearing In the Gates avenue court yesterday. When the ease was called yesterdiy the accused was alone in Stembler, who Is said to be' a law clerk employed by the Lawyers Title Guarantee Company, wont on the stand and testified that she had created a disturbance in the apartments and bad threatened to throw acid at or shoot him. Witness said his sister-in-law had been living at hlE home, and that she often used profane language in the presence of his chil lren.

Stembler said on Monday night the woman had. come home intoxicated, had jabbed at him with a hat pin and had then made the threats complained of. A young man named Bennett, who said he lived in the same apartment house with Stembler, testified that he had seen Stembler lead the woman from the house on the night in question. He would not swear the woman was Intoxicated, he Bald. Then Walter McClelland, who is said to have married the accused in September, and whose home is in Manhattan, went on the stands Ho said he was the woman's husband, that they had, not lived together' this year, and he had dis-oovorod she was a bigamist.

She was a vary bad woman, drank intoxicating liquors, used. profane language and misbehaved In other ways. He. was not able, however, to tell what had occurred at the-Stembler home on the date in question. Magistrate O'Reilly asked Stembler where his wife was.

and why she had not come to court, and was informed that she was at home, "prostrated." The evidence was so clearly against the accused that Magistrate O'Reilly promptly found nor work will be begun immediately to construct a foot path for the workmen between the Manhattan and Brooklyn towers. The height of the two towers which are about completed, will be S22U, feet to the top of tho cables and 340 feet to the ornamental steol work, which Is to cap the towers. The Manhattan Brldee will be one of the largest, if not the largest, bridges in the world. The total length is 6,854 feet and the extreme width 120 feet. It will be equipped with four trolley tracks and four elevated railway tracks.

The roadway will be 35 feet wide and there will be two promenades 11 feet wide. It was estimated that the structure will cost $16,000,000. but is likely fiat the cost will come nearer $20,000,000 it is finally completed. ROW IN OLD HOMESTEAD. NO MYSTERY IN DOWD'S DEATH THAWS DO NOT DISAGREE.

STAGE STRUCK GIRLS GONE. LOOKING FOR HIS SISTER. "Evelyn Rothest and Murial phrey, Each Aged 17, May Be "on the Road." WEBSTER WILL PROBATED. Max Kessler Thinks She Lives in Brooklyn and Appeals for Aid. After searching in vain for two months.

Widow Gets a Third of Estate From Which She Was Entirely Caretakers Objected to Being Dis- possessed Murphy Family in Sad Plight. Greenwood Gravedigger Was a Victim of Alcoholic Apoplexy, Coroner's Physician Says. According to Coroner's Physician Har-tung, there is little mystery In the death of John Dowd. the gravedigger of Greenwood whq fell dead at his home, 707 Sixth avenue, early yesterday morning. He states it as his belief that the man died from alcoholic apoplexy, and not from the bruises on Ins face and head.

Dowd, he says, was in the habit of rising at about 4:45 every morning to go out for a drink before breakfast. He would not keep liquor in the house, but usually went out before breakfast, and again after that meal, to get a drink. Yesterday morning, according to Dr. flaming, when Dowd returned after the first trip, he was In a happy mood, and this, continued until he went out the ec- In an authoritative statement to-day, Franklin Bartlett, counsel for Harry K. Thaw, and his mother.

Mrs. William Thaw, emphatically denied that there had been any disagreement; between the members of the Thaw family. 1 "The stories emanating from Pittsburg in the past few days to the effect that there had been a disagreement or controversy between the members of Harry K. Thaw's family over the suit of Evelyn Thaw for the annulment of her marriage to Harry K. Thaw, are absolutely without foundation," said Mr, Bartlett.

"There has been-no disagreement of any kind in Mr. Thaw's family." This statement was made at the request of Mrs. Thaw, who is now in Pittsburg. Speaking of the opinion expressed recently by the alienists, Dr. Allan Mc-Lane Hamilton, that Harry K.

Thaw Is a hopeless paranoiac, Mr. Bartlett said that on two occasions recently he had "een Harry K. Thaw in the Matteawan State Hospital, and had held long conferences with him. On both occasions, he said, Harry Thaw seemed to him to be perfectly sane. "Although I am not a physician or an alienist," said Colonel Bartlett, "this view Is based on experience having tramped the streets for twenty nights.

Max D. O. Kessler, a German, asked the Eagle to-day to help him fnd his Bister. Mrs. Ferdinand Oelchardt.

She Is living somewhere In Brooklyn, he thinks, with her husband, and he is anxious to locate her. Kessler was in the hospital for more than a year. Before he entered for treatment, his sister and brother-in-law live! on East Twenty-fifth street, Manhattan. Two months ago Kessler cume out of tho hospital, and Intended to stay at his sister's home. He found that she had moved to Brooklyn, but was.

unable to find out the new address. Undaunted, he began a systematic search In Brooklyn; For two months he followed clews, but was un ible to locate the couple. Then he got a bit diBcouraged and made a tardy to the Eagle to aid him in the search! FORMAL UNION TO-MORROW. Mrs. Mary Murphy who has been occupying rooms in the old Lott mansion on Eighteenth avenue.

Bath Beach, was in the Coney Island court to-day and declared to Magistrate Voorhees that several men had smashed her furniture yesterday afternoon and told her the house was to be torn down. Mrs. Murphy's husband, John, was arraigned at the same time on a charge of intoxication and his wife said the court could do as it saw (It with John. Magistrate Voorhees thought that Murphy needed a day or two (Special to the. Eagle.) Mineola.

L. 1., March 21 The threatened contest over the will of Everett B. Webster, president of the National Steel and Wire Company, with a country home at Great Neck, has been averted and the will duly probated. As a result of an agreement Mrs. Webster, the widow, gets one-third of the estate, total of which is nearly 000,000.

By the will the entire properly was left to Mrs. Jacob C. Rogers of 37 East Thirtieth street, Manhattan, and Mrs. Dorothy C. GrubMns'of J.

Carr of 100 Broadway, Manhattan, admitted yesterday that a settlement had beyi made. and. that it was satisfactory to Mrs. Webster, but more tiian that he declined to say; Sensational dvelopments. Involving people prominent in the fashionable colonies of Nassau County and Massachusetts, were hinted at when the first threat of a contest wa3 made, and the outcome was quite anxiously awaited in some quarters.

Everett B. Webster was 38 years old when he died. He was brought up by a wealthy Lynn (Mass.) shoe mapufac-turer, who disinherited him In his will. Then Webster entered the office of Thos. W.

Lawson. in Boston, as a clerk, and in ten years became a millionaire by iond time. Thi3 time. Dr. Hartung eays, he did not reach the saloon, but probably fell on the street and returned to the house.

Dr. Hartung said that he had traced his return to the house by follow In which to recuperate and he committed A Rothest, 17 years old, of 737 avenue, and Murial Humphrey, IT. of 1003 Lafayette avenue, two young women said to be. stage-struck disappeared on the same day, Saturday, March without any hint to their parents as to what they were about to do. Evelyn Rothest was employed up to week in a millinery store on Reid.

-avenue, near her home. When the day's -work 'was done Evelyn would tell her mother and father of the stories she had Ward from this or that vaudeville actress fine times "on the road," and while the never told them of her hopes to time have her name on the the-lirlcal bill posters, she. confided these to fellow employees at the store, u' Finally the girl took her chum, Murial Humphrey, in on the plan to run away and go on the stage, and ft Is now be-: Heved that the two girls have joined a which was playing in Brooklyn short while ago. It is' said that had real talent, as had been found on more than one occasion when sho exhimited at amateur performances. -Saturday, the day the girls vanished, Evelyn went to her place of employment usual, leaving about 6 o'clock to re-4(rn' home.

At her home she had sup- -eer and went out "for a walk." It is -sow believed that she met her chum and jhat the two left town with a burlesque or melodrama company which was play-ripg at one of the cheap theaters. Hilton Rothest, Evelyn's brother, made every to Jocate his sister. The police were -notified, and in turn notified the police of other cities along the route ulist of the company which it is thought the girls have The mothers of the girls are both ill from fear that some harm will come to i- their daughters -while in the company of strangers. The police, however, are of the opinion that the young women will soon have enough ot the stage and be only too glad to return home. derived from the examination of hundreds of men in my experience as a lawyer, as a regimental commander and In political life." ing a trail of blood stains, which led from the foot of a tree, and It la his opinion that the man stumbled at the foot of the tree and fell against It, thus bruising his face and causing a congestion of blood in his head, which was already partly congested from alcoholism.

When the man returned to his house, he sat down in a chair, and again fell forward on his face and died. The wounds he received, in the doctor'g opinion, could not have caused his death. MAN AND SHOES MISSING. MR. KRACKE Naval Officer F.

J. Kracko is afraid that some Republicans in the Flalbusil district may be misled by a statement fortunate combinations of small steel DeKalb Avenue and Tompkins Avenue Churches to Worship Together. To-morrow morning the format union of the Tompkins Avenue and DeKalb Avenue M. E. Churches will take place in tho latter edifice.

The Rev. W. A. Layton will be assisted in the morning, when a special communion service will be held by the Rev. W.

G. Gifiln, former pastor of the Tompkins Avenue Church. He will preach In the evening. Professor E. J.

A. Zelner will furnish special music at both. On Thursday evening the various organizations of the church will tender to former members of Tompkins Avenue M. E. Church a reception.

An attractive and Interesting programme has been made by ex-Senator David F. Davis con guilty aud sentenced her to ten days in jail. Stembler, McClelland and Bennett, left the courtroom alter Mrs. McClelland, In a hysterical state, had been put into the prisoners pen. They had not been away more than ten minutes when Mrs.

Stombler runhed into the coiirt nnd asked what had happened to her sister. Informed by one of the court officers, she Raid sho.wcultl go right honje and return "with $10 to pay the fine. She declared that she had not been prostrated, and had been informed that the case would not. he called In court until 10 o'clock. After Mrs.

Stembler had left for her home to get the money to pay her sister's fine! a younger and very stylishly dressed young woman appeared in court. She said she was a sister of the accused, and collapsed when she learned Mrs. McClen-lapd had been sent to jail. Magistrate O'Reilly was much' interested by this time, and he ordered that Mrs. McClelland, or Swayne be brought before him.

About the time she reached the rail in front of the judge'3 desk, the mother bf the three sisters entered the court. She was also crying. Magistrate O'Reilly remarked that somebody had liod to him. Ho was going to reopen the case, and he wanted all parties in court on Tuesday next. Mrs, Stembler.

who had returned to court, said her sister was the victim of persecution. "Kitty had been obliged to repulse her husband's advances since she was 17 years old." Magistrate O'Reilly said he would parole the woman, and would go thoroughly Into the matter on the adjourned date. Mrs. Swayne-MeCIciland was arraigned in the Tombs police court this afternoon and held in $500, bail for a further examination on Monday. She said that in October, 1901, she had married Walter P.

Swayne, a sergeant in the United States Army. She lived with him a year, she said. They had one child, a girl. She said she left hira when he was. Then she eays she married Walter McClelland a contractor.

He learned of her former marriage a month ago. cerning the capacity of the hall on Church avenue In which the coming con him to jail in default of $100 bonds until March 24. Patrolman Frank Barau of the Bath Beach station who arrested Murphy, had three other prisoners in court, all of whom were gathered in at the row at the old mansion. His prisoners were Henry Halpin, 40 years old, of 1469 St. Mark's avenue; Michael Powers, 18 years old, of Twenty-second avenue and Alexander Zack, 28 years old, of 14 Eastern Parkway.

They were charged with disorderly conduct and the cases will be heard when Murphy comes back from jail. 1 It appears that Halpin, according to the police, had purchased the old hpuso and yesterday afternoon a gang of men went to the place for the purpose of tearing it down. Murphy and his wife had been installed as caretakers by a former owner and with their children have been occupying the house for some time. When the contractor came along yesterday his men paid no attention to Murphy but pro. ceeded with their work.

Young Powers was in the bouse at the time and declared he was protecting the furniture when several men proceeded to throw the beds and stove out of the nearest window. A row resulted and tho noise attracted the attention ot tho neighbors, one of whom notified Policeman Baran. The latter declared Murphy was drunk when he arrived on the scene, and he said In court to-da-' there was a general mlx-up when he arrived. He placed all hands under arrest and made an additional charge of violating a city ordinance against Zack who, Baran claims, had no permit to tear down the building. Mrs.

Murphy said all her furniture vention is to be held. "Many people believe." said Mr. Kraekc, "that the convention alluded to by Mr. Davis Is the Congress district convention in which there will be 450 delegates. This, of course, is not true at alll.

The convention we intend holding in the Eighteenth District headqunrters on Church avenue is the Assembly district convention to elect delegates to the state CHAUFFEUR HELD UP. convention a relatively unimportant body Shopkeeper's Customer Vanished; So Did Footwear He Was Trying On. James Gordon, 53 years old, of 314 Bedford avenue, was arraigned In the Manhattan ave. court this morning on a charge of larceny. Joseph Graeslnl, who has a shoe store at 315 Bush wick avenue, alleges that Gordon entered his place of business yesterday and asked to see a pair of shoes.

Grassini was called Into the rear room for a moment and when he returned Gordon had disappeared and so had the shoes. Policeman Schroeder of the Stagg street station was passing and Grassini informed him of the disappearing shoes. Schroeder gave chase to Gordon. Ho was caught after a pursuit of several blocks. Gordon pleaded not guilty to-day and was held for the Court of Special Charged With Speeding Frederick and not much more than one-quarter tho size of the.

Congress district convention. "We have been meeting aud holding mills and the formation of English companies. Mrs. who is the sister-in-law of Mrs. Tom Pierce, is the daughter of a former Mayor of Haverhill.

Mass. When Webster became possessed of great wealth she enjoyed high social standing in the so-called North Shore set. She aud her husband took Webstor up and through their aid he became a prominent figure in social affairs. He also blossomed out as a horseman and yacht owner and exhibited large stables at the shows in Boston and other cities. Subsequently Mr.

Rogers became Interested with him in various enterprises, and at tho time of his death was the millionaire's secretary. With Mrs. Rogers he made his home In Webster's mansion in the Great Neck section. Mis. Grubbins is the wife of a former English partner of Webster and.

like Mrs. Rogers, she helped him with Introductions into society. It was explained that the bequest of two-thirds ot the estate was made to her for the benefit of her husband, who had lost heavily in the flotation of one of Webster's English companies. TO SUCCEED BISHOP FOWLER. Rochester.

March 21 It is reported here that Right Rev. Joseph F. Berry, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Buffalo district, will be trans- AUTO RACERS IN WYOMING. Ogden.

Utah, March 21 The German "car in the New York-to-Paris race left Ogallala. at 6:45 A.M. for Cheyenne. I'The first French car left Cheyenne this morning for Laramie. i The Italian car remained at Evanston, last night and left this morning Ogden, seventy-three miles distance, There-' Is much snow between Evanston and, Ogden.

conventions in the Church avenue, headquarters for years' Mr. Kraekc went on, "and Mr. Davis' Is the first protest against the place. While we are fairly prosperous, we don't believe In' Incurring Wallbridge's Car at Hollis. Charged with violating the motor vehicle law by speeding at the rate of 32 miles an hour, at 4:30 yesterday afternoon on HllUlde avenue, Hollis, John Haverty of 724 Eleventh avenue, Flushing, a chauffeur of Car No.

50,785. owned by Frederick Wallbridge of 37 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn, was arrested by Officers Ennis and Van Cleaf of the Brooklyn Headquarters Squad and taken to the Jamaica precinct, where he gave ball. innecessarv expense by hiring nans wnen we can accommodate our own conventions at INDEX OF REGULAR FEATURES, "Keep Smiling" IN FROM THE BALTIC SEA. The Russian Volunteer Fleet's steam- SUPERB AS' GAME CALLED OFF. was smashed and she was put out of tho place.

A neighbor provided temporary apartments for her. She declared Mur- I phy had not contributed to her support since Christmas and that he was too drunk to be of auy assistance to her yes- terday. She said Murphy might possibly be drunk from lack of nourishment. a3 he had not eaten any food In some time, i drink 'ship Sarator arrived yesterday at the Bush Company'3 Independent Stores from iLibau and Rotterdam. She brought BOS 'passengers and a cargo of chemicals, sc.is.

tork shavings and miscellaneous 1 rcerchindise. ferdr eto New York to succeed Bishop H. Fowler, who died yesterday. DISORDERLY CONDUCT CHARGE. A man who said he was William Hamburger.

41 years old. of 1S2 Second av-eiiHo. and who claimed to be a brother of Coroner Harburger. was locked up In the Fifth avenue police station at 2 o'clock this morning on a charge of disorderly conduct. He was arretted on a Fifth ave.

elevainij irain by Special B. R. T. OfTlier William r. Walsh, who ciLimed that the man had been singing in the car and using profane language.

At the request of Colonel Roberts of the B. R. Magistrate Voorhees suspended sentemc this morning in the Fifth avenue court. Claineatlon. Fs ClassinViitlnn.

Art Notes 4 Men's Clubs Athletics Music Automobiles i Obitunrlcs Itasiball miring Bowling 3' H. K. News Books K. Meccr.i.-t... Children's 11 i Spoils Churches (lJrot.) steamships Churches ..7 i i.

iy Courts -0 TaLle Kitcliea 4 Vlnancl Nens.lS-l: Walks nnd Talks erman Societies. It: Hockey Wi-pther Iabor Tnions IVuun-ii ljept. I. Feature Page 7 i Supplu FROM WEST INDIAN PORTS. The Royal Dutch West Indian Mail steamship Prins Willcm IV.

arrived yes- P05TUM and "Times" will get brighter. "There's a Reason" Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. 1 Cold Wave Hits Jacksonville, So Reds Will Not Play. (Special to the Eagle.) Jacksonville. 21 A drop of nearly forty degrees In temperature, accompanied by small hurricane, struck the camp of the Brooklyns to-day, and morning practice was called off.

The game between Brooklyn and Cincinnati was postponed until next Tuesday. Overcoats were much In evidence all day. and the hardy athletes remained Indoors. T3 LOAD FOR AUSTRALIA. The United States asd Australia line js.eamship Gleniee arrived this morning BOSTOCK ELEPHANTS GOING.

Twenly clephant3 bolongiug to Bcs-tock's Coney Island show were hoisted nboard the steamship Minnehaha this morning bound for London, where they will be added to the show at Thames rark. terday at Bu3h's Stores from Amsterdam, via Dutch Guiana. Curacoa, Trinidad and the Venezuelan and Haytian ports. She brought a cargo of coffee, cocoa, skins, bones, cottop cottonse" wax aui at the West Central pier, Atlantic Dork. She came here in ballast from Shields and will load for Fremantle.

Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane sundries it.