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12 THE DAILY STANDARD UNION: BROOKLYN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER. 1899. YALE ALUMNI MEETING. ED1BD EAGO DIES FROM FORTY-THIRD REGIMENT HERE TO MINE BOSSES BURNED IN EFFIGY BY ANGRY CAPTURED AFTER FIERCE STRUGGLE. IS ACCUSED OF STEALING CLOTHING, Charles Franklin was held for the Grand' Jury on a charge of grand larceny by Magistrate Brenner In the Adams street rouit, this morning.

Mrs. Han nnh Loughtin, has a boarding house at 9 Henry street, anl Fianklln worked there as laundryman. He is accused of rifling a trunk of a large quantity of underwear. Some of the stolen prop arty was found between the mattresses of his? bed. detectives McCormick and Brady, of the Adams street station, made ahevar-ic-st of Franklin, and it did not take them long tp identify him as a man named Ackerly, who had been arrested for breaking into the same store on Myrtle avenue lhree different times.

Hu picture is in the Hogues1 Gallery, and he is now out on a suspended Sentence. CARS DID NOT TILT BRIDGE. CHIEF ENGINEER MARTIN SAYS BLOCKADE HAD NO EFFECT. Chief Engineer C. C.

Martin, euperln tendent of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, when seen by a Standard Union reporter this afternoon emphatically denied that the blockade of trolley cars for some fifty minutes last evening caused the Bridge to tilt, as was stated In what Mr. Martin called the yellow Journals. He went on to say that the Bridge had never tilted since It has been built, and that it is safe to-doy as it ever has been. Mr. Martin explained that an unusual weight might' cause the slack in the long cable between the two towers to grow larger, thus tautening that part of the cable from tower to support, naturally Increasing the strain on this section of the cables and disturbing their equilibrium.

But, he said, just as soon as the unusual weight Is removed the cables automatically resume their position of equilibrium. This might lower the Bridge a few Inches, but as for tilting, it is SOPHIA STEELER LOCATED. Taken From Freight Train South Amboy By Police-, man McDonald. at Removed to Freehold to Lynch'ngr Avoid SOUTH AMBOY, N. Nov.

Will lam Bullock, the negro vegetable peddler, who shot and killed Marshal Walsh, of Red Bank, yesterday, was captured here this morning by Policeman McDonald, who found the fuglttve on a freight train. He was subdued after a flerde struggle. In fear of lynching, he was removed to Freehold. FOR RAPID TRANSIT BIDS. Advertisements Inviting Them Will Be Published To- 1 .1 Amount of Contractors Bond Has Been Reduced.

At a special meeting of the Rapid Transit Commissioners yesterday the necessary changes in the contract were made to permit of 'the reduction of the contractors bord, from $14,000,000 to ArrivedjThis Morning After an All-Night Ride From Fort Ethan llen. Men Are Delighted With the Pro: pect of Service. The Forty-thhd Regiment retched the Grand Central Depot, Manhattan, this efter all nUht ride from Fort Allen, Vermont, vheie they have recently been stationed. The Forty-thiri is one of the new regiments destined to be added to the United States in the Philippines, and will sail for Manila without delay. All of the men aie in good health and wild with delight over the fact that they ate at last to see active service.

MISS BEEBDISAPPEIRS. Micvsing Gilberts Fiancee Leaves Brooklyn for Parts Unknowrv Mystery Surrounding Their Love Affair Deepening. Miss Voice Adams Beecher, of 382 Macon street, whose fiance, EdvVMn Buck-ley Guilbert, disappeared shortly before they wfere to have been married, and who it was reported had been killed while hunting in the Adlfondacks, has thrown more mystery about the affair by disappearing herself- Miss Beecher has from the first refused to make any statements about the matter, nq now he family refuse to say where she has gonb, except that she has left the city for an indefinite time. Mrs. Loughlin, who says she is a sister of Miss Beecher, Is in charge of the house on Macon street.

In response to an inquiry, she replied: Miss Beecher has gone out of the city, dont know where, or when she will return. So far as I know, there has been no news of Mr. Guilbert. Friends of Miss Beecher who had met pullbert have compared notes, and found that, excepting in a general they knew nothing about him or his business. To every one he had described himself as a mining broker in Leadville, and had said that he a member of the New York Mining Exchange.

George D. Hedian, secretary of the Exchange, said yesterday that Guilbert, not only had never been a member of the Exchange, but was unknown there. Mining men from Leadville declare positively that Guilbert had never been known In that city. Word has been received from Bangor, to the effect that Mr. Guilbert has not appeared in that city, whither It was reported he was going.

Nothing is known of such a person there, although three letters await him in the post office. Two are addressed in a woman's hand and were posted at Station Brooklyn. The other one is from a store in Manhattan REFEREES APPOINTED. BY JUSTICE WILMOT M. SMITH.

The German American Improvement Company vs. Gustav Werner and others George M. Schinzel. Simon E. Bernheimer and another, vs.

John A. Finlayson and others Albert E. Richardson. Mary J. Hill vs.

Edward D. Dwyer and others George Brush. Catharine Curtin vs. Catharine Curtin and others John R. Kuhn.

Matter of the Mapes Reeve Construction Company Henry Marshall. ADMIRAL PHILIP BACK AGAIN. RETURNS TO NAVY YARD FROM SHORT VISIT TO ANNAPOLIS. Real Admiral John W. FhlHp, Commandant at th- Navv Yard, returned to his customary duties this morning after a Fhoit Mslt of a few days to Annapolis.

He comes back wih renewed vigor from his little acation at the familiar old reenes of his earlier years. Mrs Phitip, who accompanied him, alro returned last A COURSR OF LECTURES WITH HYMNS TO-MORROW NIGHT. The autumn jneetlng of the Yale Alum ni Association pf Long Island will be held evening at the Brooklyn Club at o'clock. Frof. Williams, of Yale T7nl-veislty, will be present and sreak on the situation, and later in the evening "around the table- "Billy Bull Yales famous drop kicker; Frank J.

Price, Assemblyman-elect; Brooks, the spr nter; Skirrill, who was active in arranging the athletic games between Oxford and Cambridge and Harvard and Yale last summer, and others, will deliver a course of lectures to those present. hymns appropriate to the occasion will be sung by a quartet from the Glee Club. TRISPORT'S TRUE TRIP The Logan, for Service in the Philippines, Is Almost Ready. The army transport Iogan, which has been refitting at the foot of Twenty-sixth street, left her berth there at 1.30 yesterday afternoon for a trial. She made a satisfactory trip to sea, and returned to the GoverntnenL pier ata the foot of Pacific street, where she is moored at present.

Among those on board were Col. F. B. Jone's, Capt. Ira Harris and Col.

Bird, bf the transport- service. The Logan was in constant use during the recent war, and she was placed in the hands of the Morse, Iron Works Company to be completely overhauled and fitted out as a transport to be used In the service to the Philippines. BROOKLN LITERARY UNION. J. Grattan McMahon ill deliver an address on The Programs of the Present Century, before the members of the Brooklyn Literary Union, In Jefferson Hall, this evening.

An excellent musical programme will also be given. THE KANE CASE APPEALED Steele Will Try to Set Aside Decision of the Appellate' Division. Says Indictment Against Sewer Commissioner Is Sound. ALBANY, Nov. Attorney Steele, of Kings County, has hied with the Court of Appeals the papers in the appeal in the case of the People vs.

Kane. The appeal is from the decision of the appellate Court, eScond Department, affirming the decision of Justice Jenks declaring that the Indictment against Sewer Commissioner Kane Is defective. District Attorney Steele holds that the indictment as found by the Krand Jury upon the charges presented ythe Brooklyn League is sound, and he believes that the Court of Appeals will sustain It. The indictment charged that Commissioner Kane wilfully dlregarded the provisions of the charter in giving contracts for cleaning sewer basins In Brooklyn at $4 76 a bisin. without public letting.

Contractor Cunningham did the work and presented a number of bills, each under $1,000, but aggregating over $17,000. Controller Coer refused to pay the bills and the contractor brought suit against the city. TO EDUCATE THE NEGROES. The Armstrong Association of Manhattan, has issued an appeal to the people of Greater New York for an endowment of $1,000,000 for the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute of Hampton, the sum to be raised by voluntary gifts. WILL RETURN TO THE HUDSON.

FLAGSHIP MEW YORK TO LEAVE NAVY YARD SHORTLY. The flagship New( York will leave the Navy Yaid In ethout ten days, and steam to h-r old anchorage off Thirty-fifth street, in the Hudson River. The alterations to the warrant machinists quarters and to the cruiser's electrical apparatus will be completed by that time, and further than that there is nothing to keep her longer at the Yard. How long she will remain the Hudson la not definitely known at prtsent, bat It Is not unlikely that the squadron will be oidered South for the usual winter maneuvers. at Manila a large quantity of supplies, especially of provisions and clothing, and, while the needs of the service have always been promptly and fully met, there have been unavoidable losses due to climatic cuuscs, the ravages of Insects, and lack of ptoper storehouses.

He recommends the erection of a modern storehouse there and another large one at San Francisco, the latter as a distributing point for all American possessions in the Pacific. He also urges a storehouse, to cost a quarter of a million, at League Island, Ihiladelphia, and me to cost $150,000 at New York. In these it is proposed to keep enormous stock of provision and other supplies for an cnv'rgenc. Legislation granting to offlfrers and enlist'd men the navy and Marine Corps the privllgo of bu; mg commissary stores from the army, and the establishment of a naval commissary store department, with a like privilege tq the army, at such places as the Secretary might deem necessary, is recommended. a in to in to Approval of the 'changes was given In advance by Corporation Counsel John representative of the Society for 1 the Whalen, and only his signature and those Prevention of Cruelty to Children was of the Judges of the Appellate Division of Present, and upon promising the Court to the Supreme Court are now required, 8ee t16 girl would return home the It is expected that the advertisements Prisoner was released.

NEW EAST RIVER BRIDGE. TO OPEN BIDS FOR CABLES AND SUSPENDERS, WHICH MUST BE DONE IN TEN MONTHS. The new East River (Grand street) Bridge Commission publishes a notice to contractors that it will open at 2 oclock on the afternoon of Thursday, Dec. 7, proposals for the steel cables, suspenders, cable bRnds, coverings, sheaths, and their appurtenances, each bid to be accompanied with a certified check of $12,000, and the contractor to give a bond for $400,000, to complete the work within ten months after saddles are placed. Four cables of No.

8 steel wire, in thirty-seven strands, eacji containing 281 wires, or in all, 10,397 wires, laid straight, will extend from anchorage to anchorage, over the tops of the towers. The wire is required to have an ultimate strength of 200,000 pounds, or more, to the square inch, and must have an elongation, under teai, of 2Vi per cent, in five feet, and at least 5 per cent. In eight inches, and must be capable of being coiled around a rod of its own diameter, without ciacklng. The susrenders will be made of seven-strand, wire cere, steel wire. 1 inches in diameter, all parts of the structure must be carefully protected while in progress and when fully completed given two coats of Avhite paint.

Only first-class establishments, which have been in successful operation for at least one year, on work of this general character, will be permitted to bid. The contract and specifications, with complete working drawings, are.Jssued in a pamphlet, which may be obtained at the office of the chief-ergineer, L. L. Buck, 84 Brooklyn. SUCCESSION ID PROPERIf.

inviting bids will be ready for to-morrows newspapers. They will be Inserted twice a week for three weeks, and bids will be opened on Jan. 15. CLEVELAND, Nov. 14.

An unsuccessful attempt was made early this morning to rob the Garfield Savings Bank at Euclid Creek, in the village of Euclid. The safe was completely wrecked, and the front of the building was blown out. So far as can be learned, the robbers did not succeed in securing any money, although $2,000 or more was known to be in the safe. TOOK POISON! MISTAKE. Emily Karr, Who Was to Have Been Married Saturday, Meets a Sad Dealt Took Carbolic Acid Instead of Cough Drops Death forestalled the wedding of Henry Nicholas to Miss Emily Karr that was have taken place on Saturday, rext.

Instead of officiating at the bridal ceremony, it was the sad duty of the Rev. Dr. George E. Stow bridge to conduct the funeral service over the body of the bride-elect yesterday at Greenwood Cemetery. Miss Karr, who was an attractive 21 and arraigned before Magistrate Jerome.

Received Fatal Injuries During a Quarrel With Frank Lewis In a Vacant Lot. Assailant Arrested and Held Without Brii. Edward lingo jers old, of C3? Fifty-flrat sticet, who ums stubbed yesterday afternoon during a quiuwl with Itank Lewis, at Kighty-iixth stieet and Stillwell avenue, died this marring In the Norwegian Hospital. Eago received a. knife thrust in the abdomen IMs assiilant ran away.

At the hospital it was found that the blade had penetiated Laq'o stomach. frank 39 jeais old, was arrested at East yew Yoik and Brooklyn avenues, fast night and taken to the Fort Hamilton polue station, where he was charged with ha indicted Eago injury He refused to ay anything about the case at that time and was locked up. It was shortly bfoie 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon that Eago who wasemploy-ed as a stable hand, at Eighty-sixth street and Stlllw ell's lane, Hath Beach, was engaged in heating- some coffee small fire a vacant lot near tfy, when Lewis approached and insisted more 'fuel should beput on the lire. Eago objected and the eaton fiWl.y ended in blows during which the Italian diew a knife and plunged it into Kacos abdomen. This js praeticady the admission of Lewis, cor-rotoiattd by Other wiiress.

Eago was unconscious when taken to the hospital, and leniaimd in tWit cimhtion, untl the time of his death, unable to make an ante-moiteiu statement or to Identify his asraiant, when the latter was taken to tne hovt.aJ. Lewis was arraigned in the Coney hand polite curt this morning be'oie Jjsti and held without bail fur evanrinatfi SOMBER BED Janitor of Manhattan Lodging House Crapplod With Thief Until Help Came. Occupants Were Arcused By Cries From A ci nt, 11 to the police, was ari'tl Hcrly this morning and taken to ike UeM Thirtieth Ftreet Police Sta-ti tt.in. where he gave his name 3' tiaiUs Milhurl, slopping at Miil3 Hotel, No 1, occup.tlnn a stonecutter He va.icc'tgnizf however, as Harry St an okl offend vvherf taken abas Stanton, was caughtln of the mens lodging houe, at 1 SL. avenue, Manhattan.

At a.nf 1 n'chrk this moi ring i the in-nnit- wue ai ivn by cries of "Murder, Muimr, mung from the janitois aparrunt-- in the bue ment. Following th" f-oiin 1 nccij ants of thf building hur-i it-1 to and found Samuel B. l'r it, tht j.tn.t.ir, stnugiirg on the floi a i 1 1 1 i- was underneath, and vas shouting. "Take him oftiMlts lllng me' With diflMiltv th tlikf was separated from his las. n.M and his aims were bound H- 1,11 ovorpo acred bails ail th it hil suddenly been awakeied a giiting sound, whicn seemed to i mne from lieWnd his bed Looking over the side, he '-aw the body of a man protiudfrg Davis jumped to the floor and gran led with his unknown adversary.

When st-arr-hed at the Vrt Thirtplh Street police Station Malhurl was lound to have fJ out hun a a pair of jewelled cmf buttons, twelve scarf pins, a razor and a aatrh chain with a ring attached, containing one diamond and two rubies. Ho aiso had in money Mu of the plunucr was nltn'ified by Davis as belonging to tenant Men Suspected of Stealing $320 From Italian Baker In Custody. Detectives OConnor and Noonnn of the Lower Fulton Ftrtot Station made another arrest latu luf-t night in the robbei of John Torn, tne Kalian laaker, of .12 Front street. Torro claims that throe visitors at Ins hous- Satin day night went awaj with $220, whicn all li's sav'ng" One man was aroted -ptprlnv morning ami h.st night the detectives got An-tomo Banerta. veus old, an Italian, living on Hn It ir Ik is arr.Tgneil in th Adim '-root Coirt th mining, and 1.

i loi evam-waiion SOCIETY FO.R THE FRIENDLESS. The tw mating of the Societj fm thr Aid Fiiendl- ss Women and Children will take plae to-moirow evening at u'cii ck, at The Home, 20 Concord street. An interesting programme has been arrimgrl, ani after the meeting an informal rcept.n will bo held, with music All the frunds of the Home are cordially invited to be present. TRED FOR ASSAULT. William Nash, colored, of Coney I-dqnd wa placed on tr.u' before Judge Hutd and a jury in the Cnuity Court to-dav on an Irdietrm nt Pr a.idult in th second deer1 It was j.Uos'! that on nigh' of Nrt.

25, assaulted Christian No-fembhl, alsoof Conev Island. After th defendant had testified the case was presented to the jury. Wives of Scranton Strikers Em boldened By Non-lnterferenct of Deputies, Demonstration Near the. Colliery Early This Morning. SCRANTON, Nov.

14. Emboldened tr the non-interference of the deputise the women sympathizers of the Old Force strikers made a demonstration this morning: against the mine boesee, Corcorea and. Both the hoBsee were burned In effigy at an early hour. The deputies took no steps to prevent tho deed. Many of them ere openly friendly, toward the women who offer kisses for the deputies' badges in en effort to remove them from the picket tinea about the colliery.

PRIMITIVE ART. AN INSTITUTE LECTURE BY FRANK HAMILTON CUSHING. Frank Hamilton Cushing, of the Bureau of Ethnology, of Washington, D. last evening Irf the Art Building, on Montague street continued his course of lectures under. the auspices of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences on primitive art In Americai The serjes of lectures is practically a description of the manner in which primitive' man developed, for, Mr.

Cushing says, art is as old as man, and it was only by art that man became able to differentiate himself from the other animals that surrounded him. The particular topic of last evenings discourse was The Growth of and the leclurer endeavored to show the manner in which the sjmbolism of the early peoples, which came as a result of their primitive but Ingenious reasoning, finally led to a means of communication between them other than that of spoken worde. The lecture was fully illustrated by lantern photographs. WIFE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE. Mrs.

Ada Mesereau During Her Husbands Absence Cut Her Wrists With Razor. Had Been Ailing for Some Time With Hip Trouble. An unFUcceesful attempt to end her life was mtde yesterday by Mis- Ada Mescr-eau, wife of Edgar W. Mesereau, vice-president of the Mesereau Manufacturing Company, of Jay and John streets. Mr.

Mesereau had bidden his wife an affectionate farewell and had started on a business trip. He wasn't gone more than a few minutes when she took his razor and slashed both her wrists, severing several arteries. An ambulance was called and the Injured woman removed to the Memorial Hospital, where the doctors said this morning that the woman would in all probability recover. Mrs. Mesereau had for many months been afillcted with a hip trouble and had been confined to her bed a sufferer.

The 'Mesereaus have been boarding at 81 Fenlmore Street, which is in fashionable section of Flatbush. It Is thought that Mrs. Mesereaus sufferings temporarily unbalanced her mind. A nurse had been in constant attendance on Mrs. Mesereau for several weeks.

The nurse who was with her yesterday morning was Mrs. A. Lloyd, of 84)7 Quincy street Mrs. Mesereau sent the nurse out of the room for a few minutes, and in her absence ound the razor blade and cut her w'rists. BROOKLYN FREE KINDERGARTEN Dr.

Ella Martin, from the People University Extension Society of New York, gave a very helpful talk, at the last mothers meeting at the Hoagland Kindergarten, on The Care of Children in Cold Weather. There was a large attendance at the meeting, and the mothers teemed appreciative of the help given them by Dr. Martin. Ten nothers were present at the last meeting of the East End Kindergarten. They spsnt the afternoon in making calico bags for the childrens luncheon, and, while they sewed, they were told a story.

The children were delighted with the bags when they found them the next mornlnfe. One little girl returned to the Physicians Kindergarten with a box full ot summer vork which she did when It wa too hot to play on the sidewalk. At the October mothers meeting held at the Brooklyn Guild Kindergarten, stories were the mam feature. This was in response to a suggestion from one of the mothers, nho said that her little giyl came home and asked her to tell her stories like those her teacher told. At the first mothers meeting held at this kindergarten this the mothers presented the kindergarten with a little clock.

Several excursions were taken during the summer, one of the most successful being a trip to Coney Island, In 'a number of the mothers Joined. During the summer and fall special attention has been given to all the sense gabies in the Brooklyn Guild Kindergarten. Games with flavors, fruits or gifts were used, in which all the senses were called into play. The game of tapping the stick was introduced, and the children liked It well enough to call for It frequently. The children had one pleas- ant morning at Washington Park.

They made the circle on the grass and played the skipping and dancing game BELGIQUE WRECKED IT SE1. Founders During Storm Off Cas-' quet Rocks, Near Scene of Stella Captain and Eighteen of the Crew Drowned. LONDON, Nov. 14. The Belgian steamship Belgique, from Antwerp bound for Alexandria, foundered in a terrific storm last Friday off Casquet Rocks, near the island of Alderney.

A boat was launched with sixteen men, but five of these died of exhaustion and three others were drowned while the ship Hilda was trying to rescue them. Eighteen persons, including the captain, out of a total of twenty-bix, are believed to have beer drowned. The scene of this disaster Is in the vicinity where the London and Southwestern Companys passenger steamer Stella foundered last March. NEW TOURNAMENT. A bowling tournament has been arranged among the members of the Knickerbocker Field Club.

The teams are named after different nations. Games will be rolled every Tuesday and Thursday, evening until March 8, and prizes will be awarded to the four teams winning the greatest number of games, one of the highest score, one for the highest average, one for the least number of breaks, and one of the greatest number of breaks. RAILWAY SERVICE HEARING. The Board of Railroad Commissioners has become interested in the many complaints concerning the service on the elevated and trolley roads In Brooklyn, im1 has appointed next Saturday as a date for a hearing of the matter ut the Fifth Avenue Hotel, Manhattan. President York Holds That John Gillen Did Not Assault Election Deputies.

McCullaghs Men Not Satisfied With Decision Commissioner York, presiding at the police trialS lit the Boiough Hall this morning, dismissed the charges against Policeman John G. Gillen, of the lower Fulton street station. He was accused of flfsaultirg one of the MeCuilagh deputies a few days before election. The allegation waa that while In plain clothes he bed met several of the deputies, Ftjtur on eof them, after which a fight resulted in whirh(he got roughly-used. He the narresteo one of the deputies on the charge of assault on an offker.

At the hearing in the Adams street court the case was dlsmirsed. The testimony before Mr. York was substantially that which hus alieady been published. The only add.tion.il testimony was that of Sergeant Kennedy, of the Ad ims street station, who testified that (1 lien used vile and abunve language to the deputy wl. he brought him to the Pt i tton Gillen V.

a rase In the Adams street court thi3 morning in which he charged Pasqual Porson with disorderly conduct. This rm.se was adjourned to Nov. 17 to allow Gillen to be present at the police trials. Posqunb', who an Lilian leader in polities, da ms that bis a nest was uncalled for, and that Gkm really assaulted hm. He applkd for a warrant this morning for Gillen's arrest on a cnarge of assault.

It was not issued to him. as Magistrate Brenner decided that he would wait for the testimony in the other case before he iuecl a cross warrant. McCullaghfl deputies are not pleqsed w.th the result of the hearing before Mr York. They claim that Gillen d.d attack them and that he should be pun.shed. An effort wi 1 be made by them to carry the case into the court.

VENUE OF SUIT CHANGED. Justice Smith this morning at the special term of the Supreme Court, granted the application in the suit of Ignatz Greenfield to annul his marriage with Hetty Giecnfield to change the place of ttial from Kings County to New York County. A PRAISE SERVICE. The Christian Er.doavor Union rf the Bushvv ick Avenue gm.onal Church, Bushwick avenue and Cornelia street, held a p'raise set vice in the church build-in te lat night, at which the Rev. Frederick Todd Meele.

president of the Brooklyn Christian Endeavor Union, delivered an address on Pralse and Brooklyn Runaway-Discovered in Philadelphia By a Quaker. City Detective. Disappeared From Her Three Months Ago. Home PHILADELPHIA, Nov. Stegier, 17 years old, who ran away from her home at 45 McDoigall street, Brooklyn, "three months ago, has been found here.

The police received letter yesterday from Airs. Stegler asking them to make a search for her daughter. Detective AUmendinger was detailed on the case, and after a systematic search finally located the girl at 310 North Eleventh street. She said that she was anxious to get home to see her mother, as she had met a young man who promisedto marry her, and she wanted her mothers consent before" taking the step. Sophia was to the City Hall Prof.

I. F. Russell Says New Yorks Inheritance Law Needs Common Sense Changes. His Lecture Before the Institutes Law Department. Prof.

Icaac Franklin Russell, of the Near York University Law School, lectured last night before the law department of tho Lrookljtt Institute, on Descent and Distribution. He said Succession to the pr iperty of a deceased int state is determined, according to Anglo-Amei ice law, cy a code of rules in unicn teal property is catetuily distinguished from caattels. Our present law of lntes-tate succession is In part tf-utlsl iuics, somewnat modified, of sitnda to tho heir in aeeoidance wi-n Pulnl lules, somewhat modified coare, ly recent suituts; whereas, personal property is distributed on intestacy upon EIngiish jurlsprautncc by the eccitiastics who epcopal couits exercised JuiLdiction iu prouate matprs ciivvn to ir own day. It thus happens laat on the death of an intestate the law designates one class ot peit-ons to take the decedents house and lands, and in some cases, a quite different gioup of kindred to whom the money, stocks, bbnds and chattels generally aie distributed. This, it is respectlully urged, is llculous and tends to lessen the popular regard for law' as a rational svstem of Just rules.

The California Civil Code, in treating of inheritance, has abolished this useless and perplexing distinction between land and chattels and defined heir as one who succeeds to the estate of a decedent intestate, whether In land or chattels or both; so In California it cannot happen that one srocp of relati es gets the land and another group gets the personalty of a decedent. In Ne.v Yoik there is evidently a disposition to recognize the wisdom of this new view and at 1 ast one im-, jortunt amendment of our Inw was made in that direction In 1S98, when the principle of representation, or succession per stiipcs. winch used to cease in its operation on personal property with the children of the brothers and sisters of the decedent, was extended indefinitely as ia the case of inheritance of real estate." to young woman, years old, lived at 511 Heikimer street. Shehad been busy until the hour of her death with preparations for her wedding. Her trousseau was complete.

The Invitations had been Issued. The bridegroom to be had pupated cosey home at Kingston' avenue and Herkimer street- But it was not to be. By a tragic chance, Miss Karr, who had taken a violent fit of coughing at about 6 oclock one morning, arose, and In the (arly morning light reached for a bottle of iough medicine on a shelf in her room. Instead she put her hand on a bottle of carbolic acid, put it to her lips and swallowed a large quantity of the liquid. Her screams aroused the household and Dr.

Fianc.s F. Ltonaul nhd Or. 1. Merlon were sumnmned, but Un late. She died gieat agony two hours atcr, just one week from the day the was to have been made a bride.

At hep home it was said to a St mdard Union reporter that es soon 03 Miss Katr had taken the fatal dose word was suit St Johns Hospital, lefs than a block away. The hospital refvseil to eend a feuigeon unt.l the police vwie notified. The police station was two blocks away, so Instead of ing tnere. two physicians were called, but by this time it was too late to aid her. At the hsrlta! it was said this morning that as tne polite station was only a short dltanco away, the authorities felt that the police -should be notified first, as often unnecessary calls were made on the hospital and there were so many patients the hospital that they had to attend them first.

If the authorities know that a case is serious they will always send Immediate assistance. SHUTTING MILLS. SEATTLE, Nov. 14 The pie manufacturers of the Ptatet. endeavor to force up the prices cist brokers, have agreed to shut down for sixty days.

Of 250 mills in the State, 13S are now closed, and It is expected not twenty-five will be running by the nd pf the month. ANNUAL REPORT OF PAYMASTER-GENERAL OF THE NAVY. WASHINGTON, No 14 The annual report of the 1 nv.Mr-Genurul of the Navy snow that the total amount drawn from thv Tieanuiy during the present year was expenditures on account of consiruci.on, luciuding the labor, material, and purchase of chips, $9 cost of repans to ship and equ'page at home and abroad, cost of maintaining bhlps In commission, including pay and rations of officers and men. Incidental expenses and material expended, expenditures on account of the Marine Corps, $1,443,225. The Paymaster-General says that the employment of refrigerator ships for supplying vessels at Manila has proved most satisfactory.

The Glacier, Celtic and Culgoa are performing this ri'e. uni hae nut only proved utlMcntW to ni(et the wants of the ixavy. hut have Tlso transferred lare qaanillirs of pro-4 visions to the army, for which serv.ee the commissary general of the army has expressed appreciation It has been necessary to keep in store.