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THE DAILY STANDA FRIDAY. JUNE 21, 1901. HARVARDS CLASS finished, and a recaws was taken. At 1:45 P. M.

Judge Blair begs address to the 'Jury, Judge Blair finished hi charge tj Jury at P. and they ref consider their verdict. The full penalty prescribed the charge on which Barker as been tried Is twelve years' Imprisonment In the State penitentiary and the payment of $1,600 fine. JUDGE WILLS WIFE OUR ANNUAL MUSLIN UNDERWEAR SALE 1 NOW ON, AND WILL CONTINUB FOR TWO WEEKS. EXCELLENT VALUES.

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TAXPAYERS MASS MEETING. BOSTON, June 21. Irt the usual annual drizzle the class day exercises at Harvard University were begun this morning. The weather cleared slightly before noon, and there was some opportunity for the display of class day gowns 'provided by the scores of women visitors -to the college. The 'mornpg exercises began at 9 o'clock when the senior class marched Holworthy Hall to chapel.

The exercises were In charge of Rev. F. G. Peabody, the college clergyman. A few minute before 11 the class assembled again and marohed to Sanders Theatre for the regular class day parts and essays, which occupied the remainder of the morning.

There was a particularly large attendance at these exercises The afternoon was given over entirely to jollity. There was music in the yard from 2 until and plenty of color and life for every one. At 5 o'clock the senior olass will assemble again and march to the statue of John Harvard, where the usual exercises In honor of the founder of the college will be held. A feature of the afternoon was the spreads In the various rooms. The Haety-j-Pudding Club, Ddta Upsllon, PI Eta, Kappa Gamma Chi, Theta Gelt a Chi, and other societies provided "feeds, Vend a majority of the men themselves entertained their friends In this time-honored way.

In Sanders Theatre this morning the following awards were announced. Rl-, cards Prixe scholarship of $350, to G. Usher; Schter prize, $350. to C. Underwood, for the thesis, entitled.

"A Comparison Between the Critical Methods of Saint-Beauve and Talne; Philip Washburn Prize of $75, to J. Kltng, for the essay entitled "The Genesis of the Public Land System of the United Bennett Prize of $40, to R. E. Goodwin, for the essav entitled "American Shipping and Shipping Subsidies; Bowdoin Undergraduate Prize In Latin, of $50, to A. H.

Rice; Bowdoin graduate prise In Latin, of $100, to F. W. Doherty. FINANCIALNEWS. Th stock market continued dull, with prlee Influenced by special rather than general considerations.

Strength wa shown at th start, but In th first half hour numetous concessions were made. These declines In turn were followed by som hardening of th market Some moderate buying waa Induced by rumors that owing to some changes In loan account the bank statement to-morrow would not be so unfavorable aa had previously been expected. The Wabash Issues developed exceptional strength, the preferred advancing and common over 1 per cent. The movement waa based upon reports of progress In satisfactory negotiations with the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The sharp rise In Canadian Pacific waa In sympathy with Improvement In London, and waa supposed to have some connection with progress for settlement ot strike on that road.

The Iowa Central stocks opened with material gains on rumors of consolidations. The railway list showed Increased strength with the end of the first hour. In the Industrial group Amalgamated Copper continued to show weakness Tennessee Coal Iron rallied sharply, and Colorado Fuel ft Iron recovered half the dividend which came off to-day. Sugar showed more strength than of late. There was little animation to the market, and It remained largely professional.

Governments unchanged. Railroad bonds were firm. London waa a seller to-day. but the amount wa probably well under 20,666 shares. LONDON, 1:15 P.

maricet for American railway shares la firm, and the feature of the department la the paucity of stocks offering. Aa compared with the closing figures at New York, price average 14 to per cent higher. St Paul la equivalent to 178; St. Louie 4k San Franstaco common, 63; Chicago Great Western, 25; United States Steel eommon. 49; United States Steel preferred.

96. 1 P. M. The feature In the securities mark, generally speaking Is a lack of Intarai by th outside public, which la reflected In a ntrrow speculative and heaviness of tone. American railway share are only moderately active, but display steadiness.

The of July disbursements occasions a hardening tendency In discount Anaconda, 10; Rio, 56; Rands, 42. 1-30 P. M. The market for American railway shares holds steady. Evening.

American railway shares closed firm on the curb, but business was light Other departments were heavy and uninteresting. The Paris Bourse was weak and Berlin quiet A mass meeting will be held this, evenr lng by Flatbush property-holders In the Town Hall, Grant street, flatbush. to protest against levying on the other streets one-halaf the cost of straightening and paving Flatbush Magistrate Alfred E. Steers will pre- side, and among the speakers expected are Congressman E. H.

Drlggs, Aider-man James H. Mclnnes, E. M. Bassett and H. Pounds.

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ENTIRE BUILDING. 4 FLOORS, 686 FULTON 8T BROOKLYN. LOOK FOR THE NAME STERLING, BARKER'" (Continued from First Page) case, for the Church cannot qe held responsible for the actions of those connected with It. The Church. said Van Winkle, stands for the truth, and not the suppression of It.

Van Winkle declared vehemently that to convict Barker would not vindicate Rev. Mr. Keller. "The story Is out, he said, and this clergymans counsel has not allowed testimony here that might vindicate Jila client. Van Winkle described the simple lives of the Barkers, their happy married Uvea, the entrance of Keller, their pastor.

Into their home and friendship, and into the confidence of the husband; then the discovery of misplaced confidence. The lawyer drew a pathetic picture of the Barker home the night before the tragedy. Husband and wife did not sleep, they wept. The knowledge of a great wrong, unpunished, was bearing heavily upon Barkers heart. He thought that the criminal laws had become lax in these days, he feared to speak of his wrong because of publicity; he remembered the unfit punishment meted out to the brutes who assaulted Jennie Boss-chleter near this city; he waa desperate and his mind was overthrown.

It appears perfectly reasonable to me, said the lawyer, that Barker should shoot this man on Sunday morning while he was on hts way, to preside over a church service. Van Winkle then cited the famous Coles case in Albany, where a Jury acquitted a husband for shooting the man who assaulted his wife. He called attention to the Keyg-Slckles case In Washington, where Gen. Dan Sickles was acquitted by a Jury after ha had shot Keys for assaulting hi Wife. All you have to do, gentlemen, shouted Van Winkle, In his concluding remarks, "Is to follow your manly Instinct In this case and you cannot go wrong.

Prosecutor Erwin, In his address to the Jury, denounced Van Winkles appeal for the symparthy of the He contended that there was nothing for the Jurors to do, under their oath, but to decide the case upon the testimony adduced. He pointed out the celebrity of the case, and asked: Shall Jersey Justice, famous throughout the country because of the rapidity with which It la administered and because it Is true Justice, be upheld, or shall the modern lynch law be declared legal and be encouraged?" Erwin repeated Barkers confession of the shooting of Keller and asked the jurors, with that confession before them, how they could do anything save to And Barker guilty as charged. Ip eloquent terms he told of Keller's act when Barker waa brought before him for Identification after the tragedy, in refusing to say that Barker was ths man who shot him down because he was not perfectly positive and did not want to fasten the crime on one ho might be Innocent. At this point the spectators made a remarkable demonstration. Excited men and women flapped their hands and stamped their feet and many persons spoke worda of applause.

It was some moments before order was restored. Erwin scored Barker for not Investigating the story his wife had told him. "He simply made up hla mind, die said, "to have revenge despite the laws of God and man. Then, referring to the actions of Mrs. Barker, Erwin pointed out what he called the inconsistency of her story.

He asserted that no woman honest purpose would keep such a atory aa she -tells of Keller from her husband for eighteen months and be with her husband dally. He etampad the story as ridiculous and a myth. Regarding the plea of Insanity, the prosecutor said that this had become the last refuge of lawyers When they accept hopeless cases. "The Insanity plea is always convenient, said Erwin, but It Is viewed with suspicion by courts and Juries, and In thla case It Is an Impossible plea, for everything point Jo the sanity of this man. At 12 o'clock Prosecutor Erwin had Flandrau i Co, 372.

374, 376 Broom St N. 372, 374, 376 Broom St N. Dozen Block from Bridge, Are showing aa unusally varied, and Interesting assortment gf Pleasure Carriages of every style for Town and Country. Su. perlor quality and at fair and reasonable prices, Repair on vehicle of beet quality done in our factory In thla building; estimates furnished.

FIRST RACE WON BY REINA. The first race at the Sheepshead Bay racetrack to-day, for fillies three years old, non-winners of $560, six furlongs on the main track, was won by Relna, at 2 to 1 and 4 to Ante Up, at 4 to 5, was second, and Irene Lindsay third. Time 1.13 1-5. TO-MORROWS ENTRIES AT SHEEPSHEAD. SHEEPSHEAD BAT RACE TRACK.

Jun 21. Events and entries on the card of the Coney Island Jockey Club for the races at Sheepshead Bay race track tomorrow are aa follows: FIRST RACB For wttlng. Last live furlonga of new Futurity court. Evelyn Maud ..16 Cameron 16 Step Onward ,..104 Neither One ....166 Red Damsel ....166 Qulxada 101 Juvenile 97 Carroll 107 Man-o-war 99 Friar Tabor ....107 Meditation 104 Ascension 99 Lady Holyrood .107 Woodmansten ..102 SECOND For thraa-yaar olds and up ward; Hlghwelght Handicap. Six furlongs on tna main track.

Wax Taper 129 Mesmerist 114 Musette 112 B. Of May 106 Godfrey 107 T. of Candles ...105 Protus 104 Oread 100 Cervera 98 St. Finnan 95 Lady of the Val- Ezera 95 ley 95 THIRD RACE. --The Surf, for two-year-olds.

Ptva and a half furlongs. Leonid ,117 Smart Set 122 Hanover Queen. .124 Dean Swift 117 DixleHne 117 Nasturtium 127 ISweet Clover Ilf Note Nasturtium and Sweet 'Clover doubtful. i FOURTH RACE The Sheepshead Ray Handicap. valued at 2,000.

for tbrea-year-olds and upward. One mile. Brigadier 112 Carbuncle 106 Unmasked 164 All Gold 100 Star Bright 114 FIFTH RACE Grand Alslke 87 Decanter 100 Belle of 9 Lady Uncas 96 Belgrade 98 National, a handicap for four-year-old. and upward Full steeple-chare course, about two mllee and a half. ..159 Marylander 133 Ochiltree 146 Magic Light 142 Perlon 147 Choir Girl 137 Ronkonkoma ....168 King 145 Backet 137 SIXTH Race Far ward, selling.

One Dr. Blchberg Zanzibar 136 Jack Carey 148 Klondyke 145 Passe Partout ..166 Self 134 George Keene. ..146 137 Or year-olds and up-sixteenth on tna EIO Ryan and Parker will most likely secure the contract for construct ng the piers of tlie Blackwell's Island Bridge. Their bid waa the lowest of those submitted yesterday, and roughly speaking was $745,547. Ryan and Parker btfllt the Manhattan anchorage of the New East River Bridge.

It Is possible that the formal award of the contract may not be made until Judge Lawrence declea whether the city has the right to condemn the plant ot the New York Steam Company for bridge purposes, the plant being the site of the Manhattan piers. If the decision is against the city, the site of the piers may have to be changed. BROOKLYN sFcURTTIES. Cormled daily by Inois A 187 Mom-fays SI, FRIDAY, JUNE 21. RAILROADS.

bm Atlantia Ave Co 5. J04 lot Atlantic Ave Cn 5i. 1081...... 1t4 Bklyn City A Newtown 220 2U Bklyn City A Newtown In flat ltd 11 Brooklyn City Railroad MG 246 Brooklyn City Railroad 8a in tn Bklyn Heights Cable bonds. flat 108 106U Bklyn Queens Co A Subn 1st 118 118 Coney Island A Brooklyn 8s 102 05 Crosstown Railroad Co ft a 102 103 Nassau Electrlo 1st Ss 112 118 Nassau is, new 90 98 GAS ELECTRIC, Central Union 5s (guaranteed) lORH tfX)U Edison Electrlo Light 4 0 pou otu Kings Countyt 102 202 Kings County 5st ion tin Kings County flat 12414 l2fl NTAGR Qaa eon 10(1 10s FERRIES.

New York A Hoboken Ferry 93 94 New York A Hoboken Ferry 9414 941 BrooWyn Ferry 22J 25 A Ferry 67 IQ A Ferry 95V4 A ak Bklyn 2 80 Tehth A 23d 8t Fairy 80 QO Union Perry 99 Union Ferry ...4......,.,..,. 96 8T BANKS. -Brooklyn 1.44,1.4, jtroadway 240 Bedford 220 Eighth Ward 3 firth Avenue I rat National 225 Manufacturers' National 20 235 217 220 Nassau National 208 National City 270 North Side 175 People. IDS JD Seventeenth Ward 100 110 Sprague National 210 Twenty-sixth Ward 186 145 6 Union 141 Wallabout 140 145 TRUST COMPANIES. Brooklyn 415 420 Flatbush 170 Franklin 290 8)0 Hamilton 310 $25 Kings Countv 41S Long Island LA 2M Manufacturers au Nassau 105 200 Peoples $31 Wiiuamsburgli 208 MISCELLANEOUS.

Academy of Muile 115 Bond A Mort Guar 80 Bklyn Warehouse A Storage Co atk 105 115 Cheeeebo rough Ufg 840 855 Riles Co 140 Bliss Co pf1 Ito Flatbush Water Work- Co 4 bds 100 Kings County Fire Ins 150 Long Issnd Safe Deposit Co stock. 45 55 Nassau Fire Ins 75 A Tel stock A. 170 74 NY A Tel 5a 114 1ISH thenix Ins Co Stock 70 Standard Ollt 770 70 Title Guar A Trust. 520 5ao 8 Projectile 120 WHUynsburgh Fire Ins 476 And Inter et. Ex dividend.

Rights. Mias Musyck Do ou think Wagner leads LtestT a. Mr Pttteburg I'm positive. I was reeding recently the NatianaJ League batting average, and Wegner leads th list. Judre.

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P. M. Cotton, pot, fair demand; prlbes firmer. American middling, sales estimated, speculation and' export, 500; receipts, none. Futures opened quiet.

June. 4 87-64; June. July, 4 36-64; July. Aug. 4 36-84; Aug, Sept, 4 30-64; Oct, 4 14-64; Nov Dec, 4 8-64; Dec, Jan, 4 8-64; Jan, Feb, 4 9-84.

Futures quiet. Tenders, 100 new. 12.45 P. M. Cotton, spot.

American middling, fair, 5 3-16; good middling, 4 15-16; middling, 4 11-16; low middling, 4 15-32; good ordinary, 4 7-32; ordinary, 8 81-32. 2 P. M. Cotton sales, American, American middling, 4 11-16. Futures quiet 4 P.

M. Cotton futures closed steady. Foreign Cotton Statistics. LIVERPOOL, iune 21. Weekly cotton statistic show: Total sales of all kinds, total sales American, English spinners takings, total export, Import of all kinds, American, stock of all kinds, American, quantity afloat, all kinds, American, total sales on speculation, to exporters, 1.469.

1 1 Notes. Anson R. Flower, of Flower ft 46 Broadway, Manhattan, wa yesterday elected president of the Amalgamated Copper Company, to fill the place left vacant recently by the resignation of H. H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil Company.

Some think Mr. Flower will retire In favor of Mr. Rogers after the merger with the Boston ft Montana and the Butte ft' Boston companies is completed. The directors yesterday declared the usual quarterly dlvldehd of 1 per cent and an extra dividend of per both payable on' July 29. Officials of Western railroads controlled by the Harrlman and Morgan syndicates met yesterfiay In Manhattan and appointed J.

C. Stubbs and Darius Miller traffic directors of the Union Pacific and Northern Pacific groups, with the purpose of equalizing and adjusting rates and securing economy In administration. Missouri Pacific stockholders will vote on June 26 to increase ths capital stock to $30,666,660. Wall street seemed about to have decided yesterday that the predicted St. Paul deal waa really off, and that no large amount of the stock had changed hands recently.

It seems that no necessity for a deal has existed at any time because the Rockefeller Interests In 8L Paul and the Schlff Interests in Union Paclfl have a mutual understanding by which St. Paul will act in harmony on rate matters with other Western roads. The stockholders of the Schermerhom Bank, in the Brooklyn- Warehouse and Storage Company's building, 335-353 Schermerhorn street, this morning voted without opposition to ratify merger of that bank with the Mechanics', at Court and Montague. The Schermerhorn will be continued as a branch of the latter, and the new arrangement will probably be effective within the next, fortnight The Brooklyn Savings Bank, at Clin-1 ton and Plerrepont streets, credits Interest July 20 at the rate of 3 per cent, per annum to all depositors entitled to it on July At to-day's meeting of the Lake Shore director W. H.

Newman was re-elected president and E. D. Worcester vice-president W. Brown, general manager of the B. ft was elected a vice-president and general manager, with office at Cleveland, The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has paid off the large time loans which It made on collateral of stocks of Important railroads acquired In the last few years.

The proceeds of the latest Issue of the stock provides tha necessary money and much more. READING, June 21. The announcement of the aale of the Western Maryjand to the Reading Railway Company la expected to be made in a few days. The controlling Interest In the Western Maryland Is held by the city of Baltimore. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company are also after the road.

The ale will probably force the Baltimore ft Ohio to renew ita traffic agreement with the Reading WEATHER PROBABILITIES. Local forecast for the Jhlrty-slx hours ending at 8 P. Saturday; Generally fair and somewhat warmed to-night and Saturday; light to fresh south to southwest Winds. The Washington Bureau's forecast Is: Partly cloudy to-night and Saturday; light southerly winds, variable. I The following waa the state of the thermometer at the hours named last night and to-day at th main office of The Standard Union: I P.

67 9 A. 97 9 P. .......64 Noon ...16 Midnight ..63 3 P. 78 The average temperature one year ago to-day waa 70 1-1 OWNER OF BITING DOG SUED. James Monahan, aa Iceman, has commenced a suit against Joseph Grady, of East Seventeenth street, near Beverly road, for 36,669 damages Monahan claims that he went to deliver ice at Grady's residence a few days ago, when a dog owned by Grady sprang at him and bit hla lip.

OCEAN STEAMSHIPS. Arrived, New York Pennsylvania, from Hamburg; Delano, from Alexandria; Norfolk, from Matanxaa; Chesapeake, from Baltimore; Ucaylt, from Arrived Out Friesland, passed Scllly Islands V' MOUNT HOLLY, N. June Wills has more trouble on his hands in the shape of relatives of Harry Allen Baxter, the lover of Miss Wills. Baxter will be released later In the day on cash security, furnished by Mrs. Wills, Judge Gasklll having made that decision early this morning.

When the young man regains his freedom he will return to the Wills home to find -that his brother, L. Clare Baxter and his uncle, who came on From New York, are also guests In the Wills mansion, all, of course, persona non grata to the judge. When Judge Gasklll declined to accept a bond last night from Mrs Wll.s, she was angry. She tried to raise the cash in Mount Holly, but half a dozen it z-ns refused her. Then Lawyer ScovlUe was appealed to, and he succeeded In raising a cash loan In Philadelphia.

This $1 665 cash will be deposited with Judge Gasklll and Baxter will then be released. Eli Corporation Counsel Whalen to-day approved an agreement as to form whereby the Pennsylvania Steel Company sub-lets to the United Engineering and Construction Company, the contract toh'-iild the steel suspended structure of th 4 tew East River Bridge. li.e contract for the work was awarded to the Pennsylvania Steel Cmny aponi ed to the Pennsylvania Steel Company In April, and the contract waa shortly afterward certified by the Comptroller. A notice of suit to annul the award was served upon the Bridge Commission by Rose Kellogg, on the ground that the specifications contained a provision that only concerns whose plants were first claes would be considered in the award of the contract STEAM YACHT CARMEN DISABLED OFF HALIFAX. HALIFAX, June 2L The steam yacht Cermen, of New York, became disabled when twelve mile off thla harbor, bound for Quebec.

She was picked up by the steamer Florence and towed In thla morning. Three Insane persons were declared mentally Incompetent by a Jury In Part I. of the Supreme Court before Justice Dickey this morning. The first was Mrs. Penelope Deuel Osborn.

whose husband, Victor M. Osborn, a retired merchant applied for a committee of her person and estate The first wltnes was Dr. William B. Pritchard, who testified that Mrs. Osborn was a pronounced paralolac, and had been committed to Dr, Carpenters sanitarium at Mamaroneck, N.

on the order of Supreme Court Justice Smith. Dr Edward M. Ritteau also testified that he had assisted Dr. Pritchard In his examination, and found the patient violent, liable to do Injury to himself and others, and utterly incompetent to manage her own affairs. Mrs.

Osborn Is possessed of $76,666 In real estate and $56,666 worth of personal property, from which she desires an annual Income of $6,660. One of her delusions is that she holds telephonic communication with the departed spirits of relatives. Miss Emma Ketcbum, of 39 St. Marks place, Brighton, S. asked to have the mental status of her mother, Mary Ketchum, now living at 86 Grove street, Manhattan, determined In order that a pension of $8 a month might be secured from the Government.

Mrs. Ketcham la the widow of a soldier of the Mexican War. Dr. Ira O. Tracy, superintendent of the Long Island State Hospital, testified that the woman was formerly a patient In that Institution, and waa discharged in Ocpjber, 1960, not because she was cured, but because her condition was Improved.

He testified that he had recently examined her, and had found her suffering from loss of memory; that aha Imagined she had been dead for some time, but had come to life, and wa now 100 years old. She has a small amount of money In a Brooklyn savings bank. The Jury found her insane. On the application of the sister of Joseph W. Daly, who for ten years has been in the Long Island State Hospital, he was found Insane and Incompetent to manage his affairs.

a COUNSEL GIBSON REMOVED. Lawyer William J. Gibson, counsel for the Treasury Department before tha I-oard of United States General Appraisers hr, has been removed by Attorney-General Knox. A. H.

Washburn, of Boston. once private secretary of United States Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, succeeds him. CASE OF SMALLPOX ON GREENE AVENUE. Thomas Henderson, ot 264 Greene avenue, was discovered suffering from smallpox at his home by a physician of the Health Department this morning. He will be taken to North Brothers Island this afternoon.

ADJOURNED THE HEARING. POLICE NOT PREPARED FOR EXAMINATION OF GALLIGAN. 'The police of the Bedford avenue station not being ready to go on with the hearing of Peter Galllgan, th tea merchant, at 12 State street, who la charged with having stolen goods In hi poasea-alon. Magistrate Higginbotham In the Lee avenue police court this morning adjourned the matter until Monday next. On that day with Galllgan will also be examined Richard Norton Hill and Herbert LeClalre, the two men who are accused of entering the warehouse of the Benjamin Hill Company, at 167 North First and stealing 458 cases of tea valued at $7,600.

Part of the stolen property was found at the State street address by Capt. Short and hla men. Norton Hill, who Ib a nephew of the head of the firm. Is still In the Raymond street Jail, where he maintains a strict silence and refuses to make any statement regarding the charge against him and hit companion, Le Claire Justice Marean yesterday afternoon decided the first of the litigated cases arising out of the friction between Building Commissioner John Guilfoyle and a number of Brooklyn builders, as a result of the passage by the Legislature on April 12 of the so-called Tenement House act Andrew Wlecherth, of 233 Stanhope street, of April 11, obtained from the Commissioner a permit for the construction of a three-story frame building on Stanhope street He began the work of excavation on the same day, but the Commissioner on April 25 stopped the work, on the ground that no work had been done on April 11. Mr.

Wischerth, through Lawyer Frank J. Doyle, began mandamus proceedings to compel the Commissioner to reissue the permit dated April 11. The case was tried before Justice Marean yesterday and a decision rendered In favor of the builder, the court holding that from the evidence there was no question but that Flscherth had In good faith begun the work of excavation the day before the passage of the act, and was therefore exempted from Its provisions governing tenement bopses, for which permits were granted i I Avr thrTtrrUr-Aprll 12, went Into ef-1 iJct. Assistant Corporation Counsel Patrick EL-' Callahan appeared for the Commis- SPECIAL SESSIONS COURT. JUSTICE TO A NUMBER OF OFFENDERS.

Judge Forker presided at the Court of Special Sessions to-day, Associate Judges Keady and Fleming being present Charles Richards and Garret Vander-hect were charged with petit larceny. Richards waa fined 110, and sentence waa tpapended In Vanderhects case. Jacob Knepple'and William Knepple were charged with assault upon a Pole, Ludurck Sbypzlnakl. They pleaded not guilty. The complaining witness stated 1 that he had been attacked by the men In front of his grocery, and that one, or both of them, hit him on the head with a blunt Instrument, which caused a deep cut and bruises.

Many witnesses will be examined this afternoon. John Malakl and Michael Plica pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny. Sentence will be passed on them before the court -adjourns. jts- The charge of assault against Ellen was withdrawn. long island railroad STATIONS ROBBED.

LONG ISLAND CITY, June 21. Three stations on the Long Island Railroad were entered by thieves last night and about sill of their movable contents stolen. The station! robbed are those at Seaford, Bellmore and Wantage. They are not far apart, and it la believed that the robberies were committed by the same gang. A number of express pack-, ages were stolen and slot machines were smashed and their contents taken.

The railroad officials are unable to say how much the loss Is. CITY PAYS JANE'MMULLEN. Corporation Counsel Whalen has settled the suit of Jane McMullen against the city for $1,605. The plaintiff was In jured by falling Into a hole in the slde-w-alk on Gates avenue, between Throop and Tompkins avenues. She is 07 years old.

WILL PAY A DIVIDEND. The Long Island Loan and Trust Com- will bay a quarterly dividend of 1-2 per cent. July 1 to stockholders Of record at noon to-morrow. Klein Was Despondent and In flicted Fatal Wound in Wifes Presence, Joseph Klein, Who has been employed as a bartender at Sumner avenue and Broadway, shot himself, last night, at his home, 2 Whipple street, Eastern District, In the presence of hi wife and two children. He had been afflicted for some i time wit hstomach trouble and expended all hla saving's to effect a cure without any result.

When he reached his home, last evening, he told hla wife that he would never be cured, and was In an extremely morbid state of mind. He then drew a revolver from his pocket and shot hlmsslf in the throat. He made an attempt to lire another bullet at his head, but he was too weak to do so, hla wife having Interfered. The screams of the terrified wife and their two children brought in the neighbors who called an ambulance. Dr.

Telfair answered the call and when he reached the house found the children bending over their father weplng hysterically. He hurried the man to the hospital, where he died early this morn- lng. HUNGRY WOMAN STOLE BREAD. JANITRESS, OFTEN HER ARREST. Mary Lawrence, 20 years' colored, of 919 Atlantic avenue, wad arraigned in the Grant street court this morning on a charge of stealing two loaves Of bread, valued at 10 centa The charge was preferred by Hattie McDonald, a janltresa, of 1244 street, who alleged that she saw the defendant take the bread from the stoop of her residence this morning.

The complainant declared that bread and milk had been stolen from the house several times during the last four months. The prisoner admitted taking the bread this She said' she had been ill and she took the bread because she was hungry. Magistrate Steers held the prisoner for the Court of Special Sessions in $360 bail. CROKER TALKS ABOUT JOHN F. CARROLLS VISIT.

LONDON, June ffl-Rlchard Croket who returned to London from Ascot las night, when questioned concerning th visit of John F. Carroll to England, aald: "Carroll told me last year that be wa oomlng to England, If possible, this Summer. Mr. Croker added: "So far aa I am conoerned, I feel much Improved a a result of my sojourn hera My ion and 1 are enjoying the recreation ot racing with the least possible thought of business or politics." i 4 MR. PERCIVAL NOT ARRESTED.

Internal Revenue Offlcera-T. J. Pf cival, T. G1 Hughes and Charles Riteln-hart arrested Andrew Vanderberg of 130 Meserole street, for manufacturing cigars Illegally, on Tuesday afternoon. When arraigned before Commissioner Benedict Wednesday Vanderberg waived examination and waa sent to Raymond street Jail In default of $256 ball.

Through a most regrettable error this paper stated on Wednesday that T. J. Perclval waa arrested, whereas he was one of the officers who made the arrest. WEST SIDE TAXPAYERS. PROTEST 'AGAINST FLATBUSH AVE, HUE ASSESSMENT- The Twenty-ninth Ward West Bide Taxpayers Association held meeting last night In ths chapel at Avenue and East Eighteenth street i Kensington.

D. W. Sullivan, presided. Four new members were added to tho roll. There -was a lengthy discussion In regard to the levying on.

other streets of one-half of the cost of Improving Flatbush avenue, and a resolution waa adopted that tha association protest against the aseese-ment. A committee waa then appointed to tak such action in the matter as might be deemed necessary. Alderman Jamei H. Mclnnes was present, and made an address on th revised charter. ANOTHER BODY FOUND.

-K. At 10 oclock this morning the body of another victim of the ferryboat disaster off the Battery, Manhattan, waa found off Caven Point, New York Bay, by John Doran, an oyster man. It waa Identified by means ot a tag among a bunch ot keys as that of B. Stevens, an electrician, at 438 West Thirty-seventh street, Manhattan, residing at New Dorp, 8. I.

The body was removed to Speers DIED. ttlCHARD. On Jun. 90. Concepcion R.

Richard, Funeral service thla o'clock, at 141 Atlantia av. Far' Other Dratha see Sevaath Page Amal Copper Am Car Foundry. Am Cotton Oil Am Ice Co Am Smeltg Am Smeltg ft Am Sugar Am Tobacco Anaconda Mining Atch, Top ft 8 F. Atch, A ft Ohio Bklyn Rapid Transit. Canada Southern Ches ft Ohto Chic ft Alton Chic ft Gt Western.

Chic, ft St Chic ft Chic. Rift C. ft St Col Fuel ft Consol Gas Continental Tobacco. Continental Tob pfd. Del ft Del, Lack ft Erie Erie 1st Gen Electric Hocking Valley Illinois Central Int Paper Int Paper pfd Lake Erie A Louis ft Nash 110 Manhattan 122 Met St Ry 173 Mexican Central 29 ft 81 Missouri Pactflo 126 Central 157 Chi ft St 34 Out ft West 37 Norfolk ft 63 North American 165 Pennsylvania 151 Peo Gaa Co of Chi.

118 Pressed Steel Car 46 Reading 46 Reading 1st pfd 78 Reading 2d pfd 67 Rep Iron ft Steel 22 Rep Iron A Steel pfd 76 St ft San Fran St Lft 8 F2d Southern Pacific Southern Railway Southern Ry pfd Tenn Coal ft Iron Texas Pacific Union Pacific Union Pacific pfd U-S Leather Co Leather Co Rubber Co Rubber Co 8 Steel 9 Steel pfd Wabash Wabash pfd 42 Western Union 84 Wheeling ft Erie 20 Ex-dlvldend. 110 123 174 29 31 126 167 34 $7 53 106 152 119 45 47 79 57 22 76 62 75 59 33 87 76 47 112 91 94 79 21 66 49 98 24 46 94 26 116 124 176 29 81 123 157 94 37 53 105 152 120 46 47 79 57 22 76 63 76 66 34 87 76 47 118 91 14 79 21 66 49 98 23 45 94 21 62 75 69 33 87 71 46 1101 91 13 78 21 90 49 98 22 The Pulse of the Market. The figures below show the fluctuations to-day In the price of local traction shares from the opening of the market until 2.90 P. Brooklyn Rapid Transit 81, 81. 81, 82.

82. 82, 82, 82, 82. 83, 82, 82, 82. 82, 83. Metropolitan Street Railway 173, 174, 174, 174, 174, 174, 174, 176.

Manhattan Elevated 122, 122. 122, 122, 12,. 128, 128, 123, 123, 123, 123, 122. 123, 123, 123, 123, 124, 124. 124.

124. The Cotton Market. Cotton opened steady, unchanged to 4 points higher. Bull sentiment and higher prices were prominent feature of the early market to-day. The official cables reported at opening Liverpool at higher by I points.

The weather newt averaged bullishly, the Southwest being still dry and ex-cisstvely hot, while showers were Indicated for points of Carolina. Elsewhere conditions were favorable to cotton. Crop aocounts wen very much mixed, noting abnormally bad conditions In many parts of the eastern belt, spotty conditions in many parts of the central belt, and favorable conditions In the west, aside from a pending drouth in Texas. Soon after the call profit taking caused a decline of I to points. Opening July, 8 38a39; Aug, 7.80afll; Sept, 7 52a53; Oct, 7.44a4S; Nov, 7 40a 42; Dec, 7.4344; Jan.

7.45a46; Feb ofd 7.47; March. 7 46a50. Market steady. 11 A. M.

July, 8 Aug, 7.80; Oct. 7.42; Dec, 7 41. 12 M. Call June, 8 26a33; July, 831a32; Aug, v7TSa79; Sept, 7 48a50; Oct, 7.41a43; Nov, 7 J740; Dec, 7.42o42; Jan, 7 42a44; Feb ofd 7.44; March, 7.46a47. Market steady.

1 P. M. Bids. June, 8.22; July, 8 27; Aug, 7.76; Sept, 7.47; Oct, 7.40; Nov, 7.37;' Dec. 7.39; Jan, 7.41; Feb, 7.42; March, 7 46.

-2 P. M. Aug, 7.90; Oct, 7 41; Dec, 7.46; Jan. 7 43. 2.30 P.

M. Aug, 7.80; Sent 7.50; Oct. MISS UNDERHILL WON. GLEN COVE, L. June 21.

Miss Ruth Underhill, the golf champion of 1898, and Miss Cornelia Willis, met thlsl afternoon on the Nassau Clubs links Miss Underhill beat her opponent My 5 up and 4 to play. A MASS MEETING Oli' 1I11I btwen Fast 16th street and Nostrand avtnut. Ml held at th Flatbuah Town Hall. Grant atrt. Friday.

June 21. jftt 8 to protest aaainst levjina on ether streets one-halt of the cost of straightening and pawn Flatbush avenue. This assessment from $20 to $50 on each home. Although FlatbuiA aienue lots hate riouh'ed or trebled in talue on account of this improvement, the owners on other streets are to he compelled to pay half the cost of improving the avenue, together wlU Jeif -e the thereon- for twenty veers, while the whole cost of Improving thejr own streets must bf paid by them. AH interested are tnrited to attend- I.