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THE DAILY STANDARD TTVTON BROOKLYN, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1809. FF WATER SUPPLY AND PAVING. JiBcrffenDao, KEARSARGE OFF FOR TRIAL; I i Successfully Floated From Dry Dock This Morning Will Leave On Flood Tide. mwm elopes Meets a Young Clerk and Despite Parents Objections Runs Away With Patrolman Louis F. Mahrt Struck Sailor Thomas Gunderson Too Hard, The Millinery Opening.

It is being talked about everywhere: Have you been to Loesers Millinery Opening? It surpasses anything weve ever seen. We have noticed a very large sprinkling of milliners on the alert for new ideas. It is quite natural that they should come here to get the correct fashions. We always extend to them a cordial welcome, for the more every hat and bonnet maker follows the best styles the more beautiful and becoming does the fashion seem and the easier for every one to obtain that which is the best and most pleasing. It is quite impossible to particularize our Hats and Bonnets in an announcement like this, and you will have obtained no idea of the advanced fashions for this Fall and Winter without seeing our display.

Distinction, beautiful and yet hats and bonnets made to be worn, Without meaning to be self laudatory this is certainly the Millinery Exhibit of the season. You will be greatly interested in our large collection of small priced hats, ready for immediate wear The 5.00, 7.50 and 10.00 ones, pretty and artistic And the numberless kinds for the Misses and Children at 4.50 to 7.50. All of our hats are delivered in our patent boxes made specially for the purpose. Owing to our extensive alterations and improvements in the building our Millinery store for the time being will be on the 5th floor. Take Elevator.

39 Cts. for 60 Cts. and 1.00 Tumblers. A Tumbler opportunity for to-morrow. Five hundred dozen of the best quality thin blown Tsble Tumblers.

The style of the engravings and etchinga are the beat and every Tumbler ia absolutely perfect and made of the best quality of flint glass. In fact regular 60 cts and 1.00 Tumblers all at 39 cts. a dozen to morrow. Colored Dress Goods Colorless Prices. AT 69 CTS.

46 inch all wool granite Cheviots, In a full line of Autumn colors, AT 69 CTS. 44 in. All Wool Homespuns In all the fashionable mixtures. AT 98 CTS. 54 in.

All Wool Saxony Tweeds, heavy weight for cycling, golf and rainy day AT 29 CTS. INSTEAD OF 39 CTS. 38 inch Fancy Plaids, good colors, strong and serviceable. At 49 CTS. INSTEAD OF 69 inch all wool Casslmere Suitings, heavy weight mens wear styles, in gray and brown, checks and mixtures.

The Couple Notify Father of Marriage By Telephone, Henry Albrecht, a grocer at Bergen and Smith streets, will forgive his daughter Jennie if she will come home and leave her husband, a young clerk with whom she eloped on Sept. 6. Mr. Albrecht insists that she must have nothing more to do with her husband and must come to him, begging for forgiveness. There is a difficulty in the way of Mr.

Albrechts plans, and this Is that he does not know where his daughter is living at present. The story of the elopement, as told by Mr. Albrecht this afternoon, is rs follows: My daughter Jennie is 17 years old, and the young clerk Is Joseph Laubenberger, 21 years old, who lived at 88 Dean street. Several months ago Jennie made freauent visits to the Dean street house to see some young ladies she was acquainted with. Her parents objected to her going with the young ladies 'and forbade her making further visits.

Finally it was found out that Jennie was more Interested in seeing Joe than her girl friends, and when this was discovered last summer Mr. Albrecht decided to send her out of the city. He accordingly sent her to his farm at Northport. L. In the 1st of June, and she remained there until Sept.

1. Joe bad found out where she was and made several visits to the farm. When she returned home the father and mother took good care that Jennie did not get a chance to see Joe. On the day she eloped she was in the store helping her father. He was called away for a short time, an when he returnelater he founi his daughter missing.

That evening he was called to the telephone, and found that Joe was at the other end of the wire. Joe told his new father-in-law that he had just been married to Jennie. That is the last he has seen or heard fcf the missing pair. ARMORY BOARD MEETS. BITE FOR SIXTY-NINTH CHOSEN-ANNUAL APPROPRIATION.

At a meeting of the Armory Board held In the Mayor's office to-day the report of the committee appointed to secure a site for a new armory for the Sixty-ninth Regiment was received and approved. The site consists of a plot with 295 feet on Twenty-sixth Btreet, 335 feet on Twenty-fifth street and about 200 feet on Lexington avenue, Manhattan. The Board passed the annual for the armories, amounting in all to $87,598, about $15,000 more than last year. The eighteen armories an'd military headquarters in Brooklyn and Queens will get an average of about $3,000 each. These budgets will go to Commissioner H.

S. Kearny, of Public Buildings, Lighting and Supplies, who will incorporate them In his budget for presentation to the Board of Estimate and Apportionment. About 300 Delegates and 300 Visitors at the League Convention at Syracuse. Papers Read For and Against Municipal Ownership. Black Dress Goods.

(Continued from First Page.) bach had drafted a contract?" asked. "Because the Board of Directors asked me to pass upon it.M "Do you think it was Mr. Lauterbachs form of contract that was submitted by Mr. Holahan to the. Board of Improve "Yes." 4 The date for fulfltlirient of both contracts, witness said, was This had been changed to 1902 in the draft presented by Mr.

Holahan to the Board. Mr. Ingraham said that he believed the period of five years essential for the protection of the companys interests. The witness was asked when he had formed the acquaintance of President Holahan. He replied that at the public hearing given to the Ramapo Company In April last he met Mr.

Holahan for the first time. His next meeting with Mr. Holahan was when both were in the Ma-zet Committeeroom. He said be had never had a consultation with any other city official, and only with Mr. HolahaA as he incidentally spoke to him at the April meeting.

"Then the approaches of Mr. Lauter-bach to President Holahan and the Board of Improvements were made without your sanction? 1 "If you mean was I largely ignorant of it, then yea If you mean did I disapprove of them, no." Is the company at this time In posses sion of any water? "I do not know one way or another. "Has the company ever supplied any water to any one? "Not that I know of." "Does the company earn anything?" I have no knowledge that it does." "Does the company still desire to secure a contract With the city of New York? Mr. Lauterbach told you yesterday that he still has hopes that a contract will be secured." Is the Company taking steps to secure a contract? Mr. Ingraham said that the company was a livg one and desirous of doing business, but he knew of no special steps being taken just at this time.

The witness said he knew of no sales of stock within the definition of knowledge save his own purchase, nor did he know of any transfers, nor had he any Infor mation of any during the past year. The only person," he added, "who gave me any information on that subject is Mr. Dutcher. He told me that he had purchased some stock." Mr. Lross asked the witness if he had met Mr.

Lamant, the secretary of the Ramapo Company, and he said that he had, but he did not know where Mr. La-mont was at present. After Mr. Moss said that he had finished the examination of Mr. Ingraham, the latter asked if he could make a statement to the committee, but Mr.

Moss instantly objected. He said: "Produce the engineer of the company and let him make a statement." I haven't the engineer In my pocket," said the witness testily. i Chairman Mazet said that the company wisheffo get a statement upon the records of the hearing, they should produce the proper persons as witnesses, and that while they were in a position to keep this Information away from the committee, they not entitled to any special consideration. To this Mr. Ingraham feplled that he had the greatest respect for the committee, "but, he added, "I should feel in bringing any friend of mine here to be examined by Mr.

Moss that I Was subjecting him to an assassin." To a sharp rebuke from Chairman Mazet, the witness retorted that his personal allusion to Mr. Moss was no more personal or offensive than that used by the counsel to the witness. Mr. Ingraham left the stand with a cynical smile, and bow towards Mr. Moss, which the latter refused to recognize.

While plainly indignant at Mr. Ingrahams characterization, Mr. Moss did not show it. He calmly called the next witness, ex-Assembly-man Otis H. Cutler.

Mr. Cutler was a member of the iLegis-lature in 1895, at which session the Ramapo Water Company bill was passed. The witness was chairman of the committee which had charge of the bill. He testified as to the make-up of that committee, the Committee on Internal Affairs, saying that it was composed of eight Republicans and three Democrats. Mr.

Cutlet heard no objection at the time to the Ramapo Water Company bill, and he said that the only person who had any conversation with him at the time was Mr. Lauterbach. Gen. C. H.

T. Collis, Public Works Commissioner under Mayor Strong, testified enthusiastically of the water supply in New York City. Ther is nothing like it on the planet," he said. Gen. Collis said that, while there was no way of computing it, he believed that there was a daily yaste in the City of New York of 100,000,000 gallons of water, of which amount at least 40,000,000 was wasted during the night time, due to people letting the water run.

He went Into the description of the Croton water shed somewhat extensively, and said that there was a large watershed north of the Croton that could be made tributary, thus securing a large increase in the supply at nominal cost. He believed, also, that it would be feasible to bring to waters of the upper Hudson Into the city for its use. The witness testified that while he was In office a lawyer representing the Ramapo Company he did not remember bis name had made a proposition for the company. "What did you do with that proposal?" "I rejected it, replied Gen. Collis.

He had forgotten the matter, he added, until it was recalled by the subject being under Investigation by the Maset Committee. At this point Mr. Moss digressed from the, Ramapo investigation and many questions were asked Gen. Collii as to his judgment of the necessity of asphalt pavements in front of certain docks and as to the several kinds of asphalt and which, 'in his judgment, was the best. The witness said that Jie would prefer block cstone pavement in front of docks and ferries rathsr than asphalt.

He said that the average price for asphalting when he left office was $2.85 per square yard. With this was a fifteen-year guarantee. He thought that $3 a square Adverse Criticism By Capt. Wildes of the Boston. The battleship Kearsarge, which weht Into Dry Dock No.

3 at "the Navy Yard on Monday morning, was successfully floated this morning at 10:45 oclock. After the caisson was gotten out of the way, the Navy Yard tugs Narkeeta, Wampatuck and Nina made fast their hawsers and proceeded to back the big fighting machine out, tqwlng her toward the Cob Dock, alongside which she wilt remain until this evening, when she will leave the Yard on the flood tide. She will go to the Boston Navy Yatfd, under eommand of Capt. Farquhar, who relieved Capt. Mason this morning.

At Boston the Naval Board of Inspection, who are to make the official report upon her trial trip, will board her. The only adverse criticism yet passed upon the new warship at the Navy Yard was heard to-day, and that of rather a serious character. Capt. Wildes, who commanded the Boston during the engagement aManila, said that In his opinion not more than one of the four big guns, either on the forward or aft set of turrets, could be fired at a time. The new superimposed turrets, he said, containing two 8-inch guns above and two 13-lnch below, were so arranged that the man firing the lower gun would have his eardrums torn by the explosion of the upper gun, the muzzle of which was immediately above his head.

On all othY points, however her neat but formidable appearance and the advantageous position of her middle bridge, Capt. Wildes was quite enthusiastic. Annie Collins Was Found Sitting in the Gutter, Crying For Her Sins. Had a Number of Prayer Books Under Her Arm. Annie Collins.

24 years old, who lives at 42 Scholes street, was found yesterday by an officer of the Stagg street station sitting in the gutter ciying. The police -nian. took her to the'station house where, whcns.8he saw Sergeant Kuthenberg, she began praying and bowing before him, and asking him to save her.aouU Her brother Martin was sent for, and he took her home. Early this morning she was found again sitting in the gutter with a number of prayer books under her arm, crying for her sins. Her brother was again sent for and she was taken home.

Martin faysjt is only of late that hls sister has acted queerly. DISTRESS IN THE YUKON. MAJOR BAY WANTS REVENUE CUTTERS TO TAKE PEOPLE AWAY. WASHINGTON. Sept.

20 Gen. Shafter, at San Francisco, telegraphs the War Department that Major Ray, commanding the Yukon military district, reports that at Anvil City and along the shore there are between 3,000 and 3,500 people. Ray says great suffering will ensue unless the people get away before navigation closes, and he suggests that revenue cutters and passenger steamers be sent to Anvil to take people away. RUSSIAN LITERATURE. I i The peculiar conditions under which Russian literature has grown up have brought about a close intimacy between the political ideals of the cultured classes on the one hand and their fiction on the other.

Silenced by the censor the re- former is forced to call upon the novel to convey his message. This is the char, acteristio feature of Russian letters. It involves a point of view which countries otherwise circumstanced may find it difficult to appreciate, and that accounts for the unusual seriousness with which the educated Russian takes his fiction. No nation has a theory of art so clearly defined, nor one so imbedded In the traditions of the Intelligent classes, as is the theory which forms the underlying principle of Russian criticism; and one of the essential points of this theory la that a work of art must also be a work of education. "Art for art's sake" is out of the question In a country where the storyteller, who does not make his fiction a criticism of life, is looked upon as something like a public officer who be- trays hia trust.

A literary creed such- as would seem to be fatal to art, and the fiction based upon It doomed to degenerate into that species of sermon-novel which is a bad sermon and a worse novel. Yet, so far as Russia is concerned, the curse has turned out to be a blessing. Sermonizing is Just what the censor will not allow; so the novelist must try to make hls pictures talk; to let life expose Its own wounds. For, like those well-bred ladies of whom Thackeray tells us that they did not mind looking at the trousers of hundreds of meq, though they would have been shocked to hear the word uttered, the censor, as a rule, does not prevent a subject of the Czar from painting a spade, but he will not let him call It by its name. "The Younger Russian Writers," by A.

Cahan, in the Forum. "And how Hd you Hk your first dy at school. Willie' Bully I had three flfhts 'n' Eddie Blackburn klmme two bitee out of hls linger bread.kr-Chi-co Tlmee-Herald. Tscher Which one of you can tdl Deli.ah was Johnny Jonee I kin, mum. iJ Teacher Well done.

Johnny; now wl Delilah Johnny A female barber mum. Ob Journal. Both Needed Attendance of an Ambulance Surgeon, It is a rarity for a policeman to receive serious if any Injury in the disciplining of an obstreporous prisoner, the latter In cases of trouble being generally reported' as receiving a slight scalp wound," from a tap of the officers club. The tables wer turned on Patrolman Louis of the Hamilton avenue pre cinct, in a struggle early this morning on Hamilton avenue, opposite No. 110, with Thomas Gundersen, a sailor, of 64 James etreet, Manhattan.

Mahrt, in th Butler street court this morning, aroused the prisoner of quarreling on the sidewalk and resisting his Interference. The policeman and the prisoner struck at each other, according to the policeman, and one of Mahrt's blows was delivered with such force that he fiaclured his hand on Gundersons face. Gundersen sustained a bad laceration of the cheek, and when Ambulance Surgeon Burke was called from the Long Island College Hospital, to the station house, he found the prisoner in need of attendance as well as the policeman. Mahrt carried the damaged member in splints and a pllng this morning, when the charge aghinst Gundersen was changed from assault to disorderly conduct. FINANCIAL MAHERS.

The organization of the American Hide Leather Cdmpany is rapidly being completed. At a meeting of organizers and manufacturers held last night seated that officers will probably be elected to-day. The average annual net earnings of the companies included in the combination, as reported by the Audit Company of New York, were $1,685,748. The periods covered by this examination varied from 4 to 10 years. These earnings are more than three times the annual interest on the $8,445,000 6 per cent, bonds, 'which are to be Issued now, leaving the balance of the authorized $10,000,000 In the treasury.

The Interest on the amount to be Ispued at 6 per-cent, amounts to $506,700, which, on basis of past earnings, would leave more than $1,000,000 for the stock. Executive officers of railroads aggregating over 120.000 miles, have put themselves on record as in favor of abolition of free passes, except those granted by each road to its own officers and employees. The Wabash Railroad has officially announced li will not unite with Hnes from Chicago to Missouri River points In advancing rates on second class or Immigrant traffic. The entire Crocker interest in the Southern Pacific and Central Pacific Railroad, which Amounts to one-fifth of the stock, it is reported, has been sold to James Speyer, of New York. Speyer was in San Francisco a short time ago, and It was then understood he was there on some big deal, and that he represented the Vanderbilts.

A big railroad official said he believed the sale had been made. He thought the Crbcker Interests were valued at present at $13,000,090. A popular vote at Pittsburg, was overwhelmingly in favor of the issue of $7,000,600 bonds for various purposes. Wllliani Rockefeller, treasurer of the Amalgamated Copper Company, speaking of a Boston report to the effect that ajdividend of 2 per cent, had been declarl, stated he knew of no dividend having be(en declared, and he did not know of atoy meeting of the Board of Directors to be held within the next few days to aet on matter of dividends. There was a rumor in Chicago late yesterday thatAmerican Strawboard directors would declare a dilvdend.

They met but only routine business was transacted. It is expected, however, that dividends at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum will begin in December, with a fair certainty that they will be continued. Application for charter of First National' Bank of Lakewood, N. has1 been granted. The Controller of the Currency has also approved tf the Chemical National Bank of New York as the reserve agent of the First National Bank of Perth Amboy, The American Smelting Refining Company has declared a dividend of 1 per cent, on the preferred stock payable Oct.

io. The Union Traction Company of Philadelphia, in its annual report will show a surplus after deducting fixed charges of $619,720, an increase of $595,000 over year ending June 30, T898. Warren S. Crane hag been appointed assistant secretary ahd assistant treasurer of the New York Harlem Railway Company. The vaudeville manager considers Deenie Dimples, the serio-comic singer, one of the best paying artistes on the boards.

hv sor I Hacauee the theatre bar Is always crowded all the time she ia singing Cleveland Plain Dealer LEGAL NOTICES, cm NTY COURT, COUNTY OP KINGS George IMetrlck, individually and as executor of the lat will and testament of John Emil De-trlrlt, dereaeed, and Gustav A Pletrlok, plain-tifTe against Adelaide Mirnon (formerly Adelaide Klsam Edward Klssam. Lather Case. Mole interbottam. Thomas De Laney and John Doe (the name John Doe being fictitious said defendant name being unknown to the plaintiffs) composing the firm of Thomaa Ie Laney and Companv, Jessie IJusse.l. Joseph Huntington, Thomas Connowa, defendants.

butntnoni To the above named defendants You are hereby summoned to answer the complaint In this action and to serve a topy of our answer on the Plaintiffs attorney within twenty days after the servlre of this summons exclusive of the day of service, and In case of your failure to appear, or answer. Judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint Dated September 1 1MH JOHN BNHORO Plaintiffs Attorney. Office and Post Office Address. No 4ft Court street. Borough of Brooklyn, City of New York, New ork i To Luther Case, defendant.

The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of Hon Joseph Asplnail County ludge of Kings County, dated the nineteenth day of Sptember, and filed with the complaint In the office of the Clerk of the County of Kings, at the Borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, cit and State of New York, on the twentieth dav of September 1MM Dated, September 2th. 1890. JOHN MYENBORG. S-Zu-d-J Plaintiffs' Attorney. 1 Broadway, Grahum A Fluthing 4 vet.

BROOKLYN. Millinery Dept. Ladies and Misses Velvet Hats, from 69c. to $4.50. Trimmed Turbans and Walking Hats, for present Wear, from $1.25 to $3.25.

Black Parrots, extra fine quality, with long tails, at 59c. 50 dozen Black Ostrich Plumes, JO inches long, worth at 25c. dress goods. SPECIAL VALUES. NEW AND DESIRABLE dOODS.

44-Inch English Crepons, In latest fall colorings, special for separate skirts, $1.19 per yard; good value at $1.75. 44-inch Domestic Crepons, in fall colorings, 56c. per yard; good value at 89c. 100 pieces All Wool Zebeline Plaids, 49c. per yard; value 59c.

8-Inch Extra Wide AH Wool Hon uns, in grays, browns ffnd greens, 58c. per yard; positiely worth $1.75. BLACK CREPONS. EXTRA SPECIAL VALUES. 100 pieces Fine Black Crepons, rich, deep black, new weaves, special for skirts, the 90c.

quality here at 49c. per yard. Specials, value at $1.10, $1.25, $1.49, $1.58, $1.65 and $1.85 per yard. SILKS. SILKS.

DECIDED BARGAINS. I Another lot of the 85c. quality, Colored Corded Taffeta Silks, in full line of dainty shades, marked for this sale only 49c. per yard. 78 pieces (All Silk) Colored Taffeta Silks, In cream, black, white, St.

Bene, Royal Bene, heliotrope, violet, brown, Travies-Cerlse, cardinal, marked for this sale only 37c. per yard. CLOAK DEPT. NEWS. OUR STOCK IS NOW REPLETE WITH ALL THE NEW NOVELTIES OF THE SEASON.

PARIS AND BERLIN AS WELL AS THE BEST OF HOME MANUFACTURE HAVE CONTRIBUTED THEIR IDEAS FOR YOUR COMFORT AND PLEASURE. 2 ITEMS ONLY MENTIONED. LADIES JACKETS. 500 Ladies' Black Kersey Cloth Jackets, all silk lined, box fronts, short coat back, at worth $7.00. LADIES SUITS.

Ladies Fall 3ults, in many new weaves and colorings, tight fitting and fly front jacket, all silk lined, at worth LADIES SILK WAISTS. The showing is well worth a visit; some, dainty ones for evening wear; others the rich, sensible kind for street wear, $3.98, $4 98, up. SPECIAL SALES OF Boys Clothing, Shoes Crockery and Housefurnishing. yard, with a guarantee of five years, for asphalting about the docks was a low figure. Getting back to the subject of water supply, Gen.

Collis a as questioned by Committeeman Hoffman about a letter which he had written Gov. Morton in 1895 when the Consolidation act was under consideration. Gen. Collis said that In that communication he had gone into the water supply question for Brooklyn ajid he remembered stating that on Long Island was a good and sufficient supply that could be brought into Brooklyn by an aqueduct at a cost of $70,000. He came to that conclusion after getting reports from his engineering department.

He had used this as an argument to the eGovernor against consolidation. The citys contract with the city of Yonkers to supply New York with water, made in the fall of 1897, was gone into by Assemblyman Hoffman. The price, Gen. Collins said, was $173.69 for each gallons. The esubject matter of the contract, Gen.

Collis said, had slipped from his mind. In conclusion, Gen. Collis said that he believed the greatest waste of water in New York City was caused by defective plumbing. Stephen E. Barton, an engineer connected with the Ramapo Water Company, was called by Mr.

Moss just before recess. He said that as a stockholder he acted as an inspector of elections at the stockholders' meeting held on February 7 of this year. Mr. Moss first demanded the witness subpena and then asked him if he had obeyed Its order and brought to court the records of that meeting. Mr.

Barton said that the papers were not in hls custody. He was asked who were at the meeting and he gave the names of those elected as trustees. He knew the secretary, Mr. Lamont, but did not know where he was now. "He knew Mr.

Van Nostrand, the engineer, but did not know where he was at present Mr. Moss finally asked in despair: "Mr. Barton, is this a real live company, that its principal officers, its papers and books, and Its engineer, can not be Mr. Barton said that he was satisfied with hls stock, and Mr. Moss gave the witness up in disgust.

Before Mr. Barton left the witness stand he said that he had been for a long time Intimately acquainted with the doings of the company and if the Committee really wanted any information he could supply it. The Committee refused to hear his statement. At this point recess was taken. SYRACUSE, N.

Spt. 20 There are ebout 300 delegates and 300 otheryfsitorp attending the convention of the League of American Municipalities to-day, and others are expected. A party of forty At 69 cts. 50 in. heavy weight rough finish Cheviot.

At 98 cts. 39 in. high lustre English Crepon. I awns Af 10 CTS. REG-L ULAR J5 CT QUAL.

ana ITY 40 inch white hem- Nainsooks. Stitched Lawn, extra good value. AT 1 CTS. YD. REGULAR 10 AND 12 A CT.

QUALITY 5,000 yds. plaid and striped Lawns, suitable for childrens wear. English Nainsook, extra fine quality, 1.50 a piece of 12 yards, regular 1.80 quality. Fflshinnahle EverY day is ddin(f 10 rasnioname the popuar use French sensible and pretty fab-Flnnnpls ric- Weve a very large I innilcls. assortment of ail the newest colors and combinations extremely pretty and suitable things for waists and wrappers.

No trouble to show you our novelties, exclusive and up to date. The prices are the lowest anywhere. AT 25 CTS A lot of white wool Flannels, 27 inch wide, beautiful quality. a The Candy Man is all More Candy the time conjuring up at 15c. Lb.

new toothsome things to attack your palate In a healthful way. Here are a couple of specialties for to-morrow: Creole -Creams and Hard Molasses Pepper, mint, at 15c. a lb. FLED FROM STIFLING SMOKE Fire Causes a Panic Among Two Hundred Employees of Armour Company. Had Gained Much Headway When Discovered.

Two hundred employees of Armour A Co. were thrown into a panic this morning by a fire In one of the firm's smoke houses in Manhattan, on Thirty-fourth street, between Eleventh and Twelfth avenues. The blaze started In a wooden side partition and had gained considerable headway before discovery. It was caused by an overheated furnace used in smoking meats. When the alann was given there was an excited rush for all means of exit.

The fire was put out before much of the building had been consumed, but the employees were In danger of suffocation from 'the thick smoke. FUMES MADE HER DRUNK. MRS. PEENBROOK SAYS SHE RUBBED WHISKEY ON A CUT. 'Magistrate Worth in the Ewen street police court this morning suspended sentence In the case of Mrs.

Ellen Penbrook, 32 years old, of 26 Calyer street7 Mrs. Penbrook made no f4irther excuse to the Magistrate than that It was her first offense, but to one of the court officers before she was arraigned she told a startling story to the effect that while putting up window shades yesterday the roller of one of them fell upon her face and made a gash Just under her right eey. 8he rubbed whiskey on this cut, according to her story, and the fumes to her head, causing her to become intoxicated. REGULAR DEMOCRATS WIN. JOHN MADDEN WHIPS GLEASON IN HIS OWN STRONGHpfCD.

In spite of the oppositions led by ex-Mayor Gleason, in Long Islam! City, and by County Clerk 8utphen in the rest of QueenS Borough, John Madden, leader of the regular Democrats, was victorious yesterdajr. Gleason was defeated In his own stronghold, the Long Island City vote being: For the madden ticket, for the Gleason ticket. 983. At 49 cts. 45 in.

all wool Storm Serge. At 49 cts. 44 in. all wool French Broche, At 59 cts. 39 in.

Mohair Grepon, good designs. Great Bargains Cj 9S'cTSS-ThPs in Towels and is a lot of 5,000 Tnuplintr Huckaback Towels, lUWclUlg. strong, durable and pleasant to the touch 22x43 inches. AT 7 CTS. INSTEAD OF 10 CTS Pure linen kitchen Toweling; excellent quality; cheap at 10 to-morrow.

7 cts. AT 1 1 yi CTS. INSTEAD OF 14 CTS Good Glass Toweling, 24 inches wide. Htindkprrhiefc Childrens School nanOKercnieib Handkerchiefs, white for a and colored borders, Little. 8 nd 10 Womens pure linen Handkerchiefs, hemstitched, 'A.

I and lyi in. hems; 5, 8 and 12 cts. each. Womens pure linen Handkerchiefs, Swiss and hand embroidered; also lace trimmed. II A cts: each instead of 25 cts.

Mens and boys Handkerchiefs, white and colored borders, and 1 in. hems; 5, 10 and 2A cts. each. CHILDS BURNS PROVE FATAL. Richard Ddrober, three years and six months, the boy who was so badly burned while playing with matches yesterday at his home, 811 Nevlns street, died at the Sehey Hospital this morning.

mm DEFEATS CHOKER. Wins His District Despite the Entire Tammany Force Arrayed Against Him. Result. May Presage Crokers Downfall. Notwithstanding the oft-asserted invulnerability of Richard Crokers political armor, it was pierced, and pierced very decisively, by Tohn C.

Sheehan, of the Ninth Assembly District, last night. Sheehan's victory is peculiarly complete and significant, inasmuch as his defeat was desired by the Boss more than that of all the other contestants in the city. The Croker leaders of the district concede that Sheehan has won, but declare that there may have to be an official count to determine the actual result. According to Councilman Frank J. Goodwin, Sheehan's opponent, this was fhe vote, with a few districts missing: Sheehan ..1,63 Goodwin 1,066 Bogus tieketa 126 Here is the vote given out by Sheehan: Sheehan 1,241 Goodwin 981 Bogus tickets 144 Several thousand people gathered along Eighth avenue and street, at midnight and cheered heartily when the vote was announced showing Sheehan was elected leader of the district.

The feeling is generally expressed in Manhattan that Sheehans victory over Croker iq, the beginning of the end of the boss rule. Sheehan will not be conciliated by being bribed and fleeced with patronage and thus relegated to the rear. In' the opinion of close observers Sheehanr will be at the fdrefrqnt of a general movement against Croker domination. Captain fto man at tha wlwei)-Another plnt a-port, Quartermaster. Lady Passenger How shocking 1 must get that eaptain to nan tha pledge; that is tha third pint of part ha haa called for within the last ten minutes How these captains do drink.

Washington Post. 5 i arrived from Columbus and another of fifty from Louisville this morning. The vonvention is devoted entirely to addresses, papers and discussions, and there is little entertainments by. local committees. Mayor Jones, of Toledo, aroused considerable enthusiasm in an eloquent plea tor non-partisanship in municipal affairs.

The principai address this morning was on Municipal Charities," by Alderman Folks, secretary of the New York State Charities Aid Association. The special assessment for public improvements was discussed by Mayor Johnson Fargb, N. Mayor Weekley, of Florence, and others. This afternoon a number of papers w'ere read for and against municipal ownership), and the same topic will be discussed this evening. Charleston, S.

C. Atlanta, Ga Grand Rapids, Jamestown, N. Milwaukee. and St. Paul are candidates -for the next convention.

It looks as if Atlanta would be selected. There Is not much contest for offies. Govs. Roosevelt and Plngree have not put in an appearance. AN INDIGNANT DEMOCRAT.

To the Editor 'of The Standard As an exhibition of journalistic turpitude. permit me to call attention to the treatment by the Brooklyn "Eagle" this evening of Mr. Atterburys statement, charging irregularity in the delivery of political ballots mailed by him to voters in the Seventeenth Assembly district. This statement on its face is nothing moro than a piece of electioneering usual at such a time as this, and legitimate and praiseworthy, If its allegations are founded on and seem 'likely to be proven true. One reading of it, however, 1b sufficient to convince any maq of the unreasonableness of Mr.

Atterburys expectations of the early delivery of his letters, to brand his assertion that they verc intentionally held up by the post office authorities, as manifestly and cbncelved in spirit of mende.city, so villainous as not to impose upon any right-minded person. Nevertheless, the Brooklyn "Eagle," professing to ibe an Independent paper, serving the Interest of no political faction, publishes this afternoon, on the eve of the Republican primaries a full recital of the ridiculous charges mentioned above, so conspicuously set forth as to leave the impression of their truthfulness, and the consequent malfeasance of the Postmaster of the city of Brooklyn. A DEMOCRAT. Brooxlyn, N. Sept.

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