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jP' Till Ml PflllDT BETTER SERVICE REITS 'RAFFLES' HELD; Hi ji WIS AT HIS It PROB AB1 1.ITI US. Generally fnlr, except prolmMy liienl thunder nhoivrm late tn-nlKht or Frl-ilns'l Friday, moderate to hrlKk ivpNt to northwest winds. Bl P. 0, Dr, Cranfield Tells Congressman Wilson That Deliveries Will Be Earlier. MANY PETITIONS PRESENTED.

House Committee Listens to the Complaints of Brooklyn Business Men and Organizations, (By Telephone to The Eagle.) Washington, July 6 At 2:30 this after noon Representative Frank E. Wilson of Brooklyn was told by Acting Postmastel General Granfield that Brooklyn will have a better service. Mr. Granfleld promised Representative Wilson that he would see that the service In Brooklyn 1b Improved, and that he would take the matter up at once. The Post Office official said that the first thing he would do would be to order the first mail delivery of the morning to be made earlier.

This may Involve an Increase in the carrier force. If this Is necessary, tho additional carriers will be put on, said Granfleld. He will see that the service Is made satisfactory to the citizens. Morning Conference Between Wilson and Granfleld. Eagle Bureau, 608 Fourteenth Street.

Washington, July 16 Representative Frank E. Wilson of Brooklyn was an early morning caller at the Post Offico Department to-day. Mr. Wilson carried an armful of papers, letters," petitions and newspaper clippings, all dealing with the complaints against insufficient mall deliveries in Brooklyn. There are dozens of letters from individuals and resolutions by boards of trade and several organizations, as well as many political clubs.

He had a conference with First Assistant Postmaster General Granfleld and laid the Brooklyn case before him. Mr. Wilson went straight to tho department with the complaints rather than bringing the matter before a congress lonal committee, because he believes ho can get quicker relief for Brooklyn In that way. He made a full statement of the situation and said that in his opinion the only solution of It was more carriers. The present force, he told Dr.

Granfleld, cannot possibly do any more work than It is now performing. He showed why mere carriers to cover a given amount of territory are required In 'i community like Brooklyn than In most other cltieB. In many towns a carrier makes but one delivery of mail every 20 or 30 feet. Because of the great number of apartments, office buildings ani two family dwellings in Brooklyn, he often has to make a dozen deliveries in the same distance traveled. Each additional delivery requires time.

Dr. Granfleld gave an attentive ear to the Brooklyn complaints, It being the first time that the situation had been fully explained to the department. He promised to take the subject under Immediate consideration and Mr. Wilson left with the department the great mass of documentary complaints which he brought from Brooklyn Brooklyn Postal Complaints Consid ered by House Committee. Dr.

Granfleld had to leave his conference with Congressman Wilson to attend a hearing of the Committee on Expendi tures In the Post Office Department, where the Brooklyn case also was being thrashed out. Congressman Redflcld presented to the committee a petition containing 200 names and 22 letters from business men of Brooklyn complaining of the insufficient deliveries. Congressman Calder of Brooklyn also presented some complaints, which he had previously given to Postmaster Voorhles, and which the latter had promised to consider and see if some improvement could not be made. Mr. Redfleld made a statement, in which he unld thnt business was being injured by the reduction of from five to three deliveries.

One wholesale grocer of Brooklyn wrote thnt hlB dally mall con- slBted of from 800 to 1,000 letters, most of them orders for perishable goods, and that hla business was being crippled by the delay in deliveries. Congressmen Cal der and Redfleld both declared that the Bronx was getting better mail service than Brooklyn, and demanded that the latter service should be made at least as good. Dr. Granfleld told the committee that the department had established a stand- ard number of deliveries in residential districts In cities of a certain class. Brooklyn, he said, whs considered as in the same class with Boston, Philadelphia, St.

Louis and Washington. So far as residential districts were concerned, he said, the department did not feel it could make any changes. As to the business districts, if specinc complaints were made, he said they would be given at-! dftLU InLL 111 UUUSII 'SOUNDS like the plot OF A VI! MELODRAMA Co Millionaire Says He Was Threat- ened With Death Unless Ho Signed Check for $25,000. GIRLS APPEAR CALM AND COOL The Misses Granam and Conrad Are Unruffled, Despite Damaging Accusations Made by Stokes. W.

E. D. Stokes, the millionaire proprietor of the Ansonla, told on the witness stand In the Tombs police court to-day a tale of his shooting by Ethol Conrad and Lillian Graham so highly colored and senatlonal tlt It makes an old-fashioned melodrama look, pale by comparison. According to his version of the shooting the girls Intended to kill him and get rid of his body unless he signed one or the other of two papers. One paper was a check for $25,000.

The other paper was a retraction of certain things which they alleged he had said about Miss Graham, her mother, and her sister. In the highest degree defamatory. Stokes Seems in Poor Physical Condition on Stand. Mr. Stokes limped and showed signs of nervousness and suffering.

His story, as drawn from him by Deputy District At torney F. J. Sullivan, for the people, was told rather nervously and disconnectedly, Mr. Stokes frequently going back to put in something he had forgotten. The two girls, In court, were dressed In cool, white summer dresses, and appeared perfectly at ease.

Miss Graham was accompanied by her sister, Mrs. John Singleton, of Los Angeles, California, who Is "Beelng her through" the trouble. Stokes testified that he went to the apartment of the girls at 225 West Eightieth Btreet, Manhattan, on the evening of June 7, in response to a telephone call from Miss Conrad, who told him that she had the letters which he had written Miss Graham for him, and that Miss Graham was going to sail on the Baltic on the following Saturday for Belgium. "That was a trick to get me there," said Stokes. "Miss Conrad received me with a smile, and then left the room.

She came back smiling and with her was Miss Graham, who Bald: 11 'Now we've got you. You must retract the thlngB you've said about ray poor, good mother and me and my sister or I'll kill Mr. Stokes repeated what the girl alleged him to hava said, denying that he ever had said it. it was- highly defamatory. He says a desk was Indicated, at which he was to sit aud sign a re traction dictated to him.

He refused. The girls then said, according to his tes timony: Witness Tells of Alleged Threat of Sudden Death. "You came here on the sly. No one knows you have come. We have you in our power.

We have three men stationed so they can see all that goes on In this room. Many a New Yorker Just as prom inent as you are has disappeared utterly The same thing will happen to you, and will get rid of your body unless you BiKn the After his second refusal to sign, Stokes testifies. Miss Graham said to Ihim: "You must either sign the retraction or a check for J25.000." He answered, he said In court: "This Is blackmail. You can prison for this." "It Is $25,000 or death," he Miss Graham replied. go to alleges "Then it is death," Stokes says that he answered.

"Make It death, then," Miss Graham replied. He alleges that she then drew a pistol and shot him In the leg. Miss Conrad shot him next, he said. He says the girls, before his face, planned to kill him, and say they had shot him In self-defense. Magistrate FreBchl adjourned court, after his testimony, until this afternoon.

Then Stokes will he cross-examined and the girls will go on the stand. STRIKE HITS COTTON HANDS. Thousands Join the Idle Throng on Streets of Manchester. Manchester, July 6 The situation growing out of the strike of carters was further complicated to-day by the enforced Idleness of thousands of cotton operatives. Many mills are unable to obtain coal and other supplies and have been compelled to Bhut down indefinitely.

Throngs of strikers and others out of work were In the streets, the number being added to by several hundred coal miners who struck this morning In sympathy with the carters and the dockers, who have not yet returned to work. Some 750 troops and 300 London police arrived this morning. There was an occasional recurrence of stone throwing, but the police, swinging their clubs, quickly routed the manlfestants. The strike leaders declare that roughs and not the strikers are responsible for the riot lug that has taken place. In some cases strike pickets co-operated with the police in quelling disturbances.

HOT WEATHER DRINK SHONTS' rtlTT 1TT77 A- A Squeeze 100 straphangers into one small car; when boiling cool with bogus maps and flossy claims; add plenty of next week syrup, throw in some 17 per cent, dividend cherries, add another week and some competition bitters; strain through a icw uticciuis meeting: gnu serve wucn they are not looking. TOLLS STOP THEM, SAYS MAYOR Letter to Bridge Commissioner Ends Collections on Two New Structures. Mayor Gaynor to-day, In a letter to Bridge Commissioner Arthur J. O'Keeffe, recommended the abolition of all tolls on the four East River bridges. The bridges, he states, are highways, and he regards It as an injustice to collect tolls from vehicles which use the roadways.

The collection of tolls on the Queensboro and Manhattan bridges will be discontinued Immediately. There may be some legal objection in abolishing the toll system on the Brooklyn and Williamsburg bridges, and If this is true, the Mayor points out It can be remedied In the new charter. The Mayor's letter to Commissioner O'Keeffe is, in part, as follows: "1 have completed a careful examination of the question of tolls to vehicles on the bridges over the East River. I find no authority for charging such tolls on the Manhattan Bridge and the Queensboro Bridge. These two bridges were built by virtue of the authority now found in section 47 of the city charter.

That section does not provide for tolls, and I understand it to be a thing well established that no tees or tolls can be collected by a public official unless they be authorized by some law. Bridge commissioners heretofore collected tolls on these two bridges simply because tbey were collecting tolls on the other two bridges, namely, the Brooklyn Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge. Unless, therefore, you can show me something to the contrary, we shall cease to collect tolls on the Manhattan Bridge and the Queensboro Bridge. "The question of the right to collect tolls on the Brooklyn Bridge and the Williamsburg Bridge seems to be in doubt. The act under which the two cities of New York and Brooklyn took over the Brooklyn Bridge from the private company which began.

Its construction authorized the board of trusteess of the Bald bridge, to be appointed by the mayors of New York and Brooklyn, to establish rates of toll. "Please consider whether we should not cease to collect tolls on the two last named bridges also, either because we have no power to collect them, or else because they should not any longer be levied as a matter of discretion, assuming that the power to collect them exists In a Hiepretlnnnrv form onlv. For mv part, I see no more reason for toll gates on the bridges than for toll gates on Fifth avenue or Broadway. "Toll gates have been abolished all over the country, and I see no reason vh thev ahnnlri he retained here. The net revenue collected from these four bridges Is.

in round numbers, $274,000 year. This comparatively small sum can be more justly collected through the annual tax levy than by means of tolls. The UU are oppressive to many people, and Inconsistent and irksome to every one. "If we need a little legislation for safety. I dare say we can easily get It In the new charter.

Please let me hear from you at your earliest convenience." HOUSE OF DEAD RANSACKED. Squad of Police Compelled to Clear Place of Fortune Hunters. Pittsburg, July 6 A few minutes after It became known to-day that Frederick Prager had been found dead In bed at his home, neighbors rushed to the house and began ransacking for $11,000 alleged to be hidden somewhere about the premises. It took a squad of police to clear the house of fortune nuntcrs and save the building from being wrecked. Prager succumbed during the night to the heat.

Three weeks ago his sister, Mrs. Emma Strana. committed suicide, while a few months ago John Strana met a violent death In a mill. The three deaths wiped out the Strana-Prager families, and neighbors endeavored to get the rumored fortune. BIG OIL WELL ON T1A2.

Tulsa, July 6 What Is 6ald to be the greatest oil well In Oklahoma Is on fire in the Osage Nation and oil Is burning at the rate of 150 barrels an hour. The fire started Tuesday night from a lantern carried by A. R. Tlmblln, an employe. He was killed Instantly by the explosion.

The well Is the property of the North western Oil Company. The loss Is already heavy and all efforts to extinguish the flames have proved futile. Bits of Humor FOOLED MANY He Is Karl Von Metz Meyer, Norwegian Lieutenant, Who Sought a Wife Last February. SAID HE HAD "INSOMNIA." Dropped Loving Cup Once, and Explained lo Policeman That Ho Had to Walk to Cure Sleeplessness. The "Heights burglar," who was caught last night, waived examination to-day In the Adams Btreet court, and was held for the Grand Jury, charged with burglary in the second degree, In having entered the home of Lowell L.

Palmer, at 1.14 Columbia Heights, on the night of June 19 Inst. He proves to be Karl von Metz Meyer, who was In search of a wife. last February, and whose picture and personally told history re published at that time. Karl von Metz Meyer did his burglaries usually between 2 and 4 In the morning, boldly entering houses where folk were asleep and helping himself to valuable articles. He took clothing worth $1,500 from Mr.

Palmer's home. Including a mink-lined' coat worth $1,250. The coot was found this morning by Mr. Palmer, pledged In a Jersey City pawnshop for less than one-tenth of its value. Karl von Metz Meyer.

Meyer will go down In local police history as- the gentleman burglar of the Heights. Ills activities were great for several months, and he confessed to-day to no less than a dozen nocturnal robberies. He used to sally forth at night, clad in a tall silk hat, carrying a cano and wearing a frock coat of the Prinoc Albert cut, which fitted his military figure to a nicety. And he was crafty In making his rounds, formed the acquaintance of many policemen, chatted with them pleasantly and found out from them in a merely Incidental way, apparently Just how long It took to make the tour of their posts and the post boundaries. In this way he managed to be able to enter houses when no policemen were around.

Once he was almost caught. He had a silver loving cup which he had stolen from the home of Charles J. Peabody, at 128 Willow street, tucked under his coat-tails when he saw the gleam of brass buttons up the street. He threw the cup away in a nearby areaway and walked up to the policeman boldly. That was at about 3 o'clock on the morning of May 25 last.

"Good morning, officer," said he, pleas antly. "Good morning, responded the police man. "Out pretty late, eh?" Nearly Caught, He Told Officer ot Night Walks to Cure Insomnia. "Yes." said the young man. "You'll often see me about at this time of the morning.

1 can't sleep. Troubled witn Insomnia, you know, and have to get out of bed and walk, and walk. Tire myself out. Then go home, and maybe a nap before bUBlness." The policeman looked at the well-groomed youngster and rather pitied him. He took a close inventory of his personal appearance and noted tnat na was apparently exceedingly well bred, had a frank, holiest, expression, with aa Innocent and wholesome look In his eyes.

His clothing was good and he seemed to be a typical young swell. The stranger lingered around a while and then bada the policeman good night. Not very Ion? after that a milkman ptind the stolen, loving cup In the areaway and the robbery of Mr. Peabody's house was reported not long afterward. This was tho first clue the police had to the identity of the gentlemanly burglar who hal been ravaging the homes on the Heights for weeks, and they made the best possible use of It.

The detectives In tho precinct, Dukeshlre, Ward and Lemmou. all got the man's description and made up their minds, severally and collectively, that ho was 'the For many nights after that Captain Coughlin of the local headquarters bureau had the Heights peppered with sleuths looking for the tall. youo. Story of Fight With Monarchist Sym. pathizers Denied.

Lisbon, July 6 The reports of fighting In the streets of Lisbon and elsewhere In Portugal between loyal troops and sympathizers with the monarchists are untrue. A dispatch from London last night said that a news agency had received a report from the Portuguese capital that a fight had taken place between the populace and the seamen quartered in the barracks. The seamen were said to have been incited by Monarchist agitators and to have attempted an armed revolt. Tno troops quelled the uprising, which was attended with some casualties. The news Wan unid tn hnve eaouneil the strict at Lisbon by be- sent first to Badajos, Spain, from where It was forwarded by wire to Loudon.

NOTED PYTHIAN DEAD. Newburgh, July 6 Charles T. Goodrich, a national figure In the Order of tho Knights of Pythias and a prominent business man. died here to-day, aged 65. He was grand chancellor of the New York State Pythian order, In 1899.

and was a past supreme representative of the fraternity. SUBWAY OE THE HEAT Girl Taken Out Unconscious and Others Prostrated in Delayed Train. Heat prostrations In the subway were reported for the first time, to-day. Several persons were carried out, one of them unconscious, from a delayed train, and many others on that and other trains needed medical treatment to enable them to leave the subway and proceed to their homes. A Broadway division express left the Brooklyn Bridge station at 8:25 A.M., and Just ahead of It was a Bronx Park express.

The train drew out of the station and immediately slowed dewn as It cleared tho platform. The train stopped at each block signal for several minutes until the green light I signal showed that the block ahead was cleared, and then It proceeded slowly to the next biock, where the same thing happened. This kept on until Fourteenth street was reached, and then there was a similar procedure as far as Forty-second street. At 8:57 o'clock, just after passing Thirty-third street, the power was suddenly cut off and the lights went out. The train remained stalled until 9:02 o'clock, when the power was again turned on.

It occupied forty-six minutes to go from the Bridge to the Grand Central station about thirty-six minutes more than the usual time. As each train reached the Grand Central station after being hold up, passengers who were overcome by the suffocating heat, wero carried or assisted to the street and to neighboring drug stores, where they were attended. Two of the prostrations were serious. One young woman, about 19 years old, was carried, unconscious, to a drug store opposite the Grand Central station by Patrolman Sheehan. Dr.

Daer of the Flower Hospital responded to a call and attended her. The physician, policeman and drugglBt worked over the young woman for some time, and when It was seen that her condition was very serious she was placed In the ambulance and taken to the hospital. She was still unconscious when taken Into the hospital. Dr. Baer then returned to the station and attended more prostrations.

The worst case was that of Edwin Tatsataugh, 35 years old, a clerk, of 2307 Seventh avenue, Manhattan. He was carried from the subway station by Patrolman Flem-mlng to the drug store and from there removed to the hospital. He is i-lso In a serious condition. There were many other passe- ers on several trains who were attended, and left for their homes without giving their names to the police. The delay was general all over the subway system, due to the signals between Fiftieth street and the Grand Central Station going out of commission when a marker on a southbound express train stuck and tore down the circuit wire.

THREE HELD IN BOMB TRAGEDY Men Brought From Jersey City to Answer for Death of Joseph Sennelli. Three men were arraigned on charges of homicide In the Flatbush court, to-day, before Magistrate McGulre, In connection with tho explosion of a bomb yesterday, resulting In the death of 16-year-old Joseph Sennelli of 1243 Brooklyn avenue. Sennelli was blown to pieces and two brothers, Joseph and John Greeco, of 1279 Brooklyn avenue, are In the Kings County Hospital, recovering from lnju-rlces. Detectives David Barry and Martin Downey went to Jersey City yesterday afternoon and returned later with John Srrcico, 23 years old; Stephen Montlno, 32 years old, and Antonio Nunzia, 34 years old. all Jersey City residents.

Seroico is treasurer of the International Flre- works Company. Reuben llson. presi dent of the Vanderveer Park Taxpayers fmm the soot where the celebration was nein. was in irum ot tl)e sPnnelll boy nome tnat tne irag- dv occurred. Serclco Is under Jo.uou bond by the New York Fire Department, and it is said that if he Is convicted It will mean forfeiture of the bond.

Magistrate McGulre held the three men In' $1 000 bad each for examination on July 20 The complainant in the cases to-day waj Mrs. Marie Sennelli, mother of the boy who was killed. OTTAWA CREW WINS. Henley-on-Thames, England, July 6 In the third neai ior uio Cup to-day, the Ottawa Rowing l1ud heat the redoubtable Belgian crew of Ghent, who won the trophy in 1909. The Canadians won a grand race.

The crews were on practically even terms throughout, until Just before the winning post was reached, when the Belgians fell back beaten. The time was 7 minutes and 13 seconds. fct Wcinl to bar, sell or rent rail ratntet Ccniult The Kayle'i real estate ads. uQ parfei 10-d'. Tbejr will aid you.

AJv, I TO Cumulative Strain Makes Heat To-day to Be Felt More Than Ever. the 11 DEATHS SO FAR TO DAY. 201 Victims in Chicago in Five Days. Bain Relieves the Parched Cornfields' of the West. The Weather Bureau promises local thunder showers late to-night or Friday to break the hot wave which has held the city In Its grip tor Ave days now, taking Its toll of scores of lives and hundreds of heat prostrations.

While the official figures do not Indicate that this has been the hottest day since the hot wave began, the heat was felt worse than It has been yet by the huddled millions who toil and transact business and gasp In the crowded lanes of residence or trade. For five days the pitiless temperature had put a fearful, cumulative strain on flesh and brain and nerve. And the ambulance surgeons and hospital staffs generally, who are forced to stand up to their Samaritan work In spite of their own suffering and exhaustion. gained no respite. Ten Deaths in Greater New York Up to Noon.

Eleven deaths from heat were reoorted to-day up to noon, four In Brooklyn and six In Manhattan. The prostrations run up into the scores. In Brooklyn alone the local hospitals have answered 132 ambulance calls In the last 24 hours, a large proportion being heat prostration cases and the remainder cases where jieople were leis seriously overcome. The temperature at 3 o'clock this afternoon was 92 degrees, according to the weather bureau, and the perce-iiage humidity was 43. At o'clock this morning the temperature was 73, the humidity 81; at 9 o'clock, temperature 80; humidity at 10, tenperature 84, humidity 59; at 11, temperature 8C, humidity 54; nojn, temperature' 88, humidity 47.

201 Dead in Chicago in Five Days. The hot wave, taken as a general thing the country over, shows signs of breaking to-day. In Chicago, after 201 people had died In the five days and hundreds more had suffered from heat prostrations, rain fell early this morning and a cool breeze set in, the temperature dropping 6 degrees. Boston, on the other hand. Is sheltering in the hottest day It has yet experienced, the temperature having climbed to 93 degrees comparatively early In the day, with a high percentage of humidity.

In other parts of New England the heat Is unprecedented. The usually cool town of Northfleld, together with Boston ai'd Concord. N. were the hottest spots on the weather map to-day. The heat has been the cause of ten deaths and forty-seven drowning accidents In New England up to noon to-day In the very localities to which people resort to escape from it.

Bain in Parched Western Cornfields. Rain fell early to-day over theparched eorn fields of Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and northern Kansas, and at once the Chicago corn market felt the effects of it. The price had risen 5 cents a bushel in anticipation of a short crop. It dropped an extreme of 3 cents at the opening to-day. The forecaster at Washington promises cooler weather to-morrow, not only to New York City but to the North Atlantic States in general.

In the whole area affected by the heat wave, from the lakes to the gulf and from the eastern coast to the Rockies, the North Atlantic States are the only ones which have not up to this afternoon had some relief, even though it has been slight. The upper lake regions, the Plains States and the Middle West will get further reductions in temperature during the next twenty-four hours. The Ohio Valley and the lower lake regions are still hot to-day, but should cool off, according to the forecaster at Washington, when the North Atlantic States do. To-day's List of Dead in Greater New York. Those reported dead of heat to-day In New York City were: Clancy, James 60 years old.

a printer, was overcome by the heat early this morning while in the Glenmoro oHtel, 3 Chatham Square, Manhattan, and died later. Olrherdt, Mary, 6 months old, of 613 Second avenue. Manhattan, died at her home this morning. McGovern, James. 23 years old, real estate agent, of 164 East One Hundred and sixty-third street.

Manhattan. McNamara. Delia, 36 years old, of 413 West Fiftieth street. Manhattan. Ahearn, James.

50 years old, post office clerk, of 502 West One Hundred and Seventy-seventh street, Manhattan. Marshall. Henry 40 years old, of 2158 Second avenue, Manhattan. O'Brien, Eleanor, 28 years old. Irving avenue, Brooklyn, overcome 189 and died at home.

Ramsay, Elizabeth. 45 Front street, Brooklyn, died at home. Vansellare. Henrietta years old, overcome 266 and 177 Luquer street, Brooklyn, overcome and died at home. Resnlck, Sarah, 75 years old.

241 Moore street, Brooklyn, overcome and died at home. Griggs, Hannah, 39 years old. of 5S2 Lexington' avenue, Brooklyn, died at her home. List of Prostrations in Brooklyn Today. The list of heat prostrations In Brooklyn to-day up to the time of going to press was as 'ollows; Frank Brui.

52 years old, of 194 Wythe avenue and North Sixth street; refused medical aid and went home. Dode Wilson, 27 years old, of 279 Plain street, Newark, overcome at Fulton street and Myrtle avenue, and removed to the Brooklyn Hospital. Arthur Nether, 29 years old, of 115 Van Slcklen avenue, overcome at Fulton Btreet and Van Slcklen avenue, and removed to the Bradford Street Hospital. Julius Guboskie, 37 years old, of 1116 Manhattan avenue, overcome at residence and removed to the Williamsburg Hospital. Jennie Nolan, 31 years old.

of 548 East New York avenue, overcome opposite 1158 Sterling place and removed home. Joseph Graham of 17C3 Madison ave- Continued on Page 2, STRIKE RIOTS IN AMSTERDAM, Many Wounded in Clash Between Troops and Shipping Men. Amsterdam, July 6 There was hot fighting in the harbor district between i rioters on the one hand and the police i and troops on the other ip the early hours of to-day. The strikers stoned the police and the troops replied with their rifles. The striking shipping men then produced revolvers and in the fusillade that followed a number of persons were wounded.

During the fighting the Btreet lights were extinguished. The troops ultimately routed the strikerf and inter patroled the streets in strong detainments. REID ENTERTAINS AMERICANS. London, July 6 American Ambassador Reld and Mrs. Reld gave a reception the Jubilee meetings' of the Institute of Naval Architects.

Something like 300 members with their wives were present, as well as many British naval officers. CJTY MAY BUY DREAMLAND IF PRICE IS REASONABLE President Mitchel Is Negotiating With the Owners of the Land. Controller Prendergast to-day said that the city would probably acquire Dreamland for a municipal seaside park If the owners did not ask too stiff a price. The Controller said, however, that the city was not prepared to pay an unreasonable amount for the land. The Corporate Stock Budget Committee, consisting of Messrs.

McAneny, Mitchel and Prendergast, has authorized Aldermanlc President Mitchel to go ahead and deal with the owners of Dreamland and see if proper terms can be made. The special committee of the board, consisting of Mitchel, Prendergast and Borough President Steers, Is co-operatlus with this body. The Controller said to-day that the special committee on the Dreamland matter was taking up the other pieces of seaside property to which the city might have a legal right, and Intended to get quick Justice where city land was being improperly held by private concerns and corporations. "I think the sale can be arranged and that the park will probably go through," said the Controller; but, of course, I have my own ideas as to what the property cost, and 1 do not Intend to let the city get the worst of the bargain." ABRAHAM ABRAHAM'S WILL Now in Hands of Lawyers, and Will Probably Be Filed for Probate To-morrow. The will of Abraham Abraham was placed In the hands of tho law firm of Grout Grout, consisting of Edward M.

Grout and Paul Grout, of 111 Broadway, Manhattan, attorneys for the executors named In the document, this afternoon, by Surrogate Ketcham. It will probably be filed to-morrow with a petition for Its probate. The executors are understood to be the son and two sons-in-law of the deceased merchant. Information was given to Surrogate Ketcham, this afternoon, that the will was In the vaults of the Kings County Trust Company, and he was asked to send an attache over to the company with an ordpr for Its delivery to the Surrogate. This was promptly done, and Surrogate Ketcham personally delivered It to the representative of Grout Grout, who are to prepare the petition for Its probate as the legal representatives of the executors.

20 SAVED FROM TENEMENT Blaze in Woodhaven Threatened Lives of Many Tenants. Volunteers to Rescue. A score of men, women and children, principally Polacks, occupying a three story frame tenement at 293 Grafton avenue, Woodhaven, had a narrow escape from death by suffocation at 5. A.M. to-day, when fire occurred In the cellar among some crates of fruit stored there.

All the people were asleep at the time. One of the men was aroused by the smell of smoke and turned in an alarm. The volunteer firemen responded and did some excellent work In rescuing the Inmates. One woman crawled from an upper window and hung by her hands from the sill. Foreman Robert H.

Smith and Fireman Bowman of Hose No. 1 saw her peril. Foreman Smith ordered a stream sent through the window to clear away the smoke, and then he and Bowman climbed a ladder raised by the men of Amerlcus Truck Company, who had run nearly a mile to the fire, and rescued the woman. She said she could not have held on a second longer. Everyone In the building got out In safety, and the loss is only about $700.

A GENUINE REMBRANDT. Berlin, July 6 Dr. Wllhelm Bode, di- rector of the Royal Museums, strongly defends the authenticity of Rembrandt famous painting, "The Mill," against the attack of Professor Von Seidlitz uf Dresden, who maintains that the picture probably was the work of Rembrandt's pupil, Gelder. "The Mill" was purchased recently from Lord Lansdowne by Peter A. B.

Widener of Philadelphia, who paid something in excess of $500,000. TO SIGN VECZ PACT SOON. London, July 6 The British government Is so satisfied with the progress of American-British arbitration treaty that Sir Edward Grey, the secretary of foreign affairs, was able to announce iu the House of Commons to-day that there was every prospect that the peace pact would be signed very soon. ICE AND MILK SHORTAGE. Chicago, July 6 Chicago is facing an ice and milk famine as the result of the continued hut weather.

The heat has cut the supply of Ice 50 per cent. Milk dealers are predicting the greatest shortage In the supply of milk ever cxperleuccd lu the city. tention. and. If possible, the trouble Association, was counsel for the tnree would be remedied.

in court to-day. He said that Serclco As a matter of fact, the first specific was at no time on the grounds at New-complaints received by the department kirk avenue and East Thirty-first street, were those brought by Congressman Wil- where the ivic organization held its prison this morning. Dr. Granfleld als vate Fourth of July display, and that, ac-promlsed to send to the committee a full icordlngly. he should not be held ae-report.

which was made by the post office countable for the bomb explosion. Mr Inspectors who Investigated the carrier Wilson said further that hlle men we service in Brooklyn, which report was prcPar, ng the lay number of boys turned In before the reductions in the t'n N-Kunzla were not redeliveries were made. He promised to tnal M. Kmh unmt, Broiled Oat By Torrid ity of Old Sol 'study the Brooklyn situation iu ic. win receive any further from Brooklynltes tnat may be presented ALEX CAMPBELL LEADS (Special to The Eagle.) Country club, Brookline, Mass, July 6 Alex Campbell led the fleiu thir "inrning in the first round of the Massachusetts open golf championship at the Country Club, Brookline, scoring 76.

T. L. Mac- Namara was second with 77. Summary: xiexHr.der It. Campbell.

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H. Wilder. VeMK-r. XI: ti. Ruivrlen, IeomlnHter.

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Burgess, Woodland, CJ. F. Wlllett. Country, 87. sii.sbr a soy, son Frrron st.

to decrees cooler thaa any other Reetauran! tlm of sleeplessness, but lie dir come out tor a while. He did two or burglarious jobs after that, but when police were not looking. The authori' did not discover, until a day or two where the young man lived. That by accident, and then they began trail him from place to place, in tna day time ns well as at night, but he seemed to have an Intuition that he was being watched and kept well under cover. Once Detective John Conway was sent from the State street headquarters to his home to question him.

and trap him into some admissions of guilt if need be. for the police had "nothing on him then as they say but Conway found an aleri mind pitted agnlnst his, and got no admission. The arrest did not come until laBt night, when Detective Tunney went down with his blunt methods of speech and frankly told him that he was under suspicion of burglary. Detective Ward was with him. "My dear boy," said the burglar, "you are making a mistake." "We'll take the risk of arresting you," said Tunney, who told the man to get hiB hat and go with them to headquarters.

The talk was at the door of th house at lSa Columbia Heights, where, ccpvJB" rT cecBie0i ii ter registering 101 degrees in the shade yesterday, Isaac P. Reed, a well-known resident of Manchester, complained of feeling cold and built a hot fire in his eook stove. Then he sat doA-n with his feet In the oven. Shortly afterward he was found dead on the floor by the stove. Lowell, July 6 Gilbert Wright of Chelmsford, a suburb of Lowell, re- ports that a setting of eggs which the i hen had abandoned when almost ready to hatch hatched out without the hen's assistance at the finish.

The heat had been so Intense that it drove the hen off the nest, but it was warm enough for the atmosphere to take the place of the hen. Ten eggs already have hatched and others arc expected to-day, Apples Baked on Trees Up the State and Exhibited in a Store Window Eggs Hatched Out Without Aid of Hen One Man Who Felt Cold. Brockport, N. July 6 Apples growing cn the Frank Sparlln farm, north of here, were baked on the trees by the Intense heat yesterday. Some of the apples were taken to Brockport and exhibited In a store window.

Rochester. July 6 Wllhthe thermome lu lireater K. er Seuaor. AlT..