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rHE DAILY STANDARD UNION: BROOKLYN; 3IONiAY, JULY .25, laws. teitjnr fawes, WAR AMON TWO DEATHS Bv ACID TAKES BT YOUNG MAN SPANISH IS TAKE! FALL Disorders in Grenada and General Unrest the Cause. Causes the Death of a Beautiful Yonng Woman. THOUGHT IT WAS PAREGORIC. Secretary Boh of the S.

T. and A Resigns Office. A HURRICANE MEETING HELD. Men Killed ni Other Persons Badly Injured. IRE CAR DiD NOT EYEN STOP A Colored Quartermaster Sergeant In a Police Court Bat Told the Police He Had Been Hit By a Stray Bjiilet NICKERINGS STORY UNTRUE.

WAS IN THE SAN JOAN FIGHT. One Colored Hero of San Juan Fight Enlisted in 70. HIS TIME EXPIRES TO-DAY, NEffYORK TRADING IS LIGHT HE WAS FOUND EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING WITH A BULLET HOLE IN HIS HEAD THE SON OF THE OF ACME HALL HAD BEEN DISSIPATING LATELY. Otto E. Nickering, the son of Charles Nickering, ths proprietor of Acme Hall, oil the corner of Seventh avenue and Ninth street is lying in the Brooklyn Hospital with a pistol shot wound in the head, which was self-inflicted, and from which it is unlikely that he will recover.

Young Nickering la 26 years of age, and lived at 340 Seventh avenuo. He was found yesterday morning on Jay street, lying on the sidewalk. He told. the police that he had been hit by stray bullet on Pier 25, Manhattan. A charge of attempted suicide was made against him and be Is a prisoner in the hospital.

Detective McCormick, of the Adams street police station, investigated the case, and found that Nickering had occupied a room at the Brooklyn Hotel, comer of Concord and Washington streets. Saturday night Upon going to the room he had occupied the detectives found the bed cot ered with blood, and two towels stained with blood. Nickering' had been found in front of the St. Charles Hotel, on Jay street, and the detective learned that he had tried to wash the blood from his head in a room adjoining the bar. He had given a revolver to the bartender to take care of.

He then left the hotel and Immediately fell to the sidewalk from exhaustion. It is said that Nickering has been drink-ins a good deal of late, and his father had told him to leave home. Re is unmarried. East River Bridge Commissioners Quite Satisfied WITH APPELLATE CODRT ORDER JLN INTERESTING INTERVIEW (WITH A COMMISSIONER AND SECRETARY LANE THE DECISION OP THE FIVE JUDGES WAS UNANIMOUS, BUT THE CASE WILL BE TAKEN TO THE COURT OP APPEALS. Secretary Smith E.

Lane, of the East lUver Bridge Commission, and a member of that body, la naturally pleased with the decision of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of Kings County, rendered on Saturday, reversing the decision of Judge Garretson, which restored the former Commissioners to office. Bec-' retary Lane had received no official copy of the decision and opinion, but based his remarks on what he had read in the papers. He asked the reporters if the decision of the five Judges was unanimous. No one at the moment could tell him. It was later learned that all of the other Judges concurred In the opinion which was written by Justice Cullen.

Of the five Judges three are Republicans. Al--though It is supposed that judges arenot influenced by their political views, said Secretary Lane, they have their feelings. Judge Cullen, at the time of the argument, was very persistent in questioning Mr. Ingraham, the opposing counsel, on the various points which he has elaborated on In his opinion. First, as to the right of the Mayor to remove the Commissioners under the six-months clause of the charter? Second, Were the Commissioners State agents? It was suggested to Secretary Lane that the important question now is as to the right of the present commissioners to continue the work on the bridge.

Do you understand that the Commission has full powers to act? he was asked. To this Secretary Lane replied: 'The same powers as if their motion to declare their removal illegal had never been brought. This decision reverses the judgment of the court below and renders our title absolute, unless It is reversed by a higher court The situation is this: When Judge Garrettson ordered a Judgment for the plaintiff In that case, we got a stay of proceedings. That enabled us to go 'on, and all proceedings since then are legal. Now, this decision will mean that the judgment will be entered, making our title to the office absolutely without question.

We therefore remain in office with 'all the powers of the commissioners under the act until some further action by the courts. In other words, the appeal from the decision of the Judges of the Appellate Division will not act as a stay. It is stated on good authority that an appeal will be taken by the former commissioners to the Court of Appeals. Reference was made to the $2,487,000 appropriated by the city authorities to the EMMA STERN, ONLY 18 YEARS OF AGE, WHILE SUFFERING FROM SWALLOWS CARBOLIC ACID BELIEVING IT TO BE MEDICINE. A most pathetic and mysterious death from carbollo poisoning occurred shortly after midnight this morning, in the demise of Emma Stern, a beautiful young woman, at ber parents residence, 261 Stockholm street.

A few minutes after 12 o'clock the young woman was awakened by a violent attack of cramps, it Is said, and not wanting to disturb ber mothers rest, found ber way to the closet where the family rsjnedies are kept. In her haste to relievo the pain from which she was Buffering, she Inadvertently picked up a bottle of carbolic acid, supposing contained paregoric instead. She did not stop tp measure out the ac-customed dose, but hurriedly took a liberal swallow from the neck of the vial Instantly the mistake she had made was madebvident to her by the frightful burning sensation which she immediately experienced. In her agony she called loudly for her mother, who, alarmed at the sound of her daughters agonizing cry for help, came hurrying into her apartment. There at once divining the horrible mistake that had been made she summoned a policeman from, the window, who quickly turned in an ambulance call.

Ambulance Surgeon Slavin, of St Catherine's Hospital, responded, and for half an hour worked over his patient, but his efforts were without avail, she expiring in great agony. Just before the unfortunate young woman became unconscious she claimed, Dont forget the churih, tramma," By this remark," the grlef-strlcken mother said to a Standard Union reporter this morning, Emma referred to a request made some time ago, that when she died, she wished to be buried from the church. My daughter had no worry ot reason that would impel her to take her life, and so we are satisfied that her death wee purely accidental. Emma was an active member of the Wyckoff Heights Mission and the various societies attached thereto, and ot the King's Daughters. The strange insistence in the young woman remark, Dont forget the church, mamma, win doubtless lead some of the incredulous public to believe that she contemplated taking her life.

CENTRAL LABOR FEDERATION EXCITED YESTERDAY VISITED BY DELEGATES FROM NEW YORK SECTION WHO STARTED UP THE FIGHT PACKED PROCEEDINGS AT RECENT ROCHESTER CONVENTION CHARGED INVESTIGATION MEETING CALLED. The ght that has cropped up In the ranks qt the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance over the proceedings at the recent convention of the party in Rochester, was continued at yesterdays meeting of the Central Labor Federation with increased bitterness. As usual the meeting of the Federation was held in the East Side Labor Lyceum, 64 East Fourth street, Manhattan, and also held in secret. It was visited by J. Sauter, R.

Glaassr, and J. J. Kinneally, who went as a deputation from the New Tork section of the Socialists. Their arrival was the means of the regular bust- ness of the Federation, whose official title among Socialists is District Alliance No. 1, being banished to the background and accepted as an intimation that the parent body of American Socialists had stepped into the fight which the Federation has on its hands with District Alliance 49, over the ousting of DAnlel De Leon and William L.

Brower, two leaders In District Alliance 49, by the convention from the General Executive Board. It is only just to the three delegates from the section to tell that it Is reported they do not dally with time before they mode the object of their mission known, and It turned out to be an mission to a majority. The partisans of Secretary Ernest Bohm raised ructions as goon as they heard the delegates from the section demand Bohms Immediate resignation of the secretaryship of the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance, to which office he was re-elected at the Rochester Convention. Bohm declined the proposition, said it was personal and offensive, and was sustained by a majority of the meeting. who stood by him right along.

Other resignations were. talked about, and there was a hurricane meeting, and a red-hot debate, the subject of which was over men prominent in Socialist ranks trafficking with politicians and committing treason to socialist principles. Personalities were freely Indulged in, accusations were trotted about at a lively gait; recrimination was unusually abundant and bitter, even for meetings in the East Side Labor Lyceum. But the three visiting delegates remained stubborn, the meeting became divided in opinion, and Bohm weakened and finally surrendered the secretaryship of the General Executive Board of the Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance, pending the special meeting of the local district alliances, a call for WHEN ERIC ANDERSON WAS STRUCK, UNTIL A PASSENGER TOLD THE CONDUCTOR A MOTOR- MAN WHO DID NOT KNOW HIS CAR HAD KILLED A MAN AN i ITALIANS LIFE CRUSHED OUT ON THE PAR ROCKAWAY ROAD. Two men were killed by trolley cars Saturday and Sunday night, and a number injured.

In one case the car was going so fast that neither the motorman nor the conductor knew that any one had been injured. In this Instance the victim was Eric Anderson, of Eleventh avenue and Sixty-third street. He was crossing the tracks at Eleventh avenue, between Fifty-first and Fifty-second streets last night, when be was struck by a Brooklyn Heights can The car went right on, and a passenger told the conductor that a man had been struck. The car was stopped 150 yards further on, and the conductor, motorman and passenger went hack and found the mangled body of a man. The body was removed to the Fourth avenue police station, and the trolley car continued on its trip.

Anderson leaves a wife and three children. Savereo Mugionl, an Italian, 40 years old, was crushed! beneath a Far Rockaway trolley, car on Saturday night and almost instantly killed. Mugionl lived at 194 Prospect! street, and while driving along the tracks with another Italian his carriage was Btruck by the trolley car. The motorman, Charles Bauer, rang his Mugioni! started to pull from the tracks. The wheels got caught in the trolley rails.

Mugioni was thrown from his seat under the trolley car, and was crushed to i death. His friend escaped with slight bruises. The motonrtan was locked up in the Far Rockaway station. The carriage i was wrecked, but the horse escaped injury. The corners of Broadway and Hewes street was the scene of two trolley accidents Saturday night.

They occurred within an hour of each other. Mrs. Elizabeth Adams, 71 years old, of 24 East Broadway, Manhattan," was on her way to visit friends, and was alighting from an East New York' car, when the motor-man turned on the current before she was off the step. Mrs. Adams was thrown to the pavement, striking on her head and receiving four scalp wounds, which were dressed by Ambulance Surgeon Mucklow, of St.

Catherines Hospital. The' other case was that of Frank Martin, 28 years old, of 838 Leonard street, who was crossing the track when the car struck him. His life was saved by the fender, which tossed him to one side of the track. fttruck the pavement on his head and received Severe cuts on the forehead and face. Ambulance Surgeon Slavin, of Sti Catherines Hospital, dressed his injuries.

Tony Patterson, an Italian boy, had his right arm and right leg broken by a Lori-mer street (car at Lorimer and Frost streets, Saturday night. He lives at 40 Withers street. The fender hurled the child from the track. He was removed to St. Catherines Hospital.

GENERAL LEVEL OF PRICES SOMEWHAT LOWER THAN ON SATURDAY-LITTLE FEATURE TO THE INDUSTRIAL LIST BID PRICE FOR NEW THREE-PER-CENT. GOVERNMENT BONDS, 104. The openeing of the stock market this morning was tame and Indifferent. Trading was very light and wholly professional. The general level of prices waa a little lower than on Saturday.

Thefe was little feature to the industrial list, but Sugar was distinguished by heaviness. The market appeared to be a waiting one, but its undertone was Indicative of resistance. In Government bonds only change was a reduction of 1-8 per cent, in the bids for the new 3s. Stocks at noon continued to be dull nd Irregular. The bid price for the new 3 per cent.

Government bonds, delivery when issued, in the unlisted department of the Stock Exchange was 104 this morning against 104 1-8, Saturday's closing price. The de- livery of the new bonds to the successful subscribers, is expected to begin at once. Washington advices have stated tiat the first delivery of the bonds by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to the Treasury Department would be made today, and that other consignments would be turned over daily from now on. Disorders in Grenada and the general unrest throughout Spain were said by the cable eadvices from London this morn, ing to have caused a decline in that market in the price of Spanish 4 per cent, bonds. The bonds opened at 38, against 38 5-8, Saturdays closing quotation.

According to the weekly statement of the Bank of Spain, issued to-day, the increase last week in the outstanding volume of paper circulation was less than the increase of the silverfiioldlngs of the bank. The notes in circulation increase 2,517,000 pesetas, while the silver In hand increased 6.633.000 pesetas, reflecting the recent large purchases of ths bank In the London market The amount of gold In hand increased 1,383,000. In the opening dealings In the London market American railway shares generally showed small fractional declines compared with Saturdays New York parity. The undertone, however, was steady, and in the latter dealings there were recoveries. Business, however, waa on a very small scale.

Loans for a day are now being frequently made in London at 1-4 of 1 per cent. Germany has been a frequent buyer of gold from the Bank of England, but gold arriving in London from the centres of new productions has been promptly purchased for Russia" or Japan. Distribution Of the Government war 3s, which begins to-day. will take sixty days, from 3,000 to 4.000 packages per day being forwarded, all that the department or the express companies handle. Actual Sales This Afternoon.

(Prices are for 100-share lots, unless preceded by number shares) Amer Cotton Oil 34. American Sugar 1344, 134. 1344. 134. 134, 135, (140O 135.

135. 135 Am Tobacco 119. 120, 1204, 1204, J2044. 1204. 120, 120, 120, 12C12oC Amer Spirits lift, 11S.

11. Atch, Top ft F-13. A 34 (900) 844, 34, 344, Baltimore ft Ohio 13, 1 3r- Bay State Gao 3. Bklyn Rapid Transit 54, 55. -s.

Bur Sc Quincy 105. 105. C. ft St 41. Del ft Hudssn 105, 106, 106, 106, 106.

106. 106. 106. 100 Erie let pfd-84, 34. 84.

15, 35. 34, 35. General Electric 39. i Kansas ft Texas pfd 34. Louisv ftj Nash 67.

57. Manhattan 106, 105. 106. Metropolitan Street Ry 151. Missouri Pacific 64, 8S 901 Oentral 118.

118. Northern Pacific 30. Northern Pac pM 71. Northwest 129, 129. Ontario ft Western 14, 14, 15.

Peoples Gaa-09. 69. 99, 100, 99 Pullman Pal Car 200. Reading- 17, IS. Reading let pfd 89.

40. (600) 40, 40. 4 40, 40. (1200) 41, 41, 41, 41. (600) 41.

Rock Island 96. 96, 90. 96. 96. 96.

St Paul 99. 99. 99. 99. 99.

Southern Pacific 20. Southern Railway 31. Tenn Coal ft Iron 85 Union Pacific pfd 60. 60. 60.

60. 8 Leather pfd 68. 68. 68. 68.

8 Rubbar 81. 81. 31. 81. Wabash 7.

7. 7. Western Union 92. Bond Sales This Afternoon 7000.. 5.n Antonio ft Aransas Pass 4s 67 North Pac 3s 64 2000.

ft 5s 114 2000. RWay 5s 942 1000 San Antonio ft Aransas Pass 07 4000g North Pao 8s. 64 4001... Wls Central lsts 2(H 5000. Pac 4s 07 11000.

82 Reading 4s 82 500. Reading: 4s 82 22i00. Pac 3s 65 13000. Rway 4s 94 4s 91 Reading 4s 82 11(4)0. 4s 83 2000.

adj 4s. 70 5000. Pac 97 Pac 2ds 42 Reading 4s 82 4000.. Cen lstsr 104 2000. Island 4s 104 THE COMPLAINANT AGAINST A 'LONGSHOREMAN THIS AFTERNOON WHO HAD STOLEN TWO OF UNCLE SAMS NEW GUNS WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT THE SIEGE OF SANTIAGO.

A stalwart negro In the uniform of a United States Infantryman, with the chevrons of a sergeant and the bars of a quartermaster on his arm, attracted a deal of attention in the Adams street police court this morning, and this Interest was increased when It was learned that he belonged to the Twenty-fourth Infantry, the colored regiment that shared the honor with the Seventy-Arst New York in the Aghi at Santiago, and in the now famous charge at the San Juan hill, and was himself In the light. The Sergeants name is Goodaon M. Newland, and his particular business at the police court was to make complaint against a 'longshoreman named Jeremiah Connors, who had stolen two Krag-Jor-geasen rifles, cartridge belt and a bayonet scabbard from the transport Olivette lying at Pierrepont Stores. Sergeant left Santiago soon after the fight at San Juan, being in charge of the wounded from his regiment, and also for the purpose of getting supplies. He arrived here about a week ago on the City of Washington, and has since been busy getting together the nec-cessary supplies.

They were being loaded aboard the Olivette Saturday night, Connors being one of a gang: of twenty engaged in the work. The two rifles were missed, and later Frank May, a watchman, saw Connors with the rifles, belt and scabbard in his possession. Connors was arrested by Detective Brennan, of the Second precinct, this morning, and arraigned in the Adams strst police court this afternoon. He as held. Quartermaster-Sergeant Newland was full of reminiscences of the selge of Santiago.

He had charge of the supply train of his regiment, which was in the Third Brigade, commanded by Col. Wyckoff. who wa killed. His station was Just in the rear of the firing line, and in front of the ambulance corps. The supply trains of the whole brigade were together.

Although we were not up on the firing line, it was Jwt about as bad, Sergeant Goodson said to a Standard Union reporter. Those Spaniards all shot high, and so the bullets passed over the' heads of our men in front and over our heads, too. The ambulance corps was -off to the right, else they would have fared pretty badly. As it was, I had three of my number killed by stray shots. Those Mauser rifles of the Spaniards are better -Suns than our they do not kill a man.

They simply wound him. Our bullets generally kill when they hit and so the firing line loses only one. man; whereas, if one of our men is wounded, three men drop out, two being required to carry him to the rear. But those Spaniards couldnt hit a barn. door.

The bullets that did any damage to us were stray shots. Were the wounded fired on by the Spaniards? asked the reporter. Sure, said the Sergeant. There was a Seventy-first man who was shot through the thighs and another man had him On his back, carrying him to the rear. He laid him down to rest right near my wagon train, and then saw that the poor fellow was dead.

He had been hit in the breast by a Spanish sharpshooter, in a tree, and the man who was carrying him did not know it. How about the health of the soldiers?" Tt was all right iintll the refugees came in from Santiago. They brought all sorts of diseases into camp, and than some of our men fell sick, but otherwise it was not unhealthy. You see, we are up on the hills where it is healthy. -Is the heat oppressive? It was Just as warm the day we struck New York as it had been in Santiago, was the reply.

"Our men are all right, quite comfortable, and they have plenty to eat. Sergeant Newland is anxious to get back to Santiago, and will not wait to prosecute Connors if it takes longer than he would otherwise have to Btay. BUT HE LIES WOUNDED AT 6T. PETER'S HOSPITAL IMPROVE-" MENT IN THE CONDITION OF ALL THE WOUNDED SOLDIERS NOTED ORME AND MAURER BETTER THIS MORNING. Twenty-eight years ago, or In the year 1870, Alfred Riddell, a stalwart young negro, enlisted as one ot Uncle Sams regulars In Nashville, Tenn.

He has seen continuous service ever since, and to-day his time expires and he should receive his discharge. That will hardly come to pass, however, as he was one of the black heroes who took part in the charge of the Twenty-fourth Infantry up the San Juan hill In front of Santiago on July 1, and today he lies on a cot in St. Peters Hospital with an arm shattered by Mauser bullets and a wound in the abdomen. Riddell Is said to have been the Her-cule of his regiment, and to-day his mas. give frame lookg sadly out of place on a hospital cot.

Like the majority of big fellows, and especially of his race, he bas a fund of good nature to fall back upon, and a smile broke out on his face as the surgeon asked him if he expected bis discharge papers during the day. Yes, mah time is up, but I dont spose dey will scharge me for some time yet awhile, he laughed. Dat wah a hot spot. Spanish bullets done came like hail, an it wah a wonder de hol'youtflt didn got killed. That was the way Riddell graphically described the charge of his regiment up that hiU on July Cudnt stop, nohow, after we done he continued; an we jes tumble dem Spaniards ober in rows' as dey jump put de trenches.

And Riddells sides shook with laughter until his shattered Arm reminded him that a 3panyard' tried to pay him back for the part he took In the-affray. The cases at St. Peters and the Long Island College Hospitals are reported to be Improving to-day and Rough Rider Orme, upon whom an operation was performed Friday night, is said to be rallying nicely. Yesterday a slight fever set in and caused some little alarm, but it was diagnosed as malarial and to-day Orme is resting easily. another Rough Rider, Is also reported better.

At St. Peter's Hospital, within a few days, the surgeons expect to perform several operations upon wounded soldiers, especially those who have been internally injured, but the operation will be ot such nature as to cause the surgeons no worry as to the patients betterment after the ordeals are over. Thfr desire to do the wounded soldiers honor is "instinctively universal in the borough, and last week it became quite the fad among wealthy socity folks ot the Heights and Slope sections to place their carriages at the disposal of such of the wounded as can ride out. This week the fad has promised to become the'- fashion, and the hospital authorities say that this afternoon several ladies willhave their carriages in waiting at the hospital gates for that purpose. On Saturday afternoon Mrs.

E. L. Milhau, of 291 Henry street, took three of the men for a drive through Prospect Park. The soldiers were In an open carriage, and as it was being driven near the music stand the leader recognized the soldiers, and The Star Spangled Banner was played, while the spectators enthusiastically cheered the occupants of Mrs. Milhau's carriage.

Shaw, of the Long Island College Hospital, is arranging for a trolley ride for his patients from the front, and it is said that the officials of both the Nassau and Brooklyn Heights systems are vying with each other in trying to obtain the honor of giving the soldiers a ride. The soldiers at all the Brooklyn hospitals are in receipt daily of large quantities of fruit, cake and Ice cream, and cigars, cigarettes and tobacco in generous donations come from the numerous visitors. An interested visitor this morning at the Long Island College Hospital was little old lady, whose name could not be learned, but of whom it was said that she was a volunteer nurse at that hospital during the Civil War. With the exception of two or three obstinate cases of fever, the wounded, soldiers in Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan, show great improvement. Many of the men who were carried into the hospital are now walking about, apparently as Well as' ever.

Col. H. C. Egbert, who has been promoted from Lieutorant-Colonel for gallantry in action, left for Fort Thomas, yesterday. The wound In his chest is about healed, and he expects to return to the front in month.

He has not yet been assigned to a regiment. Major Corliss leaves the hospital every morning and evening for a walk. Clad In his suit of Kentucky tow and his sombrero, he is familiar figure along First avenue. The officers quarters in the Sturgis pavilion resemble an overcrowded storeroom. Fruits, flowers, books and delicacies of all kinds are constantly being sent to them, letters offering assistance are also received from all parts of the country.

Corporal Graebing, of the Twenty-second Infantry, from whose wound the surgeons feared fatal results, is now on the road to recovery. The wounded men are in good spirits, and indulge in much good natured chaffing in regard to the efficiency of the different branches of the service. It must have been an amusing sight to the infantrymen to see us 'bunkies trying to keep in step, said Trooper Muller today. We had only been drilled as infantry about a week before we embarked for and it was awkward enough. However, the ground is so rough before Santiago that we made no attempt to keep a line.

It was each man for himself all through the battle. Lieut. William W. Fiscus, Second Infantry. who is ill with typhoid fever at the Fort Wadsworth Hospital, was in a very critical condition yesterday.

His death was momentarily expected. A number ot his relatives were at the hospital yesterday, Including his father, Wll- liam W. Fiscus, ex-Sheriff of Armstrong County, his sister. Miss Blanche Fiscus. of Philadelphia, and bia lan Find No Clue in Mount Yerno'n Murder Mystery.

IDENTIFICATION IMPOSSIBLE. REPORT THAT A' YOUNG WOMAN 24 YEAR9 OLD IS MISSING FROM BRONXVILLE POOL OF BLOOD FOUND NEAR WHERE THE BODY LAY CORONERS INVESTIGATION. TWO PACKAGES FOR DEWEY. ENGROSSED RESOLUTION AND AN LL.D. CERTIFICATE.

In a few weeks Admiral Dewey will be in receipt of two Interesting packages forwarded to Manila by the Navy Department. One of these will be the engrossed resolution adopted by Congress extending the thanks of that branch of ths Government to him for his notable achievements in ths Philippines, and the other will be fine box made of Vermont pine containing a handsomely wrought box of Pennsylvania oak wrapped In a large silk American flag and manlla paper. The oak box contains the certificate of the degree of LL.D. recently conferred upon Admiral Dewey by the University of Pennsylvania, together with the insignia of the degree a doctor's hood of rich purple velvetfThe box ie lined with velvet, and bears the University's seal and colors. CONTACT MINES EXPLODED.

TONS OF WATER HURLED INTO THE AIR AT WILLETS POINT. In the presence of Gen. Wilson, Chief of Engineers, and his staff, and Major John G. Knight, commander of the post, twelve contact and observation mines were exploded in the waters off Willets point to-day. Gen.

Wilson, on board of the tug Daniel Bushnell. wltneeeed the scene from the Fort Schuyler side of the channel. The contact mines were exploded under number of rafts that were constructed for that purpose. Torpedo Sergeant Carroll superintending the work. Huge volumes of water -were thrown into the air at every explosion.

The work ot exploding all the mines In the channel will be continued throughout the week, the wires having become so entangled that It to believed that their removal in safety can only be brought about in this way. To-morrow the great Bufflngton-Crosler rifles are to be fired in the presence of the Harbor Defense Board. I NINETEEN MORE Election District Ballot Boies to Be Opened. FURTHER GRANTED STOVER IN THE NOSTRAND-EB- BETTS FIGHT OVER A SEAT IN THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL. Upon the application of ex-District Attorney James W.

Rldgway, an order was grented to-day by Justice Stover, in the Supreme Court, which will permit the opening of the ballot boxes in nineteen election districts in the Seventh, Twentieth and Twenty-sixth wards. The matter came up in proceedings which have been taken by Henry R. Nostrand to dispossess Charles 'H. Ebbets from his seat In the Municipal Council. According to the returns.

It appears that Ebbets was elected. by a plurality of 127 over A recount of the ballots in twenty-three election districts had the effect of reducing Ebbets vote to a plurality of 14. Mr. Ridgeway argued that a recount in additional districts asked for would show that Ebbets was defeated. William G.

Cook, who appeared In opposition, argued that the motion should not be granted until Councilman Henry French is brought In as a defendant, claiming that it would he necessary to open all the ballot boxes in the 166 election districts and that from the condition made apparent in the recount thus far it would show that French was defeated and both Ebbets and Nostrand elected. Proceedings will be taken directly against French. REFEREES APPOINTED. I By Justice Martin L. Stover.

Alonzo E. De Baun vm. Msrgnret Ford F. Van Vleck. CONCESSIONS TO-DAY BY JUSTICE ARB iWlTkivei- Brn Commission, and the factT that it would all be exhausted before the first of November in payment of existing indebtedness.

"I propose, Bald Secretary Lane, in order to progress the work, to make another requisition about the first of September for a bond issue of about with which to go on with the steel towers and the end spans. As Controller Coler expects to advertise some day this week for proposals for various bond Issues, Secretary Lane looks for the $2,487,000 to be placed to the of the East River Bridge account before the middle of August. LETTER FROM CONSUL GOWDY. HE DESCRIBES THE FRENCH FEELING TOWARDS US. VINCENNES.

July 2D. A letter received from the Hon. John Gowdy, Consul-General to Paris, contains the following Interesting reference to the French people: It Is a fact that there are a great many people here who sympathize with Spain. There are several reasons w'hy they do so. There are 5,000,000 of Spanish bonds held by individuals in Paris.

Some are held by persons who have not invested more than 100, and many such Individuals can make more noise in the cafes end on street corners than those who Invested large sums. I am glad to say that the Government and city officials are In sympathy with America. The Issues at first Involved In the war were not fully understood by the masses, and I think that during the past few weeks people are becoming better informed, and, generally speaking, the public mind has undergone a change and more general sympathy is felt for the Americans than at the time war was declared. MAY NOT REMOVE MINES YET. THOSE AT NEWPORT NEW8 WOULD HARD TO RELAY.

NEWPORT NEW'S. July 25 Owing to BE great depth of water between Old Point end Cape Henry, and the danger involved in the task, the engineer department at the fort is very much opposed to removing the mines and torpedoes there until almost absolutely sure that they will not be needed. -They point out the fact that it will take soma time to replace them should the war take an unexpected turn. The transportation companies, however, are exerting themselves to have the explosives removed, and It IS probable they will bring enough pressure to bear upon the officials to secure an open channel to the sea. GROSVENOR GOING TO LONDON.

he eats his trip is not in the interest OP AN ALLLANCE. WASHINGTON. July 25. Gen. Charles H.

Grosvenor. Congressman from the Athens, Ohio, district, and one of the Presidents closest advisers. is at the Cochran again. He is going to London with bit daughter, but be declares he bas no mission from the President relative to an Anglo-American alliance. He says be is taking the trip solely for a rest and for the health of his daughter, sad will return by the next steamer after landing.

The General declares Shatter achievement at Santiago was remarkably brilliant. FARMERS WENT SEINING WITH FA-- TAX RESULTS. MARSHALL, 111., July 25. John Taylor, Ed. Strlck and George Wilson, prominent farmers, living three miles east of here, were drowned last night in the Wabash River while engaged in seining.

Three of their companions were rescued just In time to escape the same fate. The drowned men were married and had large families. A COLLIERY TO RESOMS WORK. FOTTETVTLLB, Pa, July 25. It to officially announced that Packer Colliery, No.

ft. of tb Lehigh Coal Company, at Lost Creek, will resume work on Aug. The colliery hae been idle for some time, and Its resumption of work Is Mired with tviry satirise tlca by the psopts la jvhlch ha9 been issued in the Interests of DeLeon and Browser. Max Southeimer, a delegate from Waiters Union No. 1, of Manhattan, was elected to fill Bohms place, and the result is admitted a defeat by Bohm's partisans.

The special meeting to overhaul the proceedings of the Rochester Convention which was freely said to have been packed, and run from first to last by District Alliance No. 1, will be held in Liberty Hall, 257 East Houston street, Manhattan, on the evening of Aug. 8. MACHINISTS. Their Strike in the Works of E.

Hoe Co. Continues ABOUT FIVE HUNDRED ARE OUT-SYMPATHETIC STRIKE OF THE REMAINING 1,200 EMPLOYEES OF THE FIRM NOT NECESSARY AS YET FOR THE UNIONS SUCCESS. At strike headquarters, 101 Grand street, in the Eastern District, it was told this morning that the strike of union machinists in the printing press manufactory of R. Hoe Gcand and Sheriff streets, Manhattan, remained unchanged. Delegate George Warner said about 500 machinists had quit.

Confidence was expressed of the strike being short and successful. The Executive Committee of the machinists local unions were in session at 101 Grand street, this morning, receiving reports. Pickets of the union continue to watch the works of the company, and appear to be on terms of Intimacy with the men of other trades who remain at work. There was some talk of a sympathetic strike of the union pattern-makers, blacksmiths and iron moulders at work for the Arm. but it is now said that there may be no necessity for their stopping work.

So far, it la said, the firm has made no attempt to fill the places of the strikers with non-union bands, and until that is tried necessity for a sympathetic strike will not arise. The Arm has about 1,200 members of trades other than the machinists still at work. It is said the firm pays their pattern-makers higher wages than any other concern In the business. The Arm asserts they will not sign any agreement with the "Machinists Union. They have never done so with any union, and does not contemplate making a beginning.

The works would be closed sooner than their doing so. It is said the company has a large amount of work on band, and this the strikers rely upon to gain them success. JURY UNABLE TO AGREE. WILMINGTON, July 25. The Jury in the case of Senator Kenney has now been out for seventy-two hours.

It was said at noon to-day that there was no prospects of an agreement. DID NOT DISAPPEAR. The story In a morning paper of the disappearance of otto Greenberg, of 394 BiMhwtdr' was absolutely denied this morning by Mr. Greenberg when seen at hla house by a Standard Union reporter. Two Millions Year.

When people buy, try, and buy again, it means they're satisAed. The people of the United States are now buying Casca-rets Candy Cathartic at the rate of two million boxes a year and It will be three million before New Years. It means merit proved, that Cascarets are the most delightful bowel regulator for everybody the year yound. All druggists, 10c, 2c AMUSEMENT NOTES. The Dewolf Hopper Opera Company will sing Milloecheris Beggar Student at the Manhattan Beach Theatre to-night.

The Cash Girl, with new song numbers, still remains the attraction at Bergen Beach. Miss Warde. daughter of Frederrick Warde, the tragedian; Miss Lilly, daughter of G. W. Lilly, of the H.

B. Claffiln Company, and Mlu Pitt, all of New York, were rescued from drowning at White Lake, Sullivan last Friday afternoon, by Charles Fredericks, of New York, who Is now the hero of that sumtner resort. They are all residing at the West Shore House, and went out for a sail on the lake. The boat was capsized by a sudden gust of wind and all were submerged. A BRAVE POLICEMAN.

Roundsman Daniel O'Connell, attached to the Seventy-first precinct, stopped a runaway team of horses on Eastern Parkway yesterday at great personal risk. There were three women and two children in the surrey drawn by th? horses, and neither they nor the horses or carriage were Injured. The occupants of the vehicle refused to give their names, but they said they would see that the policeman was suitably rewarded for bis bravery. NEW TRIAL ORDERED. VERDICT GIVEN IN FAVOR OF THE CITY 19 I DEFEATED.

Justice Bartlett, of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, baa written an opinion order In a new trial of the case of Thomas F. Martin against the city for -damages to some woodwork which was destroyed by fire In a building In Third street, near the Gowanus Canal. In the same building another person had stored a quantity of lime la barrels. The alleged backing up ot a sewer wet the lime and the blase ensued. Although the original suit was won by the city, Justice Bartlett declared that the verdict appears to be against the weight of evidence.

Adequate sewers should be provided by the city, he NEWS JOTTINGS, An adjournment was granted to-day by Magistrate Worth in the Grant street court, at the request of the police in the case of Motorman Patrick Murphy, of the Fulton street line, who is charged with having on July 5 run over and killed Alfred Beattie, of 262 St. James place. George, Hfersch, of 172 McKibben street, Brooklyn, Is out of Jail on bail in Manhattan, but ithrough the peculiar construction of the IGreater New York charter is unable to visit his home, as it la not in New York County. The children of the late Victor Lulkert, of New Rochelle, are in a legal fight for his property, valued at 3125,000. Incidentally they are Investigating the record of Arthur Hill, who married the widow Luikert, and who, it is alleged, married aged and wealthy Mamie Mugford.

now deceased, about a year ago In Brooklyn. George TO. Post, one of the most skillful and dangerous confidence men In the country, was recently pardoned and released from Clinton Prison, and the police are trying to locate him In order that they may watch his future move- ments. I A MILITARY SCHOOL WANTED. BOSTON- COLORED PEOPLE DESIRE EDUCATE THEIR RACE.

BOSTON. July 25. The Twelfth Baptist, Church ((colored) adopted resolutions yesterday asking President McKinley to Institute a free military school in which to educate colored sol dlers for the position of commissioned officers, as was done! for white soldiers, March 21, 1864, who were appointed to lead colored troops, and that the men chosen for this responsible position be taken from those who have won distinction on the battlefield. The statistics of the commerce of Peru for the ten months from March to December, 1896, which are the latest statistics Issued, show, according to a British consular report, that the imports for that time were 2,010,806, or at the rate of 2,400,000 fbr the year. The exports for the year were officially estimated at 2,647,866.

Of the 2,010,806 of imports Great Brittain contributed 832,514. Englands nearest competitor being Germany with 335,800, the United States Taking fifth placet with only 182,109. INSPECTOR OF IRON AND STEEL. There will be a civil service examine tion on Aug. 12, for the position of In spector of iron and steel I There are in the world 1,459 submarine cables, says the Railway and Engineering Review, 1,441 of which are laid along coasts and In rivers.

The total length of cable Is 162,928 miles. Of this mileage corporations own 143,024, and of the com panics themselves 76 per cent, are man aged In London. France commands twelve cables, measuring 2,033 nautical miles In European waters, and thirty-three cables, measuring 26,856 miles In colonial waters. Germany controls eleven eables of 1,040 nautical miles In European water, and three cables of 470 mile in -colonial water. MOUNT VERNON.

N. July 26. The mystery surrounding the Anding of the body of an unknown woman yesterday morning In the bushes of a vacant lot on North Fourth avenue, seems likely to remain unsolved. Investigation has simply developed the fact that the body had been in the place where it was found for several weeks. On May 29, Carl Holz, foreman for J.

T. Doollng, a sewer contractor, who was working within one hundred and Afty feet of where the body wae discovered, found a ladies black straw sailor hat. with Simpson, Crawford Simpson's name on the lining. The hat was in sewer pipe, and had evidently been in use for some time. Aside from the Anding of this hat and a pool of what Is supposed to he human blood found unde a ehed connected with H.

J. Robinsons carpenter shop, there is absolutely no clue for the authorities to work on. This carpenter shop is about seventy-Ave feet from the dense clump of bushes where the body was found. Th authorities are divided in their opinions as to the cause of the womans death. Coroner Henning believed the woman was murdered in some of the tenements, and the murderers carried the body and placed it where it was found.

The surroundings of the place, which Is as desO' late and wild as It could possibly be would tend to corroborate the Coroner's theory. The bushes and high grass made the place almost impenetrable, particularly for a woman. A close examination of the place where the body was found revealed that there were spots or clots of blood on the ground leading from the pool of supposed blood under the carpenter shop to the place -where the body was found. These spots were plainly visible along the path for a "distance of ten or twelve feet, and then as lost In uie foot tracks of the large number of ffiorbld curiosity seekers who have visited the place. This would Indicate that the.woman was murdered under the shed and the body carried Into the bushes.

Chief of Police Foley this morning was informed that a woman 24 years old had been missing from her home in Bronx-viUe for two weeks. This report, if found true, cannot be of much value, as there is absolutely nothing remaining to indicate who the murdered woman was. The body and the clothing have been interred. Physicians say the body was so badly decomposed that identification was out of the question. Dr.

E. S. Newell, who ex- amlned the body, says It was lying In a perfectly natural -position with the left arm under the head and the right arm extended by the side. The white gown or skirt on the body was neatly drawn down around the ankles. The police are running down every theory advanced hut have made little progress.

Coroner Banning has, at the request of the police, delayed the inquest until some later date, probably next Friday. There is little hope there will be any Important developments, however, but the police ara in hope something tangible may turn that will solve what 1 now a hopeles mystery. i The Cotton Market. Opening Aug. 6 82a86; Oct, 5 S7a88; Nov, 5.90 qOI; Dec.

5 92a98; Jan. ftOHaOT; Feb, March. 6 03aO4; April, 6 07a09; May. 6 1112. Market steady, unchanged to 1 point decline.

12 M. 5 79a80; Sept, 5 81a83; Oct. 5-S4a F.V Nov. 5 86a88: Dec, 5 91; Jan. 5.93a94; Feb, 5 98; March.

5 99a 6. 00; Oct, 6.02&04; May, 6.07a OS. Market barely steady. 2 P. M.

July, 5.79; Aug, 5.78; Oct, 5.84; Jan. 5.03. Chicago Stocks. Chicago. July 2ft.

Biscuit. 30; 92: Brew-big pfd. 29; Match. 138; Lake. 12; Milwaukee Evg.

pfd 31; North Chicago, 210. Straw- board, 26; wire, 38, pfd. 89; City Railway, 269; ChiCMO Edlton, 42. New York Produce Exebangp. Opening Wheat, Sept.

72; Dec. 71ba; July, SI482. Corn. Sept. 3S.

12 Wheat, Dec. Sept. 72. Corn. Dec.

39. Closing Lard, July. 5 82. Wheat, July. 79: Sept, 72Vi; Dec, 71b.

Com. July, 38; Sept, 39V; Dec, 40b. Oats. Chicago Board of Trade. Opening Wheat, Sept, 67 to 67; Dec, 67 to Corn, Sept, 34 to May.

37 to 36; Dec. 34 to 38; Oats, Sept, 20; May. 23. Pork, Sept, 9 97. Iard.

Oct. 56 Ribs, Oct, A. M. Wheat. Sept, 67a; Dec.

67. Corn, Dec. 35, 8ept. 35 Closing Wheat. July, 74; Aug, 68; Sept, 67; Dec.

67; May, 69, Coro, July, 35; Sept. 35; Dec. 35; May. 38. July, 24; Sept, May, 23 b.

Pork, July, 9.87; Sept, 10.00. Lard, July. 5 55; Sept, 5 62a65; Oct. 5 67; Dec, 5.70. Ribs.

July, ft. 62, Sept. 6.67; Oct, ft. 72. Railroad Earnings, The earnings of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit for the last two days show an increase over last year of Chicago ft Northwestern, year ending May gross, 36.0ft0.6bl; net, $1.309 227; taxes, balances, interest on bonds, $6 448 604.

balance, Inc sinking fund. 20.848. total net, other Income. inc, total. dividends, 824.

surplus, $2,235,322, $1,005,048. Georgia Southern ft Florida Railway Co. reports for June, gross, $95,786. net, $22,618. inc $7 41ft.

for fi-cal year ended June 30. gro'ts, net. $22,739. June: San Francisco ft Northern Pacific, gross, $65,. 943; 35.149; net.

surplus, $100. Third week July: Ann Arbor, $21,651: from Jan. 1 inc $101,163. Peoria. Decatur Evansville.

l. $1,092. from Jan. 1. $405,500.

Toledo and Ohio Central, from 1. $77. L. Lake Erie and Western. $63.837 from Jan.

1, $16,650. Kansas City, Pittsburg ft Gulf, $55 148; Inc. Jan. 1, $709,826. Kansas City, Suburban ft Belt, $3,067: Jan.

1, $64,493. Evansville ft Indianapolis, dec $670; July 1. $276. Evansville ft Terre Haute, dec July 1, 49 660. Missouri, Kansas ft Texas, from July 1.

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brother, Calvin C. Fiscua. The other patients at the Fort, Wadsworth hospital are recovering. At the Naval Hospital this morning Dr. Woods reported that the sick and wounded sailors and marines under his care were improving daily.

Many of the men brought North from Key West on the gun boat Newport are now nearly ready for their discharge from the hospital and return to their duties on the ships they were assigned to before sickness overtook them. A large quantity of Red Cross supplies were sent from the hospital to-day for ahioment South to the fleet. x'viMc. box. our -guaranteed i 4 'V.